"Because of the break-ins, systems had to be rebuilt and scientists and engineers had to manually communicate with spacecraft, resulting in $1.36 million in losses for NASA and nearly $100,000 in losses for the Energy Department and the Navy, prosecutors said."
This is B.S logic. If I don't have proper locks on my house and someone breaks in, do I blame the thief for my having to purchase locks for my house post break-in.
If the systems were secured to begin with, this would not be an issue.
Personally, I don't want people that are not tech savvy to switch (at this time) for a few reasons.
It will mean more time explaining to people how to do this or that in Linux such as "How do I play a CD, do I use the Helix player, CD player or Music player?" Stick with Windows so I can tell you "I have no idea, I don't use Windows I use Linux"
Droves of so-called "experts" popping up to "fix" home users computers. Its a pandemic problem with Windows. X person uses Windows at home, he installs a printer, scanner and a new hard drive all by there self and all of a sudden, they have flyers everywhere to "fix" computers. (You've tried all the rest, now try the best!!!). Then at work, they are explaining to the boss why X thing will "certainly" work in Linux while I have to argue why this thing will NOT work, why the "expert" is NOT an expert just an idiot who thinks they are.
Flooding the market with useless Linux "experts" (redundant, maybe but for a reason). All of a sudden more and more "schools" start popping up offering to help you get your LCNE and your LHDJAKS certifications, which are absolutely useless other then to impress some idiot executive to get a job. If the MCSE craze showed us anything, its that too many bad cooks with useless certifications spoil it for everyone. They drive prices and demand way down.
Spy-ware companies tend to target the largest OS group (which currently is Windows) and I would HATE for them to start mass targeting Linux.
SOOOO.... being a Linux user PLEASE, home users, STAY AWAY. Linux is, at this point, not a very friendly place for people not willing to RTFM. There is a little thinking (and reading) at times to be able to do things and get things to work right. If your someone who would like to check out Linux, try a livecd (google Linux livecd) and be prepared to do a little reading and work to get your system to do what you want at times.
On a final note, its not that I don't want to have regular users on Linux at all...I've switched my wife to it (it took a year), its just that, in agreement with the article, its not totally a point and click environment and I like it that way. If it evolves into a more "Windows like" environment where the OS anticipates your every move (sometimes incorrectly) then great. Come on over. I wont be there. I use Linux not only because I don't mind the extra work involved, but because I like it.
http://www.stardustdrivein.com/mpaa_rating_system. htmhttp://cyhigh.jacksonsun.com/news/movies.html
These were from Tennessee and they state that the rating system is not a law (although it may have changed there). As far as I am aware, it would be a violation of rights to ban most (porn not withstanding, although even then I dont know where the line is drawn) movies from anyone. At least some group would get up and scream about thier rights.
On top of the fact that movie ratings are not a law, but an agreement between movie theaters and the MPAA (you either go by our ratings or you cant show our movie) http://www.mpaa.org/movieratings/ it is a voluntary system (eveyone I asked has said they thought it was a law)
Yes, however I prefer linux over bsd (at this point anyway, had you asked my years ago my answer would have been the opposite) and regardless, I really dont like darwin. I've had to administer it before and have to say I prefer linux (any distro) or freeBSD to darwin (yes, i know that darwin was at least partially based on freeBSD, but I still dont like the differences). Nothing against osx, darwin or whatever, I just like to use what I like to use. The tools that I use for my job are right for ME.
well, some people, like me, think that although mac osx is pretty, its also not my choice of distro (not a fan of darwin). I prefer linux with a custom X11 desktop. Its my current desktop and would not like to change. That said, I like the mac mini packaging so off I go to get one and to install my os of choice (gentoo). I dont understand why this is so hard for some people to understand. Its just a matter of preferance. As far as it being less polished, thats only true of the driver support however, thats quickly changing (last i checked the only thing unsupported is the airport 802.11g, but a usb dongle can fix that). In conclusion the only thing thats flawed is the BS preposition that one OS is better then another. There all good in thier own way (winME excluded) for certain things, its just a matter of opinion.
