This is exactly why these kinds of disputes should be done in front of a jury and the looser should have to pay the attory fees for the other side.
The jury would laugh it out of the court room and "fair use" would result in copyright holders to think twice about submitting these "cease and desist orders".
He clogs the email servers of the " Market Vision graphics studio company" thats one ibm.net (IBM's ISP). He does this from home. Which means he has at best a DSL or Cable modem connection. How does he actually clong their servers, since most likely they have a faster internet connection? This is a serious question. If some guy at home can clog a professioonaly maintained server by bounching email from them, either he is using means outside of his home computer or the admins maintaining the server are totally inept.
Radio: Can be tracked to your house. It's kinda hard to hide the fact you are broadcasting something over a poplulation of 100,000 people who ALL have radios.
Internet: Some kid in the United States can use some ISP in the UK to upload his mp3's to a web page in Russia, all using a false name.
On top of all this, good luck busting some kid on DSL broadcasting his "Greatest 80's hits" to the world with IceCast.
This is nothing more than sabre raddling. Problem is, they are sabre raddling at a paper tiger, while an elephat is sneaking up behind them.
I work on an Octane all day. It's been on over 120 days, the last time it was off was because of a power outage.
In our lab, we have a G4 running MacOS 9. It gets rebooted daily (scheduled to happen at 3am, right before it indexes the harddrive).
At home, I have a PC with BeOS and WinME and a iMac running OS X. BeOS, has yet to crash. Windows has ONE third party application on it. Just one. HalfLife. I have had to reinstall Windows once since I bought it 4 months ago. I have had to reinstall Internet Explorer 3 times, and my Sound Driver Once. Where as I haven't rebooted my iMac since I installed OS X (I ordered it the day it was available).
To blame software companies in general is silly. Name names. Embarrass the companies. This and this along is why:
1. reverse engineering should be legal
2. Shrinkwrapped agreements should be null and void and software should NOT have limitations on what you can do with it. (i.e if i want to run a gigantic web server on Win2K upgrade, let me)
3. And last but not least all bugs, security "issues", and assorted corporate violations should ALWAYS be release to the public in full form-regardless of who is still vulernable to it. Let THEM screw their customers with their shitty software, it's not your fault the bug is there.
"'stacked file systems' um..don't you mean mounted file systems or, maybe, groups of symlinks?"
What he probabaly meant is that VFS has amazing properties. I'm not completly up on my technical details, but VFS (Virtual File System) is a plugin based file system which allows you to add file system support on top of it with added features. Okay HFS+, MacOS's current file system, is NOT a journaling file system. It COULD be under VFS. In theory one could write a plugin for HFS+ that would make it journaling. It may require some bit changes on the files, but it could be done in the same way that Win98 let you change you file system to Fat32 without hosing your harddrive (in theory, anyhow;p ).
Classic MacOS users have been hacking thier OS to make it more "useable" for years. I remember installing Aaron to make MacOS 7.5 look like what became MacOS 8. Speed Doubler, Launcher bars, Now Menus (tm), and even NeXt like docks are all available. This is not news.
What is news, is the fact that Apple has provided simple commands to change almost every aspect of how your desktop looks. Want a semi-transparent terminal? How about the trash on the desktop? Maybe you want that useless Apple in the middle of the Menu bar to actually do something, I'm sure you can do it. What's also cool is that "$man netinfo" pulls up a nice manual (read book) on the database for system settings, or that "$man perl" pulls up a damn BOOK on how to code Perl. OS X has the first functional man pages I've seen in my life (that is, they aren't written in geek speak for coders).
Redhat has found it's hard to be profitable selling tech support to a commody OS on commody hardware. As to be expected, especially given the amount of tech support available in a $50 book, or the LDP, or UseNET. I've always felt that the current model used to sell Linux was inadequet.
Anyone can sell tech support, sell me something I can't get anywhere else. How about web based applications like McAfee is offering their customers now? Or better software bundles on you distrib CD's? (I saw some Linux shipping with ViaVoice just a few days ago for $60, same price as ViaVoice without an OS is).
"The problem is limits on the iMac logic board these systems use, and limits on how much memory PowerPC Linux can properly address. iMac's have limited RAM slots, that have a limited capcity per SIMM, that totals up to 512 MB maxium."
I'm not sure where you get your information from, but according to this, you can put 1GB of RAM in an iMac.
"but (there) are currently no compilers that compile to an athlon"
This is actually incorrect. There is a compiler for Linux that we use for in house development that does HEAVY athalon optimizations, at least a 10X increase in fpu calculations over gcc. I don't recall the name of it and our main developer is out to lunch, so I can't ask him. Watch this thread for more info.
"Tens of millions of people use Windows every day, at work and at home" should read "Insite of Windows, Tens of millions of people use it everyday, at work and at home."
I don't. I think it's a fair assessment. I have personally seen quite a few Windows users freak out when I show them how MacOS works. Every person who enters our workgroup (scientific) perfers a Mac over a PC after using a Mac for a short time.
