primarily for support of device related software running on sun or hp platforms. if i have a problem with the driver for an hp array controller, there's not much that mandrake (nor red hat) is likely to do about it. similarly, when i'm having trouble installing hp insight manager agents on a server, there's little hp is going to be able to do about it when you're running a distribution that they aren't 100% familiar with. when you have a vendor that will stand behind a product top-to-bottom, it counts for a lot. i wouldn't ever touch an os in a corporate data center that didn't have complete support for the hardware, and this almost always comes from the hardware vendors themselves.
if the story was about a way to jam mp3 players or your dsl line, everybody here would be going into convultions. why are cell phones different? and how is it any more rude of me to be on a bus or in a shopping mall or whatever talking to somebody who isn't there as opposed to someone who is? is it that you can only eavesdrop on one side of the conversation?
there are real problems in our world people, and cell phones don't rank real high on my list.
the biggest issue with interoperability is the ridiculous number of standards here in the us. most places abroad all use gsm, and if you get the phone unlocked, you can use it on anybody's systems. i might suggest buying a gsm phone this time (at&t wireless and t-mobile currently provide them), and then if you want to switch in the future you have the option. google "cell phone unlock" for unlocking services...
i called at&t today for my daily dose of self-abuse, and whatever issue they were having has been fixed. my number should be ported from nextel within the next couple days. we'll see then i suppose...
and again - if you aren't switching service, call your cell vendor and tell them you are. they'll hold your nuts i promise.
i've been trying to get myself on at&t wireless for the last 3 days. i'm currently a nextel customer in grand rapids, michigan. i'm trying to get myself into a spiffy new GSM phone from at&t wireless using my old nextel number. problem is, at&t says my old number isn't portable (despite nextel's insistance that it is). additionally, they say my nextel number is actually a detroit number (200 miles and a couple area codes away). not sure why it would matter, as both grand rapids and detroit are MSA markets so i should be able to switch anyway. returning the phone to amazon.com is damn near impossible, so i've been on the phone with at&t for the last 3 days totaling over 6 HOURS trying to get somebody to make it happen. people that say they will call back never do, the drones on the phones can't do anything that isn't coming straight off their screen, and the managers that say they'll make things happen so far haven't made anything happen.
my best advice on this is to wait a while until things settle out. my experience so far has been enough to make everyone i work with forget about it entirely.
somebody else has mentioned this but it bears repeating - if you're out of contract (that is, you've fullfilled the terms of your original contract), call up your phone provider and tell them you're switching. they'll throw phones and better plan pricing at you like you won't believe.
The article explains that the disc's audio can still be copied, and there's a hilarious quote at the end by a BMG spokesman: "All copy-protections can be hacked, but if (we) give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."
isn't this exactly the way we would prefer the music companies to respond? i mean, we all know that there is in fact no way they can lock us out of copying current cd technology, so as opposed to spending lots of money on the problem, why not accept it and just move on? oh yeah, and give the consumer pre-ripped digital copies of the music as well. sure, it's DRM protected and we don't like that, but BIG F!@#in DEAL! they haven't actually tried to protect the CDDA tracks, so you can just rip with your encoder of choice.
so what's the problem? why is this hilarious? is it that they actually trust us for a change? is it funny because we can't be trusted not to steal their music? it seems to me like somebody at BMG finally "gets it".
it's probably this. likely your hosts file has been hijacked, and quite possibly moved to a different folder (try c:\windows\help\hosts). the link has a removal tool.
...i find this to be a remarkably bad idea. not only is it going to cost hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars per student for the initial purchase, it's also going to probably double that cost for maintenance. who'se responsible if the laptop is dropped/damaged/stolen? the parent? tell that to an inner city detroit single mother when her lovely daughter gets her laptop stolen by some random 9th grader. is the state going to cover maintenance? great, double the price then to cover the life of these machines and take it out of my pocket. the state of michigan, like most other states in the us, has been under an intense budget crunch in the last 2 years due in large part to the recent mass exodus of manufacturing jobs in almost every market segment. is this really the best way to spend our money?
as far as an OS choice, i'm going to burn any chance i might have of being moderated up here by suggesting windows xp. apple still doesn't really have a robust and easy to adminsiter means of locking down large numbers of systems and handling application delivery that would be required by this environment, nor does linux without a significant amount of research and development. while the software may be free, most of your local middle school admins (and i've worked with a number here in west michigan) don't have the first clue about managing linux (and barely the second clue on managing windows). this means that there'd be a large investment in outside contractors. of course this might mean some juicy support contracts for anybody that _does_ have these skills locally... hrmm.. maybe linux is a good idea after all:)
i'd also image that m$ is going to give a signifcant licensing break to the state to indoctrinate the students into the m$ shining path - i wouldn't be at all surprised if they gave away the windows licenses for free. before you act shocked, keep in mind that apple has been giving steep discounts to schools for decades for just the same reason.
