...er, so to speak. But it can't hold a candle to the burning excitement of watching pasty-faced geeks burn out, run out of steam, and pass out in a low-oxygen environment.
The first customer will be "The Pirate Bay". The next raid will be interesting.
Hint: Don't use the Wireless Assistant - it's crap, doesn't work well with WEP. Get GNOME Network Manager.
Thanks. That's what the general concenses is in the Forums. I'll be doing that for sure. I just need to find a proper driver to work with the Marvel Chipset in NDIS Wrapper. I am gathering the OEM Windows driver does not work.
I have a PCMCIA wireless card with a Marvel chipset and it works fine with NDISWrapper
I guess I'm going to have to continue a Google search and keep digging in the Forums. The forums are littered with comments of problmes with trying to get cards with the Marvel chipset to work. My card manufacture has no Linux support. I have found some non OEM support for one of the Trendnet USB adaptors I have, but it would be nice to use the PCMCIA card instead of a USB device. In the meantime, I'm simply using a WAP in client mode. No install is needed. It is a little bulky and you have to find a spot for the wall wart, but it works for now. The best part with this solution is it has the best range of any wireless adaptor I have. It can find 8 hotspots where any other solution can only find 4 at most in my house. (it even sees 2 unencrypted spots;-)
But getting rid of 2000 while keeping ME? That's just crazy!
Wife's personal laptop. If you were married you'd understand. You don't just grab it and change the OS.
At the very least you ought to upgrade the ME box to 2000 (with the unused license) in the meantime...
MS and OEM disk imaging software.. Enough said. The restoration CD for the Thinkpad won't work on the Dell laptop. (Actualy I haven't tried, but I would think it at least would fail an audit.) It is legal to put on Ubuntu. It might not be legal to transfer Windows 2000 from the IBM Thinkpad to the Dell laptop. I may set the Thinkpad up for dual boot in the future if I find a compelling reason to keep any version of Windows on my laptop. I have never purchased a retail version of Windows 2000, so I do not have a copy.
Or at least, if you don't agree with the word "value", then it's certainly "what do we need to earn to produce this".
In the 1970's when LP's were king and singles were popular, the average record purchases per capatita in the USA was about 2 LP's per year. If MacDonalds followed the same roadmap, they would not be closing all over the place like Tower Records.
Would you reather sell 2 copies of a hit album at $18 each or sell 20 copies at $5 each? I get a daily newspaper even though I don't always read it. I don't pick up CD's (AOL CD's don't count) very often because they are expensive. I also ignore overpriced new releases of DVD's. I typicaly pick up movies used at 2 or 3 for $20. It's the same movies, but at 1/2 to 1/3 the price. There is no CD rental outlets where I can buy previewed CD's. Most old catalog stuff is listed as remastered and at the same prices as new releases with only a few notable exceptions.
The 30 year old Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on the 30th Anniversary Edition (Copy Protected SACD) is still over $10. I can buy DVD's of movies of the same age for less. The WAll, is over $15. I can buy 2 year old films at Blockbuster 2 for $20. The industry then wonders why I don't buy CD's anymore. http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Moon-30th-Annivers ary/dp/B00008CLOA http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Deluxe-Packaging-Digita lly-Remastered/dp/B000006TRV/ref=pd_sim_m_2/002-54 12195-6336807 How many people would pick up these in regular CD's (Not copy protected and not compressed. The original dynamic range was outstanding.) for $5 each. Trying to make money and setting prices where I don't bother are a balance where they have not attempted to increase their sales.
And has doing all of what you described been worth saving $200?
Far from it. On the other side. A copy of XP.. good for one install. A copy of MS Office.. good for one install. We work on desktop machines once in a while, but are road warriers. Not buying 2 extra copies of XP and not buying 3 upgrades of MS office twice on 2 machines from 97 to 2000 to 2003.. There is more.. Not updating the AV for the 3 machines and not buying Photoshop Elements on at least one machine. I'll leave it up to you to figure the cost of 3 copies of MS office (any version) 3000, 3 copies of retail XP with or without new hardware, and at least 1 copy of Photoshop Elements, and AV software for 3 machines.
