He's worked for an organization that uses lawbots to harass innocent people and extort money from them. The laws it bought are an attack on American competitiveness and the creativity of technological entepreneurs The evil which he helped do will live on after his death.
It distresses you that people want to piss on his grave? It distresses you that people think this something to celebrate?
Here, have a virtual kleenex to weep into.
Millions of people die every day, some of which have made contributions to humanity to be proud of. Valenti's just a piece of vermin working for an industry infested with them..
An appropriate epitaph would be "Too rotten to be forgotten".
I hope Hollywood never recovers from the damage they have paid him to do to the general public, consumer technology companies, and to themselves.
He was one of the chief spokesdroids for the Hollywood "screw the customer, let's use Congress to make it easier to extract money from the public" business model.
late 19th oil wells in the US that were abandoned after being pumped by have magically refilled themselves, I might take the "abiotic" crap seriously. At this point, it has to be put into the junk science category along with the garbage ExxonMobil expects us to take seriously about global warming being "imaginary".
software distributed that way, it's fairly obvious that making Hollywood happy is more important than the educational interests of the students, particularly CS and engineering students. What's next, "intelligent design" biology classes to keep fundy wackos happy? There are a great many more of those than there are RIAA attorneys. Don't they have just as much right to tell a publically funded school how to apply its resources?
The best and brightest should vote with their feet to educational institutions where education is considered more important than well-funded political lobbying organizations. This isn't something I expect students to win against the administration on.
"People always get the kind of local government they deserve" - E.E."Doc" Smith
The Big Dig, complete with "THE SKY IS FALLING!!!" ceiling panels in the tunnel, LiteBrites shtting the city down, and a censorware loaded wireless ISP that every Boston taxpayer gets to pay for, even if they're paying for a real ISP. (Wireless access that can be unplugged site by site at the political whim of the bosses isn't what I'd call bridging the "digital divide"). A little digging and one can find plenty more hilarious (if one has the good judgement to live somewhere else) misfeasance on the part of what passes for their city government.
Why haven't the taxpayers showed up with pitchforks and torches to "kick 'da bums out"?
Is it the water?
One of my friends bailed out recently. She's in NH now, and she regards moving as one of the wisest things she's ever done in her life.
SCO's attempt to use phony IP claims was financially backed by MS via Bayster. . . one would think that everyone would have noticed.
I've heard that there are indeed legitmate Linux-related IP claims, and that they're based on IP MS has "borrowed". I think it's time to look into this.
I'd seen the Charter, but never in the full context of the Constitution Act . . . if I read it correctly, it's not all that different from the US setup for amending the Constitution.
Though my opinion on the issue probably won't be worth that much until I wind up in Canada myself, either for political reasons or more likely, because for an American, it's the most reasonable offshoring destination, especially for R&D.
the Canadians going for a "Charter of Rights and Freedoms" that can be changed at any time whenever Parliament thinks it convenient rather than something with teeth in it is going to bite them collectively on the ass. Given a right-wing Prime Minister who sucks up to our beloved Fearless Leader, George Bush, probably sooner rather than later.
Personally, if I were that guy, I'd be really, really unhappy to see a campaign hit piece with my picture on it saying "This judge is pro-spam" and "This judge won't enforce laws he doesn't like" with choice quotes. Even if your guy loses, you should be able to force that judge to recuse himself with respect to any legal actions that wind up in his court in future.
your main man Frist (whose former Chief of Staff now runs the RIAA) a thing of the past.
Why not ask a Republican named Sensenbrenner about the latest anti-consumer pro-RIAA legislation?
Of course, the real truth is that neither party has clean hands with respect to consumer technology law. Why don't you clean out your own GOP sewer before whining about Democrats? Are you afraid that if the corrupt Republicans got tossed out of office, there'd be no Republican Party? Judging from the current GOP track record, your fears are justified.
For some reason, quite a few Democrats are writing the DNC saying "fire her or we stop giving you money", my e-mail to that effect was sent hours ago. DailyKos is at the head of the "dump Jenni" bandwagon.
Unlike the Fearless Leader you worship, Howard Dean is capable of figuring out he's stepped in shit and getting himself out.
There will be no "RIAA surge" to try to salvage a failed political policy.
Too bad YOUR master isn't quite as bright. Perhaps you should point this out to him the next time you kiss his ass.
Take a look at my how-to article on setting up a Windows VM on VMware Server over a Linux host. Setting up VMware Server over Linux actually is pretty easy... the hard part is optimizing it to get full speed out of it and to make it possible for Windows and Linux to share a chunk of file system. More accurately, the hard part is finding out what you need to know to make everything work. That's what my article does.
