sure, leaving Windows to go to a MUCH MORE closed platform like the MAC where you don't even have the right or posibility to install on no Apple hardware Yeah, right. At least, in Linuzzzz you can find a decent distro to work freely on... but A MAC? Are you freaking kidding me? I use a mac at home because I must test my ASP work on it, but I'd be damn if I choose OSX as my main platform (not because ideological reasons, which I completly laugh at) but because the system has always seemed imperfect to me.
OTOH there are many studies that prove that our first memories as a child are almost always associated to a certain arome/smell/odor/fragrance/stink, whatever....
I still own and actively use a Palm Pilot from 1996. No color screen, no wireless communication, no nothing. Works like a charm even today and I don't need more. Of course you CAN remove and change the battery yourself, which cannot be said of some other iGadgets.
New Dells: all come with preinstalled Google toolbar, Google desktop, and a customized Dell GOOGLE home page. tell my mom that she can change the home page... good luck.
New lenovos... idem
Try installing the new Winamp... tell my mom that she can select Advanced installation. What she did'nt know? Whell, Google toolbar, here we go..
You need acrobat reader? Idem... Damn google toolbar installed if you didn't choose Advanced... which almost no average joe does...
The result? Well, maybe 90% or more percent of the machines on this planets have Google software installed on it.... Want it or not...
I agree, but... I you telling me that Ubuntu's requirements these days are the same than Caldera's 1.0? This is the law everywhere. Or that MacOSX could be run on a Quadra? You develope something and you add more and more features... useful or not. And in the end every new version of ANY OS will need more and more horsepower. It's just that, for some reason MS gets critizised for this and the others are ignored in this place... And yes, you can run Vista without using AeroGlass the same way you can run Ubuntu without compiz. Now MacOS... oh wait...
So starting up a competitor is a guarantee of not beeing a monopoly? So you are telling me that MS is NOT a monopoly? Because there are a LOT of competitors... And hell, even YOU could start up a new OS. Thsnk you very much for agreeing wih me about the fake MS monopoly.
So you are telling me that you cannot get a Mac, or install Linuzzz or use OS/2 or get an Amiga? This IS the same issue, espacially today when more and more programs are bound with Google Toolbar, Firefox is configured out of the box to use it, and even Dells and Lenovo cones with a customized google homepage... What's the difference?
While OS2 was a good OS, it had a lot of issues. yes, it had good MSDOS compatibility, but it was not really an easy to use OS. The interface unintuitive as hell for non- technical users I ask you once again, what OS my grandma could posibly use back in 1995? Microsoft understood that productivity was key, regardless of technical superiority.
Dear freak, I'm happy to see your faith in a coorporation of this caliber. I was not talking about THIS case. It was only a refection about the unusual power that Google DOES actually have .
Whaever.. please tell me , back in 1995 which OS my grandma could use? Which alternative? Linuzzz with Midnight Commander? Or maybe an expensive "locked in to hardware" cooperative multitasking MacOS, or a no driver BeOS?... Say what you want about MS methods, but if they got the position they got it was because they happened to offer a relative (imperfect, yes) easy to use OS with good and wide hardware support (not locked in), and with an amazing support for 3rd party programs... So there where abuse issues? I'm the first one to tell: YES, there where, but even withiut those, history tell me that in this field, the fittest and stronger survive, no mather what.
So you are telling me that they are acused of being the THIRD must used engine? Jesus fucking christ... what will be next? Accused of being the #48 most used text editor with Notepad?
No matter what the causes of the ban are , it's frightening what the power of an (almost) full monopoly on internet seaching services can do. Google is today the number one searching enginw on the internet. It's SO used that "to google" has replaced the verb "to search"... so if Google bans something or have favoritisms for something, this, no matter waht, will have SERIOUS implications for the involved parts. Funny how the powers than be concentrate on the infamious "MS monopoly (whatever that is) and close their eyes on the more serious Google issue.
You and your company are using GMail, but this doesn't mean that you have the ultimate truth... Most companies are sane enough to have their own servers. In the place I work for we have a combination of Exchane in a Windows 2003 server, A Linuzzz box running vanilla pop and smtp and another Windows Box running FirstClass as collaborative software. (Why do we use so much things at the same time , it's a long story)... But I **REALLY*** think that your company is a minority here, using a 3rd party service for (maybe important) business mail....
