The sea and road networks should be declared illegal at once! Flying should be made illegal as well. On the basis of what you may ask?
How do you think drugs get transported from one country to another? Teleport? Hardly, drug trafficers use at least one of the aforementioned means of transport to move drugs from one country or part of country to another.
Now, before you mod me down saying that p2p file sharing is nowhere near as bad as trafficing drugs, let us not forget that the authorities see both activities as illegal.
really just any book will be nice AS LONG AS IT'S NOT PRINTED ON GLOSSY PAPER!
I, and many others, just will not read books printed on glossy paper, there is really just like a single degree of light from which one can read it without being bothered by reflection from the paper.
I live on the other side of the pond (Eurotrash, that's me) we call the Atlantic and I've been wondering about the download caps and what the service providers do when someone reaches the cap.
Do they just shut down your service until the next month or do they just charge X cents per MB/GB after that?
They way things are set up in my country is that I've got a DSL line at home and I've got a cap of a GB now and my provider just charges me a couple of cents per MB after I've reached my cap.
Uh huh. Seeing as how the bombers also facilitated cars, why not ban and regulate them as well? They probably used cell phones also, so why not tap all cell phones too?
Let's not forget that the everything the bombers used is used today with a benign intent. Just because some nutcases do crazy stuff with "household" items, doesn't mean the rest of us do.
To the slashdot crowd perhaps. But let us not forget that the PHB's don't care how great Debian (my personal favourite btw.) is, or how well supported SuSE is, or how newbie friendly Mandrake is. They see RedHat, they see RHCE, they see certificates, THEY SEE REPUTATION.
Because that way they don't have to go through the process of building a reputation, which is often a tedious process, especially in the tech industry.
By simply purchasing RedHat they're not just buying the offices, staff and work, they're also buying reputation and a big and solid customer base, and THAT is ALWAYS a good deal.
One feature missing in MSN messenger is that I just can not change the names of the people in my contact list. Which would be a great help when you have two people named "Joe" with a hotmail account that is in no way descriptive of their person.
I'd rather download my latest kernel from a known and reputable source.
P2P is not the way to distribute a critical thing like the kernel source. It only takes one individual with an malicious intent to spread a virus in the kernel itself! Linux has been virus free for over 10 years and I would personally like to keep it that way.
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Interesting.
Do you know how it will handle different resolutions per monitor on laptops?
On my thinkpad I can have a max. resolution of 1024x768, whereas on my external CRT monitor it's 1600x1200.
In order for me to get 1600x1200 res. on my crt monitor on my laptop was to add a special directive in the XF86Config file (usecrt or something), but that meant that I had to change the XF86Config file everytime I switched to and from my LCD and CRT.
Windows however does this automatically.
Actually you can. You just need an initial Ramdisk containing the modules. (mkinitrd something something creates such a ramdisk) Just set the correct parameter in lilo.conf or grub.conf (rerun lilo if you use lilo) and you're set!
That shouldn't be a problem if you're using OpenBSD, I believe it uses an encrypted swap file/partition
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I dare you to do that in a big homogenous environment where, in case of some broken hardware the box is switched for a non-broken one (possibly keeping the disk).
I'd say you're a fool thinking that up to 60% of consumers buy components and put them together.
I'd even dare to say that up to 95% of people that DON'T buy from the major OEMs buy a machine pieced together by the retailer and/or other much smaller OEMs that simple. They usually have a volume discount deal with Microsoft regarding exactly that, at least it wouldn't surprise me from a pure business perspective.
So, by your analogy I could start my own distro and call it.. say.. Coca Cola and NOT have to worry about legal actions from the Coca Cola company since they don't produce computer software?
I can get away with 3-4 hours sleep for maybe 2-3 weeks (not counting weekends) without being worn out. The trick is to not deprive yourself of sleep for too long, your body will tell you when enough is enough.
I find it a bit funny sometimes, yet scary, that when I sleep for just a few hours and try to sleep more when I wake up after that, I find myself in a dreamlike state where there's a great big international plot against me (I had one just this morning).
I've also experienced slow startups in w2k. And I was hooked up to a windows domain, I had no drives mapped. As a general rule I even disabled network devices before I turn the machine off. I disabled the index server on my machine (ok, it made it start up faster), I disabled office's fastfind thingmajig that I never use, I defragged about once a week, I deleted the swapfile and created a new one, turned off unnecessary services. I did everything possible to enhance the machine's performance, but to no avail. It STILL took several minutes to just get me to the desktop! Albeit under XP that startup changed a bit and I now have a desktop up and running in under 3 minutes instead of the earlier 10.
And no, I didn't have a system tray full of junk, the setup was fairly plain with WHQL drivers or manufacturer's drivers without the extra crap (I'm the guy that _always_ picks "advanced" in the setup).
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Actually I believe he's referring to the MSDN Library, which really is just what you'll find on msdn.microsoft.com, only it's on a CD and has indexes.
The sea and road networks should be declared illegal at once! Flying should be made illegal as well.
On the basis of what you may ask?
How do you think drugs get transported from one country to another? Teleport?
Hardly, drug trafficers use at least one of the aforementioned means of transport to move drugs from one country or part of country to another.
