Case A) Windows XP - you get letters from the BSA and eventually (implied) a visit from the Feds who will take everything whether you're guilty or not, after which the burden of proof is on you to prove you are not another dastardly mass market pirate organization
So perhaps you shouldn't break the law and install pirated software. And if you can't afford the license price for XP, install somethingelse.
Now wait a minute here. Here's a quote from the Google Groups link:
In a nutshell, the game has no copy protection whatsoever. Instead, we've taken the route of providing long term feature support (i.e. updating the game with new stuff). But to get to these new features you go through "Stardock Central" which uses the serial # that comes with the game. The serial # is authenticated on the server so even if someone cranked out a serial # generator or passed out serial numbers on the net, the server would be able to detect serial #'s that aren't in the retail list or serial #'s getting a lot of differnet IP's downloading the entire game.
This sounds an AWFUL lot like what Microsoft did with Windows XP. Yet, when Microsoft banned certain serial #s from getting SP1, Microsoft was (and still is) severely bashed on/., but when Stardock does the same thing for their "cool game"/.ers are overwhelming saying how cool it is and that this is what they asked for. How come?
...Is there such a thing as a FREE SOFTWARE LEECH?
That's an interesting idea... You know what, though? Even if you're using open source software, and even if you have NO coding skills whatsoever, and you're not contributing to the actual development, there are OTHER ways to help out.
Testing: The more people that run the software in a real world environment, the more bugs that are found. Even running released software will help to overturn bugs that might not otherwise be discovered, because everyone uses software a little differently and in a different environment.
Evangelism: A government organization or big company that runs, say OpenOffice.org, evanglizes that software by simply using the program and the file formats. Telling other people your organization uses a particular software package also tends to make people in related businesses or organizations think "Hey, maybe that program will work for me?"
Documentation: If you can't write code, you can always write docs if you're a gifted tech writer. Let me tell you, there's a LOT of open source software out there that could use some nice docs!
So just because you can't code, or don't have any developers doesn't mean your organization has nothing to contribute.
I agree. And I'm an nVidia fan as well. And I'll tell you -- healthy competition is NICE. It gives consumers choices. Neither nVidia nor ATI own the market... and that's the point. Look how they each keep pushing the other, and look how quickly new products come out with more and more features and performance.
Now look at the operating system market and the lack innovation there. Imagine what we COULD have if Microsoft DIDN'T own the market.
that they have different dependency chains. Before I saw the glory of Debian Linux (I use non-free packages, so it isn't GNU/Linux) I tried using Redhat RPMs with Mandrake 7.something.
Each app wanted a different version of glibc or a different version of libfoo, and it eventually got to the point where I gave up.
Personally, that's why I went with Gentoo. You want an app? Just 'emerge the-name-of-the-app' here and all the libraries and everything the thing needs is downloaded and compiled right on your system. Since it's compiled on your system, it's optimized for the libraries you have installed automatically. The package management system (Portage) also ensures that applications are optimized for your processor -- something Yoper claims to do, but I don't see how given that it's a binary-based distro and not a source-based distro like Gentoo.
Not sure about other countries but last Tuesday (4th) was Shrove Tuesday in the UK when we all make pancakes. For the religious amongst you the word 'Shrove' refers to the practice of confessing of sins, then afterwards the fast of Lent could be considered a penance of faults committed. Thats why the BBC ran the story on Tuesday. However, most of us just love eating the pancakes!
Here in America, we call it "Fat Tuesday" (fitting considering the extra weight most Americans carry isn't it?;) )
I'm from Detroit, and we have a large Polish population here (according to one statistic, Hamtramck has the largest population density of Polish people outside of Warsaw) and so here we have the old tradition of eating paczkis, which are pastries of Polish origin not entirely unlike a jelly donut (but don't *them* that, it's SACRILEGE to compare a paczki to a jelly donut). The paczki is one of my greatest personal weaknesses.:)
smodem was another one, but it wasn't as popular as Puma or Lynx (the protocol -- not to be confused with Lynx the browser, that is:) or BIModem, at least in the Detroit Area.
Maybe had something to do with T.A.G. or Telegard (one of the two) having a default config for Puma, I think.
A) Zmodem is still around, at least in the *nix world. You can get lrzsz from here. Some telnet clients still support Zmodem, and you can use lrzsz to transfer files via telnet. Personally, I'd rather use ssh as it's a lot more secure, but in cases where either you can only use telnet or when you are on network you can trust (i.e., not the Internet), you can still use Zmodem.
b) Zmodem is not, nor has it ever been a bidirectional protocol -- you can't upload and download at the same time unless you have two different connections. There *were* protocols that would let you do this (Puma comes to mind), but you most decidedly could NOT do this with Zmodem.
