Alot of folks who use a Microsoft based OS do not realise the total cost or "stor value" of the software that they have on their computer. Beside the folks who buy pre-built systems, the folks who build there systems or upgrade their system usually get a copy of the OS from a friend or some other means. Now, i am not try to point fingers at anyone, but if it was completly possible to stop piracy in all its forms, and to prevent folks from abusing "shareware" software, and stop "cracking" of software... then alot of folks would be switch from MS to linux, based on the fact that most of them cannot afford to pay the high prices that is required to attain software these days. Those few of you who were never in the piracy scene may not realize the dept of piracy that runs rampant in the computer industry. Even in companies and schools, managers are forced to either ignore the license of some software because they cannot afford to pay those crazy ammounts of money for software that they need. Maybe it is wrong, but that is not the point. It is happening, and it would not be happening if something was not wrong with the current software system. Microsoft may not have cause it, but they are the symbol of all that is wrong. How we deal with this could decide the next step in the evolution of our species.
well, this is what happens when you don't sleep for a long long while!
if you had searched the netcom website you would have found that they provide a pretty damn good page on how to get netcom working with linux. I use it and i know that it works!
i did not know that linux has been around for 15 years... thank you zdnet for showing me the light...
and i quote: "We've been using Linux for almost a year, and collecting the stories you need to read to get off to a good Linux start. You'll find out why it took Linux more than 15 years to turn into an overnight sensation -- and why it took us months to get past a basic Linux installation -- in Linux 101"
I guess with the 2.2.0 kernel so close to release, that RH is probably driving Raster and those Gnome boys like slave drivers. I am sure they are hoping for a Gnome 1.0 and an E 15 to release with it. Not to mention that they would like to be the first distro to be out the door. Picture it:
Red Hat Software Releases Red Hat Linux 6.0 and Application CD! The release of Red Hat Linux 6.0 uses the latest 2.2.0 kernel which is the greatest thing since slice bread! Also included in this gift from the gods is the long anticipated Release 15 of Enlightenment, the most powerful, configurable, beautiful, Window Manager. And if that wasn't enough, we are proud to be the first distribution to include Gnome 1.0, the ultimate desktop environment.
Imagine if you were born on this thing! and you had to live the rest of your life on it! I may go mental and toast the whole dam place...
But then again, i won't know what i would be missing, unless they bring videos and books and stuff like that. So, lets get this straight. A flying dictatorship prison heading off to the wide blu yonder with just enough energy to get where its going and no way to get back...
I am seriously considering studying law. That way i can donate my time and skills in the fight against big corporations. Its a shame that big firms can hire teams of lawyers to bend and twist the law to suit their evil money grubbing schemes. And an individual will usually always lose, because they don't have the time or the money to fight these battles...
Three OS for the BSDs under the Berkeley, Seven for the Microsofts in their boards of intel, Nine for Unix Servers doomed to die, One for the Great Linus on his wired throne In the Land of The Net where the Hackers lie. One OS to rule them all. One OS to find them, One OS to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, in the Land of The Net, where the Hackers lie.
I guess a mention of E-Sense being released isn't important enough. Since there are more MS users visitors, i thought it could have been mentioned. E-Sense is the Windows lookalike to Enlightenment. Thsi is the first PreBeta release, so if you are stuck using windows for some reason or another you can feel right at home... I suggest if you are a linux junkie, but are using MS software, you should visit floach.pimpin.net get shells (something like WindowManagers), and other goodies to hook up your desktop...
at the current rate, if it is possible for the DES to be cracked within the next 30 hours. depending that the numbers don't start to go down, and that they get a slow but steady increase in users to compensate for the few users who will start to drop out...
However i don't think there have been any real good movies this year. Alot of producers are so caught up in this big "special effects" fad, that they fail to make movies with real content. Its a shame, i hope this sort of thing stops before it gets out of hand. There is nothing wrong with special effects, but if the entire movie is just based on it, then you don't have a movie, you have crap. Maybe its me, i hope not....
think about it, just throwing those names together, would make it an historic smash!
just hope one of them doesn't stop working... heehee
I hope MIR stays in use, it is a very good project, and i am sort of mad with the folks who are incharge of the international station, because i know that the "captain" of the ISS won't be a russian, even though some of the russian cosmonauts (is that spelt right?) have logged more space time, and have more experience than almost anybody else. Its sick how its international, but americans will be running the show.
Its true that america will be bearing the finiancial brunt of the station, but if they want to have control of it, they should not call it "international."
Don't play political games with science... The end result will mean doom.
