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why would Microsoft persue another antitrust trial
Because it would be worth it finacially. The trial would take a few years in which MS would be able to leverage the search monopoly to generate far more money then they would pay out to say Google. All MS has to do is make IE have MSN as the default homepage and search page and add a little search box in the URL bar like FireFox. However, unlike in Firefox where you can change where the search box searches, the MS one in IE will just do MSN. This way MS gets the tons of JoeUsers that just click or use what is in front of them. With MS's 95%+ desktop market, you can say goodbye to Goole.
Now, google would sue for anti-competitve practices and win say a billion or so. However, by the time the court case is over, there would be no coming back for Google or other search engines since MS already got the whole lot of JoeUsers to their search engine. The amount of money MS would make off of advertising on MSN would far exceed the legal costs.
After you "uninstall" Messenger, go and rename the directory to something like MessengerOFF. I think that should take care of it, unless the MS file protection stuff kicks in for Messenger, which I am not sure of. If it does, make sure that if you have a c:\i386 folder that you rename it before you try to remove a protected file and also make sure that you do not have the MS Windows install disk in. When you are asked for it, just hit cancel a few time.
Yes, I have the latest JVM and I never used the MS JVM for Java work. The sad thing is that there are some larger apps out there (cough..Oracle..cough) that ship with dog old JVM's still. We were able to upgrade Oracle9iAS to the latest 1.4.x JVM, though we couldn't get it to work with Java 1.5.
Then tons of apps start to break. MS "integrated" IE into the OS and there are a lot of 3rd party apps that just use mshtml.dll for their embedded browser, especially help display, etc.
It would be nice if apps started to use the Firefox Gecko engince over IE. There is a COM interface that is identical to the IE one. Just one recompile and you know are using Gecko.
Hmm, I never knew that it just sets the file attribute to iexplore.exe to hidden since I never tried to "uninstall" it. That is pretty sad on the part of MS! Do you know if they do the same thing for MS Messenger and Outlook Express?
IANAL either, however I don't see how your points are valid. For example, just change the LoC to Me and the content to the MPAA's library.
Imagine if my bot got to the MPAA's content and downloaded it all to my computer. I won't share this content without the permission of the MPAA, nor will I use it for any profit motive. Do you really think that the MPAA will allow me to just take all this copyrighted material for non-profit use for free? NO. So why would the LoC be allowed to take copyrighted material for non-profit use for free?
I personally think it is good that the LoC archieves everything it can. However, I just don't think your argument for the LoC makes sense especially if you change who is doing what as I did.
You may have a good point WRT your point #3, however IANAL so I cannot comment on whether passive vs. actice protection makes a difference WRT to the DMCA.
I have _NEVER_ seen this happen to any of your Linux or Solaris servers, yet it has happend many times on our windows servers. I work for a fortune 500 (I have worked for 3 fortuen 500's with similar situations). Where I work we have a HUGE test lab that replicates our network. Most of the testing is just testing what MS patches will do to our custome and 3rd party applications on our MS Windwos servers.
There is a BIG difference going from Win98 to Win2k then from WinXP/SP1 to WinXP/SP2. SP 2 removes some TCP/IP functionality. So if you wrote a custom network enabled application, SP2 could very well break it, especially WRT raw sockets.
Going from WinXP/SP1 to WinXP/SP2 for typical desktop apps should not be a problem, but many server apps could require many changes to work. This is MS's idea of "security". Instead of securing things that they should secure, they remove things instead and call it "security".
I also noticed that of all the apps I written for a fortune 500 or 3rd party apps we purchased, Java server apps were the ones that failed the most when we tested on SP2. It seems like a _really_ strange coincident that MS lost the suit to SUN and now Java server apps break on SP2.
I bet our admins WISH they could script the uninstalling of IE. Remember, if you "uninstall" IE, you really just remove the front-end iexplorer.exe program and not the REAL IE (all the DLL's that really make up IE and that is "integrated" into MS Windows). So MS Windows desktops are still at risk to IE vulnerabilities even if you "uninstall" IE.
