Mind you, D'ohl's figures have been pretty bizarre elsewhere. I wouldn't go betting the family farm on these numbers. Or even a buck. I suppose I could bet someone that D'ohl's wrong, that seems to be pretty dependable so far.
...by writing their name down and giving them a lift home. If their name had already been written down, they were taken out behind the station and shot instead.
The savings in lives were pretty incredible in the first year, and in the second year they shot hardly anyone (something like 8 people). It had the added advantage of hurting the perpetrators more than their victims.
BTW, did you know that DEC started lines with 0x0a (\n) and ended them with 0x0d (\r) so (amongst other things) that the last line on a 24-line CRT could be used for other than typing stuff in?
Managed to take out the main supports with a car-bomb parked across the plaza while doing insignificant structural damage to buildings across the street (ie, closer to the van when it blew up). And everyone in the BATF office in that building was elsewhere on the day... what a coincidence... they just kind of forgot to take the children in the creche and everyone else with them.
The local seismo place also reported two separate blasts, then changed their minds a few hours later. Funny, those traces don't seem to be available.
Call me a tinfoil hatter, but I suspect that Tim did set off a bomb, and it wasn't the one which killed the kids.
I'd pay $750 for Photoshop if it ran on Linux, rather than the warez'd copy I'm using right now.
Put your money where your mouth is. Here is PhotoShop 7.0 running on Mandrake 9.2. The picture being edited is a photo of my wife's dual-headed (MergedFB) machine being set up (playing the lion-sleeps-tonight video as a test, video streams go weird if you try to split them across monitors). You nead to install msttfonts as well as a recent WINE (I pulled 20040121 from Cooker and used that, but the December one works too).
I run a 100% Linux household, and know of several others doiung the same, but the vast majority of my customers are 100% MS-Windows on the workstation, and often disparate versions of it, and sometimes because some apps won't work on one version, and other apps won't work on another.
I even have one site with mixed 98/ME workstations because the AutoCAD printer drivers work under ME on one machine, 98 on another, but not the other way around (ie, it won't work under the same OS on different machines), and this is with a network-enabled printer/plotter so it's not like one's driving the plotter through the LAN and the other directly or anything.
Installing software on Mandrake (and SuSE, Fedora, most modern distros) is also a click-click-all-done process, and configuring it usefully is no harder than MS-Windows and often easier since little details aren't squirrelled away somewhere fifteen menus deep with a nebulous title. In fact, you can just click on mod_php in rpmdrake, click on yes, and it will install Apache and everything else it wants as a consequence of that. The absence of scripting-by-default is a feature: users and attackers don't have the same opportunities to mess about with things.
The difference is that the MS-Windows services are typically flat on their backs and legs spread from a security perspective, and it takes a fair bit of configuration work to make them properly secure. I can bung a Mandrake CD in, install stuff, pull down the updates (mandatory for MS-Windows too, of course) and be happy.
The only time I really need a firewall on a Linux box is when I'm using something like Samba, which is constrained by the hopeless SMB/CIFS protocol to always have one port open on all interfaces. MS-Windows, on the other hand, hasn't always been entirely honest about exactly what it does have open (nmap is your friend).
It's also worth noting that over 90% of the useful security tools like nmap, Ethereal and Nessus started life in Unix/Linux land and now have MS-Windows ports available only thanks to the properties of the GPL, so remember to burn incense to Saint Richard of Stallman whenever you use one to save an MS-Windows box's bacon. (-:
...that we're "more technical" because we have better toys. Having any modern Linux distribution is like having a honking great Lego (tm) collection (top toy, and it runs under MS-Windows as well). Having MS-Windows is like having Barbie dolls - sure they look pretty, and have all of these neat (and expensive) accessories, but after you've posed them in variations of six different ways, that's about it for imagination. For kids, it's time to rip the legs off and see what makes them go.
The shiny stuff in modern Linux distros (KDE, GNOME etc) is like modern Lego in that it is kind of pre-built. This takes some of the fun out of it but also saves doing some repetitive tasks (e.g. "assemble Bob the Builder model") and more accurately represents small objects.
PS, I very seldom "compile my own software" (although I've been doing a lot of it this last week for customers). When I do, I sing halleliujahs for the ability to do it, sadly absent in much MS-Windows software. But for 99% of what I do, eminently suitable "shrink-wrapped" versions exist, and most stuff is modular enough that BASH will glue it together if the existing stuff falls short.
Oh... that's right, you don't have BASH. Well, try the CygWin suite which includes it, and/or pull down a free PERL and have a go with that as a glue language.
I haven't had time to er, use usenet for ages. Google's interface is a pretty good newbie gateway to it.
