Who types in commands in LInux? KDE button | Configuration | Mandrake Control Center. Then just click on the big button that says Update. It really is that simple.
Now if they'd just put a little check box on there that says "Keep my computer up to date by checking and installing updates automatically" so that the average user could automate the whole process and never have to worry about it.
Before, the President of the United States did not have the ability to take an American citizen, look him up, deny him access to a lawyer, and keep him from even knowing the charges against him. This would have been a blatant violation of an individual's 4th amendment rights.
Now, the President has done this at least twice.
But that's not the PATRIOT act of course. Specifically, section 213 changes the requirements for violating a person's 4th amendment rights, reducing the rights and protections given to citizens.
No, in the one of the Tom Baker stories the Doctor and the Master both enter the Matrix and fight in the battleground of the mind. And if you die there, you die for real. (Sorry, couldn't resist all the cliches. Well, they're cliches now, but they weren't at the time.) The Master is defeated, but manages to escape at the last minute.
It really is a virtual reality world in the story. The master controls the environment much more than Neo or Agent Smith does. We don't get to see superhuman battles, just surreal scene changes.
We use Drive Image 2000 (so I can't speak to the problems people report with the latest version) and we have never had a problem creating or restoring an image. Boot from the boot disks into dos and away you go.
As far as sysprep is concerned, we've seen some problems with it on xp machines in that after sysprep is run, some of the settings that *were* in the default user profile are no longer there. We came to the conclusion that sysprep is junk and unnecessary if you replace it with NewSID from sysinternals.com. A much better piece of software that is less complicated and does exactly what we want, instead of what MS wants.
Since I can't get to the freedesktop site right now, I'm curious about the speed increase when the alpha blending is done by the X server instead of by the window manager. The one screen shot I did see(only because someone mirrored it) had gnome with semi-transparent windows. I'm not a gnome user, I use KDE and I know it handles transparent windows and menus. But how much faster and snappier will the response be with the transparency done at lower level?
Who cares what the original intent of the founders were?
They also thought women, blacks, and poor people shouldn't be allowed to vote. It was their *intent* to keep the vast majority of the country from being able to have a say in its governance.
My dvd player will slideshow through jpegs on a cd or dvd. If I want a "screen saver" for my tv, I'll just let my little dvd player handle it. For the price of a blank disc I can go through hundreds or thousands of pictures.
I read hotmail in Mozilla and now Firebird all the time under both XP and Linux. Or do you mean use an e-mail program to access the webmail? That I'll buy, because hotmail isn't really a pop3 mail service, it's web based mail. So a standard pop3 or imap client won't work with it, yahoo, etc.
Well, the suggestion in the article was that Lineo used an "innocent actor" defense. They admitted that they did infringe but did so innocently and without knowledge that what they were doing was wrong. In other words, "Whoops, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that happened, let me just take that code right out of there."
The reason that is important to seal the records is that *if* there is found to be infringing code in Linux (and it is a big if) that is exactly the defense that IBM and others would use. So if Lineo used the same defense tha IBM and others want to use and got off with a slap on the wrists, knowledge of that could taint the jury and they don't want the jury tainted.
IANAL, but apparently ignorance of the law is then an excuse in civil court?
Be careful though, sometimes those educational prices are a result of a deal done by your university with MS. For example, our university pays millions of dollars each year to MS, and as a result we get to "rent" office, visual studio, and operating systems for the price of the media. We also have unlimited CALS. The millions that we pay come in part through an increase in student computer fees, never mind that most students have office bundled on the computer they buy from gateway or dell and that's more software than they need anyway. I think the increase in student computer fees was around $100 a year, which means students paid $400 to rent software they could have bought for the same price or that they already owned.
And it is truly a rental, because as soon as you graduate or leave tun U, you are no longer licensed to use the product. Or as soon as MS and the U fail to renew their contract.
Not only does each virus email generate an autoresponse email, every user in our building emails me *every time* they receive an autoresponse about an infected file.
Ok, so maybe it isn't every user every time, but boy does it feel like it. When you've explained to someone for the fourth time that the emails are junk, it gets frustrating.
So if a reasonable person would think that it is an obfuscation of the original
Not quite. It isn't that a reasonable person has to think it is an obfuscation. I believe the phrase you are looking for is "preponderance of the evidence", but I am not a lawyer. What they'll have to do is show that the preponderance of the evidence indicates that the code in Linux cannot legally be there. The judge will tell the jury what the law is and the jury will determine what the facts are.
