I'm waiting for the day SCO sends the Business Software Alliance to MS headquarters and requests an audit of the machines running UNIX? Turnabout is fair play. Remember the BSA audit request of some public schools a while back and it's hardship? From what I've heard, MS bookkeeping pratices are not the greatest.
Actualy I have one still limping. After RMA'ing it twice, then the teltale sound of ziiiippp rup rup rup ziiiippp rup rup rup. I figured it was time to take it out of read/write service so it doesn't corrupt itself. I installed it as hdb for file storage (photos, mp3, midi). Now when it gets lost it doesn't overwrite things. When it comes back to life, nothing is corrupt. I only add new stuff on cool days. I deal with the loss of my jukebox on hot days and use the smaller folder on hda. It frees up space on hda for other things.
Perhaps they intend to run it on all the MS Update servers, to meet the new 'security benchmarks'....??
If Googles server farm of 10K servers is only worth 7 million in sco Linux fees. How many linux servers does MS have for the MS Update Servers?
Maybe it's not the Update Servers. It must be the secure media authentication server farm that has to OK each Office Document opened and WMA file opened. That would be a busy server farm.
I agree. Charge to either receive or send e-mail by the piece, and I'll start using something else. If my ISP forces me to have an Inbox, nothing says I have to empty it. If they ask about it, give them the reason. It's all junk. To reach me, my fax number is... After dialing, use this PIN to connect to the machine.
It's thinking like that that has gotten us into this mess
It's also what has kept us out of getting the best for the job. Example, Two consurvatives and one liberal running (Republican, Indipendant, Democrat) and the consurvative vote is split so neither canidate beats the minority libral vote. Look at the electoral college. This is not a simple majority vote to get elected.
I'd rather vote my conscience and see four years of some guy I think is awful, than legitimize the election of someone I think is less awful by voting for them.
That type thinking gets the one you are opossed elected as the vote for the two good guys gets split and the libral tax and spend big government social program canidate gets elected. Sometimes seeing who has a chance of beating the oposition and supporting them can keep undesirables out of office. Learn the issues. Look at the chances. Don't vote for a long shot. They haven't got a chance.
Don't forget they sold a license to Microsoft. It isn't an increase from zero. True it happened more than a week ago.
My tinfoil hat theory is SCO doesn't intend to sell licenses. They were hired by Microsoft to price Free Software much higher than Windows as a move to kill the competition. Follow the money. How many copies do you think Microsoft is really running for 10 million dollars? At $699 per processor they have license for 14,306 processors. Who really believes they bought that many copies to run it in-house?
Hit the bookstore. Look for the Publishers edition of Caldera Open Linux. It is a whole lot cheaper than $699 and gets past any legal challanges from SCO. They sold it. How can they after the sale try to collect? I have two copies. No worries except I feel let down on support, patches and updates.
To prevent the post office from having to deliver tons of undeliverable mail to a landfill, undeliverable mail has an additional cost if returned. Senders use this extra cost item to cut down on the postage even though (last time I checked) it cost 50 cents per piece of undeliverable returned junkmail. Bounced e-mail should cost the sender. It would keep the spam lists smaller and up to date. Unfortunately forged headers will keep this from being used. The cost of sending is so low, they don't care about the undeliverable's and don't care to clean up the list. They just point the bounces and Joe Job some unlucky Joe.
How can email on the internet remain free/cheap and still not allow spam to run rampant?
POP mail needs to go away. An authenticated mail delivery system is needed where bounced mails are guranteed to get back to the sender. Mail lists will have to be pared down to managable size so a mailing doesn't bury the senders inbox. (full inbox should prevent outgoing mail. Make them deal with the invalid addresses and bounces) Everybody needs to know if their mail was delivered.
I would like an OS to have protected system files kept in a Read Only Partition. It would go a long way to security. To make changes would require booting into a service mode, changing the read write status of the system partition, making changes and rebooting which resets the partition to read only if you forgot to do it. Is there anyting out there other than the Linux Knopix bootable CD's this secure?
This is a hugely debatable point. Some historians would argue that the Japanese had already lost the will
Constant slow bombing has always been problems. Decisive action gets results.
Examples are Desert Storm (under pressure at home we left too soon the first time and didn't finish), D-Day, Nicuragua, Panama, and the big event in Japan.
Examples of how not to do it are Desert storm (not properly finished to full surrender in Bagdad), Korea, Cuba, Vietnam... the list goes on and on....
