Red Flag Linux is being run by the Emperor's son or something like that. I'd expect this little QANGO pressure-cooker to be attached to power in a similar fashion. It's not entirely ethical from our PoV but we can be grateful that number-one-son didn't get employed as head of Microsoft in China.
The US doesn't more readily adopt Linux because Joe User and his Grandma don't want to mess around with recompiling their kernels and editing text based configuration files and bitching to hardware manufacturers about device drivers in order to write letters, play games and email pictures of their kids and puppies to each other.
Which rock have you been hiding under for the last decade?
Very few people, even technicians, ever have to do anything like that today, let alone all of it.
As an aside: 99% of Windows users would refuse to try installing their OS. A GUI doesn't magic complexity and problems away, it just makes them prettier. A modern Linux install is actually simpler, faster and easier than a Windows install. Even RedHat, hardly the holder of a reputation for pushing the envelope, is easier to install than W2k, even though the W2k tested was a set of manufacturer's recovery CDs!
My wife (SWMBO) uses Mandrake Linux 8.2, Kmail, Konqueror (or Mozilla for sites that break Konq), OpenOffice.org, The Gimp, XMMS and about twoscore of the games. She fears the toaster, that's how technical she is (not so her sister, who flipped the PSU switch on the back of her own computer from 220 to 110 and blew it up).
Last week, I shut down SWMBO's machine for the first time in about 8 months to add some new hardware to it. She came home as it was booting and asked me what the startup screen is (text in a fancy framebuffer border with a progress bar) because she'd never seen it before, never knew textmode or the boot screen existed, never rebooted her machine. She doesn't know that it has a kernel, or that it has a USB webcam that I use as a kiddie monitor, or that her printer talks to it through USB; and your reward for asking her how the dual-scroll-wheel AOpen optical mouse connects (PS/2, in fact) would be a blank and concerned look. No worries.
the applications have to be checked whether the display is correct or not.
Ah. A Windows programmer. (-:
Use something like Tk or Qt (yes, you can use both of those on Windows and Macintosh as well as Linux/UNIX/*BSD) and the dialogs etc pretty much sort themselves out. That doesn't mean that all of your problems are solved in one go, but it does mean that such issues crop up only around 5% as often.
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But of course, when an Atheist thinks the matter through instead of simply reporting what he finds, anything which tends to support CDK is quickly binned. CDK offers a neat, simple solution to speed-of-light objections to a recent six-day creation of the world on one hand, and hard limits to the age of the universe on the other.
`Close to infinity' describes the mental oscillations needed to remain an Atheist in the face of a mounting stack of observations indicating the impossibility of your position.
I'm a Lightwave animator, so spare me the 'Linux will solve all your problems' crap.
I guess you'll have to work a bit slower, then, or risk exhausting the light waves you have left to work with. (-:
Linux seems to have solved problems for ILM, Pixar, DreamWorks, yadda yadda... but Disney, now there's an interesting contrast of priorities: they render on Linux with one hand, and legislate against it with the other. Maybe it's one of those light-side/dark-side things. Dr Linux and Mr RIAA, sort of.
Choosing a profession hated by most means they have the right to bitch at you. I don't advocate etching your opinion into a spammer's car with acid or delivering it to their loungeroom wrapped around a brick, but I do advocate telling them (and their ISPs, postoffice, communications authorities, bankers, relatives - you've got free speech, use it liberally) loudly and often that you're offended by what they're doing.
Most of the outback, modulo a few large deserts and salt pans, is quite pleasant and hospitable compared with most of Afghanistan, which seems to consist entirely of dry, shattered rocks.
Have a care! At least one of them expressed a desire to roll naked in money (possibly because rolling naked with a man didn't appeal to her). Be certain to not use valuable jellyfish, lest they enjoy it... bluebottles would probably do. Would stonefish or blue-ringed octopi be classed as permitted fillers?
What an idoitic [sic] statement - people who leave their administrator accounts blank deserved to be 0wn3d.
Quite a few `idoits' are getting bitten after installing one of MS's development suites and getting a free cut-down version of MS-SQL-Server with (surprise) a blank admin password. Until recently, the docco for the `real' version of MS-SQL only got around to mentioning the blank password thing waaaaay down the tree.
I think their first mistake was using MS-SQL instead of PostgreSQL, but that's just zealotry, so you can discount it accordingly. (-:
Post with a handle next time, will you? It gives you more credibility, and me a name to laugh at. (O-;)
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You'd have to be terminally thick to think stock options and other indirect employee benefits from Microsoft were worth the paper they're written on, in the long run.
Red Flag Linux is being run by the Emperor's son or something like that. I'd expect this little QANGO pressure-cooker to be attached to power in a similar fashion. It's not entirely ethical from our PoV but we can be grateful that number-one-son didn't get employed as head of Microsoft in China.
Which rock have you been hiding under for the last decade?
Very few people, even technicians, ever have to do anything like that today, let alone all of it.
