I had 4 capacitors blow on my mobo, a KA7-100, and my EE prof thought I had somehow generated a high voltage somewhere... That was what I started to believe. Anyways, I bought new capacitors from a different company and soldered them in, and the board worked flawlessly since.
For my part I must admit I like the board, but for those that had to pay Abit $25 + shipping to get it repaired or those that had to buy a new one, I feel your pain.
Driver certification costs a lot of money. This new "service" will cost even more. Companies with small budgets will have big problems to be competitive. And M$ is trying to blame all of it's BSODs seemingly on the Driver Producers. That stinks!
Also, who said that if Red Carpet did this, it were okay? Your only reply to the onslaught of bad news from M$ seems to be to use faulty and unfounded arguments.
I fail to see the problem, to be honest. Why not upgrade to the newest kernel that supports your PDA?
I understand that people who run a server don't update every second just because a new kernel (-patch) has been released, but for a desktop system it shouldn't be too risky.
I hate to make unsolicited advertisement, but why not use SuSE 7.1, for example? It uses the new 2.4 kernel and has other nice features?
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"I find your Lack of Faith disturbing." Darth Vader
Now, what makes you think that the
writers of these things would take it any more seriously?
It oesn't matter how serious the writer takes these things, what matters how seriously an entity known to exploit takes them serious.
I'm 95% convinced that when MS started to integrate them more tightly, nobody really checked carefully enough the legal texts (they are so boring, after all), and this created a situation where the strictest one happens to seem to cover other stuff also. It's a blunder but it's certainly not an attempt to take over the world.
And I am convinced taking off your pink-colored shades would give you a much needed view on realism. Or why do You think that the strictest one got chosen if nobody reads them?
It's actuatually quite bad when I have to read through X pages just to use a service in peace and good trust, just to make sure I am not sold to the highest bidder. But hey this is the so-called democratic USA. Where money rules the free.
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"Your lack of faith is disturbing." Darth Vader
Now, consider the resources that the NSA would expend on getting backdoor (highly obscured buffer overflow) access into a few of the most popular Linux distros. All they would have to do is get maintenance control of a couple key packages. This can rather easily be done.
At least with open-source somebody could find this backdoor since a reasonable large number of people could stumble over the backdoor, whereas with any kind of proprietory work only a select few will be able to even see the backdoor, and they might not recognise it.
We all care a lot more about the temperature closer to the environment where we live and at that level we have, as you stated in the article quoted, measureable gloabal warming effects.
This type of report that you quote is nothing but a clever hiding of the facts, and doesn't change anything about the predictions we are facing if we don't stop ourselves from ruining this planet.
Really, it must be somewhere here, but I don't remember where i placed it. Didn't I prove that I have a license by registering? DOH! Registering is just to get your e-mail address for spam tactics.
Our Windows NT 4.0 CD-Roms are actually able to FLY!!! Yes, no shit. But some of them broke when they hit a wall, but hey, you can't expect them to fly and withstand impact, or???
I for one say that Windoze products rule because they can fly, and because someone actually paid them to do that.
Hope I am not using any products of this company.
They're either too cheap to get someone with even minimal security training or simply don't care about security (and perhaps other things???).
And if someone else "owns" your machine, your in for shit with anykind of OS, not just Linux.
Not all of us use AOL. We type in URLs, and it doesn't matter if there is a link to them or not. So why complicate a URL by making it unneccessary long?
And who says that with your method you will get better content than with this system?
Bandazaar
It's NOT about having just one version out !
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And it will never happen. Most free software isn't written because an unknown userbase wants it, but because someone needs this particular program for his/her needs. He/she is then so good as to give it to the rest of the world. Sometimes others look at it and see potential, or simply like it enough to work on it. Tastes are different, so there will always be different versions/concepts of code or programs.
What does this have to do with X (do not call it X Windows, please, that's just wrong)??? X is being developed by a group who, in a broad sense, shape it towards their needs. Want to change something, GO AND HELP by coding or giving sound guidance. And be prepared to be judged harshly.
Personally I'd hate to see GNU/Linux converge onto one windowing system. It doesn't even remotely exist to beat this "other" OS. Give up that notion, and open your eyes.