If you're a Windows fanboy who think that USB problems mean Linux is inferior, how well does any Windows work with USB-connected drivers that don't exist? Most Linux drivers these days are reverse-engineered. A lot of Vista premature adopters are finding out what it's like to get into an environment where the drivers aren't there right now, and they don't have an OpenSource community that's going to reverse-engineer drivers.
It's like anything else Linux, if the drivers are there, there usually is no problem. This stuff has drastically improved in the last couple of years.
It used to be a bear to configure a PalmPDA... now, if you've got the software installed (JPilot or Kpilot)... you'll see a config window come up as soon as you have the program and the Palm running at the same time.
Cameras used to be a hassle. Now install Digikam and if it doesn't find the camera without help, go through a menu and hope to find a entry matching your camera. Generic mass USB storage cameras are no longer a problem. You don't even need camera software, just plug it in and wait for the prompt offering to let you open the camera's flash as a directory. A couple of years ago, I was running scripts or mounting the camera by hand.
Printers are no problem as long as CUPS has a matching driver. Just run the Add New Hardware wizard... the bad news here is that there are many printers whose drivers are not available by default, some of which have vendor supported or Turboprint-supported.
Scanners? No problem if there's a driver, you don't even have to unplug/plug them so xsane or kooka or whatever can find them. Just run your scanner program and let the software find it for you.
UPS? It's possible, but... it's a trifle horrible.
Webcams/videoconferencing? Ask me in a few weeks, I've got an article assignment to write a how-to on the subject.
a drive, the easiest way to ensure this is simply make sure it's unplugged when you install, you can mount the other drives as data drives if you need to later... or don't.
I found that I didn't have to dual boot, I don't do heavy gaming, so running VMware Server and a Windows VM handled my Windows needs. My guess is that you do and that's why you're running a dual-drive RAID config, so this solution probably doesn't fit your needs.
With VMware Server/Windows running on a Linux host, if I want to install another distro on its own drive or run a Windows native disk, I unplug the main drive and install the default configuration, letting the installer figure out where to install; I change boot drives at the BIOS.
Though I do it that way because I very rarely have the need to change OSs and generally don't even have a drive installed for this purpose, if I had to do it frequently in a normal dual-boot setup, I'd do the obvious and modify the GRUB config file.
Assuming your Windows RAID isn't FUBAR, I'd simply unplug the RAID drives and let Ubuntu find and install to the 250G drive... whether you want to change boot in BIOS, boot by default to put a bootloader on the Windows MBR or boot by default to Linux and modify GRUB to handle dual boot is up to you.
profile political cases labeled "illegal immigration", they're doing what WE are paying them to do. And it appears that US Attorneys can be hung around a President's neck like an. . . albatross?. I won't ask why or how that metaphor came to your mind, you might tell us.
The best thing to do when getting a new system is to make sure everything in it is compatible with your Linux distro of choice BEFORE you buy... check by motherboard, audio, video chipsets... make sure someone actually got it working before buying it. IOW, exactly what one has to do with Vista.
If you've already got a box, simply download the LiveCD for your video, plug it in, if it runs, the hardware is compatible. If it doesn't run... you're probably better off trying a different distro liveCD and install whatever distro works best with your box.
If knoppix runs, try the "stable" or later versions of Debian (or the Ubuntu equivalent, Edgy, I suppose). It uses the same video detection software... that's how I got my nvidia card running on Linux... it worked every time on Knoppix and despite weeks on nvidia and Fedora forums... it NEVER worked in FC6. Luckily, somebody told me "try Debian" and... it worked the first time and works every time as long as the current nvidia driver is in the kernel. If it isn't, i.e. you just got dumped to a terminal window instead of booting into X, do:
# aptitude search nvidia
# aptitude install [name of new nvidia version matching your kernel]
startx (or reboot)
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and I don't have any need to apologize over it.
He's worked for an organization that uses lawbots to harass innocent people and extort money from them. The laws it bought are an attack on American competitiveness and the creativity of technological entepreneurs The evil which he helped do will live on after his death.
It distresses you that people want to piss on his grave? It distresses you that people think this something to celebrate?
Here, have a virtual kleenex to weep into.
Millions of people die every day, some of which have made contributions to humanity to be proud of. Valenti's just a piece of vermin working for an industry infested with them..
the GPS coordinated of his grave.
An appropriate epitaph would be "Too rotten to be forgotten".
