I started my boycott two years ago. I only buy used cd's and DVD's if I want to see a movie or hear some new music. Haven't stepped into a theater in over two years as well (to the chagrin of the lemminglass).
It was tough not to go see the LOTR, or the Two Towers, or Matrix reloaded on the big screen - but RIAA, and MPAA don't deserve a thin dime from me.
I was a target for the local Head of Amnesty International. Mark - Who was a teacher at Lewis Univercity back in the 1990's.
They decided that the execution of a rapist-Murderer that chopped up his victims was barbaric and held a cadle light vigil at stateville penitentiary in Joliet Illinois.
I wrote an op ed piece for the local paper explaining how we were eliminating a dangerous animal rather than a normal functioning member of society. Mark flew into a rage. He contacted the paper and demanded to run a rebuttel against my op ed piece - with a tag line stating that replies to replies would not be printed. He called me an animal, and was espicially vindictive when I had asked Amnesty International to come up with a better solution that would make sure that murderer-rapist-dismemberer never was a threat to society again.
What's more In his class I argued that the military did indeed provide a benefit outside of military actions, talking of jets, rocketry, navigation , MASH type emergency surgery, and dozens of other things that have spun out of military research and experience.
I went from an A averege on tests to a "D" in his class for my "Audacity".
Yeah, amnesty international is great. The people they get to head up their chapters are stellar. Boy, they sure have their heads on straight, and us folks living in the real world should STFU.
Yeah, I got karma to burn - but I had to get this off my chest.
No, many Windows updates require that you reboot before installing any other update.
No, that's incorrect as well. Two critical updates do need to be loade seperately. The first one is the Service Pack, and the second one is for IE.
Three or Four voluntary ones do - but I disagree with the Eula and DRM on WMP 9 so I refuse to load it. The rest can be loaded en masse on the machine if you wish with one reboot. At least for win2k and XP (loaded an XP box for the Girlfriend to surf with and patched my win2k last weekend since the laptop hadn't been used in months).
Actually - a better example using the speedlimit and this dell case would be -
You're happily obeying the speedlimit on an interstate - Having passed and set your cruise control to the posted 65MPH limit - three miles later on this perfectly flat signless empty stretch of interstate you are pulled over and handed a ticket for doing forty over the speed limit , and a copy of the order showeing the section you just drove over was in reality a 25mph zone. You could fight the ticket and get it overturned..
the person with the dell was not allowed to read it until after he agreed with it. He had no idea if he could or did break the EULA since he had no idea what the eula was, nor the capability of finding out what it said.
Honestly - I hate them, I hate AOL. I despise them. They disgust me. I'm going to have to punish my fingers for typing the last sentance of this post. I'll prolly stick them in boiling oil till my bones cook.
Gah.
AOL can block whomever they want to with no repurcussions, they own the portal.
Your family is not human. Your family is a figment of your imagination. You are full of shit.
Occam's razor suggests an enema.
Or perhaps being a First generation American - my family might be a bit smarter than the average american.
I got into computing around 1984, I built a computer for my dad in 1995 and taught him how to use it. When the computer explosion in the early nineties happened I built a bunch of systems for my family and friends - when the virsu shite started happening I told them to continually update the systems every time they log on - My grandfather who's 87 years of age now logs on to the net - updates norton, then heads to Microsofts update and patches the system.
Trolling like you are doesn't change the fact that my family and friends patch regularly. almost daily in some cases like my father. Sure it took a bit in the beginning for them to catch on on how important it was - but as I said My fam and friends are patched - I haven't had a tech call from them in almost a year.
Could be the issues with the versions - I have the enterprise suite for all of them.
I dunno. I've never had an issue with a patch 'cept for the time they upgraded the upload control. And even then all it did was trash one of the asp apps - it was easily fixed tho. I keep seeing people complaigning about the patches but I have never seen a box go down because of it.
The one other issue that comes to mind is something about one of the latest patches that seems to cause a profile to start disliking acrobat forms. But then again it isn't a show stopper - we log in as admin , copy the user profile to a folder, delete the user profile, recreate the user profile, and transfer the backup back to the new folder.
