Well, since you asked... my 1998 vintage Dell with a 233Mhz Pentium-II is still running just fine. Since its sex-change to Linux a couple of years ago, it's been very useful indeed. Apache, mail, bind, mysql, etc., etc. I can X to it on my home network without much lag at all.
Advances in PC hardware are useful for some esoteric applications, games, and to pull that steaming heap of shit known as Windows. Otherwise, an eight-year-old machine is just dandy.
And for crying out loud... "disinterested" is not just a cool way to say "uninterested".
Smart engineers do not guess at the meaning or function of their tools and components. Smart writers do not guess at the meaning of words. They RTFM (look them up).
It is pointless to respond or consider Toback's stated reasons. They are irrelevant. This is a shakedown, and the "child-porn ad support" is the best pretext he could come up with at this time. Obviously, he's not smart enough to do his homework first. OTOH, maybe he thinks SCO is doing alright vs. IBM.
I'd hope that such an obviously frivolous suit would not only get tossed immediately, but also get him disbarred.
is going on here? What did Dvorak do to you people? That overrides your natural loathing of Microsoft, and has you all foaming at the mouth to defend it so you can berate poor old Mr. Dvorak.
FWIW, I think his article is perfectly reasonable. MS is, after 30 years, still incapable of managing a release of their major product. They jumped into the overcrowded and cutthroat game console business for no reason but they just like to try to take things over. There's no real money in it for them, unless they manage to wipe out Nintendo and Sony. And the obsession with trying to "kill" Google is about as stupid as a company can get. What's next, Amazon? But then, look who's in charge (Steve Ballbustmer). All they really know how to do is monopolize. That's one of the drawbacks of a monopoly.
I fully expect this post to be marked flamebait and/or troll within 30 seconds. Go ahead... make my day.
Hey, I'm just sick of looking for pictures of half-naked drunken teenagers. What it needs is an index/consolidator so I can easily browse them all at the same time.
First, an on-machine inbound firewall is pretty pointless. Why do you have a server program running if you don't want anything to connect to it?
Second, an on-machine outbound firewall is pretty pointless. Why are you running a client program if you don't want it to connect to a server?
Third, 99% of users do not, and will never have sufficient knowledge to make any configuration decisions for any kind of firewall.
Now, if you have something like ipchains, and are up to configuring it, then you could provide a finer level of control. But the Microsoft "firewall" is essentially a marketing tool. It allows them to claim they're protecting their users.
But they took all 6,000,000 customers' money. If they don't know how to support more than 250,000 customers, they're just stealing money from the rest.
Because that's the worst thing that could happen. Right now, we have a choice between two great desktop managers. Chances are, every user of both of them would find the merged product to be worse than their current favorite. It would probably be bloated, inconsistent, and a kludge.
Both are open-source. If you want a merged desktop program, then build it yourself. If everyone switches to it because you made the most wonderful desktop manager in the world, then there you are.
There is no reason for insisting on one. Fearless prediction: KDE is going to grow to 80% usage, while Gnome goes to about 15%. But those Gnome users will switch to Blackbox before they use KDE.
Your attitude is exactly the problem that is screwing up my and half the world's working lives. Your job is to *support* the real employees (i.e. the ones who actually do work that makes money), and their computers and network. Where do you get off telling them what they can't do with their computers?.
Educate users that need it. Fix their systems when they make a mistake. But blanket restrictions are just dictator-wanna-bes making their own jobs easy at the expense of everyone elses'.
"Yes, it's painful. Yes, it's embarrassing," wrote Robert Scoble, a company technical evangelist, on his Scobelizer blog. "But I'd rather have a slipped date than a cruddy product."
With [a] little effort you can have it all, dude! Just continue the Microsoft tradition...
This is getting ridiculous. This is the 8th duplicate, redundant, ignorant MS Windows rant from another Linux fanboy who not only didn't RTFA, but hasn't RTFC either. Insightful my ass. You're heading for meta-mod doom, my lemming-like moderator friends.
