you're right actually. I have been thinking this exact thing while reading down a lot of posts regarding how groups could write an Open BIOS.
Move to PPC hardware. No need for a bios, the hardware has (to my limited knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong) it's own bios on each piece of hardware such as the video, sound, etc. so when you boot, it's instantly accessable. That was the OS doesn't have to supply drivers etc for the hardware.
As one person said here on slashdot: Linux on PPC. The power and security of an operating system, encased in class.
I'm not a fanboy for anyone but it seems like a viable solution if you want to run linux. Just buy the ppc hardware. Sure it may be more expensive. But not having to worry about drivers and things "Just working"... I would love that.
I personally don't care who shows ID and who doesn't. It means nothing that you know what a person's name is. It is NOTHING to what their intents and actions may ultimately be.
The 9/11/01 hijackers had ID and showed it. Do you think it mattered?
Really, pull your head out of the sand. Knowing what a person's name is means nothing. To quote a great author "What's in a name? A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet" -Shakespear. This is true of terrorists and other would be infringers of our freedom, life and the persuit of happiness.
You are not required to carry ID with you at all when you drive. You are only required to furnish proof of a licence to drive within an applicable time period or you get a fine. They can still look you up by name and address. At least in the state of NY and most New England states, they can pull up your picture as well. Having an licence with your picture simply makes it easier for them.
Most cops I have met are really nice guys and are pretty lenient about a lot of things. Including not having I.D. when you drive. I don't carry any ID with me when I drive/fly/whatever. It's not that I'm a raving zealot about being free, it's simply something I never have done, nor was ever inclined to do.
It's natural to pay for things in cash, or over the internet, drive and fly without ID. It's not hard. You simply can't be clueless about it and even ask for help in situations where it'll be a hassle when someone does ask for ID (such as in airports).
You should never expect to have someone request ID unless you've done something wrong as in illegal, against the law etc.
I've spent a couple of days in jail since I didn't produce my ID for something I wasn't even involved in. I gave them my first name and called my lawyer. Nuff said. Since I didn't do anything wrong, they had no business knowing who I was.
Look, I'm not a privacy anal retentive person - but when people try and snoop into your business, people who don't know you or especially a government agent or agency when I have done nothing wrong - a "suspicion" based on profiling or my personality or any thing else they deem as "unnormal" is simply wrong and goes against principles of freedom the founding fathers wanted to ensure we had.
Not to mention I'm a white, upper middle class american. It's not like I'm an easy target to racial profiling (my apologies, but racial targeting and profiling is a sickening problem and I really can't stand it).
People don't have a head on their shoulders these days or excercise common sense. It's truely pitiful.
I cop did that to me while I was in New York a while back visiting family. And he wouldn't tell me. I was doing the speed limit, signaling when I changed lanes etc. etc.
One thing to note, my car at the time was equiped with a video recorder next to the odometer. Sound and all. When the cop refused to identify why I was being pulled over and asked for I.D. and proof of insurnace (after 5 minutes).. I simply pulled away and called my lawyer, who promptly met me at the next exit.
Video and all, I was exonerated from any charge and the police department was spared a harassment charge and any "financial damage" by me - however it made the news for a few days in my local area. And a formal apology to boot. I tell you, sticking it to "the man" is one thing... but making sure abuse doesn't happen and not tolerating any bullying sure left a warm spot in my heart. Not to mention "fan" mail I actually did recieve.
Cops don't pull me over in NY anymore unless I do something wrong.
Your assumption is mistaken. Of course they aren't under any such obligation, but the fact that they're targeting users of WINE is indicative of violating antitrust laws (since they're a convicted illegal monopolist, a bad thing) when it comes to interoperability.
Oh, and just to rebut before you retort with anything regarding using their "dll" downloads or pirating MS-Windows OS's for use under WINE to make it functional; Microsoft has allowed downloading of libraries or platforms (ala.NET) without having to use WU service. You can use their DLL's in systems like Linux privately but you can't redistribute. Not only that, but you get no support from them. In the case of binaries/dll's that come only with one of their Windows OS's, it would be a good idea not to pirate. Period.
But a move to block users from an update service simply because of their choice to use an API translator for Win32 software is ludicrous
First of all, wine is not an emulator as noted on their web page. And of course MS isn't under obligation to update the emulator, only their software. IE- WINDOWS. Their targeting of Wine and other API translators (like Wine) is nothing more than a stunt to anger the users of Windows within a Linux operating system.
