Video? Many cards look clearer in Linux than Windows. Better antialiasing, with the ability to tweak it as desired. Able to tune xmodes precisely.
RAID controllers? 3ware cards work just fine, no recompiling necessary. But then, those are real RAID cards, as opposed to low-end Promise crap you can buy for $30.00. Those cards rely on software to do their RAID magic.
X software? Such as? Most packages the average user will want is a point-and-click away.
Games? Who needs games? But, since you ask, I have about 150 games installed. I've played only maybe four or five of them due to lack of time. If I feel like installing my collection of Windows game, I may just have to buy cedega and install the Windows games on Linux. But. thanks for your concern!:)
Where did I say anything about throttling? Go back and re-read. The plans are advertised as unlimited. That is, as in using it as much as you need/want/feel like, without fear of hitting any limit since being unlimited it is by definition unlimited, just like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Last year we had a discussion whether traffic shaping is good or bad, and ISPs made it pretty clear that they do not like P2P applications like BitTorrent. One of the ISPs that joined our discussions said: "The fact is, P2P is (from my point of view) a plague - a cancer, that will consume all the bandwidth that I can provide. It's an insatiable appetite.", and another one stated: "P2P applications can cripple a network, they're like leaches. Just because you pay 49.99 for a 1.5-3.0mbps connection doesn't mean your entitled to use whatever protocols you wish on your ISP's network without them provisioning it to make the network experience good for all users involved."
Here's the thing:
- You folks want common carrier status
- You want subsidies from taxpayers instead of spending your own money on infrastructure
- You advertise your services as always on and unlimited
And yet, when customers actually take you up on that offer you want to reneg after the fact.
When you advertise a service, accept payment for it, and refuse to deliver on it, that, my friend, is called fraud. Considering that you mail bills to your customers charging them for unlimited services, isn't each and every statement you mail one count of mail fraud? Isn't that what took down several mafia families, if the reference in The Firm is to be believed?
Stop buying their crap. They will either adjust to the market AND acknowledge and provide for Fair Use and also embrace viral marketing, or they will die. It really is that simple. What I _do_ buy, I buy used now, and there are really only a few acts I buy any more. Spend your money elsewhere.
I went from buying a CD or two every other day during the height of Napster to buying _maybe_ one every other year. In the last six years, I've bought maybe two brand-new CDs: David Gilmour's On An Island, and Pink Floyd's Is There Anyone Out There (the wall live album). Oh wait, there was another one: a Tijuana Brass album. I do want to buy Weird Al's latest album, and I want to buy Roger Waters' Ca Ira, but I'll wait until I can find a pristine pre-owned(used) copy. There is lots of other stuff I'd love to buy, but I'm pretty much standing on my principles and giving the RIAA the finger.
Now, instead of listening to hard rock and pop stations, I'm listening to talk (NPR, christian radio, or other talk stations) and sometimes oldies, classical, or classic rock stations (I have almost all the classic rock I want on CDs, and I've ripped most of them to SD cards so I can bring my collection with me when I travel). I avoid exposure to new material the best I can, lest I be tempted to buy it, or be tempted to download it and contribute to viral marketing. Sorry, I'm just not interested in promoting the continued existence of the music cartel as it exists today.
if you re-read my post, I indicated that is not the case, and revealing ALL of the data will convince skeptics if the alarmists are right. Where Mars and other planets are warming there is a good chance that global warming is not due to us, or not largely due to us (I'm convinced we are at least a contributor but not that we are the cause). Having the raw data for mars, as far back as the data goes, can help to show us whether or not we are indeed the cause of global warming, because Mars can be used for control data. Is the temp here rising at the same rate as there? Is the trend here faster? How much faster? Then, we need to investigate why: is it due to plentiful water vapor here, or because of industry-emitted greenhouse gases? Having the full picture helps both sides attain their goals.
My problem is that the alarmists are chicken little, and the right wingers are like the people who listened to the boy who cried wolf so many times. There is a happy medium and that is called the scientific method. Alarmists with an agenda cannot be trusted, and neither can the other extreme with the ostrich syndrome.
US Citizens paid for it, US citizens own the data, and if global warming is happening, it affects ALL of us. We should have unfettered access to the raw data and all algorithms used to reach their conclusions.
