If I was a doctor who's name, picture and info was on that site, I would certianly feel threatened as if someone was offering a reward for my head. If someone put your name and address up there, would you feel threatened? --
But typically car dealers give you a choice of radio. If you don't like the radio in your car, they'll put in your choice of radio. If it's a more expensive model, I'm sure they'll charge you for it. But the point is that you have a CHOICE. --
Doesn't that new SGI machine use USB stuff? If so, this could be a real boost for Linux USB. After all, didn't SGI hire David Miller to port Linux over to their MIPS workstations? Hopefully we'll see USB support real soon. --
I think this is a step in the right direction in that people are starting to realize that refunds will have to be given, but I think that somewhere on the order of $50 is a more reasonable refund amount. At minimum, they should be refunding whatever they paid MS for the software, and possibly more when you take in to account the profit (if any) that was made by selling the software. A fair formula would be the price plus the proportional profit margin of the machine. So if the profit margin was 10% and the company paid $50 for OEM windows, the refund amount should be $55. --
It seems to me that this thing is super unreliable. What happens if someone makes a little app that gives out the wrong number over the web? With Mozilla being free now, I'm sure someone could alter it quite easily to give out a fake number.
The fact that it is unreliable is a cause for serious concern even among those who are not concerned about their actions being tracked. If some unscrupulious type running a website gets hold of your number, he could use it for some real bad stuff.
Putting a unique ID in each chip is not such a bad idea, but I don't think Intel should be pushing this as some form of identification. It should only be used as a means of identifying the authenticity of your chip as well as finding stolen/remarked chips.
It would be cool to get a whole rack of these little things, say 20 or so per 18 inch rack? Who knows, maybe more.. You could buy them by the stack, and have a single jack for the network card that would connect all of them. I'm still itching to play with the rack mount sidewinders and cobalt servers. --
I had that problem too, But it is fixed in XFree-3.3.3, so you can use the SVGA Server with it. Also if you specify the chipset detection i think, you can get the 3.3.2.3 SVGA server to work with a ViRGE card. --
I would venture to say that the whole reason MS put that refund clause in the EULA was because of the 1995 consent decree that prevents them from doing per-processor Licensing fees. But if you think about it, If you charge the vendors who require you to purchase windows less than vendors who give you a choice, it's the same damn thing. So if you can't getting a refund, the net effect is still the same as if they still had per-processor licensing.
company A requires you to purchase windows with every machine, and gets OEM win98 for 45 bucks.
company B doesn't require it, and they sell 90% systems with windows, and 10% non-ms systems and pay $50 bucks for OEM win98.
If they each sell 100 computer systems, MS gets $4,500 from each company. So, charging different dealers different prices is effectively the same as per-processor licensing, and still gets MS the same money they were getting before. This is why I contend that the refund clause in the EULA was to satisfy the DOJ with the 1995 consent decree. MS can say that it's the responsibility of the OEM's, and I guess you can say it is, but I'll bet you that if a manufacturer takes too many refunds, it will translate to higher prices from MS. It may even be that the OEM must cut their losses, and whatever they give you for the return is straight from their pocket. This is a seriously screwed up situation, and should the OEM's refuse to give refunds due to this, it might could be considered a violation of the 1995 consent decree.