Problem solved in less than a minute or two.
Oh well, good luck on your issues- I would hate to have them. Guess maybe I should count myself lucky or somthin;)
Let's flip this around, and you tell me why I have no lockups, BSOD's or even incompatibiluty issues?
What other apps do you use? If you're a programmer you should know all about DLL hell - a completely unrelated program could of altered a DLL that roxio needs - Have you run the IIS lockdown tool? How have you configured your local permissions?
All sorts of things could be happening to couse your issues - but as I said - I don't have those issues. I use win2k at work or at home for most of the day - the boxes at work stay up 24/7 and the ones at home get booted up every day when I get home from work.
So you tell me? Why do you have issues and I don't?
5 years ago you had to be real careful with what frequency you set your monitor to. The default frequency for the red hat install just happened to be one that would cook the tube.
Well, I'm a developer, and I run Windows 2000 professional at home, with IIS and Visual Studio.Net installed. Wanna talk about patches breaking stuff? Here's my list of woes (noting that Linux has never given me this kind of trouble):
I have five fully patched win2000 boxes two of them with both VS6 and.Net one with SQL 2000 one with just VS.Net, and another handling a satellite connection for three boxes.
Never have a problem with updates locking applications. No BSD's IIS runs just fine The Main home system is great for gaming as well as programming.
I think the key here is hardware going into the box. I rarely buy cheap stuff when I build my boxes - as such everything but the US Robotics drivers are Pretty Much Standard drivers that ship with 2000.
As for Linux? The first time I tried loading red hat it burned my seventeen inch monitor out. Course - that was five years ago - I haven't been too eager to try it since..;)
I have a 21 inch CRT, and a seventeen inch CRT on my desk, with an ATEN VNC switch controlling two pc's on the seventeen inch (for satellite connection and my SQL server for developing) On the other side of my desk I have two mid-towers and one full tower case - in addition to my hub, 6 speakers (two for satellite, two for the warning beeps on the server, and two for the gaming machine (with two more behind me;) I have two sub woofers on my desk as well as a usb PDA charger, a docking station for my camera, and the modems for the satellite connection.
I would take one look at that setup and start laughing when they wanted to swap out my 50 year old executive massive wood desk with that plasticky - breakable looking thing.
No drooling here. Laughter maybe, eye rolling definitely - but drooling? Nuh uh.
PS - I also still have one of those IBM keyboards that are solid, Reliable, and can be used as a club in hand to hand combat with deadly results.
Gee - either I have to load up the sucky real media player to hear it, or I have to agree to let MS onto my system any thime they want via the EULA for windows media player nine.
Guess I won't be listening to NPR on the web anytime soon.
No, seriously, that'll work. The media is just a bunch of karma whores, and every time McBride lays a turd, they write an essay about it. If the media would get it through their heads that this is just an scam, and quit publishing whatever Darl says whenever he says it, his stock manipulations would be less effective.
Yet the media is always right about the environment, the bush administration,Riaa, Mpaa and anything bad against microsoft - or so I've learned on/.
I have a problem because of the EULA for WM 9 granting MS the right to come into my system when they feel like it.
By limiting the music instead of selling a ogg vobis or MP3 they really AREN'T providing the service we requested when we were "screaming for the ability to download songs for 99cents"
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I started my boycott two years ago. I only buy used cd's and DVD's if I want to see a movie or hear some new music. Haven't stepped into a theater in over two years as well (to the chagrin of the lemminglass).
It was tough not to go see the LOTR, or the Two Towers, or Matrix reloaded on the big screen - but RIAA, and MPAA don't deserve a thin dime from me.
Crap - I hit "reply" instead of "preview"
(braces for the spelling shark attack)
Ok - I'll bite.
I was a target for the local Head of Amnesty International. Mark - Who was a teacher at Lewis Univercity back in the 1990's.
They decided that the execution of a rapist-Murderer that chopped up his victims was barbaric and held a cadle light vigil at stateville penitentiary in Joliet Illinois.
