Of course, it should be noted that by and large IT professionals earn more money then most other jobs - which I suppose is once again a warning of money != happiness.
Chefs, plumbers, and florists get less than 36k a year? I guess I should be happy then. I mean I would love my job if I got paid better.
is that I can d/l a program for *Nix that is free (both beer and speech) and find that the exact same prog is shareware or commerical for Win32. VCDEasy and WinAirSnort come to mind.
It doesn't kill me to pay for software, but I remember the CD's of free games and tools that anyone running DOS could use. Vertical
Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk? I think you would be stupid not to go. I'm really glad I got to do stupid things before I had a family. The chances of doing that now are non-existant. Do it while you can!
Found a site that gave an address with the mp3/mp3 username and password. Using my brand-new Super Hi-speed USR 28.8k I got the album via FTP LE and played it with Winamp. All on a second-hand Gateway P-90 running Windows 95a. Played great until I tried to play it and run Tomb Raider 2 at the same time.
If you are serious and not just blowing smoke...drop me an email. I need several for an inter-city youth computer training. If I had a couple hundred I could let the families have one. I would be more than willing to pick them up. Vertical
vertical(underscore)98 'AT' NOSPAMPLEASEyahoo DOT com
Maybe the RIAA needs to change their business model
I've been waiting for this book.....
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The Cryptonomicon was terrific! I hope I enjoy this one just as much. A lot of his complaints about Quicksilver appeared in the Cryptonomicon, esp. the plot jumping. Nothing like leaving the plot to discuss the revolutions of a bicycle chain.
Hey go with IMAP, I just stated that I had never used it. When it came time to setup my own mail server, I went with POP3, because most of my users could d/l it into Outlook Express. My point was that Debian made for a fine OS to run your IMAP server on.
I will admit qmail was hard to setup. I will also admit it has been worth every second I spent setting it up. Oh, to answer your question, 10 users on a Timex Sinclair with 4k of RAM. *smirk* Actually, started out on an AST Bravo P90 with 96 meg RAM. Got moved to a Compaq DP2000 P166MMX with 64 meg of RAM after the cache memory failed. Rock Solid every since. Oh, and did I mention it runs Debian?
IM(not so)HO, you would be very happy with Debian. I have not used IMAP, but I do have a POP3 server that has only hiccuped once in 2 years. (Cache memory went bad - had to replace box).
Others scream that RH and Suse are the best, but upgrading a Debian box is two commands away: apt-get update & apt-get upgrade.
For those of you that flunked history, Nero had people killed for their personal beliefs. Now I'm not sure that this Judge is defying this order because of personal religious beliefs or because he believes the momument to be a historical treasure. I've seen people lay down in streets to prevent the destruction of old buildings because they had historical significance. For some reason, because this historical monument has "Right-wing Fundist" beliefs on it we should destroy it immediately. If it was a grinning Buddha, would you be so inclined to have it removed?
I guess I should explain this in a matter that geeks might better understand. I believe that I have the right to make backup copies of any DVD I own. The US government has decided it should be illegal for me to possess any software that allows me to make a backup. If I make available a copy of DeCSS to you so you can do the same, I have committed a crime. I could go to court and lose (which you can bet I would lose, as I could not afford the expense). A judge could order that I take DeCSS off of my webpage and not make it available to anyone. If I did any way, because I truly believe you should be able to make a copy for personal use, I have committed a crime. Does that make me wrong?
I get tired of you AC's shouting out how awful Christians are because they have a belief system that says so-and-so is a sin. If you want to believe that you are right because you are a tolerant human being, who feels that condemning someone and making them take responsiblity for their actions is wrong, please feel free to do so. Guess what, no one is stopping you. Can you tell me one thing, before you flame, why are you so tolerant of others, but you curse and revile 'christians'?
Alex, I'm not trying to flame you, I'm trying to point out that because this Judge lost his case doesn't mean he feels he is any less in the right, than he was originally.
I first downloaded the vmdisk that they had available. My version is 4.26 (I think, not at my desk) and it complained about the bios settings being corrupt and resetting to default. long and short, it wouldn't hang at booting the kernel. I d/led the 65 meg ISO and tried to do it from scratch. After a couple of hours, it was finally installed and ready to reboot. Hung in the same damn place.
Now I'm all for hacking and learning and playing with operating systems, but QNX installed a heck of a lot easier.
I realize this doesn't help you too much, but I saw that a lot of people where getting flamebait mods for saying that Plan9 wasn't used by anyone. I can honestly say I don't know anyone that uses it, but I know several people that have talked about it.
