Linux will move onto government desktops before it moves onto home desktops. In North America, everybody is addicted to MS, but that is OK, since MS is a local company. In Europe though, there is not much love lost for MS and there is a slow move to Linux systems in government. Once people use Linux at work every day, they will probably like to use it at home too.
BTW, I gave a Mandriva Linux Machine to a friend - a blond masseuse - yes, you heard that right. She is happy with it. She has no problems with using it for her business and home use and appreciates the fact that it never breaks. No virus or crapware problems - it just works.
The only downside is that she never calls me to come and fix her PC anymore...
Actually, we got that exact same 32 mileage in cars since about 1965. Yes, I'm getting old, I know...:)
The point is - the Otto (Petrol) motor is a mature technology and it won't improve anymore. In contrast, we have been getting 50MpG with Diesel cars since about 1975. Gawd knows why Diesel cars are not marketed in North America.
Why are diesel cars unavailable in the USA/Canada?
A hybrid is a very expensive way to get the same mileage as a diesel. They are hard to start in Winter compared to a petrol engine, but the Europeans make do somehow.
Note that ice melting do not necessarily cause land to be submerged. The weight of the ice on a continent depresses it. Take the ice off and while the sea level will rise, the continent will also rise, since the weight of the ice has been removed.
The earth is not solid. It is a giant globular steel melt, with some slag (the continents) floating on top.
Plate techtonics. Almost the whole coast of India is subsiding, but the Himalaya mountains are rising. The US gulf coast from New Orleans all the way to Florida is subsiding. The european coast of Turkey is subsiding, but the asian coast - just a few kilometers to the east across the water, is rising. The northern coast of Africa is subsiding, while the southern coast is rising. All these things have nothing to do with atmospherics.
is to deliberately throw yourself at the ground and miss. The important part is to miss and he seems to be doing it the right way - stay far away from the ground while flying and land by chute.
Standardizing the DOD mail program is not the issue. Their problem is with *incoming* email. They have no control over what mail client Hotlipz in Tombstone Arizona is using to send a cutesy Christmas card executable to her boyfriend in Iraq...
Gullible people - The amount of money skimmed by churches, especially this time of year, probably make any spam-scam operation pale into insignificance.
Hmm, well, the fact is that Internet Explorer is free too. MS paid the original creators of IE about M$50 (out of court settlement actually, as usual for MS' way of doing business) for it and gave it away to put Netscape out of business.
Why so negative? MS pumping money into a Linux distribution can only be good. Note that MS has a death grip on all North American government IT shops. The only way that Linux is going to get a meaningful share of the pie, is if MS can provide support.
Linux adoption on desktops seems to be an 'everywhere except North America' phenomenon. However, this is typical. North America traditionally lags the technology curve by a couple of decades. However, Linux is slowly crawling into government and military installations. Eventually, American industry will also start to take it up, but only after going almost bankrupt. If you want to look at leaders though, you got to go to Germany, France, Portugal, Brazil and South Africa.
Magnetrons were invented before the 2nd world war and perfected during the war by the Brits for use in Radar. No space program back then - not on this planet anyway.
Send out PDFs, not virus prone.docs. Anyhoo, the way a.doc renders, depends on the installed printer. Yes, that is correct, the printer. You don't control the client's printer, so if the exact rendering is important, you should not send out.doc files.
You won't believe how many geeks(!) I had to help to burn an ISO file on their Windoze PC. Most Windoze CD burning programs make that simple process very difficult/impossible.
Linux servers can also get infected with bots - 'redone' for example. I have cleaned a few. Access is usually obtained via a combination of SSH, Apache and idiotic short passwords.
BTW, Google alone probably run more Linux servers than there are MS servers in the whole world.
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Linux will move onto government desktops before it moves onto home desktops. In North America, everybody is addicted to MS, but that is OK, since MS is a local company. In Europe though, there is not much love lost for MS and there is a slow move to Linux systems in government. Once people use Linux at work every day, they will probably like to use it at home too.
BTW, I gave a Mandriva Linux Machine to a friend - a blond masseuse - yes, you heard that right. She is happy with it. She has no problems with using it for her business and home use and appreciates the fact that it never breaks. No virus or crapware problems - it just works.
