Got a 'travelstar' in my laptop that's been going fine for ages. So there was a bad lot a while back, get over it.
I've got one of those in my Dell too. It's louder than hell when it's powered up though and I've been meaning to toss it for a nice Maxtor drive. I'm glad IBM got out of the drive business because their stuff sucked.
But then I don't have to worry about that, because as far as I can see, the plan is that once ISS and the shuttle have been killed, the Moon/Mars budget will be cut and NASA's manned space program will die: maybe they'll be allowed to keep the OSP/CRV/CEV capsule or whatever it's called these days and send up an astronaut or two a year, if they're lucky.
Then the rocket scientists working for NASA will pretty much be forced to go work for third world nations developing ICBM technology.
On a Tuesday night they do a rock show, with Mary Anne Hobgoblin, and that is worth waiting up for. I have my awesome 5.1 surround system here, with great bass and minted high tones, but I cannot listen to it because they stream in RealAudio.
The thing I don't quite understand is if these stations are just streaming audio (and usually just stereo audio at lower than CD quality), why don't they just stream it as mp3 or whatever Shoutcast uses? It works great on every platform I've tried it on and doesn't need some proprietary spyware-bloated application to listen. They could still offer a 56kbps for modem users and a 128kbps stream for everyone else. With video it becomes more complicated of course, but with broadband you might as well just use DivX or even mpeg2 to stream your stuff instead of proprietary codecs again.
So if I pirate it, I go to jail... fair enough... if you send it to me for free, and I don't buy exchange server from you... I will be forced to pirate exchange to get any of it to work, so I go to jail..
Why are you forced to pirate exchange to get any of it to work? I bought Office 2003 Pro (student discount for $20) and it works just fine standalone. Granted, I'm just using Excel, Powerpoint, Access, and Word, but it's never told me I had to buy Exchange.
I would like to assist with this process of free dissemination of information. If anyone has a suggestion how I might do that, please post here. I'm a normal user with an always-on DSL connection, run a normal webserver, and would like to assist with this.
Why do you want to contribute to this obvious treason on the part of the Chinese people? If they didn't like the way their government runs things then they would have a revolution and change it. Since they don't we should only assume it is a very peaceful civilized and happy nation there. Why ruin it by trying to westernize them?
If so anybody have a list of SSL providers I should be giving a second look at when the site pops up?
Verisign. Their underhanded deceptive practices practically brought the Internet to a stand-still last fall with their Sitefinder "service". I'd recommend deleting them as a trusted CA in all your applications and NEVER visiting sites that have been signed by these slimeballs.
If it's gigabytes per month (as GB with a capital B would suggest) - that's a 420 kilobytes per second sustained transfer rate, 24/7 - equivalent to maxing out a 4Mbps connection (except it's burstable to 10Mbps).
It's Gigabytes. Nobody quotes total bandwidth in gigabits unless they're talking about per second speeds. Now, whether it's GiB or GB is another story.;-)
Its bad enough to do that just with my motherboard (BOOT with a DOS boot disk when I have been using Linux exclusively for over 2 years, bah).
Get a modern motherboard then. With my Asus A7n8x deluxe I just reboot, hit a key sequence (alt-F4 or something like that) and it starts the awdflash program stored in rom (or an eeprom or somewhere) and prompts me to put in a disk with the image to flash. Very simple, no boot disks needed.
My new MSI motherboard is even simpler.. it has a live update Windows program that works just fine in Windows XP to flash the BIOS. No need to reboot to DOS first.
As for the person that said BIOS hasn't been improved in 10 years, that's a bunch of bull. My motherboards can now boot off of a CD rom device, a USB keyfob, or even the network via PXE. My top of the line motherboard circa 1996 didn't have any of those features. Hell, it didn't even have USB. It may not be a huge innovation, but it's certainly been improved.
While I agree with everything they said, and love listening to their radio show, and reading their newsspaper column... Are Click and Clack really the people you want to be taking computer advice from?
