Like as not, many people already consider things plenty simple with Windows
Coming from a Netware background, Windows just gives me a big-ass headache. DFS to root map home directories without manually sharing each one?
What the hell is that about?
And the applications.. The Registry? Sure makes moving programs much harder..
IMHO, the whole Windows model was just created wrong. It may be easier sitting at home, and installing the app you want. But running a network is just made more difficult (unless you invest in other tools).
Nope, I'm at work. That's a personal project. I can sit here and tell you that you are an idiot, but not work on my personal projects that don't benefit work in some way.
Posting on Slashdot isn't a personal project..Let's think about that..
Obviously, quality color is in the eye of the beholder..
Blue on Blue on Blue is ugly. Period. Use a color harmony tool.
You have to use a tool to decide what you like? Or do you assume I set it up asking myself what others would think?
Because it's remarkably fun telling you that you are an idiot in each post and having you still respond.
You obviously haven't noticed the genius of my subject. It applies infinitely. Therefore, I can respond infinitely.
And having been in the workforce more than a year, I can have just as much fun dealing with the childish.
Hmm got the impression you were in California from somewhere.. My mistake.
Life, enjoy it. It occurs outside the computer world as well.
Yes, but when I'm stuck in a cube waiting for someone to finish up some code there isn't much else to do than point out the idiots on slashdot who don't have better things to do but claim they do.
So fix this:
http://www.nerdfarm.org/nf/Portal/Forums
Obviously, quality color is in the eye of the beholder..
Those who don't, admit it. Like me. I don't have anything better to do right now. I wish I did. 30 minutes isn't enough to do much other than make fun of you and play chess.
I have better stuff to do, in fact I just showed the owner how to scan and email a document. Doesn't take more than a few minutes.. just like this post.
I feel for you.. How can you not do anything better in 30 minutes than reply to Slashdot posts?
Confusing forgetfullness and idiocy is a very silly thing.
Please. You CA's are way too high strung.
You should try to understand the difference, you will get further in life. At least my website isn't an affront to all that is good and holy in the world. Tone down your colors, get off shitty weblog software, and learn English.
Just like posting this reply.. I really have better things to do.
Life, enjoy it. It occurs outside the computer world as well.
*sigh* Why don't people get the plural of virus right? This is why babies cry.
Because the Engligh language is dynamic?
Keep saying virii guys, once it becomes the 'standard' way of saying viruses, no document (or group of Perl programmers crying) on Earth will change the fact that virii is plural for virus.
Yes, I LOVE going against the grain. I equally love shoving 'proper' back in the face of zealots.
*as a side note, it wouldn't hurt to sign up and learn how your enemy thinks, and how he employs his tactics. Before you gun him down like a dog in the street, that is.
The only reason for a switch is PRICE. Honestly, no matter what bullshit people spread on here about how good OO, SO, etc, are, they aren't what MSO offers. Not even close.
Yeah, and The Gimp isn't Photoshop. The real question is, how many people actually require what 'What MSO offers'?
So far the biggest complaints around here(From OO1.01) are that fonts seem to be different, and negative numbers on spreadsheets aren't red.
If we didn't already own copies of MSOffice for those users, we surely would NOT have purchased it for those reasons.
Then why was the safety monitoring system exposed to the office network? In this case, the worm came in on a non-firewalled T-1 line from a contractor's network, and through there to the internet.
I would have suspected that there would be multiple layers of protection in front of critical systems like that. Even more, I would expect that safety regulations require these layers of protection. Of course, that would hurt the bottom line, so we can't have that happening:(
It's not cost, it's knowledge. I use iproute (DOS NAT Firewall- 2 NIC's, a 386 and a floppy is all you need) between local and remote networks. Most of the time, they're there for a single purpose (file transfer, in my case). ALWAYS try and make sure YOU are initiating any connection.
Use a Windows 2000 machine, make sure it has only the access level needed from the outside (maybe sshd or something similar running, maybe), and keep the thing patched.
