Why not use your computer? Now if I could find 50' cables, it would be nice...
www.cablestogo.com has just about every cable I've ever looked for. 50' VGA cables are there as well along with VGA extender boxes to boost the signal. I need to get a nice long S-VIDEO cable one of these days.
If delivering lots of CDs is such a bad idea, why does AOL still do it? I guarantee you most of those never get used.
I find them quite useful if you glue a bit of felt to the bottom of them. They make an interesting set of coasters for my computer room and keep my desk from getting water stained.
Use Partition Magic to shrink the XP partition and create space for a Linux partition. How is this any different than thousands of other computer systems out there that come with a rescue disk to rebuild the system to the factory installed image? Yes, for the 1% of users that want to dual boot it will be a minor pain. For the other 99% of the users a rescue image like that is a godsend and saves support costs for the company. If the computer is completely hosed, stick the DVD in and reformat/reload. No need to pay a computer geek to work his magic on your broken Windows box.
A tax on recordable media has been around in the States for years. I don't they ever managed to tax hard drives though.
Can you point to some evidence of that? DAT and "Audio" CD-Rs notwithstanding, I've never heard of "non-audio" data media being taxed (other than sales tax of course) and would be interested to hear about it.
As has been constantly said, you can't openly run pirated software or listen to pirated music without fear of reprisal anymore. The corporations that own the intellectual property have wised up to the ways of the Internet and are cracking down. Whether the Linux kernel has any SCO I.P. in it has yet to be proven, but if it does then everyone is on pretty shaky ground.
If they can prove it in a court of law, will most Linux users continue to ignore them like they do the RIAA and hope they'll fly under the radar? This is a very real situation here. Either the SCO management is incredibly stupid or they have staggering evidence to back up their claims. Not many corporations would be willing to risk everything like this over a complete lie. Well, perhaps Enron, Worldcom and Tyco, but those are exceptions.
Most corporations are good, honest, hard working organizations that have the interests of the public at heart. OK, maybe not that either, but they're not willing to put their asses on the line unless they have paper asshole covers to back it up. The question of the day is still, does SCO have their shit in order? If they do then Linux users could be in for a bumpy ride.
Even if my email isnt read, it makes the "i disagree" pile that much bigger.
That's a common misconception among users. The fact is that/dev/null is just a virtual bit-bucket and doesn't increase in size at all. Just make sure you classify your mail correctly so procmail knows which "inbox" to drop it in.;-)
Fuck him! I'm NOT voting for him in 2004 this time around!!!
The Bush puppet administration has definitely soured me on the Republican party as a whole. What I'd really like to see are some good old fashioned statesmen being elected instead of career politicians and puppets of some shadow administration.
And for the record, I used to be a HUGE Rush Limbaugh fan during high school in the early 1990's and taped every one of his shows (via the audio input on a VCR since they were 3 hours long and I needed a timer to start recording, but that's another matter). The Republican party could do no wrong back then for me.
These days I look at both parties and see a complete lack of leadership, vision and willingness to work for the American citizens instead of corporate interests and their own petty squabbling and politics. Maybe I'm really a libertarian at heart? Then again, maybe the government has always been like this and I was too blind to see understand it.
Wow, if the Nazis had this in WWII they would've been marching down the streets of London in no time. Nice. I hope there's a quick way to drop the chunnel if war breaks out in Europe again (inevitably it will.. it ALWAYS has for thousands of years).
Well, they actually considered buying from Microsoft until Ballmer showed up doing the monkey dance.
Yea, but you've got to admit that he has a lot of confidence and pride in his company if he's willing to make such an ass out of himself. Not many Presidents/CEOs/whatever would run around and dance on stage like a moron no matter how overjoyed they are to be working for the greatest company on Earth. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind working for Microsoft. I honestly bet it's a great place to work.
but what happens in a few years when the Foundation has A) run out of money, and B) hasn't gotten any significant donations?
Somebody with an itch to scratch revives the project or forks it? It's open source isn't it? Who supports Apache, KDE, Debian, etc.? I imagine not a single company. It's either a non-profit or a group of volunteers.
Have a spare machine, install socks proxy server. install a WiFi card if you are in a wifi public access hotspot. Route via youre new proxy that you control... Insta anonymiser.
Why don't you call it what it really is, theft of services? You're covering up one crime (copyright infringement) with another (theft of services). Digging that hole deeper and deeper. Why don't you hack into some machines while you're at it to install that Socks proxy and then you've got the trifecta of criminal activity going.
