News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. Not: HALP MY THING FROM THE STORE DONT WORK AND YOU NEED TO HELP ME OK I DONT HAVE TIME TO GO TO GOOGLE SO DO IT ALL FOR ME, K!?
Sorry, I have to call bullshit when I see it. This article, indeed, is bullshit. How is the Cowboy supposed to recognize he is selling out when you facist yes-men are always defending tripe?
One also has to ask why: Why is this tripe a headline?
So, a user buys the wrong product, comes to slashdot and gets a headline. I have a better idea: hit Google and a couple of stream related forums for an hour or two. Figure it out. It is not very geek to bring such a basic question to a forum looking for turn-key solutions when you should have read the tech specs in the god damned advertisement before buying it..
This is what happens when Bush voters get/. accounts.
Said organizations probably have an IT department that is capable of checking something like an MD5 checksum. So they will be able make sure that the browser in question is actually the official version, and make it available for internal download.
Right, but things are established and won't change so easily. Once they do, FF will be picked apart with the same critical eyes and we will see what it is made of.
If you are going to allow FF, then why not Opera and IE skins like Avant? Much of the point in IT security is to keep the amount of random executables on a network to a minimum. Instead of just worrying about IE's latest security problem, you are now worrying about IE, Mozilla, Opera, etc. The total number of security problems and support issues which can arise from those multiple applications FAR outweigh the cost of just supporting IE.
Plus, everyone knows IE will be free forever with their M$ OS. What is to keep FF or Opera from disappearing tomorrow? Though the corporate ones move slowly, the service is adequate and always there.
You guys need to stop thinking what is popular on/. is popular in IT. Everyone makes fun of M$ in the professional world, but you get on this forum and people will argue with that "all corporate america has to do is wake up" mentality. Again, it isn't reality. The president of a financial firm doesn't care that you can set him up one of the most secure firewalls for free and on inexpensive hardware, but has to depend on your support. He feels a lot better buying the solution from a collective which has been in the business of doing it for years with widespread support and a toll free hotline to call if you have any problems and not a open source solution, from the wild, written by scarey hackers!
Not that I think about it like the previous (run-on) sentence, but this is really how open source is viewed by many of the people making decisions on higher then/.-crowd friendly levels in organizations.
Personally, I have more trust in the Mozilla guys.
See above. Who you trust and who a fortune 500 exec trusts are two different things. You can trust those commie open source developers, and he can trust the other fortune 500 guys.
So? Just because a school may be flawed, that is no excuse not to get a degree.
If FF wants to be a real player, it has to play by the established rules many organizations follow.
I know of quite a few firms, financial institutions, and state government offices which do not allow employees to use anything other than IE; much of the reasoning coencides with what this article is saying. They all use intrusion prevention services and just have the helpdesk clean up the occasional mess caused by a sneaky spyware install or virus infested laptop trying to vpn in. This, in conjunction with AV protection (which you need regardless of IE), make for a feasable solution to these guys. They aren't getting hacked into, the employees don't worry about their workstations and the companies go make money like they should be focused on doing.
Even the lowliest of helpdesk personnel had best know how to remove any spyware which exists. I know this is mostly a Linux board, but some of us started with Linux and had to learn Windows so we would understand the IT world better so we could move above the limitations imposed by a "wINDOWS THE SUCK. LOONIX RULEZ!!!" mentality. Back to the topic at hand: There are only a few places in the Windows registry where Spyware and other malware can load upon boot and from the browser. It takes about a minute to flip through them all, disable the ones which don't have anything "extra", remove the associated files, reboot.
I know, I'll get modded a troll even though I just made clear a rare point on/. that spyware is tremendously easy to defeat. Keep that in mind when the next "intelligent linux guy" comes out and says he had to reinstall Windows over spyware. Then think about it, all the guy had to do was hit Google for a few minutes and his problems would have been solved. But no, he approaches it like a moron since he just because he wants to use a product he refuses to learn. But hates the product, yet appears to be hooked on using it.
Fix those registry entries here: HiJackThis (that is, if you work with Windows and are too lazy to RTFM)
Hello? Microsoft? 99% of the stuff on the Internet is unsigned. Downloading software from DePaul University's FireFox mirror doesn't scare me.
Not to be the bearer of bad news, but depending on where you work, your superiors might not have quite the same trusting approach to downloading software from a server secured and managed by a university.