Hrmmm. I am certainly a Willie Nelson fan, but I think ringtones would be somewhat disrespectful of the man. That and I am getting tired of having cell phones ring little musical interjections in the theatre, on planes, at movies, in lectures, etc...etc...etc...
Aw, c'mon, admit it. You think it's cute, don't you?:-P It's okay to admit it. Really.
prefer linux to every other unix out there, but I have to say that Sun and Irix's(and netapp, but they don't count:0 )
Please put down the crack pipe. I have lots of odd NFS problems on my CATIA network of Suns that pop up every now and then. And it was an SGI network before that. OTOH, CATIA has a lot off odd problems period.;)
Microsoft will fall and fall hard. Microsoft is already saying that they're gonna break compatility with Longhorn and.Net, using those technologies to wrest fuller control of the PC OS market. Sound familiar? Think IBM and OS/2 and PS/2 and MCA ca. 1987. Where's IBM now? Not controlling the PC market anymore, that's for damn sure.
I've been saying this for the last 5 years or so. You watch. It *will* happen.
Interesting... it looks like there is no archie anymore
Now you know why I said that ftp lacks an automated global search facility.;)
Ironic that statement from the old archie gateway...I think it was exactly that Forms extension and the subsequential creation of search engines that rendered archie obsolete.:)
Yeah, but the parent poster is trying to make the point that, really, there isn't a whole hill of beans worth of difference between Gnutella, Kazaa, and FTP except for the fact that Gnutella and Kazaa have built-in automated global search capabilities. You could do basically the same thing with ftp search sites...
This is great, but I wanted to point out that the new software does have design commonalities with bind. The way I see it, they both support the same external interface, but they have different implementations.
By your definition, Apache and IIS share design commonalities.:)
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Doesn't XP require you to activate eventually?
I've been using it for 6 months without activation, it hasn't asked me yet. Come to think of it, I think we're using the corpporate version though.
Case A) Windows XP - you get letters from the BSA and eventually (implied) a visit from the Feds who will take everything whether you're guilty or not, after which the burden of proof is on you to prove you are not another dastardly mass market pirate organization
.
So perhaps you shouldn't break the law and install pirated software. And if you can't afford the license price for XP, install something else
You don't have to activate XP before you can use it either. At least not the version of XP Professional that I've installed on a few boxes.
And if you're getting automatic updates, aren't you essentially giving them the authority to install or uninstall anything they like **by default**?
my immediate question is, Ford runs linux? on what?
Hmmm....I dunno about Linux, but Ford *does* have a number of Solaris (and probably some SGI, HP-UX or AIX seats as well) seats running I-DEAS.
It's not unlikely that Ford has a few Linux boxes.
Now wait a minute here. Here's a quote from the Google Groups link:
/., but when Stardock does the same thing for their "cool game" /.ers are overwhelming saying how cool it is and that this is what they asked for. How come?
In a nutshell, the game has no copy protection whatsoever. Instead, we've
taken the route of providing long term feature support (i.e. updating the
game with new stuff). But to get to these new features you go through
"Stardock Central" which uses the serial # that comes with the game. The
serial # is authenticated on the server so even if someone cranked out a
serial # generator or passed out serial numbers on the net, the server would
be able to detect serial #'s that aren't in the retail list or serial #'s
getting a lot of differnet IP's downloading the entire game.
This sounds an AWFUL lot like what Microsoft did with Windows XP. Yet, when Microsoft banned certain serial #s from getting SP1, Microsoft was (and still is) severely bashed on
That's an interesting idea... You know what, though? Even if you're using open source software, and even if you have NO coding skills whatsoever, and you're not contributing to the actual development, there are OTHER ways to help out.
Testing: The more people that run the software in a real world environment, the more bugs that are found. Even running released software will help to overturn bugs that might not otherwise be discovered, because everyone uses software a little differently and in a different environment.
Evangelism: A government organization or big company that runs, say OpenOffice.org, evanglizes that software by simply using the program and the file formats. Telling other people your organization uses a particular software package also tends to make people in related businesses or organizations think "Hey, maybe that program will work for me?"
So just because you can't code, or don't have any developers doesn't mean your organization has nothing to contribute.
I agree. And I'm an nVidia fan as well. And I'll tell you -- healthy competition is NICE. It gives consumers choices. Neither nVidia nor ATI own the market ... and that's the point. Look how they each keep pushing the other, and look how quickly new products come out with more and more features and performance.
Now look at the operating system market and the lack innovation there. Imagine what we COULD have if Microsoft DIDN'T own the market.
that they have different dependency chains. Before I saw the glory of Debian Linux (I use non-free packages, so it isn't GNU/Linux) I tried using Redhat RPMs with Mandrake 7.something.
Each app wanted a different version of glibc or a different version of libfoo, and it eventually got to the point where I gave up.
