Every couple of hours my machine syncs its clock with the Windows domain controller. When it does, the skew would change.
Some people have their machines set to do the same with an internet time service. Wouldn't anyone utilizing a time daemon of some sort only be traceable for a short time? So the whole, "as the machine moves aroundt the internet" wouldn't apply?
To answer your question posed in your signature... Maybe at parties you get drunk and confuse Microsoft licensing fees with taxes? Oh wait, that was here...
People who are still running SP1 probably don't know enough to have automatic updates turned on anyway. Anyone interested in being "more secure" (note I didn't say just being "secure" - as that isn't Windows), should already BE RUNNING SP2.
People who are not fall into three categories:
Have an incompatible app and won't part with it or upgrade it.
Have their head in the sand and don't know about security at all.
Have an IT staff that isn't up to snuff.
I don't know what all the trashing is about. I don't think e1 and e2 are the best films ever made or anything, but the acting is a little better than the original ones. The movies seemed OK to me. My kids liked them too. Entertaining and all - that's what they are supposed to be.
How many of you folks that are dissing the movie are going to see it the first week it is out? Come on, stand up - you know you are!!
Because this is Linux - you are supposed to enjoy the pain of recompiling stuff, using GCC, etc. You aren't supposed to be one of those wuss windows users who expects a setup.exe to do magic for you.
I'm sure they had a support contract with MS. So they should be able to use Star Office and pay support there. Or, go the whole hog with OpenOffice and find someone they can contract with for support. It would be interesting to have them do this so we could have a real world comparison of costs. The $47 or so Volume License fee for office plus whatever they pay for their support contract, vs. what they end up with with OpenOffice +the support contract.
You must be a liar because with so many eyes on it, OSS HAS NO BUGS. And we all believe that Firefox has been patched, right? Oh, you mean it is only patched in the "nightly" builds? Is that like Microsoft saying that they have a patch in beta? So it will take 6 months for the patches to actually download to Firefox users? Hmm. People bash MS for the same thing... Guess OSS is the same as proprietary.
I guess I can't believe someone who can't even put in an apostrophe where required is lame enough to call someone with a legitimate question dumb...
Maybe it is becaue you are 12 and everyone who is 12 is automatically smart and everyone else is just dumb...
This has been available and shipping for years. It is even in "tablet" format. It's called an Etch-a-Sketch, and currently, that's about the only thing any sub-$100 notebook is going to be able to do.
With the ego trips and lack of cohesion seen in many open source projects, a fork in any OSS is a real possibility. Nothing new hear; forks in OSS happen all the time. Could one happen with Linux? Sure, if Linus gets tired of it easily.
Mod me a troll, but the simple answer is that Windows doesn't suck.
Putting an unpatched machine on raw DSL connections sucks.
Kind of like not wearing your safety goggles when you weld sucks.
Hello! Get a clue! There are people out there who don't like you and want to trash your machine. Get over it, spend $29 on a NAT router and then load your patches and AV. That's not hard. Never has been.
I'm working on learning linux; I used to administer hp-ux years ago so I figured it would be easy to pick up. However, when I loaded Fedora Core three and wanted to upgrade the included Firefox 1.0PR to the real 1.0 release - I couldn't make it work. I also loaded FC3 into a VM and couldn't figure out the install of the VMWare tools (asking me if my scripts are in/usr/someshit, etc.). Of course I know Windows inside and out, but when I ran the installs of Firefox and VMWare tools there - the installs were binary setups and just ran. Didn't ask me where my registry was or anything stupid like that. My Mom can get through the Windows install of Firefox. No way could I get her to run Linux like it is now. And SHE is the mass market. Not techies like us.
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Take this as a grain of salt as it was just something I read - but I saw an article awhile back that claimed the majority of new hardware shipped with Linux was ordered that way since it was cheaper and the user was just going to load pirated Windows on it anyway. I have no opinion as to the truth of this, but I guess it is possible.
Why would the vendors want you to hack a consumer product designed to be used like a black box? It would be silly for them, as they would get returns from people who screwed them up, support calls from folks who over-tweaked the white-balance, etc. Keeping items designed to be used like appliances closed makes financial sense.
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Every couple of hours my machine syncs its clock with the Windows domain controller. When it does, the skew would change. Some people have their machines set to do the same with an internet time service. Wouldn't anyone utilizing a time daemon of some sort only be traceable for a short time? So the whole, "as the machine moves aroundt the internet" wouldn't apply?
To answer your question posed in your signature... Maybe at parties you get drunk and confuse Microsoft licensing fees with taxes? Oh wait, that was here...
Good luck! Since Microsoft provides full indemnification you can't sue Windows users; only Microsoft.
