No, they get a cut of every dvd player (software or hardware) sold. They don't get a cut of DeCSS. Therefore they don't like it. It's that simple. CSS only exists so they can tax dvd players.
How the hell do you get to be a State Attorney General and not have the mental ability to see straight through this?
Legally the 1st is more important. Imn reality the 2nd is more important. With guns we can resist. Words are kinda usleless against tanks and bullets, imo.
After seeing applecare prices they better have good suport. And i have used their support and was inpressed. Thoses guys actually know their stuff wuhich is so rare in tech support these days. Now if only i could affort a powerbook.
I hate to reply to my posts, but ther's no edit feature.
I think a troll of a troll isn't a troll. Hinda like two wrongs make a right. Otherwise i'll sue you under the DMCA. Post replies on the best way to. thx.
It's bad for AOL. Who's gonna use AIM when MSN comes with windows. All of a suddon they'll be the IM mozilla, except they have political power. This could get interesting.
Yea, but now they don't give Jow User a chancte to chose a browser. They have a monoploly in Windows and they ship IE with it. Therefore, joe user has IE sitting in forn of him while he'd have to dl and instlal firebird/opera/etc. This is a clear cut case of abusive monopolism because Microsoft uses a monopoly in one area to affect another. IE was the better borwser a long time ago, but that has changes and the other borowsers (rightly) feel they are not given a chance to be picked up by average windows users.
safari's not a zilla and i just switched someone who knows jack shit over to firebird and she was like "cool, no pop-ups". Definatly a losing point for IE.
The "A song of ice and fire" series is better, imo. I just finished SoS and it's incredible. Also Martin plans to actually end the series. Jordan will die writing WoT. It's still a good read, but ASoIaF is better.
I guess ethernet and GUIs would never have been invented.
Bah who needs 'em. I've got a CLI(and it even runs at 1280x1024 in framebuffer mode) and ethernet is overrrated. What does it do that i couldn't do with some hi-tech cans and string. Don't even have to deal with shitty construction cable breaking that way.
I thought it was init that SCO claimed the rights too. As linus only maintains the kernel, how can they even CLAIM damages. Or is it the BS over multiprocessor support and other things SCO can't do themselves?
The "official" kilo is too arbatrary for me. 1 kilo = the mass of 1L H2O at 3*(i think)C 1L = a 10x10x10cm box 1cm =.1M 1M is a fraction of a great circle. So who needs the block?
My biggest gripe isn't so much with Mandrake as it is with Linux developers as a whole. First, can we PLEASE start naming things in a moderately descriptive way? Names like grip, alsa, chbg, gimp, mozilla, k3b. Huh? Great programs all, but do you have any idea what they do by their names?
A lot of those names go back to unix and changing commands/app names is a BSD thing for existing users. Also devs don't like giving their apps boring names. I agree i do see where you're coming form but i don't thing it's that bad. On win32 you see the same thing (Excel, Outlook, etc) it's just what you're used to.
Inatallation I *heart* gentoo. But apt-rpm is apparantly as good. If only more distros used it.
Networking in a Windows environment still isn't easy although this go round Mandrake installs everything you need to do it by default. I would suggest some sort of "wizard" to walk someone through the set up. It would go something like: "Do you want to network this computer to Windows machines?", "What is your windows workgroup/domain name?", "Please enter the Windows user name and password." etc...
Wizards aren't my thing, but i think some distros already have this.
1 - I've built dozens and dozens of computers with custom installations of XP and I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen it crash.
How many fingers do you have man? are you an anenome(i can't spell, i menat the upside down jellyfish) or something.
2 - I've got an XP box in this room that's been running for several weeks, maybe months without a reboot (it's been so long I've lost track).
I have a win2k box. It rarely crashes. of course i don't use it more than once a month to use IE over VNC on my main box. It still crashes more than linux. However, the stability isn't bad, but linux is still better.
3 - I've seen no evidence that desktop Linux distros are more secure than Windows. Check the sites that cover Linux security, bugs, and updates a little more often. Sure, they don't get hit by viruses as much but I believe that's mainly due to the fact that the viruses are written for Windows. When Linux gets a 30% market share and people start writing viruses for them, then we'll talk. I think Linux developers are discovering that the more any OS can do, the larger the chance for security holes.
Windows enables way too much stuff by default. Secure linux distros don't. Mandrake might, but it's not rally a server distro anyway. Also if you don't run as root virii aren't nearly as bad.
My whining aside I really love using Mandrake Linux 9.1. Why else would I load it on 3 of my computers?. Mandrake Linux is easier to use, more powerful, and more compatible than ever. While offering a great computing experience now, it also portends of an exciting future for Linux and Mandrake Linux. I now feel comfortable recommending Mandrake Linux to anyone and everyone willing to put a little effort into learning a new OS.
I'd suggest you try another distro. I've never liked drake, but maybe that's just me.
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If anyone but the US tries to colonize the moon (or antartica, though it's not likely to happen) they will be liberated.
No, they get a cut of every dvd player (software or hardware) sold. They don't get a cut of DeCSS. Therefore they don't like it. It's that simple. CSS only exists so they can tax dvd players.
How the hell do you get to be a State Attorney General and not have the mental ability to see straight through this?
Bribery can lower teh IQ by over 120%.
Legally the 1st is more important. Imn reality the 2nd is more important. With guns we can resist. Words are kinda usleless against tanks and bullets, imo.
This would like restruicting rocks and metal pipes. They can break windows. BURGLARY TOOL.
