Actually, there is only one CD-Recording software for linux - cdrecord. Well, and there's also CDRDAO for specail purposes. But - you don't need any more than that. It's not artifically crippled, and any features that one wants to add are added to cdrecord instead of making a competing product.
However, what the user does have choice over is the GUI. As in the Linux world, the GUI is not glued to the backend, you have in a typical distro several frontends for a single backend. So, you gain from both worlds. You have all features in the backend, and you can choose which frontend you want to use.
All features mentioned are better supported under Linux:
10) Remote assistance lets support people connect to people's
machines and fix problems over the internet.
Linux has been remotely administrable from the very first versions. Just ssh to the machine and su to root.
9) Locking toolbars: No more accidently fucking up your IE toolbars
or your taskbar. They stay where you want them.
Use Mozilla. Problem Solved
8) Cookie management in the new IE. You can block and accept cookies
to your liking based on hostnames. So.. you can let hotmail write
cookies, but choose to block some random ad site from doing it.
Use Mozilla. Problem solved.
7) New visual themes in explorer. New "skins" that let windows different.. finally.
Use Mozilla. Problem solved.
6) "My Computer" can be on the start bar now (the new default) so you
no longer have to minimize everything and search for that stupid icon
on your desktop. It kicks ass once you get used to it.
The terminal in and Linux distro lets you easily access all files and directories without needing to scroll though long lists of filenames. Also, you can use konqueror (conveniently launchable from the panel) to do this too.
5) Compatibility modes let your programs run thinking they're in
win9x, win95, windows2000, etc so that things that wouldn't normally
work, will.
Why use buggy win9x/95/2k/xp programs when you could use stable open-source software?
4) The new task oriented shell. It is nice once you get used to it. If you open a
directory of pictures it will let you view a slideshow of them, print
them, etc. If you open a folder of mp3s it has tasks on the left
that will let you burn them to audio cd, play them, etc.
Again, MS thinks it known what you want. What if you don't want a slideshow? What if you want only part of the mp3s burned to CD? You can do all this in Linux remotely via a textual console.
3)No reboots required to install or detect hardware (most of the
time)I've been spoiled by this one. In fact the number of reboots has been cut down to ~10% of what they used to be. I
think win2k sucks now;)
Linux, however, requires zero reboots to install anything but a kernel update or hardware.
2) Built in cd burning. Burn data cds in the shell or audio cds in media player. Very convenient especially for users that
would normally not be able to figure out how to burn a cd.
Linux features many GUIs for the excellent CD-Burning tools and ofcourse the option to burn a CD remotely via command line on a slow link. Can your shitty WinXP do that?
1.5) Remote desktop. Uses terminal services ala win2k server, except you can take over the desktop on the remote
machine. It supports more colors than the win2k version,and even does sound. It is like vnc only it is actually fast and
redraws the screen properly.
One word: VNC. Linux VNC lets you work on seveal desktops simultaneously on the same host. You can access the existing desktop or start a new one for the remote link, and works reasonably well on slow links. Also, esd includes support for remote sound tunnelling.
To have a valid trademark, you need not prove it's never been used.
The requirements are that it's not an English word, that it's not the actual name of the product, and that it's not a well-known name of something else.
If they prove that the average person associates the name with the company they can get a trademark.
Wait a minute! They should sue all the governments in the world for issuing so-called passports and thus infringing thier trademark rights to the word.
It turns out that most governments use the term 'passport' for some kind of document used for identification outside of county boudries. This use infringes on Microsoft's total ownership of the word passport and shall be discontinued at once...
It should be quite easy to write a Brainf**k to SPL converter, and if someone already wrote DeCSS in Brainf**k and I think this was done, just need to convert it to a *very*long* play in SPL...:)
Following the lovebug attack, my university decided to block all lovebug messages from the students' mailboxes, e-mailing everybody about it.
So, I decided to ask a friend who actually got the worm to send it to me. I was quite surprised that it was sent OK.
A few weeks later, a student came to me with a strange problem. A message he sent bounced. I checked the bounce, and to my surprise, it was bounced due to server restrictions. I checked the message and it turned out to be a real love letter to that student's SO. It turned out that the filter they installed simply filters out any message with "I love you" in the subject.
Realizing this was the problem, I told the student to try a diffrent subject line, and then the message worked OK.
People do the strangest things...
As a proud owner of a ADSL line and a 10MBit Ethernet connection (at a diffrent location), I have no problem downloading MP3 music from the net.
Ofcourse you need to back up and save your music if you want to keep it, eiter by using CDs or other temporary backup measures.
The problem with purchasing music online (by contrast to, say, pirating it is that you are limited by arbitrary restrictions. See the e-book junk for example.
