I think you're confusing cause and effect. Maybe Mac users make up a small percentage of your audience specifically because you leave them out! At the very least, you could team up with a Mac-specific gaming web site (like IMG or Macgamers.com) and just include their list and reviews.
Macintosh owners play games, too. In fact, a guide like this would be of more value to Mac gamers. Mac games are harder to find, so if you want to buy a game for a Mac user, you probably can't rely on your local CompUseless sales droid to know what's hot and what's not.
Are many companies hiring Microsoft developers with little Linux experience to assist in corporate migration?
In a word, no. Especially in this economy. I suggest you do Linux development on the side, and then claim on your resume that you did it for work. In a year or two, someone may hire you.
Will it get rid of the fucking cli for good and boot DIRECTLY in to X?
How is runlevel 5 different from what every other OS does? They all start in text mode and then switch to graphics mode after loading the video drivers.
Well, under Windows it might, but it doesn't have to. There is a floppy driver for OS/2, and formatting doesn't use any CPU under OS/2. In fact, formatting floppies while printing, recalculating a large spreadsheet, and playing an audio file without hiccup was one of the early demonstrations of OS/2 at trade shows.
Yes but isn't the problem if you do screw the BIOS you can't boot your PC in order to reflash it?
That's what the boot block is for. When you flash the BIOS, you don't flash all of it. There is a portion that (at least in Dell machines) checks for a specific singature on a floppy disk, and if it finds it, loads a BIOS from the disk and flashes itself. Or something like that.
BTW Linux doesn't use the bios once past the basic boot phase
Sure it does. How do you think APM shuts down the machine, or puts it to sleep? There is no device driver for the power supply.
The idea that an OS doesn't need the BIOS after it boots is a myth. There are still a couple places where the BIOS is called once the machine is running. APM is the obvious example, and I think there are a couple more obscure ones.
They can just apply a hash to the number. I don't think the discount cards are about tracking as much as they are about tricking the customer into shopping at the same store repeatedly.
There's an HEB in town like that. They're "extended range" doesn't cover the entire parking lot, so if you go shopping on a crowded day and have to park in the distant lot, you can't push your cart to you car.
Your CSS-enabled DVD interferes with my ability to watch other DVDs by making me not want to deal with DVDs at all.
Well that's just ridiculous. So you're saying that gas-guzzling SUVs make you not want to buy a car because they "interfere" with your ability to drive a fuel-efficient car?
Since when is Linux pro-socialism and anti-capitalism? I thought the point behind capitalism is that the best product/service wins, without any help from having an illegal monopoly?
You people just aren't listening. How in the world does my CSS-enabled DVD interfere with your ability to watch other (CSS-enabled or not) DVDs? It doesn't! That's why the FM analogy is broken. If I broadcast on 101.3 MHz with sufficient power, I'm going to intefere with the local rock music station. So I need a license to broadcast with that much power.
Again, invalid analogy. Making a CSS-enabled DVD does not interfere with your ability to watch other DVDs. So what if you can't watch my CSS-enabled DVD on your Linux box? That would be like complaining that someone is broadcasting on a FM channel, but your radio only gets AM, so you claim that the broadcaster is interfering with your ability to listen to his show. I think you can see how stupid that is.
Invalid analogy. Broadcasting on an unlicensed frequency interferes with other broadcasters. Making my own CSS-enabled DVD does not interfere with anyone's else use of DVDs.
Why should they be impressed? If someone trusts an MS product and I reveal a security hole to the world that results in that person losing data, I'm certainly not going to give a damn if he's impressed with me or not. After all, he uses MS software. From my point of view, he got what he deserved. I have no desire to impress MS customers whatsoever.
At one company I know of (and this is inside info, *not* hearsay), it's already happening within the company, in that their new XP-based company-wide system will no longer let local offices save their own data locally -- all user data must be saved on the corporate server, period, and it's encrypted, so saving a copy locally does you no good.
This has been possible for years. Just remove all local storage devices and remote boot. The only writeable device will be the user's space on the network server.
TiVo is no different. You need to connect via modem in order to get the guide data, and at the same time you're forced to download any software upgrades that are available. Oh, and if the software upgrade somehow causes a problem, you'll probably need to pay to have it fixed.
