It would seem that the it would make more sense at first to design a desktop that is 100% linux compatible. The vast majority of Linux machines are acting as servers of some sort or are being used by us geeks that are locked in a basement with no windows anyway, and have no reason to be portable
While Windows does have better hardware compatiblility than linux, its not 100% either. Case in point I installed Windows XP Media Center Edition at home and my hp printer is not printing anymore.
With each new version of linux coming out, the hardware support gets that much better. I feel if you stick with major hardware brand components you would have no or little problem underneath linux. On the same machine I also installed Suse 9.3 The only issue I had was my video driver, an ati video card. Suse had the package included but did not install the right driver by default.
If anything I rate my experience with Suse better than Windows. Suse 9.3 had all the drivers included and I did not have to do a thing (outside of pointing it to the right video driver) to get any of my stuff working. Windows Media Center Edition, well I had to install all the drivers manually either by company website or cd. Windows didn't detect and install the right drivers for most of my hardware like Suse 9.3 did. And as mentioned my printer is not working currently under Windows.
In other words, the hardware support for linux is better than what you belive it is and in some cases, better than windows. Granted for the most part you do have to be knowledgeable but that gap is closing quickly.
Just to add, there are quite a few people in my company with dual boot laptops, mostly sales people and some high power programmers.
I'm not familiar with Mac but the os doesn't run on a x86 I assume and that's the problem I have with Mac. Mac's are expensive computers and it turns me off into trying one out. I'll buy the os any day of the week but I refuse to buy a pricey, not as easy to upgrade mac machine with it.
Windows appeals do a broad range of customers and hardware platforms and so does linux to an extent but Mac only have a specific base of hardcore users and that's why Mac will never take a good portion of the market share.
Your not on trial you don't have to defend why you use privacy tools. And what do you expect from a justice system which lives by rules like "if it doesnt fit you must aquit!"
Anyhow, I can't believe I'm saying this but regardless of my past point, i still think they made a good point using the pgp. No not everyone uses it for evil but you know those who do evil use it. No smart criminal is gonna broadcast their info over unencrypted lines "hey i'm breaking the law here's my info arrest me at will". It's the rats, umm lawyers job to bring up a case anyway possible and if this may help establish criminal intent so be it.
I just think this whole issue is blown out of proportion. I plan to use heavily encryption in the future and you know what, I'm not going to defend it nor care about getting arrested because I'm not going to look at kiddy porn nor do any other nefarioius activities that'll have the fbi breathing down my neck.
I agree with you about no one really being passionate about windows but they won't have diffculty finding a mark.
You'll get some wannabe tech guy who would do anything to meet anybody that is a big name or you'll get the soccer mom who loves her computer, what it can do for her, knows it runs windows so she loves microsoft.
I can see it now "Dear Mr. Gates, I love how I can send e-mail all around the world and keep in touch with family members using msn. Your windows os made this all possible for me and I think you from the bottom of my heart"....blah
The knock off crappy lightsabers you can buy in any toy store? So they ghetto but "gasp" they glow and unless someone smacks you up silly along side the head. the worse you get is a couple of bumps and bruises.....
I do agree with you for the most part but I feel its true for any industry now. For the private sector, there is no job security anymore, anywhere, period. I know from experience with family getting laid off in the past and with me. During the dark days of 2001-2002 when my CS degree failed me I tried my backup Poly Sci degree and that failed me as well....
I also feel that there are too many disciplines categorized as IT that it doesn't always paint a fair picture. I do sys admin work and while there may not be a strong market for it as compared to other areas, you can't get outsourced. What's going to happen, when an important server goes down the company is gonna fly someone overseas to fix it or send it out overseas to get it repaired? Yea Dell/IBM has service techs but through past experience there not always reliable and they won't deliver next day without at least a high priced service contract.
Believe it or not this scenario is actually cheaper to hire someone to work for you in the company(if your not a small company). Get some cheap out of college labor and if a hard drive in an important machine fails, they can have it fixed and restored in the same day before any 3rd party technician can come out.
You send me a link to photoshop elements. Different product. May be the same except the "prepress output cabililty"(I dunno) but that difference will cost you $500 in price for the full version. If you want me to be exact I will then, photoshop cs2 will cost you $600, not $500.
Regardless I was just trying to illustrate a point that software isn't always affordable so how can you claim something as a loss if a person didn't plan on buying it anyways, regardless if the software was pirated or not.
Nice meeting you to buddy;). I'm sorry I'm from america so I guess that makes me evil no manner what I say or do right?