People won't pay more for less-usable stuff with arbitrary restrictions. Ain't that a revelation...
Seems people aren't that dumb after all to automatically prefer somthing just because it's "digital".
This is good news, isn't it?
Neiter www.yellowpages.com nor www.yahooo.com are pr0n sites.
If you are looking for misleading pr0n sites, there's whitehouse.com. Wait a minute, with all the clinton-lewinsky scandal whitehouse.gov ain't much of a G-rated site either:)...
Pondering about the subject of the DMCA, I have reached an interesting insight.
The legislators of the DMCA saw a strange situation. Mega-Corporations are producing digital content, gaurded with various kinds of "protection" systems to prevent certain uses of thier content, and to allegedly enforce their copyrights. Then, "hackers" come and circumvent this protection, publicly posting their results. This situation of cat-and-mouse race sounds unreasonable. Either the rights of the copyright owners should be protected and it should be illegal to circument them (as the DMCA suggests), or (and this is what should have been decided) that the "protection" mecahnisms themselves are unethical and bypass the fair-use rights and the expiration of copyright.
The answer therefore is that they passed the wrong law. It's not illegal to circumvent the "protection" mecanisms. The mecanisms themselves contradict the fair-use rights that have been established.
The law that should have been passed, is one preventing use of any mechanism that prevents exercising of fair-use rights by legitimate owners. If the court decided I'm entitled to fair use rights, Mega Company X cannot deny me of those rights.
There are two main diffrences.
One - In the linux world you can opt-out and not install each component specifically. You don't see them merging it with the kernel. Damn, in Linux you're not even required to run a desktop.
Second - The "bundled" apps in linux distros are usually the best of their kind, and you usually have the choice between several options. You are not forced to use what the M$ wants you to use. You can select each component to your best liking.
Why? Do they think that there is competetion in the desktops market?
If this Micro$oft bundling continues any further, we'll see Micro$oft selling whole houses/buildings bundled with the OS "to ensure maximum compatibility between the MicroSoft server and the surrounding environment.
Right...
The technical knowledge of the CPU speed will not be hard to find, just look for the announcment on/.;). AMD is not disclosing the speed so stupid customers won't have the wrong impression.
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Actually, there is only one CD-Recording software for linux - cdrecord. Well, and there's also CDRDAO for specail purposes. But - you don't need any more than that. It's not artifically crippled, and any features that one wants to add are added to cdrecord instead of making a competing product.
However, what the user does have choice over is the GUI. As in the Linux world, the GUI is not glued to the backend, you have in a typical distro several frontends for a single backend. So, you gain from both worlds. You have all features in the backend, and you can choose which frontend you want to use.
Don't you just love Linux? ;)
Consider using CDRDAO for burning VCDs. Search the web for detailed instructions on how to do this.
There is no reason to pay for properitary software, when there is free software that can do the same, and probably more.
All features mentioned are better supported under Linux:
10) Remote assistance lets support people connect to people's machines and fix problems over the internet.
Linux has been remotely administrable from the very first versions. Just ssh to the machine and su to root.
9) Locking toolbars: No more accidently fucking up your IE toolbars or your taskbar. They stay where you want them.
Use Mozilla. Problem Solved
8) Cookie management in the new IE. You can block and accept cookies to your liking based on hostnames. So.. you can let hotmail write cookies, but choose to block some random ad site from doing it.
Use Mozilla. Problem solved.
7) New visual themes in explorer. New "skins" that let windows different.. finally.
Use Mozilla. Problem solved.
6) "My Computer" can be on the start bar now (the new default) so you no longer have to minimize everything and search for that stupid icon on your desktop. It kicks ass once you get used to it.
The terminal in and Linux distro lets you easily access all files and directories without needing to scroll though long lists of filenames. Also, you can use konqueror (conveniently launchable from the panel) to do this too.
5) Compatibility modes let your programs run thinking they're in win9x, win95, windows2000, etc so that things that wouldn't normally work, will.
Why use buggy win9x/95/2k/xp programs when you could use stable open-source software?
4) The new task oriented shell. It is nice once you get used to it. If you open a directory of pictures it will let you view a slideshow of them, print them, etc. If you open a folder of mp3s it has tasks on the left that will let you burn them to audio cd, play them, etc.
Again, MS thinks it known what you want. What if you don't want a slideshow? What if you want only part of the mp3s burned to CD? You can do all this in Linux remotely via a textual console.
3)No reboots required to install or detect hardware (most of the time)I've been spoiled by this one. In fact the number of reboots has been cut down to ~10% of what they used to be. I think win2k sucks now ;)
Linux, however, requires zero reboots to install anything but a kernel update or hardware.
2) Built in cd burning. Burn data cds in the shell or audio cds in media player. Very convenient especially for users that would normally not be able to figure out how to burn a cd.
