If MS wants to open the source of some of their products then they have as much opportunity as anyone else to compete for Massachussetts' money.
Ah, the old give me something for nothing routine. Here, let me just give you my source code and then hand you a bill for $50 million. What, you won't pay it because you have the source code now and can just get someone else to compile it? Dirty bastard.
Am I the only one having troubles deciphering the second word on the second picture?
It says:
NVIRGIE
OBVIOUSE
HURCHES
I'm not sure what the hell that means, but if they're expecting someone to come up with other words in place of those then they're really expecting too much. Anything this complicated isn't worth it.
Then one of my 'friends' decided to send me an e-card using my private address.
That 'friend' would no longer be a friend in my book. I'd give them a disposable e-mail address from then on and create a new private address for my real friends to reach me at. Better yet, use your friend's name in your e-mail address so it's very easy to track down people giving out your address. Hash it to some sneaky value that you can decode but doesn't look obvious to them.
He didn't say he hides it, he simply uses different addresses for different purposes. A professor and other students would get the throw-away account specifically created for them. If you start receiving spam at that address you can be sure someone in that group of people signed you up.
Never?
You must be smoking some primo shit, BillyG's hydroponic, ultra-pure, 50 generations of selective breeding, primo shit. Where can I get some of that?
Yes, never. Do you have an example of something that would cause a BSOD that isn't related to faulty hardware, buggy drivers, or something you've intentionally done to hose up the registry to cause it (i.e. ripping on random keys to see if it crashes). I'm talking about good old fashioned running programs as a normal user with non-admin access like you would under UNIX. I've yet to find a combination I can reproduce that does. I'm just sick of hearing how shitty Windows is and how everything else is just roses. All operating systems have bugs, but in 32-bit protected mode operating systems, user space programs should NOT be able to cause kernel panics. Period.
Most of the BSOD in Windows 2K/XP are caused by unstable drivers.
That's true. Unstable drivers and faulty hardware. People always complain about BSOD under Windows, but since Win2k you should never get a BSOD anymore unless your hardware is broken somehow. For example, I kept getting lockups and blue screens but I traced it down to faulty memory. Another time it was an overheating video card because the fan on it died. Win2k is actually one of the most stable operating systems I've ever run.
The hard drive is rubber-mounted for impact resistance. And there are no doors, protruding latches, or levers to break or get snagged.
Just don't make the mistake of trying to clean stuff out from under a keycap and try to pop one off. You may find it won't go back on. At least, mine didn't. One of the little tabs that hooks onto the scissor mechanism broke off. Thankfully some guy on eBay was selling replacement keycaps and scissor mechanisms for $5.. otherwise Apple seems to just only see full keyboards ($120+) as a replacement. Doesn't seem very durable to me.
How long are they going to do this? Do they eventualy plan to sue every user in america?
Only the ones that are sharing music they don't own. Why is it so hard for everyone to understand, the jig is up. It was great while it lasted but, like the dot-com stock market bubble, we all knew it had to end sometime. I liked stealing music as much as the next guy, but it's just too risky these days. Last year you could get away with it and have relative anonymity, but today they're going after people with the gusto normally reserved for people that piss off leaders of Colombian drug cartels.
I think the real problem here is that a temporary restriction in the supply of alcohol is labeled as a 'crisis'
You know, for a minute there I thought I was reading Fark. Then I realized on Fark it would've been a complete disaster with a Newsflash tag and an infinite number of comments already.
I think what's at fault is that instead of Madison Avenue delivering a poignant, succinct message in 30 seconds, every commercial has to be a 'production' with bells and whistles, flash and glam.
Don't forget that commercials must be much louder than the actual program to annoy viewers. I love watching a show and having to turn the sound way up to hear the dialog. A couple of minutes later it breaks into a commercial for a car ad that I have to turn down, then turn the sound back up when the dialog for the show comes back on, then turn it down for the action scenes because it's too farking loud, etc. Isn't there a way to normalize the damn volume on broadcasts so we don't have to do this?
SCO's claims are bogus and BayStar just wasted their money. If you are an analyst working for BayStar, I have a bridge that I want to sell you.
Actually this is a pretty niggardly investment compared to what they'll need in the long run against IBM. It'll give Darl a few more solid quarters of "growth" so he can cash out with his golden parachute before the company collapses.
