The project contains helpful links to get you started.
Also, please be aware that Alexa is not an AI, it is basically a voice recognition remote control robot - you program the phrases and the actions, Alexa does not learn new skills, they are explicitly programmed to appear like a natural language conversation. The intelligence is in the speech recognition and the cleverness of the skill developers.
Please mod this up and get the word out about the link to donate to Hero David Levin's Legal Defense. The gofundme site goes into more detail about everything he did to try and inform people before he went public and made the video.
Common sense is not so common these days. People are sheep.
Teachers can't teach skills they don't have. Very few teachers or professors have what it takes to be successful business people or problem solvers. There are some, and those are the ones who stick out among a mediocre flock of public servants who can barely keep the kids in their seats and keep them from talking during class.
Schools should be teaching children how to educate themselves but the system was designed around the turn of the previous century to turn out compliant factory workers and is not up to the modern challenges.
This is nothing new. You can wrap up the complexity of the code in a toolkit/framework/library but this is just functional programming driven by events. Nothing to see here. Move along. Don't believe the hype.
I have been working since 8 AM Eastern Time as a telecommuter and my CenturyLink DSL has been up without so much as an SSH session disconnecting all day. I live in SW Florida and my colleagues tell me they're having problems but perhaps the outage is not as widespread as publicized or it's affecting DNS and I use OpenDNS instead of my ISP's DNS for filtering sites I don't want my kids to browse such as adult content.
In my experience, Cable modems were far less stable than DSL. I had Comcast for a while and it was much worse. So please don't listen to the cable modem trolls. Overall DSL is a more reliable technology and I've been using Spring/Embarq/CenturyLink for 12 years now with very few hiccups which they did address quickly, except for a move where I used DirectWay/Hughes and then Comcast for a while. DirectWay/Hughes was good if you have no other options but satellite just has too much latency for some apps like voip or skype, and Comcast was terrible especially during peak hours.
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Mono has support for P/Invoke:// foo.cs// build with "mcs foo.cs -unsafe"
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the US and other countries.
to your web sites, documents, etc wherever you use Linus's trademark. Remember he had to defend his mark or he loses it, if you acknowledge his mark you are no longer challenging it.
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Yes, they already are ported. You can write GTK/GTK+/GTK# apps for Windows today.
See http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/index.php/ BuildingGuide?PHPSESSID=d0459fba82585e5219f9d4c95c 24721f for an on-line guide.
I've been using GTK apps like GIMP and DIA at work where I'm stuck with Windows for a long time now.
DIA Win32 installer: http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/
BTW there are very few if any "linux only" libs. Most of those libs are part of the GNU System, they work with the Linux kernel, BSD variants, Solaris, and most UNIX Systems. Many have Win32 ports or ports to the Cygwin POSIX environment for Windows.
You don't understand! Richard is not looking for attention for himself, to boost his ego. He raises the issue to educate people about the Free Software cause. In a time when we are facing the lobbying efforts of the media companies and proprietary vendors to control what people can load on their computers, he is fighting to raise awareness of the underlying issues of computing freedom. By calling "GNU/Linux" systems just "Linux" systems, the awareness of what makes these systems so wonderful is lost. GNU/Linux systems are great because everyone can participate in using, improving, and selling solutions on equal footing. No large corporation controls what we can do with GNU/Linux. It's all about freedom. I actually came to this understanding myself after a debate with Richard in an on-line forum- he made me understand. Now when you say "Nothing personal RMS, I just think Linus attitude is really more of a leader than yours." I have to reply that they are both leaders: RMS is more of a political and social activist while Linus doesn't give a damn about politics, etc, as RMS says, "Linus is an engineer", and Linus is the best leader of engineers in the Free Software/Open Source community. Remember, "GNU" is not "Richard's GNU", it's "OUR GNU", it belongs to all of us and Richard is a visionary fighting to ensure freedom for us all on the new digital frontier.
Mozilla has the best name recognition. I mean even Microsoft Internet Explorer is forced to humbly identify itself to web servers as Mozilla compatible "Mozilla/4.0 (Compatible MSIE #, OS)" in the USER_AGENT field.
