I'm swimming against the stream here but I think if you can't install your own Linux on a notebook or a 'naked pc' box you probably shouldn't be using it. Frankly I pity the stores that end up being expected to support them - maybe they'll just require costumers who hose their system to backup any personal files and they'll just reimage it back as it was sold.
That's right, there is no absolutely, guarenteed, bullet-proof 'safe networking' - but there is SAFER and RISKIER, and I feel much more comfortable with the level of risk in this box than exists with any M$ft product. Are there vulnerabilities on this box? Most certainly. Have there been any incidents? No, zero, none, nada. Am I going to chew my fingernails off and live in a perpetual state of paranoid anxiety worrying about potential exploitz? Nope.
Currently getting FC4 to install, but, actually I mainly practice safe networking with a Linksys router/firewall at work and an OpenBSD gateway at home. The point is I like to use a computer for computing and getting work done. When I was a Windows admin several years ago it was a daily/weekly event for employees to come running in worried about the latest vuln. attack they heard on the news - I can completely do without all that static and distraction, it just seems to come with the "Windows culture", which came from their long standing practice of releasing not ready for prime-time software and then patching it later in the field, because it's legal to do so and they could get away with it.
I put Fedora Core release 3 on this notebook and have just 'used it' ever since. No monthy security updates, no worry about the worm de jour - I just use it to write and work with software that actually does something useful. It really fricking amazes me how much cpu time Windows users spend just patching holes in that leaky boat. Every time I turn on the Kim Commando show it's 75% virus, worms, attacks, malware, spyware, evil email, spoofing, phishing, on and on and on. I guess it just keeps the masses entertained with their gloat of computing power that they have no idea what to do with except follow the latest fashions in screensavers and toys, the drama of attack & defense, danger and rescue adds excietment to an otherwise boring appliance. Maybe as an engineer who uses computers to actually accomplish something I just have a different point of view.
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I just did a search for "world record typing speed" (just to check on reasonable figures) and found this, which also mentions her fastest speeds were on a dvorak.
Longhorn will contain innovative new features that enable vertical organizations to synergize forward looking customer relationships and exploit next-generation functionalities.
Denizens of San Jose area can check out a real example of bad programming at the Winchester Mystery House - example: "These stairs that lead to the ceiling are just one of the many bizarre features that Mrs. Winchester designed and had built."
It occurs to me that maybe a lot of folks have a bad case of identity crisis - it's difficult to project a strong decisive personality if you don't know who the #&$* you are.
Don't you think they might include features like those in future generations of the thing? Your comparison sounds like someone in 1974 comparing an IBM 360 with the new Intel 8080, pointing out all the missing features, implying it'll never catch on.
What innovation? This is like a retro-70's project. Intel, from a business perspective, would laugh at wire-wrapping 200 ttl chips. Then they'll demo an embedded web-server on the latest chip for 14 cents a unit.
In the beginning of the PC, time was ahead of space. CPU's ran 1,2 or 4.77Mhz whereas space was only 180K, maybe 360 or 720K. However, space quickly pulled ahead with 5, 10 and 20Mb disks, leaving cpu's in the 4,8,12 and 16Mhz range. The trend continued, and when cpu's finally caught up to 25, 50Mhz, disks were way ahead at 120, 200Mb. In the late 90's, it continued, with time struggling with 100, 333, 500 and tackling the 1Ghz milestone, space had widened it's lead, blasting thru the 2Gb barrier and easily conquoring 4, 8, 20, then 40 and 60Gb. So here we have an extension of the trend, with time lagging along at 3, maybe 4Ghz, space has left time hopelessly behind in the dust, approaching 1000Gb per disk. Sorry time, space is clear and away the winner in this race.
A lot of Windows/DOS enthusiasts just don't know any better - an intel box with what came on it was their only chance to get a a computer, at least back in the 80's.
Get used to it kid - that's how the govt operates when up against the wall (constituents clamoring for them to do something). Example: glass in certain shapes is illegal, in the name of the war on drugs. Yes, sometimes they do throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I imagine you probably have heard the actual truth of the matter,
Actually, no! I just assumed that the extra arm in the 'x' had more info to create the more complicated childbirthing apperatus - but that's what happens when engineers make guesses about biology;)
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I'm swimming against the stream here but I think if you can't install your own Linux on a notebook or a 'naked pc' box you probably shouldn't be using it. Frankly I pity the stores that end up being expected to support them - maybe they'll just require costumers who hose their system to backup any personal files and they'll just reimage it back as it was sold.
