Personaly I don't care about it that much, but Its easy to see how sombody sniffing your packets might find something embarassing. Over zealous investigator do have a way of making mountains out of mole hills, I guess they take it personal when thay waist days of time investigating stupid trivial things that don't amount to much.
Realy they don't, you just have to make it SOUND like they are losing money. Imagine a 10 sec sound bite on local TV where game-addict says "Blizzard is attacking us, the hard-core gammers, their core market. bnet rulz!" Maybe some media orientated pickets on WC3 street date ect. Just make the stockholders think something big is going on
I'm sure, I'm remebering correctly that JUNO, a free, ad sponsored ISP; was either going to, or had anounced their intention to have their user's either migrate to a paid plan, or run some kind of drug analylsis program on their machines. I think their EULA even had a line that required that end user's machines run 24/7, but they were not planning to actualy enforce that clause. From what I've seen in the field, joe aveage windows user realy doesn't multi-task anyways so there are lots of idle CPU cycles connected to the internet. I've processed 89 work units for SetiAtHome on my machine.
It appears that you need./ readers to tell you to scrap the red font on a black background. I usualy don't flame people but come on even porn sites gave that up in the 1980's. when part 2 comes out, i'll store the page and edit out your color's and view localy
I never had a model 100 but I loved my CoCo, Color Computer. One of the first that could actualy multi-task with a third-part OS, and you could use those new-fangled 3.5 inch floppy disks to replace audio cassets for mass-storage, transfered at 1500 baud.
Tandy had some real cutting edge stuff in its day.
my first computer COSMAC ELF that never actualy ran, and used a RCA 1802 processor, 255 bytes of static ram, yes that bytes not kilobytes. input was done by setting a toggle switch to LOAD, setting the 8 toggle switches to match the bytes bit pattern and pressing the single-step button! The "mother=board was wire-wrapped.
Most landmines are not used as a military tool to control and canalize oposing forces movement but rather at a genocide/terror device. Because of this many of these landmines, lets include crude booby-traps, man-traps, and command detonated devices here for General purposes, are installed with anti-handleing devices and used in a drop and run mode. Mine-field clearence is a particularly hazardous duty and requires extensive training.
Mines are normaly detected by sweeping an area with a mine detector, metalic detectors detect the magnetic annomlies created by the presence of metal in the ground, the same as civilian coin detectors people use to fine change and rings lost on the beach.
Non-metalic mine detectors, use radio or microwaves to detect variations in ground density, most landmines are made of plastic, as the predonomiate material today. Think soaped up electrinic stud detector here.
Finaly mines are detected by probing with a stick or aluminum tent stake (many anti-vehicle mines also have a magnetic detonator) by hand, this is very dangerous and usualy only done afeter a sweep by one of the above detectors. When doing a clearence operation a lane 18-24 inches wide is worked at time; it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that clearing an acre takes a long time. If the robot can clear a 4 foot lane, and go ten times faster than a man crawling on hes belly, pushing a stick into the ground 3 inches apart, it'll turn an impossible job into a do-able job.
Also remember this is not just something that's dones in far-away places; Military bases often have artilery impact area, and not all shells that are shot explode on impact, a miniscule number just go thud. These unexploded shells just sit there in the ground with detonators that just need an nth more to detonate. Add some nut riding an motorcycle, where he shouldn't be and runs one over and somebody is dead.
Replying to an other post, yes theroretical most military explosive can be burned without exploding, miliatary explosives are much less sensitive than civian explosive. They need a hotter primer than civian explosives, in act a civialian detonator probably won't set off military explosives, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!
but shooting them with incideary bullets also addd physical compression and may cause an explosion, or worst, just high sensitize the explosives!
$75K is cheap compared to training costs, manpower costs, and more importantly costs of loss-of-life and limb and medical costs.
That was on of the best posts I've read in./ in a while. I really like the way you've caught them either way; If I were a M$ stockholder I might consider filing a law-suit.
