I don't think that violates any law, you are bound to a contract which you willingly agreed to (which these companies did). I don't think Intel qualifies as a monopoly either. The laws which govern monopolies do so when some company can pressure a customer to buy their product because of lack of competition. I don't think that's what happened. It's true that Intel gets these companies to sign contracts, but I think that has a lot to do with the fact that Intel makes the fastest chip by clockspeed. Most people don't know how to estamate performance, they just see something is faster by it's bigger number (Ghz), and its hard for a vendor to go with AMD when your compeditor sells Intel chips which appear to be a lot faster.
If it is true that they can't sell amd64's, then this could be a cool oportunity for smaller shops that build computers.
Um... your math is really not adding up in some places. If you can simply upgrade the ram, and add another CPU (which will probably boost performance by another 20% with the CPU) then the people probably didn't need a new computer to begin with. Or at least I would say, if their computer was THAT slow, then I doubt a second slow cpu will boost performance for another 2 or more years! The boost from reusing ram however, is a very good call.
Second. People almost never throw out the monitor - which is the majority of computer waste - certaily where the most lead is. Second you trashed an entire computer, but saved ram and memory; when you weight that against the ammount of crap in the REST of the computer it's probably like 3-4% savings.
Good ways to save on junk thrown away: 1) buy a decent computer to begin with. Not the best, just a pretty good one so that it doesn't become unusable so fast.
2) reuse the case if possible - that's where the most weight of a computer is. If the power supply is good enough, you saved a lot more waste.
3) get integrated networking and sound - fewer cards to throw away. ( which probably get replaced anyway).
4) reuse periferals such as cdroms, and zip drives. If they're clean, they probably work fine.
?) Not sure about the hard drive. Quite often it's the speed and transfer rate that will kill performance, so recycling a hard drive may drag down a normally speedy machine.
When I strip computers where I work, the mainboard is always the thing that goes (minus any batteries and jumpers). The case is only tossed if it's an older AT case. Most other parts can be saved and used elsewhere, or kept around to replace general failures with existing computers.
besides which it's not like you don't get all the ports anyway, you just have to wait for them to download and compile, which may not be trivial for things like KDE, but out of the 9000+ ports, the vast majority take just a few minutes to install on a modern machine. it's just a 'make install' away.
Believe it or not this is actually what has happened in some cars. Although I doubt that the manufacters care if you use their radio or not (since it's not like they control the airwaves or anything), some cars have major electronic components criticle to the function of the car IN the radio. A friend of mine actually runs a car audio place, and the solution is to use a custom wire harness that goes all the way to the trunk where the old radio is mounted.
I agree that you should just say no. But what if someone who has no interest in working on Samba does something like figures out the MS impimentation of the SMB protocol and junk like WINS replication, then only publishes how the protocol works?
This is just a theory, but if the person who publishes it cannot be traced, and those who learn from the protocol specs never see the code, then I don't think there is much MS can do.
I've been using Mozilla since around the second usable milestone (as in the second milestone Mozilla actually RAN), so I've got quite a bit of experience with Mozilla, which I currently run on Win2k at work and home, on my OSX Laptop, and on SuSE Linux at home and work.
Configuration may or may not have something to do with it. I spent quite a few months trying to figure out how exactly Mozilla was leading to a reboot of my computer every once and a while - turns out it was a shitty mainboard. Since then I haven't had a single problem with Moz destablizing the OS.
As for slowing down and crashing, this does happen. Currently I can't use Firefox to browse slashdot on OSX (I'm on Safari now) because the browser will simply stop loading anything else and you have to force quit the browser. I haven't had any problems other than Slashdot. On Windows it's been a headache at times. One problem is that Mozill/Firebird will run out of memory if you keep viewing images in a new window. I haven't tried FireFox.8 on this but it was still a problem years after I first had it and last time I checked. As for slowing down, I've had this problem as well. As far as I can tell (for me) it has something to do with Asian fonts, and JavaScript. I'm thinking it's along the lines of issues with annoying status scroller type messages but I've never really confirmed this.
