Oh, come on. This should be obvious. These are companies which are making money.
Sorry, just came off a couple dot.com's that twisted my view on what "for profit" companies really are - these guys burned through tons of cash without a biz to get (hardly) any back.
Its closer to making personal copies - a bit grayer area for sure.
The third four sentence word doc still pushed me over the edge... and venting was at hand.
When the manager finally decided he'd tolerated enough shenanigans, he confronted a loss of face and credibility with his superiors. Why? Because he had to tell upper management: 'I want to get rid of the most talented person I've got.' And his bosses thought he'd lost his mind.
"They're very smart," Andretta says of prima donnas. "And they know who their audience is - upper management - and they play to them very well."
Why use your powers (with upper managment) for Evil, of course, and get the middle layer drone out of the way first. They should have nuked her the moment she went upstairs... Smart, but not smart enough, I guess.
I guess the WINE folks have come a long way if they support self registering COM components, also known as ActiveX controls. This in itself is interesting news to me.
Like java applets on the browser, ActiveX controls really don't work well either. ActiveX != browser widget in most cases. I did a couple years of COM components and never once built one with a GUI. Almost the same with Applets for that matter.
The BSA asked the district to investigate, and after auditing the school in 1998, the school district, working with the BSA, discovered several hundred unauthorized copies, including 132 versions of MS-DOS, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
The total cost of the copying could have run into the tens of millions. Each violation carries a potential penalty of $150,000; the fines for just the MS-DOS copies could add up to as much as $19.8 million, not even counting lawyers' fees.
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"Yes, software is copyrighted, but my concern is educating students in an urban school who are already deprived of so much," Kowalski says. "The district expected teachers to do this [the audit] at the end of the school year when final grades are being compiled -- which says something about priorities."
different than a lot of dot.coms out there who proxied a developer's copy of oracle as a production db. How is this different than someone using a bootleg copy of Real's server to stream porn? Because they are underfunded?
One of the real reasons we are in the pickle we have today with Office having 90+% of the office apps is people made copies... copies for home, copies around the office, etc. MS owns us now, because people really did not look at software and say "how much did I pay? Was it a good value?" All software has a price, though not all of it is cash. Look at the options that fit your budget. In this case, it might have required someone to look at FreeDOS or something like that...
MS made it real easy. Now they want to end it since the only person to hurt is themselves. I just shake my head every time I hear, "but we have to be able to run Office"! No you don't... I _should_ be able to turn in assignments in.rtf format rather than.doc when at school. At the workplace, COME ON PEOPLE - there is nothing wrong with ASCI text in an e-mail, rather than attaching a one page WORD DOC.
Ok, I'm ranting. Stepping away from the keyboard....
My god, think of how much those metrics alone are worth... A snapshot on DVD adoption, SCSI cards, % of laptops out there? Almost seems like the anti-copy stuff is just a smokescreen.
Now, I swap out video cards, CD's, NIC's, and CPU's fairly often. I also use removable HDD chassis to ease swapping drives in my primary box.
For this purpose, the double words are divided into twelve bit-fields. The relationship between the computer hardware and the bit-fields is given in the following table.
double word | offset | length | bit-field value based on
H1 | 0 | 10 | volume serial number string of system volume
H1 | 10 | 10 | network adapter MAC address string
H1 | 20 |
7 | CD-ROM drive hardware identification string
H1 | 27 |
5 | graphics adapter hardware identification string
H2 |
0 |
3 | unused, set to 001
H2 |
3 |
6 | CPU serial number string
H2 |
9 |
7 | harddrive hardware identification string
H2 | 16 |
5 | SCSI host adapter hardware identification string
H2 | 21 |
4 | IDE controller hardware identification string
H2 | 25 |
3 | processor model string
H2 | 28 |
3 | RAM size
H2 | 31 |
1 | 1 = dockable 0 = not dockable
Bit 31 of H2 specifies, whether the bit-fields represent a notebook
computer that supports a docking station. If docking is possible, the
activation mechanism will be more tolerant with respect to future
hardware modifications. Here, the idea is that plugging a notebook
into its docking station possibly results in changes to its hardware
configuration, e.g. a SCSI host adapter built into the docking station
may become available.