Anyhow I figure this would be a good place to post why I feel why the U.S still has these sanctions on Cuba. 1) As you call them some old time senators who lived through the cold war and cant get over a grudge, right or wrong 2) How close cuba is to the U.S. If you build a highway from the end of Florida to Cuba, it'll take me longer to drive from one end of long island to the other(long island is where i live) than what it would to drive to florida from cuba and i think having a country you cant control that close still scares alot of officials....
Not I, I'll just make a comment about is cuba hiring? So what their communist, how many people can claim that on their resumes "installed and configured 1500 linux work stations for the cuban government":)
While piracy is a problem, you know the numbers will be skewed to make it look worse than what it is. I mean what sounds better "in an estimated 5 years, 1 in 50 software will be pirated copies" or "2/3 will be pirated"?
And I'm going to complicate manners more about the "value lost" by factoring in that equation how many people wouldn't of bought the software in the first place. Lets say someone pirates and use the $500 + Adobe Photoshop. Lets also say this person can't afford that price to begin with and never would of bought it anyways had he/she needed to pay for it.
Or another example someone may of considered buying a software but instead of wasting all that money for something may not like, they got a pirated copy, tested it out, decided it was junk and never bought it.
There's just too many variables involved to ever really get an accurate figre....
Yea i feel too the same holds true to microsoft or any company around now for that manner. Sure microsoft is worth billions upon billions but how much of that is real money and how much of that is stock money? I don't know for sure but if a good majority of it is stocks and something happens and ms stocks become worthless....
And of course the end of the world can happen and all companies will cease to exist:)
On a related topic manner, lets say company a has been using this method for years. Company b comes along and patents that method effectively stopping what company a has been doing. Can company a sue company b in court and get the patent nullify since they been using it alot longer than what company b has.
Yes I know the answer should be obvious but the legal system is so screwed up now I don't know anymore.
Film critics are useless to me. Humans have all different tastes and preferences and even different reasons for liking something or not liking something so its absurd to think one critic or a handful of critics are the be all for the hundreds of millions in the movie watching world. And through all of their reviews its still not going to stop anyone from seeing the film nor will it change your mind if you do/don't enjoy it.
Now as for me I did enjoy episode 1 at the time and i did for one reason only..NATALIE PORTMAN!!!!!
If the quote from the headline is correct, he does have a right to be criticized. All corporations are run by some "dictatorship". You have to because someone obviously needs to make a final decision on what needs to be done or not. If there is no one to lead then there is chaos and nothing will get out the door. All junior high educational stuff really.
So what I am trying to say, using an argument that applies universally and saying linux "suffors" from it because someone is throwing a hissy fit for not getting his way i see as wrong. If colin really wants to prove linus wrong, colin should just prove the exploit works in reality and outside of paper.......
You really have to wonder who comes up with this information. That's not even a believable story...
I think I saw the same news source write an article about how the wolf man and dracula has teamed up to buy out fedora at the stroke of midnight and use fedora's power to summon up the spirits that'll help bring about the end of the world.
another area m$ wants to branch out into where they probably have no business being in.
normally i would be open to the idea pending they don't charge an outrageous price. but at this point in the game m$ should worry and pool all of their resources to getting longhorn out then when that is out they can worry about stuff like this.
m$ seems lately to be neglecting the hand that feeds them(their os) and is branching out while pushing back the deadlines for any os they plan on releasing. i think if they keep this up its gonna come back to haunt them.....
As an aside, I find this logic amusing. Because wal-mart could "afford" to pay more, they are heartless bastards if they don't. On the other hand, assuming you "could afford" to pay a little extra for a gallon of milk, and yet still refuse to do so, I'd bet my last dollar you don't apply the same standard to yourself and consider yourself a hearless bastard. Maybe instead of paying $2 a gallon, you should just go ahead and start pitching in an extra buck, eh? Or maybe it's just easy to have "high standards" when it's someone else's money. heh.
I really don't know what your trying to get out with this but its not making out any sense. Yea your trying to prove a point but with a, pardon my language, a shitty example. One thing people may bitch about the price of milk raising, but you know what , THEY STILL PAY FOR IT. Supply and demand with that.
And if you don't think walmart aren't heartless bastards, work there full time for a week then report back to me what you find;)
Did anyone even look at the article? I only saw the shopping list and it looks more like a home improvement project than something that should be made for the computer.
On another note, will a cpu really function properly in that cold of a temperature? I've got some other hardware sometime back in the dead of winter with labels "please allow to get to room temparature before operating". In other words, if the heat wont kill you, the cold will.....