I wrote an op ed piece for the local paper explaining how we were eliminating a dangerous animal rather than a normal functioning member of society. Mark flew into a rage. He contacted the paper and demanded to run a rebuttel against my op ed piece - with a tag line stating that replies to replies would not be printed. He called me an animal, and was espicially vindictive when I had asked Amnesty International to come up with a better solution that would make sure that murderer-rapist-dismemberer never was a threat to society again.
What's more In his class I argued that the military did indeed provide a benefit outside of military actions, talking of jets, rocketry, navigation , MASH type emergency surgery, and dozens of other things that have spun out of military research and experience.
I went from an A averege on tests to a "D" in his class for my "Audacity".
Yeah, amnesty international is great. The people they get to head up their chapters are stellar. Boy, they sure have their heads on straight, and us folks living in the real world should STFU.
Yeah, I got karma to burn - but I had to get this off my chest.
No, many Windows updates require that you reboot before installing any other update.
No, that's incorrect as well. Two critical updates do need to be loade seperately. The first one is the Service Pack, and the second one is for IE.
Three or Four voluntary ones do - but I disagree with the Eula and DRM on WMP 9 so I refuse to load it. The rest can be loaded en masse on the machine if you wish with one reboot. At least for win2k and XP (loaded an XP box for the Girlfriend to surf with and patched my win2k last weekend since the laptop hadn't been used in months).
Window? 4 patches 3 reboots.. yuck
Erm - that would be four patches - one reboot.
Actually - a better example using the speedlimit and this dell case would be -
You're happily obeying the speedlimit on an interstate - Having passed and set your cruise control to the posted 65MPH limit - three miles later on this perfectly flat signless empty stretch of interstate you are pulled over and handed a ticket for doing forty over the speed limit , and a copy of the order showeing the section you just drove over was in reality a 25mph zone. You could fight the ticket and get it overturned..
the person with the dell was not allowed to read it until after he agreed with it. He had no idea if he could or did break the EULA since he had no idea what the eula was, nor the capability of finding out what it said.
Gee ... I would have thought that most people had moved on from Napster to BitTorrent, KAZAA or eDonkey/Overnet
Why? Myself? I'd stick with ftp sites - PTP software is too public right now to be safe.
Honestly - I hate them, I hate AOL. I despise them. They disgust me. I'm going to have to punish my fingers for typing the last sentance of this post. I'll prolly stick them in boiling oil till my bones cook.
Gah.
AOL can block whomever they want to with no repurcussions, they own the portal.
There are three possible explanations:
Your family is not human.
Your family is a figment of your imagination.
You are full of shit.
Occam's razor suggests an enema.
Or perhaps being a First generation American - my family might be a bit smarter than the average american.
I got into computing around 1984, I built a computer for my dad in 1995 and taught him how to use it. When the computer explosion in the early nineties happened I built a bunch of systems for my family and friends - when the virsu shite started happening I told them to continually update the systems every time they log on - My grandfather who's 87 years of age now logs on to the net - updates norton, then heads to Microsofts update and patches the system.
Trolling like you are doesn't change the fact that my family and friends patch regularly. almost daily in some cases like my father. Sure it took a bit in the beginning for them to catch on on how important it was - but as I said My fam and friends are patched - I haven't had a tech call from them in almost a year.
A PC kept current with Microsoft's security updates would have survived this week unscathed.
lol - like I said - this week wasn't a problem for me or my family and friends.
Funny - I pactch regularly and taught my family to do the same.
I had no problems over the past two weeks.
No probs bud.
:)
I always did respect a person who could say - "oh -wait"
Actually - I didn't know enough at the time to configure it correctly.
But then again - live and learn.
Could be the issues with the versions - I have the enterprise suite for all of them.
;)
I dunno. I've never had an issue with a patch 'cept for the time they upgraded the upload control. And even then all it did was trash one of the asp apps - it was easily fixed tho. I keep seeing people complaigning about the patches but I have never seen a box go down because of it.
