It's because under the license, if you install one copy you have to license it for all of your systems. And they insist on the right of onsite audit to verify this. It's horrible. I may want a few boxes for testing or development for example. I have no problem paying it for production boxes, but not all boxes.
There are other possible explanations for global warming other than human influence.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, like the millions of cows in India are the largest source of methane in the world. (Hmm, come to think of it, that is a human influence as well. Opening up a chain of Lone Star Steakhouses or Outbacks in India would sure fix that one up...)
Global warming is a liberal myth. There is no evidence the world is warming up. The complete melting of the polar ice caps this summer is just anecdotal evidence.
Well guess what - that's what 99.99% of the Windows world is doing now.
Amen. And as one who wrestles with NOT giving every user admin privs on his office PC, let me tell you that there are a lot of packages out there that don't work and specifically say "User must have Administrator rights to run package"
Auto - cough - cad....
You'd think that people who write software these days would understand by now the world still doesn't use Windows 98 where the app can write to any directory or reg key at will. sigh...
Thanks for that history lesson. I remember my first experiences with ATM machines. Was around 1976-1978 time period. I do believe it was docutel or diabold. There were dedicated function buttons, like one for $25 cash, $50 cash, $100 cash. The money was dispensed in individual envelopes into a drawer, $25 per envelope.
I thought "OEM" copies of Windows are tied to a particular computer and only valid if pre-installed per some sort of vendor agreement with Microsoft. Isn't the only valid install for a white box computer a retail copy of Windows?
For the few of you who read the article, one bit said it had a sign on it that said that it was running Linux and they'd reformat and install Windows 98 for a fee.
Are they charging for and installing the retail copy of Windows 98? Is this even available anymore?
Are they gently suggesting that you buy this cheapo PC and you can just install your own bogus copy of Windows 98 on it?
In either case, it should be Microsoft that is upset, not Linux people. Something stinks.
How anonymous are you really? Like, computers like to chatter, especially windows. Is your netbios name somehow descriptive of who you are? If there is an imaps connection into some other site so you can get your mail, you've created a trail that, with the other site's help, can identify who you are.
Or sites you browse. Like slashdot. "This page was generated by.*for (.*) \(" or something like that will lift your slashdot username. From there you can browse the person's comment history, learn little tidbits about them, all leading to possible identification.
It's difficult to stay really anonymous if someone wants to track you down bad enough...
The nice thing about wide open wifi points in neighborhoods and such is that if it's wide open, it's most likely due to user stupidity and hence nothing is going to be noticed or tracked by the user or the ISP.
I wouldn't be so quick to do anything clandestine on a federal agency wifi network, that's for sure.
I had coverage in the most remote, god-fosaken areas of the southwest.
And if you think about it, that's what really counts. If you're out in the middle of nowhere and stranded, having a signal could be a real life saver. I've done a lot of hiking in remote areas of the southwest and almost always had a verizon signal. If not, I could usually just walk up to the top of some hill or mountain (not always that easy I admit) and grab one!
I've driven all over the southwest with a friend of mine. I have Verizon, my work phone is Nextel, and he has Sprint PCS. Coverage wise, it was Verizon by far, then Nextel, then that POS Sprint. Even in dense areas like - ah, er, Phoenix -- he often had trouble getting a decent signal.
Then there's the entire southeast quadrant of New Mexico. All around Carlsbad, Roswell, and basically anywhere east of I-25 was a complete dead zone for Nextel and Sprint. Verizon was great except for a few isolated areas between some mountains.
Sprint's "all digital" shtick is supposed to be a selling point, but it's actually a disadvantage. If there's no digital signal, I'd much rather fall back to analog (plus not have to pay roaming charges) than have no service at all.
One more thing, modern cell phones pretty much suck. I've had a startac 7868W for years now, works like a champ, great sound quality, and goes ages on a charge. It's basically a very good telephone. OK, so it doesn't have solitaire or allow me to snap photos inside of locker rooms. I'd rather just have a good phone and reliable dependable phone service.