And even if I press no, I *still* get spyware. Why? IE Sucks.
Then don't use it and quit being a karma whore everytime some headline pops up. Common sense says employee of Microsoft are going to pitch their product. They aren't pitching it to guys like you, they are pitching it to people running organizations. You know, the type you always complain about not listening to IT staff?
Microsoft is never going to get it
Get what? Money? I think that is the reason they exist, and last I checked, they have been getting lots of it for over 20 years.
don't care what your dog buys. Although he probably has a bit more sense than to vomit it up on a web site as though it were the god's honest truth.
You don't seem to be a very nice poster either, so I see no point in one of those pot and kettle situations. You can go do that with someone else, I don't care.
Anyway, if anything, you should be pissed off at people for waiting for 2 years for a setup.exe to come pre-packaged with the same tools they could have had for years, for free, and with no real difference except a few minutes to organize them. Really. What do you people use computers for?! I think I want your IT jobs since mine is apparently something completely different where I have to think instead of following a script or use all pre-bundled software like mother used to make.
If you don't have time to read the FAQs or a HOWTO, then you don't have time to increase your value to the economy and your employer.
Perhaps, if there is a doctor in the house he could hop in here and clear this up.:)
While I do not have the medical background to say specifically why I feel you are wrong, I am aware that each virus, bacteria, parasite, or injury you are exposed to does a certain amount of permanent damage to your system. Though you immune system may have found the key to defeat the bug, that bug has already deficated its toxins all throughout your bloodstream along with much energy being wasted fighting it to begin with.
Now, if you get the flu one season, then you can strut around like superman for a few months until that particular flu strain is gone. It also will probably never return, as evolution has pressed on and changed the "hash" slightly enough so that it won't matter if that is on record in your system the next season, the slight differences in the virus will make it hit you like a whole new bug. It is better to either never be infected, ever, in any case.
I blame the way parents and doctors explain chicken pox to kids for this misconception.
You should know better than to point out that the article is also speculation and by no means is it a definitive word on how the company will proceed.
In my shallow wisdom, I see them releasing this as a free product with the option to upgrade. Either this, or they will probably end up releasing it for free, period, if public outcry is great.
As I read the thread, I see a lot of "Insightful" Microsoft bashes though they are the same ones as always. Spyware/Virus troubles aren't an issue for an advanced Windows user, just as running not using root as a user account in Linux is common knowledge for a Linux user.
1. Use FireFox 2. Run HiJack This! occasionally to look for new autoexec and browser oriented registry keys. 3. Install AdAware and Spybot, run if you actually ever use IE. I have yet to have any thing rude get added to my system while running FireFox.
Remember, every flame, FUD, and whine has the potential to be read and really hit home with a Redmond developer. Do you really want to be responsible for making Windows a better, more competitive choice?:)/Attaches spittle guard and waits for someone to launch some silly assult on me for my perspective.
Even better, we supply one of those old Apple Newtons as the only input device. This way you get to learn your grammar and handwriting over again in a Google compliant manner.
Less disease..well, you may be right there, but with less disease, the population is more vulnerable to outbreaks of unknown viruses and illnesses. The more mild diseases you come into contact with regularly, the more robust your immune system is. For this very reason I never take antibiotics or flu shots unless it's life-threatening.
This is a self-defeating statement when you actually stick to the facts. For instance, you only develope immunity for the exact same virus which has already damaged your system. Every sickness, infection, etc wears your body down a little and are not directly beneficial for ones quality of life.
Myself, my body is somewhat of a wreck from several childhood illnesses. According to your theory I should be a super hero by now.
Yeah, sure, if starting the computer is human error. It takes what, five minutes or less, for an XP box to get riddled with viruses, Trojans, etc.? The error is Microsoft didn't ship an operating system that could remotely be considered secure. You can't connect to the network to download SP2 without risking the computer. Where's the sense in this? Where's the user error?
Exactly the same way you would update an old Linux box from 2001, you do it from behind a FW with strict rules.
First you complain that Microsoft didn't ship XP totally secure, then you complain about having to go online to update. Sure, it is not the best product, but where does it end and what does it accomplish?
"So first they edge their competition out of the browser market, then they tie IE into the OS so tightly that a crash in IE can crash the computer, and then they make IE so vulnerable that just using it is hazardous to the typical computer's health, and now they want to CHARGE users to fix it?"
