Imagine the boost to the "Linux has IP problems" line if all the major Linux players are tied up in litigation over IP issues
If they were being tied up in litigation with several sources, perhaps. However, if all the major Linux players are tied up in countersuits with SCO... I think that looks worse for SCO.
E.G. If all the various product dealers except for brand X were stuck in lawsuits, brand X looks better. If they are all involved in sueing brand X for a smear campaign... brand X looks not so good.
Seriously, it's like SCO has been shooting at packs of wolves with a pellet gun. Yes, the wolves might back off more a moment because the BB's sting, but eventually they will surround and then attack their tormentor...
I used to run a cheaper PSU in my old "Duron" box. Not, Durons are (or were then, not sure about not) inefficient power-gobbling little monsters, but the PSU was rated such that it should have been more than up to meeting the demands of the chip. However, odd things started to happen. Notably, if I were using both my Burner and DVD-ROM at the same time (i.e. copying a disc), sometime later one of the drives would go offline. The drive would simply cease to exist, and would not be found by the system (didn't eject right either) until I did a shutdown and restart of the system.
In summer, I also had to worry about my CPU overheating. Since then, I've got a better power supply, and no more CD-ROM malfunction. With the added PSU fan, my CPU no longer overheats in summer either.
Seriously, if you're going to shell out several hundred for a top-of-the-line video card, or > a grand for a nice system, then at least have the sense to put a formidable power supply in it.
In SCO terms: We've pissed off an awful lot of people, and now they're all starting to fight back. Obviously such an unprovoked attack from several parties must be a conspiracy.
In the real world: Now that both IBM and RedHat, etc have started showing more backbone, I'd expect even more groups/organizations to join in. Sometimes it takes a few single efforts to lead a battle.
That we could do something without hurting the workers in SCO. Yes, as a company they are being very very bad. But what about the actual workers? Do they agree with management? Do they have somewhere else to go?
Unfortunately, there's no way I could see to buy out SCO and put those in the "idiot management division" or "idiot shareholder division" out on the streets without first handing them a hefty chunk of change. But really, SCO and the OS community used to get along to some extent, and I'm sure there are still a fair bit of workers there very worried about their jobs (without yet finding alternate employment) who are both competent and not ignorant.
do the tests themselves work. Unfortunately, a lot of stuff in the computing world revolves around windows - so it could be a matter of adding criterium to the test based on what windows does or "is supposed to do."
It's one thing to say "Operating System A this this security feature while Operating System B does not", but it's a moot point when the way in which System B operates makes such a feature unnecessessary anyways, or if there's a better/different way of doing it that isn't written on a sheet of paper.
Even the greediest government agency has to operate within budget
True, yes, but they can cut corners in other places and then profit personally by choosing Evil Corporation A (tm) as a supplier. After all, it's usually cheaper in the end to offer a minor discount to a high-volume sale, and then a larger "incentive" to those in charge. It's not like gov't have to use half the crap they come up with, that's for the grunts like you and me.
No, I think in this case the damages also amount as punitive, and would take into account the cost of pursueing said damages. I wonder how much exactly it costs to RIAA to maintain their squad of attack-lawyers.
manufacturers will be able to push their clock speeds a little higher.
But of course, clock speeds are already getting very high, and bus speeds are lagging behind again.
What I wonder is if it makes the cooling process more efficient. My CPU gets to a certain temperature where in the summer it makes my legs uncomfortably warm with the blown-off heat. Would this conduct more heat away from the CPU initially, thus keeping older CPU's from reaching leg-burning potentials?
Whilst I haven't gotten into it deeply, I've heard that knoppix is debian-based (unstable). As a debian user, printers are a pain, but not impossible. Is this not so on knoppix?
While a lot of people are mentioning this as a comparison, can anybody explain the concept behind this (why it is done). While I realize that a lot of seniors are on pension without large income, many are not, and a college student struggling with loans etc isn't exactly doing well either.
A lot of places do offer students discounts too (buslines, etc), mind you, but not as many as off senior discounts.