I hope Hollywood never recovers from the damage they have paid him to do to the general public, consumer technology companies, and to themselves.
He was one of the chief spokesdroids for the Hollywood "screw the customer, let's use Congress to make it easier to extract money from the public" business model.
late 19th oil wells in the US that were abandoned after being pumped by have magically refilled themselves, I might take the "abiotic" crap seriously. At this point, it has to be put into the junk science category along with the garbage ExxonMobil expects us to take seriously about global warming being "imaginary".
software distributed that way, it's fairly obvious that making Hollywood happy is more important than the educational interests of the students, particularly CS and engineering students. What's next, "intelligent design" biology classes to keep fundy wackos happy? There are a great many more of those than there are RIAA attorneys. Don't they have just as much right to tell a publically funded school how to apply its resources?
The best and brightest should vote with their feet to educational institutions where education is considered more important than well-funded political lobbying organizations. This isn't something I expect students to win against the administration on.
"People always get the kind of local government they deserve" - E.E."Doc" Smith
The Big Dig, complete with "THE SKY IS FALLING!!!" ceiling panels in the tunnel, LiteBrites shtting the city down, and a censorware loaded wireless ISP that every Boston taxpayer gets to pay for, even if they're paying for a real ISP. (Wireless access that can be unplugged site by site at the political whim of the bosses isn't what I'd call bridging the "digital divide"). A little digging and one can find plenty more hilarious (if one has the good judgement to live somewhere else) misfeasance on the part of what passes for their city government.
Why haven't the taxpayers showed up with pitchforks and torches to "kick 'da bums out"?
Is it the water?
One of my friends bailed out recently. She's in NH now, and she regards moving as one of the wisest things she's ever done in her life.
SCO's attempt to use phony IP claims was financially backed by MS via Bayster. . . one would think that everyone would have noticed.
I've heard that there are indeed legitmate Linux-related IP claims, and that they're based on IP MS has "borrowed". I think it's time to look into this.
consumer electronics lately. Looks like I'm going to have to rethink this.
I'd seen the Charter, but never in the full context of the Constitution Act . . . if I read it correctly, it's not all that different from the US setup for amending the Constitution.
Though my opinion on the issue probably won't be worth that much until I wind up in Canada myself, either for political reasons or more likely, because for an American, it's the most reasonable offshoring destination, especially for R&D.
the Canadians going for a "Charter of Rights and Freedoms" that can be changed at any time whenever Parliament thinks it convenient rather than something with teeth in it is going to bite them collectively on the ass. Given a right-wing Prime Minister who sucks up to our beloved Fearless Leader, George Bush, probably sooner rather than later.
Go learn something about how governmental process really works and that faith will be replaced with stunned shock.
Go to the Thomas site and read the PATRIOT Act to see how "Laws usually aren't worded that vaguely." works out in the real world.
If you don't like research, take a trip to Iraq and hang out in Baghdad for a few days and see government in action.
If yes, find somebody to run against him.
Personally, if I were that guy, I'd be really, really unhappy to see a campaign hit piece with my picture on it saying "This judge is pro-spam" and "This judge won't enforce laws he doesn't like" with choice quotes. Even if your guy loses, you should be able to force that judge to recuse himself with respect to any legal actions that wind up in his court in future.
and IMHO, there's NO way to spin Sony "DVD"s that won't play on Sony DVD players.
your main man Frist (whose former Chief of Staff now runs the RIAA) a thing of the past.
Why not ask a Republican named Sensenbrenner about the latest anti-consumer pro-RIAA legislation?
Of course, the real truth is that neither party has clean hands with respect to consumer technology law. Why don't you clean out your own GOP sewer before whining about Democrats? Are you afraid that if the corrupt Republicans got tossed out of office, there'd be no Republican Party? Judging from the current GOP track record, your fears are justified.
will be equally offended by the fact that the head of the RIAA is Bill Frist's former chief of staff.
Birds of a feather and all that.
shill will probably be reversed by Monday.
For some reason, quite a few Democrats are writing the DNC saying "fire her or we stop giving you money", my e-mail to that effect was sent hours ago. DailyKos is at the head of the "dump Jenni" bandwagon.
Unlike the Fearless Leader you worship, Howard Dean is capable of figuring out he's stepped in shit and getting himself out.
There will be no "RIAA surge" to try to salvage a failed political policy.
Too bad YOUR master isn't quite as bright. Perhaps you should point this out to him the next time you kiss his ass.
