I don't know what part of Canada you're in, but here in Vancouver, I have an ADSL (server package) connection with telus.net, that gives me 2.5 down and 800 up for $80 CDN. I host a few websites, a mail/ftp/mysql server(s), and have been doing so for years. I routinely log over 40GB/month and have never heard a peep from Telus. My connection is rock solid, and as fast as advertised. Shaw Cable on the other hand can go fsck themselves as they routinely shut people down without a word as to why, or without warning. The moral here I suppose is that it all depends who you're with.
Well..I am Canadian and this does really bother me. Actually, I'm ashamed. However this one incident does not define freedom Canadian style. This case is about our largest serial killer ever, who is charged with the murder of 15 prostitutes(54 are actually missing), so this is a severe case. We don't however arrest and jail foreign nationals under a copyright law for giving a speech. We also don't make it illegal to tell anyone that we're being investigated by the authorities as is the case with the dive shops under the USA PATRIOT Act. IS that your definition of freedom?
I can understand that changing the default settings in W2K may be above some peoples heads, never mind that fact that you're in university and presumably smart enough, or know someone smart enough to fix it for you, but this quote is ridiculous: Some other options are to downgrade to Windows 98, get a free operating system such as Linux
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How can someone call a superior OS (notwithstanding the flawed perception that it is hard to configure) a downgrade, I nearly covered my monitor with coffee from that statement. If someone is forced to change OS's, that usually means wiping the drive. With a bare drive, I would suspect that Mandrake, Lycoris, Libranet and other distros would install much easier than would Win98. This is the end of my rant, but I will still continue to shake my head in disbelief.
If this technology uses analogue to digital converters, it's already dead because of course any life saving surgery can't be performed because the visualization of the organ in question is most certainly copyrighted.
How about the fact that unless you buy the components and assemble them yourself, you ARE forced into Windows. Even if at a later date you decide to remove it and and replace the OS with anything else, you still ended up paying for it. I dare you to go into Future Shop/Best Buy/ CompUSA..whereever and try to buy the latest HP/Compaq/Gateway WhizzBang 5000 without an operating system, or get a discount equivalent to the cost of WIndows, even if they re-format the drive for you. I have a better chance of winning the lottery. Taken with this perspective, you are forced to either use, or at least pay for it.
However, the OSless machines now appearing at Walmart are a start at giving the consumer back the choice they had before the monopoly set in, and letting the market drive the companies, not the companies driving the market
If I understand this correctly, MacFixIt posted instructions on how to make it easier to install the OS X Upgrade. Since when are written instructions illegal? Wouldn't this fall under "It's illegal if I build a bomb, but not illegal if I tell you how to build a bomb"? Protected speech, NO?
That being said, why are some of the early posters saying that Apple must do this? Why must they muzzle someone whose only intent was to assist others in making it easier to install legitimately acquired software. I cannot see how there was any reverse-engineering, decompilation, or anything of that nature. There isn't even a derivative work as the CheckForOSX utility was merely deleted, never altered or anything. As for the EULA, there was a story yesterday that basically said these silly EULAs are non-binding, in most cases. Am I out in left field on this one?
For the record...it's not a Toronado.. It was a '69 Plymouth Roadrunner..ala Bullitt, with Steve McQueen, quite possibly the best car chase scene ever filmed
the difference is that Linux Distros offer serveral packages to do the same thing.. For example, XMMS, X11Amp, KDE Media player..not their own version. Once again it comes down to choice. M$ wants u to have no choice, while most Linux vendors give many choices. There are probably at 50 different cd players available. Now thats choice.
Here, where I am. New Westminster, BC (suburb of Vancouver) I have both ADSL (1.5mbps down/540kbps up) and cable (SHAW@HOME - 3mpbs down/540kbps up) and I've had both in varying areas of the city for well over a year (4 years in the case of cable). I hate to admit it, but, I've had excellent service in the whole time (2 days downtime in 4 years isn't bad), with the occassional hiccup here and there, nothing serious.
