That means nothing to Microsoft. They're concerned with MAKING MONEY. The copies of Windows 2000 that you own aren't making them any money, so they need you to buy the next version.
They don't need to talk you into upgrading now. When it's time to upgrade your PC, you'll be forced into XP or whatever is next, because Win2K won't be available anymore.
Most of the comments have focused on rescue-type environments. If you want to make your own cd-based linux distro, check out The BBLCD Toolkit. It's the toolkit that was used to make the linuxcare bootable cd.
Basically, you set up a partition with a linux distro, customize it all you want, make sure it's smaller then 650M, and tell the program to burn it to a cd.
I tried this solution for a while too, but finally gave up on trusting the anti-virus vendors. After I got burned a few times by Norton coming out with an upgrade 2 hours AFTER I got infected, I stopped relying on it. I'm currently using the Email Sanitizer on my mail gateway. Instead of looking for virii (which will always be a try-to-stay-one-step-ahead-of-the-bad-guys type setup) I just have a list of attachments I don't allow. These happen to include all of the attachments that windows will execute on a double-click. I've gotten probably 400 klez for my domains over the last few weeks, and every one of them has been blocked. Since 99% of the virii that come into my network come through email, this has all but eliminated our problems.
I don't agree with their actions either, but you can't call them dishonest. They spelled out everything in their EULA. People are supposed to read those things before they click throug. What is Kazaa supposed to do, send everyone a registered letter?
I don't care if AOL buys them either, and RedHat IS a distro that I use.
What do you look for in a distro? Ease of install, package management, and speed of updates. As long as AOL keeps the security updates coming, why not use it? The nice thing about linux is you can make it whatever you want. So if they put some stupid shit in, I just take it out.
I can't agree with your comment. I've played quite a bit of deathmatch with the same core group of guys for a number of years. We've gone through Duke 3D, Hexen, Unreal, Quake, Quake II, Quake II, UT, and now lately Rune. We've all agreed that Rune has been the most fun to play. We all got really tired of long-range rocket launcher battles, or people sniping with the rail gun. The lack of range weapons plus the addition of the Rune powers has really added to our enjoyment of the game.
Now, we always play on a lan, so I can't really speak to the ping issues. However, I can say that I have used a shield effectively many times. You just can't stand there and expect it to protect you forever!
Being the lone linux user of the group, I was greatly looking forward to Rune for Linux. I own the Windows version, but I am ready to pay for the Linux version as well. However, after reading some comments about the poor performance and the high memory requirements, I may have to take a second look.
I work for a non-profit organization called the AIM Institute. We have a web site at www.aiminstitute.org. Should I be worried that AOL can apropriate my company's domain name?
I spoke with a Qwest (then USWest) guy at the '99 O'Reilly Open Source conference. He gave a conference on Open Source Advocacy. He said that a lot of USWest's DNS servers were FreeBSD. He said they were also looking at some sendmail stuff on FreeBSD.
You say we shouldn't punish people who use drugs. How about people who abuse drugs? Abuse them so badly that they can't live without them? You say that money laundering is a punishable crime because it makes you pay higher taxes. What about welfare for the the druggie who can't hold a job? What about the cost of medical care for him when he overdoses? There's my tax dollars at work.
This is linux-to-linux currently, but as someone else suggested, you can resurrect an old 486 to make it a gateway system. I have 9 people work from home over DSL or cable modem behind linux routers running CIPE. It works very well and runs on low end hardware. I'm on the mailing list, and there is currently a concerted effort to get it working on NT. I believe that a beta is almost ready. So there will soon be support for your windows road warriors.
I take issue with your statement that Microsoft is not a monopoly. You seem to say that because Linux has made inroads in certain markets that that has anything to do with Microsoft.
The definition of a monopoly is a company that uses it's dominance in one market to affect another market. This is the core of the DOJ case. This is what Microsoft did (and does). It doesn't matter what else happens, this will always be true, and Microsoft is the very definition of a monopoly.
if you're running X as a normal user, then usually by default only your username can connect to your Xwindows server. Read the man page on xhost, or for a quick and dirty (and insecure) fix, run `xhost +` as a normal user, and then try to run an xwindows program as root. xhost + lets anyone connect to your xserver.
That is not what my Customer Agreement says. I remember specifically asking about this, and they said:
You can run servers at home, but you can't have any commercial content on them (ie selling something off your web page). Otherwise they don't care. Otherwise why would they even bother with the 128K upload cap (which is in place here in Omaha) if they could just stop all incoming traffic to people's systems that didn't originate from them? That would solve the bandwidth problem, and it would be a better solutiong that saying "Please don't do this" and then having to police it. So I think that you need to go back and read your customer agreement again and see what it says in writing.