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I think you're confusing cause and effect. Maybe Mac users make up a small percentage of your audience specifically because you leave them out! At the very least, you could team up with a Mac-specific gaming web site (like IMG or Macgamers.com) and just include their list and reviews.
Macintosh owners play games, too. In fact, a guide like this would be of more value to Mac gamers. Mac games are harder to find, so if you want to buy a game for a Mac user, you probably can't rely on your local CompUseless sales droid to know what's hot and what's not.
In a word, no. Especially in this economy. I suggest you do Linux development on the side, and then claim on your resume that you did it for work. In a year or two, someone may hire you.
So you're saying that as long as it's legal, it doesn't matter if it's unethical? Does your mother know you think that way?
That doesn't help employees who have small children.
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Fair enough, but I was talking about PC OSes. Obviously, I didn't mean every freakin' OS for every platform on the planet!
How is runlevel 5 different from what every other OS does? They all start in text mode and then switch to graphics mode after loading the video drivers.
Well, under Windows it might, but it doesn't have to. There is a floppy driver for OS/2, and formatting doesn't use any CPU under OS/2. In fact, formatting floppies while printing, recalculating a large spreadsheet, and playing an audio file without hiccup was one of the early demonstrations of OS/2 at trade shows.
That's what the boot block is for. When you flash the BIOS, you don't flash all of it. There is a portion that (at least in Dell machines) checks for a specific singature on a floppy disk, and if it finds it, loads a BIOS from the disk and flashes itself. Or something like that.
Sure it does. How do you think APM shuts down the machine, or puts it to sleep? There is no device driver for the power supply.
The idea that an OS doesn't need the BIOS after it boots is a myth. There are still a couple places where the BIOS is called once the machine is running. APM is the obvious example, and I think there are a couple more obscure ones.
Time Warner putting a stop to a monopoly? Now there's a first!
They can just apply a hash to the number. I don't think the discount cards are about tracking as much as they are about tricking the customer into shopping at the same store repeatedly.
There's an HEB in town like that. They're "extended range" doesn't cover the entire parking lot, so if you go shopping on a crowded day and have to park in the distant lot, you can't push your cart to you car.
As long as you don't pay with cash, they can already track you via your credit card number or check routing number, so what difference does it make?
Well that's just ridiculous. So you're saying that gas-guzzling SUVs make you not want to buy a car because they "interfere" with your ability to drive a fuel-efficient car?
Since when is Linux pro-socialism and anti-capitalism? I thought the point behind capitalism is that the best product/service wins, without any help from having an illegal monopoly?
You people just aren't listening. How in the world does my CSS-enabled DVD interfere with your ability to watch other (CSS-enabled or not) DVDs? It doesn't! That's why the FM analogy is broken. If I broadcast on 101.3 MHz with sufficient power, I'm going to intefere with the local rock music station. So I need a license to broadcast with that much power.
Again, invalid analogy. Making a CSS-enabled DVD does not interfere with your ability to watch other DVDs. So what if you can't watch my CSS-enabled DVD on your Linux box? That would be like complaining that someone is broadcasting on a FM channel, but your radio only gets AM, so you claim that the broadcaster is interfering with your ability to listen to his show. I think you can see how stupid that is.
Invalid analogy. Broadcasting on an unlicensed frequency interferes with other broadcasters. Making my own CSS-enabled DVD does not interfere with anyone's else use of DVDs.
Why should they be impressed? If someone trusts an MS product and I reveal a security hole to the world that results in that person losing data, I'm certainly not going to give a damn if he's impressed with me or not. After all, he uses MS software. From my point of view, he got what he deserved. I have no desire to impress MS customers whatsoever.
This has been possible for years. Just remove all local storage devices and remote boot. The only writeable device will be the user's space on the network server.
TiVo is no different. You need to connect via modem in order to get the guide data, and at the same time you're forced to download any software upgrades that are available. Oh, and if the software upgrade somehow causes a problem, you'll probably need to pay to have it fixed.
Any idea where I can this stuff in the USA? I've searched Dexion's web site, I've searched their affiliates' web sites, and I've even googled.
Get a Mac. Then you can run Photoshop and Unix at the same time. iBooks for $1K now!