Not to pee on the FUD convention, but it is optional as to whether you would like explorer to launch a separate instance for the web browser and the shell. Ever since I first installed Win2k, I changed this option. Not that Microsoft is a positive force, but I see this about as trivial knowing to turn off telnet.d after you install Linux.
Some of us don't have the time to sit in front of our computers all day (pants around our ankles) tuning kernels and compiling code at the expense of work.
Like I said in my original post, it didn't take all day, it took maybe 20 minutes. You know, copy a few directories, export a few registry values, make it bootable, and write a few lines worth of a BAT file including a boot menu.
Unlike you, I use this type of thing for my "actual job in the field" because I don't have 2 years to wait for someone else to think to package up these, already available, tools for me.
which require varied solutions and compliance with licensing agreements. Tools like Putty and CYGWIN save us time and effort that
Right, um, that is what I was advocating in the first place. I simply downloaded them, copied them over, and use them. There is no "licensing" or "compliance" issues. I have been using these tools for years and have read the licenses multiple times.
If your company forces you to use some particular software, then this conversation isn't even for you since someone else already made the final decision as they obviously don't trust you to do it correctly on your own.
Elitists like you make me sick. Stop wasting your time and mine "rolling your eyes" and "shaking your fists". Simply pull up your pants, move out of your mothers basement and get a girlfriend!
Actually, I live in a loft on the top floor of a building in the city. The only thing in my basement is a Volvo.
It seems every response to my original post backs up what I am saying. This sort of thing is why "Engineer" means nothing nowadays.
I work on many machines with no usb port. Your solution does not work for me. This does.
So burning the thing which took 20 minutes to put together onto a bootable CD is too much for you? My point has been proven.
It is pointless to argue. A geek knows how to hobble things together to fit his needs without having to wait for someone else to do it. Especially such trivial things as making a bootable CD and copying files over to it.
Now you can carry Cygwin with you! I have been looking for something like this for a long time.
You have been looking for a long time? I have been carrying around a flash card with ssh keys, Putty, a fat installation of Cygwin with every tool you oodled over, along with ethreal and various other network tools for like 2 years. I also have a backup of all this stored in a subdirectory on my iPod.
This is like something a Wired! subscriber would get excited about: A distribution of win32 tools where all you have to do is put the CD in the thingy and press "I agree".:rolleyes:
How about more headlines on Cygwin when there are major updates? If it were up to me, any time good projects like Linux from Scratch get updated, I would make that a headline. The way I see it, we want to attract the people who actually think to threads, and not the perpetual computer noobies who give up when "that thing they clicked on did not go the first time around".:shaking fist at slashgods:
And personally I consider my time to be the most valuable commodity I own. It is of limited, but unknown, supply. I am so jealous of my time that I do not participate much in the current fad of exchanging it for mere money.
..KFG says as he hits the submit button on his 5,954th post on slashdot!
Sure man, you will find your leather jacket and white T-shirt in the trunk of your company issue 56 coupe.
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Who was it, when asked why 90% of sci-fi was crap, replied, "Because 90% of everything is crap!"
If 90% of everything is crap, that includes the collection of Linux open source project too, right? I would post AC too if my logic was as terribly flawed as your's appears to be.
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Sorry, Microsoft-- just because you want something to be true doesn't mean that it is.
Perhaps if you put your troll's club down long enough to take a look at sourceforge, you would notice most of the newer open source applications for Windows are being developed in.NET.
It won't take over the Internet, but it has been well accepted and is easy to use.
I wonder though, with all this FUD, if anyone can produce real numbers showing which is in more demand in the workplace: Linux developers vs.NET developers. I'm not talking about which is more 31337, I am talking about which one will find more steady income and have less trouble when they need to change jobs.
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No, it is a CPU for.NET CLR as much as a Gumstix is a CPU for Linux kernel. It's just a VM embedded on firmware, NOT a REAL CPU.
I can only begin to guess what your definition of a CPU is. Anyway, it still isn't going to eat your mother or pull your cats tail. It is just a chip from a vendor you don't like. Move on.
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News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. Not: HALP MY THING FROM THE STORE DONT WORK AND YOU NEED TO HELP ME OK I DONT HAVE TIME TO GO TO GOOGLE SO DO IT ALL FOR ME, K!?