IE 5: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 2000)"
Netscape 4: "Mozilla/4.0 (X11, I; Linux 2.4.18-27.9.0 i586)"
Only Opera, Lynx, and Mosaic don't show Mozilla in the USER_AGENT field.
Renaming the browser to Phoenix, Firebird, or anything else besides Mozilla or Netscape is a mistake.
Besides, do we really want users untarring both projects into/usr/local/firebird. I can just see it, "I went to open my (database/browser) and instead my (browser/database) openend up." Red Hat will probably call them "Red Hat Web" and "Red Hat Database" and stick 'em in/usr/bin and/usr/lib for their users so that wouldn't be as bad;-) but let's get serious.
I use Mozilla, Phoenix, and Firebird. I like both projects but Firebird had the name first and their database software supports SQL92 standards better than some other free rdbms packages and lets me write things like nested queries, etc. In other words, don't knock it unless you're a SQL database professional who's tried it.
I know it sounds corny, but I don't see why we all can't get along. Besides. I want my Mozilla to stay Mozilla! If they must change the name, let the community vote on a new one.
Can you describe the official position of the FSF in regards to linking to GPL'd code? For example, everyone seems pretty clear about static linking requiring the derived work to be GPL'd, but your past statements and those of RMS have differed in regards to dynamically linked works. Linus has recently been vocal about his view that binary-only kernel modules for drivers are a GPL violation. Can you clarify the FSF's position as to if/when dynamically linking a non-GPL program or module to a GPL'd library or kernel violates the GPL?
I know it's been the dream of GNU/Linux enthusiasts for years: to replace Windows on client PCs. Thus far, Microsoft's hold on OEMs hasn't been broken in the desktop PC market, though there are some encouraging signs like Walmart's $199 Microtel GNU/Linux PCs and LTSP spreading in schools. My question is this: do you think GNU/Linux will really succeed in spreading out from the server room to win a significant share of the desktop client market? If so, when and how do you think this will happen? (Such as HP/Compaq, Dell, Gateway, IBM, etc all pushing GNU/Linux PCs with Open Office to businesses, or thin client computing like LTSP gaining popularity, etc.)
Yes, they're both bloated in comparison to CDE - in fact on any low-end machines I setup with GNU/Linux I've been installing XFCE (a clone of CDE that uses GTK rather than Motif/Lestif.)
Hey guys, you finally did it! I was a KDE user myself since the alpha stage of KDE 1.0. I tried GNOME a few times, but it always seemed more tempermental and less responsive than KDE. However, when I upgraded to KDE 2.0 and it took forever to start a desktop session and KDE apps were taking longer to launch than before, so I gave GNOME a try again. I was impressed but it still seemed to lack KDE's stability and consistency. I upgraded over the last year to KDE 3, which was a disappointment. The performance/responsiveness has worsened and the stability has taken a turn for the worse. For the first time I find myself preferring GNOME for the same reasons I chose KDE before: performance, stability, and consistency. The stability of the MetalCity WindowManager seems to have made an impressive difference and the applets, panel, etc are much improved. The GNOME developers also took to heart some feedback when Sun sponsored the GNOME Usability Study a while back.
Now am I knocking KDE? Not by any means- as a C++ programmer I prefer programming for KDE. But when you're at the top there's no where to go but down, and that applied well to the KDE project. Besides, I think it's great to see a strong GNOME and KDE... because in the Free Software Movement we prefer competition which inspires innovation. If KDE wasn't so awesome from 1999-2001 then the GNOME project wouldn't have been quite as motivated and I expect GNOME 2's success will spur more inspiration on the part of the KDE project. I look forward to comparing GNOME 3 and KDE 4 in the future!
