Give your presentation as per advised by your employer, which is the smart thing to do.
Also, make your original presentation available on a CD-rom and attach a EULA to it reading: "By agreeing to this EULA you will not hold HP, Bruce Perens or any attendees of this conference, personally, legally, ethically, morally, physically, mentally, emotionally or any other *lly for that matter. If you are a member of the RIAA, MPAA, ABA, law enforcement (genus homo sapien or canine), political or judicial in nature, you hereby agree to stop breeding, kill any offspring and other kin you may have and then stop breathing should you have any need, want, desire, thought, inkling or idea to do or be the initiator, participant, party to or of any kind of lawsuit, harassment, annoyance or flatulance against Bruce Perens and HP. Failure to comply with the above and you will pay the legal fees of the prosecution, defense, judge, jury, state in which you file, donate to the EFF no less than the senator from Disney has been bribed...err...funded per day and sing "I'm a Lumberjack" every hour until the trial (which should not happen in the first place, but you had to be a dick about it) proceedes and co-council will have to say 'bork, bork, bork' every 20th word".
Not only will you challenge the BS that is the DMCA but the EULA as well...because if the above EULA is valid and legally binding, well, somebody needs to lay off the crackpipe, get a sense of humor and be beaten by a clue stick before they can even approach the DMCA violation that they agreed to not to do anything about....and you just know it'll have to be submitted in original form, heh!!
Feel free to add more asinine stuff and legalese up the arse with HP's lawyers... and find one with a mean streak who enjoys fscking with other lawyers.
Now, if you will excuse me, I'm going to rip AC/DC's song "Big Balls" to MP3....JUST BECAUSE I CAN.....muaahahahahahahaha.
Time to burn off some karma stating the obvious: HP has been such a conservative company, and getting more so, I'm hardly suprised.
And the cynical BOFH type I'm becoming says think about the following:
Carley could not sell the Compaq merger to HP (had to force it thru).
Bruce could not sell a DMCA violation to HP. (hey, neither could 2600 to a biased MPAA judge)
HP can't sell printers to Dell anymore (or something to that effect).
Bruce has the balls to do it, but HP doesn't have the guts to back him on this one, because, if they did, they'd do what Gateway did to the RIAA, because all the things that made HP great are gone or slipping away. Think about it: HP was great because the founders were *ENGINEERS*, much like Appl*B**'s is run by chefs. Now HP is run by..., well,... PHB's.
Considering their solution for *any* problem seems to be a factory restore. Printer won't work: restore. Software option can't be found: restore. Computer is on fire: Restore. Oye.
If Dell's printers turn out to be as good as their current support, this outta be fun. (Lexmarks? Oh, god help the poor souls)
Here's why: Dell is currently going thru a major re-orginization, according to some of the major reps for my area.
I ordered some parts that would take *max* 30 days (normal/working, I don't recall)... Try 2 Months.
Dell is getting more propritary than Apple it seems: PowerSupplies, motherboards, ram (except Rambus, IIRC) CPU's with non-standard heatsyncs (nice design, though) and a few other things I'm forgetting. (on arstechnica they blamed crucial for having substandard ram. ROTFLMAO, like saying HP does not know how to make a good laser printer).
I was getting so fed up I asked a friend how he dealt with the crap service with Dell...the answer? "Oh, we now buy Gateway's for desktops and Compaqs for servers, now". Yep, that'll do it.
Simply put, Dell is pissing off a lot of people (except for select few in the Federal Gov't from some I've talked to...gee, wonder why?) inside and outside their own walls.
And rebranding printers? Heh, what do you want to bet that they will be rewired SCSI cables that go from DB25 to centronics50 and cost 75 bucks a piece and can only be bought from Dell?
(I also wonder how long before they do the same to Microsoft and make their own OS...heh: DeOS...out to be a real winner)
True, very true, but I doubt very much that Gateway would be the wisest choice because I can see the "unofficial branding" (TM) {pun intended} of Gateway/Apple machines being called:
(qualifying statement time) On my network I run NT4 (2000 seem to dislike some GIS software) on the workstation and linux (redhat 6.2 interanlly, 7.X externally and Slack 8.1 for testing/speed on lower end boxes) and have been slightly vocal about what I'd like to see, personally.
People who do GIS where I work often lament about the lack of "long haul" stability of NT and pine (pun lightly intened) for the Unix days when a process of an entire state can and would run for days to complete w/o a worry.
That thought in mind, if OSX86 came out (or moved to Alpha/Power4) and could run the bulk of the heavy lifting in GIS you bet I'd be pointing out "this could be worlds better than what we have now".
