Mine has a hard power switch and a real honest to god power indicator led. Wouldn't have considered anything else.
Anything else is asking for trouble someday. If not today's spyware, who knows what somebody will come up with next year. But if you have to reach up and flip the camera on you are in control.
Let me get this straight. You are afraid of spyware running on an insecure OS and trust another app running on the same insecure platform to be able to detect it? Firewalls running on Windows are nothing but a joke. I'm just waiting for a well publicized exploit that ignores the major Windows 'Firewall' products to cause the clue by four to hit people.
So did it actually work for you? I tried twice with Skipjack and would get a hundred or so megs into it and it would fail. I'm guessing Moz is loading it into ram before saving. Wish they would offer up their ISOs via ftp with my RHN userid/password.
No, actually I come from the old school where all hardware came with programmer's information. It was just an accepted and expected part of buying hardware. Then the 'end users' came along and companies stopped providing it in the manual to save space but would provide it if you asked. Somewhere along the line they decided that information was now a vital trade secret.
Bull. If your hardware is so lame that letting anyone see how it works would destroy it's value it probably didn't have much to start with. I know hardware reviews would be a lot more informative if real information was still available.
Since NVIDIA is the popular whipping boy today, lets use them as an example. Assume that the popular belief is true and that much of the value of their hardware is in their drivers. Open sourcing them would give away valuable secrets so they might not want to do it. Fine. Details on the interface between the software and the hardware still should not be harmful to their secrets. If their drivers really represent most of their value it might be a long time before the XFree nv driver equaled theirs, but that would be ok by me. I actually use the closed driver with an old TNT2, but I'd feel a lot better about buying a current card if I knew the investment was safe.
If you need to update your kernel to get the latest shiny top working and your binary only vendor has not got around to releasing a new version for that kernel... you are screwed.
When said vendor decides your product is 'end of life' and you want to apply a new kernel to close a security hole, you are screwed.
I could fill pages with variations on the theme but anyone who hasn't got the point yet won't.
Yes it is annoying, even when I worked for em a year or so. But in their defense I will say that they have never abused their database. They tell you they collect it to send out the monthly flyer and that is all they ever do with it.
Too many companies think, well this guy wandered by my website/visited my store, etc. and was stupid enough to leave contact info so we now have permission to spam him silly for eternity. And screw honoring requests to stop.
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So, lets say TV Guide were to allow subscribers to download directly into their PVR in lieu of a paper copy. They win because they no longer have to mail out issues, those PC based PVRs become as good as or even better than Tivo. Tivo, having their whole business model built around screwing people out of $10+ per month, goes bust.
Considering how likely it is that TV Guide or someone else who already has reliable listings WILL partner with a PVR vendor I certainly wouldn't want to invest in a Tivo right now.
Not really. Ever since I first played with a MediaVision video capture board (hint, MediaVision was probably out of business when you Dad bought ya your first Windows box) I wanted to capture TV shows. But the tech just wasn't up to the job. Those old board could only capture motion video in a freaking postage stamp and would still chew up your HD in a few minutes.
And 9.95 per month for a TV listing service? Are you daft? TV Guide costs how much for an annual sub? As far as I can tell, finding a way to goober idiots out of $120/year is the only innovative thing Tivo has managed.
From what I have seen though, their hardware is kinda neat. Give em points for their implementation.
> Honestly... I wouldn't like this either, but > remember when DSL companies (and cable) were > dropping left and right?
The DSL companies dropped like flies when Rep Tauzin (R-LA) introduced a bill to essentially repeal the Communications Act of 96 and restore the Baby Bells to their 'rightful' place as monopolies over the local loop. Fear of that bill passing dried up the venture capital to the DSL providers at a time they were building out like mad and were short on cash, since when it passes CLECs disappear, leaving all of the DSL providers who aren't regional Bells screwed. That shit running downhill screwed the telco equipment makers like Nortel & Lucent, and pretty much lead to the dot.bomb meltdown. Put the blame where it belongs, Billy "Bell Boy" Tauzin. He is a Rep from my home state of Louisiana, but not my district so I can't vote against him.:(
A business should be able to make any rules it wants. If they put up a sign that says "You must hop on one foot while in this business." then dems the rules.... unless they actually want customers. Then they will have to compromise until both parties are willing to do business unless of course the business is a monopoly.