When judging whether re-activation is necessary, the bit-field values
of a) are compared to the bit-field values of b), i.e. the current
hardware configuration is compared to the hardware configuration at
the time of activation.
Typically all bit-fields with the exception of the unused field and
the 'dockable' field are compared. If more than three of these ten
bit-fields have changed in a) since product activation, re-activation
is required.
This really will be a pain for those who have rigs used for a lot of testing.
Don't knock the Mil spending. Its one of the few area's you can get funding for things that look even close to pure research - be that physics, biochem, whatever. It does not _HAVE_ to make a profit - the first time in is always expensive. If your lucky, the tech/knowhow will work its way back into your lives.
I worked for one of those home shopping networks. They wanted to stream the cable feed on the net, letting them expand the market while TCI held a strangle hold on the cable channels.
Anyhow, I got to make it work. Looked at WebCast Pro, Real, and a few that were more of a snapshot/ftp type thing than video streaming. I asked the sales guys for a URL of anyone using their products in production - only to watch them squirm in their chair. The WebCast sales guy was bold, however. He stated they had an internal web cam open to the public, but the people really using the product were folks doing "nature shows". I nearly choked on my coffee, but most of the folks in the meeting missed the ref and just smiled and nodded. For me, it was the first time I ever saw a billing system that was based off of a (functional) per minute phone support.
This was also one of the first times I found how slippery the sales folks can be. Another did a demo, running full screen streaming video on the server - and convinced one of the powers that be that this would work over a 14.4-28.8 modem.
Back when we were young and inno^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H .
Overclockers.com has a lot of helpful hints out there for rolling your own, as well as reviews on prefab stuff. I drilled my own HDD and PS coolers (actually, I brought a case of beer in and watched one of the guys do it for me, but anyhow...)
With a bit of digging, hardocp, hypothermia, and anyone else looking at case mods will probably have a lot of user submitted ideas as well.
If you are running really hot, the Koolance case is probably not for you. I have not tried one of these.
Good airflow in your case helps too. I was able to improve airflow by rounding my SCSI & FDD cables. Look at ducting the air within your case using larger (but slower RPM) fans to move air over trouble spots. Worked for me, but I am not super cooling with peltiers or the likes. I run cooler with the case on and the air ducted, then leaving the case off.
Nothing like dropping the shields and admitting you do not know everything about everything. The point of my post was this, I was one of those clueless networking lusers who discovered just enough networking information to have the crap scared out of them. Since the original post was about people responding poorly to port requests they do not understand, it seemed relevant. I had to look up what port 137-139 were - and when I saw it was NetBEUI , I dont have that protocol installed or have file / print sharing enabled on my box, and my other boxes are running Linux and Solaris - I got scared.
A big part of that is not knowing the tools and networking. While I code for a living, my networking skills are limited to connecting a few boxes together for gaming and sharing my broadband connection. I have taken the time to harden the OSs where I could, but I know better than to think I am invincible!
The UDP requests were coming from my firewall. I just did not realize it until after I freaked. I had configured it to block NetBEUI from the outside world, but had not expected to see it inside my world. On a brighter note, I learned a bit more about the "pure magic" side of networking.
last night I was reading about the attacks at GRC.com since I had given up all hope at CounterStrike.... I did a netstat -an and found I had something listening on port 137-139. I don't have NETBEUI running on any of my home network boxen, so I freaked.... and then noticed my Linksys box was misconfigured.
Nothing like thinking one of your boxes is owned to put the fear of god in you... FDISK usually purifies and redeems - I was just digging out my ISO's when I remembered that 192.168.x.x was internal. Ah, never mind honey - you can have your laptop back. Everything is fine.
Pay attention to software development in Japan...eventually, I think the dust will settle in the US and software engineering will (hopefully) become a more formal task...
God, I hope not... that might cut into our UT and CS games at work! I'm sure fooz does not fit into their methodology either.
After becoming dot.compost earlier this year...
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What's next for Repo Man?
It's his turn now. He's raising a $100 million ``vulture'' fund to buy some of the struggling companies himself, turn them around and sell them for a profit. He's already got a commitment from outside investors for $50 million, and he's pushing for a 35 percent cut on returns way more than the most elite venture firms in the valley.
He may relent and settle for 30 percent.
Now, if this is not poetic justice just waiting to happen.
Mu ha ha ha....
Sorry for not being clear.... the Jaz, zip, and CD-RW were SCSI-II - and he wanted to swap things within the studio. He wanted the box itself in the room, just as quiet as possible. Go figure.
Don't look at the domestics....
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Nothing like getting hit to give you a new outlook on buying cars.... Don't look at the domestics for a full sized auto. My BMW 740i is smaller than most SUV's, gets low 20's driven hard, 30's on roadtrips, can actually fit five adults (or a couple kiddie seats), and has a bit of steel in it. With the economy like it is, you can get them cheap these days. Mine is going camping next week!
I was lucky enough to build an audio workstation for a friend of mine. The box needed to be very quiet - but due to SCSI length limits, I could not just run a KVM switch through the wall. I'd done a little watercooling of my own for the CPU, but koolance
gave me some great ideas for cooling off things like HDDs & power supplies. Last I checked, koolance won't sell you a PS or HHD cooler alone, but they are not too hard to build if you have access to some simple milling equipment.
Anyhow, I got waterblocks for anything running hot and ran waterlines to another room for cooling. As long as the water is near room temp, you really don't have cond. issues...
Water cooling is just like building a PC for the first time. Use care... once you've done it once or twice, you wonder why everyone does not do it. Happy hacking.
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The kicker here is a crappy gas mpg tax already exists - for cars - SUV's are exempt. Adding insult to injury, they are exempt from lux tax as well... no wonder abominations like the lincon navigator exist.
Using Easy CD creator (3.5c), when you get click the burn CD button you get a Setup dialog. Click the Advanced tab, change the option to Disk-at-Once. Almost always makes a bootable CD from an ISO with that kind of setup.
.91 did not, and I could not get the NN6.1 files to work within moz as well like you could with an earlier build. Of all the extra "killer" add ons, this is the only thing I really _REALLY_ need to make this my primary email client. I can not spell my way out of a wet paper bag....
I spent a few years doing true GE work, so I know the difference all too well. Not near as sexy as they make it out to be in the movies. I'd argue the trivial bit too, but that is another conversation. Note to self - stay away from the keyboard while sobering up after a release celebration as well.... For me, its all about protein manufacturing. Right tool, right job....
As far as "artificial" - the only point I should have made is there is very little out there that might qualify as "natural". I switched into rant mode a bit too quick when I see folks dressing up as carrots preaching all mods are evil or residential construction halted because a bug adapted to a highly specialized ecosystem. A little to fast with the BFG9000... my bad... sorry...
Again, balance. I missed the mark in my first post when I tried to mention some of the real risks. Like you said,
We don't even allow perfectly well understood natural species to be moved from one place to another because we know they can turn into pests. And now companies want to create fast growing, insect and pesticide resistant plants artificially and release them into the environment?
That is one of the risk we have to weigh as GE moves forward. We should worry about it, but not so much that it paralyzes us. I believe there is much to be gained (aside from fat profits companies might make).... Just look at the clampdown on cloning research these days. So much good would come from being able to nudge a cell into specialization.
I agree it can take a long time, if ever, that ecosystem hits its original equilibrium again. Is that really bad thing? An unnatural thing? One species blasting out another happens throughout nature. I'm tempted to say its Nature's prime directive.
Until the great cow revolution, Man appears (from our perspective) to be best at manipulating the space around them to improve their habitat. Course, people tend to be pretty stupid too. Nature's way of evening the score?
I agree caution is required - I'm with you on this one. I tend to fear the luddites and the politicians in their pockets more than those doing the GE research however.
IW(as)AB(iologist) before I made the jump into BioInformatics - but still, I spent a lot of time working with plant genetics. You drink beer? There is a very good chance it is one of a few barley variants out there breed specifically for brewing. Granted, most of it was old school statistical / cross-breeding work, but the same ideas apply. Way to many hours on my knees counting individual stalks before pounding the data on a Fortran boxen. Never go back...
Anyhow, one of the real risks here is the modified plant cross-pollinates with something out in the wild. Same idea as some of the bugs you can pick up in a hospital - resistant to things that should smack them normally.
I am less worried about changing the ecosystem. Nature abhors a vacuum - a species gets wiped out, something else ALWAYS takes its place. It may not be pretty, but that is the way things work in the real world. You cover an area with toxic sludge (like wood treatment use to do), and I'll be damned if you don't find some bacteria feeding off the stuff. Its not like we have a fixed set of genetic resources - {hum along} lose an owl and xxxx number of unique genetic structures on the wall. Something will adapt to fill the empty space - always.
That is not to say we should blacktop the forests, wipe yippy poodles, or otherwise horking with things just for the sake of screwing with them. There is a balance. Guess I am just trying to say the truth is somewhere between the two extremes. The long view is we need to be careful not to add us to the extinct list.
The CD's were shipped every month, but if you wanted to download things like a WinME iso image, you had to log into the web site with a special downloading utility. They had a Netscape 4.x plug in and one of those ActiveX controls for IE. They tried to spin it as a "smart" download client.
Anyhow, the plug in did not work (for me) using Netscape & Linux. Might have worked with Nescape on the windows side, but I never tried that. I did pester the hell out of their support staff trying to get IE for Solaris to work with the control. MuHaHaHa...
Wonder if passport works with Solaris this time around?
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Sorry, just came off a couple dot.com's that twisted my view on what "for profit" companies really are - these guys burned through tons of cash without a biz to get (hardly) any back. Its closer to making personal copies - a bit grayer area for sure.
The third four sentence word doc still pushed me over the edge... and venting was at hand.
Why use your powers (with upper managment) for Evil, of course, and get the middle layer drone out of the way first. They should have nuked her the moment she went upstairs... Smart, but not smart enough, I guess.
Like java applets on the browser, ActiveX controls really don't work well either. ActiveX != browser widget in most cases. I did a couple years of COM components and never once built one with a GUI. Almost the same with Applets for that matter.
One of the real reasons we are in the pickle we have today with Office having 90+% of the office apps is people made copies... copies for home, copies around the office, etc. MS owns us now, because people really did not look at software and say "how much did I pay? Was it a good value?" All software has a price, though not all of it is cash. Look at the options that fit your budget. In this case, it might have required someone to look at FreeDOS or something like that...
MS made it real easy. Now they want to end it since the only person to hurt is themselves. I just shake my head every time I hear, "but we have to be able to run Office"! No you don't... I _should_ be able to turn in assignments in .rtf format rather than .doc when at school. At the workplace, COME ON PEOPLE - there is nothing wrong with ASCI text in an e-mail, rather than attaching a one page WORD DOC.
Ok, I'm ranting. Stepping away from the keyboard....
My god, think of how much those metrics alone are worth... A snapshot on DVD adoption, SCSI cards, % of laptops out there? Almost seems like the anti-copy stuff is just a smokescreen.
Now, I swap out video cards, CD's, NIC's, and CPU's fairly often. I also use removable HDD chassis to ease swapping drives in my primary box.
This really will be a pain for those who have rigs used for a lot of testing.
Don't knock the Mil spending. Its one of the few area's you can get funding for things that look even close to pure research - be that physics, biochem, whatever. It does not _HAVE_ to make a profit - the first time in is always expensive. If your lucky, the tech/knowhow will work its way back into your lives.
Time to create a letter, with template? 2K? Man, THAT is some bill rate....
I worked for one of those home shopping networks. They wanted to stream the cable feed on the net, letting them expand the market while TCI held a strangle hold on the cable channels.
Anyhow, I got to make it work. Looked at WebCast Pro, Real, and a few that were more of a snapshot/ftp type thing than video streaming. I asked the sales guys for a URL of anyone using their products in production - only to watch them squirm in their chair. The WebCast sales guy was bold, however. He stated they had an internal web cam open to the public, but the people really using the product were folks doing "nature shows". I nearly choked on my coffee, but most of the folks in the meeting missed the ref and just smiled and nodded. For me, it was the first time I ever saw a billing system that was based off of a (functional) per minute phone support.
This was also one of the first times I found how slippery the sales folks can be. Another did a demo, running full screen streaming video on the server - and convinced one of the powers that be that this would work over a 14.4-28.8 modem.
Back when we were young and inno^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H .
Overclockers.com has a lot of helpful hints out there for rolling your own, as well as reviews on prefab stuff. I drilled my own HDD and PS coolers (actually, I brought a case of beer in and watched one of the guys do it for me, but anyhow...)
With a bit of digging, hardocp, hypothermia, and anyone else looking at case mods will probably have a lot of user submitted ideas as well.
If you are running really hot, the Koolance case is probably not for you. I have not tried one of these.
Good airflow in your case helps too. I was able to improve airflow by rounding my SCSI & FDD cables. Look at ducting the air within your case using larger (but slower RPM) fans to move air over trouble spots. Worked for me, but I am not super cooling with peltiers or the likes. I run cooler with the case on and the air ducted, then leaving the case off.
Nothing like dropping the shields and admitting you do not know everything about everything. The point of my post was this, I was one of those clueless networking lusers who discovered just enough networking information to have the crap scared out of them. Since the original post was about people responding poorly to port requests they do not understand, it seemed relevant. I had to look up what port 137-139 were - and when I saw it was NetBEUI , I dont have that protocol installed or have file / print sharing enabled on my box, and my other boxes are running Linux and Solaris - I got scared.
A big part of that is not knowing the tools and networking. While I code for a living, my networking skills are limited to connecting a few boxes together for gaming and sharing my broadband connection. I have taken the time to harden the OSs where I could, but I know better than to think I am invincible!
The UDP requests were coming from my firewall. I just did not realize it until after I freaked. I had configured it to block NetBEUI from the outside world, but had not expected to see it inside my world. On a brighter note, I learned a bit more about the "pure magic" side of networking.
last night I was reading about the attacks at GRC.com since I had given up all hope at CounterStrike.... I did a netstat -an and found I had something listening on port 137-139. I don't have NETBEUI running on any of my home network boxen, so I freaked.... and then noticed my Linksys box was misconfigured.
Nothing like thinking one of your boxes is owned to put the fear of god in you... FDISK usually purifies and redeems - I was just digging out my ISO's when I remembered that 192.168.x.x was internal. Ah, never mind honey - you can have your laptop back. Everything is fine.
Sorry for not being clear.... the Jaz, zip, and CD-RW were SCSI-II - and he wanted to swap things within the studio. He wanted the box itself in the room, just as quiet as possible. Go figure.
Nothing like getting hit to give you a new outlook on buying cars.... Don't look at the domestics for a full sized auto. My BMW 740i is smaller than most SUV's, gets low 20's driven hard, 30's on roadtrips, can actually fit five adults (or a couple kiddie seats), and has a bit of steel in it. With the economy like it is, you can get them cheap these days. Mine is going camping next week!
I was lucky enough to build an audio workstation for a friend of mine. The box needed to be very quiet - but due to SCSI length limits, I could not just run a KVM switch through the wall. I'd done a little watercooling of my own for the CPU, but koolance gave me some great ideas for cooling off things like HDDs & power supplies. Last I checked, koolance won't sell you a PS or HHD cooler alone, but they are not too hard to build if you have access to some simple milling equipment.
Anyhow, I got waterblocks for anything running hot and ran waterlines to another room for cooling. As long as the water is near room temp, you really don't have cond. issues...
