Re:You guys still use HTTP to get this? P2P!
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I don't believe time was the point; I was responding to the trojan'd copy piece. MD5SUM will ensure that, but I have to agree that P2P for such things seems like a waste.
Re:You guys still use HTTP to get this? P2P!
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That doesn't make any sense; you can still download the MD5SUM file from any number of mirrors (even redhat's) and compare the md5sum to ensure you have a non-trojan'd copy.
I wonder if EA will be including the option to have your sim virtually GAG after taking a few bites of a McCow, or the obligitory accompanying gastrointestinal distress?
He had had that phone since the 1940s. He 'rented' it every month - it was one of those old, huge, black rotary phones. I can imagine he's paid well over a few hundred (if not over a thousand) dollars over the years for it.
In the light of events over the last couple of years with respect to cdrom music, file sharing/swapping, et al - I believe it is long overdue for the law to start doing its duty.
There is NOTHING illegal, or ethically or morally wrong with what the music industry does today;
The populous supports the industry gladly - immediately swallowing outrageous prices for cdroms and other media.
The populous does not take action to instead support local musicians - to band together and make those successful who they think earn it without ridiculous record and recording contracts.
Frankly, we deserve it. Only in the face of hardship will the average joe respond to the outrageous prices, lack of control over purchases, and ridiculous laws. For a long time we have all been the proverbial frog in the pot of cold water, with the temperature slowly rising.
I welcome the most draconian laws they can possilby put on the American public. I wholeheartedly endorse them scanning our hard drives with impunity, making DVDs that can't be copied, making CDROMs that can't be copied - or even (via "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates) music that you pay for EVERY TIME YOU LISTEN TO IT.
Bring it on! The decision of whether or not we deserve our freedoms is quickly coming to pass... and as far as I'm concerned, it's long overdue. As long as we continue to be collectively passive, and hold our television and mind-numbing media entertainment above our individual and collective rights, we deserve it.
I've dealt with this issue as well...
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In the past, I've run across ISPs whose FTP sites for customers (supposedly managing their web sites) were woefully unsecured. IE 3.0 had a nice way of during ftp shifting you to the / directory, where you could dip directly into/etc.
More than once I've found passwd files which were able to be 1. Downloaded 2. Cracked with little effort using Crack, etc. I debated for some time whether I should call the ISP and alert them to the issue. Thankfully, I never did, and just figured Darwinism would work it's way through.
This is truly a sad case - prosecuting those who bring issues to businesses and the fed government. If you stumble on a security issue, I guess it's just best not to help.
Why can't M$ just label things without the ridiculous personal identifier? Perhaps instead we could have the "Bob Dole" effect: Bob Dole's Pictures Bob Dole's Videos Bob Dole's Music Bob Dole's Documents Bob Dole's Erectile Disfunction [sic]
I was thinking, "KDE-XP"
Actually, the screenshots look beautiful. This is by far my fav window manager.
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I'm not sure raw performance can be gauged by 'victories' in chess, seeing as how each situation will present new, and different calculations to be decided.
It would be much more interesting to see them each perform calculations based on say ten thousand different chess scenarios, and show that side by side in the java applet. This way they are both presented with the same problem solving task.
I [for one] like to purchase $20,000, flat-screen, plasma televisions, so I can make out the tip of the pimple on a fly's ass.
Ludicrous clarity is quite an incentive for me never to be able to copy any of my store-bought products! Why if I could only have my eyes surgically altered to take advantage of the infra-red spectrum there's no telling what lucious eye-candy AOL-TIMEWARNER-DISNEY could produce for me!
You must also own an HP Pavillion, and probably enjoy formatting and re-installing their scratch messy operating system and overwriting all your data on a bi-monthly basis....
Perhaps you've been busy, and haven't heard of Enron's issues lately. I'm sure they had wonderful business 'sense', but those darn unethical decisions they made eventually caught up with them.
If I was an investor in Microsoft (which I am not), I would wonder now what other secrets they are keeping from their unsuspecting 'shareholders'.
But then, on the other hand, the SEC can whitewash such deeds faster than a bishop forgiving a child molesting priest....
Maybe I'm in the minority, but most of the commercials go by at such a fast speed, that I have simply no idea what the hell they are trying to sell.
