Plenty of folks have access to Windows source, I know for a fact that these guys do, they ship their fault tolerant boxes with a heavily customized version of Windows.
Plenty of other vendors do, too. Plus plenty of third party developers who work on windows. Not every component in there was developed in house, after all. I remember a time when RealPlayer was part of the package, Real must have had some source back then.
Yeah, anyone starting a software project online better run trademark searches in all 200+ countries because one of them might have some little company just waiting to sue you
In all the countries you plan to do business in, you absolutely should.
They only sue in small batches at a time (1000 or so is small to them compared to the constant legal wrangling they do) to prevent such a thing from happening.
The way I read it is, Verizon noticed that there are people who will pay a few bucks for a vanity phone number, like 867-5309, or 6969 or their kids birthdates, or whatever..
So they want to make sure that if anyones going to make money transferring phone numbers, that it's them.
Now, my question is, since Verizon claims ownership, can they take my phone number? Say some rich guys birthday was my phone number, and he wants to write a check to Verizon for the number. Can they just go ahead and take it from me?
What a stupid name. Noone but a bunch of geeks (who wont pay for lindows anyways) gets the joke.
I'd have come up with something original, and marketted it as a great commercial OS - highlighting its actual features, rather than running it as the "MS is teh ghey!!1!! lOOLOL GAYER THEN AIDS!!1!" system.
Teachers who buy supplies out of their own pockets, are generally new college grads, teaching at the lower elementary level, (K-3) who fancy themselves the next great educator.
They want to do all those 'fun and new' activities that they read about in chickadee magazine. Because school is apparently about everything BUT learning math, english, or history.
My third grader is required to take a calculator to class because they dont want to spend time teaching kids arithmetic. Because some kids find it hard, and the argument is it discourages them and they dont like school and dont want to learn. Oh, and heaven forbid any child fail at anything. Of course, the real reason is, that its too much like work to actually TEACH the kids who have trouble grasping it.
Anyways, sorry bitch, but making papier machee monkeys to celebrate martin luther king day is not in the budget. A ditto machine and a fucking number 2 pencil was all we needed in my day.
You can already switch media players with the new "Program Access and Defaults" tab. Who really carees if that 200k or so exe has an uninstaller? Go ahead and delete it.
RealOne and QTPlayer both suck, and thats the plain truth of it. RealOne is an adsupported spyware pile of shit, the free QTPlayer is a crippled pile of crap with its stupid "Do you want to buy this bullshit?" popup showing every time you browse a page with media in it.
I dont use WMP, Real or QT. I've been using the free version of Zoom Player for months now, and love it.
IMO Netscape destroyed themselves by focusing all their resources in the legal department, rather than developing the product.
I started using IE pretty much full time around version 4.0, because by then it was, plain and simple, the better product to me. I could give a rats ass if its bundled or not. Notepad and paint are bundled too, but I dont use either for any real work.
No its not, its some marketting drivel in a press release targetted at investors who might be interested in their upcoming IPO.
"Microsoft announced today that windows will maximize your internet experience with over 32 bits of color, representing a milestone in OS design!"
"Intel announced today that the new Prescott processors will give you the power to make the most of the internet, representing a milestone in processor design!"
"Slashdot announced today that they will post anyones press release as news for a mere nickel, representing a milestone in for-hire shill technology!"
Because it's labor day, and every cable channel is running a marathon of some sort (twilight zone on sci fi, simpsons on fox, monster garage on discovery, etc, etc) and my future megativo 3000 is set to capture them all for me.
If I have 15 VCRs I can record 15 channels, why would I lose that ability on the ubersystem of the future?
Is a 10 to 100mbps network fast enough to carry a few dozen HDTV streams, two or three voice conversations, and still have enough bandwidth left over for the interweb to be considered broadband?
Would even a gigabit pipe to my home have enough bandwidth for all that?
Did the submitter misquote, or is this another career politician blowing words out his ass that he doesn't really understand?
Old folks are like that. I have one politician client who's convinced that the quarter of a T1 he shares with the rest of the county is "way fast".
For windows machines, I found a little app called RegSupreme which actually does a good job of cleaning/fixing keys in the registry.
Best "tool" for tech support is a good working knowledge of the PC. If you're looking for a piece of software to do support for you, then I'm sure the rest of the self proclaimed "IT Guru's" here at slashdot will warm a spot for you in the unemployment line.
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Plenty of folks have access to Windows source, I know for a fact that these guys do, they ship their fault tolerant boxes with a heavily customized version of Windows.
Plenty of other vendors do, too. Plus plenty of third party developers who work on windows. Not every component in there was developed in house, after all. I remember a time when RealPlayer was part of the package, Real must have had some source back then.
What noone picked up on is MSFT is SNAIL MAILING downloaders.
No matter the text of the letter, the implication in recieving a snail mail vs. an e-mail is obvious: "WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU LIVE, MOFO!"
No, but if you made yourself a copy (full or partial) to take home, it would be.
How do you figure that?
If someone hacked JK Rowlings computer, and leaked the "source" for the next Harry Potter book, would it be OK to donwload and read it?
It's their copyrighted work. It's at least as illegal to download the Windows source as it is to download copyrighted films or music w/o permission.
Yeah, anyone starting a software project online better run trademark searches in all 200+ countries because one of them might have some little company just waiting to sue you
In all the countries you plan to do business in, you absolutely should.
Mandrake, Lindows... Both for profit corporations, both trying to make money.
Why not a little investment in a trademark/copyright search before they pick a name?