Im using gentoo and as I was just checking it out, i didnt care if I had the latest and greatest, I just used the default portage ebuild which was for 0.5 but thanks for the heads up:)
It was kind of a pain to find all of the packages, ( alot of googling =/ ). The following packages were needed and DONT expect to find all of them on sun. Just google the following:
jdk-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin
jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586.tar.gz
java3d-1_3_2-build4-linux-i586.tar.gz
java-config-1.2.11.tar.bz2
lg3d-0.5.tar.gz
It took a long time to find the packages, but once I did I just used portages emerge to build it. If you want to find the ebuild (build script) google for:
lookingglass-bin-0.5.ebuild
hopefully this helps out. If I knew there would be all this interest, I would have documented the procedure.
I installed this about a month ago on gentoo. Its little more then a crappy demo. The one I really want to see, is a linux port of sphereXP http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/, OR i would like to see the metisse project http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/metisse/ see the light of day.
ghost was never intended to be backup software. its primary intent is to be cloning software. the fact that you can take a clone and store it doesnt make it backup software.
shit was never intended to be eaten. its primary intent is to remove waste. the fact that you can eat it doesnt make it food.(except at some fetish clubs in manhattan)
I stuck it out with windows for years due to little to no gaming support. I switched over about a year ago (dual boot at first then whole hog) and am glad to see the main games that I wanted to play being available on linux (doom3, ut2004, neverwinternights & now half life 2). The list however (not ending there) is still very small comparitivly to windows. It might be my imagination, but it seems like games are starting to have linux ports out relativly quickly. Im hopefull that a shift is occuring in the gaming development community that will start to port more games to linux. That would be a huge push for windows gamers to switch. My linux ported games almost never crash, and if/when then do (less often the on windows) the recovery is much less painfull
I had to set up dragon naturally speaking for a client about 4 years ago. It worked amazingly well (much better that the experiences that I had heard about or that I had with it personally. The big however was, the client purchased a mic & amp set that cost about $450 dollars. Also I think he just had the right voice for it because when my co-workers and I tried to use it, the software worked better then with a cheaper mic, but still not as well as was touted by the dragon developers.
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"Because of the break-ins, systems had to be rebuilt and scientists and engineers had to manually communicate with spacecraft, resulting in $1.36 million in losses for NASA and nearly $100,000 in losses for the Energy Department and the Navy, prosecutors said."
This is B.S logic. If I don't have proper locks on my house and someone breaks in, do I blame the thief for my having to purchase locks for my house post break-in.
If the systems were secured to begin with, this would not be an issue.
That seems super annoying...
- It will mean more time explaining to people how to do this or that in Linux such as "How do I play a CD, do I use the Helix player, CD player or Music player?" Stick with Windows so I can tell you "I have no idea, I don't use Windows I use Linux"
- Droves of so-called "experts" popping up to "fix" home users computers. Its a pandemic problem with Windows. X person uses Windows at home, he installs a printer, scanner and a new hard drive all by there self and all of a sudden, they have flyers everywhere to "fix" computers. (You've tried all the rest, now try the best!!!). Then at work, they are explaining to the boss why X thing will "certainly" work in Linux while I have to argue why this thing will NOT work, why the "expert" is NOT an expert just an idiot who thinks they are.
- Flooding the market with useless Linux "experts" (redundant, maybe but for a reason). All of a sudden more and more "schools" start popping up offering to help you get your LCNE and your LHDJAKS certifications, which are absolutely useless other then to impress some idiot executive to get a job. If the MCSE craze showed us anything, its that too many bad cooks with useless certifications spoil it for everyone. They drive prices and demand way down.
- Spy-ware companies tend to target the largest OS group (which currently is Windows) and I would HATE for them to start mass targeting Linux.
