Yes, but does the cassette adapter work in one of those 8-track adapters? You know the ones; they plug into the 8-track slot on your dashboard and you can put a cassette in them.
Microsoft 'saves a lot of money on tech support' every time they sell an OEM license. Because they don't support OEM licenses for free. That's what the OEM is supposed to do.
So you're saying that AOL should be required to fund development of a Web technology that they're not even using? Clearly if they opted to go with a Microsoft turnkey browser, they don't need to fund Mozilla. I use Mozilla. I like Mozilla. I have no illusion that AOL is going to provide Mozilla to me for free.
like Netscape announcing they're laying off 50 Netscape developers a couple of weeks after signing the MS agreement that gives them IE for seven years.
That's not a coincidence at all. It's like a farmer deciding to grow corn, instead of tomatoes, so he lays off the tomato pickers.
I downloaded an early version of the MSN Messenger client years ago and archived it. I still use that version, which is now four years or more old. I get nagged once a week to 'upgrade' it but I always refuse. It's a fine basic Messenger and it does everything I want. I'm not interested in running anything.NET on my machine unless absolutely necessary.
So I'm probably not eligible for the contest, huh?
And he didn't even say wether or not he flunked out of Calculus. J-School is where you go. Also where you go if they won't accept you into the English department.
'Journalism as a noble profession' is a pretty new thing. Before the 'Woodward and Bernstein' Watergate thing Journalists were considered hacks. Kind of a Clark Kent thing. Then all the anti-establishment sorts got starry-eyed and decided to become 'journalists.'
Calling that 'evolved' would be like saying that Windows was evolved because it came on a 1500 CD set with every damn piece of shareware written for it included.
But that very same box will not stay running more than 15 minutes with a fresh install of Windows 2000 and no patches or service packs installed. Just sitting there doing nothing at all other than waiting for input, you can stare at the screen and not touch the mouse or keyboard and it goes BSOD on you while you look at it.
Duh. Have you considered that it might be a hardware problem?
Slackware 3.6 didn't prompt you to generate a root password during installation. It didn't inform you in any way that you should install a root password.
A friend of mine found that out from me, after I logged in her box (after reading a fresh mail header to get her IP). She wasn't happy.
Richard Stallman was part of a protest group at MIT who refused to install passwords on their accounts. They viewed it as a civil right to have unencumbered access to UNIX.
The era of little hoods on the 'net isn't part of the classic UNIX world.
The 'MS DRM defeat' sounds like it's lossy. Somebody figured out how to grab the blinking lights on a Media Player control. It's by no means a 'defeat' that is a clean tap to the media stream.
The open source software that lives on the servers of major distro vendors gets cleaned up pronto. However, since there are 35,000 different permutaitons of Open Source OSes out there, layer upon layer of versions of everything, it's a big weaved-together mess to update anything to an absolutely known state/version. That's part of why Linux isn't formally 'security certified' anywhere. They'd have to actually freeze the code to formally test and certify it.
You can feel good if you're a 'community member' of one of the contiuously updated OSes and you continually update to the tip. Otherwise you're no better off, and probably worse off, than someone who runs one of the 'monoculture' OSes.
My experience, going back years and years, is that when you start putting Norton stuff on your Windows system, you're bound to have 'interesting times' ahead.
It's a bit more sophisticated than the woman I once heard about who 'deleted all those files in the C:\ drive that she didn't know what they were there for' but it's similar in ways.
I try to tweak a Windows box as little as possible. Sucks if you're a third party dingle-doo utility vendor. But oh well.
As an example, I work (only as a user) with the NetBSD packages collection. Because I like running a number of different architectures. For the NetBSD project, an important aspect of the packages collection is it's wide cross-platform focus. With FreeBSD and with Linux, there just isn't the same focus on ports working on many platforms. So the cross-platform wonderment that is the NetBSD pkgsrc system would be diluted if it were merged with the folks who really only care if it builds on i386.
These agents aren't running a SSH terminal into the machine that is 'air gapped' from the public internet.
They likely don't have the same applications on the secured machines as are on the 'public' machines.
If you seriously think you're going to identify a security flaw in the FBI's computer system with casual ruminations here on a weblog, you live in a fantasy world.
Sometimes the only way I can find info on a piece of equipment or a chip is to search the old USENET archives. Often there are only partial threads of info about a particular topic.
I have had good luck sending email sometimes to people who participated in the discussion, sometimes as long as 6-8 years ago. Some messages go into 'a black hole' but I have gotten important info from people who I've contacted in this way.
Now Michigan is saying that because it's an unsolicited email message, I have to prepend ADV: on the front, even though it's not an advertisement? That shuts down the whole possibility of contacting these people.
Further, the whole fact that I am able to contact these people negates the anti-Spam propaganda. There are people who post on USENET, who aren't so chickenshit about Spam that they refuse to use a real email address in their post. I've met some of them. They're good people.
One could say that the damage to communications brought on by the 'fear of spam' is worse than the spam itself in some cases.
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Yes, but does the cassette adapter work in one of those 8-track adapters? You know the ones; they plug into the 8-track slot on your dashboard and you can put a cassette in them.
Microsoft 'saves a lot of money on tech support' every time they sell an OEM license. Because they don't support OEM licenses for free. That's what the OEM is supposed to do.
The first thing I thought of, as an Assembly Language person, was 'where do I download the documents for the instruction set for this processor?'
Somebody better be able to download them, because otherwise there's NOT going to be a GCC for the part.
Why should I care if morons have an account? Your comments don't bother me more than they would if you posted them as an A.C. . . .