The education alone on learning to install, service, and configure Linux has been worth the $200 alone. The first install was to learn about it. The second and 3rd install was for the apps that came with it that work and are not limited function demos. I didn't even need Roxio or Easy CD Creator to burn the next ISO. Oops, forgot to include that in the savings.
Noob. Never messed with Wine. The printed manual is more than an evening of casual reading. The tax deadline is aproaching. Maybe next year. Shifting gears with a looming deadline is not a good idea. When free of the deadline is the time to experiment and learn all the bugs.
Not yet. I just migrated my IBM thinkpad from Windows 2000 to Ubuntu. First things first for a Linux Noob. I have managed to edit the hosts file, add the media codecs, install Flash 9, and got all my networked printers working, and am just now starting to tackle getting a wireless adaptor working. I found the adaptor I was using uses a Marvel chipset.. Hmm, I guess I give that adaptor to my Wife so she can upgrade from b to g while I look for something compatible. I have installed Wine and printed the manual, but I have not started on making it work yet. Wireless networking comes first. Next month I start all over again when Fiesty comes out.
I don't buy booby trapped software, except of course, I'm using ME.... what?
Does ME have online activation? Does it simply fail if you fail to register it? Other than being a bot magnet, it isn't booby trapped. It is just full of holes. I never bothered to upgrade my Wife's laptop. However its days are numbered. We know the WGA is being forced on XP after the original sale. WGA is standard on Vista. We haven't installed the WGA bomb on the XP machine yet. It should be Genuine. It came installed from Dell, so we don't need WGA to tell us it is genuine. We have no future plans for migrating to Vista.
Our home built white box was the first to get Ubuntu. Winows retail raised the TCO too much. We invested in a faster processor and more memory with the savings in OS and Office Productivity software. Actualy, the savings paid for all the hardware. It is the fastest hardware in the house. The Window 98 SE machine has migrated to Ubuntu. The Windows 2000 machine was next. My Wife hasn't let me touch her Windows ME laptop or XP Dell desktop unit yet.
She has learned the best place to scan and edit photos is on one of the Ubuntu boxes. It also has the best CD/DVD burner and the most crash free web browser. Other than a few Windows only applications, she is learning the advantages of the Ubuntu boxes. They simply don't crash. With Flash 9 installed and media codecs, just about everything online works.
What'd be cool is if the movie industry would just bite the bullet and actually try releasing a new release DVD for like $5. Just to see what happens.
As long as they don't repeat what they did on Laser Disks. Movies were over $60 for anything decent. In a more affordable range were wonders like "How to watch Pro Football".
It is more noticable in XP then in Vista. It seems like every 2 weeks I am installing WGA, in Vista it must be happening in the background because I havent noticed anything yet.
In XP it is a add on patch. In Vista, it's built in on the ground floor. Do a google search for Vista false positive. Pick any item on the first google page. They all relate to WGA problems on Vista.
The primary benefits the piece uses to argue in favor of OSS include no licensing fees, and no license keys.
When WGA started up, I started looking at Linux again. Business has some incentive. So does home users. We have 3 machines running Ubuntu now. We have one Windows ME laptop and one MS XP Home machine. The XP machine will be the last to migrate. It's just waiting on a port of Turbo Tax. There is no plans at this time for Vista due to the Anti-Piracy effort gone overboard. I don't buy booby-trapped software. I expect software to just work without complications. Vista is loaded with complications.
When you have the microsoft fanboys and employees complaining or pointing out problems, you have to wonder exactly WHO does microsoft ask for opinions and ideas of why their products aren't doing well?
I have heard some read Slashdot. If they do, I can toss out a suggestion.. Don't sell the boxed version at an order of magnitude more than the OEM version. My older hardware has been getting upgrades to Linux because the upgrade cycle does not make sense for the software. A $650 PC should not need a Multi-Hundred dollar copy of XP Pro and $400 copy of Office.
After being given a Power Point presentation to show for a guest speaker, the Office 2000 on the Windows 2000 laptop presented the text a page at a time instead of a bullet at a time. Instead of spending lots of money for a software upgrade, I tried the same presentation on the same laptop running Ubuntu with Open Office. It worked like a charm. If MS Office was a $40 upgrade, I may have considered it. Due to the many versions, Professional, Small Office, Standard, & Home and Student, I figured a full upgrade was too expensive when an alternative works fine.
Wake up and smell the coffee. You have new neighbors and they are setting up shop in your back yard. Monopoly pricing and high priced retail versions are on their way to a dead end.
Just for the record, 3 of my older PC's now have Ubuntu. I only get a new version of a MS OS on new hardware. There is no reason to spend big bucks on a software upgrade.
In Russia, Ukraine etc. you can get a DVD in a plastic sleeve with a color photo of current release movie or software for about US$5.
Now if the legal copies were about this price, that market would not exist. $20 for a copy of Open Season? What are they thinking. It's high prices that cause a piracy market to exist.
Hasn't the so-called "V-Chip" been mandatory in the US since 2000? Does that not allow people to opt out of specific programs, which is much finer grained than entire channels?
Have you ever turned it on? The point is the lack of any family friendly fare in prime time. I turned it on and it is almost the same as turning off the set. All the networks ABC CBS NBC FOX most of the time in prime time display "Program Locked".
If your idea of family time includes the chruch channels and PBS, there is very little on.
I've just given up because the price is too high and the content is so low. I find the local video store much cheaper than cable for as few movies as we watch. I watch more Google Video and YouTube than I watch TV. I like Myth Busters and Top Gear. I pay for Broadband instead of Cable TV. I'm not limited to their choice of time slots/program content. Video on Demand is the best a la carte channel.
You should just assume that EVERYTHING shown on TV is "bad", and therefore, too risky.
Try surfing the channels with parental controls turned on. Most modern sets support this. Turning on parental controls is pretty much the same as turning off the set in prime time.
The issue at hand is the lack of family programming in prime time.
thus eliminating objectionable programming being displayed on the TV monitor.
If you have a newer set, turn on the parental controls. You will then discover there is nothing on TV in prime time. I have younger kids, I have the limits set. ABC CBS NBC FOX most of the time are "Program Locked" PBS and the Weather channel + the church channels are on during prime time. Once in a while CBS will have an unblocked program in prime time, but not often. Even American Idol is blocked. This is blocking for just Sex, Violence, Adult Situations, and Language.
I have always been amazed that swearing, nudity and sex is heavily regulated on TV and violence is not.
All that I know since we have younger children is when the parental controls are on for anything PG13 and over, the most common screen on prime time is "Program Locked". We get the news, PBS, the Weather, and some Church channels. Almost everything else in prime time in over the air TV is blocked. We have gone back to our DVD collection, video games and are ignoring Prime Time.
I'm old enough to remember when CD's didn't have parental advisory warnings. I remember when everything on Prime Time was family friendly. Barney Fife carried a gun, but wasn't permitted to put the bullet in it. He kept the bullet in his shirt pocket. When ever he put in the bullet he shot his own foot. That's not the TV of today.
To get a a naked PC simply buy used. Most OS instalations license breaks when the PC is sold or donated. Are you missing the original reciept? Are you missing the sticker?
Follow the BSA cases. Lack of supporting documentation means no license.
Surely you are kidding that SCOX might win. The 326 lines of codes:
#1 they dont hold Copyright on at ALL #2 are in public domain #3 are not even CODE!
#4 which IBM has 5 licenses to including redistribution of the code. #5 the license from SCO to IBM includes warranty against lawsuit SCO included all the lines in their GPL'ed Linux products
The drive typically also has to actually be screwed into the cage or you risk shorting something to ground, although not all the laptop drive sleds share this problem.
For data recovery a pad of post-its is cheap and work fine.;-)
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At 15 percent oxygen, it's safe for humans to enter.
Are we paraniod.. When we do enclosed space work, we are not permitted in any space under 18%.
...er, so to speak. But it can't hold a candle to the burning excitement of watching pasty-faced geeks burn out, run out of steam, and pass out in a low-oxygen environment.