All this guy did was state his displeasure with a silly rule and ask the store if they would rather lose his business or relax the rule. They made the sensible decision, especially considering what a ripoff most college bookstores are!
Now if enough of Blizzard's customers would put the same question to them I suspect they would be just as sensible. After all, their markup is as obscene as any college bookstore. Just ask em, "Ok, I own a copy of bnetd, and don't intend to change. Do you want to sell me products or sue?"
Actually the founding fathers rightly feared Democracy as Mob Rule with a pretty name. What we were supposed to have is a "Republican form of government." Look it up, it is in the Constituition. The difference between a Democracy and a Republic is subtle but important. In a Republic, even the will of the majority is subject to the rule of law.
But we ditched that pesky rule of law vs. rule of men concept around the time of the War of Northern Agression (which was the reason the southern states were trying to get the hell outta dodge) and have been on a slow slide to chaos ever since.
Think SAMBA with the last buglets gone. With full Active Directory support, Primary Domain Controller support, etc.
Think full support for ASP on an Apache box for migrating those legacy apps over or for web hosting outfits that would like to take money from M$ victims without becoming one themselves.
Think DirectX games running flawlessly under WINE.
Think of what the Cygwin folks could do if they could get access to the real internals of Windows.
Think full and accurate Office file import/export.
In short, think seamless interoperability between UNIX and Windows. It would be a beautiful thing.
Of course every one of those things would result in less sales, therefore lower revenue. The only possible upside would be happier customers, but I really don't think they give a damn if they have happy customers, only that they have captive ones who pay and pay.
A Democrat that still believes in the Constituition! Just shows they aren't all like Fritz "the Senator from Disney" Hollings. Keep writing those cards and letters folks, but send them to the Senator from Vermont in the form of thank you notes. He will now be the subject of extreme lobbying efforts by Hollywood and the DNC so he could use some encouragement.
Except it is the same politicians who don't trust you to own a gun that also don't want you to own an unrestricted computer. Once you notice that it all makes perfect sense.
Any politician who doesn't believe you have the right to defend your own life against a criminal is the sort of mental defective who will slide down the slippery slope until he thinks you ARE the criminal.
And we are now there. You are ASSUMED to be a pirate, so they plan to give you a 'safe computer' to prevent you from acting on your base instincts to 'steal' Disney's precious mouse.
You got two choices: 1)be a sheep. Say Baaah. 2)Live Free or Die.
Our forefathers pledged their Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor to the cause of establishing our former Republic. Most of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence died or were financially ruined during the War. What price are you willing to pay to reclaim it?
Letters to Congress are a good start, but we had better be thinking of how far we are willing to go to defend the 1st Amendment. Hopefully farther than the NRA went defending #2. So how far are YOU willing to go to defend your 'inalienable rights' against an out of control government who sees itself your Master?
Will you paint up a sign and show up at a local protest?
Will you carry that sign all the way to Washington DC and raise hell for the CNN cameras? Knowing what that sort of record will probably do to your future? (especially if you lose in the end?)
Will you donate till it hurts to organizations like the EFF?
Will you organize and work to unelect politicians who vote for this atrocity? Really work against them, even if they are of the same party as you? Can you really make the cause of liberty your 'single issue' in an election?
Will you commit acts of civil disobedience? Remember how much it sucked to be in the Civil Rights movement all those years before they won? Are you ready to follow in their footsteps for years of getting kicked around by the Powers that Be?
