Not a good idea to link to this. There are no shortage of rebuttals that point out the faults in the original Tech Central article.
Specifically: You are legally entitled to make a copy of an *original* for your own personal use.
You are just as liable as in the States for making available or providing copies of copies. A song in a shared Kazaa folder is *not* an original. A Canadian user downloading a song from another Canadian user's Kazaa folder is still making a copy of a copy and is thus in violation of copyright.
OK, now tell me an easy way to roll this out to 20+ lawyers home machines without paying a home visit or having them bring in their machines.
I can give them a quick HowTo to set up a PPTP connection to the current Win2K server I'm trying to get rid of, they can handle that. But installing a custom IPSec client, running MSC and importing certificates? No way.
Right, quote a 1998 report on Windows NT's PPTP waeknesses, many of which were addressed in Win2K.
On that topic, could someone suggest a good Linux-based PPTP server that can use Active Directory for authentication/access rights or an IPSEC server that works with XP/Win2K's native IPSEC client?
If you're stuck with Exchange server do something intelligent like sticking a Linux box on the Internet running Postfix, Anomy Sanitizer and Spamassasin. Lock it down nicely and set up a really restricted port-forwarding or proxy arrangement to allow Outlook Web Access if you absolutely, positively gotta have it.
The 'Telstar' the parent refers to is the 1962 pop instrumental piece written by by Joe Meek and performed by the Tornadoes who became the first U.K. band to have a #1 hit in the States, even before the Beatles. 'Telstar' was inspired by the launch of Telstar 1.
Of course, this is way, way before 99.9% of the Slashdot readership were born so I'm not suprised it was missed. Hell, even I was only 1 year old.
The refugee laws are being (or have been) re-written to address this abuse.
Canada will soon not be the favoured refugee nation and it will be easier to kick out refugees-turned-criminals and their families that they sponsored.
...could you explain what exactyly[sic] it is that you input Japanese kanji
Actually it can be very efficient. Remember a couple of kanji charcters can convey an entire phrase in English.
Kanji is input using an Input Method Editor (IME). You type the pronunication of a character using either the regular english keys or the phonetic hiragana keys present on a Japanese keyboard. Pressing the space bar will present a list of characters that match that pronunication. You need to know the exceptions, for example, entering "tokyo" will not get you the right characters for the captial of Japan, you need to type "toukyou". (The o's are elongated)
Modern commercial IMEs use learning and context analysis to allow entire sentences to be converted at a time. For example, typing "watashihaashitatoukyouheikimasu" ("I am going to Tokyo tomorrow") will get you the phrase correctly the first time on most if not all IMEs. A fast typist could input Japanese faster then the same English text. (No spaces!!)
The worst was watching CNN when waiting in line at the bank. They showed a comment from some yokel in the rural States saying something to the effect of "It's those damn Candians, they're so backward they don't even know what power is aboot"
Well, gee, it's not like their hard to find on Intel's site or anything. I just searched on "Pentium Manual" and found Intel has tons of free developer resources.
The more free stuff you give to developers, the more developers develop for your hardware. The more developers developing for your hardware, the more people using your product.
Developers, developers!, DEVELOPERS!!!
Someone stop me before I start bouncing around the room!!
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Unfortunately some TV series writers never learned this.
Not to mention many, many very repeatable quotes:
"That's it! Game Over, man!"
"How you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No, have you?"
"Get away from her, you bitch!"
Not a good idea to link to this. There are no shortage of rebuttals that point out the faults in the original Tech Central article.
Specifically: You are legally entitled to make a copy of an *original* for your own personal use.
You are just as liable as in the States for making available or providing copies of copies. A song in a shared Kazaa folder is *not* an original. A Canadian user downloading a song from another Canadian user's Kazaa folder is still making a copy of a copy and is thus in violation of copyright.
OK, now tell me an easy way to roll this out to 20+ lawyers home machines without paying a home visit or having them bring in their machines.
