For home PC users MS License agreements don't really matter. I mean, who in the world is going to catch you? No one. Rest assured your safe. And if you feel bad about lying when you hit 'yes' to agreeing to the license agreement you should not feel bad about lying to MS(I won't go into why but if you ask I'm sure a lot of people here would be happy to tell you:~)
Now I'm not saying you can just dupe the hell out of it and sell it at a flea market. Not like I really like MS but that is totally illegal.
But if I have a few computers at home, who gives a rat's ass if you dupe it for your own machines. Especially if you are the only one using them. Even if your whole family uses them or even if you have a small home office with like 5 people Microsoft's License Agreement is totally irrelivant.
Anyone ever reccomend to a family member Linux? gave them Red-hat to install or installed it for them? then to get a call a week later that the computer is spewing "oh shit" at their 12 year old son?
Oh man this is funny. I hope they do leave in "ho shit" messages. Hell, put more in there. Last thing I want is a pussy os like you. Troll.
Yeah but are you recording hits _served_? Or are you reporting requests where 80% of clients abort waiting for the page to load because the machine is too busi eating requests. I don't know the internals of how apache schedules requests but from personal surfing expirience that appears to be a common effect.
Scientists here on earth believe that fungi are mutating into new species faster than they can be found and catergorized. After so many years in space, I would imagine their fungus have already mutated quite alot - add the excessive radiation - and it should be quite interesting.
I, for one, hope that they kept samples.
They would but every time they tried the fungus replied, "Ouch! that hurt."
I just played this on the LAN 5 minutes ago with about 8 other people. Pretty cool but the wepons and other stuff are not as rich. You cannot differentiate the difference in power of the weapons either.
I miss the days of Half-Life. You pull the trigger on something and you could really feel it. That proggie was the best.
Perl has it's place but it's a monster. It's syntactic contextual hell.
I agree I don't know if we need another language. I don't think I ever code in anything called basic though. Stupid excuse but it's just so old fashined. I remember some guy showing my 6th grade class the real old basic on the apple II! (now let's see if you can guess my age:~)
I just read through the entire Python Tutorial in about 12 hours between yesterday and today. I would say I'm pretty impressed. I heard it was cool but coming from the Java world Python is SWEET! And this was after fooling around with perl for a few hours and getting nowhere. I suck at perl:~( I have not gotten to the point where I can objectively say it is will live up to first impression but I just parsed my mail spool using the build in mailbox module and created a dbm in no time flat. So far so good. PS Run the interpreter in a small window while you read. And _really_ read it. It's just not that long. You'll be kickn' perls ass in no time.
Of course, I don't mean to knock RedHat's work -- it's great that USB support is finally working in Linux!
Why do you make it sound like Red Hat was solely responsible for bringing USB to Linux. I don't think they had much if anything to do with it actually. They just put it in their dist. You should really credit those responsible.
That's not going to happen soon. Getting Linux to detect a USB device is one thing but you would need drivers for communicating with it in a meaningfull way. But maybe there are drivers for the Handspring?
You're not kidding. A computer utilized taste materials such as proteins and nucleic acids would be very appitizing to hungry bacteria.
You might get the latest and greatest CPU only to find the casing had a crack in it and was consumed by a real live bug(rather than the programmatic kind).
This is not a new discovery. I remember reading this when I was a biochem student around 1996.
The way dna conducts electricity is that the chromatic rings of the bases have overlapping pi bonds. These rings are like a stack of pancakes. The pi bonds are half occupied and orbit purpendicular to the plane of the rings above and below. So they overlap and contribute considerably to the rigidness of the overall helix. Because the orbital clouds occupy the same space electrons can freely pass from one pi bond of one ring in the chain to the orbital of the next ring.
I believe the particular paper described actually annealing a single strand of DNA to a pair of microelectrodes and measuring the various potentials that could be created accross it.
I don't think this should be marked "Flaimbait". The opinion is a little colorful but that's all it is.
Actually I tend to agree. I do use 6.2 at work and KDE and GNOME are a little thick. I think it's odd that they're making Windows for UNIX. I don't run it. I prefer WindowMaker.