Thanks for replying! Have a good one.
by Bandazaar
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. -The Bashar Teg (Chapterhouse: DUNE by Frank Herbert)
I don't see a problem here. BeOS version 5 is out of the box, untweaked, as is the Corel Linux version. So this shows one thing : LINUX DISTROS NEED SOME WORK DONE ON THE TWEAKING PART !!!
I mean not every Linux user has the time and knowledge to tweak their system to the best available. So out-of-the-box seems fair to me.
Flame responsible, Flaming and driving prohibited in certain states!
Hey, aren't we supposed to propagate freedom? So why start FUDing this guy? There is no good evidence that he took the name to make money, and, hey, even if he did, it is his good right. First in, first served. Or how would you like it if, let's say you were the owner of www.theBestOS.com and a well-known/hated company would start a foulmouthed campaign insisting THEY should be granted the name because they are SOOOO much more connected to that name. Check out the post #88 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/03/06/20362 42&cid=88 to see that they could have gotten their org if they wanted to. This campaign is inappropriate for people propagating freedom.
Call me paranoid but I don't like it when (for example) somebody writes something down I have said, and tells me I can not say this again someplace else, if I don't get permission to do so. I thought we have something like free speech?! How can this even hold up to this principle? Also, think about the concept of quoting. Couldn't this all mean that your comment could be cut apart, rearranged or be added to change whatever you said into something totally different? What I think, say, sing, write or whatever was mine, is mine and will always be mine. End of Comment.
Hi Anonymous Coward. I am not really convinced by some of the arguments that you posted.
First off, I wouldn't call the uproar "unnecessary whining". Maybe you don't see a problem in companies sneaking Trojan horses into our "fortressess", but a lot of us do.
Secondly, true, all this advocacy stuff gets lame very fast, but if you name the Linux comunitys side, please include the other one as well. They are in no way better, or worse in that matter.
Thirdly, this information does not permit iD to support our various video cards better per se. On the one hand I don't see how they will support specific cards if they use OPEN_GL. That more or less depends on an existing OPEN_GL driver for that card. I do not think iD has the inclination nor the time to write drivers. And on the other I believe that even if they were able to "better support a wide variety of video cards" , this could also mean that certain users could be left out, because their "userbase" isn't big enough when certain decisions are made.
Numero quadro, perhaps you want to rephrase your statement about iD storing personal data, because if they did what you are alleging them that they would...you get the idea (I know, this is all based on a hypothesis, but I belive that you actually wanted to say the opposite of what you wrote).
Nummer fuenf, IMHO John Carmack does care and therefor will take notice, or why do you think he even considered porting Q3A to a user base that accounts for only 2% (were did you get that number from anyhow ?).
Lastly, no, you are not a waste of... [snip], and actually entitled to your opinion because you are a free being, and as long as you have control over your information and who gets how much and what kind of it you will stay one.
Bye the way, you must really have an impressive piece of equippment there, I haven't heard of someone's machine doing 90fps even at 320 x 240 without any "extras".
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Just STFU
For my part I must admit I like the board, but for those that had to pay Abit $25 + shipping to get it repaired or those that had to buy a new one, I feel your pain.
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SuSE 8.1 rocks !!!
Also, who said that if Red Carpet did this, it were okay? Your only reply to the onslaught of bad news from M$ seems to be to use faulty and unfounded arguments.
Sorry but you are a MORON!!!
And why wouldn't they know their own TOS and the such? They are big, and employ their fair share of laywers ...
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"I find your lack of faith disturbing." Darth Vader
I understand that people who run a server don't update every second just because a new kernel (-patch) has been released, but for a desktop system it shouldn't be too risky.
I hate to make unsolicited advertisement, but why not use SuSE 7.1, for example? It uses the new 2.4 kernel and has other nice features?
--
"I find your Lack of Faith disturbing." Darth Vader
It oesn't matter how serious the writer takes these things, what matters how seriously an entity known to exploit takes them serious.
And I am convinced taking off your pink-colored shades would give you a much needed view on realism. Or why do You think that the strictest one got chosen if nobody reads them?
It's actuatually quite bad when I have to read through X pages just to use a service in peace and good trust, just to make sure I am not sold to the highest bidder. But hey this is the so-called democratic USA. Where money rules the free.
