I bought it last night and downloaded it (took 15 minutes via Cable Modem).
Installed the WineX RPM with no problem. Tried to install the actual Kohan RPM and it barfed. Said "invalid MD5 checksum in Kohan-something something".
I then downloaded a fresh copy, same error, same file.
Awaiting support's answer on this issue. It's not a great introduction to Transgaming, imho.:(
Crappy users are never going to go away. A company with some insight, and a desire to write decent Apps would realize this and program around it as much as possible!
Instead, we have Micro$oft, driven by marketing and Bill's hunger for power. Sure, it's easy to use, but it's easy to 0wn too. The we have Apple, hard to 0wn, easy to use, but nowhere near the installed base. And then there is Linux, much the same.
I lay the blame for these worms where it belongs, at the feet of Micros~1. They could disable a lot of their "features" and stop most of this nonsense.
I mean, come on, this is Micro$oft we are talking about here... marketing, marketing, marketing!
Besides, Yahoo led the way, did they not? I would not be surprised to find out that Microsoft watched that whole Yahoo business very closely, and saw the complete lack of any outcry as a "green light" to go forward with this.
Perhaps, in the UK this is true... but I have yet to see a library in the US that does this...
And, to quote from Eric Flint himself (in his intro to the Baen Free Library)
The same thing happens when someone checks a book out of a public library -- a "transaction" which, again, dwarfs by several orders of magnitude all forms of online piracy. The author only collects royalties once, when the library purchases a copy. Thereafter. ..
Robbed again! And again, and again!
Libraries in the US do NOT pay royalties to anyone. They buy the books (usually discounted heavily) with taxpayer funds. If they had to pay royalties we would not have libraries...
I quit buying CDs years ago due to the RIAA's greedy, grasping control-freak mentality. It will be a cold day in hell before I shell out a single cent to them for some broken incompatible crap like this.
These people live in their own little world - with only the MPAA and some other like-minded morons as neighbors. Small wonder they can get laws like the DMCA passed - Congress lives in the same world.
I just do not foresee people buying these things. Yes, the "public" can be incredibly stupid at times, but they do catch on, eventually, and I think the RIAA's game is up.
"It's older, it's not tied to Microsoft or AOL or a big company, it's one of the Internet protocols... so if you're running Windows or Linux or Macintosh or another flavor of Unix, you can use it," says Schneier. "So it's not that it's more suitable for hackers to use, it's just a more basic service and people who are anti-big-corporation are going to be more likely to use something like IRC."
There's the only useful statement in the whole fscking article. What a loaf of fertilizer. Must have been a boring newsday for the CNN "tech" crew...
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Uh, we are moving in this direction. With XP, Microsoft is moving towards a "rented" OS. You don't pay, you don't boot.
What are they going to do, format your hard drive if you connect with an older version of windows? of Linux?
No. You won't be ABLE to connect, because the protocols will all be secret and propietary - and if you "hack" them, you will go to jail.
Maybe it will not be as bad as this article predicts - but only if people like yourself wake up and put some pressure on Congresscritters to quit coming up with these insane laws like the DMCA and the SSSCA (or whatever DoubleSpeak they renamed it)
Actually, I would prefer to see the/. editors commenting on a lot of things... here, in the comments section. Like Rusty does at k5. I've always thought the editors here should get in the nitty gritty with the rest of us, and not be so aloof.
Wish I had some mod points right now. You just posted my own argument on the whole Linux vs. Windows thing!
Speaking of "support nightmare" - I have had to support various versions of Windows since 1995. It has always been frustrating. The worst part was when I started using Linux in 1996. Suddenly, I was using an OS that was much more stable and easier to configure than Windows - yet I was still having to support Windows on other people's machines. Thus, my nickname on Slashdot was born...
All the states need to do is remove Microsoft's power over the OEMs. Suddenly, you would see Linux shipping on computers, or you would see drastic price reductions on what Microsoft charged for Windows.
