It should be very appriciated for laptops instead of those pesky pads and pins that pretends to be mice. Another great thing to use it for is when you use a projektor and sits in a couch away from any plan surface.
What about other products?
Can i take a car and smack a shrinkwrap license on it removing all rights for the owner to sue me if i forget something important like brakes etc?
It sounds really strange if this would be true.
I would like to see some of theese shrinkwrap licenses tried in court. Only then will we know if they are any good.
Anyone want me to perform benchmarks on Microsoft NET? Im all game for som time in the bunk for this one. Time somebody tested them already.
They probably didnt dare to ship linux as it would have been to thumb their noses at Microsoft a little to obvious. Freedos is a pretty useless OS today on the desktop if your not into DigDug or KingsQuest 2.
I would imagine they choose it because it wont compete head to head with windows like linux would have done.
I think that this movement is supposed to have a side effect. Its just an attempt to make Open Software look bad and frightening. I dont think many will read it all and draw serious conclusions of off it. They will rather look att the big picture of the message.
Open Source = linux = free software = BAD!
This is something that should be fought hard. To use linux insnt the same as developing software of off GPL software. If you merely use say linux as a desktop and java to build special apps for journaling and such you are in no obligation to return any code you have developed by yourself, only altered and code that contains lended code.
You need to get the goverment to get the real story or they will believe anything Software Choice and that fat campain contribution tells them to.
I wonder if Microsoft used that same sentence in their contacts with China. That could explain why China are so eager to adopt it.
And they call Microsoft slick and smart.
*PThhrrrr*
For me as a linux lover i feel strongly that atleast i should pay for the things i like. Pay Slashdot for blocking the ads i you dont like them. Give your favourite developers a small donation. If we pay the ones we really like there will be more incentive to make quality applications for linux. Games for linux died off a bit because we didnt buy them.
I have started paying for slashdot, limewire, redhat and such because i want linux to be a bit bigger and attractive for companies that charge for their products and services.
The money per person isnt big at all if we all help by paying a little sum each. It doesnt have to be to the same place but to the things YOU like and want to stay in production.
P2P cant be stopped, its not possible on an open internet. If they do, what prevents me from using other routes to get free music? Tunneling, encryption and so forth are possible routes P2P will take that will make it very hard to stop. Closed rings of P2P sharing with just friends is another.
The main reason that people seems so unwilling to pay is perhaps that much of todays music is no-risc-involved mainstream crap. Maybe if the music had some valye and if they stopped cramming two good songs in with 12 really crappy ones and call it an album. The fact that people seems to enjoy the ripping itself indicates that the industry has lost all contact with its customers.
Another thing is the lack of places to buy music online, whats up with that? Risk of content copying isnt an issue since it looks like thats very easy right now.
How can you patent a sentence or description of how to do something? If say someone tomorrow makes a development system that lets you tell the computer what to do in normal talking voice? Am i illegal if i happen to tell it to do something thats patented? The whole thing is absurd. Copyrighted software is bad enough but patent? No frigging way! Its like taking a patent on the way my new speaker makes air bend and sue everyone that makes a noice. Software patents are flawed by nature and i do hope it never reach europe.
But we also have fairly good regulation on who, when and what can use it. Its not crossreferenced all over so as of today its hard to misuse it. Mostly its used in small database islands that connects their data to the Personal ID, not the other way around. If it does connect the ID to all sorts of data like health, crime, taxes etc then its Orville alright. When used like in sweden its rather harmless unless someone gets access to all the different databases and does an own crossreference..
A good reason to keep 32 bit is that its faster than 64 bit in real world computing. 64bit is only warranted in big numbercrunching wich ordinarily doesnt take place on a desktop or a fileserver etc. 64bit also makes the applications bigger and more bloated. Surely it sounds faster because its a bigger number but it isnt.
It seems that The United States is loosing more and more of its reputation as a land of the free. When companies can sabotage your property sanctioned by the state things have gotten out of hand. The police and the justice system is designed to take care of felonys, not some mob slaying whatever ends in.mp3 be it a homemade song or not. I dont live there so i shouldnt complain perhaps but it still makes me angry. It will affect me in some way or another because i use p2p to get the songs i have on mp3 instead of ripping them myself. Its things like this that has made my very large cd collection to stop growing totally. I truly havent bought a single CD since the crusade from MPAA etc began.
"Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending." If they try to pull a stunt like that i cant think too many will follow them where they go that day. They tried MSN network as an own version of internet at first but people seemed unvilling to lock themselves in volontarily. I cant see any good for the users thet could come from limiting how they could use the internet. If they try, good luck since very many of the people thet uses the internet are the ones that appriciates freedom. If they try to take it away many will go elsewhere and develop nonlimiting technology like encrypted tunneling between hosts. Id like to see them try though because for every customer they piss off there is a possible helping hand in the Open Source community. PS. Be nice to the newbies, dont be an asshole. Ive read some bulletin posts that makes me ashamed of being a linux user. DS.