Personaly I don't think that any contribution is wrong, but crearly the amonts spent by MS is unreasonalbly large, and clearly irresponsible fiduciarily.
The Register, On Friday he repeated his desire to base future GNOME development on the.NET APIs using work from his Mono project.
".NET is a fantastic technology upgrade for GNOME from Microsoft," he said. see for the full text. The above appears at the bottom, following the link, Miguel de Icaza says things
GNOME is not adopting Mono or.NET and
Decisions in the GNOME world are done by active
contributors and module maintainers. I have given
my maintainership status on every module I
maintained to other members of the GNOME team as I got more involved with Ximian and later on with Mono.
So effectively I have no "maintainer" control. so it appears to me that the register might be trying to stir up trouble where it doesn't exist, or they don't know the difference between Ximian/Mono and Gnome. Also I didn't find any of the quotes on the page they linked and I looked hard. oh wait maybe a covert team of monkey-boy hackers from Ximian cracked the gnome mail archives and removed the incriminating page for Miguel!
Who better than Oracle to prove or disprove the Linux for the Enterprise thing. They definatly have the programing muscle to fix anything that needs to be fixed, and if they can't a lot of developers will burn some midnight oil just to pull it off.
Ellison, is the only CEO I can think of with balls big enough to push this through. I read a article where he joked about having to send a swat team to one of their Monteal Datacenter to force the employees there to use Oracle software.(I think he was only half joking too).
It's not to likely, that a guy who can brag about saving his company 1 Billion dollars, is going to crash and burn over an operating system choise, the reseach is all ready done in an the lab.
I was at the Atlanta olympics, as part of the DOD security detail, and what surprised me the most was the stuff you'll never see. The general public has no idea how hard the "mass media" realy works to put out their polished production. The crews don't just show up and shoot good because they are "pros", they are pros because for every minute of air-time, they've done nine minutes of rehersal. If there is a bunch of "mass media" crap on your TV, its because that's what sells so blame yourselves.
The olympics are just another parade of fake people getting richer that's where I see the internet streaming broadcasts being useful. Sure everyone gets to see the favorite for the gold on TV, what we don't see is that the vast majority of athlete's there realy aren't much better than most of us; seriously most olympians are not some kind of engineered super-human,
And yes everyone found the money thing offensive, but the problem is things still have to be paid for to hae the olympics, and if the IOC don't get it some other bunch of dirtbags will anyways
I'm not sure why government doc have to be "nicely formated" or what it even is, are we talking about adding a 1/72 inch of leading between lines or what? So basicaly I agree with you, additionaly XHTML/CSS alows for better archivability of documents as you can difine what your tags realy mean.
Would it not be great if they also used CVS for laws and regulations? then we common types would only have to down the dif's instead of a 100 page regulation evertime they change a comma to a semi-colon or add one sentence.
It can be very advantagious for the Government to go civil instead of criminal such as; criminal often has arbitrary limits on fines where civil can be for actual damages, and especialy criminal needs beyond a resonable doubt for conviction, but civil only needs a preponderance of evidence.
Also you can be tried by the gov for both a crime and for civil damages for the same offense, and frequently the Gov will go civil after losing a criminal case.
Most IRS actions are in civil juricdictions rather than crimainal.
IANAL, so there are probably more that I'm not a ware of.
For the last few years I've resisted pressures from my partner to optimise our puny website to be more IE/broadband friendly. I've found over time that when your site displays correctly with netscape 4.x browsers, it usualy displays correctly on everthing. I try to make sure every page is standards compliant.
Over all I still see the trend going toward a more diverse browser population, and most user still using dial-up connections. Personaly I use three browsers, chosing each based on experience with my favorite sites, I uses Opera predominatly.
Postnuke driven sites are interesting because there is usualy a stats link which shows what browsers and OS'es have viewed the site. This could be interesting to watch as AOL users are loaded up with gecko!
