1) Single Machine: On the windows update page, click Personalize Windows Update and remove all the crap you don't want to run anymore.
2) In a network enviroment:
a) Install SUS on a server
b) Make a GPO that installs AutoUpdates to your servers.
c) SUS downloads fixes from MS.
d) AutoUpdates installs fixes from SUS (after admin approval)
e) Never use windows update again.:-)
If you want to change international laws, you go and lobby those international bodies that can change the laws. If you want to change US laws, you go to the US Congress.
Except that there's very little likelyhood that you personally or as a small/med/all_but_the_largest business would ever be able to negotiate with a foreign country. That's actually a job for (you guessed it!) the US Congress.
So in order to deal with forgeign laws that you don't like, you bitch to your congress person, which is what MS & MPAA are doing:-)
It's still the Justice department saying all pirates are terrorists. MS & MPAA are just pointing out where the pirates are.
Interesting Note:
Check out the bio of the MS rep:
I joined Microsoft in 1999 after
a 28-year career as a Special Agent with the DEA and the FBI investigating international drug
trafficking organizations. My testimony this morning will focus on software counterfeiting -- the
illegal manufacture and sale of pirate CD-ROMs, packaging, and other physical components.
No but what they're trying to do is equate copying of copyrighted materials with organized crime... even fair use copying of those copyrighted materials. Does this article state that? No, not explicitly but it doesn't take too much reading between the lines to discern that.
Actually, the Oversite Hearing, article and my comments were about counterfeiting and piracy, not illegal/fair-use copying.
Still fair use is not copyright violation, no matter what the DMCA says. The DMCA is wrong. IMHO, the best post on this topic was the one that said that the MPAA and MS are citing cases in Russia and China. How exactly is the US DOJ supposed to impact those cases? There is already strong laws against such activity in this country. The ONLY possible conclusion MUST be that the MPAA and MS are trying to create stronger laws against what they see as loopholes in US law. Namely: fair use.
You do realize that the GPL is *not* enforceable in many coutries, Russia or China to name some, don't you?
The point of the hearing was not changing US laws, but how to get the international community to enact better copyright/anti-piracy provisions in their laws.
Now I am getting tired of the "you are with us or you are with the terrorists" tie-in to everything (when is the surgeon general going to apply this to smokers?:-), but having better international support of copyrights cannot be anything but a good thing.
I wish people would read the articles before summarizing them *incorrectly*.
Yes, Microsoft & MPAA stated that pirating is rampant and bad.
They did *NOT* state that pirating=terrorism. That statement was made only by the Justice Department (which is not necessarily better, IMHO, but significantly different to the slant that the article lends).
From the article: John Malcolm, a Justice Department official who oversees the computer crime division, warned the panel about the connections between copyright piracy and terrorism.
"Organized crime syndicates are frequently engaged in many types of illicit enterprises, including supporting terrorist activities," Malcolm said. "All components of the Justice Department...will do everything within their power to make sure that intellectual property piracy does not become a vehicle for financing or supporting acts of terror."
Even my Mom tries (somewhat successfully) to use databases. She's got a half a dozen "databases" set up in MS Works (not even Access) that are basically glorified spreadsheets, but with reporting, filtering etc built right into easy to find buttons. They are mainly things that she used to keep in Excel or even in Word (lists of phone numbers, Little League rosters, AAUW stuff...) but she's figured out that a database is really what she needs.
Once users understand how useful databases can be, it becomes part of their "I can't get rid of Windows because Linux doesn't have this" justification.
You do have to hand it to Microsoft for creating ODBC and really promoting the ability to separate your front-end from your database. You could just as easily connect Access to SQLServer as Oracle. Compare that to the old dBase and FoxPro days.
This has got to be the most trivial piece of code ever for a Slashdot story.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# # CGI-Shell -- Version 0.17a # Copyright 2003 Michael Pradel # # This file is part of CGI-Shell. # # CGI-Shell is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # CGI-Shell is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with CGI-Shell; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA #
The first pioneer from New York who wanted to settle California probably didn't make it all the way - he probably stopped part way, and helped establish a town, and the next guy coming through was able to get farther.
That is strange. Not sure how yours was setup, but if you checked files out for developing, it was irrelevant to the ability to backup the VSS database - same with being logged in.
Correct, but I forgot that we always ran ANALYZE.EXE before backups, causing the backups to "fail", which is what I should have said...
ClearCase is a full, team oriented SCM. Very robust.
Source Safe is fine for small development project (teams of 1-5, projects that have very few releases etc) but it doesn't scale well, has sh*tty back up capabilities (Can't backup if someone's logged in, can't force someone to logout...) and most of the cool functionality of a SCM (Labeling, branching, merging) are very poorly implimented.
Not to say that I don't use it for my personal development projects (scripts, small C++ COM objects, VB projects), but you must understand it's limitations.
Very simple. One act is against federal law, the other act is not.
It's a Good Thing(tm) when the FBI/Police are allowed to only enforce laws that exist.
What we have to do is change the laws. Write (spam:-) your congress person. Call them. Do anything.
During the recent campaign/election I had the opportunity to talk with a couple of candidates. I made sure that I understood their stance on my current pet peeves (H1B, DMCA, Copyrights), and voted accordingly. I also informed them as to *why* I was voting the way I was.
I'm worried that this will become like Phillips and CD's with copy protection.
Phillips should be saying that any copyrighted cd is *NOT* a CD, and can't be called CD.
