My compaq presario came with such a beast. Basically you stick the OEM supplied "backup" CD in, boot from the CDROM, and the machine re-ghosts itself and you get your OS back. Of course, you lose everything, and you're stuck with the same bloat that the system shipped with (like 9 or so little Compaq daemons running).
The less legally minded might be tempted to write down their serial numbers, then "borrow and burn" a real copy of WinX, so you could do a fresh install, then just copy your serial number back on the system. Gotta love regedit.
Any attempt by a company to produce a Linux driver, imho, is a Good Thing. Look at the buggy-yet-useful-to-some Lucent LT Winmodem driver. Heck, if it works, its a bonus.
The downside is that if they don't keep up with the kernel and library releases (also see above driver failure rate:-( ) then it doesn't help a heck of a lot.
Wait, you downloaded the other binary, repeat step 1
Get some random system library update
Get an illegal ROM
Download some sample sounds, which are not bundled with everything else
Play MAME, except if it doesn't work, flames to/dev/null. It would be nice, because I'm lazy and I have a million better things to do than look at MAME source and fix some path entry, if you could just download a big binary. Windows-esque? Sure... would many more people download it? Sure...
I just keep an eye on the status bar of Netscape, and if there are any hosts I dont recognize, or look sketchy, I put an entry in my hosts file like: 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
Gradually you build up a defense to this sort of thing this way.
Filtering at the firewall by IP works well too, but can be trickier, since ad.doubleclick.net resolves to many different hosts.
The LAST thing that India needs to worry about is a moon mission. They should take some the money they're going to burn on this idea and do something revolutionary with it - improve the lives of their citizens. In a country where (IIRC) something like 50% of the cooking is done on wood fires, where rivers flood, and where, as my friend put it, a "wall of stench from all the dead things in the heat" hits you when you get off the plane, they have bigger fish to fry than some trip to the Moon.
ATM, there is no profit in getting into space, why go when you can't even feed yourself?
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It's an easy one to avoid liability. Wherever you put your software up for download, make a little webpage form that you have to click on. Then you get the customer to eternally waive all right to claim damages, which of course will be enforceable in a court.
These days, once processors have passed the 400 or so MHz mark, the disparity between memory/bus speeds with main CPU speeds becomes significant. Often you'll get more mileage out of UNDERclocking the CPU, if that means you can OVERclock your PCI or AGP bus.
The Real World performance of a system (not RC5) depends on much more than processor speed.
It's the OS (and drivers) that have to have support for the hardware, not the other way around. Any vendor makes hardware which "technically" has Linux support, i.e. it runs on the i386 platform, is PCI compatible, etc. etc. etc.
For them to claim to support Linux is just marketing babble - until someone writes a driver for this beast, its useless.
Sure, the government of a (socialist) country willingly dismantles its universal citizen database. Sure. C'mon, now, anyone believe this? Citizens of such countries are property of the state, ask Fidel. There is no way that ANY government would dump such a mine of information, no matter what the outcry. Get real.
With a 2.0 Linux and standard Samba implementation, there is no support for ACLs, and consequently no support for the more complicated, NT-style file permission tweaks that you need. So what kind of applications can you roll out on this? A giant "public" directory? I've got a stack of old 486s just waiting to become "storage servers" once they'll do what I need.
Microsoft is wholly dependent on the authors of Kerberos. They need to be able to claim interoperability and that they are on the cutting edge, but depend on the sanction of their victims. I think its excellent that the authors of the Kerberos spec are withdrawing that permission - in a sense reminding Micros~1: "Kerberos is MINE, and I'm LETTING you use it".
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Unix existed when Micros~1 wrote DOS. That's inexcusable in my book.
The less legally minded might be tempted to write down their serial numbers, then "borrow and burn" a real copy of WinX, so you could do a fresh install, then just copy your serial number back on the system. Gotta love regedit.
Slashdot forever!!
The downside is that if they don't keep up with the kernel and library releases (also see above driver failure rate :-( ) then it doesn't help a heck of a lot.
Just because YOU find it hard to use or ugly, doesn't make it so. The user has to squeeze it all into a 32MB machine, so you want a clean WM.
I love Corel's Perfect Office.
If you're at 32MB, upgrade a couple of servers to 512MB or so, and run WP/Quattro off them, and just display it locally.
Set up each box with lpd so they can print to their local printers if you do this.
Have fun!!!
Download MAME
Patch it N times
Wait, you downloaded the other binary, repeat step 1
Get some random system library update
Get an illegal ROM
Download some sample sounds, which are not bundled with everything else
Play MAME, except if it doesn't work, flames to /dev/null. It would be nice, because I'm lazy and I have a million better things to do than look at MAME source and fix some path entry, if you could just download a big binary.
Windows-esque? Sure... would many more people download it? Sure...
My emulated 2 cents.
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
Gradually you build up a defense to this sort of thing this way.
Filtering at the firewall by IP works well too, but can be trickier, since ad.doubleclick.net resolves to many different hosts.
who gives a crap about other architectures?
Because we can, you dumb fuck.
ATM, there is no profit in getting into space, why go when you can't even feed yourself?
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Is that Yahoo! quotes CmdrTaco on the press release!
Go Slashdot!
At least, thats what Microsoft did.
Should work for other people too, right?
Dork.
The Real World performance of a system (not RC5) depends on much more than processor speed.
With a 2MB cache on your drive, you can read it all in 2/100 sec instead of 2/33 sec.
Ha, nice to see he ripped a quote from an email I sent them, suggesting they change their IP statement.
Quick, go grab your RPMs, or Debian packages, or whatever binaries you need, before the ripple effect takes out the mirrors of the binaries.
For them to claim to support Linux is just marketing babble - until someone writes a driver for this beast, its useless.
Sure, the government of a (socialist) country willingly dismantles its universal citizen database. Sure.
C'mon, now, anyone believe this?
Citizens of such countries are property of the state, ask Fidel. There is no way that ANY government would dump such a mine of information, no matter what the outcry.
Get real.
With a 2.0 Linux and standard Samba implementation, there is no support for ACLs, and consequently no support for the more complicated, NT-style file permission tweaks that you need. So what kind of applications can you roll out on this? A giant "public" directory? I've got a stack of old 486s just waiting to become "storage servers" once they'll do what I need.
Microsoft is wholly dependent on the authors of Kerberos. They need to be able to claim interoperability and that they are on the cutting edge, but depend on the sanction of their victims. I think its excellent that the authors of the Kerberos spec are withdrawing that permission - in a sense reminding Micros~1: "Kerberos is MINE, and I'm LETTING you use it".
Easy dude, just put 127.0.0.1 ad.doubeclick.net and others in your hosts file. Insta-spam filter.
Yeah, like I'd download and install a binary-only "network scanner" from the _FBI_.