Water cooling is just like building a PC for the first time. Use care... once you've done it once or twice, you wonder why everyone does not do it. Happy hacking.
The kicker here is a crappy gas mpg tax already exists - for cars - SUV's are exempt. Adding insult to injury, they are exempt from lux tax as well... no wonder abominations like the lincon navigator exist.
Using Easy CD creator (3.5c), when you get click the burn CD button you get a Setup dialog. Click the Advanced tab, change the option to Disk-at-Once. Almost always makes a bootable CD from an ISO with that kind of setup.
.91 did not, and I could not get the NN6.1 files to work within moz as well like you could with an earlier build. Of all the extra "killer" add ons, this is the only thing I really _REALLY_ need to make this my primary email client. I can not spell my way out of a wet paper bag....
I spent a few years doing true GE work, so I know the difference all too well. Not near as sexy as they make it out to be in the movies. I'd argue the trivial bit too, but that is another conversation. Note to self - stay away from the keyboard while sobering up after a release celebration as well.... For me, its all about protein manufacturing. Right tool, right job....
As far as "artificial" - the only point I should have made is there is very little out there that might qualify as "natural". I switched into rant mode a bit too quick when I see folks dressing up as carrots preaching all mods are evil or residential construction halted because a bug adapted to a highly specialized ecosystem. A little to fast with the BFG9000... my bad... sorry...
Again, balance. I missed the mark in my first post when I tried to mention some of the real risks. Like you said,
That is one of the risk we have to weigh as GE moves forward. We should worry about it, but not so much that it paralyzes us. I believe there is much to be gained (aside from fat profits companies might make).... Just look at the clampdown on cloning research these days. So much good would come from being able to nudge a cell into specialization.
for passwords, but then I found out I just can't spell...
I agree it can take a long time, if ever, that ecosystem hits its original equilibrium again. Is that really bad thing? An unnatural thing? One species blasting out another happens throughout nature. I'm tempted to say its Nature's prime directive.
Until the great cow revolution, Man appears (from our perspective) to be best at manipulating the space around them to improve their habitat. Course, people tend to be pretty stupid too. Nature's way of evening the score?
I agree caution is required - I'm with you on this one. I tend to fear the luddites and the politicians in their pockets more than those doing the GE research however.
IW(as)AB(iologist) before I made the jump into BioInformatics - but still, I spent a lot of time working with plant genetics. You drink beer? There is a very good chance it is one of a few barley variants out there breed specifically for brewing. Granted, most of it was old school statistical / cross-breeding work, but the same ideas apply. Way to many hours on my knees counting individual stalks before pounding the data on a Fortran boxen. Never go back...
Anyhow, one of the real risks here is the modified plant cross-pollinates with something out in the wild. Same idea as some of the bugs you can pick up in a hospital - resistant to things that should smack them normally.
I am less worried about changing the ecosystem. Nature abhors a vacuum - a species gets wiped out, something else ALWAYS takes its place. It may not be pretty, but that is the way things work in the real world. You cover an area with toxic sludge (like wood treatment use to do), and I'll be damned if you don't find some bacteria feeding off the stuff. Its not like we have a fixed set of genetic resources - {hum along} lose an owl and xxxx number of unique genetic structures on the wall. Something will adapt to fill the empty space - always.
That is not to say we should blacktop the forests, wipe yippy poodles, or otherwise horking with things just for the sake of screwing with them. There is a balance. Guess I am just trying to say the truth is somewhere between the two extremes. The long view is we need to be careful not to add us to the extinct list.
Where did I put that beer again...
The CD's were shipped every month, but if you wanted to download things like a WinME iso image, you had to log into the web site with a special downloading utility. They had a Netscape 4.x plug in and one of those ActiveX controls for IE. They tried to spin it as a "smart" download client.
Anyhow, the plug in did not work (for me) using Netscape & Linux. Might have worked with Nescape on the windows side, but I never tried that. I did pester the hell out of their support staff trying to get IE for Solaris to work with the control. MuHaHaHa...
Wonder if passport works with Solaris this time around?