I've had the problems for years on Windows and they've never been fixed so I really don't expect that they ever will, but as far as quirks go I'm willing to put up with them because I really do like Mozilla that much. I think the only thing I REALLY want more than anything is the FireFox pinstripe theme available on other OSes - it's really that good!
There have been huge improvements on Mac OSX. I've been using Firebird on my laptop for quite a while, and while it's been a decent browser I've had a few problems with it - bookmarks stop working, browser locks up, etc. Eventually it got to be too much, and I installed a nightly build a week ago. Stability seems to have improved a lot, and it seems to be slightly smoother and possibly faster.
The one biggest improvement I've seen is the UI, which I must say is probably the best I've seen out of any browser I've used (IE, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Safari, among many others). It's clean, and simple, yet still aesthetically pleasing. I found it a bit disapointing that the windows version still used the same theme since I was hoping that I could maybe take the Mac theme and use it there too. If you use Fire{bird | fox} on Mac OSX, then this certainly a must have upgrade.
Not quite. Frequency hop changes the frequency every couple miliseconds while transmitting and recieving. For TCP an equivelent would be changing ports all the time while connected. The real security would be that you would have some secret key telling you what port to start on and then use the same algorithm to hop between ports and some "key" to initalize the sequence. As someone else stated, that's not particularly useful with TCP since anyone sniffing the packets can see them all anyway.
Frequency hop is the security in itself, while port knocking is a sort of authentication.
It's a pretty sad state of affairs really. Netscape (3 & 4) always had huge problems with this, especially with tables. Often you'd have to write regular HTML, then when you get to a table you have to write it all on one line. Sort of pathetic that IE hasn't worked out all of these similar bugs in the two versions since IE4!
But at least there is a work around for that problem. try doing "<pre>text</pre>text" with IE. It ALWAYS inserts a new line after it, despite the fact that it shouldn't. But whatever, Mozilla is a Godsend. It's a total joy for someone who has played this game for years to write a bunch of html in an editor, then load it into a browser, and get a page that looks exactly like you thought it would, just like the documentation says! - as opposed to hope it doesn't do too badly, then end up doing stupid stuff like removing things like new lines in the source.
Greek symbols? Pfft. In independence day a mac uploads a virus to a computer with an architecture we haven't even conceived and based on symbols that probably don't even exist on earth. Now THAT is proprietary when your computer talks to stuff that the rest of humanity can't.
The main intent of the Scroll Lock key was to allow scrolling of screen text up
This is what it does in FreeBSD which can be pretty handy at times, and somthing I tend to miss when I work with Linux. Another interesting FreeBSD feature is shift+break which turns on the console screen saver.
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Depends on what the FreeBSD server is doing, and if it has polling enabled in the kernel.
Basically it depends on the situation. I mean a few years ago Windows 98 was SOOO much more stable than Windows 95... Neither FreeBSD nor Linux are today what they were a few years ago.
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Step 1) A source server with the ports tree. You test the port to make sure it doesn't fubar the system.
Step 2) build a package with the options you want. > make package clean
Now maybe you guys like just pushing random stuff onto machines and seing if they blow up, but I would think that you would at least test things first. Binary packages are good for many things, and for those of us who want a bit more control and optimization - source suits us. FreeBSD strikes a good ballence with 'ports' being able to use the source to build packages for redistribution. So in your scenario, I really don't think Debian would have much of an advantage.
Where the ports tree can really bite you in the ass is where you have ONE old computer that is Slooow and has to build the software for itself. It's the same problem with Gentoo, the computers that need optmization the most, are the worst for compiling their own code. At least if you have another faster computer you can build the package and just push it over with FreeBSD. (I'm assuming that Gentoo can do the same [?].)
The one area that BSD could use binary packages is for the base system updates.