"BayStar Capital invests in a broad range of small and medium capitalization growth companies including, but not limited to: technology, telecommunications and life sciences. Capital needs of $5 to $50 million are targeted towards acquisitions, product development, marketing or sales expansion, or as a bridge to a public offering."
I wonder who will be the first to say that if you follow the paper trail that BayStar Capital will turn out to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Gates Foundation?:-)
I stand corrected. And admittedly, that was one of those articles i only glossed over. Usually I read more in depth. Thanks for the correction, however there was no need for the tone in one of the replies.
No big deal. The article was probably submitted by a Verisign marketing department employee to spread FUD. The config option it mentioned wasn't even introduced into the stable release (9.2.2) AFAIK, only the release candidate for 9.2.3.
Repeat after me, the World Wide Web is not the entire Internet. Now many applications will resolve a screwed up domain name and try to make a connection to Verisign's site.
Just install (or bug your ISP to install) BIND 9.2.2p2 or above and add:
zone "com" {
type delegation-only;
};
zone "net" {
type delegation-only;
};
I've resolved millions of queries since I put that in and have NO problems. Unless Verisign plans to implement their sitefinder "service" using another mechanism to get around the wonderful BIND patch, there's really nothing to worry about.
It's been said a million times on here already - the RIAA is just like SCO - they need to adopt a new business model if they're going to survive. Litigation alone won't support them forever.
Why does this come up time and again? Why should the RIAA member companies have to adopt a new business model to combat theft? The problem isn't their business model, it's people stealing their music because they're too cheap.
The Standalone 40 and 80 hours are still running between 200-300 dollars.
How does anyone get by with 40-80 hours of storage? That seems pretty paltry to me. I'm hitting huge issues with my 400GB MythTV setup. I'm seriously at the point where I need to consider setting up a fileserver with at least 1 or 2 TB of space to archive my shows. Don't even get me started on trying to find an affordable backup solution for that much data. I may have to just buy two 1 TB file servers to have the data mirrored. How do TiVo users deal with the archival problem? DVD-R is out at this point since I'd need 100 discs to backup just what I currently have. That'd take forever to burn and not to mention have issues with long-term archiving with the media degrading.
Does it go into hacking the Series 2 TiVo? I'm sick of reading about all these obsolete series 1 hack methods.
I'd just like to get bash working on my Series 2 stand-alone with minimal effort.
Maybe you should take a hint by all the hoops they jump through to stop you from "hacking" a TiVo. Could it be they would prefer that you don't hack it? Why is slashdot condoning this hacking activity by pointing to a book on how to do it? If you want to hack a PVR then build a MythTV box.
Are these record breakers just stunts, or do they have a practical application?
They're just stunts. There is no practical application for increasing the bandwidth of the Internet backbones. If the mainstream Internet backbone were to work at these speeds it would tear itself apart! Only extremely risky stunt computer scientists should be attempting these feats of daring and intrigue.
and if it's legal then then BIND people would probably find themselves sued.
Sued for what? It's a feature you can turn on or off and it's disabled by default in the config. What's the big deal? The only reason it's there is because people wanted it. That'd be like suing Microsoft for outlook viruses.
Is there anything wrong with the Pledge? Is there anything wrong with saying it? Is there anything wrong with believing what you are saying? Is there anything wrong with having pride in your country, even if you don't agree with its government sometimes?
I have a problem with mindlessly repeating something you really don't understand or aren't interested in. As a 7 year old kid I sure as heck didn't understand the pledge of allegiance, nor did I care. It's just something I was forced to say by the teacher or you'd get in trouble.
I have the same issues with organized religion now that you mention it. Everytime I find myself stuck in a church during mass (weddings for example) I feel like I'm in some kind of cult gathering where people are repeating words in a zombie-like trance. I'm sure you've heard it. Priest says something long and unintelligible, everyone drones out something else. It's really very frightening to think people get indoctrinated into such a group-think atmosphere.
Because, if you haven't noticed, about 90%+ of the citizens of the United States want to leave it as it is now.
90%+ of the citizens of the United States couldn't give a flying fsck if there even WAS a "Pledge". The last time I said it was sometime in second grade when we were forced to recite it every single day before school started. The entire written pledge wrapped around the gymnasium like some unholy altar.