So you're saying that AOL should be required to fund development of a Web technology that they're not even using? Clearly if they opted to go with a Microsoft turnkey browser, they don't need to fund Mozilla. I use Mozilla. I like Mozilla. I have no illusion that AOL is going to provide Mozilla to me for free.
And for that matter, where's Pepsi Cola or Sprite in the mix? Both just as related to a Microsoft settlement as Linux or BSD.
I don't know anyting about SCO's products or practices,
Why not say that at the top of your comment text, rather than drag us through a 25 point rant first?
like Netscape announcing they're laying off 50 Netscape developers a couple of weeks after signing the MS agreement that gives them IE for seven years.
That's not a coincidence at all. It's like a farmer deciding to grow corn, instead of tomatoes, so he lays off the tomato pickers.
Why do you pose it like it's some big mystery?
I downloaded an early version of the MSN Messenger client years ago and archived it. I still use that version, which is now four years or more old. I get nagged once a week to 'upgrade' it but I always refuse. It's a fine basic Messenger and it does everything I want. I'm not interested in running anything .NET on my machine unless absolutely necessary.
So I'm probably not eligible for the contest, huh?
And he didn't even say wether or not he flunked out of Calculus. J-School is where you go. Also where you go if they won't accept you into the English department.
'Journalism as a noble profession' is a pretty new thing. Before the 'Woodward and Bernstein' Watergate thing Journalists were considered hacks. Kind of a Clark Kent thing. Then all the anti-establishment sorts got starry-eyed and decided to become 'journalists.'
"Hey little rich boy.
Take a good look at me...."
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Don't flaunt your ignorance.
Evolved?
Bloated.
Calling that 'evolved' would be like saying that Windows was evolved because it came on a 1500 CD set with every damn piece of shareware written for it included.
But that very same box will not stay running more than 15 minutes with a fresh install of Windows 2000 and no patches or service packs installed. Just sitting there doing nothing at all other than waiting for input, you can stare at the screen and not touch the mouse or keyboard and it goes BSOD on you while you look at it.
Duh. Have you considered that it might be a hardware problem?
Please don't spread FUD.
Slackware 3.6 didn't prompt you to generate a root password during installation. It didn't inform you in any way that you should install a root password.
A friend of mine found that out from me, after I logged in her box (after reading a fresh mail header to get her IP). She wasn't happy.
Richard Stallman was part of a protest group at MIT who refused to install passwords on their accounts. They viewed it as a civil right to have unencumbered access to UNIX.
The era of little hoods on the 'net isn't part of the classic UNIX world.
The 'MS DRM defeat' sounds like it's lossy. Somebody figured out how to grab the blinking lights on a Media Player control. It's by no means a 'defeat' that is a clean tap to the media stream.
The open source software that lives on the servers of major distro vendors gets cleaned up pronto. However, since there are 35,000 different permutaitons of Open Source OSes out there, layer upon layer of versions of everything, it's a big weaved-together mess to update anything to an absolutely known state/version. That's part of why Linux isn't formally 'security certified' anywhere. They'd have to actually freeze the code to formally test and certify it.
You can feel good if you're a 'community member' of one of the contiuously updated OSes and you continually update to the tip. Otherwise you're no better off, and probably worse off, than someone who runs one of the 'monoculture' OSes.
My experience, going back years and years, is that when you start putting Norton stuff on your Windows system, you're bound to have 'interesting times' ahead.
It's a bit more sophisticated than the woman I once heard about who 'deleted all those files in the C:\ drive that she didn't know what they were there for' but it's similar in ways.
I try to tweak a Windows box as little as possible. Sucks if you're a third party dingle-doo utility vendor. But oh well.
There are too many conflicting priorities.
As an example, I work (only as a user) with the NetBSD packages collection. Because I like running a number of different architectures. For the NetBSD project, an important aspect of the packages collection is it's wide cross-platform focus. With FreeBSD and with Linux, there just isn't the same focus on ports working on many platforms. So the cross-platform wonderment that is the NetBSD pkgsrc system would be diluted if it were merged with the folks who really only care if it builds on i386.
If you print in any kind of volume, a laser printer, based on dry toner, is far less expensive to operate than those smeary spray-jet printers.
Red Hat couldn't do it. They're not big enough.
I for one have seen less credible links posted over and over and over again. The old chestnut about the stalled Navy ship comes to mind.
These agents aren't running a SSH terminal into the machine that is 'air gapped' from the public internet.
They likely don't have the same applications on the secured machines as are on the 'public' machines.
If you seriously think you're going to identify a security flaw in the FBI's computer system with casual ruminations here on a weblog, you live in a fantasy world.
I sold a whole pile of backissues of 2600 magazine on eBay last year.
Does this mean there's a homing beacon in the fender of my car now??
I am into older hardware and chips and things.
Sometimes the only way I can find info on a piece of equipment or a chip is to search the old USENET archives. Often there are only partial threads of info about a particular topic.
I have had good luck sending email sometimes to people who participated in the discussion, sometimes as long as 6-8 years ago. Some messages go into 'a black hole' but I have gotten important info from people who I've contacted in this way.
Now Michigan is saying that because it's an unsolicited email message, I have to prepend ADV: on the front, even though it's not an advertisement? That shuts down the whole possibility of contacting these people.
Further, the whole fact that I am able to contact these people negates the anti-Spam propaganda. There are people who post on USENET, who aren't so chickenshit about Spam that they refuse to use a real email address in their post. I've met some of them. They're good people.
One could say that the damage to communications brought on by the 'fear of spam' is worse than the spam itself in some cases.