The only place in the customer service agreement it mentions servers is where it states that @Home is not responsible for any content that its customers wish to publish on its network.
I'm in Omaha, NE, USA and the @Home provider is Cox Communications.
I looked at the Latitude LT page, and there was no option for Linux drivers. I've got RH6.0 on my LT, and have had no problems, except the built in modem is a Winmodem.
Now when Dell starts pre-loading laptops with Linux, then I will get excited.
They don't include it on the cd because, like the.plan says, they don't want to support it. Their tech support people are used to dealing with users that put their cd-roms in upside down or have never heard of DirectX. Can you image them trying to trouble-shoot a Linux sound or video problem?
So until they can get tech support people that CAN support a Linux game, they will not support it.
Just a though, couldn't they include the Linux executable with some kind of non-support clause? I know that's a cop-out and something we shouldn't have to put up with, but at least it would be there.
Sounds like you need VMWare so you can run Linux and Windows on the same box at the same time. I set this up for one of my developers and it's working great for him. He can still use his Windows stuff, but he's learning quickly the Unix Way.
I'm down here in Monterey at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (http://conferences.oreilly.com) and someone in one of the workshops said that Sun was going to release StarOffice as Open Source. I've looked on StarDivision's web site and Sun's, and the only info I can find is the above mentioned CNet article. I think since the deal hasn't even officially gone through yet, that this guy is blowing smoke. Has anyone heard anything similar?
and it's called TechCorps. From their web page: Vision All students will have access to the most technologically advanced education possible to ensure that they will have the skills needed to compete in the workforce of tomorrow. Mission The mission of TECH CORPS is three-fold:
to recruit, place, and support volunteers from the technology community who advise and assist schools in the introduction and integration of new technologies;
to bring additional technology resources to schools through local and national projects;
to build partnerships in support of educational technology among educators, businesses, and community members at the local, state, and national levels.
Mode of Operation TECH CORPS is a national non-profit organization, funded through corporate contributions, and implemented through state chapters. A national staff oversees TECH CORPS' mission and agenda, assists with the formation and maintenance of effective state chapters, provides national media focus, and ensures quality at all levels. The broader organization is based on a bottom-up philosophy and draws on the expertise and enthusiasm of technology-literate members of the local community.
I went to a workshop on this at a Cisco conference in Houston a couple of weeks ago. Basically, these people organize volunteers to go into schools and do wiring, network setup, consulting, what have you. Basically anything in the technology realm. They started because there are a lot of people like you - people who have skills and want to help out schools who most of the time just need some advice and a little bit of time. The hardest part is getting organized, which is where TechCorps comes in. They even have a state chapter in Utah.
My company is looking into working with their Nebraska chapter, so I might have more info about it in the future. Check out their web page to see if your state is involved and give them a call. I'm sure your local school would appreciate it!
I was looking for a reason to check the box next to JonKatz under "Exclude Stories from the Home Page". This latest piece of drivel finally convinced me.
I've used StarOffice for about 6 months on my Linux workstation at work, opening and saving mostly other users Office97 documents. My system is a PII-233 with 192 meg of memory, and sometimes StarOffice is very slow. Sometimes it consumes 40% of the cpu for no reason until I shut it down. However, it's still my program of choice for word processing. I have had very good success reading/writing MSOffice files, and the tools that it comes with work well alone and with each other. I tried WordPerfect for awhile, but it was way too quirky to use day-to-day. My biggest complaint about StarOffice is it's size and lack of speed, but it does what I need it to do, and that's what I look for in an office suite. I'm thinking of purchasing a license to put it on all 12 of my Linux systems in my computer lab here at the office (I teach some networking classes and soon some Linux classes) to teach people basic word processing/office type skills. StarDivision also has a very nice package for schools called "Software in Schools". For something like $200, you can get a site license of StarOffice (any platform, I think) plus licenses for the teachers to install it on their systems at home. A school lab with Linux and StarOffice can make a very cost effective solution for a school where the budget is already stretched very thin. I hope Sun uses it's market share to push StarOffice and continue to improve the product.
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That means nothing to Microsoft. They're concerned with MAKING MONEY. The copies of Windows 2000 that you own aren't making them any money, so they need you to buy the next version.
