Mandrake has thier Software update tool and can be configured to run auto. SuSE has yast, and I think it can run auto. Debian has apt and at a minimum it is a cron job away. Cron is as easy to use as Microsoft's Scheduled task manager. I haven't used Red Hat since 1999. So I don't keep up with the tools available in it.
So I am utterly honest while you once again spout lies.
How does the pictures from your mate's olympus look?
Probably not quite as good, because either the resolution is less or they are put through much heavier compression. Or else they actually have a larger memory card. Number of pixels and compression settings dictate file size. To get about 200 pics on 128mb would mean at quick rule of thumb that the resolution would be about 1280x960. (would actually expect somewhat closer to 192 for that res, but...)
At least Memory Stick is better than those Fuji X cards. MS is relatively inexpensive, one can buy MS from other manufacturers such as Lexar or SanDisk. Virtually ever multicard reader supports SD/MMC, SM, CF, and MS.
Unless one already has a large investment in one technology, it really doesnt matter too much. I have one of 64mb MS, 256mb CF, 256mb SD, 32mb SM. I also have a 4mb MS that came with my Sony Camera. Each memory card gets used by a single device. They all work fine in my memory card reader. So there is little reason to not choose a device that uses any one of those formats. Heck, even the photo developement places accept all four. And likely the photo developer machine is actually a Sony.
Most of the memory cards have thier disadvantages. SM seems flimsy. CF are big. SD has pretty lousy Quality control (or at least SanDisk does). MS are a little bit more expensive than the others. The Fuji cards are the worst of the lot, being expensive, proprietary, and too small.
And as far as the magic gate goes, if you don't use one of the MS walkmans, it doesn't really matter.
Updates are the responsibility off the Linux Vendor. This is one of the reasons to use Mandrake or Red Hat or SuSE, or Debian, or several others; as opposed to rolling your own. They go through compile updates for your software and provide an easy way to install them.
Everyone of the ones mentioned provide an easy way of checking and downloading updates for your distro.
Several provide automatic tools. Perhaps all do, but I am not positive for some. Even if they don't, it would be possible to script your own easily with cron and expect.
Lastly, yes for some distros there was a prblem with auto updating kernel patches, but at least with Mandrake, that has been fixed in MDK 10.
Now, then, take your FUD spewing troll-self back under your rock and stay away.
Probably more of we do not support these groups but fear how our rights will be threatened in the future.
Copyright infringement is not the same sort of crime as Grand Theft Auto. It should be closer to something along the lines of embezeling, if even a crime at all. In my area SW FL, we had a carjacking the other day where a cabbie was forced into his own cab's trunk. The cabbie latter died of a heart attack. That carjacker deserves a much worse punishment than some yahoo that distributed copies of photoshop on warez channels. Yet likely, unlesss the 1st degree murder charge holds, the carjacker will probably get a lesser sentance.
A corporation exists to make money for its shareholders; however, a corporation is granted existance on the basis that it will further the public good.
I personally believe thaat if a corporation is shown to be a detrimant to society than we should exercise our power and disolve thier corporate charter. If the Justice department had real balls they would have disolved MS and left thier source code to the Public domain. Things would have been chaotic for a while, but at this point we would probably be looking at a much more vibrant IT economic ecology.
Most likely people kill the discs by writing on them after burning. Especially the cheap discs you can literally see through the disc. By writing on the disc, you change the reflectivity pattern and can kill the disc. Label before burning and it won't be a problem.
In a relateed note, I remember once a coworker burned a disc. After burning, he noticed a big thumb print on the data side. Well, the disc worked fine so he thought nothing of it. A few days later another coworker sees the thumb print and cleans the disc. Now the disc no longer works and there is a shadow of the thumb print from burning the disc.
CDRW is not vulnerable to light degradation and is less vulnerable to fungal attacks. Heat is still a killer for both and over time in near optimal conditions ( say in a cupboard by your computer desk in your airconditioned room), CDRW degrades faster. CDRW is a phase change medium, meaning that it changges between a crystal and a glass to create the pits of a cd. CDR literally burns pits on the dye substrate.
Older CDR were of better quality. The new silver-green crap will only last a tenth as long as the older cdr's in hostile environments. I cool dark storage I have CDR's from 1998 that are still good. The stuff has started to have problems in only 2 years.
Burning at slower than optimal speeds will result in more low level errors. Burning at lower speeds may produce a slightly greater phase change (or darker burn spots). However with more low level errors that disc will wear out faster. The type of dye used is usually a better indicator of lifespan. The dark blue dye lasts best. The lighter colored silver-green that is used by most cdrs is crap.
Informal testing shows that the silver-green dye lasts about 6 months in a hostile environment (namely the visor in my car- and I live in FL). The dark blue has lasted upwards of 6 years.