...and if you actually used the links people have already been providing you instead of just scorning them for one reason or another, I'd bother posting some of my own. There are pages which even go to the trouble of listing Microsoft's assorted forms of roadkill, right up there alongside the long lists of illegal acts. But you can findthemyourself.
BTW, Bill did do one thing which was genuinely altrusitic until he noticed it was: paid to have Verdana and friends designed and then made them freely downloadable. BoC, when it was noticed that non-Windows users were downloading them as well... oops.
...creative and entirely altruistic (or perhaps he didn't forecast the eventual consequences) which was invent and give away (free as in beer) the Verdana-ish font families.
He's taken them off line, you're theoretically not allowed to get them anywhere else but the no-longer-populated site, and if pressed he might start suing people for using them other than with MS-Windows, but those are darn good fonts, and until he realised that his competitors were also using them, you could easily and legally help yourself to them.
Word? Bought. Publisher? Bought. Internet Explorer? Bought - sort of. Actually, closer to stolen from SpyGlass Systems. MS-DOS? Bought (from Seattle Computer as QDOS). They wrote MultiPlan - and trashed it, replacing it with the (bought) Excel. Windows NT? Bought the programmer from DEC, stole the code. SQL Server? Bought the database from SyBase, bought the programmer from DEC. The bulk of their actual development seems to have been aimed at chrome and lockin. One of the reasons Exchange sucks so much internally is because it is one of the few products which they built (from cobbled-together parts) mostly by themselves.
Meanwhile, practically the entire computing population now has to deal with backslashes, spaces and drive letters in their filenames (in C, try "C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\BRAIN\\ DEAD.SYS" for telling a command about a file). OS/2 was single-queued at Microsoft's insistence (IBM wanted multiple queues). Bill's house-of-cards email system and nailed-on-later MIME processing is largely responsible for many billions of dollars in losses to viruses every year. These and a million other tiny annoyances have really dragged computing standards down, been destructive rather than creative.
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Mind you, D'ohl's figures have been pretty bizarre elsewhere. I wouldn't go betting the family farm on these numbers. Or even a buck. I suppose I could bet someone that D'ohl's wrong, that seems to be pretty dependable so far.
You only need WINE now, not Crossover.
However, yes, a native version would be much smoother. And the WM would allow you to do more creative things with those annoying windows.
...by writing their name down and giving them a lift home. If their name had already been written down, they were taken out behind the station and shot instead.
The savings in lives were pretty incredible in the first year, and in the second year they shot hardly anyone (something like 8 people). It had the added advantage of hurting the perpetrators more than their victims.
AKA Jefferson Davis Hogg?
Excellent post!
BTW, did you know that DEC started lines with 0x0a (\n) and ended them with 0x0d (\r) so (amongst other things) that the last line on a 24-line CRT could be used for other than typing stuff in?
...has just made its last mistake? (-:
Managed to take out the main supports with a car-bomb parked across the plaza while doing insignificant structural damage to buildings across the street (ie, closer to the van when it blew up). And everyone in the BATF office in that building was elsewhere on the day... what a coincidence... they just kind of forgot to take the children in the creche and everyone else with them.
The local seismo place also reported two separate blasts, then changed their minds a few hours later. Funny, those traces don't seem to be available.
Call me a tinfoil hatter, but I suspect that Tim did set off a bomb, and it wasn't the one which killed the kids.
Put your money where your mouth is. Here is PhotoShop 7.0 running on Mandrake 9.2. The picture being edited is a photo of my wife's dual-headed (MergedFB) machine being set up (playing the lion-sleeps-tonight video as a test, video streams go weird if you try to split them across monitors). You nead to install msttfonts as well as a recent WINE (I pulled 20040121 from Cooker and used that, but the December one works too).
So who's the solitary sucker? The Canopy Group?
I run a 100% Linux household, and know of several others doiung the same, but the vast majority of my customers are 100% MS-Windows on the workstation, and often disparate versions of it, and sometimes because some apps won't work on one version, and other apps won't work on another.
I even have one site with mixed 98/ME workstations because the AutoCAD printer drivers work under ME on one machine, 98 on another, but not the other way around (ie, it won't work under the same OS on different machines), and this is with a network-enabled printer/plotter so it's not like one's driving the plotter through the LAN and the other directly or anything.
Think of it as distributed reference validation. (-:
My favourite on-line error report is this 1996 CERT Advisory, the original CA-96.13.
...a time when the GUI's opinion of routing differed from textmode's opinion (ie actual) routing, in weird ways.
Hey, it works for me! (-:
In C, for the command line, that's BackslashBackslashBackslashBackslashDot, of course. <g/d/r>
If I seem short-sighted, it is because I stand in the footprints of giants.
I also like:
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he sits in a small boat drinking beer.
or:
Give a man a fish, he owes you one fish.
Teach a man to fish, and you have a new competitor.