The next time a commercial comes on, time the seconds between shifts from one scene to the next. The average I've been able to determine is 1.5 seconds. Now perhaps I'm a bit slow, but I generally can't follow the speed of the ads coming through the television.
All I see during the commercial break are streams of beautiful colors, and the high-pitched squealing of desperate advertisements. Sometimes I tend to catch the tail end of long-winded pharmaceutical commercials where the happy middle-aged woman is playing with her kids at a park, while a nice stranger politely informs me of the mild side-effects of said drug "Zenophenobarbitol" which range from stomach cramps, to cancer and heart arrest.
Folks, television is expensive in so many ways. Cable and satellite costs are outrageous, the programming is pathetic, and the news is now entertainment oriented and basically just a tool for propaganda.
Most importantly, this is your life you are wasting in front of the tube. Just turn it off, and give it to GoodWill.
This is, pure and simple, M$'s desperate attempt to ensure that APIs simply stay out of the hands of the states - nothing more.
Since they won't elaborate on any of the possible bugs [which by their statments might lead to Armageddon], it seems everyone must simply comply and exempt such APIs as M$ deems fit.
I find it incredible that national security stems into Digital Rights Management (DRM). Can someone elaborate on how the two are even remotely connected? Also, are there any/. people using Message Queuing which might have some feedback on what this will do to their current plans?
Yes, but you probably aren't using the proper java perhaps? I found the 'holy grail' - Install Netscape Navigator 6.x for Linux in/usr/local/netscape6
then go into /usr/local/netscape6/plugins/
and copy the entire folder into /usr/local/mozilla/plugins
overwriting if asked. Works great.
This will never make the light of day. Let's review promises and predictions:
1. Flying cars (1950s)
2. Personal Planes (1960s)
3. 1/2 the world living peacefully underwater in huge cities like 'atlantis' (1970s)
4. "No one will ever need more than 640k of ram" (1980s)
5. Cold Fusion (no damnit, not from Macromedia!) (since 1940s)
I'm sure we'll all hold our collective breaths for this one!
You know, that's just untrue [and this is coming from a linux geek]. M$ has good incident resolution,although perhaps overpriced. Their knowledge base is pretty amazing, and overall well done. I haven't found other knowledge bases that are as well kept and interlinked as theirs so far - especially when you consider how many products they have.
The only incident I have had issues with is with much older technology (SQL Server 6.5) recently when I was looking up a stored procedure issue I was programming and ended up on another vendor's site finding the resolution through google!
My greatest fear of M$'s knowledgebase is that they will continue to only put in there what they deem to be 'valid' for users, and keep some important information to themselves.
Note that I used to work at Apple's tech support years ago, and it was amazing how much stuff they kept internally that we weren't allowed to release to the public.
For those of you asleep at the wheel since oh, say 1996, simply go read Bill Gate's book, The Road Ahead to get a feeling for the future according to Gates. It is proceeding exactly as he predicted (and wanted), with ownership, intellectual rights, etc becoming the final frontier, and corporations controlling their future. This is nothing new in this story.
Compare it to McDonald's, which is really in the real estate business, NOT necessarily profiting from fast food. The same is coming true for Microsoft - Windows is simply a vehicle to intellectual property rights.
I couldn't agree more. I'm RedHat 'certified' from a couple of years ago, but I use Mandrake as my desktop, as do a few friends of mine. I'm quite willing to pay for items I use and respect, especially if it is voluntary.
This is a hard point for a lot of Linux users to come to terms with, IMHO. There will be those who stubbornly refuse and think that they will always be able to get everything for free. For you who are willing to fight this grand fight, more power to you. I believe there is a solid spot in the market for those who are willing to voluntarily shell out a small amount of $$ for value-added features that companies like Mandrake provide. I'm just not sure the business model is quite there yet.
We are, as a linux community, helping decide the future of our product, and I do mean OUR product. Support what you wish, but support it with your cash as well as your yapper. Mandrake gives a lot back to the community, and many 'experienced' users like myself are seeing a large influx of 'first time' users testing the waters on Mandrake. There's no need for a holy war here - it's just a simple fact that it's an easier install process, typically supports more bleeding edge devices, and gives the desktop user a more polished interface.
The beauty of Open Source is that it is voluntary. You can get involved, or not get involved. I the M$ world, I have no choices. In this Linux world, I do, and I increasingly vote with my $$ as time goes on, because I feel I can make a difference. I vote with money because I don't have the skills, nor the time to contribute in the form of C++ code.
