"You can build it, design it, and it will work great. The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'""
I think he was confused and meant windows.
this is one of the major reasons I use Linux because of the quality of software and the ability to add things with ease.
Just the opposite of windows - there is no control over any third party crap software out there.
It is obvious that the days of someone building your own computer and putting the os of your choice on it are numbered.
I for one am glad we are putting security decisions in the hands of vendors instead of the stupid customers who don't know any better and who also don't know what they need access to.
I think this will be great for Linux though in the end.
to show off with - I think those colors are pretty ugly - I would of chosen something a little more neutral and appealing to everyone for showing off purposes if nothing else.
believe any of Microsoft's marketing spin anymore - aren't we all just getting a little tired of hearing how they see the world and telling us what to do with our technology.
and older Imac tray loading 266 mghz for my daughter to put some of her educational software on that she never uses - I put ubuntu on there and I love it.
I like the bios/eeprom of the machine and overall design - I upgraded the hard drive and memory and I got decent machine that I can move into any room.
It blows my old intel pentium two away at the same speed that I had at one time. it is much quicker and more responsive - the upgraded hard drive even made it quicker.
ubuntu is my choice - I have it on all my computers which include a ppc - it's hardware detection is great - better than redhat's in my opinion - why do you think fedora finally came out with a ppc version their last version. it is ONE cd - which I love - I am so sick of burning four of five cd's - boy doesn't that sound spoiled - oh well - ubuntu is light and fast and anything you need - in fact more than anything you will ever need is just an apt-get install away.
great job Ubuntu - I recommend you to all the newbies I meet. I also like the whole philosophy behind the distribution along with they only have one version - no enterprise this or professional that.
thanks again and keep up the great work - my donation is coming.
BS - what do your grandma and little sister do when your wonderful windows system breaks or becomes infected with just about anything.
Also chances are they bought that system with windows already on it - so they didn't install it -
the problem is getting linux pre-installed on like say Dell Laptops.
I just installed Ubuntu on a compaq evo laptop and it installed great - I didn't have to touch one text file or anything - All I had to do was create a user to login after installation also no root password to keep track of.
If you are looking for a specific application just search the web there are plenty of programmers willing to do it for money.
Why does our government continue to work for the corporations instead of for the people - I guess money is everything and maybe someday our big fat country will get off of it collective big fat arse and do something about it. Our digital rights are being stripped from us right in front of our own eyes and no one gives a crap except for the people that realize it is happening. It WILL come back to bite us someday and bite us bigtime.
Happy fourth of July everyone and happy birthday America!
they may be built like tanks - like hard to move and heavy - but they still fail just as often if not more than my handbuilt servers.
this is a myth that may of been true a while back but their so-called enterprise hardware (i.e 6800 or above) seem to fail an awful lot for us -
I have hand built some server using high quality parts bought separately running linux that run forever have have hardly failed. One bad memory chip in the last two years - not bad - in the meantime we have had numerous sun memory, hard drive, cdrom drive, and cpu's replaced.
so I think the pc world is definitely catching up and this what has sun so worried and has a troubling future and seems to be trying to find itself of lately.
uhh? my fonts on my linux box are much more prettier than my windows xp box at work -
god xp is ugly - how anyone could say it is prettier than anything - well I just don't know.
you are right about the dvd stuff - but then again if I am going to watch a dvd I usually sit down with the family and watch on my main television in my living so I guess I can't say anything about that.
But I do make movies from my family video camcorder and they work great on any dvd player don't have a dvd burner yet so I just used svcd cd's - my movies aren't very long anyway.
my xp doesn't run lighter but then again it is an image from work so I don't really have control over it but it's a hog and it does crash every now and then but I am sure it is the desktop support folks at my work and it could be made to be a lot more stabler and prettier with money of course.
I don't even know what DC++ and Soulseek clients are so I can't say anything about that but you can always suggest they make a linux client to the manufacturer or make one yourself and give something back to the community.
"Now sorry for the ranting, I love linux, but this everything by the book legal shit is getting obnoxious. I'm sick of dancing all over the place to watch a video or play an audio file or whatever." You need to try a distribution like debian or ubuntu and all you need to do is apt-get whatever you need - although I haven't tried the dvdcss encryption stuff because that is basicly illegal here in the land of the free United States and like I said I am not a big movie watcher - but I can play every video file on the internet except wmv's 9 or above but I don't really run into too much of those - and so far the sites I run across that do you use it - I send a message to the webmaster to let them know that alternatives exist. they usually are pretty nice and say thanks or just don't give an answer.
