You can opt out of this DURING THE INSTALL, which most people should have done anyhow. The easiest thing to do is to reinstall the product and OPT OUT then.
I don't use IE as my default browser any how.
Bruce Davis
UNIX Systems Administrator
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
I have no time to watch TV. I work from 10 or 11 AM until about midnight every day. Most people I know would rather be surfing, reading a book or listening to the radio. TV is almost dead. Let's hope this finally kills it.
Boston's a pretty liberal, technologicaly enlightened place. I seriously doubt the public would stand for such a thing, especially here.
Bruce Davis
Medford, MA
Shameful Corporate Behavior and its Consequences
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"Wired is carrying this article about the shutdown of Alan Brown's Open Relay Behavior-Modification System, more commonly known as ORBS. Brown, of New Zealand, closed his operation after two local companies won legal injunctions against him for listing them."
Anyone know which two local companies? I'd like to publicly shame them.
I look forward to watching the arguments between folks who think OS X is better because of it's ease of use vs. those who love it because it is BSD underneath.
Reminds me of the "Tastes Great!" - "Less Filling!" Argument.
Our research department made the decision to move from SGI Octanes at $30K a pop to cheap x86 boxes running Red Hat. Each SGI box has external storage between 8 GB and 36 GB.
Practical upshot: We can hang any disk attached to an SGI off a Red Hat 7 machine. Suddenly, our job of migrating from SGI to Linux just got a lot easier.
Don't return the envelope empty. Tear up every insert they send you and the original envelope into small pieces. Write "VOID! PLEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR MAILING LIST!" anywhere your name appears. Insert these into the prepaid envelope and mail. The shreds of paper will jam the average automated Pitney Bowes letter opener.
I had the same problem with my Sony DVP-S300. I couldn't get it to play my CDR's. A friend enlightened me: Use High Quality media ONLY. Cheap CDR's (the ones with blue-green tint) will not play in Sony DVD players. However, higher quality CDRs, the ones with only a very slight tint (and therefore a higher reflectivity) will play in sony DVD players. I proved this empirically.
I work for Lernout and Hauspie. We make voice recognition products specific to healthcare - and have prototype handheld voice recognition devices running Linux on the compaq i-paq. In my own estimation, the cross over is not far away. I'm betting we will release a VR handheld for use in healthcare.
This is not funny at all. I'm giving up my moderator points to post this.
I just found out that my MIS director's wife works for Edgewater Technology. She's OK, but quite shaken. She hid under a desk and the gunman walked past her twice. The people shot were within 20 feet of her.
One of the people shot had just returned from maternity leave. It was her first day back. Her husband arrived in the neighboring church with the baby in his arms only to be told his wife didn't make it.
It is never funny when people die like this.
Re:Hard drives - applies to ATA drives...BUY SCSI!
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The plan is to incorporate copy protection into the ATA specifications and build into every hard drive by next summer.
If you buy any ATA drive made to the new ATA specification, they will have the copy protection.
From the article: The proposals are already at an advanced stage: three drafts have already been discussed for incorporating CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) into the ATA specification by the NCTIS T.13 committee. The committee next meets in February. If, as expected, the CPRM extensions become part of the ATA specification, copyright protection will be in every industry-standard hard disk by next summer,
according to IBM.
I was never paid to be an NT admin. Sure, I used NT for my previous job, but I'm Much Better Now!;) I learned Linux at home, set up a home network and a firewall, set sercurity policies. Now I'm a UNIX admin, working with Linux, IRIX, Solaris and AIX.
My company has a very diverse UNIX network environment. As a UNIX sysadmin with an NT background I can say it's not Linux that causes the problem. We openly support our reasarch scientists, engineers and developers who use Linux. However, WE WILL NOT GIVE LOCAL ROOT TO OUR USERS. Period. It is too much of a security risk.
The is problem is when the users setup their own Linux boxen and keep root. What a way to make our day! Just what we need: rouge samba, appache, DNS and NIS servers! Packet storms anyone? Hacked passwords? RSH with root prilvidges on other machines?
Users don't realize that you fundamentally change the nature of a PC once you install Linux. You suddenly go from a broken windoz 9x box to a powerful UNIX machine. Therefore, we treat Linux as we do any other UNIX. No one gets local root. We disable all boot devices in the BIOS (CD-ROM, floppy, etc.) except the hard drive, Password protect the BIOS, and PHYSICALLY LOCK DOWN THE MACHINE.
Slashdot Mirror
I wish so too! All my options are worthless.
<Top Text Link>
"All your options are belong to us"
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Bruce Davis
UNIX Systems Administrator
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
You can opt out of this DURING THE INSTALL, which most people should have done anyhow. The easiest thing to do is to reinstall the product and OPT OUT then.
I don't use IE as my default browser any how.
Bruce Davis
UNIX Systems Administrator
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Break free from the tyranny of television!
I have no time to watch TV. I work from 10 or 11 AM until about midnight every day. Most people I know would rather be surfing, reading a book or listening to the radio. TV is almost dead. Let's hope this finally kills it.
Boston's a pretty liberal, technologicaly enlightened place. I seriously doubt the public would stand for such a thing, especially here.
Bruce Davis Medford, MA
"Wired is carrying this article about the shutdown of Alan Brown's Open Relay Behavior-Modification System, more commonly known as ORBS. Brown, of New Zealand, closed his operation after two local companies won legal injunctions against him for listing them."