Thanks for the response. Interesting. So does the dealer decide what to order for his stock, or does the manufacturer just have some sort of formula that they allocate to each dealer?
Personally, I'm dying for an '04 Toyota Prius with the loaded option package. It's the ulitmate geek car. I'm a tad bit flexible with the color, but don't want silver or black. Toyota isn't going to start building the cars until mid August for October 15 delivery and previous Prius owners got to go to a special web site and pre-order a car. They had three option packages to choose from.
I also read that Toyota is only building 15% of the cars with the loaded option pack so right away, choice is limited. Then you got to a certain color and choice is limited even more.
But if I'm going to shell out $25K (a lot for me, but I know people spend over twice that for some vehicles) I want it to be the way I want it.
Why won't the big automakers do this?
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I've never understood, with just-in-time parts delivery at plants, why auto makers can't or don't do this. Why can't I go to their website and pick out my colors and options and have it built and delivered to my dealer a few weeks later?
Some automaker sites have a "build my car" page where you pick what you want, then they do an inventory search and list some that are close as possible to what you want.
If you go to a dealer and ask to have a special order, they get pretty upset. I guess this is understandable since they really want to move the inventory off their lot instead.
But seriously, it's the inventory sitting around that's the big money drainer on a business like this. If they can radically reduce inventory and also reduce the time from manufacture to customer, it means less inventory carrying expense and happier customers.
It costs them more than that. Now everyone knows it's possible. Why do you think they wanted to settle quickly and park a gag order on it? How many others around do you think have been gagged?
Is buymusic just supposed to take Jody Whitesides' word for it that she indeed wrote and performed the music, and that its sale to buymusic was in breach of contract?
Under the rules for the DMCA, if applied equally to all, then the answer is -- yes.
While I agree with you that they may have agreed to this unknownigly, it's quite obvious that they are not getting paid either. There goes the RIAA argument that they are fighting to ensure artists get paid for their work. The ones who need it the most (those not stinking filthy rich and famous) are the ones getting the biggest screwing here...
Thanks, good ideas. We've also been looking at something like bluesocket wifi gateway. No reason why it can't be adapted for wired as well as wireless for what it does from what I can tell.
Or do it from an unsecured college lab. While most of the labs I administer are secured by logons, there's a few stuborn academic departments that insist on unsecured self-administered desktops with no user auth. If we got a subpoena for one of those IPs, we'd have to say "Oh well, we have no clue who was using it."
We also have problems with students going into labs and unjacking the patch cable from a desktop and plugging it into their own laptop. Again, no authenticated access. We tried port security but they either have fun by going around a room jacking in and disabling an entire room during an evening with no network techs around, or duplicating the mac address and doing it anyway. I guess what is left is somehow securing it into the back of a desktop but some determined soul with a crimp tool and 5 minutes could just cut it and make a new end.
And what for what purpose does this little battle of witts serve? The RIAA doesn't reimburse my institution for policing their copyrights. We're making a fair effort, but nothing is fool proof.
Wonderful, which means RHCE certs are near worthless because they are only "current' for two major releases. I got my RHCE for RH 8.0 this April (they switched to RH 9 the very next release).
I'm certainly not going to shell out $750 every year to keep my RHCE current. Bastards...
Besides, the RHCE thing makes no sense. If RH 9 is consumer only, why do they do RHCE certifications for the consumer version and not the advanced server products?
It's far easier to log into a crippled unix system, have a look around and hopfully fix it, than a crippled windows system. Once that kernel-gui running thing in windows develops problems, you can just forget it. Reboot if you can, else just power cycle and pray it doesn't happen again.
One would think the seriousness of a crime would dictate the amount of punishment, as in, murder should rank up there at the top.
But it seems we are heading into two different directions. Crimes and their punishment are being classified into crimes against people and crimes against corporations. Crimes against people can be plea bargained down to minimal sentences. Crimes against corporations are constantly on the upswing as far as severity and punishment.