"There's only one UI that has any real R&D and UI testing dollars behind it, and it dowesn't have a footprint or K as an icon."
Or a Start Menu. Boggles my mind. Window's UI is hardly useable for daily work. Nasty fonts, horrible prints, inconsistent dialogs and menus, not to mention installation and maintainance of the system.
Being a person who owns multiple computers (at home) and has several OS's (see below) I would put GUI's from best to worst in the following order (sorry if i leave your Your Favorite OS[TM]).
1. Mac OS 9
2. MacOS X PB
3. BeOS (I'm quite impressed with Be, but it looses points for difficulty of setting up OpenGL on "supported" video cards and for shipping with a Web Browser that isn't at least as standards compliant at Nescape 4.x)
Large Gap in useability
4. Windows ME/2000 (same basic UI)
5. KDE/Gnome (these loose points for the following 1. Setup 2. Lack of applications standards [choosing what is right for you is Okay, but after the choice is made, file mapping on import and export should be automatically, autolaunching on web clicks should choose your fav app to handle the service etc] 3. horribly slow file managers 4. their respective "control panels" tool and 5. you still MUST use the command line at least once to setup the default install or ot lauch a useful service) I have used Mandrake 7.x, RedHat 6.x and 7.0 (kept mandrake 7.1)
That garden gnome is legendary. Some guys neighbor stole it and traveled the world with it without telling him. At first the guy was pissed, someone stole his garden gnome, then he started getting picts of it in front of famous places (Eiffel tower, Pyrmiads, etc) in the mail.
"OS X is very nice, but so is BeOS, and that's not about to topple MS either"
I have two computers at home, one with MacOS X PB and one with BeOS 5 Pro. BeOS is nice, easy to use, and fast....but.....it lacks something that MacOS OS X PB does have, utilities. There is currently a movement to "Macify" Unix utilities in MacOS X. One can already get GUI NFS managers, GUI Firewall setups, etc that use the standard BSD utilities that ship with OS X. Along with Carbonization of apps (which are already showing up), MacOS X PB already has more easy to use utilities and apps than BeOS. This isn't meant to knock Be. Be can't control what it's user/developer base does, but the Mac developer base has YEARS of experience in developing easy to use apps, while the Be community does not.
"Can I just give it to someone without any second thoughts?"
Not unless you have Windows full on CD (meaning the boxed version and not a version that comes with computers). You see MS now requires that Windows that ships with PC's must ship with "anti-piracy" measures. Translation: It won't boot or install on any other computer other than the one it came with.
Personally, I think Yahoo should pull their.fr site from French soil and set it up in the United States rather than let some foreign government tell it to censor itself.
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The jury would laugh it out of the court room and "fair use" would result in copyright holders to think twice about submitting these "cease and desist orders".
I can't divulge that information, you'll have to ask Bill....:)
He clogs the email servers of the " Market Vision graphics studio company" thats one ibm.net (IBM's ISP). He does this from home. Which means he has at best a DSL or Cable modem connection. How does he actually clong their servers, since most likely they have a faster internet connection? This is a serious question. If some guy at home can clog a professioonaly maintained server by bounching email from them, either he is using means outside of his home computer or the admins maintaining the server are totally inept.
He should get 7 years of trying to secure an Windows computer...that ought to teach him...
Internet: Some kid in the United States can use some ISP in the UK to upload his mp3's to a web page in Russia, all using a false name.
On top of all this, good luck busting some kid on DSL broadcasting his "Greatest 80's hits" to the world with IceCast.
This is nothing more than sabre raddling. Problem is, they are sabre raddling at a paper tiger, while an elephat is sneaking up behind them.
Says here that it is available in binary form only. No source is available. Do we have a GPL violation here?
In our lab, we have a G4 running MacOS 9. It gets rebooted daily (scheduled to happen at 3am, right before it indexes the harddrive).
At home, I have a PC with BeOS and WinME and a iMac running OS X. BeOS, has yet to crash. Windows has ONE third party application on it. Just one. HalfLife. I have had to reinstall Windows once since I bought it 4 months ago. I have had to reinstall Internet Explorer 3 times, and my Sound Driver Once. Where as I haven't rebooted my iMac since I installed OS X (I ordered it the day it was available).
To blame software companies in general is silly. Name names. Embarrass the companies. This and this along is why:
1. reverse engineering should be legal
2. Shrinkwrapped agreements should be null and void and software should NOT have limitations on what you can do with it. (i.e if i want to run a gigantic web server on Win2K upgrade, let me)
3. And last but not least all bugs, security "issues", and assorted corporate violations should ALWAYS be release to the public in full form-regardless of who is still vulernable to it. Let THEM screw their customers with their shitty software, it's not your fault the bug is there.
