So, if you really, really, really want to use ReiserFS with RedHat, you have to preformat the partition before starting the installer, then tell the installer not to format the partition for you.
Really now? What's their explanation for that? I'm going to have to install a couple dozen new servers in a few months and I have to use Red Hat (the software is only supported under Red Hat). I'd hate to be stuck with ext3 as a filesystem because I find it extremely lacking compared to reiserfs under Debian and Mandrake. So that would suck if I have to boot off a Debian boot disk to format the partition before I installed Red Hat. *sigh*
This law isn't merely "silly," it's evil and should not be dismissed casually, as you have done.
I always thought it would be a good idea to have a 5 year old check over any new laws being proposed. If they say it's stupid then it should be immediately thrown out. Why don't lawmakers use any common sense anymore? If they did things like this or the DMCA would never get passed.
Links in Windows (9x anyway) cause all sorts of confuision too, like when copying the whole start menu to a floppy does not allow them to pirate all of their programs to someone else.
No, that just points to the program it is not the real program. Really the easiest thing to do is buy another copy and give it to them (we are talking playing card games, not $300 office packages).
They should've bought a Mac running MacOS X. It's great for easy software piracy. Want a program? Just find it under the Applications folder, drag the icon to a CD burner or to the network and voila. All the libraries and files necessary get copied inside the package. I don't know if it's just a big old statically linked application or if it's just some kind of container format and still uses shared system libraries, but it's wonderful.
With the huge hard drives these days it doesn't make sense anymore not to do it this way. Sure, the one big file is bigger, but who cares? It's much much much easier to install and delete apps this way. Drag and drop them to the trash. No need for complicated uninstall routines. I wish everyone in my family had a Mac, but alas they were brainwashed and bought Windows PCs so my nightmare continues.
People aren't going to like that studios can stop them from watching the disks that they have bought because of a theatrical re-release."
Look at it this way. What's to stop Disney from deciding one day "All those copies of Snow White on DIVX are going BACK IN THE VAULT for another 20 years. You will no longer be able to activate your disks for additional viewings." They seem to do stupid shit like that by no longer selling popular movies to artificially cause a rush of purchases on existing stock. Hey, better buy that copy of Cinderella now or you'll never get it again in your lifetime! Muahahahahahaha!
Can we just move this SCO vs. IBM thing to a dedicated section or mailing list or something? I have a feeling it's going to be a long time before this is resolved and we've already had 3 SCO vs. IBM articles in 1 day.
SCO is DYING to be bought out. They're grasping at whatever straws they can find, thinking that IBM the vampire slayer will finally drive a buyout stake through their black heart.
I think IBM has found it's much more satisfying to slowly drain the blood from their prey over the course of many years of heated battle in a courtroom rather than go for a quick kill. Lawyers are very expensive and this will be a war of attrition. IBM will win simply because they will have the resources to stick this out for the long haul. They should be in NO hurry to settle this. Every day they delay is another couple hundred thousand dollars drained out of SCO's war chest by expensive lawyers.
Probably the same guy who did the graphic on their home page that says "Relax: Worry Free Software". They're missing the hyphen in Worry-free... or are they? Subtle?
Virtual PC: Ya, well, maybe sometime RealPC will appear after they settle with Microsoft. But who uses that stuff anyway?
Uhhhh, anyone that needs to run PC programs on a Mac? I didn't even realize Virtual PC was owned by Microsoft until a few days ago. I'm seriously reconsidering buying a Powerbook because of that. They could discontinue support at anytime and that would leave me without Intel emulation support. I guess I'll have to just buy an Intel laptop and run Linux and VMware.:-( Too bad Intel laptops suck ass.
IE5 for Mac was better than IE6 for Windows when they were both current... It still has better CSS support and better support for PNG.
Unfortunately it's severely lacking in functionality. Sites that claim to only support Internet Explorer almost never work with the Mac version of IE. I have to boot up Windows 2000 and use IE under Windows inside VirtualPC in order to fill out my online timesheet (ActiveX? Java?). Kind of lame.
While they legally could remove those features in current models, D&M has already publicly stated they will not do so.
And big corporations would never lie would they? Of course they're going to remove these features if they can easily do it. All it'll take is a little more pressure from the TV execs and they'll be history. D&M doesn't have time to play penny-ante politics over a userbase they picked up at a fire sale.
Don't forget $299 for the lifetime-of-the-machine subscription fee and the $99 "Home Media" option. $249+299+99 = $647. Plus you're buying a refurbished unit! It's another $100 for the non-refurb 80 GB box so $747 for 80 gigs of storage and a lifetime (of the Tivo, not you, is it even transferable if you sell it on eBay?). For that kind of money I can build quite a monster of a PC that can do the exact same thing and have ten times more functionality.