I got a spurious connection of a random raid on some school district's computers and a general announcement of a crackdown on copyright infringement.
The FBI were not commenting at all on what they were doing. They had some warrants to seize some computers, and would not comment at all on the current case. Some reporter ust got a PR newswire about the FBI cracking down on copyright infringers and then gets a call about the FBI raiding the school district.
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And the registry is uncommented with cryptic notation. Any decent vendor installed programs will have well documented config files.
That was why are Chem Professor's put copies of last year's exam in the Library for checkout. In not so many words he told it was because of the Greeks.
There is a known issue of SBLive conflicting with onboard raid controllers when placed in a specific pci slot (usually slot 4/5 but may be different). The problem is also seen on various versions of windows. The problem is not just limited SBLive but they seem most susceptible. It amounts to an IRQ conflict. The simplest solution is to move the sound card to a different PCI slot.
Mine is to suggest Linux, but essentially the same thing.
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Most likely was lawfully posted and AOL does not have a legal leg to stand on. That doesn't mean that AOL can't bully you though. If the Head of comppany does not have legal authority to publish something, then who would?
The problem is proving that Frankel caved to pressure from AOL. The Feds could not prove that Capone was a Gangster. Yet everyone knew he was one anyways.
Actually as he is not selling it he can direct people back to VIA for the source code. See here. So thanks for being a Jerk, Airlace. Once you fully understand the GPL then you may come back.
It is questiionable if it legally GPL'ed. Seeing how the programer in question is Justin Frankel. Seeing as Frankel is the head of Nullsoft, it seems likely that if anyone has authority post software under a given License, then Frakel has it. Seeing how waste competes in some market space as AIM, it is likely to see why AOL would not wannt its existance known.
Also, you need to know the story of gnutella, the original P2P software. That was started at Nullsoft as well. It was also GPL. It also got pulled by AOL. Seeing a patern yet?
So probably Waste is legally GPL'ed. But ya better count on AOL suing your ass if you try distributing it in the mainstream.
I'm guessing that it angered someone higher up the chain and Justin decided tthis wasn't worth fighting for. As this was Nullsoft code, not AOL code, Justin should have the authority to release it.
The Prooba=lem was that other dvisions at AOL were threatened by the code. Some strings were pulled and AOL claims that the code was unauthorized. My feeling is that the code really was authorized, but it was expedient for AOL to remove it later. While the code is legal, one can expect some lawsuits from AOL. and of course IANAL.
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Just like you need to be a moderately advanced user to fix a problem on Windows. or you buy it preconfigured. And Linux likely won't have problem that is not hardware related.
I setup a computer for my parents running Linux. Since I installed MDK 9.2 last year I haven't touched it. A cron job runs urpmi for security and bugfix updates. When I checked it over Easter, it was working fine with no complaints from the folks. Actually I forgot the one problem when they couldn't scan. Turned out that the ac adapter was loose at the electrical outlet. So that was really a hardware problem. And I troubleshot that over the phone.
Copyright violations used to be purely civil matters. Enforcement was left as a task for the Copyright holder. BeforeI justify te moralness of Copyright Violations, you need to justify where you get off criminalizing a civil matter. And justify why I need to pay for some big Corp to enforce thier copyright. Then justify why copyrights should last forever.
One we do not need to be sending more people to prison. Two, I should not have to pay for someone to enforce a State granted Monopoly.
Also, do you really want to be spied on in theater by some teenaged punk? The same guy that is suppse to be taking care of the jerks on thier cell phone and the screaming baby.
Lastly, do a little historical research on Prohibition. Then look at the current Drug War. Now examine the new Copyright War. I see a number of parallels. Take a behavior that was not criminal and make it a criminal offense. Spend lots of money to prosecute it. Violate all sorts of rights and liberties to find the new criminals.
A copyright violation is not theft. Maybe it is in Canada, but not in the USA. Copyright violations until recently were purely civil matters. Enforcement of Copyright was left as a matter for the Copyright holder. We already allow the Copyright holder a State Mandated Monopoly. We should not also have to pay for thier enforcement.
Laws should be adjusted to reflect new realities, but often are not. Government tends to get biggger so we should be concerned when new far reaching laws are created. We should be especially concerned when we can forecast potential misuse of the laws due to changing technology in only a few years.
About the guests thing, after a certain number it stops being a private showing. If any money or trading of goods happen it further pushes it into being a public showing. If you wee say to collet five bucks from everyone, then you could in theory be busted. Even if the money was ostensibly to be used to buy pizza.
My point on copyright limits was that the abusers of copyright limits are further trampling my rights and costing me money. Hence, they do not deserve any respect. See my first paragraph about criminalizing former civil matters.
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So call it "The GNU Image Manipulation Program".
