Residential Computer Consultants will be available to assist with these upgrades, and Windows XP Home is available in the UCSB Bookstore at student rates. Students on financial aid can receive an augmentation of their award to cover the cost of the upgrade.
Perhaps I'm being paranoid here, but this sounds like a scam... I can't think of any other reasons to only ban a few versions, yet push for the latest version of windows, in the book store of course...
Why don't they do what my university did.....if your machine was detected trying to propogate nimda or code red, the smart switches disabled your jack.
Interesting hardware. Could you tell us what brand and model this equipment is? I've not heard of such a thing. Sounds great.
and how the hell do they plan on checking the OS Ver anyways?
If they use DHCP, that's one way. The dhcp client will include its operating system and version in its request. Of course, this can be spoofed, but i've never seen it done on MS boxen.
When you're always on, it suddenly makes sense to use your connection to check movie times, check headlines, check weather, get a phone number, use mapquest, and a ton of other stuff you used to do with a phone/phonebook/map/newspaper/etc.
Hmm, I've never had a broadband connection yet I do these things on line regardless.
* SuSE once earned a bright yellow star in my book for funding so much research and Linux development projects, but nowadays the only such project they have left is ReiserFS and that is so unstable that even Gentoo (!) recommends against its use.
Hm, is GDP an actual term used? Not that I know of. That sounds cool, rather like UDP for Usenet Death Penalty.
GDP -- GPL Death Penalty
I wonder what the actual penalties would be? I wouldn't be so interested in moneytary damages, so much as getting whoever got it imposed on them ignored by the community, especially developers, at large.
This is a serious issue. Possible violation of GPL is striking at the core of the Linux, and other, communities. It should be taken seriously, and if found true, focused on.
But from what I understand, you release the source code WITH the product, period. Maybe you can release it but make it simply available elsewhere but I dunno..
Wouldn't an NDA be a VERY clear violation?
I know the GPL question with UL has come up before, and I don't remember what the answer(s) was(were).
Slashdot Mirror
This little sidestory is important. It needs to be added onto the rest of the story, although I'm not sure how you get that done.
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel /0210.0/1652.html
> Whether you like BK or not, it is the primary source management tool
> used by Linus and others, it is even documented in the source tree as
> such.
I don't care about bk and I wouldn't care about such questions either, if
Larry wouldn't use every such opportunity to publicly jerk off about bk.
bye, Roman
Wrong. The #1 for windows is the user.
Bunch of idiots.
Read the below sig before responding.
It would also help to put all of these books in one place, on line.
Or is it already out there?
Residential Computer Consultants will be available to assist with these upgrades, and Windows XP Home is available in the UCSB Bookstore at student rates. Students on financial aid can receive an augmentation of their award to cover the cost of the upgrade.
Perhaps I'm being paranoid here, but this sounds like a scam... I can't think of any other reasons to only ban a few versions, yet push for the latest version of windows, in the book store of course...
Why don't they do what my university did.....if your machine was detected trying to propogate nimda or code red, the smart switches disabled your jack.
Interesting hardware. Could you tell us what brand and model this equipment is? I've not heard of such a thing. Sounds great.
and how the hell do they plan on checking the OS Ver anyways?
If they use DHCP, that's one way. The dhcp client will include its operating system and version in its request. Of course, this can be spoofed, but i've never seen it done on MS boxen.
I don't quite understand why it's just NT and 2000.
I think all of us know here the security history of all MS operating systems, and XP is ramping up to be the worst of them, and they reccommend that?
Interesting, UCSB. You're half way there, go all the way!
Any mirrors? Not responding.
IRC is (usually) a cleartext communications system. That says it all right there.
Sorry, I can't take anyone seriously who uses MS for a VPN solution.
I think all except for limewire, the others have been caught several times with such crap in them.
If you're still using them, you're a stupid fuck.
But limewire? That's a new one on me.
When you're always on, it suddenly makes sense to use your connection to check movie times, check headlines, check weather, get a phone number, use mapquest, and a ton of other stuff you used to do with a phone/phonebook/map/newspaper/etc.
Hmm, I've never had a broadband connection yet I do these things on line regardless.
and an installation of $250 (includes equipment).
Are they nuts? If it was $15.00 a month, I wouldn't bite, because the installation charge is so rediculous.
Is this huge of an installation fee, if any fee, typical?
In other news, congress passed a law which prohibits spam via email and faxes.
Well said!
However, what's S3TC?
Loki. That's what many companies will look at first.
When I hear that line I laugh. Windows is a toy, *nix isn't. Play games on toys.
* SuSE once earned a bright yellow star in my book for funding so much research and Linux development projects, but nowadays the only such project they have left is ReiserFS and that is so unstable that even Gentoo (!) recommends against its use.
The x86 Gentoo install guide no longer has such a recommendation.
P.S. I've been using reiserfs for about a year and a half, no major problems. But i've had major problems with ext2, ext3, xfs...
Ahem. Mirror please.
PLEASE think about this when submitting.
Hm, is GDP an actual term used? Not that I know of. That sounds cool, rather like UDP for Usenet Death Penalty.
GDP -- GPL Death Penalty
I wonder what the actual penalties would be? I wouldn't be so interested in moneytary damages, so much as getting whoever got it imposed on them ignored by the community, especially developers, at large.
This is a serious issue. Possible violation of GPL is striking at the core of the Linux, and other, communities. It should be taken seriously, and if found true, focused on.
Yet you took the time to reply :D
I'm no GPL expert, or anything..
But from what I understand, you release the source code WITH the product, period. Maybe you can release it but make it simply available elsewhere but I dunno..
Wouldn't an NDA be a VERY clear violation?
I know the GPL question with UL has come up before, and I don't remember what the answer(s) was(were).
What's going on here?
P.S. - The "Line-ux" REALLY makes me wonder...
Anyone with a clue about security woudn't dare purchase networking hardware made by MS.
Of course, I feel the same about their operating systems. Doh, I just described most MS admins. Truth sucks, doesn't it?