Given that these people claiming "ZOMG We're ruining the Earth! We're gonna melt" say this affects everyone, I think it is their duty to fully disclose the raw data and the methods used to arrive at the final result. After all, if we ARE causing global warming and it's not just a natural trend (remember, Mars is warming to. Is that due to the SUVs, er, probes we put there? I doubt it!) we need to know this ASAP, and by fully disclosing the ENTIRE data and algorithm set, then even religiously-skeptical doubters will HAVE to admit they're right.
Until then, there is too much doubt because the raw data is restricted to a privileged few. I for one don't doubt that global warming is happening, but considering other planets are also warming, I doubt mankind is the cause. Oh, I'm sure that we're a contributor and at least a tiny fraction is due to us, but is our contribution 90% of the increase, or.000000241% of the increase, with the rest being due to natural phenomena?
Remember, in the distant past the Earth was MUCH warmer than it is right now. It's happened before naturally, and is likely to occur again naturally.
Watermarking isn't good in my view, even compared to DRM. There will still be legal restrictions on what you can do. You won't be legally allowed to do ANYTHING to the file except play it. You could even be legally responsible if a virus happened to alter the file.
Legal uses include fair use and right of first sale. You still have the right to sell it to someone else when you are done with it and no longer wish to possess it, and you have the right to give it away. In both cases you must destroy all copies. You can make mix CDs and derivative works (parodies, samples. etc.) just like you legally can with other media. Don't let the RIAA members brainwash you into believing your rights have somehow lessened or evaporated.
Unfortunately it will be used to connect specific downloads to individuals allowing the RIAA to target their lawsuits more accurately. It will still be as impossible to prove in court but will drive an even deeper wedge between the RIAA and reality.
Quite correct. If you buy Hillary Duff's latest single today, and are sick of it in two weeks, and decide to sell that MP3 to someone who isn't yet sick to death of hearing about her crap, and then that buyer uploads it to all the P2P networks (I'm still trying to figure out who the hell is buying her crap in the first place but bear with me) the RIAA would go after you. They'd insist that in addition to not having Fair Use, you do not have the Right of First Sale. It SHOULD be simple to squelch their argument but unfortunately they have deep pockets with which to buy the courts.
But: that is where watermarking can be harmful. If you buy an MP3 and resell it legally (destroying all copies you have) you're LEGALLY in the clear, or if you purchase it as a gift (and again, destroying all copies you have) the "evidence" would point back at you, but the evidence really isn't proof of ANYTHING in this case. It's like a crime having happened in a subway with no witnesses, and you get charged because your fingerprints happen to be on one of the handrails. That fingerprint is simply evidence that you were there sometime in the past, not that you had anything to do with the incident.
Lowering the bar and worrying more about a child's "self esteem" rather than academics things things such as playing nanny to students AND wasting money on programs like sex education (sorry that is the job of the parents) AND sensitivity training are hurting academic performance. When teachers are expected to be nannies rather than teachers, do u rly expect students 2 xl @ math & science, & b able 2 sp34k in nything but aol sp35k? ZOMG LOL WTF!
It may have been a problem all along, but there has been a lot of wear and tear on the airframes. I'm sure that the fatigued has changed heat handling characteristics at stress points, and that can feasibly contribute to failure where tiles may be thin, broken, or otherwise faulty, whereas if the airframes were new or treated to restore its original integrity the heat handling characteristics would not be an unknown.
Just pointing out a possibility I haven't seen anyone in the media question. . .
Now its out making more FUD, claiming that Linux infringes 235 patents.
If 235 legitinate patents were being infringed, Microsoft would be revealing specifically which ones are being infringed and how they are being infringed, if they were truly interested in protecting their "IP" rather than spinning FUD. It is obvious to all watching that all they care about is scare tactics and saber rattling.
When M$ becomes a free software company, we will all win. If M$ becomes a free software owner, we will all lose.
Not gonna happen. Remember when RedHat discontinued their desktop OS (alienating formerly-loyal customers) and made their distribution non-free? Well, folks have released White Box Linux and CentOS, based on the Redhat code. RedHat had the nerve to threaten suit against those groups since they credited RedHat as providing the source for the project (Funny, doesn't the GPL require crediting the originator?) but the fact remains that RedHat simply could not kill off the free release of their distribution - thanks to the GPL. Those distros now refer to RedHat as "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" to work around the threat of suits, but as badly as RedHat want to put those distros under, they know they will not be able to get away with it.
