I feel I should mention that I was unable to flash the firmware from linux. Mozilla simply didn't upload the file containing newer firmware (I have no clue why)...
I've run into the same issue, I just disable the management password and then use the tftp upload method. Just remember to re-enable the password after the upload.
Come to NYC and drink the tap water that has been sitting in 100 year old lead pipes before it comes out of your faucet. You will LOVE bottled water. Plus, you actually don't get free water unless you are sucking up the scummy lake or river water filled with parasites. Tap water is paid for by taxes. No matter what, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
Actually 100 year old lead pipes should be pretty safe since they will have a nice coating of minerals on the inside and should not leach lead into the water unlike newer soldered copper piples from a couple decades ago that contain lead in the solder.
I do agree that municipal water leaves much to be desired since it's quite often clorinated/ozoned to kill any critters in it and may have flourine added to give people nice healthy teeth. Bottled water does taste much better, but if you have a filter for the tap water it's just as good.
And people bought CD's back when they couldn't copy them either.
The problem is people have always been able to copy audio. When CDs came out I would always copy them to tape so I could listen in my car. Before that I would always record my LPs to Cassette to keep the wear and tear on the albums down. People are used to theis and will not give it up unless the price of the "uncopyable" CD are significanly cheaper than regular CDs.
The movie industry has had a bit better luck at getting away with copy protection because there are not decades of copying to overcome. When VCRs first came out they were so expensive that few people could afford two, and even before macrovision it was hard to make a decent copy.
The movie and tv producers will run into trouble if they try to stop off the air copying because there is decades of history of people doing this. The only way they will be able to get away with it is by implementing it with pay-per-view content slowly to lul people into accepting it... I.E. boiling the frog.
I just plunked down $289 for a 15" for the wife because her desk did not have space for anything larger. I'm waiting for the 18" and larger ones to get below the $400 mark before I upgrade. A co-worker recently got a 14" flat panel for his son for similar space reasons.
I think the next two years will see LCDs replace CRTs for all but the very low end and large (20"+ virewable) displays. I'm personally tired of dealing with the large bulky monsters. Environmentally they are probably be easier to dispose of than CRTs. The power, space savings, and ergonomics are another big plus for buisness.
It was filed in 1983 and granted in December of 1985 so, we have a bit over a decade until it expires.
Actually at that time patents lasted 17 years after they were granted, this year is the last year for the patent I believe. Though it could be 2003 is the last year since I cant remember when the rule 20year from filing or 17 years from granting went into effect. This was done to "rationalize" our patents to the EU time period.
I can't see why the FSF is trying to become the new Linux authority. First they've tried to claim that much of Linux was written by GNU, this is not true, I put to you, they tried changing Linux to GNU/Linux. Notice that GNU is placed before the word Linux, this implies a strong bias towards the former entity.
FSF != FSG the FSF is not part of the Free Standards Group and is not part of their official membership. This just sounds like an un-called for rant against the FSF.
As far as I know *every* linux distribution uses the GNU toolset, so I think it's impolite of the distributions that don't give credit to GNU/FSF.
The FSF does not want any to control the Linux kernel at all... they have their own kernel that they have developed.
As far as the LSB goes it is basically a description of the higher level APIs and what programs need to be found and their location and of the configuration files. This makes it much easier to install an application on a compiant Linux Distro and have things work.
While I actually agree with you -- I don't see how that is any easier than Windows popping up a requestor saying "YOUR CRITICAL UPDATES HAVE DOWNLOADED AND ARE READY TO INSTALL."
That's what the little blue checkmark that shows on the gnomebar on RH 7.3 does. Of course there are a few issues with that:
Since your gonna be running linux as a server you probably won't be logged in GUI that often if at all. so you won't see the updates.
If you are running more than one system your gonna have to have at least a basic RHN subscription. But then you also get critical update notifications so #1 is not such an issue.
You can use AutoRPM to automatically check and download updates if you don't use RHN.
So it's not much harder keeping systems updated under RH Linux than windows. The one downside is if Redhat's Server gets compromised you may end up downloading trojaned programs. That should not be an issue since up2date checks the signatures on the RPMs to make sure they are official. I don't remember if autorpm can be configured to do this.
I could imagine a ip-up.d script (for dialups) or cron job (for dedicated lines) that connects to a distribution mirror site, then asks for a current status of available security upgrades (using signed communication to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks).
Well RedHat has basically done that in 7.3 and later with the Gnome up2date applet that sits in the task bar. I login and sortly later I either see a blue checkmark or red exclmation point indicating there are patched available. Then it's just a matter of clicking on the the button to start up2date to pull down the updates.