And failing all other attempts to petition our corrupt rulers for redress of our just grievances, will you actually have the stones to lay it all on the line, grab the 'sporting goods' and head to DC to get ugly? This is the big one. If it is obvious that enough folks ARE mad enough to defend their Rights then we will probably win a lot sooner and with a lot less bother. The Brits would never have oppressed the colonies to the degree they did had they entertained for a moment we would actually start shooting and keep it up through the long dark years when it appeared they had no chance of winning. Miscalculating the odds is the cause of most wars.
Looked earlier, didn't find em. Ah well, Disc 2 is about halfway down already so no sense in not letting it complete.
But it is good to see how fast that the grumbles from the natives got all the way up the chain of command and the problem fixed for the future. Way to go!
Well then build the tarball into a binary and source RPM and keep those.:) My point was that execting every developer to maintain tar.gz, rpm and deb versions of every release is unrealistic, especially since a tarball with a spec inside is just as useful, if not more so than a seperate srpm for download on sourceforge.
> I try to keep my laptop pure redhat with no > self compiles.
There is a way to have your cake and eat it too. Build your own RPMS with anything you want that didn't ship on the CD or rebuild their packages with different options. If you build it yourself you can know it will run with your libraries and such. Keep the SRPMS around and you can quickly rebuild anything that breaks after the next OS upgrade. Since you are keeping everything managed with RPM your packages get managed in the same way as RH supplied software and everything 'just works."
It isn't that hard anymore. If you can't find a SRPM on rpmfind.net grab the tar.gz and look inside for a.spec file. A growing number of projects include one. A tarball with a.spec file it better than a SRPM file for all practical intents and purposes. Just do "rpm -tb.tar.gz instead of "rpm -i.srpm;rpm -bb/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/.spec"
Ok, but PLEASE pass the word upline to make it a.3! RedHat 4.2 was rock solid, 5.2 was rock solid and so was 6.2. Haven't met anyone who thinks 7.2 is stable yet. Just yesterday I logged onto my laptop and had no icons along the left. Signed out and back on and they came back. All of the fifty some odd boxes that mere mortals use here on my site are still running 6.2 because of odd crap like that.
I had hoped to move them from 6.2 to 7.2 but it still isn't ready for end users, even with an errata CD that is fast approaching a 2 disc set. It is common knowledge that that anything labeled.0 is to be avoided on production machines so doing an 8.0 release would mean we would have to keep patching up 6.2 for another year.
Ok we have all vented here, I'll be writing letters when I cool off enough to do some good in that dept but that ain't going to actually counterbalance Disney's billions.
I read the whole text of this heap of dung. When you cut through the crap it basically means any coder inside the US border can be tossed in the joint whenever a media company doesn't like something we say (code IS speech). Would anybody be taking this if it were printing presses being so regulated? Well it is, since all modern presses are computerized.
CONGRESS SHALL PASS NO LAW.....
Ok, fine words but what happens when they do it anyway? Well that was what the 2nd Amendment was on about. The Ballot box rests firmly on the cartridge box. So at what point do we decide it is our duty to water the liberty tree? If a few of us rebel at any one time we get branded "terrorists" or "right wing militias", shot dead and used as an excuse to pass yet more unconstituitionallaws.
How about a nice document with flowery oratory with words like "When in the course of Human Events....." in it. Then an activation clause stating that the Revolution begins when:
a) The Supreme Court becomes the third branch of government to abrogate it's pledge to "Uphold and Defend the Constituition" by finding this law legit after Congress and the President violated their Oath by Passing and Signing it.
b) N (100,000, 1 Mil, ???) people have signed the declaration to Pledge their Lives, their Fortunes and their Sacred Honor to the overthrow of the corrupt Government and restoring the Republic our forefathers gave us in trust.
Of course the first important question would be if signing such a document, even in the event it never reaches the trigger threshold, qualifies as an Overt Act of Treason?
And any cryptoweenies out there, shut the hell up about some cockeyed scheme for anonymous signatures. Any fool should be able to see why that wouldn't work in this case.
As is probably clear from this posting, I'm Mad as Hell and don't want to take it anymore but still a bit fuzzy as to just how we are supposed to get out of this mess.