If there was a Linux/Unix worm running around, couldn't the exact same situation happen?
While I agree with you in principle, the problem I have with MS patches is that I have NO FSCKING CLUE what other areas of the OS are affected. At least if I see a patch for TFTP for Linux, I KNOW I don't need it.
My God Man, just running MS Terminal Services requires the MS Client, even though I run a Netware network!
It saddens me as a developer that you can't even deign to write a P2P add without the assumption that it will be used for sharing copyrighted materials and thus shut down by the RIAA/MPAA.
No kidding, just posted to the Mandrake Cooker list:
> > Could we get some kind of p2p solution up and running? With so many
> > people wanting to keep a local cooker tree, it would seem self-evident
> > that we should be taking advantage of this technology. A cooker torrent
> > would be excellent! (does BitTorrent handle large numbers of files
> > easily?).
> This would kick ass.:) Especially if it was setup so that it can download
> from multiple sources at a time to increase speed.
So much for that idea. Although it IS copyrighted material, it's not illegal to distribute it.;)
So I guess I imagined Rush Limbaugh and about ten thousand other Republicans complaining about welfare recipients. Thanks for clearing that up.
Well, no. You did imagine Rush complaining about the welfare recipients furthering themselves with what they have available to them.
What you heard was Rush and ten thousand other people complaining about supporting lazy-ass people draining society. My brother-in-law (Hey! A $500 monthly Social Security check for me jumping out of a car and bashing my head! Let's get another tatoo!) is one of them.
Did you guys really think that Microsoft's not profiling the Slashdot users, or the Linux kernel contributors or anyone they deem as a valuable target?
I don't spend enough time in one place to have 'Excellent Karma' under a single identity, if I were to use quite a few of them.
That's exactly why I try not to hide myself. I WANT people to see what I've posted. Find me as 'havokmon' 'rick@usb.com' or 'rick at valeoinc.com' (personal, business, business - replace the yaddayadda). I'll have to update my resume though with my previous business emails so it's easy for me (and my contributions) to be found.
Because when you don't HAVE a lot of money, you complain about those who do. OTOH, when you DO have a lot of money, you generally don't complain about those who have less..
Just wait until she makes some real money, then election funds will disappear from her agenda.
I was watching Modern Marvels on the History channel, randomly, when I noticed that CNN and MSNBC had their news anchors put the war helmets on, and start the 9/11 rant all over again.
Well, YEAH, it's New York. Hell, they get 1" of snow, and all of a sudden the whole world is shut down.
Sorry, I live in Wisconsin, we don't shut down for 1" of snow, and I'm tired of their 'center of the world' mentality over there.
Unlike the North Pole where the ice floats on the sea Antartica is a big land mass with lots of ice on top. If the Antartic ice melts, sea levels will rise.
Which sea? And would they all rise at the same rate?
What happens to the locks in Panama? The 'sea levels' are already not equal.
Are we assuming that new lakes aren't formed by melted ice?
I'm curious, where in the article does it say "Windows Crash" as you so diligently quoted?
You didn't have to read the article, just the titles for the article (Not the Slashdot info, the ZDNet info).
I must have missed it. I only saw, "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code, but third-party code".
Ahh A Troll, I should have known. Well, if half of the crashes are 3rd party code, where do the other half come from? "Acts of God"? Maybe it should be: "Acts of g0d"
You must have read another article where it said half of all Windows crashes, can you send me the URL to that article? I would like to read it.
Winzip chokes on a corrupted.zip file and crashes; Windows keeps running just fine, but that's still a crash. Under XP that will generate an app crash message to be sent to Microsoft to be analyzed and included in statistics like these.
I don't think ANYONE actually considers "Winzip crashing" a "Windows crash".
Do you consider a stone chipping your windshield a car crash?
