The Terminal Services CAL is ONLY required to connect Windows 95/98/Me and NT 4.0 to a Windows Terminal Server.
If you connect to a term server with a Windows 2000 or thin client, the operating system license allows you to connect to the term server.
The licensing info is here: http://www.microsoft.com/PIRACY/samguide/to ols/cal _guide/win2kterm.asp
Microsoft Server CALS typically run about $5/seat in large enterprises. I believe that in my enviroment (a large gov't agency) the prices are as low as $1/seat for certain machines.
As an application developer, I would want my product to be easily integrated into an enterprise.
Clueless firewall admins make it difficult to get new ports open on a firewall. Office politics typically makes it easier to deny requests for new services rather than allow new ones.
Get a account at a credit union for better service.
Also, some online banks are great. TD Waterhouse (www.tdwaterhouse.com) is a brokerage which started an online bank about 18 months ago.
I'm really satisfied with them. There is a 30-second hold time, you get paper copies of checks, send email payments like pay pal and they have no minimum balance requirements.
If you choose to use pay pal, that's your decision -- but it will eventually be your problem too.
Your argument against present patent law is that big corporations unfairly use them, sometimes holding the entire IT industry hostage.
Yet those same laws are there to benefit "the little guy". A case in point would be the father of my roommate in college. He developed a process that lowers the cost of producing plastic -- a process that has been licensed to GE for about 4 years now.
You should be advocating reform of patent & copyright law, not abolition. The ability to profit off of your inventions is a valid right and should be protected. It is not a natural right, but a right granted to the people by the governments of all civilized countries.
Who taught you that we all have rights to free speech and a place to live? For thousands of years nomadic hunters roamed the planet in search of game to kill & eat -- where was the roof over their heads? Why is free speech a natural right? Billions of people live in oppressive societies where they lack this right. Most of them are doing just fine.
Try to keep in mind that nobody works for free. If you don't allow people to profit, they'll direct their energies elsewhere.
Let's face it -- few organizations have people with mainframe talent, and those who have them don't have enough of them.
So you are going to have to "engage" IBM Global Services to run the thing -- probaly a project manager @ $275/hour and a one or two consultants @ $200/hour.
Add to this the INSANELY expensive hardware and software maintenance charges every year and you are talking about a serious amount of cash for little benefit
When you consider the alternatives, it makes even less sense. You can buy 100 Sun E220's or 2-processor intel 4U servers for the cost of one mainframe that lets you emulate 20 Linux boxes.
Mainframes have been on the wane for the last 20 years for good reason -- they are too friggin expensive!
Africa has suffered horribly in the wake of the post-Imperialist era. Nation-states were setup around the borders of colonies -- not out of ethnic clusters that could form stable nations.
These colonies were and are little more than vassal states of the former Imperial powers and the monied interests who once exerted control over them.
This being said, one of the things that keep Africa in the gutter is a utter lack of industrialization or mass production. Africa has grown beyond the ability of tribal groups to govern it.
When disease and malnutrition begin to fade, Africans will have a chance to develop functioning societies.
If your short-sighted attitude was around in the late 19th and early 20th Century, much of the Southern United States would be nothing more than empty swamp. Swamp filling and pesticide projects made it possible to live in areas once infested with malarial mosquitoes.
Africa is not some park, it is a continent where thousands, perhaps millions of people are malnourished or suffering from disease. The fact that the people are blacks living in third-world nations does not make them lower than wild animals.
If killing some insects allows more cattle to be raised and gives people access to safe water supplies, I'm all for it.
Yes it will kill wildlife -- but I could give a damn about wildlife when human beings are at stake.
The term "Politically Correct" in this context means that you are more concerned with your notion of "fairness" towards the former Soviet Union than the facts.
You have further reinforced my assessment of your original post with your reply. You suggest that i visit the Sony web site to learn about their early reverse-engineering efforts, then admit that you know virtually nothing about Soviet technology. You then assert (while posting in "Ask Slashdot") that we would all be better served by reading printed books (that Tom Clancy didn't write) on the subject rather than asking people on the web.
Maybe you should have taken a second to read my post. In that post I stated clearly that Soviets did have their own computer innovations until sometime in the 1960's. At that point it was cheaper and easier for them to appropriate and/or copy Western equipment. Technology as it applied to semiconductors just was not a priority.
Spare this forum your offtopic pseudo-intellectual rants and go away.
That's very politically correct of you. You show a tendency common to most PC types -- Don't let the facts get in the way of feel-good politics.
The Soviet Union didn't do very much independent computer design after the early 1960's. Various Soviet agencies and front organizations obtained IBM, Burroughs and Sperry-Univac mainframes and setup factories to manufacture spares and even a few backward-engineered copies.
The Soviet Union did not embrace information technology. It was a society that was essentially living in the 1930's. Heavy industry was the priority of the USSR, not semiconductors.