Your lucky. XP SP2 broke a few custom applications and we were able to fix those. However, XP SP2 broke a few of our very important 3rd party applications that we cannot fix. Our SP 2 roll out won't happen until MS fixes what they broken. I noticed that a lot of our 3rd party Java applications broke on SP 2, it seems like a very strange coincident that Java applications would break so easliy on SP 2. I work at a fortune 500, so our decisions are slow as a turtle. So we didnt' jump on SP 2 as soon as it came out. Our admins were testing it in our complete network replication labs and noticed tons of things breaking, so SP2 became a no-go.
any given company with loose rules tends to be smaller than any given company with tight rules.
I don't know about that. I am a senior programmer for a fortune 500 (I have worked for 3 fortune 500's) and the interal rules are pretty lax. Every corporate user has local admin. Our firewalls are kept pretty tight and we use BigFix to push patches out to Linux, Solaris and Windows servers and desktops. BigFix is sooo much better then MOM, it handles ALL of our boxes and not just MS boxes. It seems to be easier to give all corporate users local admin then to lock everything down and have tons of applications problems. If someone runs into a problem, PC support just comes around with a ghost image.
Our Linux/Solaris servers just always run and run while our important Windows server are always running with two duplicate servers behind a load balancer so any-one windows server can be brought down to patch.
Most people don't actually care. The vast majority of people simply don't know what a program is
This is just BS. I have installed FF on many friends computers and these friends have no clue about computers. My most recent "victims" are in their 50's and were using WinME. I upgraded them to WinXP and put Firefox and Thunderbird on. When I showed the 50-something wife all the search engines available in FF from the "add engines" click, she was just smiling very big and said why doesn't IE do this. I installed a search engine for her to search the Bible and recipies. When I showed her how to press CTRL++ to make the fonts bigger, she just loved it.
When you show any average Joe all the cool features and plugins of FF, I don't see any wanting to stay with IE. IE just doesn't even compare to FF in functionality. There are a lot of geek plugins for FF that may not interest the general JoeUser, however there are still tons of features that would make the average JoeUser love to switch. For example, when I showed this 50-something house wife how middle click a link in FF to open in a new tab, it was as if I showed her how to make gold. She loved not losing other pages to just look at another one.
This 50-something house wife said she would never go back after using FF for a few weeks now with not spyware, popups, pr0n dialers and other crap taking over her computer.
Who cares what happens in other contries. We are in the USA and we should not allow our rights to be slowly taken away over the course of many years.
I work in Oranldo Florida and just heard a news story. This female Spc. Ed teacher has been physically abusive to her students for a number of years. The school board has just bounced her around to different schools. Well, this time she bashed the head of an Autistic child and smashed out his teeth! She is suspened WITH PAY and was realeased on only $7,000 bail. I bet this guys bail will be 10's of thousand if not 100's of thousands. Why, because he messed with the corporate world.
In the USA it is OK to mess with liberties or "common folk", however if you mess with the corporate coffers or the governments coffers you will go down hard.
Back on topic: If this guy is guilty of what he is charged with, then he is one big IDIOT IMO. How in the world did he think he could get away with PUBLICLY selling source code of the largest software company in the world?
I thought it was illegal to require overtime in the USA? An employee or employees should just refuse to work overtime without pay. If they are fired, they get unemployment and file a lawsuit and get paid big time.
I know it would be hard for the employee(s) going on unemployment, but sometimes you need to fight for what is right.
The AHA-2940UW Ultra Wide adapter is a PCI to Ultra Wide SCSI adapter that provides connections for up to 15 wide UltraSCSI devices and transfers data at
up to 40 MBytes/sec.
For $80 or so you can get an 80GB-120GB ATA 133 drive that will be faster then that. My 120GB ATA 133 gets about 56MBytes/sec. For a little more you can upgrade to SATA and get even better speeds. Low-end SCSI is just not worth it IMO.
