The decision eliminates the establishment of a technical committee to assess Microsoft's compliance with the agreement. In its place, a corporate compliance committee -- consisting of Microsoft board members -- will make sure Microsoft lives up to the deal, the judge said.
So Microsoft's board is going to make sure Microsoft is following the rules? And the penanlty for screwing up that duty is what? Promotion? Extra Christmas bonus? What?
I was just thinking about the old logo language about a month or two ago when I was wondering if I'd be able to teach my toddler how to program someday. It's nice to know that it's still out there, waiting for her to grow up just a little bit more.
Farscape was the only thing keeping me on cable at all. The only other show I'm interested in that's left is The ScreenSavers on TechTV, but not so much that I'd keep cable for it. Everything else I watch is on broadcast TV (when I watch at all anymore). 500 channels of crap just doesn't interest me when I can get 5 channels of crap for free.
It sounds like my taking a picture with my digital camera of everyone's favorite finger, touching it up a little in everyone's favorite GPL'd image editor, and emailing it off from a webmail account that they can get shut down with complaints for all I care. I went to their site and went down the list of company officers and made some guesses at to what their email addresses were likely to be. I avoided any words I thought their IT team might be filtering for the next few days. (Some have already bounced, so it doesn't seem to be first initial and last name.) Oh, and their email domain is just @forgent.com.
I don't know about the typical consumer, but since most of the books I buy are for reference purposes, and the other things I've bought from Amazon are videotapes, I prefer new to used by a long shot.
Actually, my move from 8.0 to 8.1 was done with nothing more than urpmi, urpme, and rpm commands. Everything went fairly smooth and I lost no data whatsoever.
I don't know how the addition of an encrypted filesystem changes that formula, but I would imagine that changes to the underlying filesystem would be a good reason for a full backup/reinstall.
These people are more often than not some college student who doesn't know jack about computers (there are exceptions, but they move on quickly). You think one of these people is going to walk a business through an NT to Linux transition?
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I work within a couple of miles of my residence, so you'd think I'd like something like this (though not with a $3000 price tag). I don't. Maybe if you're the single person with a spare few grand, you're all set.
For those of us with families or those of us who want a place for a date to sit on Friday and Saturday night, this thing is a useless curiosity. It isn't like I could take the little Wokan to daycare on this thing. (A few miles in the opposite direction.)
"Hi, I was wondering if you'd like to have dinner with me Friday night."
"Sure."
"Great! Do you have a way of getting to the restaurant? I only have a one-person scooter."
Too bad I know a guy who doesn't set admin passwords on his SQL servers that can't be fired. It's his company. In all other respects, he's probably one of the best programmers I know.
You'd be surprised at the number of admins who know how to do exactly what they should do, but for some reason, consiously choose not to do it.
I donated money to Mandrake to help offset the fact that I download their distro and burn it to CD. In fact, I plan on doing so again shortly now that 8.1 is out.
If X10 wants their ads to get out there, maybe those of us with some spare time on our systems hands can devote it to a script that constantly downloads their advertisements. With enough people doing it, their bandwidth costs may finally outstrip their sales enough that they have to pull the web ads.
Not a DoS or anything. Just pulling the ads repeatedly to drive up their bandwidth. Maybe we can take them from 14th place to first for a bit without giving them a dime to cover it.
They really screwed up with the Klingons. Now they're going to have to say the human-like appearance was the first thing to go wrong, and then a second one changed them back. (Why am I making excuses for such a blatant f-ck up?)
I guess since Vulcans aren't emotional, they must always have hard nipples. That, or the shower was pretty cold.
While adding the server finding capability has been a great boon over constantly upgrading GameSpy (or whatever its name is these days), I do miss having multiple master servers. As is, I haven't been able to get a server list to try out RtCW at all.
I have played the game. I don't know how, since I have an S3 Savage4 and didn't patch it in any way.
Graphically, it was interesting in the sense that it was an improvment over Myst and Riven. But when compared to the real capabilities of gaming systems today, it blew chunks (that's a technical term, don't use it without parental supervision).
The pathways available for moving from one area to another were difficult if not impossible to find at times. Many times during the game, I just moved from point to point clicking on everything and even nothing just to figure out what I must have missed.
Problems in the game range from the simple act of throwing the right switch to the damn near impossible (who the hell would set a trap that was supposed to miss and what animal wouldn't run back into its safe burrow instead?).