What he probabaly meant is that VFS has amazing properties. I'm not completly up on my technical details, but VFS (Virtual File System) is a plugin based file system which allows you to add file system support on top of it with added features. Okay HFS+, MacOS's current file system, is NOT a journaling file system. It COULD be under VFS. In theory one could write a plugin for HFS+ that would make it journaling. It may require some bit changes on the files, but it could be done in the same way that Win98 let you change you file system to Fat32 without hosing your harddrive (in theory, anyhow ;p ).
What is news, is the fact that Apple has provided simple commands to change almost every aspect of how your desktop looks. Want a semi-transparent terminal? How about the trash on the desktop? Maybe you want that useless Apple in the middle of the Menu bar to actually do something, I'm sure you can do it. What's also cool is that "$man netinfo" pulls up a nice manual (read book) on the database for system settings, or that "$man perl" pulls up a damn BOOK on how to code Perl. OS X has the first functional man pages I've seen in my life (that is, they aren't written in geek speak for coders).
Anyone can sell tech support, sell me something I can't get anywhere else. How about web based applications like McAfee is offering their customers now? Or better software bundles on you distrib CD's? (I saw some Linux shipping with ViaVoice just a few days ago for $60, same price as ViaVoice without an OS is).
Link for all non US cities times. (>1MB)
If you want to look it up city by city use the following URL formula
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/station/viewing/?.html
US: Where the ? is the first letter in your city name (lower case)
Outside US: Where the ? is first letter in your city name followed by the letter "f" (example for Moscow, the "?" is "mf")
I'm not sure where you get your information from, but according to this, you can put 1GB of RAM in an iMac.
I once tought I discovered proof of alien life on Earth, until my mother assured me that she was indeed my sister.
This is actually incorrect. There is a compiler for Linux that we use for in house development that does HEAVY athalon optimizations, at least a 10X increase in fpu calculations over gcc. I don't recall the name of it and our main developer is out to lunch, so I can't ask him. Watch this thread for more info.
"Tens of millions of people use Windows every day, at work and at home" should read "Insite of Windows, Tens of millions of people use it everyday, at work and at home."
I think that's pretty harsh
I don't. I think it's a fair assessment. I have personally seen quite a few Windows users freak out when I show them how MacOS works. Every person who enters our workgroup (scientific) perfers a Mac over a PC after using a Mac for a short time.
It's not "bad", merely not good for my mother to use.
Or a Start Menu. Boggles my mind. Window's UI is hardly useable for daily work. Nasty fonts, horrible prints, inconsistent dialogs and menus, not to mention installation and maintainance of the system.
Being a person who owns multiple computers (at home) and has several OS's (see below) I would put GUI's from best to worst in the following order (sorry if i leave your Your Favorite OS[TM]).
1. Mac OS 9
2. MacOS X PB
3. BeOS (I'm quite impressed with Be, but it looses points for difficulty of setting up OpenGL on "supported" video cards and for shipping with a Web Browser that isn't at least as standards compliant at Nescape 4.x)
Large Gap in useability
4. Windows ME/2000 (same basic UI)
5. KDE/Gnome (these loose points for the following 1. Setup 2. Lack of applications standards [choosing what is right for you is Okay, but after the choice is made, file mapping on import and export should be automatically, autolaunching on web clicks should choose your fav app to handle the service etc] 3. horribly slow file managers 4. their respective "control panels" tool and 5. you still MUST use the command line at least once to setup the default install or ot lauch a useful service) I have used Mandrake 7.x, RedHat 6.x and 7.0 (kept mandrake 7.1)
That garden gnome is legendary. Some guys neighbor stole it and traveled the world with it without telling him. At first the guy was pissed, someone stole his garden gnome, then he started getting picts of it in front of famous places (Eiffel tower, Pyrmiads, etc) in the mail.
I sure would like to get a P4....so I can heat up my house this winter....
I have two computers at home, one with MacOS X PB and one with BeOS 5 Pro. BeOS is nice, easy to use, and fast....but.....it lacks something that MacOS OS X PB does have, utilities. There is currently a movement to "Macify" Unix utilities in MacOS X. One can already get GUI NFS managers, GUI Firewall setups, etc that use the standard BSD utilities that ship with OS X. Along with Carbonization of apps (which are already showing up), MacOS X PB already has more easy to use utilities and apps than BeOS. This isn't meant to knock Be. Be can't control what it's user/developer base does, but the Mac developer base has YEARS of experience in developing easy to use apps, while the Be community does not.
Not unless you have Windows full on CD (meaning the boxed version and not a version that comes with computers). You see MS now requires that Windows that ships with PC's must ship with "anti-piracy" measures. Translation: It won't boot or install on any other computer other than the one it came with.
I hearby invoke Godwin's law and demand that that Slashdot immediately cease all postings related to France, Nazi's and little talking furry toys.
Personally, I think Yahoo should pull their .fr site from French soil and set it up in the United States rather than let some foreign government tell it to censor itself.
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