How would the standards committee be able to say that *every* document created by Word/AbiWord/[Star|Open]Office conforms? And could they pull the product? Highly unlikely.
Slashdot Mirror
Yet again, I cannot get over my fear that clicking on any link in any comment will be Goatse.
/.!
:-)
Damn you,
I am, at this time, copyrighting the phrase, Goatsephobia
1) Single Machine: On the windows update page, click Personalize Windows Update and remove all the crap you don't want to run anymore.
:-)
2) In a network enviroment:
a) Install SUS on a server
b) Make a GPO that installs AutoUpdates to your servers.
c) SUS downloads fixes from MS.
d) AutoUpdates installs fixes from SUS (after admin approval)
e) Never use windows update again.
All based off of the platinum-iridium international prototype VW Bug kept in a vault at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France.
Maybe your kids need new parents :-)
So in order to deal with forgeign laws that you don't like, you bitch to your congress person, which is what MS & MPAA are doing :-)
It's still the Justice department saying all pirates are terrorists. MS & MPAA are just pointing out where the pirates are.
Interesting Note:
Check out the bio of the MS rep:
You do realize that the GPL is *not* enforceable in many coutries, Russia or China to name some, don't you?
The point of the hearing was not changing US laws, but how to get the international community to enact better copyright/anti-piracy provisions in their laws.
Now I am getting tired of the "you are with us or you are with the terrorists" tie-in to everything (when is the surgeon general going to apply this to smokers? :-), but having better international support of copyrights cannot be anything but a good thing.
I wish people would read the articles before summarizing them *incorrectly*.
Yes, Microsoft & MPAA stated that pirating is rampant and bad.
They did *NOT* state that pirating=terrorism. That statement was made only by the Justice Department (which is not necessarily better, IMHO, but significantly different to the slant that the article lends).
From the article:
John Malcolm, a Justice Department official who oversees the computer crime division, warned the panel about the connections between copyright piracy and terrorism.
"Organized crime syndicates are frequently engaged in many types of illicit enterprises, including supporting terrorist activities," Malcolm said. "All components of the Justice Department...will do everything within their power to make sure that intellectual property piracy does not become a vehicle for financing or supporting acts of terror."
Am I the only one who was afraid to click on the link?
Like this:-)
So do you have to pay more taxes if its cool in August and don't use your air conditioning as much as you should?
Stupid people.
Jeez -
Even my Mom tries (somewhat successfully) to use databases. She's got a half a dozen "databases" set up in MS Works (not even Access) that are basically glorified spreadsheets, but with reporting, filtering etc built right into easy to find buttons. They are mainly things that she used to keep in Excel or even in Word (lists of phone numbers, Little League rosters, AAUW stuff...) but she's figured out that a database is really what she needs.
Once users understand how useful databases can be, it becomes part of their "I can't get rid of Windows because Linux doesn't have this" justification.
You do have to hand it to Microsoft for creating ODBC and really promoting the ability to separate your front-end from your database. You could just as easily connect Access to SQLServer as Oracle. Compare that to the old dBase and FoxPro days.
Because the Bells are forced to sell access to
their networks at below cost. (according to them)
:-(
I guess I should have read the rest of the files in the tarball.
Don't you need to do a Dr. Evil impersonation when you say that?
The first pioneer from New York who wanted to settle California probably didn't make it all the way - he probably stopped part way, and helped establish a town, and the next guy coming through was able to get farther.
And look at what happened.
We now have Cleveland.
Adelphia's Cable Modems Compromised
Easy, yes. Secure? Private?
Maybe. Maybe Not.
Caveat Lector???
:-)
And then did you eat her liver liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti?
That is strange. Not sure how yours was setup, but if you checked files out for developing, it was irrelevant to the ability to backup the VSS database - same with being logged in.
Correct, but I forgot that we always ran ANALYZE.EXE before backups, causing the backups to "fail", which is what I should have said...
That's like saying Notepad competes with Word.
ClearCase is a full, team oriented SCM. Very robust.
Source Safe is fine for small development project (teams of 1-5, projects that have very few releases etc) but it doesn't scale well, has sh*tty back up capabilities (Can't backup if someone's logged in, can't force someone to logout...) and most of the cool functionality of a SCM (Labeling, branching, merging) are very poorly implimented.
Not to say that I don't use it for my personal development projects (scripts, small C++ COM objects, VB projects), but you must understand it's limitations.
Very simple. One act is against federal law, the other act is not.
:-) your congress person. Call them. Do anything.
It's a Good Thing(tm) when the FBI/Police are allowed to only enforce laws that exist.
What we have to do is change the laws. Write (spam
During the recent campaign/election I had the opportunity to talk with a couple of candidates. I made sure that I understood their stance on my current pet peeves (H1B, DMCA, Copyrights), and voted accordingly. I also informed them as to *why* I was voting the way I was.
Might not do anything.
Might change the world...
I'm worried that this will become like Phillips and CD's with copy protection.
Phillips should be saying that any copyrighted cd is *NOT* a CD, and can't be called CD.
How would the standards committee be able to say that *every* document created by Word/AbiWord/[Star|Open]Office conforms? And could they pull the product? Highly unlikely.
that was supposed to be
<TROLL ON>
Get what you pay for?
</TROLL OFF>
as a joke...
friggin preview...
Get what you pay for?
I actually just love the fact that Calc will take something like this via cut and paste and do the math correctly.
Oh, the irony...
:-)
Jurrasic Park