Blame Dell, not Microsoft. Dell shows itself to be a spineless puppet of Redmond.
Uh, how does this make Dell a "spineless puppet of Redmond." Seems to me like they don't have much of a choice. They want to get Windows licences, and MS gives them specific terms to comply with. Dell either follows Microsoft's terms, or gets no Windows licences. If Dell couldn't sell Windows, Dell would probably go out of buisness. Blame Mircosoft, not Dell. Microsoft shows itself to be a hard, overbearing dictator with illusions of Godhood. (1000 points for whomever recognizes that reference.)
So, basically, they have to offer stuff like Dell Latitude C610-W and Dell Latitude C610-L right? One with Windows, one with Linux, and say they are different models? Or would they have to make the names more different then that, say the Dell NoLatitude C610 with Windows, and the Dell Latitude C610 with Linux/no os?
I want a TV with NO tuner. If I get cable or satellite TV, and have my system hooked up with a nice reciever and high-end speakers, why should I watch my TV broadcasts on a crappy tuner inside my TV? Just give me the ability to display a nice, sharp image, and let me use whatever external box I want to produce the image. What we need are TV screens with like a DVI connection or something, like giant computer monitors, and have digital tuners, analog tuners, DVD players, VCRs, etc, all be able to plug into them. For that matter, eliminate the built in speakers as well. Just give me a 36 inch computer monitor.
I know several people who have had cable tv at one point, and got so fed up with all the ads and horrible shows they cancalled their cable and went back to broadcast. I also know people who don't watch TV at all. However, they do watch movies. They have a nice home theatre system, but no cable, and no antenna. They just watch DVDs and VHS tapes.
Actually, if you look at the HavenCo website, in their AUP, it says:
Unacceptable publications include, but are not limited to:
Material that is unlawful in the jurisdiction of the server. For instance, if a customer's machine is hosted on Sealand by HavenCo, content which is illegal in Sealand may not be published or housed on that server. Sealand's laws prohibit child pornography. Sealand currently has no regulations regarding copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on political speech, non-disclosure agreements, cryptography, restrictions on maintaining customer records, tax or mandatory licensing, DMCA, music sharing services, or other issues; child pornography is the only content explicitly prohibited. At the present time, child pornography is not precisely defined; HavenCo is obeying rules similar to those of the United States, specifically a prohibition on any depiction of those under 18 in a sexual context.
So, they are NOT a "child pornography syndicate" as you say.
Another big reason is the scenery. In NZ i have heard that there is great varaity of scenery. I.E. it goes from grassy plains -> forest -> rocky etc very quickly. Good for making a movie that has many different environments. Also, much of the land looks very "ancient" so it is ideal for movies such as LOTR.
Many BIOS in servers will do this. You can configure them to allow you to view POST and set BIOS settings from a serial console.
LILO, and probably GRUB, can be controlled from the serial port. This allows you to select an OS and choose boot options.
Linux and UNIX allow you to see boot messages on a serial console, and control the system from a serial console.
DOS, IIRC, can also be controlled via a serial console (although it takes over the local display) However, I do not know if this is avaliable in more modern DOS or in NT based systems (I last used this on my XT several years ago [which I still have, but do not remember how to do this])
I have heard that many BIOS in servers have the ability to be configured over the serial port. Heck, I have an OLD mobo with a pseudo-windows GUI that uses a SERIAL MOUSE (optional) for configuration! Anyway, if your BIOS can be controlled over the serial port, you can control it from a serial terminal. Also, LILO can be controlled from a serial terminal, as can Linux and UNIX. I belive DOS also has this option (but it disables the local console.) Once you get logged in, you can run console apps, or GUI apps, set to display on a remote X server. You could even replace the serial terminal with an old Linux box running SSH with a bunch of multi-serial port cards in it. Then you simply run an ssh session to the serial-port server, connect a terminal emulator to one of the serial ports, configure the remote system's bios, tell it what kernel to boot, login, run some console apps, and bring up some GUI apps to your X display. I don't know how much multi serial port cards are, but you can get a very capable 486 system for well under $100. Of course, I don't know how this would work with Windows, or other operating systems, but it would work fine with Linux.
oops left something out. However, organizations such as the FSF may help out by donating legal fees, providing lawyers, etc, such as the EFF has done in some cases.