Keep a low profile with regard to skills? As in not making use of them, even for legal and ethical purposes?
No, as in don't act like an asshat. The typical person I've met like that is an overconfident pompous blowhard who needs a kick in the ass and a dose of reality. They think their shit doesn't stink until they find themselves face to face with a 10 year prison sentence. Being on the inside of an organization doesn't excuse you from breaking the laws or the corporate policies unless you have an explicitly documented paper asshole cover. i.e. don't do ANYTHING without written authorization from your CIO or IT security manager or you will eventually be considered a rogue element no matter how "good" you are.
Software is NEVER deterministic in an operating environment. Just because you can put it on a bench and test the snot out of it does not certify it's behavior in the real world. I have written many programs that work perfectly in testing, only to have a user punch in an unexpected value and bring things to a crashing halt.
That's just bunk. As a programmer writing software for spacecraft you must be able to anticipate every possible value and account for it. Every condition should be able to be gracefully handled by an error checking routine. There is zero room for failure. If that means it takes 20 years to write, test, rewrite, and retest the perfect program, then so be it. When human life is involved price is not an object. (well, within reason of course since there's a dollar value on human life in the space program, but the negative publicity value is astronomically more than the dollar value of the loss of human life.)
which I know goes on and is pretty much undetectable by anyone wanting to stop file sharing. Waste is the latest craze among my Net friends - the download may have been pulled, but the genie is out of the bottle.
You know, how much longer is AOL going to put up with this Frankel guy at Nullsoft? He and his "cohorts" released Gnutella which has got to be one of the biggest thorn in big media's side, he released some program to turn AOL's banners into something else in AIM, and now he goes and releases Waste which is basically similar to Gnutella but for much smaller groups. Why has he not been fired along with any co-conspirators? Does Nullsoft have that much artistic license or self-sufficiency that they won't get in trouble for this stuff or is AOL just too big to really handle internal affairs like this properly short of forcing them to pull it from being downloadable? As you said, the cat is already out of the bag. I can't believe Nullsoft doesn't get taken to task for not getting approval from corporate's lawyers before any software release!
I am sick and tired of being treated like a criminal both by the RIAA/MPAA as well as the computer software industry. In these organizations efforts to combat piracy they've gone completely off the deep end and made their products difficult for even their own paying customers to use. That, in my opinion, is utterly unacceptable.
Copy protected CD-like discs, encrypted DVDs that are not legally playable under open source operating systems, and games that require you to keep the god damn CD in while playing even though you install the entire thing to the hard drive all drive me insane. These people are forgetting the number one rule in business: the customer is always right. ALWAYS! If you forget that or start to justify arguing this point then you might as well not be selling stuff to consumers.
Unfortunately what all the peaceniks always forget is step 3.5 "Then they annihilate you". You can never get to step 4 anymore than the underpants gnomes can profit.
Over the air hdtv is still a reason to use the airwaves.
But if you can afford an HDTV receiver then you can afford to just receive HDTV over cable or satellite. There's really no point to receiving it over VHF/UHF anymore. Content in the 21st century will be for subscribers only. All you freeloaders will have to find a new way to extract and pirate information from us paying customers. Want information? PAY FOR IT! God damn freeloading broadcast pirates.
A homeless guy could be the President were he exposed to the same opportunities
Hell, an idiotic cocaine addict could become President of the United States given the right circumstances. You'd just need the right team of advisors and enough backing from some powerful political party to brainwash the masses into believing you're more than a cocaine addicted moron. It's possible, but highly unlikely that this would occur given our enlightened society.
There is only so long a company can exist with such an attitude, and C&W has hit the end of the road.
Perhaps it's time to transition the company over to the government. The government has been promoting clueless civil servants into upper management for hundreds of years. They'd be a perfect match.
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This is unprecedented: no company would ever commit suicide so blatantly and openly.
Worldcom, Enron and Tyco did. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. It's apparent to us the building is aflame and about to fall down, but to the company spindoctors everything is just peachy and they're going to come out of it stronger than ever. It's typical corporate bullshitting. I will take you to the gravesite of SCO near the Baghdad airport... IN ONE YEAR!
Why would Microsoft have to authorize anything? Are you saying Palladium gives them a monopoly to choose the software you're allowed to install on your computer? What's next, leasing computers by the month and just paying a fee? As long as Taiwan exists there will be free "open" hardware we can run Linux on.
That reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask. Does North Korea possess any decent natural resources like oil or is it all rice fields? If they have oil I'd suggest we liberate those people immediately from their tyranical overlords.
