My company switched from leasing equipment to buying a few years ago. At first, they renegotiated the lease agreement to switch from two years to three years. At about the same time, they bought all the monitors. A year or two later, they switched to buying all equipment. The last leases expired a couple of years ago, so everything is owned now.
The net result is that instead of being forced to upgrade our PCs and workstations every two or three years, we upgrade them whenever we have a real need to upgrade them, which is generally when they break. Everyone seems to be pretty happy with the new system.
The real issue is that in the 90s, you could double the performance of a system by upgrading it every two years or so. Now, you'll often find you're only getting a 20% boost after two years, and it's just not worth the hassle of swapping systems. Users used to love leases, now they hate them for those very reasons.
They made a bunch of security changes here, some of which they blamed on SOX. The worst one was 90-day password expiration. Is that really part of SOX, or just the local interpretation?
They also closed off access to most ports besides 80, but I think that was just a local decision.
Just to be safe, Google should remove all AFP sites not only from news, but from all portions of Google. Google certainly wouldn't want to risk further harm to AFP by keeping them in any of their indexes.
Perhaps for non-HDTV channels, that's fine, but to use high definition modes, you have to have DVI, HDMI, VGA, or component. If your HDTV has a built-in HDTV tuner, then coax should work, too.
Yes, the employer owns the new code. However, the employer is prohibited from distributing that code under any license other than the GPL unless the code is independent of other GPL code not owned by said employer.
The GPL has nothing to do with copyright ownership. Hence, projects like the Linux kernel are owned by the many different contributers. This is important to understand, because each contributer needs to be sure to claim copyright on their contribution so that they have standing to complain if the license is violated.
Will this capture the right range of infra red to detect heat? If so, then I could see using it with a laptop on a cold day to see where I need to improve the insulation on my house.
This sounds like anti-lawsuit FUD. The message to Microsoft and friends is that they helped Linux by supporting the lawsuit. If they buy the message, then they won't continue to support SCO or others who might file similar suits.
Granted, in this case, the message may well be true, but I haven't yet RTFA.
With a traditional auction, the auction house does some verification of the merchandise, and the items are in the control of the auctioneer, not the original owner. On eBay, it's much more like the individual sellers are running their own auctions with eBay simply providing technical services.
So it is different.
As to how the law sees it, that may be several different matters.
But if you only need one or two of the registers for TCP, then perhaps it would be a win if you are only doing a save/restore on one or two registers (and presumably a status register). And if you only need it in the TCP stack, then only do the save when the kernel calls those functions (which admittedly gets complicated if the kernel is preemptable).
Doesn't Safari use the same engine as Konqueror? That would explain the support--they want the default Apple browser to work, so they only have to do a little extra validation to get Konqueror listed as supported.
I'm hurt here. I use MythTV to record HDTV, much like you use your HDTiVo. However, because MythTV is open source, it is impossible to have it encrypt the outgoing signal using HDCP, even if I'm using a DVI connection to my HDTV.
Further, I have a CRT-based HDTV, and when using the DVI input, it has far too much overscan. If I use component output, then I can adjust the overscan, but I can't with DVI, so going digital isn't the best option.
And even further, my TV has only one DVI input, so if I have multiple HD sources, then I have to recable my TV to change sources (like, say, a HDTiVo, satellite receiver, and broadcast ATSC tuner).
XvMC does help with MPEG-2 playback, but it's not nearly the same as having hardware MPEG-2 decoding. With the latter, you just send the MPEG-2 stream to the card, and it plays it for you.
Their video drivers are half-decent. By "half" I mean the half that works. Every driver seems to introduce some obscure bug while fixing others. Casual users are fine with most of the drivers, but if you use some special feature like twinview or TV-out overscan, then you have to be careful to use the right version. Oh, and their web pages clearly state that the video cards have on-board MPEG-2 decoding, but there's no driver support for that.
As to their motherboard drivers, I don't think anyone is using them. Newer kernels include GPL driver support for both ethernet and sound. I've heard some reports that the nVidia driver is better if you need SPDIF-out, but I've also heard reports that those drivers have various problems.
Still, with all that said, nVidia is clearly head and shoulders above other vendors, and I thank them for their efforts.
I'm running nForce-2 on my Myth box, and I haven't had any unexplained freezes. Did you monitor the CPU temperature? Overheating is the most common cause of random freezes. It's quite easy to use insufficient fans or improperly-attached heat sinks.
I've also heard some suggestions to use the pci=noapic command-line option when booting the kernel (in your grub.conf or equivalent); I'm not sure if that's a nForce issue or a 2.6 issue.
Have you compared the prices of 200GB drives with 400GB drives? The higher capacity drives cost more than double. Now if you happen to have more storage space than you know what to do with right now, then fine, but sooner or later you'll find that running a script overnight to compress your files is less painful than the cost and effort of a hardware upgrade.
