I offer my sincerest apology to anyone who had their lunch ruined by the visual I gave. It is my hope that within the next three to six weeks you can purge your memory of this awful visual.
Quoting Mr. Dvorak: "I can tell you this much: Normal people do not like being associated with fanatics and lunatics."
Actually, I consider myself to be normal. And yes, I like being associated with fanatics and lunatics associated with Linux and Open Source because this is where innovation and creativity come from. Those that are passonate about it might be more vocal than some of us would like, but there is still a great deal to be learned from those who have put much of themselves into making Linux and Open Source what it is today...the so-called fanatics and lunatics.
I think he makes some other valid points in the article, but on that point he totally misses it.
I like it. I think that you should be able to keep stuff for a month (what if you are on vacation, etc.) because you can't always watch what you need.
I don't have Tivo because when I got it a while ago there was no interoperability with my VOIP phone.
If I was told I could have this service I would have taken it. It might not suit everyone, but it works for me.
Yes...they are. They have waited a long time, that is true. However, saying that people are going to be scared of tabs? It is obvious that they are trying to tell people how they should feel, and they took a shot at Firefox (indirectly) by that statement.
They still have not determined the real cause. Depleted Uranium is nothing new to the military. It has been used a long time because the shells are exceedingly hard as compared to other metals. The Navy has used it for a long time in their anti-missile guns on their ships for years, for example.
My father can hardly install his own software and calls me all the time with *simple* questions. When I moved him to Firefox and showed him the tabs, he thought that was the best thing about the browser. Once again Microsoft demonstrates that they are very out of touch with the average computer user.
IF (and as point out already by others) this is a reality and it does happen, it will be exceedly interesting to see how the feds handle this. MS has countless lawsuits pending right now against it.
The way I see this going down (and I readily admit that I am not a expert in this field...only my guess) is that MS will buy out Red Hat, and absorb any lawsuit as a cost of doing business. Hell, they can certainly afford it.
Red Hat may be trying to be like MS, but the fact remains that Red Hat is MS's largest competitor in the OS space. If I were MS I would definately spend the money, buy them out, and close it down after milking everything I could out of it, including making it attractive to Red Hat customers to switch to Windows 2003.
Not trying to be a troll...but I think this is a very real possibility.
If they don't re-brand it as their own, they could buy them out and kill the product. Why not? It happens in the corporate world every single day. Buying Red Hat would cost Microsoft very little, and would actually give them exactly what they need...the insight into the Linux community and development process that they need.
After serving eight years in the military and getting close to those that know, I learned that there are many times when untested / experimental vaccines are given to our troops without their knowledge. Most never cause problems, but there was speculation that a combo of these vaccines may have contributed to Gulf War Syndrome. Not fact, but reasonable speculation.
FINALLY...I have been waiting for something like this. I'm too cheap to buy all the things you used to need. But I have a bunch of computers I can use.
Welcome to America. When in doubt, Sue 'em and let the courts sort it out.
Pretty soon we're going to see the "record" button disappear from VCR's and DVR's because it will all be under some rediculous rule brought about by those with the check books.
I agree with you...your points are well taken. However, I wish people would not post with all sorts of four-letter words. I have a lot of students that I would like to refer here for some great info, but the last time I did that the parents had my butt because of the excessive amount of f-bombs, etc.
Again, I agree with you. I just wish we, as a whole, could tone it down a little.
1.0.2 has a *junk* filtering system. When you turn it on it will go through your inbox and mark what it THINKS is junk. It them moves the *junk* to the junk folder where you can review it. If you find something that is not junk, you can click "not junk" and move it back to the inbox.
Once I "trained" it for about a week, I have never found anything I wanted in the junk folder, and like I said, I only get about one or two spam messages in my inbox per day, compared to the 150+ that end up in the junk folder.
Since I bitch-slapped a hacker trying to break into my system I have not seen another one trying. All that activity must have stopped as well. Wow...I suddenly feel all is right with the world
This brings up an interesting question that I'd like to see a few people comment on. What is the best search engine out there now? I have heard a few talk about Ask Jeeves, and some others.
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I offer my sincerest apology to anyone who had their lunch ruined by the visual I gave. It is my hope that within the next three to six weeks you can purge your memory of this awful visual.
Enjoy your meatloaf.
Milton was also in Mexico, not Fiji. However, I now sit next to her. Milton had a sex change and works for the same company as I do.
Actually, I forgot two more: 11. Apache 12. Sendmail Man...I can't believe I wasted my breath on some ass-wipe troll.
1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Evolution
4. Snort
5. Ethereal
6. Linux
7. Gimp
8. Emacs
9. Plone (and other Open Source CMS)
10. MySQL, PostgreSQL
Do you need more, or does that suffice?
