Because it had SP2 slipstreamed in, a variety of other updates, product activation disabled, WinRar included, Acrobat reader included, Sun's Java included, Firefox, and Macromedia Flash included.
I was impressed. It was almost as functional as a Linux install. No Office suite, or any of the other stuff that comes with Linux, but still, much, much better than a standard Windows install, far less updating to do, and only took about an hour.
They should start bundling OOo.org, The Gimp, Thunderbird, and Inkscape on that image, then it'll solve most productivity tasks, and the only illegal component will be Windows itself. Wouldn't that piss Microsoft off! Better yet, why not go with ReactOS, then the entire image will be Windows-compatible, will look like windows, and be 100% legal, and still more secure than Microsoft Windows out of the box.
That's wonderful and all, but. . .
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Let me know when I can install SuSE, ubuntu, or Mandriva on it, then I'll buy a bunch of XBoxes and have a nice Linux server farm for lower cost than I can build a single dual core PC for.
I disagree. Now, if he were calling for an assassination of the ass in charge, it'd be a different matter because that would not be in accordance with the laws of the land. What he's calling for is the ass in charge to be accused of a crime, tried for those crimes, and be punished in accordance with the law, and if the crime is treason, the punishment could very well be a hanging or firing squad.
Unfortunately some rootkits I've seen actually disable or otherwise tie up the console port, and while Sun will charge you $500 to $900 for that $5.00 graphics chip, when you NEED to access the machine locally to help identify the rootkit (some crackers delete their work upon reboot to cover their tracks, knowing that on a headless box you were forced to hit reset), it's well worth it.
That is actually a conservative (not conservative, not "Republican") view. Real conservatives want gubbament to butt out of citizen's lives, and want tax-and-spend-on-lazy-folks'-entitlement to end yesterday.
Innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt ought to be universal - no matter your party affiliation (or lack thereof).
Patriot act supporters look at it differently. People who support the patriot act think it's A-OK to exchange essential liberties for a little temporary safety. I seem to recall that one of our more prominent founding fathers warned against this very line of thinking.
Not only that, if something DOES happen, with the majority of internet users using Google for search or even their default page in their browser, all they need to do is put up a blurb about the RIAA's anti-consumer actions and watch record sales plummet due to increasing consumer awareness.
See, Osama Bin Laden is a known quantity. You know his views, and he can't be bought off.
Kerry panders to people whom he wants to have contribute to his campaign funds, and his opion changes daily. He's against the actions in Iraq and always has been, yet he has always fully supported the actions in Iraq and voted to approve the use of force. He believes the available intelligence is credible and he viewed the same intelligence the President did, but he never believed the intelligence and saw different information than the President did. He's an environmentalist and thinks SUVs should be banned, yet his personal vehicle of choice is an SUV and his family owns six or seven. See, he is two-faced and speaks with a forked tongue. You have no way of knowing where he really stands on issues.
I'd rather have a known quantity (even an evil one) than a spineless cretin who is nothing more than a puppet to his financial supporters. With that said, I absolutely hate George W. Bush because he has been extremely irresponsible with the budget (he never should have signed the current budget into law) and while I agree that Hussein had to be removed from power and Iraq had to be liberated, I disagree with how he went about it.
Likewise, they don't decide that you really wanted to call Sally when you dialed Jane's number, and they don't run your call through any filters to change your conversation on you (some of the rumored proposals I've read included inserting their own content into web pages and things like that).
There is no real parallel in the metaphor that was posted.
Also, Mono should stop trying to mimic Microsoft's implementation. Screw them. Make a break and improve. I played around with it a bit and found it silly that on Linux it was compiling assemblies into files with the extensions ".exe" or ".dll".
Ah but Mono should offer (binary) compatibility with Microsoft.Net for some of the excellent.Net applications that are available, so that users can avoid Windows licensing but still get access to some of the great applications that exist for the platform.
I agree that there should be better implementations included in mono, but to not offer compatibility with precompiled.Net applications would be a mistake. Why shouldn't there be a compatibility mode for existing apps, as well as a more open mode which not only allows Microsoft.Net apps to run but also other langauges? This way, LAMP and mono can not only provide compatibility, but also choice of implementation for extensions to existing apps as well as deployment of new apps, hopefully boasting faster runtime than current implementations.
