The thing is, lawyers and judges are ornery types, and, having heard McBride's bookstore theory, the judge might well take a trip to the computer section at the bookstore and see it for himself. He will see Linux everywhere, and no Unix, and probably conclude that McBride is a liar. It turns out that most lawyers and judges have very limited imaginations and are terrible at what they do. Most likely this sort of thing would never occur to them. Quite likely, they won't even recognize the contradiction with the recent testimony mentioned in the summary.
In my computers it's always been 8 seconds, not 15, but frequently it fails and won't turn the computer off after any amount of time. It's not a hard switch - it's a gentle request.
On the other hand, you can always just go around to the back of your computer and flip the hard switch on your power supply.
I think the ethics of this situation are debatable, and they're actually being debated in a few threads. Mostly, though, I see people here saying "the legal owner of the property said you should do it, so it's okay." If you said or thought that, I think you need to take a hard look at your mind and figure out why it is that you think that legality is the same as, or more important than, being ethical. These answers actually help me to put into perspective the way laws are presented in corporate environments, where they are typically called ethics but are anything but.
the dead have no right to privacy (or reason to care). Okay, let's make a deal. I'll buy your argument, if in turn you agree to let me, on the day of your death, make everyone in the world think you were a horrible person and hate you for all time. Your family will wish they had never had anything to do with you. Your friends will be revolted to think that they ever met you. But it will be fine, because you won't be there to notice, right?
A true conservative, in the same style as Barry Goldwater, would find all of this governmental involvement abhorrent and would love to see the size of government shrink and people start taking responsibility for themselves and their actions again. Ah, but that's the old conservatism. New conservatives believe in big government, big wars, and science as an anti-religious conspiracy.
There are millions of copies of this tool online already. Any image for making a NTFS-capable boot-cd or boot-disk accomplishes the same thing. There are also millions of copies of tools for doing the exact same thing to OSX and Linux.
Most police departments already have Linux USB drives they boot and then mount your partition. This tool apparently just makes it as easy to grab files from an unencrypted Windows drive as it is for them to grab them from an unencrypted Linux drive, with the added "convenience" of auto-copying things out of My Documents.
Having spoken with two ex-Mig flight trainers who had also flown F-16s, my impression of their impression was that they loved the potential of the Migs, but were always nervous that the electronics would get them killed. American aircraft have had system crashes that have endangered (and probably in cases I don't know about, killed) pilots, but in India it was considered common for Mig pilots to die because instruments went glitchy at a bad time (like in low visibility situations). Maybe this was somewhat specific to Indian Migs, though. One of the pilots told me that his dream plane would be a Mig design built in the US.
When I was in school, we (and basically every other elementary/middle school in America) used only Apple computers, because Apple had nice donation and fund-raising programs.
This post reads like a troll, but I'll bite just in case it isn't. Yes, it's easy to install Ubuntu on a two-drive, non-RAID, NTFS Windows machine. Ubuntu will prompt you on how to make sure your drives are setup correctly for dual-boot and all of that. I run Windows XP and Ubuntu in exactly the same setup as what you're describing and everything works just fine.
In fact, Ubuntu works so well that I only reboot to Windows to play the occasional video game, but I haven't even done that in months due to how annoyed I get with the crash-proneness of Windows XP. (besides, Wii, PS2, and a Mac keep me entertained enough as it is) You thought my "I want to run Linux" post was a troll? I thought it was pretty Slashdot-friendly, considering I _want_to_run_Linux_!!! I've used Ubuntu on a lot of work computers, but the OS has been transparent to me for the most part, and I've never had to install or uninstall anything. Now I want to try it out at home. Seriously, after like fifteen people came and gave me great answers very quickly, I'm impressed that you then concluded I was trolling. I just guessed (correctly) that Slashdot would be a great place to ask for this sort of advice.
