Being a system admin for a college, having this updated tool out for the world really doesn't bother me. Honestly, I'd rather have it in my hands to know what's running on my server, than to be ignorant and hope everything is ok.
So... you're the sysadmin and you need nmap to tell you what you're running on your server?
You can't have competition unless there are several products that fill the same basic need. And from spending way to much time on/., it seems that we're generally in support of competition.
So, if we're for competition, we're for the idea of several available scratches for the same itch. People being who they are, some of us will like one option over the other and develop a preference. Once you've got options and preferences you can have a discussion (and eventually a flamewar).
An article comes up concerning Postfix and deserves some possible attention. The most natural way to begin is by a comparison to similar programs, one of them bening Sendmail, and Sendmail having recently (3'03) been issued a security warning.
If you were able to complete your tasks in the most efficient manner possible, then you wouldn't be a newbie. Barring that, the easy way out does often require you to run otherwise unneeded service just to make the task easier.
Also, you don't need a webserver to run SWAT. SWAT is handled by xinetd (inetd if your distro is a bit dated) and listens by default on port 901. No webserver needed.
Windows 2000 AD can run in one of two modes: mixed or native. In mixed mode, clients older then W2K can join the AD domain and SMB authentication can be performed. In native mode, only clients as recent as W2K can join the AD domain and KRB5 authentication is used exclusively (I'm pretty sure).
If you were using AD in a mixed mode environment, once you create the account for the machine in AD make sure you check the box that says something similar to "Allow pre-Windows 2000 computers to use this account" or it will not work. Of course, the documentation that comes with any recent stable version of Samba has had clear directions on how to do this for a long time.
There are a few options, but you're not going to find anything for as little as you want to pay.
MZ104: One of the most popular SBCs around. Small size and many uses. If you follow the pricing on that page you'll find you'll be paying at least $300/unit for the setup you need.
PPC-E5: Looks to have almost everything you need, and then some. Unit comes with processor, RAM, disk-on-chip, and even a bundled touchscreeen LCD that fits nicely to the whole thing. It doesn't have USB/CompactFlash/etc.. and it also costs ~$1,000/unit.
PCM-3350: Made by the same company as the PPC-E5 and actually a better option. 300MHz proc, CompactFlash, onboard VGA @ 1024x768, USB. Slap a screen on this thing and away you go. But, alas, it's still $348/unit and it doesn't come with a screen.
ViewPad: From ViewSonic. Another all-in-one unit that could probably also work for you. At the time of posting, this unit is going for $200 (a decent deal). But it's only one unit, and it's still twice as much as your mentioned target price.
Like a previous poster mentioned, the only way you're going to find a device for around $100 is by buying bulk, used PDAs from eBay and they're still not going to do what you want them to. Hell, the PJRC costs $150 alone, and it's only an MP3 board.
For the sake of completeness, my original remark was "While I believe there is a genuine advantage to compiling on you own hardware, I also believe people incorrectly prioritize it above the level of potential customization.". This is important for the fact that I was agreeing that the advantage gained by building locally is often incorrectly billed as the greatest feature of Gentoo.
The attraction to building packages locally comes from the amount of customization available to you. Personally, I enjoy having that level of customization available. We can argue all day about how much CFLAGS can actually impact software performance, but you missed my greater point before and I'm afraid you might miss it again so we'll leave it alone. Interestingly enough, you have a very defined dislike for trolls, but you exhibit the overuse of capital letters, the attitude that your opinion is the only opinion, and site constant misinformation.
It's my observation that Gentoo users in general prefer it for the ease of keeping the system up to date and the amount that it can be personalized in the process. In the same vein, Gentoo is not dissimilar from LFS, a distro that also requires building packages locally. If the issue you take is one of local builds then you would be better off taking issue against the entire genre of source based distrobutions as Gentoo is not entirely unique in that regard. If your issue is with it's popularity, then perhaps it's worth it to reexamine the fact that a source based disto is in fact that popular right now.
"the portage system is very handy though, for easy installing. however the biggest advantages of it(individual compiles) fail on the low end computers where they would be most of use"
The remark "however the biggest advantages of it(individual compiles)" would lend itself to admit that there are actual advantages of individual compiles, just that they're being lost on lower end hardware. If there are, in fact, advantages to individual compiles then I suggest rethinking your arguements against custom CFLAGS, etc. . Also, I'm aware of at least on person who has completed a successful install on a P133, though doing so was for entertaining/educational reasons. I would agree that Gentoo is not the best suited distrobution to use on such hardware, but it is possible if you have strong enough reasons.