I would recommend either Freevo or MythTV. Both are very nice. The problem with Windows Media Center is all the DRM crap. Recordings get DRMed and become a pain to play anywhere else. I personally recommend Frevoo, as it is very easy to use and setup.
Your numbers are way off. Of those 300,000,000 people in the U.S, not all of them have a computer, not all of them are old enough to read or are too old to get out of bed, etc. A more accurate number is maybe 10,000,000 emails sent out. Of those 10,000,000 emails 10,000 fell for it or
10,000/10,000,000 = (0.001 * 100) = 0.1%
So 1/10th of a percent took the bait. While not a huge marketing success, you can see that when you deal with big numbers, even 0.1% can be a good return.
10,000 * $39.95 = $399,500
Not a bad chunk of change.
I think 9 years is WAY too long for this crime. Rapists, murderers and child molesters have often been given lighter sentences. Also, the dollar amount should be taken into account. $399,500 is not much money compared to millions that corrupt corporate execs have taken. I think a good sentence in this case would have been 2 - 4 years.
MS's AD is as usual busted up LDAP. I have had no problems connecting a Linux box to every LDAP server I have tried, except for AD. I wrote a custom Java app that works with LDAP. Again, every LDAP server I pointed it to worked fine, until I pointed to AD. I had to make custom changes to work with AD. AD is typical MS "embrace, extend and break".
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For Firefox there is a great plugin called Spellbound. You just right click in a textarea or input box and select "Check Spelling". There is also a plugin for IE called IESpell which works well for those who still use IE for some reason.
Try it agian using the .com domains and making links.
beta.search.msn.com
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Now, google would sue for anti-competitve practices and win say a billion or so. However, by the time the court case is over, there would be no coming back for Google or other search engines since MS already got the whole lot of JoeUsers to their search engine. The amount of money MS would make off of advertising on MSN would far exceed the legal costs.
Long live the monopoly!
Did you go to MSN Search or MSN Search Beta? It is Beta that has the near me button.
After you "uninstall" Messenger, go and rename the directory to something like MessengerOFF. I think that should take care of it, unless the MS file protection stuff kicks in for Messenger, which I am not sure of. If it does, make sure that if you have a c:\i386 folder that you rename it before you try to remove a protected file and also make sure that you do not have the MS Windows install disk in. When you are asked for it, just hit cancel a few time.
Yes, I have the latest JVM and I never used the MS JVM for Java work. The sad thing is that there are some larger apps out there (cough..Oracle..cough) that ship with dog old JVM's still. We were able to upgrade Oracle9iAS to the latest 1.4.x JVM, though we couldn't get it to work with Java 1.5.
It would be nice if apps started to use the Firefox Gecko engince over IE. There is a COM interface that is identical to the IE one. Just one recompile and you know are using Gecko.
I wonder where caching proxy servers would fall WRT copyright violation then.
Hmm, I never knew that it just sets the file attribute to iexplore.exe to hidden since I never tried to "uninstall" it. That is pretty sad on the part of MS! Do you know if they do the same thing for MS Messenger and Outlook Express?
Imagine if my bot got to the MPAA's content and downloaded it all to my computer. I won't share this content without the permission of the MPAA, nor will I use it for any profit motive. Do you really think that the MPAA will allow me to just take all this copyrighted material for non-profit use for free? NO. So why would the LoC be allowed to take copyrighted material for non-profit use for free?
I personally think it is good that the LoC archieves everything it can. However, I just don't think your argument for the LoC makes sense especially if you change who is doing what as I did.
You may have a good point WRT your point #3, however IANAL so I cannot comment on whether passive vs. actice protection makes a difference WRT to the DMCA.
I agree, though it is a pain waiting, especially for some of the larger enterprise applications.
Oracle, SAP, Peoplesoft and others. Why?
