Comment Re:Easy... (Score 2, Insightful) 823
Uhuh, because we all know that mac upgrades never introduce problems, right?
Uhuh, because we all know that mac upgrades never introduce problems, right?
Yes, because we all know the name Microsoft invokes such macho imagery . . .
(Yes, I realise you were joking. So am I)
"I never realised how much time I spent on fixing friends windows boxen until recently."
I'm probably a bit older than you. Quite a while back I learned to "just say no". It gets easier when you can say "I don't use Windows, you will have to find a windows person to fix that."
Inevitably, they then ask "Don't use Windows? What do you use then?" and I'm sure you can fill in the rest yourself.
As you've obviously realised, life gets sooo much easier after you've done this.
Whereas, on Linux, if you have been sensible enough to place
Truly, Windows is a fucking support nightmare in comparison.
Plus, if you do a lot of upgrades you simply install apt-cacher on one of your machines and point apt to that.
Updates from a fresh-install-from-CD to all-the-latest-patches takes, literally, minutes. It takes longer to apply the patches than it does to download them.
"flash didn't install properly. So, I had to teach a 80 year's old how to untar and copy a library "
Nice attempt at a troll, but that hasn't been the case for several years now.
Now Mozilla simply asks you if you would like to download "flash-Plugin_nonfree" from the multiverse repository.
You click "yes", type in your password and restart firefox.
It's no harder than installing it on Windows.
But don't listen to me. You just sit there happy in your bitter little world and clutch that Windows safety blanket to your wittle chest shill-boy
"what if mahjong or whatever writes or wishes to write data like saves, high scores or something to the hard drive"
In Linux, all user-space apps write to
If he has any sense (and I assume he does) then he will have
Anybody who installs linux without doing that is simply asking for trouble.
Uh, speaking of Captain Obvious, it is an obvious fact that "the only port open to the public network is the one running " applies to every single server on the internet, (unless it was set up by an MCSE of course) so what exactly was the point the OP was making?
Free clue for you.
When there are only two parties and they are both essentially the same then every vote is a wasted vote
It's like, uh, kinda the point.
There are four types of voters in modern politics.
1) The cheerleaders
These are the wonks that always vote the same way and remain totally oblivious to the shortcomings of their chosen "side"
2) The fanatics
These are the single issue voters that vote solely on the issue that concerns them. Mostly Greenies and Fundies.
3) The Morons
Vote for the best haircut or the best pork-barrel artist without giving much though to much of anything.
4) The Disillusioned.
These are the ones who realise that both parties are corrupt and essentially the same so they either abstain from voting entirely or try and find an independent local candidate who has reasonably sane views.
I count myself as #4
"If the only port open to the public network is the one running the proxy software (or whatever it is), then there is very little attack surface."
1) Find buffer overrun hole in proxy URL parsing mechanism.
2) Craft website with appropriate URL
3) Browse your web site via the proxy
4) Profit
Yes, well, I am in my forties, and used to be an avid gamer. Not so much now but I still do play games that warrant my attention. Right now that would be Oblivion on the PC.
Anyway, we got ourselves a Wii just yesterday and you will not believe the game that has garnered our attention the most. Sure, Wii Sports Tennis and bowling are fun games, and we have played our fair share of both but the one that has taken the lions share of playtime is a game that is nearly 20 years old, and was purchased via the Wii store. In my opinion it is the best game ever produced, "Toe Jam and Earl" for the Sega MegaDrive from the "virtual console" department, (which is a great idea in itself)
Anyway,I'm not sure what my point is here. I guess it is that a nearly 20 year old game still shines amongst all the glitz and glamour of the modern hi-tech 3D rendered "mega games" that are produced these days.
At least the video game industry has not de-volved to the same depths as Hollywood. Yet. Although they sure are working on it.
I'm glad I got most of the urge to game out of my system in the golden years of gaming. I can't see a bright future from here on in, as corporate suits take over more and more of the positions of influence in the dev studios.
It's a terrible shame really.
He posted as AC. You fail at the internet
"TCP/IP was only adopted because there was a BSD-licensed implementation"
Bollocks. TCP/IP was around long before the BSD licence.
TCP/IP became popular because;
a) universities had been using it for years using various implementations, both free and closed source.
b) it was a published open standard (this has nothing to do with code licencing)
c) there was no other protocol around that could scale like it could.
It's rate of growth is literally tied to the sale of apple hardware. That will always be a limiting factor. You have to be careful when looking at growth rates. When you have a very small starting point it is easy to have phenomenal growth rates, as your share gets larger that growth rate becomes harder to sustain.
Two wrights don't make a rong, they make an airplane. Or bicycles.