These people with the "plug in" so called envionmentaly friendly autos kill me. Just cause they cant see the thick black smoke coming from their tailpipe they think they are saving the spotted whatevers, but they fail to understand how 99+% of electricity is generated, coal and other fossil fuel.
Not that I was hoping for it or anything, I dont use Windows. But, it is pathetic that a goliath such as MSFT with all their resources cant implement any feature or product they want overnight.
mine are all in a text file that is then encrypted.
There are simply too many to remember these days and I find myself refering to that file frequently. As long and I dont forget my passphrase I guess this is a good solution.
Mike
Being a regular Linux user on both my servers and my laptop that I use every day, with all the same functionality and better reliability that any Win or Mac business user has, I can say that these people in the press and the other tech pontificators out there just dont understand Linux or its users.
Linux is not a "product" or "business" per se' like Apples OSX or WinXP. Sure there are the Red Hats of the world but they really dont sell Linux, they sell service.
Simply put Linux cant be threatened due to its very nature. People will use it or wont. People use linux for many reasons, people use Win for one reason. If you ask me it is MSFT that is in the most perilous position of all. When people use a product because they believe that they have to, the providers business model is built on a foundation of sand and it is only a matter of time till a collapse occurs.
The success of OSX on Intel will have no bearing on Linux. There is no competition to speak of so the can be no loser.
M
This whole "ready for the desktop" debate really is misleading. Generally when one hears the term "ready for..." visions of the hoi polloi (sweet old grandmas included) sending email, surfing and looking at digital photos ensue.
The reality is that this is just not the case for ANY operating system, ANY!
I defy any newbie grandma to be able to purchase a PC/MAC... take it home and make purposeful use of it without any immediate assistance. It just aint happening.
The sad truth is that despite all the innovation in this industry, the PC is not even close to being "easy to use", no matter what OS is installed.
Im not sure what it is going to take to make it so, but one thig is sure, whoever accomplishes this will crush the likes of MSFT in revenues. I just have a feeling that it is going to be a long time in the making, decades perhaps. Our current state seems as though a necessary step in the evolution of the user experience.
Yeah I used Win NT, 2000 and XP and sure, I could get pretty good uptime and stability with any of them. But OS stability is a relative thing. How stable is it once all the spyware/adware, virii and poorly written shareware are thrown at it? Peeps say that Win is the victim of this because it is so prevalent. Bahhh! Sure there would be more of the same for Linux/BSD/Unix or whatever if there were more percentages of them in use but by design, those OSs are far less vulnerable and would not suffer the subsequent stability issues that Win does.
It never ceases to amaze me that people will knowingly and willingly install an operating system on their computer that is so obviously broken; to the point that after the install, anti spyware and adware software must be installed for it to remain functional; not to mention then having to install hundereds of megabytes more of patches and fixes at the additional cost to the user.
But hey, people get what they wnat I guess. Personally, I think that this is the result of a victim mentality imposed on the masses largely by our government who so desperately needs to be seen as our savior. Hence, the farsical government lawsuits against MSFT and the joke of a anti spam law that increased spam almost exponentially. Now they will save us all from the spammers by making us all pay for email (another tax).
bla bla bla, I have to go puke now
I am the only one thinking that Google is doomed. It seemed like Google was going to be one of those "mainstays" of the internet that is so sorely needed. A real proof of technology as a whole.
It is quickly slipping away! And why? Really, it boils down to greed.
Too bad for us all.
M
a slow and torturous death. Its like when you kill a snake. You keep hitting it in the head but it keeps squirming around and clinging to the hope that it will live.
It has been this way now for a while, IE, Media Center, Cell Phones, now cars. . .
People are getting wise!
That is what we have to look forward to!
Spam and Windows servers getting infectet at 100Gbps+.
I am becomming disgusted and depressed over the state of the net. We need an a*$ hole rapture.
m
I dont advocate or promote any distro over another. Linux is too personal for that. However, I will say that I have been using Slackware for quite some time and I use it daily on an IBM laptop as my main workstation.
Like others have said, it all worked out of the box.
And my wireless net cards worked too.
As far as a learning curve goes, yeah it has one. But, it is much shorter than learning equal skills in Red Hat, Mandrake or SuSE.
m
This seems highly suspicious that they need their own system for this work. Couldnt they hire the time on someone elses for much less?
Sounds like a good machine for databasing the all personal info of all people in the world that are currently electronic but too widespread to make use of. Or something of similar evil nature.
Thingsg are getting out of control. Regular cell phones dont even work half the time and now they want to put WiFi in there.
It amazes me that sheeple will buy these products that time and time again are advertised to do great new things and never do.
Cell phones are IMO the greatest scam in recent history.
