Too bad you went through all of that trouble when a 550K download would have done it for ya. I use it now. And as far as crashing, that sounds like a personal problem.
No. Not at all. Considering that 99% of people don't know what in the hell iptables is, couldn't figure out how to use it, never mind even run Linux, people are paying for ease of use. Somehow, I can't picture my parents using something like iptables...
This guy's just an academic. As a business owner & manager, I tend to listen to people that have a proven track record, as opposed to academics who haven't spent much time with real life business.
I don't think "spyware" means the same thing to all people. Spybot calls Hitbox spyware, but I know for a fact that it's not (my site uses it). So I don't screw up my stats, I never remove any of their cookies, because I know it's not bad. Thus, I have spyware on my machine.
Boy, is that guy going to be disappointed next year when a satellite doesn't crash into his house.
Who says it won't? The Chinese government said that everything went perfectly, so if everything goes perfectly next time a Chinese satellite comes back, then it'll hit this rucky guy's house again!
I'm talking about Firewire. I've never seen any kind of device with Firewire connectors. Mac came out with USB connectors years and years before USB was big. And, yo ucan't get a MAC with parallel or serial ports any more, from what I understand (which is part of the reason that I or my company could never buy a Mac).
FUCK YES. I agree. For all of the bitching about giant retailers (I agree), I read a TON of Slashdot posts about buying so-and-so at Amazon, or Best Buy or Wal-Mart, etc. That's just pure laziness and hypocracy. Vote with your wallet. Believe it or not, there ARE other places to buy things. And with the NET these days, even if you're too lazy to get off your ass, you can still just go to a different web site. Of course, I advocate going to your local merchant, but that's another discussion entirely. And no, I haven't bought anything from Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or Amazon in years... and I'm still alive!!!
Wow, I thought I was a geek, but apparently not! Can you provide some kind of translation into English so those of us who HAVE seen real naked women can understand, please?
What I want to do is to create a music server with all of my music connected through a real sound system.
I have no clue as to what kind of bizarre connectors Macs have these days, but any PC sound card comes with a 1/8" mini jack (headphone jack). Plug a $3 Radio Shack cable into that, and into any inputs on any stereo. Voila.
Well, "the media" hasn't attacked Google at all. The only person suggesting this ridiculousless is one writer for a relatively irrelevant PC rag on his blog. Anybody can post anything on the Net... that doesn't make them "media" any more than it makes what is written true. In fact, that's one difference between "the media" and average joe. Real journalists do fact checking and real analysis. This is some guy talking about what he found, and he happens to work for PC World (which I didn't evne know still existed).
This won't create any kind of fiasco. First off, it's not spyware, and the only person who suggested it, did so on a relatively unknown blog. "Spyware"
won't even cross the minds of non-Slashdot readers, nor should it.
If there's a Windows exploit, why would the hacker bother with the Google Desktop? If you've got access to a hacked PC, just use cmd or explorer to go whatever you want. This isn't going to make any difference if you've already got a security hole.
Didn't Bush tell us to go to a community college and educate ourselves so we can get higher paying jobs?
Well, he's right. Being a plumber or electrician (if you can find those jobs) do pay a hell of a lot more than unemployment does. And, since he decided not to extend unemployment benefits, for many people, a skilled trade does pay more than $0 income. Way to go, Bush! That's some smart thinking!
Of course, you still have to beg, borrow, or steal the money to pay for community college, and if you're lucky enough to have a minimum wage job, you still have to take time off from work to go to class. He might as well suggested that the entire US signs up to take correspondence courses in taxidermy that are shown on TV.
Are you serious about auto jobs? Have you seen Detroit or Flint Michigan? Auto jobs, by and large, ARE gone! Sure, there are a few plants left, but by and large, the auto industry is GONE. Jesus, watch "Roger and Me", and you'll see the desolation and poverty left when all of the auto jobs left this country. You must be living in a different US than I do, because by and large, the auto jobs are gone... just like steel, textiles, etc.
I see where you're coming from, and I agree. We (meaning anybody with a computer and Internet connection) ARE among the elite in the world, and are very, very lucky. But the thing is that maybe this particular guy (the programmer) wasn't in as such dire straits as most people are, but some people really are. I can honestly imagine spammers in China doing it to support their family because Grandma can't work the rice fields any more, etc. To assume that everyone on the planet has other options is just incredibly naive.