Installing software on Mandrake (and SuSE, Fedora, most modern distros) is also a click-click-all-done process, and configuring it usefully is no harder than MS-Windows and often easier since little details aren't squirrelled away somewhere fifteen menus deep with a nebulous title. In fact, you can just click on mod_php in rpmdrake, click on yes, and it will install Apache and everything else it wants as a consequence of that. The absence of scripting-by-default is a feature: users and attackers don't have the same opportunities to mess about with things.
The difference is that the MS-Windows services are typically flat on their backs and legs spread from a security perspective, and it takes a fair bit of configuration work to make them properly secure. I can bung a Mandrake CD in, install stuff, pull down the updates (mandatory for MS-Windows too, of course) and be happy.
The only time I really need a firewall on a Linux box is when I'm using something like Samba, which is constrained by the hopeless SMB/CIFS protocol to always have one port open on all interfaces. MS-Windows, on the other hand, hasn't always been entirely honest about exactly what it does have open (nmap is your friend).
It's also worth noting that over 90% of the useful security tools like nmap, Ethereal and Nessus started life in Unix/Linux land and now have MS-Windows ports available only thanks to the properties of the GPL, so remember to burn incense to Saint Richard of Stallman whenever you use one to save an MS-Windows box's bacon. (-:
...that we're "more technical" because we have better toys. Having any modern Linux distribution is like having a honking great Lego (tm) collection (top toy, and it runs under MS-Windows as well). Having MS-Windows is like having Barbie dolls - sure they look pretty, and have all of these neat (and expensive) accessories, but after you've posed them in variations of six different ways, that's about it for imagination. For kids, it's time to rip the legs off and see what makes them go.
The shiny stuff in modern Linux distros (KDE, GNOME etc) is like modern Lego in that it is kind of pre-built. This takes some of the fun out of it but also saves doing some repetitive tasks (e.g. "assemble Bob the Builder model") and more accurately represents small objects.
PS, I very seldom "compile my own software" (although I've been doing a lot of it this last week for customers). When I do, I sing halleliujahs for the ability to do it, sadly absent in much MS-Windows software. But for 99% of what I do, eminently suitable "shrink-wrapped" versions exist, and most stuff is modular enough that BASH will glue it together if the existing stuff falls short.
Oh... that's right, you don't have BASH. Well, try the CygWin suite which includes it, and/or pull down a free PERL and have a go with that as a glue language.
I haven't had time to er, use usenet for ages. Google's interface is a pretty good newbie gateway to it.
A lot of Alfred Nobel's stuff used to blow up as well. (-:
...and if you actually used the links people have already been providing you instead of just scorning them for one reason or another, I'd bother posting some of my own. There are pages which even go to the trouble of listing Microsoft's assorted forms of roadkill, right up there alongside the long lists of illegal acts. But you can find them yourself.
BTW, Bill did do one thing which was genuinely altrusitic until he noticed it was: paid to have Verdana and friends designed and then made them freely downloadable. BoC, when it was noticed that non-Windows users were downloading them as well... oops.
Just checking. (-:
I like Howard! (-:
Can I get one in metallic glittery near-UV violet? How often will I have to change the batteries?
...creative and entirely altruistic (or perhaps he didn't forecast the eventual consequences) which was invent and give away (free as in beer) the Verdana-ish font families.
He's taken them off line, you're theoretically not allowed to get them anywhere else but the no-longer-populated site, and if pressed he might start suing people for using them other than with MS-Windows, but those are darn good fonts, and until he realised that his competitors were also using them, you could easily and legally help yourself to them.
I found it by stumbling over it. I'm about to crash (hi from GMT+08) and very woozy, else I'd do some looking for you.
Word? Bought. Publisher? Bought. Internet Explorer? Bought - sort of. Actually, closer to stolen from SpyGlass Systems. MS-DOS? Bought (from Seattle Computer as QDOS). They wrote MultiPlan - and trashed it, replacing it with the (bought) Excel. Windows NT? Bought the programmer from DEC, stole the code. SQL Server? Bought the database from SyBase, bought the programmer from DEC. The bulk of their actual development seems to have been aimed at chrome and lockin. One of the reasons Exchange sucks so much internally is because it is one of the few products which they built (from cobbled-together parts) mostly by themselves.
Meanwhile, practically the entire computing population now has to deal with backslashes, spaces and drive letters in their filenames (in C, try "C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\BRAIN\\ DEAD.SYS" for telling a command about a file). OS/2 was single-queued at Microsoft's insistence (IBM wanted multiple queues). Bill's house-of-cards email system and nailed-on-later MIME processing is largely responsible for many billions of dollars in losses to viruses every year. These and a million other tiny annoyances have really dragged computing standards down, been destructive rather than creative.
Other than that, your argument's fine. (-: