1st I believe he was talking about uninstalling the beta or making an install that would install over the beta. I don't think he was talking about the AV or Firewall.
I think you need to take your happy pill. I don't agree for the most part was software patants and fell that many IP law are over baring and going to far. I think copyrights should be limit to shorter time frames and software patants to either be stoped or made a hell of a lot harder to get. However I feel that some IP laws are needed or I wouldn't know if the sony radio I had in my had was really made by RCA or not. I think that most people agree that if it was the aclu and someone create a site with a common misspelling that was bashing the aclu then the aclu would have been in the right to close it down. or how about the peta.org site "People eating tasting animals" didn't stand up either. I think that most people even if the are more biased to the liberal side of things relize this is what IP laws a for and used in a good way.
I don't believe it would. If fact if he takes his sie to falwellsucks.com the jerry falwell wouldn't have a case agaist him. I came do to 2 Issues.
1) The domain name itself 2) The contain itself.
If someone named fallwell reg that site and put up pictures of his cat then Jerry Falwell wouldn't have a case. If someone put the website up under a name like falwellsucks.com the again he wouldn't have had a case. It is the 2 combined that made it a problem.
They would have had a strong cause but if the site was talking about how great it is to be guy then Jerry falwell would have been able to do anything about it. If it was a site saing that Jerry Falwall was a jerk then he still would have had a case.
Search slashdot arc. there have been cases dealing with that and the defant won meaning yes it is fine to create fallwellsucks.com and as long as you don't commit slander or volite some other law then no one can stop you.
If you name was fallwal then you would have legit clam and falwell wouldn't have a case agaist you if they site was talking about you and not Jerry Falwell(tm). I few it along the lines of someone setting up a site with a slight misspelling of citibank to commit fraud. Same idea behind it and the court would close that site down just as fast.
But, because of the open nature of the code, any infringements that do exist in the code would probably be moot, because the patent holders have not shown due diligence in protecting their patents. It is not likely that one could be sued for using past code that has been available for several years - the fact that said code was openly available and the patent holder failed to persue licensing from Linus, et al, serves as prima facie evidence that the patent holder considered the patent worthless.
Wrong patent holder don't have to every persue a license. He can after 5 Years decide I want to go after joe smith for a license as still win because unlike trandmarks whitch do require you to proteck . Patent don't care. If you get a patent for 7 or 10 years depending on the type they you can open say that I don't care who use execpt for micrsoft if they try I will sue and still have a strong case against microsoft.
What state do you live in. In the state of maryland if you bought a stolen car even if you didn't known it was stolen you still lose the car. The questions is whether or not you get arested and tosed in jail. It would then be up to you to seak money from the person who sold you that car but in the end you no longer get to use the car.
Based on that if someone found something in windows 2000 that violated it patents and got a *judge to require that all copys be destroyed and that it was illeagle to use that program then you as a user would be required to destory all copy of windows 2000 and then have to take it up with microsoft. If you continue to use 2000 despite the injects. Then you can get sued as well so closed source only possible defense is no one knows all the patents it volitates so a true measure can't be made.
*I don't think a judge would every make that desion it would effect too many people.
Trust Me I did. I turned off everything. I installed several other distro. Text Mode was fine but once I went to lanch X it would take several mins to load. The HD was slow and the memory went a swappen. Trust Me I use linux were every I can but unless I want to use the laptop as a text mode wordprocessor then I am stuck with windows. I haven't a distro that is designed with low end hardware in mind most are designed to take advange of the lastest and greatest.
You would have two choices. Depending on what you needed. If you needed to run testing using that equipment you would have to replace the device and drivers. I don't know how that custom hardware worked but if you knew how it works then it can be replaced. If it was simple 10 Digital inputs, 10 Analog inputs 2 Digital outputs, 5 Analog outputs, and 3 grounds. That you could get 1 Digital 16 channel IO board and 1 16 Channel Analog card and write drivers to interface those lines up in modem OS to emulated OS. Then create a cable to match those 30 Pin connectors. It can be done. Now if you had logic controls that said if this is High the switch this low in the hardware itself then that logic would have to be done in the driver itself.