"(the biggest advantages of gentoo have been available on other distros for years). the biggest gist in the linux community against it is the over hyping by (newbie)users"
I would argue that if the biggest advantages of Gentoo have always been available, then Gentoo would not be nearly as popular as it is today. It's true that Debian's apt system is a stunning package manager, and ports have been around on FreeBSD for years, but the biggest advantage of Gentoo is not any individual component, but the way they function and are tied together. Maybe what you perceive as over hyping is just the general noise created by a user community excited about a distro they like. Gentoo wouldn't be the first distro to have users with a common aura or excitement (ex. Debian).
"oh yeah, i don't even have a linux machine currently..."
I may be wrong, but now it seems like you most likely haven't spent any time on a Gentoo machine and all your points are purely academic.
The biggest advantage of (the option of) compiling on your own box is customization of the package, which far outweighs the speedup from being a local build job. For instance, say you want to install a package that has four USE flags. They are all mutually exclusive and each calls it's own dependancy. In Gentoo, you're able to build that package with only the options and dependancies you desire, possibly none (single package, no USE settings). In a binary distro you would have to offer 16 (2^N where N=number of USE flags) different packages and still have to worry about deps.
While I believe there is a genuine advantage to compiling on you own hardware, I also believe people incorrectly prioritize it above the level of potential customization.
The license insures that customers can continue their use of binary deployments of Linux without violating SCO's intellectual property rights.
Does this mean deployment from a binary distribution (ie. Red Hat, Mandrake), or an eventualy binary deployment in house? What if the distro used is Gentoo, LFS, or some other source based distro? If source based distros are exempt, why would they be?
Fucking useless. The/. editors must be happy with their positions as they are, because they're certainly not going to have any brighter of a future with submissions like this.
How on earth can you actually let a book review through that gives away the entire ending? And you want people to subscribe to this sort of thing? What worse is their consistant lack of reaction or apology.
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Currently existing: devil root # emerge xchat -pv
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Translation: Package will be upgraded from current version (U), new version will be net-irc/xchat-2.0.2, current installed version is [2.0.0_pre1-r1]. When package is built it will use available hooks for perl,tcltk,python,ssl,gtk, and mmx. It will not use ipv6.
If this is not what I want, at the command line I would type: devil root # USE="-perl -ssl +ipv6" emerge xchat
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I believe the only way to get 5.1 audio is with the ALSA drivers.
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DataShark, you're posting drunk again. Is there a SPELLCHECKER in the house?!
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I'd venture that anyone is willing to look at the sort of attitude displayed in your posts and draw their own conclusions about how much the rest of us will miss you.
Judging by your outspoken flair, I'm supprised I haven't seen an email from you to this effect on -core. There have been two threads that I can recall dealing with this and no posts are quite like what you've displayed so far. I'm not doubting you're an ex dev, I'm just inclined to believe you actually left some time ago for other reasons and are using this as a chance to sound off once more.
what ever happened to their 1.4 release?... Their release? If you're so recently expired I would have expect an our ot maybe a the.
There's a neat little took called IEAK, which stands for Internet Explorer Administration Kit. It lets you download IE and create your own custom set of installation files with only the options you want. You can even make the installation non-interactive to make sure it only does what it's told. Anyone who's done a major IE rollout has at least heard of IEAK. Since you didn't even mention it I'll guess you've either never done an IE rollout or you've got SARS and it made you forget about it.
You also didn't mention your network setup. However, you're considering IE so I'm going to guess most of your clients are running Windows. Also, if you're really entering into a rollout your network must be on the larger side (else it would just be you installing something on a few machines). So if you've got a a)large b)Windows network there's a good chance you've got some kind of domain model there. Or at least something that provides login scripts. Go fix yourself up a custom IE install with IEAK and launch the setup from the login script. Heck, if you're running AD on a Win2K server whip up an MSI and push it out to the clients. But if you can't do enough research on you own to discover IEAK, then you probably won't even be able to spell MSI.
If you've never heard of IEAK, got a large Windows network, and aren't using some sort of login script functionality, then the SARS has truely taken over and a browser rollout is the least of your troubles.
