All they say is that the Windows licence that was purchased with the computer must stay with the computer. End of story.
So for example, I had to pay the MS tax on my laptop, and I have my unopened Windoze ME to prove it. So, if I ever sell or donate my laptop, I am only obligated to give them the CD with it, because technically, that copy of ME is only valid for the
machine that I purchased.
But when you donate a computer, do you have to give the recipient the OS that came with it? Is there anything wrong with destroying the original copy of the OS and telling the recipient to buy their own (or, of course, use a non-MS OS)? If not, that page simply lying, which I suspect to be the case.
Can you get to.net sites in your browser? Then why wouldn't you (or your kids) be able to get a.prn site.
It would be a relatively simple matter to deny all access to sites in a certain TLD, as opposed to trying to find all of the 'naughty' sites and block each individual one. I think that's the point here.
Some form of government is clearly needed to restrain the capital. But the current system is far from perfect. Sometimes there is too much government (CDBTPA for example)
In a way, that's also an example of too much corporate control over over government (RIAA, MPAA, etc). Something is clearly needed to keep the businesses from running the government, as well.
I'd say one advantage to a university providing inernet access for students besides just price is that a large organization can actually get decent connectivity, whereas individual users may have very limited options. And because a big pipe will be shared by a number of users, the associated increase in tutition may well be less than what it would cost an individual student to get their own decent net connection.
I've used parallel JetDirect boxes (EX, EX Plus, EX Plus3) with excellent results. Windows NT/2000/XP and *nix can all send jobs to JetDirect devices via LPR. Win9x machines clients require either HP's JetDirect software loaded client, an LPR add-on, or a Windows print server. AppleTalk is supported by JetDirect boxes for use by Macs.
I've been running a Compaq Armada LTE 5380 (P133) laptop continuously for at least a year now, with no apparent problems. It gets very light use (display off 99% of the time, but hard drive doesn't spin down), but has been powered on continuously - without any apparent problems yet.
If you read the article, the issue behind this is that some other company apparently won the rights to the mediaone.net domain. If ATT doesn't control the domain any more, they can't do any forwarding.
A good starting point might be the RedHat based SuperRescue ISO. It's got everything: drivers, networking (probably not necessary), XFree86, etc. Adding in a DVD player app and taking out the unnecessary bits probably wouldn't take long.
And as a side effect of this project, you could get quite a bit more space by using a DVD-R(W) disc, since a DVD drive is guaranteed to be available.
Step 3 has yet to happen, in this case. Of course one can't guarantee that Microsoft is trying to be anti-competitive, but given their history it's remains a possibility that can't be ruled out ahead of time.
This thing's supposed to be an MP3 player. I don't think using it as a boot device is really a major, critical feature. If you need to boot from an external drive, get a Firewire case.
It's true that the Linux kernel will see drives that the BIOS did not detect, but it has to boot first. Obviously then, the drive with the bootloaded can not be on a delayed start - or you'd have to boot initially from other media.
IDE (especially the newer Ultra ATA specs) is sensitive to cable length. A cable long enough to go from the interface connector in one case to drives in another would most likely be beyond IDE spec. SCSI supports long enough cable lengths to do this, but it also supports delayed start, so you wouldn't need to move drives to a separate ase/Ppowersupply anyway.
Case modding on Apple Powerbooks is a pretty big scene. No doubt a quick Google search will turn up dozens of sites. The techniques can most likely be applied to PC laptops as well.
There's more than one place from which to automatically run commands in Windows, after networking has been loaded. Finding these with Google (or other preferred tool) is left as an exercise for the reader.
Apparently, that's the way the initial port of X-Windows to Linux was done - instead of driving the graphics card, it just used the terminal. Who knows if the code is around anywhere, though.
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What? So, by your same assumption, even if somebody has a pentium 200 with 32mb of ram THEY have no use for Windows 95 because Windows XP is out there?
The fact of the matter is that Linux distributions do not experience the same level of bloat as Windows, making the analogy flawed. Certainly distributions like RedHat and Mandrake are getting heavier, requiring more disk space and more memory for the standard installations, but others, such as Debian and Slackware, remain more lightweight. Significant compatibility advances have been made in the Linux kernel and user software in relatively recent times that it is advantageous, especially for the new user, to have a current distribution.
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All they say is that the Windows licence that was purchased with the computer must stay with the computer. End of story.
So for example, I had to pay the MS tax on my laptop, and I have my unopened Windoze ME to prove it. So, if I ever sell or donate my laptop, I am only obligated to give them the CD with it, because technically, that copy of ME is only valid for the machine that I purchased.
