I personally think it's fairly obvious that if everyone agreed that it's ok to get software without paying for it, and it wasn't illegal to do so, no one at all would ever pay for commercial software and the companies that produce it would stop doing so.
Then why do people buy Red Hat and Suse when it is legally and socially acceptable to get them for free? Why has Red Hat released so much code under GPL? (Above and beyond modifications to GPL products; like Cygwin and eCos.) Why did Suse (well, Novell) GPL YaST when it was their differentiating factor? Why did Netscape open source Mozilla and why did Star Office open source OOo?
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I'm pretty sure somebody used this copy before I downloaded it off of p2p.
Oh come on. I'm a very technical guy and good with geometry, and I don't know which way to swipe the card. They're all different. They have a little pic with the stripe on one side, but I still have to stop and think to spatially imagine it.
The buttons are in different locations, and the procedures are different for different machines.
ATMs are more consistent than those things.
And they're stupid to begin with. WTF? It says to hand my card to the cashier to verify signature? Why didn't the cashier just swipe it him/herself in the first place?!?!
To be picky (and yet probably introducing mistakes of my own), VNC is a remote framebuffer protocol. All native Windows implementations I've seen work as you describe: copying the console desktop to a remote framebuffer. But the X versions I've seen are standalone X servers resulting in (an) independent desktop(s) from the local console. That implementation tends to create stateless connections, but you can use inetd to create on-demand sessions complete with xdm login screens for each session.
It is possible, and I think there are some apps out there (especially embedded mp3 players) that can use VNC remote framebuffers as control GUIs independent of any X or Windows desktop.
I presume what prevents VNC from offering terminal services for Windows is the Windows display API.
IIRC, the knx-hdinstall scripts were contributed. I believe Klaus has been less interested in hard drive installs except for copying the cloop image to the HDD and running it from there. Each way has its advantages and disadvantages, but I gather the core developers don't really care about maintaining the knx-hdinstall scripts and resulting installation.
LILO knows nothing about filesystems (never used grub, so I can't talk about it, but I suspect the same thing happens with it)
GRUB understands filesystems. ext2, ext3 and I think FAT are all available, and there are different "stage1.5"s for other filesystems.
With GRUB you can load an arbitrary kernel with arbitrary initrd with arbitrary parameters at boot time. Or arbitrarily chainload another OS like DOS or Win*.
Just last night I tried using KNOPPIX to setup grub on my boot hd (root (hd1,0) then setup (hd0)), but it didn't work. For some reason I have to use a GRUB boot floppy for that to work. Don't know why it doesn't work from KNOPPIX's GRUB command line (after booting; KNOPPIX uses SYSLINUX to start).
I was messing around with Dia a while back trying to make a logo. For some odd reason I wanted to import a CorelDraw 3 clipart and was trying to figure out how to convert it...even tried installing CorelDRAW3 under Wine. (IIRC it doesn't work under Win2k.)
I was finally able to use OOo Draw to finish the conversion. (I may have used Corel to export to eps and then OOo to export to Dia's format...can't recall exactly at the moment but Dia didn't like whatever Corel exported until OOo converted it.)
I was using Dia for the sake of learning Dia, so I didn't try just doing it all in OOo.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking we're cruising at 30,000 feet, you can see the Mississipi out of the left side of the plane, and...uh, what the hell does "STOP 0xc0000005 (0x00000029,0xc02fdec6,0x00000000,0x00000000)" mean?
I wasn't familiar with nuke detection. I've seen in the movies they can do it by satellite but wasn't sure if that was real.
I overreacted. You're right, there wasn't much to report, and educated guesses can be worse than no information. Western officials probably handled it properly with the available info.
Even given the political situation it surprises me that such a big cloud took so long to be verified and reported, but I guess that's reality. Same as one guy (bin Laden) being able to evade some really powerful groups of people.
I'm at work, so I won't try it, but Google does have an option somewhere to block objectionable content. I once posted a Google search for tubgirl as a joke because all I saw were family baby pictures of kids in tubs, but I got modded into oblivion; I didn't understand why until I stumbled across the objectionable content setting some time later. Oops.
Ah, found the setting again on Google's preferences page. (Seems to have a language specified in my link...the preferences link is just to the right of the search text input on Google.)
Totaly off topic: Just went from Firefox 0.8 to Firefox 0.9.3 (via uninstall / install) on a 266MHz Win2k laptop, and typing text in this box is v-e-r-y s-l-o-w and pegs the CPU usage. What gives? Did a Google search yesterday and didn't find similar issues.
Print to file, then run ps2pdf (psutils available in Cygwin, too!)
You can use redmon (redirect monitor) from the Ghostscript project to automate that in the windows printer. Redmon lets you crate local ports (e.g. RPT1:) and filter the print data through other programs such as gs, ps2pdf or some of the included filters. (I love redfile...want to print to file but not have to enter a filename? Use filter redfile outfile%04d.prn and have numbered sequential outputs like outfile0000.prn, outfile0001.prn, etc..)