They don't need to talk you into upgrading now. When it's time to upgrade your PC, you'll be forced into XP or whatever is next, because Win2K won't be available anymore.
www.careerlink.com
About 95% static, gets about 6 million hits a week.
www.careerlink.org
Thousands of jobs in Eastern Nebraska, Western Iowa.
Move here, we'd love to have you.
There is a better way.
lynx -source http://install.oeone.com > install.sh
vi install.sh
If there's something in there you don't trust, then don't run it. It's a shell script, not a binary. Just look at it.
Most of the comments have focused on rescue-type environments. If you want to make your own cd-based linux distro, check out The BBLCD Toolkit. It's the toolkit that was used to make the linuxcare bootable cd.
Basically, you set up a partition with a linux distro, customize it all you want, make sure it's smaller then 650M, and tell the program to burn it to a cd.
I tried this solution for a while too, but finally gave up on trusting the anti-virus vendors. After I got burned a few times by Norton coming out with an upgrade 2 hours AFTER I got infected, I stopped relying on it. I'm currently using the Email Sanitizer on my mail gateway. Instead of looking for virii (which will always be a try-to-stay-one-step-ahead-of-the-bad-guys type setup) I just have a list of attachments I don't allow. These happen to include all of the attachments that windows will execute on a double-click. I've gotten probably 400 klez for my domains over the last few weeks, and every one of them has been blocked. Since 99% of the virii that come into my network come through email, this has all but eliminated our problems.
I don't agree with their actions either, but you can't call them dishonest. They spelled out everything in their EULA. People are supposed to read those things before they click throug. What is Kazaa supposed to do, send everyone a registered letter?
I don't care if AOL buys them either, and RedHat IS a distro that I use.
What do you look for in a distro? Ease of install, package management, and speed of updates. As long as AOL keeps the security updates coming, why not use it? The nice thing about linux is you can make it whatever you want. So if they put some stupid shit in, I just take it out.
Ummm..... LDAP and IMAP?
I can't agree with your comment. I've played quite a bit of deathmatch with the same core group of guys for a number of years. We've gone through Duke 3D, Hexen, Unreal, Quake, Quake II, Quake II, UT, and now lately Rune. We've all agreed that Rune has been the most fun to play. We all got really tired of long-range rocket launcher battles, or people sniping with the rail gun. The lack of range weapons plus the addition of the Rune powers has really added to our enjoyment of the game.
Now, we always play on a lan, so I can't really speak to the ping issues. However, I can say that I have used a shield effectively many times. You just can't stand there and expect it to protect you forever!
Being the lone linux user of the group, I was greatly looking forward to Rune for Linux. I own the Windows version, but I am ready to pay for the Linux version as well. However, after reading some comments about the poor performance and the high memory requirements, I may have to take a second look.
I work for a non-profit organization called the AIM Institute. We have a web site at www.aiminstitute.org. Should I be worried that AOL can apropriate my company's domain name?
I spoke with a Qwest (then USWest) guy at the '99 O'Reilly Open Source conference. He gave a conference on Open Source Advocacy. He said that a lot of USWest's DNS servers were FreeBSD. He said they were also looking at some sendmail stuff on FreeBSD.
Just my anecdotal evidence.
You say we shouldn't punish people who use drugs. How about people who abuse drugs? Abuse them so badly that they can't live without them? You say that money laundering is a punishable crime because it makes you pay higher taxes. What about welfare for the the druggie who can't hold a job? What about the cost of medical care for him when he overdoses? There's my tax dollars at work.
This is linux-to-linux currently, but as someone else suggested, you can resurrect an old 486 to make it a gateway system. I have 9 people work from home over DSL or cable modem behind linux routers running CIPE. It works very well and runs on low end hardware.
I'm on the mailing list, and there is currently a concerted effort to get it working on NT. I believe that a beta is almost ready. So there will soon be support for your windows road warriors.
I take issue with your statement that Microsoft is not a monopoly. You seem to say that because Linux has made inroads in certain markets that that has anything to do with Microsoft.
The definition of a monopoly is a company that uses it's dominance in one market to affect another market. This is the core of the DOJ case. This is what Microsoft did (and does). It doesn't matter what else happens, this will always be true, and Microsoft is the very definition of a monopoly.
if you're running X as a normal user, then usually by default only your username can connect to your Xwindows server. Read the man page on xhost, or for a quick and dirty (and insecure) fix, run `xhost +` as a normal user, and then try to run an xwindows program as root. xhost + lets anyone connect to your xserver.
