It's nice that the regs are rigged that way, so that only the cert holder can verify that no harmful effects are had. This way the cert holder can force you to use their propriatory system of communications and activly jam yours. I feel so much safer knowing that a larger signal at my cellphone trasmitts has no effect on actual aircraft safety.
I'm also gratified to see that a cheap collection of roatating coils energized and denergize rapidly has been deemed safe. I like to shave in flight, it leaves such a nice residue on my seat. Now why is it that my TV, radio, and other devices in my house staticed out when I run my electric razor? Can I bring an ignition coil to rig to the fine stainless bowls in the bathroom?
To ensure that its proposed service doesn't interfere with cellular service on the ground, the AirCell system would block the frequencies passengers' phones normally use.
See there? By using a stronger signal to block all harmful radiation at the "normal" dangerous frequency no one will be tempted to use their "normal" dangerous cell phone at lower frequencies. Such beautiful logic could only come from an MBA.
Likewise, the Wall Street Journal had an article about the same kinds of wonderful services in relation to Blackberries, "Wild Blackberries". They noted that the FCC does not outlaw the use of Blackberries, but the airlines will still fine you some number of thousands of dollars for using one. So you see, it's all about safety not money.
It's only harmful when you do it and don't pay the airline. The sky is not the limit for the "captive audience" concept and other greedy schemes.
Meaning, any company that sells closed-source software can't use GPL'ed code in their products.
True, companies that wish to violate their user's rights can't use the GPL, but is that what government money is for?
The refusal of some software vendors to reveal their source code is poor proof of the GPL's incompatibility with comercialization. Several large companies such as IBM and Red Hat seem to be doing just fine exploiting, modifying, distributing and profiting from GPL'd software. You don't HAVE to rape your users to make a buck and those that do won't be arround.
Adam Smith and friends are ignorant and confused. It's disgusting to see this tired old bullshit dressed up in post September 11 security hysteria. This line of reasoning will be turned on BSD next, with arguments about how insecure software that everyone can see is. There are people trying to ruin our way of life, and we voted for them!
How about 10 years woth of investment in custom developed inhouse software? I've been in places where there are LOTS of business critical apps that have 10-15 man years of development
At the last place I worked, upper managment was well duped. First they were convinced to use M$ because it was cheaper and they could develop in house software for much less. Then M$ sank their claws in and started charging much more for SDKs and finally the software underneath itself. With escalating costs, upper management fired all their IT people to, "Focus on core business. We're a widget company not a software company." They were convicned that they could get all the software they needed off the shelf cheaper than they could develop it. Now they are rolling out a system that costs twice what the custom software did but will not be, well, custom.
If it were up to me, I'd have never fired the IT folks and I'd have moved onto free software. It's better to spend every penny of the original money in house for custom software than to simply give it away to another firm partnered with the bastards that screwed you so hard the last time. The custom software, while crippled by M$ inadequacies, did what they company needed it to do. The new crap, which will set the company back $10,000,000 may or may not, but the company won't be able to change a thing. Why people keep throwing good money after bad is indeed hard to fathom.
The pieces needed to replace every piece of comercial software are waiting to be used. The more common tasks, browsing, word processing, email, are already here so the vast majority of corporate desktops could be switched overnight for the cost of set up. As for 3D rendering and other less demanded stuff, did you not see that LOTR's animation code was being opened up? If the Quage engine is not good enough for you, just wait a while and you will have all you need made by your competitors. Then again, you might be out of business or working for them when you see the light.
In 1975, how many people would rather take a sturdy, well-engineered Chevrolet than a quickly-slapped-together Honda? A sturdy, well-built RCA instead of a cheapo Sony?
Who said RCA was well built in 1975? Sony cleaned up the electronics market by 1985 by making stuff that was superior.
Today, much of what Sony does is not superior because they have opted to use Chinese slave labor. Seen a dream cube lately? Twenty years ago they were rock solid with a flourescent tube display that auto dimmed but was bright enough to see in daylight. Today, that same machine has a poorly fitting switch and cheap LEDs for a display. But then again, who esle is making anything? The dream cube sits on a shelf next to an even more repulsive RCA from a similar factory.