At work I go one step further and run up2date to automatically download fixes and I get an e-mail when it happens. I then can review and manually install them if it looks like there is no issues
I stand corrected. There is plenty of blame to go around. That of course does not make either (or any) side right for allowing the conflict to keep going.::sigh::
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So you are saying that Israel was overreacting to the near daily suicide bombers? How else were they supposed to solve that problem?
I think neither side is in the right on this issue. The Israekies have behaved miserably and so have the Palistinians. For each attack by the other side, level of violence is escalated. Frankly I think we in the U.S. are at the root of the problem since we helped draw in Israel & erase Palestine at the end of WWII.
Where? When? The closest you can come to that is a few speeches by illinformed senators. The DMCA does not have a terrorist clause.
I'm from Wisconin, the home of McCarthyism, all you need is a small group of illinformed congress people and the right public sentiment to turn the whole US population against a small group. In the late 40s & early 50s and can happen any time society is under stress
Public officals have labeled anti-globalist and environmentalist protestors as being terrorists, and the anti-war protesters during the late 60's were treated the same. Some of this may be deservied because of the methods used by the extreamests if the above groups.
IBM is leaving the buisness, but I've a few Toshiba laptop drives. I've got two samsung drives in home systems... not bad drives though, and we've used everyone mentioned so far except IBM drives in systems at work.
We've recently had a rash of 2.5GB drives (close to a dozen) fail the past three months. These were all bought about four years ago, so I guess we got our money out of them.
Of course we had about a half dozen Seagate 2.1GB drives fail after about six months... the system vendor replaced them with the comment "seagate had a bad batch of drives".
We are down to a field of two major players: Western Digital and Maxtor. If one of those goes away, what do you think will happen to hard drive prices?
The article also mentions that "most" the fonts are included with all version of windows 98 or newer with the exception of Trebuchet MS, Andale Mono and Gorgia. I guess I'll have to modify my web pages so that they require thoes fonts, have a decent linux alternative font, and then finally a lineprinter font. Finally maybe top it off with a "click here if the font's look crappy" link that points to MS's old page.
My local walmart has them for $79 in the "science toys" area near electronics. I've been having a hard time not buying one because it looks so cool.:^) just the thing to fly above your cubical!!
Though judging by the noise in the video probably not a good thing to fly at work.
I just finnished doing a search on the USPTO web site here
and the only applicatable trademarks that I see for them are "PDAMP" and "PCAMP" (filed March 20, 2002) and "AMPHIBIAN" (filed July 6, 2001)... they don't appear to own "AMP". WinAMP has been around several years, and I remember another music player before winamp that played MP2s.
AMP is a generic term for Audio Media Player... and I can't see where they would have a case. Of course I don't have to foot the bill, so I can't say I would bother fighting it.
Also what are the specifics as to support being dropped by e-music? Have they also dropped support for Music Brainz? Music Brainz seemd to be CDDB done right with more information, proper support for multi-artist disks, etc.
Is one of the more clueful senators around... I'm glad that I'm from wisconsin so I can continue to vote for him in elections. He was also against the patriot act being the only senator to vote against it, at least he managed to get an amendment to limit it to 5 years (I believe) at least.
I've noticed that stuff like this "false files" seems to be going on already. When I've searched Gnutella I always get a a bunch of maches with files that contain only my search terms plus.mp3.avi.mpg.exe and others. Either sombody is trying to get people to download nastyness or somebody is tying do this already.
wow, with that uptime and load average, i would think that box is in a closet off the network. seriously, its not cool to brag retarded numbers like that
Not my fault that it runs well and is not terribly busy even though it's the primary print server for our network of 100+ win 95 & NT workstations with over a dozen printers.
Moby's new album isn't that good, he hasn't gone in any new directions since his last album. It's very predictable.
I think this is the problem with this album... I've previewed it and find little new or interesting. I think Moby brought up what I feel is the real problem in an interview a couple years or so ago. He mentioned in the interview that he sampled songs for his creations, but now that he had gone "main stream" the record company made him track all the samples he used and get permission for their use. Becomming mainstream has become a hinderance.
This has got to get in the way of the creative process, you can't say "AH that was an interesting sounding section, what can I do with it" without worrying about details.
The current copyright system probably does more to hinder creativity than to help it.
Not much more than the small displays... we use them at work for shop floor equipment running dedicated DOS software (DOS is not dead). I believe they have been picking up backlist B&W displays with controller for a bit over $100. I don't remember where they pick them up off hand, or else I would add a link.
On the net, we have a culture of written information apearing and disapearing. This information is part of our culture, its things that we read and see, when it goes away - for whatever reason - we have lost something.
I have to agree whole heartedly. I wish the archive went farther back to the beginnings of the web so people could really see how it started out. It's always bothered me that there was no way of saving it because of the ability to basically re-write hostory and not being able to prove it.