Look at who makes these decisions. This is why MS has nothing to fear right now, those who make rulings against Microsoft aren't technically competent enough to make the rulings that they should. And by the time they do make the ruling, the topic at hand is hardly even relevant.
We all know what needs to be done to curb MS. Open API's, file formats, and protocols - things which those in the judicial branch have absolutely no clue about.
Meanwhile, the Edsel, quite possibly the ugliest car Ford ever made was a fairly decent car for it's time.
Maybe I'm an oddball, but I really don't think of the Edsel as being all that ugly. I knew this guy who had like 6 or more entire Edsels, and various parts for them all over. He still drove one around as far as I remember (1998 or so). He owned a junkyard so I used to pull parts for my car, so I would nose around looking at them. Granted I was in high school, so maybe it's just my youth and looking at anuthing from the 50's as being more "classy". For the 50's it lacked the elegance of most cars of the age, but comparing it's uglyness to something like... the Aztec? I'll take an Edsel any day thanks!
I'm thinking the same thing because if you have a common soundcard (and perhaps even not so common), it's pretty easy to get sound on FreeBSD. I have a ESS1868 on a P133 that I've always had a hard time with. Win95 could barely get it to work, Win98 it was a pain in the ass and sometimes just stopped working. Back when I could fit RedHat on it I couldn't get that to work. So I didn't have high expectations for FreeBSD either. It was a surprise to me that while reading the handbook it just took enabling something in/boot/loader.rc . I'm not saying it's simple, but it works great and is now my music player as well as other things.
Just read the handbook and look in/boot/defaults/loader.rc for your soundcard.
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As long as they have a word for reboot, they're probably at least on par with half American IT personel.
I don't think that violates any law, you are bound to a contract which you willingly agreed to (which these companies did). I don't think Intel qualifies as a monopoly either. The laws which govern monopolies do so when some company can pressure a customer to buy their product because of lack of competition. I don't think that's what happened. It's true that Intel gets these companies to sign contracts, but I think that has a lot to do with the fact that Intel makes the fastest chip by clockspeed. Most people don't know how to estamate performance, they just see something is faster by it's bigger number (Ghz), and its hard for a vendor to go with AMD when your compeditor sells Intel chips which appear to be a lot faster.
If it is true that they can't sell amd64's, then this could be a cool oportunity for smaller shops that build computers.
Um... your math is really not adding up in some places. If you can simply upgrade the ram, and add another CPU (which will probably boost performance by another 20% with the CPU) then the people probably didn't need a new computer to begin with. Or at least I would say, if their computer was THAT slow, then I doubt a second slow cpu will boost performance for another 2 or more years! The boost from reusing ram however, is a very good call.
Second. People almost never throw out the monitor - which is the majority of computer waste - certaily where the most lead is. Second you trashed an entire computer, but saved ram and memory; when you weight that against the ammount of crap in the REST of the computer it's probably like 3-4% savings.
Good ways to save on junk thrown away:
1) buy a decent computer to begin with. Not the best, just a pretty good one so that it doesn't become unusable so fast.
2) reuse the case if possible - that's where the most weight of a computer is. If the power supply is good enough, you saved a lot more waste.
3) get integrated networking and sound - fewer cards to throw away. ( which probably get replaced anyway).
4) reuse periferals such as cdroms, and zip drives. If they're clean, they probably work fine.
?) Not sure about the hard drive. Quite often it's the speed and transfer rate that will kill performance, so recycling a hard drive may drag down a normally speedy machine.
When I strip computers where I work, the mainboard is always the thing that goes (minus any batteries and jumpers). The case is only tossed if it's an older AT case. Most other parts can be saved and used elsewhere, or kept around to replace general failures with existing computers.
Oops, just realized you ment "live DVD" not DVD install. Nevermind =P
Like here?
besides which it's not like you don't get all the ports anyway, you just have to wait for them to download and compile, which may not be trivial for things like KDE, but out of the 9000+ ports, the vast majority take just a few minutes to install on a modern machine. it's just a 'make install' away.
