IE for LINUX as part of the settlement...not cause I want it or anyrthing, just because it would hurt them so much to do it...
Of course better yet, perhaps the settlement agreement should stipulate 100% porting and compatibility of all MS apps in the Linux environment.
...try having the fact that you were once the owner of one on your resume...
Actually I cover it up well, siting the things I did for the company, and the fact that we had a name that didn't sound like a porn company from the name...thats what I would stress in this situation do they have a "doing business as" name that would be more acceptable on a resume? No one says yuu have to provide URL's when you move on, and in fact in my case because the company failed I CAN'T....although once when one of the other partners went to an interview he gave his prespective employeer the URL...the results were funny...
Lower cost
Peer Audited Code
If a bug is found its patched nearly same or next day usually
And I have never been able to get Closed SSH 3.0 to compile on Slackware, mandrake, or Stampede, always dies with weird complier errors.
OpenSSH works everytime.
1. FreeDos, comes to mind, the problem with an MS-DOS image disk that it actually requires a license from M$ to distribute that disk...FreeDos could solve that.
2. Don't use Disks, use Bootable CD's that eliminates the Floppy might go away issue.
3. Why not work around the issue completely, LINUX boot disk/CD with the BIOS Imagine on it.
4. I have an old SuperMicro board, you boot the machine with disk in the drive, it doesn't need system files or anything just the ROM image for the bios, hold I think its the CTRL keey during boot, it reads the disk and does its thing.
Seems to me, if this support comes to Work in the SCSI subsystem, then it will be an exciting thing for EMC who is about the only Company capable of Building such a drive array. And Oracle who is like the only company I can think of that could fill such an array with data at the moment, anyway.
In practical Terms how soon could we reach this data size...Humm, EMC's largest Cabinet holds 384 Disks...right now the largest single drive I have heard of anyway is 160GB, but I keep hearing rumors of a Seagate 256GB Drive on the near Horizon...so lets play with that number as the practical largest for the forseeable future(about 10 Minutes in Computer Terms) 384 drives * 256 GB/1024 = 96 Terabytes...we have a long way to go at the moment!
My Girlfriend works for Oracle. I have discussed Oracle and Linux, yes it does support HUGE RDBMS implimentations a couple of which she works with, in her support role.
Shouldn't the language be to the effect of,
Microsoft shall make availible the information inorder to ANY other OS to effectively interoperate with an MS Windows NT/2000 and its sucessors Server/Workstation, for the basis of File and information sharing. Specfically related to the ability to transfer files from one platform to the other via, file shares, web access, ftp access, or any other protocol which shall be made available. This shall include the the specifics related to the transfer mechanisims, and the required authentication, and control information to accomplish the transfer...or something to that effect at least.
Sorry if this is redendant at this point I tried to formulate the legalize as fast as possible.
Um,
Actually I am very much in the know, my company has been very much involved in the Betas. You will notice that my mail said nothing about 95, yes this is a significant upgrade from 95...but its not that great of a leap from 98,ME, or 2000...some basic functionality, more bells and whistles that should have been offered as Free service packs, or perhaps a 29.99 Update CD to 2000, and maybe 49.99 Update to 98/ME.
Well here we go, Microsoft, says give us more money, to upgrade your OS, cause we have 10,000 new features(that are really enhancements to old ones, aka fixes)...and of course if you don't we are gonna drop support for the old OS anyway so your gonna have to eventually...even now the manuals for supporting 98,ME,2000 are being destroyed at our support centers, why would anyone need those when we have this spiffy new thing.
I can't seem to find anything already posted, so I am gonna mention it...
Didn't anyone notice that Slashdot was singled out specifically and appealed to for comment. Thats like a huge step, in gaining relavance in the community. Slashdot, is slow becoming a legit political force of sorts.
Check your contract, terms of employment, what have you...when you took the job, you may have agreed to such measures. Given your line of work, don't you feel a little more secure that things are being monitored after all. I do agree that the number and level of searches is a little extreme. however, I also feel that being checked in and out at the entrance is not a horrible thing.
It funny sometimes I get unfocused for a moment(Really need to get my eye exam done), and read anti-piracy as anti-privicy...but then again, maybe its not misreading, so much as reading between the lines.
Agreed, in general we had everything we needed after the Constitution was ratified...end of story...infact the original intention was that any new laws were to be a refinement of that document. Making laws that address things that are not in the constitution is where it all starts to go wrong...big govenment is bad, and ours is Huge..."for the people, by the People" is no longer true
You know I am so sick of hearing this excuse...