No, it is not Extreme, it is Xtreme. Get with the trend : )
I have _NEVER_ seen this happen to any of your Linux or Solaris servers, yet it has happend many times on our windows servers. I work for a fortune 500 (I have worked for 3 fortuen 500's with similar situations). Where I work we have a HUGE test lab that replicates our network. Most of the testing is just testing what MS patches will do to our custome and 3rd party applications on our MS Windwos servers.
Going from WinXP/SP1 to WinXP/SP2 for typical desktop apps should not be a problem, but many server apps could require many changes to work. This is MS's idea of "security". Instead of securing things that they should secure, they remove things instead and call it "security".
I also noticed that of all the apps I written for a fortune 500 or 3rd party apps we purchased, Java server apps were the ones that failed the most when we tested on SP2. It seems like a _really_ strange coincident that MS lost the suit to SUN and now Java server apps break on SP2.
I bet our admins WISH they could script the uninstalling of IE. Remember, if you "uninstall" IE, you really just remove the front-end iexplorer.exe program and not the REAL IE (all the DLL's that really make up IE and that is "integrated" into MS Windows). So MS Windows desktops are still at risk to IE vulnerabilities even if you "uninstall" IE.
Your lucky. XP SP2 broke a few custom applications and we were able to fix those. However, XP SP2 broke a few of our very important 3rd party applications that we cannot fix. Our SP 2 roll out won't happen until MS fixes what they broken. I noticed that a lot of our 3rd party Java applications broke on SP 2, it seems like a very strange coincident that Java applications would break so easliy on SP 2. I work at a fortune 500, so our decisions are slow as a turtle. So we didnt' jump on SP 2 as soon as it came out. Our admins were testing it in our complete network replication labs and noticed tons of things breaking, so SP2 became a no-go.
Our Linux/Solaris servers just always run and run while our important Windows server are always running with two duplicate servers behind a load balancer so any-one windows server can be brought down to patch.
When you show any average Joe all the cool features and plugins of FF, I don't see any wanting to stay with IE. IE just doesn't even compare to FF in functionality. There are a lot of geek plugins for FF that may not interest the general JoeUser, however there are still tons of features that would make the average JoeUser love to switch. For example, when I showed this 50-something house wife how middle click a link in FF to open in a new tab, it was as if I showed her how to make gold. She loved not losing other pages to just look at another one.
This 50-something house wife said she would never go back after using FF for a few weeks now with not spyware, popups, pr0n dialers and other crap taking over her computer.
I work in Oranldo Florida and just heard a news story. This female Spc. Ed teacher has been physically abusive to her students for a number of years. The school board has just bounced her around to different schools. Well, this time she bashed the head of an Autistic child and smashed out his teeth! She is suspened WITH PAY and was realeased on only $7,000 bail. I bet this guys bail will be 10's of thousand if not 100's of thousands. Why, because he messed with the corporate world.
In the USA it is OK to mess with liberties or "common folk", however if you mess with the corporate coffers or the governments coffers you will go down hard.
Back on topic: If this guy is guilty of what he is charged with, then he is one big IDIOT IMO. How in the world did he think he could get away with PUBLICLY selling source code of the largest software company in the world?
I know it would be hard for the employee(s) going on unemployment, but sometimes you need to fight for what is right.
I would recommend either Freevo or MythTV. Both are very nice. The problem with Windows Media Center is all the DRM crap. Recordings get DRMed and become a pain to play anywhere else. I personally recommend Frevoo, as it is very easy to use and setup.
I think 9 years is WAY too long for this crime. Rapists, murderers and child molesters have often been given lighter sentences. Also, the dollar amount should be taken into account. $399,500 is not much money compared to millions that corrupt corporate execs have taken. I think a good sentence in this case would have been 2 - 4 years.
MS's AD is as usual busted up LDAP. I have had no problems connecting a Linux box to every LDAP server I have tried, except for AD. I wrote a custom Java app that works with LDAP. Again, every LDAP server I pointed it to worked fine, until I pointed to AD. I had to make custom changes to work with AD. AD is typical MS "embrace, extend and break".