Linux features many GUIs for the excellent CD-Burning tools and ofcourse the option to burn a CD remotely via command line on a slow link. Can your shitty WinXP do that?
1.5) Remote desktop. Uses terminal services ala win2k server, except you can take over the desktop on the remote machine. It supports more colors than the win2k version,and even does sound. It is like vnc only it is actually fast and redraws the screen properly.
One word: VNC. Linux VNC lets you work on seveal desktops simultaneously on the same host. You can access the existing desktop or start a new one for the remote link, and works reasonably well on slow links. Also, esd includes support for remote sound tunnelling.
1) It is replacing that hunk of shit Win9x/me
So is Linux.
To have a valid trademark, you need not prove it's never been used.
The requirements are that it's not an English word, that it's not the actual name of the product, and that it's not a well-known name of something else.
If they prove that the average person associates the name with the company they can get a trademark.
To view domain registration information use the command whois. For more info, man whois.
Wait a minute! They should sue all the governments in the world for issuing so-called passports and thus infringing thier trademark rights to the word.
It turns out that most governments use the term 'passport' for some kind of document used for identification outside of county boudries. This use infringes on Microsoft's total ownership of the word passport and shall be discontinued at once...
How the hell did you manage to do that?
I didn't say I need a DSL/Ethernet link. Just said I had one, and many people do, and soon most people will.
It should be quite easy to write a Brainf**k to SPL converter, and if someone already wrote DeCSS in Brainf**k and I think this was done, just need to convert it to a *very*long* play in SPL... :)
Following the lovebug attack, my university decided to block all lovebug messages from the students' mailboxes, e-mailing everybody about it.
So, I decided to ask a friend who actually got the worm to send it to me. I was quite surprised that it was sent OK.
A few weeks later, a student came to me with a strange problem. A message he sent bounced. I checked the bounce, and to my surprise, it was bounced due to server restrictions. I checked the message and it turned out to be a real love letter to that student's SO. It turned out that the filter they installed simply filters out any message with "I love you" in the subject.
Realizing this was the problem, I told the student to try a diffrent subject line, and then the message worked OK.
People do the strangest things...
As a proud owner of a ADSL line and a 10MBit Ethernet connection (at a diffrent location), I have no problem downloading MP3 music from the net.
Ofcourse you need to back up and save your music if you want to keep it, eiter by using CDs or other temporary backup measures. The problem with purchasing music online (by contrast to, say, pirating it is that you are limited by arbitrary restrictions. See the e-book junk for example.
People won't pay more for less-usable stuff with arbitrary restrictions. Ain't that a revelation...
Seems people aren't that dumb after all to automatically prefer somthing just because it's "digital".
This is good news, isn't it?
Neiter www.yellowpages.com nor www.yahooo.com are pr0n sites. If you are looking for misleading pr0n sites, there's whitehouse.com. Wait a minute, with all the clinton-lewinsky scandal whitehouse.gov ain't much of a G-rated site either :)...
Pondering about the subject of the DMCA, I have reached an interesting insight.
The legislators of the DMCA saw a strange situation. Mega-Corporations are producing digital content, gaurded with various kinds of "protection" systems to prevent certain uses of thier content, and to allegedly enforce their copyrights. Then, "hackers" come and circumvent this protection, publicly posting their results. This situation of cat-and-mouse race sounds unreasonable. Either the rights of the copyright owners should be protected and it should be illegal to circument them (as the DMCA suggests), or (and this is what should have been decided) that the "protection" mecahnisms themselves are unethical and bypass the fair-use rights and the expiration of copyright.
The answer therefore is that they passed the wrong law. It's not illegal to circumvent the "protection" mecanisms. The mecanisms themselves contradict the fair-use rights that have been established.
The law that should have been passed, is one preventing use of any mechanism that prevents exercising of fair-use rights by legitimate owners. If the court decided I'm entitled to fair use rights, Mega Company X cannot deny me of those rights.
Right?
There are two main diffrences.
One - In the linux world you can opt-out and not install each component specifically. You don't see them merging it with the kernel. Damn, in Linux you're not even required to run a desktop.
Second - The "bundled" apps in linux distros are usually the best of their kind, and you usually have the choice between several options. You are not forced to use what the M$ wants you to use. You can select each component to your best liking.
Why? Do they think that there is competetion in the desktops market?
If this Micro$oft bundling continues any further, we'll see Micro$oft selling whole houses/buildings bundled with the OS "to ensure maximum compatibility between the MicroSoft server and the surrounding environment.
Right...
The technical knowledge of the CPU speed will not be hard to find, just look for the announcment on /. ;). AMD is not disclosing the speed so stupid customers won't have the wrong impression.