Have you tried compiling Mozilla under it? It compiles under just about any other *Nix OS
I decided to give it a real test and threw a paragraph from my favorite book at it to see how it would do.
One chair was propped backward, wedged securely beneath the door's cut-glass knob. Another was draped with clothing: a woman's fringed mantelet, a mud-crusted skirt of heavy worsted, a man's checked trousers and cutaway coat.
Some words it spoke where very human sounding, like: chair, cut-glass, and woman's. Others where 50s robot: coot-away, Ann-other.
I thought for a minute, I could stop buying audiobooks, but I think I'd go crazy listening to that for a couple of hours.
I still have a copy of v1.2 of Corel Linux. I never understood why it never caught on as a desktop linux. If they had done a good port of WP Office, I truly believe it would have been a Windows Killer.
I used it as an X-server when I was learning about X-terminals (using Slack on the clients). If it hadn't been for the fact that Debian changed dpkg, effectively breaking Corel's version, I'd still be using it today probably. Oh well, Debian works great, just not as nice for desktop work.
I thought about trying Xandros, but have hesitated, since Debian fullfils (sp?) all my server needs.
Best of Luck to Corel, I hope beening owned by VC doesn't ruin them completely. I have fond memories of Corel Draw.
I like Guiness cold, but the best is Mackesson's Sweet Stout. You pour a pitcher cold, and drink it like a normal person (ie not in 2 mins) and you get a wide varity of taste sensasions. As the stout warms, the flavor changes.
Makes Miller/Bud/Coors pale (get it? pale) in comparison!
Seriously, we use Debian / Qmail for pop3, Debian / Apache for web, Debian / DBJDNS for dns, and Freesco for Dhcp and firewall. If you're running or will be running Oracle you probably want RedHat, but do you need to upgrade all of your boxes?
Well, your analogy isn't a good one. No..No..wait, hear me out.
If someone breaks into my house and I am inside, I SHOULD be able to use any means necessary to defend myself. I have no idea if they are breaking in to rape: me, my daughters, my wife, or all of the above. They may simply be breaking in to steal my TV so they can buy drugs, food, or baby diapers. The fact of the matter is, I don't know why they are breaking into my house. But I do know that their right to life is not greater than my right to safety inside my home. I did not ask, force, or coerce them to break into my house. Their rights end at my front door (or whatever means they used to enter my dwelling).
Now, to apply this to the RIAA. The RIAA is not now, nor will they ever be in danger of bodily harm from someone d/l a mp3 of Metalish!t. They might be out some cash, but they should be forced to prove that me d/l a song has cost them 15k.
So only pirates use Bnetd? Stopping that awful program will wipe out pirates? Pirates of D2 are unable to go online?
No, No, and NO! I can make a copy of the 3 disks and send them to a friend, he can then install D2, start an open TCP/IP game and......guess.....play on line. Can he play on Battle.net? Yes, but not if I'm playing also. Can he play on a Bnetd server? yes. Can he play me online? In an open game. Can he play solo? yes. Can he make multiple copies and play with people on a local net? yes. So please, please, I beg you. explain how bnetd promotes piracy? What? They don't check for CD-keys? OMG! Those bastards! (slight reality check: They have NO way to check for keys) So my solution is a solution...because if it was that damn good....I'd pay to have a full legal copy. And if I didn't think it was worth it...I'd not pay for it. What you are saying is that pirates wouldn't pay to play....So how do you know they would anyway? Vertical
Sorry if I don't see it. I do love D2 and have 2 legal copies. I also have a Bnetd server on my home lan. Oh well, I'm sure you're going to tell me how everyone else who uses Bnetd is a pirate and I'm really rare. Maybe I just want to believe that piracy isn't as big a problem as Microsoft/RIAA/MPAA/etc. would have us believe.
Also glad that a company should be vilified for stopping rampant piracy.
Ahoy Me Matey!
ok, maybe it wasn't funny, but why is sueing(sp?) Bnetd.org stopping rampant piracy? If they where really worried about it, they would make their servers the best so that no one would want to use the bnetd servers. (gasp!) No instead of putting out a superior product they claim DMCA violations and copyright infringement.
Of course, that just makes us 'self-rightous' whiners. Vertical
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Of course, it should be noted that by and large IT professionals earn more money then most other jobs - which I suppose is once again a warning of money != happiness.
Chefs, plumbers, and florists get less than 36k a year? I guess I should be happy then. I mean I would love my job if I got paid better.
Vertical
is that I can d/l a program for *Nix that is free (both beer and speech) and find that the exact same prog is shareware or commerical for Win32. VCDEasy and WinAirSnort come to mind.