Firewall on the workstation to drop outgoing requests on 80 would be a good start.
If you want access to some websites and not others, then set up a proxy or redo the hosts file on the client so that common time wasters are routed to 127.0.0.1 or better yet to a company web server with a page that says visiting the requested page is forbidden. Then image the computer and distribute the image.
There may be even more thigs in the IE Resource Kit, but it's been awhile since I looked at it.
Mozilla can act as its own proxy to restrict some sites. Not sure about IE.
Actually, I've thought about suggesting that. It would be a wonderful for all of the reasons you suggest. I know some schools do this already.
For our college, the problem right now would be one of budget, time, and commitment by the administration (which isn't that technically oriented at the moment). We also want to see what the main U is going to do.
And that is a legitimate use. I can understand that, and I hadn't considered spam filters that people put in place without knowing what is filtered. I.E. Yahoo and Hotmail's spam filtering.
That's why I have test accounts on all of the major free e-mail providers, so I can see what the students will get when we send them messages. I'm noticing a fair chunk of our students using free providers instead of the university's mail servers because the accounts will be around after they graduate.
I would want something from a university that I was attending, and would not want anything from someone shilling their campaign through my email.
The other thing I did was prepend our college name in squre brackets to the subject, like many e-mail lists do. Makes it simple for the recipients to filter the messages we send out, and whether they get filtered to the trash or not is up to them.
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I don't think it auto installs, but only a psycho would enable that feature.
It depends on whether or not you trust the source. Since I can pick which mirror I want to use for updates with Mandrake, I pick a mirror I trust.
Thanks for the heads up on this feature though. I looked for it with the rest of the software update utilities in the Control Center; my mistake.
Who types in commands in LInux? KDE button | Configuration | Mandrake Control Center. Then just click on the big button that says Update. It really is that simple.
Now if they'd just put a little check box on there that says "Keep my computer up to date by checking and installing updates automatically" so that the average user could automate the whole process and never have to worry about it.
As it is, I enter a cron job by hand.
Before, the President of the United States did not have the ability to take an American citizen, look him up, deny him access to a lawyer, and keep him from even knowing the charges against him. This would have been a blatant violation of an individual's 4th amendment rights.
Now, the President has done this at least twice.
But that's not the PATRIOT act of course. Specifically, section 213 changes the requirements for violating a person's 4th amendment rights, reducing the rights and protections given to citizens.
No, in the one of the Tom Baker stories the Doctor and the Master both enter the Matrix and fight in the battleground of the mind. And if you die there, you die for real. (Sorry, couldn't resist all the cliches. Well, they're cliches now, but they weren't at the time.) The Master is defeated, but manages to escape at the last minute.
It really is a virtual reality world in the story. The master controls the environment much more than Neo or Agent Smith does. We don't get to see superhuman battles, just surreal scene changes.
We use Drive Image 2000 (so I can't speak to the problems people report with the latest version) and we have never had a problem creating or restoring an image. Boot from the boot disks into dos and away you go.
As far as sysprep is concerned, we've seen some problems with it on xp machines in that after sysprep is run, some of the settings that *were* in the default user profile are no longer there. We came to the conclusion that sysprep is junk and unnecessary if you replace it with NewSID from sysinternals.com. A much better piece of software that is less complicated and does exactly what we want, instead of what MS wants.
Since I can't get to the freedesktop site right now, I'm curious about the speed increase when the alpha blending is done by the X server instead of by the window manager. The one screen shot I did see(only because someone mirrored it) had gnome with semi-transparent windows. I'm not a gnome user, I use KDE and I know it handles transparent windows and menus. But how much faster and snappier will the response be with the transparency done at lower level?
original intent of the founding fathers
Who cares what the original intent of the founders were?
They also thought women, blacks, and poor people shouldn't be allowed to vote. It was their *intent* to keep the vast majority of the country from being able to have a say in its governance.
My dvd player will slideshow through jpegs on a cd or dvd. If I want a "screen saver" for my tv, I'll just let my little dvd player handle it. For the price of a blank disc I can go through hundreds or thousands of pictures.
I read hotmail in Mozilla and now Firebird all the time under both XP and Linux. Or do you mean use an e-mail program to access the webmail? That I'll buy, because hotmail isn't really a pop3 mail service, it's web based mail. So a standard pop3 or imap client won't work with it, yahoo, etc.
