Good versions of drivers (check forums for people saying version X of your driver causes crashes)
Test all your components for hardware compatability issues. (I've had RAM thats good in one machine, bad in another. I've had NForce sound hardware that caused crashes. I've had video cards which really didn't want to work with my motherboard)
I think that almost all of the problems I've ever had with windows can be put down to hardware or driver problems. I.e. not Microsofts fault. So long as you run a good firewall, an AV program and check windows update regularly your system should be as stable and secure as most linux or BSD boxes.
Flame me if you like but I really like windows XP/2000.
This acticle causes me no worry at all. Presumably if you post on a public forum it is because you have something to say. If you have something good to say people reply or mod you up. If you keep having good things to say and people keep replying or modding you up you get karma on the basis that the next thing you say is also likely to be good. As far as I can see this guy from microsoft is saying that some people always post good stuff and some people always post spam. Wouldn't it be cool to have a usenet viewer that could automatically work out what posts and threads were interesting either because there were lots of replies, or because a usenet guru posted some pearl of wisdom, and what posts were spam, flames or trolls and do you could ignore them. I didn't notice any proposal in the article that they wanted to link any posters username to a real identity, they just wanted to be able to say "that dude ThaReetLad always has great posts. Lets make everything he posts start at +5 Insightful" or whatever hidden equivalent they want to use.
OK it depends upon the supplier to some extent, and also on what type of contract you have. IFAIK the law (or oftel) says that a port must happen within 2 weeks of a request. I switched from Orange to 3 recently. I went into a store and bought a new 3g phone and then called Orange for a PAC (porting authority code) which I then gave to 3. A week or so later the port was completed and my Orange contract automatically terminated. All done, all easy, all free.
Here in the UK number porting takes a couple of weeks with no paper work and no fee. The competition between networks is so intense that the mobile telcos are desperate to make it easy for people to change from one network to the other.
If only that were possible. Unfortunately the vast majority of commercial software is written in the US, so when you attempt to choose the language you want to install you are forced to accept English(US) as the only available spelling.
yes IANAL either, but SCO will have hired some of the best ones, and you can be sure that if they are persuing enterprise Linux users for licence fees they believe that the derivative work DOES breach copyright. I'm sure you recall the recent stuff about SCO claiming that there are some lines of common code in System V and in Linux. Well what that is about is NOT that those lines have been stolen, but that the code module that they are contained in are derivative works, and as such protected by copyright law. To go back to the disney analogy, those common lines of code would be similar to having a disney character, or a continuation of a story line, in any of the subsequent films. This is also why simply rewriting the contested lines in the polluted modules wouldn't help. It doesn't change the fact that they are substantially derivative. They only way to replace them would to be to rip out the IBM contributed code and rewrite the functionality from a spec in a clean room enviroment by people who had never seen the IBM code, or seen code which was subsequently derived from the IBM code.
You're wrong about not SCO/Disney not having recourse against third parties who use stuff in good faith. They do, which is why RIAA can go after people who trade MIDI files and sheet music, and people who write songs which sound a lot like other songs. Copyright is a very powerful and far reaching law which cannot easily be circumvented.
Anyway I fully understand the linux comunity grabbing at straws on this issue and trying to wield the GPL in many creative ways to strike down this claim. Ultimately however SCO have a card in their hand which a judge may decide is a trump card, and then you're screwed.
AFAIK SCO's point is that derivative works are protected by copyright, for example, only Disney or a licencee can make a Mickey Mouse cartoon or anything based upon it. They claim that the licence they granted to IBM to develop derivative works was on the basis that any such derivative works were kept confidential, and by breaching that licence IBM no longer has the right to develop derivate works ad all previous work is now infringing their copyright. Thus, any infringing code now being distributed in linux is also infringing their copyright, not because they own that specific copyright, but because that code is an unlicensed derivative. The key to this entire question is whether or not the IBM code is dervative and thus violates their contract, however SCO's pressuring of Enterprise Linux users to settle in advance of that legal decision is pretty extortionate and arrogant if you ask me. If a court finds that the code IBM added to linux really is derivative then linux users could be up shit creep without a paddle.
Will you guys please stop playing semantic games and remember that "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Also just because something is a gateway that doesn't mean it should be avoided. This is known as the Slippery Slope Fallacy. For example being born is a gateway to death, so should we avoid being born? Driving a car is a gateway to being a getaway car driver. Having a drink is a gateway to becoming an alchoholic.
