Alan, if you're reading, remember that you're in the UK, not the US, and don't pander to their damn silly DMCA "law" either as a joke or semi-seriously
Is why people think software with its encryption is any different from other products.
Is Ford or Firestone sueing the group that discovered the flaw when you put an Explorer on Firestone tires?
Are lockmakers sueing those that pick locks?
Why do software companies think they're so "special" in that regard?
Isn't there a consumers' association in the US?
If there is, I don't know how they act, but in many countries this sort of association tries to keep regular companies on their toes by regularly testing their products and giving them a thumbs-up or thumbs-down verdict. Also if consumers are having problems with a company due to a breach of contract or bad sale or whatever, the association has a bunch of lawyers on their payroll who are willing to sue.
Wouldn't it just be a great idea if encryption-breakers could team up with that kind of organisation? I mean, it is of course in the consumer's interest that this sort of work goes on.
When I was working for my uncle who's a contractor and runs a small contracting company.
In this tiny street we were hired to replace the sidewalk since it was basically ruined.
Well, after we ripped the old one up we discovered that the soil had to be replaced as well (it was clay-like sand and just plain mud) or else the new sidewalk would break into pieces as soon as temperature goes below 0 Celcius.
As we were digging up the old soil the civil engineer came to take a look and came to the conclusion that the hot water pipes needed to be replaced as well.
And just as we were escavating more soil, to make it easy to remove the hot water pipes.
The power company then came and decided to lay down a new cable, they were followed by the phone company that decided it would be a great idea to put down new pipes for pulling cable through, for future accomodation.
Now, that project was only supposed to take a maximum of two weeks, started in early September and was still going on when I quit at my uncle's company in late November.
Moral of the story in case you didn't feel like reading it. It's not just the software industry that suffers from shortsighted decisions.
What system settings might that be?
I've only had to reboot once for anything system related on my XP Pro installation. And that was only the good ol' windowsupdate reboot. E.g. I don't have to reboot for ANY network settings
If they found him to be so annoying why did they hire him in the first place?
You just don't hire someone, expect him to do some work and then NOT pay them and STILL expect him to hand over his work.
Alas, I'm not familiar with US labour laws (being a 'Pean and all;-), but there have GOT to be laws against what FT is doing to Mosfet. Him being an annoying prick is besides the point.
Stable branch or not.
You really should NOT run production servers (the ones at work anyway) on the latest and greatest kernels.
Who knows what data corrupting bugs are in a new kernel? I recall a few years back when a kernel was released in the that corrupted data over time. (Albeit that was in the testing branch, 2.1.44, but it's a matter of principle).
At least set it up on test servers first before launching on production servers.
Do yourself (and us) a favour, try before you buy.
Having guns here is about keeping the govenment (local or federal) in check.
Don't tell me you actually believe that?
The government is protected by means of swat teams and the like from people who want to "keep the government in check".
That 2nd amendment just doesn't fit in a modern society where we (by we I mean the rest of the civilised world, as I'm not American) settle our differences by negotiating and NOT using physical force.
Guns and other forms of weaponary are and should be for national defense only!
p.s. Don't bring up the usual Swiss argument about gun-ownership. In Switzerland, yes, it IS mandatory because every man over 18 can be called to active duty at any given time. If you have a gun, can YOU be called for active duty at any given time?
Well, the ACDSee replacement doesn't support the usual ACDSee shortcuts. And it doesn't support fullscreen (I mean, what good is watching windowed pr0n?;)
Also, the DVD player in the Media Player doesn't work as well as it should.
I tried it the other day on my laptop with IIS 5.0. Well, not only left my IIS tight up and secure, it left it so secure that it wouldn't even serve pages.
Well, to an end-user it is. To an end-user sum() == SUM(), they don't care about case sensitivity.
To them sum() not adding up (whereas SUM() would) would give the impression that SUM() doesn't work, therefore the spreadsheet is not usable.
You know what? You're absolutely right.
It's after all my own damn fault I cannot buy a PC without Windows these days. If I don't like it I can just buy my own damn components and install linux on that if I really want Linux that bad huh!
Well, perhaps I WANT to buy an HP Kayak WITH LINUX PRE-LOADED! Isn't it a violation of ME the CUSTOMER that I can't buy an HP Kayak with Linux preloaded?
If you want to bring on the argument that nobody will buy such a workstation because there isn't a demand for it, then the argument reminds me of an old scetch I saw once on TV.
"So, tell me, why is it that you don't have a telephone?"
-
"That's because nobody calls me"
-
"Well, why doesn't anybody call you?"
-
"Because I don't have a telephone"
I don't Microsoft being in the market. What I want is EQUAL ground in the market. I want CHOICE; and not the Ford type of choice either (any color as long as it's black). Unfortunately for me and my longing for choice Microsoft doesn't want to play nice.
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... but where's the negative side to all this? The one that makes you say conversion is a bad idea?
Alan, if you're reading, remember that you're in the UK, not the US, and don't pander to their damn silly DMCA "law" either as a joke or semi-seriously
Is why people think software with its encryption is any different from other products.
Is Ford or Firestone sueing the group that discovered the flaw when you put an Explorer on Firestone tires?
Are lockmakers sueing those that pick locks?
Why do software companies think they're so "special" in that regard?
Isn't there a consumers' association in the US?
If there is, I don't know how they act, but in many countries this sort of association tries to keep regular companies on their toes by regularly testing their products and giving them a thumbs-up or thumbs-down verdict. Also if consumers are having problems with a company due to a breach of contract or bad sale or whatever, the association has a bunch of lawyers on their payroll who are willing to sue.
Wouldn't it just be a great idea if encryption-breakers could team up with that kind of organisation? I mean, it is of course in the consumer's interest that this sort of work goes on.