If you looked on the desks of Soviet desk jockeys in the late 80's, you'd find most offices to be non-computerized (like many western offices). The ones with computers had green screens, IBM or Apple clones. Engineers had Intergraph or Apolla stuff.
In that case, the HP Techs were acting as your authorized agent. If you claimed that the tech was not your agent, your license would be void, as they are non-transferrable.
Others have suggested buying a "time appliance" that will give you a local stratum-1 NTP timeserver.
It sounds like you are looking for something that can be done cheaper...
You MAY be able to use an ordinary handheld GPS receiver as a Timeserver. Many handhelds come with a NMEA (National Maritime Electronics Association) interface that allows you to interface with your computer or the navigational systems on a boat or aircraft.
I believe you can get the protocol specs at www.nmea.org, if not google for it. Once you have the specs, it shouldn't be that difficult to write a program to set the clock on your timeserver in C or Perl!
The real problem with film is that the projectors aren't turned up to their maxmimum brightness level. Theatres keep the projector brightness down to save money and avoid incidents where the film gets melted.
The only places where you see a movie the way it was intended are private screenings and a few theatres in Manhattan and Los Angeles.
I remember reading a couple of years back that the theatres were going to use ISDN lines to initiate transfer movies from the studio. (A process that would take some time)
I also recall the author of the article that any cost advantage of digital over film was eliminated by the massive fees the studios were charging.
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The only problem with Transmeta is that you seem to be the only person excited about them.
Transmeta is a company with alot of promises and nothing substantial to show for them. What a joke.
That is a common misconception among many people.
o ols/cal _guide/win2kterm.asp
The Terminal Services CAL is ONLY required to connect Windows 95/98/Me and NT 4.0 to a Windows Terminal Server.
If you connect to a term server with a Windows 2000 or thin client, the operating system license allows you to connect to the term server.
The licensing info is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/PIRACY/samguide/t
Microsoft Server CALS typically run about $5/seat in large enterprises. I believe that in my enviroment (a large gov't agency) the prices are as low as $1/seat for certain machines.
At the compusa that I worked at in college, the employees were the biggest theives.
I remember once when some dufus manager decided to put hard disks on a regular shelf. 50 were stolen in 4 days by two employees.
plus the managers were playing with returns and other store numbers to get larger bonuses (to the tune of $75,000 for one guy)
That is a complete load of crap.
Yahoo does not filter plaintext. I just tested it.
I cannot believe dumbass moderators modded you up without even looking at what you said.
When 75% of active Microsoft Windows hosts fully support IP v6 out of the box, IPv6 will begin to appear.
Otherwise, forget about it.
As an application developer, I would want my product to be easily integrated into an enterprise.
Clueless firewall admins make it difficult to get new ports open on a firewall. Office politics typically makes it easier to deny requests for new services rather than allow new ones.
With good reason -- many 'security' and firewall administrators will not let other protocols through proxy servers/firewalls.
Of course if they had a clue they would know that you can encapsulate just about anything in http.
Get a account at a credit union for better service.
Also, some online banks are great. TD Waterhouse (www.tdwaterhouse.com) is a brokerage which started an online bank about 18 months ago.
I'm really satisfied with them. There is a 30-second hold time, you get paper copies of checks, send email payments like pay pal and they have no minimum balance requirements.
If you choose to use pay pal, that's your decision -- but it will eventually be your problem too.
Your argument against present patent law is that big corporations unfairly use them, sometimes holding the entire IT industry hostage.
Yet those same laws are there to benefit "the little guy". A case in point would be the father of my roommate in college. He developed a process that lowers the cost of producing plastic -- a process that has been licensed to GE for about 4 years now.
You should be advocating reform of patent & copyright law, not abolition. The ability to profit off of your inventions is a valid right and should be protected. It is not a natural right, but a right granted to the people by the governments of all civilized countries.
Who taught you that we all have rights to free speech and a place to live? For thousands of years nomadic hunters roamed the planet in search of game to kill & eat -- where was the roof over their heads? Why is free speech a natural right? Billions of people live in oppressive societies where they lack this right. Most of them are doing just fine.
Try to keep in mind that nobody works for free. If you don't allow people to profit, they'll direct their energies elsewhere.
Why does his motive for developing software have any bearing on his rights.
That post, if it is true is the reason patent law exists.
Let's face it -- few organizations have people with mainframe talent, and those who have them don't have enough of them.
So you are going to have to "engage" IBM Global Services to run the thing -- probaly a project manager @ $275/hour and a one or two consultants @ $200/hour.
Add to this the INSANELY expensive hardware and software maintenance charges every year and you are talking about a serious amount of cash for little benefit
When you consider the alternatives, it makes even less sense. You can buy 100 Sun E220's or 2-processor intel 4U servers for the cost of one mainframe that lets you emulate 20 Linux boxes.
Mainframes have been on the wane for the last 20 years for good reason -- they are too friggin expensive!
And chat with him about it.