YOUR life may not be precious, but everyone else's, well that's up to them.
By the way, did you know that the USA is the only country in the world which openly allows the execution of under 18's and is responsible for 13 out of the 20 known executions of minors in the last decade?
I wish i'd seen this review before I went out and got one last week. Yes the software is buggy, and more to the point really badly designed. It just doesn't work the way you expect it to. Also network coverage is spotty and intermittent, and the battery life is pittiful. I should have got a p800.
I think the point is that good contingency planning would have required that either EVA equipment or enough fuel to reach the ISS would have to be available on each and every flight. A good safety culture would have required every incident, however minor, to be investigated in full. The problem is it appears that corners were being cut in the planning and support phases for financial reasons.
The BBC's tech reporting is really aimed at noobs and lusers, as it should be. Always has been and always will be. What do you want, circuit diagrams?
This story is really to comfort said noobs and lusers that friendly tech company is concerned about them being confused, and a such is purely marketing.
except that this is of course AMD's main problem and why we're all here talking about how bad jargon is.
Of course there is another device which uses Hz in a similar way to a PC, and that is the internal combustion engine. We've all got rev counters on our dashboard, and we know that for any given gear more revs = more speed. It's not hard, it's just exposure to the topic at hand.
No, but you could end up either at a really bad restaurant, or demanding that your Gazpacho soup be served hot, thus causing the stagnation of you career and finally your own death in a freak accident.
Birth control is evil because the whole point of marriage and sex (according to the Vatican) is to produce children. Anything that seeks to preclude that possibility is therefore evil because it is pure self-indulgent pleasure seeking, which coincidentally is also why they don't approve of masturbation.
Slashdot Mirror
well they're all part of Rupert Murdoch's empire so why not.
Good versions of drivers (check forums for people saying version X of your driver causes crashes)
Test all your components for hardware compatability issues. (I've had RAM thats good in one machine, bad in another. I've had NForce sound hardware that caused crashes. I've had video cards which really didn't want to work with my motherboard)
I think that almost all of the problems I've ever had with windows can be put down to hardware or driver problems. I.e. not Microsofts fault. So long as you run a good firewall, an AV program and check windows update regularly your system should be as stable and secure as most linux or BSD boxes.
Flame me if you like but I really like windows XP/2000.
This acticle causes me no worry at all. Presumably if you post on a public forum it is because you have something to say. If you have something good to say people reply or mod you up. If you keep having good things to say and people keep replying or modding you up you get karma on the basis that the next thing you say is also likely to be good. As far as I can see this guy from microsoft is saying that some people always post good stuff and some people always post spam. Wouldn't it be cool to have a usenet viewer that could automatically work out what posts and threads were interesting either because there were lots of replies, or because a usenet guru posted some pearl of wisdom, and what posts were spam, flames or trolls and do you could ignore them. I didn't notice any proposal in the article that they wanted to link any posters username to a real identity, they just wanted to be able to say "that dude ThaReetLad always has great posts. Lets make everything he posts start at +5 Insightful" or whatever hidden equivalent they want to use.
Does all this talk of battling worms remind anyone else of the classic game "Worms" from the mid 90's? Incoming!!! BOOM!!!
OK it depends upon the supplier to some extent, and also on what type of contract you have. IFAIK the law (or oftel) says that a port must happen within 2 weeks of a request. I switched from Orange to 3 recently. I went into a store and bought a new 3g phone and then called Orange for a PAC (porting authority code) which I then gave to 3. A week or so later the port was completed and my Orange contract automatically terminated. All done, all easy, all free.
Here in the UK number porting takes a couple of weeks with no paper work and no fee. The competition between networks is so intense that the mobile telcos are desperate to make it easy for people to change from one network to the other.
rubbish. Juice is measured in pints or litres.
If only I had mod points. I'd give them all to you in an instant.
