The computer I own (at home) came with 98 on it even though I had not asked for it or paid for it. The guy at the store told me that they just installed it to test the system. Which seemed reasonable to me. I formated it and put linux on it.
Did they give you the disks with that copy they installed "just to test it"? No? Can you say "pirates"? Can you also say "infringement of copyright"? Can you also say "license violation"? According to Micro$loth, the biggest no-no in the book is to install the software on a 'pooter and then NOT include the little book and CD. Bet they'd give you a real nice reward (prolly $5) if you turned them in at the M$ anti-piracy hotline.
Eggplant
Has no-one else realised that Napster is the perfect front for the RIAA? Whilst they present a pose of innocence to the world, headed by Shawn Fanning's oh-so "innocent" posturings, the truth is that they are an organisation funded by the RIAA for the sole purpose of letting them lobby the most restrictive of laws into reality.
Shawn Fanning was nothing more than a willing stooge in the RIAA's plans to bring in a new tyranny of intellectual property laws. In return for paying him a large sum of money, the RIAA purchased his services as front man for "Napster", a piece of software knocked up in about half an hour by RIAA techies. He then started up the Napster company with the sole purpose of providing a music piracy service that was as blatent and as visible as possible, an aim in which he has done exceedingly well in.
Now the RIAA has the impetus to get all kinds of restrictive laws but into place by a Congress dazzled by the "threat" that Napster poses to the music industry. And it's working like a charm, and everyone has been fooled. When the RIAA gets what they want, Napster will quietly fold, all involved will get their paychecks, and we'll be the ones living under the Big Brother regime that KKKlinton approved.
And I suppose there are a dozen black helicopters circling your home/apartment/dorm room/cave. Damn, I've seen some conspiracy theories before but damn....
They are now being used like a spider web. After they catch somebody, their purpose is to keep them subscribing/paying/buying their stuff, even if you don't want it anymore.
I agree with this statement. I ran into a case in point while at a customer site yesterday. The lady there explained to me that she had signed up for a Compuserve account with a three year contract and that she's totally unhappy with the service. However in order to get out of the contract, she has to pay them $400. Yikes! Talk about a sticky situation.
On a different note, while working on her machine, I had to use her Compuserve account to download a driver. Sheesh. I remember when once upon a time Compuserve wasn't a bad service. I see AOL has turned it into a clone of the regular AOHell interface, which I quickly minimized, then opened IE to do my browsing. Utterly sickening to see.
When your Thinkpad blue screens while running NT or Win95. Yeah, I can see it now. "Hold on, Houston, I have to reboot the PGCS, it just locked up on me."
And notice that pot flakes were not mentioned. I bet if I shook out my keyboard I could smoke the result and get a *fine* buzz. That's what I get from trying to load the bowl while surfing.
One tidbit: 'How about picking a judge who used to work for you? Judge Chaplain (who presided over the first DVD trial and ruled in favor of the MPAA) was Time Warner's lawyer on DVD issues before he became a Judge.'"
Aren't judges who have prior contact with the plaintiff or defendant in lawsuits such as this supposed to disqualify themselves as they would be prejudiced toward one side or the other?
Breezecom claims their gear will perform at speeds of 3mbps on their freq hopping radios and 5-11mbps on the single freq radios. I'd say that 128-512 kilobytes might be achievable.
I attempted to get this sort of service here in Indiana (near South Bend), and was unable to get a successful signal from the tower 3 miles away because there was a row of trees blocking LOS. They'd have to increase transmitting power in order to penetrate the trees, but the tower was residential so they probably had a cap on transmission power.
Huh? Never heard of that being a limitation. However, I suppose you did check the zoning regs in that community, so I could be talking out my butt. Where did you get that bit o' info?
Cool idea, and glad to see more folks getting faster internet access.. but how susceptible is this going to be to weather effects?
Admittedly, they define this as using "radio waves", which seems like a fairly fault tolerant medium (compared to, say, a beam of some sort), but they DO say it requires a clear line-of-sight. What's going to happen to your game of Q3A when a tornado decides to rip through the area? Even radio is subject to static, which could be pretty painful for an internet connection.