I forgot to mention the reports of NK appreaing to prepare for a nuclear test before the cloud.
But another poster posted a link to this story which says "The [South Korean high-ranking] government official said, 'If a nuclear test causes an explosion, we can detect it by reading satellite data. Thus, the recent explosion in North Korea was not caused by a nuclear test.'" That's the kind of hard info I want to hear, assuming it's correct.
I'm not soiling my pants, but I am a bit alarmed. I'm more alarmed by the vague nature of the reports and the explanation-avoiding handwaving by U.S. public officials. I expect the U.S. and other Western governments to know within hours or at most a couple of days whether the cloud was a result of a nuclear blast. I know we don't exactly have the press presence in that area, but I'm sure we have bomb-detecting sensors of some sort aimed at NK given the nature of the diplomatic conflicts there.
I don't necessarily expect them to tell us all the details, but they could at least assert that there is no radiation detected and that's why they think it's not a nuke, if that's the case. This "we don't think it was nuclear" and casual mention of "it could be a forrest fire" is really weak. Why don't we think it's nuclear? It sounds like because it's harder to hide our heads in the sand if it is, or because it throws too big a wrench into the political campaigns.
By the way, while NK can't take over the world they could wipe out between tens of thousands and millions of people in short order and seem to be a bit of a crazy country anyway. And they've been developing missiles that could carry a nuke to the U.S. West coast.
Rereading my post I sound like I am soiling my pants. I'm not, it's just disconcerting that we're getting handwaving instead of hard facts about the report, and that reports of this didn't start trickling out until 2 1/2 days after the event.
Um, was there a stable open source video codec before Theora? IIRC, XVid didn't stabilize until fairly recently. Plus aren't there worries about patents and XVid?
Anyway, I suspect the newness of an unencumbered open source codec has a lot to do with why this wasn't done before.
P.S. OW! Somebody turned up the volume on the video feed! (During Aerosmith's/Run DMC's Walk This Way) I'm shocked the feed is still up. (Watching on win2k, Firefox 0.8 (yeah, need to update) w/ Sun Java 1.4.2_04.)
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I personally think it's fairly obvious that if everyone agreed that it's ok to get software without paying for it, and it wasn't illegal to do so, no one at all would ever pay for commercial software and the companies that produce it would stop doing so.
Then why do people buy Red Hat and Suse when it is legally and socially acceptable to get them for free? Why has Red Hat released so much code under GPL? (Above and beyond modifications to GPL products; like Cygwin and eCos.) Why did Suse (well, Novell) GPL YaST when it was their differentiating factor? Why did Netscape open source Mozilla and why did Star Office open source OOo?
I'm pretty sure somebody used this copy before I downloaded it off of p2p.
Oh come on. I'm a very technical guy and good with geometry, and I don't know which way to swipe the card. They're all different. They have a little pic with the stripe on one side, but I still have to stop and think to spatially imagine it.
The buttons are in different locations, and the procedures are different for different machines.
ATMs are more consistent than those things.
And they're stupid to begin with. WTF? It says to hand my card to the cashier to verify signature? Why didn't the cashier just swipe it him/herself in the first place?!?!
Yeah, but in India everyone is already trained in level 1 tech support.
Warning: Parent's link is redirecting to their home page with pics of boobies and muffs!
To be picky (and yet probably introducing mistakes of my own), VNC is a remote framebuffer protocol. All native Windows implementations I've seen work as you describe: copying the console desktop to a remote framebuffer. But the X versions I've seen are standalone X servers resulting in (an) independent desktop(s) from the local console. That implementation tends to create stateless connections, but you can use inetd to create on-demand sessions complete with xdm login screens for each session.
It is possible, and I think there are some apps out there (especially embedded mp3 players) that can use VNC remote framebuffers as control GUIs independent of any X or Windows desktop.
I presume what prevents VNC from offering terminal services for Windows is the Windows display API.
IIRC, the knx-hdinstall scripts were contributed. I believe Klaus has been less interested in hard drive installs except for copying the cloop image to the HDD and running it from there. Each way has its advantages and disadvantages, but I gather the core developers don't really care about maintaining the knx-hdinstall scripts and resulting installation.
LILO knows nothing about filesystems (never used grub, so I can't talk about it, but I suspect the same thing happens with it)
GRUB understands filesystems. ext2, ext3 and I think FAT are all available, and there are different "stage1.5"s for other filesystems.
With GRUB you can load an arbitrary kernel with arbitrary initrd with arbitrary parameters at boot time. Or arbitrarily chainload another OS like DOS or Win*.
Just last night I tried using KNOPPIX to setup grub on my boot hd (root (hd1,0) then setup (hd0)), but it didn't work. For some reason I have to use a GRUB boot floppy for that to work. Don't know why it doesn't work from KNOPPIX's GRUB command line (after booting; KNOPPIX uses SYSLINUX to start).
I was messing around with Dia a while back trying to make a logo. For some odd reason I wanted to import a CorelDraw 3 clipart and was trying to figure out how to convert it...even tried installing CorelDRAW3 under Wine. (IIRC it doesn't work under Win2k.)