Maybe something hinting at the third level of valves would have been nice, too. Perhaps the ability to zoom in on the pressure guage to see if the needle was on the dashes instead of seeing at an angle and hoping.
I think the next time I want a weekend's worth of puzzles, I'll buy a crossword book. At least then I can solve the puzzles themselves instead of walking all over 4 different worlds clicking on every rock and twig I run across.
Since I did get it up and running, I'd rate it more along the following...
Gameplay: 2/10
Graphics: 7/10
Sound: 5/10
Value: 1/10
Overall: 4/10 (unless it doesn't work on your system obviously)
Good for a weekend, but keep a walkthrough bookmarked so you don't break your desk when you pound it in frustration. Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
I'm not sure what packages Debian comes with, but the typical Mandrake install involves a KDE2-centric set of configuration tools (though other desktop managers are available in the distro), Webmin, Apache's Adv. Extranet Server, Mod_SSL, Mod_PHP (v4.0.4pl1), Perl/Mod_Perl, OpenSSH.
Plus there are other niceties in Mandrake, such as a utility for importing your Windows TTF fonts, the menu utility that keeps the app menu across desktop managers consistent, and I guess what would end up renamed as Debdrake Update.:)
Just some ideas for anyone up to the challenge. Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
I was pleasantly surprised when I called @home on an outage issue and asked that they add a name to my account so she could also call in outages. The tech I talked to actually filled me in on some of the notes others had typed about me. I guess being understanding of their position helps (as opposed to ranting and raving about outages). I have fairly rapid access to tier 2 now (which I avoid using for simple things).
If you get to know the techs a little bit, and what they are and aren't allowed to do by the company, it can get you pretty far in getting the right level of support. Tier 1 wasn't even able (maybe just allowed) to do tracert from their systems. It wouldn't surprise me if tier 1 used checksheets and screenshots instead of actual computers if it wasn't for the record they have access to about me. (Perhaps they can't leave that particular application without getting in trouble.) Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Hell, just to get everyone on the same page, I think the next releases should be numbered as follows...
Kernal 8.0.0
Apache 8.0.0
KDE 8.0.0
Gnome 8.0.0
GCC 8.0.0
Glibc 8.0.0
XFree86 8.0.0
RPM 8.0.0
OpenOffice 8.0.0
KOffice 8.0.0
I'm sure I missed a lot of programs. Just number the next release of anything 8.0.0 to be sure. Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Plus, I'm leary of a company that uses PayPal. Why don't they take credit-cards directly?
Actually, I looked at the site, and it says credit cards are accepted from US residents. There are credit card processors currently turning down foreign cards carte blanche due to a high rate of fraud currently.
Besides, compared to what card processors want as a percentage of your transaction, Paypal is a godsend. (Something like 1% as opposed to 3-4% or even higher.)
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Dammit.
Here's a nail, MPAA. (Damn fingers working ahead of the brain's spell checking.) Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
I tried connecting the video out on my decoder card to the video in on the TV only to find out that it feeds through the VCR part first (makes sense though). So this large-screen TV is rendered useless by the Macrocrap.
MPAA - Hears a nail. Sit and spin. Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Stallman will bitch out the author, and maybe some correction will be printed on some obscure page. Maybe RMS should just take a chill on this one, as the audience reading this article certainly isn't likely to see the retraction, or even remember that one paragraph if they do see it. Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Actually, I WOULD like to complain about distros patching up the kernel. When I went to download and compile the latest 2.2 kernel for Mandrake (back at 7.0), I found I had lost some functionality because they had patched their kernel with extra code for some of the software included with the distribution. I had no idea what these patches were or how to get them. I was basically at Mandrakesoft's mercy as to when their next kernel RPM would be out.
Of course, I found out later I could have installed their LinusKernel package, but I wouldn't have been able to make some of the included software work, which would have appeared to be a bug. So it wasn't an effective solution to the problem either. Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
My boss got one of these. Brought it in to me at work to ask me about it. Glad I recommended he not install it.
Personally, I want to send it back to them, but broken into many little pieces. (Including the software, especially if it can be smashed in the packaging.
If these things are being given away free, why don't we all exercise a little civil disobediance and return our broken bar code readers. Be sure to get one from every location offering them that you can. Then have plenty of hammers ready. Fun for the whole family.
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
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Being required to release the source under the GPL doesn't mean they have to provide precompiled binaries or ISO images, yet Mandrake does both.
