Have your friend download Lindows 3.0. It's supposed to be available to anyone who either bought LindowsOS or a LindowsOS PC. The first Walmart machines were shipped with SPX, which wasn't nearly as good as 3.0 (I've used every LindowsOS version released, and they get much better each time).
Don't discout Click-N-Run either. The great dependency handling of apt, the simple interface, my 10 year old brother was able to install software easier than in Windows.
Who needs Windows programs anyway? StarOffice lets me communicate with anybody who dares to send a.DOC file in an e-mail. Kmail, Evolution, Netscape Mail, or what have you does all the e-mail handling I need. Konqueror, Netscape 7, Mozilla and derivatives, etc. allow browsing any site worth visiting. Gaim lets me chat with all my family and friends, as some use AOL, some use MSN, etc. Unless you are NOT a typical desktop user, there's no need for any Windows-specific software.
I am not a typical desktop user. I need Acid Pro and Adobe Premiere from Windows.
Think about this... Michael Robertson sold MP3.com to Vivendi for a few hundred million. Even if only 10% of that went to him personally, even at as high as one million dollars a month consumed by Lindows (a very high estimate for a small company), he could fund the company out of his pocket for three years. Lindows is the least likely distribution to go first.
Most, if not all states have laws preventing the use of such far reaching clauses in employee/employer contracts. In California, for example, they cannot force you to assign to them any invention (anything can be defined as an invention) that was either a. Conceived before employment with the company b. Has nothing to do with the company's current inventions and didn't use employer's equipment to produce the invention.
Also, in California, employers are not allowed to prevent you from holding a job with a competitive company.
Although the DMCA was passed in 1998, particularly as of Sept. 11, 2001, it seems everything here in the US is the wrong way round, especially the law. So many people are so dependent on the system that they would fight to defend it (paraphrasing from The Matrix), so the only way to try to improve the situation in this case is to take the same approach (wrong way round) as those who created the previous laws.
Now, I know some people feel it's redundant to bring this up, but why does it cost so much to license Qt for commercial applications? I mean, I can buy Visual Studio for each of my developers for less than I can license Qt-X11. How does that encourage me to develop for Qt? What about shareware applications? Why not make Qt LGPL?
This was a really great post until you had to bring in an attack on religion. While I won't associate myself with either extreme (hardline evolutionary atheists or hardline "science is stupid" creationists), I find arguing about who is right pointless at best, and petty attacks such as yours are not only a source for distrust of science, they also make use of generalizations that cannot be proven. You imply that all religious fanatics are anti-evolution, or that they all have stated that HIV is God's scourge. Many creationists claim that all scientists are evil because all scientists believe that religion is evil. Neither generalization is true.
My intent is not to insult you personally or any particular group of people, but to bring to light a problem that I find quite annoying with many "arguments" used by both sides of any controversial debate.
Okay, if a score box will burn in, then how can television networks get away with superimposing their logo on every freaking second of television on their station? I'd be quite likely to have one television station on longer than one game screen (cinematics between levels would erase the score box).
In a microkernel system, the kernel is nothing. Look at VSTa for another example of a microkernel. All the drivers, modules, OS compatibility layers, etc. are in userland. The kernel is just what handles running the tasks and letting them communicate.
The only achievement is branding. Apple could put Hurd on their boxes and XFree86 2, and as long as it worked with Apple branded software, people would eat it.
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Perhaps you meant something other than 100 cents, because that would be break even (100% payback). The "loosest" casinos have probably at most a 98% payback.
About the only thing that home schooling lacks is physical education and sports - both of which are tough to do in a home environment, but neither of which cause "damage" if withheld.
I would argue that those things are what make public school worse for gaining social experience, because anyone who is slightly varied from the norm is shunned and ridiculed by the football-obsessed preps (speaking from experience).
Any distribution worth its salt requires you to enter the root password to enter single user mode. There is the possiblity of adding init=/bin/bash or something to that effect to the LILO command line, but then, why didn't you use grub and protect the command line with a password?
Not to mention with encrypted filesystems, you can drastically reduce the risk of physical access allowing a user to take over a system. If a malicious user has physical access to a system that hasn't been physically secured, you have bigger problems than software security...
In summary, though, it's easy enough to put a complex password on every step of accessing the system (bios, lilo/grub, encrypted filesystem, login), and with access control lists, even knowing the root password might not get you full access.
You know, if pep rallies had no influence on some people, they wouldn't be held...
It's kind of like that old saying, "Simple minds are easily amused," except in this case its, "Simple minds are easily advertized to." Too bad it's not as funny with the second wording.