For instance, my 11-year-old niece is a Britney/Nsync fan. (hey, she's 11!). Instead of buying her the CD's she wanted at Christmas, I fixed her up with an internet connection and pointed her to Morpheus. She will never buy those cds now. That is a few dollars less that Hitlary Rosen can spend buying Congresscritters.
We all need to do the same. Don't buy CDs! Every dollar you spend goes to buy more hideous laws. With less cash coming in, and with Artists waking up and realizing they don't NEED the RIAA, I predict a slow and painful death for these parasites.
One last thing: Don Henley et. al. staged those anti-RIAA concerts the night of the Grammys. Do you think this could have ever happened 10 years ago? No. Some artists already see the writing on the wall:)
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I first tried Mandrake when 6.0 was out. And I agree, imho they are the best distro out there. Powerful, yet easy to use for a novice. The installer just gets better with every release.
As a long-time Linux user and enthusiast, I put my money where my mouth is and joined the Mandrake Club today. The only "perk" I'd like to see from that really is perhaps a private FTP server for members to get priority access to new releases. $60.00 is nothing at all standing next to all the use I've gotten from my Mandrake installs!
You can bet Bill will correct this horrible situation in the next election. . . problem is, buying off every state could cost more than even Micro$oft is worth! LOL
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I bought it last night and downloaded it (took 15 minutes via Cable Modem).
:(
Installed the WineX RPM with no problem. Tried to install the actual Kohan RPM and it barfed. Said "invalid MD5 checksum in Kohan-something something".
I then downloaded a fresh copy, same error, same file.
Awaiting support's answer on this issue. It's not a great introduction to Transgaming, imho.
That was a very helpful tip!
I use Win2000 at work, and I miss my TAB completion.
THANK YOU!
Ah-ha. I wondered why K5 would not come up, then I come here and see it was linked from /.
Ick. What kind of control-freak authoritarians do you work for, anyway? I just wanted to know, so I'd avoid ever applying to work at such a place...
I'd rather frag Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti!
Blue Skies of Death, anyone?
With all the patent nonsense we've been seeing, I first browsed that and somehow came up with this:
What?! A Trade Association claimed to patent Firewire in 1394 AD?
Gunax lbh. V nz tynq lbh ner serr, sbe abj, naljnl.
Crappy users are never going to go away. A company with some insight, and a desire to write decent Apps would realize this and program around it as much as possible!
Instead, we have Micro$oft, driven by marketing and Bill's hunger for power. Sure, it's easy to use, but it's easy to 0wn too. The we have Apple, hard to 0wn, easy to use, but nowhere near the installed base. And then there is Linux, much the same.
I lay the blame for these worms where it belongs, at the feet of Micros~1. They could disable a lot of their "features" and stop most of this nonsense.
And this is surprising, how?
I mean, come on, this is Micro$oft we are talking about here... marketing, marketing, marketing!
Besides, Yahoo led the way, did they not? I would not be surprised to find out that Microsoft watched that whole Yahoo business very closely, and saw the complete lack of any outcry as a "green light" to go forward with this.
I went to the site, and listened to ACDC's "Highway to Hell" and, funny thing - the first thing that came to mind was:
"Hey! This sounds like William Shatner singing 'Highway to Hell'!" {shudder}
If we had more teachers like you out there, our schools would be in much better shape!
:)
Keep fighting M$
Perhaps, in the UK this is true... but I have yet to see a library in the US that does this...
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And, to quote from Eric Flint himself (in his intro to the Baen Free Library)
The same thing happens when someone checks a book out of a public library -- a "transaction" which, again, dwarfs by several orders of magnitude all forms of online piracy. The author only collects royalties once, when the library purchases a copy. Thereafter. .
Robbed again! And again, and again!
Libraries in the US do NOT pay royalties to anyone. They buy the books (usually discounted heavily) with taxpayer funds. If they had to pay royalties we would not have libraries...