So Microsoft's board is going to make sure Microsoft is following the rules? And the penanlty for screwing up that duty is what? Promotion? Extra Christmas bonus? What?
I was just thinking about the old logo language about a month or two ago when I was wondering if I'd be able to teach my toddler how to program someday. It's nice to know that it's still out there, waiting for her to grow up just a little bit more.
Farscape was the only thing keeping me on cable at all. The only other show I'm interested in that's left is The ScreenSavers on TechTV, but not so much that I'd keep cable for it.
Everything else I watch is on broadcast TV (when I watch at all anymore). 500 channels of crap just doesn't interest me when I can get 5 channels of crap for free.
It sounds like my taking a picture with my digital camera of everyone's favorite finger, touching it up a little in everyone's favorite GPL'd image editor, and emailing it off from a webmail account that they can get shut down with complaints for all I care.
I went to their site and went down the list of company officers and made some guesses at to what their email addresses were likely to be. I avoided any words I thought their IT team might be filtering for the next few days. (Some have already bounced, so it doesn't seem to be first initial and last name.)
Oh, and their email domain is just @forgent.com.
I don't know about the typical consumer, but since most of the books I buy are for reference purposes, and the other things I've bought from Amazon are videotapes, I prefer new to used by a long shot.
Actually, my move from 8.0 to 8.1 was done with nothing more than urpmi, urpme, and rpm commands. Everything went fairly smooth and I lost no data whatsoever.
I don't know how the addition of an encrypted filesystem changes that formula, but I would imagine that changes to the underlying filesystem would be a good reason for a full backup/reinstall.
These people are more often than not some college student who doesn't know jack about computers (there are exceptions, but they move on quickly). You think one of these people is going to walk a business through an NT to Linux transition?
I work within a couple of miles of my residence, so you'd think I'd like something like this (though not with a $3000 price tag). I don't. Maybe if you're the single person with a spare few grand, you're all set.
For those of us with families or those of us who want a place for a date to sit on Friday and Saturday night, this thing is a useless curiosity. It isn't like I could take the little Wokan to daycare on this thing. (A few miles in the opposite direction.)
"Hi, I was wondering if you'd like to have dinner with me Friday night."
"Sure."
"Great! Do you have a way of getting to the restaurant? I only have a one-person scooter."
Too bad I know a guy who doesn't set admin passwords on his SQL servers that can't be fired. It's his company. In all other respects, he's probably one of the best programmers I know.
You'd be surprised at the number of admins who know how to do exactly what they should do, but for some reason, consiously choose not to do it.
I donated money to Mandrake to help offset the fact that I download their distro and burn it to CD. In fact, I plan on doing so again shortly now that 8.1 is out.
If X10 wants their ads to get out there, maybe those of us with some spare time on our systems hands can devote it to a script that constantly downloads their advertisements. With enough people doing it, their bandwidth costs may finally outstrip their sales enough that they have to pull the web ads.
Not a DoS or anything. Just pulling the ads repeatedly to drive up their bandwidth. Maybe we can take them from 14th place to first for a bit without giving them a dime to cover it.
They really screwed up with the Klingons. Now they're going to have to say the human-like appearance was the first thing to go wrong, and then a second one changed them back. (Why am I making excuses for such a blatant f-ck up?)
I guess since Vulcans aren't emotional, they must always have hard nipples. That, or the shower was pretty cold.
While adding the server finding capability has been a great boon over constantly upgrading GameSpy (or whatever its name is these days), I do miss having multiple master servers. As is, I haven't been able to get a server list to try out RtCW at all.
What I don't understand is why IDSoftware.com hasn't been updated since Quake 2. You'd think Q3A was big enough to justify adding to it.
Spoiler or two in here...
I have played the game. I don't know how, since I have an S3 Savage4 and didn't patch it in any way.
Graphically, it was interesting in the sense that it was an improvment over Myst and Riven. But when compared to the real capabilities of gaming systems today, it blew chunks (that's a technical term, don't use it without parental supervision).
The pathways available for moving from one area to another were difficult if not impossible to find at times. Many times during the game, I just moved from point to point clicking on everything and even nothing just to figure out what I must have missed.
Problems in the game range from the simple act of throwing the right switch to the damn near impossible (who the hell would set a trap that was supposed to miss and what animal wouldn't run back into its safe burrow instead?).
