I've dealt with users who knowingly installed Gator so they didn't have to type their passwords, as if their browser didn't have the feature built in... Anyway, I found that out after they gave to me to fix and them complained when I gave it back to them with it removed (and actually feeling responsive again).
It's very frustraiting, however it's the fault of the card manufacturers. If they would release specs, there would be excellent drivers available for those cards. As it is now, though, as Linux users we just have to be extremely careful when buying WiFi cards.
It's easily scriptable, and is great in conjuction with ms-sys. If you spend a few minutes customizing something like RIP you can have the restore completely automated.
As a plus, everything's GPL'd. No licesence fees.
IMHO, Unattended + WPKG is still the best option, though...
Try the Linux version. It's quite minimal, opens fast, and does it's job. The Mac version is also decent (doesn't force you to subscribe or try to run all the time). IMHO, it's much better than the crippled Quicktime. For Windows, though, that's where "Real Alternative" is an excellent choice.
The online update only works if you use the offical binaries. Also, your user account has to have write access to the installation directory (or do it as root, but you should never run a browser as root).
While I too do not like the whole Myspace thing, it can be a very useful site.
For example, I have multiple accounts. One has my real name assigned to it, along with my schools. So far several people I knew in high school have contacted me (I'm 24, btw). I've fouund and contacted people I knew. I've been able to meet up with them again, which has been cool.
I also keep another around for talking to women. Myspace has been great for that. Thank's to it, I'm dating two women right now. I've met several others though it, too.
That's too expensive. The machines came with XP Pro, so what I do is use an Unattended + WPKG setup to reinstall all computers every other week (automated through scripting and WakeOnLan).
By the time Microsoft gets its problems sorted out, Linux will be the de facto standard. Engineering the complexity out of Windows will take years.
I would doubt that. I manage the software and systems for serveral small businesses and schools. On the server side it's all Linux. On the client side, I've only been able to get one over to Linux. One thing that keeps it that way is most are dependended on a few old Windows apps that have no Linux alternatives. Most don't work under Wine, but even if they did, I personally wouldn't trust it (I use Wine. I would never put an end user through dealing with that).
Windows will stay dominant as long as it's the only thing that can run the users apps. The apps are not going to get ported while all the users use Windows. It sucks.
Windows is far to entrenched. Unless Microsoft seriously fucks things up, I doubt the situation will change at all.
I thought the US already did a good job at stopping piracy:
While boats off the coasts of South America and the Mediterranean Sea are still assailed by pirates, the advent of the United States Coast Guard has nearly eradicated piracy in American waters and the Caribbean Sea.
But I do still worry that the (SCO) lawyers prevail and this results in all the Open Source resources I mentioned earlier being directed at rewriting a large chunk of the OS the same way MicroSoft has. In the case of MicroSoft this was because harsh deadlines caused poor design decisions. This is probably just MicroSoft's way of trying to cause similar problems to appear in Linux (or Linux 2) as the rewrite is hurried by the number of smaller companies that now rely on Linux (Mine Included as we use Linux to host almost everything).
If SCO somehow manage to win, there is still FreeBSD. It's an excellent kernel and most "Linux" software works on it, either through native builds or through it's Linux emulation. The downside is drivers (which is why I use Linux). If it did come down to having to rewrite large parts of the Linux kernel, it should be possible to borrow much of the needed parts from FreeBSD.
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I've dealt with users who knowingly installed Gator so they didn't have to type their passwords, as if their browser didn't have the feature built in... Anyway, I found that out after they gave to me to fix and them complained when I gave it back to them with it removed (and actually feeling responsive again).
It's very frustraiting, however it's the fault of the card manufacturers. If they would release specs, there would be excellent drivers available for those cards. As it is now, though, as Linux users we just have to be extremely careful when buying WiFi cards.
Here is the main thing that keeps me away from deploying Ubuntu: Kickstart.
For now I'll stick with Fedora.
