I have a Cannon BJC-240 printer that I bought back in 1996, for a whopping $200 dollars. This, by today's standards, is enough to purchase a VERY good photo printer, but at that time, it was quite good, despite the fact that it had less than 300 DPI maximum. I used it heavily, and although I don't use it anymore, it still works perfectly today.
I bought a Lexmark Z31 printer for $20 dollars last year, and it turned out to print fine for the first month, and the text was printed so well that most people couden't tell it from a sheet printed on a laser printer. However, its condition rapidly degraded. It just started turning on and off for no reason, and it did this constantly. And the ink cartridge indicator has also gone super inaccruate. It's unusuable now.
Two months after the purchase, I made the switchover to Linux, and I stopped using Windowz almost completely. The problem then was the Z31 is a dumb printer. It must recieve all instruction from the host computer, and it dosen't even have it's own buit in fontset! Much less support PCL or PS. Since there was no Linux driver, I had to buy a more expensive Epson Stylus C60 printer, which seems to work fine still.
In conclusion, you get what you pay for. Today, hardware may be getting cheaper and cheaper, yet the quality of this cheap stuff has plummetted.
This system that UnitedLinux is proposing is mainly about binaries. They will release the souce and give it out free of charge, however, it is the precomiled binaries that are going to cost money to buy in a package. This has always been a sketchy area in the fight for free software.
TransGaming and WineX, for example, is based on LGPL code (Wine), and therefore must release a free version, and its source. So, they release only their souce, and they make the binaries, which are neatly packaged, only to their subscribers. I really don't know that much about the GPL, and I haven't read through it all, and I must say that yes, doing this is untraditional and wrong.
Moreover, The term UnitedLinux is a term that they prohibit users who compile from source to call their OS, as the article written by RMS stated. Linux is a trademarked expression, owned by Torvalds himself! I don't understand how they can legally do this!
I guess this only proves that Mafiaboy was a kid, and a newbie even further. For one, he is using DOS, an OS that I regard as useless and unusable, compared to BASH, or TCSH, or even the Bourne SHell in UNIX. Secondly, I doubt that hacking software has a feature to detect traces, as it would be very hard (impossible?) Thirdly, this hacking program is extremely simple, and does not look like what the article was describing. He used a DDoS attack, where many machines were used in a single operation, and the term 'hack' is used incorrectly. DoS is NOT a hack, it is a simple attack (known as phreaking, I think) that anyone, and I mean ANYONE with either good tools, or a good connection, can do.
It must be said that some GPLed software is also 'commercial' Let's take a look at Linux distros, for example, they are commercially avaliable, but almost 99% of their content is GPLed software. In this case, the judge's ruling does not cover this area in which the software is both commercially and freely distrbiuted. I think what the judge intended is for the kid to not get anymore hacking tools, as, to my knowledge, there aren't any that are widely avaliable commercially.
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This is simply a disgrace to a complete community of programmers and hackers alike. It is suprising that a kid did all this to well known websites, but I instantly knew that he WAS a script kiddie, and nothing more, when I read the part where he was 'boasting about his hacking abilities.' No good hacker EVER does that, unless he WANTS to get caught and messed with. DoS attacks are rather stupid and meritless. Anyone can do it with the proper scripts and code. What angers me the most is that he thinks that he is a 1337 |-|4X0R when he is SO OBVIOUSLY NOT.
I'm pretty suprised at the fact that a LOT of people actually get the joke (you'd have to be a Simpsons fan). As for me, I don't remember the whole entire song, but it sure was a good episode. I seriously doubt that the Las Vegas monorail would be a huge scam, though....
Overall, I think that the series was great, and it had great potential. As a person with much interest in technology, the three were quite a role model to me, with their publication that wasn't too successful and their "insane" inquiries into stuff that nobody ever talks about. I espically enjoyed the first episode, about domestic terrorism, and they PREVENTED a plane from crashing into the WTC (COINCEDENCE????). The X files, to me, is a great series, and so is Dark Angel, but FOX does a TERRIABLE job at doing the commercials. They make them seem like shows packed with action, and no actual content, while the shows actually do have a lot more content. In the commercial I saw today for the X files, they announced that at least one of them will die, and it was pretty obvious who would die, as with 5 episodes left, they surely couden't kill Scully off.
The thing is, for one, filing for bankrupcy in Europe, particularly, the Netherlands, is not exactly the same as Chapter 11, and moreover, I believe their operatins have much more merit(don't ask), and support, than Loki. I really think that it is possible for Blender to come back somehow.
Although I went to the page and initially believed it, it seemed that it was written in a unusually surly tone. Surely, all that other stuff about AMD and nVidia merging is clearly false, but this does seem a bit more believable. I'll get to the point - IS THIS A JOKE??
Yes, I agree, that is absolute nonsense. I think that this entire tariff being so high is simply absurd! If they increase the price to a number that costly, it would overshadow the actual price of the CD-R. I think that their logic is clearly flawed in this context in order to create a tariff of such laughable proportions.
I really hate CRTs now that I have a modest sized LCD. It is much easier on the eye, and although more expensive, you do get a great deal. As for gameplay, I haven't really expierenced any problems with the screen not getting updated enough, as many have said was a problem due to the LCD's natural slow-response nature.
I have had the red die out out of 2 monitors now. I had to take apart one (don't do this without proper insulation and possibly gloves, these things, even while off, can give off a nasty shock) and fiddle with the electron gun in order to reactivate the red. On the other one, it turned out to have a bent pin in the connector, which prevented it from going into the socket where it's supposed to go.
I can see that what you're saying is clearly true. I'm not remotely American in my family, and my childhood was not as tight as that most 'American' families would describe. There was no clearly defined system, my parents never used corporal punishment, and moreover, they taught me to be sedentary, stay at home, get regular excercise, but don't stay outside. They really made me hate to go outside, and really, I think that that is the best way to make kids not to get into trouble.
I can agree with your statement on your childhood - a good parent never would need a device as ludicrous as this. I never wore a bike helmet either, and I was watching rated 'R' movies when I was, like, 4 years old, and my parents actually had no idea what were these 'ratings' for movies. They considered them absurd. I turned out to be a good kid, and I did very well at school.
Yeah, in many countries around the world, they offer temporary internet service by dialing a special number. I'm not sure what it is in France, but I'm sure there is one in many of the cities in Germany. Just ask around, it's a simple number, like 5 digits or something like that. I'm not very certain about this though.
No, soy is a complete source of protien, just like how avacados contain mostly satruated fat, which is unusual for plants to have a lot of. In good ol' 9th grade biology, we like to consider these plants that offer animal protiens and nutrients 'defective animals.' The only thing missing from a completely vegetable diet is vitiman B12. I have heard some instances of people who became violently ill suddenly, after they had gone vegetarian for several decades, because of a defecit of B12 over the years. Most vegetarians don't have this problem, but many of them take suppliments just in case. I've actually heard that certain bacteria in your intestine produces trace amounts of this vitiman, but I'm not at all sure. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Although this isn't exactly relavent to this article, I AGREE COMPLETELY! By far, all M$ products are simply overrated, overcharged, and just plain terriable. They allow for no degree of freedom at all, and unlike *NIX where I can configure virtually every element of the OS to the way I like it, Windowz dosen't even let me see the underlying processes for crying out loud! The only thing that I think Windowz is good for is gaming. Just gaming. In office work, business work, etc. You need stablity, and if you don't have the competence to use a UNIX related platform, then use a mac. They're stable. Playing games is the time when stablitity matters minimally.
Plus, I don't see why game developers even develop games for Windows. Although I agree that DirectX and it's components are great API features, I think that they're overlooking the merit at using Linux (Yeah, they could use Solaris, HP-UX, etc, but I'm just using Linux in this example) to develop games. Linux is extremely modular, an extremely well written OS. With XFree86 version 4, many more APIs are implimented that help developers.
Finally, I would like to say that I enjoy using multiple sound cards(one for speakers, one for headphones), and two video cards to control 2 monitors. These are built in features to X11R6 version 4.x.x, people. And I think that this is extremely useful. I haven't seen a single person who found out how to do it on Windows(not one of those 2 port video cards, I'm talking about using 2 seperate video cards powering 2 monitors, Correct me if I'm wrong)
Yes, I agree that Blender was some great software, and its interface was probably the most usable of any 3D modeling suite I've ever seen complete with radiosity, complex animation rendering, etc. All that, plus a gaming engine, all packed into a file less than 3 megs large. It's simply amazing how a small, and very usable program could pack all those features into a tiny little package, unlike 3DSMAX, which, in essence, has about the same functionality, but costs infinately more (divide by zero:-) ) and occupies 100x more disk space.
If you're looking for an alternative, I would recommend Moonlight Atelier, which is also dead in production since the producers went to make more profitable products like Swift3D(since Moonlight was GPL'd, there is a movement underway to develop it, but I don't know how it's doing now). However, if you're really into Blender, and are using Linux, then I would recommend that you would stick to Blender. I know there are not going to be any more updates (anytime soon), but who said it wasn't a perfectly usable piece of software as is?
I'm sad to see it go, and this may be the fate of Mandrakesoft as well (I hope not). But I'm very suprised at how Blender came from a tiny, unknown 3D suite, and almost overnight, became more known in the computer graphics industry, and finally, with almost no warning, failed all of the sudden. It's things like this I just can't explain.
Microsoft has really dropped the ball on file systems over the development of their Windows operating system. While the users of Maciontosh, Linux, BSD, almost any other operating system has expierenced a major improvement in filesystems, for example, for Linux from EXT2 to EXT3, XFS, ReiserFS, and many other virtually "unbreakable" filesystems, and Maciontosh systems have gone from their classic FAT like filesystem to their new Extended Hierarchial Filesystem. The only thing that Mirosoft has come up with is their NTFS, which really is a huge misnomer since it is not "new technology," it's just an update to a very old technology - FAT, and when I used Windows NT computers with the NTFS, I didn't notice a major improvement in speed, nor was it any more "fixable" than using regular old FAT. When I switched to Linux about a half year ago, EXT3 and Reiser were already avaliable. I tried them and I thought they were excellent because I never actually have to run fsck, they're faster, and much harder to corrupt. I hope that the new OFS from Microsoft is as good as Reiser, but seeing from the description, I really don't think they're aiming for the same thing. Even if they do make a better filesystem (I really doubt it) I'm never going to go back to Windows as my primary operating system.
As I have heard, Soyo redesigns their motherboards constantly, and this one that I have was only on the market for a few weeks. Many of them are actually defective, and I think that's the reason why they are such a bargin. If I were you, I would return it to wherever you got it and get a better brand, such as Asus. I don't think they went overboard with Microsoft, yet.
I agree that I took a huge risk by purchasing a Soyo motherboard from Frys, but it works fine for me under Linux, and I can use multiple sound cards and video cards under the same IRQ, I guess I got lucky or something to not get a WinXP "certified" board, which is really just making sure a better future, for Microsoft. Really, I don't see the point of Microsoft demanding ACPI be turned permantly off, unless they have something to hide. Really, Microsoft has really became almost anal about this kind of stuff lately, and frankly, they're just being the control freaks they they usually are.
Well, you do make a good analogy, I'll give you that much, but I really don't think that your statement is that great, considering that you probably haven't seen too much of KDE. First of all, I agree that they still need to iron out some bugs, but I'm using KDE version 2, and it works GREAT. I think that it's one of the best window managers for Xfree86 around. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, goto www.xfree86.org, and you'll find out that The Linux GUI structure is based on X, a technology that has been around longer than windows, and that KDE is just a pretty face for X)
No, you're just misinformed. First of all, it's already been released. Just goto www.kde.org, and you can SEE that it is already on version 2 of its release! the KDE project has been around for a couple of years now, and if you ever goto the store and look at the box of RedHat Linux, or rather, SuSE Linux, you can see on the features, it already boasts that its primary GUI is KDE. What I think they mean is that version THREE of KDE is going to go out this spring. If you don't believe me, just goto www.kde.org and you can even DOWNLOAD the entire thing for crying out loud, heck, I'm even using KDE right now to write this reply using their included web browser - Konqueror, because I think that Netscape is too slow, and I'm sick of ads dominating a huge chunk of the screen when I use Opera.