If every Mandrake user donated a paltry $10 a year to support the product, there is no doubt that the company would be quite viable. Just remember that unfortunately these companies with a 'help us' business model will end up suffering the same as the shareware developers, who get less than 2% participation on average. The linux community (cathedral vs. bazzar) has done a fine job of creating an incredible distributed and loosely organized development model, but we still lack the organizational skills to get the average end user to support with money those who do the grunt work. What a shame.
I think I speak for the majority of us Athlon owners when I say I'd be willing to pay a bit more if someone would create an "Athlon Fan Crowbar" and distribute it with my new processor/MB combo.
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I don't believe time was the point; I was responding to the trojan'd copy piece. MD5SUM will ensure that, but I have to agree that P2P for such things seems like a waste.
???
That doesn't make any sense; you can still download the MD5SUM file from any number of mirrors (even redhat's) and compare the md5sum to ensure you have a non-trojan'd copy.
I wonder if EA will be including the option to have your sim virtually GAG after taking a few bites of a McCow, or the obligitory accompanying gastrointestinal distress?
He had had that phone since the 1940s. He 'rented' it every month - it was one of those old, huge, black rotary phones. I can imagine he's paid well over a few hundred (if not over a thousand) dollars over the years for it.
There is NOTHING illegal, or ethically or morally wrong with what the music industry does today;
The populous supports the industry gladly - immediately swallowing outrageous prices for cdroms and other media.
The populous does not take action to instead support local musicians - to band together and make those successful who they think earn it without ridiculous record and recording contracts.
Frankly, we deserve it . Only in the face of hardship will the average joe respond to the outrageous prices, lack of control over purchases, and ridiculous laws. For a long time we have all been the proverbial frog in the pot of cold water, with the temperature slowly rising.
I welcome the most draconian laws they can possilby put on the American public. I wholeheartedly endorse them scanning our hard drives with impunity, making DVDs that can't be copied, making CDROMs that can't be copied - or even (via "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates) music that you pay for EVERY TIME YOU LISTEN TO IT.
Bring it on! The decision of whether or not we deserve our freedoms is quickly coming to pass... and as far as I'm concerned, it's long overdue. As long as we continue to be collectively passive, and hold our television and mind-numbing media entertainment above our individual and collective rights, we deserve it.
More than once I've found passwd files which were able to be
1. Downloaded
2. Cracked with little effort using Crack, etc.
I debated for some time whether I should call the ISP and alert them to the issue. Thankfully, I never did, and just figured Darwinism would work it's way through.
This is truly a sad case - prosecuting those who bring issues to businesses and the fed government. If you stumble on a security issue, I guess it's just best not to help.
Why can't M$ just label things without the ridiculous personal identifier? Perhaps instead we could have the "Bob Dole" effect:
Bob Dole's Pictures
Bob Dole's Videos
Bob Dole's Music
Bob Dole's Documents
Bob Dole's Erectile Disfunction
[sic]
I was thinking, "KDE-XP" Actually, the screenshots look beautiful. This is by far my fav window manager.
It would be much more interesting to see them each perform calculations based on say ten thousand different chess scenarios, and show that side by side in the java applet. This way they are both presented with the same problem solving task.
You don't say.
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Ludicrous clarity is quite an incentive for me never to be able to copy any of my store-bought products! Why if I could only have my eyes surgically altered to take advantage of the infra-red spectrum there's no telling what lucious eye-candy AOL-TIMEWARNER-DISNEY could produce for me!
You must also own an HP Pavillion, and probably enjoy formatting and re-installing their scratch messy operating system and overwriting all your data on a bi-monthly basis....
If I was an investor in Microsoft (which I am not), I would wonder now what other secrets they are keeping from their unsuspecting 'shareholders'.
But then, on the other hand, the SEC can whitewash such deeds faster than a bishop forgiving a child molesting priest....
I'm highly preturbed! It must be an accounting glitch, nothing more.
We all know that a company such as Microsoft with its high upstanding ethical and moral values would never do anything to mislead the common investor.
What is a geek to do when he can't rely on his own government to keep secret, accurate, and complete backups of his email!?
Oh, like we'd all fall for Bill Gates giving us $10.00. Maybe $10.00 off the next Office XP^2 which might retail for $499 for an upgrade. Hmmph.