Lots of prior examples of winning the war by making your name stick. SDI got renamed "Star Wars" by it's opponents and went nowhere. (But it is still sucking up money, but all government programs are immortal when it comes to sucking up taxpayer dollars.)
But the best example of controlling the debate through the choice of language is over in the abortion debate. (no, lets not open up that can of worms.) You won't find a single self-professed "anti-choice" or "pro-death" and not even many "pro-abortion" activists. Nope, one side stakes out the "pro-choice" position (Hey, what right thinking American could possibly be against choice?) and the other is "pro-life" (What, you are against life? Well go shoot yourself you waste of oxygen.). When it is spelled out in such clear language it sounds silly but it isn't. It is very effective. The language has a big influence on what sort of meme gets spread out in the popular culture. Professional pols know this and we better start adopting a few of their tactics if we hope to win in the big leagues.
There have been a lot of good ideas posted here but we need to pick ONE and get behind it consistently enough to get the more friendly elements in the press to pick up on it. Considering how lame they are I hate to suggest it but Taco needs to collect up the better ideas and run a/. poll. Then whatever wins we should push it. (God I hope it isn't the CowboyNeal Act)
Just remember Phil was a professor of economics in a past life so when you write be sure to customize the argument with that fact in mind.
I have one of the Bill's co-sponsors (Breaux, D-LA) and "the bitch who won on the dead vote in New Orleans" for Senate scum so don't bitch about your selection of congresscritters. I'd trade ya Breaux and Landrieu for Gramm & Hutchinson any day of the week.
Yes I am cynical about politics. But we have to take an interest in politics because it is now clear to even the dumbest retard that politics has taken an interest in us geeks. So I'll be writing polite but firm letters to both of my slimeball senators and Congressman McCrery since the best chance of stopping this madness appears to be with the House.
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Be thankful he gave you accurate and normally helpful advice. Had you actually been intending to BUY M$ Office he would have saved you some serious dollars. Had you explained your reasons for wanting the higher price you would have probably the info you needed.
Sounds like somebody that is at least trying to help the customer, just needs to improve the 'ol people skills. Probably a geek type.:)
Clickwrap 'licenses' ain't worth the photons emitted by your display. Ignore it and get on with it. CodeWeavers might not have the lawyers to officially tell people to use it and certainly couldn't bundle it (copyright has nothing to do with a EULA) but that's a practical limitation and not a legal or moral one.
Using CTRL in place of button 2 and ALT in place of button 3 doesn't work. Try running GIMP where you need CTRL-ALT-BUTTON2 and worse. X based apps assume at least three buttons on the pointer.
Know two people who bought TiBooks around when I was looking to buy a new notebook and seriously considered being the the 3rd TiBook on the block. The pointer issue decided it in favor of a Thinkpad with a three button trackpoint. One button and a glidepoint (even though the TiBook has the best glidepoint I have played with, I still don't really like them) was just too many negatives to bear when paying 50-100% more for a Mac in the first place.
The TiBook is a beautiful machine, superior in many ways over my Thinkpad. It gets more runtime out of less expensive batteries. The screen is stunning. A pretty good X/UNIX/GNU environment will run alongside OS X apps and Yellowdog/etc are available for the full Linux experience. But Apple laptops are crippled with an unusable pointer. And apple desktop hardware, where replacing the bundled mouse is trivial just don't have a good price/performance ratio vs. cheap Athlons.
The Internet was supposed to be about breaking down national borders. Just broadcast from places that the RIAA doesn't yet control. Probably best to pick the spots they will get to last.
Nobody dropped graven tablets down from Heaven saying the US of A would always be the best place to engage in commerce. Our economy is now a mix of mercentilism & socialism which means you are either a megacorp or a ward of the State. Time we faced facts and started thinking globally. If you insist on continuing to live here you can probably work out a way to launder the profits back in from your foreign shell corporation.;)
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Mine has a hard power switch and a real honest to god power indicator led. Wouldn't have considered anything else.