Agreed. Shouldn't they be streaming some mpeg audio format that you can listen to on ANY platform without some proprietary client? Video is one thing, but for Pete's sake, if you're streaming FM quality talk shows, just use mpeg.
uhh...no, see the diffrence is that Linux might have many local exploits that have not been found, but the structure of the OS makes it very hard for a remote exploit.
Really now? So if I send you a binary attachment and you run it, you won't be exploited? Care to try one I have here? People are complaining about the EXACT same thing on Windows. All these recent Windows vulnerabilities have been local exploits. Exploits of any kind are never excusable and are the result of poor coding.
Seems like none of the current releases are affected by this anyway. Ref. the article:
Only version: 2.2 up to and including 2.2.25, 2.4 up to to and including 2.4.24, 2.6 up to to and including 2.6.2
What do you consider "current"??? As far as I knew 2.4.24 was the latest kernel. Now I've got to spend the rest of the weekend updating boxes because Linux, yet again, has a major local exploit. I'm getting extremely tired of this. When is someone with a security clue going to audit this code? I'd be surprised if SCO UNIX code WASN'T in there since they can't even get tiny shit like this right.
Yeh, but if you read the security report, this problem exists in *all* 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6 Linux's - so this local exploit has been sitting there for ~5 years before The Good Guys spotted it.
So basically this proves that Linux is just as insecure as Windows is. There have been lots of major kernel vulnerabilities floating around in the past 6 months. I guess it's time to switch to OpenBSD.
So if I live in Massachusetts, order something from Amazon, but have it delivered to my in-laws in New Jersey, who deliver it to my Uncle in Long Island for his birthday, which state is supposed to get the tax?
If these are the same as the Ohio Use Tax, then you pay the tax wherever the item will eventually reside, in your case Long Island. So for example, I buy a computer from California and have it delivered to Ohio I pay my Ohio county's sales tax rate as a "use tax". Actually, from what I understand of the law, if I buy a computer in an Ohio county that has a 6% tax rate and bring the item back to my county where I live where the tax rate is 8%, I owe the state 2% use tax. That's bullshit IMHO. It's entirely voluntary compliance though and Ohio has no authority to regulate interstate commerce so I'm not sure how they could ever hope to enforce this.
I remember asking for that game from my wife for Christmas last year when I bought our PS2. Turns out I played it for exactly 10 minutes, found I kept getting killed on the first boat mission, and promptly got bored of it and shelved it since last year. I don't know how these kids can play FPS games on those dinky controllers... I need a decent keyboard and trackball to kick ass.
Each time a new local/remote root vulnerability is found the only way to be certain you haven't been cracked is to reinstall from scratch.
Or just go back and run a filesystem scan against your known-good tripwire or AIDE database you keep on CD to see which files have been modified. Of course, you need to do it from single user mode after booting off a known-clean boot media like the install CD, but that's a helluva lot better than reinstalling everything. Sure, if you don't have a good tripwire database setup then you need to reinstall.
One of the statements SCO has made in the IBM lawsuit is that the only way AutoZone could have made the transition to Linux so quickly is if IBM helped them by porting the OpenServer libraries over to Linux. They offer no evidence for this, and the entire charge strikes me as complete bunk.
What kind of crappy OS was OpenServer if it's that difficult to port applications? It's UNIX isn't it? Recompile and run. I would imagine some text terminal program isn't THAT ingrained with the SCO OpenServer libraries that it took more than a few days to port. Frankly, if it did, that would be a major factor against using SCO's product in the first place.. it's just not up to the standards everyone else is.;-) I'll give SCO the benefit of the doubt and assume AutoZone used some commercial POS application and didn't have access to the source or couldn't get the company to compile it on a sane platform and had to use the old SCO binary compatibility support (which I believe the "real" SCO contributed to Linux almost a decade ago).
Both Stargate SG-1 and South Park are preparing to go into season 8, and the former is also generating a spin-off (Stargate: Atlantis).
Then there's The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live. God only knows how long those have been on.. well past their time to die I presume. SNL has been absolutely untolerable the last two times I've tried to watch it.
