of course, the thing i miss most since moving pretty much exclusively to linux is all the wonderful marketing crap telling me how wonderful the buggy software i was using was. it's a shame that with all of the linux distros i use i have to just see for myself how well it works.
That is a good point.. No matter how well designed the search engine is, i for one would not use it (putting aside my anti-ms bias) purely because you are asking questions through the services of a company who obviously has other interests... I realise i'm not explaining myself well, so an example: How must trust could you put in the answer to the question "What is the most secure operating system for my business?" when asking a company whose primary income is selling operating systems? (once again, i'm not meaning this from my anti-ms point of view, even if i thought that windows *was* the most secure (cough) operating system i wouldn't be asking them for an unbiased answer).
grammer nazis (and speiling;) nazis) will have a field day with this post, but i have a headache, so i don't care.:)
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I thought the title was "Green Greek Bear"... curse my blurry monitor!!!:)
you can also add your own custom keywords by adding bookmarks into the quick search folder (just check the properties of those there to see how, it's not hard)
i know i'm going to get flamed for being pedantic here, but your statement "Safari passes Acid2 if and only if WebKit passes Acid2" isn't true. If you look into your own link to "if and only if" (or "iff") you will see that you are also implying that WebKit (in any other project) will only pass Acid2 if Safari does (the easiest way to think of iff is as a 'two way' if statement, ie 'a iff b' means 'a is true only if b is true, and b is true only if a is true').
'updates' and 'new releases' are two different things... if we carry out the comparison more correctly we will see that ubuntu's 6 month release schedule beats the living shit out of microsoft's. If you are worried about a 6 week delay, then microsoft is probably *not* the company to compare it too...
as much as i love NX, i'm not sure how this is relavent. NX is for X11 only (think linux). Perhaps you are referring to nxproxy (or is it nxagent?) where you can tunnel a VNC or RDP session through a NX box? Unfortunately this only helps over slow links-- over a 100Mb/s ethernet connection you may as well use VNC/RDP directly.
fair enough, don't. not sure why you think that everyone on here needs to know that though. i'm sure not one person on here could care less about what i will or won't use either.
that's just the thing though- before it was actually people who really knew what their computer was doing and knew the benefits of having the source code, now it is 'almost every house' that has a computer. This time around the majority of users barely even know what 'source code' means let alone the advantages of having it, so people like RMS have to be more vocal these days. Good luck Richard!
does this mean that microsoft has no legal responsibility for all the computer vendors 'deciding' to sell windows machines exclusively? yeah, they made the decision, but they would have been disadvantaged if they didn't... It is the whole 'monopoly' word that is the problem.
funnily enough, not all that long ago i stumbled across a bunch trying to do just this on the diyaudio site (sorry but i can't find the thread anymore). Interestingly enough the show-stopper was actually in writing the drivers, not the hardware itself. I almost cried when i reached the end of the thread and found it dead..:( Anyone here wish to revive it??:)
oh, the hardware they were trying to design was an audio interface for professional audio.
not sure that would be much more useful for me scanning the boxes of the dvds i want to pirate for my l33t haxx0r friends:)
jokes aside i think the flatbed scanner will always have it's place.
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oops, sorry i read it as 'debian isn't often used for real hosting business' not 'debian isn't often used for those without a clue':) my bad and apologies to the parent i thought they were putting debian down. maybe i need sleep.:)
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Very rarely do I see a Debian server used in a shared hosting situation (That should also tell you something).
it tells me that the majority of the people running these things want paid support for their OS (fair enough), nothing more. I don't know what that has to do with 'Essential PHP Security'
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of course, the thing i miss most since moving pretty much exclusively to linux is all the wonderful marketing crap telling me how wonderful the buggy software i was using was. it's a shame that with all of the linux distros i use i have to just see for myself how well it works.
you haven't tried running win3.1 on that box then, have you? although, that's nothing compared to my dual core amd opteron running msdos 2.0 ;)
That is a good point.. No matter how well designed the search engine is, i for one would not use it (putting aside my anti-ms bias) purely because you are asking questions through the services of a company who obviously has other interests... I realise i'm not explaining myself well, so an example: How must trust could you put in the answer to the question "What is the most secure operating system for my business?" when asking a company whose primary income is selling operating systems? (once again, i'm not meaning this from my anti-ms point of view, even if i thought that windows *was* the most secure (cough) operating system i wouldn't be asking them for an unbiased answer).