A lot of your market share is there only because we who use Linux® have stuck by you. We have been ridiculed because we are using an "off-brand" processor, we've rationalized a way thermal problem's and fragile cores to get the benefit of more bang for the buck. We have suffered through inadequate compiler support, until your market share has grown to the point where an honest push onto the main-stream desktop is possible.
And what do we get for it, no real support, write your own fix, no; that we can, and often do. What we got was forgotten, you didn't even tell us. We are used to and demand full disclosure, and in real time. Linix people hang their dirty laundry out in public to give everyone a fair and equal chance at a fix.
We're often treated as a minority because we are, but treat us as a second class minority at our own peril. In short don't ever let the marketing weenies convince you to hide something from us; if we wanted to be treated that way we would use Win/Intel products
In Graffenwhor in Germany, they started shooting artillery in 1912 and other than 4 hours on sundays, all of Christmas and New Years day, and four days when Patten took it over as WWII ended, the artilery firing is constant. When I got home, after three years there, I had nightmares for two weeks until I got used to not hearing constant explosions in the background.
You would be amazed at what kind of noise you can get used to when sleeping, it's usualy the change that bothers you the most.
matter/energy in the universe to make it collapse, then nothing in the universe can escape it's "edge" -- one of the definitions for a black hole. actualy you're being a little generous, there only has to be enough for it to become steady-state. I all ways thought that the exsistance of Hubbles constant is proof that our universe is a event-horizon limited object, i.e when hubble's constant forces your volocity to equal the speed of light, your at the edge. Interestingly your always at the center, you could move past what appeared to be the edge of the universe, and still be in the center of it, your friend who didn't move would become imaginary, as you passed his event horizon.
Also FYI the equation is E^4 = m^4C^4p^2q^2, not E= MC^2.
you're lucky, I'm 24,599 ft. from the CO, I can get 128K x 128K sDSL for US$ 89.00 a month. Comcast said we would have cable modem's by the end of Dec. or Jan, but the trucks owned by the fiber installer's company are still driving around town, so my guess is more like june or july.
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I thought that the Roman's also had dictatorships, it was a six month term or such. Not to far from our (US) war powers act, and was used in times of extreme emergency. The natural limiting factor was that the term was limited and it worked well until the term limit was ignored.
Like the broadband thing, give a limited term advantage to get the basic infrastucture installed. I think it would be ideal for a municiplity to ram-rod fiber instaltion then lease back bandwith and hire contractors to actualy operate it. That way the city or township could insure that even low-density area have coverage available.
The most effective way to avoid spam, whether through junk mail or e-mail, is to simply ignore and/or delete it, I would like a client that deletes the spam without having to download it;Maybe just down load the header's, does the POP3 protocal allow this?
As far as confirming the address something like this; <img src=evilspam.nul/image/onebit.gif?spamvictem@examp le.com > makes an entry in the server logs confirming the Email address if html is enabled in the client.
My brother's employer out-sourced their Email to an other company, that company considered have Email's funneled through their NT box by a solaris box running 30 instances of sendmail over a T1 line a deinal-of-service attack.
What is bacillis thermophilus you ask? It a handy little bacteria that is commonly and legaly sent through the US Mail system by Medical and Dental professionals. Its used because it is highly resistant to heat, it will not grow until its heated to 140 C.
How it's used is, a spore sample is inserted into the office's autoclave, a steam heat sterilizer, with a normal load of instruments to be sterilized. The exposed sample is then send to a lab and cultured. If the B.thermophilis grows the autoclave must be fixed or adjusted, if it doesn't all is well.
Since the mail is now sterilized by irradiation, the B. thermophilis is dead and will never grow, and all of the autoclave check out good no matter how bad they may be!
Now where do you think your greater risk comes from, untested autoclaves at the dentist's office, or anthrax in the mail? Of course the samples can be sent by an alternate carrier that doesn't irradiate, but knowing how the dental profession marks up prices, every patient will pay for the once a month expense.