Anything else is asking for trouble someday. If not today's spyware, who knows what somebody will come up with next year. But if you have to reach up and flip the camera on you are in control.
Let me get this straight. You are afraid of spyware running on an insecure OS and trust another app running on the same insecure platform to be able to detect it? Firewalls running on Windows are nothing but a joke. I'm just waiting for a well publicized exploit that ignores the major Windows 'Firewall' products to cause the clue by four to hit people.
So did it actually work for you? I tried twice with Skipjack and would get a hundred or so megs into it and it would fail. I'm guessing Moz is loading it into ram before saving. Wish they would offer up their ISOs via ftp with my RHN userid/password.
No, actually I come from the old school where all hardware came with programmer's information. It was just an accepted and expected part of buying hardware. Then the 'end users' came along and companies stopped providing it in the manual to save space but would provide it if you asked. Somewhere along the line they decided that information was now a vital trade secret.
Bull. If your hardware is so lame that letting anyone see how it works would destroy it's value it probably didn't have much to start with. I know hardware reviews would be a lot more informative if real information was still available.
Since NVIDIA is the popular whipping boy today, lets use them as an example. Assume that the popular belief is true and that much of the value of their hardware is in their drivers. Open sourcing them would give away valuable secrets so they might not want to do it. Fine. Details on the interface between the software and the hardware still should not be harmful to their secrets. If their drivers really represent most of their value it might be a long time before the XFree nv driver equaled theirs, but that would be ok by me. I actually use the closed driver with an old TNT2, but I'd feel a lot better about buying a current card if I knew the investment was safe.
If you need to update your kernel to get the latest shiny top working and your binary only vendor has not got around to releasing a new version for that kernel... you are screwed.
When said vendor decides your product is 'end of life' and you want to apply a new kernel to close a security hole, you are screwed.
I could fill pages with variations on the theme but anyone who hasn't got the point yet won't.
Yes it is annoying, even when I worked for em a year or so. But in their defense I will say that they have never abused their database. They tell you they collect it to send out the monthly flyer and that is all they ever do with it.
Too many companies think, well this guy wandered by my website/visited my store, etc. and was stupid enough to leave contact info so we now have permission to spam him silly for eternity. And screw honoring requests to stop.
So, lets say TV Guide were to allow subscribers to download directly into their PVR in lieu of a paper copy. They win because they no longer have to mail out issues, those PC based PVRs become as good as or even better than Tivo. Tivo, having their whole business model built around screwing people out of $10+ per month, goes bust.
Considering how likely it is that TV Guide or someone else who already has reliable listings WILL partner with a PVR vendor I certainly wouldn't want to invest in a Tivo right now.
> Company comes up with cool, innovative service
Not really. Ever since I first played with a MediaVision video capture board (hint, MediaVision was probably out of business when you Dad bought ya your first Windows box) I wanted to capture TV shows. But the tech just wasn't up to the job. Those old board could only capture motion video in a freaking postage stamp and would still chew up your HD in a few minutes.
And 9.95 per month for a TV listing service? Are you daft? TV Guide costs how much for an annual sub? As far as I can tell, finding a way to goober idiots out of $120/year is the only innovative thing Tivo has managed.
From what I have seen though, their hardware is kinda neat. Give em points for their implementation.
> Honestly... I wouldn't like this either, but
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> remember when DSL companies (and cable) were
> dropping left and right?
The DSL companies dropped like flies when Rep Tauzin (R-LA) introduced a bill to essentially repeal the Communications Act of 96 and restore the Baby Bells to their 'rightful' place as monopolies over the local loop. Fear of that bill passing dried up the venture capital to the DSL providers at a time they were building out like mad and were short on cash, since when it passes CLECs disappear, leaving all of the DSL providers who aren't regional Bells screwed. That shit running downhill screwed the telco equipment makers like Nortel & Lucent, and pretty much lead to the dot.bomb meltdown. Put the blame where it belongs, Billy "Bell Boy" Tauzin. He is a Rep from my home state of Louisiana, but not my district so I can't vote against him.
