I live in upstate New York so I can still see it. Of course I can't get cable television where I live, and my closest neighbor is 1/4 of a mile away. Seeing the stars and breathing fresh air is why I live where I do. You know get back to the land and set my soul free, and all that. Oh, and raising my own food and stock-piling weapons for the coming Zombie Apocalypse . . . but I digress.
"Blocking such groups has become more insidious as Internet filtering technology has grown more sophisticated. As with George Orwell's "Newspeak," the language in "1984" that got smaller each year, governments can block particular words or phrases without users realizing their Internet searches are being censored."
"Using a 1,500-word vocabulary and short, simple phrases" Oh and don't forget to add some good old fashioned censorship. "A 1948 law prohibits Voice of America from broadcasting in the United States"
But some listeners, like Ali Asqar Khandan, 36, an assistant professor from Tehran, said Special English seemed like "a special program for advertising American life and culture, not a simple radio station for broadcasting news or teaching English."
No need to broadcast it here anyway.
We'll let you know what should and should not be censored thank you very much.
From TFA "the company's head of enterprise marketing, has been the point person for the effort, which includes a helpful calculator, in glossy cardstock, that lets you spin several wheels to see projected savings"
Cisco's marketing department uses flash animation.
So who's going to up the ante and start mailing out kool-aid and 3D glasses?
I'm not buying anything until I've tried their kool-aid.
I'm aware of at least one ASP.net application that one of my clients uses that will be broken by IE8. Or at least that's what we were told by the developers.
I'm sure we'll run into more issues as people begin installing IE8, or it gets installed for them.
Let the games begin!!
I Installed Red Hat 5.1 with "Red Neck" as the installation language, on my Pentium 33 MHz and connected to my ISP with my 28.8 modem from the command line. I learned about IRQ's and monitor refresh rates. No plug and pray at that time. Ah the good old days. Of course I was still using emacs, but you have to start somewhere.:)
If you had to stay up for 6 days straight working on a project what would you do?
You know that it was just edited out:
"On the second day at about 6 in the morning, God created speed. And God saw that it was the good pharmacutical grade. And he shouted unto the shouted unto the waters, 'Woo Hoo!!!' "
I'm reall shocked with how much of this crap I see posted on/.
If you are in a "business" environment, then you have an admin to hold your hand and set your sytem up.
Most end lusers don't have a clue about how their windoze system works any more than they would with a Linux system.
If you are in the home environment, (even using windoze) you have to be the admin, otherwise stick to game consoles and web-TV (does it still exist?)
Windoze could not even run my freakin ethernet card on my new dell laptop when I wiped the hard drive to reinstall.
I know that Suse is in the dog house, but they shipped binary drivers in 10.1 and it was the smoothest install I've ever done on a laptop.
It's not a bad intermediate step toward greater acceptance, so that we can get more numbers behind us.
Oh, and if you're a newbie home user who has not worked with the command line much yet, and you want a codec for Linux, all you have to know how to do is Google, click on a link, click on another link, and when the download dialog asks if you want to install it with "Package Manager" click yes.
Oh, I guess you would have to know the root password on your own machine instead of running as admin all the time with no password, my bad.
I RTFA and realize it was about enterprise Linux, and that makes all of the posts about playing DVD's and mp3's even more ridiculous.
OBTW, I love logging into a client's server, finding that their windoze server has eaten up all of it's dhcp addresses and the "admin" has a 10 gig "my music" folder.
I've found that if there is something that you want to do, somebody has built software that will do it under Linux, and most of it is free as in beer. Every distro ships with more libraries and development tools than you can shake a memory stick at.
As for a distribution, I personally have used Red Hat based distros since 5.1. If you want the bleeding edge, you can try Fedora Core, but plan on upgrading frequently. If you want a solid system that you can continue to update for a long period of time, try CentOS. It is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Yum is a handy package management and updating tool for both of those, that allows you to add extra software repositories to get packages that were not included with the core distribution.
I tried Debian and Mandrake early on, but liked Red Hat better. Recently, I've tried, Mandriva, Ubuntu, and Suse and have not particularly cared for them. Suse was particularly irritating. YaST just bugs me, and the system update utility was broken when they released it, it's like they're trying to out windoze windows. However, with all of the proprietary software included, it did run my new laptop hardware right out of the box, so they've got that going for them. It's a love and hate relationship at this point, which sort of feels too much like windows.
