I love that they say it reflects the change in the costs of Cable Modems. 100/3 On that rate it will take 33 months to break even on buying your own modem!
Personally, I think they would prefer people didn't own there own modems for management reasons.. If this is the case why not just say that.
Current damages are based on how much money people make on selling the stuff. However they want that changed to the full retail price... which allows companies to set there own damages by overinflating the value of their software then giving everyone a discount.
Have a copy of 2000 Enterprise server, your why not just give your house to Bill!
Hay I don't do nvidia, I do not by them for my systems. I do not buy them for any system I build for other. I feel you have to be pragmatic about this things. The seperation for this is, If it runs on "their" hardware, its ok. For me its just downloading configuration data to configure the card. If it runs on my hardware it is not (my hardware bought from somewhere else not them).
How much access do you need... Firmware to me is a grey area. Its ok if its platform agnositic, not windows, not linux, not even intel or PowerPC. Your BIOS has a program on it... want that one? Your CDRom has a program on it... want that? These devices operate to an API, so long as that API is open I have no problem. I think the only hardware that people "patch" with something not from their manufaturer is a DVD drive!
Some of my decisions are. Nvidia - No Winmodems - No DXR2 - Yup no problem (You have to download a program block to the card to initalise that thing). Build in card CSS... even better... Unpatchable DVDs nope;-)
So long as firmware has a FULLY documented API to talk to it I don't see why having to download it to the device is so much of a big deal. Infact even if the code was available it might it might not be compilable by the likes of gcc, so where would you then be? Some firmware is EEPROM some is just in ram, ram is faster anyway, so then you have to get every device having EEPROM and RAM...
I have more of a problem with "binary drivers", because my computer is nothing to do with there card. Their card however can work how it likes. Just give me the api to talk to it.
Thats kind of my point, it is possible to have a linux kernel running without any gnu software. As to what they are compiled with, I don't name my programs after the compiler I use to generate them.
Hmmm but XFree86 is even bigger than the linux kernel and the GNU project code. And you don't see them saying HAY! It should be XFree86/GNU/Linux, yup you can run it without X you can have a Linux kernel without GNU too. I see "linux" as a generic term used to include lots of components to make a unix compatible system, may be we should all just quit talking about "linux" and say debian, suse redhat even when we are not talking about distro related things. That way no one wins. Just because gnu might have more lines of code does not mean it should be first, gnu runs on linux not linux on gnu.
perhaps I should just write a nice little app, that everyone wants to have all it "ITSNOT" pad it with 1 gig of comments then the system should be renamed ITSNOT/GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux is clumsy to say, Linus didn't even pick the name "linux". So why RMS has a go at him for hogging the limelight I don;t understand.
Businesses have already adopted the name "linux" as a generic term for redhat, suse, debian etc, they ain't going to change now. The war if there ever was one has already been lost.
James
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I learned about encryption from netrek as someone had to export/redo the RSA code for netrek outside the US.
And of course the big advantage of fluorescent tubes is that they can run of AC, which is already wired into the house, if every LED array required a transformer to fit in standard socket, the efficency of the system would drop fast.
Personally I hate the light from flurorescent tubes, and will stick to my nice halogen lights.
However if your government BSD licences work they would could be taken by a company in a different country which then makes all the profits on it and then you have to pay to use your own research! GPL is say hay I don't think i can make too much of a profit on this, but hell if you use it I what your improvements.
I think GPL is ideal for small pieces of research work, they can be released as is. As the copyright holder if you want a commerical licence of this code damn well come to me and start paying....! After all have you every GPLed a patch you have sent in? I bet not, you just have them that work for free!
Check out the Siemens DVB card that was the core on the system in the linux PVR story. The card can support authenication modules, ie provider sim cards given to you by your cable or satelight company and yes you do get access to the digital stream. The siemens card basically replaces the complete set to box. The make it for a PC based put the components together that you want PVR solution.
The problem with DVB cards as far as I understand, is you need a different one for Terestral, cable and Satelight.
TV tuner cards have been arround for some time, I myself picked up an ATI TV wonder radion card for 25 pounds. Now if this had been DIGITAL, ie it was a DVB card hooked up to cable or satelight (even better if it was a premium pay service) and was directly pulling and recording the digital stream. I might be interested, but this is just capturing TV and then using a computer to process it to mpeg. People have been doing this for years.
All though I have to agree its fun, it however is hardly groundbreaking. Prices have just dropped on TV tuner cards. Just in time for them to go obsolite.
