Stick a Linux LiveCD with AVG for Linux on it in the PC. Watch as AVG eradicates virus. Reboot.
Worked for me at i28 when I got a worm that would not die; AVG had blocked it from actually running, but something was keeping it there. Rebooted to my Linux partition, downloaded/installed AVG, worked a treat.
Last year we were told to use Visio to do diagrams. I used OpenOffice Draw. We were basically told to use VB. I used PHP. We were given Office on the college computers. A few of us installed OpenOffice (note: OOo's recovery is very useful in a machine that does a hard reset when plugging in a USB stick) and used that instead.
This year, we're being "taught" on how to use MS Project and VB.NET. I plan to use KPlato and either C/C++, PHP or Python (the latter of which I'm much less well versed in).
Thankfully, this year's program leader is an F/OSS user himself (he runs Fedora) and is trying to make the assignments as open-ended as possible in terms of software requirements. Which can only be good.
As a college student, I still steadfastly refuse to use Windows and MS Office. If there are any projects that require me to use them, I will either complain to the lecturer responsible for that piece of work, or just use the machines at college.
Until the Linux kernel offers a stable binary driver API, (Which, as we've all been assured, will never happen.) hardware manufacturers won't be able to include drivers for devices such as scanners and printers in the package, thus discouraging them from ever creating such drivers in the first place.
Okay, fuck. I don't know which point of idiocy to address first.
One: Java is not JavaScript. Two: the function you have used would be useless, as I explained earlier. Unless you use a USB modem to connect to the net. Three: you're still a fucking retard. ^.^
Am I the only one who actually went "WTF" at the following:
This is not true as javascripts can read your normal IP address. It can even get your local IP address.
I'm fairly sure that there is, in fact, no way for JavaScript to tell you your IP. Mainly because it runs client-side, and if you're behind a router the only IP it would be able to give you is a class C - which is utterly useless for internet routing, and wouldn't give advertisers ANY information.
Just to humour the parent, however, I'll do a quick Google for IP address from javascript.
Results 1 - 100 of about 10,400,000 for IP address from javascript. (0.12 seconds) HotScripts.com:: JavaScript:: User Information:: IP address... IP address display (using SSI and JavaScript) - A cross browser/platform IP address displayer.
Cut & Paste IP address display (using SSI+JavaScript) The IP address is displayed in a text box which the user cannot edit. The script works by taking the #echo var="REMOTE_ADDR" from SSI and using JavaScript...
Busted. Better luck next time.
Except I've noticed that if you setup a local webserver and set that webservers IP address to 127.0.0.1 then the javascript just shows 127.0.0.1. Seems to work.
The EU isn't whining at MS for making their OS more secure; they're "whining" because MS are blocking anyone else from making any security software for Vista. And when a monopoly is abused in such a fashion, people lose jobs. And the economy tends to take a nose dive when lots of money is suddenly no longer made.
At Multiplay's i28 over here in the UK, we had the World Cyber Games finals for the UK. The marquee that Samsung had setup was packed solid for the "major" events (like CS: Source, CS 1.6, and watching Wizzo get owned by Fatal1ty -2 to 42). As I recall, the event was broadcast live over the net, too.
Then again, lots of us were there for the free swag;)
Lucky you. I'm in the UK, and just about every institution seems to be entirely Microsoft-based. (Well, not ENTIRELY; I know there's at least one Linux box somewhere on the network, but I don't know where it is. Also, there appears to be an SGI suite somewhere on campus.)
Although we did cover x86 assembler for about four lessons. Other than that, the only languages we've touched have been VB and it's uglier cousin, VBA. *Shudder*
I have a reasonably well-kept Linux boot. It needs some tidying up (remants of my Windows days), but maintainence is damned easy. Two or three slapt-get runs (three if any of the packages to be upgraded are X11 ones), plus maybe an NVIDIA driver reinstall, and it's upgraded to -current. If I left the kernel alone, and didn't upgrade that, and providing there are no power outages lasting over 7 minutes, it will stay up for months upon months.