The first customer will be "The Pirate Bay". The next raid will be interesting.
Running a two stage compressor for 3-4 hours will probably cost more than $1.50 :/
All the SCUBA compressors I've ever used are triple stage.
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Negotiations have failed. Resolutions have failed. Any suggestions?
Hint: Don't use the Wireless Assistant - it's crap, doesn't work well with WEP. Get GNOME Network Manager.
Thanks. That's what the general concenses is in the Forums. I'll be doing that for sure. I just need to find a proper driver to work with the Marvel Chipset in NDIS Wrapper. I am gathering the OEM Windows driver does not work.
I have a PCMCIA wireless card with a Marvel chipset and it works fine with NDISWrapper
;-)
I guess I'm going to have to continue a Google search and keep digging in the Forums. The forums are littered with comments of problmes with trying to get cards with the Marvel chipset to work. My card manufacture has no Linux support. I have found some non OEM support for one of the Trendnet USB adaptors I have, but it would be nice to use the PCMCIA card instead of a USB device. In the meantime, I'm simply using a WAP in client mode. No install is needed. It is a little bulky and you have to find a spot for the wall wart, but it works for now. The best part with this solution is it has the best range of any wireless adaptor I have. It can find 8 hotspots where any other solution can only find 4 at most in my house. (it even sees 2 unencrypted spots
But getting rid of 2000 while keeping ME? That's just crazy!
Wife's personal laptop. If you were married you'd understand. You don't just grab it and change the OS.
At the very least you ought to upgrade the ME box to 2000 (with the unused license) in the meantime...
MS and OEM disk imaging software.. Enough said. The restoration CD for the Thinkpad won't work on the Dell laptop. (Actualy I haven't tried, but I would think it at least would fail an audit.) It is legal to put on Ubuntu. It might not be legal to transfer Windows 2000 from the IBM Thinkpad to the Dell laptop. I may set the Thinkpad up for dual boot in the future if I find a compelling reason to keep any version of Windows on my laptop.
I have never purchased a retail version of Windows 2000, so I do not have a copy.
Or at least, if you don't agree with the word "value", then it's certainly "what do we need to earn to produce this".
s ary/dp/B00008CLOAa lly-Remastered/dp/B000006TRV/ref=pd_sim_m_2/002-54 12195-6336807
In the 1970's when LP's were king and singles were popular, the average record purchases per capatita in the USA was about 2 LP's per year. If MacDonalds followed the same roadmap, they would not be closing all over the place like Tower Records.
Would you reather sell 2 copies of a hit album at $18 each or sell 20 copies at $5 each? I get a daily newspaper even though I don't always read it. I don't pick up CD's (AOL CD's don't count) very often because they are expensive. I also ignore overpriced new releases of DVD's. I typicaly pick up movies used at 2 or 3 for $20. It's the same movies, but at 1/2 to 1/3 the price. There is no CD rental outlets where I can buy previewed CD's. Most old catalog stuff is listed as remastered and at the same prices as new releases with only a few notable exceptions.
The 30 year old Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on the 30th Anniversary Edition (Copy Protected SACD) is still over $10. I can buy DVD's of movies of the same age for less.
The WAll, is over $15. I can buy 2 year old films at Blockbuster 2 for $20. The industry then wonders why I don't buy CD's anymore.
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Moon-30th-Anniver
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Deluxe-Packaging-Digit
How many people would pick up these in regular CD's (Not copy protected and not compressed. The original dynamic range was outstanding.) for $5 each. Trying to make money and setting prices where I don't bother are a balance where they have not attempted to increase their sales.
And has doing all of what you described been worth saving $200?
Far from it. On the other side. A copy of XP.. good for one install. A copy of MS Office.. good for one install. We work on desktop machines once in a while, but are road warriers. Not buying 2 extra copies of XP and not buying 3 upgrades of MS office twice on 2 machines from 97 to 2000 to 2003.. There is more.. Not updating the AV for the 3 machines and not buying Photoshop Elements on at least one machine. I'll leave it up to you to figure the cost of 3 copies of MS office (any version) 3000, 3 copies of retail XP with or without new hardware, and at least 1 copy of Photoshop Elements, and AV software for 3 machines.
