Just throw off zmd from your system and use opensuseupdater instead of zen-updater.
Before I did that, openSUSE managed to make a dual-core system almost unusable: One core was running zmd at nice 0, the other one was running beagled-helper at nice 0. Now I only get one core filled up from time to time, and therefore only need to kill or at least renice when I need full processor power. For normal operation one core is enough, and beagle can have the other one.
IANAL, but I think if you clearly state on the login screen that IPs of failed logins are logged, and that this is in order to disable them on repeated failed logins, I think you should be safe: You stated it explicitly before actually logging (anyone who doesn't want his IP to be logged can simply refrain from trying to login if he doesn't know for sure what the username/password is), and you also stated an IMHO legitimate reason (protecting against fraudulent login).
So if I choose to enslave some visitors to my home, that's entirely OK, since it's my home? Even at home you are still subject to the laws of whatever country you are in.
(And just in case someone with bad reading comprehension gets to read this post: I did not say that logging IPs is the same as enslaving people.)
>and those who decide otherwise inevitably get punished (e.g., Apple, Microsoft)
yes, punished by gaining 90+% market share.. Indeed. Note that Microsoft tries to evade that punishment by all means. They made what was probably the most instable operating system in history. Then they tried to reduce their market share with insecurity. And now they even try to piss their customers off with things like WGA. But it all doesn't work, they still have the large market share.
Instead, we allow registrars who don't speak English (or at least claim to not speak English when you contact them) to sell.com domains, which are used to sell illegal products to foolish customers here in the US.
And how is the registrar to know that the person registering the domain will pretend not to speak English later on? Do registrars have crystal balls, or what?
I don't see why you can't outsource lawyers. Just outsource the rest of the legal system as well. If all U.S. courts are in India, there's no problem with all the lawyers being in India as well.
Are you serious? I couldn't imagine that Dell would do that. It wouldn't be hard for them to recompile the kernel themselves, once, and put that kernel on all the laptops they sell. Moreover I'm curious what that recompiling was needed for. I'm using Linux since the end of 2000, and the only time I've ever recompiled a kernel was very early, when I still was running SuSE 7.0, and wanted FireWire drivers (which weren't yet in the kernel back then, but available as a patch). Today, with module support, I probably wouldn't even have to recompile the kernel in that case. But in any case, if you need to recompile the kernel on a fresh machine with preinstalled Linux, I'd say the vendor (i.e. in your case Dell) didn't do his job. If I'd get a preinstalled Windows, and the first thing I'd have to do were to install the drivers for the hardware which came built into the computer, I'd be pissed as well (and I also wouldn't blame that on Microsoft, but the computer vendor).
Now I must admit that I don't have any experience with that, because I bought all my computers without OS (except my very first one, which came with OS/2 preinstalled). So maybe such crappy service is standard with preinstalled operating systems. But then, it still wouldn't change the fact that it's clearly not the fault of Linux.
And BTW, the Linux command line is comparable with the MS DOS command line in the same way as a Trabi is comparable with a Porsche. And yes, XP also has a kernel (there's no OS without a kernel). You wouldn't recompile it, though (you couldn't do it even if you wanted). But then, unless you're a kernel developer (or a Gentoo user:-)), nowadays I don't see why you should have to recompile your kernel.
So the true way to get Linux to the masses would be to write Linux crapware, and then pay the computer vendors to put that Linux crapware on Linux laptops?
In a couple of years the dollar will have fallen so far that the Indians will be off shoring to you! Then we'll see if your Hindi is better than their English!:-)
Well, it uses the new, patent-pending doublecalc technology. It's the equivalent to doublethink for calculations. Doublecalc allows the same result to be both 65535 and 100000 at the same time, thus remaining compatible both with conventional math and with Excel.
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Just throw off zmd from your system and use opensuseupdater instead of zen-updater.
Before I did that, openSUSE managed to make a dual-core system almost unusable: One core was running zmd at nice 0, the other one was running beagled-helper at nice 0. Now I only get one core filled up from time to time, and therefore only need to kill or at least renice when I need full processor power. For normal operation one core is enough, and beagle can have the other one.
