I think the only real problem you have with Linux is that you don't know how to use it. Once upon a time you didn't know how to use Windows, either, but you learned. Now, however, you're a big bad "power user" and your ego won't let you go back to being a noob and learning Linux. To bad - your loss.
Unfortunately this is the problem. When he was a "noob" he had no other (real) choice. He had to learn Windows. Now he has a choice stay with what is comfortable or go through the whole noob thing again. I would say your "regular user" would stick with the former than the latter.
It's like taking a new job. If you are already working why go to a new job where it may involve a pay cut/worse environment? If you aren't working then you are more likely willing to suck it up, grit your teeth and do it.
That is the problem. Joe User is going to need to be motivated to move from Windows to Linux. Linux can't be just as good, it needs to be better and have the smoothest transition for him so that there is no learning curve. He needs to be able to do all that he could before in a similar manner before he will volunteer to migrate.
Someone posted before that there was a path that needs to happen and I think he was spot on as you will need to see more business involvment with Linux on the desktop. If Joe User has to use it at work where he has no choice on what he can run, he will get exposed to it and be more willing to move to Linux at home. This is how personal computers really took off in general for the masses.
Kind of funny that an OS that is built around choice could end up becoming more competitive with Windows by not having a choice.
For the first 6 months of playing Doom I only played it at school. It was a completely new experience when my dad finally upgraded from an XT to a 486DX33 with SOUND!!!:o
To give Carmack credit if you recall he didn't want to do Doom III. There was a confrontation among other id employees saying they wanted it to happen and nothing else was going to occur until it did. Can't remember the exact story but somebody left shortly after Doom III was announced.
I think the problem is that Linux has always had a target to meet regarding usability. It only had to look at Windows and try to meet that expectation. Once it has (which is not that far away), any inovation could potentially move away from Windows which could be a good thing or a bad thing i.e something that may scare people from migrating as it is "different"
Rogers Digital has movie-on-demand and "claim" to have over 2000 titles. I say "claim" as not all of them are readily available and majority are in full screen which I hate.
I agree. I used to burn all my tools and utilities to CD way back when. Now if I need it, I just download it instead. It can be faster than looking for it.
Even with port forwarding it is still slower but then again it is cable connection but when I do one of those "test your bandwidth", usually it is somewhere between 4000-5000 bps (I have a 5M cable connection).
I noticed a huge leap with direct downloads but bittorrent never changed. I even changed the port settings thinking that maybe Rogers was blocking the ports but nothing changed.
I agree. Downloading the latest Service Pack or ATI drivers usually is around 500KB (as in bytes) through http. BitTorrent will take a while and usually maxes out around 150-200kb per second (I think it is bits whatever Bittornado uses)
Breaking encryption is trivial however so is removing "The Club" from a car if you happen to have a hacksaw to cut through the steering wheel. Usually encryption is a deterrent in itself as you could probably find another AP nearby which is open just like the club.
Encryption is handy for two points: 1. Keeps 90% of the people out (possibly more as prism and orinoco chipset based wireless nics become more and more rare) due to lack of knowledge on how to break WEP.
2. Keeps people honest. If the homeowner had encrypted his AP then it would be clear that the guy in the SUV would have had to intentionally try to break in and would not be able to use the excuse that he thought the AP was free to use.
Thing is that all of my three wifi network cards (Broadcom, Orinico Classic Gold, and SMC 2532 (I think as I can't remember the numbers) you need to check a box off in XP SP2 to use a nonencrypted network. Mind you, none of them use the Zero config wireless. However Linux will automatically register with the closest AP point it finds without setting up the specific connect order.
I think you are going to find that will be his defense. I don't think this case will make it very far in courts. Of course this depends on his lawyer and how tech-savvy the judge is.
It was a damned if you do damned if you don't scenario. If the body sunk, a couple days later as it started to rot and get gassy, it would float up therefore a witch.
Maybe by default but it can be locked down using policies. With Group Policies you can lock down specific sections of the filesystem as well as the registry (you can also use it to relax the same things as well). You can also discern who should be in the Local Administrator or Power User group and what services should be running
True. I believe the Canadian and American Govt are probably the biggest adopters of it. For me, I don't need that much of a leash especially if I was to pay for it. $80 a month just for email and phone on top of my high speed and cable connection nah too much. Cell is bad enough.
I believe it is called Windows Media Player. Although supposedly on the eastern side of the Atlantic, Microsoft has been ordered to remove it as it unfairly competes since they are an evil monopoly.
My big issue with consoles is that the resolution sucks unless you blow a huge amount of money on a new tv and the game comes in the higher resolutions. However with the oncoming move to HD and everyone being forced to go that way. I would expect that this will change.
There really is no point anymore anyways of renaming your ap . Kismet will pick up wireless networks with beacons turned off and determine what the name is. WEP is a joke for encryption and WPA can be broken using brute-force.
I know of a couple cases where a cell phone company has gone to court to prove that the suspect was in the vicinity of the crime around the time it happened.
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I think the only real problem you have with Linux is that you don't know how to use it. Once upon a time you didn't know how to use Windows, either, but you learned. Now, however, you're a big bad "power user" and your ego won't let you go back to being a noob and learning Linux. To bad - your loss.
Unfortunately this is the problem. When he was a "noob" he had no other (real) choice. He had to learn Windows. Now he has a choice stay with what is comfortable or go through the whole noob thing again. I would say your "regular user" would stick with the former than the latter.
