hard to say. one of the sideeffects of the DMCA has been companies putting copy protection anywhere they possibly can to protect whatever they wish. if they are invoking the DMCA, i am guessing this os one of those cases.
i'm told those who've looked at CSS(and DeCSS) said essentially that its crap encryption, and only really designed to give legal recourse against those who copy DVD's..not to physically stop them from doing it. considering some kid broke it with just enough lines of perl to fill a t-shirt, i'm inclined to believe this is true.
not to nitpick but...if you were talking about when XP first shipped, you didn't bother to tell us. It doesn't say that in your post. Anywhere.
And even if you were, its is pretty damn silly to argue about whats wrong with a product, lament "oh why don't they do this", when they already do.
New peecees ship with SP2.
Do you realize how insane it sounds that you have to pay them extra to get tech support from someone who actually speaks the same langauge as you?
and I _work_ in tech support.
Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, you'll
find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today:
Xfce 4.2.0, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy
to use desktop environment, and KDE 3.3.2, the latest version of the
award-winning K Desktop Environment. GNOME 2.6.1 with several
upgrades and bug fixes compared with Slackware 10.0 is also included.
agreed. I've actually been itching to get _something_ with a NetBSD logo(and donate to the cause at the same time). I probably will buy something...but yes, cafepress is generally not reknowned for their quality.
If this is all they wanted to do, they could have done it years ago. Every local band on the planet throws a cafepress store up the day after they form. I'd like to think NetBSD is a _little_ more important than that.
plus, they only put up one graphic. at least give us the alternate versions of the new logo!(i prefer the black)
from what i heard from classmates running 64-bit linux on their shiny new amd64 laptops, linux isn't entirely stable there either.
Seems like its mostly being run on servers? Certainly fewer driver issues there then on your desktop or laptop.
again, i've never run 64-bit anything, so i'm only speaking from what others have told me their experiences were.
I run NetBSD 2.0 on a SparcStation5 as a webserver.
I salvaged these sparcs from the trash at my university. They didn't come with any working OS, almost no ram, and tiny hard drives. Any remotely current version of Solaris was out of the question.
NetBSD was an excellent choice for a current, lightweight, and robust OS that would run well on it. Getting Apache/PHP/MySQL installed through pkgsrc was very easy, and its been doing daily duty as my personal webserver for months.
Of course Linux does run on this box as well. Debian's port is pretty mature. Part of my interest in NetBSD on it was learning something new, as opposed to just another Debian box.
I have been very impressed with its performance thus far. Enough to consider NBSD other places.
actually, before running NetBSD, I ran Debian on my SparcStation5, and it not only ran pretty well, but its easy to do a lightweight Debian install. They had a pretty good selection of things in apt-get as well.
The Gentoo sparc port is supposed to be pretty good as well(although i don't run it), and there is also the unofficial Slackware port, Splack(http://www.splack.org/), although its a bit more work.
its just called "splack." I'm running Splack 10.0 on my shellserver right now. I will certainly admit that its not the most robust of the linux-sparc choices available...but far from dead. I speak with the developers on a near daily basis.
http://www.splack.org/
actually, you can download the beta from microsoft.com for FREE, and i'm told its fairly stable.
I haven't bothered to even burn the iso yet, so I can't speak from experience.
If they cared about security (remember them saying that Windows XP was the most secure operating system ever?) they would have shipped it with the firewall on by default and most services off by default.
good point.
I have 3 sun4m machines. I considered downloading the sparc version of sol10 just to see if it would run, even if in an extremely stripped down install.
Thanks for saving me the trouble;)
slashdot ad has been up for days
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Funny. I started downloading this yesterday, after being prompted to try Solaris10 by an ad at the top of slashdot.
That same ad is at the top of the page now.
In fact, I have seen it a LOT the last several days.
40GB ipods sell like hotcakes. Clearly its not just geeks who have more than 10GB of mp3s.
I'm up to nearly 30GB myself, and I haven't even gotten around to digitizing my entire CD and Vinyl collection yet.
And movies...we're at about 175GB for that. Not counting the parts of my physical DVD collection I haven't gotten around to ripping yet.
Bittorrent makes up the majority of the internet's traffic at this point. Clearly a LOT of people have similarly expansive collections of media.
I think the minimac may in fact be just the thing to help the media pc really catch on. One of those things with a nice big hard drive would probably be ideal. Hell, the 256MB stick in the $500 base model is probably plenty for a media pc anyways...I've certainly run Mplayer just fine with lesser machines.
not _possibly_. There was a palm thread here a few weeks back, and Bruce Perens posted several times confirming that it was true, and that he and others have been working with Palm very closely regarding various licensing issues.
Not just a rumor. They have committed themselves to basing PalmOS6 on linux.
yes, i hate to admit it because i am most certainly not a bush fan...but that quote was taken very much out of context. I watched "Fahrenhype 911" last week just to hear what ind of rebuttals they had. One thing they showed was that footage came from a charity dinner where the tradition is for the two political candidates to give a humorous self-depecreatory speech. Al gore was there, and gave a similar speech as well.
It looks very damning in Moore's film. Much less so if you know the context.
A lot of things require some version of IE to run in wine. Visio was smart enough to offer to go download a copy and install it.
Not that I'm happy about IE on my box, but if its a dependency, then so be it.
I work tech support for a company that provides internet in hotel rooms across the country.
You're not wrong.
Generally people tend to be very relieved when they get a "computer guy" on the phone, and will bug them about anything and everything because hey...i called you about my computer, right?