What you are describing is very spefic hardware. How many units were made and how many companys would have used it. In the end it comes down to how much you know about the interface and how bad you need to replace it. Depending on how well documented the interface was you could hire someone to write that driver. This from someone who works with equipment that talks to phone systems.
Tadpoles are great machines but like most unix/linux laptop they are a good 15% to 100% more expensive then a windows based laptop. That is why a HP laptop that has linux preinstalled with a one of the major linux providers installed is new worthy.
Problem is witch windows, Windows 98 or Window XP. Windows 98 running fine on my P1 233 with MMX laptop and 64 Megs of Ram. I tried to install Fedora 1 and it took 10 Mins to boot. I have no doubt that windows XP would even boot on that machine but no one is designing Distros for that old of hardware and older distro are no longer supported so my laptop is stuck being windows 98 for now.
Were do you get 15 Mbps from. Most VOD system use from 1.5 to 4.5 Mbps for stream MPG2 Video. HD will hurt cable TV companys more then Mpg2 VOD as we known it today.
They just brake the node up into small units. Home much bandwidth does fiberoptics have. I used to work for comcast and when the node started to hit compacty they would just devide it and 2 fiber pairs instead of 1 to that node. Most node have had 8 Pair ran. If that gets full then comcast has right of way to run another set of fiber to the node. Local bandwidth is cheap for cable company in the local net. Also VOD system send compress Mpg2 Data in the range of 1.5 to 3.5 Megs. So your Digital box can use about the same as your cable modem.
Not quiet true. I no longer work for comcast but I did and can tell you. They try to call the custmer 1st. No answer or the custmer doesn't responed quick enfoe then his connection gets turned off until they reponsed and abuse turns them back on.
He didn't say he would shoot a cop / police officer he said he would shot someone who broke into his house even if they had a warrent they weren't police. Granted if this did happen in the US it would require police to be involded and I would guess it would be like getting someone envicted require time and alot of legal paper work.
You never installed a service pack or hotfix. please give me you IP address I would like a new IRC server to work with. All OS require some form of maintance to keep them working the questions are how often, how many, how long, can it be done from remote.
Small? What planet are you updates coming from. It seems like all of them are 10 Megs in size. Most apears to be around 1 Meg. but unless you have broadband access that will make a major dent in you bandwidth.
Sorry market me offtopic but betamax tapes started at 1 hour long and never really hit the 8 Hours mark. VHS was the 1st to make it to 2 hour mark something the gave VHS a boast. In the end it was sony control of lin. but the fact the Betamax was slow to enhanced that killed betamax.
what happens with 10,000 computer are doing it a one time to 1 Server. Verisign couldn't keep up with the slashdot effect so the started block request every few seconds to keep there server from qriding to a holt. Al those user were now dead in the water until it would rerequest that data.
So exactly why should I be moving my own company to Linux? Really--this is all about dog food. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that IBM didn't do this already, when they started their Linux push. Now, it's getting to be a little ridiculous--or do you mean that Linux is good enough for other folks, but when you need to get real work done, you still use Win?
1st have you every tried to convert 300,000 Desktop machines. I convert 20 Desktop from NT to 2000 and because they all had different hardware I had to install 2000 on each machine and it took a week. Granted IBM would not take a week to convert 20 Machines but 1st you have to make sure you don't lose any software or make some business proc fail to work. Software break with service packs how many of you would trust a straight upgrade from 2000 to XP with out testing. 2nd you have to have the people whos desktop is changing get training. Then you can start to rollout a few desktop to make sure you build is good. Fix the mistakes there are alwas a few. Redeploy. Confirm that work now. Do the rest of the depart. Repeat thought rest of company. 2 to 3 Year isn't out of the question at all. This is true for windows just as much as linux. Most major company are moving the last of there NT server upto 2000 Now. A small number are starting to deploy XP but most are still using 2000. How many year ago did 2000 come out? How many years ago did XP Pro?
