Agreed. From what I've read, simple exposure to closed source code (M$ code), even seeing it during the course of work, opens up the developer to charges of IP theft if any code remotely resembling the M$ code shows up in the open source product. Sounds to me like M$ trying to open that possibility in order to shut the whole product down (or tie it up in litigation, effectively the same thing).
WARNING... WARNING... DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!!
Just closing the door, just closing the door. Closure is nice after such a long, screwed up, greed-filled, hypocritical, disgusting, embarrassing lawsuit.
Now hopefully we'll never hear about Metallica again.
Amen to that. I ran an ISP help desk for about a year and a half and that was a common nightmare. In one case I spent close to three hours with an elderly lady on the phone trying to figure out what was going on... turns out Netscape (this was a few years ago) tosses three lines in the autoexec.bat file that are required for their browser to work. Because of the proprietary interface on her box (quiet you sickos), there was a branch in the autoexec that gave you a choice between the proprietary interface or windows... when you selected windows, the autoexec.bat never made it down to the Netscape lines, so they never got executed.
Try walking a 70-year old lady thru editing autoexec.bat over the phone sometime...
Outstanding. Public opinion does have at least a little power... the more crap they do that gets exposed, the more outcry, and the more they have to back off. Not only that, but now the average (Tom/Dick/Harry/insert a female name here too if it smokes your shorts) is starting to hear about the evil side of M$ as well. About time.
Damn straight it is. I hope she wins... then maybe that cable service "yeah, it sucks, but sorry, it's out, and forget it, your bill will be the same" attitude will quickly go away!
Great for RedHat. Now either make.RPMs track dependencies or point me at a site that shows how to integrate apt-get into RH and we'll check out 7.1.....
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If you don't want to read the reviews or Jon Katz, then DON'T!!!
Fer cryin out loud... you created an account, now customize it and remove those two subjects!
Turns out it's good I saved that config file... when I installed 4.1 there was no option for the G450 in the card selection list. Pulled the old config file back in and everything is well.
No, not really... I had a hell of a time getting the configuration file right (both screens, both monitors, etc) but once I had it I had no problem with hidden text like that.
I will most definitely back up that config file before I upgrade!;)
Why, thank you for your brilliant insightful comments!
I am running my G450 with all the pretty thingies you mention above so proudly... I know all about Matrox.com and the powerdesk, and I know how to handle URLs.
Being, however, that this article deals with Xfree4.1... not 4.03, I made the silly mistake that clueful people reading my comment would understand that I was referring to 4.1... not 4.03.
Oops, my mistake.
Amazing what reading will do for a person.
For those of you who can, my question still stands...
Odd... at Xfree.org the release notes say the Matrox G450 card is supported... but then in the man section there's no mention of the G450... am I missing something here?
I've spent about the past three hours searching for this supposed meta tag... nothing! Nowhere! But boy, did I find a slug of sites ranting about what a great technology it is, and how to use it/build it/take full advantage of it, ad nauseum.
Doesn't it seem a bit odd that something as simple as a meta tag is so difficult to publish?
Gee, maybe it doesn't exist... and maybe won't?
As someone who used to run a help desk for AT&T, I agree... from my experience, the "corporate" attitude was that unhappy users could always cancel; there'd be someone waiting in line behind them to take their place. It was especially bad in that we had a captive audience (long story).
I do take pride in the fact that despite fervent hatred for the company, our customers always did say that the help desk was excellent;)
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The translation of "fun" in both Chinese and Vietnamese is shit. Appropriate.
I just wanna know how many free cases of Code Red showed up at Eeye's doorstep as thanks for the incredible free publicity...
What's next? A sequel to WarGames?
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Business wants to take over and kill something that's revolutionized the world. Why am I not surprised?
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It's been tried before; Harley tried to trademark their engine sound. There's a rather in-depth paper on it here.
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Several of them out there... this was the first one that came to mind: http://www.absolute-protect.com/index.htm
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What monopoly?
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Can you give me a bit more info? Doing a search on "render" in the mailing list archives gives more than just a few hits....
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LOL... simple! Who's gonna decide which one is the correct spelling???
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Agreed. From what I've read, simple exposure to closed source code (M$ code), even seeing it during the course of work, opens up the developer to charges of IP theft if any code remotely resembling the M$ code shows up in the open source product. Sounds to me like M$ trying to open that possibility in order to shut the whole product down (or tie it up in litigation, effectively the same thing). WARNING... WARNING... DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!!
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Just closing the door, just closing the door. Closure is nice after such a long, screwed up, greed-filled, hypocritical, disgusting, embarrassing lawsuit. Now hopefully we'll never hear about Metallica again.
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Amen to that. I ran an ISP help desk for about a year and a half and that was a common nightmare. In one case I spent close to three hours with an elderly lady on the phone trying to figure out what was going on... turns out Netscape (this was a few years ago) tosses three lines in the autoexec.bat file that are required for their browser to work. Because of the proprietary interface on her box (quiet you sickos), there was a branch in the autoexec that gave you a choice between the proprietary interface or windows... when you selected windows, the autoexec.bat never made it down to the Netscape lines, so they never got executed. Try walking a 70-year old lady thru editing autoexec.bat over the phone sometime...
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Outstanding. Public opinion does have at least a little power... the more crap they do that gets exposed, the more outcry, and the more they have to back off. Not only that, but now the average (Tom/Dick/Harry/insert a female name here too if it smokes your shorts) is starting to hear about the evil side of M$ as well. About time.
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A kilometer (or kilobetre, depending on where you're from).
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Excellent... a resource that was really needed!
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Damn straight it is. I hope she wins... then maybe that cable service "yeah, it sucks, but sorry, it's out, and forget it, your bill will be the same" attitude will quickly go away!
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Great for RedHat. Now either make .RPMs track dependencies or point me at a site that shows how to integrate apt-get into RH and we'll check out 7.1.....
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Fer cryin out loud... you created an account, now customize it and remove those two subjects!
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Turns out it's good I saved that config file... when I installed 4.1 there was no option for the G450 in the card selection list. Pulled the old config file back in and everything is well.
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No, not really... I had a hell of a time getting the configuration file right (both screens, both monitors, etc) but once I had it I had no problem with hidden text like that. I will most definitely back up that config file before I upgrade! ;)
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Being, however, that this article deals with Xfree4.1... not 4.03, I made the silly mistake that clueful people reading my comment would understand that I was referring to 4.1... not 4.03.
Oops, my mistake.
Amazing what reading will do for a person.
For those of you who can, my question still stands...
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Odd... at Xfree.org the release notes say the Matrox G450 card is supported... but then in the man section there's no mention of the G450... am I missing something here?
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I've spent about the past three hours searching for this supposed meta tag... nothing! Nowhere! But boy, did I find a slug of sites ranting about what a great technology it is, and how to use it/build it/take full advantage of it, ad nauseum. Doesn't it seem a bit odd that something as simple as a meta tag is so difficult to publish? Gee, maybe it doesn't exist... and maybe won't?
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Hmmm... sounds like Flyswat might have some lawsuit material here?
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As someone who used to run a help desk for AT&T, I agree... from my experience, the "corporate" attitude was that unhappy users could always cancel; there'd be someone waiting in line behind them to take their place. It was especially bad in that we had a captive audience (long story). I do take pride in the fact that despite fervent hatred for the company, our customers always did say that the help desk was excellent ;)
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