Seriously, multilingual domain names are a pain (for the whole humanity). Visiting japan, last year, I saw a lot of servers using japanish simplified language on it. As a foreigner, I hadn't the minimal idea about what the site was (without clicking on ot). Clicking on it didn't help either. Yes, a lot of japanese have the same problem with english domain names, but adding multilanguage names adds more complexity to the whole thing. I would like to see the face of a chinese guy trying to decrypt some URL using ukranian characters... or... trying to write it on his japanese keyboard...
Offering a Linuz distro (even Ubuntu) as a server makes more sense than offerig it as a desktop, IMO. I purchased 2 Dell servers running Linuzzz (years ago, when they offered Redhat) and they were a great deal, still running together with our 2 Dells running Windows 2003 server. No problems at all.
If it tastes bad, there are always other beers. Unfortunatly, I can't brew my own beer. Nobody I know is good enough at it either. Ans I won't want to taste a beer brewwed by a thousand hands, thank you very much.
The only problem is that IIS7 and even II6 have so few critical vulnerabilities that Apache IS a nightmare in comparation. let's no talk about text file configuration....
What is the deal with every single large distro out there incorporating 3d acelerated desktops and shining bells and whistles as the main features in all new releases? Sadly, this says mush about the state of computing today (and not only Linuzzz, but desktop computing in general). We had a time when functionality was the fundamental thing, and shining features were secundary. The, in the end of the 90s, bells and whistles became more importand, and real features were cecondary. Gladly, in the begining of the 00s we semmed to have a resurrection of the sobriety: good features were added and pwoplw were cautious when adding flashing crap. Now, we have the return of the insanity, once again, and no desktop Linuzz or no-Linuz distro seem to miss some fatual features like a rotating cube, transparent borders or trembling controls...Oh well...
Actually, I don't think they "read" the mail. Yes, they have some program that "scans" your mails and indexes it in some way, and then , it shows you the ads if they find some key words. Technically, they are scanning your mail, but a program cannot "read" (ie. process and "understand" the writing). So is it a violation of privacy? May be... this is a border line case.
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sure, leaving Windows to go to a MUCH MORE closed platform like the MAC where you don't even have the right or posibility to install on no Apple hardware Yeah, right. At least, in Linuzzzz you can find a decent distro to work freely on... but A MAC? Are you freaking kidding me? I use a mac at home because I must test my ASP work on it, but I'd be damn if I choose OSX as my main platform (not because ideological reasons, which I completly laugh at) but because the system has always seemed imperfect to me.
OTOH there are many studies that prove that our first memories as a child are almost always associated to a certain arome/smell/odor/fragrance/stink, whatever....
I still own and actively use a Palm Pilot from 1996. No color screen, no wireless communication, no nothing. Works like a charm even today and I don't need more. Of course you CAN remove and change the battery yourself, which cannot be said of some other iGadgets.
Interesting? Ignorant, I would moderate this. Security patches for serious problems like this are always available EVEN for non Genuine windows.
The vulnerability doesn't affect IE in protected (sandboxed, default) mode on Vista, of course.
Oh, and please, show more Kari in that episode and my life will be good.
New Dells: all come with preinstalled Google toolbar, Google desktop, and a customized Dell GOOGLE home page. tell my mom that she can change the home page... good luck.
New lenovos... idem
Try installing the new Winamp... tell my mom that she can select Advanced installation. What she did'nt know? Whell, Google toolbar, here we go..
You need acrobat reader? Idem... Damn google toolbar installed if you didn't choose Advanced... which almost no average joe does...
The result? Well, maybe 90% or more percent of the machines on this planets have Google software installed on it.... Want it or not...
I agree, but... I you telling me that Ubuntu's requirements these days are the same than Caldera's 1.0? This is the law everywhere. Or that MacOSX could be run on a Quadra? You develope something and you add more and more features... useful or not. And in the end every new version of ANY OS will need more and more horsepower. It's just that, for some reason MS gets critizised for this and the others are ignored in this place... And yes, you can run Vista without using AeroGlass the same way you can run Ubuntu without compiz. Now MacOS... oh wait...
