I'm not surprised that XP SE is off to a slow start. I mean, which is cheaper: a legit version of XP SE ($32), or a pirated copy of XP Home/Pro (~$5)? Also, should people want to upgrade to a full featured version of XP, it's still going to cost them an arm and a leg, isn't it? As best as I can tell, this is just Microsoft's way of saying "They can afford Windows now and have a perfectly good reason not to pirate it."
Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva
On February 24th, 2005 with 167 comments
An anonymous reader writes "With a press release Mandrakesoft has announced the acquisition of Conectiva. 'Mandrakesoft, the number one European Linux company,...
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Mandrakesoft Acquires Conectiva
On February 24th, 2005 with 212 comments
rednaxel writes "This morning, both companies issued press releases about the merge. French Mandrakesoft is acquiring all shares of brazilian Conectiva for a...
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Now, while the numbers do, in a way, put things in perspective, I find it's like comparing apples and oranges. Sure, they're both fruit, round, generally sweet, and have a couple more things in common, but they also have differences. Comparing sendmail with Windows is the same thing. They both have buffer overflow problems, but sendmail has the issues while processing email, whereas Windows has issues everywhere, mainly because it does more than sendmail.
If you're going to use numbers, use them right please.
And just how is the average farmer supposed to tell a GM plant from a natural one? Kill their crops to determine that, indeed, there are no GM'ed plants, or do they let companies like Monsanto (like they have any choice) claim their GM'ed crop is illegally being grown on the farmer's land? Either way, the farmer gets screwed over, whether it's by partially lost crops or a massive (and frivolous) lawsuit.
...the genetically modified seeds are spread by natural means and infect/grow in another farmer's field? Oh wait...they get sued, which is complete and utter bull in my opinion. Shouldn't it be up to the company who created the GM seeds to control how they are spread, or be unable to sue farmers who had no control over the spread of seeds?
After running Ad-Aware SE Personal and Spybot S&D, I still had problems with annoying popups. By running HijackThis and looking at all of the startup items, I noticed one that didn't quite sit well with me. By examining and renaming the file, I had managed to rid the system of the popups. I found it extremely useful in troubleshooting the remainder of the adware/spyware in the system.
HijackThis definitely belongs with Ad-Aware, Spybot, and SpywareBlaster when it comes to removing adware/spyware from an infected computer.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with looking at the site. Thing is though, this tactic doesn't bother looking at the site. It merely wastes bandwith for the spammers in an attempt to jack up their operating costs.
Doesn't a DoS attack effectively shut down a site though? The site would still be up and running, although pretty slow I would imagine. I think this is more of a Distributed Bandwidth Abuse (DBA). The DBA is no better than a DDoS, as it still intends to cause the owner of the site, or sites, headaches over increased bandwith costs and decreased potential sales.
I agree with you about this being more wrong than spam however. You don't fight fire with fire. Personally, their tactics don't make them any different, or better, than the spammers.
In the report, author Eric Davis says psychic teleportation, moving yourself from location to location through mind powers, is "quite real and can be controlled."
Yeah. It's called 'walking.' Or am I looking at it totally wrong?
I've googled the title and a random (short) passage of text, and all I've come up with was stuff written by Maureen. So, I can see three possible explanations here:
She actually wrote the article herself, and really is a lesbian.
Someone else wrote the article, possibly for her, with their own views and perspectives, and she didn't do any editing.
She found the story on the net and managed to somehow get all other copies removed via cease and desist letters.
...I think my downloading and posession of SNES roms for which I own the cartridge and CDs for which I own copies of is defendable in court, but IANAL. Even if illegal, it's certainly moral, and the law should be changed....
As stated in one of my N64 cartridge manuals:
Copying of any Nintendo game is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international copyright laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software. Violators will be prosecuted.
Now, it will differ from manual to manual, but for the Final Fantasy Anthology (PS1):
...No part of this manual or the described software may be copied, reproduced, translated, or reduced to any electronic media or machine-readable form without the prior written consent of SQEA...
I can't seem to find any of my SNES manuals, but I imagine they say pretty much the same thing. While it says right there in black and white, that you're not allowed to copy your games, or download the games you own, I don't agree with it. If im running into troubles with a console that is no longer available/supported, I should be able to download/copy those games that I had legally bought.