-- "Your lack of faith is disturbing." Darth Vader
At least with open-source somebody could find this backdoor since a reasonable large number of people could stumble over the backdoor, whereas with any kind of proprietory work only a select few will be able to even see the backdoor, and they might not recognise it.
Bandazaar
This type of report that you quote is nothing but a clever hiding of the facts, and doesn't change anything about the predictions we are facing if we don't stop ourselves from ruining this planet.
Bandazaar
Wake up, set yourself free
Good morning America
Our Windows NT 4.0 CD-Roms are actually able to FLY!!! Yes, no shit. But some of them broke when they hit a wall, but hey, you can't expect them to fly and withstand impact, or???
I for one say that Windoze products rule because they can fly, and because someone actually paid them to do that.
Bandazaar
And if someone else "owns" your machine, your in for shit with anykind of OS, not just Linux.
Re-load that flamethrower
Bandazaar
Cut-with-a-spoon-komma
And who says that with your method you will get better content than with this system?
Bandazaar
What does this have to do with X (do not call it X Windows, please, that's just wrong)??? X is being developed by a group who, in a broad sense, shape it towards their needs. Want to change something, GO AND HELP by coding or giving sound guidance. And be prepared to be judged harshly.
Personally I'd hate to see GNU/Linux converge onto one windowing system. It doesn't even remotely exist to beat this "other" OS. Give up that notion, and open your eyes.
Thanks for replying! Have a good one.
by Bandazaar
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
-The Bashar Teg (Chapterhouse: DUNE by Frank Herbert)
LINUX DISTROS NEED SOME WORK DONE ON THE TWEAKING PART !!!
I mean not every Linux user has the time and knowledge to tweak their system to the best available. So out-of-the-box seems fair to me.
Flame responsible, Flaming and driving prohibited in certain states!
Hey, aren't we supposed to propagate freedom? So why start FUDing this guy? There is no good evidence that he took the name to make money, and, hey, even if he did, it is his good right. First in, first served. Or how would you like it if, let's say you were the owner of www.theBestOS.com and a well-known/hated company would start a foulmouthed campaign insisting THEY should be granted the name because they are SOOOO much more connected to that name. Check out the post #88 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/03/06/20362 42&cid=88 to see that they could have gotten their org if they wanted to. This campaign is inappropriate for people propagating freedom.
Call me paranoid but I don't like it when (for example) somebody writes something down I have said, and tells me I can not say this again someplace else, if I don't get permission to do so. I thought we have something like free speech?! How can this even hold up to this principle? Also, think about the concept of quoting. Couldn't this all mean that your comment could be cut apart, rearranged or be added to change whatever you said into something totally different? What I think, say, sing, write or whatever was mine, is mine and will always be mine. End of Comment.
First off, I wouldn't call the uproar "unnecessary whining". Maybe you don't see a problem in companies sneaking Trojan horses into our "fortressess", but a lot of us do.
Secondly, true, all this advocacy stuff gets lame very fast, but if you name the Linux comunitys side, please include the other one as well. They are in no way better, or worse in that matter.
Thirdly, this information does not permit iD to support our various video cards better per se. On the one hand I don't see how they will support specific cards if they use OPEN_GL. That more or less depends on an existing OPEN_GL driver for that card. I do not think iD has the inclination nor the time to write drivers. And on the other I believe that even if they were able to "better support a wide variety of video cards" , this could also mean that certain users could be left out, because their "userbase" isn't big enough when certain decisions are made.
Numero quadro, perhaps you want to rephrase your statement about iD storing personal data, because if they did what you are alleging them that they would ...you get the idea (I know, this is all based on a hypothesis, but I belive that you actually wanted to say the opposite of what you wrote).
Nummer fuenf, IMHO John Carmack does care and therefor will take notice, or why do you think he even considered porting Q3A to a user base that accounts for only 2% (were did you get that number from anyhow ?).
Lastly, no, you are not a waste of ... [snip], and actually entitled to your opinion because you are a free being, and as long as you have control over your information and who gets how much and what kind of it you will stay one.
Bye the way, you must really have an impressive piece of equippment there, I haven't heard of someone's machine doing 90fps even at 320 x 240 without any "extras".
Cheers
John