;) nazis) will have a field day with this post, but i have a headache, so i don't care. :)
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I thought the title was "Green Greek Bear"... curse my blurry monitor!!! :)
:)
Now that i think of it, that would be cool...
My customers usually are like: "OMG!"
Probably not for the reason you are thinking though....
you can also add your own custom keywords by adding bookmarks into the quick search folder (just check the properties of those there to see how, it's not hard)
ahem.... maybe i should have had more sleep.... ;)
i know i'm going to get flamed for being pedantic here, but your statement "Safari passes Acid2 if and only if WebKit passes Acid2" isn't true. If you look into your own link to "if and only if" (or "iff") you will see that you are also implying that WebKit (in any other project) will only pass Acid2 if Safari does (the easiest way to think of iff is as a 'two way' if statement, ie 'a iff b' means 'a is true only if b is true, and b is true only if a is true').
'updates' and 'new releases' are two different things... if we carry out the comparison more correctly we will see that ubuntu's 6 month release schedule beats the living shit out of microsoft's. If you are worried about a 6 week delay, then microsoft is probably *not* the company to compare it too...
those wacky americanz :)
as much as i love NX, i'm not sure how this is relavent. NX is for X11 only (think linux). Perhaps you are referring to nxproxy (or is it nxagent?) where you can tunnel a VNC or RDP session through a NX box? Unfortunately this only helps over slow links-- over a 100Mb/s ethernet connection you may as well use VNC/RDP directly.
fair enough, don't. not sure why you think that everyone on here needs to know that though. i'm sure not one person on here could care less about what i will or won't use either.
that's just the thing though- before it was actually people who really knew what their computer was doing and knew the benefits of having the source code, now it is 'almost every house' that has a computer. This time around the majority of users barely even know what 'source code' means let alone the advantages of having it, so people like RMS have to be more vocal these days. Good luck Richard!
nobody's forcing you to install the new apps
...unless of course you want to be able to read a document someone else has kindly sent you in office 2003 format...
does this mean that microsoft has no legal responsibility for all the computer vendors 'deciding' to sell windows machines exclusively? yeah, they made the decision, but they would have been disadvantaged if they didn't... It is the whole 'monopoly' word that is the problem.
that sounds just wonderful. off you go. bye :)
funnily enough, not all that long ago i stumbled across a bunch trying to do just this on the diyaudio site (sorry but i can't find the thread anymore). Interestingly enough the show-stopper was actually in writing the drivers, not the hardware itself. I almost cried when i reached the end of the thread and found it dead.. :( Anyone here wish to revive it?? :)
oh, the hardware they were trying to design was an audio interface for professional audio.
er.... nah, not worth it.
...obviously written under the influence of at least two of them....
not sure that would be much more useful for me scanning the boxes of the dvds i want to pirate for my l33t haxx0r friends :)
jokes aside i think the flatbed scanner will always have it's place.
oops, sorry i read it as 'debian isn't often used for real hosting business' not 'debian isn't often used for those without a clue' :) my bad and apologies to the parent i thought they were putting debian down. maybe i need sleep. :)
Very rarely do I see a Debian server used in a shared hosting situation (That should also tell you something).
it tells me that the majority of the people running these things want paid support for their OS (fair enough), nothing more. I don't know what that has to do with 'Essential PHP Security'
not sure about the cpu time limiting etc, but couldn't you run each virtual server in it's own chroot jail?
i'll have it if you don't want it. ;)
actually, if you look here you will see that you are in fact STUPID EVIL and the cube has only FOUR sides! :)