But when you donate a computer, do you have to give the recipient the OS that came with it? Is there anything wrong with destroying the original copy of the OS and telling the recipient to buy their own (or, of course, use a non-MS OS)? If not, that page simply lying, which I suspect to be the case.
Can you get to .net sites in your browser? Then why wouldn't you (or your kids) be able to get a .prn site.
It would be a relatively simple matter to deny all access to sites in a certain TLD, as opposed to trying to find all of the 'naughty' sites and block each individual one. I think that's the point here.
Some form of government is clearly needed to restrain the capital. But the current system is far from perfect. Sometimes there is too much government (CDBTPA for example)
In a way, that's also an example of too much corporate control over over government (RIAA, MPAA, etc). Something is clearly needed to keep the businesses from running the government, as well.
I'd say one advantage to a university providing inernet access for students besides just price is that a large organization can actually get decent connectivity, whereas individual users may have very limited options. And because a big pipe will be shared by a number of users, the associated increase in tutition may well be less than what it would cost an individual student to get their own decent net connection.
I've used parallel JetDirect boxes (EX, EX Plus, EX Plus3) with excellent results. Windows NT/2000/XP and *nix can all send jobs to JetDirect devices via LPR. Win9x machines clients require either HP's JetDirect software loaded client, an LPR add-on, or a Windows print server. AppleTalk is supported by JetDirect boxes for use by Macs.
/. mirroring sites and inserting its own ads would no doubt result in a world of trouble.
Windows 2000 CD meets a fire.
I've been running a Compaq Armada LTE 5380 (P133) laptop continuously for at least a year now, with no apparent problems. It gets very light use (display off 99% of the time, but hard drive doesn't spin down), but has been powered on continuously - without any apparent problems yet.
The article also mentions the use of the "SMTP management protocol".
And what, if anything, happens to the container that's holding that compressed hydrogen?
For those not interested in setting up their own webmail system (such as those mentioned above), Yahoo! Mail does both #1 and #3.
If you read the article, the issue behind this is that some other company apparently won the rights to the mediaone.net domain. If ATT doesn't control the domain any more, they can't do any forwarding.
Adelphia (at least here in Massachusetts), doesn't restrict outgoing port 25 for customers using their PowerLink cable internet service.
A good starting point might be the RedHat based SuperRescue ISO. It's got everything: drivers, networking (probably not necessary), XFree86, etc. Adding in a DVD player app and taking out the unnecessary bits probably wouldn't take long.
And as a side effect of this project, you could get quite a bit more space by using a DVD-R(W) disc, since a DVD drive is guaranteed to be available.
Step 3 has yet to happen, in this case. Of course one can't guarantee that Microsoft is trying to be anti-competitive, but given their history it's remains a possibility that can't be ruled out ahead of time.
Right. But IBM used the 8088 in their original PC (Model 5150).
Turns out, we didn't but we even resorted to "trying" to boot a old IBM PC (NO stinking AT in back of it....this was an original 8086 based PC)
Nope - 8088. At 4.77 Mhz.
This thing's supposed to be an MP3 player. I don't think using it as a boot device is really a major, critical feature. If you need to boot from an external drive, get a Firewire case.
It's true that the Linux kernel will see drives that the BIOS did not detect, but it has to boot first. Obviously then, the drive with the bootloaded can not be on a delayed start - or you'd have to boot initially from other media.
IDE (especially the newer Ultra ATA specs) is sensitive to cable length. A cable long enough to go from the interface connector in one case to drives in another would most likely be beyond IDE spec. SCSI supports long enough cable lengths to do this, but it also supports delayed start, so you wouldn't need to move drives to a separate ase/Ppowersupply anyway.
Case modding on Apple Powerbooks is a pretty big scene. No doubt a quick Google search will turn up dozens of sites. The techniques can most likely be applied to PC laptops as well.
There's more than one place from which to automatically run commands in Windows, after networking has been loaded. Finding these with Google (or other preferred tool) is left as an exercise for the reader.
Apparently, that's the way the initial port of X-Windows to Linux was done - instead of driving the graphics card, it just used the terminal. Who knows if the code is around anywhere, though.
What? So, by your same assumption, even if somebody has a pentium 200 with 32mb of ram THEY have no use for Windows 95 because Windows XP is out there?
The fact of the matter is that Linux distributions do not experience the same level of bloat as Windows, making the analogy flawed. Certainly distributions like RedHat and Mandrake are getting heavier, requiring more disk space and more memory for the standard installations, but others, such as Debian and Slackware, remain more lightweight. Significant compatibility advances have been made in the Linux kernel and user software in relatively recent times that it is advantageous, especially for the new user, to have a current distribution.
decimate his fan base by 100%
That's humorous, given the meaning of 'decimate'.