Meanwhile i've got 3 other people on hold. Ugh.
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hard to say. one of the sideeffects of the DMCA has been companies putting copy protection anywhere they possibly can to protect whatever they wish. if they are invoking the DMCA, i am guessing this os one of those cases. i'm told those who've looked at CSS(and DeCSS) said essentially that its crap encryption, and only really designed to give legal recourse against those who copy DVD's..not to physically stop them from doing it. considering some kid broke it with just enough lines of perl to fill a t-shirt, i'm inclined to believe this is true.
neat! i would mod this up if i had any points. most interesting thing in this entire thread.
not to nitpick but...if you were talking about when XP first shipped, you didn't bother to tell us. It doesn't say that in your post. Anywhere. And even if you were, its is pretty damn silly to argue about whats wrong with a product, lament "oh why don't they do this", when they already do. New peecees ship with SP2.
Do you realize how insane it sounds that you have to pay them extra to get tech support from someone who actually speaks the same langauge as you? and I _work_ in tech support.
If this is all they wanted to do, they could have done it years ago. Every local band on the planet throws a cafepress store up the day after they form. I'd like to think NetBSD is a _little_ more important than that.
plus, they only put up one graphic. at least give us the alternate versions of the new logo!(i prefer the black)
from what i heard from classmates running 64-bit linux on their shiny new amd64 laptops, linux isn't entirely stable there either. Seems like its mostly being run on servers? Certainly fewer driver issues there then on your desktop or laptop. again, i've never run 64-bit anything, so i'm only speaking from what others have told me their experiences were.
I salvaged these sparcs from the trash at my university. They didn't come with any working OS, almost no ram, and tiny hard drives. Any remotely current version of Solaris was out of the question.
NetBSD was an excellent choice for a current, lightweight, and robust OS that would run well on it. Getting Apache/PHP/MySQL installed through pkgsrc was very easy, and its been doing daily duty as my personal webserver for months.
Of course Linux does run on this box as well. Debian's port is pretty mature. Part of my interest in NetBSD on it was learning something new, as opposed to just another Debian box.
I have been very impressed with its performance thus far. Enough to consider NBSD other places.
actually, before running NetBSD, I ran Debian on my SparcStation5, and it not only ran pretty well, but its easy to do a lightweight Debian install. They had a pretty good selection of things in apt-get as well. The Gentoo sparc port is supposed to be pretty good as well(although i don't run it), and there is also the unofficial Slackware port, Splack(http://www.splack.org/), although its a bit more work.
its just called "splack." I'm running Splack 10.0 on my shellserver right now. I will certainly admit that its not the most robust of the linux-sparc choices available...but far from dead. I speak with the developers on a near daily basis. http://www.splack.org/
actually, you can download the beta from microsoft.com for FREE, and i'm told its fairly stable. I haven't bothered to even burn the iso yet, so I can't speak from experience.
the hardware requirements in Linux are half those i Windows. HALF! :)
Tried America's Army? Popular game, its free, Linux native, and its hardware requirements in Linux are HALF what they are in Windows.
good point. I have 3 sun4m machines. I considered downloading the sparc version of sol10 just to see if it would run, even if in an extremely stripped down install. Thanks for saving me the trouble ;)
Funny. I started downloading this yesterday, after being prompted to try Solaris10 by an ad at the top of slashdot.
That same ad is at the top of the page now.
In fact, I have seen it a LOT the last several days.
40GB ipods sell like hotcakes. Clearly its not just geeks who have more than 10GB of mp3s. I'm up to nearly 30GB myself, and I haven't even gotten around to digitizing my entire CD and Vinyl collection yet. And movies...we're at about 175GB for that. Not counting the parts of my physical DVD collection I haven't gotten around to ripping yet. Bittorrent makes up the majority of the internet's traffic at this point. Clearly a LOT of people have similarly expansive collections of media. I think the minimac may in fact be just the thing to help the media pc really catch on. One of those things with a nice big hard drive would probably be ideal. Hell, the 256MB stick in the $500 base model is probably plenty for a media pc anyways...I've certainly run Mplayer just fine with lesser machines.
pkgsrc from netbsd is virtually the same, and has long been available on most every flavor of bsd and linux...and unix.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=73 83
not _possibly_. There was a palm thread here a few weeks back, and Bruce Perens posted several times confirming that it was true, and that he and others have been working with Palm very closely regarding various licensing issues. Not just a rumor. They have committed themselves to basing PalmOS6 on linux.
www.broadbandhospitality.com
I used bittorrent for a year before i realized it could be used for anything other than downloading Linux/BSD ISO's. I'm not joking.
yes, i hate to admit it because i am most certainly not a bush fan...but that quote was taken very much out of context. I watched "Fahrenhype 911" last week just to hear what ind of rebuttals they had. One thing they showed was that footage came from a charity dinner where the tradition is for the two political candidates to give a humorous self-depecreatory speech. Al gore was there, and gave a similar speech as well. It looks very damning in Moore's film. Much less so if you know the context.
A lot of things require some version of IE to run in wine. Visio was smart enough to offer to go download a copy and install it. Not that I'm happy about IE on my box, but if its a dependency, then so be it.
I work tech support for a company that provides internet in hotel rooms across the country. You're not wrong. Generally people tend to be very relieved when they get a "computer guy" on the phone, and will bug them about anything and everything because hey...i called you about my computer, right? Meanwhile i've got 3 other people on hold. Ugh.