I'm reading a lot of misinformation. First of all, THE HURD IS NOT A KERNEL! The HURD standards for Hird of Unix Replacing Daemons, wherein Hird stands for Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth (a mutually recursive acronym according to the FAQ). The HURD is a bunch of servers that provide services around a microkernel. The revolutionary thing about it is that many of the traditional "kernel" tasks are moved into userspace. Result: the users are empowered. Why should mounting directories, shring NFS volumes, etc, require root? Normal users can use devices and network resources that previously only the administrator could control. For example, a normal user couldn't share the / volume, but he could share his home directory over the network, or mount a remote FTP site as a local folder in his home directory. (Yes, I did say mount FTP, HURD has some exciting new features like FTPFS, HTTPFS, etc, because so much of the implementation is left to the servers rather than the kernel.) Also, security is better, rather than root being the default access level, the default is guest priviledges, so priveledges start at none and are "tickets" are issued as credentials are elevated. Also, the Unix everything-is-a-file is taken further, where everything is part of the filesystem, including servers, etc. The HURD is a thing of beauty, and unless you've seen it down't knock it. I have a HURD test box on my LAN and it's running X with IceWM, Apache, FTP, NFS, etc. With some sound drivers and a complete pthreads implementation (which was just released), it could function as a workstation too. I don't see why we have to fight over Linux VS Hurd! Why can't we have both and pick the right tool for a specific job. I mean, we're the winners here, because the HURD gives us another *CHOICE*. It's about more freedom! So don't knock the HURD, most of the work is being done by a few programmers, Marcus Brinkman, Neal Walfield, and Thomas Bushnell. If Linus hadn't had the help of an army of developers where would Linux be? So give these guys their credit and realize that their efforts are giving you more freedom!
How can any one company provide support for all Free Software/Open Source products? What you need to do is look for a company that specializes in the language that this particular project is written in and get an estimate for their services. Because the source code is open, there is the additional advantage of being able to change to another company if they go belly up or get too greedy in the future. You're not locked into a single vendor or solution provider. Besides, would you really expect one company to give the same level of programming support for projects written in C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, etc? What we should do is network better: make it easier to find a local specialist with the required skill set to support a particular solution.
Son: "Daddy, I want a Pepsi!" Dad: "You already drank all the Pepsi." Son: "No, I need to drink more Pepsi!." Dad: "Why son?" Son: "I want to fly in a spaceship just like a Jedi."
What do you think would be a realistic business model which would respect both the rights of the artist and the consumer for the delivery of music via the Internet, including what you feel is a fair price per song or album? (I am purposefully excluding the recording labels/music mafia here).
I started using VIM on Linux years ago and now I can't live without it. I had to install GVim for KDE , Gvim for Windows, Vim on SCO, Vim on Solaris, Vim for DOS, any station I use must have a copy or else I start typing VIM keystrokes in the middle of my documents. Heck, I'll be in Open Office and I'll type [ESC]y2l (yank 2 lines) or [ESC]w (next word) in the middle of a sentence before I remember I'm not in Vim.
We simply need to add a new clause to the GPL whereby we disclaim all warranties and in such jurisdictions where this is prohibited we disallow usage of said software. Or... We stop providing binaries and make the user/VAR who bundles them responsible for the warranties. This way either the user themself is responsible or the VAR can conduct compatability testing with their distro.
Let your representatives know that you expect representation. Politicians need to be reminded that they work for WE THE PEOPLE not for the big companies. Here's a link to a service Digitalconsumer has for sending a fax to your local congressmen:
You know how people try to immitate people like Socrates, Christ, Budha, Gandi, etc, well you need to try and immitate Linus my friend. The self-styled benevolent dictator: 1) Be great at coding 2) Have an opionion about what's good for your project and don't compromise unless they give you a really good reason 3) Get a thick skin
The Windows Way: Use terminal services and/or telnet server and require IPSec for external connections.
The Hybrid Way: Install Cygwin from cgywin.com and use ssh, remote X, etc.
The Free/Open Way: Install Linux, *BSD, etc, and rid yourself of M$ dependency
The Sun Way: Spend a fortune on SPARC hardware and get Solaris, do everything in Java so when the JVM leaks and locks up it's secure from your staff and any hax0rs
because consumers are just sick of their manufactured bands and their assault on fair use. I'm not a P2P user, but the trouble the RIAA is causing makes me more likely not to buy music from the big labels anymore. When I was a teenager we all recorded songs off the radio on cassette long before the album was released. Don't see how mp3s are much different, except they can be tracked on the network.
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John Wheeler created a Flask extension for those who prefer to code their Alexa Skills in Python.
https://github.com/johnwheeler...
The project contains helpful links to get you started.
Also, please be aware that Alexa is not an AI, it is basically a voice recognition remote control robot - you program the phrases and the actions, Alexa does not learn new skills, they are explicitly programmed to appear like a natural language conversation. The intelligence is in the speech recognition and the cleverness of the skill developers.