It doesn't kill me to pay for software, but I remember the CD's of free games and tools that anyone running DOS could use.
Vertical
Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?
I think you would be stupid not to go. I'm really glad I got to do stupid things before I had a family. The chances of doing that now are non-existant. Do it while you can!
Vertical
Found a site that gave an address with the mp3/mp3 username and password. Using my brand-new Super Hi-speed USR 28.8k I got the album via FTP LE and played it with Winamp. All on a second-hand Gateway P-90 running Windows 95a. Played great until I tried to play it and run Tomb Raider 2 at the same time.
Vertical
If you are serious and not just blowing smoke...drop me an email. I need several for an inter-city youth computer training. If I had a couple hundred I could let the families have one. I would be more than willing to pick them up.
Vertical
vertical(underscore)98 'AT' NOSPAMPLEASEyahoo DOT com
USA today had another article
Maybe the RIAA needs to change their business model
The Cryptonomicon was terrific! I hope I enjoy this one just as much. A lot of his complaints about Quicksilver appeared in the Cryptonomicon, esp. the plot jumping. Nothing like leaving the plot to discuss the revolutions of a bicycle chain.
Vertical
They edited the story, but it used to say PS/2 not PS2.....but thanks for clearing it up for me.
Vertical
I'll take 2.
Vertical
I can dig out my first non-IBM compatible PC. I loved the PS/2 and the PS/1.
Vertical
Hey go with IMAP, I just stated that I had never used it. When it came time to setup my own mail server, I went with POP3, because most of my users could d/l it into Outlook Express. My point was that Debian made for a fine OS to run your IMAP server on.
Vertical
Read Life With Qmail
I will admit qmail was hard to setup. I will also admit it has been worth every second I spent setting it up.
Oh, to answer your question, 10 users on a Timex Sinclair with 4k of RAM. *smirk* Actually, started out on an AST Bravo P90 with 96 meg RAM. Got moved to a Compaq DP2000 P166MMX with 64 meg of RAM after the cache memory failed. Rock Solid every since. Oh, and did I mention it runs Debian?
Vertical
IM(not so)HO, you would be very happy with Debian. I have not used IMAP, but I do have a POP3 server that has only hiccuped once in 2 years. (Cache memory went bad - had to replace box).
Others scream that RH and Suse are the best, but upgrading a Debian box is two commands away: apt-get update & apt-get upgrade.
Vertical
For those of you that flunked history, Nero had people killed for their personal beliefs. Now I'm not sure that this Judge is defying this order because of personal religious beliefs or because he believes the momument to be a historical treasure. I've seen people lay down in streets to prevent the destruction of old buildings because they had historical significance. For some reason, because this historical monument has "Right-wing Fundist" beliefs on it we should destroy it immediately. If it was a grinning Buddha, would you be so inclined to have it removed?
I guess I should explain this in a matter that geeks might better understand. I believe that I have the right to make backup copies of any DVD I own. The US government has decided it should be illegal for me to possess any software that allows me to make a backup.
If I make available a copy of DeCSS to you so you can do the same, I have committed a crime. I could go to court and lose (which you can bet I would lose, as I could not afford the expense). A judge could order that I take DeCSS off of my webpage and not make it available to anyone. If I did any way, because I truly believe you should be able to make a copy for personal use, I have committed a crime. Does that make me wrong?
I get tired of you AC's shouting out how awful Christians are because they have a belief system that says so-and-so is a sin. If you want to believe that you are right because you are a tolerant human being, who feels that condemning someone and making them take responsiblity for their actions is wrong, please feel free to do so. Guess what, no one is stopping you. Can you tell me one thing, before you flame, why are you so tolerant of others, but you curse and revile 'christians'?
Alex, I'm not trying to flame you, I'm trying to point out that because this Judge lost his case doesn't mean he feels he is any less in the right, than he was originally.
Vertical
You preview and preview, and spell check and those damn grammer mistakes still get through.
Vertical
I first downloaded the vmdisk that they had available. My version is 4.26 (I think, not at my desk) and it complained about the bios settings being corrupt and resetting to default. long and short, it wouldn't hang at booting the kernel. I d/led the 65 meg ISO and tried to do it from scratch. After a couple of hours, it was finally installed and ready to reboot. Hung in the same damn place.
Now I'm all for hacking and learning and playing with operating systems, but QNX installed a heck of a lot easier.
I realize this doesn't help you too much, but I saw that a lot of people where getting flamebait mods for saying that Plan9 wasn't used by anyone. I can honestly say I don't know anyone that uses it, but I know several people that have talked about it.