And if you're doing backup by syncing over the network with another system, then you cut in half the storage cost on the other system, as well as the network time.
If you have enough computing power to manage a file system on a hard drive, then you have enough power to uncompress a file as you play it--that's why they put MP3 players into DVD players; it didn't increase the hardware cost.
The list is based on the URL that you're visiting, not the country you're browsing from.
But your point is valid. Many businesses set up contry-specific websites (e.g., amazon.co.uk), so those sites will be vulnerable to this spoofing for Opera users using local sites in those countries.
24 episodes? Well, maybe ten years ago. Now most are 22. Way back when, it was 26 episodes, which works out about perfectly to have a rerun of each episode, but that didn't leave room for specials. Of course, the show "24" has 24 episodes. So they are going two episodes shorter than most series are doing now, but it's not a huge shortfall.
It's a stock swap. No money is involved. This is typical of how mergers often work. The companies agree to merge, and they agree what the company being acquired is worth, do some math, and convert the shares of the acquired company into shares of the new company. The math is much like doing a stock split, though the ratio usually involves a number of decimal points. (The accounting for the investors is also much like a stock split.)
The real question in this case is why is Mandrakesoft's stock worth enough for Conectiva investors to consider this to be a worthwhile deal (as opposed to grabbing on to a sinking ship). I haven't looked at the business side of either company, so I can't comment there.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. The broadcast flag is about restricting the use of what you can pick up with an antenna. It's designed to stop you from recording broadcast TV when the broadcaster decides to set the flag in the transmission.
So they're going to create games based on a show that was canceled over a year ago? And will they have old Mom or new Mom for the voice?
I loved the Brak Show. It would be nice to think that a video game company expressing interest in it might help to bring it back, but I'm not holding my breath. Most likely, they have some idea that will incorporate characters from a bunch of the different shows.
It is significant for everyone who uses Linux. While most other distributions have been using 2.6 for a while now, Red Hat is what the big corporations pay attention to. This means that people who develop software for Linux can no longer point to Red Hat as an excuse for not supporting 2.6.
In other words, the whole world can now pretty much agree that the 2.4 kernel and the software that runs on it is in maintenance mode now.
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My company switched from leasing equipment to buying a few years ago. At first, they renegotiated the lease agreement to switch from two years to three years. At about the same time, they bought all the monitors. A year or two later, they switched to buying all equipment. The last leases expired a couple of years ago, so everything is owned now.
The net result is that instead of being forced to upgrade our PCs and workstations every two or three years, we upgrade them whenever we have a real need to upgrade them, which is generally when they break. Everyone seems to be pretty happy with the new system.
The real issue is that in the 90s, you could double the performance of a system by upgrading it every two years or so. Now, you'll often find you're only getting a 20% boost after two years, and it's just not worth the hassle of swapping systems. Users used to love leases, now they hate them for those very reasons.
How do advertisers push their ads to the WiFi users?
It's already available. It's called cyanide. Upon consuming a sufficient dose, the subject will never intentionally kill anyone.
They made a bunch of security changes here, some of which they blamed on SOX. The worst one was 90-day password expiration. Is that really part of SOX, or just the local interpretation?
They also closed off access to most ports besides 80, but I think that was just a local decision.
Depp was on Jump Street for a number of years. It wasn't until the show was in decline that he jumped ship.
Just to be safe, Google should remove all AFP sites not only from news, but from all portions of Google. Google certainly wouldn't want to risk further harm to AFP by keeping them in any of their indexes.
You ran svideo to an HDTV?
Perhaps for non-HDTV channels, that's fine, but to use high definition modes, you have to have DVI, HDMI, VGA, or component. If your HDTV has a built-in HDTV tuner, then coax should work, too.
Yes, the employer owns the new code. However, the employer is prohibited from distributing that code under any license other than the GPL unless the code is independent of other GPL code not owned by said employer.
The GPL has nothing to do with copyright ownership. Hence, projects like the Linux kernel are owned by the many different contributers. This is important to understand, because each contributer needs to be sure to claim copyright on their contribution so that they have standing to complain if the license is violated.
Will this capture the right range of infra red to detect heat? If so, then I could see using it with a laptop on a cold day to see where I need to improve the insulation on my house.
This sounds like anti-lawsuit FUD. The message to Microsoft and friends is that they helped Linux by supporting the lawsuit. If they buy the message, then they won't continue to support SCO or others who might file similar suits.
Granted, in this case, the message may well be true, but I haven't yet RTFA.
Not exactly.
With a traditional auction, the auction house does some verification of the merchandise, and the items are in the control of the auctioneer, not the original owner. On eBay, it's much more like the individual sellers are running their own auctions with eBay simply providing technical services.
So it is different.
As to how the law sees it, that may be several different matters.
