"the difference between getting a Dell desktop or going to Newegg and making your own"
Have you considered getting Linux pre-installed?
"Service wise, as someone who works in the industry - Dell is fantastic. With the right warranty they will send a local technician straight to your office to repair anything"
How much would this call out service warranty cost. I do know, for the average home user, it's a phone call to a call-center in Mumbai, who tells you to restore from disk.
We love Linux, we love community development and we love open source,"
McNealy told The Register in an interview. "We just don't like Red Hat.'
"We think we are the good guys. Who has donated more code than us? IBM keeps donating end-of-life code - remnants of roadkill they've bought.." Oct 2004
"a year ago is when Sun and MS bought licenses from SCO and SCO filed its lawsuit against IBM. And in March a year ago, SCO sued IBM, while Ballmer and McNealy had a round of golf and discussed how to work together. What a coincidence"
Create all you current documents in OO and send them to people with this link or else send as a PDF. The biggest bone-of-contention for people is receiving documents that don't display correctly on different computers with different printers and different msOffice versions.
"This one is different and much more troubling, since it harms not just our company, but also damages the systems and productivity of a large number of other companies and organizations around the world. The perpetrator of this virus is attacking SCO, but hurting many others at the same time"
"There are computers with incorrect clock settings that may already be firing off an attack," against SCO's site"
Curiously enough SCOs site was hit before the virus was set to trigger and a company Centershift based in the same co-location facility was hit at the same time and/or were having contemporaneous problems with the same hosting company. And iirc the DNS record for www.sco.com briefly disappeared at the time.
"GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain.. GCHQ is subject to rigorous parliamentary and judicial oversight.. GCHQ only acts when it is necessary and proportionate to do so; GCHQ does not spy at will
'the ECHELON system was designed by NSA to interconnect all these computers and allow the stations to function as components of an integrated whole. The NSA and GCSB are bound together under the five-nation UKUSA signals intelligence agreement. The other three partners all with equally obscure names are the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Britain'
(U) aboveground (U//FOUO) A term used to describe extremist groups or
individuals who operate overtly and portray themselves as
law-abiding.
(U) alternative media (U//FOUO) A term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets.
(U) hacktivism (U//FOUO) (A portmanteau of "hacking" and "activism.") The use of cyber technologies to achieve a political end, or technology-enabled political or social activism. Hacktivism might include website defacements, denial-of-service attacks, hacking into the target's network to introduce malicious software (malware), or information theft.
"the mindset is dangerously close to the rationalization used recently by a KDE spokesperson and lampooned by the Linux Hater Blog" Miguel de Icaza on 15 Jul 2008
"As usual, the Linux Hater Blog has some great commentary. Some of his feedback on KDE 4.0 applies to our own decision making. Worth a read" Miguel de Icaza on 14 Jul 2008
This is the kind of commentator he recommends people read:
"I was getting a little worried that I wouldn't have something appropriate to close of K-pride week with, but then sweet feces rained down from heaven"
I wasn't aware of this 'blog' until the above poster referenced it. It is curious that even 'back in 2008' at the very genesis of the OpenGraphics project we already have someone pissing all over it. This is high quality trolling, professionally written. Either that or it's satire right up there with ShellytheRepublican, it's hard to tell really. Else that blogs author is mentally challenged, after all who in his right mind would set up a blog dedicated to something he obviously has total contempt for, as well as the people working in the Open Source arena. Tell me something 'Jamie's Nightmare', are you a Linux advocate too, who just wants Linux to be better. Either way, I'd much prefer if you and your 'Linux hater' friend would piss off and stop pissing all over slashdot..
"alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack.. He used a "10-code" to protect the numbers -- subtracting the actual digits in the phone numbers from 10 to arrive at a coded number, according to a person close to the investigation"
"Qatari citizen Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a computer science graduate student at Illinois's Bradley University.. a bachelor's degree from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, in the early 1990s, and was returning to the United States to obtain a master's degree from Bradley"
Why don't 'Al-Qaeda' use PKI encoded Usenet messages like the rest of the security services? And what ever you do don't draw attention to yourself by engaging in fraudulent activities. And of course the evidence he was a sleeper agent was he did absolutely nothing at all..
I didn't know this article was going to be published, but when I found it, I was not surprised by the comments. I've been working on this program for more than 2 years. Users hate it. Developers loathe it. Network security staff loves it.
How much is this program going to cost as compared to the $100 million the Air Force is saving in maintenance costs?