I'm sure Microsoft folks know that they cannot kill off open source. There's what - 200-300 Linux distros, and almost all of them will all run the same software, generally with very little tweaking. There is NO way they will ever get the ubuntu folks to play ball. Redhat might.
Novell is playing ball with Microsoft, but I honestly think their intentions were honorable, in an effort to make Active Directory interoperability easier for the average user. If Windows did nothing else for networking, they did make rolling out LDAP a no-brainer. Granted, it's a small proprietary subset of LDAP, but it works with very little fussing, and mostly configurable without even knowing what a command line is. Microsoft took the deal with Novell and used it to create anti-Linux FUD spin, but anyone who looks at it objectively will see through the lies. If Linux were indeed infringing on 235 (legitimate) patents, don't you think Microsoft would be aggressively defending their IP, so that the patents don't get invalidated? It's not as though Microsoft lacks the resources to do so.
Microsoft can't kill Linux, and they know it. Knock five distros down, 15 others will pop up to take their place, and chances are those forks work better than the distros Microsoft does manage to kill. Microsoft has made their own enemies, between forced upgrades, abusive pricing, anti-competitive tactics, and strong-arming the little guy.
Compute the $200 billion extorted from taxpayers, add on top of that "taxes" the telecoms charged but were allowed to keep, on the condition that broadband be pulled out to each and every single address in the USA, and then come back and tell us it's not worth it.
They were mandated to do so under the agreement, and they got away for collecting those grants and giving citizens NOTHING in return for those fees. I would fully support the feds seizing the telecom infrastructure away from the current telecoms and auctioning it off to new players, leaving the current telecoms with NOTHING to support their continued existence.
No, they don't. A grocery store doesn't charge you for a full loaf of bread and then tell you sorry, you can have only two slices because they sold that same loaf to 9 other people.
The gas company doesn't charge you for 10,000 cubic feet of gas and then come back and tell you that you can use only 1,000 cubic feet because they oversold.
A law company doesn't work for 3 hours and charge you for 30.
That would be called "fraud" in any industry other than telecom.
the open source community should stop poking fun at Microsoft.
As long as they claim to have the most secure operating system ever: No. As long as they count one defect against Linux multiple times in comparisons: No. As long as they treat paying customers like criminals: No. As long as their software comes without a warranty and they use a lack of a Linux warranty as a reason to not use OSS: No. As long as they do not count "maintenance windows" as part of downtime in their uptime/availability comparisons: No. As long as their marketing literature is based on lies/FUD rather than facts: No. As long as their 2007 "3D desktop"'s features barely matches that of what OS X could do in 2003: No. Want a proper 3D desktop? Check out XGL and Beryl on Linux, 3D Desktop on OS X.
I think we'll be making fun of Microsoft for years to come, as long as they keep up their FUD and they keep promoting minor cosmetic changes, DRM, and annoying features like [CANCEL] [CONTINUE] as innovations.
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Not gonna happen - Novell themselves distributed Linux under the GPL.
Oh no no no. Archival quality music is obviously a much higher value, so once Universal is happy with online music sales, excpect online lossily-compressed music to be priced at current CD price levels, and actual CD prices to increase by 50%. If they don't do this, they are obviously not getting their fair share of the pie! Also just think: if they start distributing lossless archival-quality music, then EVERYONE will have access to content that is the same quality as the digital master tape, and if THAT happens, people will be trading mix CDs and no one will ever buy a CD again. OH NOES, IT'LL BE ANARCHY!!
Won't anyone please think of the poor starving artists?
I'm sitting here all pissed off because I just can't get that trojan to run. I've been fiddling with wine for hours and even tried it under crossover office, and damn it, I just can't get my machine infected. The next step is going to be installing Windows into a qemu image because I just don't want to miss out on full Windows compatibility! Grrrr.
Seriously though, I thought Windows was supposed to be more secure, and less prone to this stuff than Linux? I mean, that's what Microsoft's Get The Facts campaign was all about wasn't it? I know, one can claim that Linux just isn't much of a target because of market share, but the reality is that the security model is vastly superior.
Windows can be made secure, but so many programs are STILL coded such that administrative access is provided that backwards compatibility is Windows' Achilles' Heel. I was hoping Microsoft would use XP (and more recently, Vista) as a breaking point (like Apple did with OS X) but sadly they didn't in either case.
I hope these infections REALLY blow up and cripple the Internet for a few days, because it would make many people question the wisdom in continuing to pay for cosmetic updates to Windows.