Have you tried compiling Mozilla under it? It compiles under just about any other *Nix OS
Vertical
I decided to give it a real test and threw a paragraph from my favorite book at it to see how it would do.
One chair was propped backward, wedged securely beneath the door's cut-glass knob. Another was draped with clothing: a woman's fringed mantelet, a mud-crusted skirt of heavy worsted, a man's checked trousers and cutaway coat.
Some words it spoke where very human sounding, like: chair, cut-glass, and woman's. Others where 50s robot: coot-away,
Ann-other.
I thought for a minute, I could stop buying audiobooks, but I think I'd go crazy listening to that for a couple of hours.
Vertical
I still have a copy of v1.2 of Corel Linux. I never understood why it never caught on as a desktop linux. If they had done a good port of WP Office, I truly believe it would have been a Windows Killer.
I used it as an X-server when I was learning about X-terminals (using Slack on the clients). If it hadn't been for the fact that Debian changed dpkg, effectively breaking Corel's version, I'd still be using it today probably. Oh well, Debian works great, just not as nice for desktop work.
I thought about trying Xandros, but have hesitated, since Debian fullfils (sp?) all my server needs.
Best of Luck to Corel, I hope beening owned by VC doesn't ruin them completely. I have fond memories of Corel Draw.
Vertical
As many people complain about having to read about SCO, at 24 comments your site was damn near dead. I hope your server survives.
Thanks for making the Slide show available. Some of us knew SCO was smoking crack, just as Linus stated.
Vertical
I like Guiness cold, but the best is Mackesson's Sweet Stout. You pour a pitcher cold, and drink it like a normal person (ie not in 2 mins) and you get a wide varity of taste sensasions. As the stout warms, the flavor changes.
Makes Miller/Bud/Coors pale (get it? pale) in comparison!
Vertical
Seriously, we use Debian / Qmail for pop3, Debian / Apache for web, Debian / DBJDNS for dns, and Freesco for Dhcp and firewall.
If you're running or will be running Oracle you probably want RedHat, but do you need to upgrade all of your boxes?
Vertical
SHOOT THE HOSTAGE!
Everyone knows that.
Vertical
Well, your analogy isn't a good one. No..No..wait, hear me out.
If someone breaks into my house and I am inside, I SHOULD be able to use any means necessary to defend myself. I have no idea if they are breaking in to rape: me, my daughters, my wife, or all of the above. They may simply be breaking in to steal my TV so they can buy drugs, food, or baby diapers. The fact of the matter is, I don't know why they are breaking into my house. But I do know that their right to life is not greater than my right to safety inside my home. I did not ask, force, or coerce them to break into my house. Their rights end at my front door (or whatever means they used to enter my dwelling).
Now, to apply this to the RIAA. The RIAA is not now, nor will they ever be in danger of bodily harm from someone d/l a mp3 of Metalish!t. They might be out some cash, but they should be forced to prove that me d/l a song has cost them 15k.
So only pirates use Bnetd? Stopping that awful program will wipe out pirates? Pirates of D2 are unable to go online?
......guess.....play on line. Can he play on Battle.net? Yes, but not if I'm playing also. Can he play on a Bnetd server? yes. Can he play me online? In an open game. Can he play solo? yes. Can he make multiple copies and play with people on a local net? yes.
No, No, and NO!
I can make a copy of the 3 disks and send them to a friend, he can then install D2, start an open TCP/IP game and
So please, please, I beg you. explain how bnetd promotes piracy? What? They don't check for CD-keys? OMG! Those bastards! (slight reality check: They have NO way to check for keys)
So my solution is a solution...because if it was that damn good....I'd pay to have a full legal copy. And if I didn't think it was worth it...I'd not pay for it.
What you are saying is that pirates wouldn't pay to play....So how do you know they would anyway?
Vertical
Sorry if I don't see it. I do love D2 and have 2 legal copies. I also have a Bnetd server on my home lan. Oh well, I'm sure you're going to tell me how everyone else who uses Bnetd is a pirate and I'm really rare. Maybe I just want to believe that piracy isn't as big a problem as Microsoft/RIAA/MPAA/etc. would have us believe.
Also glad that a company should be vilified for stopping rampant piracy.
Ahoy Me Matey!
ok, maybe it wasn't funny, but why is sueing(sp?) Bnetd.org stopping rampant piracy? If they where really worried about it, they would make their servers the best so that no one would want to use the bnetd servers. (gasp!) No instead of putting out a superior product they claim DMCA violations and copyright infringement.
Of course, that just makes us 'self-rightous' whiners.
Vertical