If you're going to post rants, make them obvious so we can mod them down. This is nothing more than the obvious BS it is.
Well, I say everytime we find a dupe - especially one within the same day and on the front page - we just dupe the comments and karma whore till our faces are numb and eyes are pained.
Just an example:
How? (Score:5, Interesting) by sfraggle (212671) on Thursday February 24, @11:27AM (#11767199) (http://fraggle.alkali.org/)
How do they have the money to do this? Werent they almost bankrupt about a year ago?
Re:How? (Score:5, Informative) by crow (16139) on Thursday February 24, @11:32AM (#11767258)
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It's a stock swap. No money is involved. This is typical of how mergers often work. The companies agree to merge, and they agree what the company being acquired is worth, do some math, and convert the shares of the acquired company into shares of the new company. The math is much like doing a stock split, though the ratio usually involves a number of decimal points. (The accounting for the investors is also much like a stock split.)
The real question in this case is why is Mandrakesoft's stock worth enough for Conectiva investors to consider this to be a worthwhile deal (as opposed to grabbing on to a sinking ship). I haven't looked at the business side of either company, so I can't comment there.
. . Simple isn't it? I think we should all do this and maybe the guys running/. will start to notice... wait.. they dont' even read the front page, how are they going to notice the comments? D'OH!
Where is this project? I'll keep it alive! I love the dillo project, but have never heard of it for windows? Pray tell...do you have a URL you can point me to? email me at @gmail.com if you have info!
Well, this is very true in most cases however, I'm always worried about the abusue of power that sometimes comes with authority and especially with anonymity. You could have 100,000 seriously awesome, kick-ass agents out there that do in fact protect the rights and privlidges of the USA citizens while thwarting criminals, crime and other malicious deeds. But all it takes is one. One dishonest, power absorbed individual to abuse his granted powers of authority and it becomes public. Suddenly, these hidden cops are targeted when they're found and the people take out their rage on one of the good guys.
I do believe in the good nature of people, but the responsibility of honor and integrity in the shadow of anonymity with authority is too much power for almost everyone to hold. I do not want this responsibility simply because of the personal temptation to not be so honest, especially when you know there is a tiny chance of getting caught, or in being complacent thus making things worse when you throw a blanket X (arrests, fines, punishments etc.) over a stereotyped group.
In theory this could work. But unless the organisation dealt with themselves, policed themselves so efficently that severe misdeeds were punished with prison or confinement for example (maybe without judicial review, but that's iffy), it would never work in reality. You would need highly trained, talented, motivated, honorable men and women with the educational, cognitive and dicipline to do such a job.
Unfortunately, people like that are hard to come by... espeically ones who can withstand and take the burden of responsibility while maintaining a level head and not letting his ego swell.
I have - but the overhead in itself, even without the eye candy, is worth the 20 or so seconds of boot time on the slower systems. Though I'm in the process of slipstreaming SP2 and some other patches into the origional corp cd I recently got a hold of, we'll see how that goes in terms of speed/performance/desirability.
I'm not really sure where people are pulling these stats. Probably from their asses, but when I load firefox, ie and opera this is the score:
P3 1GHz - 128MB Ram - Win2k Pro
Firefox loads the fastest Opera loads almost as fast IE... wtf is taking it so long if it's "integrated" as they say? It not only takes so much friggin time to load, but chews up the hard drive like they're going out of style!
Sorry. I'll believe my own results on the machines I use here.
all run win2k for games (sorry, new xp interface just doesn't cut it for me to mean a "new os") and linux for the main systems.
FF beats them hands down. I'm not a fan boy or anything, but it would be trivial to become one. I just use what's "WORKS" and works the fastest without pop-ups/problems/whatever.
There was another test that included PG-SQL, but I can't find the link now. Basically stating that posgresql burned the rest of them out of the water on a mid ranged server
this is exactly what I'm doing with my linux distro. not standard, but www.linuxfromscratch.org is helping to change that. and in using hidden symlinks, things will be compatible =)
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This might be offtopic but its' in honest question regarding the device...
What is the case the system is in? I find it very attractive and small. Can anyone help me out with a link or a name?
you're right actually. I have been thinking this exact thing while reading down a lot of posts regarding how groups could write an Open BIOS.
