Don't forget that they sue for the value of the DVD for each time it was downloaded, up to a certain maximum. Since they basically assume everyone wants a copy of any crap that the sharer may have had, they go for the maximum. That's where you get the supposed billions of dollars in losses caused by file sharing.
From one perspective, yes, Microsoft does indeed cause lower software prices. Competition in a given market area (Office Suites etc) will reduce prices among different vendors. However, once a particular vendor has asserted dominance over a particular product area, they are free to raise their prices again. Thus, competitors in the Office Suite area (Staroffice, Wordperfect Office) are much less expensive, while Microsoft's product (especially full "Professional" versions) is much more expensive. Net effect: More expensive software for the consumer, because everyone "needs" the de facto standard.
So true. One of my favorite games of all time. Why can't Lucasarts return to their roots?
Re:Does it work properly/completely with Opera yet
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You need to have Opera ID itself as Opera. GMail uses ActiveX to display itself in IE, probably to avoid lots of complications from odd Javascript problems with IE. Since Opera is IDing as IE, GMail is assuming it has ActiveX support, which it does not.
From the sound of things, the exploit will be triggered, but this particular piece of code won't be able to do much, since it tries to install software that requires an Admin level account. Having a limited account won't prevent the user from running the exploit code, but it does prevent the exploit from leading to a system-level breach, unless some of privilege-escalation exploit is included as well.
Nope that's the real URL. Looks like Toshiba's web developer decided the best way to access everything on their web database using encoded parameters. Ugly, but an interesting tactic to force people to enter through the main portal of the site.
An interesting concept, but I think we would need to research it a bit more. From what I gather in the article, the solution turns solid when heated between 45-75C. Beyond that it probably either burns or melts again. Those temps are much too low to have any impact in a fire.
Secondly, based on the types of compounds in the solution, and the description in the article, the "solid" is probably more of a waxy/jelly sort of substance.
That said, your idea could be made to work in other cases. I wonder if maybe the substance could be altered for use as a variable damping material for suspension or acoustic purposes.
ClamAV or F-Prot are both good virus scanners for Linux, which are free for home use (Or completely open in the case of ClamAV). Both will scan your samba shares, and can be automated in a number of ways. Both seem to be maintained and updated quite frequently.
If it happens in 2 different laptops, then it's the battery, not the software. It is possible that you need to go through the calibration procedure again (Listed in the owners guide for the Powerbook). Otherwise, the battery is probably on it's way to the Charger in the Sky.
Li-Ion/Li-Polymer batteries have a certain life expectancy, after which they won't hold a charge perfectly, and their output voltage fluctuates more than usual, which is what makes the battery meter go wonky.
Regarding the falling battery life and wonky power meter:
You probably need to replace the battery with a new one. Li-Ion batteries have a specific number of charge cycles that they will last for, after which point they do not hold as much of a charge. Also, the output voltage will not remain as consistent as it once was, causing the battery meter to give inaccurate results.
Actually, I think it is related to your browser auto-searching in some way. A search for "http" in google yields microsoft.com as the top result. If your browser automatically does a search when you type a bad domain (http//www.ebay.com results in NXDOMAIN in nslookup, as it should), then it might be using that to end up at microsoft.com Usually the default search engine for Firefox is google.
Oddly enough, Konqueror gives me an error about the url, but Firefox does send me to microsoft.com Strange but true. Changing your default search engine might change the page you end up at.
Ummm, Java Desktop is not written in Java. JDS is a Linux distro from Sun that was put together as an option for companies who want a Linux/x86 partner for their Solaris boxen. It's a fairly basic distro which uses a customized version of GNOME, and has some of Sun's Java development tools packaged in.
Java may be getting faster, but unless you figure out a way to write a JRE that could be run without an operating system behind it, it can't be used as the basis for an operating system. (Note: I think there was a project to essentially create a sort of Java-enabled OS rather than a virtual one, which could natively run compiled Java code without a VM. I haven't heard anything about it since)
It already does run on Linux and presumeably other *nixes. It will take A LOT of optimization before this becomes more than a neat hack, but from the look of things, there is a lot of room to improve. I'll bet if a version were made to completely take advantage of every bit of performance of something like an Opteron or Athlon 64-FX while running 64-bit native, it could be genuinely useful.
Sheepshaver is a PPC emulator for Linux or BeOS, but it does not emulate a G3, whereas PearPC does. Sheepshaver looks to be a sort of upgrade to the old Basilisk II emulator, which could only handle 68k based Mac emulation. Also, both of those old emulators required a Mac Rom file, and could only run System 7 or 8. Not particularly useful for anything modern, although Basilisk II runs Escape Velocity pretty well...
Actually, yours is a code from TMNT 2 for NES. The first one is the "Konami code" which gave you 30 lives in the original Contra, and was used in several other games as well.
Sounds like the CompUSA that I'm a sales rep at (For Belkin's wireless stuff). They've had the MS base stations and cards for a while, but they never sold quite as well as the other brands. Then this weekend I notice that they are marked with yellow clearance tags (Meaning discontinued products or display models) for over 50% off. Now I know why. I figured the store just didn't want to carry them anymore. Oddly enough, they were actually decent products. I'll never understand how these kind of decisions get made.
Unless things have changed, there is the Technician class license. It does not require Morse Code, though it does not allow use of as many bands as the licenses which do require Morse Code proficiency. It is a good way to get started with Amateur Radio though. I had planned to get one myself, but school and such got in the way.
The Trolls are getting clever...ish. Now they are just editing the links on the Wiki page to include http://lm.pleaseat.us or something similar. Makes it a tad bit more difficult to notice at first glance.
So does this mean they are learning? Or are the Trolls evolving?
btw, the so called "legal playback" of DVD in turbo linux.... *sigh*... makes all of us that don't have turbo linux illegal when watching dvd in linux?
Technically, unless you use a program that legally licensed the official CSS decrypter from the DVD-CCA, it is illegal to play a DVD on Linux. If you use MPlayer or Xine, you are using something like libdvdcss, which is a reverse engineered CSS decryption library. Because CSS is considered a "Copyright protection," any non-licensed code the decrypts it is technically a "circumvention device," thereby violating the DMCA.
I use MPlayer and Xine to watch DVDs on a regular basis. Yet I don't feel any guilt over the whole DMCA thing. Odd that...
Re:adds stability to Win9x/ME workgroups
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He wasn't really talking about using domains though. He mentioned setting up Samba as a "Master Browser." On a domainless network, one of the machines becomes the "master browser," which all of the other machines look to for info on who is on the network.
It sounds like a good idea, but in practice, if the master browser changes or is rebooted, the other machines in the workgroup won't be able to find network resources unless they are restarted too. This is usually the source of most network issues with Windows on home networks. By setting up a samba machine that is always and never gives up "master browser" status, the table of which machines are on the network remains available.
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Don't forget that they sue for the value of the DVD for each time it was downloaded, up to a certain maximum. Since they basically assume everyone wants a copy of any crap that the sharer may have had, they go for the maximum. That's where you get the supposed billions of dollars in losses caused by file sharing.
From one perspective, yes, Microsoft does indeed cause lower software prices. Competition in a given market area (Office Suites etc) will reduce prices among different vendors. However, once a particular vendor has asserted dominance over a particular product area, they are free to raise their prices again. Thus, competitors in the Office Suite area (Staroffice, Wordperfect Office) are much less expensive, while Microsoft's product (especially full "Professional" versions) is much more expensive. Net effect: More expensive software for the consumer, because everyone "needs" the de facto standard.
So true. One of my favorite games of all time. Why can't Lucasarts return to their roots?
You need to have Opera ID itself as Opera. GMail uses ActiveX to display itself in IE, probably to avoid lots of complications from odd Javascript problems with IE. Since Opera is IDing as IE, GMail is assuming it has ActiveX support, which it does not.
From the sound of things, the exploit will be triggered, but this particular piece of code won't be able to do much, since it tries to install software that requires an Admin level account. Having a limited account won't prevent the user from running the exploit code, but it does prevent the exploit from leading to a system-level breach, unless some of privilege-escalation exploit is included as well.