Sorry, I have to call bullshit when I see it. This article, indeed, is bullshit. How is the Cowboy supposed to recognize he is selling out when you facist yes-men are always defending tripe?
One also has to ask why: Why is this tripe a headline?
/. accounts.
So, a user buys the wrong product, comes to slashdot and gets a headline. I have a better idea: hit Google and a couple of stream related forums for an hour or two. Figure it out. It is not very geek to bring such a basic question to a forum looking for turn-key solutions when you should have read the tech specs in the god damned advertisement before buying it..
This is what happens when Bush voters get
Said organizations probably have an IT department that is capable of checking something like an MD5 checksum. So they will be able make sure that the browser in question is actually the official version, and make it available for internal download.
/. is popular in IT. Everyone makes fun of M$ in the professional world, but you get on this forum and people will argue with that "all corporate america has to do is wake up" mentality. Again, it isn't reality. The president of a financial firm doesn't care that you can set him up one of the most secure firewalls for free and on inexpensive hardware, but has to depend on your support. He feels a lot better buying the solution from a collective which has been in the business of doing it for years with widespread support and a toll free hotline to call if you have any problems and not a open source solution, from the wild, written by scarey hackers!
/.-crowd friendly levels in organizations.
Right, but things are established and won't change so easily. Once they do, FF will be picked apart with the same critical eyes and we will see what it is made of.
If you are going to allow FF, then why not Opera and IE skins like Avant? Much of the point in IT security is to keep the amount of random executables on a network to a minimum. Instead of just worrying about IE's latest security problem, you are now worrying about IE, Mozilla, Opera, etc. The total number of security problems and support issues which can arise from those multiple applications FAR outweigh the cost of just supporting IE.
Plus, everyone knows IE will be free forever with their M$ OS. What is to keep FF or Opera from disappearing tomorrow? Though the corporate ones move slowly, the service is adequate and always there.
You guys need to stop thinking what is popular on
Not that I think about it like the previous (run-on) sentence, but this is really how open source is viewed by many of the people making decisions on higher then
Personally, I have more trust in the Mozilla guys.
See above. Who you trust and who a fortune 500 exec trusts are two different things. You can trust those commie open source developers, and he can trust the other fortune 500 guys.
Verisign is equally as much of a problem.
/. that spyware is tremendously easy to defeat. Keep that in mind when the next "intelligent linux guy" comes out and says he had to reinstall Windows over spyware. Then think about it, all the guy had to do was hit Google for a few minutes and his problems would have been solved. But no, he approaches it like a moron since he just because he wants to use a product he refuses to learn. But hates the product, yet appears to be hooked on using it.
So? Just because a school may be flawed, that is no excuse not to get a degree.
If FF wants to be a real player, it has to play by the established rules many organizations follow.
I know of quite a few firms, financial institutions, and state government offices which do not allow employees to use anything other than IE; much of the reasoning coencides with what this article is saying. They all use intrusion prevention services and just have the helpdesk clean up the occasional mess caused by a sneaky spyware install or virus infested laptop trying to vpn in. This, in conjunction with AV protection (which you need regardless of IE), make for a feasable solution to these guys. They aren't getting hacked into, the employees don't worry about their workstations and the companies go make money like they should be focused on doing.
Even the lowliest of helpdesk personnel had best know how to remove any spyware which exists. I know this is mostly a Linux board, but some of us started with Linux and had to learn Windows so we would understand the IT world better so we could move above the limitations imposed by a "wINDOWS THE SUCK. LOONIX RULEZ!!!" mentality. Back to the topic at hand: There are only a few places in the Windows registry where Spyware and other malware can load upon boot and from the browser. It takes about a minute to flip through them all, disable the ones which don't have anything "extra", remove the associated files, reboot.
I know, I'll get modded a troll even though I just made clear a rare point on
Fix those registry entries here: HiJackThis (that is, if you work with Windows and are too lazy to RTFM)
Hello? Microsoft? 99% of the stuff on the Internet is unsigned. Downloading software from DePaul University's FireFox mirror doesn't scare me.
Not to be the bearer of bad news, but depending on where you work, your superiors might not have quite the same trusting approach to downloading software from a server secured and managed by a university.