Take a look at my how-to article on setting up a Windows VM on VMware Server over a Linux host. Setting up VMware Server over Linux actually is pretty easy... the hard part is optimizing it to get full speed out of it and to make it possible for Windows and Linux to share a chunk of file system. More accurately, the hard part is finding out what you need to know to make everything work. That's what my article does.
If you're a Windows fanboy who think that USB problems mean Linux is inferior, how well does any Windows work with USB-connected drivers that don't exist? Most Linux drivers these days are reverse-engineered. A lot of Vista premature adopters are finding out what it's like to get into an environment where the drivers aren't there right now, and they don't have an OpenSource community that's going to reverse-engineer drivers.
... it's a trifle horrible.
It's like anything else Linux, if the drivers are there, there usually is no problem. This stuff has drastically improved in the last couple of years.
It used to be a bear to configure a PalmPDA... now, if you've got the software installed (JPilot or Kpilot)... you'll see a config window come up as soon as you have the program and the Palm running at the same time.
Cameras used to be a hassle. Now install Digikam and if it doesn't find the camera without help, go through a menu and hope to find a entry matching your camera. Generic mass USB storage cameras are no longer a problem. You don't even need camera software, just plug it in and wait for the prompt offering to let you open the camera's flash as a directory. A couple of years ago, I was running scripts or mounting the camera by hand.
Printers are no problem as long as CUPS has a matching driver. Just run the Add New Hardware wizard... the bad news here is that there are many printers whose drivers are not available by default, some of which have vendor supported or Turboprint-supported.
Scanners? No problem if there's a driver, you don't even have to unplug/plug them so xsane or kooka or whatever can find them. Just run your scanner program and let the software find it for you.
UPS? It's possible, but
Webcams/videoconferencing? Ask me in a few weeks, I've got an article assignment to write a how-to on the subject.
a drive, the easiest way to ensure this is simply make sure it's unplugged when you install, you can mount the other drives as data drives if you need to later... or don't.
I found that I didn't have to dual boot, I don't do heavy gaming, so running VMware Server and a Windows VM handled my Windows needs. My guess is that you do and that's why you're running a dual-drive RAID config, so this solution probably doesn't fit your needs.
With VMware Server/Windows running on a Linux host, if I want to install another distro on its own drive or run a Windows native disk, I unplug the main drive and install the default configuration, letting the installer figure out where to install; I change boot drives at the BIOS.
Though I do it that way because I very rarely have the need to change OSs and generally don't even have a drive installed for this purpose, if I had to do it frequently in a normal dual-boot setup, I'd do the obvious and modify the GRUB config file.
Assuming your Windows RAID isn't FUBAR, I'd simply unplug the RAID drives and let Ubuntu find and install to the 250G drive... whether you want to change boot in BIOS, boot by default to put a bootloader on the Windows MBR or boot by default to Linux and modify GRUB to handle dual boot is up to you.
Good luck, and do a complete backup first.
the Nvidia video driver on Debian Etch runs my Geforce6100 AM2 Biostar motherboard just fine. Audio, etc. work just fine, too.
the only good you'll ever do this world is by leaving it. Microsoft fanboys are oxygen theives, deal.
try at google:
site:dailykos.com keyword1 keyword2
IMO, it's time to subpoena the servers and a whole bunch of recipients' PCs.
profile political cases labeled "illegal immigration", they're doing what WE are paying them to do. And it appears that US Attorneys can be hung around a President's neck like an. . . albatross?. I won't ask why or how that metaphor came to your mind, you might tell us.
The best thing to do when getting a new system is to make sure everything in it is compatible with your Linux distro of choice BEFORE you buy... check by motherboard, audio, video chipsets... make sure someone actually got it working before buying it. IOW, exactly what one has to do with Vista.
If you've already got a box, simply download the LiveCD for your video, plug it in, if it runs, the hardware is compatible. If it doesn't run... you're probably better off trying a different distro liveCD and install whatever distro works best with your box.
If knoppix runs, try the "stable" or later versions of Debian (or the Ubuntu equivalent, Edgy, I suppose). It uses the same video detection software... that's how I got my nvidia card running on Linux... it worked every time on Knoppix and despite weeks on nvidia and Fedora forums... it NEVER worked in FC6. Luckily, somebody told me "try Debian" and... it worked the first time and works every time as long as the current nvidia driver is in the kernel. If it isn't, i.e. you just got dumped to a terminal window instead of booting into X, do:
# aptitude search nvidia
# aptitude install [name of new nvidia version matching your kernel] startx (or reboot)