And the GNOME Foundation is meanwhile in the background trying to create a pump that will also inflate Microsoft's little ball. Then we can all play with it however we want.
True, the ODF ball has a lot fewer corners and edges, but that's not going to stop some people from wanting to play with the Microsoft ball, so sooner or later, we're going to need to know how to deal with it.
While you guys are busy freaking out about GNOME, maybe Linux should drop support for NTFS and FAT, and OpenOffice.org should no longer be able to open any document ending in ".doc"
Seriously. People need to chill out. This is about ensuring that we DON'T get shut out of anything. While even the paranoid have enemies, not everything is a conspiracy.
So essentially, what you've done is to take a comment about something that is pertinent to the discussion at hand, and challenge it based on circumstantial arguments around a completely different subject. Well played.
I had this brought up to me by my supervisor not long ago when we were trying to find the precise spot on a drive that an HFS+ partition began, so that we could properly replace it with 2 ext3 partitions without freaking out the software that was running on the machine. It turns out, software that's been out for a while already understands the distinction between MB and MiB, even if the people using the software do not.
I keep seeing on here that the (X)iB units are made fun of relentlessly in various public forums, but if it works, it works. In the case of precisely defining partitions in parted, the distinction works.
I think it's laughable that a technical community that is constantly adapting to new things and creating stuff faster than the rest of the world can keep up with is so incredibly resistant to a change that went into effect roughly ten years ago.
I'm sorry to have to post this, but it seems like a more and more prolific problem.
Macs are computers.
The operating system that runs on them is OS X.
The company that makes them is Apple (APPL).
Linux is a kernel for an operating system, whereas Windows is a full operating system.
You don't say "Macintosh did something to OS X" for exactly the same reason as you don't say "Optiplex GX620 added more features to Windows."
If you're talking about a company, talk about the company... if a product line, talk about the product line. If you're referring to an Operating System, please reference the Operating System.
Because installing IE7 requires acceptance of an additional EULA. That being the case, when your automatic updates are run, everything is installed BUT IE7, and you'll get a little notification that there are updates pending that you need to run.
Once you open the little icon to run the update, it puts you through the standard IE7 install msi, which requires acceptance of the EULA and, until recently, validation of Windows.
The only instance I've seen of IE7 installing on a system without any user input is via a group-policy-deployed custom msi, which installs under the system account upon restart.
I believe the analysis in your disclaimer to be correct. While there are a lot of techies that don't know what they're talking about, one way or another, they get [filtered out/promoted to management] anyway. A generalization cannot be made about everyone associated with a particular company in such a way as is consistently done around here.
We've all been through that stage in our lives when we were doing phone support or PC repair at 7-10 bucks an hour.
Besides, if you know what you're doing enough to compile packages and tweak them to your needs, as I saw in a previous post, what the hell would you be doing taking your computer to Geek Squad, anyway?
If course I wonder when the video companies will realize that bit torent is a small leak in their dike, the flood is NetFlix. Shhh! What are you thinking, saying this aloud? Now Netflix is going to start implementing measures to "protect" their media!
Give her a Fedora or Ubuntu LiveCD and see if she can do the blackboard stuff. I've messed around with it before and not encountered many problems.
And for what it's worth, that video card is fairly easy to get working under XP. I think the same one, or a very similar one, is present in the Dell XPS M1330. You can find a slightly modified INF file to replace the one in the nvidia installer, then it should detect the hardware and utilize it properly. I may be mistaken with regard to the specific model, though. If you're referring to the XPS m1330, let me know and I'll dig up the link for you.
rsync is great for just this purpose, but the frequency with which this question comes up makes me wonder why so few people use terminal services for working on the road. It's efficient, very functional, and you never have to worry about resynching files, because they're all stored in the same place.
I think what the GP was possibly implying was that Ron Paul may never make it to office. You can get all the votes you want, but that doesn't necessarily change a control structure that has entrenched itself so deeply as to be immobile. If Mr. Bush sees some kind of terrorist threat, what's to keep him from invoking emergency rights using fear as a driving force, Hitler/Palpatine style?
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And the GNOME Foundation is meanwhile in the background trying to create a pump that will also inflate Microsoft's little ball. Then we can all play with it however we want.
True, the ODF ball has a lot fewer corners and edges, but that's not going to stop some people from wanting to play with the Microsoft ball, so sooner or later, we're going to need to know how to deal with it.