Maybe when someone sends a.doc format attachment when a text file would do fine, we should reply, Please resent, attachment was deleted by virus scanner, re-sending as plain text, or HTML file.
or how about < Humor Mode>Sorry my reply to your word doc attachment contained a virus. I use Linux® so I don't have to worry about or scan for them, are you sure it was clean when you sent it to me?</Humor Mode>
I have a dual-boot machine and the Windows® 95A side absolutely chocks on the installed modem card, and has developed what I think are BIOS related problems, (P 90MHz ISA system) but my Linux® side of the machine runs fine at least for a P90.
I'm not an expert on these things, but my understanding was that these proprietary drivers often add an additional layer to the OS and generaly slowed things down a bit.
If a card was well supported by conforming to the published standards, it didn't need a propietary driver and in most cases should be expected to run faster using the OSes built-in, highly stable and well-tested drivers in both Linux® and Windows®.
In a dream system the goal is maximum concurency of tasks. You get that by the CPU doing CPU tasks, the modem doing modem tasks, the hardrive controller doing the hardrive tasks as well as the video card doing the video tasks. When the card lacks intellegence and forces the CPU to help out, things tend to get slower and glitchy.
I've seen Windows applications crash and burn on launch, because of non-standard OEM drivers
I agree that's a Duh, but it presents a common assumption. When people question a common assumption, and it's proven wrong it has far reaching effects. when it's proven correct, it leads to further research that is usualy more useful.
example how much freeloading should a group tollerate? Do we ding someone every time he has a bad day, or do we carry him/her a little bit?
Perhaps more importantly how much should it cost to punish someone?
Personally I can hack together some simple Perl and PHP stuff, should I be punished by other open-source programmer's because the software I enjoy using is beyond my skills to contribute to?
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people are really getting brainwashed these days., no not here anyways, we know we have to chose, 1. the Microsoft-way 2. the non-Microsoft way.
Microsoft does what they do, don't like, don't use it. no biggies, its not rocket science
Personaly I don't care about it that much, but Its easy to see how sombody sniffing your packets might find something embarassing. Over zealous investigator do have a way of making mountains out of mole hills, I guess they take it personal when thay waist days of time investigating stupid trivial things that don't amount to much.
Realy they don't, you just have to make it SOUND like they are losing money. Imagine a 10 sec sound bite on local TV where game-addict says "Blizzard is attacking us, the hard-core gammers, their core market. bnet rulz!" Maybe some media orientated pickets on WC3 street date ect. Just make the stockholders think something big is going on
I'm sure, I'm remebering correctly that JUNO, a free, ad sponsored ISP; was either going to, or had anounced their intention to have their user's either migrate to a paid plan, or run some kind of drug analylsis program on their machines. I think their EULA even had a line that required that end user's machines run 24/7, but they were not planning to actualy enforce that clause.
From what I've seen in the field, joe aveage windows user realy doesn't multi-task anyways so there are lots of idle CPU cycles connected to the internet. I've processed 89 work units for SetiAtHome on my machine.
It appears that you need ./ readers to tell you to scrap the red font on a black background. I usualy don't flame people but come on even porn sites gave that up in the 1980's. when part 2 comes out, i'll store the page and edit out your color's and view localy
I never had a model 100 but I loved my CoCo, Color Computer. One of the first that could actualy multi-task with a third-part OS, and you could use those new-fangled 3.5 inch floppy disks to replace audio cassets for mass-storage, transfered at 1500 baud. Tandy had some real cutting edge stuff in its day.
my first computer COSMAC ELF that never actualy ran, and used a RCA 1802 processor, 255 bytes of static ram, yes that bytes not kilobytes. input was done by setting a toggle switch to LOAD, setting the 8 toggle switches to match the bytes bit pattern and pressing the single-step button! The "mother=board was wire-wrapped.