DISCLAIMER:no SARS were injured during the creation of this reply
I usually use the excuse that I just don't have the time anymore, but the truth is I had to give up role playing games for other reasons. Mostly due to the Final Fantasy series, I used to go through my daily routine wondering how many hitpoints my bus driver had, and if I could somehow cast regen on my calculus exam.
Someone mentioned Tetris earlier, and while it does kick in the visuals even when you're not playing it the game that was 10x worse for me was Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo for the Playstation. If you're not familiar with it think of Dr. Mario on steriods backed by the characters from Street Fighter. BTW, if anyone has a copy of this they want to get rid of, contact me. I'm not kidding.
Like most others, you can't help but be affected by a FPS. I've played through my share and I agree that Deus Ex is by far one of my favorites. But I've just recently been getting through Soldier of Fortune (thanks Loki!) and have a much greater understanding of the position of the censors. A game changes you when it allows you to learn the tactics of stratigicly blowing the limbs off other people, when a one-shot-kill isn't really your best option, and how pleased you become with yourself when you see the bloody nub of their spine wiggle just slightly before their body drops to the ground after a successful headshot. I know I'm going to buy Soldier of Fortune II, but I'll be feeling kinda funny about myself when I do.
I used to agree with you. Then I got a Nextel and started to get a hint at what cell phones can be capable of.
If I'm in my truck when a call comes in, I can tell when my phone is going to ring, due to a series of 4 to 8 static pulses in my stereo speakers. It isn't due to cheap speakers, since this has happened in every single vehicle I have received a call in. When changing towers or reestablishing signal, there are exactly 6 static pulses. I tend to hear these most often through the (shielded) Altec Lansing speakers on my desk at home, as it's somewhat of a low spot for signal. Turning the phone on produces the same static ticks as it connects to the network. The worst part is that I haven't found a hands-free adapter that works well with this phone. They all suffer from the same static too.
To get to the point, I never would have guessed I would experience anything like this from a cell phone. Although I'm only experiencing static, it does show that it is capable of causing interference. The commonly used MD80 is capable of holding more then 200 passangers. I would scream bloody murder if only 5 people with phones that behave as badly as mine walked into my office. It's a moment where I realise that cell phones are not my expertise, and they are able to cause problems I couldn't imagine. It makes a case that they are able to do more then I'm currently aware as well. So for this matter I gladly leave it up to the airlines. I still view my mobile phone as a privilege, not a right.
For the record I'm using an i1000plus. I'm aware that this model is being phased out, and that newer models are more Motorola standard, able to use the greater line of Motorola accessories. So maybe with the progression taking place this problem will also be phased out. In the mean time, I'm betting this sounds familiar to other Nextel users.
No shit. Screw me for not knowing what PF is, but it's just common sense to provide some length of explaination of your subject. I'm scared to click on any of the links for fear that the posted text is just a copy/paste from another source.
Futile, really, to see this complaint come up so many times and realise that the editors really don't give a shit, or at least don't care to offer a rebutle. I realize it's not the most professional approach to post stories relating to how badly they post stories. But I'm guessing their image isn't helped by all of these legitimized complaints. How much longer can they take themselves seriously?
The same can be stated in financial terms. Yes, as "editors" you're all mostly very lame (except that last book review was excellent!), but I do still come here on a semi-daily basis to dig through the threads. However, Moz/Phirebird/foo are set to block images from this server. Our university proxy has even been set to do the same. I'm even starting to get a bad taste in my mouth for people who advertise here.
The laptop were probably installed using an administrative install point. Using the Office (2K/XP) CDs it's possible to do an "administrative install" that essentially creates a new set of authorized install files, meaning that you can then install from that set without having to insert your installation key. Or not, who knows.
You're typing it yourself and you're still missing it. SP != SR. You're correct that O2K is currently at Service Pack 3 (SP3), but there was a Service Release 1 (SR1 [and SR1a]) of O2K some time ago.
For instance, MOUS testing software is *extremely* picky, and must be installed onto a machine with Office 2K SR1 SP2. STAB @ that.
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Being a system admin for a college, having this updated tool out for the world really doesn't bother me. Honestly, I'd rather have it in my hands to know what's running on my server, than to be ignorant and hope everything is ok.
So... you're the sysadmin and you need nmap to tell you what you're running on your server?
MOD PARENT UNINFORMED.
