With your father's data, that is, rather than Windows 95 just barfing over the drive.
I pray this system isn't connected to the internet in any way, because if it is it must have hundreds of worms crawling around in it. Windows 95 is of course terrible for this, but any system you plan to keep running unmanaged for 15 years should be kept far from any network and physically secure.
I really can't imagine a single veterinary practise generating gigabytes of administravia, nor can I imagine some slapdash DOS application that does generate gigabytes of superfluous data being able to index it once it grew to that range.
Check to see how much he's really using. If it's a small enough, move it over to a flash disk and run the application with DOSemu or in a VM. Build a system with cleanable/replacable air filters over the fans, and train your father to back up his data. (If he hasn't had a hard drive fail in 15 years of use, he's damn lucky.)
I would suggest that rather than websurfing increasing productivity, people tend to leave authoritarian employers who disallow websurving, productive people having more ability to move.
You can't copyright facts, for example. If you get up on a soapbox on Main St. and yell that the Mayor is a space alien, the local paper can report that you did so without any invocation of copyright. They can quote parts of your screed under fair use. TFA discusses this part, if you'd read it.
But I don't think it's our place to judge, and there certainly is plenty of music out there that would elevate society.
We need to get over the idea of personal copyright infringement. The idea that people could infringe copyright for personal use was de facto legal up until quite recently. It shouldn't suddenly be actionable now.
Are you an idiot? Of course this is what it will be used for. It's the primary reason Public Libraries exists, ripping off artists so that leeches don't have to pay for their work.
I'm so tired of the naive facade people put on when talking about Public Libraries. We all know exactly what it's used for. Stop pretending you don't know.
Those labs do cost money, and if you spread the cost among the vanishing handful of students who still need them I'd imagine the cost is a fair bit higher than $700/head.
And there won't be any software costs. That $700 would include the windows tax if that's what you want. As for anything else, even if you have some antiquated objection to piracy there are free software alternatives to most everything and any real university will have arranged for a campus license for anything they require at a token cost.
Unless you're in some European paradise, you certainly will be paying tuition. You may get student loans or scholarships, but you're still paying it.
Looking at Dell's site right now, I see a very decent laptop available for $549 (Canadian). That's really a very small cost in comparison to others that students face.
You're going to pay a lot more for the laptop in the first place.
Macs and PCs are equivalent. They're the same hardware. You're not paying (much) more for the same product, you're herded into buying more than you need because you can't avail yourself of the market to get the product that suites you.
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It certainly does matter to the owner of the Mercedes in question. It doesn't matter to the manufacturer.
I'll decide what I am or am not entitled to in the privacy of my own home, thank you very much.
And there's really nothing you can do about that.
It shouldn't be possible to hold a patent on anything in a public standard.
It may be illegal to upload it, depending on your jurisdiction, but I'm reasonably certain no one has ever been prosecuted for downloading.
But if it's been run for 15 years, it's probably picked up every one it is susceptible to if it's connected to the net.
With your father's data, that is, rather than Windows 95 just barfing over the drive.
I pray this system isn't connected to the internet in any way, because if it is it must have hundreds of worms crawling around in it. Windows 95 is of course terrible for this, but any system you plan to keep running unmanaged for 15 years should be kept far from any network and physically secure.
I really can't imagine a single veterinary practise generating gigabytes of administravia, nor can I imagine some slapdash DOS application that does generate gigabytes of superfluous data being able to index it once it grew to that range.
Check to see how much he's really using. If it's a small enough, move it over to a flash disk and run the application with DOSemu or in a VM. Build a system with cleanable/replacable air filters over the fans, and train your father to back up his data. (If he hasn't had a hard drive fail in 15 years of use, he's damn lucky.)
Usually just translates as "I'm an asshole spammer-SEO upset that my shenanigans get nixed".
Quebekers are incredibly racist and have a deep loathing for any language but their own.
I would suggest that rather than websurfing increasing productivity, people tend to leave authoritarian employers who disallow websurving, productive people having more ability to move.
You bastards ought to learn to spell colour correctly.
You can't copyright facts, for example. If you get up on a soapbox on Main St. and yell that the Mayor is a space alien, the local paper can report that you did so without any invocation of copyright. They can quote parts of your screed under fair use. TFA discusses this part, if you'd read it.
You can't blame GTK for Gnome failures, nor can you blame either for failures in apps that rely on either.
I'm sure there are plenty of KDE apps that will not compile or run without X or other dependencies expected on a Linux system.
Will Konsole work with Windows' cmd.com?
Unfortunately, that's just the fact of the matter. It barely works under the native Microsoft versions.
SMB is not a published protocol. It's a series of hacks held together with duct tap and chewing gum.
That the Samba project works as well as it does is nothing short of amazing.
Even though a Kia might be perfectly suitable for your needs, or even more suitable than a Mercedes.
Walled gardens are a bad thing, no matter who's building the walls.
But I don't think it's our place to judge, and there certainly is plenty of music out there that would elevate society.
We need to get over the idea of personal copyright infringement. The idea that people could infringe copyright for personal use was de facto legal up until quite recently. It shouldn't suddenly be actionable now.
Are you an idiot? Of course this is what it will be used for. It's the primary reason Public Libraries exists, ripping off artists so that leeches don't have to pay for their work.
I'm so tired of the naive facade people put on when talking about Public Libraries. We all know exactly what it's used for. Stop pretending you don't know.
Those labs do cost money, and if you spread the cost among the vanishing handful of students who still need them I'd imagine the cost is a fair bit higher than $700/head.
And there won't be any software costs. That $700 would include the windows tax if that's what you want. As for anything else, even if you have some antiquated objection to piracy there are free software alternatives to most everything and any real university will have arranged for a campus license for anything they require at a token cost.
Unless you're in some European paradise, you certainly will be paying tuition. You may get student loans or scholarships, but you're still paying it.
But you're splitting hairs.
Looking at Dell's site right now, I see a very decent laptop available for $549 (Canadian). That's really a very small cost in comparison to others that students face.
So really not a big deal over a 4 year degree.
You can get a perfectly serviceable laptop for $700 these days, less for a netbook. If you can afford to take classes, you can afford a laptop.
This is just another form of DRM, and the servers will eventually be shut down, bricking anything depending on them.
So no, this doesn't satisfy the problems with DRM, and I'm sure it will be cracked anyway.
Berkshire Hathaway is an outlier.
Anything that runs as the root user necessarily runs in userspace.
Many (maybe even most) distributions use both BusyBox and GNU binutils, with BusyBox used in a ramdisk and GNU for higher level tasks.
Are you really suggesting distributions should have names thousands of characters long, listing all their packages?
You're going to pay a lot more for the laptop in the first place.
Macs and PCs are equivalent. They're the same hardware. You're not paying (much) more for the same product, you're herded into buying more than you need because you can't avail yourself of the market to get the product that suites you.