Now, before you mod me down saying that p2p file sharing is nowhere near as bad as trafficing drugs, let us not forget that the authorities see both activities as illegal.
really just any book will be nice AS LONG AS IT'S NOT PRINTED ON GLOSSY PAPER!
I, and many others, just will not read books printed on glossy paper, there is really just like a single degree of light from which one can read it without being bothered by reflection from the paper.
On second thought, no, but I got what I deserved for posting a reply before my first caffeine jolt of the day. :)
Well, he did say he was running Linux and not a Windows variant, that pretty much nullifies the viral possibility.
I live on the other side of the pond (Eurotrash, that's me) we call the Atlantic and I've been wondering about the download caps and what the service providers do when someone reaches the cap.
Do they just shut down your service until the next month or do they just charge X cents per MB/GB after that?
They way things are set up in my country is that I've got a DSL line at home and I've got a cap of a GB now and my provider just charges me a couple of cents per MB after I've reached my cap.
Just code a table without a closing tag, and watch IE render the thing anyway.
I actually call that to "die gracefully".
Better GUI, better application support, better security, better use of memory, better networking, better everything
check, check, WHAT?, hahahah!, you're funny, 2 out of 5 ain't bad though.
Uh huh. Seeing as how the bombers also facilitated cars, why not ban and regulate them as well? They probably used cell phones also, so why not tap all cell phones too?
Let's not forget that the everything the bombers used is used today with a benign intent. Just because some nutcases do crazy stuff with "household" items, doesn't mean the rest of us do.
To the slashdot crowd perhaps. But let us not forget that the PHB's don't care how great Debian (my personal favourite btw.) is, or how well supported SuSE is, or how newbie friendly Mandrake is. They see RedHat, they see RHCE, they see certificates, THEY SEE REPUTATION.
Because that way they don't have to go through the process of building a reputation, which is often a tedious process, especially in the tech industry.
By simply purchasing RedHat they're not just buying the offices, staff and work, they're also buying reputation and a big and solid customer base, and THAT is ALWAYS a good deal.
One feature missing in MSN messenger is that I just can not change the names of the people in my contact list. Which would be a great help when you have two people named "Joe" with a hotmail account that is in no way descriptive of their person.
To get that "feature" I have to resort to Jabber.
I'd rather download my latest kernel from a known and reputable source.
P2P is not the way to distribute a critical thing like the kernel source. It only takes one individual with an malicious intent to spread a virus in the kernel itself! Linux has been virus free for over 10 years and I would personally like to keep it that way.
Interesting.
Do you know how it will handle different resolutions per monitor on laptops?
On my thinkpad I can have a max. resolution of 1024x768, whereas on my external CRT monitor it's 1600x1200.
In order for me to get 1600x1200 res. on my crt monitor on my laptop was to add a special directive in the XF86Config file (usecrt or something), but that meant that I had to change the XF86Config file everytime I switched to and from my LCD and CRT.
Windows however does this automatically.
Actually you can. You just need an initial Ramdisk containing the modules. (mkinitrd something something creates such a ramdisk) Just set the correct parameter in lilo.conf or grub.conf (rerun lilo if you use lilo) and you're set!
How would a P2P with the scaling the likes of which IRC networks use?
Since I believe IRC scales pretty good why not build the Gnutella network like that?
That shouldn't be a problem if you're using OpenBSD, I believe it uses an encrypted swap file/partition
I dare you to do that in a big homogenous environment where, in case of some broken hardware the box is switched for a non-broken one (possibly keeping the disk).
I'd say you're a fool thinking that up to 60% of consumers buy components and put them together.
I'd even dare to say that up to 95% of people that DON'T buy from the major OEMs buy a machine pieced together by the retailer and/or other much smaller OEMs that simple. They usually have a volume discount deal with Microsoft regarding exactly that, at least it wouldn't surprise me from a pure business perspective.
Microsoft SQL Server.NET will use the CLR for queries instead of T-SQL
So uhm, how do SQL queries look in CLR? How do I do something trivial like say, do a simple query with a couple of joins and order by's?
So, by your analogy I could start my own distro and call it .. say .. Coca Cola and NOT have to worry about legal actions from the Coca Cola company since they don't produce computer software?
I can get away with 3-4 hours sleep for maybe 2-3 weeks (not counting weekends) without being worn out. The trick is to not deprive yourself of sleep for too long, your body will tell you when enough is enough.
I find it a bit funny sometimes, yet scary, that when I sleep for just a few hours and try to sleep more when I wake up after that, I find myself in a dreamlike state where there's a great big international plot against me (I had one just this morning).
I've also experienced slow startups in w2k. And I was hooked up to a windows domain, I had no drives mapped. As a general rule I even disabled network devices before I turn the machine off. I disabled the index server on my machine (ok, it made it start up faster), I disabled office's fastfind thingmajig that I never use, I defragged about once a week, I deleted the swapfile and created a new one, turned off unnecessary services. I did everything possible to enhance the machine's performance, but to no avail. It STILL took several minutes to just get me to the desktop! Albeit under XP that startup changed a bit and I now have a desktop up and running in under 3 minutes instead of the earlier 10.
And no, I didn't have a system tray full of junk, the setup was fairly plain with WHQL drivers or manufacturer's drivers without the extra crap (I'm the guy that _always_ picks "advanced" in the setup).
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Lack of food causes starvation.