I remember when I first noticed this was during a period when those two kids from Delaware murdered their newborn child and dumped it into the trash. Their bail was set at $250,000. During that same time someone got nailed with a tone dialer (Bernie S mbe) and his bail was set at $300,000. The Delaware kids sentence for murder ended up being just two years each. Not bad, huh?
It's a hard sell to your users, but unless a product has that nifty Designed for Windows XP logo, it's a crap shoot. So many applications violate common sense rules for multiple user and/or locked-down workstations. The worse they are, the harder your job is.
If more companies and schools demanded this from their vendors, maybe vendors would start to write better apps. It just amazes me that apps still expect to be able to write to the program directory, for example. Hell, Novell and the idea of ACLs came out when, 1985? And programmers still expect to be able to write anywhere in a file system?
The logo rules would also cover your issues with all users versus user profile settings too.
Not quite the answer you wanted, but it's either logo software, or deal with horrible hacks as has been discussed elsewhere here...
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Got me if it's true. I'm not up on that stuff. Made for some interesting reading though! :)
It's because under the license, if you install one copy you have to license it for all of your systems. And they insist on the right of onsite audit to verify this. It's horrible. I may want a few boxes for testing or development for example. I have no problem paying it for production boxes, but not all boxes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, like the millions of cows in India are the largest source of methane in the world. (Hmm, come to think of it, that is a human influence as well. Opening up a chain of Lone Star Steakhouses or Outbacks in India would sure fix that one up...)
Hey, it was a joke, lighten up! :-)
Global warming is a liberal myth. There is no evidence the world is warming up. The complete melting of the polar ice caps this summer is just anecdotal evidence.
Amen. And as one who wrestles with NOT giving every user admin privs on his office PC, let me tell you that there are a lot of packages out there that don't work and specifically say "User must have Administrator rights to run package"
Auto - cough - cad....
You'd think that people who write software these days would understand by now the world still doesn't use Windows 98 where the app can write to any directory or reg key at will. sigh...
Thanks for that history lesson. I remember my first experiences with ATM machines. Was around 1976-1978 time period. I do believe it was docutel or diabold. There were dedicated function buttons, like one for $25 cash, $50 cash, $100 cash. The money was dispensed in individual envelopes into a drawer, $25 per envelope.
I thought "OEM" copies of Windows are tied to a particular computer and only valid if pre-installed per some sort of vendor agreement with Microsoft. Isn't the only valid install for a white box computer a retail copy of Windows?
In either case, it should be Microsoft that is upset, not Linux people. Something stinks.
If Linux kernel was not GPL and was instead BSD, it would be far easier for SCO to hijack it than it is now.
All of the counter-lawsuits against SCO so far are pointing out that SCO distributed their own distro of Linux and hence are bound by the GPL.
The original 128K Mac only had 64K ROM.
Or sites you browse. Like slashdot. "This page was generated by.*for (.*) \(" or something like that will lift your slashdot username. From there you can browse the person's comment history, learn little tidbits about them, all leading to possible identification.
It's difficult to stay really anonymous if someone wants to track you down bad enough...
The nice thing about wide open wifi points in neighborhoods and such is that if it's wide open, it's most likely due to user stupidity and hence nothing is going to be noticed or tracked by the user or the ISP.
I wouldn't be so quick to do anything clandestine on a federal agency wifi network, that's for sure.
And if you think about it, that's what really counts. If you're out in the middle of nowhere and stranded, having a signal could be a real life saver. I've done a lot of hiking in remote areas of the southwest and almost always had a verizon signal. If not, I could usually just walk up to the top of some hill or mountain (not always that easy I admit) and grab one!
Then there's the entire southeast quadrant of New Mexico. All around Carlsbad, Roswell, and basically anywhere east of I-25 was a complete dead zone for Nextel and Sprint. Verizon was great except for a few isolated areas between some mountains.
Sprint's "all digital" shtick is supposed to be a selling point, but it's actually a disadvantage. If there's no digital signal, I'd much rather fall back to analog (plus not have to pay roaming charges) than have no service at all.