Wait did I say "slave labor"? Yes I did. China is a command economy run by a party which will enforce it's line by death. No dissent is allowed because there is no free press. Workers may flock to this place, but that is because they are left with few alternatives. Comfort is realative and people are easier to control when you make things we take for granted special and only for the privaleged. Most people, even the special ones are have little choice about what they do. As in 1984, purge is continual for the special.
This system is only working for a few, and only because they have a free economy to sap. Look at the former USSR, now that you can. They had a highly technicaly educated society, yet most things we take for granted were rare, vehicle ownership, TVs, even radios in a country that would love for everyone to have propaganda everywhere! Most if not all women were forced to work so child rearing was communal, as it always was for peasants in Russia. The command economy works by creating artificial scaricty. Without trade with free economies, most ordinary people lived only to labor in what we would consider poverty. This in a country with more land mass than any other and vast resources. Bigwigs lived well, sent their children to good schools and risked a bullet in the back of the head. Communists are always like this. The only difference betweeen China and the former USSR is that countries of the free economies are dumb enough to risk all their capital in a place that will surely take it all when the money stops flowing in.
The article sums it up nicely as it tells us the sickening life of self abuse in wine slop the lucky live we pay for and then the average story. This is you, and the woman is your would be wife:
... [Chinese] hometowns are bad enough that they're willing to travel hundreds of miles for the chance to earn Primax's starting wage of 300 yuan a month -- $36, or 21 cents an hour for a normal 40-hour week -- a typical figure in the Pearl River Delta. Routine overtime can push that up to 450 yuan, and Primax's worker dormitories offer free room and board.
In background and motives, these workers differ little from Zhang Ping, the hostess at the nightclub. She graduated from high school in Harbin but flunked the college entrance exams (only about half of test takers pass). For two years she worked for 200 yuan a month in a state-owned wholesale company, but it went bankrupt. Then she tried a stint behind a sales counter, but no one was buying much in a city with 25 percent unemployment. Finally, a girlfriend from down south wrote to say there was good work at the nightclub.
Free room and board for slaves and whores who work overtime everyday, how repulsive. That's what you get without laws, contracts and free speach. Surely our trade with such an economy is dragging us down more than it's lifting them up.
The most offensive sites get "redesigned" every six months, so there would be zero cost to make those sites accesible. Just fix it the next time.
It's glaringly obvious that those who have the greatest need for the web's convenience are not being considered in important public services such as airline ticket sales, even public sites such as this or this or this that make slashdot look clean. How is an automated reader supposed to get through those tables of images and how long will person have to sit before CONTENT happens? News, tickets, medical and law information, job hunting, whew, I'm glad I'm not blind. Imagine having to use the phone to get the info you need - you can't it's not there.
Responsiblity is not hard to place. Flash and ActiveX and other nasties like that don't work and should not be used for important public sites. The designer that ignores this, and your simple advice, or who the manager who forces the designer to do the wrong thing anyway are responsible. It's that simple. Keep up your good work, the credit is just as easy to place.
So, the blind and crippled will have to go to trouble the rest of us are happy to free of? Shame. Will it only be when you CAN'T get tickets and other modern necessities by walking to a booth that this is reversed? Is it that hard to make web pages for vital services simple and clear so that automated readers can fathom them and the rest of us don't have to click ad nauseum? No, all of this is very clear. Seitz has wimped out again.
Some other silly stuff from this judge:
Uhh, it's like way too confusing, dude Unable to reconcile federal and state laws. Ugh, week is illegal. This may or may not be a good thing, but the law is clear.
Web designers must now take it on themselves to dissavow propriatory and impossible garbage such as activeX, and Flash when designing important sites. Google reduces the entire web with simple text, ticket sales should be so easy. Please use only published and open standards for important public services. Hint, you should be able to navigate it easily with lynx, a text based browser.