But if you only need one or two of the registers for TCP, then perhaps it would be a win if you are only doing a save/restore on one or two registers (and presumably a status register). And if you only need it in the TCP stack, then only do the save when the kernel calls those functions (which admittedly gets complicated if the kernel is preemptable).
Doesn't Safari use the same engine as Konqueror? That would explain the support--they want the default Apple browser to work, so they only have to do a little extra validation to get Konqueror listed as supported.
I'm hurt here. I use MythTV to record HDTV, much like you use your HDTiVo. However, because MythTV is open source, it is impossible to have it encrypt the outgoing signal using HDCP, even if I'm using a DVI connection to my HDTV.
Further, I have a CRT-based HDTV, and when using the DVI input, it has far too much overscan. If I use component output, then I can adjust the overscan, but I can't with DVI, so going digital isn't the best option.
And even further, my TV has only one DVI input, so if I have multiple HD sources, then I have to recable my TV to change sources (like, say, a HDTiVo, satellite receiver, and broadcast ATSC tuner).
XvMC does help with MPEG-2 playback, but it's not nearly the same as having hardware MPEG-2 decoding. With the latter, you just send the MPEG-2 stream to the card, and it plays it for you.
Their video drivers are half-decent. By "half" I mean the half that works. Every driver seems to introduce some obscure bug while fixing others. Casual users are fine with most of the drivers, but if you use some special feature like twinview or TV-out overscan, then you have to be careful to use the right version. Oh, and their web pages clearly state that the video cards have on-board MPEG-2 decoding, but there's no driver support for that.
As to their motherboard drivers, I don't think anyone is using them. Newer kernels include GPL driver support for both ethernet and sound. I've heard some reports that the nVidia driver is better if you need SPDIF-out, but I've also heard reports that those drivers have various problems.
Still, with all that said, nVidia is clearly head and shoulders above other vendors, and I thank them for their efforts.
I'm running nForce-2 on my Myth box, and I haven't had any unexplained freezes. Did you monitor the CPU temperature? Overheating is the most common cause of random freezes. It's quite easy to use insufficient fans or improperly-attached heat sinks.
I've also heard some suggestions to use the pci=noapic command-line option when booting the kernel (in your grub.conf or equivalent); I'm not sure if that's a nForce issue or a 2.6 issue.
Have you compared the prices of 200GB drives with 400GB drives? The higher capacity drives cost more than double. Now if you happen to have more storage space than you know what to do with right now, then fine, but sooner or later you'll find that running a script overnight to compress your files is less painful than the cost and effort of a hardware upgrade.
And if you're doing backup by syncing over the network with another system, then you cut in half the storage cost on the other system, as well as the network time.
If you have enough computing power to manage a file system on a hard drive, then you have enough power to uncompress a file as you play it--that's why they put MP3 players into DVD players; it didn't increase the hardware cost.
The list is based on the URL that you're visiting, not the country you're browsing from.
But your point is valid. Many businesses set up contry-specific websites (e.g., amazon.co.uk), so those sites will be vulnerable to this spoofing for Opera users using local sites in those countries.
That was My post 11767258 in the original story.
24 episodes? Well, maybe ten years ago. Now most are 22. Way back when, it was 26 episodes, which works out about perfectly to have a rerun of each episode, but that didn't leave room for specials. Of course, the show "24" has 24 episodes. So they are going two episodes shorter than most series are doing now, but it's not a huge shortfall.
It's a stock swap. No money is involved. This is typical of how mergers often work. The companies agree to merge, and they agree what the company being acquired is worth, do some math, and convert the shares of the acquired company into shares of the new company. The math is much like doing a stock split, though the ratio usually involves a number of decimal points. (The accounting for the investors is also much like a stock split.)
The real question in this case is why is Mandrakesoft's stock worth enough for Conectiva investors to consider this to be a worthwhile deal (as opposed to grabbing on to a sinking ship). I haven't looked at the business side of either company, so I can't comment there.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. The broadcast flag is about restricting the use of what you can pick up with an antenna. It's designed to stop you from recording broadcast TV when the broadcaster decides to set the flag in the transmission.
This has nothing to do with cable or satellite.
So they're going to create games based on a show that was canceled over a year ago? And will they have old Mom or new Mom for the voice?
I loved the Brak Show. It would be nice to think that a video game company expressing interest in it might help to bring it back, but I'm not holding my breath. Most likely, they have some idea that will incorporate characters from a bunch of the different shows.
It is significant for everyone who uses Linux. While most other distributions have been using 2.6 for a while now, Red Hat is what the big corporations pay attention to. This means that people who develop software for Linux can no longer point to Red Hat as an excuse for not supporting 2.6.
In other words, the whole world can now pretty much agree that the 2.4 kernel and the software that runs on it is in maintenance mode now.