I pay $40 CDN for each service, thats about $26.00/month in US dollars. Neither of my providers (Shaw & Telus) is in trouble of going down, both are very linux friendly. No special software to run or anything. I run 2 servers with both static and dynamic IP addresses. The only thing is other than the cable company censoring (refusing to carry) certain newsgroups, I can't bitch. Those of you in the U.K., you have my sincerest sympathies. Here it's cheap and reliable. There are also a number of independent ISP's offering ADSL at the same price and service/speed levels. There were at least 4 others last time I checked about 6 months ago. Why all the problems south of the border?
I've been using Slack since kernel 2.0.29 and since then I've never had a problem with video performance.
I just run xf86config (CLI I know..but it works) choose my video card by name and slack installs the correct driver. I then just startx and all is fine. I've used S3 Virge, Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro, Voodoo1 (pass-thru) and now Nvidia TNT2 Ultra. All worked right away. The only hitch is..if you want accelerated graphics with Nvidia, you must download nvidias' drivers, untar and type make..it installs itself. Then change then 'nv' in/etc/X/XF86Config to 'nvidia' and load the glx module. Works beautifully.
I've tried Mandrake, RH, Caldera, Storm, Corel, and Suse distros and ALWAYS come back to Slack. Patrick does a wonderful job.
Well, I don't know where u live in BC(I'm in Surrey) and have had cable for over 3 years. As a company, I cannot express my disdain for Rogers, but I have to say that I'm more than impressed with thier cable modem service(except for the mail server hiccups). I pay $37/month and I get 3Mbps down, and 400kbps up(it would be nice if this were higher). I have had a total of 3 outages in 3 years, the longest being about 4 hours. Beyond that I have had no issues. Ihave had the same static IP# in that time and am able to easily run my web and ftp server off of that. You do have my sympathies, but it does work very well in some areas.
Not that I am personally intertested in watching TV over the net, but this deserves some attention. Contrary what many may think, the U.S. is NOT the centre of the universe. My understanding of this issue is that iCraveTV is rebroadcasting without modifying content that it has legally accessed. In Canada, this type of rebroadcasting legal. My question is this: By what authority can a Judge in Pennsylvania stop a foreign company in a foreign country from what it is doing..LEGALLY. Much like the DeCSS fiasco, where U.S. lobby groups somehow successfully pressured the Norwegian authorities to detain, interrogate and confiscate from a Norwegian national. I'm sorry this sounds like rambling, but it pisses me off when the U.S. tries to influence outside it's jurisdiction. Please get your own house in order before trying to change others. I'm fully aware and prepared for the flaming that will be forthcoming. I didn't have much time to completely articulate my point.
Why is it that these idiotic lawsuits originate in the U.S.? My understadning is that the U.S. has more lawyers per capita than any other country. Is this true? If so, then it stands to reason that there must be some mechanism in place to keep these lawyers working. I appreciate the fact most Americans would probably agree that there must be an end to this stupidity. But is there anyone doing anything about it? Another problem I see is that since etoy.com (or Leonardo, I can't remember which) has had their URL stripped because of a U.S. instigated lawsuit, it would appear that the U.S. legal system has influence in other jurisdictions. How is this possible? If these U.S. companies can screw over foreign companies, how long until they screw over their domestic competition? The term "Only in America" is decidedly taking on negative connotations lately. I'm just glad I live in Canada where this nonsense just gets laughed out of court (assuming it even gets to court). I just hope that there is some authority in the U.S. that has the power to restore sanity to your patent system.
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I apologize in advance for this, but I would like an answer. Why is it that Americans almost always refer to Canadian cities in City/Country format. I never hear New York, U.S., or Dallas, U.S. Why say Toronto, Canada. It's Toronto, Ontario, as in Los Angeles, California. Again I apologize for this, but it's been driving me up and the bend for years. Canada has 10 Provinces and 3 Territories, a lot less than 50, and not that hard to remember. Toronto is a large city of 5 million (including surrounding area). I doubt anyone that reads slashdot does not that it is Canada.