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Quick hint-- Check the boiling point of water at various pressures. Check it's vapor pressure in space. I expect first things to freeze, then freeze dry from sublimination. After you lost all water content, don't expect the remains to be subject to bacterial decomposition. You might retain some ice if you don't get enough heat from the sunny side to make up for the heat lost on the dark side. Anybody know the average space temprature of our satelites in orbit? I think UV exposure would be the biggest decomposition element.
We nuked two cities without warning, killing thousands.
We also woke up the world and ended WWII. How many millions did we save? Nobody mentions the early end to an otherwise very extended war. WWII could have continued on and on like the Vietnam conflict which did not have a sharp conclusion and end of hostilities. It could have continued like the middle east conflict that has been simmering for generations. Sometimes there can be a lot said for putting a swift end to war.
One problem: cops and EMT's use cellphones as well. Now that I'm back on patrol, my Nextel spends most of its life on "silent," but there are plenty of times that I need to make a phone call from an area which might be screened in your scenario.
Need to make a call? Simple, use the lobby. Need to get a call, use voice mail. Check it when you reach the lobby. There is no need to disrupt the show. If the show is interupted and you need to make a call from the auditorium, open and stand in the emergency exit. This breech of the screen should suffice for an emergency. If it's a big emergency (911 type event) and you need reached, and the dispatcher knows your location, have him call the office to interupt the show and contact you and all EMT personel.
It would be nice if we could clasify transmision types say via bluetooth
This can be done. It's called a router. Put up an antenna outside and one inside. Route desirable packets and can everything else. Single channel repeaters are also useful. You can repeat the local paging system used my EMS and the trunked 800 MHZ radio system while not bothering to include cell frequencies.
Hospital pagers and police radios work, but everything else is silence. I've seen 800 MHZ trunked radio repeaters installed to cover dead spots. For a small venu such as a theatre, it might be too expensive to impliment.
Getting permission is sometimes not easy. How do you get permission when the answer is "NO!"? You can legaly take all of Bill Gates earnings last year. The only trick is first you have to get permission. Good luck. Getting to use Beatles stuff is just as easy. Just get permission. Ya, Right!
I must have gotten a cheap toaster. Mine doesn't have that feature. After putting the bread in the slot, I have to push down the start key on the end of the toaster. The toaster does not autodetect insertion of bread in the slot.
Oh really? When I installed one on my XP notebook, I had to load drivers from the CD as well. Other people with different brand cards need different drivers. And this is certainly one area where Linux doesn't make it easier than Windows; most wireless cards don't even have Linux drivers. I don't really see this as an easy way to use someone else's MAC address, even if you could find someone willing to just let you share their card.
Another fine example of how Plug-N-Play works to make life easy! somehow I think Plug-N-Play is not named correctly. It should be load driver software-Plug-Pray-Reboot-Pray-Configure-Play.
Don't think that you are completely secure and private when operating from such an access point anyway. You still have a MAC address. If you want to believe that Tom Ridge and John Ashcroft don't have a database with your MAC address in it, that's your business, but more than one computer user has learned the hard way that the MAC address identifies them.
One traveler to another "I seem to have forgotten my wireless card. May I borrow yours? I need to check my e-mail"
"Sure" unplugging the PCMCIA card "I've already checked mine."
There are other ways to get a single use mac address.
In the past I have explained about having a friend who got burned by a over reaching contract such as this
A good story to tell is one everyone is familiar with. Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. Everyone knows about Mickey, but do they know the rest of the story? What about Moritmer Mouse? Explain why Walt Disney found it important to own his work. Explain you are doing the same for the same reason except for hire work which are given to the employer. Everyting else is not up for grabs.
Where I used to work laying irrigation pipe, they would probably let me have a pony if I wanted one. It's been years since I've done work on a farm. Pony's are not that expensive unless you want one with papers.
Most on this page are under a grand.
http://www.horse-for-sale.org/horsebreeds.cfm/Sh et land_Pony.html
Oh no, that's correct, basically if you were to earn money from anything you work on outside office hours, we feel we contributed and therefore its our product...its happened before."
I wonder if he is willing to pay the overtime. Work on your novel. Bill the hours. Give it to them to publish. When they complain, get the contract changed.
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I'm waiting for the day SCO sends the Business Software Alliance to MS headquarters and requests an audit of the machines running UNIX? Turnabout is fair play. Remember the BSA audit request of some public schools a while back and it's hardship? From what I've heard, MS bookkeeping pratices are not the greatest.