I agree. If swilldon is so big, perhaps he can pay up your fee for you so the RIAA can continue to protect, mmmm, themselves and you can keep on putting out tunes that nothing to do with them.
Let's give credit where credit is due. Do you really think that Helms jumped for classical music? No, I'll bet he was more interested in the "two prominent religious broadcasters." Makes sense and I'm going to persue it and so should you.
Who else will come to the rescue of a free internet besides people who think traditional media has made them look like a bunch of loonies and made them pay dearly for their broadcasts? That's right, back to square one, the religious folks want their voice. Most of them, despite the anti-smutt campains, are friercly anti-government. It's no shocker. Gutenburg printed a bible, you know. What other people did with moveable press was not his business.
Talk to your local bible thumper and tell them about 802.11B today! They've got the resources, political connections and organization to not only build their own free networks, but to make sure they stay leagal.
Take that! All you trolls that accused me of being a zealot or an evangalist - you might have been right.
"Features" that do little more than inconvinience the user don't add security. Screen saver passwords, what a joke. Trying to fix the configuration of and applications on the OS that was not designed for security from a company that will sell you the same for a price is wasted effort.
As a patient, the only things I've seen out of this are new outrageous consent forms. Read what you sign the next time you use insurance payments for a doctor's visit. Getting a pair of eyeglasses, I was confronted with "sign this or pay for yourself". The this there included disclosures to unamed partners and was essentially permission to tell anyone. I was told that I could not strike out the offending portion and the doctor herself was conerned. I was a great volunteer there.
I sure hope this set of laws gets more specific and makes such "voluntary" consent requirements to recieve insurance benifits illegal.
That FAQ is on a government site. The same government that found M$ to be an illegal monopoly is pushing Word. Ahhhh, it's like there are M$ Adverts in the Post Office and Bill Gates is electing himself leader of US minitruth.
Imagine 1,000,000 doctors or members of their staff want to read the FAQ. Now imagine that they have the same M$/non M$ ownership as everone. Some 10 to 15% or 100,000 to 150,000 folks are going to be pained in one way or another to read that DOC, or they won't read it. Now add to that number the percentage that don't have a version of M$ Word that deals with unicode and hypertext links and realize that these people will have to find a computer sompeplace else that does have that. What is it, 60% of PCs are running win98? More pain.
Gods, another one. The frequently asked questions is a f****** M$ Word Doc! I was shocked and angered when I found the local Society of Profesional Engineers had forms like this, but the AMA?
Wait, it gets worse. Opened it with KWord. The only formats are bolds, centering, ?unicode?, and a few hyperlinks, that differ from normal html by only a few control characters which must only work for word. Why, oh why, would anyone use Word to publish something like that? Nothing different or useful was added by word. All word did was make it a little harder for me to read the thing presented.
I appreciate the effort, but please don't use Word. If you must use Word, save it as text or html. If word won't do that don't use word for things you want to share or cut and paste into another text editor that will do this. Remember that you yourself may not be able to read what you write in Word after the next "upgrade" and that most of your effort making the format just so will be wasted.
I would recomend Debian to my mom. I'm going to have to install and maintain it anyway, I might as well give her what I think is the best, and what I know best. That and it's easier for me to maintain a Debian box in another city than other computers. I try out apt-get upgrade here first. When something does not work out, I fix it, then I can run that same upgrade on hers. Easy.
I know, I know, Red Hat's dual boot rocks. Chances are, she won't be looking for a new OS until WinME dies. At that point, I'll be able to chose between installing Debian or installing Red Hat AND Windoze. She really does not need the windoze, and I've got better things to do.
To summarize, while the second review is right to not recomend Debian to someone with zero nix experience and zero support, it's wrong to anyone to conclude Debian is not a distro for everyone. My wife has no problem simply using Debian for all the usual stuff. It's not hard to use, and it's easy to maintain.
I've stuck with solely because of drakconf and it's associated tools, which make configuring a Linux system a breeze. However lately I've been aspiring to ascend to guru status, or at the very least PFY, so I gave Debian a whirl.