The speed of java isnt bad at all. Even advanced programs like LimeWire that runs on java is in some cases faster than similar linux native apps once they are started. On my AMD 650 Mozilla takes longer to start than LimeWire. Sadly enough microsoft holds the desktop and will use it to cram in all net services they can fit into it in all default installations and make sure they become a vital part of the os. Like windwows update, why in gods name didnt they do like Redhat and up2date? Because they needed something to bolt IE down in windows with thats why.
It should be 644 wich is that the owner can change it and everyone lese just read it. 666 is evil and if anyone can write to it it isnt safe. Take a look at what services you run and also look for new accounts. Install a firewall or go the fast lane and use something like firestarter that do it for you. Change your passwords to anything very hard to guess and throw a dictionary at. Most breakins is still done with passwords guessed or socially engineered. The bad thing about legit logins with stolen passwords is that they are hard to detect if you use your computer much.
Linux really seams to need a large lobby group that plays golf with the legislators like the comercial software industry has. Linux has a large and vocal group but a group without funds to lobby (put money in politicians pockets). There should be another way to reach to politicians but today money seems to be their primary goal in life tightly followed by power. One possible way would be to try and get the larger companies using linux (AOL, RH, SuSe, IBM etc) together into a group that looks after the interest of open source. I have a strong feeling that all the little companies combined into one entity can make a difference. Other industries have common groups that tends to thier lobbying need so it shouldnt be impossible for open source to have one either.
I know there are groups out ther already but im talking about a group of companies, not individuals. Individuals are lucky if they can make even a blipp on the radar whereas if IBM and a group of other companies combined would make the radar look like a christmas tree.
A thing that comes to my mind is if you can track someones locations with the toy? If so it sounds a little to freaky.
If something can be used to track violations of the law cheaply it is something agancies and police would want to have. Its nothing nothing paranoid about that. Its just plain old history of previous behaviour.
The ISP's thought they could recover the losses on delivering bandwidth with the upcoming content buisiness. What they failed to see whas that no one would be buying content until the bandwidth was enough to support content like video and such at an acceptable quality. 512 kbit/s isnt near enough for semi quality video (no glitches and acceptable resolution). Bandwidth demand wont rise much until there is content that demands it and vice versa. If i do the things i do today i really dont need more bandwidth. I surf and d/l and chat. If i dont take pirating movies into the account there are few occasions where i really would benifit from having more bandwidth. A faster ping might help me when i run around fragging in fraggelonia but all the bandwidth in the world wont matter a bit. If movie companies start renting out movies on the net and does it broadly it would create a big demand for bandwidth but it has to happen at the same time and not one a while after the other. Worldcom and other ISP's have been waiting on the content companies and vice versa.
For every new protection that emerges there are people that can reverse it. Atleast if its usable. A totally safe system wont be a good tool to use since it will be locked down and hard to manage. To completely avoid remote exploits the only thing you can do is to turn all remote capabilities off or use an encryption that is too strong to break with a normal computer. The problem is that all this sucks much cpu cycles and renders the box rather slow. Use secure wan links and no connection to the internet whatsoever. As for servers go sandboxing with absolute minimal rights to memory and HD. Best would be to have completely walled off memory but current hardware or palladium doesnt allow this.
Im a little concerned over that so many companies and others are so eager to connect everything including the kitchen sink to the internet. There seems to be enough people stupid and evil enough to hack just about anything to get some fame. The fame they then uses when they start their security firm later on in life.
Why just stop at linux? There surely must be room for as many OS as there are tastes? I like linux very much but it has to much layering to be efficient at the desktop. BeOS is the fastest OS ive ever seen. It was built with the desktop in mind from start. Thats something you cant say about iether windows nor *nix. Im not dissing linux, it has its clear advantages but also some disadvantages that follows with the old heritage from unix. BeOS has a future especially for graphics and games. Think of it as macos for the PC platform.
Even without hardware its possible to gain high security. Just delete the root password and account after the install and lock the bios from booting into anything but the harddisk used at the install (coded into bios and harddisk). Lock it by a manual switch and you have in principal higher security than with Palladium. Think, if noone has root acess noone can change anything in the os. The OS would have its one shielded space on the hd, like sandboxing. I wouldnt like this as i want to have full control over my os but for joe it can be good until he learns enough to stand on his own legs.
I always do my installs over the network. That way i just d/l the files i need. Its no problem at all if you dont own an unusual obscure NIC. RH7.3 even installed over my toshiba 1100 cable modem connected over USB. Do THAT on a windows box anyone, i dare you!