A great job on Firebird. The first thing I noticed was how much faster it loads now, even faster than the beta from a week or so ago.
I'll never go back.
Yeah, I thought about that after I posted. I tend to be very literal when I'm reading.
Here's a nickel, buy a clue. They aren't charging for iso's. They're charging for the privilege of:
1) Deciding what to include in the distro through RPM voiting
2) The ability to download iso's before the general public.
3) Lot's of other features and benefits like discounts on software.
ISO's will be available on ftp servers for free when the software ships.
Don't you think it make sense to reward those people that actually contribute money to the developers?
Well, the suggestion in the article was that Lineo used an "innocent actor" defense. They admitted that they did infringe but did so innocently and without knowledge that what they were doing was wrong. In other words, "Whoops, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that happened, let me just take that code right out of there."
The reason that is important to seal the records is that *if* there is found to be infringing code in Linux (and it is a big if) that is exactly the defense that IBM and others would use. So if Lineo used the same defense tha IBM and others want to use and got off with a slap on the wrists, knowledge of that could taint the jury and they don't want the jury tainted.
IANAL, but apparently ignorance of the law is then an excuse in civil court?
At least that was the speculation in the article.
The moon will still be there in 15 months.
That's what you think. Ooops, I've said too much already.
The article gives examples of other ion powered craft.
At least I know the proper usage of to/too/two. ;)
Nice troll though. When you get a real life, let us all know.
Be careful though, sometimes those educational prices are a result of a deal done by your university with MS. For example, our university pays millions of dollars each year to MS, and as a result we get to "rent" office, visual studio, and operating systems for the price of the media. We also have unlimited CALS. The millions that we pay come in part through an increase in student computer fees, never mind that most students have office bundled on the computer they buy from gateway or dell and that's more software than they need anyway. I think the increase in student computer fees was around $100 a year, which means students paid $400 to rent software they could have bought for the same price or that they already owned.
And it is truly a rental, because as soon as you graduate or leave tun U, you are no longer licensed to use the product. Or as soon as MS and the U fail to renew their contract.
Conservatism and liberalism are ideals too. And the idea that an "ideal" can't be groupthink is laughable.
It's the "deep pockets" theory. Who has more money, MS, Opera, or Mozilla? That's the one you sue.
Not only does each virus email generate an autoresponse email, every user in our building emails me *every time* they receive an autoresponse about an infected file.
Ok, so maybe it isn't every user every time, but boy does it feel like it. When you've explained to someone for the fourth time that the emails are junk, it gets frustrating.
So if a reasonable person would think that it is an obfuscation of the original
Not quite. It isn't that a reasonable person has to think it is an obfuscation. I believe the phrase you are looking for is "preponderance of the evidence", but I am not a lawyer. What they'll have to do is show that the preponderance of the evidence indicates that the code in Linux cannot legally be there. The judge will tell the jury what the law is and the jury will determine what the facts are.
In my day, laddie, we had 64kB of ram and 1 MHz. And we liked it! Three miles in the snow we walked, every day, to the terminal... barefoot!
Up hill both ways, too!
Firewall on the workstation to drop outgoing requests on 80 would be a good start.
If you want access to some websites and not others, then set up a proxy or redo the hosts file on the client so that common time wasters are routed to 127.0.0.1 or better yet to a company web server with a page that says visiting the requested page is forbidden. Then image the computer and distribute the image.
There may be even more thigs in the IE Resource Kit, but it's been awhile since I looked at it.
Mozilla can act as its own proxy to restrict some sites. Not sure about IE.
Actually, I've thought about suggesting that. It would be a wonderful for all of the reasons you suggest. I know some schools do this already.
For our college, the problem right now would be one of budget, time, and commitment by the administration (which isn't that technically oriented at the moment). We also want to see what the main U is going to do.
And that is a legitimate use. I can understand that, and I hadn't considered spam filters that people put in place without knowing what is filtered. I.E. Yahoo and Hotmail's spam filtering.
That's why I have test accounts on all of the major free e-mail providers, so I can see what the students will get when we send them messages. I'm noticing a fair chunk of our students using free providers instead of the university's mail servers because the accounts will be around after they graduate.
I would want something from a university that I was attending, and would not want anything from someone shilling their campaign through my email.
The other thing I did was prepend our college name in squre brackets to the subject, like many e-mail lists do. Makes it simple for the recipients to filter the messages we send out, and whether they get filtered to the trash or not is up to them.