They do it because it's a gov't institution. If MA turns to non-M$ products, then NY might follow, then the rest of the east coast...There are already countries in Europe which are switching, and they're trying to hold them. Everybody knows how valuable a gov't contract is valued - if one agency does it, that puts pressure on others to do it (the people in other states might see the savings and say "hey, my tax money can be better spent by NOT paying M$", other states will have to do something in order to make sure they can inter-operate).
IIRC, Vista was supposed to have icon preview for your office documents. From what I saw in the images, all the icons look the same (all docs, all excels etc.).
Did they take that out also? I mean really, a new UI is enough for a 2-3 year delayed release of a new Windows version, no need for any real improvements...
I've never had issues with the Gentoo sources that weren't in the vanilla kernel. The patches Gentoo applies:
- security fixes - kernel upgrades (2.6.12-r10 was in fact 2.6.12.6) - compatibilty fixes (ppc/amd64/sparc) - bootsplash
The only problem I've had with my 2.6 kernels have been nvidia locking up my X, but that hasn't happened since about 2.6.8, and I don't think it was Gentoo's fault.
To answer on the issue, I couldn't go back to 2.4. The user interface seems 'ugly' now that I've gottent used to 2.6's, alsa/acpi support is awful, and the usb/scsi support is much more diverse and stable on 2.6.
Most of the times the spammer uses a fake address. So you have to scenarios:
1. Spam from a non-existant address -> you send the spam back to him -> you get a bounce email (so that's 2 more emails/spam message) 2. Spam from existant address but not his. How would you feel if you start getting all these "spam bounces" because some moron used your address?
1. IE 2. Mozilla Firefox 3. Mozilla Suite 4. Opera...
Honestly, having multiple browsers doesn't affect my machine that much. I run Gentoo anyways, so I put the browsers I want, but if I put a default Mandrake, which will give me about 6 graphical browsers and another 3-4 text-mode, I don't mind it that much. The space taken is _very_ small, if I don't use them I don't lose any resources, and if I want I just uninstall it:)
With the CPU argument you're comparing users (few emails) with spammers (hundreds of emails), but are ignoring enterprise servers.
Any corporations/department with over 1000-2000 users will send tens, maybe even hundrers of emails/minute. If you have an email server that both sends and receives, if that server also has spam control, you're talking about a _major_ cripple, which wouldn't be acceptable to any system administrator.
Did you have anything in mind to solve that issue?
"The strategy has changed slightly."...now we survive due to the colaboration with Microsoft, so see...they're not a big fan of Linux..and considering they've been taking people away from using our wonderful OS..err...we don't either...
Actually Sith are two different things:
initially sith were a race...the dark jedi seeked refuge and the sith granted gave them shelter...in return, some of the sith were taught to use the force...this is KOTOR
however, the references made to 'sith' in the movies are different...sith is sort of a religion..the sith, as a race were all dead.
-Cos
My problem wasn't with Terminal...it was with Tiger...the fact that *on the first boot*, while updating, it crashed when I tried to do _something_, and then I couldn't get back into the OS. This would worry me if I were a MacOSX/Tiger user...since it was the *first* boot, you can't really argue with me messing with it...maybe it was just my bad luck...either way, it made me realize even more clearly that if I will get a Mac laptop, it _will_ run Linux on it;)
About the CD, the OS shouldn't let you eject the CD if it's in use..i _never_ had any problem with me ejecting the CD in Linux and losing my data, or crashing.
And excuuuse me for not purchasing a Mac keyboard with my Mac Mini..that's just silly;)
yea right...i got a Mac Mini with Tiger on it (I think it came out about 1 week before). Before I wipe it out completely and put Gentoo on it I say 'ok, let's give it a try and see the 'amazing' Tiger'... boot it up, go through the wizard thingie (Mac and no wizards..yea rite), and finally get in Tiger....I go do the updates, 11 at number...while at update 6 I decide to open a terminal (guess that was a no-no that I should've been aware of) and... the machine freezes...it had the little multi-color ball rotating, terminal didn't open, and the update seemed to have frozen...i rebooted it and could never get back in...the OS just never finished loading...so much for stability..
the Mac Mini now is very happy with Gentoo and sound, xine/mplayer etc...
so, just like Mr. Zawinski was very pissed off at his Linux box, I was at the MacOSX...I guess we each had to do what we had to do...
-Cos
P.S. And when the heck is Apple going to actually make their machines (which have great hw, don't get me wrong) with a freakin' eject button for the CD...i should not spend time on Google searching on how to eject a freaking CD...cause holding the right click at boot for like 5 seconds or whatever it was that ejected it is not user-intuitive!
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Just make sure you don't use a toothbrush on it when you apply the toothpaste ;)
They do it because it's a gov't institution. If MA turns to non-M$ products, then NY might follow, then the rest of the east coast...There are already countries in Europe which are switching, and they're trying to hold them. Everybody knows how valuable a gov't contract is valued - if one agency does it, that puts pressure on others to do it (the people in other states might see the savings and say "hey, my tax money can be better spent by NOT paying M$", other states will have to do something in order to make sure they can inter-operate).
