Lindows.com is currently stating [lindows.com] that they are doing this in the name of convenience, a stupid argument (how hard can it be to ask for an administration password?).
From what I've seen of Mac OS X, it does this right. They use sudo for things that require root, and prompt for the password when necessary. Very slick.
All that's needed is some way of getting a usable display on a TV screen... (I'm not optimistic).
Don't be. TV just doesn't have the resolution for reading text. I have a computer plugged in to my TV and the text is blown up really big, but it's still almost impossible to read.
Maybe with HDTV, it will start being usable as a computer display, but I assume that you think TV display is needed to keep costs down... and HDTVs sure aren't cheap.
I know I'm being overly pedantic here, but the name USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym, and should be capatilized appropriately. It stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"
Anyone else think congress is getting carried away with all these acronyms?
Technically, it should be fairly easy to get MacOS X running on x86 hardware, and I've heard rumors that they have it running in house.
The first problem is that Apple makes money off their hardware. The margins may be razor thin on a new Dell, but they're much better on a high end G4 tower.
Second, if Apple started competing directly with Microsoft, you can bet that Office and IE would disappear from the Mac platform quick./.ers may not use them much, but it would be a huge blow to the platform.
Of course, Apple may prove me wrong, but I think it's much more likely that they'll move to the new IBM made PPCs than to x86.
Set those addresses up to forward all mail to uce@ftc.gov. There's a few addresses at my domain that have never existed that recieve a fairly high volume of spam. I got tired of getting all the failure notices, so I just set up a forward.
Defrag the disk, then go to sysinternals.com and get the registry defrager and defrag the registry. Does wonders for windows start up time. You can use the same tool to defrag those swap files too.
Not always effective, but it's easier than a full reinstall.
Microsoft used to distribute a registry cleaner which I would also recommend, but for some reason MS pulled it.
I don't think you can do this with USB. USB has 1 host (the computer) and one or more clients. You can't have more than one host on a chain, so you can't connect 2 computers. I guess someone could build a box that looked like a client to each computer that connected to it, and run a network over that, but I don't know how cheap it would be.
But you could do this with FireWire. Windows and Linux both support it already, IIRC. Plus, from what I've heard, the current FireWire is faster than USB 2.0. And the next version of FireWire (due to start showing up pretty soon) is twice as fast.
1) They don't need a warrant or anything like it. While I don't neessiarly think they need something like a search warrant, they should ahve to present a case to a judge showing that they have sufficient reason to believe that you do indeed have pirated software. Also, they should be limited (as in the case of a search warrant) to auditing the software packages they have evidence are pirated and nothing else.
Then you shouldn't agree to the license that grants them this right. If you don't like the terms of the contract, don't enter in to it.
I think you are wrong. As I remember, the 8088 was a version of the 8086 with an 8 bit data bus (the 8086 has a 16 bit bus) but was still a 16 bit processor. I also wouldn't say it failed quickly, as it was the basis of the IBM PC. Maybe you're thinking of a different CPU?
I'd really like to see a GUI HTML editor that does a good job using the proper tags, instead of acting like a paint program and producing crappy HTML to try to force the end user into seeing a pixel-by-pixel copy of the author's screen. I suspect this is what you meant by "standards compliant", and I'm sorry I can't help you there.
I'll disclaim this by saying I'm not a pro web developer, and I haven't used things like ColdFusion or GoLive...
Mozilla's editor seems really nice. It has WYSIWYG, "tag view", Source, and preview (using gecko) modes. And it's free;-)
"add it to a flat-text file... even a MSCE coud do it."
No they couldn't. An MCSE would be asking "What do I click on to open this 'flat-text file'???"
Back when I was working tech support, a potential customer called me to ask about the Windows version of our product (which was ported from Unix). This guy proceeded to yell at me because we used text files instead of a GUI for configuration.
If the corporations don't like it, they shouldn't accept my money. If the courts have any sense of fairness left in them, they will either uphold both or rule both to be invalid.
That's kind of a silly thing to say. Of course the company won't accept the EULA with the added term that you get to change it when you want. They'll gladly let you keep your money and take someone else's.
