We run in an Exchange environment. Our company has a lot of turnover so we used an app called ESRA to kill legacy permissions (like the account is deactivated but for some reason the user had strange access rights). I suppose this app could do the same thing...
Assuming you're a "Good Person"(tm), none of the companies directly involved should care if you could boot XP onto a Mac.
You've bought the hardware from Apple, and part of your purchase price included the OS. So long as your check clears they don't care if you ever turn the damn thing on.
You've purchased XP from Microsoft (and likely paid more for it than if it came OEM) so they don't care if you try and install it on your toaster.
Dell would be the big loser in this scenario as they failed to sell you a PC.
Now if someone should get WINE running under OS X, or get OS X to easily install on a generic PC then you will see an unholy alliance of MS and Apple attempt to destroy the persons responsible.
Obviously you don't watch MythBusters(TM). They debunked the idea that you use as much if not more fuel driving with the windows down than you would with the AC on. The fact is the AC chews more gas.
Funny, I find "the owner of a venture-capital-less internet small business in Texas with no college degree" a poor indicator of whether or not a survey has merrit.
My mistake for titling this thread poverty. Society classes will be with us for a while.
But starvation. I'm sorry, there can be no excuse for that. Not now. If we spend billions of dollars and bomb the crap out of third world countries over the deaths of 3,000 on 9/11. I fail to see why those 3,000 are more important than the ones I'm talking about.
3,000 people, mostly children will starve to death this year in the US. Do we really need to go to Mars right now? Can't it wait a few years til things are running smoothly down here?
I'm all for boosting our space program, but I think it's a luxary at this point in our history, not a necessity.
If you forget for a moment that the person who wrote the article is a fool at best, and a liar and scam artist at worst, the article still comes across as foolish.
Check out this little gem: "The average number of simultaneous users for a public hotspot is hardly ever more than 10 so Boingo probably has the capacity for at most 50,000 simultaneous users". Each hotspot is it's own hardware, with it's own Internet connection. There is no "system capacity", and if there were, it wouldn't be calculated in such a fashion.
The man needs help, or he needs to be ignored. This is the third article about him to be submitted in the last two months.
Ugh, I'm very disapointed to see this guy's name on the front of/.
The man is either an idiot, or a liar. I personally lean toward the latter. His articles constantly contain in accurate information, the highlight being his passive yagi antenna setup (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207.html)
Is the delay is to add "legitimacy". When it goes to court, they cn present these Fortune 1000 companies that have been suckered in as proof that people feel they need a license for Linux.
Assuming that the remaining 39% were false-negatives, then I think that the system worked incredibly well.
Think about it in terms of spam. No one solution will stop 100% of the spam destined for your e-mail address. It takes a combination of methods (and even then, you can only approach 100%, never achieve it).
The same attitude should be taken in airports. A system should not be dropped because it's not 100% effective. It should be used to strenghten existing and future security.
Require a proxy for web connections, and have that proxy server install an applet that checks for updates. Until your computer has all the updates required by the sysadmin, then no getting past that first page.
It won't get 100% of the people, but it will get some, if not most people updated.
Yes, the terrorists had valid paper work, however as they passed through customs there was no way for the customs official to check to see if these individuals were under any sort of watch by the FBI or CIA (unless you support racial profiling). Being able to quickly pass that info into a computer that can search a database is an invaluable tool.
Agreed. But that wasn't the issue taken with Killisutrator. It was the fact that Adobe never complained. It was a third party law firm who did so on there behalf that razzled people.
Michael Robertson is the PT Barnum of the software world. He doesn't use publicity to sell Linux, he's using Linux to sell his publicity.
Rather than putting together a quality product and selling it on it's merrits, he generates buzz by baiting Microsoft.
And in the end, he's no better than the beast he claims he's trying kill; Click-N-Run is as assinie MS's license policy, and the compuers being sold by Walmart.com are not the good deal that people make them out to be because they essnetially throw away computers.
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We run in an Exchange environment. Our company has a lot of turnover so we used an app called ESRA to kill legacy permissions (like the account is deactivated but for some reason the user had strange access rights). I suppose this app could do the same thing...
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Assuming you're a "Good Person"(tm), none of the companies directly involved should care if you could boot XP onto a Mac.
You've bought the hardware from Apple, and part of your purchase price included the OS. So long as your check clears they don't care if you ever turn the damn thing on.
You've purchased XP from Microsoft (and likely paid more for it than if it came OEM) so they don't care if you try and install it on your toaster.
Dell would be the big loser in this scenario as they failed to sell you a PC.
