I guess I forgot to mention the distributed switches in the house (can get by with cheap quality cat-5e), and even our X-Box is networked.
Also 4 printers, 2 inkjet, 1 laser, and 1 dot matrix (for invoicing)
If your into Midi Machine Control stuff, I have 3 devices in my studio that can be controlled from my laptop via MIDI (I'm a musician but thats another topic):-)
Some of my system consist of a live webserver affectionately named "The server down by the dryer", another box providing super feats as a firewall (IPCop), and yet another providing our "jukebox" for serving up MP3's and such to our LAN (browse and play at will) which is running under BEOS.
We also had (until it was recently stolen from my home by one of my kids friends) a machine dedicated to video media; aka Snapstream. I had this thing set up to record and store stuff on it's 200 gig hard drive, and you could access it's interface and programmability via a web browser interface. It could directly record from either off-air, or could address my Dish Network box including controlling the channels. Had it secured from the outside and all. Was pretty nice. I miss all those high resolution Mpeg recordings that could be watched on my laptop where ever... (bummed)
All in all, 4 workstation computers (PC), and 2 laptops (PC). Yea, I installed a wireless access point up in the attic and it covers up to about 2 houses away, but is secured. And obviously the usual fare of media devices and interfaces to the wired side of our LAN.
Wish I still owned a Mac.. oh well, again someday when I'm gainfully employed again.
Frankly, this speaks volumes to the reasons why when you enable write caching in hdparm, and Winblows, and the thing crashes, you have to wait while the file system is checked, scrubbed, et al before coming back up.
There will be ambulance-chasing lawyers now looking to file complaints and such in attempts to ban the iPod as dangerous to society. For current holders of the iPod, there will be forming a new place in California known only as "litigation central".
Wasn't it the NY Times that twice got caught with some dubious writers and editors, and a whole lot of unauthenticated storytelling a few years back??
And because of that, their readership level seriously dropped and they couldn't impose a much needed price hike to the local news stand price (someone I knew from NYC told me about that one)?
I would not even consider them for $50 a year. I might (I'd have to really think hard about it) if it were only something like $5 or so a year.
I have almost zero confidence in their writings, and if you've subscribed to their service and visit one of the online articles, your inundated with ads just like most internet portals. It's sickening (Firefox to the rescue).
There's an oxymoron if I ever saw one. I have absolutely NO trust in Microsoft anymore. They will introduce this, and push it like crazy to get it largely established.
Then they will pull the rug out on it and require all versions that are not authorized by Microsoft to be paying royalties and in some instances, denied if they don't explicitly run on a Windows box.
Microsoft won't. Fact is that the predominant amount of the imaging done on the web these days is jpeg, and even less GIF. You are going to be hard-pressed to convince the general web admin to switch out all his/her graphics files for one of the GPL or such like based formats.
You also have a very distinct possibility of Microsoft in fact buying up these format rights and denying all rights to use them to anyone using Non-Microsoft products. This then would allow them to control much of the Net as we know it, and force abandonment of Apache, and many other things. I can see it coming. And the only way to stop it would be congressional legislation that would refuse Microsoft any and all rights to own these patents based on proven abuse with monopolistic power, and other demonstratable past actions.
Don't let those bastards get hold of those patents!!!
Frankly, this sticks with me as a form of pseudo-tying. Odd are that their library is largly OS and/or compiler dependent. Ok.
So;
Since this is the way they want to play the game, and I just coincidentally happen to own a Nikon digital...
And I'm also now looking for a semi-pro/pro digital now to replace my Coolpix, I think I will exclude Nikon as I don't wish to be part and parcal with any possible litigation issues because I want to unload my camera shots into a Linux based host!
That Canon EOS Digital Rebel is starting to look rather attractive right now as the bottom of the line camera I might consider!!
Here in Minnesota, they are instituting new regulations about what you can discard in the trash, et al. This is due to the DNR wanting more control over what goes in the landfills. So...; after July, you'll have to pay someone to scrap out that old server or group of Pentium II machine's that were left over from upgrading the front office cubes.