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1st I believe he was talking about uninstalling the beta or making an install that would install over the beta. I don't think he was talking about the AV or Firewall.
Almost everything he talked about is in someform of completion on the http://www.mythtv.org/.
I think you need to take your happy pill. I don't agree for the most part was software patants and fell that many IP law are over baring and going to far. I think copyrights should be limit to shorter time frames and software patants to either be stoped or made a hell of a lot harder to get. However I feel that some IP laws are needed or I wouldn't know if the sony radio I had in my had was really made by RCA or not. I think that most people agree that if it was the aclu and someone create a site with a common misspelling that was bashing the aclu then the aclu would have been in the right to close it down. or how about the peta.org site "People eating tasting animals" didn't stand up either. I think that most people even if the are more biased to the liberal side of things relize this is what IP laws a for and used in a good way.
I don't believe it would. If fact if he takes his sie to falwellsucks.com the jerry falwell wouldn't have a case agaist him. I came do to 2 Issues.
1) The domain name itself
2) The contain itself.
If someone named fallwell reg that site and put up pictures of his cat then Jerry Falwell wouldn't have a case. If someone put the website up under a name like falwellsucks.com the again he wouldn't have had a case. It is the 2 combined that made it a problem.
They would have had a strong cause but if the site was talking about how great it is to be guy then Jerry falwell would have been able to do anything about it. If it was a site saing that Jerry Falwall was a jerk then he still would have had a case.
Search slashdot arc. there have been cases dealing with that and the defant won meaning yes it is fine to create fallwellsucks.com and as long as you don't commit slander or volite some other law then no one can stop you.
If you name was fallwal then you would have legit clam and falwell wouldn't have a case agaist you if they site was talking about you and not Jerry Falwell(tm). I few it along the lines of someone setting up a site with a slight misspelling of citibank to commit fraud. Same idea behind it and the court would close that site down just as fast.
But, because of the open nature of the code, any infringements that do exist in the code would probably be moot, because the patent holders have not shown due diligence in protecting their patents. It is not likely that one could be sued for using past code that has been available for several years - the fact that said code was openly available and the patent holder failed to persue licensing from Linus, et al, serves as prima facie evidence that the patent holder considered the patent worthless.
Wrong patent holder don't have to every persue a license. He can after 5 Years decide I want to go after joe smith for a license as still win because unlike trandmarks whitch do require you to proteck . Patent don't care. If you get a patent for 7 or 10 years depending on the type they you can open say that I don't care who use execpt for micrsoft if they try I will sue and still have a strong case against microsoft.
What state do you live in. In the state of maryland if you bought a stolen car even if you didn't known it was stolen you still lose the car. The questions is whether or not you get arested and tosed in jail. It would then be up to you to seak money from the person who sold you that car but in the end you no longer get to use the car.
Based on that if someone found something in windows 2000 that violated it patents and got a *judge to require that all copys be destroyed and that it was illeagle to use that program then you as a user would be required to destory all copy of windows 2000 and then have to take it up with microsoft. If you continue to use 2000 despite the injects. Then you can get sued as well so closed source only possible defense is no one knows all the patents it volitates so a true measure can't be made.
*I don't think a judge would every make that desion it would effect too many people.
Trust Me I did. I turned off everything. I installed several other distro. Text Mode was fine but once I went to lanch X it would take several mins to load. The HD was slow and the memory went a swappen. Trust Me I use linux were every I can but unless I want to use the laptop as a text mode wordprocessor then I am stuck with windows. I haven't a distro that is designed with low end hardware in mind most are designed to take advange of the lastest and greatest.
You would have two choices. Depending on what you needed. If you needed to run testing using that equipment you would have to replace the device and drivers. I don't know how that custom hardware worked but if you knew how it works then it can be replaced. If it was simple 10 Digital inputs, 10 Analog inputs 2 Digital outputs, 5 Analog outputs, and 3 grounds. That you could get 1 Digital 16 channel IO board and 1 16 Channel Analog card and write drivers to interface those lines up in modem OS to emulated OS. Then create a cable to match those 30 Pin connectors. It can be done. Now if you had logic controls that said if this is High the switch this low in the hardware itself then that logic would have to be done in the driver itself.
