this is the best fricken excuse/argument there is.
give it to the teachers and let them teach and quit worrying about fucking file compatibility formats.
get all your fricken doc files and use openoffice and create a project for some students to convert them to pdf files -
this isn't rocket science -
my daughter started kindergarten at a catholic school and they have computers there - of course they are microsoft windoze and the tuition went up this year - I wonder what for - I am going to find if any money is going to microsoft I am going to raise a fit and insist on open office and provide support myself.
I don't want my daughter to be a microsoft drone so I am going to insist on openoffice be there also so they can learn more than just stupid microsoft products.
Oh ya already had to unteach my daughter a microsoft habit - the usb mouse got disconnected somehow from our computer at home which is linux and what does she do but hit the reset button to reboot the computer - gee now not only do I have to worry about teaching my daughter to read but now I have to unteach the stupid fricken mirosoft habits. Isn't it great they chose microsoft.
I am the only one to not to have problems setting up cups printers in linux.
I don't do anything exotic with the printers but on my desktop at work I am connected to three different hp laserjets through the jetdirect cards and have never had a problem - just had to get the ip address of the printer but that's it.
Where I work they have instructions all over the place on how to set up printers in windows and I have printed out some instructions how to do it in linux and mine are shorter we have mixture of windows and linux client pc's. I laugh when the windows users say the printer is down and I just keep printing to it.
Never looked into why but does anybody know if windows can print directly to the jetdirect card. last time I checked it couldn't but hopefully they changed that in XP.
I remember fooling around with old netware 3.11 and using it as a print server to print to hp printers - nowadays though it great that everything as tcp/ip and we have gotten rid of the old proprietary protocols - now we can just get rid of smb/nmb.
"The present invention provides a method and system for maintaining emergency data in a manner that provides straightforward user access thereto via a displayed emergency page (or set of pages) or other suitable user interface,"
that really narrows it down - I'm glad it wasn't generic or anything.
I would like to say I never had to be root to change my wallpaper
Also - it is about data - if you have root privileges you can view everybodies data on the computer.
That is not good - I think he is still living the the microsoft windows 95 world when there was no network and the pc was just that a PERSONAL computer. Today it is mutlfunctional device that needs privilage escalation and descalation.
gee can I sign up and pay money to be microsoft's beta tester
pleeeeeease pleeeease let me pay - I want to so bad. I mean they make the best software in the world - never crashes or anything and never any phonehomeware or spyware or anything - I would give anything to be Steve's and Billy's beta tester
although I am against software patents it is the way microsoft treated the other company. they have done this for years and yet they still keep doing it and getting away with it.
Microsoft is just slimey with the way they do business and I will never use any of their products again - unless it is shoved down my throat like at my job that's okay though it just reminds of why I hate windows - it is just a piece of junk.
these shows are never treated like the others by networks - never see advertisement - they never get a timeslot that is convenient or when people actually have time and sit down to watch a little tv.
where I live these shows were on at 8:00 pm saturday night - don't know about everyone else but I am usually not watching tv on a saturday night.
Now how about tuesday, wednesday at 9:00 pm or 8:00pm I bet a lot more people would watch it.
dependecy hell is a hell of lot different that dll hell - plus with apt-get the depandecy problem is solved and yes I am biased - windows sucks there is also yum and urpmi for rpm distributions.
I know of no answer for dll hell but there may be one since I don't use windows anymore except when it is rammed down my throat.
dependecies are more of nuisance than anything else - they don't bring a server down. put an old dll on a windows box that expecting a newer version dll - hello blue screen.
Eu doesn't need microsoft - microsoft needs them so I would tell them to fsck off if they don't comply with everything. after all you are their customers and being Microsoft they should be wanting to meet the customers demands - isn't this the reason they implement their crap - you know like put out the next IE7 - cause their customers asked them for it.
I have a conscious which I know Billy doesn't he will stomp on anybody that gets in his way - you know that is the american business way.
how about you anonymous coward - do you have one? or do you like to make you co-workers look bad and try to show how smart you think you are just so you can move up in the world.
the distro companies have to get a really kick ass upgrade plan for these corporations -
I recommend they adapt apt-get to do live upgrades. I put debian/ubuntu on my servers just because of this - I can upgrade a server in california when I am in florida without anyone being at the server.