Leasing might wind up cheaper in the long run since you won't have those disposal issues that will be plaguing us in the upcoming months and years. It ultimately will be one of those things that based on where you live, and what the laws are (or what you think you can get away with) you'll have to sit down and run the numbers to figure out which will be best.
The other things with leasing is that if there is hardware problems, the vendor usually will take care of that, and you don't have to. But... that support is also built into your lease price! Sometimes the software support is also covered, and also you pay for that as well. Might be other things too such as "mandated upgrades" which would force out an otherwise proper working server for a new one... and along with that the headaches of the transition... all those lost files that didn't make the backup... the new OS isn't compatible with what was on the backup tapes...! Whew!
This whole thing was a bunch of hooey when it was installed with XP and then Office. I have reinstalled 3 of my XP boxes now over 8 times due to bad code on Microsofts part (ineffective patches and updates that do not work as designed). Just today, discovered my laptop with XP Professional and recently allowed to install Service Pack 2, now has a trojan in it!!! How the hell that got in there is beyond me as I don't visit places that would promote or install this crap, but one got in there. Now i have to tear it down and do it all over again. I might ghost it this time just to save some of the hassle, but someone told me that ghosting it doesn't help the activation thing. Even if I activate before I ghost, it will still prompt me to activate again.
Now I'm going to strongly consider that Redhat as a more permenant install on here. Heck; I'm already using a decent browser and mail client!!!
I have a possible solution to much of this hoopla. Once these parasites are discovered, someone should come up with a utility type of tool that does what the old hosts file thing did a few years back, and route these bastards to/dev/null which can be done even in Windoz! Then all the users can run this tool, and post them into the hosts file, restart the networking, and viola'... the parasite is stopped. Then you can use the standard suite of tools to remove the excess baggage.
I guess I'm not much surprised by the apethy and cavalier attitude these companies have at distributing this kind of thing.
Just think about it. Major companies with lots and lots of funds at their disposal, and they want to potentially piss it all away to the lawyers in litigation expenses and payout losses should they get sued by us Joe Average's because we've had our computers violated without our permission.
But. Your going up against the goliath that has all of our money. No doubt this book will be reviewed by lawyers so tight for Micro$oft, a straight-pin couldn't fit in their rectums. Then when they find things offensive to the company and the product line, they'll call many of the statements in the book out-an-out lies, and begin slander suits against the author and publisher, asking for billions in reported damages...
Why on God's green earth are you using such an unsecurable platform as Windows? You sould be at least on a Linux box, or BSD, Solaris... something other than Microsoft.
It'll never ever fly. Simply put the motion picture industry wants total and complete control over everything. They don't even want you copying this. How do they expect this to be accepted??? Word has it that even the old Beta vs MCA thing is about to come up again in a strong lobby attempt to kill the idea of consumers having access to recording equipment. Part of me wonders how true is that, but on the other hand, they're not much different then the way Mr Gates, and Mr. Balmer have acted either.
I read that "transcript" and there are several areas where as usual, they really mis-represent what they're doing. They make so many assumptions like all users of the OS's are strictly business related or some such. Heck I used mine for media production and recording. My kids use it for games.
I'm still looking at some Linux based solutions now since Microsoft has put so much DRM crap in the thing (XP) through that stupid Windows update, that my Cakewalk software no longer functions. I'm waiting for the mailing to come from Redmond WA requesting that I cease and desist from using, playing or performing with my MIDI based equipment!
Right now Microsoft is not much else than the left hand has not a clue what the right hand is doing, and visa-versa. Fuel to that fire is that they don't seem to have a clue about their target audience. Maybe Microsoft should go back to school..:-)
I say, screw em'. They can all go to hell now. Don't stop and collect $200; just go straight to hell.
