My Debian machine has no floppy drive and no cdrom. If I break anything it will be a pain in the ass to open it to reinstall the OS, or switch hard drives.
Yeah, I'm no MS fan, but when they started to make available tools like runas, gpedit and permissions for NTFS, it became possible to keep a fairly sane Windows desktop.
Linux started as hobby, and if needed, I believe it can go on indefinitely as such. There's no way to kill it via commercial competition, while it remains free. However, it's always nice to hear about companies getting interested in Linux, so we can expect to have things working more easily.
Even with lots of RAM, I don't think it would possible to run the same computer for a decade. Not if you plan to use up-to-date software. I don't even think x86 will endure one more decade.
Seriously, I might send a Linux user a nice shell script that wipes his home folder; if he's an idiot and chmods it in order to run it and *does* run it and loses all of his files, does that make Linux less secure? Or does that make such user an idiot?
Still, the guy would have to chmod it and run it by his own choice. That's quite different from things like Blaster or Sasser.
The key to avoiding viruses and spyware is intelligence.
But you can't expect everyone that shares the same pc to be reasonable and intelligent. Besides of that, MSIE is not the only door to virus. And Firefox does have some vulnerabilities. It's much better to have tighter security at the OS level.
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My Debian machine has no floppy drive and no cdrom. If I break anything it will be a pain in the ass to open it to reinstall the OS, or switch hard drives.
I was postponing my move from woody for no reason, but now I am concerned. Will they fix this issue or should I stick with woody?
Is this logo supposed to be official? If it is, well, it's a bad logo. How come the minims have those semiquaver flags?
... methane can be found at Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania... Neptune, Titan...
astronomy dominee
So is it basically a "Sharpen" effect like Firework's or Photoshop's?
No script? Hmmm. That sounds more like a Seinfeld movie...
Me too!
Are there laws against stalking? Oops...
Yeah, I'm no MS fan, but when they started to make available tools like runas, gpedit and permissions for NTFS, it became possible to keep a fairly sane Windows desktop.
Linux started as hobby, and if needed, I believe it can go on indefinitely as such. There's no way to kill it via commercial competition, while it remains free. However, it's always nice to hear about companies getting interested in Linux, so we can expect to have things working more easily.
Even with lots of RAM, I don't think it would possible to run the same computer for a decade. Not if you plan to use up-to-date software. I don't even think x86 will endure one more decade.
enough to increase productivity substantially
Will it also increase my productivity if I work with Word documents?
If this helps environment preservation AND they have the money to do that, I guess it's a good thing.
Seriously, I might send a Linux user a nice shell script that wipes his home folder; if he's an idiot and chmods it in order to run it and *does* run it and loses all of his files, does that make Linux less secure? Or does that make such user an idiot?
Still, the guy would have to chmod it and run it by his own choice. That's quite different from things like Blaster or Sasser.
The key to avoiding viruses and spyware is intelligence.
But you can't expect everyone that shares the same pc to be reasonable and intelligent. Besides of that, MSIE is not the only door to virus. And Firefox does have some vulnerabilities. It's much better to have tighter security at the OS level.
That's okay, fellow slashdotter, you'll never use 'em anyhow.
You mean the lasers, right?
such as Remote Desktop and user management
Just use VNC for remote access and boot into safe mode for user management.
Just referencing one of the previous articles doesn't make this funny.
Stop mocking my OS! I'll call my parents!
What is taking SVG so long?
Who said it was meant to be easy?