"I get very suspicious of any site that doesn't go into detail on their methodology for making a claim like this"
'We use a unique methodology for collecting this data. We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers...'
"None of my Bluetooth dongles would work in the slightest with Linux. I tried and tried and tried, but could not make it work..and hell.. at that time my job was maintaining and creating bluetooth RF test cases!!!!"
I am totally gobsmasked that a bluetooth RF test engineer can't get it to work under Ubuntu. Did you try and ask on the forums?
"I bought her a eee with Linux (not the Target one, but a $400-ish model, via Amazon) as a birthday present, but the wifi was misconfigured. Asus tech support told me the wrong card was installed, and there was no way to fix it in software"
What company did you buy it from. Why would they sell it misconfigured. What make and model exactly ?
"the Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that has been suppressed by the Chinese government since 1999"
Falun Gong. Do we need yet another weird cult added to the very long list of those already available. Something for everyone. What was wrong with the weird cults of yesteryear? Long live Mao and down with hegemony of running dogs for western capitalists exploiters.
"The one area where OpenBSD is let down on the security front is the packages/ports"
"The ports & packages collection does NOT go through the thorough security audit that the OpenBSD base system does. Although we strive to keep the quality of the packages collection high, we just do not have enough human resources to ensure the same level of robustness and security"
Shouldn't that be the U.S Trade Protectionist Lobby (USTP)
"Today's Special 301 Report guides our efforts to protect American innovation and creativity around the world," said Ambassador Ron Kirk. "Our creative and innovative products can hit the global marketplace sometimes with just a keystroke. If we and our trading partners are not vigilant in protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, they can vanish just as quickly"
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"the difference between getting a Dell desktop or going to Newegg and making your own"
Have you considered getting Linux pre-installed?
"Service wise, as someone who works in the industry - Dell is fantastic. With the right warranty they will send a local technician straight to your office to repair anything"
How much would this call out service warranty cost. I do know, for the average home user, it's a phone call to a call-center in Mumbai, who tells you to restore from disk.
"The dangers of IBM are that they are highly unstable"
,who, do the engineers spontaneously self combust if put under pressure?
Dangerous, how
"Just about anyone who has written about how software fails was an engineer working for IBM"
That's a positive, as they should be good at spotting bugs by now.
'What IBM really wants is a cut of your business"'
Best stick to Open Source and third party hardware and your own in-house support people!
We love Linux, we love community development and we love open source," McNealy told The Register in an interview. "We just don't like Red Hat.'
.." Oct 2004
"We think we are the good guys. Who has donated more code than us? IBM keeps donating end-of-life code - remnants of roadkill they've bought
"a year ago is when Sun and MS bought licenses from SCO and SCO filed its lawsuit against IBM. And in March a year ago, SCO sued IBM, while Ballmer and McNealy had a round of golf and discussed how to work together. What a coincidence"
Create all you current documents in OO and send them to people with this link or else send as a PDF. The biggest bone-of-contention for people is receiving documents that don't display correctly on different computers with different printers and different msOffice versions.
"This one is different and much more troubling, since it harms not just our company, but also damages the systems and productivity of a large number of other companies and organizations around the world. The perpetrator of this virus is attacking SCO, but hurting many others at the same time"
"There are computers with incorrect clock settings that may already be firing off an attack," against SCO's site"
Curiously enough SCOs site was hit before the virus was set to trigger and a company Centershift based in the same co-location facility was hit at the same time and/or were having contemporaneous problems with the same hosting company. And iirc the DNS record for www.sco.com briefly disappeared at the time.
Your email is very boring ...
"GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain .. GCHQ is subject to rigorous parliamentary and judicial oversight .. GCHQ only acts when it is necessary and proportionate to do so; GCHQ does not spy at will
'the ECHELON system was designed by NSA to interconnect all these computers and allow the stations to function as components of an integrated whole. The NSA and GCSB are bound together under the five-nation UKUSA signals intelligence agreement. The other three partners all with equally obscure names are the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Britain'
(U//FOUO) Domestic Extremism Lexicon
(U) Definitions
(U) aboveground (U//FOUO) A term used to describe extremist groups or individuals who operate overtly and portray themselves as law-abiding.
(U) alternative media (U//FOUO) A term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets.
(U) hacktivism (U//FOUO) (A portmanteau of "hacking" and "activism.") The use of cyber technologies to achieve a political end, or technology-enabled political or social activism. Hacktivism might include website defacements, denial-of-service attacks, hacking into the target's network to introduce malicious software (malware), or information theft.