Libraries do NOT pay authors royalties. Where in the world did you get that idea?
The library buys X copies of a book, and lends them out to people for free.
You'd be assuming wrongly in all 4 cases
I quit buying CDs years ago due to the RIAA's greedy, grasping control-freak mentality. It will be a cold day in hell before I shell out a single cent to them for some broken incompatible crap like this.
These people live in their own little world - with only the MPAA and some other like-minded morons as neighbors. Small wonder they can get laws like the DMCA passed - Congress lives in the same world.
I just do not foresee people buying these things. Yes, the "public" can be incredibly stupid at times, but they do catch on, eventually, and I think the RIAA's game is up.
Hey, don't dis the cow. The cow is cool.
It COULD be worse... it could be that creature from the Dell commercials... eeeewwwww!
"It's older, it's not tied to Microsoft or AOL or a big company, it's one of the Internet protocols ... so if you're running Windows or Linux or Macintosh or another flavor of Unix, you can use it," says Schneier. "So it's not that it's more suitable for hackers to use, it's just a more basic service and people who are anti-big-corporation are going to be more likely to use something like IRC."
There's the only useful statement in the whole fscking article. What a loaf of fertilizer. Must have been a boring newsday for the CNN "tech" crew...
Uh, we are moving in this direction. With XP, Microsoft is moving towards a "rented" OS. You don't pay, you don't boot.
What are they going to do, format your hard drive if you connect with an older version of windows? of Linux?
No. You won't be ABLE to connect, because the protocols will all be secret and propietary - and if you "hack" them, you will go to jail.
Maybe it will not be as bad as this article predicts - but only if people like yourself wake up and put some pressure on Congresscritters to quit coming up with these insane laws like the DMCA and the SSSCA (or whatever DoubleSpeak they renamed it)
Actually, I would prefer to see the /. editors commenting on a lot of things... here, in the comments section. Like Rusty does at k5.
I've always thought the editors here should get in the nitty gritty with the rest of us, and not be so aloof.
Wish I had some mod points right now. You just posted my own argument on the whole Linux vs. Windows thing!
Speaking of "support nightmare" - I have had to support various versions of Windows since 1995. It has always been frustrating. The worst part was when I started using Linux in 1996. Suddenly, I was using an OS that was much more stable and easier to configure than Windows - yet I was still having to support Windows on other people's machines. Thus, my nickname on Slashdot was born...
All the states need to do is remove Microsoft's power over the OEMs. Suddenly, you would see Linux shipping on computers, or you would see drastic price reductions on what Microsoft charged for Windows.
There is a solution to this too...
:)
For instance, my 11-year-old niece is a Britney/Nsync fan. (hey, she's 11!). Instead of buying her the CD's she wanted at Christmas, I fixed her up with an internet connection and pointed her to Morpheus. She will never buy those cds now. That is a few dollars less that Hitlary Rosen can spend buying Congresscritters.
We all need to do the same. Don't buy CDs! Every dollar you spend goes to buy more hideous laws. With less cash coming in, and with Artists waking up and realizing they don't NEED the RIAA, I predict a slow and painful death for these parasites.
One last thing: Don Henley et. al. staged those anti-RIAA concerts the night of the Grammys. Do you think this could have ever happened 10 years ago? No. Some artists already see the writing on the wall
I first tried Mandrake when 6.0 was out. And I agree, imho they are the best distro out there. Powerful, yet easy to use for a novice. The installer just gets better with every release.
As a long-time Linux user and enthusiast, I put my money where my mouth is and joined the Mandrake Club today. The only "perk" I'd like to see from that really is perhaps a private FTP server for members to get priority access to new releases. $60.00 is nothing at all standing next to all the use I've gotten from my Mandrake installs!
You can bet Bill will correct this horrible situation in the next election. . . problem is, buying off every state could cost more than even Micro$oft is worth! LOL
Ye gods, don't give them any ideas! Next thing you know they will want an ISP tax!