Every so often I post this when P2P comes up, but it always seems relevant.
File sharing companies are, at the very best, a dubious bunch. Experience has shown tht they will try to screw up your machine in some way.
So...let them. They'll find some way of doing it eventually anyway. The trick? Just make sure the 'machine' is a virtual machine. I personally use Virtual PC for Windows, but VMWare would do just as well.
Make a blank virtual machine, install your P2P clients on it and take a back-up of that file. Then use that machine for nothing but P2P. The result? Spyware is useless, because there's nothing happening to actually spy on. The machine gets too spyware-ridden? No problem - delete the current machine and restore from that fresh backup you took.
Wiley's lawyer would ask the jury, "do you think it's possible for a reasonable person to confuse this work with the official Wiley trademark?"...I can just imagine the jury's sympathy to the defendant once they realize they've been labeled mental midgets.
Err...you've just assumed that they would agree with the lawyer. If they do, then the case is lost anyway.
The entire case of the defendant is that the answer to your hypothetical lawyer's question is "No".
The article seems to be about...
[w]hy software costs so much (to make)...many of us are responding to the question...[w]why software costs so much (to buy).
Yep. Really show the level of the poster , doesn't it? Kids are obsessed with how much it costs them to buy a copy of Windows, people with experience realise that they're talking about why software costs millions to develop....
A lot of games got coded for Glide at that time, making them 3DFX only.
Are there any Glide emulators around, that convert to OpenGL or Direct3D? That would make these games playable and allow them to take advantage of non-Voodoo accelerator cards.
As a long time trackpad user, you'd have to squeeze my testicles in a vise to get me to use a laptop with the orange knob right in the middle of the keyboard. I've tried it, repeatedly, and it sucks. It's an infuriatingly useless device.
Whereas I hate trackpads and never use the damned things if possible.
I like Dell's approach on the Inspiron I have - put both on the machine, let the user decide.
Every time this comes up, I post my request. I've posted to Apple, to Intuit, on the enwsgroups...
Please Intuit - please make a UK-version of Quicken for OS X. Please. Please...
There's a Mac OS X version of Quicken. There's a Windows version Quicken for the UK. Surely it can't be too hard to transfer the config from one across to the other? Can it?
Without Quicken, I have to stay put. I know I could emulate, but that's not really switching away is it? A shame, because I would snap up a Mac or two otherwise (one iMac, one portable).
KDE gets the bug reports for KDE. Is RedHat now going to take all the bug reports and fix the bugs, contributing back the KDE source? I didn't see very much happening in the past. I don't see more happening in the future. So now KDE gets bug reports for broken KDE patches written at RedHat by GNOME programmers. If I see those reports, they will be closed immediately with a message: "Try another distro." Perhaps a nastygram to RedHat would be appropriate in each case too.
Childish.
If you get those reports, and if they really are to do with Red Hat code, then just close with an informative message pointing at Red Hat's support page. 'Nastygrams' are just purile.
The "tail" command is part of GNU textutils...Sorry to split hairs, but let's at least be honest here.
No problem - I'm a hair-splitter myself.
Shall we both be content with agreeing there is no default install of Linux, whether headless server or anything else, that doesn't have the tail command in it? Whereas in the Windows world there is no install of Windows alone that does have a tail-equivalent in it?
Face it. Microsoft has already won by having better products. Open Source is playing catch up, as usual.
I agree with you in many ways on the client side. I disagree strongly on the server side however.
This daft Terminal Services, or Remote Desktop or whatever that won't allow multiple sessions on the same username. 'tail -f whatever.log'? Impossible on Windows without extra software. Little things like that are getting vastly overlooked.
However, on the client-side I have to say I'm with you for most of the way. We part company when you describe Mozilla as 'not even semi-close', and serious technical authors will laugh at your description of Office (there's a reason FrameMaker still exists...), but on the whole I agree with you.
Visual Studio IDE integrates everything wonderfully, integrating a really slick editor, a world-class debugger, and a high-quality compiler.