Most landmines are not used as a military tool to control and canalize oposing forces movement but rather at a genocide/terror device. Because of this many of these landmines, lets include crude booby-traps, man-traps, and command detonated devices here for General purposes, are installed with anti-handleing devices and used in a drop and run mode. Mine-field clearence is a particularly hazardous duty and requires extensive training.
Mines are normaly detected by sweeping an area with a mine detector, metalic detectors detect the magnetic annomlies created by the presence of metal in the ground, the same as civilian coin detectors people use to fine change and rings lost on the beach.
Non-metalic mine detectors, use radio or microwaves to detect variations in ground density, most landmines are made of plastic, as the predonomiate material today. Think soaped up electrinic stud detector here.
Finaly mines are detected by probing with a stick or aluminum tent stake (many anti-vehicle mines also have a magnetic detonator) by hand, this is very dangerous and usualy only done afeter a sweep by one of the above detectors. When doing a clearence operation a lane 18-24 inches wide is worked at time; it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that clearing an acre takes a long time. If the robot can clear a 4 foot lane, and go ten times faster than a man crawling on hes belly, pushing a stick into the ground 3 inches apart, it'll turn an impossible job into a do-able job.
Also remember this is not just something that's dones in far-away places; Military bases often have artilery impact area, and not all shells that are shot explode on impact, a miniscule number just go thud. These unexploded shells just sit there in the ground with detonators that just need an nth more to detonate. Add some nut riding an motorcycle, where he shouldn't be and runs one over and somebody is dead.
Replying to an other post, yes theroretical most military explosive can be burned without exploding, miliatary explosives are much less sensitive than civian explosive. They need a hotter primer than civian explosives, in act a civialian detonator probably won't set off military explosives, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!! but shooting them with incideary bullets also addd physical compression and may cause an explosion, or worst, just high sensitize the explosives!
$75K is cheap compared to training costs, manpower costs, and more importantly costs of loss-of-life and limb and medical costs.
That was on of the best posts I've read in ./ in a while. I really like the way you've caught them either way; If I were a M$ stockholder I might consider filing a law-suit.
Personaly I don't think that any contribution is wrong, but crearly the amonts spent by MS is unreasonalbly large, and clearly irresponsible fiduciarily.
The Register, On Friday he repeated his desire to base future GNOME development on the .NET APIs using work from his Mono project.
.NET
".NET is a fantastic technology upgrade for GNOME from Microsoft," he said.
see for the full text. The above appears at the bottom, following the link, Miguel de Icaza says things
GNOME is not adopting Mono or
and
Decisions in the GNOME world are done by active contributors and module maintainers. I have given my maintainership status on every module I maintained to other members of the GNOME team as I got more involved with Ximian and later on with Mono.
So effectively I have no "maintainer" control.
so it appears to me that the register might be trying to stir up trouble where it doesn't exist, or they don't know the difference between Ximian/Mono and Gnome. Also I didn't find any of the quotes on the page they linked and I looked hard. oh wait maybe a covert team of monkey-boy hackers from Ximian cracked the gnome mail archives and removed the incriminating page for Miguel!
Who better than Oracle to prove or disprove the Linux for the Enterprise thing. They definatly have the programing muscle to fix anything that needs to be fixed, and if they can't a lot of developers will burn some midnight oil just to pull it off.
Ellison, is the only CEO I can think of with balls big enough to push this through. I read a article where he joked about having to send a swat team to one of their Monteal Datacenter to force the employees there to use Oracle software.(I think he was only half joking too).
It's not to likely, that a guy who can brag about saving his company 1 Billion dollars, is going to crash and burn over an operating system choise, the reseach is all ready done in an the lab.
I was at the Atlanta olympics, as part of the DOD security detail, and what surprised me the most was the stuff you'll never see. The general public has no idea how hard the "mass media" realy works to put out their polished production. The crews don't just show up and shoot good because they are "pros", they are pros because for every minute of air-time, they've done nine minutes of rehersal. If there is a bunch of "mass media" crap on your TV, its because that's what sells so blame yourselves.