After that read, and having seen that damned InterActual player popup (And boy is it ever spyware!!!), I don't give a damned anymore. I'll just record stuff off my analog Dish, and be very happy with it. If I have to, I'll keep analog around for a long time. Analog was here way before digital, and analog has always fair'ed well with my eyes and ears!:-)
This is the usual fare from Redmond. Divide conquer and steal. They take what they want, and if you try and call them on it, you get the Redmond legal war machine. I'm surprised that the good folks at Google haven't churned up something to slap in the faces of the promo people in Redmond??!! Having seen the thing, and knowing that all they're doing is combing Google and parsing data, I'll just stick with Google. Thank you.
I wouldn't sweat this. Nice read though if your into courtroom and crime drama.
Fact is that more and more criminals are using disguises to make it difficult to identify them. This is nothing new. Whether it be characters from a movie or TV show, political figures, or from a computer game. I suspect the idea of using famous people as a mask might have originating in a movie or two, but you can't discount the human intellect in the first place.:-)
Lets hope that the paranoid around us don't decide that all computer games, and movies are bad because it makes people do bad things. If thats true, we better end life... period. Sheesh;... Art imitating life... or life imitating art... Which way to go... which way to go.
I'm sorry but being a "red hat" shop statement isn't exactly correct, unless you were referring to them exclusively. Suse uses RPM's as well and the Redhat directory and file tree, so they (Dell) more or less are still a Redhat shop for all intent's and purposes.
Just a little hit to help remove some ambiguity...:-)
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I guess I forgot to mention the distributed switches in the house (can get by with cheap quality cat-5e), and even our X-Box is networked.
:-)
Also 4 printers, 2 inkjet, 1 laser, and 1 dot matrix (for invoicing)
If your into Midi Machine Control stuff, I have 3 devices in my studio that can be controlled from my laptop via MIDI (I'm a musician but thats another topic)
Some of my system consist of a live webserver affectionately named "The server down by the dryer", another box providing super feats as a firewall (IPCop), and yet another providing our "jukebox" for serving up MP3's and such to our LAN (browse and play at will) which is running under BEOS.
We also had (until it was recently stolen from my home by one of my kids friends) a machine dedicated to video media; aka Snapstream. I had this thing set up to record and store stuff on it's 200 gig hard drive, and you could access it's interface and programmability via a web browser interface. It could directly record from either off-air, or could address my Dish Network box including controlling the channels. Had it secured from the outside and all. Was pretty nice. I miss all those high resolution Mpeg recordings that could be watched on my laptop where ever... (bummed)
All in all, 4 workstation computers (PC), and 2 laptops (PC). Yea, I installed a wireless access point up in the attic and it covers up to about 2 houses away, but is secured. And obviously the usual fare of media devices and interfaces to the wired side of our LAN.
Wish I still owned a Mac.. oh well, again someday when I'm gainfully employed again.
Hmmmm..
The borg are beginning to assemble en masse. Must be something rather large looming in the winds...
Might be getting ready for a major strike to mankind as we know it...
Frankly, this speaks volumes to the reasons why when you enable write caching in hdparm, and Winblows, and the thing crashes, you have to wait while the file system is checked, scrubbed, et al before coming back up.
You can absolutely bet the farm on this one...
There will be ambulance-chasing lawyers now looking to file complaints and such in attempts to ban the iPod as dangerous to society. For current holders of the iPod, there will be forming a new place in California known only as "litigation central".
Just you watch!!!
In a phrase..
:-)
Oh... how cute!
Hmmmm...
Help me out here.
Wasn't it the NY Times that twice got caught with some dubious writers and editors, and a whole lot of unauthenticated storytelling a few years back??
And because of that, their readership level seriously dropped and they couldn't impose a much needed price hike to the local news stand price (someone I knew from NYC told me about that one)?
I would not even consider them for $50 a year. I might (I'd have to really think hard about it) if it were only something like $5 or so a year.
I have almost zero confidence in their writings, and if you've subscribed to their service and visit one of the online articles, your inundated with ads just like most internet portals. It's sickening (Firefox to the rescue).