Quoting Mr. Dvorak: "I can tell you this much: Normal people do not like being associated with fanatics and lunatics."
Actually, I consider myself to be normal. And yes, I like being associated with fanatics and lunatics associated with Linux and Open Source because this is where innovation and creativity come from. Those that are passonate about it might be more vocal than some of us would like, but there is still a great deal to be learned from those who have put much of themselves into making Linux and Open Source what it is today...the so-called fanatics and lunatics.
I think he makes some other valid points in the article, but on that point he totally misses it.
Late August? Oxygen is a must-have (obviously) which seems to me that NASA and the Russians should bring these guys home...NOW.
If I was an Astronaut I'd tell Nasa this isn't at all acceptable. They are assuming that nothing is going to go wrong between now and then.
Even my linux box isn't that reliable.
I like it. I think that you should be able to keep stuff for a month (what if you are on vacation, etc.) because you can't always watch what you need. I don't have Tivo because when I got it a while ago there was no interoperability with my VOIP phone. If I was told I could have this service I would have taken it. It might not suit everyone, but it works for me.
Yes...they are. They have waited a long time, that is true. However, saying that people are going to be scared of tabs? It is obvious that they are trying to tell people how they should feel, and they took a shot at Firefox (indirectly) by that statement.
They still have not determined the real cause. Depleted Uranium is nothing new to the military. It has been used a long time because the shells are exceedingly hard as compared to other metals. The Navy has used it for a long time in their anti-missile guns on their ships for years, for example.
My father can hardly install his own software and calls me all the time with *simple* questions. When I moved him to Firefox and showed him the tabs, he thought that was the best thing about the browser. Once again Microsoft demonstrates that they are very out of touch with the average computer user.
IF (and as point out already by others) this is a reality and it does happen, it will be exceedly interesting to see how the feds handle this. MS has countless lawsuits pending right now against it.
The way I see this going down (and I readily admit that I am not a expert in this field...only my guess) is that MS will buy out Red Hat, and absorb any lawsuit as a cost of doing business. Hell, they can certainly afford it.
Red Hat may be trying to be like MS, but the fact remains that Red Hat is MS's largest competitor in the OS space. If I were MS I would definately spend the money, buy them out, and close it down after milking everything I could out of it, including making it attractive to Red Hat customers to switch to Windows 2003.
Not trying to be a troll...but I think this is a very real possibility.
If they don't re-brand it as their own, they could buy them out and kill the product. Why not? It happens in the corporate world every single day. Buying Red Hat would cost Microsoft very little, and would actually give them exactly what they need...the insight into the Linux community and development process that they need.
I don't like this idea, but I can't discount it.
After serving eight years in the military and getting close to those that know, I learned that there are many times when untested / experimental vaccines are given to our troops without their knowledge. Most never cause problems, but there was speculation that a combo of these vaccines may have contributed to Gulf War Syndrome. Not fact, but reasonable speculation.
FINALLY...I have been waiting for something like this. I'm too cheap to buy all the things you used to need. But I have a bunch of computers I can use.
Welcome to America. When in doubt, Sue 'em and let the courts sort it out. Pretty soon we're going to see the "record" button disappear from VCR's and DVR's because it will all be under some rediculous rule brought about by those with the check books.
I'd be REALLY friggin' concerned about putting this in my lap!
I agree with you...your points are well taken. However, I wish people would not post with all sorts of four-letter words. I have a lot of students that I would like to refer here for some great info, but the last time I did that the parents had my butt because of the excessive amount of f-bombs, etc.
Again, I agree with you. I just wish we, as a whole, could tone it down a little.
They will send you a media kit that has bootable Linux CD's and installation instructions. No more viruses.
Just what we need...another Open Source License. When will the madness end?
1.0.2 has a *junk* filtering system. When you turn it on it will go through your inbox and mark what it THINKS is junk. It them moves the *junk* to the junk folder where you can review it. If you find something that is not junk, you can click "not junk" and move it back to the inbox. Once I "trained" it for about a week, I have never found anything I wanted in the junk folder, and like I said, I only get about one or two spam messages in my inbox per day, compared to the 150+ that end up in the junk folder.
Since switching to Thunderbird, I get nearly no spam...maybe one or two per day. I like fancy stuff, but when simple works, go with it!
Since I don't have an iPod, my cell phone rules.
Since I bitch-slapped a hacker trying to break into my system I have not seen another one trying. All that activity must have stopped as well. Wow...I suddenly feel all is right with the world
This brings up an interesting question that I'd like to see a few people comment on. What is the best search engine out there now? I have heard a few talk about Ask Jeeves, and some others.
That is very interesting. I was not aware of that...probably because I have been such a fan of Mozilla I didn't bother to look for problems.