The olympics are just another parade of fake people getting richer that's where I see the internet streaming broadcasts being useful. Sure everyone gets to see the favorite for the gold on TV, what we don't see is that the vast majority of athlete's there realy aren't much better than most of us; seriously most olympians are not some kind of engineered super-human,
And yes everyone found the money thing offensive, but the problem is things still have to be paid for to hae the olympics, and if the IOC don't get it some other bunch of dirtbags will anyways
I'm not sure why government doc have to be "nicely formated" or what it even is, are we talking about adding a 1/72 inch of leading between lines or what? So basicaly I agree with you, additionaly XHTML/CSS alows for better archivability of documents as you can difine what your tags realy mean.
Would it not be great if they also used CVS for laws and regulations? then we common types would only have to down the dif's instead of a 100 page regulation evertime they change a comma to a semi-colon or add one sentence.
It can be very advantagious for the Government to go civil instead of criminal such as; criminal often has arbitrary limits on fines where civil can be for actual damages, and especialy criminal needs beyond a resonable doubt for conviction, but civil only needs a preponderance of evidence. Also you can be tried by the gov for both a crime and for civil damages for the same offense, and frequently the Gov will go civil after losing a criminal case.
Most IRS actions are in civil juricdictions rather than crimainal.
IANAL, so there are probably more that I'm not a ware of.
For the last few years I've resisted pressures from my partner to optimise our puny website to be more IE/broadband friendly. I've found over time that when your site displays correctly with netscape 4.x browsers, it usualy displays correctly on everthing. I try to make sure every page is standards compliant.
Over all I still see the trend going toward a more diverse browser population, and most user still using dial-up connections. Personaly I use three browsers, chosing each based on experience with my favorite sites, I uses Opera predominatly.
Postnuke driven sites are interesting because there is usualy a stats link which shows what browsers and OS'es have viewed the site. This could be interesting to watch as AOL users are loaded up with gecko!
A lot of your market share is there only because we who use Linux® have stuck by you. We have been ridiculed because we are using an "off-brand" processor, we've rationalized a way thermal problem's and fragile cores to get the benefit of more bang for the buck. We have suffered through inadequate compiler support, until your market share has grown to the point where an honest push onto the main-stream desktop is possible.
And what do we get for it, no real support, write your own fix, no; that we can, and often do. What we got was forgotten, you didn't even tell us. We are used to and demand full disclosure, and in real time. Linix people hang their dirty laundry out in public to give everyone a fair and equal chance at a fix.
We're often treated as a minority because we are, but treat us as a second class minority at our own peril. In short don't ever let the marketing weenies convince you to hide something from us; if we wanted to be treated that way we would use Win/Intel products
In Graffenwhor in Germany, they started shooting artillery in 1912 and other than 4 hours on sundays, all of Christmas and New Years day, and four days when Patten took it over as WWII ended, the artilery firing is constant. When I got home, after three years there, I had nightmares for two weeks until I got used to not hearing constant explosions in the background.
You would be amazed at what kind of noise you can get used to when sleeping, it's usualy the change that bothers you the most.
matter/energy in the universe to make it collapse, then nothing in the universe can escape it's "edge" -- one of the definitions for a black hole.
actualy you're being a little generous, there only has to be enough for it to become steady-state. I all ways thought that the exsistance of Hubbles constant is proof that our universe is a event-horizon limited object, i.e when hubble's constant forces your volocity to equal the speed of light, your at the edge. Interestingly your always at the center, you could move past what appeared to be the edge of the universe, and still be in the center of it, your friend who didn't move would become imaginary, as you passed his event horizon.