Maybe something hinting at the third level of valves would have been nice, too. Perhaps the ability to zoom in on the pressure guage to see if the needle was on the dashes instead of seeing at an angle and hoping.
I think the next time I want a weekend's worth of puzzles, I'll buy a crossword book. At least then I can solve the puzzles themselves instead of walking all over 4 different worlds clicking on every rock and twig I run across.
Since I did get it up and running, I'd rate it more along the following...
Gameplay: 2/10
Graphics: 7/10
Sound: 5/10
Value: 1/10
Overall: 4/10 (unless it doesn't work on your system obviously)
Good for a weekend, but keep a walkthrough bookmarked so you don't break your desk when you pound it in frustration.
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
I'm not sure what packages Debian comes with, but the typical Mandrake install involves a KDE2-centric set of configuration tools (though other desktop managers are available in the distro), Webmin, Apache's Adv. Extranet Server, Mod_SSL, Mod_PHP (v4.0.4pl1), Perl/Mod_Perl, OpenSSH. :)
Plus there are other niceties in Mandrake, such as a utility for importing your Windows TTF fonts, the menu utility that keeps the app menu across desktop managers consistent, and I guess what would end up renamed as Debdrake Update.
Just some ideas for anyone up to the challenge.
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
I was pleasantly surprised when I called @home on an outage issue and asked that they add a name to my account so she could also call in outages. The tech I talked to actually filled me in on some of the notes others had typed about me. I guess being understanding of their position helps (as opposed to ranting and raving about outages). I have fairly rapid access to tier 2 now (which I avoid using for simple things).
If you get to know the techs a little bit, and what they are and aren't allowed to do by the company, it can get you pretty far in getting the right level of support. Tier 1 wasn't even able (maybe just allowed) to do tracert from their systems. It wouldn't surprise me if tier 1 used checksheets and screenshots instead of actual computers if it wasn't for the record they have access to about me. (Perhaps they can't leave that particular application without getting in trouble.)
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Hell, just to get everyone on the same page, I think the next releases should be numbered as follows...
Kernal 8.0.0
Apache 8.0.0
KDE 8.0.0
Gnome 8.0.0
GCC 8.0.0
Glibc 8.0.0
XFree86 8.0.0
RPM 8.0.0
OpenOffice 8.0.0
KOffice 8.0.0
I'm sure I missed a lot of programs. Just number the next release of anything 8.0.0 to be sure.
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Plus, I'm leary of a company that uses PayPal. Why don't they take credit-cards directly?
Actually, I looked at the site, and it says credit cards are accepted from US residents. There are credit card processors currently turning down foreign cards carte blanche due to a high rate of fraud currently.
Besides, compared to what card processors want as a percentage of your transaction, Paypal is a godsend. (Something like 1% as opposed to 3-4% or even higher.)
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Dammit.
Here's a nail, MPAA. (Damn fingers working ahead of the brain's spell checking.)
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
I tried connecting the video out on my decoder card to the video in on the TV only to find out that it feeds through the VCR part first (makes sense though). So this large-screen TV is rendered useless by the Macrocrap.
MPAA - Hears a nail. Sit and spin.
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Stallman will bitch out the author, and maybe some correction will be printed on some obscure page. Maybe RMS should just take a chill on this one, as the audience reading this article certainly isn't likely to see the retraction, or even remember that one paragraph if they do see it.
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
Actually, I WOULD like to complain about distros patching up the kernel. When I went to download and compile the latest 2.2 kernel for Mandrake (back at 7.0), I found I had lost some functionality because they had patched their kernel with extra code for some of the software included with the distribution. I had no idea what these patches were or how to get them. I was basically at Mandrakesoft's mercy as to when their next kernel RPM would be out.
Of course, I found out later I could have installed their LinusKernel package, but I wouldn't have been able to make some of the included software work, which would have appeared to be a bug. So it wasn't an effective solution to the problem either.
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.
My boss got one of these. Brought it in to me at work to ask me about it. Glad I recommended he not install it. Personally, I want to send it back to them, but broken into many little pieces. (Including the software, especially if it can be smashed in the packaging. If these things are being given away free, why don't we all exercise a little civil disobediance and return our broken bar code readers. Be sure to get one from every location offering them that you can. Then have plenty of hammers ready. Fun for the whole family.
Digital Wokan
I wanted to spend 8 years defending the US constitution.