What would be a good tool for me to use in 'nix to figure out the basic latency of my connection? I suppose I could just ping out a well-known host, but that would also involve the latency at their end?
How about mice/keyboards themselves? At work, it's pretty easy to pick out the ones used by smokers, as the yellow chunky residue makes its way onto their keys.
Having to do any service work that involves touching those keyboards is just gross - and it makes me wonder that if it's mucking up the keyboard that badly, what is it doing to their body?
Is this a random thing, CD's most likely to generate actual sales in a retail (brrr, scary though), or perhaps the artists that bitch the most about piracy cutting their own profits?
Users of either should have the free choice and ability to use them without discriminations.
While you may argue that depriving somebody of an instrument that has become critical to a semi-normal lifestyle (due to loss or misfunction of an original part) is bad, is it not also bad to disallow one's fredom of choose in self-modification?
How about if I have poor balance, bad muscle control, etc. If I augment myself with technology is that a bad thing? Should you or anyone else be able to look down upon me as a person because of it?
Don't endanger the well-being of the person who was forced to choose technological enhancements due to physical loss, but don't discriminate again st the one who suffered such enhancements by choice either. Neither is a pretty situation, and both bespeak of the growing ignorance (large due to the mongering of fear) in society.
And so yes, they are comparable, just perhaps not on all levels.
Women didn't need any special tools to know when a man is guilty... they all seem to have built-in polygraphs. Not to mention super detective skills, eagle-eyes, and sharp noses.
They know when you're lying, they can smell that faint whiff of perfume clinging to you, and they can spot that small piece of blonde hair on your light-coloured sweater...
I think there are varying degrees though, and many are geeks of different varieties (not only the computer type, though obviously all seem to be able to use a computer).
We have science-geeks, political geeks, lawyers, and people just generally interested in technology.
I'm guessing that a large number of/.'ers probably haven't built a computer from scratch (whereas I'm sure still that quite many have, some very specialized with cool casemods).
For me, I don't see much reason to build a complete system myself anymore. Individual parts warrantees such, and my computer dealer (with whom I get large corp discounts from work) will put together what I want for a good price. It doesn't really save as many bucks to build your own, so a lot of people don't.
Note, that I do run 2 linux servers, a Mac (which I'm still trying to find time to play with) and 2 windows machines (one with a 'nix partition) - but not everyone is a sysadmin and fulltime computer geek. A lot of us still use windows, but I'm willing to bet that this information is still useful to somebody
Would it be acceptable post "partial" stories? Or perhaps just the intro section. It would open up the topic and (hopefully) lead readers into wanting to click through to the whole article?
A large portion of people don't expect to be voting via computer. The old paper-tally method can still be fooled... but I think people still trust it more, and would just avoid the computerized stuff entirely.
This brings me to something that I have been wondering. Laptops and many other electronics with proprietary batteries use Lithium Ion (Li+). Now some of these (my Acer laptop, sony slimbooks, and to a lesser extent sony digital cameras) are small form factor, but hold a decent charge.
So... why can't I buy a rechargable Li+ battery in an AA form, right off the shelf - or do I just need to look in the right place. I'm aware they probably would cost a heckuva lot... but for longterm use they'd likely be worth it.
Host the game internally... port forward the starcraft port to allow externals, and have other internals join on the forwarded port - would that work?
Otherwise, I haven't had time yet but I'd imagine you could use a "Bridged IPX network" through GIT, with a little iptables magic and some work. This would let you play without serial keys on certain games too...
Voicechat or Videochat: Not NAT-friendly, not at all. Anyone who can help me with this will be on my friends list
Gaming: Fairly NAT friendly. Most of my games work fine, battle.net works fine, direct games often work well (Sometimes hosting is a biatch though).
Serving: Serving what? FTP is the main pain but there are special kernel mods to make it NAT'able, the rest works fairly well.
