Isn't it almost easier and yet still pretty much legal to rip a CD burned with iTunes? Seems a lot easier and less illegal to me to burn, rip, and encode than to just remove DRM.
Not exactly the kind of responses I was looking for, but I think I'll start by calling IBM and seeing if I can get specs/pin layout. I'm not afraid of soldering, as I was prepared to do some soldering to make an antenna (I don't remember the need for it, but it was cheap anyways) for my router.
Go for the Sager. Sager is legendary for their customer support system. PC Torque is a Sager reseller, and although they don't have the 2880 and 2885 listed on their site they can order them. PC Torque hosts TalkNotebooks, where all sorts of laptops are discussed. It is the best source for Sager tech support. However, if you can't find an answer there, Sager provides a system like this:
Call or email them.
A real live tech who builds the computers will call or email you back!
You can't beat Sager for tech support, community, and price for what you get. I bought a 5680 from PCT/Sager, and I love it. It's incredibly powerful, and I've had zero problems with it (except a cracked LCD frame, but that was my own damned fault). It runs Linux perfectly, I run Red Hat 9 without a problem. It takes a little bit of configuration to get the touchpad working, but other than that it's great. I've been recommending anyone who asks me about laptops to go Sager. You can't beat 'em.
My first one was Ben Folds Five's Brick. It was on Napster 2.05b, and it was completely legal! I've owned Whatever and Ever Amen since the day it came out. That song is still my favorite song ever.
I came up with this idea about 4 years ago, and had I not been only 14 I would have patented the damned thing.
VIA mobo, a customized version of Trustix, with all the amenities a home needs. I would have put in a four-port hub, and would have planned upgrade space for a wireless standard because it was just budding on the consumer market at the time. It would have been the shit.
RoA Client for Windows is what I used for 2-3 years.
Before that I had a Mac and used Rapscallion. Rapscallion was incredible. One of the reasons I stopped playing Achaea (I was Magus the Warlock...look me up in the history of the warlocks) was because I lost all my mapping information when I moved from Mac to PC and couldn't find anything to change over the file formats.
Now I actually know something about computers, and I could have stuck with it. All the movement commands I saved were in text files!
Anti-competetive business practices are what Microsoft is know for. Perhaps OpenOffice.org could serve as the primary plaintiff in a class action suit against MS. It may work, and if the Linux community all pitches in, OO.O will have more than enough $$$ to take on MS. Heck, if they were going to do it, and simply needed the money, I'd thrown in a whole paycheck to help them.
Go to legal counsel immediately. Like don't pass go don't collect $200. With current psycho DMCA people out and about looking to make a quick buck from someone such as yourself and make themselves look like the smart ones and not be played the fool. Have the lawyer send the company a letter stating your intentions.
Those squiggly pens could be perpetual motion generators!
Pam and Tommy Lee could have powered the United States while they were together..
The San Andreas Power Plant..
The London Philharmonic Orchestral Power Plant..
Unrepaired PowerMac G4's could power themselves:-)
I bought most of my home networking equipment from TigerDirect. They're wonderful, they ship fast and the items arrived in wonderful condition. However, the Belkin products which I ordered had a rebate. I sent in the rebate, 2 months later I recieved an email saying I had not enclosed the UPC. IT WAS STAPLED TO THE REBATE FORM. I attempted to explain this to the support rep, but she wouldn't have it. Obviously, stupid me forgot to photocopy the UPCs. I attempted to ask TigerDirect to clear it up, no such luck.
Needless to say, I don't buy Belkin products from TigerDirect anymore. My girlfriend's home network, which I implemented, is all D-Link now.
It's schemes like this make made the original Audiogalaxy Satellite so incredible. Audiogalaxy users, at least geeks like me, wouldn't have been affected by something like this.
For those who don't remember it, Audiogalaxy had two totally separate elements to its system. First, there was the Satellite. It was the actual program that downloaded the files. However, it could recieve requests for downloads from the second part: the website. I don't know if Satellite was a client/server, otjust quite how it worked (it was released for Linux and Windows, only Windows had a GUI obviously) but it did not allow people to function as mules, and it could be administered remotely! The actual search interface was totally web based. The client was fairly small (less than 150k), and people could add songs to their download queue from "anywhere on the planet". I loved it. I didn't have to write down songs so that I could remember them later, I could hop on a computer right next to me and start downloading right then and there! And the song would be ready when I got home. When Audiogalaxy first got sued, I was one of the few who suggested that Mike and Geoff, the owners (whom I had personally met), open source Satellite and the web site. Obviously it didn't happen, as they saw they could still crank some money out of it.