There's an oxymoron if I ever saw one. I have absolutely NO trust in Microsoft anymore. They will introduce this, and push it like crazy to get it largely established.
Then they will pull the rug out on it and require all versions that are not authorized by Microsoft to be paying royalties and in some instances, denied if they don't explicitly run on a Windows box.
Liars, and damned liars they are...
This is why I still don't use anything MSN has to put up like this since I know the damned thing is biased 6 ways from Sunday.
:-)
It's another pointless tool for the Micro$oft Monopoly Machine.
Google and Yahoo Rule!!
Ahh... but...
Microsoft won't. Fact is that the predominant amount of the imaging done on the web these days is jpeg, and even less GIF. You are going to be hard-pressed to convince the general web admin to switch out all his/her graphics files for one of the GPL or such like based formats.
You also have a very distinct possibility of Microsoft in fact buying up these format rights and denying all rights to use them to anyone using Non-Microsoft products. This then would allow them to control much of the Net as we know it, and force abandonment of Apache, and many other things. I can see it coming. And the only way to stop it would be congressional legislation that would refuse Microsoft any and all rights to own these patents based on proven abuse with monopolistic power, and other demonstratable past actions.
Don't let those bastards get hold of those patents!!!
Frankly, this sticks with me as a form of pseudo-tying. Odd are that their library is largly OS and/or compiler dependent. Ok.
So;
Since this is the way they want to play the game, and I just coincidentally happen to own a Nikon digital...
And I'm also now looking for a semi-pro/pro digital now to replace my Coolpix, I think I will exclude Nikon as I don't wish to be part and parcal with any possible litigation issues because I want to unload my camera shots into a Linux based host!
That Canon EOS Digital Rebel is starting to look rather attractive right now as the bottom of the line camera I might consider!!
Here in Minnesota, they are instituting new regulations about what you can discard in the trash, et al. This is due to the DNR wanting more control over what goes in the landfills. So...; after July, you'll have to pay someone to scrap out that old server or group of Pentium II machine's that were left over from upgrading the front office cubes.
Leasing might wind up cheaper in the long run since you won't have those disposal issues that will be plaguing us in the upcoming months and years. It ultimately will be one of those things that based on where you live, and what the laws are (or what you think you can get away with) you'll have to sit down and run the numbers to figure out which will be best.
The other things with leasing is that if there is hardware problems, the vendor usually will take care of that, and you don't have to. But... that support is also built into your lease price! Sometimes the software support is also covered, and also you pay for that as well. Might be other things too such as "mandated upgrades" which would force out an otherwise proper working server for a new one... and along with that the headaches of the transition... all those lost files that didn't make the backup... the new OS isn't compatible with what was on the backup tapes...! Whew!
Lots to think about there!!
Cheers;
Jeff
In a phrase...
"Thats a lie! Thats an out an out lie!"
Nuff said.
This whole thing was a bunch of hooey when it was installed with XP and then Office. I have reinstalled 3 of my XP boxes now over 8 times due to bad code on Microsofts part (ineffective patches and updates that do not work as designed). Just today, discovered my laptop with XP Professional and recently allowed to install Service Pack 2, now has a trojan in it!!! How the hell that got in there is beyond me as I don't visit places that would promote or install this crap, but one got in there. Now i have to tear it down and do it all over again. I might ghost it this time just to save some of the hassle, but someone told me that ghosting it doesn't help the activation thing. Even if I activate before I ghost, it will still prompt me to activate again.
Now I'm going to strongly consider that Redhat as a more permenant install on here. Heck; I'm already using a decent browser and mail client!!!
I have a possible solution to much of this hoopla. Once these parasites are discovered, someone should come up with a utility type of tool that does what the old hosts file thing did a few years back, and route these bastards to /dev/null which can be done even in Windoz! Then all the users can run this tool, and post them into the hosts file, restart the networking, and viola'... the parasite is stopped. Then you can use the standard suite of tools to remove the excess baggage.