"the mindset is dangerously close to the rationalization used recently by a KDE spokesperson and lampooned by the Linux Hater Blog " Miguel de Icaza on 15 Jul 2008
"As usual, the Linux Hater Blog has some great commentary. Some of his feedback on KDE 4.0 applies to our own decision making. Worth a read " Miguel de Icaza on 14 Jul 2008
This is the kind of commentator he recommends people read:
"I was getting a little worried that I wouldn't have something appropriate to close of K-pride week with, but then sweet feces rained down from heaven"
I wasn't aware of this 'blog' until the above poster referenced it. It is curious that even 'back in 2008' at the very genesis of the OpenGraphics project we already have someone pissing all over it. This is high quality trolling, professionally written. Either that or it's satire right up there with ShellytheRepublican, it's hard to tell really. Else that blogs author is mentally challenged, after all who in his right mind would set up a blog dedicated to something he obviously has total contempt for, as well as the people working in the Open Source arena. Tell me something 'Jamie's Nightmare', are you a Linux advocate too, who just wants Linux to be better. Either way, I'd much prefer if you and your 'Linux hater' friend would piss off and stop pissing all over slashdot ..
That would brings back memories - if I only had any :]
"alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack .. He used a "10-code" to protect the numbers -- subtracting the actual digits in the phone numbers from 10 to arrive at a coded number, according to a person close to the investigation"
.. a bachelor's degree from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, in the early 1990s, and was returning to the United States to obtain a master's degree from Bradley"
"Qatari citizen Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a computer science graduate student at Illinois's Bradley University
Why don't 'Al-Qaeda' use PKI encoded Usenet messages like the rest of the security services? And what ever you do don't draw attention to yourself by engaging in fraudulent activities. And of course the evidence he was a sleeper agent was he did absolutely nothing at all ..
How much is this program going to cost as compared to the $100 million the Air Force is saving in maintenance costs?
"I am a security program manager at Microsoft"
;)
I wouldn't mention this on your next job application
"I get very suspicious of any site that doesn't go into detail on their methodology for making a claim like this"
'We use a unique methodology for collecting this data. We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers...'
"None of my Bluetooth dongles would work in the slightest with Linux. I tried and tried and tried, but could not make it work..and hell.. at that time my job was maintaining and creating bluetooth RF test cases!!!!"
I am totally gobsmasked that a bluetooth RF test engineer can't get it to work under Ubuntu. Did you try and ask on the forums?
"I bought her a eee with Linux (not the Target one, but a $400-ish model, via Amazon) as a birthday present, but the wifi was misconfigured. Asus tech support told me the wrong card was installed, and there was no way to fix it in software"
What company did you buy it from. Why would they sell it misconfigured. What make and model exactly ?
"the Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that has been suppressed by the Chinese government since 1999"
Falun Gong. Do we need yet another weird cult added to the very long list of those already available. Something for everyone. What was wrong with the weird cults of yesteryear? Long live Mao and down with hegemony of running dogs for western capitalists exploiters.
"The one area where OpenBSD is let down on the security front is the packages/ports"
"The ports & packages collection does NOT go through the thorough security audit that the OpenBSD base system does. Although we strive to keep the quality of the packages collection high, we just do not have enough human resources to ensure the same level of robustness and security"
"I find it intimidating that the community is unable or unwilling to maintain proper information channels for security-related maintenance"
You could try looking over on the Bug Tracking System or the openbsd-bugs mailing list
Telephone companies hire 'think tank' to talk up bandwidth scarcity. Telephone companies ask for price rises.
Shouldn't that be the U.S Trade Protectionist Lobby (USTP)
"Today's Special 301 Report guides our efforts to protect American innovation and creativity around the world," said Ambassador Ron Kirk. "Our creative and innovative products can hit the global marketplace sometimes with just a keystroke. If we and our trading partners are not vigilant in protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, they can vanish just as quickly"
The Absurdity of the USTR's Blame Canada Approach
Chevron Lobbyists Misleading USTR Over Ecuador Environmental Case
Measures Concerning the Importation, Marketing and Sale of Tuna and Tuna Products
Please don't buy an Apple or upgrade from XP to Ubuntu :)
Shouldn't you be off pissing all over Usenet. Slashdot moderators, see what garbage you've encouraged to crawl out of the sewer !!!