Of course, that is the obvious immediate solution for an individual. It may be tricky for the other non working disks that I still have to return, as they are part of box sets that Best Buy does not carry in stock.
I'm more interested in what can be done as a class of consumers that is potentially purchasing shoddily pressed disks. Is anyone keeping track of the rate of failure? I know that my anecdotal evidence means nothing, but if 10% of the Charlie Christian box sets are duds, I think there might be something wrong...
There is a replica of the Atanasoff-Berry computer at Iowa State University. The ABC is arguably the first ever digital computing device. Betcha didn't know it came from Iowa.
http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/Articles/Chronicl e. html
Besides that, ISU has enough geekiness going on to keep you busy visiting labs for a long time.
Bero, hopefully you will see this and be able to answer...(I always appreciate seeing your answers whenever a new Red Hat release comes around.)
Can users of Ximian Gnome desktop upgrade to RH7.3? I've been keeping up to date with Red Carpet, so I didn't upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2, but I'd like to try Valhalla. Any known problems between Red Hat's packages and Ximian's?
I have tried bidding on multiple auctions from the same seller and gotten outbid by another seller before. I don't think they were shill bids, although I am probably relying on the trust I had in the seller. Still, the bidders I was competing with would often be the winner of at least one of the auctions I was going for.
Use $ to sort the index for the current folder that you are viewing in pine. You can sort by subject, arrival, from, to, Date, size, thread, and a few others.
Most users of Microsoft Word don't actually care about having the freedom to study or change it.
You are probably correct.
Most don't even care about the right to copy or redistribute it except in making some limited copies for friends or to install on other computers.
You are probably correct on this point as well, however...
For most people Word works well and the issue of it being proprietary never effects them in any way they are likely to be aware of.
...your second sentence and your third don't agree with each other in most cases. Most users of Windows *know* that they are not supposed to provide copies of Word to their friends and family. This is EXACTLY the point of free software! If I have a copy of OpenOffice, I can freely give it to my brother, without feeling even a twinge of guilt.
I know that you meant that the file format was not proprietary, and that is what is being debated, but I think that even Windows users are aware of the issues surrounding making copies of MS Office products....
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Oh, and speaking of Hacker, did you ever beat it? I honestly had a hard time getting past the login screen:-)
Wow....Hacker.....what a great game. My father spent hours trying to figure out that game. He had diagrams of what spy to sell what artifact to and all the steps to assemble the document. But, the spy satellites would always get him a couple seconds before he completed the mission. He finally figured out how to beat the game: he made a copy of the game onto a different floppy disk. When he played with the copy, he could finish the game. I never bought that as the solution to the game, but in retrospect, that would be pretty brilliant, if true.
I have a Honda with the chipped key, and the remote starter that this guy was talking about. The security question occurred to me, so I tried to think about how a thief would go about using the key that's in the remote starter against me.
You can't just remove the key and then take the car. You have to remove the key, remove the remote starter, then reconnect the ignition to the car's starter. This job, in an ideal environment would take about an hour to do.
It then occurred to me that the least secure place to leave the car is in my own garage, since that place would provide the thieves with the most cover to work under overnight.
In regards to software, there are two kinds of "speech" available. The first is the "speech" of actually creating the software. The second is the "speech" of modifying and/or redistributing the first kind. The first kind is a legal and unalienable right. Unfortunately, the second is not an unalienable right, but a granted priviledge. Despite the existance of the first ammendment to the US Constitution, you are not allowed to take the political writings of Richard Stallman and modify them for redistribution. You are not allowed to take the New York Times and republish it as the Yonkers Yodeler.
Actually, I believe you are talking about copyright. Copyright is what keeps me from reprinting the NY Times, and I don't believe the Constitution (or its amendments) says ANYTHING about copyright.
I said allowed to do almost anything with Free Software for a reason. I am not allowed to strip the software of credit from its original creator. There is still a license that one must agree to use with free software... However, I am completely within my right to take any GPL software and charge whatever I want for my service of providing it to you. Try doing THAT with your copy of Windows2000.
"Free as in speech" means "allowed to do whatever you want with it". With Linux (and all GNU software), you are allowed to do (almost) whatever you want with it. This includes being able to modify the code AND the right to sell the software and copies of the software. With closed source software, you are generally not allowed such a luxury.
The reason this is important is not so much that you or I will modify the code, but that there are people out there that can (And will) do it, if only given the chance. Open Source and Free Software models allow for a greater chance of that working.
I'm just comparing it to my patience tolerance. In 20 seconds, I could launch soffice, leave my office, take a whiz, come back and wait for it to finish loading.
When I want to use one of the tools from Star/OpenOffice, I usually wnt to use them one at a time. Why should it load the spreadsheet part if all I want to do is type a document?
Maybe this is why it takes so long to load, which is something that you can't deny and shouldn't excuse.