That is not what my Customer Agreement says. I remember specifically asking about this, and they said:
You can run servers at home, but you can't have any commercial content on them (ie selling something off your web page). Otherwise they don't care. Otherwise why would they even bother with the 128K upload cap (which is in place here in Omaha) if they could just stop all incoming traffic to people's systems that didn't originate from them? That would solve the bandwidth problem, and it would be a better solutiong that saying "Please don't do this" and then having to police it. So I think that you need to go back and read your customer agreement again and see what it says in writing.
The only place in the customer service agreement it mentions servers is where it states that @Home is not responsible for any content that its customers wish to publish on its network.
I'm in Omaha, NE, USA and the @Home provider is Cox Communications.
I looked at the Latitude LT page, and there was no option for Linux drivers.
I've got RH6.0 on my LT, and have had no problems, except the built in modem is a Winmodem.
Now when Dell starts pre-loading laptops with Linux, then I will get excited.
The page for MSWordview has links to the MSOffice binary file formats. It's at http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/mswordview.html.
They don't include it on the cd because, like the .plan says, they don't want to support it. Their tech support people are used to dealing with users that put their cd-roms in upside down or have never heard of DirectX. Can you image them trying to trouble-shoot a Linux sound or video problem?
So until they can get tech support people that CAN support a Linux game, they will not support it.
Just a though, couldn't they include the Linux executable with some kind of non-support clause? I know that's a cop-out and something we shouldn't have to put up with, but at least it would be there.
Sounds like you need VMWare so you can run Linux and Windows on the same box at the same time. I set this up for one of my developers and it's working great for him. He can still use his Windows stuff, but he's learning quickly the Unix Way.
I'm down here in Monterey at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (http://conferences.oreilly.com) and someone in one of the workshops said that Sun was going to release StarOffice as Open Source. I've looked on StarDivision's web site and Sun's, and the only info I can find is the above mentioned CNet article. I think since the deal hasn't even officially gone through yet, that this guy is blowing smoke. Has anyone heard anything similar?
Vision
All students will have access to the most technologically advanced education possible to ensure that they will have the skills needed to compete in the workforce of tomorrow.
Mission
The mission of TECH CORPS is three-fold:
- to recruit, place, and support volunteers from the technology community who advise and assist schools in the introduction and integration of new technologies;
- to bring additional technology resources to schools through local and national projects;
- to build partnerships in support of educational technology among educators, businesses, and community members at the local, state, and national levels.
Mode of OperationTECH CORPS is a national non-profit organization, funded through corporate contributions, and implemented through state chapters. A national staff oversees TECH CORPS' mission and agenda, assists with the formation and maintenance of effective state chapters, provides national media focus, and ensures quality at all levels. The broader organization is based on a bottom-up philosophy and draws on the expertise and enthusiasm of technology-literate members of the local community.
I went to a workshop on this at a Cisco conference in Houston a couple of weeks ago. Basically, these people organize volunteers to go into schools and do wiring, network setup, consulting, what have you. Basically anything in the technology realm. They started because there are a lot of people like you - people who have skills and want to help out schools who most of the time just need some advice and a little bit of time. The hardest part is getting organized, which is where TechCorps comes in. They even have a state chapter in Utah.
My company is looking into working with their Nebraska chapter, so I might have more info about it in the future. Check out their web page to see if your state is involved and give them a call. I'm sure your local school would appreciate it!
I was looking for a reason to check the box next to JonKatz under "Exclude Stories from the Home Page". This latest piece of drivel finally convinced me.
I've used StarOffice for about 6 months on my Linux workstation at work, opening and saving mostly other users Office97 documents. My system is a PII-233 with 192 meg of memory, and sometimes StarOffice is very slow. Sometimes it consumes 40% of the cpu for no reason until I shut it down.
However, it's still my program of choice for word processing. I have had very good success reading/writing MSOffice files, and the tools that it comes with work well alone and with each other.
I tried WordPerfect for awhile, but it was way too quirky to use day-to-day. My biggest complaint about StarOffice is it's size and lack of speed, but it does what I need it to do, and that's what I look for in an office suite.
I'm thinking of purchasing a license to put it on all 12 of my Linux systems in my computer lab here at the office (I teach some networking classes and soon some Linux classes) to teach people basic word processing/office type skills.
StarDivision also has a very nice package for schools called "Software in Schools". For something like $200, you can get a site license of StarOffice (any platform, I think) plus licenses for the teachers to install it on their systems at home. A school lab with Linux and StarOffice can make a very cost effective solution for a school where the budget is already stretched very thin.
I hope Sun uses it's market share to push StarOffice and continue to improve the product.