Some of us were just looking for what we consider to be an equitable business model for buying songs. I've found iTunes and it's close enough that I'd rather buy music there than download it on Kazaa.
If I'm going to buy music it better be the exact same quality I'd get if I went to a real store and bought the CD. Don't charge me the same price and give me some lossy-compressed formatted track. I'll accept a WAV file or FLAC for instance, but MP3, OGG, and AAC are out of the question if you want my money. I have DSL so downloading 50 meg tracks is not a big deal. I'll compress them myself.
IRC channel #mp3-d00dz attendance is up 4500%. Not to mention tons of private FTP servers re-emerging. This isn't really a big deal IMHO. There are millions of songs that have exchanged hands. Just find a friend with tons of songs, setup an FTP server, and trade amongsts yourselves from now on. We've primed the pump, so to speak.;-)
The point was: Dont stereotype us. You wouldnt like it, and we dont like it. We're all different, and you shouldnt make generalizations like that.
Then why stereotype yourself by calling yourself a punk? "Punk" has connotations of a loser with spiked green hair wearing crappy denim clothes adorned with chains or huge baggy pants. Don't forget the obligatory 5 foot chain attached to the wallet. Punks are people that never grew up and are incredible attention whores. If you're something other than what I described then you're not a punk, you're something entirely different.
All of the features you mention were added more than a year ago, if I recall correctly. The comment was pointing out that Mozilla hasn't done anything groundbreaking in the last year or so.
It's a web browser for heaven's sake! Why do people continually insist that a web browser be constantly updated with new "features" to prove it's any good? Mozilla is excellent as a web browser and other than a few braindead broken MS IE-only sites it has worked spectacularly for me since the pre-1.0 days.
I don't want my browser to sing, dance, and play mp3s. I don't want it to be a chat client or a mail app. I don't need it to play videos or act as my primary desktop interface. I just want something to render HTML, display text and a few simple graphics that aid in conceptualizing the text being presented to the reader.
But hey, that's just me. I'm old fashioned. Pop-ups and animated GIFs annoy me. Don't even get me started on the god damn sites that require Macromedia Flash or ActiveX.
I used to dislike AIX, because of its reputation as "not quite UNIX." Once I had the opportunity to use it, I found that it really is well suited to many ISP tasks.
Well, it's definitely not UNIX these days since SCO revoked it's license. That should make you feel even better.
Well, ex post facto laws are prohibited by the US Constitution, so that could be a bit of a problem.
So were income taxes supposedly. We still end up paying retroactive increases whenever the government gets a hard on to fund more idiotic social programs.
Also SimCity3k where the only people that mattered were petitioners who wanted a money making scheme. Just imagine if a SimCity player gets to be mayor of a major city.
I hope you're joking, because if you haven't learned that's how real life works yet you're in for a big suprise. Lobbyists petition governments with money making schemes and pay off the corrupt politicians. It's just how democratic republics work.
In a multiplayer FPS, you can get killed, spectacularly, a lot. But what do you do when you die? You don't sit there and type "omg cheat0r". You condition yourself to admit defeat, shake it off, respawn, and keep playing, all within a split second.
Bah, those games are for wimps. If I've learned anything from my favorite multiplayer FPS game it's to NOT GET SHOT! There are no med packs to miraculously heal gunshot wounds and you're not going to respawn after you die. Also, take small calculated bursts, keep hidden when possible to avoid detection, and always have a partner to watch your back while planting/defusing the bomb if possible. Also, have a kickass spray to paint near the bodies of the people you kill.
The accesspoints of the future would hopefully have 2 WEPs: One to allow access to acesspoint and a second second one - dynamically assigned to individual clients(probably recognized by unique mac address) for all data communication between that unique client and accesspoint.
You basically just described Cisco's LEAP protocol. It's already here and available to use if you're not using low-grade consumer brand access points. Everyone logs in with a username/password, authenticates off the CiscoSecure ACS server and gets logged. DHCP assigns you an IP address and the LEAP protocol handles rotating the WEP keys every so often automatically. The only problem is you need a compatible card and/or client software to authenticate with LEAP. In our testing we just played with Cisco aironet cards and Apple Airport cards. Both worked just fine with a Cisco access point. If you don't want to pay $900 for an access point and want to stick to consumer gear then you're stuck with IPSEC vpn setups (or other proprietary stuff like Blue Socket).