SOOOO.... being a Linux user PLEASE, home users, STAY AWAY. Linux is, at this point, not a very friendly place for people not willing to RTFM. There is a little thinking (and reading) at times to be able to do things and get things to work right. If your someone who would like to check out Linux, try a livecd (google Linux livecd) and be prepared to do a little reading and work to get your system to do what you want at times.On a final note, its not that I don't want to have regular users on Linux at all...I've switched my wife to it (it took a year), its just that, in agreement with the article, its not totally a point and click environment and I like it that way. If it evolves into a more "Windows like" environment where the OS anticipates your every move (sometimes incorrectly) then great. Come on over. I wont be there. I use Linux not only because I don't mind the extra work involved, but because I like it.
http://www.stardustdrivein.com/mpaa_rating_system. htm
http://cyhigh.jacksonsun.com/news/movies.html
These were from Tennessee and they state that the rating system is not a law (although it may have changed there). As far as I am aware, it would be a violation of rights to ban most (porn not withstanding, although even then I dont know where the line is drawn) movies from anyone. At least some group would get up and scream about thier rights.
On top of the fact that movie ratings are not a law, but an agreement between movie theaters and the MPAA (you either go by our ratings or you cant show our movie) http://www.mpaa.org/movieratings/ it is a voluntary system (eveyone I asked has said they thought it was a law)
Yes, however I prefer linux over bsd (at this point anyway, had you asked my years ago my answer would have been the opposite) and regardless, I really dont like darwin. I've had to administer it before and have to say I prefer linux (any distro) or freeBSD to darwin (yes, i know that darwin was at least partially based on freeBSD, but I still dont like the differences). Nothing against osx, darwin or whatever, I just like to use what I like to use. The tools that I use for my job are right for ME.
well, some people, like me, think that although mac osx is pretty, its also not my choice of distro (not a fan of darwin). I prefer linux with a custom X11 desktop. Its my current desktop and would not like to change. That said, I like the mac mini packaging so off I go to get one and to install my os of choice (gentoo). I dont understand why this is so hard for some people to understand. Its just a matter of preferance. As far as it being less polished, thats only true of the driver support however, thats quickly changing (last i checked the only thing unsupported is the airport 802.11g, but a usb dongle can fix that). In conclusion the only thing thats flawed is the BS preposition that one OS is better then another. There all good in thier own way (winME excluded) for certain things, its just a matter of opinion.
Im using gentoo and as I was just checking it out, i didnt care if I had the latest and greatest, I just used the default portage ebuild which was for 0.5 but thanks for the heads up :)
It was kind of a pain to find all of the packages, ( alot of googling =/ ). The following packages were needed and DONT expect to find all of them on sun. Just google the following: jdk-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586.tar.gz java3d-1_3_2-build4-linux-i586.tar.gz java-config-1.2.11.tar.bz2 lg3d-0.5.tar.gz It took a long time to find the packages, but once I did I just used portages emerge to build it. If you want to find the ebuild (build script) google for: lookingglass-bin-0.5.ebuild hopefully this helps out. If I knew there would be all this interest, I would have documented the procedure.
I installed this about a month ago on gentoo. Its little more then a crappy demo. The one I really want to see, is a linux port of sphereXP http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/, OR i would like to see the metisse project http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/metisse/ see the light of day.
ghost was never intended to be backup software. its primary intent is to be cloning software. the fact that you can take a clone and store it doesnt make it backup software. shit was never intended to be eaten. its primary intent is to remove waste. the fact that you can eat it doesnt make it food.(except at some fetish clubs in manhattan)
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Ben Franklin
shes a porn star. i have this video of her with a... well, never mind. google her.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/librar y/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw05-obg-BootFast
I stuck it out with windows for years due to little to no gaming support. I switched over about a year ago (dual boot at first then whole hog) and am glad to see the main games that I wanted to play being available on linux (doom3, ut2004, neverwinternights & now half life 2). The list however (not ending there) is still very small comparitivly to windows. It might be my imagination, but it seems like games are starting to have linux ports out relativly quickly. Im hopefull that a shift is occuring in the gaming development community that will start to port more games to linux. That would be a huge push for windows gamers to switch. My linux ported games almost never crash, and if/when then do (less often the on windows) the recovery is much less painfull
no it hasnt. suprnova.org is the same. were you checking suprnova.com or .net by chance?
I had to set up dragon naturally speaking for a client about 4 years ago. It worked amazingly well (much better that the experiences that I had heard about or that I had with it personally. The big however was, the client purchased a mic & amp set that cost about $450 dollars. Also I think he just had the right voice for it because when my co-workers and I tried to use it, the software worked better then with a cheaper mic, but still not as well as was touted by the dragon developers.