[bratticus]

But not mine
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'brattius@hermes:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"')
It's not too late
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Nearly 9 Million PCs Hit By 'Downandup' Worm
The network worm is a bunch of malware variants that target older Windows machines and changes itself, or is changed by its authors, to prevent signature-based detection.

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"The number of Downandup infections are skyrocketing based on our calculations," F-Secure's Toni Kovunen said in a blog post Friday. "From an estimated 2.4 million infected machines to over 8.9 million during the last four days. That's just amazing."

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[smallpoxgirl]

I made a real effort to make do with Ubuntu, but I've given up. I spent hours trying to make it recognize my printer and my NTFS raid array without any success. There is no reasonable replacement for Adobe InDesign or Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux. The Java doesn't quite run right so important websites that I visit don't function properly. Nobody makes a good stock graphing software for Linux. I can't play Blu-Ray discs on my computer in Linux. It seems like every time you run into a problem, solving it involves going to a terminal screen and typing some arcane gibberish that only makes sense if your a Linux nerd and may or may not work depending on which one of a hundred different releases you happen to be running. Really the kicker though is that Firefox crashes on me in Linux just as often as it does in Windows. Granted it doesn't destabilize the OS when it happens in Linux, but still. If I'm going to go to that much trouble getting an OS to run, I really want to not be dealing with crashes and killing unresponsive processes all the time.

[Plantagenet]

No problemo.

[mattduke]

Microsoft Windoz: NSA Inside

washingtonpost



http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/in_the_ ... mmand_line

[bratticus]

Actual unaltered image I took today:
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(click to enlarge)[/url]

I had to turn off the flash.
There is a 5' diameter white globe
with four projectors on it
that seamlessly integrate into a single continuous image.

Most "gee-whiz" thing I've seen all year.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '[')img]http://www.teamcg.com/images/logo_apple.gif[/img]

No problemo.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'I') made a real effort to make do with Ubuntu, but I've given up.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'I') made a real effort to make do with Ubuntu, but I've given up. I spent hours trying to make it recognize my printer and my NTFS raid array without any success. There is no reasonable replacement for Adobe InDesign or Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux. The Java doesn't quite run right so important websites that I visit don't function properly. Nobody makes a good stock graphing software for Linux. I can't play Blu-Ray discs on my computer in Linux. It seems like every time you run into a problem, solving it involves going to a terminal screen and typing some arcane gibberish that only makes sense if your a Linux nerd and may or may not work depending on which one of a hundred different releases you happen to be running. Really the kicker though is that Firefox crashes on me in Linux just as often as it does in Windows. Granted it doesn't destabilize the OS when it happens in Linux, but still. If I'm going to go to that much trouble getting an OS to run, I really want to not be dealing with crashes and killing unresponsive processes all the time.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'h')ttp://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/in_the_beginning_was_the_command_line

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', 'M')ultimedia can be a drag too...

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '[')img]http://www.teamcg.com/images/logo_apple.gif[/img]

No problemo.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', 'M')ultimedia can be a drag too...

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', 'J')ava (and Javascript, which is completely unrelated) can be a bit iffy, but that's more often than not poor implementation on the part of website developers than any fault of Ubuntu itself. I use, or have used, a number of java-based applications with no problem.

[skeptik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')No problemo.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]View Poll Results: Does running a non-windows OS provide enough virus protection?

... People do not aim for Microsoft because they hate Microsoft, but because they are an easier target. ...

[bratticus]

Oh, did we say 9 million?

How about 15 million now.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Virus strikes 15 million PCs

LONDON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A virulent computer virus has infected more than 15 million computers around the world so far, British experts say.

The Independent on Sunday reported that the worm -- known as Downadup, Conficker or Kido -- had contaminated 6 million PCs in the past three days alone.

The newspaper said more than 3,000 British organizations, including hospitals and the Ministry of Defense, have received the virus.

Officials in Britain, the United States, Russia, China and India say they are waiting to see what the virus's effects will be, if anything.

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[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'T')he problem is that it doesn't seem to recognize the font settings in the Java encoding properly. The font comes out to big in Linux which pushes the content out of the alotted screen box. It makes some of the controls unusable.

[smallpoxgirl]

Yeah. There's just way too much drama with trying to run Linux. I was trying to save some of my files before I wiped my linux partition. I spent at least 20 minutes trying to get it to mount a flash drive so I could save my files. I finally gave up and just trashed them. I really appreciate the idea of Linux, and I'm definitely on board with the fact that Bill Gates is Satan. Seriously though. When I put a flash drive in a Microsucks machine, it asks me what I want to do with it, then it does what I tell it. It really shouldn't require 30 minutes of searching the internet, possibly recompiling your kernel, typing a bunch of cryptic commands into a terminal window, uttering 43 expletives, and having to restrain yourself from destroying the computer with a blunt object just to get it to read a flash drive. Linux is undoubtedly the best platform for a webserver, but it just really isn't a practical OS for the kinds of things that most people want from their home or office PC.

[lper100km]

I second that, SPG.

I desperately want to leave the MS operating system in the dust but am too cheap to buy a Macintosh. Maybe if, when my present set up fails. I wrestled with Linux in about five different flavours, including Ubuntu and it took me to the mat far too many times. When I did succeed in running Linux (on my PC based laptop), I found that even the basic applications were too crude to be taken seriously. As for recognizing networks, WiFis and printers, there’s not enough time in the world to fool around with that stuff. At one time I would have enjoyed the challenge. Nowadays, I just want it to work when I turn on the power.

It blows my mind that after some 40 years of existence, the independent Unix/Linux community has failed to produce anything that is even remotely plug and play. Kudos to MacIntosh and in fairness, also to MS for creating user friendly software, generally speaking. But clearly, MS OS architecture is fundamentally faulty, otherwise we would not be plagued with daily updates and security patches despite the plethora of applications that have been developed for it. This worm is supposed to crawl into the security programs! No wonder my anti-virus app goes ape every time I boot up.

I suppose Solaris from Sun Microsystems is a possibility. I have never explored that, but maybe it’s time to do so.

[bodigami]

I have used a Mac for more than a year, and it has worked so far.

Some Linux distros are fine...