Nope that's the real URL. Looks like Toshiba's web developer decided the best way to access everything on their web database using encoded parameters. Ugly, but an interesting tactic to force people to enter through the main portal of the site.
Secondly, based on the types of compounds in the solution, and the description in the article, the "solid" is probably more of a waxy/jelly sort of substance.
That said, your idea could be made to work in other cases. I wonder if maybe the substance could be altered for use as a variable damping material for suspension or acoustic purposes.
ClamAV or F-Prot are both good virus scanners for Linux, which are free for home use (Or completely open in the case of ClamAV). Both will scan your samba shares, and can be automated in a number of ways. Both seem to be maintained and updated quite frequently.
Li-Ion/Li-Polymer batteries have a certain life expectancy, after which they won't hold a charge perfectly, and their output voltage fluctuates more than usual, which is what makes the battery meter go wonky.
Hope that helps.
More of a food group, in some places...
Regarding the falling battery life and wonky power meter:
You probably need to replace the battery with a new one. Li-Ion batteries have a specific number of charge cycles that they will last for, after which point they do not hold as much of a charge. Also, the output voltage will not remain as consistent as it once was, causing the battery meter to give inaccurate results.
Oddly enough, Konqueror gives me an error about the url, but Firefox does send me to microsoft.com Strange but true. Changing your default search engine might change the page you end up at.
Yeah, I caught it. Mine was "Apollo 13".
Or maybe "Spirit in the Sky".
Java may be getting faster, but unless you figure out a way to write a JRE that could be run without an operating system behind it, it can't be used as the basis for an operating system. (Note: I think there was a project to essentially create a sort of Java-enabled OS rather than a virtual one, which could natively run compiled Java code without a VM. I haven't heard anything about it since)
"Single chip" is referring to the chipset, meaning no separate Northbridge and Southbridge chips.
It already does run on Linux and presumeably other *nixes. It will take A LOT of optimization before this becomes more than a neat hack, but from the look of things, there is a lot of room to improve. I'll bet if a version were made to completely take advantage of every bit of performance of something like an Opteron or Athlon 64-FX while running 64-bit native, it could be genuinely useful.
Sheepshaver is a PPC emulator for Linux or BeOS, but it does not emulate a G3, whereas PearPC does. Sheepshaver looks to be a sort of upgrade to the old Basilisk II emulator, which could only handle 68k based Mac emulation. Also, both of those old emulators required a Mac Rom file, and could only run System 7 or 8. Not particularly useful for anything modern, although Basilisk II runs Escape Velocity pretty well...
My appologies if this was already obvious.
Sounds like the CompUSA that I'm a sales rep at (For Belkin's wireless stuff). They've had the MS base stations and cards for a while, but they never sold quite as well as the other brands. Then this weekend I notice that they are marked with yellow clearance tags (Meaning discontinued products or display models) for over 50% off. Now I know why. I figured the store just didn't want to carry them anymore. Oddly enough, they were actually decent products. I'll never understand how these kind of decisions get made.
Unless things have changed, there is the Technician class license. It does not require Morse Code, though it does not allow use of as many bands as the licenses which do require Morse Code proficiency. It is a good way to get started with Amateur Radio though. I had planned to get one myself, but school and such got in the way.
So does this mean they are learning? Or are the Trolls evolving?
There have been lawsuits. Google search for decss or 'DVD Jon'. Maybe check out DeCSS Central
Technically, unless you use a program that legally licensed the official CSS decrypter from the DVD-CCA, it is illegal to play a DVD on Linux. If you use MPlayer or Xine, you are using something like libdvdcss, which is a reverse engineered CSS decryption library. Because CSS is considered a "Copyright protection," any non-licensed code the decrypts it is technically a "circumvention device," thereby violating the DMCA.
I use MPlayer and Xine to watch DVDs on a regular basis. Yet I don't feel any guilt over the whole DMCA thing. Odd that...
It sounds like a good idea, but in practice, if the master browser changes or is rebooted, the other machines in the workgroup won't be able to find network resources unless they are restarted too. This is usually the source of most network issues with Windows on home networks. By setting up a samba machine that is always and never gives up "master browser" status, the table of which machines are on the network remains available.