Try networked install, its real easy but remember to write down the full path to the directory of/i386 on you ftp of choice.
I feel that its probably the fierce competition and the fact that many dont give a rats *** if their keyboard is a pain to use or not. Maybe it doesnt matter when you only use the index finger? Im anyway sitting with my old trusty Keytronic, an aux-ps2 adapter and a heck of a keybd compared to the ones offered today. I tried a new and gave it away. Couldnt stand that the keybd actually gave way when i typed fast enough.
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It should be very appriciated for laptops instead of those pesky pads and pins that pretends to be mice. Another great thing to use it for is when you use a projektor and sits in a couch away from any plan surface.
Just lean back and wave the little thing.
What about other products? Can i take a car and smack a shrinkwrap license on it removing all rights for the owner to sue me if i forget something important like brakes etc? It sounds really strange if this would be true. I would like to see some of theese shrinkwrap licenses tried in court. Only then will we know if they are any good. Anyone want me to perform benchmarks on Microsoft NET? Im all game for som time in the bunk for this one. Time somebody tested them already.
They probably didnt dare to ship linux as it would have been to thumb their noses at Microsoft a little to obvious. Freedos is a pretty useless OS today on the desktop if your not into DigDug or KingsQuest 2. I would imagine they choose it because it wont compete head to head with windows like linux would have done.
Open Source = linux = free software = BAD!
This is something that should be fought hard. To use linux insnt the same as developing software of off GPL software. If you merely use say linux as a desktop and java to build special apps for journaling and such you are in no obligation to return any code you have developed by yourself, only altered and code that contains lended code.
You need to get the goverment to get the real story or they will believe anything Software Choice and that fat campain contribution tells them to.
I wonder if Microsoft used that same sentence in their contacts with China. That could explain why China are so eager to adopt it. And they call Microsoft slick and smart. *PThhrrrr*
I have started paying for slashdot, limewire, redhat and such because i want linux to be a bit bigger and attractive for companies that charge for their products and services.
The money per person isnt big at all if we all help by paying a little sum each. It doesnt have to be to the same place but to the things YOU like and want to stay in production.
The main reason that people seems so unwilling to pay is perhaps that much of todays music is no-risc-involved mainstream crap. Maybe if the music had some valye and if they stopped cramming two good songs in with 12 really crappy ones and call it an album. The fact that people seems to enjoy the ripping itself indicates that the industry has lost all contact with its customers.
Another thing is the lack of places to buy music online, whats up with that? Risk of content copying isnt an issue since it looks like thats very easy right now.
How can you patent a sentence or description of how to do something? If say someone tomorrow makes a development system that lets you tell the computer what to do in normal talking voice? Am i illegal if i happen to tell it to do something thats patented? The whole thing is absurd. Copyrighted software is bad enough but patent? No frigging way! Its like taking a patent on the way my new speaker makes air bend and sue everyone that makes a noice. Software patents are flawed by nature and i do hope it never reach europe.
But we also have fairly good regulation on who, when and what can use it. Its not crossreferenced all over so as of today its hard to misuse it. Mostly its used in small database islands that connects their data to the Personal ID, not the other way around. If it does connect the ID to all sorts of data like health, crime, taxes etc then its Orville alright. When used like in sweden its rather harmless unless someone gets access to all the different databases and does an own crossreference..
A good reason to keep 32 bit is that its faster than 64 bit in real world computing. 64bit is only warranted in big numbercrunching wich ordinarily doesnt take place on a desktop or a fileserver etc. 64bit also makes the applications bigger and more bloated. Surely it sounds faster because its a bigger number but it isnt.
It seems that The United States is loosing more and more of its reputation as a land of the free. When companies can sabotage your property sanctioned by the state things have gotten out of hand. The police and the justice system is designed to take care of felonys, not some mob slaying whatever ends in .mp3 be it a homemade song or not. I dont live there so i shouldnt complain perhaps but it still makes me angry. It will affect me in some way or another because i use p2p to get the songs i have on mp3 instead of ripping them myself. Its things like this that has made my very large cd collection to stop growing totally. I truly havent bought a single CD since the crusade from MPAA etc began.
"Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending." If they try to pull a stunt like that i cant think too many will follow them where they go that day. They tried MSN network as an own version of internet at first but people seemed unvilling to lock themselves in volontarily. I cant see any good for the users thet could come from limiting how they could use the internet. If they try, good luck since very many of the people thet uses the internet are the ones that appriciates freedom. If they try to take it away many will go elsewhere and develop nonlimiting technology like encrypted tunneling between hosts. Id like to see them try though because for every customer they piss off there is a possible helping hand in the Open Source community. PS. Be nice to the newbies, dont be an asshole. Ive read some bulletin posts that makes me ashamed of being a linux user. DS.