I was appalled to find that the RedHat 6.1 installer wasn't able to do a non-destructive repartition, nor did it play well with Windows after I did so by hand.
I took an NT machine, used partition magic to move NT over and installed 6.2 without incident. Trivial. Both boot flawlessly. This was a scsi system too.
Why in the world is this a dot o release? I would expect dot o if it was kernel 2.4 and XFree 4 etc. But dot o is not warranted. I think there suits must be up to something. They are projecting profitability in 2002. Lost a penny this quarter. But I think they should polish 6.x. That would be wiser. I would think people would rather buy 6.3 than 7.0 because the dot o's are usually unstable.
What is interesting here are the negative comments about Red Hat. Is it's just because your using Debian or is everyone generally dissapointed with the progress of Linux distributions? Wierd.
Well, admittedly I don't know what it would take to write a codec, encoder, ripper, or whatever. But if it really is only a "few bored weekends" then of course it would be worth it. You sure it would be that "trivial"? If it was there would be a lot more support for this stuff on Linux. Anyone know what exactly is involved in writing a codec? Basically it's just floating point number crunching yes?
50k really isn't that much to the person who's qualified enough to write what the're talking about. The winner(s) would have to be quite skilled in c in which case then certainly make we'll over 50k/year so it's probably not worth the hassle. Anyone else is probably dreaming if they think their semester course in c is going to be enought to write something that can win.
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For home PC users MS License agreements don't really matter. I mean, who in the world is going to catch you? No one. Rest assured your safe. And if you feel bad about lying when you hit 'yes' to agreeing to the license agreement you should not feel bad about lying to MS(I won't go into why but if you ask I'm sure a lot of people here would be happy to tell you :~)
Now I'm not saying you can just dupe the hell out of it and sell it at a flea market. Not like I really like MS but that is totally illegal.
But if I have a few computers at home, who gives a rat's ass if you dupe it for your own machines. Especially if you are the only one using them. Even if your whole family uses them or even if you have a small home office with like 5 people Microsoft's License Agreement is totally irrelivant.
KidSock
Anyone ever reccomend to a family member Linux? gave them Red-hat to install or installed it for them? then to get a call a week later that the computer is spewing "oh shit" at their 12 year old son?
Oh man this is funny. I hope they do leave in "ho shit" messages. Hell, put more in there. Last thing I want is a pussy os like you. Troll.
KidSock
I am currently using Mandrake 7.2 beta at home. I like to live on the edge.
Whoe! Well, if your this wild & crazy then you might as well go ahead and try RH7 then!
KidSock
Yeah but are you recording hits _served_? Or are you reporting requests where 80% of clients abort waiting for the page to load because the machine is too busi eating requests. I don't know the internals of how apache schedules requests but from personal surfing expirience that appears to be a common effect.
KidSock
Scientists here on earth believe that fungi are mutating into new species faster than they can be found and catergorized. After so many years in space, I would imagine their fungus have already mutated quite alot - add the excessive radiation - and it should be quite interesting.
I, for one, hope that they kept samples.
They would but every time they tried the fungus replied, "Ouch! that hurt."
KidSock
I just played this on the LAN 5 minutes ago with about 8 other people. Pretty cool but the wepons and other stuff are not as rich. You cannot differentiate the difference in power of the weapons either.
I miss the days of Half-Life. You pull the trigger on something and you could really feel it. That proggie was the best.
KidSock
Perl has it's place but it's a monster. It's syntactic contextual hell.
I agree I don't know if we need another language. I don't think I ever code in anything called basic though. Stupid excuse but it's just so old fashined. I remember some guy showing my 6th grade class the real old basic on the apple II! (now let's see if you can guess my age :~)
I just read through the entire Python Tutorial in about 12 hours between yesterday and today. I would say I'm pretty impressed. I heard it was cool but coming from the Java world Python is SWEET! And this was after fooling around with perl for a few hours and getting nowhere. I suck at perl :~( I have not gotten to the point where I can objectively say it is will live up to first impression but I just parsed my mail spool using the build in mailbox module and created a dbm in no time flat. So far so good. PS Run the interpreter in a small window while you read. And _really_ read it. It's just not that long. You'll be kickn' perls ass in no time.