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Alot of folks who use a Microsoft based OS do not realise the total cost or "stor value" of the software that they have on their computer. Beside the folks who buy pre-built systems, the folks who build there systems or upgrade their system usually get a copy of the OS from a friend or some other means. Now, i am not try to point fingers at anyone, but if it was completly possible to stop piracy in all its forms, and to prevent folks from abusing "shareware" software, and stop "cracking" of software... then alot of folks would be switch from MS to linux, based on the fact that most of them cannot afford to pay the high prices that is required to attain software these days. Those few of you who were never in the piracy scene may not realize the dept of piracy that runs rampant in the computer industry. Even in companies and schools, managers are forced to either ignore the license of some software because they cannot afford to pay those crazy ammounts of money for software that they need. Maybe it is wrong, but that is not the point. It is happening, and it would not be happening if something was not wrong with the current software system. Microsoft may not have cause it, but they are the symbol of all that is wrong. How we deal with this could decide the next step in the evolution of our species.
well, this is what happens when you don't sleep for a long long while!
if you had searched the netcom website you would have found that they provide a pretty damn good page on how to get netcom working with linux. I use it and i know that it works!
t s/Other_OS/linux.cfg.html
here is the address of the page:
http://www.netcom.com/bin/webtech/NETCOM_Accoun
i did not know that linux has been around for 15 years... thank you zdnet for showing me the light...
and i quote:
"We've been using Linux for almost a year, and collecting the stories you need to read to get off to a good Linux start. You'll find out why it took Linux more than 15 years to turn into an overnight sensation -- and why it took us months to get past a basic Linux installation -- in Linux 101"
need i say more?
Now you can't be tied down to any specific hardware platform! Name it, Linux is on it... and if it ain't there yet, its coming soon.
I guess with the 2.2.0 kernel so close to release, that RH is probably driving Raster and those Gnome boys like slave drivers. I am sure they are hoping for a Gnome 1.0 and an E 15 to release with it. Not to mention that they would like to be the first distro to be out the door. Picture it:
Red Hat Software Releases Red Hat Linux 6.0 and Application CD!
The release of Red Hat Linux 6.0 uses the latest 2.2.0 kernel which is the greatest thing since slice bread! Also included in this gift from the gods is the long anticipated Release 15 of Enlightenment, the most powerful, configurable, beautiful, Window Manager. And if that wasn't enough, we are proud to be the first distribution to include Gnome 1.0, the ultimate desktop environment.
Imagine if you were born on this thing!
and you had to live the rest of your life on it!
I may go mental and toast the whole dam place...
But then again, i won't know what i would be missing, unless they bring videos and books and stuff like that. So, lets get this straight.
A flying dictatorship prison heading off to the wide blu yonder with just enough energy to get where its going and no way to get back...
Where do i sign up?
I am seriously considering studying law. That way i can donate my time and skills in the fight against big corporations. Its a shame that big firms can hire teams of lawyers to bend and twist the law to suit their evil money grubbing schemes. And an individual will usually always lose, because they don't have the time or the money to fight these battles...
I will have to think this decision through...
Three OS for the BSDs under the Berkeley,
Seven for the Microsofts in their boards of intel,
Nine for Unix Servers doomed to die,
One for the Great Linus on his wired throne
In the Land of The Net where the Hackers lie.
One OS to rule them all.
One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all,
and in the darkness bind them,
in the Land of The Net, where the Hackers lie.
I guess a mention of E-Sense being released isn't important enough. Since there are more MS users visitors, i thought it could have been mentioned. E-Sense is the Windows lookalike to Enlightenment. Thsi is the first PreBeta release, so if you are stuck using windows for some reason or another you can feel right at home... I suggest if you are a linux junkie, but are using MS software, you should visit floach.pimpin.net
get shells (something like WindowManagers), and other goodies to hook up your desktop...
at the current rate, if it is possible for the DES to be cracked within the next 30 hours. depending that the numbers don't start to go down, and that they get a slow but steady increase in users to compensate for the few users who will start to drop out...
lets see if my prediction is right...
A few lines in every article can always be good for the soul...
im not a coward, just entered the wrong password... i hate when that happens, too many damn password to remember...
B5 was a smash this season...
However i don't think there have been any real good movies this year. Alot of producers are so caught up in this big "special effects" fad, that they fail to make movies with real content. Its a shame, i hope this sort of thing stops before it gets out of hand. There is nothing wrong with special effects, but if the entire movie is just based on it, then you don't have a movie, you have crap.
Maybe its me, i hope not....
ha ha
Adam and Eve...
think about it, just throwing those names together, would make it an historic smash!
just hope one of them doesn't stop working...
heehee
I hope MIR stays in use, it is a very good project, and i am sort of mad with the folks who are incharge of the international station, because i know that the "captain" of the ISS won't be a russian, even though some of the russian cosmonauts (is that spelt right?) have logged more space time, and have more experience than almost anybody else. Its sick how its international, but americans will be running the show.
Its true that america will be bearing the finiancial brunt of the station, but if they want to have control of it, they should not call it "international."
Don't play political games with science...
The end result will mean doom.