If you belong to the right party, or make some sort of campaign contribution, the gaming commission will go away.
Being involved with the gambling industry without political affiliations is a really bad idea.
Your priorities are all screwed up.
Africa has suffered horribly in the wake of the post-Imperialist era. Nation-states were setup around the borders of colonies -- not out of ethnic clusters that could form stable nations.
These colonies were and are little more than vassal states of the former Imperial powers and the monied interests who once exerted control over them.
This being said, one of the things that keep Africa in the gutter is a utter lack of industrialization or mass production. Africa has grown beyond the ability of tribal groups to govern it.
When disease and malnutrition begin to fade, Africans will have a chance to develop functioning societies.
If your short-sighted attitude was around in the late 19th and early 20th Century, much of the Southern United States would be nothing more than empty swamp. Swamp filling and pesticide projects made it possible to live in areas once infested with malarial mosquitoes.
How dare you suggest that we humans eat dirt and elephant.
The elephant is amoung the most intelligent of mammals.
Dirt contains millions or even billions of tiny bacteria and each microbe has rights.
What gives human beings the right to disrupt fragile ecosystems by eating plants and animals and murdering billions of bacteria???
Nice attitude...
Africa is not some park, it is a continent where thousands, perhaps millions of people are malnourished or suffering from disease. The fact that the people are blacks living in third-world nations does not make them lower than wild animals.
If killing some insects allows more cattle to be raised and gives people access to safe water supplies, I'm all for it.
Yes it will kill wildlife -- but I could give a damn about wildlife when human beings are at stake.
Veritas Volume Manager for NT/2000 can do this.
t De tail.jhtml?productId=volumemanagerwin
http://www.veritas.com/products/category/Produc
Only one problem. It is very expensive.
The term "Politically Correct" in this context means that you are more concerned with your notion of "fairness" towards the former Soviet Union than the facts.
You have further reinforced my assessment of your original post with your reply. You suggest that i visit the Sony web site to learn about their early reverse-engineering efforts, then admit that you know virtually nothing about Soviet technology. You then assert (while posting in "Ask Slashdot") that we would all be better served by reading printed books (that Tom Clancy didn't write) on the subject rather than asking people on the web.
Maybe you should have taken a second to read my post. In that post I stated clearly that Soviets did have their own computer innovations until sometime in the 1960's. At that point it was cheaper and easier for them to appropriate and/or copy Western equipment. Technology as it applied to semiconductors just was not a priority.
Spare this forum your offtopic pseudo-intellectual rants and go away.
That's very politically correct of you. You show a tendency common to most PC types -- Don't let the facts get in the way of feel-good politics.
The Soviet Union didn't do very much independent computer design after the early 1960's. Various Soviet agencies and front organizations obtained IBM, Burroughs and Sperry-Univac mainframes and setup factories to manufacture spares and even a few backward-engineered copies.
The Soviet Union did not embrace information technology. It was a society that was essentially living in the 1930's. Heavy industry was the priority of the USSR, not semiconductors.
If you looked on the desks of Soviet desk jockeys in the late 80's, you'd find most offices to be non-computerized (like many western offices). The ones with computers had green screens, IBM or Apple clones. Engineers had Intergraph or Apolla stuff.
The truth isn't bigoted or ignorant.
In that case, the HP Techs were acting as your authorized agent. If you claimed that the tech was not your agent, your license would be void, as they are non-transferrable.
Others have suggested buying a "time appliance" that will give you a local stratum-1 NTP timeserver.
It sounds like you are looking for something that can be done cheaper...
You MAY be able to use an ordinary handheld GPS receiver as a Timeserver. Many handhelds come with a NMEA (National Maritime Electronics Association) interface that allows you to interface with your computer or the navigational systems on a boat or aircraft.
I believe you can get the protocol specs at www.nmea.org, if not google for it. Once you have the specs, it shouldn't be that difficult to write a program to set the clock on your timeserver in C or Perl!
The real problem with film is that the projectors aren't turned up to their maxmimum brightness level. Theatres keep the projector brightness down to save money and avoid incidents where the film gets melted.
The only places where you see a movie the way it was intended are private screenings and a few theatres in Manhattan and Los Angeles.
I remember reading a couple of years back that the theatres were going to use ISDN lines to initiate transfer movies from the studio. (A process that would take some time)
I also recall the author of the article that any cost advantage of digital over film was eliminated by the massive fees the studios were charging.
I find it uplifting that a poor child in the middle of a warzone with a 20 year-old computer can share this moment of joy with CmdrTaco.
Who would of thought that the internet would make such things possible.
Tell that to the thousands who lost their homes in the aftermath of his speculative schemes.
Bill Gates may be responsible for many things, but fucking up the US economy is not one of them.
Learn to read.
Ignorant morons like yourself are why people like Soros and Gates have money.
Soros's speculations have crushed entire economies and destroyed thousands of lives. Bill Gates is a drop in the bucket.