There are also sites that I wish would have made it to the archive back when I first started out in 95... it would be cool to look at them again.
Two others I'm waiting to come out on DVD are "Soylent Green" and "Omega Man". The only thing I can figure with the "Back to the Future" not being released is there is some odd contract issue involved. As far as the other two I have no clue other than the fact that they may not have been that popular.
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I've run into the same issue, I just disable the management password and then use the tftp upload method. Just remember to re-enable the password after the upload.
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That's OK, my CD player has a 1/4" audio out jack.
Ok that was dumb.
I do agree that municipal water leaves much to be desired since it's quite often clorinated/ozoned to kill any critters in it and may have flourine added to give people nice healthy teeth. Bottled water does taste much better, but if you have a filter for the tap water it's just as good.
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The movie industry has had a bit better luck at getting away with copy protection because there are not decades of copying to overcome. When VCRs first came out they were so expensive that few people could afford two, and even before macrovision it was hard to make a decent copy.
The movie and tv producers will run into trouble if they try to stop off the air copying because there is decades of history of people doing this. The only way they will be able to get away with it is by implementing it with pay-per-view content slowly to lul people into accepting it ... I.E. boiling the frog.
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I think the next two years will see LCDs replace CRTs for all but the very low end and large (20"+ virewable) displays. I'm personally tired of dealing with the large bulky monsters. Environmentally they are probably be easier to dispose of than CRTs. The power, space savings, and ergonomics are another big plus for buisness.
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Actually at that time patents lasted 17 years after they were granted, this year is the last year for the patent I believe. Though it could be 2003 is the last year since I cant remember when the rule 20year from filing or 17 years from granting went into effect. This was done to "rationalize" our patents to the EU time period.
As far as I know *every* linux distribution uses the GNU toolset, so I think it's impolite of the distributions that don't give credit to GNU/FSF.
The FSF does not want any to control the Linux kernel at all ... they have their own kernel that they have developed.
As far as the LSB goes it is basically a description of the higher level APIs and what programs need to be found and their location and of the configuration files. This makes it much easier to install an application on a compiant Linux Distro and have things work.
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That's what the little blue checkmark that shows on the gnomebar on RH 7.3 does. Of course there are a few issues with that:
So it's not much harder keeping systems updated under RH Linux than windows. The one downside is if Redhat's Server gets compromised you may end up downloading trojaned programs. That should not be an issue since up2date checks the signatures on the RPMs to make sure they are official. I don't remember if autorpm can be configured to do this.
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At work I go one step further and run up2date to automatically download fixes and I get an e-mail when it happens. I then can review and manually install them if it looks like there is no issues
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Public officals have labeled anti-globalist and environmentalist protestors as being terrorists, and the anti-war protesters during the late 60's were treated the same. Some of this may be deservied because of the methods used by the extreamests if the above groups.
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We've recently had a rash of 2.5GB drives (close to a dozen) fail the past three months. These were all bought about four years ago, so I guess we got our money out of them.
Of course we had about a half dozen Seagate 2.1GB drives fail after about six months
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I think your missing a third
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What entrepreneurs went to Duke University and might have a million dollars to throw around? Anybody have a clue?
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Though judging by the noise in the video probably not a good thing to fly at work.
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AMP is a generic term for Audio Media Player ... and I can't see where they would have a case. Of course I don't have to foot the bill, so I can't say I would bother fighting it.
Also what are the specifics as to support being dropped by e-music? Have they also dropped support for Music Brainz? Music Brainz seemd to be CDDB done right with more information, proper support for multi-artist disks, etc.
Is one of the more clueful senators around ... I'm glad that I'm from wisconsin so I can continue to vote for him in elections. He was also against the patriot act being the only senator to vote against it, at least he managed to get an amendment to limit it to 5 years (I believe) at least.
I've noticed that stuff like this "false files" seems to be going on already. When I've searched Gnutella I always get a a bunch of maches with files that contain only my search terms plus .mp3 .avi .mpg .exe and others. Either sombody is trying to get people to download nastyness or somebody is tying do this already.
Not my fault that it runs well and is not terribly busy even though it's the primary print server for our network of 100+ win 95 & NT workstations with over a dozen printers.
This has got to get in the way of the creative process, you can't say "AH that was an interesting sounding section, what can I do with it" without worrying about details.
The current copyright system probably does more to hinder creativity than to help it.
is a 6" color VGA display run off of a PCI VGA card in the system. Maximum PC had such a system as one of their "Rig of the Month".
I have to agree whole heartedly. I wish the archive went farther back to the beginnings of the web so people could really see how it started out. It's always bothered me that there was no way of saving it because of the ability to basically re-write hostory and not being able to prove it.
There are also sites that I wish would have made it to the archive back when I first started out in 95