I'm not even going to add a 19th redundant explanation of why your post is just plain silly.
You are completely blinded by your communist beliefs. Capitalism is nothing more than the logical outgrowth of free people agreeing to trade goods and services and money with each other. Your looking to government to solve your percieved problems is totally ironic, since the government's stupid laws and regulations are the real cause of most problems with big business. In particular, the DMCA protects the so-called rights of the big publishing companies at the expense of everyone else. Without the DMCA, these problems would be worked out in a more equitable way.
The very existence of the gigantic all-powerful government itself causes businesses to spend an inordinate amount of time and money trying to influence it, instead of staying focused on satisfying customers, which would be their natrual inclination.
My experience is that hot peppers ingested the usual way survive the trip down and out with no loss of potency. No need for a suppository unless you're just in a hurry.
I installed that piece of shit for my kids. I went all the way through the updates/logins/EULAs over and over just to satisfy my morbid fascination that any one company could pack so much incompetence and arrogance into a single product's install program.
Anyway, it's a private firm, and they can ban whoever they want for whatever reason they want. Get over it. They did you a favor. WoW is going to drop off the face of the earth within a year or so. Nobody gets away with treating customers like crap for long. You heard it here first.
Cross-platform means something that can be served on one platform and accessed from a client on a different platform. Nobody said anything about universal-platform, or all-platform, or cross-platform-including-mac.
Well, 51% of us anyway. Maybe, that is, if the election wasn't hijacked more skillfully this time than in 2000. But I do know lots of people that just love George Bush, get invited to his private yank-fests whenever he's out in the countryside, paralyzing traffic and such. They appear to be smart, well-educated, professional people, from 26-48. How can they be so blind?
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Well, since you asked... my 1998 vintage Dell with a 233Mhz Pentium-II is still running just fine. Since its sex-change to Linux a couple of years ago, it's been very useful indeed. Apache, mail, bind, mysql, etc., etc. I can X to it on my home network without much lag at all.
Advances in PC hardware are useful for some esoteric applications, games, and to pull that steaming heap of shit known as Windows. Otherwise, an eight-year-old machine is just dandy.
I really hate it when some know-it-all spews forth about a rule that he thinks he knows. I most especially hate it when it's me.
Thanks for pointing that out. I looked it up on Merriam-Webster, where they further explain the "tangled history" of the two words.
And for crying out loud... "disinterested" is not just a cool way to say "uninterested".
Smart engineers do not guess at the meaning or function of their tools and components. Smart writers do not guess at the meaning of words. They RTFM (look them up).
It is pointless to respond or consider Toback's stated reasons. They are irrelevant. This is a shakedown, and the "child-porn ad support" is the best pretext he could come up with at this time. Obviously, he's not smart enough to do his homework first. OTOH, maybe he thinks SCO is doing alright vs. IBM.
I'd hope that such an obviously frivolous suit would not only get tossed immediately, but also get him disbarred.
is going on here? What did Dvorak do to you people? That overrides your natural loathing of Microsoft, and has you all foaming at the mouth to defend it so you can berate poor old Mr. Dvorak.
FWIW, I think his article is perfectly reasonable. MS is, after 30 years, still incapable of managing a release of their major product. They jumped into the overcrowded and cutthroat game console business for no reason but they just like to try to take things over. There's no real money in it for them, unless they manage to wipe out Nintendo and Sony. And the obsession with trying to "kill" Google is about as stupid as a company can get. What's next, Amazon? But then, look who's in charge (Steve Ballbustmer). All they really know how to do is monopolize. That's one of the drawbacks of a monopoly.
I fully expect this post to be marked flamebait and/or troll within 30 seconds. Go ahead... make my day.
Can someone explain why there's now four levels of release numbers (e.g. 1.5.0.3), when there were only three before 1.5 (e.g. 1.0.6)?
And what happened to 1.1 through 1.4?
Is there something about release numbering make all software developers retarded?
I admit, this is a lame topic.
Hey, I'm just sick of looking for pictures of half-naked drunken teenagers. What it needs is an index/consolidator so I can easily browse them all at the same time.