Here's a three step plan to help you become a guru. First, go to the mountian and climb it. Simply climbing it will help, but from the view on the mountian will make you wise. Second, spend time on the mountian. This will give you time to reflect on it and feel its moods, even modify it to suit your own tastes. Third, master the mountian. Once you have learned all it's quirks, you are encouraged to modify the mountian for the benifit of others. In time, you will learn that the simple text based install saves you much grief and hearache, though I would not compare it to the Red Hat install because I don't work on Red Hat much. Everything can be better.
Review #2, allas the same thing:
There are no automatic detection routines for your hardware, no automatic disk partitioning. It took us several attempts to get everything installed and working correctly.
There is X autodetect which has worked for me in the past. As for auto partition, no thanks. I like to set myself up myself, thank you, and the guidlines are where I learned that.
Strangely, this review was more unbiased than the first which proported to be so. It correctly noted that Debian's distribution system rocks. Dselect is a great tool that works for more than simple installs. Reading the insturctions that you MUST click out, you learn that simple vi style searches work! Awsome, type a partial name and your package is found. A graphical front end to this might be nice, but nothing is cooler than being able to secure shell into a box and configure it completely with a few keystrokes, without the overhead of pictures of boxes.
The short of it for me is that Debian easier to keep going once you have it up.
Creating your own music or 'net radio station hasn't gotten any harder
Uhh, yes it has. This establishes fees on webradio, regardless of how small, regardless of the fact that they consume no limited public resource. The size of the fee today is much less important than the precident set, though most average joes won't want to spend $500 to broadcast their music. That's right, their music that has nothing to do with the RIAA. Wanna bet any of them will ever see any pay out for this?
So great, they shut everyone else down this way. How am I going to vote with my dollars then? There's only one name on the ticket. Who do my aspiring musician friends get to deal with then?
Don't take my word for it, trust Mack. He seems to have hit it on the head. "What stream?" asked the pig.
For example, you should be able to tell an application running on your handheld computer to use a nearby desktop display, keyboard and mouse, or a projector on the wall. This should not require stopping and starting the application. You should be able to go home, and decide to import applications you left running at work. There are obviously security, authentication and authorization problems left to work out, but these are generally independent of the base window system.
Holly network is the computer, Batman! I gotta think about that one, but I'm sure it will not be comming to platforms that are still trying to extort per seat licensing and worry about more than one person running a word processor at one time. How's that for "ready" for the desktop"?
MMM, don't like frame buffer, it's been slow. The article talks about this frame buffer being faster than other frame buffers, but that does not make it as good as non frame fuffered servers, no?
... LEARN! Kind of like repeating 2500 year old geometric proofs. There are many practical considerations that can't be learned from plans and logs. Never the less, just looking at the picutes, you and I can learn a little about what it takes to generate RF and spin protons in a circle. Oh yeah, I forgot the other plan, to TEACH. It is a University, you know. Good for them, and us too.
Safety tip: Ask the Radiation Safety Office for help.
Are these networks free or gimped like US? Can the average Korean set up web, email, ftp, cvs services at the end of that fat pipe? If so, they will surely kick the world's ass in software development. If not, entertianment is nice but their net will be disipative.
Here in the US, broadband "internet" is becoming more and more like cable TV. Unilaterally changeable service contracts ban useful services, ports are blocked and upload rates are artificailly reduced. It's mostly because of bad laws which alowed the regional bells to stomp fledgling DSL competition and other bad laws which essentially give cable operators exclusive franchises in huge areas. Rather than embracing the communications possibilities of wires in our homes and networks we have built, we plod along with pay per minute, voice only, long distance telephony.
Has Korea learned from our mistakes or will they repeat them?
The obvious conclusion is that my cable modem could take a minor slashdoting if Cox did not crimp the upload and block ports. Information could be free but thanks to the local Bell's efforts to kill DSL things will get worse until someone fixes the last mile problem.