Now maybe they have adapted their zen stuff to do this on linux but I know this is one thing that is missing from these "corporate distros"
sun has live upgrade - which rocks - and apt rocks but I think these "corporate distros" need to get behind this so upgrades are a no brainer for the corporate bloaks.
"U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman said the sentence reflected that although he was 18 at the time of the attack, his maturity level was much younger than that."
this is sleazy - he should be up front and honest - open source needs to conform to a higher standard and not get caught in this kind of business dealings. he should of put a note on his sight or in the license of the product.
I hope other developers don't try to pull this crap. I also hope distributions make sure this kind of crap doesn't go on in the software they are distributing.
If we want the world to use or software how can we get them to use it when slimey business deals go on like this - good intentions or not.
I don't want to recommend a distribution to my mom and have her computer used as a source of perpetual income for one developer. That is one of the reasons I choose to use open source - Might as well go back and get caught in the Microsoft upgrade cycle.
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sorry about that -
this is the best fricken excuse/argument there is.
give it to the teachers and let them teach and quit worrying about fucking file compatibility formats.
get all your fricken doc files and use openoffice and create a project for some students to convert them to pdf files -
this isn't rocket science -
my daughter started kindergarten at a catholic school and they have computers there - of course they are microsoft windoze and the tuition went up this year - I wonder what for - I am going to find if any money is going to microsoft I am going to raise a fit and insist on open office and provide support myself.
I don't want my daughter to be a microsoft drone so I am going to insist on openoffice be there also so they can learn more than just stupid microsoft products.
Oh ya already had to unteach my daughter a microsoft habit - the usb mouse got disconnected somehow from our computer at home which is linux and what does she do but hit the reset button to reboot the computer - gee now not only do I have to worry about teaching my daughter to read but now I have to unteach the stupid fricken mirosoft habits. Isn't it great they chose microsoft.
I am the only one to not to have problems setting up cups printers in linux.
I don't do anything exotic with the printers but on my desktop at work I am connected to three different hp laserjets through the jetdirect cards and have never had a problem - just had to get the ip address of the printer but that's it.
Where I work they have instructions all over the place on how to set up printers in windows and I have printed out some instructions how to do it in linux and mine are shorter we have mixture of windows and linux client pc's. I laugh when the windows users say the printer is down and I just keep printing to it.
Never looked into why but does anybody know if windows can print directly to the jetdirect card. last time I checked it couldn't but hopefully they changed that in XP.
I remember fooling around with old netware 3.11 and using it as a print server to print to hp printers - nowadays though it great that everything as tcp/ip and we have gotten rid of the old proprietary protocols - now we can just get rid of smb/nmb.
that the U.S. levels the playing field and stop all this intellectual property crap that microsoft/sco started and abolish software patents.
I tend to disagree with you - I tried to install suse on my laptop and it locked up on the splash screen.
went back to ubuntu - it installed without a hitch.
and anything that comes with suse is just an apt-get away with ubuntu.
so I would ubuntu does rival and surpass suse on laptop support.
"The present invention provides a method and system for maintaining emergency data in a manner that provides straightforward user access thereto via a displayed emergency page (or set of pages) or other suitable user interface,"
that really narrows it down - I'm glad it wasn't generic or anything.
This just shows how wrong software patents are.
I would like to say I never had to be root to change my wallpaper
Also - it is about data - if you have root privileges you can view everybodies data on the computer.
That is not good - I think he is still living the the microsoft windows 95 world when there was no network and the pc was just that a PERSONAL computer. Today it is mutlfunctional device that needs privilage escalation and descalation.
gee can I sign up and pay money to be microsoft's beta tester
pleeeeeease pleeeease let me pay - I want to so bad.
I mean they make the best software in the world - never crashes or anything and never any phonehomeware or spyware or anything - I would give anything to be Steve's and Billy's beta tester
pleeeeease pleeeease let me pay.
what a novel fucking idea - what geniuses.
we have used dd for years to mirror drives to other drives.
oh I forgot you can't do that with windows.
now I remember why we don't use windows for anyting mission critical.
although I am against software patents
it is the way microsoft treated the other company. they have done this for years and yet they still keep doing it and getting away with it.