Move to PPC hardware. No need for a bios, the hardware has (to my limited knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong) it's own bios on each piece of hardware such as the video, sound, etc. so when you boot, it's instantly accessable. That was the OS doesn't have to supply drivers etc for the hardware.
As one person said here on slashdot: Linux on PPC. The power and security of an operating system, encased in class.
I'm not a fanboy for anyone but it seems like a viable solution if you want to run linux. Just buy the ppc hardware. Sure it may be more expensive. But not having to worry about drivers and things "Just working"... I would love that.
I call ignorance and utter flamebait on this.
I personally don't care who shows ID and who doesn't. It means nothing that you know what a person's name is. It is NOTHING to what their intents and actions may ultimately be.
The 9/11/01 hijackers had ID and showed it. Do you think it mattered?
Really, pull your head out of the sand. Knowing what a person's name is means nothing. To quote a great author "What's in a name? A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet" -Shakespear. This is true of terrorists and other would be infringers of our freedom, life and the persuit of happiness.
You are not required to carry ID with you at all when you drive. You are only required to furnish proof of a licence to drive within an applicable time period or you get a fine. They can still look you up by name and address. At least in the state of NY and most New England states, they can pull up your picture as well. Having an licence with your picture simply makes it easier for them.
Most cops I have met are really nice guys and are pretty lenient about a lot of things. Including not having I.D. when you drive. I don't carry any ID with me when I drive/fly/whatever. It's not that I'm a raving zealot about being free, it's simply something I never have done, nor was ever inclined to do.
It's natural to pay for things in cash, or over the internet, drive and fly without ID. It's not hard. You simply can't be clueless about it and even ask for help in situations where it'll be a hassle when someone does ask for ID (such as in airports).
You should never expect to have someone request ID unless you've done something wrong as in illegal, against the law etc.
I've spent a couple of days in jail since I didn't produce my ID for something I wasn't even involved in. I gave them my first name and called my lawyer. Nuff said. Since I didn't do anything wrong, they had no business knowing who I was.
Look, I'm not a privacy anal retentive person - but when people try and snoop into your business, people who don't know you or especially a government agent or agency when I have done nothing wrong - a "suspicion" based on profiling or my personality or any thing else they deem as "unnormal" is simply wrong and goes against principles of freedom the founding fathers wanted to ensure we had.
Not to mention I'm a white, upper middle class american. It's not like I'm an easy target to racial profiling (my apologies, but racial targeting and profiling is a sickening problem and I really can't stand it).
People don't have a head on their shoulders these days or excercise common sense. It's truely pitiful.
I cop did that to me while I was in New York a while back visiting family. And he wouldn't tell me. I was doing the speed limit, signaling when I changed lanes etc. etc.
One thing to note, my car at the time was equiped with a video recorder next to the odometer. Sound and all. When the cop refused to identify why I was being pulled over and asked for I.D. and proof of insurnace (after 5 minutes).. I simply pulled away and called my lawyer, who promptly met me at the next exit.
Video and all, I was exonerated from any charge and the police department was spared a harassment charge and any "financial damage" by me - however it made the news for a few days in my local area. And a formal apology to boot. I tell you, sticking it to "the man" is one thing... but making sure abuse doesn't happen and not tolerating any bullying sure left a warm spot in my heart. Not to mention "fan" mail I actually did recieve.
Cops don't pull me over in NY anymore unless I do something wrong.
-z
I'd be sure to buy it for £ 10,000
Thank you! I'll be here all week.
THIS IS THE Answer to life, the universe and everything
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Your assumption is mistaken. Of course they aren't under any such obligation, but the fact that they're targeting users of WINE is indicative of violating antitrust laws (since they're a convicted illegal monopolist, a bad thing) when it comes to interoperability.
f f=1&q=microsoft+antitrust+ruling+interoperability& btnG=Search/
.NET) without having to use WU service. You can use their DLL's in systems like Linux privately but you can't redistribute. Not only that, but you get no support from them. In the case of binaries/dll's that come only with one of their Windows OS's, it would be a good idea not to pirate. Period.
You can find information here: http://http//www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2co
Oh, and just to rebut before you retort with anything regarding using their "dll" downloads or pirating MS-Windows OS's for use under WINE to make it functional; Microsoft has allowed downloading of libraries or platforms (ala
But a move to block users from an update service simply because of their choice to use an API translator for Win32 software is ludicrous
First of all, wine is not an emulator as noted on their web page. And of course MS isn't under obligation to update the emulator, only their software. IE- WINDOWS. Their targeting of Wine and other API translators (like Wine) is nothing more than a stunt to anger the users of Windows within a Linux operating system.
