I'm afraid I must disagree with you. By the sounds of it, his living costs are low, and he is well qualified, so financial stability probably isn't a major issue for him.
Doing something you enjoy after hours is alright, but if you don't enjoy your job, it takes much more effort to complete. I know from experience that when you're doing a job you love, it doesn't seem like work at all.
The problem will be when he moves to the other "startup company" and it does not work... then he will be without job and money. My father has always said "do not rise the left foot until the right is firmly at the next step".
Sometimes that is wise. But sometimes it is necessary to take a risk in search of a greater reward.
That's capitalism. If you don't like the employment conditions, don't work there. If you can't get a job elsewhere, you don't deserve better employment conditions.
Not necessarilly. When I was at high school, I worked at a "student ICT technician", in the IT department. All the students logged in as normal users (Users, not Power Users), and the only software we had trouble with was the MYOB suite.
You did omit some things there, the "not cruising the net as admin or root" is one important thing. In any unix-like operating system, people will point and laugh at you if you do this. This is a less viable option in windows, due to a lot of poorly written software, but what I suggest is:
Avoid software that needs to be run with administrator privilages. It's obviously poorly written anyway, and let the developers know why you wont use their software too.
If you absolutely must run such an application, rather than doing evrything as administrator, when you want to run the program, shift+right click the icon and click "run as". Then log in as a user with the required privilages.
Doing this will make your system much less vulnerable to nasty malware programs, as if you're running as an administrator, and you run them, they have complete access to your computer.
Personally, I judge cases on art rather than modding. You can have a self modified case that just looks like a whole lot of random mods with no thought put into the bigger picture, or a bunch of stock components, put together in a carefully thought out way, that looks good. I'd prefer the latter.
And hard drives are a lot more difficult to modify than other components. These are best done by the manufactuer.
I don't know why the released a windows version, but I think the main reason is support in other operating systems. Some people wont use closed source software for political reasons, but then they wouldn't be using windows, would they?
Of course, one windows to linux migration technique is to switch users to the windows versions of linux applications, then switch them to linux when the understand those.
Here in New Zealand, there are no AOL style online services, just plain PPP dailup accounts, with access to an SMTP server and a POP e-mail account. ISPs supply free CD-ROMs (or programs downloadable from their web site), that configure everything on a user's computer.
A proprietary service really isn't necessary to make the web easy to use.
As it should. That would happen with Windows too. Boot sector virus detection alerts you when your boot sector is about to be written to, which is very rarely. Usually only when you install an OS.
That's when you turn it off.
The 'governer' is not a bad idea, in fact I have heard of some particularly powerful cars that are required to have one in certain countries (This was just hearsay, though).
The problem with the canadian scheme is that taking away the driver's control of a car and giving it to an automated system (and they never fail) is dangerous.
You can put it how you want, but it's not "one kind of animal giving birth to another kind" any more than you (or the female you mated with) giving birth to a (human) animal which is not exactly the same as either of you. You are either terribly misinformed, or deliberately manipulating the truth.
Some of them aren't run by experienced users, they're run by people who have basic IT skills, and can do day to day maintainance on a windows network, outsourcing whenever anything gets over their head. IIS is also arguably faster, as it's running on a single architecture, on an OS designed by the same developer.
Maybe you're correct, but have you ever heard the song "The Final Word" by Metal Church? It's a good song, but the lyrics seem to be complaining about people excercising their right to complain, which I always thought was a fundamental part of democracy (and, by extention, american exceptionalism). And they did make it seem like the singer believed the rest of the world was a third world dictatorship...
Unless it was meant to be taken in a sort of ironic way.
It's about time that programs like this, which are used mainly for distributing copyrighted material illegally, started trying to clean up their act. I know there are legal uses, but in practice these are far and few.
I find MSIE6 better on old PCs, on a Pentium 233Mhz laptop with 32MB of RAM and Windows 98, it ran a lot faster than firefox. This will probably change when IE7 comes out, as this is probably only because IE hasn't been updated in so long.
http://www.warezclient.com/
Interesting that warez p2p has added an inbuilt, direct to media library CD ripper.
It's right on their front page. I encourage readers to draw their own conclusion about warez's attitude to copyrighted material. Try finding a commercially produced audio CD that doesn't say "All rights reserved" on it.