The real problem here, is that MS is saying that the stone chipping the windsheild causes cars to crash 50% of the time - not the failure of the car/driver.
I suspect that they are referring to drivers and other kernel-space code. The standard Microsoft weenie excuse for instability in the past has been "it's the drivers!", blaming the video drivers is a favourite.
Hey now.. I'm no MS weenie, but I'll blame a crash on ATI drivers over anything else anyday!:P
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Thank you for finally agreeing with my parent post.
My condolances to your wife/girlfriend.
Coming from a Netware background, Windows just gives me a big-ass headache. DFS to root map home directories without manually sharing each one? What the hell is that about?
And the applications.. The Registry? Sure makes moving programs much harder..
IMHO, the whole Windows model was just created wrong. It may be easier sitting at home, and installing the app you want. But running a network is just made more difficult (unless you invest in other tools).
Yeah, it makes me laugh.
What's a langauge? Oh, haha, I crack myself up!Yeah, you screwed up.
See, I'm trying your tactic here. Being a fucking retard and just repeating what you say back at you. Pee-Wee Herman would be proud of you, son.
Now that's the cover tactic: Attempting to pull readers away from the irony of your English kabosh.
Your lack of originality shows your weakness.
And you can be replaced by a very small perl script. Of course, so can I. But then again, that's my point.SCO called, they want their post back.
Your girlfriend mentioned something about replacing a very small 'perl script' last night.
I'm sure you can, after all it's easy when you dole out happy meals?Is it? Please fix your Perl script. Ironically, it doesn't have all the in's and out's of the English langauge yet.
Posting on Slashdot isn't a personal project..Let's think about that..
Blue on Blue on Blue is ugly. Period. Use a color harmony tool.You have to use a tool to decide what you like? Or do you assume I set it up asking myself what others would think?
Because it's remarkably fun telling you that you are an idiot in each post and having you still respond.
You obviously haven't noticed the genius of my subject. It applies infinitely. Therefore, I can respond infinitely.
And having been in the workforce more than a year, I can have just as much fun dealing with the childish.
Hmm got the impression you were in California from somewhere.. My mistake.
Yes, but when I'm stuck in a cube waiting for someone to finish up some code there isn't much else to do than point out the idiots on slashdot who don't have better things to do but claim they do.So fix this:
http://www.nerdfarm.org/nf/Portal/Forums
Obviously, quality color is in the eye of the beholder..
Those who don't, admit it. Like me. I don't have anything better to do right now. I wish I did. 30 minutes isn't enough to do much other than make fun of you and play chess.
I have better stuff to do, in fact I just showed the owner how to scan and email a document. Doesn't take more than a few minutes.. just like this post.
I feel for you.. How can you not do anything better in 30 minutes than reply to Slashdot posts?
Please. You CA's are way too high strung.
You should try to understand the difference, you will get further in life. At least my website isn't an affront to all that is good and holy in the world. Tone down your colors, get off shitty weblog software, and learn English.
Just like posting this reply.. I really have better things to do.
Life, enjoy it. It occurs outside the computer world as well.
If you think so, but you'll never find the following posted by me in a public forum:
Thank you, drive through..
Because the Engligh language is dynamic?
Keep saying virii guys, once it becomes the 'standard' way of saying viruses, no document (or group of Perl programmers crying) on Earth will change the fact that virii is plural for virus.
Yes, I LOVE going against the grain. I equally love shoving 'proper' back in the face of zealots.
We create a vacuum, then we fill that vacuum :P
So get a wireless one
Yeah, and The Gimp isn't Photoshop. The real question is, how many people actually require what 'What MSO offers'?
So far the biggest complaints around here(From OO1.01) are that fonts seem to be different, and negative numbers on spreadsheets aren't red.
If we didn't already own copies of MSOffice for those users, we surely would NOT have purchased it for those reasons.
And when someone DOES decide to release a 'Melissa', we're all screwed, because we're all vulnerable.