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Actually, I'm Frank and I am sick and tired of people wanting to be me :)
I don't know what part of Canada you're in, but here in Vancouver, I have an ADSL (server package) connection with telus.net, that gives me 2.5 down and 800 up for $80 CDN. I host a few websites, a mail/ftp/mysql server(s), and have been doing so for years. I routinely log over 40GB/month and have never heard a peep from Telus. My connection is rock solid, and as fast as advertised. Shaw Cable on the other hand can go fsck themselves as they routinely shut people down without a word as to why, or without warning. The moral here I suppose is that it all depends who you're with.
Well..I am Canadian and this does really bother me. Actually, I'm ashamed. However this one incident does not define freedom Canadian style. This case is about our largest serial killer ever, who is charged with the murder of 15 prostitutes(54 are actually missing), so this is a severe case. We don't however arrest and jail foreign nationals under a copyright law for giving a speech. We also don't make it illegal to tell anyone that we're being investigated by the authorities as is the case with the dive shops under the USA PATRIOT Act. IS that your definition of freedom?
Some other options are to downgrade to Windows 98, get a free operating system such as Linux
(italics mine).
How can someone call a superior OS (notwithstanding the flawed perception that it is hard to configure) a downgrade, I nearly covered my monitor with coffee from that statement. If someone is forced to change OS's, that usually means wiping the drive. With a bare drive, I would suspect that Mandrake, Lycoris, Libranet and other distros would install much easier than would Win98. This is the end of my rant, but I will still continue to shake my head in disbelief.
So no, Candians aren't taking anything over, they're just bad at math.
And you're bad at spelling.
If this technology uses analogue to digital converters, it's already dead because of course any life saving surgery can't be performed because the visualization of the organ in question is most certainly copyrighted.
How about the fact that unless you buy the components and assemble them yourself, you ARE forced into Windows. Even if at a later date you decide to remove it and and replace the OS with anything else, you still ended up paying for it. I dare you to go into Future Shop/Best Buy/ CompUSA..whereever and try to buy the latest HP/Compaq/Gateway WhizzBang 5000 without an operating system, or get a discount equivalent to the cost of WIndows, even if they re-format the drive for you. I have a better chance of winning the lottery. Taken with this perspective, you are forced to either use, or at least pay for it.
However, the OSless machines now appearing at Walmart are a start at giving the consumer back the choice they had before the monopoly set in, and letting the market drive the companies, not the companies driving the market
If I understand this correctly, MacFixIt posted instructions on how to make it easier to install the OS X Upgrade. Since when are written instructions illegal? Wouldn't this fall under "It's illegal if I build a bomb, but not illegal if I tell you how to build a bomb"? Protected speech, NO?
That being said, why are some of the early posters saying that Apple must do this? Why must they muzzle someone whose only intent was to assist others in making it easier to install legitimately acquired software. I cannot see how there was any reverse-engineering, decompilation, or anything of that nature. There isn't even a derivative work as the CheckForOSX utility was merely deleted, never altered or anything. As for the EULA, there was a story yesterday that basically said these silly EULAs are non-binding, in most cases. Am I out in left field on this one?
For the record...it's not a Toronado.. It was a '69 Plymouth Roadrunner..ala Bullitt, with Steve McQueen, quite possibly the best car chase scene ever filmed
the difference is that Linux Distros offer serveral packages to do the same thing.. For example, XMMS, X11Amp, KDE Media player..not their own version. Once again it comes down to choice. M$ wants u to have no choice, while most Linux vendors give many choices. There are probably at 50 different cd players available. Now thats choice.
Here, where I am. New Westminster, BC (suburb of Vancouver) I have both ADSL (1.5mbps down/540kbps up) and cable (SHAW@HOME - 3mpbs down/540kbps up) and I've had both in varying areas of the city for well over a year (4 years in the case of cable). I hate to admit it, but, I've had excellent service in the whole time (2 days downtime in 4 years isn't bad), with the occassional hiccup here and there, nothing serious.