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I have a Cannon BJC-240 printer that I bought back in 1996, for a whopping $200 dollars. This, by today's standards, is enough to purchase a VERY good photo printer, but at that time, it was quite good, despite the fact that it had less than 300 DPI maximum. I used it heavily, and although I don't use it anymore, it still works perfectly today.
I bought a Lexmark Z31 printer for $20 dollars last year, and it turned out to print fine for the first month, and the text was printed so well that most people couden't tell it from a sheet printed on a laser printer. However, its condition rapidly degraded. It just started turning on and off for no reason, and it did this constantly. And the ink cartridge indicator has also gone super inaccruate. It's unusuable now.
Two months after the purchase, I made the switchover to Linux, and I stopped using Windowz almost completely. The problem then was the Z31 is a dumb printer. It must recieve all instruction from the host computer, and it dosen't even have it's own buit in fontset! Much less support PCL or PS. Since there was no Linux driver, I had to buy a more expensive Epson Stylus C60 printer, which seems to work fine still.
In conclusion, you get what you pay for. Today, hardware may be getting cheaper and cheaper, yet the quality of this cheap stuff has plummetted.
This system that UnitedLinux is proposing is mainly about binaries. They will release the souce and give it out free of charge, however, it is the precomiled binaries that are going to cost money to buy in a package. This has always been a sketchy area in the fight for free software.
TransGaming and WineX, for example, is based on LGPL code (Wine), and therefore must release a free version, and its source. So, they release only their souce, and they make the binaries, which are neatly packaged, only to their subscribers. I really don't know that much about the GPL, and I haven't read through it all, and I must say that yes, doing this is untraditional and wrong.
Moreover, The term UnitedLinux is a term that they prohibit users who compile from source to call their OS, as the article written by RMS stated. Linux is a trademarked expression, owned by Torvalds himself! I don't understand how they can legally do this!
I guess this only proves that Mafiaboy was a kid, and a newbie even further. For one, he is using DOS, an OS that I regard as useless and unusable, compared to BASH, or TCSH, or even the Bourne SHell in UNIX. Secondly, I doubt that hacking software has a feature to detect traces, as it would be very hard (impossible?) Thirdly, this hacking program is extremely simple, and does not look like what the article was describing. He used a DDoS attack, where many machines were used in a single operation, and the term 'hack' is used incorrectly. DoS is NOT a hack, it is a simple attack (known as phreaking, I think) that anyone, and I mean ANYONE with either good tools, or a good connection, can do.
It must be said that some GPLed software is also 'commercial' Let's take a look at Linux distros, for example, they are commercially avaliable, but almost 99% of their content is GPLed software. In this case, the judge's ruling does not cover this area in which the software is both commercially and freely distrbiuted. I think what the judge intended is for the kid to not get anymore hacking tools, as, to my knowledge, there aren't any that are widely avaliable commercially.
This is simply a disgrace to a complete community of programmers and hackers alike. It is suprising that a kid did all this to well known websites, but I instantly knew that he WAS a script kiddie, and nothing more, when I read the part where he was 'boasting about his hacking abilities.' No good hacker EVER does that, unless he WANTS to get caught and messed with. DoS attacks are rather stupid and meritless. Anyone can do it with the proper scripts and code. What angers me the most is that he thinks that he is a 1337 |-|4X0R when he is SO OBVIOUSLY NOT.
I'm pretty suprised at the fact that a LOT of people actually get the joke (you'd have to be a Simpsons fan). As for me, I don't remember the whole entire song, but it sure was a good episode. I seriously doubt that the Las Vegas monorail would be a huge scam, though....
Overall, I think that the series was great, and it had great potential. As a person with much interest in technology, the three were quite a role model to me, with their publication that wasn't too successful and their "insane" inquiries into stuff that nobody ever talks about. I espically enjoyed the first episode, about domestic terrorism, and they PREVENTED a plane from crashing into the WTC (COINCEDENCE????). The X files, to me, is a great series, and so is Dark Angel, but FOX does a TERRIABLE job at doing the commercials. They make them seem like shows packed with action, and no actual content, while the shows actually do have a lot more content. In the commercial I saw today for the X files, they announced that at least one of them will die, and it was pretty obvious who would die, as with 5 episodes left, they surely couden't kill Scully off.
The thing is, for one, filing for bankrupcy in Europe, particularly, the Netherlands, is not exactly the same as Chapter 11, and moreover, I believe their operatins have much more merit(don't ask), and support, than Loki. I really think that it is possible for Blender to come back somehow.
Although I went to the page and initially believed it, it seemed that it was written in a unusually surly tone. Surely, all that other stuff about AMD and nVidia merging is clearly false, but this does seem a bit more believable. I'll get to the point - IS THIS A JOKE??
Yes, I agree, that is absolute nonsense. I think that this entire tariff being so high is simply absurd! If they increase the price to a number that costly, it would overshadow the actual price of the CD-R. I think that their logic is clearly flawed in this context in order to create a tariff of such laughable proportions.
I really hate CRTs now that I have a modest sized LCD. It is much easier on the eye, and although more expensive, you do get a great deal. As for gameplay, I haven't really expierenced any problems with the screen not getting updated enough, as many have said was a problem due to the LCD's natural slow-response nature. I have had the red die out out of 2 monitors now. I had to take apart one (don't do this without proper insulation and possibly gloves, these things, even while off, can give off a nasty shock) and fiddle with the electron gun in order to reactivate the red. On the other one, it turned out to have a bent pin in the connector, which prevented it from going into the socket where it's supposed to go.
I can see that what you're saying is clearly true. I'm not remotely American in my family, and my childhood was not as tight as that most 'American' families would describe. There was no clearly defined system, my parents never used corporal punishment, and moreover, they taught me to be sedentary, stay at home, get regular excercise, but don't stay outside. They really made me hate to go outside, and really, I think that that is the best way to make kids not to get into trouble. I can agree with your statement on your childhood - a good parent never would need a device as ludicrous as this. I never wore a bike helmet either, and I was watching rated 'R' movies when I was, like, 4 years old, and my parents actually had no idea what were these 'ratings' for movies. They considered them absurd. I turned out to be a good kid, and I did very well at school.
Yeah, in many countries around the world, they offer temporary internet service by dialing a special number. I'm not sure what it is in France, but I'm sure there is one in many of the cities in Germany. Just ask around, it's a simple number, like 5 digits or something like that. I'm not very certain about this though.
No, soy is a complete source of protien, just like how avacados contain mostly satruated fat, which is unusual for plants to have a lot of. In good ol' 9th grade biology, we like to consider these plants that offer animal protiens and nutrients 'defective animals.' The only thing missing from a completely vegetable diet is vitiman B12. I have heard some instances of people who became violently ill suddenly, after they had gone vegetarian for several decades, because of a defecit of B12 over the years. Most vegetarians don't have this problem, but many of them take suppliments just in case. I've actually heard that certain bacteria in your intestine produces trace amounts of this vitiman, but I'm not at all sure. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Although this isn't exactly relavent to this article, I AGREE COMPLETELY! By far, all M$ products are simply overrated, overcharged, and just plain terriable. They allow for no degree of freedom at all, and unlike *NIX where I can configure virtually every element of the OS to the way I like it, Windowz dosen't even let me see the underlying processes for crying out loud! The only thing that I think Windowz is good for is gaming. Just gaming. In office work, business work, etc. You need stablity, and if you don't have the competence to use a UNIX related platform, then use a mac. They're stable. Playing games is the time when stablitity matters minimally. Plus, I don't see why game developers even develop games for Windows. Although I agree that DirectX and it's components are great API features, I think that they're overlooking the merit at using Linux (Yeah, they could use Solaris, HP-UX, etc, but I'm just using Linux in this example) to develop games. Linux is extremely modular, an extremely well written OS. With XFree86 version 4, many more APIs are implimented that help developers. Finally, I would like to say that I enjoy using multiple sound cards(one for speakers, one for headphones), and two video cards to control 2 monitors. These are built in features to X11R6 version 4.x.x, people. And I think that this is extremely useful. I haven't seen a single person who found out how to do it on Windows(not one of those 2 port video cards, I'm talking about using 2 seperate video cards powering 2 monitors, Correct me if I'm wrong)
Yes, I agree that Blender was some great software, and its interface was probably the most usable of any 3D modeling suite I've ever seen complete with radiosity, complex animation rendering, etc. All that, plus a gaming engine, all packed into a file less than 3 megs large. It's simply amazing how a small, and very usable program could pack all those features into a tiny little package, unlike 3DSMAX, which, in essence, has about the same functionality, but costs infinately more (divide by zero :-) ) and occupies 100x more disk space.
If you're looking for an alternative, I would recommend Moonlight Atelier, which is also dead in production since the producers went to make more profitable products like Swift3D(since Moonlight was GPL'd, there is a movement underway to develop it, but I don't know how it's doing now). However, if you're really into Blender, and are using Linux, then I would recommend that you would stick to Blender. I know there are not going to be any more updates (anytime soon), but who said it wasn't a perfectly usable piece of software as is?
I'm sad to see it go, and this may be the fate of Mandrakesoft as well (I hope not). But I'm very suprised at how Blender came from a tiny, unknown 3D suite, and almost overnight, became more known in the computer graphics industry, and finally, with almost no warning, failed all of the sudden. It's things like this I just can't explain.
Microsoft has really dropped the ball on file systems over the development of their Windows operating system. While the users of Maciontosh, Linux, BSD, almost any other operating system has expierenced a major improvement in filesystems, for example, for Linux from EXT2 to EXT3, XFS, ReiserFS, and many other virtually "unbreakable" filesystems, and Maciontosh systems have gone from their classic FAT like filesystem to their new Extended Hierarchial Filesystem. The only thing that Mirosoft has come up with is their NTFS, which really is a huge misnomer since it is not "new technology," it's just an update to a very old technology - FAT, and when I used Windows NT computers with the NTFS, I didn't notice a major improvement in speed, nor was it any more "fixable" than using regular old FAT. When I switched to Linux about a half year ago, EXT3 and Reiser were already avaliable. I tried them and I thought they were excellent because I never actually have to run fsck, they're faster, and much harder to corrupt. I hope that the new OFS from Microsoft is as good as Reiser, but seeing from the description, I really don't think they're aiming for the same thing. Even if they do make a better filesystem (I really doubt it) I'm never going to go back to Windows as my primary operating system.
As I have heard, Soyo redesigns their motherboards constantly, and this one that I have was only on the market for a few weeks. Many of them are actually defective, and I think that's the reason why they are such a bargin. If I were you, I would return it to wherever you got it and get a better brand, such as Asus. I don't think they went overboard with Microsoft, yet. I agree that I took a huge risk by purchasing a Soyo motherboard from Frys, but it works fine for me under Linux, and I can use multiple sound cards and video cards under the same IRQ, I guess I got lucky or something to not get a WinXP "certified" board, which is really just making sure a better future, for Microsoft. Really, I don't see the point of Microsoft demanding ACPI be turned permantly off, unless they have something to hide. Really, Microsoft has really became almost anal about this kind of stuff lately, and frankly, they're just being the control freaks they they usually are.
Well, you do make a good analogy, I'll give you that much, but I really don't think that your statement is that great, considering that you probably haven't seen too much of KDE. First of all, I agree that they still need to iron out some bugs, but I'm using KDE version 2, and it works GREAT. I think that it's one of the best window managers for Xfree86 around. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, goto www.xfree86.org, and you'll find out that The Linux GUI structure is based on X, a technology that has been around longer than windows, and that KDE is just a pretty face for X)
No, you're just misinformed. First of all, it's already been released. Just goto www.kde.org, and you can SEE that it is already on version 2 of its release! the KDE project has been around for a couple of years now, and if you ever goto the store and look at the box of RedHat Linux, or rather, SuSE Linux, you can see on the features, it already boasts that its primary GUI is KDE. What I think they mean is that version THREE of KDE is going to go out this spring. If you don't believe me, just goto www.kde.org and you can even DOWNLOAD the entire thing for crying out loud, heck, I'm even using KDE right now to write this reply using their included web browser - Konqueror, because I think that Netscape is too slow, and I'm sick of ads dominating a huge chunk of the screen when I use Opera.