Please mod this up and get the word out about the link to donate to Hero David Levin's Legal Defense. The gofundme site goes into more detail about everything he did to try and inform people before he went public and made the video.
Common sense is not so common these days. People are sheep.
Teachers can't teach skills they don't have. Very few teachers or professors have what it takes to be successful business people or problem solvers. There are some, and those are the ones who stick out among a mediocre flock of public servants who can barely keep the kids in their seats and keep them from talking during class.
Schools should be teaching children how to educate themselves but the system was designed around the turn of the previous century to turn out compliant factory workers and is not up to the modern challenges.
Use Keepass and convey the master key verbally or some other medium, it's designed for this sort of thing...
http://keepass.info/
This is nothing new. You can wrap up the complexity of the code in a toolkit/framework/library but this is just functional programming driven by events. Nothing to see here. Move along. Don't believe the hype.
I have been working since 8 AM Eastern Time as a telecommuter and my CenturyLink DSL has been up without so much as an SSH session disconnecting all day. I live in SW Florida and my colleagues tell me they're having problems but perhaps the outage is not as widespread as publicized or it's affecting DNS and I use OpenDNS instead of my ISP's DNS for filtering sites I don't want my kids to browse such as adult content.
In my experience, Cable modems were far less stable than DSL. I had Comcast for a while and it was much worse. So please don't listen to the cable modem trolls. Overall DSL is a more reliable technology and I've been using Spring/Embarq/CenturyLink for 12 years now with very few hiccups which they did address quickly, except for a move where I used DirectWay/Hughes and then Comcast for a while. DirectWay/Hughes was good if you have no other options but satellite just has too much latency for some apps like voip or skype, and Comcast was terrible especially during peak hours.
Mono has support for P/Invoke: // foo.cs // build with "mcs foo.cs -unsafe"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public class foo {
[DllImport ("libc", EntryPoint="getenv")]
private static extern string getenv(string s);
public static void Main ()
{
Console.WriteLine ("Your home directory is {0}\n", getenv("HOME"));
}
}
Simply add the statement:
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the US and other countries.
to your web sites, documents, etc wherever you use Linus's trademark. Remember he had to defend his mark or he loses it, if you acknowledge his mark you are no longer challenging it.
Yes, they already are ported. You can write GTK/GTK+/GTK# apps for Windows today.
/ BuildingGuide?PHPSESSID=d0459fba82585e5219f9d4c95c 24721f
See http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/index.php
for an on-line guide.
I've been using GTK apps like GIMP and DIA at work where I'm stuck with Windows for a long time now.
GIMP Win32 installer: http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/
DIA Win32 installer:
http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/
BTW there are very few if any "linux only" libs. Most of those libs are part of the GNU System, they work with the Linux kernel, BSD variants, Solaris, and most UNIX Systems. Many have Win32 ports or ports to the Cygwin POSIX environment for Windows.
You don't understand! Richard is not looking for attention for himself, to boost his ego. He raises the issue to educate people about the Free Software cause. In a time when we are facing the lobbying efforts of the media companies and proprietary vendors to control what people can load on their computers, he is fighting to raise awareness of the underlying issues of computing freedom. By calling "GNU/Linux" systems just "Linux" systems, the awareness of what makes these systems so wonderful is lost. GNU/Linux systems are great because everyone can participate in using, improving, and selling solutions on equal footing. No large corporation controls what we can do with GNU/Linux. It's all about freedom. I actually came to this understanding myself after a debate with Richard in an on-line forum- he made me understand.
Now when you say "Nothing personal RMS, I just think Linus attitude is really more of a leader than yours." I have to reply that they are both leaders: RMS is more of a political and social activist while Linus doesn't give a damn about politics, etc, as RMS says, "Linus is an engineer", and Linus is the best leader of engineers in the Free Software/Open Source community. Remember, "GNU" is not "Richard's GNU", it's "OUR GNU", it belongs to all of us and Richard is a visionary fighting to ensure freedom for us all on the new digital frontier.
Mozilla has the best name recognition. I mean even Microsoft Internet Explorer is forced to humbly identify itself to web servers as Mozilla compatible "Mozilla/4.0 (Compatible MSIE #, OS)" in the USER_AGENT field.