The education alone on learning to install, service, and configure Linux has been worth the $200 alone. The first install was to learn about it. The second and 3rd install was for the apps that came with it that work and are not limited function demos. I didn't even need Roxio or Easy CD Creator to burn the next ISO. Oops, forgot to include that in the savings.
Why wait if that's the only hold up for you?
Noob. Never messed with Wine. The printed manual is more than an evening of casual reading. The tax deadline is aproaching. Maybe next year. Shifting gears with a looming deadline is not a good idea. When free of the deadline is the time to experiment and learn all the bugs.
Have you tried Turbo Tax with WINE
Not yet. I just migrated my IBM thinkpad from Windows 2000 to Ubuntu. First things first for a Linux Noob. I have managed to edit the hosts file, add the media codecs, install Flash 9, and got all my networked printers working, and am just now starting to tackle getting a wireless adaptor working. I found the adaptor I was using uses a Marvel chipset.. Hmm, I guess I give that adaptor to my Wife so she can upgrade from b to g while I look for something compatible. I have installed Wine and printed the manual, but I have not started on making it work yet. Wireless networking comes first. Next month I start all over again when Fiesty comes out.
I don't buy booby trapped software, except of course, I'm using ME.... what?
Does ME have online activation? Does it simply fail if you fail to register it? Other than being a bot magnet, it isn't booby trapped. It is just full of holes. I never bothered to upgrade my Wife's laptop. However its days are numbered. We know the WGA is being forced on XP after the original sale. WGA is standard on Vista. We haven't installed the WGA bomb on the XP machine yet. It should be Genuine. It came installed from Dell, so we don't need WGA to tell us it is genuine. We have no future plans for migrating to Vista.
Our home built white box was the first to get Ubuntu. Winows retail raised the TCO too much. We invested in a faster processor and more memory with the savings in OS and Office Productivity software. Actualy, the savings paid for all the hardware. It is the fastest hardware in the house.
The Window 98 SE machine has migrated to Ubuntu. The Windows 2000 machine was next. My Wife hasn't let me touch her Windows ME laptop or XP Dell desktop unit yet.
She has learned the best place to scan and edit photos is on one of the Ubuntu boxes. It also has the best CD/DVD burner and the most crash free web browser. Other than a few Windows only applications, she is learning the advantages of the Ubuntu boxes. They simply don't crash. With Flash 9 installed and media codecs, just about everything online works.
What'd be cool is if the movie industry would just bite the bullet and actually try releasing a new release DVD for like $5. Just to see what happens.
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As long as they don't repeat what they did on Laser Disks. Movies were over $60 for anything decent. In a more affordable range were wonders like "How to watch Pro Football".
http://www.bigemma.com/index.php?main_page=produc
It is more noticable in XP then in Vista. It seems like every 2 weeks I am installing WGA, in Vista it must be happening in the background because I havent noticed anything yet.
In XP it is a add on patch. In Vista, it's built in on the ground floor. Do a google search for Vista false positive. Pick any item on the first google page. They all relate to WGA problems on Vista.
The primary benefits the piece uses to argue in favor of OSS include no licensing fees, and no license keys.
When WGA started up, I started looking at Linux again. Business has some incentive. So does home users. We have 3 machines running Ubuntu now. We have one Windows ME laptop and one MS XP Home machine. The XP machine will be the last to migrate. It's just waiting on a port of Turbo Tax. There is no plans at this time for Vista due to the Anti-Piracy effort gone overboard. I don't buy booby-trapped software. I expect software to just work without complications. Vista is loaded with complications.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Are you implying somehow that Windows isn't broken?
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
When you have the microsoft fanboys and employees complaining or pointing out problems, you have to wonder exactly WHO does microsoft ask for opinions and ideas of why their products aren't doing well?
I have heard some read Slashdot. If they do, I can toss out a suggestion.. Don't sell the boxed version at an order of magnitude more than the OEM version. My older hardware has been getting upgrades to Linux because the upgrade cycle does not make sense for the software. A $650 PC should not need a Multi-Hundred dollar copy of XP Pro and $400 copy of Office.