I can give them a quick HowTo to set up a PPTP connection to the current Win2K server I'm trying to get rid of, they can handle that. But installing a custom IPSec client, running MSC and importing certificates? No way.
Right, quote a 1998 report on Windows NT's PPTP waeknesses, many of which were addressed in Win2K.
On that topic, could someone suggest a good Linux-based PPTP server that can use Active Directory for authentication/access rights or an IPSEC server that works with XP/Win2K's native IPSEC client?
If you're stuck with Exchange server do something intelligent like sticking a Linux box on the Internet running Postfix, Anomy Sanitizer and Spamassasin. Lock it down nicely and set up a really restricted port-forwarding or proxy arrangement to allow Outlook Web Access if you absolutely, positively gotta have it.
are here.
Well, maybe a bit.
The 'Telstar' the parent refers to is the 1962 pop instrumental piece written by by Joe Meek and performed by the Tornadoes who became the first U.K. band to have a #1 hit in the States, even before the Beatles. 'Telstar' was inspired by the launch of Telstar 1.
Of course, this is way, way before 99.9% of the Slashdot readership were born so I'm not suprised it was missed. Hell, even I was only 1 year old.
The refugee laws are being (or have been) re-written to address this abuse.
Canada will soon not be the favoured refugee nation and it will be easier to kick out refugees-turned-criminals and their families that they sponsored.
The Gimli Glider.
767 with no fuel=no engines=no power=no instruments.
Successful landing.
Very true, I had Japanese running in various forms on the earlier versions of Windows easier than itis to get it on Linux today. (Win/V anyone?)
Maybe the big, Japan/China/Korea Linux effort will help...
...could you explain what exactyly[sic] it is that you input Japanese kanji
Actually it can be very efficient. Remember a couple of kanji charcters can convey an entire phrase in English.
Kanji is input using an Input Method Editor (IME). You type the pronunication of a character using either the regular english keys or the phonetic hiragana keys present on a Japanese keyboard. Pressing the space bar will present a list of characters that match that pronunication.
You need to know the exceptions, for example, entering "tokyo" will not get you the right characters for the captial of Japan, you need to type "toukyou". (The o's are elongated)
Modern commercial IMEs use learning and context analysis to allow entire sentences to be converted at a time. For example, typing "watashihaashitatoukyouheikimasu" ("I am going to Tokyo tomorrow") will get you the phrase correctly the first time on most if not all IMEs.
A fast typist could input Japanese faster then the same English text. (No spaces!!)
The beauty of it lies in the irony (yes, he *proper* usage) of both RedHat and SCO using the same image in their promotional materials.
OK, I'm old. I knew what it was.
Having just visited Duxford in the past week I actually saw one.
Now how many others of you got the ref.?
Oh man do I ever agree.
The worst was watching CNN when waiting in line at the bank. They showed a comment from some yokel in the rural States saying something to the effect of "It's those damn Candians, they're so backward they don't even know what power is aboot"
If I was American I'd be embarrassed.
Doves flying in slow motion through flame-engulfed doorways.
Feel sorry for them on Monday morning though...
Monday morning!!?? You're kidding, right?
They have already noticed the "exponentially decaying attention span" of Slashdotters.
By Monday morning this story and the site will be relegated to un-clicked graveyard of "Older Stuff"
Well, gee, it's not like their hard to find on Intel's site or anything. I just searched on "Pentium Manual" and found Intel has tons of free developer resources.
The more free stuff you give to developers, the more developers develop for your hardware. The more developers developing for your hardware, the more people using your product.
Developers, developers!, DEVELOPERS!!!
Someone stop me before I start bouncing around the room!!
Oh god, I'm SUCH a karma whore...
Pentium manuals in download or dead-tree form.
You just made my day.
Type-R Segway
To be absolutely complete, that should be "stranglehold" and not "strong hold".
Now in working order!
Until I saw the agridome from Silent Running.
Gotta have!! Gotta have!!!!
Doug Trumbell is GOD!!
The screen could be 16" x 9"
or 1.7" x 1"