Yes, but we have no idea what they are running behind the firewall or webserver.
Are you saying everybody doesn't run their corporate webserver on a single box that serves as the NAT/firewall gateway, mail server, Samba server, and print server for the entire company? I'm shocked, absolutely shocked.
P.S.: Sometimes I think the Open Source crowd's "hillbilly" roots show through in that they expect if the products they use work for a tiny subset of their world then it should be suitable for everyone in every situation no matter how big the scale. Most likely Autozone has thousands of SCO UNIX POS terminals or something.
And what IP may that be? Elaborate, please. What does SCO own that you had to pay for when you are using Red Hat Linux, from a company that will cover the risk for you?
It's a protection fee, nothing more. You used to pay it to a guy who came into your shop every week or later that night a group of thugs would come by and smash in your windows, bust up your shop, and beat you and your wife as you're trying to close up for the night. Welcome to the information age where the "busting up your shop" is done through expensive frivilous lawsuits and protection fees are paid through "licensing".
Because sometime later today, SCO is going to sue one of his competitors...
SCO really reminds me of the mafia. Pay me an IP license fee and we won't sue you out of business. Are MBAs like Darl McBride the new organized crime figures? I'm suprised no one has tried using the RICO laws against SCO.
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I've got one of those in my Dell too. It's louder than hell when it's powered up though and I've been meaning to toss it for a nice Maxtor drive. I'm glad IBM got out of the drive business because their stuff sucked.
Then the rocket scientists working for NASA will pretty much be forced to go work for third world nations developing ICBM technology.
Basically all the old shareware games I had were like that. Sopwith, Alleycat, etc. They all sped up when I tried them on my 386.
The thing I don't quite understand is if these stations are just streaming audio (and usually just stereo audio at lower than CD quality), why don't they just stream it as mp3 or whatever Shoutcast uses? It works great on every platform I've tried it on and doesn't need some proprietary spyware-bloated application to listen. They could still offer a 56kbps for modem users and a 128kbps stream for everyone else. With video it becomes more complicated of course, but with broadband you might as well just use DivX or even mpeg2 to stream your stuff instead of proprietary codecs again.
Why are you forced to pirate exchange to get any of it to work? I bought Office 2003 Pro (student discount for $20) and it works just fine standalone. Granted, I'm just using Excel, Powerpoint, Access, and Word, but it's never told me I had to buy Exchange.
Why do you want to contribute to this obvious treason on the part of the Chinese people? If they didn't like the way their government runs things then they would have a revolution and change it. Since they don't we should only assume it is a very peaceful civilized and happy nation there. Why ruin it by trying to westernize them?
Verisign. Their underhanded deceptive practices practically brought the Internet to a stand-still last fall with their Sitefinder "service". I'd recommend deleting them as a trusted CA in all your applications and NEVER visiting sites that have been signed by these slimeballs.
It's Gigabytes. Nobody quotes total bandwidth in gigabits unless they're talking about per second speeds. Now, whether it's GiB or GB is another story. ;-)
It's always nice to see Microsoft demonstrating their ability to innovate in any industry they tackle.
RAID 0 is a pointless level of just concatenating two disks together. You want RAID 1 mirroring at least. Very simple and very cheap to do.
Get a modern motherboard then. With my Asus A7n8x deluxe I just reboot, hit a key sequence (alt-F4 or something like that) and it starts the awdflash program stored in rom (or an eeprom or somewhere) and prompts me to put in a disk with the image to flash. Very simple, no boot disks needed.
My new MSI motherboard is even simpler.. it has a live update Windows program that works just fine in Windows XP to flash the BIOS. No need to reboot to DOS first.
As for the person that said BIOS hasn't been improved in 10 years, that's a bunch of bull. My motherboards can now boot off of a CD rom device, a USB keyfob, or even the network via PXE. My top of the line motherboard circa 1996 didn't have any of those features. Hell, it didn't even have USB. It may not be a huge innovation, but it's certainly been improved.