if they haven't calibrated their monitors or the output (press/print/whatever), they aren't color correcting.
twaddling about with the color levels until it looks pretty != color correction.
on the other hand, it sounds like gimp does in fact do everything they want, so it should definately be looked at as a much cheaper alternative to paying adobe a few grand every couple years.
so what you're saying is, gimp is fine for "professional work" so long as "professional work" is a newspaper without a graphics department who has never once bothered to color correct an image.
i'd image mspaint.exe would be fine for that kinda work...
ok, so lets not worry about it. now all those vulnerable systems can't get patched, and are still able to potentially be used as attack drones to anyone creative enough to implement it. then they ddos the beejezus out of/. - or you.
so yes, we should probably worry about stopping this even if you aren't a windows user.
i don't deal much with desktops (i'm a server guy), but if i did "stumble across" unauthorized linux desktops, they'd be formatted with extreme prejudice. they almost certainly would have no antivirus software, no agents for our desktop license management, and almost certainly wouldn't be keeping up with security updates.
the users don't own their machines - the company does. if they want to piss around with _any_ os, let them do it on their own time, on their own network, and on their own equipment.
the xbox houses "effective technological copyright control" measures, and bypassing those is now a crime.
the dell has no such measures (yet), so you can install whatever you want.
what on earth is this guy on about?
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ok, i preordered this book 3 months ago, and read it cover to cover the day it came in (great book btw).
not once did i notice any mention of accessibility. plenty of info on reverse engineerings, useful soldering tips, insight on IP law, and lots of other fascinating stuff - but nowhere does the author mention anything even remotely close to making the xbox usable to people with disabilities.
the author of this review asserts that "Don't be fooled by the title. Officially, Huang's excellent book is not about helping the differently-abled. That would be against the law. Huang was forced by the DMCA to hide his humanitarianism under the cloak of 'reverse engineering' because this is one of the few legitimate uses given a small amount of protection by the law."
i think maybe the reviewer is reading into the book what he wants to hear, and not what the damn book is about. (here's a hint: i starts with "r" and ends with "everse engineering").
claiming the Huang was forced by the evil minions of the DMCA to "hide his humanitarianism" by pretending that the book is really about reverse engineering is not only stupid, it's doing a disservice to one of the best books for beginning hardware hackers i've ever seen.
short answer is that there was no internet privacy act signed by anyone in 1995, and the whole warez kid disclaimer thing isn't worth the bits it's stored in.
i've fought this battle myself (and eventually won it), but you have to understand that the management has a very good reason for frowning on in-house solutions. the number one factor is the 18-24 month average lifespan of technical employees. once the company has invested the time into your solution, and you then go off to greener pastures, they are left supporting an app that nobody knows a damn thing about and will then have to go and buy the 3rd party app anyway. basically the company (university in this case, but whatever) is choosing a supported application because they get signed contracts that the product will be backed up by the provider, even when people leave for another job.
how did i get my home grown app accepted by management then?
it's been said here before, but i gave it a really splashy looking interface. it's a web based server performance montiroing tool (using rrd if you're familiar). a little bit of creative flash and some damn nifty looking graphs makes upper management cream. what they don't know however (and i've been told by my boss not to ever mention this) is that the software was written in house. as near as they know it is just an off-the-shelf open source software package that was slightly customized for our environment. it'd make me look good to management if they knew i had written it, but it would make my manager look like he wasn't doing his job, so mum's the word i guess.
personally, it's just satisfying for me to see it in use in a production environment so i guess that's thanks enough...
i refuse to use any cheap-o plastic pansy ass keyboard when i can use my tuff-as-nails steel ibm clicky to beat the hell out of anybody who dares enter my cave...
cheap, indestructable, and the keys come off real easy to throw in the dishwasher occasionally.
the demo version you were playing is a pirated, leaked alpha version from a year ago. your impressions are not only dated, they're also likely to be the reason that id isn't showing a playable version @ e3 this year, as the version you played was stolen from last years e3.