There may be a solution if MS decides not to take these people seriously. Can you say "class action lawsuit" boys and girls? I thought you could:) --
Microsoft is trying hard to make it look like they have a competitor. But be careful what you ask for Billy G, you might just get it. Even MS says Linux is good. It baffles me why there are still Trolls out there who believe otherwise. Linux is nowhere near the desktop, but it is closing in on NT. Once it takes the server market, the desktop will surely follow. --
Hey, thanks alot:) After looking through the redhat network scripts, I found that if you put the line "MACADDR=00:12:34:56:78:9A" in the ifcfg-eth0 file you can configure it for a particular adapter. How convenient:)
I have heard that there are some ethernet cards with a programable mac address. Does anyone know which cards allow this? Also, I know nothing about writing drivers for ethernet cards, but if you have the source for your driver, could you make it send out a different address than the one that's in your card? The resnet at my school uses this for dhcp, but it also uses it for security, dropping the packets of anyone who's ethernet address is not registered in their database. --
I used slackware for about a year. It was my first Linux distribution. It was nice and simple, and a good distribution to learn how stuff works. Later on I decided to install Applix. Since it came with rpm's you had to install rpm as I recall. Playing around with rpm, i tried installing other software packages as well but many rpm's kept failing dependancy checks. Of course i could override this, but I thought it would be nice to see how a whole system in which every package's info was stored in a package database would be (yes i know slackware does, but it didn't have all the cool features that the other package tools did). I was reluctant to install redhat because of the "commercial aspect". I was under the impression that their system depended on alot of propriotary software, so I tried debian, and couldn't get the damn thing to install. I finally said "screw it" and decided to install redhat. Eventually all my misconceptions about redhat were washed away and I've been running that ever since. I don't mean to plug my distribution or start a flame war, but I'm just telling my experience. I have some very fond memories of running slackware. Makes me feel kind of nostalgic. --
I don't know who was the first to do it, Adaptec maybe? But it is aparent that all the good companies are beginning to provide Linux support. If you think about it, this really makes sense. The Open Source model for drivers is perfect because the hardware company probably doesn't care about copying or piracy, and the increased quality of the drivers can only help hardware sales. The only possible downside is that they can't keep the programming info a secret. But in general i think companies only do this when they have cheesy hardware, like winmodems. Not because they developed some whiz bang product. I am extremely happy to see this trend catching on. --
Wow, It looks like even Dell thinks MS is gonna lose the case:) I still think they will wait until the final decision before officially supporting Linux. --
Well, it's all about supply and demand. They can complain all day long about music pirates and a fair price, but the truth of the matter is, either they have to find a way to block copying (doubtful) or they have to start selling the CD's at a price that even the pirates will not mind paying. The more people that pirate music, the lower the demand for CD's will be and then the music companies will be forced to charge a more realistic price. Better yet, they could even start selling mp3's online for a cheap price, say 25 or 50 cents per song, and people will download those simply out of conveneince. It would be more conveninet to download the real version than to spend a few hours on a search engine looking for the pirated one on a fast site that actually works. --
I noticed the BitchX thing too, but I don't think it's a horrible mistake.
I think that the people behind those servers have little or no experience with linux itself, and that is a shame...
Evidently TUCOWS has been using linux for quite some time now according to that interview.
While they are doing a similar service as freshmeat, it can't hurt linux to have someone else doing it as well. If it's advertised from their main windows site, It will catch the eyes of windows users, dispell some myths about linux, and could bring new users to our community. How is that bad? I don't understand your cynical view of this. --
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If I was a doctor who's name, picture and info was on that site, I would certianly feel threatened as if someone was offering a reward for my head. If someone put your name and address up there, would you feel threatened?
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Everyone says they're expensive. Just how expensive are they? I assume they're cheaper than DRAM per-unit of storage, right?
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But typically car dealers give you a choice of radio. If you don't like the radio in your car, they'll put in your choice of radio. If it's a more expensive model, I'm sure they'll charge you for it. But the point is that you have a CHOICE.
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Doesn't that new SGI machine use USB stuff? If so, this could be a real boost for Linux USB. After all, didn't SGI hire David Miller to port Linux over to their MIPS workstations? Hopefully we'll see USB support real soon.
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I think this is a step in the right direction in that people are starting to realize that refunds will have to be given, but I think that somewhere on the order of $50 is a more reasonable refund amount. At minimum, they should be refunding whatever they paid MS for the software, and possibly more when you take in to account the profit (if any) that was made by selling the software. A fair formula would be the price plus the proportional profit margin of the machine. So if the profit margin was 10% and the company paid $50 for OEM windows, the refund amount should be $55.
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It seems to me that this thing is super unreliable. What happens if someone makes a little app that gives out the wrong number over the web? With Mozilla being free now, I'm sure someone could alter it quite easily to give out a fake number.
The fact that it is unreliable is a cause for serious concern even among those who are not concerned about their actions being tracked. If some unscrupulious type running a website gets hold of your number, he could use it for some real bad stuff.
Putting a unique ID in each chip is not such a bad idea, but I don't think Intel should be pushing this as some form of identification. It should only be used as a means of identifying the authenticity of your chip as well as finding stolen/remarked chips.
If i want to verify my ID, I'll use a PGP.
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It would be cool to get a whole rack of these little things, say 20 or so per 18 inch rack? Who knows, maybe more.. You could buy them by the stack, and have a single jack for the network card that would connect all of them. I'm still itching to play with the rack mount sidewinders and cobalt servers.
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I had that problem too, But it is fixed in XFree-3.3.3, so you can use the SVGA Server with it. Also if you specify the chipset detection i think, you can get the 3.3.2.3 SVGA server to work with a ViRGE card.