802.11 operates in the 2.4 GHz band, on similar frequencies as your microwave oven. Yes, it needs a clear line of site along the signal path but rain/snow/sleet/hail will have negligible effect on the signal. Only time I've seen rain affect a wireless connection is one that we forgot to weatherseal an antenna cable connector. It got wet, stayed wet a few days until the warm weather dried it out. We went up, sealed the line and no problems since.
I recently attended training sessions on Breezecom's product in Toronto, ON, CA. I ran into a group of geeks there who were doing exactly this--using grain elevators to host their antennae for 802.11 gear to provide 11mbps connections for rural subscribers.
Now I just wish they'd put some damned grain elevators up in suburbant Detroit. I'm having a nightmare of a time getting a point-to-point wireless link to perform well over 4 miles of trees, houses and commercial buildings. Ever see how difficult it is to get the permits to build an 80' tower in suburbia. Friggin' nightmare, man.
But what would all the overclocking sites do if the ultimate heatsink was shapeless and grey?!
Heh... they haven't seen the stuff that comes out of the tube of Radio Shaq heat sink compound I bought the other day, have they? Shapeless, gray, and very nasty. Takes industrial strength cleaner to get it off anything it comes in contact with. Solved problems I've had with a coupla AMD K6/2 and K6/3 processors that were running hot.
You want representative? I sent off copies of the last two spams I received with a short explanation of what they were. If that's not representative of the money-grubbing weasels we've all become, I don't know what is.
is perusing all the rest of the user comments and seeing how many conspiracy theories arise. C'mon, kids...
See, it works like this: Microsoft bought WebTV. Since before the purchase, WebTV has contracted to manufacture the chips. Microsoft, seeing that it has a few spare billion just laying around and doing nothing, decides to create a new division of its business to cut out the middleman. It's done here in Detroit all the time when second- and third-tier suppliers get too much money in their pockets.
Be worried when Microsoft announces the new 50-InfiHertz(tm) Bloatanium chip w/o backward compatibility with the i386 family, then announce that they will optimize Winduhz 2-gazillion to run on the Bloatanium specifically, thus phasing out the i386 line of hardware. Besides, isn't this what we want them to do? As long as Intel, AMD and IBM keep cranking out excellent technology and people keep porting Linux to it, we won't have to worry about Microsoft and the Bloatanium and Winduhz, will we?
I'm pissed because all they wanna release for a downloadable linux binary package is some shit compiled for i686. Sorry, kids, not everyone runs Intel PII or better. I'm using AMD K6-2 500 and I'd much rather have binaries that would run under Mandrake (i586-optimized binaries). Howzabout a bit of a selection? I pity the poor bastard who runs Slack on a 486 and would like to take a look at M17.
No one's decided to sue all the nntp admins out there for carrying groups like alt.binaries.mp3, alt.music.mp3, alt.binaries.vcd, etc. Seems like at any given time of any day I can simply pull up pan on my linux box and download up to several hundred mp3's. C'mon, let's be consistent... if they gonna sue everybody, let's sue everybody!!
"There is nothing at all wrong with an Open Relay in fact if we had less spammers there would probably be many more available for legitimate use. The problem is with the Spammers, I say go after them not the ISP's and others trying to provide relays for us to use."
There's *everything* wrong with an open relay. Which came first, the spammer or the open relay with which the slimy bastard sent out 10,000 messages? Disable the ability of spammers to send 10,000 messages at a time, close open relays and I think the problem would cure itself. I can't see any reason why John Q Public would need to send 10,000 email messages at one time unless he were a snivelling piece of shit spammer. Limit one's traffic to five addresses at a time and no more than five messages per hour and the problem of spam would cure itself. There is no reason to provide an open relay at all. Either send mail directly to your addressee's mail exchanger or don't send it, it's rather simple.
This is getting to be old hat. There are plenty of products out there, including those already mentioned. The company I work for here in Detroit is using Breezecom's 11 mbps DS.11 gear to do exactly what's described in the article. The only thing we're having trouble with is local zoning to build the 80' tower necessary to get the antennas between the two sites 2.9 miles apart. One site has three buildings within 500' of each other, which will be tied together with the 11 mbps radios, the other site has seven buildings over a square quarter-mile. We've got the antennas hung on all the buildings and are awaiting the client to pull power and ethernet to each radio. Can't wait to see how it all comes out, especially whether or not the city/township boards will approve the antenna tower designs.