The bit about IDE being faster than SCSI was a shocker. You would think that some lower RPM SCSIs set to strip would have greater speed and equivalent heating. The good IDE performance is good news.
Anyway. The point isn't "Is Palladium loathsome and does it deserve to be spit upon by all right-thinking folk?" but rather, "Will this ploy force MS to disclose any of their strategy?"
It will not. Getting M$ to say that Paladium will be used to block software and entertainment copy, as they have in the past, will not reveal their true motives. The whole thing looks like a distraction and I feel none too clever as people waste their efforts on it.
If you don't put Palladium support in the software you run then Palladium has no effect on your code.
So long as it's win32 code and works under the M$ hardware level kernel you can do anything M$ lets you. Otherwise anyone could boot off a floppy or mount the Palladium protected drive in another computer and copy anything they wanted. Hmmm? What would be accomplished if this were not true? What potential abuses do you see if it is true?
M$ never abused nobody because everything runs as root.
If I can spend a few seconds thinking of ways to muddy the view, I'm sure well paid lawyers taking their time could bury him under a lot of... um,... dirt.
Can we conclude that you are not a well paid lawyer? Your lack of fundamental grasp would indicate this is so. Let me help you think a little more.
The article and this tread miss the point, which is that Palladium will be used to squash other people's IP and rights. Who cares if M$ enforces their software licenses? Who cares if the RIAA can keep people from making more useless coppies of Britiany Spears? I have software and music that have nothing to do with M$ or the RIAA. The danger is that M$ will use this gimp to take ownership of all computing. If they can keep my general purpose computer from makinging a copy of a file and I can not, they own my computer and can censor it's content. If their goofey system requires hardware to get sofware certs from M$ or not run, free software won't run. If free software does not run on my hardware then my hardware belongs to someone else. Loathsome! other people's work will be broken and M$ will own all publication that is not completely manual.
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I'm also gratified to see that a cheap collection of roatating coils energized and denergize rapidly has been deemed safe. I like to shave in flight, it leaves such a nice residue on my seat. Now why is it that my TV, radio, and other devices in my house staticed out when I run my electric razor? Can I bring an ignition coil to rig to the fine stainless bowls in the bathroom?
To ensure that its proposed service doesn't interfere with cellular service on the ground, the AirCell system would block the frequencies passengers' phones normally use.
See there? By using a stronger signal to block all harmful radiation at the "normal" dangerous frequency no one will be tempted to use their "normal" dangerous cell phone at lower frequencies. Such beautiful logic could only come from an MBA.
Likewise, the Wall Street Journal had an article about the same kinds of wonderful services in relation to Blackberries, "Wild Blackberries". They noted that the FCC does not outlaw the use of Blackberries, but the airlines will still fine you some number of thousands of dollars for using one. So you see, it's all about safety not money.
It's only harmful when you do it and don't pay the airline. The sky is not the limit for the "captive audience" concept and other greedy schemes.
True, companies that wish to violate their user's rights can't use the GPL, but is that what government money is for?
The refusal of some software vendors to reveal their source code is poor proof of the GPL's incompatibility with comercialization. Several large companies such as IBM and Red Hat seem to be doing just fine exploiting, modifying, distributing and profiting from GPL'd software. You don't HAVE to rape your users to make a buck and those that do won't be arround.
Adam Smith and friends are ignorant and confused. It's disgusting to see this tired old bullshit dressed up in post September 11 security hysteria. This line of reasoning will be turned on BSD next, with arguments about how insecure software that everyone can see is. There are people trying to ruin our way of life, and we voted for them!
At the last place I worked, upper managment was well duped. First they were convinced to use M$ because it was cheaper and they could develop in house software for much less. Then M$ sank their claws in and started charging much more for SDKs and finally the software underneath itself. With escalating costs, upper management fired all their IT people to, "Focus on core business. We're a widget company not a software company." They were convicned that they could get all the software they needed off the shelf cheaper than they could develop it. Now they are rolling out a system that costs twice what the custom software did but will not be, well, custom.