One more thing, modern cell phones pretty much suck. I've had a startac 7868W for years now, works like a champ, great sound quality, and goes ages on a charge. It's basically a very good telephone. OK, so it doesn't have solitaire or allow me to snap photos inside of locker rooms. I'd rather just have a good phone and reliable dependable phone service.
Personally, I'm dying for an '04 Toyota Prius with the loaded option package. It's the ulitmate geek car. I'm a tad bit flexible with the color, but don't want silver or black. Toyota isn't going to start building the cars until mid August for October 15 delivery and previous Prius owners got to go to a special web site and pre-order a car. They had three option packages to choose from.
I also read that Toyota is only building 15% of the cars with the loaded option pack so right away, choice is limited. Then you got to a certain color and choice is limited even more.
But if I'm going to shell out $25K (a lot for me, but I know people spend over twice that for some vehicles) I want it to be the way I want it.
Some automaker sites have a "build my car" page where you pick what you want, then they do an inventory search and list some that are close as possible to what you want.
If you go to a dealer and ask to have a special order, they get pretty upset. I guess this is understandable since they really want to move the inventory off their lot instead.
But seriously, it's the inventory sitting around that's the big money drainer on a business like this. If they can radically reduce inventory and also reduce the time from manufacture to customer, it means less inventory carrying expense and happier customers.
It costs them more than that. Now everyone knows it's possible. Why do you think they wanted to settle quickly and park a gag order on it? How many others around do you think have been gagged?
Under the rules for the DMCA, if applied equally to all, then the answer is -- yes.
While I agree with you that they may have agreed to this unknownigly, it's quite obvious that they are not getting paid either. There goes the RIAA argument that they are fighting to ensure artists get paid for their work. The ones who need it the most (those not stinking filthy rich and famous) are the ones getting the biggest screwing here...
Thanks, good ideas. We've also been looking at something like bluesocket wifi gateway. No reason why it can't be adapted for wired as well as wireless for what it does from what I can tell.
We also have problems with students going into labs and unjacking the patch cable from a desktop and plugging it into their own laptop. Again, no authenticated access. We tried port security but they either have fun by going around a room jacking in and disabling an entire room during an evening with no network techs around, or duplicating the mac address and doing it anyway. I guess what is left is somehow securing it into the back of a desktop but some determined soul with a crimp tool and 5 minutes could just cut it and make a new end.
And what for what purpose does this little battle of witts serve? The RIAA doesn't reimburse my institution for policing their copyrights. We're making a fair effort, but nothing is fool proof.
I'm certainly not going to shell out $750 every year to keep my RHCE current. Bastards...
Besides, the RHCE thing makes no sense. If RH 9 is consumer only, why do they do RHCE certifications for the consumer version and not the advanced server products?
This goes for remote or local.
But it seems we are heading into two different directions. Crimes and their punishment are being classified into crimes against people and crimes against corporations. Crimes against people can be plea bargained down to minimal sentences. Crimes against corporations are constantly on the upswing as far as severity and punishment.
I remember when I first noticed this was during a period when those two kids from Delaware murdered their newborn child and dumped it into the trash. Their bail was set at $250,000. During that same time someone got nailed with a tone dialer (Bernie S mbe) and his bail was set at $300,000. The Delaware kids sentence for murder ended up being just two years each. Not bad, huh?
If more companies and schools demanded this from their vendors, maybe vendors would start to write better apps. It just amazes me that apps still expect to be able to write to the program directory, for example. Hell, Novell and the idea of ACLs came out when, 1985? And programmers still expect to be able to write anywhere in a file system?
The logo rules would also cover your issues with all users versus user profile settings too.
Not quite the answer you wanted, but it's either logo software, or deal with horrible hacks as has been discussed elsewhere here...
So it's a double-screwing, exporting tech jobs and importing tech workers.
I knew I should have took up nursing. The only sure-fire growth industry these days...