I do share your frustration sometimes - but that is the beauty of open source it forces open standards and you can see who are the slime balls out there that are out to screw people and make quick buck and don't really care about standards except their own. do you really want to support companies that do that or ones that are actually out to serve their customers.
Whenever I updated or upgrade my os using apt-get it has never broken any of my apps - but then again that just may be me.
Also I guess you are luckier than me in windows but whenever I install something new it breaks something else and then I get into registry hell and can't get out - windows is a flawed architecture and needs to be redesigned.
marvelous - what innovation going on - here you got Ubuntu, Knoppix, Xandros, and even Linspire along with a ton of other distros like PClinux, Mepis etc etc I could go on and on. Along with Redhat pushing open source into the enterprise in the United States.
I am just glad I support open source and give money, time, and expertise when I can. There is always something new to learn and I really look forward to the future.
People you can live without windows. So keep up all you open source heads - I am really having fun and I don't think the real fun has even started yet.
fly in court - how can a sysadmin be responsible for stuff that the users are putting on the system in the space that they are allotted.
now if a court order came down and said to lock those people off and remove all their files then ya I guess they would have to comply - but otherwise the sysadmins just can't respond to every joker that wants somebody files deleted. I think you would just be asking for trouble.
innovation - I can't believe they are coming out with this - I am so glad I am going to switch today. oh wait it's not out yet - guess I have to stick firefox and use their rss feeds - hey wait why was switching in the first place - Oh ya I remember I was hoping they would also have drm that only the riaa would be proud of.
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on articles like these microsoft could not be reached for comment.
I would like to hear from the wonderful patent attorney who filed it and provide his reasoning or better yet let's hear Bill Gates reasoning.
"You can build it, design it, and it will work great. The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'""
I think he was confused and meant windows.
this is one of the major reasons I use Linux because of the quality of software and the ability to add things with ease.
Just the opposite of windows - there is no control over any third party crap software out there.
to deny it - they want to avoid jail time when this is over
getting a little out of hand
It is obvious that the days of someone building your own computer and putting the os of your choice on it are numbered.
I for one am glad we are putting security decisions in the hands of vendors instead of the stupid customers who don't know any better and who also don't know what they need access to.
I think this will be great for Linux though in the end.
they are taking into account everything comes with linux i.e apache and the 16,000 other packages. Where when you buy windows you don't get very much.
with him - it has gotten out of hand.
to show off with - I think those colors are pretty ugly - I would of chosen something a little more neutral and appealing to everyone for showing off purposes if nothing else.
believe any of Microsoft's marketing spin anymore - aren't we all just getting a little tired of hearing how they see the world and telling us what to do with our technology.
and older Imac tray loading 266 mghz for my daughter to put some of her educational software on that she never uses - I put ubuntu on there and I love it.
I like the bios/eeprom of the machine and overall design - I upgraded the hard drive and memory and I got decent machine that I can move into any room.
It blows my old intel pentium two away at the same speed that I had at one time. it is much quicker and more responsive - the upgraded hard drive even made it quicker.
quite sick of these microsoft sides shows
why don't they just put the product out and be done with it
it's like they are just putting shit out there to see what the reaction will be
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ubuntu is my choice - I have it on all my computers which include a ppc - it's hardware detection is great - better than redhat's in my opinion - why do you think fedora finally came out with a ppc version their last version.
it is ONE cd - which I love - I am so sick of burning four of five cd's - boy doesn't that sound spoiled - oh well - ubuntu is light and fast and anything you need - in fact more than anything you will ever need is just an apt-get install away.
great job Ubuntu - I recommend you to all the newbies I meet. I also like the whole philosophy behind the distribution along with they only have one version - no enterprise this or professional that.
thanks again and keep up the great work - my donation is coming.
GPL -
BS - what do your grandma and little sister do when your wonderful windows system breaks or becomes infected with just about anything.
Also chances are they bought that system with windows already on it - so they didn't install it -
the problem is getting linux pre-installed on like say Dell Laptops.
I just installed Ubuntu on a compaq evo laptop and it installed great - I didn't have to touch one text file or anything - All I had to do was create a user to login after installation also no root password to keep track of.