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That something does not render the same in other browsers as it does in MSIE does not mean the other browsers are broken; it's more likely that MSIE is broken, and as soon as MSIE 7.0 gains dominance in the Windows market, your site will break since MSIE 7.0 will render sites more closely to the way Konqueror does than to the current MSIE, especially if you are using higher-level DTDs. Microsoft knows their browser is broken and they have a lot of work to meet web standards, so if you're coding for MSIE quirks to get things to render correctly, you might find your site breaking in the near future. MSIE 7 will supposedly be detecting for the use of older quirks but if you are using a higher DTD all bets may be off.
I addressed that in the post you replied to. What I am saying is that my customer's provider would be violating my customer's SLA by degrading incoming packets destined for their T1.
The reason for that comes down purely to licensing costs. It's cheaper to develop closed-source programs for Gtk than it is for Qt (if you look purely at up-front costs and disregard code maintenance and development time) because Gtk is free, whereas if you want to develop a closed-source Qt/KDE app for distribution, you need to work out licensing with Trolltech - and their licensing costs are somewhere between high and unrealistic. I'd like to see more commercial apps for Linux based on Qt and built for KDE, but until Trolltech fixes their obscene pricing most closed-source Linux apps are going to continue to be built using Gtk.
In your case, the problem is Knoppix which is really more of a(n outdated) Linux demo CD. Try a real distribution like SuSE or Mandriva - not the liveCD/LiveDVD versions but the installable versions, with the optimized X server and full KDE installation. I think your view of KDE will change.
Knoppix is great in a pinch for fixing problems (be it Windows or Linux) but for real-world use? Er, no. First of all, it's a minimal installation on that LiveCD. Secondly, the kernel won't be optimized for your system. Thirdly, the X installation on that CD is the VESA X server, which is not known for performance but for compatibility with VESA video modes and any/all hardware which provides those standardized compatibility modes. Performance is far from optimal, and it's not intended to be a productivity distribution, just for a Linux environment to get you buy in a pinch, or when you're borrowing a computer and absolutely, positively need to run Linux for a small task. Yes, I know you can install Knoppix by copying the files to the hard drive, but in reality, would you really want to? No, if you like Knoppix, you'd likely end up installing kubuntu for your regular installation.
This means that common carriers will be essentially committing fraud.
If for example, I get a T1 from Verizon (I would never buy from them directly, we're going with an alternate provider, but hear me out) and AT&T has a dispute with Verizon. Were this thing to pass, data transfers between my T-1 and a customer's T1 (who happens to be an AT&T provider) would be downgraded. This means that my customer is not getting the full 1.54mbps bandwidth their SLA guarantees, and by effect neither would I. This is {potentially} interference with interstate commerce and is also discriminatory in deciding whose traffic goes where, not to mention breach of contract (violating the SLA).
Implementing this kind of policy should immediately result in the provider's losing common carrier status, as by advertising one thing and then providing a different service, they are carrying out a bait-and-switch on the customer - in short, fraud.
Generally this is reserved for the PEBCAK which is a repeat PEBCAK for the exact same issue time and again. Unfortunately such cases are unrecoverable errors.
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It does if you mount the network share. Create a mount point (say,/mnt/cd_source) and mount the share on that point, and add the files you need from that mount point.
There are almost always multiple ways to solve a problem.:)
The rendering engine sucks? Up to KDE 3.1 that was true, but it has come a long way from being a browser with a lousy rendering engine and piss-poor javascript support to being the best browser (along with Safari - konqueror got where it was thanks to Apple's contributing back to the KHTML project) out there. It and Safari pass the Acid2 test. Firefox doesn't. Opera doesn't. MSIE, of course, fails miserably. What other browser passes the Acid2 test?
I think your opinion is tarnished due to past versions of konqueror, which did indeed suck.
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They should start bundling OOo.org, The Gimp, Thunderbird, and Inkscape on that image, then it'll solve most productivity tasks, and the only illegal component will be Windows itself. Wouldn't that piss Microsoft off! Better yet, why not go with ReactOS, then the entire image will be Windows-compatible, will look like windows, and be 100% legal, and still more secure than Microsoft Windows out of the box.