Yes I did know it was available and it use it, and this unix was my point, I obviously didn't make it clear enough. People were saying yenc was a windoz thing. I was trying to say it is not, as par is not. Windos users were the first to get clicky clients, not working impletementations.
Pan supports yenc to name one, lots of *nix tools available to decode, encode and post. Don't want to change software? You can still use tin to tag all the parts save them to disk and use an extenal decoder. This was the only way before with many *nix news readers. So not much change really just a different filter to use! Yenc like another much loved binary tool "par files". Seems to have been available on *nix first not second.
Many machines live there lives out in several roles. This produces the problem of migration. To get arround this problem all machines should have a "birth to death" name, this could be anything support wants it to be. Machines should also carry names for each service they run. Say you ran an oracle server and nis server on the machine "wibble". Perhaps one day we decide to move nis role to a dedicated machine. But can we ? yes but its hard because every appication has to be updated. Using the name wibble for the machine in a application is also bad because of when we migrate servers, the new machine also has to be called wibble. However having two machines named the same on the network can cause problems. Having names for service machines solves all of that. Services can be more to an other machine by just updating the DNS.
As to helpdesk, well there machines to them are called helpdesk1.... etc cos thats the service they are using, it might also be DNS2, However to you its Goofie, Setting up things so they see what the they thing the name of the server is has the addition advantage that when someone calls you and tells you the name of the machine, you know HOW they are trying to use it...
For the complete solution use different VIPs for each service, that way even if people have hard coded IP addresses, everything works with migration.
MS cannot pull windows from the market place its a non threat, if they did that there stock price would fall. The microsoft monoploy is one of the reasons their stock IS so high. CEOs must take action that is in the "interest" of share holders, removing a product from the marketplace that is very profitable isn't a good market move. As all money made from MS stock is based on the fact that is goes up, they never payed a single dividend. This would cause serious invester problems. This would also allow a preditor to move it and aquire a large stack in MS.
yes I have heard of Escrow, and yes I should have said something about it in my post. I was replying to someone who said they were ripped off. They were ripped off by a seller, not by Pay Pal, and i can understand why Pay Pal take the attitude they do. All i ment was if you send a cheque by post for mail order stuff, banks are interested in helping sort out problems.
Escrow does have problems when trying to do things internationally and it does increase costs. But I guess people should think how important losing there money is to them, and factor that into the cost;-)
I think some of the problems people have with Pay Pal is because they think of it like a bank which it is not.
Personally I have been lucky, and I have Never been ripped off by anyone on the 'net.
If I payed by a check I could get the bank to trace which bank account it was paid into, in case of faud. If it has be lost of stolen in the post, I could get the bank to refund the money etc. Pay Pal knows the bank account it was payed into however does not pass on that trail to users if they require it. Bank all be in my country must. Banks want you to keep your money with them, take out loans etc, so they want to fix customer problems. Pay Pal has no reason to care as their only service is money transfer.
However having said that Pay Pal does make it clear you should know who your sending your money too if you send it to the wrong person, or they just take it, they do state thats your problem.
Ripoffs like this accure with banks too, like the nigrian gambit (you know pay me XX and let me use your account to unlock my funds and you get Y%) Of course that one is worse because they try to hook you for more and more. The good news is the police care about tracking those people down, so if you get emails/snails like they talk to your police.
Well I noticed something "nice" with XP in the Disk manager if XP is not the default active partion it allows you to change it to XP. However if XP is the default, you cannot change it to any other partitions. You could with Win2K
I already have a dual input monitor, they keyboards are the main problem for me not the screen, a kvm would be Nice, infact my dual input monitor is my "ace in the hole", if they kvnm does not work well for my primary machine at the highest resolution, I will use the switch in the monitor to do the work.
I didn't quite understand what you said, does that mean you recommend buying a seperate svga, 2xPS/2 or USB a-b cable then using cable ties or buying an all in one cable they also supply....
Its hard to tell with Belkin which cables are better! In the cables section, they have gold plated ones, but they also have svga ones, (which are not gold plated) but seem to be better!
Surely if this process takes so long to execute the person who wrote it should have made it save its state every once in a while. Problems like these can have been avoided! Setiathome to name but one does exactly this.
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In future all credit card numbers are to be encrypted with Rot 13, which is particularly secure for numbers ;-)
James
I love that they say it reflects the change in the costs of Cable Modems. 100/3 On that rate it will take 33 months to break even on buying your own modem!
Personally, I think they would prefer people didn't own there own modems for management reasons.. If this is the case why not just say that.