Typical "I never figured the others out and only got this one to work, so the others suck" post.
FFS... Sendmail and Postfix not having virtdomain support?
You can't have competition unless there are several products that fill the same basic need. And from spending way to much time on /., it seems that we're generally in support of competition.
So, if we're for competition, we're for the idea of several available scratches for the same itch. People being who they are, some of us will like one option over the other and develop a preference. Once you've got options and preferences you can have a discussion (and eventually a flamewar).
An article comes up concerning Postfix and deserves some possible attention. The most natural way to begin is by a comparison to similar programs, one of them bening Sendmail, and Sendmail having recently (3'03) been issued a security warning.
I don't see what's strange about any of this.
If you were able to complete your tasks in the most efficient manner possible, then you wouldn't be a newbie. Barring that, the easy way out does often require you to run otherwise unneeded service just to make the task easier.
Also, you don't need a webserver to run SWAT. SWAT is handled by xinetd (inetd if your distro is a bit dated) and listens by default on port 901. No webserver needed.
Windows 2000 AD can run in one of two modes: mixed or native. In mixed mode, clients older then W2K can join the AD domain and SMB authentication can be performed. In native mode, only clients as recent as W2K can join the AD domain and KRB5 authentication is used exclusively (I'm pretty sure).
If you were using AD in a mixed mode environment, once you create the account for the machine in AD make sure you check the box that says something similar to "Allow pre-Windows 2000 computers to use this account" or it will not work. Of course, the documentation that comes with any recent stable version of Samba has had clear directions on how to do this for a long time.
Like a previous poster mentioned, the only way you're going to find a device for around $100 is by buying bulk, used PDAs from eBay and they're still not going to do what you want them to. Hell, the PJRC costs $150 alone, and it's only an MP3 board.
For the sake of completeness, my original remark was "While I believe there is a genuine advantage to compiling on you own hardware, I also believe people incorrectly prioritize it above the level of potential customization.". This is important for the fact that I was agreeing that the advantage gained by building locally is often incorrectly billed as the greatest feature of Gentoo.
The attraction to building packages locally comes from the amount of customization available to you. Personally, I enjoy having that level of customization available. We can argue all day about how much CFLAGS can actually impact software performance, but you missed my greater point before and I'm afraid you might miss it again so we'll leave it alone. Interestingly enough, you have a very defined dislike for trolls, but you exhibit the overuse of capital letters, the attitude that your opinion is the only opinion, and site constant misinformation.
It's my observation that Gentoo users in general prefer it for the ease of keeping the system up to date and the amount that it can be personalized in the process. In the same vein, Gentoo is not dissimilar from LFS, a distro that also requires building packages locally. If the issue you take is one of local builds then you would be better off taking issue against the entire genre of source based distrobutions as Gentoo is not entirely unique in that regard. If your issue is with it's popularity, then perhaps it's worth it to reexamine the fact that a source based disto is in fact that popular right now.
"the portage system is very handy though, for easy installing. however the biggest advantages of it(individual compiles) fail on the low end computers where they would be most of use"
The remark "however the biggest advantages of it(individual compiles)" would lend itself to admit that there are actual advantages of individual compiles, just that they're being lost on lower end hardware. If there are, in fact, advantages to individual compiles then I suggest rethinking your arguements against custom CFLAGS, etc. . Also, I'm aware of at least on person who has completed a successful install on a P133, though doing so was for entertaining/educational reasons. I would agree that Gentoo is not the best suited distrobution to use on such hardware, but it is possible if you have strong enough reasons.
"(the biggest advantages of gentoo have been available on other distros for years). the biggest gist in the linux community against it is the over hyping by (newbie)users"
I would argue that if the biggest advantages of Gentoo have always been available, then Gentoo would not be nearly as popular as it is today. It's true that Debian's apt system is a stunning package manager, and ports have been around on FreeBSD for years, but the biggest advantage of Gentoo is not any individual component, but the way they function and are tied together. Maybe what you perceive as over hyping is just the general noise created by a user community excited about a distro they like. Gentoo wouldn't be the first distro to have users with a common aura or excitement (ex. Debian).
"oh yeah, i don't even have a linux machine currently..."
I may be wrong, but now it seems like you most likely haven't spent any time on a Gentoo machine and all your points are purely academic.