I have some nice programs I will be selling in the future for windows that work great under linux, which I wish I could give out the source for the linux version and not worry about somebody making a free windows version from the source
There is no reason that you would be required to distribute the source code if you released Linux versions. The GPL would only apply to your software if you were including code from a GPL'd product. You can release your software under any licence you want, no matter what OS it runs on.
Pretty simple. Just set up a cron job to download and install all updated packages from your distribution's FTP site. Newer distros could have this set up by default.
Yes and no. Since WINE emulates the API of Windows, the game would operate the same way. It might lock up, but it probably would not cause reboots. If the disconnects are part of the b.net code, its still running the b.net code, so sure it would happen. The European gateway is probably the problem there, etc.
heh, I don't even play games often anymore. When I used Windows, I played games all the time. Since I started using Linux, I rebooted into Windows for games less and less, and now only play games maybe once a month. Games are overrated. Configuring operating systems is much more interesting.
Speaking of ZIP and LS-100, has anyone ever booted to one of these devices? I'm sure the LS-100 wouldn't be much of a problem...
Well, I belive that both the Zip and the LS-120 are recognized as just a removeable IDE hard drive. I don't know about the LS-120, but my Zip is just seen by Linux as a hard drive. The IOMEGA utilities do things such as write-protecting the disk. The odd thing is that Zip disks seem to be formatted (new) in such a way that the data would be stored on the 4th partition. Very odd.
Uh, actually, they can be formatted to hold ~1.7 MiB of data if you use special formatting options, either on a Linux/UNIX system, or with special software on a Windows system. I have done this quite often when I have, say, a 1.5 or 1.6 MiB file that I need to transfer to one of my 486 laptops (no PCMCIA, no CD-ROM) Unfortunately, my 286 laptop doesnt accept the specially formatted disks. What I want are some of those neato 2.88 MiB floppy drives.
It won't happen because in Linux you normally use the system as a standard user, and no program you run can possibly take over the system and cause permanent damage. The only way it could cause damage to the operating system is if you ran it as root, and that would just be stupid. Windows, however, is a single user OS, and always runs with full permissions to mess the computer up. In Linux, you can only screw up your own files, unless you have permission to screw up system-wide settings, which you do not by default.
From what I have heard, you don't need to buy particularly special speaker cable, just make sure it is fairly heavy gauge. If the run is really short, say only two feet or less, you can use thin, cheap cable, but any longer than that, and you need the thick stuff. Of course, thats not $23 a foot, but more like $3-5 a foot. I think my system is using just the thickest cable I could find at Radio Shack (12 gauge or 10 gauge IIRC) for about a 10 foot run.
To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients (1), (2), and (3) with consistent agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel (reactor #2) with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients (4), (5), (6), and (7), processing until the mixture is homogeneous. Add to ingredients in reactor #2, ingredient (8) and three volumetrically equal portions of the homogeneous mixture in reactor #1, processing after each addition until the mixture is again homogeneous.
Upon completion of the previous step, add ingredients (9) and (10), slowly with constant agitation at an impeller rate of 50 rpm. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.
Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place 10.0 cm3 nodules of the mixture in ordered ranks on a 316SS sheet (30.0 cm X 60.0 cm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnson's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown.
Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 297K heat-transfer table, allowing the product to come to thermal equilibrium with ambient atmospheric temperature.
While that is quite true, I have had quite a lot of success increcing my window size. I have not seen very many, if any, problems with packet loss from my cable modem. I find that increcing the window size on all my computers dramatically improves the time it takes to load pages from the internet. That said, I suggest he purchaces a cheap box (say, a high end Pentium, Pentium Pro, or low end Pentium II) and install a very customizable distro, such as Slackware or Debian, without X or any of that crap. Then, set it up as an NAT box, and put the traffic shaping software on it. Thats what I do (although I dont use traffic shaping software) and it seems to work just fine.