My dad has replaced the batteries in four 3g iPods and two Nanos (I don't remember what gen they are, they're the black ones from before the widening of the form factor). He charged me the cost of batteries, which were about $5-10 each. He's good with mechanical things and managed to replace all the batteries without leaving any clue that they'd been opened. I think I'll give him a call tonight and ask him what he did.
Rather than respond to all the responses, I'll just post a general thanks here. I appreciate the answers, and they sound pretty encouraging. My main concern is not breaking Windows, since there are a lot of things I won't be able to do in Linux immediately.
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I'm running XP at home. I've got two large hard drives, not in a RAID. Were I to download this Ubuntu release, would it be easy to set up dual-booting? What's the best way to do that, assuming I don't want to upset by Windows install in any way? Would I need to use FAT32 on a drive to make it visible to both OSs? Is there a robust method to at least read NTFS in Linux? Would it make sense to install on a USB memory stick or an external hard drive?
I just asked four people who he was, all four said sci-fi author. I then said he wrote 2001, and everyone was surprised.
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Yeah, eBay may have a valid legal case, though without more info we can't really say. On the other hand, it should be made very clear that they don't deserve any sympathy. They only own part of Craigslist through a very slimy attempt to use a betrayal within Craigslist to take over the company and ruin it. It would be in the best interest of everyone in the world who doesn't own eBay stock for eBay to lose every claim it has to Craigslist ownership.
48 disks, 0 failures in year 1, 7 in year 2, 11 in year 3. They don't get heavy use, though. Maybe your data center keeps them spinning, while my lab computers let them spin down and spin up all the time.
I imagine you know this, but it's relevant because of history. CDDB came first and was free. FreeDB only appeared to fill the hole left when CDDB was commercialized. It was exactly the same as if FreeDB were purchased tomorrow and then required a $50/month registration fee.
The thing I don't get about these jokes, not having used Vista on any of my own computers, is why people refer to insanely long boot times when the boot time I see on lab computer with Vista is 30 seconds. When I turn on an XP and a Vista machine on almost identical hardware with the same extra services set to run at bootup, they seem to get to the desktop at the same time. Now, being in a lab, these computers don't have a lot of the stuff that most desktops do. They're not networked, for instance, so they have no antivirus software. Does Vista slow down much more than XP as the number of processes increases or is this just something people say because they heard Vista is slow and it's safe to criticize specifics on Slashdot based on this general knowledge?
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Yeah, this isn't new science. It's a new engineering of that science into equipment, though, and that's cool.
Which beamline do you use at Argonne?
You can make diffraction gratings/screens that will focus at any distance you want. This is really old technology and not very complicated.
In my computers it's always been 8 seconds, not 15, but frequently it fails and won't turn the computer off after any amount of time. It's not a hard switch - it's a gentle request.
On the other hand, you can always just go around to the back of your computer and flip the hard switch on your power supply.
I think the ethics of this situation are debatable, and they're actually being debated in a few threads. Mostly, though, I see people here saying "the legal owner of the property said you should do it, so it's okay." If you said or thought that, I think you need to take a hard look at your mind and figure out why it is that you think that legality is the same as, or more important than, being ethical. These answers actually help me to put into perspective the way laws are presented in corporate environments, where they are typically called ethics but are anything but.
There are millions of copies of this tool online already. Any image for making a NTFS-capable boot-cd or boot-disk accomplishes the same thing. There are also millions of copies of tools for doing the exact same thing to OSX and Linux.
And yes, the submitter was definitely trolling.
Ubuntu's just as easy. So is MacOSX, BSD, or Unix. You can win on any of those OSs just by encrypting your files, though.
Most police departments already have Linux USB drives they boot and then mount your partition. This tool apparently just makes it as easy to grab files from an unencrypted Windows drive as it is for them to grab them from an unencrypted Linux drive, with the added "convenience" of auto-copying things out of My Documents.