James
Ok Office Xp recommended retail is something like 400 pounds, no one ever pays that figure,
200 and most.
Office 97 can be bought legally for 50 pounds here, but companies would probably claim it is worth the same ammount as Xp...
Not unlimited but hay but not bad...
James
Current damages are based on how much money people make on selling the stuff. However they want that changed to the full retail price... which allows companies to set there own damages by overinflating the value of their software then giving everyone a discount.
Have a copy of 2000 Enterprise server, your why not just give your house to Bill!
James
Hay I don't do nvidia, I do not by them for my systems. I do not buy them for any system I build for other. I feel you have to be pragmatic about this things. The seperation for this is, If it runs on "their" hardware, its ok. For me its just downloading configuration data to configure the card. If it runs on my hardware it is not (my hardware bought from somewhere else not them).
... even better... ;-)
How much access do you need... Firmware to me is a grey area. Its ok if its platform agnositic, not windows, not linux, not even intel or PowerPC. Your BIOS has a program on it... want that one? Your CDRom has a program on it... want that? These devices operate to an API, so long as that API is open I have no problem. I think the only hardware that people "patch" with something not from their manufaturer is a DVD drive!
Some of my decisions are.
Nvidia - No
Winmodems - No
DXR2 - Yup no problem (You have to download a program block to the card to initalise that thing). Build in card CSS
Unpatchable DVDs nope
James
So long as firmware has a FULLY documented API to talk to it I don't see why having to download it to the device is so much of a big deal. Infact even if the code was available it might it might not be compilable by the likes of gcc, so where would you then be? Some firmware is EEPROM some is just in ram, ram is faster anyway, so then you have to get every device having EEPROM and RAM...
I have more of a problem with "binary drivers", because my computer is nothing to do with there card. Their card however can work how it likes. Just give me the api to talk to it.
James
Thats kind of my point, it is possible to have a linux kernel running without any gnu software. As to what they are compiled with, I don't name my programs after the compiler I use to generate them.
James
Hmmm but XFree86 is even bigger than the linux kernel and the GNU project code. And you don't see them saying HAY! It should be XFree86/GNU/Linux, yup you can run it without X you can have a Linux kernel without GNU too. I see "linux" as a generic term used to include lots of components to make a unix compatible system, may be we should all just quit talking about "linux" and say debian, suse redhat even when we are not talking about distro related things. That way no one wins. Just because gnu might have more lines of code does not mean it should be first, gnu runs on linux not linux on gnu.
perhaps I should just write a nice little app, that everyone wants to have all it "ITSNOT" pad it with 1 gig of comments then the system should be renamed ITSNOT/GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux is clumsy to say, Linus didn't even pick the name "linux". So why RMS has a go at him for hogging the limelight I don;t understand.
Businesses have already adopted the name "linux" as a generic term for redhat, suse, debian etc, they ain't going to change now. The war if there ever was one has already been lost.
James
I learned about encryption from netrek as someone had to export/redo the RSA code for netrek outside the US.
*BOW*
James
And of course the big advantage of fluorescent tubes is that they can run of AC, which is already wired into the house, if every LED array required a transformer to fit in standard socket, the efficency of the system would drop fast.
Personally I hate the light from flurorescent tubes, and will stick to my nice halogen lights.
James
However if your government BSD licences work they would could be taken by a company in a different country which then makes all the profits on it and then you have to pay to use your own research! GPL is say hay I don't think i can make too much of a profit on this, but hell if you use it I what your improvements.
I think GPL is ideal for small pieces of research work, they can be released as is. As the copyright holder if you want a commerical licence of this code damn well come to me and start paying....! After all have you every GPLed a patch you have sent in? I bet not, you just have them that work for free!
James
Check out the Siemens DVB card that was the core on the system in the linux PVR story. The card can support authenication modules, ie provider sim cards given to you by your cable or satelight company and yes you do get access to the digital stream. The siemens card basically replaces the complete set to box. The make it for a PC based put the components together that you want PVR solution.
The problem with DVB cards as far as I understand, is you need a different one for Terestral, cable and Satelight.
James
TV tuner cards have been arround for some time, I myself picked up an ATI TV wonder radion card for 25 pounds. Now if this had been DIGITAL, ie it was a DVB card hooked up to cable or satelight (even better if it was a premium pay service) and was directly pulling and recording the digital stream. I might be interested, but this is just capturing TV and then using a computer to process it to mpeg. People have been doing this for years.
All though I have to agree its fun, it however is hardly groundbreaking. Prices have just dropped on TV tuner cards. Just in time for them to go obsolite.