Uhh, if you sell the car, you are distributing the binaries to whoever buys the car. You would have to provide access to source code for anyone who purchases the car. However, I don't know if kernel modules need to be GPL'd, as long as they are not actually compiled into the kernel. I may be wrong about this, however.
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Uh, how does this make Dell a "spineless puppet of Redmond." Seems to me like they don't have much of a choice. They want to get Windows licences, and MS gives them specific terms to comply with. Dell either follows Microsoft's terms, or gets no Windows licences. If Dell couldn't sell Windows, Dell would probably go out of buisness. Blame Mircosoft, not Dell. Microsoft shows itself to be a hard, overbearing dictator with illusions of Godhood. (1000 points for whomever recognizes that reference.)
So, basically, they have to offer stuff like Dell Latitude C610-W and Dell Latitude C610-L right? One with Windows, one with Linux, and say they are different models? Or would they have to make the names more different then that, say the Dell NoLatitude C610 with Windows, and the Dell Latitude C610 with Linux/no os?
I want a TV with NO tuner. If I get cable or satellite TV, and have my system hooked up with a nice reciever and high-end speakers, why should I watch my TV broadcasts on a crappy tuner inside my TV? Just give me the ability to display a nice, sharp image, and let me use whatever external box I want to produce the image. What we need are TV screens with like a DVI connection or something, like giant computer monitors, and have digital tuners, analog tuners, DVD players, VCRs, etc, all be able to plug into them. For that matter, eliminate the built in speakers as well. Just give me a 36 inch computer monitor.
I know several people who have had cable tv at one point, and got so fed up with all the ads and horrible shows they cancalled their cable and went back to broadcast. I also know people who don't watch TV at all. However, they do watch movies. They have a nice home theatre system, but no cable, and no antenna. They just watch DVDs and VHS tapes.
Actually, if you look at the HavenCo website, in their AUP, it says:
So, they are NOT a "child pornography syndicate" as you say.
Another big reason is the scenery. In NZ i have heard that there is great varaity of scenery. I.E. it goes from grassy plains -> forest -> rocky etc very quickly. Good for making a movie that has many different environments. Also, much of the land looks very "ancient" so it is ideal for movies such as LOTR.
For those that do not speak French, Babelfish says: "the mountain was confined of a mouse..."
Don't know how accurite that is tho...
I have heard that many BIOS in servers have the ability to be configured over the serial port. Heck, I have an OLD mobo with a pseudo-windows GUI that uses a SERIAL MOUSE (optional) for configuration! Anyway, if your BIOS can be controlled over the serial port, you can control it from a serial terminal. Also, LILO can be controlled from a serial terminal, as can Linux and UNIX. I belive DOS also has this option (but it disables the local console.) Once you get logged in, you can run console apps, or GUI apps, set to display on a remote X server. You could even replace the serial terminal with an old Linux box running SSH with a bunch of multi-serial port cards in it. Then you simply run an ssh session to the serial-port server, connect a terminal emulator to one of the serial ports, configure the remote system's bios, tell it what kernel to boot, login, run some console apps, and bring up some GUI apps to your X display. I don't know how much multi serial port cards are, but you can get a very capable 486 system for well under $100. Of course, I don't know how this would work with Windows, or other operating systems, but it would work fine with Linux.
Sourceforge? Freshmeat? Probably many more, but those are two i can think of off the top of my head. Look at sourceforge's Software Map
oops left something out. However, organizations such as the FSF may help out by donating legal fees, providing lawyers, etc, such as the EFF has done in some cases.
Whoever owns the copyright on the original software. In this case, the originator of CDEX. In the case of Linux, Linus Torvalds.
There is no reason that you would be required to distribute the source code if you released Linux versions. The GPL would only apply to your software if you were including code from a GPL'd product. You can release your software under any licence you want, no matter what OS it runs on.
