IDC get's paid by selling survey information. It's more likely they aren't releasing it because they want people who are really curious to buy their survey.
That's the simplest explanation. The more complicated one involves your conspiracy theory. Apply Occam's razor as appropriate.
By default (in the US) you have no rights to do anything with the software, even run it.
You have several misconceptions about copyright law.
Copyright grants exclusive distribution rights to the creator, however there are limitations to this specified in Title 17. Two of those are the right of the user to utilize the software(i.e. by making a copy into the machine's memory) and to make a backup/archival copy.
All of the other various provisions that you see in licenses are all part of contract law. Basically "I will sell you a copy or let you use a copy, but you must abide by these additional terms."
I think it's disappointing that Free Software advocates try to distort debates on copyright law.
I prefer encoding with Windows Media Player because they don't use CDDB and their data is more reliable as a result. It appears to come directly from the label rather than be hand entered by 12 year olds.
Most computer audio systems introduce a ton of noise and distortion themselves. I had some ESS chipset in my computer at work, and everything sounded just horrible until I found this switch buried deep in the settings which was causing it to try to simulate surround sound on two channels.
There's also a high level of S/N, if the volume is over a certain threshold I hear a lot of hiss.
I've also had problems in the past with soundcards plugged into the PCI bus picking up excess noise from the video card.
It's like listening to music in a car... it works, and sometimes it sounds ok, but it's certainly not ideal.
Windows Media Player is crippled so you can't make good MP3s (or on XP even download and use som other MP3 making software)
WMP makes perfectly good WMA files, if you want MP3 then you can either purchase an encoder for it(about $10) or buy a third party product like say Musicmatch(about $30). I run Musicmatch on XP and don't have any issues with this, so it's unclear to me why you are claiming I cannot do this.
I'm going to guess you're one of these people who has never used XP but is convinced it is worse than Win98.
I think you ran the tool without first reading the documentation, or understanding what it is that it does.
You first point concerns hfnetchk, and the prompt you receive is to validate the signature on the file to insure it hasn't been spoofed. I don't understand why you would complain about this.
The second point is inaccurate, I had it complain about numerous Microsoft services on my system such as MSSQL, TermServices, BITS, Automatic-Update, ASP.NET and so on. It doesn't seem to be really complaining about anything, it's just listing everything that it didn't expect to see there. I don't see the point of htis.
The third point is understandable because it requires access to secured areas of the system. If it doesn't warn you then that's an issue.
If you check the members list of CIS you'll see a variety of names, government agencies, companies and such... But you won't find Microsoft's name there.
I haven't looked at this terribly closely but it seems like a good start. I do see a number of pretty glaring errors in their document, I'm going to send them a note asking about them.
The success or failure of Linux has nothing to do with LWN.net. LWN may talk about Linux, but their business model is the old-school dot-com buster. i.e. give away content, hope to pay for it with non-existant ad revenue.
Oh, as far as your other points...
I've said it before and I'll say it again,"What happens when Open Source matches commercial quality and usability? What happens when software becomes a commodity?".
What happens when it doesn't?
That has to be answered, or at least a plan needs to be put in place on how you are going to get to this desired outcome.
However he's talking about it in relation to a knowledgebase article which does not discuss what he is referring to.
It would be like me trying to claim the rules of basketball do not accurately detail how to play soccer. Most people would react "Huh? WTF are you talking about?" Which is what I am doing to this poor schmuck.
They are not referring to backups, they are referring to GHOST images. That's what "installed by duplication" means.
Again you are not technically competent to be discussing this matter. Stick to "Paper or plastic" as your career choice.
If you are willing to learn, feel free to send me an email and I can answer your questions. But quit trying to pass yourself off as a subject matter expert.
Reading the rest of your response it's quite clear you are a fucking retard. I mean I could go on and explain how things work in more detail, but would it even matter? Are you willing to learn? Are you willing to listen? If you can't even search the obvious locations for answers to your questions, why should anybody waste their time with you?
I've been supporting and developing on Windows NT systems since 1996. I'm not going to claim to know it all, but I am extremely familiar with the registry and how the system interacts with it, and how it is connected to installed software.
The problem you are facing is simply that you don't know how it works, so therefore you condemn it as being bad.
Look, not everybody is knowledgeable about systems. It takes time and effort, and normally I'm fairly lenient when it comes to newbies who have a desire to learn and understand. But it really really bugs me to see people who clearly have no desire to learn, and show no technical competence go off trying to sound like an expert and offer advice.
That's because Sysprep isn't for functional backups... it's for preparing new systems, which is what the knowledgebase article was talking about.
Good grief, please leave computers to someone who knows what they are doing. All you do is give the whole industry a bad name.
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I believe what you are on is the road to jail for tax evasion.
The IRS does not allow you to donate your time and deduct your perceived cost from your taxes. It's highly illegal because it is quite obviously prone to abuse.