I don't know if it's still around, but there was at one point a program called Audiomulch that worked kinda like a modular synthesizer setup. It has input and output modules, and a delay module, so you can just hook the audio out from the radio to your sound card, and connect the delay in-line between the input and output.
100GB? That's enough data to store an hour of uncompressed 640x480 24-bit RGB 30fps video, seven hours of DV format compressed NTSC video, or 11 hours of 19.2mbit/s MPEG-2 compressed HDTV. That's a freaking LOT of storage to put in a compact flash card. Who's going to take 20000 uncompressed 1.92 megapixel images, or 2000 19.2 megapixel images, and then expect to fit that much data on a CF sized card? It would have to be some kind of 3D optical medium, because I don't think transistors could be made dense enough to store 100GB in that space reliably.
3dfx opened up all their specs. If you can find a Voodoo 3 or better around somewhere, and your system will have a full height half length PCI slot available, you can use that. It was easy enough to implement a basic 2D driver for libfbx with the Voodoo 3, and there's the XFree86 source code for 3D support (why oh why are there so few comments in that code??). Finding someone who still has the specs around on their hard drive might be difficult, though. I asked nVidia who has the spec sheets, since they bought much of 3dfx's IP.. They gave me a single sentence reply: "We do not have this information." I bet a Voodoo 3 would be good enough for what you're trying to do, and a Voodoo 5 certainly should be.
If anyone has the Voodoo 3, 4, and/or 5 spec sheet PDF's around, let this guy know, and let me know too!
Sounds like what AT&T did with UNIX back in the day... They would give it to the universities, so that the graduates would install it instead of something else, like TOPS10, on their corporate mainframe.
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Have your friend download Lindows 3.0. It's supposed to be available to anyone who either bought LindowsOS or a LindowsOS PC. The first Walmart machines were shipped with SPX, which wasn't nearly as good as 3.0 (I've used every LindowsOS version released, and they get much better each time).
.DOC file in an e-mail. Kmail, Evolution, Netscape Mail, or what have you does all the e-mail handling I need. Konqueror, Netscape 7, Mozilla and derivatives, etc. allow browsing any site worth visiting. Gaim lets me chat with all my family and friends, as some use AOL, some use MSN, etc. Unless you are NOT a typical desktop user, there's no need for any Windows-specific software.
Don't discout Click-N-Run either. The great dependency handling of apt, the simple interface, my 10 year old brother was able to install software easier than in Windows.
Who needs Windows programs anyway? StarOffice lets me communicate with anybody who dares to send a
I am not a typical desktop user. I need Acid Pro and Adobe Premiere from Windows.
Think about this... Michael Robertson sold MP3.com to Vivendi for a few hundred million. Even if only 10% of that went to him personally, even at as high as one million dollars a month consumed by Lindows (a very high estimate for a small company), he could fund the company out of his pocket for three years. Lindows is the least likely distribution to go first.
Most, if not all states have laws preventing the use of such far reaching clauses in employee/employer contracts. In California, for example, they cannot force you to assign to them any invention (anything can be defined as an invention) that was either
a. Conceived before employment with the company
b. Has nothing to do with the company's current inventions and didn't use employer's equipment to produce the invention.
Also, in California, employers are not allowed to prevent you from holding a job with a competitive company.
Although the DMCA was passed in 1998, particularly as of Sept. 11, 2001, it seems everything here in the US is the wrong way round, especially the law. So many people are so dependent on the system that they would fight to defend it (paraphrasing from The Matrix), so the only way to try to improve the situation in this case is to take the same approach (wrong way round) as those who created the previous laws.
Now, I know some people feel it's redundant to bring this up, but why does it cost so much to license Qt for commercial applications? I mean, I can buy Visual Studio for each of my developers for less than I can license Qt-X11. How does that encourage me to develop for Qt? What about shareware applications? Why not make Qt LGPL?
This was a really great post until you had to bring in an attack on religion. While I won't associate myself with either extreme (hardline evolutionary atheists or hardline "science is stupid" creationists), I find arguing about who is right pointless at best, and petty attacks such as yours are not only a source for distrust of science, they also make use of generalizations that cannot be proven. You imply that all religious fanatics are anti-evolution, or that they all have stated that HIV is God's scourge. Many creationists claim that all scientists are evil because all scientists believe that religion is evil. Neither generalization is true.
My intent is not to insult you personally or any particular group of people, but to bring to light a problem that I find quite annoying with many "arguments" used by both sides of any controversial debate.
Alternatively you could just take it out of the computer.