Pretty simple. Just set up a cron job to download and install all updated packages from your distribution's FTP site. Newer distros could have this set up by default.
Yes and no. Since WINE emulates the API of Windows, the game would operate the same way. It might lock up, but it probably would not cause reboots. If the disconnects are part of the b.net code, its still running the b.net code, so sure it would happen. The European gateway is probably the problem there, etc.
heh, I don't even play games often anymore. When I used Windows, I played games all the time. Since I started using Linux, I rebooted into Windows for games less and less, and now only play games maybe once a month. Games are overrated. Configuring operating systems is much more interesting.
Well, I belive that both the Zip and the LS-120 are recognized as just a removeable IDE hard drive. I don't know about the LS-120, but my Zip is just seen by Linux as a hard drive. The IOMEGA utilities do things such as write-protecting the disk. The odd thing is that Zip disks seem to be formatted (new) in such a way that the data would be stored on the 4th partition. Very odd.
Uh, actually, they can be formatted to hold ~1.7 MiB of data if you use special formatting options, either on a Linux/UNIX system, or with special software on a Windows system. I have done this quite often when I have, say, a 1.5 or 1.6 MiB file that I need to transfer to one of my 486 laptops (no PCMCIA, no CD-ROM) Unfortunately, my 286 laptop doesnt accept the specially formatted disks. What I want are some of those neato 2.88 MiB floppy drives.
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It won't happen because in Linux you normally use the system as a standard user, and no program you run can possibly take over the system and cause permanent damage. The only way it could cause damage to the operating system is if you ran it as root, and that would just be stupid. Windows, however, is a single user OS, and always runs with full permissions to mess the computer up. In Linux, you can only screw up your own files, unless you have permission to screw up system-wide settings, which you do not by default.
From what I have heard, you don't need to buy particularly special speaker cable, just make sure it is fairly heavy gauge. If the run is really short, say only two feet or less, you can use thin, cheap cable, but any longer than that, and you need the thick stuff. Of course, thats not $23 a foot, but more like $3-5 a foot. I think my system is using just the thickest cable I could find at Radio Shack (12 gauge or 10 gauge IIRC) for about a 10 foot run.
Nah. "sc"
It can do all sorts of things, and can be used over a serial terminal!
Found this somewhere a few years ago. Enjoy!
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIESMaterials:
- 532.35 cm3 gluten
- 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
- 4.9 cm3 refined halite
- 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
- 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
- 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
- 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
- 2.0 CaCO3 encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein
- 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacoa
- 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated juglans regia fruits (sieve size 10)
Procedure:To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients (1), (2), and (3) with consistent agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel (reactor #2) with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients (4), (5), (6), and (7), processing until the mixture is homogeneous. Add to ingredients in reactor #2, ingredient (8) and three volumetrically equal portions of the homogeneous mixture in reactor #1, processing after each addition until the mixture is again homogeneous.
Upon completion of the previous step, add ingredients (9) and (10), slowly with constant agitation at an impeller rate of 50 rpm. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.
Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place 10.0 cm3 nodules of the mixture in ordered ranks on a 316SS sheet (30.0 cm X 60.0 cm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnson's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown.
Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 297K heat-transfer table, allowing the product to come to thermal equilibrium with ambient atmospheric temperature.
While that is quite true, I have had quite a lot of success increcing my window size. I have not seen very many, if any, problems with packet loss from my cable modem. I find that increcing the window size on all my computers dramatically improves the time it takes to load pages from the internet. That said, I suggest he purchaces a cheap box (say, a high end Pentium, Pentium Pro, or low end Pentium II) and install a very customizable distro, such as Slackware or Debian, without X or any of that crap. Then, set it up as an NAT box, and put the traffic shaping software on it. Thats what I do (although I dont use traffic shaping software) and it seems to work just fine.
Uhh, if you sell the car, you are distributing the binaries to whoever buys the car. You would have to provide access to source code for anyone who purchases the car. However, I don't know if kernel modules need to be GPL'd, as long as they are not actually compiled into the kernel. I may be wrong about this, however.