And even if I press no, I *still* get spyware. Why? IE Sucks.
Then don't use it and quit being a karma whore everytime some headline pops up. Common sense says employee of Microsoft are going to pitch their product. They aren't pitching it to guys like you, they are pitching it to people running organizations. You know, the type you always complain about not listening to IT staff?
Microsoft is never going to get it
Get what? Money? I think that is the reason they exist, and last I checked, they have been getting lots of it for over 20 years.
I'm not any happier about it than you.
You are just bitter because your chick isn't as smart.
Go sit in the corner you insensitive clod.
True. I was confused and posted out of my butt.
don't care what your dog buys. Although he probably has a bit more sense than to vomit it up on a web site as though it were the god's honest truth.
You don't seem to be a very nice poster either, so I see no point in one of those pot and kettle situations. You can go do that with someone else, I don't care.
Anyway, if anything, you should be pissed off at people for waiting for 2 years for a setup.exe to come pre-packaged with the same tools they could have had for years, for free, and with no real difference except a few minutes to organize them. Really. What do you people use computers for?! I think I want your IT jobs since mine is apparently something completely different where I have to think instead of following a script or use all pre-bundled software like mother used to make.
If you don't have time to read the FAQs or a HOWTO, then you don't have time to increase your value to the economy and your employer.
It doesn't work that way.
:)
Perhaps, if there is a doctor in the house he could hop in here and clear this up.
While I do not have the medical background to say specifically why I feel you are wrong, I am aware that each virus, bacteria, parasite, or injury you are exposed to does a certain amount of permanent damage to your system. Though you immune system may have found the key to defeat the bug, that bug has already deficated its toxins all throughout your bloodstream along with much energy being wasted fighting it to begin with.
Now, if you get the flu one season, then you can strut around like superman for a few months until that particular flu strain is gone. It also will probably never return, as evolution has pressed on and changed the "hash" slightly enough so that it won't matter if that is on record in your system the next season, the slight differences in the virus will make it hit you like a whole new bug. It is better to either never be infected, ever, in any case.
I blame the way parents and doctors explain chicken pox to kids for this misconception.
You should know better than to point out that the article is also speculation and by no means is it a definitive word on how the company will proceed.
:) /Attaches spittle guard and waits for someone to launch some silly assult on me for my perspective.
In my shallow wisdom, I see them releasing this as a free product with the option to upgrade. Either this, or they will probably end up releasing it for free, period, if public outcry is great.
As I read the thread, I see a lot of "Insightful" Microsoft bashes though they are the same ones as always. Spyware/Virus troubles aren't an issue for an advanced Windows user, just as running not using root as a user account in Linux is common knowledge for a Linux user.
1. Use FireFox
2. Run HiJack This! occasionally to look for new autoexec and browser oriented registry keys.
3. Install AdAware and Spybot, run if you actually ever use IE. I have yet to have any thing rude get added to my system while running FireFox.
Remember, every flame, FUD, and whine has the potential to be read and really hit home with a Redmond developer. Do you really want to be responsible for making Windows a better, more competitive choice?
Even better, we supply one of those old Apple Newtons as the only input device. This way you get to learn your grammar and handwriting over again in a Google compliant manner.
there isn't a judge in the US that won't give the damaged party most of what they are asking for.
You aren't a law student, are you? No.. Wait.. Don't answer!
That survey does not distinguish between cell phones and land lines so, um, thanks for some numbers.
Less disease..well, you may be right there, but with less disease, the population is more vulnerable to outbreaks of unknown viruses and illnesses. The more mild diseases you come into contact with regularly, the more robust your immune system is. For this very reason I never take antibiotics or flu shots unless it's life-threatening.
This is a self-defeating statement when you actually stick to the facts. For instance, you only develope immunity for the exact same virus which has already damaged your system. Every sickness, infection, etc wears your body down a little and are not directly beneficial for ones quality of life.
Myself, my body is somewhat of a wreck from several childhood illnesses. According to your theory I should be a super hero by now.
Yeah, sure, if starting the computer is human error. It takes what, five minutes or less, for an XP box to get riddled with viruses, Trojans, etc.? The error is Microsoft didn't ship an operating system that could remotely be considered secure. You can't connect to the network to download SP2 without risking the computer. Where's the sense in this? Where's the user error?