Yes. And it's all going.Net. And this is where the carping about Mono and DotGNU and whatever else should cease - getting a viable.Net environment on to Linux means you can start using Microsoft's tools to target Linux platforms. Then you get the best of both once more - good client tools from Microsoft, good server tools from Linux.
Not so with Visio - their aim was always to sell the company to Microsoft.
Cheers,
Ian
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maybe a Mac iPod with ephpod or XPlay would be better?
That's the way forward. Buy the Mac version and get XPlay - then it will work with both machines.
Another poster above explained the situation from Apple's FAQ - the Mac won't see FAT drives and the PC won't see HFS+. XPlay uses a MacDrive driver, included in the package, to add HFS+ support to the PC (for iPods only).
I'm glad to see the rising interest in small form-factor. This one's not for me - it seems more server-oriented, but that doesn't mean to say I don't appreciate its design.
At the moment I'm waiting for Shuttle's SN40 - the Athlon/nForce 2-based equivalent of their SS51. The main attraction for me? It's quiet. I'm an amateur musician, and I use MIDI a fair amount. I can say that having a standard PC sitteng next to me, fans screaming like a banshee and radiating all the industrial design glamour of a multi-storey car park, is not condusive to writing music. The quiet Shuttle boxes would seem much better suited to that role.
Cheers,
Ian
(Oh - why not use a Mac for my MIDI? Because the machine also has to be general purpose, and there's still no UK version of Quicken for the Mac)
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Who are you going to save from Evil, your fellow superheroes?
Yes. You see, it's all in a day's work for Bicycle Repair Man...
I think Microsoft have been experiencing a certain amount of frustation t the slow response of router manufacturers to such things as UPnP.
Microsoft need UPnP to succeed if Messenger is to realise its full potential. They probably need it for other planned projects too. I imagine they're entering the market in order to drive adoption of these standards more quickly.
I have an SMC Barricade 7004AWBR. I've been waiting an age for the firmware update that finally provides me with UPnP. It hasn't come. I rather suspect it may never come. For all the natty little plastic boxes, I honestly don't think the networking people are used to the speed of the consumer market. Microsoft certainly is, and I can see any routers it might produce being updated a lot faster than many of the current offerings.
How is it any different than me sitting next to some one at a stop light and hearing their crappy music?
Because at the stop light, you don't get to pick which CD they're playing. When connecting to someone's wireless network, at some point you're going to be making use of their resources (DHCP server, intranet, bandwidth, firewall...whatever).
Not saying I agree with Nokia's description, but there is a difference between your stop-light analogy and warchalking.
I can't think of a single sport that got *better* as a result of computer involvement - can you?
Yeah - F1, the one we both agree is dull today.
When computer-designed models were being stuck through wind tunnels, F1 was still exciting. Remember the Piquet/Prost, Prost/Senna Prost & Senna/Mansell battles? All good fun. And technology was high.
Then the artificial restrictions started coming in. Active suspension was banned (Lotus brought in active suspension in the 80s). Traction control - banned. Telemetry - certain forms banned. Planks of wood started getting nailed to the bottom of cars. Tyre technology was thrown backwards when slicks were abandoned. Turbos - out. Six-wheeled cars? Not allowed.
Unless there are clear safety reasons why a device should not be used (Brabham's suction fans spring to mind), in my opinion in a tech-based sport you should just step out of the way and let people get on with it.
Ironically, all these restrictions were brought in to help the smaller teams who had no budget. They are much further off the pace today than they were at the technological heyday.
The use of technology in sports kills the sport every time.
Naah. Sailing is technology - even a raft. Cars are technology too. If you banned technology from sports, you'd basically be left with running and fighting. Not even jumping - what are you going to jump over? Tech. is required to build the obstacles.
Agreed that F1 is dull now, but that's due to the rule changes as much as anything. My own opinion is that everything went downhill when refueling was introduced and it became possible to pass in the pits rather than having to do it on the track.
The whole thing was a crock we invented back in the 80s when the yields of the fabs was not exactly good.