After being given a Power Point presentation to show for a guest speaker, the Office 2000 on the Windows 2000 laptop presented the text a page at a time instead of a bullet at a time. Instead of spending lots of money for a software upgrade, I tried the same presentation on the same laptop running Ubuntu with Open Office. It worked like a charm. If MS Office was a $40 upgrade, I may have considered it. Due to the many versions, Professional, Small Office, Standard, & Home and Student, I figured a full upgrade was too expensive when an alternative works fine.
Wake up and smell the coffee. You have new neighbors and they are setting up shop in your back yard. Monopoly pricing and high priced retail versions are on their way to a dead end.
Just for the record, 3 of my older PC's now have Ubuntu. I only get a new version of a MS OS on new hardware. There is no reason to spend big bucks on a software upgrade.
In Russia, Ukraine etc. you can get a DVD in a plastic sleeve with a color photo of current release movie or software for about US$5.
Now if the legal copies were about this price, that market would not exist. $20 for a copy of Open Season? What are they thinking. It's high prices that cause a piracy market to exist.
Hasn't the so-called "V-Chip" been mandatory in the US since 2000? Does that not allow people to opt out of specific programs, which is much finer grained than entire channels?
Have you ever turned it on? The point is the lack of any family friendly fare in prime time. I turned it on and it is almost the same as turning off the set. All the networks ABC CBS NBC FOX most of the time in prime time display "Program Locked".
If your idea of family time includes the chruch channels and PBS, there is very little on.
I've just given up because the price is too high and the content is so low. I find the local video store much cheaper than cable for as few movies as we watch. I watch more Google Video and YouTube than I watch TV. I like Myth Busters and Top Gear. I pay for Broadband instead of Cable TV. I'm not limited to their choice of time slots/program content. Video on Demand is the best a la carte channel.
You should just assume that EVERYTHING shown on TV is "bad", and therefore, too risky.
Try surfing the channels with parental controls turned on. Most modern sets support this. Turning on parental controls is pretty much the same as turning off the set in prime time.
The issue at hand is the lack of family programming in prime time.
thus eliminating objectionable programming being displayed on the TV monitor.
If you have a newer set, turn on the parental controls. You will then discover there is nothing on TV in prime time. I have younger kids, I have the limits set. ABC CBS NBC FOX most of the time are "Program Locked" PBS and the Weather channel + the church channels are on during prime time. Once in a while CBS will have an unblocked program in prime time, but not often. Even American Idol is blocked. This is blocking for just Sex, Violence, Adult Situations, and Language.
I have always been amazed that swearing, nudity and sex is heavily regulated on TV and violence is not.
All that I know since we have younger children is when the parental controls are on for anything PG13 and over, the most common screen on prime time is "Program Locked". We get the news, PBS, the Weather, and some Church channels. Almost everything else in prime time in over the air TV is blocked. We have gone back to our DVD collection, video games and are ignoring Prime Time.
I'm old enough to remember when CD's didn't have parental advisory warnings. I remember when everything on Prime Time was family friendly. Barney Fife carried a gun, but wasn't permitted to put the bullet in it. He kept the bullet in his shirt pocket. When ever he put in the bullet he shot his own foot.
That's not the TV of today.
To get a a naked PC simply buy used. Most OS instalations license breaks when the PC is sold or donated. Are you missing the original reciept? Are you missing the sticker?
Follow the BSA cases. Lack of supporting documentation means no license.
Surely you are kidding that SCOX might win. The 326 lines of codes:
#1 they dont hold Copyright on at ALL
#2 are in public domain
#3 are not even CODE!
#4 which IBM has 5 licenses to including redistribution of the code.
#5 the license from SCO to IBM includes warranty against lawsuit
SCO included all the lines in their GPL'ed Linux products
The drive typically also has to actually be screwed into the cage or you risk shorting something to ground, although not all the laptop drive sleds share this problem.
;-)
For data recovery a pad of post-its is cheap and work fine.