I'm not sure how different things are in France, but here (US) a civil lawsuit means you have to collect the facts to back up your claim on your own, yourself or through PI's or attorneys, without the help of the police. If they're involved, sounds like it might be a criminal case, not just a civil suit, n'est ce pas?
Actually, I think it'd have more to do with the fact that Good Leonardo(tm) has ties in France where Bad Leonardo(tm) is too. And, I'm guessing, leonardo.com probably doesn't, thought I haven't double-checked this.
OK, now calculate these figures, please: How many calories does Santa burn going down the chimney, distributing gifts, back up, etc., 108e6 times; and how many does he consume with all those cookies, puddings, etc. left out for him? Net result, does Santa have to work out after Christmas to lose the weight he's put on (like the rest of us mere mortals)? Or does he have to bulk up the rest of the year to be in form by next Halloween, or whenever they're turning him loose on the malls now? (Seems earlier every year, don't it?)
With instructions like these, you think they're helping or providing for their users? Didn't you get the point of this at all? Aside from subjective opinions about motivations beind the KB article, the instructions are just plain objectively WRONG! They better be prepared to answer a lot more questions, when people start asking why they get that funny "Unable to open/mbr" message, or why the "q" command doesn't work after they do the "w" in fdisk, and then there's all that crap they have in there that won't hamper the lobot^h^h^h^h^huninstall, but is just some (doubtless well-intentioned!) misinformation.
Funny... I thought I remembered there was something about some holy water in the process... and some Latin incantations, or something like that. Wasn't there?
Ah, but it will, even if you don't want it to. I had my nice new 20GB drive partitioned up for Linux, and I thought, "hey, I've got plenty of space now, let's put some Windoze back on so I can play some games!" Problem was, I had set up this drive as a normal drive w/o LBA, and so when I tried to add a W9x partition, it just sort of slopped the data across my/usr/lib partition. On the bright side, I saved almost everything, and know a LOT more about partition tables and ext2fs now!
Also, the braindead MicroSerf that wrote this tells you to reboot with the Linux boot disk (I think this was pointed out), and then tells you to use "fdisk/mbr", which can only mean a M$ version of fdisk. I can just imagine people twisted enough to actually want to do this, then seeing "'Unable to open/mbr'?!? Geez, this Linux thingy really is retarded, isn't it?".
But to make it do that, you'd want the crawler part, not just the database searcher, and from what everyone else is saying, the crawler is the part that isn't GPL'ed and isn't free. I don't think it's likely worth whatever they're asking for the crawler just to fulfill that simple need. The free part just searches the local database generated by the crawler, or purchased from Juggernaut, when you ask it to. Won't generate browsing-like traffic over your connection.
Even more ironic: They'll call what they're arresting you for 'carrying a concealed weapon'. Apparently, only knives under 3-1/2 inches can't be concealed, at least in my town. Absurd.
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My old AnyKey just gave out on me a few months ago, I think, and now that I have to use this new ordinary keyboard all the time, I'm really starting to miss it! Although it may have been a bad connector for one of those non-windows programmable-key joysticks (are we sensing a theme here? I like programmable keys!) The programmable keys and keyboard macros were my favorite thing about that keyboard; the extra F-keys were mostly nice just because I could map all my macros to one set and still have the other set available when a program needed those. Any idea if there's a Linux utility out there to set up those keymappings & macros like their old DOS anykey program did? (I seem to recall that that program interacted rather poorly with Windoze, or with my new motherboard, something like that.) And, of course, is there anywhere I can get an adequate replacement? I think I looked at the Gateway site when mine started giving out on me, and didn't find anything similar. Anyone else make 'em since then? Macros are great for games!!!
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I'm not sure how different things are in France, but here (US) a civil lawsuit means you have to collect the facts to back up your claim on your own, yourself or through PI's or attorneys, without the help of the police. If they're involved, sounds like it might be a criminal case, not just a civil suit, n'est ce pas?
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
Actually, I think it'd have more to do with the fact that Good Leonardo(tm) has ties in France where Bad Leonardo(tm) is too.
And, I'm guessing, leonardo.com probably doesn't, thought I haven't double-checked this.
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
OK, now calculate these figures, please: How many calories does Santa burn going down the chimney, distributing gifts, back up, etc., 108e6 times; and how many does he consume with all those cookies, puddings, etc. left out for him?
Net result, does Santa have to work out after Christmas to lose the weight he's put on (like the rest of us mere mortals)? Or does he have to bulk up the rest of the year to be in form by next Halloween, or whenever they're turning him loose on the malls now? (Seems earlier every year, don't it?)
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
With instructions like these, you think they're helping or providing for their users? Didn't you get the point of this at all? Aside from subjective opinions about motivations beind the KB article, the instructions are just plain objectively WRONG! They better be prepared to answer a lot more questions, when people start asking why they get that funny "Unable to open /mbr" message, or why the "q" command doesn't work after they do the "w" in fdisk, and then there's all that crap they have in there that won't hamper the lobot^h^h^h^h^huninstall, but is just some (doubtless well-intentioned!) misinformation.
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
Funny... I thought I remembered there was something about some holy water in the process... and some Latin incantations, or something like that. Wasn't there?
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
Nevermind the lack of research before writing the document -- it's obvious that Microsoft didn't even test their own procedure!
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Hmm... I'm having visions of MicroSerfs clutching their secret Linux boxes to them saying, "No! You can't test this uninstall procedure on my box!"
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
Ah, but it will, even if you don't want it to. I had my nice new 20GB drive partitioned up for Linux, and I thought, "hey, I've got plenty of space now, let's put some Windoze back on so I can play some games!" Problem was, I had set up this drive as a normal drive w/o LBA, and so when I tried to add a W9x partition, it just sort of slopped the data across my /usr/lib partition. On the bright side, I saved almost everything, and know a LOT more about partition tables and ext2fs now!
/mbr", which can only mean a M$ version of fdisk. I can just imagine people twisted enough to actually want to do this, then seeing "'Unable to open /mbr'?!? Geez, this Linux thingy really is retarded, isn't it?".
Also, the braindead MicroSerf that wrote this tells you to reboot with the Linux boot disk (I think this was pointed out), and then tells you to use "fdisk
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
But to make it do that, you'd want the crawler part, not just the database searcher, and from what everyone else is saying, the crawler is the part that isn't GPL'ed and isn't free. I don't think it's likely worth whatever they're asking for the crawler just to fulfill that simple need. The free part just searches the local database generated by the crawler, or purchased from Juggernaut, when you ask it to. Won't generate browsing-like traffic over your connection.
Even more ironic: They'll call what they're arresting you for 'carrying a concealed weapon'. Apparently, only knives under 3-1/2 inches can't be concealed, at least in my town. Absurd.
My old AnyKey just gave out on me a few months ago, I think, and now that I have to use this new ordinary keyboard all the time, I'm really starting to miss it! Although it may have been a bad connector for one of those non-windows programmable-key joysticks (are we sensing a theme here? I like programmable keys!) The programmable keys and keyboard macros were my favorite thing about that keyboard; the extra F-keys were mostly nice just because I could map all my macros to one set and still have the other set available when a program needed those. Any idea if there's a Linux utility out there to set up those keymappings & macros like their old DOS anykey program did? (I seem to recall that that program interacted rather poorly with Windoze, or with my new motherboard, something like that.) And, of course, is there anywhere I can get an adequate replacement? I think I looked at the Gateway site when mine started giving out on me, and didn't find anything similar. Anyone else make 'em since then? Macros are great for games!!!