I used to work for a place that did a decent multimedia database, and one of the test videos we had was an Apple training video for engineers. Well, more like an induction video really.
One of the sections showed an engineer patiently assembling a Mac Plus out of various components, and his boss coming in with a client to impress. Boss picked up a board, showed client who nodded sagely, then the two walked out.
Apple's instruction to the engineer? Bin the board. They wouldn't allow it to go out having been handled by someone who might have inadvertantly aplied a static charge to it.
Now - whether this was actually carried through in practice is another matter of course. But it was certainly there on their film.
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File sharing companies are, at the very best, a dubious bunch. Experience has shown tht they will try to screw up your machine in some way.
So...let them. They'll find some way of doing it eventually anyway. The trick? Just make sure the 'machine' is a virtual machine. I personally use Virtual PC for Windows, but VMWare would do just as well.
Make a blank virtual machine, install your P2P clients on it and take a back-up of that file. Then use that machine for nothing but P2P. The result? Spyware is useless, because there's nothing happening to actually spy on. The machine gets too spyware-ridden? No problem - delete the current machine and restore from that fresh backup you took.
Cheers,
Ian
So what? Sometimes I don't care about practicality either - I love it. The thing is simply cool.
Cheers,
Ian
(still awaiting Shuttle's SN40 release...)
Err...you've just assumed that they would agree with the lawyer. If they do, then the case is lost anyway.
The entire case of the defendant is that the answer to your hypothetical lawyer's question is "No".
Cheers,
Ian
Err...actually , so do I! I have one of those mini-laptop mice attached.
Cheers,
Ian
Yep. Really show the level of the poster , doesn't it? Kids are obsessed with how much it costs them to buy a copy of Windows, people with experience realise that they're talking about why software costs millions to develop....
Cheers,
Ian
OK, that search led me to here where a good few are around.
Sentinel Returns can live again...
Cheers,
Ian
Are there any Glide emulators around, that convert to OpenGL or Direct3D? That would make these games playable and allow them to take advantage of non-Voodoo accelerator cards.
Cheers,
Ian
Whereas I hate trackpads and never use the damned things if possible.
I like Dell's approach on the Inspiron I have - put both on the machine, let the user decide.
Cheers,
Ian
Please Intuit - please make a UK-version of Quicken for OS X. Please. Please...
There's a Mac OS X version of Quicken. There's a Windows version Quicken for the UK. Surely it can't be too hard to transfer the config from one across to the other? Can it?
Without Quicken, I have to stay put. I know I could emulate, but that's not really switching away is it? A shame, because I would snap up a Mac or two otherwise (one iMac, one portable).
Cheers,
Ian
Childish.
If you get those reports, and if they really are to do with Red Hat code, then just close with an informative message pointing at Red Hat's support page. 'Nastygrams' are just purile.
Cheers,
Ian
No problem - I'm a hair-splitter myself.
Shall we both be content with agreeing there is no default install of Linux, whether headless server or anything else, that doesn't have the tail command in it? Whereas in the Windows world there is no install of Windows alone that does have a tail-equivalent in it?
Cheers,
Ian
I agree with you in many ways on the client side. I disagree strongly on the server side however.
This daft Terminal Services, or Remote Desktop or whatever that won't allow multiple sessions on the same username. 'tail -f whatever.log'? Impossible on Windows without extra software. Little things like that are getting vastly overlooked.
However, on the client-side I have to say I'm with you for most of the way. We part company when you describe Mozilla as 'not even semi-close', and serious technical authors will laugh at your description of Office (there's a reason FrameMaker still exists...), but on the whole I agree with you.
Visual Studio IDE integrates everything wonderfully, integrating a really slick editor, a world-class debugger, and a high-quality compiler.
Yes. And it's all going .Net. And this is where the carping about Mono and DotGNU and whatever else should cease - getting a viable .Net environment on to Linux means you can start using Microsoft's tools to target Linux platforms. Then you get the best of both once more - good client tools from Microsoft, good server tools from Linux.
Cheers,
Ian
Look at the release notes and FAQ. You can still use a proxy, but you have to manually add it to the prefs file.