If only that were possible. Unfortunately the vast majority of commercial software is written in the US, so when you attempt to choose the language you want to install you are forced to accept English(US) as the only available spelling.
yes IANAL either, but SCO will have hired some of the best ones, and you can be sure that if they are persuing enterprise Linux users for licence fees they believe that the derivative work DOES breach copyright. I'm sure you recall the recent stuff about SCO claiming that there are some lines of common code in System V and in Linux. Well what that is about is NOT that those lines have been stolen, but that the code module that they are contained in are derivative works, and as such protected by copyright law. To go back to the disney analogy, those common lines of code would be similar to having a disney character, or a continuation of a story line, in any of the subsequent films. This is also why simply rewriting the contested lines in the polluted modules wouldn't help. It doesn't change the fact that they are substantially derivative. They only way to replace them would to be to rip out the IBM contributed code and rewrite the functionality from a spec in a clean room enviroment by people who had never seen the IBM code, or seen code which was subsequently derived from the IBM code.
You're wrong about not SCO/Disney not having recourse against third parties who use stuff in good faith. They do, which is why RIAA can go after people who trade MIDI files and sheet music, and people who write songs which sound a lot like other songs. Copyright is a very powerful and far reaching law which cannot easily be circumvented.
Anyway I fully understand the linux comunity grabbing at straws on this issue and trying to wield the GPL in many creative ways to strike down this claim. Ultimately however SCO have a card in their hand which a judge may decide is a trump card, and then you're screwed.
AFAIK SCO's point is that derivative works are protected by copyright, for example, only Disney or a licencee can make a Mickey Mouse cartoon or anything based upon it. They claim that the licence they granted to IBM to develop derivative works was on the basis that any such derivative works were kept confidential, and by breaching that licence IBM no longer has the right to develop derivate works ad all previous work is now infringing their copyright. Thus, any infringing code now being distributed in linux is also infringing their copyright, not because they own that specific copyright, but because that code is an unlicensed derivative. The key to this entire question is whether or not the IBM code is dervative and thus violates their contract, however SCO's pressuring of Enterprise Linux users to settle in advance of that legal decision is pretty extortionate and arrogant if you ask me. If a court finds that the code IBM added to linux really is derivative then linux users could be up shit creep without a paddle.
Will you guys please stop playing semantic games and remember that "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Also just because something is a gateway that doesn't mean it should be avoided. This is known as the Slippery Slope Fallacy. For example being born is a gateway to death, so should we avoid being born? Driving a car is a gateway to being a getaway car driver. Having a drink is a gateway to becoming an alchoholic.
YOUR life may not be precious, but everyone else's, well that's up to them.
By the way, did you know that the USA is the only country in the world which openly allows the execution of under 18's and is responsible for 13 out of the 20 known executions of minors in the last decade?
closely followed by BSc, SSc
Whaddya mean English vs Metric? We English now officially use metric for everything except beer, milk and road signs
I wish i'd seen this review before I went out and got one last week. Yes the software is buggy, and more to the point really badly designed. It just doesn't work the way you expect it to. Also network coverage is spotty and intermittent, and the battery life is pittiful. I should have got a p800.
I think the point is that good contingency planning would have required that either EVA equipment or enough fuel to reach the ISS would have to be available on each and every flight. A good safety culture would have required every incident, however minor, to be investigated in full. The problem is it appears that corners were being cut in the planning and support phases for financial reasons.
The BBC's tech reporting is really aimed at noobs and lusers, as it should be. Always has been and always will be. What do you want, circuit diagrams?
This story is really to comfort said noobs and lusers that friendly tech company is concerned about them being confused, and a such is purely marketing.
sorry, you can't say "motherboard".
Can I offer "3.2Ghz CPU with an 800 MHz FSB. / Powerful, new and very expensive.
Kibibyte, Mebibyte etc
except that this is of course AMD's main problem and why we're all here talking about how bad jargon is.
Of course there is another device which uses Hz in a similar way to a PC, and that is the internal combustion engine. We've all got rev counters on our dashboard, and we know that for any given gear more revs = more speed. It's not hard, it's just exposure to the topic at hand.
No, but you could end up either at a really bad restaurant, or demanding that your Gazpacho soup be served hot, thus causing the stagnation of you career and finally your own death in a freak accident.
hmm when I took the test a few days ago (linked from the inquirer) there were 11 questions. What happened to the rest?
Birth control is evil because the whole point of marriage and sex (according to the Vatican) is to produce children. Anything that seeks to preclude that possibility is therefore evil because it is pure self-indulgent pleasure seeking, which coincidentally is also why they don't approve of masturbation.
And I don't trust people who call botulism "a facelift"