It's like taking a new job. If you are already working why go to a new job where it may involve a pay cut/worse environment? If you aren't working then you are more likely willing to suck it up, grit your teeth and do it.
That is the problem. Joe User is going to need to be motivated to move from Windows to Linux. Linux can't be just as good, it needs to be better and have the smoothest transition for him so that there is no learning curve. He needs to be able to do all that he could before in a similar manner before he will volunteer to migrate.
Someone posted before that there was a path that needs to happen and I think he was spot on as you will need to see more business involvment with Linux on the desktop. If Joe User has to use it at work where he has no choice on what he can run, he will get exposed to it and be more willing to move to Linux at home. This is how personal computers really took off in general for the masses.
Kind of funny that an OS that is built around choice could end up becoming more competitive with Windows by not having a choice.
Sorry I meant neither of my boards had a floppy disk included in the box.
Well at least you got a floppy. When I bought both an MSI board and ASUS board neither one came with the floppy disk at all.
For the first 6 months of playing Doom I only played it at school. It was a completely new experience when my dad finally upgraded from an XT to a 486DX33 with SOUND!!! :o
I was in heaven (sniff)
To give Carmack credit if you recall he didn't want to do Doom III. There was a confrontation among other id employees saying they wanted it to happen and nothing else was going to occur until it did. Can't remember the exact story but somebody left shortly after Doom III was announced.
I think the problem is that Linux has always had a target to meet regarding usability. It only had to look at Windows and try to meet that expectation. Once it has (which is not that far away), any inovation could potentially move away from Windows which could be a good thing or a bad thing i.e something that may scare people from migrating as it is "different"
we're a bunch of puritans in comparison to the rest of the world.
It is funny to say that as the Puritans would get it on before getting married to ensure that they were a match.
Many parents bought this game KNOWING its violence, and let their kids use it, but if they knew of such adult content, then they would not have
Do you see what is wrong with the content of that statement? Sure you can show people getting offed in multiple ways but show one nipple....
Rogers Digital has movie-on-demand and "claim" to have over 2000 titles.
I say "claim" as not all of them are readily available and majority are in full screen which I hate.
I agree. I used to burn all my tools and utilities to CD way back when. Now if I need it, I just download it instead. It can be faster than looking for it.
Using that argument, if I click on a text file it should just download it not open the file and view it.
Even with port forwarding it is still slower but then again it is cable connection but when I do one of those "test your bandwidth", usually it is somewhere between 4000-5000 bps (I have a 5M cable connection).
I noticed a huge leap with direct downloads but bittorrent never changed. I even changed the port settings thinking that maybe Rogers was blocking the ports but nothing changed.
I agree. Downloading the latest Service Pack or ATI drivers usually is around 500KB (as in bytes) through http. BitTorrent will take a while and usually maxes out around 150-200kb per second (I think it is bits whatever Bittornado uses)
Breaking encryption is trivial however so is removing "The Club" from a car if you happen to have a hacksaw to cut through the steering wheel. Usually encryption is a deterrent in itself as you could probably find another AP nearby which is open just like the club.
Encryption is handy for two points:
1. Keeps 90% of the people out (possibly more as prism and orinoco chipset based wireless nics become more and more rare) due to lack of knowledge on how to break WEP.
2. Keeps people honest. If the homeowner had encrypted his AP then it would be clear that the guy in the SUV would have had to intentionally try to break in and would not be able to use the excuse that he thought the AP was free to use.
Thing is that all of my three wifi network cards (Broadcom, Orinico Classic Gold, and SMC 2532 (I think as I can't remember the numbers) you need to check a box off in XP SP2 to use a nonencrypted network. Mind you, none of them use the Zero config wireless. However Linux will automatically register with the closest AP point it finds without setting up the specific connect order.
I think you are going to find that will be his defense. I don't think this case will make it very far in courts. Of course this depends on his lawyer and how tech-savvy the judge is.
It was a damned if you do damned if you don't scenario. If the body sunk, a couple days later as it started to rot and get gassy, it would float up therefore a witch.
Maybe by default but it can be locked down using policies.
With Group Policies you can lock down specific sections of the filesystem as well as the registry (you can also use it to relax the same things as well). You can also discern who should be in the Local Administrator or Power User group and what services should be running
True. I believe the Canadian and American Govt are probably the biggest adopters of it. For me, I don't need that much of a leash especially if I was to pay for it. $80 a month just for email and phone on top of my high speed and cable connection nah too much. Cell is bad enough.
I believe it is called Windows Media Player. Although supposedly on the eastern side of the Atlantic, Microsoft has been ordered to remove it as it unfairly competes since they are an evil monopoly.
My big issue with consoles is that the resolution sucks unless you blow a huge amount of money on a new tv and the game comes in the higher resolutions. However with the oncoming move to HD and everyone being forced to go that way. I would expect that this will change.
Read the book around 86 and know what it means which is not to believe what the govt (not society) has told you.
Doesn't change the fact that society has changed the definition and that whining about it on here is not going to change it back.
According to Society:
criminal hacker == hacker therefore
criminal hacker == hacker
Amen brother.
You deserve a modding up (too bad I don't have any points).
The only way to truly secure your access point is to use a secondary form of encryption (VPN) on top of the Wireless encryption
There really is no point anymore anyways of renaming your ap . Kismet will pick up wireless networks with beacons turned off and determine what the name is. WEP is a joke for encryption and WPA can be broken using brute-force.
I know of a couple cases where a cell phone company has gone to court to prove that the suspect was in the vicinity of the crime around the time it happened.