About the only chance you have is to put together a pretty Powerpoint presentation showing that switching to.NET will cost a billion dollars.
I think you mean Impress presentation, put together on and presented from Linux, to underscore the capability of Open Source, and in the final frame of the presentation, the slide should state that the presentation was authored on a 100% free office suite running on a 100% operating system, whereas the Windows solution would have cost over $600 for equivalent software.
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Hmm. Okay, you win on the wireless bit.
:)
Video? Many cards look clearer in Linux than Windows. Better antialiasing, with the ability to tweak it as desired. Able to tune xmodes precisely.
RAID controllers? 3ware cards work just fine, no recompiling necessary. But then, those are real RAID cards, as opposed to low-end Promise crap you can buy for $30.00. Those cards rely on software to do their RAID magic.
X software? Such as? Most packages the average user will want is a point-and-click away.
Games? Who needs games? But, since you ask, I have about 150 games installed. I've played only maybe four or five of them due to lack of time. If I feel like installing my collection of Windows game, I may just have to buy cedega and install the Windows games on Linux. But. thanks for your concern!
Where did I say anything about throttling? Go back and re-read. The plans are advertised as unlimited. That is, as in using it as much as you need/want/feel like, without fear of hitting any limit since being unlimited it is by definition unlimited, just like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Here's the thing:
- You folks want common carrier status
- You want subsidies from taxpayers instead of spending your own money on infrastructure
- You advertise your services as always on and unlimited
And yet, when customers actually take you up on that offer you want to reneg after the fact.
When you advertise a service, accept payment for it, and refuse to deliver on it, that, my friend, is called fraud. Considering that you mail bills to your customers charging them for unlimited services, isn't each and every statement you mail one count of mail fraud? Isn't that what took down several mafia families, if the reference in The Firm is to be believed?
Want to really hit RIAA members hard?
Stop buying their crap. They will either adjust to the market AND acknowledge and provide for Fair Use and also embrace viral marketing, or they will die. It really is that simple. What I _do_ buy, I buy used now, and there are really only a few acts I buy any more. Spend your money elsewhere.
I went from buying a CD or two every other day during the height of Napster to buying _maybe_ one every other year. In the last six years, I've bought maybe two brand-new CDs: David Gilmour's On An Island, and Pink Floyd's Is There Anyone Out There (the wall live album). Oh wait, there was another one: a Tijuana Brass album. I do want to buy Weird Al's latest album, and I want to buy Roger Waters' Ca Ira, but I'll wait until I can find a pristine pre-owned(used) copy. There is lots of other stuff I'd love to buy, but I'm pretty much standing on my principles and giving the RIAA the finger.
Now, instead of listening to hard rock and pop stations, I'm listening to talk (NPR, christian radio, or other talk stations) and sometimes oldies, classical, or classic rock stations (I have almost all the classic rock I want on CDs, and I've ripped most of them to SD cards so I can bring my collection with me when I travel). I avoid exposure to new material the best I can, lest I be tempted to buy it, or be tempted to download it and contribute to viral marketing. Sorry, I'm just not interested in promoting the continued existence of the music cartel as it exists today.
if you re-read my post, I indicated that is not the case, and revealing ALL of the data will convince skeptics if the alarmists are right. Where Mars and other planets are warming there is a good chance that global warming is not due to us, or not largely due to us (I'm convinced we are at least a contributor but not that we are the cause). Having the raw data for mars, as far back as the data goes, can help to show us whether or not we are indeed the cause of global warming, because Mars can be used for control data. Is the temp here rising at the same rate as there? Is the trend here faster? How much faster? Then, we need to investigate why: is it due to plentiful water vapor here, or because of industry-emitted greenhouse gases? Having the full picture helps both sides attain their goals.
My problem is that the alarmists are chicken little, and the right wingers are like the people who listened to the boy who cried wolf so many times. There is a happy medium and that is called the scientific method. Alarmists with an agenda cannot be trusted, and neither can the other extreme with the ostrich syndrome.
US Citizens paid for it, US citizens own the data, and if global warming is happening, it affects ALL of us. We should have unfettered access to the raw data and all algorithms used to reach their conclusions.