US policies in te Middle East are specifically to keep the world from going to shit...we intervene in matters because the moment you let some nut case like Oslam, or Saddam start over running things they start branching out. Its even worse when it comes to these countries that govenment and religion go hand in hand...Incidently I don't have a problem that that people should be govened as they please, the American govenment works(Generally) for us, but it might not work other places. Its the fact that people like Oslam what to Impose themselves and their way of doing things on others. He feels that the Muslim nation, should be only nation and everyone else is evil...if his nation or any nation whats to be a sovern Muslim nation Great, but don't impose that on me...many of this fanatics rail against the US as being an Evil Christian nation. We are not Religion and govenment are different things here.
Disney proudly brainwashing the masses for 6 generations.
You know, seems to be, we should be teaching people to think for themselves not shoving this crap down thier throats...I guess Disney goes no my boycott List...humm which would work if they didn't own ESPN, ABC, and like a zillion other things. Seriously though I guess its thier opinion and they have a right to express it, but its the Target audience that scares me...Kids should be watching TV that teaches them to think for themselves and make thier own choices. 'Nuff said.
I make donations to various organizations throughout the year(the Radio Station I listen to in Boston, MA WAAF 107.3, is very active in promoting charities so they regularly make me aware of where my contributions are needed) when I have the good fortune to have the monetary ability to do so...usually during the summer, I tend to have more cash then don't have to run the heat then...
I have infact made many contributions to the Fire Department, I greatly respect what they do...I live near Worcester, MA and know people that were affected by the Wharehouse fire there 2 Years ago.
Of course you probably wouldn't know anything about that...My Girlfriend also has friends that worked in the Twin Towers...so that hit close to home as well...perhaps next time before you spout off, get a clue what your taking about...another reason why I hate AC's.
There are also many of us who do code for free, and take our payment from the fact that we see people using, and getting things done with the software we wrote. I work all day plugging away at a M$ Machine to feed webpages to an M$ Web Server. I go home and try to create and contrubute to things that are not so encumbered.
Well I have looked for those myself from time to time, because I like to understand both sides of an issue when i am attepting to form my own opinion, and discuss it. Quite often I run in to serious road blocks in doing so the public opinion is overhelmingly positive, esspecially on the web where Open source is the core of everything, and the majority of participants are Open Source followers(Just try and find a decent opinion peice on what W3C's Rand Proposal is a good Idea, I've had no luck)
Of Course the Microsoft web site is an excellent place to start they have many comments about the "evils" of free/open source software. I know there were a couple artticles in the NY Times, and on MSNBC(take pinch of salt) with some reasoning agianst as well.
Check out the dictionary sometime...people...Terrorism is more than just killing people and blowing up buildings.
As I said M$ is jumping on the Buzzword wagon, but they DO have a point.
First,Put the Crack Pipe down slowly! We will get you some help.
Ok, now then...
My assumption is that the Coup you speak of is the DMCA...and I agree with you there...the key difference, is that most of America is blissfully unaware that it even happened. I tell people all the time in discussions who daily lives touch the DMCA in many many ways. The ususal reaction is:
1. A blank stare
2. Huh, what are you talking about
3. No Way they can't do that
4. Your kidding, lieing or Crazy
5. and the best one --The Govenment would never let that happen
1. I vote in Every single election
2. I realize that despite what has occured this is still by far one of the better places to live.
3. I shouldn't have to hire a lawyer to fight my own govenments stupidity, I am a poor working guy with barely enough money to keep the heat on in the winter at times. I it shouldn't take $$$ to change laws, it should take desire. I have tons of that and write letters to congressman till my fingers ache, and get replys that basically add up too "Thats the way it is and I am not gonna do anything about it, sorry but thanks for your thoughts" I have one from MA-Sentor John Kerry, I can transcribe it if you would really like.
4. For what its worth monitoring the populous for doing stupid illegal things doesn't even bother me, as I do my best to act within the law. Our representivies passing laws that the people never get a say in, or are many times not even aware are happening, annoys me!
I gotta side with the M$ on this one...they are sorta jumping in the Buzz word of the day catagorey with this one, but there is truth there.
Viruses definately are a from of Terrrorism to the Net really should be recognized and treated as such. When they hit a company they can have a deep direct impact on that companies ability to perform.
Slashdot Mirror
IE for LINUX as part of the settlement...not cause I want it or anyrthing, just because it would hurt them so much to do it...