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i think you may have missed the irony involved in you proving his point.
i was wondering the same thing. according to dictionary.com, a lakh is 100,000. that makes 150,000 engineers in bangalore.
primarily for support of device related software running on sun or hp platforms. if i have a problem with the driver for an hp array controller, there's not much that mandrake (nor red hat) is likely to do about it. similarly, when i'm having trouble installing hp insight manager agents on a server, there's little hp is going to be able to do about it when you're running a distribution that they aren't 100% familiar with. when you have a vendor that will stand behind a product top-to-bottom, it counts for a lot. i wouldn't ever touch an os in a corporate data center that didn't have complete support for the hardware, and this almost always comes from the hardware vendors themselves.
uhh - no you didn't. quake ran in 386 protected mode, as did doom years before it.
if the story was about a way to jam mp3 players or your dsl line, everybody here would be going into convultions. why are cell phones different? and how is it any more rude of me to be on a bus or in a shopping mall or whatever talking to somebody who isn't there as opposed to someone who is? is it that you can only eavesdrop on one side of the conversation?
there are real problems in our world people, and cell phones don't rank real high on my list.
the biggest issue with interoperability is the ridiculous number of standards here in the us. most places abroad all use gsm, and if you get the phone unlocked, you can use it on anybody's systems. i might suggest buying a gsm phone this time (at&t wireless and t-mobile currently provide them), and then if you want to switch in the future you have the option. google "cell phone unlock" for unlocking services...
i called at&t today for my daily dose of self-abuse, and whatever issue they were having has been fixed. my number should be ported from nextel within the next couple days. we'll see then i suppose...
and again - if you aren't switching service, call your cell vendor and tell them you are. they'll hold your nuts i promise.
i've been trying to get myself on at&t wireless for the last 3 days. i'm currently a nextel customer in grand rapids, michigan. i'm trying to get myself into a spiffy new GSM phone from at&t wireless using my old nextel number. problem is, at&t says my old number isn't portable (despite nextel's insistance that it is). additionally, they say my nextel number is actually a detroit number (200 miles and a couple area codes away). not sure why it would matter, as both grand rapids and detroit are MSA markets so i should be able to switch anyway. returning the phone to amazon.com is damn near impossible, so i've been on the phone with at&t for the last 3 days totaling over 6 HOURS trying to get somebody to make it happen. people that say they will call back never do, the drones on the phones can't do anything that isn't coming straight off their screen, and the managers that say they'll make things happen so far haven't made anything happen.
my best advice on this is to wait a while until things settle out. my experience so far has been enough to make everyone i work with forget about it entirely.
somebody else has mentioned this but it bears repeating - if you're out of contract (that is, you've fullfilled the terms of your original contract), call up your phone provider and tell them you're switching. they'll throw phones and better plan pricing at you like you won't believe.
isn't this exactly the way we would prefer the music companies to respond? i mean, we all know that there is in fact no way they can lock us out of copying current cd technology, so as opposed to spending lots of money on the problem, why not accept it and just move on? oh yeah, and give the consumer pre-ripped digital copies of the music as well. sure, it's DRM protected and we don't like that, but BIG F!@#in DEAL! they haven't actually tried to protect the CDDA tracks, so you can just rip with your encoder of choice.
so what's the problem? why is this hilarious? is it that they actually trust us for a change? is it funny because we can't be trusted not to steal their music? it seems to me like somebody at BMG finally "gets it".
it's probably this. likely your hosts file has been hijacked, and quite possibly moved to a different folder (try c:\windows\help\hosts). the link has a removal tool.
google calculator already does unit conversion.
...i find this to be a remarkably bad idea. not only is it going to cost hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars per student for the initial purchase, it's also going to probably double that cost for maintenance. who'se responsible if the laptop is dropped/damaged/stolen? the parent? tell that to an inner city detroit single mother when her lovely daughter gets her laptop stolen by some random 9th grader. is the state going to cover maintenance? great, double the price then to cover the life of these machines and take it out of my pocket. the state of michigan, like most other states in the us, has been under an intense budget crunch in the last 2 years due in large part to the recent mass exodus of manufacturing jobs in almost every market segment. is this really the best way to spend our money?