I popped that up on my site, only bad thing is that it doesn't work correctly in Firefox:(
I know. That is a bummer. You can still do something very simple like the following and open it in Firefox. It just doesn't do anything fun like tell you how much spammer bandwidth you've eaten up, or when the site finally dies. <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;"> </head> <frameset rows="100%">
<frame src="http://ynotsavem0re.com/?FUCKYOUSPAMMERS"> </frameset> </html>
Morality is a luxury. Morality is a luxury. Yes, I repeat that because that's critical. Most people on the planet do not have the luxury of deciding whether or not their job is morally right. Most people work because they HAVE to. This whole "personal fulfillment from work" bullshit exists only in wealthy countries like the US. MOST of the world's population is still in places like Africa and Southeast Asia, where you're lucky to have ANY job that pays $0.25/day. So, take your high and mighty (and juvenile) "Dark Side" bullshit and shove it sideways up your ass. You're lucky to be able to choose what job you want. No need to rub it in the faces of those not so fortunate to have been born in the right country.
But, I don't think it's the same kind as this guy.
Nifty little script. I keep it running 24/7, bombarding my favorite spammers. I was doing the same thing myself with a frameset, but this one is soooo much prettier!
they do not also control the content of this product
Obviously, you haven't read a single other post in this thread or know the first thing about Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is a Christian company, and they control what they sell accordingly, and yes, they DO dictate the content of what they sell.
Yup. Bookkeeping, and since we're a retailer, also off-the-shelf point of sale (I say off-the-shelf because I invariably have somebody chime in with "Home Depot uses it"). It wouldn't just be an OS switch, we'd have to change the entire core of our business. Even then, there's no Linux expertise on staff, so it would cost thousands just to get stuff set up and configured. Maybe, maybe if we had 100 people, and maybe one or two Linux guys, maybe I'd consider it, but then the bookkeeping and POS apps would have to be up to snuff, and from my research, there's nothing that's even close in these departments. Since we live and die by our software, it has to be relatively bulletproof, full-featured, with support, and not a beta or hobby piece of software. Hell, we've been looking at switching our POS system, and I'm evaluating MS's POS solution, so we're actually going in the opposite direction from open source...
...and I'm not talking about selling stuff on eBay or programming shareware at home. Are there any *real* business owners (one with employees, that pays rents, has a building(s), etc.) here that can comment? I feel like these kinds of topics are simply flooded by college kids who have no clue, whatsoever about "Linux on the business desktop". I know there's no way our small company (5 employees plus myself) could swing it. How about other business owners?
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Too bad you went through all of that trouble when a 550K download would have done it for ya. I use it now. And as far as crashing, that sounds like a personal problem.
No. Not at all. Considering that 99% of people don't know what in the hell iptables is, couldn't figure out how to use it, never mind even run Linux, people are paying for ease of use. Somehow, I can't picture my parents using something like iptables...
This guy's just an academic. As a business owner & manager, I tend to listen to people that have a proven track record, as opposed to academics who haven't spent much time with real life business.
I don't think "spyware" means the same thing to all people. Spybot calls Hitbox spyware, but I know for a fact that it's not (my site uses it). So I don't screw up my stats, I never remove any of their cookies, because I know it's not bad. Thus, I have spyware on my machine.
Boy, is that guy going to be disappointed next year when a satellite doesn't crash into his house.
Who says it won't? The Chinese government said that everything went perfectly, so if everything goes perfectly next time a Chinese satellite comes back, then it'll hit this rucky guy's house again!
I'm talking about Firewire. I've never seen any kind of device with Firewire connectors. Mac came out with USB connectors years and years before USB was big. And, yo ucan't get a MAC with parallel or serial ports any more, from what I understand (which is part of the reason that I or my company could never buy a Mac).
FUCK YES. I agree. For all of the bitching about giant retailers (I agree), I read a TON of Slashdot posts about buying so-and-so at Amazon, or Best Buy or Wal-Mart, etc. That's just pure laziness and hypocracy. Vote with your wallet. Believe it or not, there ARE other places to buy things. And with the NET these days, even if you're too lazy to get off your ass, you can still just go to a different web site. Of course, I advocate going to your local merchant, but that's another discussion entirely. And no, I haven't bought anything from Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or Amazon in years... and I'm still alive!!!
Wow, I thought I was a geek, but apparently not! Can you provide some kind of translation into English so those of us who HAVE seen real naked women can understand, please?
What I want to do is to create a music server with all of my music connected through a real sound system.
I have no clue as to what kind of bizarre connectors Macs have these days, but any PC sound card comes with a 1/8" mini jack (headphone jack). Plug a $3 Radio Shack cable into that, and into any inputs on any stereo. Voila.
I used to have to worry about CDs getting scratched.
Now all you have to do is worry about a hard drive failure. But of course, those never happen...
You fucking twat an avi is not a bizarre format.
.AVI. It's just labeled an AVI. I don't know what in the hell it is.
It's not an
Judging by your UID you're a fucking n00b!
Judging my your use of "n00b", I think that I'm quite a bit older than you.
Well, actually not the torrent, but the file that is torrented is some bizarre format, that doesn't play. Don't waste your time downloading.