You know, I've got two laptops I could choose from but I continue to use a notebook and pen when I go to a class. It's wireless, never needs recharging, and is a nice permanent write-only media. It can even be upgraded to read/write by replacing the pen with a pencil. I've never pulled out my notebook and found I couldn't take notes because my battery was dead or the screen was broken or someone had stolen it. To top it all off, at the state university I attend, 99% of the students don't bring laptops to class so I'd look like some kind of dork typing away on a laptop. Call it peer pressure, but the laptop stays at home and the pad of paper and the pen come with me to class. Much less distracting too. I don't find myself watching movies on my DVD drive on my notebook.
I was never able to use BeOS on my 'puters, since none of my graphics were supported
Ditto. The best my graphics card would do was black and white at either 320x200 or 640x480. I forgot which. It was horrible and certainly turned me off to BeOS. I don't recall which graphics card I was using at the time to test BeOS 5, but it was a very common one (GeForce256 or Matrox Millennium).
So, Be fans, what makes BeOS so special?
Maybe the stunning lack of applications and poor hardware support gave some old Amiga fanboys a new hope?:-)
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Really now? What's their explanation for that? I'm going to have to install a couple dozen new servers in a few months and I have to use Red Hat (the software is only supported under Red Hat). I'd hate to be stuck with ext3 as a filesystem because I find it extremely lacking compared to reiserfs under Debian and Mandrake. So that would suck if I have to boot off a Debian boot disk to format the partition before I installed Red Hat. *sigh*
I always thought it would be a good idea to have a 5 year old check over any new laws being proposed. If they say it's stupid then it should be immediately thrown out. Why don't lawmakers use any common sense anymore? If they did things like this or the DMCA would never get passed.
They should've bought a Mac running MacOS X. It's great for easy software piracy. Want a program? Just find it under the Applications folder, drag the icon to a CD burner or to the network and voila. All the libraries and files necessary get copied inside the package. I don't know if it's just a big old statically linked application or if it's just some kind of container format and still uses shared system libraries, but it's wonderful.
With the huge hard drives these days it doesn't make sense anymore not to do it this way. Sure, the one big file is bigger, but who cares? It's much much much easier to install and delete apps this way. Drag and drop them to the trash. No need for complicated uninstall routines. I wish everyone in my family had a Mac, but alas they were brainwashed and bought Windows PCs so my nightmare continues.
Look at it this way. What's to stop Disney from deciding one day "All those copies of Snow White on DIVX are going BACK IN THE VAULT for another 20 years. You will no longer be able to activate your disks for additional viewings." They seem to do stupid shit like that by no longer selling popular movies to artificially cause a rush of purchases on existing stock. Hey, better buy that copy of Cinderella now or you'll never get it again in your lifetime! Muahahahahahaha!
Can we just move this SCO vs. IBM thing to a dedicated section or mailing list or something? I have a feeling it's going to be a long time before this is resolved and we've already had 3 SCO vs. IBM articles in 1 day.
I think IBM has found it's much more satisfying to slowly drain the blood from their prey over the course of many years of heated battle in a courtroom rather than go for a quick kill. Lawyers are very expensive and this will be a war of attrition. IBM will win simply because they will have the resources to stick this out for the long haul. They should be in NO hurry to settle this. Every day they delay is another couple hundred thousand dollars drained out of SCO's war chest by expensive lawyers.
Weird, maybe it's because I don't have flash installed. Here it is: http://www.sco.com/images/flash/alt.jpg. With my luck they'll change it. ;-)
Probably the same guy who did the graphic on their home page that says "Relax: Worry Free Software". They're missing the hyphen in Worry-free... or are they? Subtle?
Uhhhh, anyone that needs to run PC programs on a Mac? I didn't even realize Virtual PC was owned by Microsoft until a few days ago. I'm seriously reconsidering buying a Powerbook because of that. They could discontinue support at anytime and that would leave me without Intel emulation support. I guess I'll have to just buy an Intel laptop and run Linux and VMware. :-( Too bad Intel laptops suck ass.
Unfortunately it's severely lacking in functionality. Sites that claim to only support Internet Explorer almost never work with the Mac version of IE. I have to boot up Windows 2000 and use IE under Windows inside VirtualPC in order to fill out my online timesheet (ActiveX? Java?). Kind of lame.
And big corporations would never lie would they? Of course they're going to remove these features if they can easily do it. All it'll take is a little more pressure from the TV execs and they'll be history. D&M doesn't have time to play penny-ante politics over a userbase they picked up at a fire sale.
Don't forget $299 for the lifetime-of-the-machine subscription fee and the $99 "Home Media" option. $249+299+99 = $647. Plus you're buying a refurbished unit! It's another $100 for the non-refurb 80 GB box so $747 for 80 gigs of storage and a lifetime (of the Tivo, not you, is it even transferable if you sell it on eBay?). For that kind of money I can build quite a monster of a PC that can do the exact same thing and have ten times more functionality.