Direct P2P: What do you mean by direct? Kazaa works fine for both upload/download with my current IPtables config. If you mean file-transfers, MSN/ICQ are a bit quirky... as uploads can be iffy (MSN downloads ok though, anyone want to help me with this)
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Imagine the boost to the "Linux has IP problems" line if all the major Linux players are tied up in litigation over IP issues
If they were being tied up in litigation with several sources, perhaps. However, if all the major Linux players are tied up in countersuits with SCO... I think that looks worse for SCO.
E.G. If all the various product dealers except for brand X were stuck in lawsuits, brand X looks better. If they are all involved in sueing brand X for a smear campaign... brand X looks not so good.
Seriously, it's like SCO has been shooting at packs of wolves with a pellet gun. Yes, the wolves might back off more a moment because the BB's sting, but eventually they will surround and then attack their tormentor...
I used to run a cheaper PSU in my old "Duron" box. Not, Durons are (or were then, not sure about not) inefficient power-gobbling little monsters, but the PSU was rated such that it should have been more than up to meeting the demands of the chip. However, odd things started to happen. Notably, if I were using both my Burner and DVD-ROM at the same time (i.e. copying a disc), sometime later one of the drives would go offline. The drive would simply cease to exist, and would not be found by the system (didn't eject right either) until I did a shutdown and restart of the system.
In summer, I also had to worry about my CPU overheating. Since then, I've got a better power supply, and no more CD-ROM malfunction. With the added PSU fan, my CPU no longer overheats in summer either.
Seriously, if you're going to shell out several hundred for a top-of-the-line video card, or > a grand for a nice system, then at least have the sense to put a formidable power supply in it.
copyright infringement and conspiracy
In SCO terms: We've pissed off an awful lot of people, and now they're all starting to fight back. Obviously such an unprovoked attack from several parties must be a conspiracy.
In the real world: Now that both IBM and RedHat, etc have started showing more backbone, I'd expect even more groups/organizations to join in. Sometimes it takes a few single efforts to lead a battle.
That we could do something without hurting the workers in SCO. Yes, as a company they are being very very bad. But what about the actual workers? Do they agree with management? Do they have somewhere else to go?
Unfortunately, there's no way I could see to buy out SCO and put those in the "idiot management division" or "idiot shareholder division" out on the streets without first handing them a hefty chunk of change. But really, SCO and the OS community used to get along to some extent, and I'm sure there are still a fair bit of workers there very worried about their jobs (without yet finding alternate employment) who are both competent and not ignorant.
do the tests themselves work. Unfortunately, a lot of stuff in the computing world revolves around windows - so it could be a matter of adding criterium to the test based on what windows does or "is supposed to do."
It's one thing to say "Operating System A this this security feature while Operating System B does not", but it's a moot point when the way in which System B operates makes such a feature unnecessessary anyways, or if there's a better/different way of doing it that isn't written on a sheet of paper.
Even the greediest government agency has to operate within budget
True, yes, but they can cut corners in other places and then profit personally by choosing Evil Corporation A (tm) as a supplier. After all, it's usually cheaper in the end to offer a minor discount to a high-volume sale, and then a larger "incentive" to those in charge. It's not like gov't have to use half the crap they come up with, that's for the grunts like you and me.
No, I think in this case the damages also amount as punitive, and would take into account the cost of pursueing said damages. I wonder how much exactly it costs to RIAA to maintain their squad of attack-lawyers.
manufacturers will be able to push their clock speeds a little higher.
But of course, clock speeds are already getting very high, and bus speeds are lagging behind again.
What I wonder is if it makes the cooling process more efficient. My CPU gets to a certain temperature where in the summer it makes my legs uncomfortably warm with the blown-off heat. Would this conduct more heat away from the CPU initially, thus keeping older CPU's from reaching leg-burning potentials?
Whilst I haven't gotten into it deeply, I've heard that knoppix is debian-based (unstable). As a debian user, printers are a pain, but not impossible. Is this not so on knoppix?
While a lot of people are mentioning this as a comparison, can anybody explain the concept behind this (why it is done). While I realize that a lot of seniors are on pension without large income, many are not, and a college student struggling with loans etc isn't exactly doing well either.