Norway has it right; it is *not* about being against Microsoft, it is about choosing what is the best for the job. And between the decling of Dell's support and annoying NT4/win2k problems that only reformatting take care of, well I'd switch as a (ahem) "way out" because I believe the better product should win, not because I'm an elitest a**hole.
Successful attacks is one, but what about re-infection/compromise?
For instance compare some of the Win2k boxes to a RedHat 7.2 box I had compromised.
The Win2k box (not mine, un?/fortunately) had been caught by nimda or some other vulnerability and after being formatted was *again* bit by nimda/code red when trying to get the updates. (a cd or local machine with the patches never crossed the dude's mind until the second time around).
My box was compromised by a user running a trojaned IRC bot (eggdrop? was the trojan). I know, I know, that was my fault for slacking off/being caught up in other things, but the next go around was wipe, install the data, kill services that are not needed (chkconfig, nice tool) and edit the hosts allow/deny to hell and back. I was *P.O'ed*. FTP/SSH/HTTP is the only thing running currently with large ranges of IP's blocked if I see even *one* probe I don't like. (no complaints, yet).
The large difference was the "state" of the admin. The win2k dude thought it was the "cost of doing business", mine was "those fscking tools + idiot user I'll do everything I can to keep it from happening again.
Sigh vs GRRRRRR, is what I call it.
That reminds me, it has been a day or so since I grepped the logs...
that this should follow a discussion about the digital dark ages and my mental edit of this line: The IEEE and Lucent plan to commemorate the event....by having the original broadcasters arrested for not paying their fees for 10 years retroactive from the original broadcast.
A new form of archiving historical data by passing it from generation to generation in the form of humor.
Call it the MPAA or Monty Python Archiving Association. All we need to do is figure out what made this century special and satirize it.
If you don't believe this will work try this experiment: Walk into a technical meeting and say in your best imitation voice "We are the knights who say...." I guranteed you will get a "Neee!" from somewhere.
With enough people you could probably reconstruct the entire movie, or find one who has the whole thing memorized.
Don't think it will work, well "I fart in your general direction!"...damn, I did it again.
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(Real conversation, BTW) A Friend: Well my wife finally broke down and bought me a Thrustmaster.
Me: Cool, how is it?
Friend: Very good, responsive and configurable, but it is a really stiff stick.
(pause)
Friend: But what would you expect from a company called Thrustmaster?
{ I still chuckle when I think about that conversation... Games and innuendo...who'd a thunk? }
Direct X get a lot of its "goodness/acceptable" performance by copying and integrating OpenGL specs?
I seem to recall John Carmack/Romero ranting about how poor the API for direct X was (20 lines of code to rotate an object vs 3 for OpenGL vs 2 for Glide...not the right #'s but that was the gist).
Granted, this was in the pre directX 6 days, but the Glide/OpenGL specs and implementations were heavly used in DirectX, were they not? (Probably leading to the purchase of SGI's patents...were those patents royalty free or something?).
Granted DX8 so far is a capable API, but no matter what it still seem "top heavy" compared to OGL.
By the mere fact of being OEMs, said OEMs were forbidden from loading any other OS or could be cowed by having Windows withdrawn or sold at inflated prices or other meathods of coersion.
I *liked* BeOS, made my p200 scream (hasn't done that since 95b/Slack 6. sigh. But my frankenstein whitebox dual p3 should do quite well for R5/Slack 8.1...hee heee)..
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....and in an effort to appease Stalman and provice a more integrated platform and appearance the GNU/IBM will be morphed into /GINBUM.
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Give your presentation as per advised by your employer, which is the smart thing to do.
Also, make your original presentation available on a CD-rom and attach a EULA to it reading:
"By agreeing to this EULA you will not hold HP, Bruce Perens or any attendees of this conference, personally, legally, ethically, morally, physically, mentally, emotionally or any other *lly for that matter.
If you are a member of the RIAA, MPAA, ABA, law enforcement (genus homo sapien or canine), political or judicial in nature, you hereby agree to stop breeding, kill any offspring and other kin you may have and then stop breathing should you have any need, want, desire, thought, inkling or idea to do or be the initiator, participant, party to or of any kind of lawsuit, harassment, annoyance or flatulance against Bruce Perens and HP.
Failure to comply with the above and you will pay the legal fees of the prosecution, defense, judge, jury, state in which you file, donate to the EFF no less than the senator from Disney has been bribed...err...funded per day and sing "I'm a Lumberjack" every hour until the trial (which should not happen in the first place, but you had to be a dick about it) proceedes and co-council will have to say 'bork, bork, bork' every 20th word".