How do you *prove* the "intention" to spread the virus?
Are we going to throw a lot of clueless people in jail?
Put enough lawyers on the job and they'd be able to find proof. Trust me though, more clueless assholes in jail wouldn't bother me one bit. Having done more than my share of service calls to remedy stupid user tricks, like the butthole I visited yesterday who couldn't be bothered to remove the plastic tape from the toner cartridge before putting it in her HPLJ5 printer, I'd be happy to see more stupid folks tossed in the slam. It's my belief that before one can purchase or use a computer, one should have a license to prove they know at least the simple stuff about how to operate it.
Everytime I turn around now it seems that I'm reading another article about how Micro$haft is stepping all over it's dick, defending its property rights. Here's the big clue: Don't buy their products. If you can do without Win95, Win98, NT, 2000, CE, 3.1, whatever piece of software they're marketing or find another operating system to replace its functionality, by all means, stop buying it. As omnipresent as they are in the marketplace now, it can't last forever.
Let's set some rules while this is taking place. If America is going to help offset the costs here, if you're some little Chinese/Japanese ISP, close your friggin' mailers to anonymous relay, will ya?? Pisses me off every time I open my inbox and find five or six messages that passed through some open relay based in some backwater Asian location.
Smokescreen? The most important argument Slashdot can make here is whether or not the "copyrighted" material is actually able to be copyrighted. Here's an open protocol, for which Microsoft came up with it's own proprietary extensions, added the protocol to its software packages and continued to refer to as "Kerberos"; meanwhile, the extensions they've made to the protocol have crippled it, disabling its use with competing products with the open-standard. How can an open standard be copyrighted? Imagine if you will that they did the same with TCP/IP. They'd be laughed off the face of the planet. And I don't hear them hollering too loud about SMB.
fluxrad said: I believe that some of the tactics that email marketers use is blatantly abusive of the end user, but most are not. Have you considered suing slashdot, or perhaps andover for compensation for the bandwidth that it took to download the banner ad at the top of the page you're seeing now? if not...why? you didn't ask for the banner ad. It's a blantant infringement of your rights as an internet user. Well, let's take a look at what you're saying here and do a little comparison. I agree, the tactics used by spammers are very abusive of the end user. Most of these cretins fake email addresses, masquerade behind inaccurate and/or forged headers and rarely, if ever, contain any reference to a working address where you might contact them and get your name off the list. Would you allow some masked guy to walk up on your porch and stuff a bag of shit in your mailbox? If it were me, I'd be calling the cops. Let's compare the banner ad to the spam crap in my mailbox. The ad occupies space on a page that I clicked on to read. If there's a 5k banner at the top of something interesting to read, I really don't give a rat's ass. I can easily ignore all the superfluous stuff on the page, including links to related sites, the author's email address, etc, so what's so tough about a banner ad? Now, let's look at UCE. I'm sorting through mail that I usually either receive from friends I know and love or mail from lists I've actively subscribed to. At least three out of the 10-25 messages I receive in a day is UCE. It has no use to me whatsoever. I didn't request it, I don't care for it, and in most cases there's not even a real product associated with it that any intelligent adult would have any use for. I could filter it. I could simply delete it. Or I could go to the source and say, "Stop it." Like the cretin I referred to in the first paragraph, I should be able to have some solution to keep the masked asshole off my doorstep. Either give me a working opt-out process that would keep *all* unsolicted commercial email out of my inbox or make it a crime to stuff the shit in my box.
Speaking from experience with sig 11 errors, you should look into either new memory or a new mobo. Sig 11 usually indicates a fault somewhere in the memory system.
Slashdot Mirror
Has no-one else realised that Napster is the perfect front for the RIAA? Whilst they present a pose of innocence to the world, headed by Shawn Fanning's oh-so "innocent" posturings, the truth is that they are an organisation funded by the RIAA for the sole purpose of letting them lobby the most restrictive of laws into reality. Shawn Fanning was nothing more than a willing stooge in the RIAA's plans to bring in a new tyranny of intellectual property laws. In return for paying him a large sum of money, the RIAA purchased his services as front man for "Napster", a piece of software knocked up in about half an hour by RIAA techies. He then started up the Napster company with the sole purpose of providing a music piracy service that was as blatent and as visible as possible, an aim in which he has done exceedingly well in. Now the RIAA has the impetus to get all kinds of restrictive laws but into place by a Congress dazzled by the "threat" that Napster poses to the music industry. And it's working like a charm, and everyone has been fooled. When the RIAA gets what they want, Napster will quietly fold, all involved will get their paychecks, and we'll be the ones living under the Big Brother regime that KKKlinton approved. And I suppose there are a dozen black helicopters circling your home/apartment/dorm room/cave. Damn, I've seen some conspiracy theories before but damn....