ROFL
as opposed to previous versions, which only came with Access and Outlook.
IIRC, Vista was supposed to have icon preview for your office documents. From what I saw in the images, all the icons look the same (all docs, all excels etc.).
Did they take that out also? I mean really, a new UI is enough for a 2-3 year delayed release of a new Windows version, no need for any real improvements...
I second that:
# uptime
10:32:23 up 271 days, 17:41, 4 users, load average: 0.56, 0.70, 0.31
# uname -r
2.6.8-gentoo-r3
I've never had issues with the Gentoo sources that weren't in the vanilla kernel.
The patches Gentoo applies:
- security fixes
- kernel upgrades (2.6.12-r10 was in fact 2.6.12.6)
- compatibilty fixes (ppc/amd64/sparc)
- bootsplash
The only problem I've had with my 2.6 kernels have been nvidia locking up my X, but that hasn't happened since about 2.6.8, and I don't think it was Gentoo's fault.
To answer on the issue, I couldn't go back to 2.4. The user interface seems 'ugly' now that I've gottent used to 2.6's, alsa/acpi support is awful, and the usb/scsi support is much more diverse and stable on 2.6.
Was it intentional, or a typo ?
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My favorite quote from the clip:
"Users want to get lots of email, they just don't realize it"
What am I missing??
People are ignorant and lazy...as much as I would like to have every email signed, that's not going to happen...:-/
It took me about one hour to set up my keys, certs and get everything working properly, and I think I'm well above the average computer user...
Most of the times the spammer uses a fake address. So you have to scenarios:
1. Spam from a non-existant address -> you send the spam back to him -> you get a bounce email (so that's 2 more emails/spam message)
2. Spam from existant address but not his. How would you feel if you start getting all these "spam bounces" because some moron used your address?
Ok, then how about giving you a choice
...
:)
1. IE
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. Mozilla Suite
4. Opera
Honestly, having multiple browsers doesn't affect my machine that much. I run Gentoo anyways, so I put the browsers I want, but if I put a default Mandrake, which will give me about 6 graphical browsers and another 3-4 text-mode, I don't mind it that much. The space taken is _very_ small, if I don't use them I don't lose any resources, and if I want I just uninstall it
I prefer choice over a forced product _anytime_
Every linux distro out there includes firefox and a billion other packages
;)
Yes, and a billion other packages.
If Windows would come with IE, Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla, nobody would complain
With the CPU argument you're comparing users (few emails) with spammers (hundreds of emails), but are ignoring enterprise servers.
Any corporations/department with over 1000-2000 users will send tens, maybe even hundrers of emails/minute. If you have an email server that both sends and receives, if that server also has spam control, you're talking about a _major_ cripple, which wouldn't be acceptable to any system administrator.
Did you have anything in mind to solve that issue?
we don't either...
i meant we're not either...sorry about that
"The strategy has changed slightly." ...now we survive due to the colaboration with Microsoft, so see...they're not a big fan of Linux..and considering they've been taking people away from using our wonderful OS..err...we don't either...
i remember him talking about Plagus and all that, just didn't make the connection.
Thanks!
I also thought Plapatine was his father. Where did you get the idea that Palpatine's master was his father?
Actually Sith are two different things: initially sith were a race...the dark jedi seeked refuge and the sith granted gave them shelter...in return, some of the sith were taught to use the force...this is KOTOR however, the references made to 'sith' in the movies are different...sith is sort of a religion..the sith, as a race were all dead. -Cos
Actually between I and II there is are about 10 years in difference, more than enough timie for Palpatine to take another apprentice.
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For more info on Sith Lords (same as Sith) as well as the Rule of Two take a look at:
http://www.supershadow.com/starwars/jedi_sith.htm
My problem wasn't with Terminal...it was with Tiger...the fact that *on the first boot*, while updating, it crashed when I tried to do _something_, and then I couldn't get back into the OS. This would worry me if I were a MacOSX/Tiger user...since it was the *first* boot, you can't really argue with me messing with it...maybe it was just my bad luck...either way, it made me realize even more clearly that if I will get a Mac laptop, it _will_ run Linux on it ;)
;)
About the CD, the OS shouldn't let you eject the CD if it's in use..i _never_ had any problem with me ejecting the CD in Linux and losing my data, or crashing.
And excuuuse me for not purchasing a Mac keyboard with my Mac Mini..that's just silly
-Cos
-Cos
P.S. And when the heck is Apple going to actually make their machines (which have great hw, don't get me wrong) with a freakin' eject button for the CD...i should not spend time on Google searching on how to eject a freaking CD...cause holding the right click at boot for like 5 seconds or whatever it was that ejected it is not user-intuitive!