Believe it or not this is actually what has happened in some cars. Although I doubt that the manufacters care if you use their radio or not (since it's not like they control the airwaves or anything), some cars have major electronic components criticle to the function of the car IN the radio. A friend of mine actually runs a car audio place, and the solution is to use a custom wire harness that goes all the way to the trunk where the old radio is mounted.
Sad but true.
I agree that you should just say no. But what if someone who has no interest in working on Samba does something like figures out the MS impimentation of the SMB protocol and junk like WINS replication, then only publishes how the protocol works?
This is just a theory, but if the person who publishes it cannot be traced, and those who learn from the protocol specs never see the code, then I don't think there is much MS can do.
And he'll find his palm isn't so obsolete if he gets married.
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SOunds good to me - as long as everything is big enough to mesure in Megatits.
I've been using Mozilla since around the second usable milestone (as in the second milestone Mozilla actually RAN), so I've got quite a bit of experience with Mozilla, which I currently run on Win2k at work and home, on my OSX Laptop, and on SuSE Linux at home and work.
.8 on this but it was still a problem years after I first had it and last time I checked. As for slowing down, I've had this problem as well. As far as I can tell (for me) it has something to do with Asian fonts, and JavaScript. I'm thinking it's along the lines of issues with annoying status scroller type messages but I've never really confirmed this.
Configuration may or may not have something to do with it. I spent quite a few months trying to figure out how exactly Mozilla was leading to a reboot of my computer every once and a while - turns out it was a shitty mainboard. Since then I haven't had a single problem with Moz destablizing the OS.
As for slowing down and crashing, this does happen. Currently I can't use Firefox to browse slashdot on OSX (I'm on Safari now) because the browser will simply stop loading anything else and you have to force quit the browser. I haven't had any problems other than Slashdot. On Windows it's been a headache at times. One problem is that Mozill/Firebird will run out of memory if you keep viewing images in a new window. I haven't tried FireFox
I've had the problems for years on Windows and they've never been fixed so I really don't expect that they ever will, but as far as quirks go I'm willing to put up with them because I really do like Mozilla that much. I think the only thing I REALLY want more than anything is the FireFox pinstripe theme available on other OSes - it's really that good!
And you're still safe from people doing that if you mount /home with noexec.
There have been huge improvements on Mac OSX. I've been using Firebird on my laptop for quite a while, and while it's been a decent browser I've had a few problems with it - bookmarks stop working, browser locks up, etc. Eventually it got to be too much, and I installed a nightly build a week ago. Stability seems to have improved a lot, and it seems to be slightly smoother and possibly faster.
The one biggest improvement I've seen is the UI, which I must say is probably the best I've seen out of any browser I've used (IE, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Safari, among many others). It's clean, and simple, yet still aesthetically pleasing. I found it a bit disapointing that the windows version still used the same theme since I was hoping that I could maybe take the Mac theme and use it there too. If you use Fire{bird | fox} on Mac OSX, then this certainly a must have upgrade.
Not quite. Frequency hop changes the frequency every couple miliseconds while transmitting and recieving. For TCP an equivelent would be changing ports all the time while connected. The real security would be that you would have some secret key telling you what port to start on and then use the same algorithm to hop between ports and some "key" to initalize the sequence. As someone else stated, that's not particularly useful with TCP since anyone sniffing the packets can see them all anyway.
Frequency hop is the security in itself, while port knocking is a sort of authentication.
It's a pretty sad state of affairs really. Netscape (3 & 4) always had huge problems with this, especially with tables. Often you'd have to write regular HTML, then when you get to a table you have to write it all on one line. Sort of pathetic that IE hasn't worked out all of these similar bugs in the two versions since IE4!