I would have suspected that there would be multiple layers of protection in front of critical systems like that. Even more, I would expect that safety regulations require these layers of protection. Of course, that would hurt the bottom line, so we can't have that happening :(
It's not cost, it's knowledge. I use iproute (DOS NAT Firewall- 2 NIC's, a 386 and a floppy is all you need) between local and remote networks. Most of the time, they're there for a single purpose (file transfer, in my case). ALWAYS try and make sure YOU are initiating any connection.
If there was a Linux/Unix worm running around, couldn't the exact same situation happen?
While I agree with you in principle, the problem I have with MS patches is that I have NO FSCKING CLUE what other areas of the OS are affected. At least if I see a patch for TFTP for Linux, I KNOW I don't need it.
My God Man, just running MS Terminal Services requires the MS Client, even though I run a Netware network!
No kidding, just posted to the Mandrake Cooker list:
> > Could we get some kind of p2p solution up and running? With so many
> > people wanting to keep a local cooker tree, it would seem self-evident
> > that we should be taking advantage of this technology. A cooker torrent
> > would be excellent! (does BitTorrent handle large numbers of files
> > easily?).
> This would kick ass. :) Especially if it was setup so that it can download
> from multiple sources at a time to increase speed.
So much for that idea. Although it IS copyrighted material, it's not illegal to distribute it. ;)
Well, no. You did imagine Rush complaining about the welfare recipients furthering themselves with what they have available to them.
What you heard was Rush and ten thousand other people complaining about supporting lazy-ass people draining society. My brother-in-law (Hey! A $500 monthly Social Security check for me jumping out of a car and bashing my head! Let's get another tatoo!) is one of them.
I don't spend enough time in one place to have 'Excellent Karma' under a single identity, if I were to use quite a few of them.
That's exactly why I try not to hide myself. I WANT people to see what I've posted. Find me as 'havokmon' 'rick@usb.com' or 'rick at valeoinc.com' (personal, business, business - replace the yaddayadda). I'll have to update my resume though with my previous business emails so it's easy for me (and my contributions) to be found.
Because when you don't HAVE a lot of money, you complain about those who do. OTOH, when you DO have a lot of money, you generally don't complain about those who have less..
Just wait until she makes some real money, then election funds will disappear from her agenda.
I just got one with an .SCR attachment. Setup qmailscanner to call SpamAssassin, and you won't eat up all those resources for stupid attachments.
Well, YEAH, it's New York. Hell, they get 1" of snow, and all of a sudden the whole world is shut down.
Sorry, I live in Wisconsin, we don't shut down for 1" of snow, and I'm tired of their 'center of the world' mentality over there.
Which sea? And would they all rise at the same rate?
What happens to the locks in Panama? The 'sea levels' are already not equal.
Are we assuming that new lakes aren't formed by melted ice?
You didn't have to read the article, just the titles for the article (Not the Slashdot info, the ZDNet info).
I must have missed it. I only saw, "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code, but third-party code".
Ahh A Troll, I should have known. Well, if half of the crashes are 3rd party code, where do the other half come from? "Acts of God"? Maybe it should be: "Acts of g0d"
You must have read another article where it said half of all Windows crashes, can you send me the URL to that article? I would like to read it.
Same url as what's listed in the post
Did you read the title of the article?
"Microsoft criticises third party code for Windows crashes"
My emphasis.
Then the bolded header of the paragraph:
"Microsoft has laid the blame for half of all Windows crashes on third-party code."
My emphasis.
You know, even if YOU SAY the glass is half-full, it's still half-empty.
I don't think ANYONE actually considers "Winzip crashing" a "Windows crash".
Do you consider a stone chipping your windshield a car crash?
The real problem here, is that MS is saying that the stone chipping the windsheild causes cars to crash 50% of the time - not the failure of the car/driver.
Hey now.. I'm no MS weenie, but I'll blame a crash on ATI drivers over anything else anyday! :P