Not nice I agree, but at least the author is aware of it.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
That's the way forward. Buy the Mac version and get XPlay - then it will work with both machines.
Another poster above explained the situation from Apple's FAQ - the Mac won't see FAT drives and the PC won't see HFS+. XPlay uses a MacDrive driver, included in the package, to add HFS+ support to the PC (for iPods only).
Cheers,
Ian
At the moment I'm waiting for Shuttle's SN40 - the Athlon/nForce 2-based equivalent of their SS51. The main attraction for me? It's quiet. I'm an amateur musician, and I use MIDI a fair amount. I can say that having a standard PC sitteng next to me, fans screaming like a banshee and radiating all the industrial design glamour of a multi-storey car park, is not condusive to writing music. The quiet Shuttle boxes would seem much better suited to that role.
Cheers,
Ian
(Oh - why not use a Mac for my MIDI? Because the machine also has to be general purpose, and there's still no UK version of Quicken for the Mac)
Yes. You see, it's all in a day's work for Bicycle Repair Man...
Cheers,
Ian
Well no. Say that for long enough and eventually it would be Lois Lane that kicks your ass...
Cheers,
Ian
But it's not a settlement yet - Microsoft cannot be held accountable for violating rules that don't yet exist.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Microsoft need UPnP to succeed if Messenger is to realise its full potential. They probably need it for other planned projects too. I imagine they're entering the market in order to drive adoption of these standards more quickly.
I have an SMC Barricade 7004AWBR. I've been waiting an age for the firmware update that finally provides me with UPnP. It hasn't come. I rather suspect it may never come. For all the natty little plastic boxes, I honestly don't think the networking people are used to the speed of the consumer market. Microsoft certainly is, and I can see any routers it might produce being updated a lot faster than many of the current offerings.
Cheers,
Ian
Because at the stop light, you don't get to pick which CD they're playing. When connecting to someone's wireless network, at some point you're going to be making use of their resources (DHCP server, intranet, bandwidth, firewall...whatever).
Not saying I agree with Nokia's description, but there is a difference between your stop-light analogy and warchalking.
Cheers,
Ian
Yeah - F1, the one we both agree is dull today.
When computer-designed models were being stuck through wind tunnels, F1 was still exciting. Remember the Piquet/Prost, Prost/Senna Prost & Senna/Mansell battles? All good fun. And technology was high.
Then the artificial restrictions started coming in. Active suspension was banned (Lotus brought in active suspension in the 80s). Traction control - banned. Telemetry - certain forms banned. Planks of wood started getting nailed to the bottom of cars. Tyre technology was thrown backwards when slicks were abandoned. Turbos - out. Six-wheeled cars? Not allowed.
Unless there are clear safety reasons why a device should not be used (Brabham's suction fans spring to mind), in my opinion in a tech-based sport you should just step out of the way and let people get on with it.
Ironically, all these restrictions were brought in to help the smaller teams who had no budget. They are much further off the pace today than they were at the technological heyday.
Cheers,
Ian
Naah. Sailing is technology - even a raft. Cars are technology too. If you banned technology from sports, you'd basically be left with running and fighting. Not even jumping - what are you going to jump over? Tech. is required to build the obstacles.
Agreed that F1 is dull now, but that's due to the rule changes as much as anything. My own opinion is that everything went downhill when refueling was introduced and it became possible to pass in the pits rather than having to do it on the track.
Cheers,
Ian
I used to work for a place that did a decent multimedia database, and one of the test videos we had was an Apple training video for engineers. Well, more like an induction video really.
One of the sections showed an engineer patiently assembling a Mac Plus out of various components, and his boss coming in with a client to impress. Boss picked up a board, showed client who nodded sagely, then the two walked out.
Apple's instruction to the engineer? Bin the board. They wouldn't allow it to go out having been handled by someone who might have inadvertantly aplied a static charge to it.
Now - whether this was actually carried through in practice is another matter of course. But it was certainly there on their film.
Cheers,
Ian