If it were up to me, I'd have never fired the IT folks and I'd have moved onto free software. It's better to spend every penny of the original money in house for custom software than to simply give it away to another firm partnered with the bastards that screwed you so hard the last time. The custom software, while crippled by M$ inadequacies, did what they company needed it to do. The new crap, which will set the company back $10,000,000 may or may not, but the company won't be able to change a thing. Why people keep throwing good money after bad is indeed hard to fathom.
The pieces needed to replace every piece of comercial software are waiting to be used. The more common tasks, browsing, word processing, email, are already here so the vast majority of corporate desktops could be switched overnight for the cost of set up. As for 3D rendering and other less demanded stuff, did you not see that LOTR's animation code was being opened up? If the Quage engine is not good enough for you, just wait a while and you will have all you need made by your competitors. Then again, you might be out of business or working for them when you see the light.
Who said RCA was well built in 1975? Sony cleaned up the electronics market by 1985 by making stuff that was superior.
Today, much of what Sony does is not superior because they have opted to use Chinese slave labor. Seen a dream cube lately? Twenty years ago they were rock solid with a flourescent tube display that auto dimmed but was bright enough to see in daylight. Today, that same machine has a poorly fitting switch and cheap LEDs for a display. But then again, who esle is making anything? The dream cube sits on a shelf next to an even more repulsive RCA from a similar factory.
Wait did I say "slave labor"? Yes I did. China is a command economy run by a party which will enforce it's line by death. No dissent is allowed because there is no free press. Workers may flock to this place, but that is because they are left with few alternatives. Comfort is realative and people are easier to control when you make things we take for granted special and only for the privaleged. Most people, even the special ones are have little choice about what they do. As in 1984, purge is continual for the special.
This system is only working for a few, and only because they have a free economy to sap. Look at the former USSR, now that you can. They had a highly technicaly educated society, yet most things we take for granted were rare, vehicle ownership, TVs, even radios in a country that would love for everyone to have propaganda everywhere! Most if not all women were forced to work so child rearing was communal, as it always was for peasants in Russia. The command economy works by creating artificial scaricty. Without trade with free economies, most ordinary people lived only to labor in what we would consider poverty. This in a country with more land mass than any other and vast resources. Bigwigs lived well, sent their children to good schools and risked a bullet in the back of the head. Communists are always like this. The only difference betweeen China and the former USSR is that countries of the free economies are dumb enough to risk all their capital in a place that will surely take it all when the money stops flowing in.
The article sums it up nicely as it tells us the sickening life of self abuse in wine slop the lucky live we pay for and then the average story. This is you, and the woman is your would be wife:
In background and motives, these workers differ little from Zhang Ping, the hostess at the nightclub. She graduated from high school in Harbin but flunked the college entrance exams (only about half of test takers pass). For two years she worked for 200 yuan a month in a state-owned wholesale company, but it went bankrupt. Then she tried a stint behind a sales counter, but no one was buying much in a city with 25 percent unemployment. Finally, a girlfriend from down south wrote to say there was good work at the nightclub.
Free room and board for slaves and whores who work overtime everyday, how repulsive. That's what you get without laws, contracts and free speach. Surely our trade with such an economy is dragging us down more than it's lifting them up.
It's glaringly obvious that those who have the greatest need for the web's convenience are not being considered in important public services such as airline ticket sales, even public sites such as this or this or this that make slashdot look clean. How is an automated reader supposed to get through those tables of images and how long will person have to sit before CONTENT happens? News, tickets, medical and law information, job hunting, whew, I'm glad I'm not blind. Imagine having to use the phone to get the info you need - you can't it's not there.
Responsiblity is not hard to place. Flash and ActiveX and other nasties like that don't work and should not be used for important public sites. The designer that ignores this, and your simple advice, or who the manager who forces the designer to do the wrong thing anyway are responsible. It's that simple. Keep up your good work, the credit is just as easy to place.