Also why does ZDNet use a bitmap font for the article body?
Looks fugly in Firebird with larger fonts (ctrl++)
Looks fine under Chimera on a Mac. Maybe your browser is broken. Try IE if you're on an x86 box. Mozilla/Firebird/Netscape usually sucks for fonts unless you've installed all the truetype support.
Or, if you can drop the $'s, buy a Mac and check out Cocoa development. It's similar to gnustep (they come from the same roots, after all). Careful, though. If you do, you'll never want to go back.
Already have a Mac. I guess I'll have to fire up Power Builder and check that out.
Because of the fact that they were literally handed the source to StarOffice 5.0, they immediately had on office suite to distribute. Though they did do a great job with improvements and smoothing out the quirks of staroffice (the "integrated' scheme of 5.x annoyed me terribly), they did not create all of openoffice in just 3 years. (note that the binary is still called soffice)
Is it? Under Debian it's just openoffice (or ooffice). Anyway, I wonder how much of the original code they're still working with or if they decided to do a Mozilla-esque rewrite. Was StarOffice as horribly coded as Netscape was thus requiring many parts of it to be completely redone to ever hope of producing a maintainable version?
Bummer you got marked flamebait - I'm trashing that moderation and just had to follow-up.
Yea, I don't know what that's about. I was posting a legitimate gripe about the language, or at least the way my professor is teaching it. I'll have to take a look at Python... I've got a coworker that recommends it as well.
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Ah, the old give me something for nothing routine. Here, let me just give you my source code and then hand you a bill for $50 million. What, you won't pay it because you have the source code now and can just get someone else to compile it? Dirty bastard.
It says:
NVIRGIE
OBVIOUSE
HURCHES
I'm not sure what the hell that means, but if they're expecting someone to come up with other words in place of those then they're really expecting too much. Anything this complicated isn't worth it.
That 'friend' would no longer be a friend in my book. I'd give them a disposable e-mail address from then on and create a new private address for my real friends to reach me at. Better yet, use your friend's name in your e-mail address so it's very easy to track down people giving out your address. Hash it to some sneaky value that you can decode but doesn't look obvious to them.
He didn't say he hides it, he simply uses different addresses for different purposes. A professor and other students would get the throw-away account specifically created for them. If you start receiving spam at that address you can be sure someone in that group of people signed you up.
Yes, never. Do you have an example of something that would cause a BSOD that isn't related to faulty hardware, buggy drivers, or something you've intentionally done to hose up the registry to cause it (i.e. ripping on random keys to see if it crashes). I'm talking about good old fashioned running programs as a normal user with non-admin access like you would under UNIX. I've yet to find a combination I can reproduce that does. I'm just sick of hearing how shitty Windows is and how everything else is just roses. All operating systems have bugs, but in 32-bit protected mode operating systems, user space programs should NOT be able to cause kernel panics. Period.
That's true. Unstable drivers and faulty hardware. People always complain about BSOD under Windows, but since Win2k you should never get a BSOD anymore unless your hardware is broken somehow. For example, I kept getting lockups and blue screens but I traced it down to faulty memory. Another time it was an overheating video card because the fan on it died. Win2k is actually one of the most stable operating systems I've ever run.
Just don't make the mistake of trying to clean stuff out from under a keycap and try to pop one off. You may find it won't go back on. At least, mine didn't. One of the little tabs that hooks onto the scissor mechanism broke off. Thankfully some guy on eBay was selling replacement keycaps and scissor mechanisms for $5.. otherwise Apple seems to just only see full keyboards ($120+) as a replacement. Doesn't seem very durable to me.
Only the ones that are sharing music they don't own. Why is it so hard for everyone to understand, the jig is up. It was great while it lasted but, like the dot-com stock market bubble, we all knew it had to end sometime. I liked stealing music as much as the next guy, but it's just too risky these days. Last year you could get away with it and have relative anonymity, but today they're going after people with the gusto normally reserved for people that piss off leaders of Colombian drug cartels.
You know, for a minute there I thought I was reading Fark. Then I realized on Fark it would've been a complete disaster with a Newsflash tag and an infinite number of comments already.