The only downside is that she never calls me to come and fix her PC anymore...
Actually, we got that exact same 32 mileage in cars since about 1965. Yes, I'm getting old, I know... :)
The point is - the Otto (Petrol) motor is a mature technology and it won't improve anymore. In contrast, we have been getting 50MpG with Diesel cars since about 1975. Gawd knows why Diesel cars are not marketed in North America.
Why are diesel cars unavailable in the USA/Canada?
A hybrid is a very expensive way to get the same mileage as a diesel. They are hard to start in Winter compared to a petrol engine, but the Europeans make do somehow.
I can hear the lead balloon falling. Fifteen grand? What are they smoking?
Note that ice melting do not necessarily cause land to be submerged. The weight of the ice on a continent depresses it. Take the ice off and while the sea level will rise, the continent will also rise, since the weight of the ice has been removed.
The earth is not solid. It is a giant globular steel melt, with some slag (the continents) floating on top.
Plate techtonics. Almost the whole coast of India is subsiding, but the Himalaya mountains are rising. The US gulf coast from New Orleans all the way to Florida is subsiding. The european coast of Turkey is subsiding, but the asian coast - just a few kilometers to the east across the water, is rising. The northern coast of Africa is subsiding, while the southern coast is rising. All these things have nothing to do with atmospherics.
that is the land subsiding. To the people concerned it makes no difference, but confusing plate techtonics with global warming is simply alarmist.
is to deliberately throw yourself at the ground and miss. The important part is to miss and he seems to be doing it the right way - stay far away from the ground while flying and land by chute.
*Two* cookies huh? So, where is mine???
Standardizing the DOD mail program is not the issue. Their problem is with *incoming* email. They have no control over what mail client Hotlipz in Tombstone Arizona is using to send a cutesy Christmas card executable to her boyfriend in Iraq...
Bucket filters - bandwidth limiting, will go a long way.
Gullible people - The amount of money skimmed by churches, especially this time of year, probably make any spam-scam operation pale into insignificance.
You would be safest in a deep cave, but when all else fails, your Mom's basement will do too... ;)
Hmm, well, the fact is that Internet Explorer is free too. MS paid the original creators of IE about M$50 (out of court settlement actually, as usual for MS' way of doing business) for it and gave it away to put Netscape out of business.
Why so negative? MS pumping money into a Linux distribution can only be good. Note that MS has a death grip on all North American government IT shops. The only way that Linux is going to get a meaningful share of the pie, is if MS can provide support.
Linux adoption on desktops seems to be an 'everywhere except North America' phenomenon. However, this is typical. North America traditionally lags the technology curve by a couple of decades. However, Linux is slowly crawling into government and military installations. Eventually, American industry will also start to take it up, but only after going almost bankrupt. If you want to look at leaders though, you got to go to Germany, France, Portugal, Brazil and South Africa.
Magnetrons were invented before the 2nd world war and perfected during the war by the Brits for use in Radar. No space program back then - not on this planet anyway.
So how long till the first hack that turns IE green?
Doh!
Send out PDFs, not virus prone .docs. Anyhoo, the way a .doc renders, depends on the installed printer. Yes, that is correct, the printer. You don't control the client's printer, so if the exact rendering is important, you should not send out .doc files.
Try Knoppix or any of it's derivatives.
I have been running Linux since 1996. I open any email attachments and click any links with wild abandon. Ten years and no problems due to that...
You won't believe how many geeks(!) I had to help to burn an ISO file on their Windoze PC. Most Windoze CD burning programs make that simple process very difficult/impossible.
Ye gads, that is so far from the mid-Atlantic, it isn't even funny.
Linux servers can also get infected with bots - 'redone' for example. I have cleaned a few. Access is usually obtained via a combination of SSH, Apache and idiotic short passwords. BTW, Google alone probably run more Linux servers than there are MS servers in the whole world.
Windows XP Professional Common Criteria Configuration Guide:3 a3e-39d5-4d30-86f2-146aa2c7be45/wxp_common_criteri a_configuration_guide.zip
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/3/b/53b5
If you have the patience to follow that guide, then your WinXP will be locked down and secure.