Am I the only person who has a mouse that clicks on both the button press and button release??
In order for their technology to be "one-click", I must be able to mouse-over the link, press my mouse button and power-off my system before releasing the button (which would cause another click). I'm afraid this is not the case. And besides, it makes me fsck forever.
I guess the USPTO has the corner on those pat. pending mouse buttons that somehow silently release.
I don't understand where the majority of you people are coming from. Especially the alleged lawyers who have posted.
The fact that these programs at one time or another broke the license agreements for some GPL programs/libs means exactly what RMS said: They're STILL in violation! Until they are officially absolved of this "crime" they are legally liable. RMS officially (and publicly) absolved them of wrongdoing as it pertains to FSF copyrighted code.
By your logic, I should be allowed to steal anything I want from you and as long as I give it back at some point then I haven't done anything wrong and you have no recourse against me.
The KDE/Qt crowd seems to be saying "we don't need your stinking copyright laws" and I can't wait till one of them gets bitten by a lawsuit which could have easily been avoided with a "oops, we fukt up. We're fixed now, izzat ok with you? Thanks man. Want a free beer?"
The problems usually crop up in systems in poorly maintained data-centers. This includes centers with large temperature fluctuations, poor voltage regulation, poor humidity controls, and improper grounding. "User-error" and "misuse" exasserbate the problem.
It's NOT a heat issue!! Our datacenters are VERY properly air/power-controlled.
We have been plagued by this problem ever since these processors hit the racks and the only time the CPUs crash is at the absolute lowest CPU usage times. 3am, 4am... whenever America sleeps.
What's "user-error" and "misuse"? Droping the units? Dipping them in water? No changes were made to the software configs and all hardware was installed by Sun techs. Does that mean Sun has been deliberately damaging the units prior to installation? Or are you saying we've all hacked our OS's to force an error in the Ecache?
The problems are limited to a particular production run of CPUs. New CPUs don't have this problem.
If it's just one run of CPUs then why are all our replacement CPUs failing at the same rate, Einstein?
My group runs a mid-size to large server farm at a (very) major ISP and we're constantly replacing processors that crash due to "Ecache Writeback Data Parity Error"s. We were told that even replacing the processor isn't a remedy because the new one is just as likely to eat itself as the old one if you left it in place (As far as they know.)
In addition, the latest fix is a software patch that is supposed to massage the Ecache so that it never finds itself in the condition that they believe causes the error. Remember, they're still guessing at this point. 18 months later. How many of those 400Mhz are now used up with self-checks and Ecache scrubbing?
Ever babysit a Sun E-anything on bootup? Not only does it cost the company tons of $$ in downtime (made more extreme by the long boot process), it also costs them $$$$/hour for their engineers to sit there and watch these things POST forever.
I think the most aggravating part is how for all intents and purposes, Sun is now using the worlds largest enterprise sites as beta testers for it's product just like M$ uses the world to test it's software except that Sun expects us all to sign our voices away with the NDA so they don't look like a bunch of..... (something bad that you wouldn't wanna be called).
(Non?)sequitor question: has anyone been able to get Sun ftpd to log to syslog like the man page says it can?
*** My opinions are my own and not necessarily the same as my employer.
How did this dipshit get an "Insightful"? Gnutella is NOT a commercial entity. It's free software that happened to be initially written by someone who works at AOL. AOL has repeatedly exclaimed that they DON'T own Gnutella and don't want to. (And can't.)
If you're gunna troll at least get your bait^H^H^H^Hfacts straight.
...Steve Jobs has filed cease&desist orders for the entire world's population for even thinking they know something about Apple Computer's future plans.
The reason BSD ports works at all is because it's handled by one small group. Since we have X Linux distributions, we would need X small groups. And no doubt each of these small groups would do their ports differently than the others making them all re-incompatible.
Beyond that _very_obvious_ problem, there's also the fact that a large number of (would-be) useful ports are completely broken requiring hand-massaging of the source. Go put yer head back up yer BackSideDoor and we'll call you when it's safe to view the world again.
Considering the drivel we're fed on the airwaves, it would appear that the record industry found a loophole in the payola laws long ago. Why would it be any different for nVidia?
1. "My AOL" menu list on the toolbar. 2. "Preferences" in that menu 3. "Marketing" in the window that comes up. 4. "Pop-up" in the following window. 5. "Continue" in the next (mostly informational) window 6. "No" radio button 7. "OK"
Or you can stop being such a pussy and just pay for the flat-rate service. Even when AOL was $8 an hour (and named Quantum Link and served only C=64 machines) we didn't complain about the marketing popups. We realized that the reason we had to pay _only_ $8/hr was _because_ of the fucking popups.
And if you're going to complain now because "I have to click thru so far to get to..." you can go fuck yourself cuz EVERYONE already knows AOL's interface is a labyrinth of window on top of window on top of window.