Now if someone should get WINE running under OS X, or get OS X to easily install on a generic PC then you will see an unholy alliance of MS and Apple attempt to destroy the persons responsible.
Obviously you don't watch MythBusters(TM). They debunked the idea that you use as much if not more fuel driving with the windows down than you would with the AC on. The fact is the AC chews more gas.
Funny, I find "the owner of a venture-capital-less internet small business in Texas with no college degree" a poor indicator of whether or not a survey has merrit.
1 CD per 5,000 songs downloaded is a lot. There must be millions, if not billions of songs swapped daily.
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I would hardly call that number and this report a "win" for P2P activists (of which I consider myself).
Instead, I would concentrate on articles like this: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/28/1080412
that show music sales (in Austrailia atleast) are at an all time high.
Be careful what ammo you load your gun with, you never know what can blow up in your face.
My mistake for titling this thread poverty. Society classes will be with us for a while.
But starvation. I'm sorry, there can be no excuse for that. Not now. If we spend billions of dollars and bomb the crap out of third world countries over the deaths of 3,000 on 9/11. I fail to see why those 3,000 are more important than the ones I'm talking about.
3,000 people, mostly children will starve to death this year in the US. Do we really need to go to Mars right now? Can't it wait a few years til things are running smoothly down here?
I'm all for boosting our space program, but I think it's a luxary at this point in our history, not a necessity.
If you download the full CD set or purchase a book that comes with one, the 3rd CD is a live system disk.
Check out this little gem: "The average number of simultaneous users for a public hotspot is hardly ever more than 10 so Boingo probably has the capacity for at most 50,000 simultaneous users". Each hotspot is it's own hardware, with it's own Internet connection. There is no "system capacity", and if there were, it wouldn't be calculated in such a fashion.
The man needs help, or he needs to be ignored. This is the third article about him to be submitted in the last two months.
Ugh, I'm very disapointed to see this guy's name on the front of /.
The man is either an idiot, or a liar. I personally lean toward the latter. His articles constantly contain in accurate information, the highlight being his passive yagi antenna setup (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207 .html)
Is the delay is to add "legitimacy". When it goes to court, they cn present these Fortune 1000 companies that have been suckered in as proof that people feel they need a license for Linux.
Assuming that the remaining 39% were false-negatives, then I think that the system worked incredibly well.
Think about it in terms of spam. No one solution will stop 100% of the spam destined for your e-mail address. It takes a combination of methods (and even then, you can only approach 100%, never achieve it).
The same attitude should be taken in airports. A system should not be dropped because it's not 100% effective. It should be used to strenghten existing and future security.
Require a proxy for web connections, and have that proxy server install an applet that checks for updates. Until your computer has all the updates required by the sysadmin, then no getting past that first page.
It won't get 100% of the people, but it will get some, if not most people updated.
Yes, the terrorists had valid paper work, however as they passed through customs there was no way for the customs official to check to see if these individuals were under any sort of watch by the FBI or CIA (unless you support racial profiling). Being able to quickly pass that info into a computer that can search a database is an invaluable tool.
Now nano sized soldiers will have equipment to perfect their hand eye coordination before they launch their attack on mankind.
Well take this!
Vader is Lukes father
Soilent Green is people
XXX Sucks
And the third LOTR and the third Matrix are actually the same movie!
Agreed. But that wasn't the issue taken with Killisutrator. It was the fact that Adobe never complained. It was a third party law firm who did so on there behalf that razzled people.
Aren't these the same German laws and courts that had the OSS world up in arms over the Killustrator/Adobe issue?
It's hypocritcal to trash them when strange laws work against you, then cheer them when similarly strange laws work in your favor.
sorry, didnt mean to include "free" in there.
but you may want to check your facts. SunOS and Solaris have unique histories.
SunOS until 5.x was a free BSD derivative. Later versions, which now include Solaris contain very little of the Sys V definition.
Sun didn't lie to you, you just didn't ask them to elaborate.
This only concerns System V Unix, and it's derivatives
I deal enough DOS attacks from Thailand. Now the whole fricken country is going to have a lap top. I'm screwed.
Michael Robertson is the PT Barnum of the software world. He doesn't use publicity to sell Linux, he's using Linux to sell his publicity.
Rather than putting together a quality product and selling it on it's merrits, he generates buzz by baiting Microsoft.
And in the end, he's no better than the beast he claims he's trying kill; Click-N-Run is as assinie MS's license policy, and the compuers being sold by Walmart.com are not the good deal that people make them out to be because they essnetially throw away computers.
"News for nerds...and those freaks next door who have their own goth band"
One more thing. I am all for laws that protect us from the government, but let's not forget about laws that protect us from each other.