The one other issue that comes to mind is something about one of the latest patches that seems to cause a profile to start disliking acrobat forms. But then again it isn't a show stopper - we log in as admin , copy the user profile to a folder, delete the user profile, recreate the user profile, and transfer the backup back to the new folder.
Problem solved in less than a minute or two.
Oh well, good luck on your issues- I would hate to have them. Guess maybe I should count myself lucky or somthin
Let's flip this around, and you tell me why I have no lockups, BSOD's or even incompatibiluty issues?
What other apps do you use? If you're a programmer you should know all about DLL hell - a completely unrelated program could of altered a DLL that roxio needs - Have you run the IIS lockdown tool? How have you configured your local permissions?
All sorts of things could be happening to couse your issues - but as I said - I don't have those issues. I use win2k at work or at home for most of the day - the boxes at work stay up 24/7 and the ones at home get booted up every day when I get home from work.
So you tell me? Why do you have issues and I don't?
nothing AC.
5 years ago you had to be real careful with what frequency you set your monitor to. The default frequency for the red hat install just happened to be one that would cook the tube.
I have five fully patched win2000 boxes two of them with both VS6 and
Never have a problem with updates locking applications. No BSD's IIS runs just fine The Main home system is great for gaming as well as programming.
I think the key here is hardware going into the box. I rarely buy cheap stuff when I build my boxes - as such everything but the US Robotics drivers are Pretty Much Standard drivers that ship with 2000.
As for Linux? The first time I tried loading red hat it burned my seventeen inch monitor out. Course - that was five years ago - I haven't been too eager to try it since..
No kidding.
;) I have two sub woofers on my desk as well as a usb PDA charger, a docking station for my camera, and the modems for the satellite connection.
I have a 21 inch CRT, and a seventeen inch CRT on my desk, with an ATEN VNC switch controlling two pc's on the seventeen inch (for satellite connection and my SQL server for developing) On the other side of my desk I have two mid-towers and one full tower case - in addition to my hub, 6 speakers (two for satellite, two for the warning beeps on the server, and two for the gaming machine (with two more behind me
I would take one look at that setup and start laughing when they wanted to swap out my 50 year old executive massive wood desk with that plasticky - breakable looking thing.
No drooling here. Laughter maybe, eye rolling definitely - but drooling? Nuh uh.
PS - I also still have one of those IBM keyboards that are solid, Reliable, and can be used as a club in hand to hand combat with deadly results.
Gee - either I have to load up the sucky real media player to hear it, or I have to agree to let MS onto my system any thime they want via the EULA for windows media player nine.
Guess I won't be listening to NPR on the web anytime soon.
Well instead of tracking this thing - We have the Chimps and apes - Try to cross breed em.
Ever hear of the Mule? It's a crossbreed of a horse and a donkey.
I think it would be a valid experiment to actually SEE if this was possible.
For the previous poster that mentioned it might be a chimp/human crossbreed..
Ewwwww.
To be honest, I am quite amazed that you believe humans as a species will survive a few thousand years... turn on the news, man =/
Actually, that's why I turned off the "infotainment" that paints doom and gloom to sell advertising.
Perhaps if more folks did that they'd cease sensationalizing and overblowing things and actually REPORT instead Infotain.
No, seriously, that'll work. The media is just a bunch of karma whores, and every time McBride lays a turd, they write an essay about it. If the media would get it through their heads that this is just an scam, and quit publishing whatever Darl says whenever he says it, his stock manipulations would be less effective.
/.
Yet the media is always right about the environment, the bush administration,Riaa, Mpaa and anything bad against microsoft - or so I've learned on
I have a problem because of the EULA for WM 9 granting MS the right to come into my system when they feel like it.
By limiting the music instead of selling a ogg vobis or MP3 they really AREN'T providing the service we requested when we were "screaming for the ability to download songs for 99cents"
Gee - great.
What could of been a nice article ruined by someone Having to slam "windoze".
Whatever happened to providing commentary and articles on their merits? Can't someone post a news story without spinning it to the left or right?
BTW - that was sarcasm - cept for the expire part....