Having spoken with two ex-Mig flight trainers who had also flown F-16s, my impression of their impression was that they loved the potential of the Migs, but were always nervous that the electronics would get them killed. American aircraft have had system crashes that have endangered (and probably in cases I don't know about, killed) pilots, but in India it was considered common for Mig pilots to die because instruments went glitchy at a bad time (like in low visibility situations). Maybe this was somewhat specific to Indian Migs, though. One of the pilots told me that his dream plane would be a Mig design built in the US.
When I was in school, we (and basically every other elementary/middle school in America) used only Apple computers, because Apple had nice donation and fund-raising programs.
In fact, Ubuntu works so well that I only reboot to Windows to play the occasional video game, but I haven't even done that in months due to how annoyed I get with the crash-proneness of Windows XP. (besides, Wii, PS2, and a Mac keep me entertained enough as it is) You thought my "I want to run Linux" post was a troll? I thought it was pretty Slashdot-friendly, considering I _want_to_run_Linux_!!! I've used Ubuntu on a lot of work computers, but the OS has been transparent to me for the most part, and I've never had to install or uninstall anything. Now I want to try it out at home. Seriously, after like fifteen people came and gave me great answers very quickly, I'm impressed that you then concluded I was trolling. I just guessed (correctly) that Slashdot would be a great place to ask for this sort of advice.
I'd tell you my unique relationship to the 80-column card, but then I'd be giving away my identity online, which is a no-no.
My dad has replaced the batteries in four 3g iPods and two Nanos (I don't remember what gen they are, they're the black ones from before the widening of the form factor). He charged me the cost of batteries, which were about $5-10 each. He's good with mechanical things and managed to replace all the batteries without leaving any clue that they'd been opened. I think I'll give him a call tonight and ask him what he did.
Rather than respond to all the responses, I'll just post a general thanks here. I appreciate the answers, and they sound pretty encouraging. My main concern is not breaking Windows, since there are a lot of things I won't be able to do in Linux immediately.
I'm running XP at home. I've got two large hard drives, not in a RAID. Were I to download this Ubuntu release, would it be easy to set up dual-booting? What's the best way to do that, assuming I don't want to upset by Windows install in any way? Would I need to use FAT32 on a drive to make it visible to both OSs? Is there a robust method to at least read NTFS in Linux? Would it make sense to install on a USB memory stick or an external hard drive?
I just asked four people who he was, all four said sci-fi author. I then said he wrote 2001, and everyone was surprised.
Yeah, eBay may have a valid legal case, though without more info we can't really say. On the other hand, it should be made very clear that they don't deserve any sympathy. They only own part of Craigslist through a very slimy attempt to use a betrayal within Craigslist to take over the company and ruin it. It would be in the best interest of everyone in the world who doesn't own eBay stock for eBay to lose every claim it has to Craigslist ownership.
48 disks, 0 failures in year 1, 7 in year 2, 11 in year 3. They don't get heavy use, though. Maybe your data center keeps them spinning, while my lab computers let them spin down and spin up all the time.
I imagine you know this, but it's relevant because of history. CDDB came first and was free. FreeDB only appeared to fill the hole left when CDDB was commercialized. It was exactly the same as if FreeDB were purchased tomorrow and then required a $50/month registration fee.
Any album worth buying is available used, and that way it's cheaper and the RIAA gets nothing from the sale.
Boycott the RIAA - buy your music legally.
The thing I don't get about these jokes, not having used Vista on any of my own computers, is why people refer to insanely long boot times when the boot time I see on lab computer with Vista is 30 seconds. When I turn on an XP and a Vista machine on almost identical hardware with the same extra services set to run at bootup, they seem to get to the desktop at the same time. Now, being in a lab, these computers don't have a lot of the stuff that most desktops do. They're not networked, for instance, so they have no antivirus software. Does Vista slow down much more than XP as the number of processes increases or is this just something people say because they heard Vista is slow and it's safe to criticize specifics on Slashdot based on this general knowledge?
I thought the express purpose of our government was to concentrate wealth into the hands of the fewer and bigger corporations that own it.
Okay, that actually sounds like a nice game mechanic, and feasible. Thanks for the info. ...now I want to try 4E. Damn you.