While you guys are busy freaking out about GNOME, maybe Linux should drop support for NTFS and FAT, and OpenOffice.org should no longer be able to open any document ending in ".doc"
Seriously. People need to chill out. This is about ensuring that we DON'T get shut out of anything. While even the paranoid have enemies, not everything is a conspiracy.
Ever watched Pi: Faith in Chaos?
God's true name, according to the story, is 216 letters long.
Is it just a coincidence that 216 is 6*6*6?
RiP, Mitch. You are missed.
So essentially, what you've done is to take a comment about something that is pertinent to the discussion at hand, and challenge it based on circumstantial arguments around a completely different subject. Well played.
*tries to ssh into machine stuck in kernel panic*
*gets no response*
*goes and finds a monitor to lug into the server room, cursing the whole way*
There's a difference between system administration and needing to see what's on the screen.
Have you risen up?
No.
You're to blame as well. So am I.
I had this brought up to me by my supervisor not long ago when we were trying to find the precise spot on a drive that an HFS+ partition began, so that we could properly replace it with 2 ext3 partitions without freaking out the software that was running on the machine. It turns out, software that's been out for a while already understands the distinction between MB and MiB, even if the people using the software do not.
I keep seeing on here that the (X)iB units are made fun of relentlessly in various public forums, but if it works, it works. In the case of precisely defining partitions in parted, the distinction works.
I think it's laughable that a technical community that is constantly adapting to new things and creating stuff faster than the rest of the world can keep up with is so incredibly resistant to a change that went into effect roughly ten years ago.
Google. I simply can't imagine Microsoft allowing its employees to take home software for free.
Regrettably, I tend to think that it still is.
I'm sorry to have to post this, but it seems like a more and more prolific problem.
/rant
Macs are computers.
The operating system that runs on them is OS X.
The company that makes them is Apple (APPL).
Linux is a kernel for an operating system, whereas Windows is a full operating system.
You don't say "Macintosh did something to OS X" for exactly the same reason as you don't say "Optiplex GX620 added more features to Windows."
If you're talking about a company, talk about the company... if a product line, talk about the product line. If you're referring to an Operating System, please reference the Operating System.
I'm sorry, I'll return to my hole now...
The joke was way over his head.
"In the meadow, on the way, you will find Betty's protector. This is an enemy you are not yet ready to defeat. Avoid the meadow."
You should start using it to download Wubi. ^_^
Because installing IE7 requires acceptance of an additional EULA. That being the case, when your automatic updates are run, everything is installed BUT IE7, and you'll get a little notification that there are updates pending that you need to run.
Once you open the little icon to run the update, it puts you through the standard IE7 install msi, which requires acceptance of the EULA and, until recently, validation of Windows.
The only instance I've seen of IE7 installing on a system without any user input is via a group-policy-deployed custom msi, which installs under the system account upon restart.
I believe the analysis in your disclaimer to be correct. While there are a lot of techies that don't know what they're talking about, one way or another, they get [filtered out/promoted to management] anyway. A generalization cannot be made about everyone associated with a particular company in such a way as is consistently done around here.
We've all been through that stage in our lives when we were doing phone support or PC repair at 7-10 bucks an hour.
Besides, if you know what you're doing enough to compile packages and tweak them to your needs, as I saw in a previous post, what the hell would you be doing taking your computer to Geek Squad, anyway?
Give her a Fedora or Ubuntu LiveCD and see if she can do the blackboard stuff. I've messed around with it before and not encountered many problems.
And for what it's worth, that video card is fairly easy to get working under XP. I think the same one, or a very similar one, is present in the Dell XPS M1330. You can find a slightly modified INF file to replace the one in the nvidia installer, then it should detect the hardware and utilize it properly. I may be mistaken with regard to the specific model, though. If you're referring to the XPS m1330, let me know and I'll dig up the link for you.
Coincidence? I think not!
And you people said it would take a ludicrous amount of power. Hah!
Quite clearly, in fact.
"dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism..."
*Searches for the proper syntax for the command to terminate a non-responsive application*
*gets arrested*
You're thinking of MMX
rsync is great for just this purpose, but the frequency with which this question comes up makes me wonder why so few people use terminal services for working on the road. It's efficient, very functional, and you never have to worry about resynching files, because they're all stored in the same place.
...But does it run Li-
It's being done. Check out youtube and myspace sometime.
I think what the GP was possibly implying was that Ron Paul may never make it to office. You can get all the votes you want, but that doesn't necessarily change a control structure that has entrenched itself so deeply as to be immobile. If Mr. Bush sees some kind of terrorist threat, what's to keep him from invoking emergency rights using fear as a driving force, Hitler/Palpatine style?