But at least there is a work around for that problem. try doing "<pre>text</pre>text" with IE. It ALWAYS inserts a new line after it, despite the fact that it shouldn't. But whatever, Mozilla is a Godsend. It's a total joy for someone who has played this game for years to write a bunch of html in an editor, then load it into a browser, and get a page that looks exactly like you thought it would, just like the documentation says! - as opposed to hope it doesn't do too badly, then end up doing stupid stuff like removing things like new lines in the source.
Greek symbols? Pfft. In independence day a mac uploads a virus to a computer with an architecture we haven't even conceived and based on symbols that probably don't even exist on earth. Now THAT is proprietary when your computer talks to stuff that the rest of humanity can't.
Unix Guy: Man WTF? Wheres /bin and /sbin? There's stuff like "applications" and "settings"... What in the hell does THAT mean?
The main intent of the Scroll Lock key was to allow scrolling of screen text up
This is what it does in FreeBSD which can be pretty handy at times, and somthing I tend to miss when I work with Linux. Another interesting FreeBSD feature is shift+break which turns on the console screen saver.
Depends on what the FreeBSD server is doing, and if it has polling enabled in the kernel.
Basically it depends on the situation. I mean a few years ago Windows 98 was SOOO much more stable than Windows 95... Neither FreeBSD nor Linux are today what they were a few years ago.
Step 1) A source server with the ports tree. You test the port to make sure it doesn't fubar the system.
Step 2) build a package with the options you want.
> make package clean
Now maybe you guys like just pushing random stuff onto machines and seing if they blow up, but I would think that you would at least test things first. Binary packages are good for many things, and for those of us who want a bit more control and optimization - source suits us. FreeBSD strikes a good ballence with 'ports' being able to use the source to build packages for redistribution. So in your scenario, I really don't think Debian would have much of an advantage.
Where the ports tree can really bite you in the ass is where you have ONE old computer that is Slooow and has to build the software for itself. It's the same problem with Gentoo, the computers that need optmization the most, are the worst for compiling their own code. At least if you have another faster computer you can build the package and just push it over with FreeBSD. (I'm assuming that Gentoo can do the same [?].)
The one area that BSD could use binary packages is for the base system updates.
Look at who makes these decisions. This is why MS has nothing to fear right now, those who make rulings against Microsoft aren't technically competent enough to make the rulings that they should. And by the time they do make the ruling, the topic at hand is hardly even relevant.
We all know what needs to be done to curb MS. Open API's, file formats, and protocols - things which those in the judicial branch have absolutely no clue about.
Meanwhile, the Edsel, quite possibly the ugliest car Ford ever made was a fairly decent car for it's time.
Maybe I'm an oddball, but I really don't think of the Edsel as being all that ugly. I knew this guy who had like 6 or more entire Edsels, and various parts for them all over. He still drove one around as far as I remember (1998 or so). He owned a junkyard so I used to pull parts for my car, so I would nose around looking at them. Granted I was in high school, so maybe it's just my youth and looking at anuthing from the 50's as being more "classy". For the 50's it lacked the elegance of most cars of the age, but comparing it's uglyness to something like... the Aztec? I'll take an Edsel any day thanks!
The same tricks that boost the performance of their CPU model numbers 20-30% over their clockspeed? =P
I'm thinking the same thing because if you have a common soundcard (and perhaps even not so common), it's pretty easy to get sound on FreeBSD. I have a ESS1868 on a P133 that I've always had a hard time with. Win95 could barely get it to work, Win98 it was a pain in the ass and sometimes just stopped working. Back when I could fit RedHat on it I couldn't get that to work. So I didn't have high expectations for FreeBSD either. It was a surprise to me that while reading the handbook it just took enabling something in /boot/loader.rc . I'm not saying it's simple, but it works great and is now my music player as well as other things.
/boot/defaults/loader.rc for your soundcard.
Just read the handbook and look in
maybe... but you take YOUR tinfoil hat off first okay?