Not only will you challenge the BS that is the DMCA but the EULA as well...because if the above EULA is valid and legally binding, well, somebody needs to lay off the crackpipe, get a sense of humor and be beaten by a clue stick before they can even approach the DMCA violation that they agreed to not to do anything about....and you just know it'll have to be submitted in original form, heh!!
Feel free to add more asinine stuff and legalese up the arse with HP's lawyers... and find one with a mean streak who enjoys fscking with other lawyers.
Now, if you will excuse me, I'm going to rip AC/DC's song "Big Balls" to MP3....JUST BECAUSE I CAN.....muaahahahahahahaha.
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Yes, more correct, thanks. the "won't" crossed my mind, but dealing with *ell currently has been more pain than it is worth today.
Got a call *after* 5pm today, I just happened to be there because I was needed and 'ring, ring'.
This being sysadmin day and all, I should not be exposed to this BS, but I guess *ell never got that memo/clue. *sigh*
Time to burn off some karma stating the obvious:
HP has been such a conservative company, and getting more so, I'm hardly suprised.
And the cynical BOFH type I'm becoming says think about the following:
Carley could not sell the Compaq merger to HP (had to force it thru).
Bruce could not sell a DMCA violation to HP. (hey, neither could 2600 to a biased MPAA judge)
HP can't sell printers to Dell anymore (or something to that effect).
Bruce has the balls to do it, but HP doesn't have the guts to back him on this one, because, if they did, they'd do what Gateway did to the RIAA, because all the things that made HP great are gone or slipping away.
Think about it: HP was great because the founders were *ENGINEERS*, much like Appl*B**'s is run by chefs. Now HP is run by..., well,... PHB's.
add component drag.NET?
Duh, nuh, nuh, nuh.
Duh, nuh, nuh, nuuuuuuuuuuuuh.
(mmph, snerk) Bwaaahahahahaaha.
Considering their solution for *any* problem seems to be a factory restore. Printer won't work: restore.
Software option can't be found: restore. Computer is on fire: Restore. Oye.
If Dell's printers turn out to be as good as their current support, this outta be fun. (Lexmarks? Oh, god help the poor souls)
Here's why:
Dell is currently going thru a major re-orginization, according to some of the major reps for my area.
I ordered some parts that would take *max* 30 days (normal/working, I don't recall)... Try 2 Months.
Dell is getting more propritary than Apple it seems: PowerSupplies, motherboards, ram (except Rambus, IIRC) CPU's with non-standard heatsyncs (nice design, though) and a few other things I'm forgetting. (on arstechnica they blamed crucial for having substandard ram. ROTFLMAO, like saying HP does not know how to make a good laser printer).
I was getting so fed up I asked a friend how he dealt with the crap service with Dell...the answer?
"Oh, we now buy Gateway's for desktops and Compaqs for servers, now".
Yep, that'll do it.
Simply put, Dell is pissing off a lot of people (except for select few in the Federal Gov't from some I've talked to...gee, wonder why?) inside and outside their own walls.
And rebranding printers?
Heh, what do you want to bet that they will be rewired SCSI cables that go from DB25 to centronics50 and cost 75 bucks a piece and can only be bought from Dell?
(I also wonder how long before they do the same to Microsoft and make their own OS...heh: DeOS...out to be a real winner)
Open source software is a threat to their members...{snip}
Well, when your tactics hit below the belt, I suppose turnabout is fair play.
{SEG}
You can't use lazyness and sloppyness as an excuse for violating a licence. Whatever that licence is.
Exactly.
I can keep track of it, but I was not allowed to.
After putting all the data in a spread sheet I noticed I did not have a license for Excel....
Damn.
(the above was meant as a joke, BTW)
Something along the lines of translated bios codes.
Maybe a Over Temp on a CPU could play the "FIRE BAD! FIRE BAAAADDD" clip from the Metallica/Napster flash movies.
That's be so funny.
I think it'd be in Linux's best interest if Slashdot didn't write anything negative about MS, just tech updates or whatever.
I agree completely.
Perhaps we should call it windowsupdate.slashdot.org and see what happens.
Sorenson announced the Nosneros codec for Macromedia products.
After all, it worked for Microsoft nimda's...errrr...admins, I meant *admins*.
Oops.
Note to commander taco:
/. down as redundant?
If the same article is going to be posted on two sites, does this mean that moderators should mod K5 up as informative and
First submitted article moderation, now "site" moderation.
I can see it now in the logs while grepping for "moderation" instead of default.ida.
True, very true, but I doubt very much that Gateway would be the wisest choice because I can see the "unofficial branding" (TM) {pun intended} of Gateway/Apple machines being called:
(ready?)
Cow Apples.
{rimshot}
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Now where did I put those Penguin Mints?