So in the case of your artwork example. If you go out and buy a painting for $20,000 and then donate that painting to a non-profit charity, you may deduct the $20,000 or whatever the current market value is of that painting.
However if you go out and buy a canvas and some paints and then make your own painting to give to charity. The only thing you may deduct is the cost of the canvas and paints, i.e. the supplies. Now if you sold the painting at auction for $20,000 and then proceeded to give that $20,000 to charity, you may deduct the $20,000, but you're also showing the $20k as income so it's a net-zero-sum game.
This article is one of the biggest pieces of crap I've seen in a long time.
First of all, the list he gives of services that contact Microsoft is not accurate.(The time service has to be setup to tell it who to contact and MS recommends using NIST computers, and that's only one example I would want to verify the others) Second of all he's missing some well known ones like the Search command.
Then he goes off on some other rants. In the discussion about knowledge base article Q314828 it is clear he didn't read the article. Basically the warn against SID duplication and they will only support computers which have been imaged with the sysprep utility provided on the XP CD.
Whoever wrote this article is obviously not technically competent.
"We have a policy but the manpower to keep up with MANY IIS patches is undoable."
We have around 200 production and development servers and there is one guy that spends perhaps 1/4th of his time keeping up to date with issues and deploying patches as appropriate.
It really doesn't take that much manpower once you have the appropriate policies and tools in place, and the benefits of increased developer productivity far outweigh the small costs. That is, we save much more in developer man hours per year than the cost of 1/4th of a sysadmin's time.
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But IDC probably has a EULA that says you won't release it to the public. :)
So the news agencies can only go off the quotes they are given to distribute.
IDC get's paid by selling survey information. It's more likely they aren't releasing it because they want people who are really curious to buy their survey.
That's the simplest explanation. The more complicated one involves your conspiracy theory. Apply Occam's razor as appropriate.
Just when my 3M stock was on the rebound you go and try to pull the plug on the whole duct tape and bailing wire industry!
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
- Red Green
Nobody's spying on your MP3 collection. There's nothing to see here, folks.
Yes, but this is slashdot.
If Microsoft claimed the moon was not made of green cheese, people here would suddenly be convinced that it was.
By default (in the US) you have no rights to do anything with the software, even run it.
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You have several misconceptions about copyright law.
Copyright grants exclusive distribution rights to the creator, however there are limitations to this specified in Title 17. Two of those are the right of the user to utilize the software(i.e. by making a copy into the machine's memory) and to make a backup/archival copy.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#1
That's pretty much all copyright law covers.
All of the other various provisions that you see in licenses are all part of contract law. Basically "I will sell you a copy or let you use a copy, but you must abide by these additional terms."
I think it's disappointing that Free Software advocates try to distort debates on copyright law.
Your website seems to indicate you've spent the last 20 years working on computers for small business interests.
I'm curious what your background is to know whether I can trust your statements.
Ok, what about for hogs and chickens?
I guess I'm also curious what your credentials are and if you have read any articles from other sources?
inner-city folks?
They could give it to the suburban folks and they still wouldn't know what end of the cow to milk, much less how corn is grown.
You don't know real BBSing until you've gotten good doing autodial on a rotary phone!
Oh blah blah blah... Everybody is mentioned how you can override this with a bunch of custom assembler code.
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To hell with that, I'll just stick a piece of tape on your floppy and write on it all I want! Used to do this all the time to those AOL floppies.
But yes, that tab is useful for preventing accidental writing.
Or you could just turn off DRM like I do.
I prefer encoding with Windows Media Player because they don't use CDDB and their data is more reliable as a result. It appears to come directly from the label rather than be hand entered by 12 year olds.
It depends on your listening environment.
Most computer audio systems introduce a ton of noise and distortion themselves. I had some ESS chipset in my computer at work, and everything sounded just horrible until I found this switch buried deep in the settings which was causing it to try to simulate surround sound on two channels.
There's also a high level of S/N, if the volume is over a certain threshold I hear a lot of hiss.
I've also had problems in the past with soundcards plugged into the PCI bus picking up excess noise from the video card.
It's like listening to music in a car... it works, and sometimes it sounds ok, but it's certainly not ideal.
Windows Media Player is crippled so you can't make good MP3s (or on XP even download and use som other MP3 making software)
WMP makes perfectly good WMA files, if you want MP3 then you can either purchase an encoder for it(about $10) or buy a third party product like say Musicmatch(about $30). I run Musicmatch on XP and don't have any issues with this, so it's unclear to me why you are claiming I cannot do this.
I'm going to guess you're one of these people who has never used XP but is convinced it is worse than Win98.
I think you ran the tool without first reading the documentation, or understanding what it is that it does.