As an aside: 99% of Windows users would refuse to try installing their OS. A GUI doesn't magic complexity and problems away, it just makes them prettier. A modern Linux install is actually simpler, faster and easier than a Windows install. Even RedHat, hardly the holder of a reputation for pushing the envelope, is easier to install than W2k, even though the W2k tested was a set of manufacturer's recovery CDs!
My wife (SWMBO) uses Mandrake Linux 8.2, Kmail, Konqueror (or Mozilla for sites that break Konq), OpenOffice.org, The Gimp, XMMS and about twoscore of the games. She fears the toaster, that's how technical she is (not so her sister, who flipped the PSU switch on the back of her own computer from 220 to 110 and blew it up).
Last week, I shut down SWMBO's machine for the first time in about 8 months to add some new hardware to it. She came home as it was booting and asked me what the startup screen is (text in a fancy framebuffer border with a progress bar) because she'd never seen it before, never knew textmode or the boot screen existed, never rebooted her machine. She doesn't know that it has a kernel, or that it has a USB webcam that I use as a kiddie monitor, or that her printer talks to it through USB; and your reward for asking her how the dual-scroll-wheel AOpen optical mouse connects (PS/2, in fact) would be a blank and concerned look. No worries.
Are we there yet?
You do now. In fact since IE v5, Alexa has been spying on you. I guess they must really despise competition if they forbid other remote management software (in the XP EULA).
`Fraud! ' came the cry! Microsoft overvalues shares.
They'll find a way, you watch and see! )-:
...what sort of position can you see Microsoft fulfilling when it rolls out Palladium in concert with Passport?
Drop the P to see what Passport actually is... and remember that the `My' in `My Computer' is William Henry Gates III.
Ah. A Windows programmer. (-:
Use something like Tk or Qt (yes, you can use both of those on Windows and Macintosh as well as Linux/UNIX/*BSD) and the dialogs etc pretty much sort themselves out. That doesn't mean that all of your problems are solved in one go, but it does mean that such issues crop up only around 5% as often.
HighLift Systems' real provider lives at http://highlift.1000planets.com/.
Barry is an Australian scientist as well. He's a long-time supporter of CDK (C decay).
But of course, when an Atheist thinks the matter through instead of simply reporting what he finds, anything which tends to support CDK is quickly binned. CDK offers a neat, simple solution to speed-of-light objections to a recent six-day creation of the world on one hand, and hard limits to the age of the universe on the other.
`Close to infinity' describes the mental oscillations needed to remain an Atheist in the face of a mounting stack of observations indicating the impossibility of your position.
Yah, like `pin the DLL on the app' with the exciting `but keep this other app working' option. Or Blue Screen Roulette.
But not XBill. )-:
I guess you'll have to work a bit slower, then, or risk exhausting the light waves you have left to work with. (-:
Linux seems to have solved problems for ILM, Pixar, DreamWorks, yadda yadda... but Disney, now there's an interesting contrast of priorities: they render on Linux with one hand, and legislate against it with the other. Maybe it's one of those light-side/dark-side things. Dr Linux and Mr RIAA, sort of.
Choosing a profession hated by most means they have the right to bitch at you. I don't advocate etching your opinion into a spammer's car with acid or delivering it to their loungeroom wrapped around a brick, but I do advocate telling them (and their ISPs, postoffice, communications authorities, bankers, relatives - you've got free speech, use it liberally) loudly and often that you're offended by what they're doing.
At least an 8.5. (-:
A shotgun's quicker, just as effective, more convenient, and allows for a faster getaway.
Anyway, wouldn't it be more effective - and terribly appropriate - to dob him into every snail-mail advertising list on the planet?
This begs the question: why does he have sickening 'phone clips? Does he sell those, too?
`Good stuff. I'm keeping this for later.'
Most of the outback, modulo a few large deserts and salt pans, is quite pleasant and hospitable compared with most of Afghanistan, which seems to consist entirely of dry, shattered rocks.
Have a care! At least one of them expressed a desire to roll naked in money (possibly because rolling naked with a man didn't appeal to her). Be certain to not use valuable jellyfish, lest they enjoy it... bluebottles would probably do. Would stonefish or blue-ringed octopi be classed as permitted fillers?
...after everyone's been bitten. And even then, not the version that's included in several IDEs.
And Oracle is addressing the lowest common OS denominator.
...and I wonder just how unsupported it is.
If you run any services without reading the documentation, well, I can do no better than to quote you:
It's called RServ, and it works. Link elsewhere in this thread.
Quite a few `idoits' are getting bitten after installing one of MS's development suites and getting a free cut-down version of MS-SQL-Server with (surprise) a blank admin password. Until recently, the docco for the `real' version of MS-SQL only got around to mentioning the blank password thing waaaaay down the tree.
I think their first mistake was using MS-SQL instead of PostgreSQL, but that's just zealotry, so you can discount it accordingly. (-:
Post with a handle next time, will you? It gives you more credibility, and me a name to laugh at. (O-;)