A business should be able to make any rules it wants. If they put up a sign that says "You must hop on one foot while in this business." then dems the rules.... unless they actually want customers. Then they will have to compromise until both parties are willing to do business unless of course the business is a monopoly.
All this guy did was state his displeasure with a silly rule and ask the store if they would rather lose his business or relax the rule. They made the sensible decision, especially considering what a ripoff most college bookstores are!
Now if enough of Blizzard's customers would put the same question to them I suspect they would be just as sensible. After all, their markup is as obscene as any college bookstore. Just ask em, "Ok, I own a copy of bnetd, and don't intend to change. Do you want to sell me products or sue?"
> We live in a "representative democracy,"
Actually the founding fathers rightly feared Democracy as Mob Rule with a pretty name. What we were supposed to have is a "Republican form of government." Look it up, it is in the Constituition. The difference between a Democracy and a Republic is subtle but important. In a Republic, even the will of the majority is subject to the rule of law.
But we ditched that pesky rule of law vs. rule of men concept around the time of the War of Northern Agression (which was the reason the southern states were trying to get the hell outta dodge) and have been on a slow slide to chaos ever since.
Interoperability.
Think SAMBA with the last buglets gone. With full Active Directory support, Primary Domain Controller support, etc.
Think full support for ASP on an Apache box for migrating those legacy apps over or for web hosting outfits that would like to take money from M$ victims without becoming one themselves.
Think DirectX games running flawlessly under WINE.
Think of what the Cygwin folks could do if they could get access to the real internals of Windows.
Think full and accurate Office file import/export.
In short, think seamless interoperability between UNIX and Windows. It would be a beautiful thing.
Of course every one of those things would result in less sales, therefore lower revenue. The only possible upside would be happier customers, but I really don't think they give a damn if they have happy customers, only that they have captive ones who pay and pay.
A Democrat that still believes in the Constituition! Just shows they aren't all like Fritz "the Senator from Disney" Hollings. Keep writing those cards and letters folks, but send them to the Senator from Vermont in the form of thank you notes. He will now be the subject of extreme lobbying efforts by Hollywood and the DNC so he could use some encouragement.
Except it is the same politicians who don't trust you to own a gun that also don't want you to own an unrestricted computer. Once you notice that it all makes perfect sense.
Any politician who doesn't believe you have the right to defend your own life against a criminal is the sort of mental defective who will slide down the slippery slope until he thinks you ARE the criminal.
And we are now there. You are ASSUMED to be a pirate, so they plan to give you a 'safe computer' to prevent you from acting on your base instincts to 'steal' Disney's precious mouse.
You got two choices: 1)be a sheep. Say Baaah. 2)Live Free or Die.
Our forefathers pledged their Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor to the cause of establishing our former Republic. Most of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence died or were financially ruined during the War. What price are you willing to pay to reclaim it?
Letters to Congress are a good start, but we had better be thinking of how far we are willing to go to defend the 1st Amendment. Hopefully farther than the NRA went defending #2. So how far are YOU willing to go to defend your 'inalienable rights' against an out of control government who sees itself your Master?
Will you paint up a sign and show up at a local protest?
Will you carry that sign all the way to Washington DC and raise hell for the CNN cameras? Knowing what that sort of record will probably do to your future? (especially if you lose in the end?)
Will you donate till it hurts to organizations like the EFF?
Will you organize and work to unelect politicians who vote for this atrocity? Really work against them, even if they are of the same party as you? Can you really make the cause of liberty your 'single issue' in an election?
Will you commit acts of civil disobedience? Remember how much it sucked to be in the Civil Rights movement all those years before they won? Are you ready to follow in their footsteps for years of getting kicked around by the Powers that Be?