M
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These people with the "plug in" so called envionmentaly friendly autos kill me. Just cause they cant see the thick black smoke coming from their tailpipe they think they are saving the spotted whatevers, but they fail to understand how 99+% of electricity is generated, coal and other fossil fuel.
MSFT is truly suicidal at this point. I guess they just cant see it.
Not that I was hoping for it or anything, I dont use Windows. But, it is pathetic that a goliath such as MSFT with all their resources cant implement any feature or product they want overnight.
mine are all in a text file that is then encrypted. There are simply too many to remember these days and I find myself refering to that file frequently. As long and I dont forget my passphrase I guess this is a good solution. Mike
Being a regular Linux user on both my servers and my laptop that I use every day, with all the same functionality and better reliability that any Win or Mac business user has, I can say that these people in the press and the other tech pontificators out there just dont understand Linux or its users. Linux is not a "product" or "business" per se' like Apples OSX or WinXP. Sure there are the Red Hats of the world but they really dont sell Linux, they sell service. Simply put Linux cant be threatened due to its very nature. People will use it or wont. People use linux for many reasons, people use Win for one reason. If you ask me it is MSFT that is in the most perilous position of all. When people use a product because they believe that they have to, the providers business model is built on a foundation of sand and it is only a matter of time till a collapse occurs. The success of OSX on Intel will have no bearing on Linux. There is no competition to speak of so the can be no loser. M
This whole "ready for the desktop" debate really is misleading. Generally when one hears the term "ready for..." visions of the hoi polloi (sweet old grandmas included) sending email, surfing and looking at digital photos ensue. The reality is that this is just not the case for ANY operating system, ANY! I defy any newbie grandma to be able to purchase a PC/MAC... take it home and make purposeful use of it without any immediate assistance. It just aint happening. The sad truth is that despite all the innovation in this industry, the PC is not even close to being "easy to use", no matter what OS is installed. Im not sure what it is going to take to make it so, but one thig is sure, whoever accomplishes this will crush the likes of MSFT in revenues. I just have a feeling that it is going to be a long time in the making, decades perhaps. Our current state seems as though a necessary step in the evolution of the user experience.
Yeah I used Win NT, 2000 and XP and sure, I could get pretty good uptime and stability with any of them. But OS stability is a relative thing. How stable is it once all the spyware/adware, virii and poorly written shareware are thrown at it? Peeps say that Win is the victim of this because it is so prevalent. Bahhh! Sure there would be more of the same for Linux/BSD/Unix or whatever if there were more percentages of them in use but by design, those OSs are far less vulnerable and would not suffer the subsequent stability issues that Win does.
It never ceases to amaze me that people will knowingly and willingly install an operating system on their computer that is so obviously broken; to the point that after the install, anti spyware and adware software must be installed for it to remain functional; not to mention then having to install hundereds of megabytes more of patches and fixes at the additional cost to the user. But hey, people get what they wnat I guess. Personally, I think that this is the result of a victim mentality imposed on the masses largely by our government who so desperately needs to be seen as our savior. Hence, the farsical government lawsuits against MSFT and the joke of a anti spam law that increased spam almost exponentially. Now they will save us all from the spammers by making us all pay for email (another tax). bla bla bla, I have to go puke now
I am the only one thinking that Google is doomed. It seemed like Google was going to be one of those "mainstays" of the internet that is so sorely needed. A real proof of technology as a whole. It is quickly slipping away! And why? Really, it boils down to greed. Too bad for us all. M
a slow and torturous death. Its like when you kill a snake. You keep hitting it in the head but it keeps squirming around and clinging to the hope that it will live. It has been this way now for a while, IE, Media Center, Cell Phones, now cars. . . People are getting wise!
it looks like crap. m
That is what we have to look forward to! Spam and Windows servers getting infectet at 100Gbps+. I am becomming disgusted and depressed over the state of the net. We need an a*$ hole rapture. m
I dont advocate or promote any distro over another. Linux is too personal for that. However, I will say that I have been using Slackware for quite some time and I use it daily on an IBM laptop as my main workstation. Like others have said, it all worked out of the box. And my wireless net cards worked too. As far as a learning curve goes, yeah it has one. But, it is much shorter than learning equal skills in Red Hat, Mandrake or SuSE. m
This seems highly suspicious that they need their own system for this work. Couldnt they hire the time on someone elses for much less? Sounds like a good machine for databasing the all personal info of all people in the world that are currently electronic but too widespread to make use of. Or something of similar evil nature.
Thingsg are getting out of control. Regular cell phones dont even work half the time and now they want to put WiFi in there. It amazes me that sheeple will buy these products that time and time again are advertised to do great new things and never do. Cell phones are IMO the greatest scam in recent history. M