I guess I'm not much surprised by the apethy and cavalier attitude these companies have at distributing this kind of thing.
Just think about it. Major companies with lots and lots of funds at their disposal, and they want to potentially piss it all away to the lawyers in litigation expenses and payout losses should they get sued by us Joe Average's because we've had our computers violated without our permission.
I bet this could be a millionseller overnight.
But. Your going up against the goliath that has all of our money. No doubt this book will be reviewed by lawyers so tight for Micro$oft, a straight-pin couldn't fit in their rectums. Then when they find things offensive to the company and the product line, they'll call many of the statements in the book out-an-out lies, and begin slander suits against the author and publisher, asking for billions in reported damages...
Gads. You gotta see this coming.
Why on God's green earth are you using such an unsecurable platform as Windows? You sould be at least on a Linux box, or BSD, Solaris... something other than Microsoft.
This does not surprise me. Moansanto is doing not much more than protecting it's interest and found a legal way to build a cash cow.
An folks wonder why the american farmer is in so much trouble!!
Sorry.
It'll never ever fly. Simply put the motion picture industry wants total and complete control over everything. They don't even want you copying this. How do they expect this to be accepted??? Word has it that even the old Beta vs MCA thing is about to come up again in a strong lobby attempt to kill the idea of consumers having access to recording equipment. Part of me wonders how true is that, but on the other hand, they're not much different then the way Mr Gates, and Mr. Balmer have acted either.
Nope....
Nope....
Not gonna happen. Nope. You should know by now that there is a very greedy lawyer involved now. That game company will have to pay and pay and pay...
I read that "transcript" and there are several areas where as usual, they really mis-represent what they're doing. They make so many assumptions like all users of the OS's are strictly business related or some such. Heck I used mine for media production and recording. My kids use it for games.
:-)
I'm still looking at some Linux based solutions now since Microsoft has put so much DRM crap in the thing (XP) through that stupid Windows update, that my Cakewalk software no longer functions. I'm waiting for the mailing to come from Redmond WA requesting that I cease and desist from using, playing or performing with my MIDI based equipment!
Right now Microsoft is not much else than the left hand has not a clue what the right hand is doing, and visa-versa. Fuel to that fire is that they don't seem to have a clue about their target audience. Maybe Microsoft should go back to school..
I say, screw em'. They can all go to hell now. Don't stop and collect $200; just go straight to hell.
:-)
After that read, and having seen that damned InterActual player popup (And boy is it ever spyware!!!), I don't give a damned anymore. I'll just record stuff off my analog Dish, and be very happy with it. If I have to, I'll keep analog around for a long time. Analog was here way before digital, and analog has always fair'ed well with my eyes and ears!
This is the usual fare from Redmond. Divide conquer and steal. They take what they want, and if you try and call them on it, you get the Redmond legal war machine. I'm surprised that the good folks at Google haven't churned up something to slap in the faces of the promo people in Redmond??!! Having seen the thing, and knowing that all they're doing is combing Google and parsing data, I'll just stick with Google.
Thank you.
I wouldn't sweat this. Nice read though if your into courtroom and crime drama.
:-)
Fact is that more and more criminals are using disguises to make it difficult to identify them. This is nothing new. Whether it be characters from a movie or TV show, political figures, or from a computer game. I suspect the idea of using famous people as a mask might have originating in a movie or two, but you can't discount the human intellect in the first place.
Lets hope that the paranoid around us don't decide that all computer games, and movies are bad because it makes people do bad things. If thats true, we better end life... period. Sheesh;... Art imitating life... or life imitating art... Which way to go... which way to go.
I'm sorry but being a "red hat" shop statement isn't exactly correct, unless you were referring to them exclusively. Suse uses RPM's as well and the Redhat directory and file tree, so they (Dell) more or less are still a Redhat shop for all intent's and purposes.
:-)
Just a little hit to help remove some ambiguity...
Cheers