Mandrake has thier Software update tool and can be configured to run auto. SuSE has yast, and I think it can run auto. Debian has apt and at a minimum it is a cron job away. Cron is as easy to use as Microsoft's Scheduled task manager. I haven't used Red Hat since 1999. So I don't keep up with the tools available in it.
So I am utterly honest while you once again spout lies.
How does the pictures from your mate's olympus look?
Probably not quite as good, because either the resolution is less or they are put through much heavier compression. Or else they actually have a larger memory card. Number of pixels and compression settings dictate file size. To get about 200 pics on 128mb would mean at quick rule of thumb that the resolution would be about 1280x960. (would actually expect somewhat closer to 192 for that res, but...)
At least Memory Stick is better than those Fuji X cards. MS is relatively inexpensive, one can buy MS from other manufacturers such as Lexar or SanDisk. Virtually ever multicard reader supports SD/MMC, SM, CF, and MS.
Unless one already has a large investment in one technology, it really doesnt matter too much. I have one of 64mb MS, 256mb CF, 256mb SD, 32mb SM. I also have a 4mb MS that came with my Sony Camera. Each memory card gets used by a single device. They all work fine in my memory card reader. So there is little reason to not choose a device that uses any one of those formats. Heck, even the photo developement places accept all four. And likely the photo developer machine is actually a Sony.
Most of the memory cards have thier disadvantages. SM seems flimsy. CF are big. SD has pretty lousy Quality control (or at least SanDisk does). MS are a little bit more expensive than the others. The Fuji cards are the worst of the lot, being expensive, proprietary, and too small.
And as far as the magic gate goes, if you don't use one of the MS walkmans, it doesn't really matter.
Updates are the responsibility off the Linux Vendor. This is one of the reasons to use Mandrake or Red Hat or SuSE, or Debian, or several others; as opposed to rolling your own. They go through compile updates for your software and provide an easy way to install them.
Everyone of the ones mentioned provide an easy way of checking and downloading updates for your distro.
Several provide automatic tools. Perhaps all do, but I am not positive for some. Even if they don't, it would be possible to script your own easily with cron and expect.
Lastly, yes for some distros there was a prblem with auto updating kernel patches, but at least with Mandrake, that has been fixed in MDK 10.
Now, then, take your FUD spewing troll-self back under your rock and stay away.
Probably more of we do not support these groups but fear how our rights will be threatened in the future.
Copyright infringement is not the same sort of crime as Grand Theft Auto. It should be closer to something along the lines of embezeling, if even a crime at all. In my area SW FL, we had a carjacking the other day where a cabbie was forced into his own cab's trunk. The cabbie latter died of a heart attack. That carjacker deserves a much worse punishment than some yahoo that distributed copies of photoshop on warez channels. Yet likely, unlesss the 1st degree murder charge holds, the carjacker will probably get a lesser sentance.
A corporation exists to make money for its shareholders; however, a corporation is granted existance on the basis that it will further the public good.
I personally believe thaat if a corporation is shown to be a detrimant to society than we should exercise our power and disolve thier corporate charter. If the Justice department had real balls they would have disolved MS and left thier source code to the Public domain. Things would have been chaotic for a while, but at this point we would probably be looking at a much more vibrant IT economic ecology.
Most likely people kill the discs by writing on them after burning. Especially the cheap discs you can literally see through the disc. By writing on the disc, you change the reflectivity pattern and can kill the disc. Label before burning and it won't be a problem.
In a relateed note, I remember once a coworker burned a disc. After burning, he noticed a big thumb print on the data side. Well, the disc worked fine so he thought nothing of it. A few days later another coworker sees the thumb print and cleans the disc. Now the disc no longer works and there is a shadow of the thumb print from burning the disc.
Actually there are some programs that can check on the crc errors of a disc. However one must periodically benchmark the disc manually.
Judging by just the other posts in under this article, yes expect to pay $1 a disc for the Mitsui Gold.
Any discs that have a dark blue dye wil be good. Also expect slower burning speeds as I think the max was 12x.
CDRW is not vulnerable to light degradation and is less vulnerable to fungal attacks. Heat is still a killer for both and over time in near optimal conditions ( say in a cupboard by your computer desk in your airconditioned room), CDRW degrades faster. CDRW is a phase change medium, meaning that it changges between a crystal and a glass to create the pits of a cd. CDR literally burns pits on the dye substrate.
Older CDR were of better quality. The new silver-green crap will only last a tenth as long as the older cdr's in hostile environments. I cool dark storage I have CDR's from 1998 that are still good. The stuff has started to have problems in only 2 years.
Burning at slower than optimal speeds will result in more low level errors. Burning at lower speeds may produce a slightly greater phase change (or darker burn spots). However with more low level errors that disc will wear out faster. The type of dye used is usually a better indicator of lifespan. The dark blue dye lasts best. The lighter colored silver-green that is used by most cdrs is crap.