A lot of places do offer students discounts too (buslines, etc), mind you, but not as many as off senior discounts.
What would be a good tool for me to use in 'nix to figure out the basic latency of my connection? I suppose I could just ping out a well-known host, but that would also involve the latency at their end?
How about mice/keyboards themselves? At work, it's pretty easy to pick out the ones used by smokers, as the yellow chunky residue makes its way onto their keys.
Having to do any service work that involves touching those keyboards is just gross - and it makes me wonder that if it's mucking up the keyboard that badly, what is it doing to their body?
Is this a random thing, CD's most likely to generate actual sales in a retail (brrr, scary though), or perhaps the artists that bitch the most about piracy cutting their own profits?
At 16 colours? 16-bit would be good, but 16 is worse than modern cellphones.
Users of either should have the free choice and ability to use them without discriminations.
While you may argue that depriving somebody of an instrument that has become critical to a semi-normal lifestyle (due to loss or misfunction of an original part) is bad, is it not also bad to disallow one's fredom of choose in self-modification?
How about if I have poor balance, bad muscle control, etc. If I augment myself with technology is that a bad thing? Should you or anyone else be able to look down upon me as a person because of it?
Don't endanger the well-being of the person who was forced to choose technological enhancements due to physical loss, but don't discriminate again st the one who suffered such enhancements by choice either. Neither is a pretty situation, and both bespeak of the growing ignorance (large due to the mongering of fear) in society.
And so yes, they are comparable, just perhaps not on all levels.
Women didn't need any special tools to know when a man is guilty... they all seem to have built-in polygraphs. Not to mention super detective skills, eagle-eyes, and sharp noses.
They know when you're lying, they can smell that faint whiff of perfume clinging to you, and they can spot that small piece of blonde hair on your light-coloured sweater...
I think there are varying degrees though, and many are geeks of different varieties (not only the computer type, though obviously all seem to be able to use a computer).
/.'ers probably haven't built a computer from scratch (whereas I'm sure still that quite many have, some very specialized with cool casemods).
We have science-geeks, political geeks, lawyers, and people just generally interested in technology.
I'm guessing that a large number of
For me, I don't see much reason to build a complete system myself anymore. Individual parts warrantees such, and my computer dealer (with whom I get large corp discounts from work) will put together what I want for a good price. It doesn't really save as many bucks to build your own, so a lot of people don't.
Note, that I do run 2 linux servers, a Mac (which I'm still trying to find time to play with) and 2 windows machines (one with a 'nix partition) - but not everyone is a sysadmin and fulltime computer geek. A lot of us still use windows, but I'm willing to bet that this information is still useful to somebody
like not sharing their file library
P2P is based on the concept that people share. Less people sharing, less P2P sources, and P2P slowly dies down, RIAA wins...
Would it be acceptable post "partial" stories? Or perhaps just the intro section. It would open up the topic and (hopefully) lead readers into wanting to click through to the whole article?
Care to share your IPTABLES (or ipchains if you're going 2.2) settings that you used for this?
A large portion of people don't expect to be voting via computer. The old paper-tally method can still be fooled... but I think people still trust it more, and would just avoid the computerized stuff entirely.
Dotdadotdotdot...etcetc
E-N-L-A-R-G-E
Y-O-U-R
P-E-hey!!!
You know somebody's gonna try it...
This brings me to something that I have been wondering. Laptops and many other electronics with proprietary batteries use Lithium Ion (Li+). Now some of these (my Acer laptop, sony slimbooks, and to a lesser extent sony digital cameras) are small form factor, but hold a decent charge.
So... why can't I buy a rechargable Li+ battery in an AA form, right off the shelf - or do I just need to look in the right place. I'm aware they probably would cost a heckuva lot... but for longterm use they'd likely be worth it.
Host the game internally... port forward the starcraft port to allow externals, and have other internals join on the forwarded port - would that work?
Otherwise, I haven't had time yet but I'd imagine you could use a "Bridged IPX network" through GIT, with a little iptables magic and some work. This would let you play without serial keys on certain games too...