Congress: The FBI needs to be able to read any and all digitised correspondance whenever they take it into their heads to do so.
The 4th Amendment to the Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not beviolated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Unless an email transmission is considered an "effect", I'm not sure how it falls under the protection of the 4th amendment. That is, unless you personally KNOW that it is not on a remote server or has been intercepted by ANYONE (ie nongovernment entities inclusive) then how do you know it is private? Because post mail is? Surely, you're not that naive. Communication is ONLY as secure as the persons involved sending and receive choose to make it!! But that makes a great case for why we should rail against proposed interference of encryption standards.
I think it's a tough issue. I'm not sure where I exactly stand...
It is not reasonable for all of a person's digital documents and communications to have no protection against government eavesdropping, as so many scared people are now advocating.
I have always operated under the assumption that ANYTHING that goes out on the internet it subject to interception. Not by the government, but by anyone that can touch a computer connected to the internet. Therefore, I use encryption for things that I want to be kept private. (I know full well that the encryption is not perfect...for example it is only as secure as the recipient keeps it, but I digress...)
Digital documents kept on my home computer, I consider property protected by the Constitution. If I send out an email to a friend, I do not consider it to be as private as the medical records which my doctor holds. However, the privacy of medical records that I am priviledged to have is not guaranteed in the Constitution. Since there is no ISP-client priviledge recognized by a court of law in this country, I consider it perfectly acceptable that they hold log files containing times that I logged in and other network traffic which I am responsible for. They don't log it so that Big Brother can follow me. But, if it helps the FBI, then maybe they will hand it over. It is THEIR data. I have NO RIGHT to say what happens to something that I agreed to. On the other hand, if they were to actually log messages that I sent, that might fall under a wiretap violation. It's hard to say there. But like I said before, I don't assume anything sent plaintext to be private.
The Senate bill you are talking about (not sure which one) would be a far more valid criticism of the government than the issue of the FBI going after ISPs. Thanks for bringing it up.
I wish/. would investigate bills like the ones you mention... if not them, someone else maybe.
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The service is only available to students in residence halls, so the money is coming out of housing, not tuition.
Of course, that is the obvious immediate solution for an individual. It may be tricky for the other non working disks that I still have to return, as they are part of box sets that Best Buy does not carry in stock.
I'm more interested in what can be done as a class of consumers that is potentially purchasing shoddily pressed disks. Is anyone keeping track of the rate of failure? I know that my anecdotal evidence means nothing, but if 10% of the Charlie Christian box sets are duds, I think there might be something wrong...
There is a replica of the Atanasoff-Berry computer at Iowa State University. The ABC is arguably the first ever digital computing device. Betcha didn't know it came from Iowa.
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http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/Articles/Chronic
Besides that, ISU has enough geekiness going on to keep you busy visiting labs for a long time.
Don't forget text zooming with the mouse wheel!!
How about a filter for evolution? Even if I can convince mom to use linux, there is no way I can talk her through procmail.
Thanks for the quick answer!
Bero, hopefully you will see this and be able to answer...(I always appreciate seeing your answers whenever a new Red Hat release comes around.)
Can users of Ximian Gnome desktop upgrade to RH7.3? I've been keeping up to date with Red Carpet, so I didn't upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2, but I'd like to try Valhalla. Any known problems between Red Hat's packages and Ximian's?
Thanks!
I'm using evolution as my mail client. I can't seem to come up with a clever filter that will remove the Klez emails I receive.
I guess it's just more of an annoyance, but if anyone knows of a good regex filter that I could use, it would be great!
I have tried bidding on multiple auctions from the same seller and gotten outbid by another seller before. I don't think they were shill bids, although I am probably relying on the trust I had in the seller. Still, the bidders I was competing with would often be the winner of at least one of the auctions I was going for.
Use $ to sort the index for the current folder that you are viewing in pine. You can sort by subject, arrival, from, to, Date, size, thread, and a few others.
Good luck!
You are probably correct.
Most don't even care about the right to copy or redistribute it except in making some limited copies for friends or to install on other computers.
You are probably correct on this point as well, however...
For most people Word works well and the issue of it being proprietary never effects them in any way they are likely to be aware of.
...your second sentence and your third don't agree with each other in most cases. Most users of Windows *know* that they are not supposed to provide copies of Word to their friends and family. This is EXACTLY the point of free software! If I have a copy of OpenOffice, I can freely give it to my brother, without feeling even a twinge of guilt.
I know that you meant that the file format was not proprietary, and that is what is being debated, but I think that even Windows users are aware of the issues surrounding making copies of MS Office products....
Wow....Hacker.....what a great game. My father spent hours trying to figure out that game. He had diagrams of what spy to sell what artifact to and all the steps to assemble the document. But, the spy satellites would always get him a couple seconds before he completed the mission. He finally figured out how to beat the game: he made a copy of the game onto a different floppy disk. When he played with the copy, he could finish the game. I never bought that as the solution to the game, but in retrospect, that would be pretty brilliant, if true.