Okay, if a score box will burn in, then how can television networks get away with superimposing their logo on every freaking second of television on their station? I'd be quite likely to have one television station on longer than one game screen (cinematics between levels would erase the score box).
That's odd that the FreeBSD driver wouldn't support the gfxgo line, when the Linux driver handles it just fine...
In a microkernel system, the kernel is nothing. Look at VSTa for another example of a microkernel. All the drivers, modules, OS compatibility layers, etc. are in userland. The kernel is just what handles running the tasks and letting them communicate.
The only achievement is branding. Apple could put Hurd on their boxes and XFree86 2, and as long as it worked with Apple branded software, people would eat it.
Perhaps you meant something other than 100 cents, because that would be break even (100% payback). The "loosest" casinos have probably at most a 98% payback.
About the only thing that home schooling lacks is physical education and sports - both of which are tough to do in a home environment, but neither of which cause "damage" if withheld.
I would argue that those things are what make public school worse for gaining social experience, because anyone who is slightly varied from the norm is shunned and ridiculed by the football-obsessed preps (speaking from experience).
Social experience my butt...
Any distribution worth its salt requires you to enter the root password to enter single user mode. There is the possiblity of adding init=/bin/bash or something to that effect to the LILO command line, but then, why didn't you use grub and protect the command line with a password?
Not to mention with encrypted filesystems, you can drastically reduce the risk of physical access allowing a user to take over a system. If a malicious user has physical access to a system that hasn't been physically secured, you have bigger problems than software security...
In summary, though, it's easy enough to put a complex password on every step of accessing the system (bios, lilo/grub, encrypted filesystem, login), and with access control lists, even knowing the root password might not get you full access.
Actually, in last week's Circuit City (or some other such store) flyer, there was a progressive scan DVD advertised for something like $150 US.
You know, if pep rallies had no influence on some people, they wouldn't be held...
It's kind of like that old saying, "Simple minds are easily amused," except in this case its, "Simple minds are easily advertized to." Too bad it's not as funny with the second wording.
Please translate for those of us too young to read paper tape in EBCDIC(?) or whatever encoding.
Actually, I recall some version of Mandrake's boot CD having that error any time I tried to run certain programs.
I don't know if it's still around, but there was at one point a program called Audiomulch that worked kinda like a modular synthesizer setup. It has input and output modules, and a delay module, so you can just hook the audio out from the radio to your sound card, and connect the delay in-line between the input and output.
100GB? That's enough data to store an hour of uncompressed 640x480 24-bit RGB 30fps video, seven hours of DV format compressed NTSC video, or 11 hours of 19.2mbit/s MPEG-2 compressed HDTV. That's a freaking LOT of storage to put in a compact flash card. Who's going to take 20000 uncompressed 1.92 megapixel images, or 2000 19.2 megapixel images, and then expect to fit that much data on a CF sized card? It would have to be some kind of 3D optical medium, because I don't think transistors could be made dense enough to store 100GB in that space reliably.
Wasn't it the cave man who came up with 42? The one question that the computer couldn't answer was six times seven wasn't it?
http://members.tripod.com/~oldboard/assembly/hayes _modem_info.html
,1=even
|7|6|5|4|3|2|1|0| S13 power up async data format
| | | | | | | `---- unused
| | | | | | `----- result code, 0=basic, 1=extended
| | | | | `------ parity, 0=disabled, 1=enabled
| | | | `------- parity, 0=odd
| | | `-------- data bits, 0=7 bits, 1=8 bits
| | `--------- undefined
| `---------- buffer ovfw flag, 0=disabled,1=enabled
`----------- 8th bit, 0=space,1=mark (8 bit only)
Mileage may vary with non Hayes 1200 baud modems.
3dfx opened up all their specs. If you can find a Voodoo 3 or better around somewhere, and your system will have a full height half length PCI slot available, you can use that. It was easy enough to implement a basic 2D driver for libfbx with the Voodoo 3, and there's the XFree86 source code for 3D support (why oh why are there so few comments in that code??). Finding someone who still has the specs around on their hard drive might be difficult, though. I asked nVidia who has the spec sheets, since they bought much of 3dfx's IP.. They gave me a single sentence reply: "We do not have this information." I bet a Voodoo 3 would be good enough for what you're trying to do, and a Voodoo 5 certainly should be.
If anyone has the Voodoo 3, 4, and/or 5 spec sheet PDF's around, let this guy know, and let me know too!
I remember cringing when I heard that on KSL...
Sounds like what AT&T did with UNIX back in the day... They would give it to the universities, so that the graduates would install it instead of something else, like TOPS10, on their corporate mainframe.