Perhaps Red Hat are going in the right direction by giving a trial membership for one machine on their up2date service. I've found using it even easier than apt-get... Perhaps they'll pull out all the stops next and offer the up2date services free for non-commercial entities (like me!):-)
Red Hat 7.3 with the free up2date service is the first time I've been tempted to move my main server machines from Debian...
Perhaps Micro$haft have taken a leaf from the book of a certain RailTrack director who seems to be going out of his way to give himself bad press (in the UK)...;-)
As a recording artist, would someone be kind enough to remind me why I should spend my hard-earned money on 24-bit/96kHz recording equipment, keeping my theoretical noise floor down to somewhere below -118dB, when some twat is going to trample it with a watermark (read: NOISE!)
Sure, these robots might be smart... But let's see them in a fight to the death against Sergeant Bash, Death Metal and Matilda - the Robot Wars house bots...
Crush!!! Crush!!! Cut!!! Rend!!! Kill!!!
I believe Robot Wars is coming to the States smoetime later this year. If you like robots and think you might enjoy seeing one smash another to pieces, check it out...
P.S. For background research on the presenter, Craig Charles, I would suggest a lengthy session of Red Dwarf watching.. tee-hee;-)
How can the software company make an agreement that is legally binding for you but not for them? I believe it has already happened:
From a Micro$oft EULA:
YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE PRODUCT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.
Yet neither the computer reseller nor Microsoft would refund my money for a copy of Windoze 95 that came with the PC, although I wished to use and install Linux. I now have several spare Micro$oft licenses if anyone wants them, all due to the fact that I have bought windoze PCs but put different operating systems on them. Perhaps if all of us who have spare licenses could donate them to the companies being audited...
And if any of you have heard "Kernkraft 400," by Zombie Nation, the original version was created mainly using a SIDStation. Great 8-bit sound according to an interview in this month's Sound On Sound.
Is it not completely insane that a service provider (one who supposedly 'provides' a 'service') can dictate that they refuse to deal in one of the standard file formats of the WWW? What if I take an action against people stealing (say) a copy of some book I've written. Do all ISPs just wipe every.pdf and.doc file they see on their drives.
Looks like a shortsighted 'solution' will ruin the standards upon which the whole WWW is based.
Think I'll set up an ISP which randomly deletes.html files. You know you can have illegal copyrighted information stored in them...
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Perhaps Red Hat are going in the right direction by giving a trial membership for one machine on their up2date service. I've found using it even easier than apt-get... Perhaps they'll pull out all the stops next and offer the up2date services free for non-commercial entities (like me!) :-)
Red Hat 7.3 with the free up2date service is the first time I've been tempted to move my main server machines from Debian...
-->Gar
Perhaps Micro$haft have taken a leaf from the book of a certain RailTrack director who seems to be going out of his way to give himself bad press (in the UK)... ;-)
-->Gar
As a recording artist, would someone be kind enough to remind me why I should spend my hard-earned money on 24-bit/96kHz recording equipment, keeping my theoretical noise floor down to somewhere below -118dB, when some twat is going to trample it with a watermark (read: NOISE!)
Gar
Sure, these robots might be smart... But let's see them in a fight to the death against Sergeant Bash, Death Metal and Matilda - the Robot Wars house bots...
;-)
Crush!!! Crush!!! Cut!!! Rend!!! Kill!!!
I believe Robot Wars is coming to the States smoetime later this year. If you like robots and think you might enjoy seeing one smash another to pieces, check it out...
P.S. For background research on the presenter, Craig Charles, I would suggest a lengthy session of Red Dwarf watching.. tee-hee
Gar
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And if any of you have heard "Kernkraft 400," by Zombie Nation, the original version was created mainly using a SIDStation. Great 8-bit sound according to an interview in this month's Sound On Sound.
Is it not completely insane that a service provider (one who supposedly 'provides' a 'service') can dictate that they refuse to deal in one of the standard file formats of the WWW? What if I take an action against people stealing (say) a copy of some book I've written. Do all ISPs just wipe every .pdf and .doc file they see on their drives.
.html files. You know you can have illegal copyrighted information stored in them...
Looks like a shortsighted 'solution' will ruin the standards upon which the whole WWW is based.
Think I'll set up an ISP which randomly deletes
-->Gar