On a different note, while working on her machine, I had to use her Compuserve account to download a driver. Sheesh. I remember when once upon a time Compuserve wasn't a bad service. I see AOL has turned it into a clone of the regular AOHell interface, which I quickly minimized, then opened IE to do my browsing. Utterly sickening to see.
Friends don't let friends use AOL.
When your Thinkpad blue screens while running NT or Win95. Yeah, I can see it now. "Hold on, Houston, I have to reboot the PGCS, it just locked up on me."
Breezecom claims their gear will perform at speeds of 3mbps on their freq hopping radios and 5-11mbps on the single freq radios. I'd say that 128-512 kilobytes might be achievable.
I recently attended training sessions on Breezecom's product in Toronto, ON, CA. I ran into a group of geeks there who were doing exactly this--using grain elevators to host their antennae for 802.11 gear to provide 11mbps connections for rural subscribers.
Now I just wish they'd put some damned grain elevators up in suburbant Detroit. I'm having a nightmare of a time getting a point-to-point wireless link to perform well over 4 miles of trees, houses and commercial buildings. Ever see how difficult it is to get the permits to build an 80' tower in suburbia. Friggin' nightmare, man.
You want representative? I sent off copies of the last two spams I received with a short explanation of what they were. If that's not representative of the money-grubbing weasels we've all become, I don't know what is.
They are fallible!! Nice to see them kinda fall on their faces. Just another example to show that competition really does let the best company win.
is perusing all the rest of the user comments and seeing how many conspiracy theories arise. C'mon, kids... See, it works like this: Microsoft bought WebTV. Since before the purchase, WebTV has contracted to manufacture the chips. Microsoft, seeing that it has a few spare billion just laying around and doing nothing, decides to create a new division of its business to cut out the middleman. It's done here in Detroit all the time when second- and third-tier suppliers get too much money in their pockets. Be worried when Microsoft announces the new 50-InfiHertz(tm) Bloatanium chip w/o backward compatibility with the i386 family, then announce that they will optimize Winduhz 2-gazillion to run on the Bloatanium specifically, thus phasing out the i386 line of hardware. Besides, isn't this what we want them to do? As long as Intel, AMD and IBM keep cranking out excellent technology and people keep porting Linux to it, we won't have to worry about Microsoft and the Bloatanium and Winduhz, will we?
I'm pissed because all they wanna release for a downloadable linux binary package is some shit compiled for i686. Sorry, kids, not everyone runs Intel PII or better. I'm using AMD K6-2 500 and I'd much rather have binaries that would run under Mandrake (i586-optimized binaries). Howzabout a bit of a selection? I pity the poor bastard who runs Slack on a 486 and would like to take a look at M17.
No one's decided to sue all the nntp admins out there for carrying groups like alt.binaries.mp3, alt.music.mp3, alt.binaries.vcd, etc. Seems like at any given time of any day I can simply pull up pan on my linux box and download up to several hundred mp3's. C'mon, let's be consistent... if they gonna sue everybody, let's sue everybody!!
Eggplant
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson mumbled some stuff about:
"There is nothing at all wrong with an Open Relay in fact if we had less spammers there would probably be many more available for legitimate use. The problem is with the Spammers, I say go after them not the ISP's and others trying to provide relays for us to use."
There's *everything* wrong with an open relay. Which came first, the spammer or the open relay with which the slimy bastard sent out 10,000 messages? Disable the ability of spammers to send 10,000 messages at a time, close open relays and I think the problem would cure itself. I can't see any reason why John Q Public would need to send 10,000 email messages at one time unless he were a snivelling piece of shit spammer. Limit one's traffic to five addresses at a time and no more than five messages per hour and the problem of spam would cure itself. There is no reason to provide an open relay at all. Either send mail directly to your addressee's mail exchanger or don't send it, it's rather simple.