If you look real hard, I'm sure ALL programs have some kind of exploit going on with them. It wouldnt surprise me if there is even some kind of back door exploit existing for: System.out.println("Hello World! I've just been haxxored!!");
I don't mind when exploit articles get posted. I just mind they seem to get posted with the intent to start a flamewar.....
Your right but what's sad I trust forums more than I trust "real" support. Forums can give me quick and hard to find solutions. Support people just give me a lot of BS with sometimes no solutions and the good ol' runaround....
I never called MS-SQL support so I don't know if they really are as good as you claim. All I do know from my past experience a generally issue you can find in a forum easily and can call up and get an easy answer. A bigger problem it may take days to get an answer from support. So yes while the support is there, its not always as simple as "bam... get an answer or at least a much more educated idea"
Your right what does make i.e soo much better? You can't go on saying something is better and then not explain why its not better. Although in this case its sadly implied "its better because I own ms and you don't!"
despite everyone hating lucas because its fun and cool
naaa i dont like him cause the man is too greedy and i'm gonna get stoned for this but outside the special effects, never saw anything that great about star wars anyways.. there i said it. i'm not denying the original 3 were good movies but i just never saw what was the big deal in getting obsessed with it?
if you ask me that best thing that star wars did was inspire space balls:) and yes i'm going to see the movie. hey like him hate him and good movie is a good movie.....
Don't do any online banking....period! I'm too paranoid, anything that involves my direct bank accounts I do in person. I still do CC orders over the interet since at least with cc you can report fradulent charges and have them erased.
I was disappointed reading the article. I was hoping they would go into more technical details like how these programs work, and how to detect some of them. As some pointed out already, the article just merely states the obvious, people using whatever tehcniques they can to steal your information.
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While Windows does have better hardware compatiblility than linux, its not 100% either. Case in point I installed Windows XP Media Center Edition at home and my hp printer is not printing anymore.
With each new version of linux coming out, the hardware support gets that much better. I feel if you stick with major hardware brand components you would have no or little problem underneath linux. On the same machine I also installed Suse 9.3 The only issue I had was my video driver, an ati video card. Suse had the package included but did not install the right driver by default.
If anything I rate my experience with Suse better than Windows. Suse 9.3 had all the drivers included and I did not have to do a thing (outside of pointing it to the right video driver) to get any of my stuff working. Windows Media Center Edition, well I had to install all the drivers manually either by company website or cd. Windows didn't detect and install the right drivers for most of my hardware like Suse 9.3 did. And as mentioned my printer is not working currently under Windows.
In other words, the hardware support for linux is better than what you belive it is and in some cases, better than windows. Granted for the most part you do have to be knowledgeable but that gap is closing quickly.
Just to add, there are quite a few people in my company with dual boot laptops, mostly sales people and some high power programmers.
Windows appeals do a broad range of customers and hardware platforms and so does linux to an extent but Mac only have a specific base of hardcore users and that's why Mac will never take a good portion of the market share.
Now on the other hand, this is slashdot, you know about geeky technical stuff, not currentpoliticalaffairsdot.org
Anyhow, I can't believe I'm saying this but regardless of my past point, i still think they made a good point using the pgp. No not everyone uses it for evil but you know those who do evil use it. No smart criminal is gonna broadcast their info over unencrypted lines "hey i'm breaking the law here's my info arrest me at will". It's the rats, umm lawyers job to bring up a case anyway possible and if this may help establish criminal intent so be it.
I just think this whole issue is blown out of proportion. I plan to use heavily encryption in the future and you know what, I'm not going to defend it nor care about getting arrested because I'm not going to look at kiddy porn nor do any other nefarioius activities that'll have the fbi breathing down my neck.
You'll get some wannabe tech guy who would do anything to meet anybody that is a big name or you'll get the soccer mom who loves her computer, what it can do for her, knows it runs windows so she loves microsoft.
I can see it now "Dear Mr. Gates, I love how I can send e-mail all around the world and keep in touch with family members using msn. Your windows os made this all possible for me and I think you from the bottom of my heart"....blah
The knock off crappy lightsabers you can buy in any toy store? So they ghetto but "gasp" they glow and unless someone smacks you up silly along side the head. the worse you get is a couple of bumps and bruises.....
I also feel that there are too many disciplines categorized as IT that it doesn't always paint a fair picture. I do sys admin work and while there may not be a strong market for it as compared to other areas, you can't get outsourced. What's going to happen, when an important server goes down the company is gonna fly someone overseas to fix it or send it out overseas to get it repaired? Yea Dell/IBM has service techs but through past experience there not always reliable and they won't deliver next day without at least a high priced service contract.