I saw the note on Freshmeat the other day and downloaded "RealPlayer 7.0 beta 2". I installed it and was AMAZED to find that it actually worked! Even the PLUGIN!! (Tested against "Spinner-Lite" at www.spinner.com)
So I get to work today and I wanna do the same thing. So I login to real.com and fill out the bogus form again, download the rpm just like I did at home. This time the plugin didn't work. "about:plugins" shows that it's there but the "Go get the plugin!" window keeps popping up anyway.
Further investigation shows that the version I got at home 3 days ago is 7.0-3 while the one available today (under the exact same filename) is 7.0-4 (shown with `rpm -qi`).
Fuck Real. Fuck 'em hard. Neither the clients nor the servers function as Real says they will and even if you have gold support with them you can't get anyone at Real to answer their phone.
Leave the web/CF machine on the net just like normal. Add a second interface to that machine (or the CF machine if it's another box.) Assign that new interface to one of the reserved nets (ie. 10.0.0.0) and put the M$$QL$erver on that same subnet. Voila! M$$QL$erver is not being used online. It's being used on a private unroutable network.:)
If the standard isn't patented, how can Fraunhoffer/Thompson demand 1% of all MP3 file sales revenues? I refer you to this site (previously noted by another poster) for my source.
Yeah, that's all we need: some boring text program.... like the Apache webserver or the Linux kernel or IRCd. Every program without a GUI chained to it is worthless.
If M$ were the police (which I'm sure they aspire to be) you'd all be crying entrapment!
I'm one of the biggest GNU/Linux/OSS zealots I know so I find it hard to believe that such a HUGE percentage of my peers would do _exactly_ what M$ wanted them to do thereby making themselves liable to lawsuits under the DMCA.
Regardless of what's "right", the DMCA stands as law. Perhaps this ruckus will have some impact on that law's standing but unless it does, quit your whining.
Please note tho that I still stand behind/.'s fineprint: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Slashdot is not responsible for what they say. So would those responsible parties please come forward and bend over for your stupidity?
Just because someone dangles a carrot in your face doesn't mean you have to pull their cart, jackasses.
Had to stop reading when I got to "Jack _in_ the Beanstalk". If they can't get something right that isn't related to the article I can't trust them to get the facts straight on the rest of it.
I've said it b4 and I'll say it again: If HW vendors refuse to lend any aid to Linux hackers then there's little or no chance of Linux beating M$ in a proprietary environment.
Put it this way: Given 2 reasonable people and 2 disassembled bicycles in Maine. One person is given the build instructions, the other isn't. I'll let you decide who will get their bike constructed first and ride it all the way to San Jose (or whatever).
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Am I the only person who has a mouse that clicks on both the button press and button release??
In order for their technology to be "one-click", I must be able to mouse-over the link, press my mouse button and power-off my system before releasing the button (which would cause another click). I'm afraid this is not the case. And besides, it makes me fsck forever.
I guess the USPTO has the corner on those pat. pending mouse buttons that somehow silently release.
I don't understand where the majority of you people are coming from. Especially the alleged lawyers who have posted.
The fact that these programs at one time or another broke the license agreements for some GPL programs/libs means exactly what RMS said: They're STILL in violation! Until they are officially absolved of this "crime" they are legally liable. RMS officially (and publicly) absolved them of wrongdoing as it pertains to FSF copyrighted code.
By your logic, I should be allowed to steal anything I want from you and as long as I give it back at some point then I haven't done anything wrong and you have no recourse against me.
The KDE/Qt crowd seems to be saying "we don't need your stinking copyright laws" and I can't wait till one of them gets bitten by a lawsuit which could have easily been avoided with a "oops, we fukt up. We're fixed now, izzat ok with you? Thanks man. Want a free beer?"
It's NOT a heat issue!! Our datacenters are VERY properly air/power-controlled.
We have been plagued by this problem ever since these processors hit the racks and the only time the CPUs crash is at the absolute lowest CPU usage times. 3am, 4am... whenever America sleeps.
What's "user-error" and "misuse"? Droping the units? Dipping them in water? No changes were made to the software configs and all hardware was installed by Sun techs. Does that mean Sun has been deliberately damaging the units prior to installation? Or are you saying we've all hacked our OS's to force an error in the Ecache?
The problems are limited to a particular production run of CPUs. New CPUs don't have this problem.
If it's just one run of CPUs then why are all our replacement CPUs failing at the same rate, Einstein?
What color is the sky in your world anyway?
My group runs a mid-size to large server farm at a (very) major ISP and we're constantly replacing processors that crash due to "Ecache Writeback Data Parity Error"s. We were told that even replacing the processor isn't a remedy because the new one is just as likely to eat itself as the old one if you left it in place (As far as they know.)
..... (something bad that you wouldn't wanna be called).
In addition, the latest fix is a software patch that is supposed to massage the Ecache so that it never finds itself in the condition that they believe causes the error. Remember, they're still guessing at this point. 18 months later. How many of those 400Mhz are now used up with self-checks and Ecache scrubbing?
Ever babysit a Sun E-anything on bootup? Not only does it cost the company tons of $$ in downtime (made more extreme by the long boot process), it also costs them $$$$/hour for their engineers to sit there and watch these things POST forever.