James
Yes I did know it was available and it use it, and this unix was my point, I obviously didn't make it clear enough. People were saying yenc was a windoz thing. I was trying to say it is not, as par is not. Windos users were the first to get clicky clients, not working impletementations.
Pan supports yenc to name one, lots of *nix tools available to decode, encode and post. Don't want to change software? You can still use tin to tag all the parts save them to disk and use an extenal decoder. This was the only way before with many *nix news readers. So not much change really just a different filter to use! Yenc like another much loved binary tool "par files". Seems to have been available on *nix first not second.
Is it good is it bad? To late its here.
James
In that case I look forward to the day when I can do drop table windows;
James
naming a machine after where it sits in an office is dumb, because what happens when you move it!
You have to reconfigure the machine completely and any machine that talsk to it via its name.
James
Many machines live there lives out in several roles. This produces the problem of migration. To get arround this problem all machines should have a "birth to death" name, this could be anything support wants it to be. Machines should also carry names for each service they run. Say you ran an oracle server and nis server on the machine "wibble". Perhaps one day we decide to move nis role to a dedicated machine. But can we ? yes but its hard because every appication has to be updated. Using the name wibble for the machine in a application is also bad because of when we migrate servers, the new machine also has to be called wibble. However having two machines named the same on the network can cause problems. Having names for service machines solves all of that. Services can be more to an other machine by just updating the DNS.
.... etc cos thats the service they are using, it might also be DNS2, However to you its Goofie, Setting up things so they see what the they thing the name of the server is has the addition advantage that when someone calls you and tells you the name of the machine, you know HOW they are trying to use it...
As to helpdesk, well there machines to them are called helpdesk1
For the complete solution use different VIPs for each service, that way even if people have hard coded IP addresses, everything works with migration.
James
MS cannot pull windows from the market place its a non threat, if they did that there stock price would fall. The microsoft monoploy is one of the reasons their stock IS so high. CEOs must take action that is in the "interest" of share holders, removing a product from the marketplace that is very profitable isn't a good market move. As all money made from MS stock is based on the fact that is goes up, they never payed a single dividend. This would cause serious invester problems. This would also allow a preditor to move it and aquire a large stack in MS.
James
yes I have heard of Escrow, and yes I should have said something about it in my post. I was replying to someone who said they were ripped off. They were ripped off by a seller, not by Pay Pal, and i can understand why Pay Pal take the attitude they do. All i ment was if you send a cheque by post for mail order stuff, banks are interested in helping sort out problems.
;-)
Escrow does have problems when trying to do things internationally and it does increase costs. But I guess people should think how important losing there money is to them, and factor that into the cost
I think some of the problems people have with Pay Pal is because they think of it like a bank which it is not.
Personally I have been lucky, and I have Never been ripped off by anyone on the 'net.
James
If I payed by a check I could get the bank to trace which bank account it was paid into, in case of faud. If it has be lost of stolen in the post, I could get the bank to refund the money etc. Pay Pal knows the bank account it was payed into however does not pass on that trail to users if they require it. Bank all be in my country must. Banks want you to keep your money with them, take out loans etc, so they want to fix customer problems. Pay Pal has no reason to care as their only service is money transfer.
However having said that Pay Pal does make it clear you should know who your sending your money too if you send it to the wrong person, or they just take it, they do state thats your problem.
Ripoffs like this accure with banks too, like the nigrian gambit (you know pay me XX and let me use your account to unlock my funds and you get Y%) Of course that one is worse because they try to hook you for more and more. The good news is the police care about tracking those people down, so if you get emails/snails like they talk to your police.
James
Well I noticed something "nice" with XP in the Disk manager if XP is not the default active partion it allows you to change it to XP. However if XP is the default, you cannot change it to any other partitions. You could with Win2K
James
I already have a dual input monitor, they keyboards are the main problem for me not the screen, a kvm would be Nice, infact my dual input monitor is my "ace in the hole", if they kvnm does not work well for my primary machine at the highest resolution, I will use the switch in the monitor to do the work.
James
I didn't quite understand what you said, does that mean you recommend buying a seperate svga, 2xPS/2 or USB a-b cable then using cable ties or buying an all in one cable they also supply....
Its hard to tell with Belkin which cables are better! In the cables section, they have gold plated ones, but they also have svga ones, (which are not gold plated) but seem to be better!
James
Surely if this process takes so long to execute the person who wrote it should have made it save its state every once in a while. Problems like these can have been avoided! Setiathome to name but one does exactly this.
James