I recommend choosing one distro to handle your daily work and then leaving an extra partition of two to install some others to test drive them.
For extra software that you don't want to be with out, make sure you find amoroK for listening to music, Xine (with libdvdcss) for playing DVD's, and K3B for burning CD's and DVD's.
As for hardware, in my desktops I've had good luck with Gigabyte mother boards based on nvidia chipsets. I would choose nvidia gpu's as well, they have updated drivers and a nice x-config utility available on their website. I personally buy AMD 64 bit chips, since 64 bit is the next step in architecture, and 64 bit Linux is solid.
As a final note, if you ever get in to network administration or troubleshooting, you will never want to be without Linux.
I'll save my own rant against the monopolies for some other time.
I work at a small ISP. We recently had our smtp servers blocked by Road Runner because of the draconian practice of black-listing.
To their credit the techs there were helpful in getting us cleared, but it was still a great inconvenience for a few of our customers.
They don't need to do it, really. We gray-list to fight the infected machines. Esentially we bounce the first email from an unknown address. A real server will try again, an infected PC will not. That kills a lot of it. Of course there's plenty of spam that comes from real mail servers.
We then run everything throught a Barracuda Firewall that our customers can customize for their accounts. They can both Black list and White list for themselves using a web interface. Only mail from addresses that score very high on the "mark as spam" or blacklist from our users get blocked.
So yeah, our users do get some spam, but we don't block legitimate mail.
We actually respect and even like our customers. (well most of them)
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Why not just base the clones on Android?
It works with touch interfaces.
Apple will sue whoever builds them.
Fun for everybody.
it's awesome.
You shoot arrows (with blunt tips) at a screen onto which they project video of fearsome beasts, like bear, deer, elk, wood chucks and fluffy bunnies.
At the end it tells you how many kill shots, wounding shots, and misses you had.
After they had me arrested at wild-life safari, I had to find something to do . . .
I live in upstate New York so I can still see it.
Of course I can't get cable television where I live, and my closest neighbor is 1/4 of a mile away.
Seeing the stars and breathing fresh air is why I live where I do.
You know get back to the land and set my soul free, and all that.
Oh, and raising my own food and stock-piling weapons for the coming Zombie Apocalypse . . . but I digress.
I did a search for it but it must have been censored by my government.
see: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/01/1436237&art_pos=5
Hey buddy, are you trying to take the food out of my kids' mouths?
Buggy software and stupid users is what keeps most windoze administrators employed.
It's ironic that the Times article quotes Orwell.
"Blocking such groups has become more insidious as Internet filtering technology has grown more sophisticated. As with George Orwell's "Newspeak," the language in "1984" that got smaller each year, governments can block particular words or phrases without users realizing their Internet searches are being censored."
A couple of years ago the Times did another story on how The Voice of America has been engaged in creating newspeak: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/31/washington/31voice.html
"Using a 1,500-word vocabulary and short, simple phrases" Oh and don't forget to add some good old fashioned censorship. "A 1948 law prohibits Voice of America from broadcasting in the United States"
But some listeners, like Ali Asqar Khandan, 36, an assistant professor from Tehran, said Special English seemed like "a special program for advertising American life and culture, not a simple radio station for broadcasting news or teaching English."
No need to broadcast it here anyway.
We'll let you know what should and should not be censored thank you very much.
Can somebody please pass the kool-aid?
eOpen is most often eClosed
Sometimes for days or a week at a time.
And that's for people who've actually PAID for a license to a product and chosen that as the method of delivery.
So this really comes as no surprise.
From TFA "the company's head of enterprise marketing, has been the point person for the effort, which includes a helpful calculator, in glossy cardstock, that lets you spin several wheels to see projected savings"
Cisco's marketing department uses flash animation.
So who's going to up the ante and start mailing out kool-aid and 3D glasses?
I'm not buying anything until I've tried their kool-aid.
I'm aware of at least one ASP.net application that one of my clients uses that will be broken by IE8. Or at least that's what we were told by the developers. I'm sure we'll run into more issues as people begin installing IE8, or it gets installed for them. Let the games begin!!