People who are still running SP1 probably don't know enough to have automatic updates turned on anyway. Anyone interested in being "more secure" (note I didn't say just being "secure" - as that isn't Windows), should already BE RUNNING SP2.
People who are not fall into three categories:
Have an incompatible app and won't part with it or upgrade it.
Have their head in the sand and don't know about security at all.
Have an IT staff that isn't up to snuff.
Make mine a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Thanks!
I don't know what all the trashing is about. I don't think e1 and e2 are the best films ever made or anything, but the acting is a little better than the original ones. The movies seemed OK to me. My kids liked them too. Entertaining and all - that's what they are supposed to be.
How many of you folks that are dissing the movie are going to see it the first week it is out? Come on, stand up - you know you are!!
You shouldn't waste computing power on listening to your stupid iPod either. Convert it to find a cure for AIDS or something.
The UK must be too small? Everyone already knows where everything is? /sarcasm
Sorry - I don't know - maybe that is in phase 2?
Because this is Linux - you are supposed to enjoy the pain of recompiling stuff, using GCC, etc. You aren't supposed to be one of those wuss windows users who expects a setup.exe to do magic for you.
Agreed. And if they place it in a public park and want to enforce copyright we should just blow the friggin' thing up.
I'm sure they had a support contract with MS. So they should be able to use Star Office and pay support there. Or, go the whole hog with OpenOffice and find someone they can contract with for support. It would be interesting to have them do this so we could have a real world comparison of costs. The $47 or so Volume License fee for office plus whatever they pay for their support contract, vs. what they end up with with OpenOffice +the support contract.
You must be a liar because with so many eyes on it, OSS HAS NO BUGS. And we all believe that Firefox has been patched, right? Oh, you mean it is only patched in the "nightly" builds? Is that like Microsoft saying that they have a patch in beta? So it will take 6 months for the patches to actually download to Firefox users? Hmm. People bash MS for the same thing... Guess OSS is the same as proprietary.
You can't really point at the defacto standard, that people know and love, and scream "proprietary, proprietary!"
/.ers crying about Microsoft being proprietary. I guess you are calling them all lame?
You can't? Then why are all the
Mod me flamebait, but you can't have this both ways just because you Like one proprietary company and dislike another.
I had my imaginary friend sign out my non-existent data disks. Didn't you?
I guess I can't believe someone who can't even put in an apostrophe where required is lame enough to call someone with a legitimate question dumb... Maybe it is becaue you are 12 and everyone who is 12 is automatically smart and everyone else is just dumb...
This has been available and shipping for years. It is even in "tablet" format. It's called an Etch-a-Sketch, and currently, that's about the only thing any sub-$100 notebook is going to be able to do.
With the ego trips and lack of cohesion seen in many open source projects, a fork in any OSS is a real possibility. Nothing new hear; forks in OSS happen all the time. Could one happen with Linux? Sure, if Linus gets tired of it easily.
Mod me a troll, but the simple answer is that Windows doesn't suck. Putting an unpatched machine on raw DSL connections sucks. Kind of like not wearing your safety goggles when you weld sucks. Hello! Get a clue! There are people out there who don't like you and want to trash your machine. Get over it, spend $29 on a NAT router and then load your patches and AV. That's not hard. Never has been.
Wow, I had an amazing post all worked out, but then I forgot the whole thing. I'm thinking I should RTA, but I forget where the link was...
Don't get in the way of that wireless recharger...
I'm working on learning linux; I used to administer hp-ux years ago so I figured it would be easy to pick up. However, when I loaded Fedora Core three and wanted to upgrade the included Firefox 1.0PR to the real 1.0 release - I couldn't make it work. I also loaded FC3 into a VM and couldn't figure out the install of the VMWare tools (asking me if my scripts are in /usr/someshit, etc.). Of course I know Windows inside and out, but when I ran the installs of Firefox and VMWare tools there - the installs were binary setups and just ran. Didn't ask me where my registry was or anything stupid like that. My Mom can get through the Windows install of Firefox. No way could I get her to run Linux like it is now. And SHE is the mass market. Not techies like us.
Take this as a grain of salt as it was just something I read - but I saw an article awhile back that claimed the majority of new hardware shipped with Linux was ordered that way since it was cheaper and the user was just going to load pirated Windows on it anyway. I have no opinion as to the truth of this, but I guess it is possible.
Why would the vendors want you to hack a consumer product designed to be used like a black box? It would be silly for them, as they would get returns from people who screwed them up, support calls from folks who over-tweaked the white-balance, etc. Keeping items designed to be used like appliances closed makes financial sense.
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