Actualy I have one still limping. After RMA'ing it twice, then the teltale sound of ziiiippp rup rup rup ziiiippp rup rup rup. I figured it was time to take it out of read/write service so it doesn't corrupt itself. I installed it as hdb for file storage (photos, mp3, midi). Now when it gets lost it doesn't overwrite things. When it comes back to life, nothing is corrupt. I only add new stuff on cool days. I deal with the loss of my jukebox on hot days and use the smaller folder on hda. It frees up space on hda for other things.
kinda sounds like the lawsuit from Digital Convergance against FlyingButtMonkeys.com
Perhaps they intend to run it on all the MS Update servers, to meet the new 'security benchmarks'....??
If Googles server farm of 10K servers is only worth 7 million in sco Linux fees. How many linux servers does MS have for the MS Update Servers?
Maybe it's not the Update Servers. It must be the secure media authentication server farm that has to OK each Office Document opened and WMA file opened. That would be a busy server farm.
I agree. Charge to either receive or send e-mail by the piece, and I'll start using something else. If my ISP forces me to have an Inbox, nothing says I have to empty it. If they ask about it, give them the reason. It's all junk. To reach me, my fax number is ... After dialing, use this PIN to connect to the machine.
According to the headlines, only about a million emails will be sent, and only to "close friends."
Funny, know how many close friends want me to get body parts enhanced, house refinanced, visit this neat website,....
It's thinking like that that has gotten us into this mess
It's also what has kept us out of getting the best for the job. Example, Two consurvatives and one liberal running (Republican, Indipendant, Democrat) and the consurvative vote is split so neither canidate beats the minority libral vote. Look at the electoral college. This is not a simple majority vote to get elected.
I'd rather vote my conscience and see four years of some guy I think is awful, than legitimize the election of someone I think is less awful by voting for them.
That type thinking gets the one you are opossed elected as the vote for the two good guys gets split and the libral tax and spend big government social program canidate gets elected. Sometimes seeing who has a chance of beating the oposition and supporting them can keep undesirables out of office. Learn the issues. Look at the chances. Don't vote for a long shot. They haven't got a chance.
They will certanly not get my vote!!
My main mailbox is overseas. I wonder if they will not bother to send to overseas domains. It will be interesting to see if I get one.
Don't forget they sold a license to Microsoft. It isn't an increase from zero. True it happened more than a week ago.
My tinfoil hat theory is SCO doesn't intend to sell licenses. They were hired by Microsoft to price Free Software much higher than Windows as a move to kill the competition. Follow the money. How many copies do you think Microsoft is really running for 10 million dollars? At $699 per processor they have license for 14,306 processors. Who really believes they bought that many copies to run it in-house?
Follow the money
Hit the bookstore. Look for the Publishers edition of Caldera Open Linux. It is a whole lot cheaper than $699 and gets past any legal challanges from SCO. They sold it. How can they after the sale try to collect?
I have two copies. No worries except I feel let down on support, patches and updates.
To prevent the post office from having to deliver tons of undeliverable mail to a landfill, undeliverable mail has an additional cost if returned. Senders use this extra cost item to cut down on the postage even though (last time I checked) it cost 50 cents per piece of undeliverable returned junkmail. Bounced e-mail should cost the sender. It would keep the spam lists smaller and up to date. Unfortunately forged headers will keep this from being used. The cost of sending is so low, they don't care about the undeliverable's and don't care to clean up the list. They just point the bounces and Joe Job some unlucky Joe.
How can email on the internet remain free/cheap and still not allow spam to run rampant?
POP mail needs to go away. An authenticated mail delivery system is needed where bounced mails are guranteed to get back to the sender. Mail lists will have to be pared down to managable size so a mailing doesn't bury the senders inbox. (full inbox should prevent outgoing mail. Make them deal with the invalid addresses and bounces) Everybody needs to know if their mail was delivered.
I would like an OS to have protected system files kept in a Read Only Partition. It would go a long way to security. To make changes would require booting into a service mode, changing the read write status of the system partition, making changes and rebooting which resets the partition to read only if you forgot to do it. Is there anyting out there other than the Linux Knopix bootable CD's this secure?
Windowsupdate spring to mind as web-based uses of ActivX.
... message I get when I visit Microsoft.com with active-X off. I thought they were just bad HTML coders.
That explains the Error in line
This is a hugely debatable point. Some historians would argue that the Japanese had already lost the will
Constant slow bombing has always been problems. Decisive action gets results.
Examples are Desert Storm (under pressure at home we left too soon the first time and didn't finish), D-Day, Nicuragua, Panama, and the big event in Japan.