Well, "the media" hasn't attacked Google at all. The only person suggesting this ridiculousless is one writer for a relatively irrelevant PC rag on his blog. Anybody can post anything on the Net... that doesn't make them "media" any more than it makes what is written true. In fact, that's one difference between "the media" and average joe. Real journalists do fact checking and real analysis. This is some guy talking about what he found, and he happens to work for PC World (which I didn't evne know still existed).
This won't create any kind of fiasco. First off, it's not spyware, and the only person who suggested it, did so on a relatively unknown blog. "Spyware" won't even cross the minds of non-Slashdot readers, nor should it.
If there's a Windows exploit, why would the hacker bother with the Google Desktop? If you've got access to a hacked PC, just use cmd or explorer to go whatever you want. This isn't going to make any difference if you've already got a security hole.
Didn't Bush tell us to go to a community college and educate ourselves so we can get higher paying jobs?
Well, he's right. Being a plumber or electrician (if you can find those jobs) do pay a hell of a lot more than unemployment does. And, since he decided not to extend unemployment benefits, for many people, a skilled trade does pay more than $0 income. Way to go, Bush! That's some smart thinking!
Of course, you still have to beg, borrow, or steal the money to pay for community college, and if you're lucky enough to have a minimum wage job, you still have to take time off from work to go to class. He might as well suggested that the entire US signs up to take correspondence courses in taxidermy that are shown on TV.
Are you serious about auto jobs? Have you seen Detroit or Flint Michigan? Auto jobs, by and large, ARE gone! Sure, there are a few plants left, but by and large, the auto industry is GONE. Jesus, watch "Roger and Me", and you'll see the desolation and poverty left when all of the auto jobs left this country. You must be living in a different US than I do, because by and large, the auto jobs are gone... just like steel, textiles, etc.
I see where you're coming from, and I agree. We (meaning anybody with a computer and Internet connection) ARE among the elite in the world, and are very, very lucky. But the thing is that maybe this particular guy (the programmer) wasn't in as such dire straits as most people are, but some people really are. I can honestly imagine spammers in China doing it to support their family because Grandma can't work the rice fields any more, etc. To assume that everyone on the planet has other options is just incredibly naive.
I popped that up on my site, only bad thing is that it doesn't work correctly in Firefox :(
I know. That is a bummer. You can still do something very simple like the following and open it in Firefox. It just doesn't do anything fun like tell you how much spammer bandwidth you've eaten up, or when the site finally dies.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%">
<frame src="http://ynotsavem0re.com/?FUCKYOUSPAMMERS"> </frameset>
</html>
Morality is a luxury. Morality is a luxury. Yes, I repeat that because that's critical. Most people on the planet do not have the luxury of deciding whether or not their job is morally right. Most people work because they HAVE to. This whole "personal fulfillment from work" bullshit exists only in wealthy countries like the US. MOST of the world's population is still in places like Africa and Southeast Asia, where you're lucky to have ANY job that pays $0.25/day. So, take your high and mighty (and juvenile) "Dark Side" bullshit and shove it sideways up your ass. You're lucky to be able to choose what job you want. No need to rub it in the faces of those not so fortunate to have been born in the right country.
But, I don't think it's the same kind as this guy.
Nifty little script. I keep it running 24/7, bombarding my favorite spammers. I was doing the same thing myself with a frameset, but this one is soooo much prettier!
they do not also control the content of this product
Obviously, you haven't read a single other post in this thread or know the first thing about Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is a Christian company, and they control what they sell accordingly, and yes, they DO dictate the content of what they sell.
Bookkeeping apps maybe?
Yup. Bookkeeping, and since we're a retailer, also off-the-shelf point of sale (I say off-the-shelf because I invariably have somebody chime in with "Home Depot uses it"). It wouldn't just be an OS switch, we'd have to change the entire core of our business. Even then, there's no Linux expertise on staff, so it would cost thousands just to get stuff set up and configured. Maybe, maybe if we had 100 people, and maybe one or two Linux guys, maybe I'd consider it, but then the bookkeeping and POS apps would have to be up to snuff, and from my research, there's nothing that's even close in these departments. Since we live and die by our software, it has to be relatively bulletproof, full-featured, with support, and not a beta or hobby piece of software. Hell, we've been looking at switching our POS system, and I'm evaluating MS's POS solution, so we're actually going in the opposite direction from open source...
...and I'm not talking about selling stuff on eBay or programming shareware at home. Are there any *real* business owners (one with employees, that pays rents, has a building(s), etc.) here that can comment? I feel like these kinds of topics are simply flooded by college kids who have no clue, whatsoever about "Linux on the business desktop". I know there's no way our small company (5 employees plus myself) could swing it. How about other business owners?
When stupid users open that latest Funny.exe file, nothing happens!
I had the same result after I downloaded Firefox on a test Linux install. Does Linux ever do anything if you click on a file?