Of course better yet, perhaps the settlement agreement should stipulate 100% porting and compatibility of all MS apps in the Linux environment.
...try having the fact that you were once the owner of one on your resume...
Actually I cover it up well, siting the things I did for the company, and the fact that we had a name that didn't sound like a porn company from the name...thats what I would stress in this situation do they have a "doing business as" name that would be more acceptable on a resume? No one says yuu have to provide URL's when you move on, and in fact in my case because the company failed I CAN'T....although once when one of the other partners went to an interview he gave his prespective employeer the URL...the results were funny...
Lower cost
Peer Audited Code
If a bug is found its patched nearly same or next day usually
And I have never been able to get Closed SSH 3.0 to compile on Slackware, mandrake, or Stampede, always dies with weird complier errors.
OpenSSH works everytime.
Dell....excellent systems, excellent support...goes pretty much anywhere....
Other ways to handle Updates..
1. FreeDos, comes to mind, the problem with an MS-DOS image disk that it actually requires a license from M$ to distribute that disk...FreeDos could solve that.
2. Don't use Disks, use Bootable CD's that eliminates the Floppy might go away issue.
3. Why not work around the issue completely, LINUX boot disk/CD with the BIOS Imagine on it.
4. I have an old SuperMicro board, you boot the machine with disk in the drive, it doesn't need system files or anything just the ROM image for the bios, hold I think its the CTRL keey during boot, it reads the disk and does its thing.
Seems to me, if this support comes to Work in the SCSI subsystem, then it will be an exciting thing for EMC who is about the only Company capable of Building such a drive array. And Oracle who is like the only company I can think of that could fill such an array with data at the moment, anyway.
In practical Terms how soon could we reach this data size...Humm, EMC's largest Cabinet holds 384 Disks...right now the largest single drive I have heard of anyway is 160GB, but I keep hearing rumors of a Seagate 256GB Drive on the near Horizon...so lets play with that number as the practical largest for the forseeable future(about 10 Minutes in Computer Terms) 384 drives * 256 GB/1024 = 96 Terabytes...we have a long way to go at the moment!
My Girlfriend works for Oracle. I have discussed Oracle and Linux, yes it does support HUGE RDBMS implimentations a couple of which she works with, in her support role.
Shouldn't the language be to the effect of,
Microsoft shall make availible the information inorder to ANY other OS to effectively interoperate with an MS Windows NT/2000 and its sucessors Server/Workstation, for the basis of File and information sharing. Specfically related to the ability to transfer files from one platform to the other via, file shares, web access, ftp access, or any other protocol which shall be made available. This shall include the the specifics related to the transfer mechanisims, and the required authentication, and control information to accomplish the transfer...or something to that effect at least.
Sorry if this is redendant at this point I tried to formulate the legalize as fast as possible.
Um,
Actually I am very much in the know, my company has been very much involved in the Betas. You will notice that my mail said nothing about 95, yes this is a significant upgrade from 95...but its not that great of a leap from 98,ME, or 2000...some basic functionality, more bells and whistles that should have been offered as Free service packs, or perhaps a 29.99 Update CD to 2000, and maybe 49.99 Update to 98/ME.
Well here we go, Microsoft, says give us more money, to upgrade your OS, cause we have 10,000 new features(that are really enhancements to old ones, aka fixes)...and of course if you don't we are gonna drop support for the old OS anyway so your gonna have to eventually...even now the manuals for supporting 98,ME,2000 are being destroyed at our support centers, why would anyone need those when we have this spiffy new thing.
I can't seem to find anything already posted, so I am gonna mention it...
Didn't anyone notice that Slashdot was singled out specifically and appealed to for comment. Thats like a huge step, in gaining relavance in the community. Slashdot, is slow becoming a legit political force of sorts.
Check your contract, terms of employment, what have you...when you took the job, you may have agreed to such measures. Given your line of work, don't you feel a little more secure that things are being monitored after all. I do agree that the number and level of searches is a little extreme. however, I also feel that being checked in and out at the entrance is not a horrible thing.
It funny sometimes I get unfocused for a moment(Really need to get my eye exam done), and read anti-piracy as anti-privicy...but then again, maybe its not misreading, so much as reading between the lines.
Agreed, in general we had everything we needed after the Constitution was ratified...end of story...infact the original intention was that any new laws were to be a refinement of that document. Making laws that address things that are not in the constitution is where it all starts to go wrong...big govenment is bad, and ours is Huge..."for the people, by the People" is no longer true
You know I am so sick of hearing this excuse...
