I have been using dorearth.com for several years and an very happy...very good customer service, always easy to reach. I recently set up a domain through verisign, BAD NEWS...awful experience, they screwed it up and made the domain unusable for a good month, when it came up for renewal I needed to change the e-mail address (prior to them letting me do anything with the domain, as it was an old addy in the admin/tech record). The only way to change it was to CALL (not e-mail, not livechat, but call) or FAX MelbourneIT, to whom they had sold the account, on a toll line in Australia. Bad news, since I am in the US. Verisign also kept sending me tricksy e-mails to take actions that would have caused my domains to be transferred to their servers...bad experience overall.
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Old Man Stauf built a house
And filled it with his toys
Six guests all came one night
Their screams the only noise
...
Sorry, couldn't resist a dusty T7G reference
I tend to disagree, though. If you look at the size of the average game (T7G was actually unusually large for 1992) and the size of much of the freeware/shareware on Tucows, or as a like-for-like, look at the download size of Netscape 2.02 (3.25M) vs. Netscape 6.2.3 (25.9M)
Actually, no you don't. by dropping $400 on MS Office, all you have gained is a bunch of CDs, some documentation, and a box. The data on the CDs is still owned by the manufacturer (MS), and you must agree to their terms in order to legally use it. How do you think they are able to place restrictions like re-selling limitations, usage limits (no copying, modifying, etc)...
Ok, this is all well and good and I appreciate bleeding-ear-ness as much as the next guy, but DVDs aside, how many games ship with 6 channel Dolby/DTS/THX/etc audio? Having just finished grad school, I have been out of the gaming thing for a couple of years, so I guess I've just never bothered to look...
In other words, if I don't watch movies on my PC, why would I need more than my onboard CMI stereo chipset? (nudge, prod)
Seems to me a similar situation came up when The Offspring came out in support of Napster by wearing bootleg Napster merchandise, and Napster responded by sending a cease-and-desist letter from the IAAL squad...their 'reasoning' was that legally if you don't show by action that you intend to protect your IP you have no legal right to it.
I also found out (guess how) that some providers (coughcoughverizoncough) don't associate the phone number with the SMS preferences account (username & password from website)...luckily I found a bored tech support agent on a sunday afternoon who researched it for four hours before she found the problem and fixed it.
I would argue just the reverse...the credit card associations (Visa USA and Mastercard Int'l) at least have some protections against one-time and ongoing fraud against their branded cards. Identity theft notwithstanding (since we are already offtopic), it is easier to get your money back from a credit card issuer holding the balance in a computer system then from some faceless jackass holding your cash in his pocket.
You'ld have to be insane to want to commit fraud when dealing with PMOs. You either have balls the size of Alaska or a brain the size of the period at the end of this sentance
I would think that to do this stuff in the first place you would fit under one of these categories, no?
found a nice article on how to choose a good PSU. I found this trying to find out why my CompUSA 400w wouldn't boot my Athlon1400/GeForce Ti4200, but another generic 300W would. Switched to an antec 400W (twice the amperage of the CompUSA) and she runs like a charm. Good info on how to calclulate TCO and what TCO should be acceptable (pretty low-tech, but I don't know a soldering iron from a telephone (but I do know what burned hair smells like))
if we can get RMS and Larry Ellison engaged in debate, they will loop ad infinitum?
Just kidding...
This is another example of how a well-intentioned cause can turn into zealot-ism. Richard has (mostly) good intentions for OS, but the last thing the movement needs is a totalitarian dictator, no matter how 'pure' the intentions.
Do you think RMS needs a hobby to keep him occupied? I'm sure the glibc guys think so. Would anyone give $ to www.buy-rms-some-golf-clubs.org?
C'mon...be honest...Do politicians really care if I, as a concerned voter, send them a letter or e-mail asking them to reconsider a proposed item or stance? Won't they be prone to do what they want to, or what their pocketbook-stuffers ask them to do? Is there a better way to get my point across to them?
It's a moot point...as my undergrad economics professor pointed out, there is only one party in Washington...the $$$ party.
Siding with a particular party because they are percieved as being friendlier to a good cause is akin to rooting for a football team because they have a charismatic QB...I'm sure you would find that a fat check in the right hands can change the tide rather quickly.
Maybe I'm a little slow, but I don't understand fully how open source development tools, peer-review, and the like can IN AND OF THEMSELVES keep a system safe(r) from virii...What is it about Apache that keeps it from getting attacked less than IIS (besides just poor code and built-in backdoors, and the fact that people just want to screw with MS). I'm sure Apache has it's holes yet to be exploited, too
...wouldn't the actual OS security features be the biggest factor (i.e., forced logins and priv levels vs. global access for all)?
Can someone explain this in terms that a retard like me can understand?
...is the way to go. When I had DSL (sniff) I used the Cisco 675 firmware NAT to send all traffic to an old x86 running Mandrake with firestarter and IPTables, all piped through a $50 DLink 10/100 base-t 5 port hub and $20 DLink cards...no worries
I don't remember the prefix, but it I believe the suffix on the model is 2805; PIII 750, 128M, 20G, Rage3, Xircom Winmodem, Xircom 10/100 base-t...ROCKS in Linux. ltmodem hooked right up with the modem, OSS ymfpci for sound (couldn't get alsa to work), kudzu found the network card right away, the default XF86 from the latest Mandrake dist wasn't so hot, but the latest XF86 RPM's work awesome.