However, my reasonably well-kept Windows boot will shudder, die and collapse in a frothing heap if you look at it the wrong way. It also grinds to a swap-thrashing halt at the slightest provocation. Practically any upgrade of drivers or software requires a reboot. Drivers suddenly decide to unregister themselves. Plugging your USB devices in slightly differently means reinstalling all the drivers again.
I've switched. I'm happy with Linux to the point where my daily life no longer involves several hours of persuading my OS to do what I want it to do. Quite frankly, I couldn't care less about Microsoft, except for a few things.
One: they have far too much control over the computing industry. Two: I still have to suffer through using Microsoft at college. Visual BASIC. Blech. Three: TC is still around.
Transferring files? Listening to MP3s. I get skipping all the time, either with NFS or SMB. VNC? X11? Does no one use anything remotely high bandwidth? How about streaming DVDs? No?
I'm posting this comment on my desktop via VNC from my laptop. Raw-encoded VNC over SSH with compression gets me anywhere from 3mbit/s to 20mbit/s. That's on "54" mbit/s wi-fi, and I'm two floors from the router (but the maximum I've ever achieved, even with the laptop right next to the router, is around 25mbit/s).
Stop assuming that wireless is only ever used for accessing the internet. I'd love to be able to get a solid 20MB/s (note: megabyte, not megabit) sustained transfer rate over wireless. 11n has the potential to deliver that, so I'm all for it.
It's hard to do web development on a PDA. It's also hard to write a presentation on a PDA. It's impossible to be paying Unreal Tournament 2004 on a PDA.
PDAs are good, sure; but a laptop is far more flexible, far more powerful and can do far more than a PDA. You can get far more done in 7-8 hours on a flight with a laptop than with a PDA.
Slackware's primary design concern is stability. 2.6 is relatively new, especially by Pat's standards. To be quite frank, it doesn't make a difference; there's a 2.6 kernel option available. Even if there wasn't, there's nothing stopping you from making your own (and given Slackware's target audience, the geek, this is somewhat expected).
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OK, I'll agree with that. Microsoft's strength is driving innovation.
Because everyone's sick and fucking tired of all the crashes, BSODs, virii and spyware. The privacy invasions help, too.
Download SLAX. Extract the ISO, chroot to the extraction point, install AVG, remaster the ISO.
Stick a Linux LiveCD with AVG for Linux on it in the PC. Watch as AVG eradicates virus. Reboot.
Worked for me at i28 when I got a worm that would not die; AVG had blocked it from actually running, but something was keeping it there. Rebooted to my Linux partition, downloaded/installed AVG, worked a treat.
...CRACKER. Turn in your geek license.
Last year we were told to use Visio to do diagrams. I used OpenOffice Draw.
We were basically told to use VB. I used PHP.
We were given Office on the college computers. A few of us installed OpenOffice (note: OOo's recovery is very useful in a machine that does a hard reset when plugging in a USB stick) and used that instead.
This year, we're being "taught" on how to use MS Project and VB.NET. I plan to use KPlato and either C/C++, PHP or Python (the latter of which I'm much less well versed in).
Thankfully, this year's program leader is an F/OSS user himself (he runs Fedora) and is trying to make the assignments as open-ended as possible in terms of software requirements. Which can only be good.
Oh? There's a simple solution.
Don't use binary drivers.
Links back to that guy's host XD
Not if it's still got the easter eggs.
Uh.
Okay, fuck. I don't know which point of idiocy to address first.
One: Java is not JavaScript.
Two: the function you have used would be useless, as I explained earlier. Unless you use a USB modem to connect to the net.
Three: you're still a fucking retard. ^.^
I'm fairly sure that there is, in fact, no way for JavaScript to tell you your IP. Mainly because it runs client-side, and if you're behind a router the only IP it would be able to give you is a class C - which is utterly useless for internet routing, and wouldn't give advertisers ANY information.
Just to humour the parent, however, I'll do a quick Google for IP address from javascript.
Busted. Better luck next time.
Local webserver. As in http://localhost./
Normally I'd slag you off for being a retard, but I'm in awe at how well you pulled off that bullshit. Seriously.