Egg Plant
This is getting to be old hat. There are plenty of products out there, including those already mentioned. The company I work for here in Detroit is using Breezecom's 11 mbps DS.11 gear to do exactly what's described in the article. The only thing we're having trouble with is local zoning to build the 80' tower necessary to get the antennas between the two sites 2.9 miles apart. One site has three buildings within 500' of each other, which will be tied together with the 11 mbps radios, the other site has seven buildings over a square quarter-mile. We've got the antennas hung on all the buildings and are awaiting the client to pull power and ethernet to each radio. Can't wait to see how it all comes out, especially whether or not the city/township boards will approve the antenna tower designs.
Are we going to throw a lot of clueless people in jail?
Put enough lawyers on the job and they'd be able to find proof. Trust me though, more clueless assholes in jail wouldn't bother me one bit. Having done more than my share of service calls to remedy stupid user tricks, like the butthole I visited yesterday who couldn't be bothered to remove the plastic tape from the toner cartridge before putting it in her HPLJ5 printer, I'd be happy to see more stupid folks tossed in the slam. It's my belief that before one can purchase or use a computer, one should have a license to prove they know at least the simple stuff about how to operate it.
Everytime I turn around now it seems that I'm reading another article about how Micro$haft is stepping all over it's dick, defending its property rights. Here's the big clue: Don't buy their products. If you can do without Win95, Win98, NT, 2000, CE, 3.1, whatever piece of software they're marketing or find another operating system to replace its functionality, by all means, stop buying it. As omnipresent as they are in the marketplace now, it can't last forever.
Let's set some rules while this is taking place. If America is going to help offset the costs here, if you're some little Chinese/Japanese ISP, close your friggin' mailers to anonymous relay, will ya?? Pisses me off every time I open my inbox and find five or six messages that passed through some open relay based in some backwater Asian location.
Smokescreen? The most important argument Slashdot can make here is whether or not the "copyrighted" material is actually able to be copyrighted. Here's an open protocol, for which Microsoft came up with it's own proprietary extensions, added the protocol to its software packages and continued to refer to as "Kerberos"; meanwhile, the extensions they've made to the protocol have crippled it, disabling its use with competing products with the open-standard. How can an open standard be copyrighted? Imagine if you will that they did the same with TCP/IP. They'd be laughed off the face of the planet. And I don't hear them hollering too loud about SMB.
fluxrad said: I believe that some of the tactics that email marketers use is blatantly abusive of the end user, but most are not. Have you considered suing slashdot, or perhaps andover for compensation for the bandwidth that it took to download the banner ad at the top of the page you're seeing now? if not...why? you didn't ask for the banner ad. It's a blantant infringement of your rights as an internet user. Well, let's take a look at what you're saying here and do a little comparison. I agree, the tactics used by spammers are very abusive of the end user. Most of these cretins fake email addresses, masquerade behind inaccurate and/or forged headers and rarely, if ever, contain any reference to a working address where you might contact them and get your name off the list. Would you allow some masked guy to walk up on your porch and stuff a bag of shit in your mailbox? If it were me, I'd be calling the cops. Let's compare the banner ad to the spam crap in my mailbox. The ad occupies space on a page that I clicked on to read. If there's a 5k banner at the top of something interesting to read, I really don't give a rat's ass. I can easily ignore all the superfluous stuff on the page, including links to related sites, the author's email address, etc, so what's so tough about a banner ad? Now, let's look at UCE. I'm sorting through mail that I usually either receive from friends I know and love or mail from lists I've actively subscribed to. At least three out of the 10-25 messages I receive in a day is UCE. It has no use to me whatsoever. I didn't request it, I don't care for it, and in most cases there's not even a real product associated with it that any intelligent adult would have any use for. I could filter it. I could simply delete it. Or I could go to the source and say, "Stop it." Like the cretin I referred to in the first paragraph, I should be able to have some solution to keep the masked asshole off my doorstep. Either give me a working opt-out process that would keep *all* unsolicted commercial email out of my inbox or make it a crime to stuff the shit in my box.
And now, it's time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode....
Speaking from experience with sig 11 errors, you should look into either new memory or a new mobo. Sig 11 usually indicates a fault somewhere in the memory system.