I was finally able to use OOo Draw to finish the conversion. (I may have used Corel to export to eps and then OOo to export to Dia's format...can't recall exactly at the moment but Dia didn't like whatever Corel exported until OOo converted it.)
I was using Dia for the sake of learning Dia, so I didn't try just doing it all in OOo.
Neat program.
Okay, I have a photo of QEII and Margaret Thatcher around here somewhere....
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking we're cruising at 30,000 feet, you can see the Mississipi out of the left side of the plane, and...uh, what the hell does "STOP 0xc0000005 (0x00000029,0xc02fdec6,0x00000000,0x00000000)" mean?
What do serial arsonists gain?
A secure job at the fire department.
Exactly. Look no further than your most recent spam. Except for tracking links, all the pics they want you to see are already embedded in the email.
I wasn't familiar with nuke detection. I've seen in the movies they can do it by satellite but wasn't sure if that was real.
I overreacted. You're right, there wasn't much to report, and educated guesses can be worse than no information. Western officials probably handled it properly with the available info.
Even given the political situation it surprises me that such a big cloud took so long to be verified and reported, but I guess that's reality. Same as one guy (bin Laden) being able to evade some really powerful groups of people.
Where do I get this nothing stuff?
From women. Duh.
(Or, you can click this link.)
I'm at work, so I won't try it, but Google does have an option somewhere to block objectionable content. I once posted a Google search for tubgirl as a joke because all I saw were family baby pictures of kids in tubs, but I got modded into oblivion; I didn't understand why until I stumbled across the objectionable content setting some time later. Oops.
Ah, found the setting again on Google's preferences page. (Seems to have a language specified in my link...the preferences link is just to the right of the search text input on Google.)
Totaly off topic: Just went from Firefox 0.8 to Firefox 0.9.3 (via uninstall / install) on a 266MHz Win2k laptop, and typing text in this box is v-e-r-y s-l-o-w and pegs the CPU usage. What gives? Did a Google search yesterday and didn't find similar issues.
Wow, it's been a while since somebody got mod'ed +5 for a goatse link. Congrats.
(Didn't click on it, but I know the goatse guy's picture was hello.jpg.)
It's going to be tough for anyone to take away Google's share of the search engine market.
Yeah, especially when they use Google for the backend and give part of the ad money to Google (according to summary and other posts; I didn't RTFA).
You can use redmon (redirect monitor) from the Ghostscript project to automate that in the windows printer. Redmon lets you crate local ports (e.g. RPT1:) and filter the print data through other programs such as gs, ps2pdf or some of the included filters. (I love redfile...want to print to file but not have to enter a filename? Use filter redfile outfile%04d.prn and have numbered sequential outputs like outfile0000.prn, outfile0001.prn, etc..)
It will be changed to Wolf's Rain.
I forgot to mention the reports of NK appreaing to prepare for a nuclear test before the cloud.
But another poster posted a link to this story which says "The [South Korean high-ranking] government official said, 'If a nuclear test causes an explosion, we can detect it by reading satellite data. Thus, the recent explosion in North Korea was not caused by a nuclear test.'" That's the kind of hard info I want to hear, assuming it's correct.
I'm not soiling my pants, but I am a bit alarmed. I'm more alarmed by the vague nature of the reports and the explanation-avoiding handwaving by U.S. public officials. I expect the U.S. and other Western governments to know within hours or at most a couple of days whether the cloud was a result of a nuclear blast. I know we don't exactly have the press presence in that area, but I'm sure we have bomb-detecting sensors of some sort aimed at NK given the nature of the diplomatic conflicts there.
I don't necessarily expect them to tell us all the details, but they could at least assert that there is no radiation detected and that's why they think it's not a nuke, if that's the case. This "we don't think it was nuclear" and casual mention of "it could be a forrest fire" is really weak. Why don't we think it's nuclear? It sounds like because it's harder to hide our heads in the sand if it is, or because it throws too big a wrench into the political campaigns.
By the way, while NK can't take over the world they could wipe out between tens of thousands and millions of people in short order and seem to be a bit of a crazy country anyway. And they've been developing missiles that could carry a nuke to the U.S. West coast.
Rereading my post I sound like I am soiling my pants. I'm not, it's just disconcerting that we're getting handwaving instead of hard facts about the report, and that reports of this didn't start trickling out until 2 1/2 days after the event.
Well, that's just great, but North Korea isn't in Southeast Asia.
Really? Where'd they move to?
Um, was there a stable open source video codec before Theora? IIRC, XVid didn't stabilize until fairly recently. Plus aren't there worries about patents and XVid?
Anyway, I suspect the newness of an unencumbered open source codec has a lot to do with why this wasn't done before.
P.S. OW! Somebody turned up the volume on the video feed! (During Aerosmith's/Run DMC's Walk This Way) I'm shocked the feed is still up. (Watching on win2k, Firefox 0.8 (yeah, need to update) w/ Sun Java 1.4.2_04.)
MIT, Apple and IBM are hoarding the rest.