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I'm afraid I must disagree with you. By the sounds of it, his living costs are low, and he is well qualified, so financial stability probably isn't a major issue for him. Doing something you enjoy after hours is alright, but if you don't enjoy your job, it takes much more effort to complete. I know from experience that when you're doing a job you love, it doesn't seem like work at all. The problem will be when he moves to the other "startup company" and it does not work... then he will be without job and money. My father has always said "do not rise the left foot until the right is firmly at the next step". Sometimes that is wise. But sometimes it is necessary to take a risk in search of a greater reward.
That's capitalism. If you don't like the employment conditions, don't work there. If you can't get a job elsewhere, you don't deserve better employment conditions.
Not necessarilly. When I was at high school, I worked at a "student ICT technician", in the IT department. All the students logged in as normal users (Users, not Power Users), and the only software we had trouble with was the MYOB suite.
Doing this will make your system much less vulnerable to nasty malware programs, as if you're running as an administrator, and you run them, they have complete access to your computer.
Sure they do. They belong to whoever recorded and calculated them. You couldn't, however, copyright the statistics so that nobody may record them.
If it does make a significant difference to the price, there will be budget ones that come with instructions on how to set them up.
Personally, I judge cases on art rather than modding. You can have a self modified case that just looks like a whole lot of random mods with no thought put into the bigger picture, or a bunch of stock components, put together in a carefully thought out way, that looks good. I'd prefer the latter. And hard drives are a lot more difficult to modify than other components. These are best done by the manufactuer.
I don't know why the released a windows version, but I think the main reason is support in other operating systems. Some people wont use closed source software for political reasons, but then they wouldn't be using windows, would they? Of course, one windows to linux migration technique is to switch users to the windows versions of linux applications, then switch them to linux when the understand those.
Here in New Zealand, there are no AOL style online services, just plain PPP dailup accounts, with access to an SMTP server and a POP e-mail account. ISPs supply free CD-ROMs (or programs downloadable from their web site), that configure everything on a user's computer.
A proprietary service really isn't necessary to make the web easy to use.
As it should. That would happen with Windows too. Boot sector virus detection alerts you when your boot sector is about to be written to, which is very rarely. Usually only when you install an OS. That's when you turn it off.
It is a security issue if it causes you inconvenience, and is uninvited.
Different issues here. Telecom regulation is about QoS and fair pricing. This is about censorship.
The 'governer' is not a bad idea, in fact I have heard of some particularly powerful cars that are required to have one in certain countries (This was just hearsay, though).
The problem with the canadian scheme is that taking away the driver's control of a car and giving it to an automated system (and they never fail) is dangerous.
You can put it how you want, but it's not "one kind of animal giving birth to another kind" any more than you (or the female you mated with) giving birth to a (human) animal which is not exactly the same as either of you. You are either terribly misinformed, or deliberately manipulating the truth.
If it can be done without making the kernel unstable, I'm all for it. Open source drivers would be nice, but aren't always practical.
Now, if drivers could be run in user space...
Hahaha... they even had a link to Microsoft's FUD.
If you learn slackware, you'll have no trouble picking up other linux distros...
Some of them aren't run by experienced users, they're run by people who have basic IT skills, and can do day to day maintainance on a windows network, outsourcing whenever anything gets over their head. IIS is also arguably faster, as it's running on a single architecture, on an OS designed by the same developer.
I'd be happy to take the drives off your hands in this case, to save you disposal costs...
I think there are tools to mount CDs in windows, but you can't reboot and boot from an ISO.
You could use Qemu though (google for it).
Maybe you're correct, but have you ever heard the song "The Final Word" by Metal Church? It's a good song, but the lyrics seem to be complaining about people excercising their right to complain, which I always thought was a fundamental part of democracy (and, by extention, american exceptionalism). And they did make it seem like the singer believed the rest of the world was a third world dictatorship... Unless it was meant to be taken in a sort of ironic way.
It's about time that programs like this, which are used mainly for distributing copyrighted material illegally, started trying to clean up their act. I know there are legal uses, but in practice these are far and few.
I find MSIE6 better on old PCs, on a Pentium 233Mhz laptop with 32MB of RAM and Windows 98, it ran a lot faster than firefox. This will probably change when IE7 comes out, as this is probably only because IE hasn't been updated in so long.
http://www.warezclient.com/ Interesting that warez p2p has added an inbuilt, direct to media library CD ripper. It's right on their front page. I encourage readers to draw their own conclusion about warez's attitude to copyrighted material. Try finding a commercially produced audio CD that doesn't say "All rights reserved" on it.
IPCop implements this. I have this setup on my home network (I'm a security nut).