Back to your point about defending yourself in court. I don't think the judge would see it your way, as the manual stated that making copies for backup or archival purposes is illegal. I agree with you that it's moral to do such and that the law needs changing.
I'd still make a copy of the CD for the car. If I've got a dozen original CDs in the car, and they were to get stolen, I'd be out close to $240. If they steal the copies, I'm out $6.
Listen to the copies, and keep the originals in a safe place. If one or more of the original were lost (ie. damaged beyond repair/usability), I would probably go out and buy them again, depending on how often I listened to them.
I don't know what's worse. Losing someone suddenly, or watching them suffer for any length of time. One way, you don't get to say goodbye and they don't suffer. The other way though, you're able to say your goodbyes, at the expense of their suffering. I've lost family members both ways...
If Linux 'doesn't exist', then why on earth do they figure they can sue Linux users? According to them, they don't exist either. Maybe we should start sueing SCO for using our products that don't exist?
My writing is so horrible, that each time I sign something, it looks different. I think that if any of my signatures were to match, it'd be someone forging it...
Had an old P166 I purchased from work back in 2001 for $50. I needed another computer to start getting into working with networks. Anyhow, for some reason, I pulled the power supply out and had the switch just hanging over the edge of the tower. Without thinking, I hit the power button on the front of the case, turning the machine off...Realizing what I had done, I quickly turned the power switch off. Ran just as good as when I first got it. Incidentally, it would only run Windows 2000 and XP, not 98 or ME...
From what I understood, the compiler costs $399 and comes with a one year license. Whether the included license is a courtesy, or part of the cost is to cover the license, I don't know, but I don't imagine that you'd have to pay another $399 next year as well.
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Ooh! Ooh! I could use some!
What? Someone had to respond...
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
I'm not surprised that XP SE is off to a slow start. I mean, which is cheaper: a legit version of XP SE ($32), or a pirated copy of XP Home/Pro (~$5)? Also, should people want to upgrade to a full featured version of XP, it's still going to cost them an arm and a leg, isn't it? As best as I can tell, this is just Microsoft's way of saying "They can afford Windows now and have a perfectly good reason not to pirate it."
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
Oh yeah? Try this one: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=147
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
You can run a webbrowser, e-mail, telnet, and World of Warcraft on a Mac. What the hell else do you really need in life?
Um...porn?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
A well run company that initially succeeds and then fails will carry on making record profits right up until it starts going downhill.
Is it me, or does this sound a lot like 'A car will continue to coast until it stops moving'...
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
Now, while the numbers do, in a way, put things in perspective, I find it's like comparing apples and oranges. Sure, they're both fruit, round, generally sweet, and have a couple more things in common, but they also have differences. Comparing sendmail with Windows is the same thing. They both have buffer overflow problems, but sendmail has the issues while processing email, whereas Windows has issues everywhere, mainly because it does more than sendmail.
If you're going to use numbers, use them right please.
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
Here's your monkeyman!
http://www.bushorchimp.com/
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
And just how is the average farmer supposed to tell a GM plant from a natural one? Kill their crops to determine that, indeed, there are no GM'ed plants, or do they let companies like Monsanto (like they have any choice) claim their GM'ed crop is illegally being grown on the farmer's land? Either way, the farmer gets screwed over, whether it's by partially lost crops or a massive (and frivolous) lawsuit.
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
...the genetically modified seeds are spread by natural means and infect/grow in another farmer's field? Oh wait...they get sued, which is complete and utter bull in my opinion. Shouldn't it be up to the company who created the GM seeds to control how they are spread, or be unable to sue farmers who had no control over the spread of seeds?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
After running Ad-Aware SE Personal and Spybot S&D, I still had problems with annoying popups. By running HijackThis and looking at all of the startup items, I noticed one that didn't quite sit well with me. By examining and renaming the file, I had managed to rid the system of the popups. I found it extremely useful in troubleshooting the remainder of the adware/spyware in the system.