I smell a patent lawsuit with Amazon
Must ... resist ... "whole new meaning of BSOD" joke ...
IANAL, but I think if you clearly state on the login screen that IPs of failed logins are logged, and that this is in order to disable them on repeated failed logins, I think you should be safe: You stated it explicitly before actually logging (anyone who doesn't want his IP to be logged can simply refrain from trying to login if he doesn't know for sure what the username/password is), and you also stated an IMHO legitimate reason (protecting against fraudulent login).
So if I choose to enslave some visitors to my home, that's entirely OK, since it's my home?
Even at home you are still subject to the laws of whatever country you are in.
(And just in case someone with bad reading comprehension gets to read this post: I did not say that logging IPs is the same as enslaving people.)
yes, punished by gaining 90+% market share.. Indeed. Note that Microsoft tries to evade that punishment by all means. They made what was probably the most instable operating system in history. Then they tried to reduce their market share with insecurity. And now they even try to piss their customers off with things like WGA. But it all doesn't work, they still have the large market share.
Well, "unique" means "different from everything else", right?
Then "very unique" obviously means "very different from everything else".
And how is the registrar to know that the person registering the domain will pretend not to speak English later on? Do registrars have crystal balls, or what?
We'd do, but opening the box might kill it.
But in this case, the first post doesn't state it's the first post. It tries to make a joke based on Schrödinger's cat.
I don't see why you can't outsource lawyers. Just outsource the rest of the legal system as well. If all U.S. courts are in India, there's no problem with all the lawyers being in India as well.
Are you serious? I couldn't imagine that Dell would do that. It wouldn't be hard for them to recompile the kernel themselves, once, and put that kernel on all the laptops they sell. Moreover I'm curious what that recompiling was needed for. I'm using Linux since the end of 2000, and the only time I've ever recompiled a kernel was very early, when I still was running SuSE 7.0, and wanted FireWire drivers (which weren't yet in the kernel back then, but available as a patch). Today, with module support, I probably wouldn't even have to recompile the kernel in that case. But in any case, if you need to recompile the kernel on a fresh machine with preinstalled Linux, I'd say the vendor (i.e. in your case Dell) didn't do his job. If I'd get a preinstalled Windows, and the first thing I'd have to do were to install the drivers for the hardware which came built into the computer, I'd be pissed as well (and I also wouldn't blame that on Microsoft, but the computer vendor).
:-)), nowadays I don't see why you should have to recompile your kernel.
Now I must admit that I don't have any experience with that, because I bought all my computers without OS (except my very first one, which came with OS/2 preinstalled). So maybe such crappy service is standard with preinstalled operating systems. But then, it still wouldn't change the fact that it's clearly not the fault of Linux.
And BTW, the Linux command line is comparable with the MS DOS command line in the same way as a Trabi is comparable with a Porsche. And yes, XP also has a kernel (there's no OS without a kernel). You wouldn't recompile it, though (you couldn't do it even if you wanted). But then, unless you're a kernel developer (or a Gentoo user
Red Hat, Novell, or whoever else provides the Linux distribution.
So the true way to get Linux to the masses would be to write Linux crapware, and then pay the computer vendors to put that Linux crapware on Linux laptops?
In a couple of years the dollar will have fallen so far that the Indians will be off shoring to you! Then we'll see if your Hindi is better than their English!
There may be cars which talk to me. But where are the cars that talk with me?
Gentoo: "Micheal look out! The bad guys have guns! I think I better install the new door driver now, so you can get in again. Compiling ..."
SE_Linux: "Sorry, Michael, I can't let you in. You don't have CAP_OPEN_DOOR."
Use a connection conforming to rfc2549. You don't need AT&T for that. ...
OK, the latency may be a little high
... will their name go from E-stonia to M-stonia as well?
Well, maybe by mistake they didn't give you a copy, but the original :-)
Well, it uses the new, patent-pending doublecalc technology. It's the equivalent to doublethink for calculations. Doublecalc allows the same result to be both 65535 and 100000 at the same time, thus remaining compatible both with conventional math and with Excel.