Anyone know which two local companies? I'd like to publicly shame them.
I Meta Moderate and I lose karma?
Well I guess there's one more reason not to watch TV.
I Meta Moderate and I lose karma?
All proper feminists are antipornography.
You mean like Annie Sprinkle?
You must be one of those "Northampton feminists", not one of those proper "Boston feminists".
Sorry, Anne Marie, you've lost me. I thought you had a point. Now I think you're just ranting and raving.
I Meta Moderate and I lose karma?
The Connection, a nationally syndicated call in show from WBUR in Boston, ran a radio interview with the author this morning.
Click here for The Connection's Pride Before the Fall web page.
Click here for the Real Audio interview.
Come to think of it, a clone of Linus would really speed up development, wouldn't it? Or would we have to clone Alan Cox too?
I don't think SMP would work with Linuses or Alans.
Could you imagine the power of a Beowulf cluster of Linus Clones?
I look forward to watching the arguments between folks who think OS X is better because of it's ease of use vs. those who love it because it is BSD underneath.
Reminds me of the "Tastes Great!" - "Less Filling!" Argument.
This is great news!
Our research department made the decision to move from SGI Octanes at $30K a pop to cheap x86 boxes running Red Hat. Each SGI box has external storage between 8 GB and 36 GB.
Practical upshot: We can hang any disk attached to an SGI off a Red Hat 7 machine. Suddenly, our job of migrating from SGI to Linux just got a lot easier.
Don't return the envelope empty. Tear up every insert they send you and the original envelope into small pieces. Write "VOID! PLEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR MAILING LIST!" anywhere your name appears. Insert these into the prepaid envelope and mail. The shreds of paper will jam the average automated Pitney Bowes letter opener.
I had the same problem with my Sony DVP-S300. I couldn't get it to play my CDR's. A friend enlightened me: Use High Quality media ONLY. Cheap CDR's (the ones with blue-green tint) will not play in Sony DVD players. However, higher quality CDRs, the ones with only a very slight tint (and therefore a higher reflectivity) will play in sony DVD players. I proved this empirically.
Has anyone else noticed the banners on eBay's search result pages now show
AOL Presents eBay
The individual items in search results have ebay.aol.com in the URL.
See http://www.ebay.aol.com/
Yeah, it's chapter 11, reorganization. We should be OK, though.
I work for Lernout and Hauspie. We make voice recognition products specific to healthcare - and have prototype handheld voice recognition devices running Linux on the compaq i-paq. In my own estimation, the cross over is not far away. I'm betting we will release a VR handheld for use in healthcare.
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See this link for healthcare product info at L&H.
See this link for L&H's press announcement about L&H's Linux PDA.
See these slashdot stories about L&H's Linux PDA:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/31/14322
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/05/09282
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/10/18592
http://web.mit.edu/is/athena/
This is not funny at all. I'm giving up my moderator points to post this.
I just found out that my MIS director's wife works for Edgewater Technology. She's OK, but quite shaken. She hid under a desk and the gunman walked past her twice. The people shot were within 20 feet of her.
One of the people shot had just returned from maternity leave. It was her first day back. Her husband arrived in the neighboring church with the baby in his arms only to be told his wife didn't make it.
It is never funny when people die like this.
The plan is to incorporate copy protection into the ATA specifications and build into every hard drive by next summer.
If you buy any ATA drive made to the new ATA specification, they will have the copy protection.
From the article: The proposals are already at an advanced stage: three drafts have already been discussed for incorporating CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) into the ATA specification by the NCTIS T.13 committee. The committee next meets in February. If, as expected, the CPRM extensions become part of the ATA specification, copyright protection will be in every industry-standard hard disk by next summer, according to IBM.
The best solution is to use SCSI drives!
The Melinium Falcon ....
http://www.force-x.com/~inosuke/index2.htm
I was never paid to be an NT admin. Sure, I used NT for my previous job, but I'm Much Better Now! ;) I learned Linux at home, set up a home network and a firewall, set sercurity policies. Now I'm a UNIX admin, working with Linux, IRIX, Solaris and AIX.
My company has a very diverse UNIX network environment. As a UNIX sysadmin with an NT background I can say it's not Linux that causes the problem. We openly support our reasarch scientists, engineers and developers who use Linux. However, WE WILL NOT GIVE LOCAL ROOT TO OUR USERS. Period. It is too much of a security risk.
The is problem is when the users setup their own Linux boxen and keep root. What a way to make our day! Just what we need: rouge samba, appache, DNS and NIS servers! Packet storms anyone? Hacked passwords? RSH with root prilvidges on other machines?
Users don't realize that you fundamentally change the nature of a PC once you install Linux. You suddenly go from a broken windoz 9x box to a powerful UNIX machine. Therefore, we treat Linux as we do any other UNIX. No one gets local root. We disable all boot devices in the BIOS (CD-ROM, floppy, etc.) except the hard drive, Password protect the BIOS, and PHYSICALLY LOCK DOWN THE MACHINE.
http://www.xigraphics.com/Pages/DeXtopGUI.html
/Pages/DeXtopGUI.html was not found on this server.
Not Found
The requested URL
Apache/1.3.3 Server at 208.243.114.254 Port 80
Are you teaching La Volta at Pennsic this year? Enthusiastic Carolingians want to know!
Ayden
Easy. They hacked it, just like we would.