And failing all other attempts to petition our corrupt rulers for redress of our just grievances, will you actually have the stones to lay it all on the line, grab the 'sporting goods' and head to DC to get ugly? This is the big one. If it is obvious that enough folks ARE mad enough to defend their Rights then we will probably win a lot sooner and with a lot less bother. The Brits would never have oppressed the colonies to the degree they did had they entertained for a moment we would actually start shooting and keep it up through the long dark years when it appeared they had no chance of winning. Miscalculating the odds is the cause of most wars.
Looked earlier, didn't find em. Ah well, Disc 2 is about halfway down already so no sense in not letting it complete.
But it is good to see how fast that the grumbles from the natives got all the way up the chain of command and the problem fixed for the future. Way to go!
Well then build the tarball into a binary and source RPM and keep those. :) My point was that execting every developer to maintain tar.gz, rpm and deb versions of every release is unrealistic, especially since a tarball with a spec inside is just as useful, if not more so than a seperate srpm for download on sourceforge.
> I try to keep my laptop pure redhat with no
.spec file. A growing number of projects include one. A tarball with a .spec file it better than a SRPM file for all practical intents and purposes. Just do "rpm -tb .tar.gz instead of "rpm -i .srpm ;rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/.spec"
> self compiles.
There is a way to have your cake and eat it too. Build your own RPMS with anything you want that didn't ship on the CD or rebuild their packages with different options. If you build it yourself you can know it will run with your libraries and such. Keep the SRPMS around and you can quickly rebuild anything that breaks after the next OS upgrade. Since you are keeping everything managed with RPM your packages get managed in the same way as RH supplied software and everything 'just works."
It isn't that hard anymore. If you can't find a SRPM on rpmfind.net grab the tar.gz and look inside for a
Ok, but PLEASE pass the word upline to make it a .3! RedHat 4.2 was rock solid, 5.2 was rock solid and so was 6.2. Haven't met anyone who thinks 7.2 is stable yet. Just yesterday I logged onto my laptop and had no icons along the left. Signed out and back on and they came back. All of the fifty some odd boxes that mere mortals use here on my site are still running 6.2 because of odd crap like that.
.0 is to be avoided on production machines so doing an 8.0 release would mean we would have to keep patching up 6.2 for another year.
I had hoped to move them from 6.2 to 7.2 but it still isn't ready for end users, even with an errata CD that is fast approaching a 2 disc set. It is common knowledge that that anything labeled
Ok we have all vented here, I'll be writing letters when I cool off enough to do some good in that dept but that ain't going to actually counterbalance Disney's billions.
I read the whole text of this heap of dung. When you cut through the crap it basically means any coder inside the US border can be tossed in the joint whenever a media company doesn't like something we say (code IS speech). Would anybody be taking this if it were printing presses being so regulated? Well it is, since all modern presses are computerized.
CONGRESS SHALL PASS NO LAW.....
Ok, fine words but what happens when they do it anyway? Well that was what the 2nd Amendment was on about. The Ballot box rests firmly on the cartridge box. So at what point do we decide it is our duty to water the liberty tree? If a few of us rebel at any one time we get branded "terrorists" or "right wing militias", shot dead and used as an excuse to pass yet more unconstituitionallaws.
How about a nice document with flowery oratory with words like "When in the course of Human Events....." in it. Then an activation clause stating that the Revolution begins when:
a) The Supreme Court becomes the third branch of government to abrogate it's pledge to "Uphold and Defend the Constituition" by finding this law legit after Congress and the President violated their Oath by Passing and Signing it.
b) N (100,000, 1 Mil, ???) people have signed the declaration to Pledge their Lives, their Fortunes and their Sacred Honor to the overthrow of the corrupt Government and restoring the Republic our forefathers gave us in trust.
Of course the first important question would be if signing such a document, even in the event it never reaches the trigger threshold, qualifies as an Overt Act of Treason?
And any cryptoweenies out there, shut the hell up about some cockeyed scheme for anonymous signatures. Any fool should be able to see why that wouldn't work in this case.