If you are looking for a specific application just search the web there are plenty of programmers willing to do it for money.
is wow - what an article -
Why does our government continue to work for the corporations instead of for the people - I guess money is everything and maybe someday our big fat country will get off of it collective big fat arse and do something about it. Our digital rights are being stripped from us right in front of our own eyes and no one gives a crap except for the people that realize it is happening. It WILL come back to bite us someday and bite us bigtime.
Happy fourth of July everyone and happy birthday America!
the fbi spent time doing this while Osama Bin Laden sips wine and eats bread in his safe cave.
Is there something wrong with this picture?
they may be built like tanks - like hard to move and heavy - but they still fail just as often if not more than my handbuilt servers.
this is a myth that may of been true a while back but their so-called enterprise hardware (i.e 6800 or above) seem to fail an awful lot for us -
I have hand built some server using high quality parts bought separately running linux that run forever have have hardly failed. One bad memory chip in the last two years - not bad - in the meantime we have had numerous sun memory, hard drive, cdrom drive, and cpu's replaced.
so I think the pc world is definitely catching up and this what has sun so worried and has a troubling future and seems to be trying to find itself of lately.
Microsoft is irrelevant - I don't touch any window boxes at all - and anyone who use windows on a public facing website is just inviting trouble.
windows is only good for game playing and that is about it from my point of view. sometimes not even
that.
if Microsoft fell of the planet tomorrow nothing in my world would change except I would have a permanent smile.
no I won't - you will / can live perfectly without windows.
uhh? my fonts on my linux box are much more prettier than my windows xp box at work -
god xp is ugly - how anyone could say it is prettier than anything - well I just don't know.
you are right about the dvd stuff - but then again if I am going to watch a dvd I usually sit down with the family and watch on my main television in my living so I guess I can't say anything about that.
But I do make movies from my family video camcorder and they work great on any dvd player
don't have a dvd burner yet so I just used svcd cd's - my movies aren't very long anyway.
my xp doesn't run lighter but then again it is an image from work so I don't really have control over it but it's a hog and it does crash every now and then but I am sure it is the desktop support folks at my work and it could be made to be a lot more stabler and prettier with money of course.
I don't even know what DC++ and Soulseek clients
are so I can't say anything about that but you can always suggest they make a linux client to the manufacturer or make one yourself and give something back to the community.
"Now sorry for the ranting, I love linux, but this everything by the book legal shit is getting obnoxious. I'm sick of dancing all over the place to watch a video or play an audio file or whatever."
You need to try a distribution like debian or ubuntu and all you need to do is apt-get whatever you need - although I haven't tried the dvdcss encryption stuff because that is basicly illegal here in the land of the free United States and like I said I am not a big movie watcher - but I can play every video file on the internet except wmv's 9 or above but I don't really run into too much of those - and so far the sites I run across that do you use it - I send a message to the webmaster to let them know that alternatives exist. they usually are pretty nice and say thanks or just don't give an answer.
I do share your frustration sometimes - but that is the beauty of open source it forces open standards and you can see who are the slime balls out there that are out to screw people and make quick buck and don't really care about standards except their own. do you really want to support companies that do that or ones that are actually out to serve their customers.
Whenever I updated or upgrade my os using apt-get it has never broken any of my apps - but then again that just may be me.
Also I guess you are luckier than me in windows but whenever I install something new it breaks something else and then I get into registry hell and can't get out - windows is a flawed architecture and needs to be redesigned.
marvelous - what innovation going on - here you got Ubuntu, Knoppix, Xandros, and even Linspire along with a ton of other distros like PClinux, Mepis etc etc I could go on and on.
Along with Redhat pushing open source into the enterprise in the United States.
I am just glad I support open source and give money, time, and expertise when I can. There is always something new to learn and I really look forward to the future.
People you can live without windows. So keep up all you open source heads - I am really having fun and I don't think the real fun has even started yet.
another government that gets it.
I hope others will follow.
fly in court - how can a sysadmin be responsible for stuff that the users are putting on the system in the space that they are allotted.
now if a court order came down and said to lock those people off and remove all their files then ya I guess they would have to comply - but otherwise the sysadmins just can't respond to every joker that wants somebody files deleted. I think you would just be asking for trouble.
it was a bandaid just to fix a deeper structural problem - like the whole windows architecture.
innovation - I can't believe they are coming out with this - I am so glad I am going to switch today.
oh wait it's not out yet - guess I have to stick firefox and use their rss feeds - hey wait why was switching in the first place - Oh ya I remember I was hoping they would also have drm that only the riaa would be proud of.