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as far as an OS choice, i'm going to burn any chance i might have of being moderated up here by suggesting windows xp. apple still doesn't really have a robust and easy to adminsiter means of locking down large numbers of systems and handling application delivery that would be required by this environment, nor does linux without a significant amount of research and development. while the software may be free, most of your local middle school admins (and i've worked with a number here in west michigan) don't have the first clue about managing linux (and barely the second clue on managing windows). this means that there'd be a large investment in outside contractors. of course this might mean some juicy support contracts for anybody that _does_ have these skills locally... hrmm.. maybe linux is a good idea after all
i'd also image that m$ is going to give a signifcant licensing break to the state to indoctrinate the students into the m$ shining path - i wouldn't be at all surprised if they gave away the windows licenses for free. before you act shocked, keep in mind that apple has been giving steep discounts to schools for decades for just the same reason.
if they haven't calibrated their monitors or the output (press/print/whatever), they aren't color correcting.
twaddling about with the color levels until it looks pretty != color correction.
on the other hand, it sounds like gimp does in fact do everything they want, so it should definately be looked at as a much cheaper alternative to paying adobe a few grand every couple years.
so what you're saying is, gimp is fine for "professional work" so long as "professional work" is a newspaper without a graphics department who has never once bothered to color correct an image.
i'd image mspaint.exe would be fine for that kinda work...
the entire company only had 300 emails collectively? i've got more than that in my deleted items folder on any 1 given day...
ok, so lets not worry about it. now all those vulnerable systems can't get patched, and are still able to potentially be used as attack drones to anyone creative enough to implement it. then they ddos the beejezus out of /. - or you.
so yes, we should probably worry about stopping this even if you aren't a windows user.
i don't deal much with desktops (i'm a server guy), but if i did "stumble across" unauthorized linux desktops, they'd be formatted with extreme prejudice. they almost certainly would have no antivirus software, no agents for our desktop license management, and almost certainly wouldn't be keeping up with security updates.
the users don't own their machines - the company does. if they want to piss around with _any_ os, let them do it on their own time, on their own network, and on their own equipment.
what's the difference then?
4 letters - the DMCA
the xbox houses "effective technological copyright control" measures, and bypassing those is now a crime.
the dell has no such measures (yet), so you can install whatever you want.
ok, i preordered this book 3 months ago, and read it cover to cover the day it came in (great book btw).
not once did i notice any mention of accessibility. plenty of info on reverse engineerings, useful soldering tips, insight on IP law, and lots of other fascinating stuff - but nowhere does the author mention anything even remotely close to making the xbox usable to people with disabilities.
the author of this review asserts that "Don't be fooled by the title. Officially, Huang's excellent book is not about helping the differently-abled. That would be against the law. Huang was forced by the DMCA to hide his humanitarianism under the cloak of 'reverse engineering' because this is one of the few legitimate uses given a small amount of protection by the law."
i think maybe the reviewer is reading into the book what he wants to hear, and not what the damn book is about. (here's a hint: i starts with "r" and ends with "everse engineering").
claiming the Huang was forced by the evil minions of the DMCA to "hide his humanitarianism" by pretending that the book is really about reverse engineering is not only stupid, it's doing a disservice to one of the best books for beginning hardware hackers i've ever seen.
sounds great. are they hiring?
what, like this?
short answer is that there was no internet privacy act signed by anyone in 1995, and the whole warez kid disclaimer thing isn't worth the bits it's stored in.
i've fought this battle myself (and eventually won it), but you have to understand that the management has a very good reason for frowning on in-house solutions. the number one factor is the 18-24 month average lifespan of technical employees. once the company has invested the time into your solution, and you then go off to greener pastures, they are left supporting an app that nobody knows a damn thing about and will then have to go and buy the 3rd party app anyway. basically the company (university in this case, but whatever) is choosing a supported application because they get signed contracts that the product will be backed up by the provider, even when people leave for another job.
how did i get my home grown app accepted by management then?
it's been said here before, but i gave it a really splashy looking interface. it's a web based server performance montiroing tool (using rrd if you're familiar). a little bit of creative flash and some damn nifty looking graphs makes upper management cream. what they don't know however (and i've been told by my boss not to ever mention this) is that the software was written in house. as near as they know it is just an off-the-shelf open source software package that was slightly customized for our environment. it'd make me look good to management if they knew i had written it, but it would make my manager look like he wasn't doing his job, so mum's the word i guess.
personally, it's just satisfying for me to see it in use in a production environment so i guess that's thanks enough...
word to the model m.
i refuse to use any cheap-o plastic pansy ass keyboard when i can use my tuff-as-nails steel ibm clicky to beat the hell out of anybody who dares enter my cave...
cheap, indestructable, and the keys come off real easy to throw in the dishwasher occasionally.
the demo version you were playing is a pirated, leaked alpha version from a year ago. your impressions are not only dated, they're also likely to be the reason that id isn't showing a playable version @ e3 this year, as the version you played was stolen from last years e3.