WU-IMAP's SSL support for IMAP and POP3 is definitely compiled in, but WU-IMAP sucks. Cyrus IMAP also has built-in support and I would wager ever other decent POP3/IMAP combination has SSL supported natively these days. It's just a matter of turning it on in many cases. Most Linux distributions already come with an SSL version of the pop3/imap daemons. At least Mandrake and Debian did when I set those up.
T3: There is no new CPU, but, there is near infinite computing power in the Internet. Skynet is born.
If the Internet is Skynet then I guess that explains why it only sends naked Terminators back in time. Most of what it knows about humans involve being naked.
Well, considering the best President this country has had in the last 150 years was an actor, maybe we need more actors running for the job. Granted, being a level-headed conservative Republican helps too. I had always wished Charlton Heston had run for President. Oh well. Maybe Bruce Willis in 2008!!!
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www.cablestogo.com has just about every cable I've ever looked for. 50' VGA cables are there as well along with VGA extender boxes to boost the signal. I need to get a nice long S-VIDEO cable one of these days.
I find them quite useful if you glue a bit of felt to the bottom of them. They make an interesting set of coasters for my computer room and keep my desk from getting water stained.
Use Partition Magic to shrink the XP partition and create space for a Linux partition. How is this any different than thousands of other computer systems out there that come with a rescue disk to rebuild the system to the factory installed image? Yes, for the 1% of users that want to dual boot it will be a minor pain. For the other 99% of the users a rescue image like that is a godsend and saves support costs for the company. If the computer is completely hosed, stick the DVD in and reformat/reload. No need to pay a computer geek to work his magic on your broken Windows box.
Can you point to some evidence of that? DAT and "Audio" CD-Rs notwithstanding, I've never heard of "non-audio" data media being taxed (other than sales tax of course) and would be interested to hear about it.
As has been constantly said, you can't openly run pirated software or listen to pirated music without fear of reprisal anymore. The corporations that own the intellectual property have wised up to the ways of the Internet and are cracking down. Whether the Linux kernel has any SCO I.P. in it has yet to be proven, but if it does then everyone is on pretty shaky ground.
If they can prove it in a court of law, will most Linux users continue to ignore them like they do the RIAA and hope they'll fly under the radar? This is a very real situation here. Either the SCO management is incredibly stupid or they have staggering evidence to back up their claims. Not many corporations would be willing to risk everything like this over a complete lie. Well, perhaps Enron, Worldcom and Tyco, but those are exceptions.
Most corporations are good, honest, hard working organizations that have the interests of the public at heart. OK, maybe not that either, but they're not willing to put their asses on the line unless they have paper asshole covers to back it up. The question of the day is still, does SCO have their shit in order? If they do then Linux users could be in for a bumpy ride.
That's a common misconception among users. The fact is that /dev/null is just a virtual bit-bucket and doesn't increase in size at all. Just make sure you classify your mail correctly so procmail knows which "inbox" to drop it in. ;-)
The Bush puppet administration has definitely soured me on the Republican party as a whole. What I'd really like to see are some good old fashioned statesmen being elected instead of career politicians and puppets of some shadow administration.
And for the record, I used to be a HUGE Rush Limbaugh fan during high school in the early 1990's and taped every one of his shows (via the audio input on a VCR since they were 3 hours long and I needed a timer to start recording, but that's another matter). The Republican party could do no wrong back then for me.
These days I look at both parties and see a complete lack of leadership, vision and willingness to work for the American citizens instead of corporate interests and their own petty squabbling and politics. Maybe I'm really a libertarian at heart? Then again, maybe the government has always been like this and I was too blind to see understand it.
Because pressing Home takes you to www.msn.com!! ;-)
Wow, if the Nazis had this in WWII they would've been marching down the streets of London in no time. Nice. I hope there's a quick way to drop the chunnel if war breaks out in Europe again (inevitably it will.. it ALWAYS has for thousands of years).
Flying cars. I was promised affordable family-owned flying cars for the commute to work. Until I get my flying car all this other technology is fluff.
Yea, but you've got to admit that he has a lot of confidence and pride in his company if he's willing to make such an ass out of himself. Not many Presidents/CEOs/whatever would run around and dance on stage like a moron no matter how overjoyed they are to be working for the greatest company on Earth. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind working for Microsoft. I honestly bet it's a great place to work.