HijackThis definitely belongs with Ad-Aware, Spybot, and SpywareBlaster when it comes to removing adware/spyware from an infected computer.
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
There's absolutely nothing wrong with looking at the site. Thing is though, this tactic doesn't bother looking at the site. It merely wastes bandwith for the spammers in an attempt to jack up their operating costs.
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
...cataloging the top ten design computing flaws that we just live with with...
How about redundant words that are redundant?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
Doesn't a DoS attack effectively shut down a site though? The site would still be up and running, although pretty slow I would imagine. I think this is more of a Distributed Bandwidth Abuse (DBA). The DBA is no better than a DDoS, as it still intends to cause the owner of the site, or sites, headaches over increased bandwith costs and decreased potential sales.
I agree with you about this being more wrong than spam however. You don't fight fire with fire. Personally, their tactics don't make them any different, or better, than the spammers.
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
In the report, author Eric Davis says psychic teleportation, moving yourself from location to location through mind powers, is "quite real and can be controlled."
Yeah. It's called 'walking.' Or am I looking at it totally wrong?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
- She actually wrote the article herself, and really is a lesbian.
- Someone else wrote the article, possibly for her, with their own views and perspectives, and she didn't do any editing.
- She found the story on the net and managed to somehow get all other copies removed via cease and desist letters.
Something like that anyhow.Hope be with ye,
Cyan
...I think my downloading and posession of SNES roms for which I own the cartridge and CDs for which I own copies of is defendable in court, but IANAL. Even if illegal, it's certainly moral, and the law should be changed....
...No part of this manual or the described software may be copied, reproduced, translated, or reduced to any electronic media or machine-readable form without the prior written consent of SQEA...
As stated in one of my N64 cartridge manuals:
Copying of any Nintendo game is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international copyright laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software. Violators will be prosecuted.
Now, it will differ from manual to manual, but for the Final Fantasy Anthology (PS1):
I can't seem to find any of my SNES manuals, but I imagine they say pretty much the same thing. While it says right there in black and white, that you're not allowed to copy your games, or download the games you own, I don't agree with it. If im running into troubles with a console that is no longer available/supported, I should be able to download/copy those games that I had legally bought.
Back to your point about defending yourself in court. I don't think the judge would see it your way, as the manual stated that making copies for backup or archival purposes is illegal. I agree with you that it's moral to do such and that the law needs changing.
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
I'd still make a copy of the CD for the car. If I've got a dozen original CDs in the car, and they were to get stolen, I'd be out close to $240. If they steal the copies, I'm out $6.
Listen to the copies, and keep the originals in a safe place. If one or more of the original were lost (ie. damaged beyond repair/usability), I would probably go out and buy them again, depending on how often I listened to them.
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
I don't know what's worse. Losing someone suddenly, or watching them suffer for any length of time. One way, you don't get to say goodbye and they don't suffer. The other way though, you're able to say your goodbyes, at the expense of their suffering. I've lost family members both ways...
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
If Linux 'doesn't exist', then why on earth do they figure they can sue Linux users? According to them, they don't exist either. Maybe we should start sueing SCO for using our products that don't exist?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
My writing is so horrible, that each time I sign something, it looks different. I think that if any of my signatures were to match, it'd be someone forging it...
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
I think you may have missed a step...
1. Get customers
2. Profit
3. Sue customers
4. ???
5. Profit more?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
Had an old P166 I purchased from work back in 2001 for $50. I needed another computer to start getting into working with networks. Anyhow, for some reason, I pulled the power supply out and had the switch just hanging over the edge of the tower. Without thinking, I hit the power button on the front of the case, turning the machine off...Realizing what I had done, I quickly turned the power switch off. Ran just as good as when I first got it. Incidentally, it would only run Windows 2000 and XP, not 98 or ME...
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
From what I understood, the compiler costs $399 and comes with a one year license. Whether the included license is a courtesy, or part of the cost is to cover the license, I don't know, but I don't imagine that you'd have to pay another $399 next year as well.
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
...no software ever written has been 100% bug free...
Uh...those aren't bugs. The program was supposed to do that. They're features. Yeah...that's it...features.
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
How about the 8-bit Theater version?
Hope be with ye,
Cyan