Given that these people claiming "ZOMG We're ruining the Earth! We're gonna melt" say this affects everyone, I think it is their duty to fully disclose the raw data and the methods used to arrive at the final result. After all, if we ARE causing global warming and it's not just a natural trend (remember, Mars is warming to. Is that due to the SUVs, er, probes we put there? I doubt it!) we need to know this ASAP, and by fully disclosing the ENTIRE data and algorithm set, then even religiously-skeptical doubters will HAVE to admit they're right.
.000000241% of the increase, with the rest being due to natural phenomena?
Until then, there is too much doubt because the raw data is restricted to a privileged few. I for one don't doubt that global warming is happening, but considering other planets are also warming, I doubt mankind is the cause. Oh, I'm sure that we're a contributor and at least a tiny fraction is due to us, but is our contribution 90% of the increase, or
Remember, in the distant past the Earth was MUCH warmer than it is right now. It's happened before naturally, and is likely to occur again naturally.
Legal uses include fair use and right of first sale. You still have the right to sell it to someone else when you are done with it and no longer wish to possess it, and you have the right to give it away. In both cases you must destroy all copies. You can make mix CDs and derivative works (parodies, samples. etc.) just like you legally can with other media. Don't let the RIAA members brainwash you into believing your rights have somehow lessened or evaporated.
Quite correct. If you buy Hillary Duff's latest single today, and are sick of it in two weeks, and decide to sell that MP3 to someone who isn't yet sick to death of hearing about her crap, and then that buyer uploads it to all the P2P networks (I'm still trying to figure out who the hell is buying her crap in the first place but bear with me) the RIAA would go after you. They'd insist that in addition to not having Fair Use, you do not have the Right of First Sale. It SHOULD be simple to squelch their argument but unfortunately they have deep pockets with which to buy the courts.
But: that is where watermarking can be harmful. If you buy an MP3 and resell it legally (destroying all copies you have) you're LEGALLY in the clear, or if you purchase it as a gift (and again, destroying all copies you have) the "evidence" would point back at you, but the evidence really isn't proof of ANYTHING in this case. It's like a crime having happened in a subway with no witnesses, and you get charged because your fingerprints happen to be on one of the handrails. That fingerprint is simply evidence that you were there sometime in the past, not that you had anything to do with the incident.
Like the diebold voting booths? ;)
Money isn't the issue.
Lowering the bar and worrying more about a child's "self esteem" rather than academics things things such as playing nanny to students AND wasting money on programs like sex education (sorry that is the job of the parents) AND sensitivity training are hurting academic performance. When teachers are expected to be nannies rather than teachers, do u rly expect students 2 xl @ math & science, & b able 2 sp34k in nything but aol sp35k? ZOMG LOL WTF!
So, what are you telling me, that their tubes got clogged?
It may have been a problem all along, but there has been a lot of wear and tear on the airframes. I'm sure that the fatigued has changed heat handling characteristics at stress points, and that can feasibly contribute to failure where tiles may be thin, broken, or otherwise faulty, whereas if the airframes were new or treated to restore its original integrity the heat handling characteristics would not be an unknown.
Just pointing out a possibility I haven't seen anyone in the media question. . .
If 235 legitinate patents were being infringed, Microsoft would be revealing specifically which ones are being infringed and how they are being infringed, if they were truly interested in protecting their "IP" rather than spinning FUD. It is obvious to all watching that all they care about is scare tactics and saber rattling.
Not gonna happen. Remember when RedHat discontinued their desktop OS (alienating formerly-loyal customers) and made their distribution non-free? Well, folks have released White Box Linux and CentOS, based on the Redhat code. RedHat had the nerve to threaten suit against those groups since they credited RedHat as providing the source for the project (Funny, doesn't the GPL require crediting the originator?) but the fact remains that RedHat simply could not kill off the free release of their distribution - thanks to the GPL. Those distros now refer to RedHat as "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" to work around the threat of suits, but as badly as RedHat want to put those distros under, they know they will not be able to get away with it.
I'm sure Microsoft folks know that they cannot kill off open source. There's what - 200-300 Linux distros, and almost all of them will all run the same software, generally with very little tweaking. There is NO way they will ever get the ubuntu folks to play ball. Redhat might.
Novell is playing ball with Microsoft, but I honestly think their intentions were honorable, in an effort to make Active Directory interoperability easier for the average user. If Windows did nothing else for networking, they did make rolling out LDAP a no-brainer. Granted, it's a small proprietary subset of LDAP, but it works with very little fussing, and mostly configurable without even knowing what a command line is. Microsoft took the deal with Novell and used it to create anti-Linux FUD spin, but anyone who looks at it objectively will see through the lies. If Linux were indeed infringing on 235 (legitimate) patents, don't you think Microsoft would be aggressively defending their IP, so that the patents don't get invalidated? It's not as though Microsoft lacks the resources to do so.