After seeing applecare prices they better have good suport. And i have used their support and was inpressed. Thoses guys actually know their stuff wuhich is so rare in tech support these days. Now if only i could affort a powerbook.
RE: Troll mod
I hate to reply to my posts, but ther's no edit feature.
I think a troll of a troll isn't a troll. Hinda like two wrongs make a right. Otherwise i'll sue you under the DMCA. Post replies on the best way to. thx.
It's bad for AOL. Who's gonna use AIM when MSN comes with windows. All of a suddon they'll be the IM mozilla, except they have political power. This could get interesting.
And firebird (opera too) still run faster and crash less.
Yea, but now they don't give Jow User a chancte to chose a browser. They have a monoploly in Windows and they ship IE with it. Therefore, joe user has IE sitting in forn of him while he'd have to dl and instlal firebird/opera/etc. This is a clear cut case of abusive monopolism because Microsoft uses a monopoly in one area to affect another. IE was the better borwser a long time ago, but that has changes and the other borowsers (rightly) feel they are not given a chance to be picked up by average windows users.
awww... somnebody can't figure out mandrake.
safari's not a zilla
and i just switched someone who knows jack shit over to firebird and she was like "cool, no pop-ups". Definatly a losing point for IE.
If we had to oly have one, moz would be the best. It's not a company so it can't exactly do bad monopoly stuff. Also anyone can add stuff to it.
Though i do think competition is the best.
The "A song of ice and fire" series is better, imo. I just finished SoS and it's incredible. Also Martin plans to actually end the series. Jordan will die writing WoT. It's still a good read, but ASoIaF is better.
We are deducing the possivbility of life from the farts of martians, right? Whatever works, i guess.
Cause i can't afford a DVD burner. If you buy me one i'll check.
The only Linux equivalent that works, in what I would say, better fashion that Windows Update is Gentoo's emerge.
:)
Damn and i thought was going to get to make a gentoo comment and you took it right out my mouth. MEANIE.
I guess ethernet and GUIs would never have been invented.
Bah who needs 'em. I've got a CLI(and it even runs at 1280x1024 in framebuffer mode) and ethernet is overrrated. What does it do that i couldn't do with some hi-tech cans and string. Don't even have to deal with shitty construction cable breaking that way.
How the fuck did this get modded interesting? Seeing comments modded completely wrong is one of the best parts of /.
You've never seen Goldeneye, have you? If it's in Bond, you know it's true.
I thought it was init that SCO claimed the rights too. As linus only maintains the kernel, how can they even CLAIM damages. Or is it the BS over multiprocessor support and other things SCO can't do themselves?
+R is supposed to be readable by any dvd player. I can't vouch for this, but it it's true you may not have to buy a new DVD player.
The "official" kilo is too arbatrary for me. .1M
1 kilo = the mass of 1L H2O at 3*(i think)C
1L = a 10x10x10cm box
1cm =
1M is a fraction of a great circle.
So who needs the block?
that's a lot of spyware
My biggest gripe isn't so much with Mandrake as it is with Linux developers as a whole. First, can we PLEASE start naming things in a moderately descriptive way? Names like grip, alsa, chbg, gimp, mozilla, k3b. Huh? Great programs all, but do you have any idea what they do by their names?
A lot of those names go back to unix and changing commands/app names is a BSD thing for existing users. Also devs don't like giving their apps boring names. I agree i do see where you're coming form but i don't thing it's that bad. On win32 you see the same thing (Excel, Outlook, etc) it's just what you're used to.
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I *heart* gentoo. But apt-rpm is apparantly as good. If only more distros used it.
Networking in a Windows environment still isn't easy although this go round Mandrake installs everything you need to do it by default. I would suggest some sort of "wizard" to walk someone through the set up. It would go something like: "Do you want to network this computer to Windows machines?", "What is your windows workgroup/domain name?", "Please enter the Windows user name and password." etc...
Wizards aren't my thing, but i think some distros already have this.
1 - I've built dozens and dozens of computers with custom installations of XP and I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen it crash.
How many fingers do you have man? are you an anenome(i can't spell, i menat the upside down jellyfish) or something.
2 - I've got an XP box in this room that's been running for several weeks, maybe months without a reboot (it's been so long I've lost track).
I have a win2k box. It rarely crashes. of course i don't use it more than once a month to use IE over VNC on my main box. It still crashes more than linux. However, the stability isn't bad, but linux is still better.
3 - I've seen no evidence that desktop Linux distros are more secure than Windows. Check the sites that cover Linux security, bugs, and updates a little more often. Sure, they don't get hit by viruses as much but I believe that's mainly due to the fact that the viruses are written for Windows. When Linux gets a 30% market share and people start writing viruses for them, then we'll talk. I think Linux developers are discovering that the more any OS can do, the larger the chance for security holes.
Windows enables way too much stuff by default. Secure linux distros don't. Mandrake might, but it's not rally a server distro anyway. Also if you don't run as root virii aren't nearly as bad.
My whining aside I really love using Mandrake Linux 9.1. Why else would I load it on 3 of my computers?. Mandrake Linux is easier to use, more powerful, and more compatible than ever. While offering a great computing experience now, it also portends of an exciting future for Linux and Mandrake Linux. I now feel comfortable recommending Mandrake Linux to anyone and everyone willing to put a little effort into learning a new OS.
I'd suggest you try another distro. I've never liked drake, but maybe that's just me.
The only reason I picked bees is that we produce Honey - in the form of open source code.
mmm... honey. now i'm hungry