KidSock
Of course, I don't mean to knock RedHat's work -- it's great that USB support is finally working in Linux!
Why do you make it sound like Red Hat was solely responsible for bringing USB to Linux. I don't think they had much if anything to do with it actually. They just put it in their dist. You should really credit those responsible.
KidSock
That's not going to happen soon. Getting Linux to detect a USB device is one thing but you would need drivers for communicating with it in a meaningfull way. But maybe there are drivers for the Handspring?
KidSock
You're not kidding. A computer utilized taste materials such as proteins and nucleic acids would be very appitizing to hungry bacteria.
You might get the latest and greatest CPU only to find the casing had a crack in it and was consumed by a real live bug(rather than the programmatic kind).
KidSock
This is not a new discovery. I remember reading this when I was a biochem student around 1996.
The way dna conducts electricity is that the chromatic rings of the bases have overlapping pi bonds. These rings are like a stack of pancakes. The pi bonds are half occupied and orbit purpendicular to the plane of the rings above and below. So they overlap and contribute considerably to the rigidness of the overall helix. Because the orbital clouds occupy the same space electrons can freely pass from one pi bond of one ring in the chain to the orbital of the next ring.
I believe the particular paper described actually annealing a single strand of DNA to a pair of microelectrodes and measuring the various potentials that could be created accross it.
KidSock
I don't think this should be marked "Flaimbait". The opinion is a little colorful but that's all it is.
Actually I tend to agree. I do use 6.2 at work and KDE and GNOME are a little thick. I think it's odd that they're making Windows for UNIX. I don't run it. I prefer WindowMaker.
KidSock
Yes! It does. I always thought that. How funny. Poor Caldera, the're just getting shit hammered now aren't they.
KidSock
I think they are doing 7.0 because the're falling behind with respect to the version numbers of other distibutions.
Mandrake 7.1
Slackware 7.1
SuSE 7.0
Red Hat 6.2
Turbo Linux 4.0
Turbo really needs to pick up the pace :~)
KidSock
I was appalled to find that the RedHat 6.1 installer wasn't able to do a non-destructive repartition, nor did it play well with Windows after I did so by hand.
I took an NT machine, used partition magic to move NT over and installed 6.2 without incident. Trivial. Both boot flawlessly. This was a scsi system too.
KidSock
Why in the world is this a dot o release? I would expect dot o if it was kernel 2.4 and XFree 4 etc. But dot o is not warranted. I think there suits must be up to something. They are projecting profitability in 2002. Lost a penny this quarter. But I think they should polish 6.x. That would be wiser. I would think people would rather buy 6.3 than 7.0 because the dot o's are usually unstable.
KidSock
What is interesting here are the negative comments about Red Hat. Is it's just because your using Debian or is everyone generally dissapointed with the progress of Linux distributions? Wierd.
KidSock
What's so hard about dealing with the mirrors? Downloading RH is trivial(provided you have a worthy connection). This is a non-issue.
KidSock
Why would you want to install 7.0 anyway. The dot o's are not nearly as stable. Never buy a dot o(IMHO).
KidSock
Ooops, I see this is about power generation and not heat. Lemmy se those flames. Bring'em on. Come on baby!
between it and a gas heater? Natrual gas goes in, heat comes out.
KidSock
Well, admittedly I don't know what it would take to write a codec, encoder, ripper, or whatever. But if it really is only a "few bored weekends" then of course it would be worth it. You sure it would be that "trivial"? If it was there would be a lot more support for this stuff on Linux. Anyone know what exactly is involved in writing a codec? Basically it's just floating point number crunching yes?
KidSock
50k really isn't that much to the person who's qualified enough to write what the're talking about. The winner(s) would have to be quite skilled in c in which case then certainly make we'll over 50k/year so it's probably not worth the hassle. Anyone else is probably dreaming if they think their semester course in c is going to be enought to write something that can win.
Make the pot bigger!
KidSock
I don't think Ken would appreciate your making up this BS in his name.
KidSock
What is an operating system? The definition depends on your needs.
KidSock