Personally, that's why I went with Gentoo. You want an app? Just 'emerge the-name-of-the-app' here and all the libraries and everything the thing needs is downloaded and compiled right on your system. Since it's compiled on your system, it's optimized for the libraries you have installed automatically. The package management system (Portage) also ensures that applications are optimized for your processor -- something Yoper claims to do, but I don't see how given that it's a binary-based distro and not a source-based distro like Gentoo.
Not sure about other countries but last Tuesday (4th) was Shrove Tuesday in the UK when we all make pancakes. For the religious amongst you the word 'Shrove' refers to the practice of confessing of sins, then afterwards the fast of Lent could be considered a penance of faults committed. Thats why the BBC ran the story on Tuesday. However, most of us just love eating the pancakes!
;) )
:)
Here in America, we call it "Fat Tuesday" (fitting considering the extra weight most Americans carry isn't it?
I'm from Detroit, and we have a large Polish population here (according to one statistic, Hamtramck has the largest population density of Polish people outside of Warsaw) and so here we have the old tradition of eating paczkis, which are pastries of Polish origin not entirely unlike a jelly donut (but don't *them* that, it's SACRILEGE to compare a paczki to a jelly donut). The paczki is one of my greatest personal weaknesses.
smodem was another one, but it wasn't as popular as Puma or Lynx (the protocol -- not to be confused with Lynx the browser, that is :) or BIModem, at least in the Detroit Area.
Maybe had something to do with T.A.G. or Telegard (one of the two) having a default config for Puma, I think.
Ummm...
A) Zmodem is still around, at least in the *nix world. You can get lrzsz from here.
Some telnet clients still support Zmodem, and you can use lrzsz to transfer files via telnet. Personally, I'd rather use ssh as it's a lot more secure, but in cases where either you can only use telnet or when you are on network you can trust (i.e., not the Internet), you can still use Zmodem.
b) Zmodem is not, nor has it ever been a bidirectional protocol -- you can't upload and download at the same time unless you have two different connections. There *were* protocols that would let you do this (Puma comes to mind), but you most decidedly could NOT do this with Zmodem.
Blogs. Blogs will be the new spam target anyway...once legislatures and the IETF make e-mail spam hard, blogs will turn into adfests.
I gotta wonder though...it seems like you could tap the signal with some strategically placed mirrors, though, doesn't it? :)
I like Writing Secure Code from Microsoft Press, myself.
The back cover says:
"Required reading at Microsoft."
Yeah, *that's* the book I want to buy about writing secure code. Heh.
Hrmmm. I am certainly a Willie Nelson fan, but I think ringtones would be somewhat disrespectful of the man. That and I am getting tired of having cell phones ring little musical interjections in the theatre, on planes, at movies, in lectures, etc...etc...etc...
:-P It's okay to admit it. Really.
Aw, c'mon, admit it. You think it's cute, don't you?
Personally, mine plays "You were always on my mind" by Willie Nelson.
prefer linux to every other unix out there, but I have to say that Sun and Irix's(and netapp, but they don't count:0 )
;)
Please put down the crack pipe. I have lots of odd NFS problems on my CATIA network of Suns that pop up every now and then. And it was an SGI network before that. OTOH, CATIA has a lot off odd problems period.
My Prediction:
.Net, using those technologies to wrest fuller control of the PC OS market. Sound familiar? Think IBM and OS/2 and PS/2 and MCA ca. 1987. Where's IBM now? Not controlling the PC market anymore, that's for damn sure.
Microsoft will fall and fall hard. Microsoft is already saying that they're gonna break compatility with Longhorn and
I've been saying this for the last 5 years or so. You watch. It *will* happen.
Interesting... it looks like there is no archie anymore
;)
:)
Now you know why I said that ftp lacks an automated global search facility.
Ironic that statement from the old archie gateway...I think it was exactly that Forms extension and the subsequential creation of search engines that rendered archie obsolete.
Yeah, but the parent poster is trying to make the point that, really, there isn't a whole hill of beans worth of difference between Gnutella, Kazaa, and FTP except for the fact that Gnutella and Kazaa have built-in automated global search capabilities. You could do basically the same thing with ftp search sites...
I don't know what's funnier... that they're claiming copyright infringement of OpenOffice, or that they thought Microsoft Office came as RPMs!!
/mandrake_current/SRPMS/OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk. src.rpm
Filename:
(199,643kb)
And *source* RPMs at that! The day I see source RPMs of Microsoft Office is the day I eat my right shoe!
This is great, but I wanted to point out that the new software does have design commonalities with bind. The way I see it, they both support the same external interface, but they have different implementations.
:)
By your definition, Apache and IIS share design commonalities.
Oh fsck! I'm selling my McDonald's stock right now!
BTW--Krispy Kreme (KK) is going up up up! Buy now! I have few shares if anyone wants to buy...
You forgot one:
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