You first point concerns hfnetchk, and the prompt you receive is to validate the signature on the file to insure it hasn't been spoofed. I don't understand why you would complain about this.
The second point is inaccurate, I had it complain about numerous Microsoft services on my system such as MSSQL, TermServices, BITS, Automatic-Update, ASP.NET and so on. It doesn't seem to be really complaining about anything, it's just listing everything that it didn't expect to see there. I don't see the point of htis.
The third point is understandable because it requires access to secured areas of the system. If it doesn't warn you then that's an issue.
If you check the members list of CIS you'll see a variety of names, government agencies, companies and such... But you won't find Microsoft's name there.
I haven't looked at this terribly closely but it seems like a good start. I do see a number of pretty glaring errors in their document, I'm going to send them a note asking about them.
The success or failure of Linux has nothing to do with LWN.net. LWN may talk about Linux, but their business model is the old-school dot-com buster. i.e. give away content, hope to pay for it with non-existant ad revenue.
Oh, as far as your other points...
I've said it before and I'll say it again,"What happens when Open Source matches commercial quality and usability? What happens when software becomes a commodity?".
What happens when it doesn't?
That has to be answered, or at least a plan needs to be put in place on how you are going to get to this desired outcome.
"Huh? WTF are you talking about?"
I know what he's referring to.
However he's talking about it in relation to a knowledgebase article which does not discuss what he is referring to.
It would be like me trying to claim the rules of basketball do not accurately detail how to play soccer. Most people would react "Huh? WTF are you talking about?" Which is what I am doing to this poor schmuck.
I suggest you deal with your stupidity problem, and not bring it to Slashdot.
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You had better go talk to a tax attorney before you land yourself in jail for evasion.
on which Windows XP is installed by duplication
They are not referring to backups, they are referring to GHOST images. That's what "installed by duplication" means.
Again you are not technically competent to be discussing this matter. Stick to "Paper or plastic" as your career choice.
If you are willing to learn, feel free to send me an email and I can answer your questions. But quit trying to pass yourself off as a subject matter expert.
I don't know any way of replacing an entire registry with an exported text file.
I'm curious. Did you try searching the obvious?
Reading the rest of your response it's quite clear you are a fucking retard. I mean I could go on and explain how things work in more detail, but would it even matter? Are you willing to learn? Are you willing to listen? If you can't even search the obvious locations for answers to your questions, why should anybody waste their time with you?
I've been supporting and developing on Windows NT systems since 1996. I'm not going to claim to know it all, but I am extremely familiar with the registry and how the system interacts with it, and how it is connected to installed software.
The problem you are facing is simply that you don't know how it works, so therefore you condemn it as being bad.
Look, not everybody is knowledgeable about systems. It takes time and effort, and normally I'm fairly lenient when it comes to newbies who have a desire to learn and understand. But it really really bugs me to see people who clearly have no desire to learn, and show no technical competence go off trying to sound like an expert and offer advice.
Good god, is this guy RE Ballard?
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That's because Sysprep isn't for functional backups... it's for preparing new systems, which is what the knowledgebase article was talking about.
Good grief, please leave computers to someone who knows what they are doing. All you do is give the whole industry a bad name.
I believe what you are on is the road to jail for tax evasion.
The IRS does not allow you to donate your time and deduct your perceived cost from your taxes. It's highly illegal because it is quite obviously prone to abuse.
So in the case of your artwork example. If you go out and buy a painting for $20,000 and then donate that painting to a non-profit charity, you may deduct the $20,000 or whatever the current market value is of that painting.
However if you go out and buy a canvas and some paints and then make your own painting to give to charity. The only thing you may deduct is the cost of the canvas and paints, i.e. the supplies. Now if you sold the painting at auction for $20,000 and then proceeded to give that $20,000 to charity, you may deduct the $20,000, but you're also showing the $20k as income so it's a net-zero-sum game.
The same is going to be true of a book.
This article is one of the biggest pieces of crap I've seen in a long time.
First of all, the list he gives of services that contact Microsoft is not accurate.(The time service has to be setup to tell it who to contact and MS recommends using NIST computers, and that's only one example I would want to verify the others) Second of all he's missing some well known ones like the Search command.
Then he goes off on some other rants. In the discussion about knowledge base article Q314828 it is clear he didn't read the article. Basically the warn against SID duplication and they will only support computers which have been imaged with the sysprep utility provided on the XP CD.
Whoever wrote this article is obviously not technically competent.
"We have a policy but the manpower to keep up with MANY IIS patches is undoable."
We have around 200 production and development servers and there is one guy that spends perhaps 1/4th of his time keeping up to date with issues and deploying patches as appropriate.
It really doesn't take that much manpower once you have the appropriate policies and tools in place, and the benefits of increased developer productivity far outweigh the small costs. That is, we save much more in developer man hours per year than the cost of 1/4th of a sysadmin's time.