Well, I don't think that product activation is an anti-trust thing, but I also think that Microsoft has no right to in any way restrict the way I use software that I PAID FOR. I cracked the product activation on my copy of WinXP out of ethical principal, not because I have anything against MS trying to prevent piracy.
1. Yea, if the ENITRE beverage market was at Coke's mercy.
2. Thats because Xbox could not exist without money from MS's other monopolies. while(monopoly){if(target == newMarket() && marketEntryEnabeler() == parent.oldMonopoly){parent.action = "illegal";}}
3. You will need to adjust those for inflation.
A real miscarriage of justice is the murders and such that walk free every day - why don't we spend more time and effort punishing those injustices?
Because, according to the FAA, a person's life in only worth $2,143.00
Yea, some people went "war driving" after the local 2600 meeting down here in Texas last week. They found three 802.11b networks only one one of which was running encryption, and it was WEP encryption at that. Nobody has, to my knowledge at least, actually attacked said networks but seeing as how WEP encryption is totally worthless, (ie: laptop + wirelessNIC + 15min = broken) I'm supprised that wireless networks aren't compromised more often.
Unless of course you have Windows XP or Windows Media Player 7 on your computer. Then Misrosoft CAN take your software away. You really ought to read the EULAs....
I've been running XP pro alongside win2k pro for a couple of weeks now. It doesn't really offer anything over 2k except funny colored icons. If you have 95, 98, or ME go ahead and upgrade. If you have 2k, don't bother.
Of course! If its possible to write open source software that uses.NET (is it possible?) then that will make for an incredible amount of intercompatability between Windows apps (ie: MS office, ect...) and Linux apps (ie: star office, ect...). Since all the actual 'data' is stored in.NET then any.NET compatible app (running on ANY os)would be able to be used to access the data. Therefore, if your company is has some data like spreadsheets or documents or presentations or something on.NET then one person could use a Windows box to access it while someone else used a Linux box. Because its all XML formatted then any app would be able to read and write to it. There would be no file format compatability issues. Talk about back fireing! This could actually give ppl a choice when it comes to operating systems/office suites. Could someone please tell me if I'm on to something here? Or am I just posting without having done my homework?
If its all XML based wouldn't it be possible to write apps for linux that interface with it? While this may be the ultimate sacralige it would help people and companies migrate away from the Windows platform.... I wouldn't mind this whole.NET thing so much if MS didn't control the whole base operating platform.
Yes, but IE will still have the advantage of being the "default" browser on Windows comps, overall it will probably level the playing field and make both browsers evenly matched. Fighting fire with fire so to speak.
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Cause the adds can be blocked altogether with AddSubtract. Its free and it catches about 95% of online advertisments. Unfortunatly its only availabe for Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP. Is their some sort of equivlant program for linux?
Can we sit by and watch that which we have worked so hard to build be destroyed by the enemies of justice and freedom? HELL NO!
I say we bust out the l33t shiznit and show them the meaning of attrition! Let us defend the internet from those who would seek to destroy it! As members of a free society, as civilized human beings, we have a duty to do so! For the sake of our future, the world's future, we must do so!
I don't know about you, but I stand ready to defend that which I hold dear.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Except for Windows 2000 itself, I don't use any Miscrosoft software at all. Wordperfect Office 2002, Star Office 5.2, Mozilla v0.94, Mozilla Mail, Apache for win32, Borland C++, Encyclopedia Britannica, Winamp (with video plugins), Photoshop, Norton File Manager, and Norton SystemWorks. All excelent programs that let you do anything you could ever need to do on your computer without having to use Microshaft $hit. Recomended alternatives to Frontpage are Dreamweaver, NotePad, TextPad, SynEdit, HotMetal Pro, and Mozilla/NS Composer.
Non MS stuff is usually better and almost always cheaper, usually both.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but there is a patch for IE at windows update that adds a crash data talkback feature to IE. Seeing as it was Mozilla's talkback feature that has made it so stable, MS probably realized that the open source comunity was doing something better than they were oh my gosh! and now they are trying to catch up.:)
At the very least this confirms that the Mozilla development model is at least on par with Microsoft's, possibly even better. I view this as a good omen for the world of open source.
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Well, I don't think that product activation is an anti-trust thing, but I also think that Microsoft has no right to in any way restrict the way I use software that I PAID FOR. I cracked the product activation on my copy of WinXP out of ethical principal, not because I have anything against MS trying to prevent piracy.
1. Yea, if the ENITRE beverage market was at Coke's mercy.
2. Thats because Xbox could not exist without money from MS's other monopolies.
while(monopoly){if(target == newMarket() && marketEntryEnabeler() == parent.oldMonopoly){parent.action = "illegal";}}
3. You will need to adjust those for inflation.
A real miscarriage of justice is the murders and such that walk free every day - why don't we spend more time and effort punishing those injustices?