If you're going to post rants, make them obvious so we can mod them down. This is nothing more than the obvious BS it is.
I didn't even think of that. That's awesome man.
Troll?
No.
Funny at best. Offtopic deserved.
Just an example:
How? (Score:5, Interesting)
by sfraggle (212671) on Thursday February 24, @11:27AM (#11767199)
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Re:How? (Score:5, Informative)
by crow (16139) on Thursday February 24, @11:32AM (#11767258)
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Simple isn't it? I think we should all do this and maybe the guys running
*tears up plans and flushes them down the toilet*
NEXT!
Now I know what that crazy guy was talking about in Waynes World 2
Where is this project? I'll keep it alive! I love the dillo project, but have never heard of it for windows? Pray tell...do you have a URL you can point me to? email me at @gmail.com if you have info!
This is from SPACE BALLS. He's not off topic, only trying to be funny
Posted by Zonk on Friday February 18, @10:41PM Dupe
/. before posting ? Not even 24 hours yet and a dupe! Gah, is this a record? Who has the record?!
Do the editors read
Well, this is very true in most cases however, I'm always worried about the abusue of power that sometimes comes with authority and especially with anonymity. You could have 100,000 seriously awesome, kick-ass agents out there that do in fact protect the rights and privlidges of the USA citizens while thwarting criminals, crime and other malicious deeds. But all it takes is one. One dishonest, power absorbed individual to abuse his granted powers of authority and it becomes public. Suddenly, these hidden cops are targeted when they're found and the people take out their rage on one of the good guys.
I do believe in the good nature of people, but the responsibility of honor and integrity in the shadow of anonymity with authority is too much power for almost everyone to hold. I do not want this responsibility simply because of the personal temptation to not be so honest, especially when you know there is a tiny chance of getting caught, or in being complacent thus making things worse when you throw a blanket X (arrests, fines, punishments etc.) over a stereotyped group.
In theory this could work. But unless the organisation dealt with themselves, policed themselves so efficently that severe misdeeds were punished with prison or confinement for example (maybe without judicial review, but that's iffy), it would never work in reality. You would need highly trained, talented, motivated, honorable men and women with the educational, cognitive and dicipline to do such a job.
Unfortunately, people like that are hard to come by... espeically ones who can withstand and take the burden of responsibility while maintaining a level head and not letting his ego swell.
Just my 0.02c
I've heard of this before, but with all the lesser admin stuff I've done before I haven't had time to explore it, nor had the need to yet.
Can someone sum up what it is exactly?
I have - but the overhead in itself, even without the eye candy, is worth the 20 or so seconds of boot time on the slower systems. Though I'm in the process of slipstreaming SP2 and some other patches into the origional corp cd I recently got a hold of, we'll see how that goes in terms of speed/performance/desirability.
I'll let ya know.
I'm not really sure where people are pulling these stats. Probably from their asses, but when I load firefox, ie and opera this is the score:
P3 1GHz - 128MB Ram - Win2k Pro
Firefox loads the fastest
Opera loads almost as fast
IE... wtf is taking it so long if it's "integrated" as they say? It not only takes so much friggin time to load, but chews up the hard drive like they're going out of style!
Sorry. I'll believe my own results on the machines I use here.
450mhz 192Mb ram
500mhz 128Mb ram
1000mhz 128mb ram
2.8ghz 512mb ram
3.2ghz 2gb ram
all run win2k for games (sorry, new xp interface just doesn't cut it for me to mean a "new os") and linux for the main systems.
FF beats them hands down. I'm not a fan boy or anything, but it would be trivial to become one. I just use what's "WORKS" and works the fastest without pop-ups/problems/whatever.
-zo
There was another test that included PG-SQL, but I can't find the link now. Basically stating that posgresql burned the rest of them out of the water on a mid ranged server
if anyone finds the study/test, post a link?
Well they always wanted to get a head in everything as well.
This is actually a little faster on my 500mhz intel system! And who said code get's slower as it ages?
this is exactly what I'm doing with my linux distro. not standard, but www.linuxfromscratch.org is helping to change that. and in using hidden symlinks, things will be compatible =)
I did Read the Fine Article and didn't find anything in it worth mentioning. Nothing specific, or even elluded to. What a waste.