As for the bloodthirsty marketeers, I won't deny capitalism, or even that it's a (fairly) good thing. However, we're starting to see the results of the gross abuses of capitalism, as it runs smack into the power of the Information Age(tm).
And what exactly are the "gross abuses of capitalism" ? Spam emails? Minor annoyances such as people calling you as you sit down to dinner? I'll take that over gulags, stormtroopers, and torture chambers any day. These "social revolutionaries" need to poke their heads out of their parents garages and get out into the sunlight, look around and see just what a wonderful life "bloodthirsty" capitalism has given them.
"My question is what they are going to police. Are they going to prevent the security holes by scanning for the offenders? Or are they going to scan for "servers," such as non Windows users, such as Linux boxen with a personal home page?"
I thought they made it quite clear how they were going to start scanning for mis-configured proxies: access each customer machine as if it were a proxy, and try to send a spam message through the alleged proxy to a fake newsgroup - something that can be monitored by @Home. If the "spam" goes through, they shut down the customer's news service until the proxy is fixed. Simple.
Assuming mis-configured proxies are really the problem, it should work - the spammer cannot adapt to it, since he's not aware of the enforcement.
I bought a Belkin OmniPro (predecessor to the OnmiCube I believe) about 3 months ago, and I can't say enough good things about it. Of course, I didn't expect miracles from it either. I went RGBHV (5-Wire) from the switch to the monitor, to cut down on any blur (I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to monitor clarity - my eyes can't take looking at a less-than-perfect monitor image for any length of time), and the Belkin looks perfect even at 1600x1200x16bpp at 85Hz refresh. Rarely, the keyboard controls get confused, and at $300 it is a bit pricey, but it's worth it...
I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago. I'm using the older version of the TA that you have - the 3com Impact.
It turned out that I wasn't using PAP authentication. I've heard that PAP is part of the MLPPP spec, and unless you authenticate using PAP, the modem won't know that you want MLPPP, hence, only one channel. All I had to do was make sure I had pppd doing PAP, and bingo...
However, I had a helluva time getting pppd to authenticate using PAP. Enable debugging so you can see all the LCP negotiation.
Well, as long as you don't get any ideas from the VMWare product, fine.
But if you do steal ideas and/or code from VMWare, I'll personally do whatever I can to see that they sue you into oblivion.
This seems like a deliberate effort to undermine the work that VMWare has done - and probably expects to be paid for - and unfortunately will have the effect of causing other companies not to bother supporting Linux.
As a programmer, I have several ideas that I think may turn into commercial products, and planned on supporting Linux. But this, and other efforts to clone commercial products (that are charging very reasonable prices) have definately changed my mind.
If this is how the Linux community treats companies that invest enormous amounts of time and effort building great products that support Linux, then to Hell with Linux, I'll stick with developing for WinBlows...
Don't throw out that refrigerator just yet - after all, what will you keep your beer in?
I have a 19" rack that fits perfectly (sideways) in my closet, with three computers, and plenty of room for more. Plenty of cable room at the back, and plenty of room to slide cases in and out (just make sure you get a rack without sides).
The best part? The rack itself was free! (though the cases were $$$) I simply asked around to some of my dad's ham-radio buddies and sure enough, one of them had a very nice rack collecting dust.
Anyone out there have a used rackmount case? Email me!
Perhaps it is slightly "better" to give than receive, but both of these words imply a kind of disrespect of others, a kind of something-for-nothing shell game. I prefer a third alternative, one that respects the rights of all those involved: free, voluntary trade of value for value.
Get Real. If you don't like what the government is doing, vote them out (you guys are the land of democracy and freedom right?).
Interesting double-standard. To get my government to stop doing what's it's doing, I have to take action, but to stop MS from doing what it's doing, all you have to do is refrain from buying thier product.
And speaking of guns and weapons...try to stay clear of diesel fuel and fertilizer, you really scare me. This is/., the News for Nerds.... Militia and "Patriot" sites are around the corner, way over on the right.
I do stay away from bombs and weapons, because I don't like them! (What is it you think I've been saying?)
The line was drawn many times in the sand and they crossed it far too often. They have no room to cry about anything. You have even less room to cry for them.
I'm not crying for MicroCrap - hell, I don't even buy their products - I'm crying for us. Have you given any thought to what will happen when Linux becomes very popular and some gubbmit agency takes a liking to it?
"Why, Linux is so popular it's used everywhere - it's become a public resource. We can't have the public modifying and changing this valuable public resource, people depend on it! We'll just have to take over the project and make sure it gets done right!"
Microsoft uses their OS as a weapon against competitiors.
How dangerous is this "weapon" to human life? I mean in comparison to an M-16 rifle or a stealth fighter?
Pretty pathetic - as weapons go - if you ask me. I doubt you'd lose consciousness if I hit you square in the face with it.
When MS was losing the war against Netscape, then they stopped trying to make Internet Explorer look like a seperate product and claim erroneously that it is a part of the OS.
War? Why is it that the open source community can be so precise and so full of integrity when re-defining terms that help us ("software-piracy" comes to mind), and so underhanded and mis-leading when using other terms, like describing two companies trying to out-sell each other as "war".
Folks, governments wage wars, not private companies. Governments are the ones with the tanks, mines, chemical/biological/nuclear weapons, torture chambers, prison camps, and human experimentation programs, not businesses.
If anyone is sticking a gun in anyone's face, it's Microsoft!
Amazing how people can turn annoying business pratices into guns, and ignore the actual guns!
Not everyone agrees or beleives that ideas and creative works are equivilent to and can be treated the same as physical property.
Creative works must be allowed to be copyrighted, or anyone could copy War and Peace and sell it as his own. I think you're confusing copyrights (creative works) and patents (ideas) - I will agree with you that software patents are bad, bad, bad - but were talking about forcing a business to give up it's actual product, not some design technique. Were talking about stealing, plain and simple.
Besides that, how can a "public" company ever hold "private" property?
That's a loaded question - using the word "public" in regards to the ownership of MS is a misnomer, even though it's done all the time - it is in fact a privately owned company. Just because a company has more than one owner, does make it "public". Microsoft is owned by all of those people who were inclined to purchase a piece of it's stock, not the public-at-large.
I *do* wish these people would be more honest about their motives for going commercial.
Don't expect them to be honest about their desire to reap the benifits of their hard work when a considerable portion of the Free Software "community" will visciously attack them for admitting it.
I got into Linux because it was a fun hobby, and was perfectly happy to contribute in my limited way whenever I could. But now, I'm wondering how long it will be before I simply can't take the politics and the bullshit any longer and just say "to hell with it."
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Dumb companies should, no, must be destroyed. Evolution you know....
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As for the bloodthirsty marketeers, I won't deny capitalism, or even that it's a (fairly) good thing. However, we're starting to see the results of the gross abuses of capitalism, as it runs smack into the power of the Information Age(tm).
And what exactly are the "gross abuses of capitalism" ? Spam emails? Minor annoyances such as people calling you as you sit down to dinner? I'll take that over gulags, stormtroopers, and torture chambers any day. These "social revolutionaries" need to poke their heads out of their parents garages and get out into the sunlight, look around and see just what a wonderful life "bloodthirsty" capitalism has given them.
Dream
"My question is what they are going to police. Are they going to prevent the security holes by scanning for the offenders? Or are they going to scan for "servers," such as non Windows users, such as Linux boxen with a personal home page?"
I thought they made it quite clear how they were going to start scanning for mis-configured proxies: access each customer machine as if it were a proxy, and try to send a spam message through the alleged proxy to a fake newsgroup - something that can be monitored by @Home. If the "spam" goes through, they shut down the customer's news service until the proxy is fixed. Simple.
Assuming mis-configured proxies are really the problem, it should work - the spammer cannot adapt to it, since he's not aware of the enforcement.
"Will you all step with the same foot at the same time please?!?! My TITS are falling off here!"
Or something like that....
Goodbye m'lady...
Dream
I bought a Belkin OmniPro (predecessor to the OnmiCube I believe) about 3 months ago, and I can't say enough good things about it. Of course, I didn't expect miracles from it either. I went RGBHV (5-Wire) from the switch to the monitor, to cut down on any blur (I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to monitor clarity - my eyes can't take looking at a less-than-perfect monitor image for any length of time), and the Belkin looks perfect even at 1600x1200x16bpp at 85Hz refresh. Rarely, the keyboard controls get confused, and at $300 it is a bit pricey, but it's worth it...
I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago. I'm
using the older version of the TA that you have - the 3com Impact.
It turned out that I wasn't using PAP authentication. I've heard that PAP is part of the MLPPP spec, and unless you authenticate using PAP, the modem won't know that you want MLPPP, hence, only one channel. All I had to do was make sure I
had pppd doing PAP, and bingo...
However, I had a helluva time getting pppd to authenticate using PAP. Enable debugging so you can see all the LCP negotiation.
Dream
Well, as long as you don't get any ideas from the VMWare product, fine.
But if you do steal ideas and/or code from VMWare, I'll personally do whatever I can to see that they sue you into oblivion.
This seems like a deliberate effort to undermine the work that VMWare has done - and probably expects to be paid for - and unfortunately will have the effect of causing other companies not to bother supporting Linux.
As a programmer, I have several ideas that I think may turn into commercial products, and planned on supporting Linux. But this, and other efforts to clone commercial products (that are charging very reasonable prices) have definately changed my mind.
If this is how the Linux community treats companies that invest enormous amounts of time and effort building great products that support Linux, then to Hell with Linux, I'll stick with developing for WinBlows...
Dream
Dream
Don't throw out that refrigerator just yet - after all, what will you keep your beer in?
I have a 19" rack that fits perfectly (sideways) in my closet, with three computers, and plenty of room for more. Plenty of cable room at the back, and plenty of room to slide cases in and out (just make sure you get a rack without sides).
The best part? The rack itself was free! (though the cases were $$$) I simply asked around to some of my dad's ham-radio buddies and sure enough, one of them had a very nice rack collecting dust.
Anyone out there have a used rackmount case? Email me!
Dream
Perhaps it is slightly "better" to give than receive, but both of these words imply a kind of disrespect of others, a kind of something-for-nothing shell game. I prefer a third alternative, one that respects the rights of all those involved: free, voluntary trade of value for value.
Dream
Get Real. If you don't like what the government is doing, vote them out (you guys are the land of democracy and freedom right?).
/., the News for Nerds.... Militia and "Patriot" sites are around the
Interesting double-standard. To get my government to stop doing what's it's doing, I have to take action, but to stop MS from doing what it's doing, all you have to do is refrain from buying thier product.
And speaking of guns and weapons...try to stay clear of diesel fuel and fertilizer, you really scare me. This is
corner, way over on the right.
I do stay away from bombs and weapons, because I don't like them! (What is it you think I've been saying?)
Dream
The line was drawn many times in the sand and they crossed it far too often. They have no room to cry about anything. You have even less room to cry for them.
I'm not crying for MicroCrap - hell, I don't even buy their products - I'm crying for us. Have you given any thought to what will happen when Linux becomes very popular and some gubbmit agency takes a liking to it?
"Why, Linux is so popular it's used everywhere - it's become a public resource. We can't have the public modifying and changing this valuable public resource, people depend on it! We'll just have to take over the project and make sure it gets done right!"
Dream
Microsoft uses their OS as a weapon against competitiors.
How dangerous is this "weapon" to human life?
I mean in comparison to an M-16 rifle or a stealth fighter?
Pretty pathetic - as weapons go - if you ask me. I doubt you'd lose consciousness if I hit you square in the face with it.
When MS was losing the war against Netscape, then they stopped trying to make Internet Explorer look like a seperate product and claim erroneously that it is a part of the OS.
War? Why is it that the open source community can be so precise and so full of integrity when re-defining terms that help us ("software-piracy" comes to mind), and so underhanded and mis-leading when using other terms, like describing two companies trying to out-sell each other as "war".
Folks, governments wage wars, not private companies. Governments are the ones with the tanks, mines, chemical/biological/nuclear weapons, torture chambers, prison camps, and human experimentation programs, not businesses.
If anyone is sticking a gun in anyone's face, it's Microsoft!
Amazing how people can turn annoying business pratices into guns, and ignore the actual guns!
Dream
Not everyone agrees or beleives that ideas and creative works are equivilent to and can be treated the same as physical property.
Creative works must be allowed to be copyrighted, or anyone could copy War and Peace and sell it as his own. I think you're confusing copyrights (creative works) and patents (ideas) - I will agree with you that software patents are bad, bad, bad - but were talking about forcing a business to give up it's actual product, not some design technique.
Were talking about stealing, plain and simple.
Besides that, how can a "public" company ever hold "private" property?
That's a loaded question - using the word "public" in regards to the ownership of MS is a misnomer, even though it's done all the time - it is in fact a privately owned company. Just because a company has more than one owner, does make it "public". Microsoft is owned by all of those people who were inclined to purchase a piece of it's stock, not the public-at-large.
Dream
What is happening to private property in America?
I guess if you have enough guns you can just take what you want, without having to produce it.
Welcome to America, land of opportunity!
(But don't use that opportunity to produce a popular product, or someone - usually the government - will stick a gun in your face and steal it.)
Dream
I *do* wish these people would be more honest about their motives for going commercial.
Don't expect them to be honest about their desire to reap the benifits of their hard work when a considerable portion of the Free Software "community" will visciously attack them for admitting it.
I got into Linux because it was a fun hobby, and was perfectly happy to contribute in my limited way whenever I could. But now, I'm wondering how long it will be before I simply can't take the politics and the bullshit any longer and just say "to hell with it."
Dream