Or at least until the machines take over the world and decide that my postmortem nagging is a waste of disk space and processor cycles.
I Installed Red Hat 5.1 with "Red Neck" as the installation language, on my Pentium 33 MHz and connected to my ISP with my 28.8 modem from the command line. I learned about IRQ's and monitor refresh rates. No plug and pray at that time. Ah the good old days. Of course I was still using emacs, but you have to start somewhere. :)
You know that it was just edited out:
"On the second day at about 6 in the morning, God created speed. And God saw that it was the good pharmacutical grade. And he shouted unto the shouted unto the waters, 'Woo Hoo!!!' "
Would somebody please delete this garbage.
If you are in a "business" environment, then you have an admin to hold your hand and set your sytem up.
Most end lusers don't have a clue about how their windoze system works any more than they would with a Linux system.
If you are in the home environment, (even using windoze) you have to be the admin, otherwise stick to game consoles and web-TV (does it still exist?)
Windoze could not even run my freakin ethernet card on my new dell laptop when I wiped the hard drive to reinstall.
I know that Suse is in the dog house, but they shipped binary drivers in 10.1 and it was the smoothest install I've ever done on a laptop.
It's not a bad intermediate step toward greater acceptance, so that we can get more numbers behind us.
Oh, and if you're a newbie home user who has not worked with the command line much yet, and you want a codec for Linux, all you have to know how to do is Google, click on a link, click on another link, and when the download dialog asks if you want to install it with "Package Manager" click yes.
Oh, I guess you would have to know the root password on your own machine instead of running as admin all the time with no password, my bad.
I RTFA and realize it was about enterprise Linux, and that makes all of the posts about playing DVD's and mp3's even more ridiculous.
OBTW, I love logging into a client's server, finding that their windoze server has eaten up all of it's dhcp addresses and the "admin" has a 10 gig "my music" folder.
Linux IS ready for the ENTERPRISE environment!
Don't fear the penguins!
As for a distribution, I personally have used Red Hat based distros since 5.1. If you want the bleeding edge, you can try Fedora Core, but plan on upgrading frequently. If you want a solid system that you can continue to update for a long period of time, try CentOS. It is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Yum is a handy package management and updating tool for both of those, that allows you to add extra software repositories to get packages that were not included with the core distribution.
I tried Debian and Mandrake early on, but liked Red Hat better. Recently, I've tried, Mandriva, Ubuntu, and Suse and have not particularly cared for them. Suse was particularly irritating. YaST just bugs me, and the system update utility was broken when they released it, it's like they're trying to out windoze windows. However, with all of the proprietary software included, it did run my new laptop hardware right out of the box, so they've got that going for them. It's a love and hate relationship at this point, which sort of feels too much like windows.
I recommend choosing one distro to handle your daily work and then leaving an extra partition of two to install some others to test drive them.
For extra software that you don't want to be with out, make sure you find amoroK for listening to music, Xine (with libdvdcss) for playing DVD's, and K3B for burning CD's and DVD's.
As for hardware, in my desktops I've had good luck with Gigabyte mother boards based on nvidia chipsets. I would choose nvidia gpu's as well, they have updated drivers and a nice x-config utility available on their website. I personally buy AMD 64 bit chips, since 64 bit is the next step in architecture, and 64 bit Linux is solid.
As a final note, if you ever get in to network administration or troubleshooting, you will never want to be without Linux.
I'll save my own rant against the monopolies for some other time.
I work at a small ISP. We recently had our smtp servers blocked by Road Runner because of the draconian practice of black-listing.
To their credit the techs there were helpful in getting us cleared, but it was still a great inconvenience for a few of our customers.
They don't need to do it, really. We gray-list to fight the infected machines. Esentially we bounce the first email from an unknown address. A real server will try again, an infected PC will not. That kills a lot of it. Of course there's plenty of spam that comes from real mail servers.
We then run everything throught a Barracuda Firewall that our customers can customize for their accounts. They can both Black list and White list for themselves using a web interface. Only mail from addresses that score very high on the "mark as spam" or blacklist from our users get blocked.
So yeah, our users do get some spam, but we don't block legitimate mail.
We actually respect and even like our customers. (well most of them)