I mean, is this a "we're too cheap" or a "we dont believe in IP! down with the man!" issue?
We recently named a new product where I work. We rejected the first name we chose after a trademark search turned something else up.
Or do they just set up a situation where this will happen, so they can cry "boo hoo hoo look at these evil corporate bastards?"
MSFT/King Features don't have a choice, really, they have to defend their trademarks, else lose them.
A mailing list would have multiple folks in the To: line, which would be easy to spot automatically.
They only sue in small batches at a time (1000 or so is small to them compared to the constant legal wrangling they do) to prevent such a thing from happening.
The way I read it is, Verizon noticed that there are people who will pay a few bucks for a vanity phone number, like 867-5309, or 6969 or their kids birthdates, or whatever..
So they want to make sure that if anyones going to make money transferring phone numbers, that it's them.
Now, my question is, since Verizon claims ownership, can they take my phone number? Say some rich guys birthday was my phone number, and he wants to write a check to Verizon for the number. Can they just go ahead and take it from me?
Post a list of quotes from the black guy with the hairband on his face, from the next generation star trek?
I'd like to know his take on the situation.
What a stupid name. Noone but a bunch of geeks (who wont pay for lindows anyways) gets the joke.
I'd have come up with something original, and marketted it as a great commercial OS - highlighting its actual features, rather than running it as the "MS is teh ghey!!1!! lOOLOL GAYER THEN AIDS!!1!" system.
Move over, HURD, here comes Lin---s.
Canadian tax laws are more convoluded than the american ones. This coming from a Canadian living in Maryland.
It's just that Americans suck at math - they dont teach it in schools here.
Do the same thing with Macs and big iron from IBM or HP, too. Why should I have to pay the Red Hat or Solaris or OSX tax?
That was me.
I messed up.
What I meant to say was: "BABA BOOEY BABA BOOEY BABA BOOEY HOWARD STERNS PENIS!"
But that would be too many caps, so says the slashdot crapfilter.
Teachers who buy supplies out of their own pockets, are generally new college grads, teaching at the lower elementary level, (K-3) who fancy themselves the next great educator.
They want to do all those 'fun and new' activities that they read about in chickadee magazine. Because school is apparently about everything BUT learning math, english, or history.
My third grader is required to take a calculator to class because they dont want to spend time teaching kids arithmetic. Because some kids find it hard, and the argument is it discourages them and they dont like school and dont want to learn. Oh, and heaven forbid any child fail at anything. Of course, the real reason is, that its too much like work to actually TEACH the kids who have trouble grasping it.
Anyways, sorry bitch, but making papier machee monkeys to celebrate martin luther king day is not in the budget. A ditto machine and a fucking number 2 pencil was all we needed in my day.
Whats with the dot?
You can already switch media players with the new "Program Access and Defaults" tab. Who really carees if that 200k or so exe has an uninstaller? Go ahead and delete it.
RealOne and QTPlayer both suck, and thats the plain truth of it. RealOne is an adsupported spyware pile of shit, the free QTPlayer is a crippled pile of crap with its stupid "Do you want to buy this bullshit?" popup showing every time you browse a page with media in it.
I dont use WMP, Real or QT. I've been using the free version of Zoom Player for months now, and love it.
IMO Netscape destroyed themselves by focusing all their resources in the legal department, rather than developing the product.
I started using IE pretty much full time around version 4.0, because by then it was, plain and simple, the better product to me. I could give a rats ass if its bundled or not. Notepad and paint are bundled too, but I dont use either for any real work.
Plenty of OEMs offer bare machines with no OS.
Very few actually want them. The geek crowd who would install their OS, often would put together their own machine.
The big OEMs, the Dells and Gateways sell to the everyday user who just wants to plug the box in and start interwebbing.
They dont cache images and shockwave/java bloat though, just text. I'd say most pages are well under 10k. But who cares.
it's at least cool enough to merit a /. story
No its not, its some marketting drivel in a press release targetted at investors who might be interested in their upcoming IPO.
"Microsoft announced today that windows will maximize your internet experience with over 32 bits of color, representing a milestone in OS design!"
"Intel announced today that the new Prescott processors will give you the power to make the most of the internet, representing a milestone in processor design!"
"Slashdot announced today that they will post anyones press release as news for a mere nickel, representing a milestone in for-hire shill technology!"
No it doesn't. It represents a pretty reasonable upgrade for Google.
It's expected as the web grows, so will the search engines.
This isn't exactly a man-on-the-moon accomplishment.
Because it's labor day, and every cable channel is running a marathon of some sort (twilight zone on sci fi, simpsons on fox, monster garage on discovery, etc, etc) and my future megativo 3000 is set to capture them all for me.
If I have 15 VCRs I can record 15 channels, why would I lose that ability on the ubersystem of the future?
Is a 10 to 100mbps network fast enough to carry a few dozen HDTV streams, two or three voice conversations, and still have enough bandwidth left over for the interweb to be considered broadband?
Would even a gigabit pipe to my home have enough bandwidth for all that?
Did the submitter misquote, or is this another career politician blowing words out his ass that he doesn't really understand?
Old folks are like that. I have one politician client who's convinced that the quarter of a T1 he shares with the rest of the county is "way fast".
Sandra is a good info/benchmark util.
For windows machines, I found a little app called RegSupreme which actually does a good job of cleaning/fixing keys in the registry.
Best "tool" for tech support is a good working knowledge of the PC. If you're looking for a piece of software to do support for you, then I'm sure the rest of the self proclaimed "IT Guru's" here at slashdot will warm a spot for you in the unemployment line.