Believe it or not this scenario is actually cheaper to hire someone to work for you in the company(if your not a small company). Get some cheap out of college labor and if a hard drive in an important machine fails, they can have it fixed and restored in the same day before any 3rd party technician can come out.
You send me a link to photoshop elements. Different product. May be the same except the "prepress output cabililty"(I dunno) but that difference will cost you $500 in price for the full version. If you want me to be exact I will then, photoshop cs2 will cost you $600, not $500.
Regardless I was just trying to illustrate a point that software isn't always affordable so how can you claim something as a loss if a person didn't plan on buying it anyways, regardless if the software was pirated or not.
Anyhow I figure this would be a good place to post why I feel why the U.S still has these sanctions on Cuba. 1) As you call them some old time senators who lived through the cold war and cant get over a grudge, right or wrong 2) How close cuba is to the U.S. If you build a highway from the end of Florida to Cuba, it'll take me longer to drive from one end of long island to the other(long island is where i live) than what it would to drive to florida from cuba and i think having a country you cant control that close still scares alot of officials....
Not I, I'll just make a comment about is cuba hiring? So what their communist, how many people can claim that on their resumes "installed and configured 1500 linux work stations for the cuban government" :)
And I'm going to complicate manners more about the "value lost" by factoring in that equation how many people wouldn't of bought the software in the first place. Lets say someone pirates and use the $500 + Adobe Photoshop. Lets also say this person can't afford that price to begin with and never would of bought it anyways had he/she needed to pay for it.
Or another example someone may of considered buying a software but instead of wasting all that money for something may not like, they got a pirated copy, tested it out, decided it was junk and never bought it.
There's just too many variables involved to ever really get an accurate figre....
And of course the end of the world can happen and all companies will cease to exist :)
Yes I know the answer should be obvious but the legal system is so screwed up now I don't know anymore.
Now as for me I did enjoy episode 1 at the time and i did for one reason only..NATALIE PORTMAN!!!!!
So what I am trying to say, using an argument that applies universally and saying linux "suffors" from it because someone is throwing a hissy fit for not getting his way i see as wrong. If colin really wants to prove linus wrong, colin should just prove the exploit works in reality and outside of paper.......
I think I saw the same news source write an article about how the wolf man and dracula has teamed up to buy out fedora at the stroke of midnight and use fedora's power to summon up the spirits that'll help bring about the end of the world.
normally i would be open to the idea pending they don't charge an outrageous price. but at this point in the game m$ should worry and pool all of their resources to getting longhorn out then when that is out they can worry about stuff like this.
m$ seems lately to be neglecting the hand that feeds them(their os) and is branching out while pushing back the deadlines for any os they plan on releasing. i think if they keep this up its gonna come back to haunt them.....
I really don't know what your trying to get out with this but its not making out any sense. Yea your trying to prove a point but with a, pardon my language, a shitty example. One thing people may bitch about the price of milk raising, but you know what , THEY STILL PAY FOR IT. Supply and demand with that.
And if you don't think walmart aren't heartless bastards, work there full time for a week then report back to me what you find ;)
On another note, will a cpu really function properly in that cold of a temperature? I've got some other hardware sometime back in the dead of winter with labels "please allow to get to room temparature before operating". In other words, if the heat wont kill you, the cold will.....
System.out.println("Hello World! I've just been haxxored!!");
I don't mind when exploit articles get posted. I just mind they seem to get posted with the intent to start a flamewar.....
I never called MS-SQL support so I don't know if they really are as good as you claim. All I do know from my past experience a generally issue you can find in a forum easily and can call up and get an easy answer. A bigger problem it may take days to get an answer from support. So yes while the support is there, its not always as simple as "bam ... get an answer or at least a much more educated idea"
Your right what does make i.e soo much better? You can't go on saying something is better and then not explain why its not better. Although in this case its sadly implied "its better because I own ms and you don't!"
I'm not too much a fan of RedHat. Why couldnt he just invested in Suse? Would of helped me out too since I have some stock in Novell ;)
naaa i dont like him cause the man is too greedy and i'm gonna get stoned for this but outside the special effects, never saw anything that great about star wars anyways.. there i said it. i'm not denying the original 3 were good movies but i just never saw what was the big deal in getting obsessed with it?
if you ask me that best thing that star wars did was inspire space balls :) and yes i'm going to see the movie. hey like him hate him and good movie is a good movie.....
I was disappointed reading the article. I was hoping they would go into more technical details like how these programs work, and how to detect some of them. As some pointed out already, the article just merely states the obvious, people using whatever tehcniques they can to steal your information.