No, as in don't act like an asshat. The typical person I've met like that is an overconfident pompous blowhard who needs a kick in the ass and a dose of reality. They think their shit doesn't stink until they find themselves face to face with a 10 year prison sentence. Being on the inside of an organization doesn't excuse you from breaking the laws or the corporate policies unless you have an explicitly documented paper asshole cover. i.e. don't do ANYTHING without written authorization from your CIO or IT security manager or you will eventually be considered a rogue element no matter how "good" you are.
That's just bunk. As a programmer writing software for spacecraft you must be able to anticipate every possible value and account for it. Every condition should be able to be gracefully handled by an error checking routine. There is zero room for failure. If that means it takes 20 years to write, test, rewrite, and retest the perfect program, then so be it. When human life is involved price is not an object. (well, within reason of course since there's a dollar value on human life in the space program, but the negative publicity value is astronomically more than the dollar value of the loss of human life.)
You know, how much longer is AOL going to put up with this Frankel guy at Nullsoft? He and his "cohorts" released Gnutella which has got to be one of the biggest thorn in big media's side, he released some program to turn AOL's banners into something else in AIM, and now he goes and releases Waste which is basically similar to Gnutella but for much smaller groups. Why has he not been fired along with any co-conspirators? Does Nullsoft have that much artistic license or self-sufficiency that they won't get in trouble for this stuff or is AOL just too big to really handle internal affairs like this properly short of forcing them to pull it from being downloadable? As you said, the cat is already out of the bag. I can't believe Nullsoft doesn't get taken to task for not getting approval from corporate's lawyers before any software release!
Copy protected CD-like discs, encrypted DVDs that are not legally playable under open source operating systems, and games that require you to keep the god damn CD in while playing even though you install the entire thing to the hard drive all drive me insane. These people are forgetting the number one rule in business: the customer is always right. ALWAYS! If you forget that or start to justify arguing this point then you might as well not be selling stuff to consumers.
Unfortunately what all the peaceniks always forget is step 3.5 "Then they annihilate you". You can never get to step 4 anymore than the underpants gnomes can profit.
But if you can afford an HDTV receiver then you can afford to just receive HDTV over cable or satellite. There's really no point to receiving it over VHF/UHF anymore. Content in the 21st century will be for subscribers only. All you freeloaders will have to find a new way to extract and pirate information from us paying customers. Want information? PAY FOR IT! God damn freeloading broadcast pirates.
Hell, an idiotic cocaine addict could become President of the United States given the right circumstances. You'd just need the right team of advisors and enough backing from some powerful political party to brainwash the masses into believing you're more than a cocaine addicted moron. It's possible, but highly unlikely that this would occur given our enlightened society.
Perhaps it's time to transition the company over to the government. The government has been promoting clueless civil servants into upper management for hundreds of years. They'd be a perfect match.
Worldcom, Enron and Tyco did. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. It's apparent to us the building is aflame and about to fall down, but to the company spindoctors everything is just peachy and they're going to come out of it stronger than ever. It's typical corporate bullshitting. I will take you to the gravesite of SCO near the Baghdad airport... IN ONE YEAR!
Why would Microsoft have to authorize anything? Are you saying Palladium gives them a monopoly to choose the software you're allowed to install on your computer? What's next, leasing computers by the month and just paying a fee? As long as Taiwan exists there will be free "open" hardware we can run Linux on.
That reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask. Does North Korea possess any decent natural resources like oil or is it all rice fields? If they have oil I'd suggest we liberate those people immediately from their tyranical overlords.
You know, I've got two laptops I could choose from but I continue to use a notebook and pen when I go to a class. It's wireless, never needs recharging, and is a nice permanent write-only media. It can even be upgraded to read/write by replacing the pen with a pencil. I've never pulled out my notebook and found I couldn't take notes because my battery was dead or the screen was broken or someone had stolen it. To top it all off, at the state university I attend, 99% of the students don't bring laptops to class so I'd look like some kind of dork typing away on a laptop. Call it peer pressure, but the laptop stays at home and the pad of paper and the pen come with me to class. Much less distracting too. I don't find myself watching movies on my DVD drive on my notebook.
BeOS fanboys of course.
I was never able to use BeOS on my 'puters, since none of my graphics were supported
Ditto. The best my graphics card would do was black and white at either 320x200 or 640x480. I forgot which. It was horrible and certainly turned me off to BeOS. I don't recall which graphics card I was using at the time to test BeOS 5, but it was a very common one (GeForce256 or Matrox Millennium).
So, Be fans, what makes BeOS so special?
Maybe the stunning lack of applications and poor hardware support gave some old Amiga fanboys a new hope? :-)