Yes, it's unfair, but if you don't like it, don't buy the product. There's only 2 ways it will change: by law (don't count on this helping you with things like UCITA out there) or if people don't buy it because of the EULA.
My company used to use white box computers. They were made with quality components. (I don't remember their prices, but if they were too high, we probably would have bought from someone else). When we had problems with the equiptment, they always shipped replacement parts quickly and were helpful. Then again, we were probably one of their largest customers.
ssh -X will forward X11 connections. You can also forward ports over the ssh connection:
ssh -L 143:server:143 -L 25:server:25 user@server
Then you can set your mail client to use localhost as the server and everything goes through the tunnel (143 is IMAP, 25 is SMTP). Note you have to run the above example as root, since it forwards remote ports to local privleged ports (<1024). If you don't want to do it as root, forward to local ports > 1024.
This isn't the perfect solution in most cases, but it offers one option.
So if you advertise a program that does X (and you must advertise somehow (even if it is only a web page), otherwise no one would ever know about it to d/l it, and it doesn't do X, you could be held accountable.
Sure, if someone downloads my software for free and it doesn't work, I'd be happy to give them back every penny they paid me for it.
They do make their money back on the games... well, licensing the right to ship the games (I think). At any rate, they get a licensing fee from the game makers.
I would guess this security is to make it hard to ship a game that doesn't go through the licensing process. They can't make back the money lost on the console if you buy unlicensed games.
It may also be there to keep people from using the XBox as a cheap general purpose computer and again not paying the licensing fees on the games that help pay for the console.
Pop-up blocking. It's not in Netscape 7.0PR1. The other script blocking options are, though, so it was a very concious decision.
They like popups too much on Netscape.com. They were one of the first sites that I remember using them. The popus were also the reason that I changed my homepage from the default back in the 4.x days...
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not to pick nits...
:-)
but the word you're looking for is 'copyrighted'. A copyright is a right to copy.
That damn lock. Too many people couldn't figure that out without being told.
Fortunately, they fixed it up a bit in 10.2
Lindows.com is currently stating [lindows.com] that they are doing this in the name of convenience, a stupid argument (how hard can it be to ask for an administration password?).
From what I've seen of Mac OS X, it does this right. They use sudo for things that require root, and prompt for the password when necessary. Very slick.
All that's needed is some way of getting a usable display on a TV screen... (I'm not optimistic).
Don't be. TV just doesn't have the resolution for reading text. I have a computer plugged in to my TV and the text is blown up really big, but it's still almost impossible to read.
Maybe with HDTV, it will start being usable as a computer display, but I assume that you think TV display is needed to keep costs down... and HDTVs sure aren't cheap.
I know I'm being overly pedantic here, but the name USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym, and should be capatilized appropriately. It stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"
Anyone else think congress is getting carried away with all these acronyms?
I have to agree. It was trivial using samba and cups... at least in my case...
Yea, Apple should give up their profitable hardware business and take Microsoft on, on Microsoft's terms. That's going to keep them in business...
Technically, it should be fairly easy to get MacOS X running on x86 hardware, and I've heard rumors that they have it running in house.
/.ers may not use them much, but it would be a huge blow to the platform.
The first problem is that Apple makes money off their hardware. The margins may be razor thin on a new Dell, but they're much better on a high end G4 tower.
Second, if Apple started competing directly with Microsoft, you can bet that Office and IE would disappear from the Mac platform quick.
Of course, Apple may prove me wrong, but I think it's much more likely that they'll move to the new IBM made PPCs than to x86.
Set those addresses up to forward all mail to uce@ftc.gov. There's a few addresses at my domain that have never existed that recieve a fairly high volume of spam. I got tired of getting all the failure notices, so I just set up a forward.
I get almost no false positives with SpamAssassin, though I've tweaked the scoring a bit to my own tastes. My point? Your milage may vary ;-)
Defrag the disk, then go to sysinternals.com and get the registry defrager and defrag the registry. Does wonders for windows start up time. You can use the same tool to defrag those swap files too.
Not always effective, but it's easier than a full reinstall.
Microsoft used to distribute a registry cleaner which I would also recommend, but for some reason MS pulled it.