I pay $40 CDN for each service, thats about $26.00/month in US dollars. Neither of my providers (Shaw & Telus) is in trouble of going down, both are very linux friendly. No special software to run or anything. I run 2 servers with both static and dynamic IP addresses. The only thing is other than the cable company censoring (refusing to carry) certain newsgroups, I can't bitch. Those of you in the U.K., you have my sincerest sympathies. Here it's cheap and reliable. There are also a number of independent ISP's offering ADSL at the same price and service/speed levels. There were at least 4 others last time I checked about 6 months ago. Why all the problems south of the border?
I've been using Slack since kernel 2.0.29 and since then I've never had a problem with video performance. /etc/X/XF86Config to 'nvidia' and load the glx module. Works beautifully.
I just run xf86config (CLI I know..but it works) choose my video card by name and slack installs the correct driver. I then just startx and all is fine. I've used S3 Virge, Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro, Voodoo1 (pass-thru) and now Nvidia TNT2 Ultra. All worked right away. The only hitch is..if you want accelerated graphics with Nvidia, you must download nvidias' drivers, untar and type make..it installs itself. Then change then 'nv' in
I've tried Mandrake, RH, Caldera, Storm, Corel, and Suse distros and ALWAYS come back to Slack. Patrick does a wonderful job.
Well, I don't know where u live in BC(I'm in Surrey) and have had cable for over 3 years. As a company, I cannot express my disdain for Rogers, but I have to say that I'm more than impressed with thier cable modem service(except for the mail server hiccups). I pay $37/month and I get 3Mbps down, and 400kbps up(it would be nice if this were higher). I have had a total of 3 outages in 3 years, the longest being about 4 hours. Beyond that I have had no issues. Ihave had the same static IP# in that time and am able to easily run my web and ftp server off of that. You do have my sympathies, but it does work very well in some areas.
Now this is just plain cool. Never thought I could play Defender in a browser window.
Not that I am personally intertested in watching TV over the net, but this deserves some attention. Contrary what many may think, the U.S. is NOT the centre of the universe. My understanding of this issue is that iCraveTV is rebroadcasting without modifying content that it has legally accessed. In Canada, this type of rebroadcasting legal. My question is this: By what authority can a Judge in Pennsylvania stop a foreign company in a foreign country from what it is doing..LEGALLY. Much like the DeCSS fiasco, where U.S. lobby groups somehow successfully pressured the Norwegian authorities to detain, interrogate and confiscate from a Norwegian national. I'm sorry this sounds like rambling, but it pisses me off when the U.S. tries to influence outside it's jurisdiction. Please get your own house in order before trying to change others. I'm fully aware and prepared for the flaming that will be forthcoming. I didn't have much time to completely articulate my point.
Why is it that these idiotic lawsuits originate in the U.S.? My understadning is that the U.S. has more lawyers per capita than any other country. Is this true? If so, then it stands to reason that there must be some mechanism in place to keep these lawyers working. I appreciate the fact most Americans would probably agree that there must be an end to this stupidity. But is there anyone doing anything about it? Another problem I see is that since etoy.com (or Leonardo, I can't remember which) has had their URL stripped because of a U.S. instigated lawsuit, it would appear that the U.S. legal system has influence in other jurisdictions. How is this possible? If these U.S. companies can screw over foreign companies, how long until they screw over their domestic competition? The term "Only in America" is decidedly taking on negative connotations lately. I'm just glad I live in Canada where this nonsense just gets laughed out of court (assuming it even gets to court). I just hope that there is some authority in the U.S. that has the power to restore sanity to your patent system.
I apologize in advance for this, but I would like an answer. Why is it that Americans almost always refer to Canadian cities in City/Country format. I never hear New York, U.S., or Dallas, U.S. Why say Toronto, Canada. It's Toronto, Ontario, as in Los Angeles, California. Again I apologize for this, but it's been driving me up and the bend for years. Canada has 10 Provinces and 3 Territories, a lot less than 50, and not that hard to remember. Toronto is a large city of 5 million (including surrounding area). I doubt anyone that reads slashdot does not that it is Canada.