Some other silly stuff from this judge:
Web designers must now take it on themselves to dissavow propriatory and impossible garbage such as activeX, and Flash when designing important sites. Google reduces the entire web with simple text, ticket sales should be so easy. Please use only published and open standards for important public services. Hint, you should be able to navigate it easily with lynx, a text based browser.
Dial up? They will find several unique identifiers in your fragged parts, and consider that ban good enough.
I agree. If swilldon is so big, perhaps he can pay up your fee for you so the RIAA can continue to protect, mmmm, themselves and you can keep on putting out tunes that nothing to do with them.
Who else will come to the rescue of a free internet besides people who think traditional media has made them look like a bunch of loonies and made them pay dearly for their broadcasts? That's right, back to square one, the religious folks want their voice. Most of them, despite the anti-smutt campains, are friercly anti-government. It's no shocker. Gutenburg printed a bible, you know. What other people did with moveable press was not his business.
Talk to your local bible thumper and tell them about 802.11B today! They've got the resources, political connections and organization to not only build their own free networks, but to make sure they stay leagal.
Take that! All you trolls that accused me of being a zealot or an evangalist - you might have been right.
As a patient, the only things I've seen out of this are new outrageous consent forms. Read what you sign the next time you use insurance payments for a doctor's visit. Getting a pair of eyeglasses, I was confronted with "sign this or pay for yourself". The this there included disclosures to unamed partners and was essentially permission to tell anyone. I was told that I could not strike out the offending portion and the doctor herself was conerned. I was a great volunteer there.
I sure hope this set of laws gets more specific and makes such "voluntary" consent requirements to recieve insurance benifits illegal.
That FAQ is on a government site. The same government that found M$ to be an illegal monopoly is pushing Word. Ahhhh, it's like there are M$ Adverts in the Post Office and Bill Gates is electing himself leader of US minitruth.
Is there an computer man in the house? Ahhhh!
Wait, it gets worse. Opened it with KWord. The only formats are bolds, centering, ?unicode?, and a few hyperlinks, that differ from normal html by only a few control characters which must only work for word. Why, oh why, would anyone use Word to publish something like that? Nothing different or useful was added by word. All word did was make it a little harder for me to read the thing presented.
I appreciate the effort, but please don't use Word. If you must use Word, save it as text or html. If word won't do that don't use word for things you want to share or cut and paste into another text editor that will do this. Remember that you yourself may not be able to read what you write in Word after the next "upgrade" and that most of your effort making the format just so will be wasted.
I know, I know, Red Hat's dual boot rocks. Chances are, she won't be looking for a new OS until WinME dies. At that point, I'll be able to chose between installing Debian or installing Red Hat AND Windoze. She really does not need the windoze, and I've got better things to do.
To summarize, while the second review is right to not recomend Debian to someone with zero nix experience and zero support, it's wrong to anyone to conclude Debian is not a distro for everyone. My wife has no problem simply using Debian for all the usual stuff. It's not hard to use, and it's easy to maintain.
I've stuck with solely because of drakconf and it's associated tools, which make configuring a Linux system a breeze. However lately I've been aspiring to ascend to guru status, or at the very least PFY, so I gave Debian a whirl.
Here's a three step plan to help you become a guru. First, go to the mountian and climb it. Simply climbing it will help, but from the view on the mountian will make you wise. Second, spend time on the mountian. This will give you time to reflect on it and feel its moods, even modify it to suit your own tastes. Third, master the mountian. Once you have learned all it's quirks, you are encouraged to modify the mountian for the benifit of others. In time, you will learn that the simple text based install saves you much grief and hearache, though I would not compare it to the Red Hat install because I don't work on Red Hat much. Everything can be better.
Review #2, allas the same thing:
There are no automatic detection routines for your hardware, no automatic disk partitioning. It took us several attempts to get everything installed and working correctly.
There is X autodetect which has worked for me in the past. As for auto partition, no thanks. I like to set myself up myself, thank you, and the guidlines are where I learned that.