The speed of java isnt bad at all. Even advanced programs like LimeWire that runs on java is in some cases faster than similar linux native apps once they are started. On my AMD 650 Mozilla takes longer to start than LimeWire. Sadly enough microsoft holds the desktop and will use it to cram in all net services they can fit into it in all default installations and make sure they become a vital part of the os. Like windwows update, why in gods name didnt they do like Redhat and up2date? Because they needed something to bolt IE down in windows with thats why.
It should be 644 wich is that the owner can change it and everyone lese just read it. 666 is evil and if anyone can write to it it isnt safe. Take a look at what services you run and also look for new accounts. Install a firewall or go the fast lane and use something like firestarter that do it for you. Change your passwords to anything very hard to guess and throw a dictionary at. Most breakins is still done with passwords guessed or socially engineered. The bad thing about legit logins with stolen passwords is that they are hard to detect if you use your computer much.
Linux really seams to need a large lobby group that plays golf with the legislators like the comercial software industry has. Linux has a large and vocal group but a group without funds to lobby (put money in politicians pockets). There should be another way to reach to politicians but today money seems to be their primary goal in life tightly followed by power. One possible way would be to try and get the larger companies using linux (AOL, RH, SuSe, IBM etc) together into a group that looks after the interest of open source. I have a strong feeling that all the little companies combined into one entity can make a difference. Other industries have common groups that tends to thier lobbying need so it shouldnt be impossible for open source to have one either. I know there are groups out ther already but im talking about a group of companies, not individuals. Individuals are lucky if they can make even a blipp on the radar whereas if IBM and a group of other companies combined would make the radar look like a christmas tree.
A thing that comes to my mind is if you can track someones locations with the toy? If so it sounds a little to freaky. If something can be used to track violations of the law cheaply it is something agancies and police would want to have. Its nothing nothing paranoid about that. Its just plain old history of previous behaviour.
The ISP's thought they could recover the losses on delivering bandwidth with the upcoming content buisiness. What they failed to see whas that no one would be buying content until the bandwidth was enough to support content like video and such at an acceptable quality. 512 kbit/s isnt near enough for semi quality video (no glitches and acceptable resolution). Bandwidth demand wont rise much until there is content that demands it and vice versa. If i do the things i do today i really dont need more bandwidth. I surf and d/l and chat. If i dont take pirating movies into the account there are few occasions where i really would benifit from having more bandwidth. A faster ping might help me when i run around fragging in fraggelonia but all the bandwidth in the world wont matter a bit. If movie companies start renting out movies on the net and does it broadly it would create a big demand for bandwidth but it has to happen at the same time and not one a while after the other. Worldcom and other ISP's have been waiting on the content companies and vice versa.
For every new protection that emerges there are people that can reverse it. Atleast if its usable. A totally safe system wont be a good tool to use since it will be locked down and hard to manage. To completely avoid remote exploits the only thing you can do is to turn all remote capabilities off or use an encryption that is too strong to break with a normal computer. The problem is that all this sucks much cpu cycles and renders the box rather slow. Use secure wan links and no connection to the internet whatsoever. As for servers go sandboxing with absolute minimal rights to memory and HD. Best would be to have completely walled off memory but current hardware or palladium doesnt allow this.
Im a little concerned over that so many companies and others are so eager to connect everything including the kitchen sink to the internet. There seems to be enough people stupid and evil enough to hack just about anything to get some fame. The fame they then uses when they start their security firm later on in life.
Why just stop at linux? There surely must be room for as many OS as there are tastes? I like linux very much but it has to much layering to be efficient at the desktop. BeOS is the fastest OS ive ever seen. It was built with the desktop in mind from start. Thats something you cant say about iether windows nor *nix. Im not dissing linux, it has its clear advantages but also some disadvantages that follows with the old heritage from unix. BeOS has a future especially for graphics and games. Think of it as macos for the PC platform.
Even without hardware its possible to gain high security. Just delete the root password and account after the install and lock the bios from booting into anything but the harddisk used at the install (coded into bios and harddisk). Lock it by a manual switch and you have in principal higher security than with Palladium. Think, if noone has root acess noone can change anything in the os. The OS would have its one shielded space on the hd, like sandboxing. I wouldnt like this as i want to have full control over my os but for joe it can be good until he learns enough to stand on his own legs.
Go back to yer cave.
Try networked install, its real easy but remember to write down the full path to the directory of /i386 on you ftp of choice.
I feel that its probably the fierce competition and the fact that many dont give a rats *** if their keyboard is a pain to use or not. Maybe it doesnt matter when you only use the index finger? Im anyway sitting with my old trusty Keytronic, an aux-ps2 adapter and a heck of a keybd compared to the ones offered today. I tried a new and gave it away. Couldnt stand that the keybd actually gave way when i typed fast enough.