So starting up a competitor is a guarantee of not beeing a monopoly? So you are telling me that MS is NOT a monopoly? Because there are a LOT of competitors... And hell, even YOU could start up a new OS. Thsnk you very much for agreeing wih me about the fake MS monopoly.
So you are telling me that you cannot get a Mac, or install Linuzzz or use OS/2 or get an Amiga? This IS the same issue, espacially today when more and more programs are bound with Google Toolbar, Firefox is configured out of the box to use it, and even Dells and Lenovo cones with a customized google homepage... What's the difference?
While OS2 was a good OS, it had a lot of issues. yes, it had good MSDOS compatibility, but it was not really an easy to use OS. The interface unintuitive as hell for non- technical users I ask you once again, what OS my grandma could posibly use back in 1995? Microsoft understood that productivity was key, regardless of technical superiority.
Dear freak, I'm happy to see your faith in a coorporation of this caliber. I was not talking about THIS case. It was only a refection about the unusual power that Google DOES actually have .
Whaever.. please tell me , back in 1995 which OS my grandma could use? Which alternative? Linuzzz with Midnight Commander? Or maybe an expensive "locked in to hardware" cooperative multitasking MacOS, or a no driver BeOS?... Say what you want about MS methods, but if they got the position they got it was because they happened to offer a relative (imperfect, yes) easy to use OS with good and wide hardware support (not locked in), and with an amazing support for 3rd party programs... So there where abuse issues? I'm the first one to tell: YES, there where, but even withiut those, history tell me that in this field, the fittest and stronger survive, no mather what.
So you are telling me that they are acused of being the THIRD must used engine? Jesus fucking christ... what will be next? Accused of being the #48 most used text editor with Notepad?
No matter what the causes of the ban are , it's frightening what the power of an (almost) full monopoly on internet seaching services can do. Google is today the number one searching enginw on the internet. It's SO used that "to google" has replaced the verb "to search"... so if Google bans something or have favoritisms for something, this, no matter waht, will have SERIOUS implications for the involved parts. Funny how the powers than be concentrate on the infamious "MS monopoly (whatever that is) and close their eyes on the more serious Google issue.
Seriously, multilingual domain names are a pain (for the whole humanity). Visiting japan, last year, I saw a lot of servers using japanish simplified language on it. As a foreigner, I hadn't the minimal idea about what the site was (without clicking on ot). Clicking on it didn't help either. Yes, a lot of japanese have the same problem with english domain names, but adding multilanguage names adds more complexity to the whole thing. I would like to see the face of a chinese guy trying to decrypt some URL using ukranian characters... or... trying to write it on his japanese keyboard...
Offering a Linuz distro (even Ubuntu) as a server makes more sense than offerig it as a desktop, IMO. I purchased 2 Dell servers running Linuzzz (years ago, when they offered Redhat) and they were a great deal, still running together with our 2 Dells running Windows 2003 server. No problems at all.
True. And that's it's beauty. Do you want to edit it? Do it. There is also something called IIS Manager which is the GUI for that.
If it tastes bad, there are always other beers. Unfortunatly, I can't brew my own beer. Nobody I know is good enough at it either. Ans I won't want to taste a beer brewwed by a thousand hands, thank you very much.
The only problem is that IIS7 and even II6 have so few critical vulnerabilities that Apache IS a nightmare in comparation. let's no talk about text file configuration....
Free beer is one of the greatest things that exists on the planet, so thanks for that.
What is the deal with every single large distro out there incorporating 3d acelerated desktops and shining bells and whistles as the main features in all new releases? Sadly, this says mush about the state of computing today (and not only Linuzzz, but desktop computing in general). We had a time when functionality was the fundamental thing, and shining features were secundary. The, in the end of the 90s, bells and whistles became more importand, and real features were cecondary. Gladly, in the begining of the 00s we semmed to have a resurrection of the sobriety: good features were added and pwoplw were cautious when adding flashing crap. Now, we have the return of the insanity, once again, and no desktop Linuzz or no-Linuz distro seem to miss some fatual features like a rotating cube, transparent borders or trembling controls...Oh well...
Actually, I don't think they "read" the mail. Yes, they have some program that "scans" your mails and indexes it in some way, and then , it shows you the ads if they find some key words. Technically, they are scanning your mail, but a program cannot "read" (ie. process and "understand" the writing). So is it a violation of privacy? May be... this is a border line case.