/usr/local/firebird. I can just see it, "I went to open my (database/browser) and instead my (browser/database) openend up." Red Hat will probably call them "Red Hat Web" and "Red Hat Database" and stick 'em in /usr/bin and /usr/lib for their users so that wouldn't be as bad;-) but let's get serious.
IE 5: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 2000)"
Netscape 4: "Mozilla/4.0 (X11, I; Linux 2.4.18-27.9.0 i586)"
Mozilla: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; en_US.UTF-8, en_US, en; m18) Gecko/20001010"
Konqueror: "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)"
Only Opera, Lynx, and Mosaic don't show Mozilla in the USER_AGENT field.
Renaming the browser to Phoenix, Firebird, or anything else besides Mozilla or Netscape is a mistake.
Besides, do we really want users untarring both projects into
I use Mozilla, Phoenix, and Firebird. I like both projects but Firebird had the name first and their database software supports SQL92 standards better than some other free rdbms packages and lets me write things like nested queries, etc. In other words, don't knock it unless you're a SQL database professional who's tried it.
I know it sounds corny, but I don't see why we all can't get along. Besides. I want my Mozilla to stay Mozilla! If they must change the name, let the community vote on a new one.
Can you describe the official position of the FSF in regards to linking to GPL'd code? For example, everyone seems pretty clear about static linking requiring the derived work to be GPL'd, but your past statements and those of RMS have differed in regards to dynamically linked works. Linus has recently been vocal about his view that binary-only kernel modules for drivers are a GPL violation. Can you clarify the FSF's position as to if/when dynamically linking a non-GPL program or module to a GPL'd library or kernel violates the GPL?
I know it's been the dream of GNU/Linux enthusiasts for years: to replace Windows on client PCs. Thus far, Microsoft's hold on OEMs hasn't been broken in the desktop PC market, though there are some encouraging signs like Walmart's $199 Microtel GNU/Linux PCs and LTSP spreading in schools. My question is this: do you think GNU/Linux will really succeed in spreading out from the server room to win a significant share of the desktop client market? If so, when and how do you think this will happen? (Such as HP/Compaq, Dell, Gateway, IBM, etc all pushing GNU/Linux PCs with Open Office to businesses, or thin client computing like LTSP gaining popularity, etc.)
Yes, they're both bloated in comparison to CDE - in fact on any low-end machines I setup with GNU/Linux I've been installing XFCE (a clone of CDE that uses GTK rather than Motif/Lestif.)
Hey guys, you finally did it! I was a KDE user myself since the alpha stage of KDE 1.0. I tried GNOME a few times, but it always seemed more tempermental and less responsive than KDE. However, when I upgraded to KDE 2.0 and it took forever to start a desktop session and KDE apps were taking longer to launch than before, so I gave GNOME a try again. I was impressed but it still seemed to lack KDE's stability and consistency. I upgraded over the last year to KDE 3, which was a disappointment. The performance/responsiveness has worsened and the stability has taken a turn for the worse. For the first time I find myself preferring GNOME for the same reasons I chose KDE before: performance, stability, and consistency. The stability of the MetalCity WindowManager seems to have made an impressive difference and the applets, panel, etc are much improved. The GNOME developers also took to heart some feedback when Sun sponsored the GNOME Usability Study a while back.
Now am I knocking KDE? Not by any means- as a C++ programmer I prefer programming for KDE. But when you're at the top there's no where to go but down, and that applied well to the KDE project. Besides, I think it's great to see a strong GNOME and KDE... because in the Free Software Movement we prefer competition which inspires innovation. If KDE wasn't so awesome from 1999-2001 then the GNOME project wouldn't have been quite as motivated and I expect GNOME 2's success will spur more inspiration on the part of the KDE project. I look forward to comparing GNOME 3 and KDE 4 in the future!