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I would venture to say that the whole reason MS put that refund clause in the EULA was because of the 1995 consent decree that prevents them from doing per-processor Licensing fees. But if you think about it, If you charge the vendors who require you to purchase windows less than vendors who give you a choice, it's the same damn thing. So if you can't getting a refund, the net effect is still the same as if they still had per-processor licensing.
:)
company A requires you to purchase windows with every machine, and gets OEM win98 for 45 bucks.
company B doesn't require it, and they sell 90% systems with windows, and 10% non-ms systems and pay $50 bucks for OEM win98.
If they each sell 100 computer systems, MS gets $4,500 from each company. So, charging different dealers different prices is effectively the same as per-processor licensing, and still gets MS the same money they were getting before. This is why I contend that the refund clause in the EULA was to satisfy the DOJ with the 1995 consent decree. MS can say that it's the responsibility of the OEM's, and I guess you can say it is, but I'll bet you that if a manufacturer takes too many refunds, it will translate to higher prices from MS. It may even be that the OEM must cut their losses, and whatever they give you for the return is straight from their pocket. This is a seriously screwed up situation, and should the OEM's refuse to give refunds due to this, it might could be considered a violation of the 1995 consent decree.
There may be a solution if MS decides not to take these people seriously. Can you say "class action lawsuit" boys and girls? I thought you could
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Microsoft is trying hard to make it look like they have a competitor. But be careful what you ask for Billy G, you might just get it. Even MS says Linux is good. It baffles me why there are still Trolls out there who believe otherwise. Linux is nowhere near the desktop, but it is closing in on NT. Once it takes the server market, the desktop will surely follow.
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Hey, thanks alot :) After looking through the redhat network scripts, I found that if you put the line "MACADDR=00:12:34:56:78:9A" in the ifcfg-eth0 file you can configure it for a particular adapter. How convenient :)
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I have heard that there are some ethernet cards with a programable mac address. Does anyone know which cards allow this? Also, I know nothing about writing drivers for ethernet cards, but if you have the source for your driver, could you make it send out a different address than the one that's in your card? The resnet at my school uses this for dhcp, but it also uses it for security, dropping the packets of anyone who's ethernet address is not registered in their database.
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I used slackware for about a year. It was my first Linux distribution. It was nice and simple, and a good distribution to learn how stuff works. Later on I decided to install Applix. Since it came with rpm's you had to install rpm as I recall. Playing around with rpm, i tried installing other software packages as well but many rpm's kept failing dependancy checks. Of course i could override this, but I thought it would be nice to see how a whole system in which every package's info was stored in a package database would be (yes i know slackware does, but it didn't have all the cool features that the other package tools did). I was reluctant to install redhat because of the "commercial aspect". I was under the impression that their system depended on alot of propriotary software, so I tried debian, and couldn't get the damn thing to install. I finally said "screw it" and decided to install redhat. Eventually all my misconceptions about redhat were washed away and I've been running that ever since. I don't mean to plug my distribution or start a flame war, but I'm just telling my experience. I have some very fond memories of running slackware. Makes me feel kind of nostalgic.
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I was not even aware that RedHat shipped it to begin with. Then again, I don't use the "official" redhat.
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I don't know who was the first to do it, Adaptec maybe? But it is aparent that all the good companies are beginning to provide Linux support. If you think about it, this really makes sense. The Open Source model for drivers is perfect because the hardware company probably doesn't care about copying or piracy, and the increased quality of the drivers can only help hardware sales. The only possible downside is that they can't keep the programming info a secret. But in general i think companies only do this when they have cheesy hardware, like winmodems. Not because they developed some whiz bang product. I am extremely happy to see this trend catching on.
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Wow, It looks like even Dell thinks MS is gonna lose the case :) I still think they will wait until the final decision before officially supporting Linux.
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Well, it's all about supply and demand. They can complain all day long about music pirates and a fair price, but the truth of the matter is, either they have to find a way to block copying (doubtful) or they have to start selling the CD's at a price that even the pirates will not mind paying. The more people that pirate music, the lower the demand for CD's will be and then the music companies will be forced to charge a more realistic price. Better yet, they could even start selling mp3's online for a cheap price, say 25 or 50 cents per song, and people will download those simply out of conveneince. It would be more conveninet to download the real version than to spend a few hours on a search engine looking for the pirated one on a fast site that actually works.
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Evidently TUCOWS has been using linux for quite some time now according to that interview.
While they are doing a similar service as freshmeat, it can't hurt linux to have someone else doing it as well. If it's advertised from their main windows site, It will catch the eyes of windows users, dispell some myths about linux, and could bring new users to our community. How is that bad? I don't understand your cynical view of this.
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Save the rats!
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Does it support serial port scanners?
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