Is downloading shows illegal if you are not sharing them as well? Say for instance, I download a episode of South Park. I have cable, South Park comes on all the time, and say I missed a new episode and watched to watch it. Is that illegal?
Not that I care or anything, I'm just wondering how or why downloading something with your cable is not the same simply recording it off the TV. I mean, with the same wire, I cansstream South Park directly to my hard drive anyway using TV input.
Never had a linux system that took a shit, sorry. Never had a linux system that kept me up till 2am either. Actually, I've never had a Solaris box die on me other but on the flip side, I've only used solaris for low bandwidth tasks like DNS.
When you ascend to the level of "linux administrator", the particular distro will not matter to you. You should be able to pretty much do anything with any distro especially with the Internet, man pages, howtos,etc as your disposal. The Linux admin should embody Linux itself by being as versatile as the OS.
That being said, the main differences between the distros is the package manager, special utilities, and organization of configuration files. To learn a distro, concentrate on those three things.
For general linux knowledge, master as many of the GNU utils as you can (grep, gawk,etc), as well as Bash. Learn Perl, Python, or both so you have a general purpose scripting language for automating annoying tasks or creating web interfaces so unskilled employees can do your work for you.
If you are not a trained chemist and you mix two chemicals together and they fiz, you know you had an impact, what that impact was, you don't know, all you know is that it fizzed.
You mess with your cars engine and now it makes a noise and you don't know what it is. You know you had an effect but you don't know what is causing the noise.
Same thing here. We know we are having an impact, we just don't know what the long term and short term effect will be on a global scale. We know by satalite that the ozone layer is going away and this is melting the icecaps, we don't know what effect this is going to have on the rest of the planet.
But can you convince an entire department that they should stop working for an hour to read a little documentation? No. Won't happen.
What the f*ck are they getting paid to do? They get paid to do thier job and if that requires learning some new software then, thats what they do. Jeez, I guess they would rather get laid off or replaced with people who do want to grow, learn, and bring the company in new directions.
Sorry, I'm not a good speller. Obviously you figured out what I was trying to say though. Thanks for pointing it out though, dick.
The reason I say switching to OO is along the 'road to switching' to Linux is because for most companies, the MSOffice to OO switch is going to be harder than the Windows to Linux switch. The concepts you need to master and use a PC,Mac or say, KDE are the same. You click icons, you make directories, you use a web browser and email program. A lot of people don't use anything else all day besides word, excel, outlook, and IE. You eMule example is not a good example because it wouldn't be the 'killer' app that his holding someone or some group back from moving to Linux.
If a company/agency moves to OO and the employees are trained to use it, what is stopping them from going to Linux when the time for upgrades comes around? Surely training some employees on OO running Linux on the existing hardware is a lot less expensive than updating everything to run Microsoft' s latest software.
Hopefully its compatable with the GPL. I figure they basically had two choices, look good and open the format or look bad and loose to open office or other packages. Running Open Office is, in my opinion, along the road to swiching to Linux. MS had no choice.
My boss still has 'habits' from FORTRAN while coding C.. Basically, we all work late to make sure we never fall behind on a project because if we do he starts coding. He han an uncanny skill of only using the variables i,j, and k for eveything, over and over and over again.
Although sun has many products that run on Linux, overall I view them as an enemy to the Linux community. Thats just my opinion. They have this 'Now we love Linux, now we don't' attitude that bothers me and they are also butt buddies with Microsoft and SCO now so, to me, they can't be trusted.
I appeciate Java and OO but those apps running on Linux help Sun just as much as they help Linux,if not more. It just seems to me that everything they do has some alterior motive.
How do you make an overly broad defintion of P2P software? The definition is in the name. Peer to Peer. Client to Server (as in the browser exmaple giving by the author) is not peer to peer.
What happened to the big news about the Java stored prodcedures? Wasn't there some news not to long ago about adding support for this in Postgres? To me that would been a more welcome feature than the rest of the stuff.
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Is downloading shows illegal if you are not sharing them as well? Say for instance, I download a episode of South Park. I have cable, South Park comes on all the time, and say I missed a new episode and watched to watch it. Is that illegal?
Not that I care or anything, I'm just wondering how or why downloading something with your cable is not the same simply recording it off the TV. I mean, with the same wire, I cansstream South Park directly to my hard drive anyway using TV input.
I know most of you don't use them but the news groups have everything you want.