Because, according to the FAA, a person's life in only worth $2,143.00
Microsoft doesn't know how to play the game better, they just know to play dirty.
You work for Compaq don't you?
Yea, some people went "war driving" after the local 2600 meeting down here in Texas last week. They found three 802.11b networks only one one of which was running encryption, and it was WEP encryption at that. Nobody has, to my knowledge at least, actually attacked said networks but seeing as how WEP encryption is totally worthless, (ie: laptop + wirelessNIC + 15min = broken) I'm supprised that wireless networks aren't compromised more often.
Unless of course you have Windows XP or Windows Media Player 7 on your computer. Then Misrosoft CAN take your software away. You really ought to read the EULAs....
IE 5.5 SP2 on Windows2000 renders it just fine for me. As does Mozilla 0.9.5 hehe....
Just put the following line in "user.js" in your Mozilla profile folder:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011 Netscape6/6.5");
Lets you view www.msn.com just fine while still leting them know that you use Mozilla.
I've been running XP pro alongside win2k pro for a couple of weeks now. It doesn't really offer anything over 2k except funny colored icons. If you have 95, 98, or ME go ahead and upgrade. If you have 2k, don't bother.
HELL YEA!!!
I find that quite ironic... seeing as Bank of America's banking software is all written in VB and therfore a primary target of MS's .NET marketing....
Of course! If its possible to write open source software that uses .NET (is it possible?) then that will make for an incredible amount of intercompatability between Windows apps (ie: MS office, ect...) and Linux apps (ie: star office, ect...). Since all the actual 'data' is stored in .NET then any .NET compatible app (running on ANY os)would be able to be used to access the data. Therefore, if your company is has some data like spreadsheets or documents or presentations or something on .NET then one person could use a Windows box to access it while someone else used a Linux box. Because its all XML formatted then any app would be able to read and write to it. There would be no file format compatability issues. Talk about back fireing! This could actually give ppl a choice when it comes to operating systems/office suites. Could someone please tell me if I'm on to something here? Or am I just posting without having done my homework?
If its all XML based wouldn't it be possible to write apps for linux that interface with it? While this may be the ultimate sacralige it would help people and companies migrate away from the Windows platform.... I wouldn't mind this whole .NET thing so much if MS didn't control the whole base operating platform.
Yes, but IE will still have the advantage of being the "default" browser on Windows comps, overall it will probably level the playing field and make both browsers evenly matched. Fighting fire with fire so to speak.
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Why would anyone in their right mind use IIS to run a web server anyway??
This comment posted from Mozilla v0.94 running under Mandrake Linux 8.1
"...why haven't you signed up yet?"
Cause the adds can be blocked altogether with AddSubtract. Its free and it catches about 95% of online advertisments. Unfortunatly its only availabe for Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP. Is their some sort of equivlant program for linux?
A call to arms (or mice/keyboards) then!
Can we sit by and watch that which we have worked so hard to build be destroyed by the enemies of justice and freedom? HELL NO!
I say we bust out the l33t shiznit and show them the meaning of attrition! Let us defend the internet from those who would seek to destroy it! As members of a free society, as civilized human beings, we have a duty to do so! For the sake of our future, the world's future, we must do so!
I don't know about you, but I stand ready to defend that which I hold dear.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Of course they don't demonize them, where do you think they get most of their best electronics warfare engineers?
*also raises hand* Count me in.
heh, I never knew that....... oh and btw.....
BINK IS EVIL!!!
you'd be suprised....
Except for Windows 2000 itself, I don't use any Miscrosoft software at all. Wordperfect Office 2002, Star Office 5.2, Mozilla v0.94, Mozilla Mail, Apache for win32, Borland C++, Encyclopedia Britannica, Winamp (with video plugins), Photoshop, Norton File Manager, and Norton SystemWorks. All excelent programs that let you do anything you could ever need to do on your computer without having to use Microshaft $hit. Recomended alternatives to Frontpage are Dreamweaver, NotePad, TextPad, SynEdit, HotMetal Pro, and Mozilla/NS Composer.
Non MS stuff is usually better and almost always cheaper, usually both.
I thought it was Microsoft's job to fight wars over software licensing.....
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but there is a patch for IE at windows update that adds a crash data talkback feature to IE. Seeing as it was Mozilla's talkback feature that has made it so stable, MS probably realized that the open source comunity was doing something better than they were oh my gosh! and now they are trying to catch up. :)
At the very least this confirms that the Mozilla development model is at least on par with Microsoft's, possibly even better. I view this as a good omen for the world of open source.
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