Agreed. Shouldn't they be streaming some mpeg audio format that you can listen to on ANY platform without some proprietary client? Video is one thing, but for Pete's sake, if you're streaming FM quality talk shows, just use mpeg.
Well, it would if there was a 64-bit MacOS X, which there's not.
Really now? So if I send you a binary attachment and you run it, you won't be exploited? Care to try one I have here? People are complaining about the EXACT same thing on Windows. All these recent Windows vulnerabilities have been local exploits. Exploits of any kind are never excusable and are the result of poor coding.
What do you consider "current"??? As far as I knew 2.4.24 was the latest kernel. Now I've got to spend the rest of the weekend updating boxes because Linux, yet again, has a major local exploit. I'm getting extremely tired of this. When is someone with a security clue going to audit this code? I'd be surprised if SCO UNIX code WASN'T in there since they can't even get tiny shit like this right.
So basically this proves that Linux is just as insecure as Windows is. There have been lots of major kernel vulnerabilities floating around in the past 6 months. I guess it's time to switch to OpenBSD.
If these are the same as the Ohio Use Tax, then you pay the tax wherever the item will eventually reside, in your case Long Island. So for example, I buy a computer from California and have it delivered to Ohio I pay my Ohio county's sales tax rate as a "use tax". Actually, from what I understand of the law, if I buy a computer in an Ohio county that has a 6% tax rate and bring the item back to my county where I live where the tax rate is 8%, I owe the state 2% use tax. That's bullshit IMHO. It's entirely voluntary compliance though and Ohio has no authority to regulate interstate commerce so I'm not sure how they could ever hope to enforce this.
I remember asking for that game from my wife for Christmas last year when I bought our PS2. Turns out I played it for exactly 10 minutes, found I kept getting killed on the first boat mission, and promptly got bored of it and shelved it since last year. I don't know how these kids can play FPS games on those dinky controllers... I need a decent keyboard and trackball to kick ass.
Or just go back and run a filesystem scan against your known-good tripwire or AIDE database you keep on CD to see which files have been modified. Of course, you need to do it from single user mode after booting off a known-clean boot media like the install CD, but that's a helluva lot better than reinstalling everything. Sure, if you don't have a good tripwire database setup then you need to reinstall.
What kind of crappy OS was OpenServer if it's that difficult to port applications? It's UNIX isn't it? Recompile and run. I would imagine some text terminal program isn't THAT ingrained with the SCO OpenServer libraries that it took more than a few days to port. Frankly, if it did, that would be a major factor against using SCO's product in the first place.. it's just not up to the standards everyone else is. ;-) I'll give SCO the benefit of the doubt and assume AutoZone used some commercial POS application and didn't have access to the source or couldn't get the company to compile it on a sane platform and had to use the old SCO binary compatibility support (which I believe the "real" SCO contributed to Linux almost a decade ago).
The week is not over yet! What will the half dozen SCO articles coming out tomorrow and Saturday reveal!? I'm on the edge of my seat. :-)
Then there's The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live. God only knows how long those have been on.. well past their time to die I presume. SNL has been absolutely untolerable the last two times I've tried to watch it.
Are you saying everybody doesn't run their corporate webserver on a single box that serves as the NAT/firewall gateway, mail server, Samba server, and print server for the entire company? I'm shocked, absolutely shocked.
P.S.: Sometimes I think the Open Source crowd's "hillbilly" roots show through in that they expect if the products they use work for a tiny subset of their world then it should be suitable for everyone in every situation no matter how big the scale. Most likely Autozone has thousands of SCO UNIX POS terminals or something.
It's a protection fee, nothing more. You used to pay it to a guy who came into your shop every week or later that night a group of thugs would come by and smash in your windows, bust up your shop, and beat you and your wife as you're trying to close up for the night. Welcome to the information age where the "busting up your shop" is done through expensive frivilous lawsuits and protection fees are paid through "licensing".
SCO really reminds me of the mafia. Pay me an IP license fee and we won't sue you out of business. Are MBAs like Darl McBride the new organized crime figures? I'm suprised no one has tried using the RICO laws against SCO.