I'll copyright the O2 molecule. Using it without my express permission is copyright infringement.
IGNORANCE IS NO DEFENSE.
I'll feed the troll.
Apple don't have a monopoly. Microsoft do.
The EU isn't whining at MS for making their OS more secure; they're "whining" because MS are blocking anyone else from making any security software for Vista. And when a monopoly is abused in such a fashion, people lose jobs. And the economy tends to take a nose dive when lots of money is suddenly no longer made.
...but does it run Linux?
When can we get portable battery-backed DDR?
Freaking masochist.
At Multiplay's i28 over here in the UK, we had the World Cyber Games finals for the UK. The marquee that Samsung had setup was packed solid for the "major" events (like CS: Source, CS 1.6, and watching Wizzo get owned by Fatal1ty -2 to 42). As I recall, the event was broadcast live over the net, too.
;)
Then again, lots of us were there for the free swag
Again, lucky you. We have "Outlook Web Access". And no POP3. Heck, we don't even have roaming profiles.
Lucky you. I'm in the UK, and just about every institution seems to be entirely Microsoft-based. (Well, not ENTIRELY; I know there's at least one Linux box somewhere on the network, but I don't know where it is. Also, there appears to be an SGI suite somewhere on campus.)
Although we did cover x86 assembler for about four lessons. Other than that, the only languages we've touched have been VB and it's uglier cousin, VBA. *Shudder*
I have a reasonably well-kept Linux boot. It needs some tidying up (remants of my Windows days), but maintainence is damned easy. Two or three slapt-get runs (three if any of the packages to be upgraded are X11 ones), plus maybe an NVIDIA driver reinstall, and it's upgraded to -current. If I left the kernel alone, and didn't upgrade that, and providing there are no power outages lasting over 7 minutes, it will stay up for months upon months.
However, my reasonably well-kept Windows boot will shudder, die and collapse in a frothing heap if you look at it the wrong way. It also grinds to a swap-thrashing halt at the slightest provocation. Practically any upgrade of drivers or software requires a reboot. Drivers suddenly decide to unregister themselves. Plugging your USB devices in slightly differently means reinstalling all the drivers again.
I've switched. I'm happy with Linux to the point where my daily life no longer involves several hours of persuading my OS to do what I want it to do. Quite frankly, I couldn't care less about Microsoft, except for a few things.
One: they have far too much control over the computing industry.
Two: I still have to suffer through using Microsoft at college. Visual BASIC. Blech.
Three: TC is still around.
I wrote a lot more, but Slashdot ate my comment.
Linux boot CD.
for (( i=0; i bs=512; done
Transferring files? Listening to MP3s. I get skipping all the time, either with NFS or SMB.
VNC? X11? Does no one use anything remotely high bandwidth? How about streaming DVDs? No?
I'm posting this comment on my desktop via VNC from my laptop. Raw-encoded VNC over SSH with compression gets me anywhere from 3mbit/s to 20mbit/s. That's on "54" mbit/s wi-fi, and I'm two floors from the router (but the maximum I've ever achieved, even with the laptop right next to the router, is around 25mbit/s).
Stop assuming that wireless is only ever used for accessing the internet. I'd love to be able to get a solid 20MB/s (note: megabyte, not megabit) sustained transfer rate over wireless. 11n has the potential to deliver that, so I'm all for it.
It's hard to do web development on a PDA. It's also hard to write a presentation on a PDA. It's impossible to be paying Unreal Tournament 2004 on a PDA.
PDAs are good, sure; but a laptop is far more flexible, far more powerful and can do far more than a PDA. You can get far more done in 7-8 hours on a flight with a laptop than with a PDA.
Slackware's primary design concern is stability. 2.6 is relatively new, especially by Pat's standards. To be quite frank, it doesn't make a difference; there's a 2.6 kernel option available. Even if there wasn't, there's nothing stopping you from making your own (and given Slackware's target audience, the geek, this is somewhat expected).
Note: proud Slackware user here.
You camped out for Windows 95? Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to hand over your badge...