Strangely, this review was more unbiased than the first which proported to be so. It correctly noted that Debian's distribution system rocks. Dselect is a great tool that works for more than simple installs. Reading the insturctions that you MUST click out, you learn that simple vi style searches work! Awsome, type a partial name and your package is found. A graphical front end to this might be nice, but nothing is cooler than being able to secure shell into a box and configure it completely with a few keystrokes, without the overhead of pictures of boxes.
The short of it for me is that Debian easier to keep going once you have it up.
Uhh, yes it has. This establishes fees on webradio, regardless of how small, regardless of the fact that they consume no limited public resource. The size of the fee today is much less important than the precident set, though most average joes won't want to spend $500 to broadcast their music. That's right, their music that has nothing to do with the RIAA. Wanna bet any of them will ever see any pay out for this?
So great, they shut everyone else down this way. How am I going to vote with my dollars then? There's only one name on the ticket. Who do my aspiring musician friends get to deal with then?
Don't take my word for it, trust Mack. He seems to have hit it on the head. "What stream?" asked the pig.
Would that 99% of the user base be the ones that will never need more than 640k RAM, Bill?
For example, you should be able to tell an application running on your handheld computer to use a nearby desktop display, keyboard and mouse, or a projector on the wall. This should not require stopping and starting the application. You should be able to go home, and decide to import applications you left running at work. There are obviously security, authentication and authorization problems left to work out, but these are generally independent of the base window system.
Holly network is the computer, Batman! I gotta think about that one, but I'm sure it will not be comming to platforms that are still trying to extort per seat licensing and worry about more than one person running a word processor at one time. How's that for "ready" for the desktop"?
MMM, don't like frame buffer, it's been slow. The article talks about this frame buffer being faster than other frame buffers, but that does not make it as good as non frame fuffered servers, no?
Thinking over. Your turn.
Safety tip: Ask the Radiation Safety Office for help.
Here in the US, broadband "internet" is becoming more and more like cable TV. Unilaterally changeable service contracts ban useful services, ports are blocked and upload rates are artificailly reduced. It's mostly because of bad laws which alowed the regional bells to stomp fledgling DSL competition and other bad laws which essentially give cable operators exclusive franchises in huge areas. Rather than embracing the communications possibilities of wires in our homes and networks we have built, we plod along with pay per minute, voice only, long distance telephony.
Has Korea learned from our mistakes or will they repeat them?
Draw your own conclusions.
How nice of them to share that information.
The obvious conclusion is that my cable modem could take a minor slashdoting if Cox did not crimp the upload and block ports. Information could be free but thanks to the local Bell's efforts to kill DSL things will get worse until someone fixes the last mile problem.
The bit about IDE being faster than SCSI was a shocker. You would think that some lower RPM SCSIs set to strip would have greater speed and equivalent heating. The good IDE performance is good news.
It will not. Getting M$ to say that Paladium will be used to block software and entertainment copy, as they have in the past, will not reveal their true motives. The whole thing looks like a distraction and I feel none too clever as people waste their efforts on it.
So long as it's win32 code and works under the M$ hardware level kernel you can do anything M$ lets you. Otherwise anyone could boot off a floppy or mount the Palladium protected drive in another computer and copy anything they wanted. Hmmm? What would be accomplished if this were not true? What potential abuses do you see if it is true?
M$ never abused nobody because everything runs as root.
Can we conclude that you are not a well paid lawyer? Your lack of fundamental grasp would indicate this is so. Let me help you think a little more.
The article and this tread miss the point, which is that Palladium will be used to squash other people's IP and rights. Who cares if M$ enforces their software licenses? Who cares if the RIAA can keep people from making more useless coppies of Britiany Spears? I have software and music that have nothing to do with M$ or the RIAA. The danger is that M$ will use this gimp to take ownership of all computing. If they can keep my general purpose computer from makinging a copy of a file and I can not, they own my computer and can censor it's content. If their goofey system requires hardware to get sofware certs from M$ or not run, free software won't run. If free software does not run on my hardware then my hardware belongs to someone else. Loathsome! other people's work will be broken and M$ will own all publication that is not completely manual.