"Once you feng shui the organs a bit, it's kind of cozy."
The actual instances of p2p piracy occurs with no money being exchanged, so I'm not sure how they will show that LW profits directly from it.
Limewire Pro.
The only Norton product I like is Ghost.
Give ntfsclone a try. Here's a good tutorial on using it.
It's easily scriptable, and is great in conjuction with ms-sys. If you spend a few minutes customizing something like RIP you can have the restore completely automated.
As a plus, everything's GPL'd. No licesence fees.
IMHO, Unattended + WPKG is still the best option, though...
Try the Linux version. It's quite minimal, opens fast, and does it's job. The Mac version is also decent (doesn't force you to subscribe or try to run all the time). IMHO, it's much better than the crippled Quicktime. For Windows, though, that's where "Real Alternative" is an excellent choice.
I'm also an asshole and prefer yyyy-mm-dd.
That would be a downgrade, not an upgrade.
or Empire Strikes Back.
The online update only works if you use the offical binaries. Also, your user account has to have write access to the installation directory (or do it as root, but you should never run a browser as root).
When Microsoft releases a new version of Windows.
Locutus would win. Resistance is futile.
Try ROCK Linux. It's designed to be a "Distribution Build Kit". The releases are quite out of date, but grab it from SVN to get current stuff.
Maybe they could get together and stop Manbearpig. Al Gore's "super serial" about that...
(for those who don't get it, check wikipedia)
Wouldn't pirates be in favor of global warming? After all, that would mean more seas.
And this from the company that won't let you install security fixes unless you install their spyware, sorry WMA.
WMA is Windows Media Audio. WGA is the anoying Windows Genuine (dis)Advantage.
Like this?
Time to invest in Robot Insurance...
While I too do not like the whole Myspace thing, it can be a very useful site.
For example, I have multiple accounts. One has my real name assigned to it, along with my schools. So far several people I knew in high school have contacted me (I'm 24, btw). I've fouund and contacted people I knew. I've been able to meet up with them again, which has been cool.
I also keep another around for talking to women. Myspace has been great for that. Thank's to it, I'm dating two women right now. I've met several others though it, too.
That's too expensive. The machines came with XP Pro, so what I do is use an Unattended + WPKG setup to reinstall all computers every other week (automated through scripting and WakeOnLan).
By the time Microsoft gets its problems sorted out, Linux will be the de facto standard. Engineering the complexity out of Windows will take years.
I would doubt that. I manage the software and systems for serveral small businesses and schools. On the server side it's all Linux. On the client side, I've only been able to get one over to Linux. One thing that keeps it that way is most are dependended on a few old Windows apps that have no Linux alternatives. Most don't work under Wine, but even if they did, I personally wouldn't trust it (I use Wine. I would never put an end user through dealing with that).
Windows will stay dominant as long as it's the only thing that can run the users apps. The apps are not going to get ported while all the users use Windows. It sucks.
Windows is far to entrenched. Unless Microsoft seriously fucks things up, I doubt the situation will change at all.
(Wikipedia's article on Piracy.)
But I do still worry that the (SCO) lawyers prevail and this results in all the Open Source resources I mentioned earlier being directed at rewriting a large chunk of the OS the same way MicroSoft has. In the case of MicroSoft this was because harsh deadlines caused poor design decisions. This is probably just MicroSoft's way of trying to cause similar problems to appear in Linux (or Linux 2) as the rewrite is hurried by the number of smaller companies that now rely on Linux (Mine Included as we use Linux to host almost everything).
If SCO somehow manage to win, there is still FreeBSD. It's an excellent kernel and most "Linux" software works on it, either through native builds or through it's Linux emulation. The downside is drivers (which is why I use Linux). If it did come down to having to rewrite large parts of the Linux kernel, it should be possible to borrow much of the needed parts from FreeBSD.
I use Unattended for the OS installation and WPKG for applications/updates/configuration/policies (w/ secedit and ActivePerl).