Why do so many people have problems with their grandmother (or mother, father, etc.) breaking their Windows 9x computer on a daily basis??
Is it possible that the person setting up the machine (i.e. the poster) is to blame?
My parents are not computer people. They have Windows 98 on their computer. I installed it and they call me when they have problems.
Guess what... They don't call me that often!
The simple fact is, if you don't do something brain-dead when installing Windows, it's a fine operating system. It may have stability issues with buggy software, it may have it's own stability issues, but over the long run it does what it should and it works.
I use FreeBSD and Windows. I use FreeBSD on my server-type computers and Windows on my laptop and personal work machines.
Do I get better uptimes with FreeBSD? Sure! Do I care that I may have to reboot my Windows machine a once or twice a week? Nope - it hasn't stopped me from getting my work done.
Please - learn how a computer and an operating system works before spewing garbage about setting up your (mother, father, etc.) with Linux because Windows is so unstable! -----
Having worked for an ISP that uses a CLEC and shuns the ILEC I know one reason people haven't switched...
The ILECs might have to allow access to last-mile, but they don't have to make that access easy to get or easy to work with.
Example: We use PRI from a CLEC for our dial-up. We keep the ILEC (Ameriheck here) out of our business. I get about 2 - 3 calls a month from customers who suddenly are a long distance call from our numbers.
Everytime this happens it's because Ameritech has made changes in their switch. It's never been our CLEC's fault.
The problem is that Ameritech will NOT speak to us on our customer's behalf, and they will not speak to us on our CLEC's behalf. So to get any resolution and get Ameritech to fix their problem we have to do the following:
1. Get the Ameritech customer on the phone. 2. Get our support rep at our CLEC on the phone. 3. Get our CLEC's tech guy on the phone. 4. Get Ameritech on the phone. 5. Try to convince them they have a problem.
If everything goes smoothly it will get fixed in a couple of days. That means that all my customers in the 482-xxxx exchange might not be able to access their Internet access without having to pay long distance chanrges during this time.
Who do you think catches hell from the customer when this happens?! This happens to us at least once and month (and often more)!
I have had customers ask me why we just didn't use Ameritech so we don't have these problems...
Just so you know, not paying (i.e. defaulting on a NSol payment) does NOT remove or reduce the power of your trademark. You NEVER loose your ability to protect a trademark unless you just stop trying.
If the trademark is owned by a person or company their ability to pay for services related to using that mark (i.e. a domain name, a sign for their building or packaging for their widgets) is not tied to their ability to pay for those goods and services.
Intellectual property auctions are very popular (patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets) and I've been to many. The owner of the mark realizes he cannot be in business for whatever reason. He doesn't loose the power of his mark and may choose to auction it to another company who then gains the right to protect the mark.
Even if I don't care about a trademark I own - I have the right to protect it and tell anyone who is being confusingly similar to "knock it right off".
I *HOPE* it never does. It's bad enough supporting a Microsoft flavored OS - let alone "BOB 98" or "IBM 2001" or any number of the new "Windows" that would be floating around out there.
As much as I dislike some of the ways Windows works - it would be totally unmanageable to have it open sourced where anyone could roll their own!
Basically if you take electrons spinning the same directions from the same atom and split them up and change the spin on one electron they spin on the other will change at the same time.
So you have a (theoritical) way to transmit binary from anywhere in the universe to anywhere the coorsponding electron is.
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Is it possible that the person setting up the machine (i.e. the poster) is to blame?
My parents are not computer people. They have Windows 98 on their computer. I installed it and they call me when they have problems.
Guess what... They don't call me that often!
The simple fact is, if you don't do something brain-dead when installing Windows, it's a fine operating system. It may have stability issues with buggy software, it may have it's own stability issues, but over the long run it does what it should and it works.
I use FreeBSD and Windows. I use FreeBSD on my server-type computers and Windows on my laptop and personal work machines.
Do I get better uptimes with FreeBSD? Sure! Do I care that I may have to reboot my Windows machine a once or twice a week? Nope - it hasn't stopped me from getting my work done.
Please - learn how a computer and an operating system works before spewing garbage about setting up your (mother, father, etc.) with Linux because Windows is so unstable!
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Nevermind the religious implications, it just sounds silly!
The ILECs might have to allow access to last-mile, but they don't have to make that access easy to get or easy to work with.
Example: We use PRI from a CLEC for our dial-up. We keep the ILEC (Ameriheck here) out of our business. I get about 2 - 3 calls a month from customers who suddenly are a long distance call from our numbers.
Everytime this happens it's because Ameritech has made changes in their switch. It's never been our CLEC's fault.
The problem is that Ameritech will NOT speak to us on our customer's behalf, and they will not speak to us on our CLEC's behalf. So to get any resolution and get Ameritech to fix their problem we have to do the following:
1. Get the Ameritech customer on the phone. 2. Get our support rep at our CLEC on the phone. 3. Get our CLEC's tech guy on the phone. 4. Get Ameritech on the phone. 5. Try to convince them they have a problem.
If everything goes smoothly it will get fixed in a couple of days. That means that all my customers in the 482-xxxx exchange might not be able to access their Internet access without having to pay long distance chanrges during this time.
Who do you think catches hell from the customer when this happens?! This happens to us at least once and month (and often more)! I have had customers ask me why we just didn't use Ameritech so we don't have these problems...
So much for competition huh?
Couldn't you just use "Belgium" instead?
Just so you know, not paying (i.e. defaulting on a NSol payment) does NOT remove or reduce the power of your trademark. You NEVER loose your ability to protect a trademark unless you just stop trying.
If the trademark is owned by a person or company their ability to pay for services related to using that mark (i.e. a domain name, a sign for their building or packaging for their widgets) is not tied to their ability to pay for those goods and services.
Intellectual property auctions are very popular (patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets) and I've been to many. The owner of the mark realizes he cannot be in business for whatever reason. He doesn't loose the power of his mark and may choose to auction it to another company who then gains the right to protect the mark.
Even if I don't care about a trademark I own - I have the right to protect it and tell anyone who is being confusingly similar to "knock it right off".
I don't think it'll ever happen...
I *HOPE* it never does. It's bad enough supporting a Microsoft flavored OS - let alone "BOB 98" or "IBM 2001" or any number of the new "Windows" that would be floating around out there.
As much as I dislike some of the ways Windows works - it would be totally unmanageable to have it open sourced where anyone could roll their own!
*shudder*
Hey hey hey!!!
Let's not give salesmen a bad name here!
I only occasionaly take my clients out to highly questionable establishments to earn their business...
The rest of the time I *work* to earn their business!
Bell's theorm is kinda' like this.
Basically if you take electrons spinning the same directions from the same atom and split them up and change the spin on one electron they spin on the other will change at the same time.
So you have a (theoritical) way to transmit binary from anywhere in the universe to anywhere the coorsponding electron is.
The first step to FTL communications?