(qualifying statement time)
On my network I run NT4 (2000 seem to dislike some GIS software) on the workstation and linux (redhat 6.2 interanlly, 7.X externally and Slack 8.1 for testing/speed on lower end boxes) and have been slightly vocal about what I'd like to see, personally.
People who do GIS where I work often lament about the lack of "long haul" stability of NT and pine (pun lightly intened) for the Unix days when a process of an entire state can and would run for days to complete w/o a worry.
That thought in mind, if OSX86 came out (or moved to Alpha/Power4) and could run the bulk of the heavy lifting in GIS you bet I'd be pointing out "this could be worlds better than what we have now".
Norway has it right; it is *not* about being against Microsoft, it is about choosing what is the best for the job. And between the decling of Dell's support and annoying NT4/win2k problems that only reformatting take care of, well I'd switch as a (ahem) "way out" because I believe the better product should win, not because I'm an elitest a**hole.
Successful attacks is one, but what about re-infection/compromise?
For instance compare some of the Win2k boxes to a RedHat 7.2 box I had compromised.
The Win2k box (not mine, un?/fortunately) had been caught by nimda or some other vulnerability and after being formatted was *again* bit by nimda/code red when trying to get the updates.
(a cd or local machine with the patches never crossed the dude's mind until the second time around).
My box was compromised by a user running a trojaned IRC bot (eggdrop? was the trojan).
I know, I know, that was my fault for slacking off/being caught up in other things, but the next go around was wipe, install the data, kill services that are not needed (chkconfig, nice tool) and edit the hosts allow/deny to hell and back.
I was *P.O'ed*. FTP/SSH/HTTP is the only thing running currently with large ranges of IP's blocked if I see even *one* probe I don't like.
(no complaints, yet).
The large difference was the "state" of the admin.
The win2k dude thought it was the "cost of doing business", mine was "those fscking tools + idiot user I'll do everything I can to keep it from happening again.
Sigh vs GRRRRRR, is what I call it.
That reminds me, it has been a day or so since I grepped the logs...
Gotta go.
Heh.
Thanks for the rest of it.
"Now tell me again that free speech guarantees should not be part of the incorporation charter of ICANN."
Blatant sarcasm mode on:
Free speech guarantees should not be part of the incorporation charter of ICANN.
BSM off.
You expect professional behaviour from ICANN?
You know what ICANN stands for don't you?
Idiots Controlling A Nationwide Network.
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"Has a case of the 'Mondays'"... .....
Has anyone ever said to you "Looks like someone has a case of the 'Mondays'"?
Naw. No. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked.
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that this should follow a discussion about the digital dark ages and my mental edit of this line: ....by having the original broadcasters arrested for not paying their fees for 10 years retroactive from the original broadcast.
The IEEE and Lucent plan to commemorate the event
A new form of archiving historical data by passing it from generation to generation in the form of humor.
Call it the MPAA or Monty Python Archiving Association. All we need to do is figure out what made this century special and satirize it.
If you don't believe this will work try this experiment: Walk into a technical meeting and say in your best imitation voice "We are the knights who say...."
I guranteed you will get a "Neee!" from somewhere.
With enough people you could probably reconstruct the entire movie, or find one who has the whole thing memorized.
Don't think it will work, well "I fart in your general direction!"...damn, I did it again.
.
(Real conversation, BTW)
A Friend: Well my wife finally broke down and bought me a Thrustmaster.
Me: Cool, how is it?
Friend: Very good, responsive and configurable, but it is a really stiff stick.
(pause)
Friend: But what would you expect from a company called Thrustmaster?
{ I still chuckle when I think about that conversation... Games and innuendo...who'd a thunk? }
Direct X get a lot of its "goodness/acceptable" performance by copying and integrating OpenGL specs?
I seem to recall John Carmack/Romero ranting about how poor the API for direct X was (20 lines of code to rotate an object vs 3 for OpenGL vs 2 for Glide...not the right #'s but that was the gist).
Granted, this was in the pre directX 6 days, but the Glide/OpenGL specs and implementations were heavly used in DirectX, were they not? (Probably leading to the purchase of SGI's patents...were those patents royalty free or something?).
Granted DX8 so far is a capable API, but no matter what it still seem "top heavy" compared to OGL.
CNET has a story on the 17inchers too.
Dang...that just sounds so wrong!
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Exactly, the so called "Boot Loader" problem.
By the mere fact of being OEMs, said OEMs were forbidden from loading any other OS or could be cowed by having Windows withdrawn or sold at inflated prices or other meathods of coersion.
I *liked* BeOS, made my p200 scream (hasn't done that since 95b/Slack 6. sigh. But my frankenstein whitebox dual p3 should do quite well for R5/Slack 8.1...hee heee)..
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