I don't think you can do this with USB. USB has 1 host (the computer) and one or more clients. You can't have more than one host on a chain, so you can't connect 2 computers. I guess someone could build a box that looked like a client to each computer that connected to it, and run a network over that, but I don't know how cheap it would be.
But you could do this with FireWire. Windows and Linux both support it already, IIRC. Plus, from what I've heard, the current FireWire is faster than USB 2.0. And the next version of FireWire (due to start showing up pretty soon) is twice as fast.
1) They don't need a warrant or anything like it. While I don't neessiarly think they need something like a search warrant, they should ahve to present a case to a judge showing that they have sufficient reason to believe that you do indeed have pirated software. Also, they should be limited (as in the case of a search warrant) to auditing the software packages they have evidence are pirated and nothing else.
Then you shouldn't agree to the license that grants them this right. If you don't like the terms of the contract, don't enter in to it.
I think you are wrong. As I remember, the 8088 was a version of the 8086 with an 8 bit data bus (the 8086 has a 16 bit bus) but was still a 16 bit processor. I also wouldn't say it failed quickly, as it was the basis of the IBM PC. Maybe you're thinking of a different CPU?
I'd really like to see a GUI HTML editor that does a good job using the proper tags, instead of acting like a paint program and producing crappy HTML to try to force the end user into seeing a pixel-by-pixel copy of the author's screen. I suspect this is what you meant by "standards compliant", and I'm sorry I can't help you there.
I'll disclaim this by saying I'm not a pro web developer, and I haven't used things like ColdFusion or GoLive...
Mozilla's editor seems really nice. It has WYSIWYG, "tag view", Source, and preview (using gecko) modes. And it's free ;-)
"add it to a flat-text file... even a MSCE coud do it."
No they couldn't. An MCSE would be asking "What do I click on to open this 'flat-text file'???"
Back when I was working tech support, a potential customer called me to ask about the Windows version of our product (which was ported from Unix). This guy proceeded to yell at me because we used text files instead of a GUI for configuration.
If the corporations don't like it, they shouldn't accept my money. If the courts have any sense of fairness left in them, they will either uphold both or rule both to be invalid.
That's kind of a silly thing to say. Of course the company won't accept the EULA with the added term that you get to change it when you want. They'll gladly let you keep your money and take someone else's.
Yes, it's unfair, but if you don't like it, don't buy the product. There's only 2 ways it will change: by law (don't count on this helping you with things like UCITA out there) or if people don't buy it because of the EULA.
That, and his insistance on refering to Hewlett-Packard simply as "Hewlett"...
My company used to use white box computers. They were made with quality components. (I don't remember their prices, but if they were too high, we probably would have bought from someone else). When we had problems with the equiptment, they always shipped replacement parts quickly and were helpful. Then again, we were probably one of their largest customers.
ssh -X will forward X11 connections. You can also forward ports over the ssh connection:
ssh -L 143:server:143 -L 25:server:25 user@server
Then you can set your mail client to use localhost as the server and everything goes through the tunnel (143 is IMAP, 25 is SMTP). Note you have to run the above example as root, since it forwards remote ports to local privleged ports (<1024). If you don't want to do it as root, forward to local ports > 1024. This isn't the perfect solution in most cases, but it offers one option.
So if you advertise a program that does X (and you must advertise somehow (even if it is only a web page), otherwise no one would ever know about it to d/l it, and it doesn't do X, you could be held accountable.
Sure, if someone downloads my software for free and it doesn't work, I'd be happy to give them back every penny they paid me for it.
The submitters shouldn't be expected to know every story that is ever posted, but maybe the editors should use the search button a little more often.
They do make their money back on the games... well, licensing the right to ship the games (I think). At any rate, they get a licensing fee from the game makers.
I would guess this security is to make it hard to ship a game that doesn't go through the licensing process. They can't make back the money lost on the console if you buy unlicensed games.
It may also be there to keep people from using the XBox as a cheap general purpose computer and again not paying the licensing fees on the games that help pay for the console.
They like popups too much on Netscape.com. They were one of the first sites that I remember using them. The popus were also the reason that I changed my homepage from the default back in the 4.x days...
I called. It's slashdotted.