I have a Honda with the chipped key, and the remote starter that this guy was talking about. The security question occurred to me, so I tried to think about how a thief would go about using the key that's in the remote starter against me.
You can't just remove the key and then take the car. You have to remove the key, remove the remote starter, then reconnect the ignition to the car's starter. This job, in an ideal environment would take about an hour to do.
It then occurred to me that the least secure place to leave the car is in my own garage, since that place would provide the thieves with the most cover to work under overnight.
Thank you. That is exactly what I was trying to say.
In regards to software, there are two kinds of "speech" available. The first is the "speech" of actually creating the software. The second is the "speech" of modifying and/or redistributing the first kind. The first kind is a legal and unalienable right. Unfortunately, the second is not an unalienable right, but a granted priviledge. Despite the existance of the first ammendment to the US Constitution, you are not allowed to take the political writings of Richard Stallman and modify them for redistribution. You are not allowed to take the New York Times and republish it as the Yonkers Yodeler.
Actually, I believe you are talking about copyright. Copyright is what keeps me from reprinting the NY Times, and I don't believe the Constitution (or its amendments) says ANYTHING about copyright.
I said allowed to do almost anything with Free Software for a reason. I am not allowed to strip the software of credit from its original creator. There is still a license that one must agree to use with free software... However, I am completely within my right to take any GPL software and charge whatever I want for my service of providing it to you. Try doing THAT with your copy of Windows2000.
"Free as in speech" means "allowed to do whatever you want with it". With Linux (and all GNU software), you are allowed to do (almost) whatever you want with it. This includes being able to modify the code AND the right to sell the software and copies of the software. With closed source software, you are generally not allowed such a luxury.
The reason this is important is not so much that you or I will modify the code, but that there are people out there that can (And will) do it, if only given the chance. Open Source and Free Software models allow for a greater chance of that working.
You've got a good point and, more importantly, a great attitude. I appreciate that.
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My point is that a 20 second start time is nothing to brag about. Especially if I'm startig the porgram to read a
I'm just comparing it to my patience tolerance. In 20 seconds, I could launch soffice, leave my office, take a whiz, come back and wait for it to finish loading.
When I want to use one of the tools from Star/OpenOffice, I usually wnt to use them one at a time. Why should it load the spreadsheet part if all I want to do is type a document?
Maybe this is why it takes so long to load, which is something that you can't deny and shouldn't excuse.
Well said! Thank you...that was exactly my point.
I can't believe that 20 seconds on a 500 Mhz machine is a good load time for a word processor!
This is the sort of thing that will be thrown in my face when I try to tell people to give OpenOffice a shot.
You make a good case. I'm just not sure I know what is covered by the word "papers" in the amendment. I don't even know if postal mail is or not....
It should be, I suppose. But we don't really live in that perfect world anymore, do we?
Unless an email transmission is considered an "effect", I'm not sure how it falls under the protection of the 4th amendment. That is, unless you personally KNOW that it is not on a remote server or has been intercepted by ANYONE (ie nongovernment entities inclusive) then how do you know it is private? Because post mail is? Surely, you're not that naive. Communication is ONLY as secure as the persons involved sending and receive choose to make it!! But that makes a great case for why we should rail against proposed interference of encryption standards.
I think it's a tough issue. I'm not sure where I exactly stand...
It is not reasonable for all of a person's digital documents and communications to have no protection against government eavesdropping, as so many scared people are now advocating.
I have always operated under the assumption that ANYTHING that goes out on the internet it subject to interception. Not by the government, but by anyone that can touch a computer connected to the internet. Therefore, I use encryption for things that I want to be kept private. (I know full well that the encryption is not perfect...for example it is only as secure as the recipient keeps it, but I digress...)
Digital documents kept on my home computer, I consider property protected by the Constitution. If I send out an email to a friend, I do not consider it to be as private as the medical records which my doctor holds. However, the privacy of medical records that I am priviledged to have is not guaranteed in the Constitution. Since there is no ISP-client priviledge recognized by a court of law in this country, I consider it perfectly acceptable that they hold log files containing times that I logged in and other network traffic which I am responsible for. They don't log it so that Big Brother can follow me. But, if it helps the FBI, then maybe they will hand it over. It is THEIR data. I have NO RIGHT to say what happens to something that I agreed to. On the other hand, if they were to actually log messages that I sent, that might fall under a wiretap violation. It's hard to say there. But like I said before, I don't assume anything sent plaintext to be private.
The Senate bill you are talking about (not sure which one) would be a far more valid criticism of the government than the issue of the FBI going after ISPs. Thanks for bringing it up.
/. would investigate bills like the ones you mention... if not them, someone else maybe.
I wish