As is probably clear from this posting, I'm Mad as Hell and don't want to take it anymore but still a bit fuzzy as to just how we are supposed to get out of this mess.
Lots of prior examples of winning the war by making your name stick. SDI got renamed "Star Wars" by it's opponents and went nowhere. (But it is still sucking up money, but all government programs are immortal when it comes to sucking up taxpayer dollars.)
/. poll. Then whatever wins we should push it. (God I hope it isn't the CowboyNeal Act)
But the best example of controlling the debate through the choice of language is over in the abortion debate. (no, lets not open up that can of worms.) You won't find a single self-professed "anti-choice" or "pro-death" and not even many "pro-abortion" activists. Nope, one side stakes out the "pro-choice" position (Hey, what right thinking American could possibly be against choice?) and the other is "pro-life" (What, you are against life? Well go shoot yourself you waste of oxygen.). When it is spelled out in such clear language it sounds silly but it isn't. It is very effective. The language has a big influence on what sort of meme gets spread out in the popular culture. Professional pols know this and we better start adopting a few of their tactics if we hope to win in the big leagues.
There have been a lot of good ideas posted here but we need to pick ONE and get behind it consistently enough to get the more friendly elements in the press to pick up on it. Considering how lame they are I hate to suggest it but Taco needs to collect up the better ideas and run a
Just remember Phil was a professor of economics in a past life so when you write be sure to customize the argument with that fact in mind.
I have one of the Bill's co-sponsors (Breaux, D-LA) and "the bitch who won on the dead vote in New Orleans" for Senate scum so don't bitch about your selection of congresscritters. I'd trade ya Breaux and Landrieu for Gramm & Hutchinson any day of the week.
Yes I am cynical about politics. But we have to take an interest in politics because it is now clear to even the dumbest retard that politics has taken an interest in us geeks. So I'll be writing polite but firm letters to both of my slimeball senators and Congressman McCrery since the best chance of stopping this madness appears to be with the House.
Be thankful he gave you accurate and normally helpful advice. Had you actually been intending to BUY M$ Office he would have saved you some serious dollars. Had you explained your reasons for wanting the higher price you would have probably the info you needed.
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Sounds like somebody that is at least trying to help the customer, just needs to improve the 'ol people skills. Probably a geek type.
Clickwrap 'licenses' ain't worth the photons emitted by your display. Ignore it and get on with it. CodeWeavers might not have the lawyers to officially tell people to use it and certainly couldn't bundle it (copyright has nothing to do with a EULA) but that's a practical limitation and not a legal or moral one.
Using CTRL in place of button 2 and ALT in place of button 3 doesn't work. Try running GIMP where you need CTRL-ALT-BUTTON2 and worse. X based apps assume at least three buttons on the pointer.
Know two people who bought TiBooks around when I was looking to buy a new notebook and seriously considered being the the 3rd TiBook on the block. The pointer issue decided it in favor of a Thinkpad with a three button trackpoint. One button and a glidepoint (even though the TiBook has the best glidepoint I have played with, I still don't really like them) was just too many negatives to bear when paying 50-100% more for a Mac in the first place.
The TiBook is a beautiful machine, superior in many ways over my Thinkpad. It gets more runtime out of less expensive batteries. The screen is stunning. A pretty good X/UNIX/GNU environment will run alongside OS X apps and Yellowdog/etc are available for the full Linux experience. But Apple laptops are crippled with an unusable pointer. And apple desktop hardware, where replacing the bundled mouse is trivial just don't have a good price/performance ratio vs. cheap Athlons.
The Internet was supposed to be about breaking down national borders. Just broadcast from places that the RIAA doesn't yet control. Probably best to pick the spots they will get to last.
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Nobody dropped graven tablets down from Heaven saying the US of A would always be the best place to engage in commerce. Our economy is now a mix of mercentilism & socialism which means you are either a megacorp or a ward of the State. Time we faced facts and started thinking globally. If you insist on continuing to live here you can probably work out a way to launder the profits back in from your foreign shell corporation.