Microsoft can't kill Linux, and they know it. Knock five distros down, 15 others will pop up to take their place, and chances are those forks work better than the distros Microsoft does manage to kill. Microsoft has made their own enemies, between forced upgrades, abusive pricing, anti-competitive tactics, and strong-arming the little guy.
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Compute the $200 billion extorted from taxpayers, add on top of that "taxes" the telecoms charged but were allowed to keep, on the condition that broadband be pulled out to each and every single address in the USA, and then come back and tell us it's not worth it.
They were mandated to do so under the agreement, and they got away for collecting those grants and giving citizens NOTHING in return for those fees. I would fully support the feds seizing the telecom infrastructure away from the current telecoms and auctioning it off to new players, leaving the current telecoms with NOTHING to support their continued existence.
No, they don't. A grocery store doesn't charge you for a full loaf of bread and then tell you sorry, you can have only two slices because they sold that same loaf to 9 other people.
The gas company doesn't charge you for 10,000 cubic feet of gas and then come back and tell you that you can use only 1,000 cubic feet because they oversold.
A law company doesn't work for 3 hours and charge you for 30.
That would be called "fraud" in any industry other than telecom.
As long as they claim to have the most secure operating system ever: No.
As long as they count one defect against Linux multiple times in comparisons: No.
As long as they treat paying customers like criminals: No.
As long as their software comes without a warranty and they use a lack of a Linux warranty as a reason to not use OSS: No.
As long as they do not count "maintenance windows" as part of downtime in their uptime/availability comparisons: No.
As long as their marketing literature is based on lies/FUD rather than facts: No.
As long as their 2007 "3D desktop"'s features barely matches that of what OS X could do in 2003: No. Want a proper 3D desktop? Check out XGL and Beryl on Linux, 3D Desktop on OS X.
I think we'll be making fun of Microsoft for years to come, as long as they keep up their FUD and they keep promoting minor cosmetic changes, DRM, and annoying features like [CANCEL] [CONTINUE] as innovations.
Not gonna happen - Novell themselves distributed Linux under the GPL.
Oh no no no. Archival quality music is obviously a much higher value, so once Universal is happy with online music sales, excpect online lossily-compressed music to be priced at current CD price levels, and actual CD prices to increase by 50%. If they don't do this, they are obviously not getting their fair share of the pie! Also just think: if they start distributing lossless archival-quality music, then EVERYONE will have access to content that is the same quality as the digital master tape, and if THAT happens, people will be trading mix CDs and no one will ever buy a CD again. OH NOES, IT'LL BE ANARCHY!!
Won't anyone please think of the poor starving artists?
I'm sitting here all pissed off because I just can't get that trojan to run. I've been fiddling with wine for hours and even tried it under crossover office, and damn it, I just can't get my machine infected. The next step is going to be installing Windows into a qemu image because I just don't want to miss out on full Windows compatibility! Grrrr.
Seriously though, I thought Windows was supposed to be more secure, and less prone to this stuff than Linux? I mean, that's what Microsoft's Get The Facts campaign was all about wasn't it? I know, one can claim that Linux just isn't much of a target because of market share, but the reality is that the security model is vastly superior.
Windows can be made secure, but so many programs are STILL coded such that administrative access is provided that backwards compatibility is Windows' Achilles' Heel. I was hoping Microsoft would use XP (and more recently, Vista) as a breaking point (like Apple did with OS X) but sadly they didn't in either case.
I hope these infections REALLY blow up and cripple the Internet for a few days, because it would make many people question the wisdom in continuing to pay for cosmetic updates to Windows.
Does it tell us that SGI created OpenGL, or does it tell us that OpenGL evolved from the primordial ooze that is Microsoft?
Sorry, I just couldn't resist. . .
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
http://mac.sofotex.com/Drivers/more2.html
http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/how
Don't have Fuse on your mac? Don't fret!
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
I think you mean Impress presentation, put together on and presented from Linux, to underscore the capability of Open Source, and in the final frame of the presentation, the slide should state that the presentation was authored on a 100% free office suite running on a 100% operating system, whereas the Windows solution would have cost over $600 for equivalent software.