Informal testing shows that the silver-green dye lasts about 6 months in a hostile environment (namely the visor in my car- and I live in FL). The dark blue has lasted upwards of 6 years.
I got a spurious connection of a random raid on some school district's computers and a general announcement of a crackdown on copyright infringement.
The FBI were not commenting at all on what they were doing. They had some warrants to seize some computers, and would not comment at all on the current case. Some reporter ust got a PR newswire about the FBI cracking down on copyright infringers and then gets a call about the FBI raiding the school district.
And the registry is uncommented with cryptic notation. Any decent vendor installed programs will have well documented config files.
That was why are Chem Professor's put copies of last year's exam in the Library for checkout. In not so many words he told it was because of the Greeks.
There is a known issue of SBLive conflicting with onboard raid controllers when placed in a specific pci slot (usually slot 4/5 but may be different). The problem is also seen on various versions of windows. The problem is not just limited SBLive but they seem most susceptible. It amounts to an IRQ conflict. The simplest solution is to move the sound card to a different PCI slot.
Mine is to suggest Linux, but essentially the same thing.
Most likely was lawfully posted and AOL does not have a legal leg to stand on. That doesn't mean that AOL can't bully you though. If the Head of comppany does not have legal authority to publish something, then who would?
The problem is proving that Frankel caved to pressure from AOL. The Feds could not prove that Capone was a Gangster. Yet everyone knew he was one anyways.
Actually as he is not selling it he can direct people back to VIA for the source code. See here.
So thanks for being a Jerk, Airlace. Once you fully understand the GPL then you may come back.
It is questiionable if it legally GPL'ed. Seeing how the programer in question is Justin Frankel. Seeing as Frankel is the head of Nullsoft, it seems likely that if anyone has authority post software under a given License, then Frakel has it. Seeing how waste competes in some market space as AIM, it is likely to see why AOL would not wannt its existance known.
Also, you need to know the story of gnutella, the original P2P software. That was started at Nullsoft as well. It was also GPL. It also got pulled by AOL. Seeing a patern yet?
So probably Waste is legally GPL'ed. But ya better count on AOL suing your ass if you try distributing it in the mainstream.
I'm guessing that it angered someone higher up the chain and Justin decided tthis wasn't worth fighting for. As this was Nullsoft code, not AOL code, Justin should have the authority to release it.
The Prooba=lem was that other dvisions at AOL were threatened by the code. Some strings were pulled and AOL claims that the code was unauthorized. My feeling is that the code really was authorized, but it was expedient for AOL to remove it later. While the code is legal, one can expect some lawsuits from AOL. and of course IANAL.
Just like you need to be a moderately advanced user to fix a problem on Windows. or you buy it preconfigured. And Linux likely won't have problem that is not hardware related.
I setup a computer for my parents running Linux. Since I installed MDK 9.2 last year I haven't touched it. A cron job runs urpmi for security and bugfix updates. When I checked it over Easter, it was working fine with no complaints from the folks. Actually I forgot the one problem when they couldn't scan. Turned out that the ac adapter was loose at the electrical outlet. So that was really a hardware problem. And I troubleshot that over the phone.
Actually it being a crime is part of the problem.
Copyright violations used to be purely civil matters. Enforcement was left as a task for the Copyright holder. BeforeI justify te moralness of Copyright Violations, you need to justify where you get off criminalizing a civil matter. And justify why I need to pay for some big Corp to enforce thier copyright. Then justify why copyrights should last forever.
One we do not need to be sending more people to prison. Two, I should not have to pay for someone to enforce a State granted Monopoly.
Also, do you really want to be spied on in theater by some teenaged punk? The same guy that is suppse to be taking care of the jerks on thier cell phone and the screaming baby.
Lastly, do a little historical research on Prohibition. Then look at the current Drug War. Now examine the new Copyright War. I see a number of parallels. Take a behavior that was not criminal and make it a criminal offense. Spend lots of money to prosecute it. Violate all sorts of rights and liberties to find the new criminals.
A copyright violation is not theft. Maybe it is in Canada, but not in the USA. Copyright violations until recently were purely civil matters. Enforcement of Copyright was left as a matter for the Copyright holder. We already allow the Copyright holder a State Mandated Monopoly. We should not also have to pay for thier enforcement.
Laws should be adjusted to reflect new realities, but often are not. Government tends to get biggger so we should be concerned when new far reaching laws are created. We should be especially concerned when we can forecast potential misuse of the laws due to changing technology in only a few years.
About the guests thing, after a certain number it stops being a private showing. If any money or trading of goods happen it further pushes it into being a public showing. If you wee say to collet five bucks from everyone, then you could in theory be busted. Even if the money was ostensibly to be used to buy pizza.
My point on copyright limits was that the abusers of copyright limits are further trampling my rights and costing me money. Hence, they do not deserve any respect. See my first paragraph about criminalizing former civil matters.