The biggest advantage of (the option of) compiling on your own box is customization of the package, which far outweighs the speedup from being a local build job. For instance, say you want to install a package that has four USE flags. They are all mutually exclusive and each calls it's own dependancy. In Gentoo, you're able to build that package with only the options and dependancies you desire, possibly none (single package, no USE settings). In a binary distro you would have to offer 16 (2^N where N=number of USE flags) different packages and still have to worry about deps.
While I believe there is a genuine advantage to compiling on you own hardware, I also believe people incorrectly prioritize it above the level of potential customization.
The license insures that customers can continue their use of binary deployments of Linux without violating SCO's intellectual property rights.
Does this mean deployment from a binary distribution (ie. Red Hat, Mandrake), or an eventualy binary deployment in house? What if the distro used is Gentoo, LFS, or some other source based distro? If source based distros are exempt, why would they be?
Fucking useless. The /. editors must be happy with their positions as they are, because they're certainly not going to have any brighter of a future with submissions like this.
How on earth can you actually let a book review through that gives away the entire ending? And you want people to subscribe to this sort of thing? What worse is their consistant lack of reaction or apology.
Currently existing:
...done!
devil root # emerge xchat -pv
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies
[ebuild U ] net-irc/xchat-2.0.2 [2.0.0_pre1-r1] +perl +tcltk +python +ssl +gtk +mmx -ipv6
Translation:
Package will be upgraded from current version (U), new version will be net-irc/xchat-2.0.2, current installed version is [2.0.0_pre1-r1]. When package is built it will use available hooks for perl,tcltk,python,ssl,gtk, and mmx. It will not use ipv6.
If this is not what I want, at the command line I would type:
devil root # USE="-perl -ssl +ipv6" emerge xchat
I believe the only way to get 5.1 audio is with the ALSA drivers.
DataShark, you're posting drunk again. Is there a SPELLCHECKER in the house?!
I'd venture that anyone is willing to look at the sort of attitude displayed in your posts and draw their own conclusions about how much the rest of us will miss you.
Judging by your outspoken flair, I'm supprised I haven't seen an email from you to this effect on -core. There have been two threads that I can recall dealing with this and no posts are quite like what you've displayed so far. I'm not doubting you're an ex dev, I'm just inclined to believe you actually left some time ago for other reasons and are using this as a chance to sound off once more.
what ever happened to their 1.4 release?...
Their release? If you're so recently expired I would have expect an our ot maybe a the.
Make your name known. What are you hiding from?
You're correct about SiS, but if you link to a page, f*cking read it:
NVIDIA:
RIVA-128, RIVA-128ZX, RIVA-TNT, RIVA-TNT2, RIVA-TNT2 M64, RIVA-TNT2 Vanta, RIVA-TNT2 Ultra, GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 Integrated GPU, GeForce2 Ti, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 MX 100/200, GeForce2 MX/MX 400, GeForce2 Ultra, GeForce4 MX 420, GeForce4 MX 440/460, GeForce3, GeForce4 Ti, Quadro2, GeForce4 Integrated GPU
There's a neat little took called IEAK, which stands for Internet Explorer Administration Kit. It lets you download IE and create your own custom set of installation files with only the options you want. You can even make the installation non-interactive to make sure it only does what it's told. Anyone who's done a major IE rollout has at least heard of IEAK. Since you didn't even mention it I'll guess you've either never done an IE rollout or you've got SARS and it made you forget about it.
You also didn't mention your network setup. However, you're considering IE so I'm going to guess most of your clients are running Windows. Also, if you're really entering into a rollout your network must be on the larger side (else it would just be you installing something on a few machines). So if you've got a a)large b)Windows network there's a good chance you've got some kind of domain model there. Or at least something that provides login scripts. Go fix yourself up a custom IE install with IEAK and launch the setup from the login script. Heck, if you're running AD on a Win2K server whip up an MSI and push it out to the clients. But if you can't do enough research on you own to discover IEAK, then you probably won't even be able to spell MSI.
If you've never heard of IEAK, got a large Windows network, and aren't using some sort of login script functionality, then the SARS has truely taken over and a browser rollout is the least of your troubles.
DISCLAIMER: no SARS were injured during the creation of this reply
This is only a concept piece (ie. nonexistant), but it doesn't suprise me that slip by you:
..especially if it gets ported to the Memory Stick Duo..