Also FYI the equation is E^4 = m^4C^4p^2q^2, not E= MC^2.
you're lucky, I'm 24,599 ft. from the CO, I can get 128K x 128K sDSL for US$ 89.00 a month. Comcast said we would have cable modem's by the end of Dec. or Jan, but the trucks owned by the fiber installer's company are still driving around town, so my guess is more like june or july.
I thought that the Roman's also had dictatorships, it was a six month term or such. Not to far from our (US) war powers act, and was used in times of extreme emergency. The natural limiting factor was that the term was limited and it worked well until the term limit was ignored.
Like the broadband thing, give a limited term advantage to get the basic infrastucture installed. I think it would be ideal for a municiplity to ram-rod fiber instaltion then lease back bandwith and hire contractors to actualy operate it. That way the city or township could insure that even low-density area have coverage available.
The most effective way to avoid spam, whether through junk mail or e-mail, is to simply ignore and/or delete it,p le.com >
I would like a client that deletes the spam without having to download it;Maybe just down load the header's, does the POP3 protocal allow this?
As far as confirming the address something like this;
<img src=evilspam.nul/image/onebit.gif?spamvictem@exam
makes an entry in the server logs confirming the Email address if html is enabled in the client.
My brother's employer out-sourced their Email to an other company, that company considered have Email's funneled through their NT box by a solaris box running 30 instances of sendmail over a T1 line a deinal-of-service attack.
What is bacillis thermophilus you ask? It a handy little bacteria that is commonly and legaly sent through the US Mail system by Medical and Dental professionals. Its used because it is highly resistant to heat, it will not grow until its heated to 140 C.
How it's used is, a spore sample is inserted into the office's autoclave, a steam heat sterilizer, with a normal load of instruments to be sterilized. The exposed sample is then send to a lab and cultured. If the B.thermophilis grows the autoclave must be fixed or adjusted, if it doesn't all is well.
Since the mail is now sterilized by irradiation, the B. thermophilis is dead and will never grow, and all of the autoclave check out good no matter how bad they may be!
Now where do you think your greater risk comes from, untested autoclaves at the dentist's office, or anthrax in the mail? Of course the samples can be sent by an alternate carrier that doesn't irradiate, but knowing how the dental profession marks up prices, every patient will pay for the once a month expense.
Maybe when someone sends a .doc format attachment when a text file would do fine, we should reply, Please resent, attachment was deleted by virus scanner, re-sending as plain text, or HTML file.
or how about < Humor Mode>Sorry my reply to your word doc attachment contained a virus. I use Linux® so I don't have to worry about or scan for them, are you sure it was clean when you sent it to me?</Humor Mode>
I have a dual-boot machine and the Windows® 95A side absolutely chocks on the installed modem card, and has developed what I think are BIOS related problems, (P 90MHz ISA system) but my Linux® side of the machine runs fine at least for a P90.
I'm not an expert on these things, but my understanding was that these proprietary drivers often add an additional layer to the OS and generaly slowed things down a bit.
If a card was well supported by conforming to the published standards, it didn't need a propietary driver and in most cases should be expected to run faster using the OSes built-in, highly stable and well-tested drivers in both Linux® and Windows®.
In a dream system the goal is maximum concurency of tasks. You get that by the CPU doing CPU tasks, the modem doing modem tasks, the hardrive controller doing the hardrive tasks as well as the video card doing the video tasks. When the card lacks intellegence and forces the CPU to help out, things tend to get slower and glitchy.
I've seen Windows applications crash and burn on launch, because of non-standard OEM drivers
I agree that's a Duh, but it presents a common assumption. When people question a common assumption, and it's proven wrong it has far reaching effects. when it's proven correct, it leads to further research that is usualy more useful.
example how much freeloading should a group tollerate? Do we ding someone every time he has a bad day, or do we carry him/her a little bit?
Perhaps more importantly how much should it cost to punish someone?
Personally I can hack together some simple Perl and PHP stuff, should I be punished by other open-source programmer's because the software I enjoy using is beyond my skills to contribute to?