Let me know when I can install SuSE, ubuntu, or Mandriva on it, then I'll buy a bunch of XBoxes and have a nice Linux server farm for lower cost than I can build a single dual core PC for.
Both Clinton and Bush are dirtbags, and both should have been accused of treason, but for different reasons.
Clinton: for selling nuclear tech to China
Bush: for encroaching inalienable rights outlined in the Constitution
I disagree. Now, if he were calling for an assassination of the ass in charge, it'd be a different matter because that would not be in accordance with the laws of the land. What he's calling for is the ass in charge to be accused of a crime, tried for those crimes, and be punished in accordance with the law, and if the crime is treason, the punishment could very well be a hanging or firing squad.
Mod parent up!
Unfortunately some rootkits I've seen actually disable or otherwise tie up the console port, and while Sun will charge you $500 to $900 for that $5.00 graphics chip, when you NEED to access the machine locally to help identify the rootkit (some crackers delete their work upon reboot to cover their tracks, knowing that on a headless box you were forced to hit reset), it's well worth it.
Ack! Correction: That is actually a conservative (not conservative, not "Republican") view.
Should be:
That is actually a conservative (that's conservative, not "Republican") view.
That is actually a conservative (not conservative, not "Republican") view. Real conservatives want gubbament to butt out of citizen's lives, and want tax-and-spend-on-lazy-folks'-entitlement to end yesterday.
Innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt ought to be universal - no matter your party affiliation (or lack thereof).
Patriot act supporters look at it differently. People who support the patriot act think it's A-OK to exchange essential liberties for a little temporary safety. I seem to recall that one of our more prominent founding fathers warned against this very line of thinking.
Not only that, if something DOES happen, with the majority of internet users using Google for search or even their default page in their browser, all they need to do is put up a blurb about the RIAA's anti-consumer actions and watch record sales plummet due to increasing consumer awareness.
See, Osama Bin Laden is a known quantity. You know his views, and he can't be bought off.
Kerry panders to people whom he wants to have contribute to his campaign funds, and his opion changes daily. He's against the actions in Iraq and always has been, yet he has always fully supported the actions in Iraq and voted to approve the use of force. He believes the available intelligence is credible and he viewed the same intelligence the President did, but he never believed the intelligence and saw different information than the President did. He's an environmentalist and thinks SUVs should be banned, yet his personal vehicle of choice is an SUV and his family owns six or seven. See, he is two-faced and speaks with a forked tongue. You have no way of knowing where he really stands on issues.
I'd rather have a known quantity (even an evil one) than a spineless cretin who is nothing more than a puppet to his financial supporters. With that said, I absolutely hate George W. Bush because he has been extremely irresponsible with the budget (he never should have signed the current budget into law) and while I agree that Hussein had to be removed from power and Iraq had to be liberated, I disagree with how he went about it.
likely because both realizes that Kerry would be an evil far worse than even Satan would dare bring on this land? ;)
(Sorry, I just can't stand John Kerry. I'd vote for Osama Bin Laden before I'd vote for Kerry)
. . . SLAs guarantee bandwidth to the backbone, not the router at a local switching station.
Likewise, they don't decide that you really wanted to call Sally when you dialed Jane's number, and they don't run your call through any filters to change your conversation on you (some of the rumored proposals I've read included inserting their own content into web pages and things like that).
There is no real parallel in the metaphor that was posted.
*chuckle* Mod parent up please, only I don't know whether it should be +5 funny or +5 informative (or +5 depressing). ;)
Also, Mono should stop trying to mimic Microsoft's implementation. Screw them. Make a break and improve. I played around with it a bit and found it silly that on Linux it was compiling assemblies into files with the extensions ".exe" or ".dll".
Ah but Mono should offer (binary) compatibility with Microsoft .Net for some of the excellent .Net applications that are available, so that users can avoid Windows licensing but still get access to some of the great applications that exist for the platform.
I agree that there should be better implementations included in mono, but to not offer compatibility with precompiled .Net applications would be a mistake. Why shouldn't there be a compatibility mode for existing apps, as well as a more open mode which not only allows Microsoft .Net apps to run but also other langauges? This way, LAMP and mono can not only provide compatibility, but also choice of implementation for extensions to existing apps as well as deployment of new apps, hopefully boasting faster runtime than current implementations.