I think the most aggravating part is how for all intents and purposes, Sun is now using the worlds largest enterprise sites as beta testers for it's product just like M$ uses the world to test it's software except that Sun expects us all to sign our voices away with the NDA so they don't look like a bunch of
(Non?)sequitor question: has anyone been able to get Sun ftpd to log to syslog like the man page says it can?
*** My opinions are my own and not necessarily the same as my employer.
How did this dipshit get an "Insightful"? Gnutella is NOT a commercial entity. It's free software that happened to be initially written by someone who works at AOL. AOL has repeatedly exclaimed that they DON'T own Gnutella and don't want to. (And can't.)
If you're gunna troll at least get your bait^H^H^H^Hfacts straight.
...Steve Jobs has filed cease&desist orders for the entire world's population for even thinking they know something about Apple Computer's future plans.
The $50 for the RedHat CD also gets you a copy of the user's guide as well as telephone support and priority FTP logins for updates.
I think in the software business they call them "Value Adds".
Install alien.
The reason BSD ports works at all is because it's handled by one small group. Since we have X Linux distributions, we would need X small groups. And no doubt each of these small groups would do their ports differently than the others making them all re-incompatible.
Beyond that _very_obvious_ problem, there's also the fact that a large number of (would-be) useful ports are completely broken requiring hand-massaging of the source. Go put yer head back up yer BackSideDoor and we'll call you when it's safe to view the world again.
And frankly I get the warm-fuzzies knowing $4 of it goes to help the good people fighting the good fight. :)
Considering the drivel we're fed on the airwaves, it would appear that the record industry found a loophole in the payola laws long ago. Why would it be any different for nVidia?
1. "My AOL" menu list on the toolbar.
2. "Preferences" in that menu
3. "Marketing" in the window that comes up.
4. "Pop-up" in the following window.
5. "Continue" in the next (mostly informational) window
6. "No" radio button
7. "OK"
Or you can stop being such a pussy and just pay for the flat-rate service. Even when AOL was $8 an hour (and named Quantum Link and served only C=64 machines) we didn't complain about the marketing popups. We realized that the reason we had to pay _only_ $8/hr was _because_ of the fucking popups.
And if you're going to complain now because "I have to click thru so far to get to..." you can go fuck yourself cuz EVERYONE already knows AOL's interface is a labyrinth of window on top of window on top of window.
I saw the note on Freshmeat the other day and downloaded "RealPlayer 7.0 beta 2". I installed it and was AMAZED to find that it actually worked! Even the PLUGIN!! (Tested against "Spinner-Lite" at www.spinner.com)
So I get to work today and I wanna do the same thing. So I login to real.com and fill out the bogus form again, download the rpm just like I did at home. This time the plugin didn't work. "about:plugins" shows that it's there but the "Go get the plugin!" window keeps popping up anyway.
Further investigation shows that the version I got at home 3 days ago is 7.0-3 while the one available today (under the exact same filename) is 7.0-4 (shown with `rpm -qi`).
Fuck Real. Fuck 'em hard. Neither the clients nor the servers function as Real says they will and even if you have gold support with them you can't get anyone at Real to answer their phone.
Leave the web/CF machine on the net just like normal. Add a second interface to that machine (or the CF machine if it's another box.) Assign that new interface to one of the reserved nets (ie. 10.0.0.0) and put the M$$QL$erver on that same subnet. Voila! M$$QL$erver is not being used online. It's being used on a private unroutable network. :)
.enjoy
If the standard isn't patented, how can Fraunhoffer/Thompson demand 1% of all MP3 file sales revenues? I refer you to this site (previously noted by another poster) for my source.
Yeah, that's all we need: some boring text program.... like the Apache webserver or the Linux kernel or IRCd. Every program without a GUI chained to it is worthless.
If M$ were the police (which I'm sure they aspire to be) you'd all be crying entrapment!
/.'s fineprint: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Slashdot is not responsible for what they say. So would those responsible parties please come forward and bend over for your stupidity?
I'm one of the biggest GNU/Linux/OSS zealots I know so I find it hard to believe that such a HUGE percentage of my peers would do _exactly_ what M$ wanted them to do thereby making themselves liable to lawsuits under the DMCA.
Regardless of what's "right", the DMCA stands as law. Perhaps this ruckus will have some impact on that law's standing but unless it does, quit your whining.
Please note tho that I still stand behind
Just because someone dangles a carrot in your face doesn't mean you have to pull their cart, jackasses.
Had to stop reading when I got to "Jack _in_ the Beanstalk". If they can't get something right that isn't related to the article I can't trust them to get the facts straight on the rest of it.
I've said it b4 and I'll say it again: If HW vendors refuse to lend any aid to Linux hackers then there's little or no chance of Linux beating M$ in a proprietary environment.
Put it this way: Given 2 reasonable people and 2 disassembled bicycles in Maine. One person is given the build instructions, the other isn't. I'll let you decide who will get their bike constructed first and ride it all the way to San Jose (or whatever).