I'm reading a lot of misinformation. First of all, THE HURD IS NOT A KERNEL! The HURD standards for Hird of Unix Replacing Daemons, wherein Hird stands for Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth (a mutually recursive acronym according to the FAQ). The HURD is a bunch of servers that provide services around a microkernel. The revolutionary thing about it is that many of the traditional "kernel" tasks are moved into userspace. Result: the users are empowered. Why should mounting directories, shring NFS volumes, etc, require root? Normal users can use devices and network resources that previously only the administrator could control. For example, a normal user couldn't share the / volume, but he could share his home directory over the network, or mount a remote FTP site as a local folder in his home directory. (Yes, I did say mount FTP, HURD has some exciting new features like FTPFS, HTTPFS, etc, because so much of the implementation is left to the servers rather than the kernel.) Also, security is better, rather than root being the default access level, the default is guest priviledges, so priveledges start at none and are "tickets" are issued as credentials are elevated. Also, the Unix everything-is-a-file is taken further, where everything is part of the filesystem, including servers, etc. The HURD is a thing of beauty, and unless you've seen it down't knock it. I have a HURD test box on my LAN and it's running X with IceWM, Apache, FTP, NFS, etc. With some sound drivers and a complete pthreads implementation (which was just released), it could function as a workstation too. I don't see why we have to fight over Linux VS Hurd! Why can't we have both and pick the right tool for a specific job. I mean, we're the winners here, because the HURD gives us another *CHOICE*. It's about more freedom! So don't knock the HURD, most of the work is being done by a few programmers, Marcus Brinkman, Neal Walfield, and Thomas Bushnell. If Linus hadn't had the help of an army of developers where would Linux be? So give these guys their credit and realize that their efforts are giving you more freedom!
How can any one company provide support for all Free Software/Open Source products? What you need to do is look for a company that specializes in the language that this particular project is written in and get an estimate for their services. Because the source code is open, there is the additional advantage of being able to change to another company if they go belly up or get too greedy in the future. You're not locked into a single vendor or solution provider. Besides, would you really expect one company to give the same level of programming support for projects written in C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, etc? What we should do is network better: make it easier to find a local specialist with the required skill set to support a particular solution.
Son: "Daddy, I want a Pepsi!"
Dad: "You already drank all the Pepsi."
Son: "No, I need to drink more Pepsi!."
Dad: "Why son?"
Son: "I want to fly in a spaceship just like a Jedi."
What do you think would be a realistic business model which would respect both the rights of the artist and the consumer for the delivery of music via the Internet, including what you feel is a fair price per song or album? (I am purposefully excluding the recording labels/music mafia here).
I started using VIM on Linux years ago and now I can't live without it. I had to install GVim for KDE , Gvim for Windows, Vim on SCO, Vim on Solaris, Vim for DOS, any station I use must have a copy or else I start typing VIM keystrokes in the middle of my documents. Heck, I'll be in Open Office and I'll type [ESC]y2l (yank 2 lines) or [ESC]w (next word) in the middle of a sentence before I remember I'm not in Vim.
We simply need to add a new clause to the GPL whereby we disclaim all warranties and in such jurisdictions where this is prohibited we disallow usage of said software.
Or...
We stop providing binaries and make the user/VAR who bundles them responsible for the warranties. This way either the user themself is responsible or the VAR can conduct compatability testing with their distro.
Let your representatives know that you expect representation. Politicians need to be reminded that they work for WE THE PEOPLE not for the big companies. Here's a link to a service Digitalconsumer has for sending a fax to your local congressmen:
http://www.digitalconsumer.org/fax.html
You know how people try to immitate people like Socrates, Christ, Budha, Gandi, etc, well you need to try and immitate Linus my friend. The self-styled benevolent dictator:
1) Be great at coding
2) Have an opionion about what's good for your project and don't compromise unless they give you a really good reason
3) Get a thick skin
The Windows Way: Use terminal services and/or telnet server and require IPSec for external connections.
The Hybrid Way: Install Cygwin from cgywin.com and use ssh, remote X, etc.
The Free/Open Way: Install Linux, *BSD, etc, and rid yourself of M$ dependency
The Sun Way: Spend a fortune on SPARC hardware and get Solaris, do everything in Java so when the JVM leaks and locks up it's secure from your staff and any hax0rs
because consumers are just sick of their manufactured bands and their assault on fair use. I'm not a P2P user, but the trouble the RIAA is causing makes me more likely not to buy music from the big labels anymore. When I was a teenager we all recorded songs off the radio on cassette long before the album was released. Don't see how mp3s are much different, except they can be tracked on the network.