The next time a commercial comes on, time the seconds between shifts from one scene to the next. The average I've been able to determine is 1.5 seconds. Now perhaps I'm a bit slow, but I generally can't follow the speed of the ads coming through the television.
All I see during the commercial break are streams of beautiful colors, and the high-pitched squealing of desperate advertisements. Sometimes I tend to catch the tail end of long-winded pharmaceutical commercials where the happy middle-aged woman is playing with her kids at a park, while a nice stranger politely informs me of the mild side-effects of said drug "Zenophenobarbitol" which range from stomach cramps, to cancer and heart arrest.
Folks, television is expensive in so many ways. Cable and satellite costs are outrageous, the programming is pathetic, and the news is now entertainment oriented and basically just a tool for propaganda.
Most importantly, this is your life you are wasting in front of the tube. Just turn it off, and give it to GoodWill.
Since they won't elaborate on any of the possible bugs [which by their statments might lead to Armageddon], it seems everyone must simply comply and exempt such APIs as M$ deems fit.
I find it incredible that national security stems into Digital Rights Management (DRM). Can someone elaborate on how the two are even remotely connected? Also, are there any /. people using Message Queuing which might have some feedback on what this will do to their current plans?
Yes, but you probably aren't using the proper java perhaps? I found the 'holy grail' - Install Netscape Navigator 6.x for Linux in /usr/local/netscape6
/usr/local/netscape6/plugins/
/usr/local/mozilla/plugins
then go into
and copy the entire folder into
overwriting if asked. Works great.
1. Flying cars (1950s)
2. Personal Planes (1960s)
3. 1/2 the world living peacefully underwater in huge cities like 'atlantis' (1970s)
4. "No one will ever need more than 640k of ram" (1980s)
5. Cold Fusion (no damnit, not from Macromedia!) (since 1940s)
I'm sure we'll all hold our collective breaths for this one!
The only incident I have had issues with is with much older technology (SQL Server 6.5) recently when I was looking up a stored procedure issue I was programming and ended up on another vendor's site finding the resolution through google!
My greatest fear of M$'s knowledgebase is that they will continue to only put in there what they deem to be 'valid' for users, and keep some important information to themselves.
Note that I used to work at Apple's tech support years ago, and it was amazing how much stuff they kept internally that we weren't allowed to release to the public.
Compare it to McDonald's, which is really in the real estate business, NOT necessarily profiting from fast food. The same is coming true for Microsoft - Windows is simply a vehicle to intellectual property rights.
This is a hard point for a lot of Linux users to come to terms with, IMHO. There will be those who stubbornly refuse and think that they will always be able to get everything for free. For you who are willing to fight this grand fight, more power to you. I believe there is a solid spot in the market for those who are willing to voluntarily shell out a small amount of $$ for value-added features that companies like Mandrake provide. I'm just not sure the business model is quite there yet.
We are, as a linux community, helping decide the future of our product, and I do mean OUR product. Support what you wish, but support it with your cash as well as your yapper. Mandrake gives a lot back to the community, and many 'experienced' users like myself are seeing a large influx of 'first time' users testing the waters on Mandrake. There's no need for a holy war here - it's just a simple fact that it's an easier install process, typically supports more bleeding edge devices, and gives the desktop user a more polished interface.
The beauty of Open Source is that it is voluntary. You can get involved, or not get involved. I the M$ world, I have no choices. In this Linux world, I do, and I increasingly vote with my $$ as time goes on, because I feel I can make a difference. I vote with money because I don't have the skills, nor the time to contribute in the form of C++ code.
If every Mandrake user donated a paltry $10 a year to support the product, there is no doubt that the company would be quite viable. Just remember that unfortunately these companies with a 'help us' business model will end up suffering the same as the shareware developers, who get less than 2% participation on average. The linux community (cathedral vs. bazzar) has done a fine job of creating an incredible distributed and loosely organized development model, but we still lack the organizational skills to get the average end user to support with money those who do the grunt work. What a shame.
I think I speak for the majority of us Athlon owners when I say I'd be willing to pay a bit more if someone would create an "Athlon Fan Crowbar" and distribute it with my new processor/MB combo.
Basically:
With Jumping and Lots of Bullets: Tribes 2 with UltraRenegades mod.
Without Jumping and lots of bullets: Tribes 2.