Well, before I get onto any more of a rant, people will always find some way to get around things. Be their reason in this case that they are running a Pentium 95Mhz on Win98, and have no power to waste, or they are running a Cray, have power to waste but are too geeky to let some stupid company steal their cycles, people will ALWAYS get around this, and their is no avoiding it.
A neighbooring school, to where I shall be attending, had a like threat. What did people do? The college store suddenly had USB 2.0 and Firewire hard drives in stock. People copied everything to hard drives and stored them in a safe place in case the threat was real. It wasn't, but they were prepared.
This is a business method patent, much like IBM's "Toilet Reservation System" and Amazon's "One-click shopping" patents. While being legal, they are looked upon as very "dirty". There is currently legislation being discussed about severely limiting these claims.
I still think that American society should revert to a semi-feudal system, where parents raise their children however they want. They could make them labor slaves, educate them so they could make the country bigger, or send them off to war. Hell, if they wanted to have their children grow up to fuck a hole in the ground, they could teach it with no repercussions!
What is your opinion on current DRM/copy-protecting technologies being proposed and developed by corporations such as Microsoft and conglomerates like the RIAA and MPAA? Are you in support of this movement or against?
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Get yourself a Sager Notebook from PC Torque and save yourself a couple thousand dollars.
Isn't it almost easier and yet still pretty much legal to rip a CD burned with iTunes? Seems a lot easier and less illegal to me to burn, rip, and encode than to just remove DRM.
I thought Gmail was just a stupid April's Fools joke. Geez.
Sager - proof you CAN take it with you.
Sager - supporting body building geeks since 1985.
Sager systems proudly supports an alphanumeric-free corporate moto.
Sager - pronounce it as you will.
Sager - Arousing nerds since 1985.
Sager - When you can't make it to the steam room...turn on a Sager.
Sager notebooks - aliens made them famous, we made them cost less.
Sager - if you buy it crazy people will think your god, but the smart people will pray to you.
Sager - Mini Me won't be able to carry our 17" notebook.
Sager - Viagra has a new name.
Sager - Its what's for dinner...and lunch, and breakfast, and it sometimes replaces sleep...
Sager - it kicks the llama's ass
Sager - Making Dell owners say grrr
Sager - My lappy kicks your desky anyday
Sager - LAN parties will never be the same
Sager - You won't cry 6 months later like Sony owners do when their lappys CAN'T be upgraded.
My Favorite:
Sager - The best thing you've had on your lap since college.
I 3 Mozilla Moonpig!
Not exactly the kind of responses I was looking for, but I think I'll start by calling IBM and seeing if I can get specs/pin layout. I'm not afraid of soldering, as I was prepared to do some soldering to make an antenna (I don't remember the need for it, but it was cheap anyways) for my router.
- Call or email them.
- A real live tech who builds the computers will call or email you back!
You can't beat Sager for tech support, community, and price for what you get. I bought a 5680 from PCT/Sager, and I love it. It's incredibly powerful, and I've had zero problems with it (except a cracked LCD frame, but that was my own damned fault). It runs Linux perfectly, I run Red Hat 9 without a problem. It takes a little bit of configuration to get the touchpad working, but other than that it's great. I've been recommending anyone who asks me about laptops to go Sager. You can't beat 'em.My first one was Ben Folds Five's Brick. It was on Napster 2.05b, and it was completely legal! I've owned Whatever and Ever Amen since the day it came out. That song is still my favorite song ever.
"IT MUST BE THE SHOES!"
Let the kids pick their OS. Ask them what looks prettier, and they'll say Aqua looks better than Luna.
Then show them themes for X.
I came up with this idea about 4 years ago, and had I not been only 14 I would have patented the damned thing.
VIA mobo, a customized version of Trustix, with all the amenities a home needs. I would have put in a four-port hub, and would have planned upgrade space for a wireless standard because it was just budding on the consumer market at the time. It would have been the shit.
RoA Client for Windows is what I used for 2-3 years.