I work for a large financial institution that spends millions a year on training, but it is all corporate-policy, be a better manager (even if you don't manage staff)-type stuff. They will invest VERY little in expanding my skills as a programmer/computer/tech person. I feel that as a matter of managing my own career I spend my own money on books, classes, whatever I feel I need to enhance my toolbox.
Subsequently, I wouldn't feel bad about taking my toolbox somewhere else to use it. Maybe I would feel differently if they would help me out, but, hey...at least I am skilled in Managing From The Heart (yes, that's really one of the classes required).
We lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt
In a nutshell, how would you answer a vendor/client/business partner who had concerns about the viablility of an Open Source Development Model as it pertains to short and long-term revenue and growth potential?
We lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt
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For anyone keeping score, that's what Siddhartha Gautama was teaching 2500 years ago...
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I have been using dorearth.com for several years and an very happy...very good customer service, always easy to reach. I recently set up a domain through verisign, BAD NEWS...awful experience, they screwed it up and made the domain unusable for a good month, when it came up for renewal I needed to change the e-mail address (prior to them letting me do anything with the domain, as it was an old addy in the admin/tech record). The only way to change it was to CALL (not e-mail, not livechat, but call) or FAX MelbourneIT, to whom they had sold the account, on a toll line in Australia. Bad news, since I am in the US. Verisign also kept sending me tricksy e-mails to take actions that would have caused my domains to be transferred to their servers...bad experience overall.
And filled it with his toys
Six guests all came one night
Their screams the only noise
Sorry, couldn't resist a dusty T7G reference
I tend to disagree, though. If you look at the size of the average game (T7G was actually unusually large for 1992) and the size of much of the freeware/shareware on Tucows, or as a like-for-like, look at the download size of Netscape 2.02 (3.25M) vs. Netscape 6.2.3 (25.9M)
I see it as just the opposite: if you threaten your customers enough, they will lose products with bad schemes like DRM.
Actually, no you don't. by dropping $400 on MS Office, all you have gained is a bunch of CDs, some documentation, and a box. The data on the CDs is still owned by the manufacturer (MS), and you must agree to their terms in order to legally use it. How do you think they are able to place restrictions like re-selling limitations, usage limits (no copying, modifying, etc)...
In other words, if I don't watch movies on my PC, why would I need more than my onboard CMI stereo chipset? (nudge, prod)
Or something like that
I also found out (guess how) that some providers (coughcoughverizoncough) don't associate the phone number with the SMS preferences account (username & password from website)...luckily I found a bored tech support agent on a sunday afternoon who researched it for four hours before she found the problem and fixed it.
You'ld have to be insane to want to commit fraud when dealing with PMOs. You either have balls the size of Alaska or a brain the size of the period at the end of this sentance
I would think that to do this stuff in the first place you would fit under one of these categories, no?
tcp wrapper...heh heh heh
found a nice article on how to choose a good PSU. I found this trying to find out why my CompUSA 400w wouldn't boot my Athlon1400/GeForce Ti4200, but another generic 300W would. Switched to an antec 400W (twice the amperage of the CompUSA) and she runs like a charm. Good info on how to calclulate TCO and what TCO should be acceptable (pretty low-tech, but I don't know a soldering iron from a telephone (but I do know what burned hair smells like))
and I feel that the GPL is one of the best things to ever happen to software
Did you read Ulrich Drepper's account of his dealings with Richard and the GPL? I thought it was a bit emotional, but enlightening:
Just kidding...
This is another example of how a well-intentioned cause can turn into zealot-ism. Richard has (mostly) good intentions for OS, but the last thing the movement needs is a totalitarian dictator, no matter how 'pure' the intentions.
Do you think RMS needs a hobby to keep him occupied? I'm sure the glibc guys think so. Would anyone give $ to www.buy-rms-some-golf-clubs.org?
C'mon...be honest...Do politicians really care if I, as a concerned voter, send them a letter or e-mail asking them to reconsider a proposed item or stance? Won't they be prone to do what they want to, or what their pocketbook-stuffers ask them to do? Is there a better way to get my point across to them?
Siding with a particular party because they are percieved as being friendlier to a good cause is akin to rooting for a football team because they have a charismatic QB...I'm sure you would find that a fat check in the right hands can change the tide rather quickly.
Yeah, but I mean new (undiscovered) holes that get hammered on the CodeRed level...
...wouldn't the actual OS security features be the biggest factor (i.e., forced logins and priv levels vs. global access for all)?
Can someone explain this in terms that a retard like me can understand?
don't most EULA's allow for unconditional return if you don't agree to the license?
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...is the way to go. When I had DSL (sniff) I used the Cisco 675 firmware NAT to send all traffic to an old x86 running Mandrake with firestarter and IPTables, all piped through a $50 DLink 10/100 base-t 5 port hub and $20 DLink cards...no worries
I don't remember the prefix, but it I believe the suffix on the model is 2805; PIII 750, 128M, 20G, Rage3, Xircom Winmodem, Xircom 10/100 base-t...ROCKS in Linux. ltmodem hooked right up with the modem, OSS ymfpci for sound (couldn't get alsa to work), kudzu found the network card right away, the default XF86 from the latest Mandrake dist wasn't so hot, but the latest XF86 RPM's work awesome.
We lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt
Subsequently, I wouldn't feel bad about taking my toolbox somewhere else to use it. Maybe I would feel differently if they would help me out, but, hey...at least I am skilled in Managing From The Heart (yes, that's really one of the classes required).
We lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt
We lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt