Sony? I have a PIII/800 VAIO, inherited from my dad, that originally ran WinME. I've had no problems getting updated drivers or whatever for it. It's currently dualbooting WinXP and Ubuntu.
Looking through the Sony site, they DO have a few laptop models that are 'not recommended' for upgrade to Win2000Pro.
I've adopted a new policy.
If a student or member of faculty comes in with malware problems for the first time, I fix it for them and I give them a Gentoo Linux install CD to go away with. If they come back with viruses/spyware a second time, I tell the luser to stop bothering me, and that I gave them the solution to install last time.
Remind me not to hire you after you (maybe) graduate.
And pretty damn restrictive for the average user. What? I can't play this new game? I can't install TurboTax2006? Get rid of this damn CD thing and let me do what I want!
Yes they can. They are the first, and so far only, nation to do that. And they first tried to do that back in 1993. They've been back and forth so much, its kind of irrelevant what they say. Showing that they do not want to be part of the world community, and reduce the number of nuclear weapons around.
And to what real purpose? Threatening the US (or S. Korea or Japan) with a nuke? That is a fight they could not hope to win. Trade Honolulu, Seattle, or LA (or Seoul or Tokyo) for their entire country. That's like threatening a tank platoon with a hand grenade. Sure, you may take out one or two guys, but you personally will be a rapidly expanding pink mist.
they sign the treaty in return for a promise that signatories that already have nuclear weapons will never use them against them
No, the acknowledged nuclear weapons states promise not to help a non nuclear weapons state build nukes.
"The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also referred to as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), obligates the five acknowledged nuclear-weapon states (the United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, France, and China) not to transfer nuclear weapons, other nuclear explosive devices, or their technology to any non-nuclear-weapon state."
"Non-nuclear-weapon States Parties undertake not to acquire or produce nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices."
That only applies to those 188 counties (and Kofi Annan).
"As of early 2000 a total of 187 states were Parties to the NPT. Cuba, Israel, India, and Pakistan were the only states that were not members of the NPT."
Here is a list of signatories as of December 3, 1998.
And in principle those countries still had the right to build nuclear weapons prior to signing the treaty
But they didn't. Once they signed it, all bets are off.
Let's get this right, shall we? 90% of the top linux kernel coders are paid for that work by major corporations. Why is that so difficult to grasp?
No, that's not what it says.
"Looking at the top 25 contributors to the Linux kernel today, you'll discover that more than 90% of them are on the corporate payroll full-time for companies such as HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat and Veritas, among many others."
Nothing about "paid for that work on Linux". Professional developers/testers/admin/whatever, yes. But not necessarily paid kernel/OSS developers.
TFA talks about licenses and royalties. How about just sharing some of these castoffs with all of us. You never know what some smart kid will do with it.
I know what you're saying, but for most people, Windows is effectively free. A $300 PC comes with it preloaded. They use whatever version until they get a new box. I don't know anyone who bought a full version from the store.
But would you? If you suspect the box is compromised, why are you entering a password to your bank account? Why isn't the box being wiped clean and reinstalled?
Have you been doing this all along, as protection against phishers?
Not for quite some time now. The Outlook 2003 default Inbox view is no preview pane, and the default condition for images is off, unless you right click to display.
So, according to that article, 80% of Americans have access to broadband, if they want it. 18% currently have broadband. That means 62% choose not to, or can't afford it. Let's be really generous and split that 62% down the middle.
Almost 1/3 of Americans who do have access to broadband choose not to. If that 30% were to sign up, the US would be at almost 50% penetration.
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Looking through the Sony site, they DO have a few laptop models that are 'not recommended' for upgrade to Win2000Pro.
No, you don't have to 'buy' the firewall/av software. AVG and Zonealarm work quite well. Better and less intrusive than the expensive alternatives.
If a student or member of faculty comes in with malware problems for the first time, I fix it for them and I give them a Gentoo Linux install CD to go away with. If they come back with viruses/spyware a second time, I tell the luser to stop bothering me, and that I gave them the solution to install last time.
Remind me not to hire you after you (maybe) graduate.
And pretty damn restrictive for the average user. What? I can't play this new game? I can't install TurboTax2006? Get rid of this damn CD thing and let me do what I want!
'They' should start fining people? They who? The ISP?
Alternatively, d/l any and all patches to a CD. Run it locally.
And to what real purpose? Threatening the US (or S. Korea or Japan) with a nuke? That is a fight they could not hope to win. Trade Honolulu, Seattle, or LA (or Seoul or Tokyo) for their entire country. That's like threatening a tank platoon with a hand grenade. Sure, you may take out one or two guys, but you personally will be a rapidly expanding pink mist.
they sign the treaty in return for a promise that signatories that already have nuclear weapons will never use them against them
No, the acknowledged nuclear weapons states promise not to help a non nuclear weapons state build nukes.
"The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also referred to as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), obligates the five acknowledged nuclear-weapon states (the United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, France, and China) not to transfer nuclear weapons, other nuclear explosive devices, or their technology to any non-nuclear-weapon state."
"Non-nuclear-weapon States Parties undertake not to acquire or produce nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices."
That only applies to those 188 counties (and Kofi Annan).
"As of early 2000 a total of 187 states were Parties to the NPT. Cuba, Israel, India, and Pakistan were the only states that were not members of the NPT."
Here is a list of signatories as of December 3, 1998.
And in principle those countries still had the right to build nuclear weapons prior to signing the treaty
But they didn't. Once they signed it, all bets are off.
Actually, no, it isn't. Kofi Annan and 188 countries disagree with you.
No, that's not what it says.
"Looking at the top 25 contributors to the Linux kernel today, you'll discover that more than 90% of them are on the corporate payroll full-time for companies such as HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat and Veritas, among many others."
Nothing about "paid for that work on Linux". Professional developers/testers/admin/whatever, yes. But not necessarily paid kernel/OSS developers.
Looking at my drivers license, issued 4 yrs ago, there is nothing in this provision that it doesn't already have.
No. But are you using the same computer you had in '98? And are you running the latest Linux on that 7 year old PC?
TFA talks about licenses and royalties. How about just sharing some of these castoffs with all of us. You never know what some smart kid will do with it.
I know what you're saying, but for most people, Windows is effectively free. A $300 PC comes with it preloaded. They use whatever version until they get a new box. I don't know anyone who bought a full version from the store.
What version of Linux are YOU still running from 7 years ago?
But would you? If you suspect the box is compromised, why are you entering a password to your bank account? Why isn't the box being wiped clean and reinstalled?
Have you been doing this all along, as protection against phishers?
Still far more than free, but not $500.
Not for quite some time now. The Outlook 2003 default Inbox view is no preview pane, and the default condition for images is off, unless you right click to display.
And at some point during signing up, you have to enter those values in. Via the keyboard.
Things don't scale quite that easily.
Almost 1/3 of Americans who do have access to broadband choose not to. If that 30% were to sign up, the US would be at almost 50% penetration.
Here's one taken there about 6 weeks ago.
It says where just below the picture.
...over 10,000 linux servers (actually I think the number may exceed 40,000)
It appears they are.
Naaa...there was no stereo satellite imagery before 1995.