I've started to just steal DVDs right from the store!
Never had a linux system that took a shit, sorry. Never had a linux system that kept me up till 2am either. Actually, I've never had a Solaris box die on me other but on the flip side, I've only used solaris for low bandwidth tasks like DNS.
Next time, try the 2 CD install so you can just emerge on binary copies of things like X and KDE without having to compile them. Much faster that way.
Its good to see that Linux 2.6 kicked Solaris's ass.
The judge simply stated they made a lot of public claims and then didn't back any of them up in court.
Actually, the libs usually come with the game if the license allows. For exmaple, Ut2004 is packaged with libsdl and openal.
They passed a law called "CAN-SPAM", hoping that it would stop spam.... Isn't it obvious by the name that is allows people to spam?
When you ascend to the level of "linux administrator", the particular distro will not matter to you. You should be able to pretty much do anything with any distro especially with the Internet, man pages, howtos,etc as your disposal. The Linux admin should embody Linux itself by being as versatile as the OS.
That being said, the main differences between the distros is the package manager, special utilities, and organization of configuration files. To learn a distro, concentrate on those three things.
For general linux knowledge, master as many of the GNU utils as you can (grep, gawk,etc), as well as Bash. Learn Perl, Python, or both so you have a general purpose scripting language for automating annoying tasks or creating web interfaces so unskilled employees can do your work for you.
If you are not a trained chemist and you mix two chemicals together and they fiz, you know you had an impact, what that impact was, you don't know, all you know is that it fizzed.
You mess with your cars engine and now it makes a noise and you don't know what it is. You know you had an effect but you don't know what is causing the noise.
Same thing here. We know we are having an impact, we just don't know what the long term and short term effect will be on a global scale. We know by satalite that the ozone layer is going away and this is melting the icecaps, we don't know what effect this is going to have on the rest of the planet.
What the f*ck are they getting paid to do? They get paid to do thier job and if that requires learning some new software then, thats what they do. Jeez, I guess they would rather get laid off or replaced with people who do want to grow, learn, and bring the company in new directions.
Sorry, I'm not a good speller. Obviously you figured out what I was trying to say though. Thanks for pointing it out though, dick.
,Mac or say, KDE are the same. You click icons, you make directories, you use a web browser and email program. A lot of people don't use anything else all day besides word, excel, outlook, and IE. You eMule example is not a good example because it wouldn't be the 'killer' app that his holding someone or some group back from moving to Linux.
The reason I say switching to OO is along the 'road to switching' to Linux is because for most companies, the MSOffice to OO switch is going to be harder than the Windows to Linux switch. The concepts you need to master and use a PC
If a company/agency moves to OO and the employees are trained to use it, what is stopping them from going to Linux when the time for upgrades comes around? Surely training some employees on OO running Linux on the existing hardware is a lot less expensive than updating everything to run Microsoft' s latest software.
Hopefully its compatable with the GPL. I figure they basically had two choices, look good and open the format or look bad and loose to open office or other packages. Running Open Office is, in my opinion, along the road to swiching to Linux. MS had no choice.
Rule #1 for running any online community is: Never respond to complaints in forums.
Because, money is the root of all evil.
My boss still has 'habits' from FORTRAN while coding C.. Basically, we all work late to make sure we never fall behind on a project because if we do he starts coding. He han an uncanny skill of only using the variables i,j, and k for eveything, over and over and over again.
The patents are only for use in OpenSolaris or with code published under the CDDL license, not public domain.
How do you release a patent under the GPL?
If you are a PHB and you are not educated on the different flavors of Linux and what they provide, then I would fire you.
Although sun has many products that run on Linux, overall I view them as an enemy to the Linux community. Thats just my opinion. They have this 'Now we love Linux, now we don't' attitude that bothers me and they are also butt buddies with Microsoft and SCO now so, to me, they can't be trusted.
I appeciate Java and OO but those apps running on Linux help Sun just as much as they help Linux,if not more. It just seems to me that everything they do has some alterior motive.
Oh, the horror.
I'd like to service a blackberry!!
How do you make an overly broad defintion of P2P software? The definition is in the name. Peer to Peer. Client to Server (as in the browser exmaple giving by the author) is not peer to peer.
What happened to the big news about the Java stored prodcedures? Wasn't there some news not to long ago about adding support for this in Postgres? To me that would been a more welcome feature than the rest of the stuff.