US policies in te Middle East are specifically to keep the world from going to shit...we intervene in matters because the moment you let some nut case like Oslam, or Saddam start over running things they start branching out. Its even worse when it comes to these countries that govenment and religion go hand in hand...Incidently I don't have a problem that that people should be govened as they please, the American govenment works(Generally) for us, but it might not work other places. Its the fact that people like Oslam what to Impose themselves and their way of doing things on others. He feels that the Muslim nation, should be only nation and everyone else is evil...if his nation or any nation whats to be a sovern Muslim nation Great, but don't impose that on me...many of this fanatics rail against the US as being an Evil Christian nation. We are not Religion and govenment are different things here.
Disney proudly brainwashing the masses for 6 generations.
You know, seems to be, we should be teaching people to think for themselves not shoving this crap down thier throats...I guess Disney goes no my boycott List...humm which would work if they didn't own ESPN, ABC, and like a zillion other things. Seriously though I guess its thier opinion and they have a right to express it, but its the Target audience that scares me...Kids should be watching TV that teaches them to think for themselves and make thier own choices. 'Nuff said.
I make donations to various organizations throughout the year(the Radio Station I listen to in Boston, MA WAAF 107.3, is very active in promoting charities so they regularly make me aware of where my contributions are needed) when I have the good fortune to have the monetary ability to do so...usually during the summer, I tend to have more cash then don't have to run the heat then...
I have infact made many contributions to the Fire Department, I greatly respect what they do...I live near Worcester, MA and know people that were affected by the Wharehouse fire there 2 Years ago.
Of course you probably wouldn't know anything about that...My Girlfriend also has friends that worked in the Twin Towers...so that hit close to home as well...perhaps next time before you spout off, get a clue what your taking about...another reason why I hate AC's.
Actually I do spend time with my family and have other activites in my life...I code as a hobby...call it my contribution to society.
There are also many of us who do code for free, and take our payment from the fact that we see people using, and getting things done with the software we wrote. I work all day plugging away at a M$ Machine to feed webpages to an M$ Web Server. I go home and try to create and contrubute to things that are not so encumbered.
Well I have looked for those myself from time to time, because I like to understand both sides of an issue when i am attepting to form my own opinion, and discuss it. Quite often I run in to serious road blocks in doing so the public opinion is overhelmingly positive, esspecially on the web where Open source is the core of everything, and the majority of participants are Open Source followers(Just try and find a decent opinion peice on what W3C's Rand Proposal is a good Idea, I've had no luck)
Of Course the Microsoft web site is an excellent place to start they have many comments about the "evils" of free/open source software. I know there were a couple artticles in the NY Times, and on MSNBC(take pinch of salt) with some reasoning agianst as well.
Check out the dictionary sometime...people...Terrorism is more than just killing people and blowing up buildings.
As I said M$ is jumping on the Buzzword wagon, but they DO have a point.
First,Put the Crack Pipe down slowly! We will get you some help.
Ok, now then...
My assumption is that the Coup you speak of is the DMCA...and I agree with you there...the key difference, is that most of America is blissfully unaware that it even happened. I tell people all the time in discussions who daily lives touch the DMCA in many many ways. The ususal reaction is:
1. A blank stare
2. Huh, what are you talking about
3. No Way they can't do that
4. Your kidding, lieing or Crazy
5. and the best one --The Govenment would never let that happen
I am pretty sure i can find Prior art there, but then again, my right to "fair use" is probably in question in this case.
?:^>
1. I vote in Every single election
2. I realize that despite what has occured this is still by far one of the better places to live.
3. I shouldn't have to hire a lawyer to fight my own govenments stupidity, I am a poor working guy with barely enough money to keep the heat on in the winter at times. I it shouldn't take $$$ to change laws, it should take desire. I have tons of that and write letters to congressman till my fingers ache, and get replys that basically add up too "Thats the way it is and I am not gonna do anything about it, sorry but thanks for your thoughts" I have one from MA-Sentor John Kerry, I can transcribe it if you would really like.
4. For what its worth monitoring the populous for doing stupid illegal things doesn't even bother me, as I do my best to act within the law. Our representivies passing laws that the people never get a say in, or are many times not even aware are happening, annoys me!
I gotta side with the M$ on this one...they are sorta jumping in the Buzz word of the day catagorey with this one, but there is truth there.
Viruses definately are a from of Terrrorism to the Net really should be recognized and treated as such. When they hit a company they can have a deep direct impact on that companies ability to perform.