Pic of (not real) tuner from linked article. You'll notice that right on the (fake) device it says "Memory Stick Duo TV Tuner Module".
Amazed.
I usually use the excuse that I just don't have the time anymore, but the truth is I had to give up role playing games for other reasons. Mostly due to the Final Fantasy series, I used to go through my daily routine wondering how many hitpoints my bus driver had, and if I could somehow cast regen on my calculus exam.
Someone mentioned Tetris earlier, and while it does kick in the visuals even when you're not playing it the game that was 10x worse for me was Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo for the Playstation. If you're not familiar with it think of Dr. Mario on steriods backed by the characters from Street Fighter. BTW, if anyone has a copy of this they want to get rid of, contact me. I'm not kidding.
Like most others, you can't help but be affected by a FPS. I've played through my share and I agree that Deus Ex is by far one of my favorites. But I've just recently been getting through Soldier of Fortune (thanks Loki!) and have a much greater understanding of the position of the censors. A game changes you when it allows you to learn the tactics of stratigicly blowing the limbs off other people, when a one-shot-kill isn't really your best option, and how pleased you become with yourself when you see the bloody nub of their spine wiggle just slightly before their body drops to the ground after a successful headshot. I know I'm going to buy Soldier of Fortune II, but I'll be feeling kinda funny about myself when I do.
Radio stations are tools of the recording industry. It's a matter of "Don't bite the hand that feed you".
I've got everything you mentioned and pay only $9.97/month for it.
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I used to agree with you. Then I got a Nextel and started to get a hint at what cell phones can be capable of.
If I'm in my truck when a call comes in, I can tell when my phone is going to ring, due to a series of 4 to 8 static pulses in my stereo speakers. It isn't due to cheap speakers, since this has happened in every single vehicle I have received a call in. When changing towers or reestablishing signal, there are exactly 6 static pulses. I tend to hear these most often through the (shielded) Altec Lansing speakers on my desk at home, as it's somewhat of a low spot for signal. Turning the phone on produces the same static ticks as it connects to the network. The worst part is that I haven't found a hands-free adapter that works well with this phone. They all suffer from the same static too.
To get to the point, I never would have guessed I would experience anything like this from a cell phone. Although I'm only experiencing static, it does show that it is capable of causing interference. The commonly used MD80 is capable of holding more then 200 passangers. I would scream bloody murder if only 5 people with phones that behave as badly as mine walked into my office. It's a moment where I realise that cell phones are not my expertise, and they are able to cause problems I couldn't imagine. It makes a case that they are able to do more then I'm currently aware as well. So for this matter I gladly leave it up to the airlines. I still view my mobile phone as a privilege, not a right.
For the record I'm using an i1000plus. I'm aware that this model is being phased out, and that newer models are more Motorola standard, able to use the greater line of Motorola accessories. So maybe with the progression taking place this problem will also be phased out. In the mean time, I'm betting this sounds familiar to other Nextel users.
No shit. Screw me for not knowing what PF is, but it's just common sense to provide some length of explaination of your subject. I'm scared to click on any of the links for fear that the posted text is just a copy/paste from another source.
Futile, really, to see this complaint come up so many times and realise that the editors really don't give a shit, or at least don't care to offer a rebutle. I realize it's not the most professional approach to post stories relating to how badly they post stories. But I'm guessing their image isn't helped by all of these legitimized complaints. How much longer can they take themselves seriously?
The same can be stated in financial terms. Yes, as "editors" you're all mostly very lame (except that last book review was excellent!), but I do still come here on a semi-daily basis to dig through the threads. However, Moz/Phirebird/foo are set to block images from this server. Our university proxy has even been set to do the same. I'm even starting to get a bad taste in my mouth for people who advertise here.
The biggest trolls here are the editors.
Don't forget D-Link. DWL-650 and DWL-650+ are completely different chips as well.
The laptop were probably installed using an administrative install point. Using the Office (2K/XP) CDs it's possible to do an "administrative install" that essentially creates a new set of authorized install files, meaning that you can then install from that set without having to insert your installation key. Or not, who knows.
You're typing it yourself and you're still missing it. SP != SR. You're correct that O2K is currently at Service Pack 3 (SP3), but there was a Service Release 1 (SR1 [and SR1a]) of O2K some time ago.
For instance, MOUS testing software is *extremely* picky, and must be installed onto a machine with Office 2K SR1 SP2. STAB @ that.