Examples of how not to do it are Desert storm (not properly finished to full surrender in Bagdad), Korea, Cuba, Vietnam... the list goes on and on....
Quick hint-- Check the boiling point of water at various pressures. Check it's vapor pressure in space. I expect first things to freeze, then freeze dry from sublimination. After you lost all water content, don't expect the remains to be subject to bacterial decomposition. You might retain some ice if you don't get enough heat from the sunny side to make up for the heat lost on the dark side. Anybody know the average space temprature of our satelites in orbit? I think UV exposure would be the biggest decomposition element.
We nuked two cities without warning, killing thousands.
We also woke up the world and ended WWII. How many millions did we save? Nobody mentions the early end to an otherwise very extended war.
WWII could have continued on and on like the Vietnam conflict which did not have a sharp conclusion and end of hostilities. It could have continued like the middle east conflict that has been simmering for generations.
Sometimes there can be a lot said for putting a swift end to war.
One problem: cops and EMT's use cellphones as well. Now that I'm back on patrol, my Nextel spends most of its life on "silent," but there are plenty of times that I need to make a phone call from an area which might be screened in your scenario.
Need to make a call? Simple, use the lobby. Need to get a call, use voice mail. Check it when you reach the lobby. There is no need to disrupt the show. If the show is interupted and you need to make a call from the auditorium, open and stand in the emergency exit. This breech of the screen should suffice for an emergency. If it's a big emergency (911 type event) and you need reached, and the dispatcher knows your location, have him call the office to interupt the show and contact you and all EMT personel.
It would be nice if we could clasify transmision types say via bluetooth
This can be done. It's called a router. Put up an antenna outside and one inside. Route desirable packets and can everything else. Single channel repeaters are also useful. You can repeat the local paging system used my EMS and the trunked 800 MHZ radio system while not bothering to include cell frequencies.
Hospital pagers and police radios work, but everything else is silence. I've seen 800 MHZ trunked radio repeaters installed to cover dead spots. For a small venu such as a theatre, it might be too expensive to impliment.
Getting permission is sometimes not easy. How do you get permission when the answer is "NO!"? You can legaly take all of Bill Gates earnings last year. The only trick is first you have to get permission. Good luck. Getting to use Beatles stuff is just as easy. Just get permission. Ya, Right!
Doesn't a toaster have the same functionality?
I must have gotten a cheap toaster. Mine doesn't have that feature. After putting the bread in the slot, I have to push down the start key on the end of the toaster. The toaster does not autodetect insertion of bread in the slot.
Oh really? When I installed one on my XP notebook, I had to load drivers from the CD as well. Other people with different brand cards need different drivers. And this is certainly one area where Linux doesn't make it easier than Windows; most wireless cards don't even have Linux drivers. I don't really see this as an easy way to use someone else's MAC address, even if you could find someone willing to just let you share their card.
Another fine example of how Plug-N-Play works to make life easy! somehow I think Plug-N-Play is not named correctly. It should be load driver software-Plug-Pray-Reboot-Pray-Configure-Play.
Don't think that you are completely secure and private when operating from such an access point anyway. You still have a MAC address. If you want to believe that Tom Ridge and John Ashcroft don't have a database with your MAC address in it, that's your business, but more than one computer user has learned the hard way that the MAC address identifies them.
One traveler to another "I seem to have forgotten my wireless card. May I borrow yours? I need to check my e-mail"
"Sure" unplugging the PCMCIA card "I've already checked mine."
There are other ways to get a single use mac address.
In the past I have explained about having a friend who got burned by a over reaching contract such as this
A good story to tell is one everyone is familiar with. Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. Everyone knows about Mickey, but do they know the rest of the story? What about Moritmer Mouse? Explain why Walt Disney found it important to own his work. Explain you are doing the same for the same reason except for hire work which are given to the employer. Everyting else is not up for grabs.
I want a pony as well.
h et land_Pony.html
Where I used to work laying irrigation pipe, they would probably let me have a pony if I wanted one. It's been years since I've done work on a farm. Pony's are not that expensive unless you want one with papers.
Most on this page are under a grand.
http://www.horse-for-sale.org/horsebreeds.cfm/S
Oh no, that's correct, basically if you were to earn money from anything you work on outside office hours, we feel we contributed and therefore its our product...its happened before."
I wonder if he is willing to pay the overtime. Work on your novel. Bill the hours. Give it to them to publish. When they complain, get the contract changed.