That's right, there is no absolutely, guarenteed, bullet-proof 'safe networking' - but there is SAFER and RISKIER, and I feel much more comfortable with the level of risk in this box than exists with any M$ft product. Are there vulnerabilities on this box? Most certainly. Have there been any incidents? No, zero, none, nada. Am I going to chew my fingernails off and live in a perpetual state of paranoid anxiety worrying about potential exploitz? Nope.
Currently getting FC4 to install, but, actually I mainly practice safe networking with a Linksys router/firewall at work and an OpenBSD gateway at home. The point is I like to use a computer for computing and getting work done. When I was a Windows admin several years ago it was a daily/weekly event for employees to come running in worried about the latest vuln. attack they heard on the news - I can completely do without all that static and distraction, it just seems to come with the "Windows culture", which came from their long standing practice of releasing not ready for prime-time software and then patching it later in the field, because it's legal to do so and they could get away with it.
I put Fedora Core release 3 on this notebook and have just 'used it' ever since. No monthy security updates, no worry about the worm de jour - I just use it to write and work with software that actually does something useful. It really fricking amazes me how much cpu time Windows users spend just patching holes in that leaky boat. Every time I turn on the Kim Commando show it's 75% virus, worms, attacks, malware, spyware, evil email, spoofing, phishing, on and on and on. I guess it just keeps the masses entertained with their gloat of computing power that they have no idea what to do with except follow the latest fashions in screensavers and toys, the drama of attack & defense, danger and rescue adds excietment to an otherwise boring appliance. Maybe as an engineer who uses computers to actually accomplish something I just have a different point of view.
I just did a search for "world record typing speed" (just to check on reasonable figures) and found this, which also mentions her fastest speeds were on a dvorak.
how about here
Longhorn will contain innovative new features that enable vertical organizations to synergize forward looking customer relationships and exploit next-generation functionalities.
Denizens of San Jose area can check out a real example of bad programming at the Winchester Mystery House - example: "These stairs that lead to the ceiling are just one of the many bizarre features that Mrs. Winchester designed and had built."
Back to building my own bizarre house...uh, gui.
We'll be celebrating the foisting of Windows 95 on the world sometime soon.
now every other hacker in the world moves up one notch.
It occurs to me that maybe a lot of folks have a bad case of identity crisis - it's difficult to project a strong decisive personality if you don't know who the #&$* you are.
Don't you think they might include features like those in future generations of the thing? Your comparison sounds like someone in 1974 comparing an IBM 360 with the new Intel 8080, pointing out all the missing features, implying it'll never catch on.
In 2007, Apple announces they will be phasing out OS X and installing Windows XP (or Longhorn) on all future shipments.
What innovation? This is like a retro-70's project. Intel, from a business perspective, would laugh at wire-wrapping 200 ttl chips. Then they'll demo an embedded web-server on the latest chip for 14 cents a unit.
Scully didn't use the Force (get it? Apple? Newton? Force? Bwahahah)
The "power" of Steve Jobs to convince those around him of any truth he wishes them to see.
So Jobs is a Jedi?
<waves hand>You will pay too much for this music player</waves hand>
I will pay too much for that music player.
designer genes.
Using MSN, it could happen.
The problem isn't windows per se, it's the developers. There's all this bad inertia with the developers
So the problem is DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
In the beginning of the PC, time was ahead of space. CPU's ran 1,2 or 4.77Mhz whereas space was only 180K, maybe 360 or 720K. However, space quickly pulled ahead with 5, 10 and 20Mb disks, leaving cpu's in the 4,8,12 and 16Mhz range. The trend continued, and when cpu's finally caught up to 25, 50Mhz, disks were way ahead at 120, 200Mb. In the late 90's, it continued, with time struggling with 100, 333, 500 and tackling the 1Ghz milestone, space had widened it's lead, blasting thru the 2Gb barrier and easily conquoring 4, 8, 20, then 40 and 60Gb. So here we have an extension of the trend, with time lagging along at 3, maybe 4Ghz, space has left time hopelessly behind in the dust, approaching 1000Gb per disk. Sorry time, space is clear and away the winner in this race.
A lot of Windows/DOS enthusiasts just don't know any better - an intel box with what came on it was their only chance to get a a computer, at least back in the 80's.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
...and somehow BitTorrent is to blame?
Get used to it kid - that's how the govt operates when up against the wall (constituents clamoring for them to do something). Example: glass in certain shapes is illegal, in the name of the war on drugs. Yes, sometimes they do throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I imagine you probably have heard the actual truth of the matter,
;)
Actually, no! I just assumed that the extra arm in the 'x' had more info to create the more complicated childbirthing apperatus - but that's what happens when engineers make guesses about biology
its been shown that Y sperm die easier when conditions are harsh (acidity, not right temperature etc.)
You mean, like, from notebook computers?
BTW, a 'y' chromo results in a male because, well, it takes less information to make a man.