Actually, I agree with you. I forgot to add that outbound control is needed for annoying programs that connect without permission or notification.
First, an on-machine inbound firewall is pretty pointless. Why do you have a server program running if you don't want anything to connect to it?
Second, an on-machine outbound firewall is pretty pointless. Why are you running a client program if you don't want it to connect to a server?
Third, 99% of users do not, and will never have sufficient knowledge to make any configuration decisions for any kind of firewall.
Now, if you have something like ipchains, and are up to configuring it, then you could provide a finer level of control. But the Microsoft "firewall" is essentially a marketing tool. It allows them to claim they're protecting their users.
But they took all 6,000,000 customers' money. If they don't know how to support more than 250,000 customers, they're just stealing money from the rest.
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Oxymoron.
The only fair tax is NO tax.
Because that's the worst thing that could happen. Right now, we have a choice between two great desktop managers. Chances are, every user of both of them would find the merged product to be worse than their current favorite. It would probably be bloated, inconsistent, and a kludge.
Both are open-source. If you want a merged desktop program, then build it yourself. If everyone switches to it because you made the most wonderful desktop manager in the world, then there you are.
There is no reason for insisting on one. Fearless prediction: KDE is going to grow to 80% usage, while Gnome goes to about 15%. But those Gnome users will switch to Blackbox before they use KDE.
Your attitude is exactly the problem that is screwing up my and half the world's working lives. Your job is to *support* the real employees (i.e. the ones who actually do work that makes money), and their computers and network. Where do you get off telling them what they can't do with their computers?.
Educate users that need it. Fix their systems when they make a mistake. But blanket restrictions are just dictator-wanna-bes making their own jobs easy at the expense of everyone elses'.
Oh, that's a relief. I thought they were going to use my private information!
Too bad the mod selection doesn't have -1: Stoopid.
Wal-Mart has never "forced" anyone to do a god-damned thing. Only the government can do that.
Research shows that most numbers are really, really, really big.
This is getting ridiculous. This is the 8th duplicate, redundant, ignorant MS Windows rant from another Linux fanboy who not only didn't RTFA, but hasn't RTFC either. Insightful my ass. You're heading for meta-mod doom, my lemming-like moderator friends.
I'm not even going to add a 19th redundant explanation of why your post is just plain silly.
You are completely blinded by your communist beliefs. Capitalism is nothing more than the logical outgrowth of free people agreeing to trade goods and services and money with each other. Your looking to government to solve your percieved problems is totally ironic, since the government's stupid laws and regulations are the real cause of most problems with big business. In particular, the DMCA protects the so-called rights of the big publishing companies at the expense of everyone else. Without the DMCA, these problems would be worked out in a more equitable way.
The very existence of the gigantic all-powerful government itself causes businesses to spend an inordinate amount of time and money trying to influence it, instead of staying focused on satisfying customers, which would be their natrual inclination.
My experience is that hot peppers ingested the usual way survive the trip down and out with no loss of potency. No need for a suppository unless you're just in a hurry.
You are right. As you may have surmised, I didn't read it the first time. Sorry.
I installed that piece of shit for my kids. I went all the way through the updates/logins/EULAs over and over just to satisfy my morbid fascination that any one company could pack so much incompetence and arrogance into a single product's install program.
Anyway, it's a private firm, and they can ban whoever they want for whatever reason they want. Get over it. They did you a favor. WoW is going to drop off the face of the earth within a year or so. Nobody gets away with treating customers like crap for long. You heard it here first.
Cross-platform means something that can be served on one platform and accessed from a client on a different platform. Nobody said anything about universal-platform, or all-platform, or cross-platform-including-mac.
Well, 51% of us anyway. Maybe, that is, if the election wasn't hijacked more skillfully this time than in 2000. But I do know lots of people that just love George Bush, get invited to his private yank-fests whenever he's out in the countryside, paralyzing traffic and such. They appear to be smart, well-educated, professional people, from 26-48. How can they be so blind?