Before that I had a Mac and used Rapscallion. Rapscallion was incredible. One of the reasons I stopped playing Achaea (I was Magus the Warlock...look me up in the history of the warlocks) was because I lost all my mapping information when I moved from Mac to PC and couldn't find anything to change over the file formats.
Now I actually know something about computers, and I could have stuck with it. All the movement commands I saved were in text files!
Anti-competetive business practices are what Microsoft is know for. Perhaps OpenOffice.org could serve as the primary plaintiff in a class action suit against MS. It may work, and if the Linux community all pitches in, OO.O will have more than enough $$$ to take on MS. Heck, if they were going to do it, and simply needed the money, I'd thrown in a whole paycheck to help them.
Go to legal counsel immediately. Like don't pass go don't collect $200. With current psycho DMCA people out and about looking to make a quick buck from someone such as yourself and make themselves look like the smart ones and not be played the fool. Have the lawyer send the company a letter stating your intentions.
I've already got my personal rebuttal and thoughts written down.
Could we be starting to develop Nerve Attenuation Syndrome?
I would love to donate to Mr. Peng's fund, as I too believe he was wrongfully accused. However, I cannot and will not use Paypal.
Those squiggly pens could be perpetual motion generators! :-)
Pam and Tommy Lee could have powered the United States while they were together..
The San Andreas Power Plant..
The London Philharmonic Orchestral Power Plant..
Unrepaired PowerMac G4's could power themselves
If this patent holds out, it'll make all of those spam sites that add you to other spam lists in violation of patent laws!
Let the buyer beware...
I bought most of my home networking equipment from TigerDirect. They're wonderful, they ship fast and the items arrived in wonderful condition. However, the Belkin products which I ordered had a rebate. I sent in the rebate, 2 months later I recieved an email saying I had not enclosed the UPC. IT WAS STAPLED TO THE REBATE FORM. I attempted to explain this to the support rep, but she wouldn't have it. Obviously, stupid me forgot to photocopy the UPCs. I attempted to ask TigerDirect to clear it up, no such luck.
Needless to say, I don't buy Belkin products from TigerDirect anymore. My girlfriend's home network, which I implemented, is all D-Link now.
It's schemes like this make made the original Audiogalaxy Satellite so incredible. Audiogalaxy users, at least geeks like me, wouldn't have been affected by something like this.
For those who don't remember it, Audiogalaxy had two totally separate elements to its system. First, there was the Satellite. It was the actual program that downloaded the files. However, it could recieve requests for downloads from the second part: the website. I don't know if Satellite was a client/server, otjust quite how it worked (it was released for Linux and Windows, only Windows had a GUI obviously) but it did not allow people to function as mules, and it could be administered remotely! The actual search interface was totally web based. The client was fairly small (less than 150k), and people could add songs to their download queue from "anywhere on the planet". I loved it. I didn't have to write down songs so that I could remember them later, I could hop on a computer right next to me and start downloading right then and there! And the song would be ready when I got home. When Audiogalaxy first got sued, I was one of the few who suggested that Mike and Geoff, the owners (whom I had personally met), open source Satellite and the web site. Obviously it didn't happen, as they saw they could still crank some money out of it.
Well, before I get onto any more of a rant, people will always find some way to get around things. Be their reason in this case that they are running a Pentium 95Mhz on Win98, and have no power to waste, or they are running a Cray, have power to waste but are too geeky to let some stupid company steal their cycles, people will ALWAYS get around this, and their is no avoiding it.
A neighbooring school, to where I shall be attending, had a like threat. What did people do? The college store suddenly had USB 2.0 and Firewire hard drives in stock. People copied everything to hard drives and stored them in a safe place in case the threat was real. It wasn't, but they were prepared.
This is a business method patent, much like IBM's "Toilet Reservation System" and Amazon's "One-click shopping" patents. While being legal, they are looked upon as very "dirty". There is currently legislation being discussed about severely limiting these claims.
I still think that American society should revert to a semi-feudal system, where parents raise their children however they want. They could make them labor slaves, educate them so they could make the country bigger, or send them off to war. Hell, if they wanted to have their children grow up to fuck a hole in the ground, they could teach it with no repercussions!
What is your opinion on current DRM/copy-protecting technologies being proposed and developed by corporations such as Microsoft and conglomerates like the RIAA and MPAA? Are you in support of this movement or against?