What you are describing is very spefic hardware. How many units were made and how many companys would have used it. In the end it comes down to how much you know about the interface and how bad you need to replace it. Depending on how well documented the interface was you could hire someone to write that driver. This from someone who works with equipment that talks to phone systems.
Tadpoles are great machines but like most unix/linux laptop they are a good 15% to 100% more expensive then a windows based laptop. That is why a HP laptop that has linux preinstalled with a one of the major linux providers installed is new worthy.
Problem is witch windows, Windows 98 or Window XP. Windows 98 running fine on my P1 233 with MMX laptop and 64 Megs of Ram. I tried to install Fedora 1 and it took 10 Mins to boot. I have no doubt that windows XP would even boot on that machine but no one is designing Distros for that old of hardware and older distro are no longer supported so my laptop is stuck being windows 98 for now.
Were do you get 15 Mbps from. Most VOD system use from 1.5 to 4.5 Mbps for stream MPG2 Video. HD will hurt cable TV companys more then Mpg2 VOD as we known it today.
They just brake the node up into small units. Home much bandwidth does fiberoptics have. I used to work for comcast and when the node started to hit compacty they would just devide it and 2 fiber pairs instead of 1 to that node. Most node have had 8 Pair ran. If that gets full then comcast has right of way to run another set of fiber to the node. Local bandwidth is cheap for cable company in the local net. Also VOD system send compress Mpg2 Data in the range of 1.5 to 3.5 Megs. So your Digital box can use about the same as your cable modem.
Not quiet true. I no longer work for comcast but I did and can tell you. They try to call the custmer 1st. No answer or the custmer doesn't responed quick enfoe then his connection gets turned off until they reponsed and abuse turns them back on.
He didn't say he would shoot a cop / police officer he said he would shot someone who broke into his house even if they had a warrent they weren't police. Granted if this did happen in the US it would require police to be involded and I would guess it would be like getting someone envicted require time and alot of legal paper work.
Comcast posted there Custmers IP space and added them into several blacklists to help fight spam. Learn the fact first.
You never installed a service pack or hotfix. please give me you IP address I would like a new IRC server to work with. All OS require some form of maintance to keep them working the questions are how often, how many, how long, can it be done from remote.
Small? What planet are you updates coming from. It seems like all of them are 10 Megs in size. Most apears to be around 1 Meg. but unless you have broadband access that will make a major dent in you bandwidth.
The RPC fix once MSblaster is tring to rip thought your network.
To Fast. I could see 2 to 3 Years but just stage 1 could reduce False Postives for those users who support they tech.
Sorry market me offtopic but betamax tapes started at 1 hour long and never really hit the 8 Hours mark. VHS was the 1st to make it to 2 hour mark something the gave VHS a boast. In the end it was sony control of lin. but the fact the Betamax was slow to enhanced that killed betamax.
what happens with 10,000 computer are doing it a one time to 1 Server. Verisign couldn't keep up with the slashdot effect so the started block request every few seconds to keep there server from qriding to a holt. Al those user were now dead in the water until it would rerequest that data.
1st have you every tried to convert 300,000 Desktop machines. I convert 20 Desktop from NT to 2000 and because they all had different hardware I had to install 2000 on each machine and it took a week. Granted IBM would not take a week to convert 20 Machines but 1st you have to make sure you don't lose any software or make some business proc fail to work. Software break with service packs how many of you would trust a straight upgrade from 2000 to XP with out testing. 2nd you have to have the people whos desktop is changing get training. Then you can start to rollout a few desktop to make sure you build is good. Fix the mistakes there are alwas a few. Redeploy. Confirm that work now. Do the rest of the depart. Repeat thought rest of company. 2 to 3 Year isn't out of the question at all. This is true for windows just as much as linux. Most major company are moving the last of there NT server upto 2000 Now. A small number are starting to deploy XP but most are still using 2000. How many year ago did 2000 come out? How many years ago did XP Pro?