Don't forget that commercials must be much louder than the actual program to annoy viewers. I love watching a show and having to turn the sound way up to hear the dialog. A couple of minutes later it breaks into a commercial for a car ad that I have to turn down, then turn the sound back up when the dialog for the show comes back on, then turn it down for the action scenes because it's too farking loud, etc. Isn't there a way to normalize the damn volume on broadcasts so we don't have to do this?
Actually this is a pretty niggardly investment compared to what they'll need in the long run against IBM. It'll give Darl a few more solid quarters of "growth" so he can cash out with his golden parachute before the company collapses.
I wonder who will be the first to say that if you follow the paper trail that BayStar Capital will turn out to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Gates Foundation? :-)
No big deal. The article was probably submitted by a Verisign marketing department employee to spread FUD. The config option it mentioned wasn't even introduced into the stable release (9.2.2) AFAIK, only the release candidate for 9.2.3.
Just install (or bug your ISP to install) BIND 9.2.2p2 or above and add:
zone "com" {
type delegation-only;
};
zone "net" {
type delegation-only;
};
I've resolved millions of queries since I put that in and have NO problems. Unless Verisign plans to implement their sitefinder "service" using another mechanism to get around the wonderful BIND patch, there's really nothing to worry about.
Why does this come up time and again? Why should the RIAA member companies have to adopt a new business model to combat theft? The problem isn't their business model, it's people stealing their music because they're too cheap.
How does anyone get by with 40-80 hours of storage? That seems pretty paltry to me. I'm hitting huge issues with my 400GB MythTV setup. I'm seriously at the point where I need to consider setting up a fileserver with at least 1 or 2 TB of space to archive my shows. Don't even get me started on trying to find an affordable backup solution for that much data. I may have to just buy two 1 TB file servers to have the data mirrored. How do TiVo users deal with the archival problem? DVD-R is out at this point since I'd need 100 discs to backup just what I currently have. That'd take forever to burn and not to mention have issues with long-term archiving with the media degrading.
I'd just like to get bash working on my Series 2 stand-alone with minimal effort.
Maybe you should take a hint by all the hoops they jump through to stop you from "hacking" a TiVo. Could it be they would prefer that you don't hack it? Why is slashdot condoning this hacking activity by pointing to a book on how to do it? If you want to hack a PVR then build a MythTV box.
They're just stunts. There is no practical application for increasing the bandwidth of the Internet backbones. If the mainstream Internet backbone were to work at these speeds it would tear itself apart! Only extremely risky stunt computer scientists should be attempting these feats of daring and intrigue.
Sued for what? It's a feature you can turn on or off and it's disabled by default in the config. What's the big deal? The only reason it's there is because people wanted it. That'd be like suing Microsoft for outlook viruses.
I have a problem with mindlessly repeating something you really don't understand or aren't interested in. As a 7 year old kid I sure as heck didn't understand the pledge of allegiance, nor did I care. It's just something I was forced to say by the teacher or you'd get in trouble.
I have the same issues with organized religion now that you mention it. Everytime I find myself stuck in a church during mass (weddings for example) I feel like I'm in some kind of cult gathering where people are repeating words in a zombie-like trance. I'm sure you've heard it. Priest says something long and unintelligible, everyone drones out something else. It's really very frightening to think people get indoctrinated into such a group-think atmosphere.
90%+ of the citizens of the United States couldn't give a flying fsck if there even WAS a "Pledge". The last time I said it was sometime in second grade when we were forced to recite it every single day before school started. The entire written pledge wrapped around the gymnasium like some unholy altar.
Looks fugly in Firebird with larger fonts (ctrl++)
Looks fine under Chimera on a Mac. Maybe your browser is broken. Try IE if you're on an x86 box. Mozilla/Firebird/Netscape usually sucks for fonts unless you've installed all the truetype support.
Already have a Mac. I guess I'll have to fire up Power Builder and check that out.
Is it? Under Debian it's just openoffice (or ooffice). Anyway, I wonder how much of the original code they're still working with or if they decided to do a Mozilla-esque rewrite. Was StarOffice as horribly coded as Netscape was thus requiring many parts of it to be completely redone to ever hope of producing a maintainable version?
Yea, I don't know what that's about. I was posting a legitimate gripe about the language, or at least the way my professor is teaching it. I'll have to take a look at Python... I've got a coworker that recommends it as well.