That something does not render the same in other browsers as it does in MSIE does not mean the other browsers are broken; it's more likely that MSIE is broken, and as soon as MSIE 7.0 gains dominance in the Windows market, your site will break since MSIE 7.0 will render sites more closely to the way Konqueror does than to the current MSIE, especially if you are using higher-level DTDs. Microsoft knows their browser is broken and they have a lot of work to meet web standards, so if you're coding for MSIE quirks to get things to render correctly, you might find your site breaking in the near future. MSIE 7 will supposedly be detecting for the use of older quirks but if you are using a higher DTD all bets may be off.
I addressed that in the post you replied to. What I am saying is that my customer's provider would be violating my customer's SLA by degrading incoming packets destined for their T1.
The reason for that comes down purely to licensing costs. It's cheaper to develop closed-source programs for Gtk than it is for Qt (if you look purely at up-front costs and disregard code maintenance and development time) because Gtk is free, whereas if you want to develop a closed-source Qt/KDE app for distribution, you need to work out licensing with Trolltech - and their licensing costs are somewhere between high and unrealistic. I'd like to see more commercial apps for Linux based on Qt and built for KDE, but until Trolltech fixes their obscene pricing most closed-source Linux apps are going to continue to be built using Gtk.
In your case, the problem is Knoppix which is really more of a(n outdated) Linux demo CD. Try a real distribution like SuSE or Mandriva - not the liveCD/LiveDVD versions but the installable versions, with the optimized X server and full KDE installation. I think your view of KDE will change.
Knoppix is great in a pinch for fixing problems (be it Windows or Linux) but for real-world use? Er, no. First of all, it's a minimal installation on that LiveCD. Secondly, the kernel won't be optimized for your system. Thirdly, the X installation on that CD is the VESA X server, which is not known for performance but for compatibility with VESA video modes and any/all hardware which provides those standardized compatibility modes. Performance is far from optimal, and it's not intended to be a productivity distribution, just for a Linux environment to get you buy in a pinch, or when you're borrowing a computer and absolutely, positively need to run Linux for a small task. Yes, I know you can install Knoppix by copying the files to the hard drive, but in reality, would you really want to? No, if you like Knoppix, you'd likely end up installing kubuntu for your regular installation.
This means that common carriers will be essentially committing fraud.
If for example, I get a T1 from Verizon (I would never buy from them directly, we're going with an alternate provider, but hear me out) and AT&T has a dispute with Verizon. Were this thing to pass, data transfers between my T-1 and a customer's T1 (who happens to be an AT&T provider) would be downgraded. This means that my customer is not getting the full 1.54mbps bandwidth their SLA guarantees, and by effect neither would I. This is {potentially} interference with interstate commerce and is also discriminatory in deciding whose traffic goes where, not to mention breach of contract (violating the SLA).
Implementing this kind of policy should immediately result in the provider's losing common carrier status, as by advertising one thing and then providing a different service, they are carrying out a bait-and-switch on the customer - in short, fraud.
There is a variant to that:
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Error Between Chair And Keyboard
Generally this is reserved for the PEBCAK which is a repeat PEBCAK for the exact same issue time and again. Unfortunately such cases are unrecoverable errors.
It does if you mount the network share. Create a mount point (say, /mnt/cd_source) and mount the share on that point, and add the files you need from that mount point.
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There are almost always multiple ways to solve a problem.
The rendering engine sucks? Up to KDE 3.1 that was true, but it has come a long way from being a browser with a lousy rendering engine and piss-poor javascript support to being the best browser (along with Safari - konqueror got where it was thanks to Apple's contributing back to the KHTML project) out there. It and Safari pass the Acid2 test. Firefox doesn't. Opera doesn't. MSIE, of course, fails miserably. What other browser passes the Acid2 test?
I think your opinion is tarnished due to past versions of konqueror, which did indeed suck.
In which case, I'll stick to standard DVD, thanks, and if/when DVDs are discontinued, there will be downloads from P2P networks and .ru sites.