"Linus Torvalds" - 640,000
"640K should be enough for anybody"
Instead he just _had_ to have 649K.
When I was working for my uncle who's a contractor and runs a small contracting company.
In this tiny street we were hired to replace the sidewalk since it was basically ruined.
Well, after we ripped the old one up we discovered that the soil had to be replaced as well (it was clay-like sand and just plain mud) or else the new sidewalk would break into pieces as soon as temperature goes below 0 Celcius.
As we were digging up the old soil the civil engineer came to take a look and came to the conclusion that the hot water pipes needed to be replaced as well.
And just as we were escavating more soil, to make it easy to remove the hot water pipes.
The power company then came and decided to lay down a new cable, they were followed by the phone company that decided it would be a great idea to put down new pipes for pulling cable through, for future accomodation.
Now, that project was only supposed to take a maximum of two weeks, started in early September and was still going on when I quit at my uncle's company in late November.
Moral of the story in case you didn't feel like reading it. It's not just the software industry that suffers from shortsighted decisions.
What system settings might that be?
I've only had to reboot once for anything system related on my XP Pro installation. And that was only the good ol' windowsupdate reboot. E.g. I don't have to reboot for ANY network settings
If they found him to be so annoying why did they hire him in the first place? ;-), but there have GOT to be laws against what FT is doing to Mosfet. Him being an annoying prick is besides the point.
You just don't hire someone, expect him to do some work and then NOT pay them and STILL expect him to hand over his work.
Alas, I'm not familiar with US labour laws (being a 'Pean and all
That is not the issue!
Future Tech hired the man. He does some work, they fork over some money. Plain and simple.
Companies can't get away with acting like kids, i.e. "Hey, this guy really is a pain in the ass, let's just NOT pay him for his work".
If the company doesn't want to pay him, fine, then why don't they just fire him?
Well, at least there's a chain around it instead of just a single lock on the door.
Stable branch or not.
You really should NOT run production servers (the ones at work anyway) on the latest and greatest kernels.
Who knows what data corrupting bugs are in a new kernel? I recall a few years back when a kernel was released in the that corrupted data over time. (Albeit that was in the testing branch, 2.1.44, but it's a matter of principle).
At least set it up on test servers first before launching on production servers.
Do yourself (and us) a favour, try before you buy.
Having guns here is about keeping the govenment (local or federal) in check.
Don't tell me you actually believe that?
The government is protected by means of swat teams and the like from people who want to "keep the government in check".
That 2nd amendment just doesn't fit in a modern society where we (by we I mean the rest of the civilised world, as I'm not American) settle our differences by negotiating and NOT using physical force.
Guns and other forms of weaponary are and should be for national defense only!
p.s. Don't bring up the usual Swiss argument about gun-ownership. In Switzerland, yes, it IS mandatory because every man over 18 can be called to active duty at any given time.
If you have a gun, can YOU be called for active duty at any given time?
don't plant a tower in un-populated areas then!
Well, the ACDSee replacement doesn't support the usual ACDSee shortcuts. And it doesn't support fullscreen (I mean, what good is watching windowed pr0n? ;)
Also, the DVD player in the Media Player doesn't work as well as it should.
But the rest of the tools seem to be OK.
I tried it the other day on my laptop with IIS 5.0. Well, not only left my IIS tight up and secure, it left it so secure that it wouldn't even serve pages.
Link here.
Really?
Us 'peans aren't don't have any of that "armed society" in any of our societies yet I swear we've been described as more or less polite.
the ETA is responsible for bombings in SPAIN!, not France.
Since there are a lot of people behind NAT'd IP's the store clerks will probably hear a lot of ..
"Yeah, it's 10.0.0.1" or "192.168.0.45" etc.
Well, to an end-user it is. To an end-user sum() == SUM(), they don't care about case sensitivity.
To them sum() not adding up (whereas SUM() would) would give the impression that SUM() doesn't work, therefore the spreadsheet is not usable.
firewall
I escavated my trusty old 486 and will be setting it up as a router/firewall as of tomorrow (or whenever the phonecompany finally hooks up my DSL)
but the original poster was looking for wireless cards that are bootable.
I've opened a few .xls documents in KSpread and they opened correctly (albeit slowly and not exactly going easy on the RAM)...
YMMV
true ....
But have you ever sat in a "fart chair"?
If you don't know what a fart chair is, it's a chair that's been farted a lot in.
You can only fart so many times before the odour sticks to the chair.
When that happens you'll get a nice puff of fresh fart everytime you sit down.
.. you know that .. the good people that read slashdot know that. But Joe Sixpack doesn't, ergo the knee-jerk reaction.
I think it's included in the XScreensaver package by Jamie Zawinski (of Netscape fame).
You know what? You're absolutely right.
It's after all my own damn fault I cannot buy a PC without Windows these days. If I don't like it I can just buy my own damn components and install linux on that if I really want Linux that bad huh!
Well, perhaps I WANT to buy an HP Kayak WITH LINUX PRE-LOADED! Isn't it a violation of ME the CUSTOMER that I can't buy an HP Kayak with Linux preloaded?
If you want to bring on the argument that nobody will buy such a workstation because there isn't a demand for it, then the argument reminds me of an old scetch I saw once on TV.
"So, tell me, why is it that you don't have a telephone?"
-
"That's because nobody calls me"
-
"Well, why doesn't anybody call you?"
-
"Because I don't have a telephone"
I don't Microsoft being in the market. What I want is EQUAL ground in the market. I want CHOICE; and not the Ford type of choice either (any color as long as it's black). Unfortunately for me and my longing for choice Microsoft doesn't want to play nice.
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