Ferinstance: Somone sends a Windows DRMed video over my Linux AP and I don't have a CODEC for it so I cannot view it since it is just a jumble of bits. Is that stream of bits a picture?
No, MS developers are just plain incompetent. Malevolence gives them far too much credit. To be malevolent, they would actually have to understand, plan and execute - while they cannot actually do any of those, as proven yet again by the Vista death march project.
Do not underestimate fools. Better ones are born all the time and Microsoft is hiring.
Anyone who can count their assets is not the richest. The Earl of Northumberland (who owns the City of London amongst other things) is probably the richest man in the world.
I don't use either KDE or Gnome (if I can help it), since they are both so damn slow. My systems mostly run IceWM with Rox Panel and Konqueror as the file browser and of course Firefox as the web browser.
KDE can do whatever they like to their system, but if they don't improve the window manager, then it is all still a waste of time.
Why don't they just use Kanji, seeing that all Japanese children already know it? Pictographs generally has one symbol per word so there must be a symbol for everything already.
It is a common internet myth that cable users all share the same bandwidth. Just like fibre optic cables, the available bandwidth of co-axial cable is also almost infinite thanks to the use of Frequency Division Multiplexing - the equivalent of different coloured lasers in fibre. Eventually someone will develop new multiplexers and co-ax bandwidth will increase again.
There is a delete utility built into all drives that actually does work. Most people don't know this and still waste money on erase utilities that don't actually work...
Canadian forecasters said that due to El Nino, the earth is cooling down by 1 degree on average and that we can expect a very cold winter - worst in 15 years - brrr...
I guess that while you probably know Outlook, you don't really know Exchange. MS Exchange is fine for up to about 50 users, beyond that, it runs into terrible scaling problems. An Exchange server database slows down once it reaches 30GB and becomes impossible once it reaches 100GB. So, to serve email to a large organization, you need a rack full of servers.
Compared to Citadel, which can handle tens of thousands of users with terabytes of email on a single server, Exchange is horribly inefficient. You can replace a rack full of Exchange servers with two Citadel servers - one being a hot standby for the other and then you can retrench most of your IT staff too, since Citadel is zero maintenance.
Running MS Exchange doesn't make economic sense compared to free alternatives. A medium sized company can easily save half a million dollars a year by dumping Exchange.
For that price, the Asus Eee PC is a better deal. I got one - neat little thing and it can actually be used for real work, since with SSH, I can do anything with it.
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It is private industry that is building all the stuff anyway. It is just some of the project management that is done at NASA.
Well, obviously the solution is to ban all 'common office implements' since they constitute 'anti-circumvention devices'... sigh...
Ferinstance: Somone sends a Windows DRMed video over my Linux AP and I don't have a CODEC for it so I cannot view it since it is just a jumble of bits. Is that stream of bits a picture?
No, MS developers are just plain incompetent. Malevolence gives them far too much credit. To be malevolent, they would actually have to understand, plan and execute - while they cannot actually do any of those, as proven yet again by the Vista death march project.
Do not underestimate fools. Better ones are born all the time and Microsoft is hiring.
The Gimp interface is fine. I use it regularly and I never use Photoshop. Yes I had to RTFM a couple of times. How hard is that?
To each his own.
I think the current is mostly marketing spin.
I am 125% sure he went to a Canadian public school.
It is a honeypot system, where the Dumb Blond Jane is the honey with the pot...
Nothing new here - everybody with a mail server feed a few old useless addresses straight into sa-learn.
Getting a 99% accuracy is still almost useless. To be useful you need four nines at least.
Anyone who can count their assets is not the richest. The Earl of Northumberland (who owns the City of London amongst other things) is probably the richest man in the world.
I don't use either KDE or Gnome (if I can help it), since they are both so damn slow. My systems mostly run IceWM with Rox Panel and Konqueror as the file browser and of course Firefox as the web browser.
KDE can do whatever they like to their system, but if they don't improve the window manager, then it is all still a waste of time.
Why don't they just use Kanji, seeing that all Japanese children already know it? Pictographs generally has one symbol per word so there must be a symbol for everything already.
It is a common internet myth that cable users all share the same bandwidth. Just like fibre optic cables, the available bandwidth of co-axial cable is also almost infinite thanks to the use of Frequency Division Multiplexing - the equivalent of different coloured lasers in fibre. Eventually someone will develop new multiplexers and co-ax bandwidth will increase again.
Once all information is publicly available, we won't need spy agencies anymore...
This does work: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
There is a delete utility built into all drives that actually does work. Most people don't know this and still waste money on erase utilities that don't actually work...
See this: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
No, it will cause the start of an ice age.
"I'm so hot and she's so cold... cold as a tombstone."
I wonder how many times Mick forgot Jerry's birthday.
Canadian forecasters said that due to El Nino, the earth is cooling down by 1 degree on average and that we can expect a very cold winter - worst in 15 years - brrr...
I guess Vista is like a bad condom - you can't return it if it is the wrong size and due to all the little holes you can still catch a virus...
An estimate of losses at $20 per machine sounds about right to me.
I guess that while you probably know Outlook, you don't really know Exchange. MS Exchange is fine for up to about 50 users, beyond that, it runs into terrible scaling problems. An Exchange server database slows down once it reaches 30GB and becomes impossible once it reaches 100GB. So, to serve email to a large organization, you need a rack full of servers. Compared to Citadel, which can handle tens of thousands of users with terabytes of email on a single server, Exchange is horribly inefficient. You can replace a rack full of Exchange servers with two Citadel servers - one being a hot standby for the other and then you can retrench most of your IT staff too, since Citadel is zero maintenance. Running MS Exchange doesn't make economic sense compared to free alternatives. A medium sized company can easily save half a million dollars a year by dumping Exchange.
Citadel is the best kept secret on the internet. Installs in no time and does everything: http://www.citadel.org/
So what is the relevance of the speed of sound in a near perfect vacuum? Not to mention the idea of a shock wave in nothing.
For that price, the Asus Eee PC is a better deal. I got one - neat little thing and it can actually be used for real work, since with SSH, I can do anything with it.
I guess the courier thought the CDs contain music and when they would not play he trashed them, so the lost data is likely quite safe.