Somebody with an itch to scratch revives the project or forks it? It's open source isn't it? Who supports Apache, KDE, Debian, etc.? I imagine not a single company. It's either a non-profit or a group of volunteers.
Why don't you call it what it really is, theft of services? You're covering up one crime (copyright infringement) with another (theft of services). Digging that hole deeper and deeper. Why don't you hack into some machines while you're at it to install that Socks proxy and then you've got the trifecta of criminal activity going.
If I'm going to buy music it better be the exact same quality I'd get if I went to a real store and bought the CD. Don't charge me the same price and give me some lossy-compressed formatted track. I'll accept a WAV file or FLAC for instance, but MP3, OGG, and AAC are out of the question if you want my money. I have DSL so downloading 50 meg tracks is not a big deal. I'll compress them myself.
IRC channel #mp3-d00dz attendance is up 4500%. Not to mention tons of private FTP servers re-emerging. This isn't really a big deal IMHO. There are millions of songs that have exchanged hands. Just find a friend with tons of songs, setup an FTP server, and trade amongsts yourselves from now on. We've primed the pump, so to speak. ;-)
Then why stereotype yourself by calling yourself a punk? "Punk" has connotations of a loser with spiked green hair wearing crappy denim clothes adorned with chains or huge baggy pants. Don't forget the obligatory 5 foot chain attached to the wallet. Punks are people that never grew up and are incredible attention whores. If you're something other than what I described then you're not a punk, you're something entirely different.
It's a web browser for heaven's sake! Why do people continually insist that a web browser be constantly updated with new "features" to prove it's any good? Mozilla is excellent as a web browser and other than a few braindead broken MS IE-only sites it has worked spectacularly for me since the pre-1.0 days.
I don't want my browser to sing, dance, and play mp3s. I don't want it to be a chat client or a mail app. I don't need it to play videos or act as my primary desktop interface. I just want something to render HTML, display text and a few simple graphics that aid in conceptualizing the text being presented to the reader.
But hey, that's just me. I'm old fashioned. Pop-ups and animated GIFs annoy me. Don't even get me started on the god damn sites that require Macromedia Flash or ActiveX.
Well, it's definitely not UNIX these days since SCO revoked it's license. That should make you feel even better.
So were income taxes supposedly. We still end up paying retroactive increases whenever the government gets a hard on to fund more idiotic social programs.
I hope you're joking, because if you haven't learned that's how real life works yet you're in for a big suprise. Lobbyists petition governments with money making schemes and pay off the corrupt politicians. It's just how democratic republics work.
Bah, those games are for wimps. If I've learned anything from my favorite multiplayer FPS game it's to NOT GET SHOT! There are no med packs to miraculously heal gunshot wounds and you're not going to respawn after you die. Also, take small calculated bursts, keep hidden when possible to avoid detection, and always have a partner to watch your back while planting/defusing the bomb if possible. Also, have a kickass spray to paint near the bodies of the people you kill.
You basically just described Cisco's LEAP protocol. It's already here and available to use if you're not using low-grade consumer brand access points. Everyone logs in with a username/password, authenticates off the CiscoSecure ACS server and gets logged. DHCP assigns you an IP address and the LEAP protocol handles rotating the WEP keys every so often automatically. The only problem is you need a compatible card and/or client software to authenticate with LEAP. In our testing we just played with Cisco aironet cards and Apple Airport cards. Both worked just fine with a Cisco access point. If you don't want to pay $900 for an access point and want to stick to consumer gear then you're stuck with IPSEC vpn setups (or other proprietary stuff like Blue Socket).
WU-IMAP's SSL support for IMAP and POP3 is definitely compiled in, but WU-IMAP sucks. Cyrus IMAP also has built-in support and I would wager ever other decent POP3/IMAP combination has SSL supported natively these days. It's just a matter of turning it on in many cases. Most Linux distributions already come with an SSL version of the pop3/imap daemons. At least Mandrake and Debian did when I set those up.
If the Internet is Skynet then I guess that explains why it only sends naked Terminators back in time. Most of what it knows about humans involve being naked.
Well, considering the best President this country has had in the last 150 years was an actor, maybe we need more actors running for the job. Granted, being a level-headed conservative Republican helps too. I had always wished Charlton Heston had run for President. Oh well. Maybe Bruce Willis in 2008!!!