Microsoft is just slimey with the way they do business and I will never use any of their products again - unless it is shoved down my throat like at my job that's okay though it just reminds of why I hate windows - it is just a piece of junk.
these shows are never treated like the others by networks - never see advertisement - they never get a timeslot that is convenient or when people actually have time and sit down to watch a little tv.
where I live these shows were on at 8:00 pm saturday night - don't know about everyone else but I am usually not watching tv on a saturday night.
Now how about tuesday, wednesday at 9:00 pm or 8:00pm
I bet a lot more people would watch it.
Isn't windows already crippled?
Just spent 3 hours helping a friend restore his pc because it got infected with spyware/viruses/bots.
I swear it sure seemed crippled to me.
Had my laptop with ubuntu on it and I swear it was crippled compared to that.
I don't even know where to begin
there are just so many things wrong with this and the RIAA I could be typing till my death.
but I will just quit now and say fuck you Riaa.
anything that the yankee group does I will always question and second guess.
wasn't it last year that she said windows tco was less than linux - but now they are equal.
well at least she's going in the right direction - maybe next year the report will actually have facts and truth in it instead of users opinions.
they probably interviewed EDI.
to be really energy efficient we would switch the times when we do it
have daylight savings time in the winter and not in summer.
we want more sun in the winter to warm us up and less sun in the summer to cool us off.
this would help all of us consume less energy according to season.
Mandiva
a man diva - now that would been something.
gees - don't have to get personal
that is just my point - if you install some crap software that your client wants and it puts an old dll out there you are screwed and in dll hell.
has nothing to do with the person installing just the crap os/software and the design.
that's all - and also you are pretty brave for an anonymous coward.
glad I could make you laugh
dependecy hell is a hell of lot different that dll hell - plus with apt-get the depandecy problem is solved and yes I am biased - windows sucks
there is also yum and urpmi for rpm distributions.
I know of no answer for dll hell but there may be one since I don't use windows anymore except when it is rammed down my throat.
dependecies are more of nuisance than anything else - they don't bring a server down. put an old dll on a windows box that expecting a newer version dll - hello blue screen.
I would tell them to meet all 26 or hit the road.
Eu doesn't need microsoft - microsoft needs them so I would tell them to fsck off if they don't comply with everything. after all you are their customers and being Microsoft they should be wanting to meet the customers demands - isn't this the reason they implement their crap - you know like put out the next IE7 - cause their customers asked them for it.
I got rows of linux blade servers running that windows tco couldn't come close to.
windows sucks including 2003 and XP - they are dll hell ridden pieces of junk and I will never touch any of their products any more.
Didio and yankee group are nothing but microsoft's sock puppets
they probably polled EDI.
I have a conscious which I know Billy doesn't he will stomp on anybody that gets in his way - you know that is the american business way.
how about you anonymous coward - do you have one?
or do you like to make you co-workers look bad and try to show how smart you think you are just so you can move up in the world.
the distro companies have to get a really kick ass upgrade plan for these corporations -
I recommend they adapt apt-get to do live upgrades.
I put debian/ubuntu on my servers just because of this - I can upgrade a server in california when I am in florida without anyone being at the server.
Now maybe they have adapted their zen stuff to do this on linux but I know this is one thing that is missing from these "corporate distros"
sun has live upgrade - which rocks - and apt rocks but I think these "corporate distros" need to get behind this so upgrades are a no brainer for the corporate bloaks.
"U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman said the sentence reflected that although he was 18 at the time of the attack, his maturity level was much younger than that."
was she talking about Billy?
this is sleazy - he should be up front and honest - open source needs to conform to a higher standard and not get caught in this kind of business dealings.
he should of put a note on his sight or in the license of the product.
I hope other developers don't try to pull this crap. I also hope distributions make sure this kind of crap doesn't go on in the software they are distributing.
If we want the world to use or software how can we get them to use it when slimey business deals go on like this - good intentions or not.
I don't want to recommend a distribution to my mom and have her computer used as a source of perpetual income for one developer. That is one of the reasons I choose to use open source - Might as well go back and get caught in the Microsoft upgrade cycle.