Exactly the same way you would update an old Linux box from 2001, you do it from behind a FW with strict rules.
First you complain that Microsoft didn't ship XP totally secure, then you complain about having to go online to update. Sure, it is not the best product, but where does it end and what does it accomplish?
"So first they edge their competition out of the browser market, then they tie IE into the OS so tightly that a crash in IE can crash the computer, and then they make IE so vulnerable that just using it is hazardous to the typical computer's health, and now they want to CHARGE users to fix it?"
Not to pee on the FUD convention, but it is optional as to whether you would like explorer to launch a separate instance for the web browser and the shell. Ever since I first installed Win2k, I changed this option. Not that Microsoft is a positive force, but I see this about as trivial knowing to turn off telnet.d after you install Linux.
Some of us don't have the time to sit in front of our computers all day (pants around our ankles) tuning kernels and compiling code at the expense of work.
Like I said in my original post, it didn't take all day, it took maybe 20 minutes. You know, copy a few directories, export a few registry values, make it bootable, and write a few lines worth of a BAT file including a boot menu.
Unlike you, I use this type of thing for my "actual job in the field" because I don't have 2 years to wait for someone else to think to package up these, already available, tools for me.
which require varied solutions and compliance with licensing agreements. Tools like Putty and CYGWIN save us time and effort that
Right, um, that is what I was advocating in the first place. I simply downloaded them, copied them over, and use them. There is no "licensing" or "compliance" issues. I have been using these tools for years and have read the licenses multiple times.
If your company forces you to use some particular software, then this conversation isn't even for you since someone else already made the final decision as they obviously don't trust you to do it correctly on your own.
Elitists like you make me sick. Stop wasting your time and mine "rolling your eyes" and "shaking your fists". Simply pull up your pants, move out of your mothers basement and get a girlfriend!
Actually, I live in a loft on the top floor of a building in the city. The only thing in my basement is a Volvo.
It seems every response to my original post backs up what I am saying. This sort of thing is why "Engineer" means nothing nowadays.
I work on many machines with no usb port. Your solution does not work for me. This does.
So burning the thing which took 20 minutes to put together onto a bootable CD is too much for you? My point has been proven.
It is pointless to argue. A geek knows how to hobble things together to fit his needs without having to wait for someone else to do it. Especially such trivial things as making a bootable CD and copying files over to it.
I digress.
Now you can carry Cygwin with you! I have been looking for something like this for a long time.
:rolleyes:
:shaking fist at slashgods:
You have been looking for a long time? I have been carrying around a flash card with ssh keys, Putty, a fat installation of Cygwin with every tool you oodled over, along with ethreal and various other network tools for like 2 years. I also have a backup of all this stored in a subdirectory on my iPod.
This is like something a Wired! subscriber would get excited about: A distribution of win32 tools where all you have to do is put the CD in the thingy and press "I agree".
How about more headlines on Cygwin when there are major updates? If it were up to me, any time good projects like Linux from Scratch get updated, I would make that a headline. The way I see it, we want to attract the people who actually think to threads, and not the perpetual computer noobies who give up when "that thing they clicked on did not go the first time around".
I post to satisfy a nervous tick!
Sure man, you will find your leather jacket and white T-shirt in the trunk of your company issue 56 coupe.
Who was it, when asked why 90% of sci-fi was crap, replied, "Because 90% of everything is crap!"
If 90% of everything is crap, that includes the collection of Linux open source project too, right? I would post AC too if my logic was as terribly flawed as your's appears to be.
Sorry, Microsoft-- just because you want something to be true doesn't mean that it is.
.NET.
.NET developers. I'm not talking about which is more 31337, I am talking about which one will find more steady income and have less trouble when they need to change jobs.
Perhaps if you put your troll's club down long enough to take a look at sourceforge, you would notice most of the newer open source applications for Windows are being developed in
It won't take over the Internet, but it has been well accepted and is easy to use.
I wonder though, with all this FUD, if anyone can produce real numbers showing which is in more demand in the workplace: Linux developers vs
No, it is a CPU for .NET CLR as much as a Gumstix is a CPU for Linux kernel. It's just a VM embedded on firmware, NOT a REAL CPU.
I can only begin to guess what your definition of a CPU is. Anyway, it still isn't going to eat your mother or pull your cats tail. It is just a chip from a vendor you don't like. Move on.