Re:Except they're not, if you had RTFA
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Ebay vs. Musician
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The rule is: no CDR's. He did break that rule.
Did YOU bother to read the rules on ebay? The page you linked has this big bold exceptions paragraph which exempts him because he is the copyright owner!
Exception Sellers may list copies of software, music, movies, television programs, or games on CD-R, DVD-R (or other forms of recordable media) where:
the seller is the copyright owner; or the underlying material is in the public domain
But you have been using Debian for 3-4 years. That means you know tasksel/dselect. A n00b doesn't know these programs and has a lot of problems with them.
I've been using Debian for about a year now and I've never used dselect. I used tasksel when doing a woody install a few times recently but it was very straight forward. Select the type of apps you want to have installed. Done. apt-get is much easier than messing around trying to find RPMs like I used to since the urpmi stuff under Mandrake never worked right for me.
Maybe some people don't like to talk on the phone? I go out of my way to communicate entirely through e-mail. In fact, I've got a ticket in a queue that's several months old about a problem with e-mail between a remote site and ours. Since I can't e-mail the remote person to do diagnostics I have to call him. Since I don't like talking on the phone it sits in the queue. I really don't want to e-mail them anyway so it's not a big deal. I just tell people their network is broke.
Please suggest a better way for me to map a drive letter on my Windows XP machine to my Linux web server in a colocation center.
Honestly? Try WebDAV over SSL. Under recent versions of Windows (since win98se?) this is known as Web Folders. Unfortunately I don't know if it associates an actual legacy DOS drive letter to it but for all intents and purposes it looks like any other drive share to the user. Mac users are familiar with this technology since I believe the iDisk is based around it. Anyway, for more info go to the WebDAV page. We've been working with it in the lab testing interoperability and it seems to work nicely. Apache supports it well through a module.
The alternative as other users have suggested is to establish an IPSEC tunnel to the server and use NetBIOS over that but it's probably more complex than you want to deal with. Putty (windows ssh client) also has some nice GUI frontends linked from their web page that use scp but hide all the complex bits from the user. Search for Putty on google and it should be the first result.
Yes, they have a page on how to do the switch, I know, but they don't say, "Hi, I'm some kewl dude who switched to the Mac, and here's exactly, click by click, how I did it" in any of the ads.
But they DO have Ellen Feiss. And it was like beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. If the stoned goddess uses Macs, maybe they're not that bad eh?
You are forced to block both TCP and UDP for any given port number. Because of this, you end up blocking more than is required.
And the problem with this is what exactly? Your firewall should block everything unless you specifically exempt it. Only people living in 1994 are still trying to play the "I'll just block dangerous ports" whack-a-mole game with their firewalls. Any el-cheapo home Linksys box will block all inbound connections by default. There isn't any reason to be using NetBIOS across the Internet period. It's a horribly insecure protocol that was never designed to be used across a WAN. Keep it on the intranet where it is meant to be used.
The larger hard drives seem to fail more than the smaller ones. I have a 2 yr old Seagate 20gig that is dead and a 60 gig Maxtor that is a little over a year old that is going to die anyday. The extra heat from the 7200 drives seems to make the difference.
Whereas the 245 meg drive I bought in 1994 and the 545 meg drive I bought in 1995 are still chugging away in some of my old machines. It's really sad that we have to sacrifice that kind of reliability for size. We shouldn't need to. I'd be content with a much more reliable 20GB drive for the same price as one of these newer 100GB drives. And don't tell me to go get a SCSI drive because I've had NOTHING but horrible experiences with them. I've never had any drives failure more than SCSI drives! I went through 5 4.5GB Seagate SCSI drives, a 9GB Quantum SCSI, and a bunch of 18GB Seagates. My IDE drives have been much more reliable.
In a democracy, you are responsible for the actions of those you elect.
No, in a democracy you are responsible for the laws you vote for. In a democratic republic (like the United States of America) your representatives are responsible for their votes and you have to live with them and hope they match your ideology. I've never seen a candidate get 100% of the population voting for them unless they have no opponent so don't blame "All American Citizens" for the actions of the representatives of the majority... in the case of the DMCA, that would be former President Bill Clinton and the democrats and moderate republicans who voted for him.
My God. You mean they want to make an app that does one job only, and does it well? But that's so... so... Unix!
Don't worry. If you look at Phoenix's roadmap, 0.6 begins integration of the KOffice suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tool. 0.7 will include integration with the xpdf codebase. 0.8 embeds ghostscript directly into the source tree. 0.9 merges with XFree86 4.3, and 1.0 is the coveted GNU/Phoenix OS release which is the highly anticipated competitor to Microsoft Windows XP.
There are NO 64bit consumer processors currently available.
Sure there are. Sun Ultrasparc IIe's are consumer priced and fully 64-bit. You can pick up a full system for just around $1k. They're not the speediest things on the planet, but you just said 64-bit consumer level processor.
That seems like an absurdly high number. At least in my circle of friends, p2p is frequently used for trading GPL software, and programs that students have written themselves. I'm not going to pretend I've never DLed a movie or some Mp3s, but God knows that's not 99% of my p2p usage.
I don't mean to sound like I'm doubting your numbers, but why on earth would you trade GPL software and programs that students have written themselves on a P2P network?? It'd be MUCH more efficient to just stick it on an FTP or web server. Hell, you could even put up a web page describing it's use and providing screenshots. There will of course be exceptions, but I think we all know the real reasons for P2P network usage has consistently been piracy of copyrighted music. Napster, Gnutella, Morpheus, Kazaa, etc. The vast majority of all that traffic was trading pirated mp3's. Later on they tried to justify their networks by saying "oh, but people are trading public domain stuff on here too! ". Right. I know I've never downloaded anything legit from any of those networks and I am willing to bet most people here aren't angels either. Now, do I agree with cracking down on P2P? No, I really think copyright as it stands today is an obsolete notion. Lifelong copyright is bullshit.
Unless this is going to be a nationwide digital radio network using stations to broadcast there signal on SCA for a nominal fee (there are currently analog networks like this, and some digital content (stock tickers, news feeds, etc) that broadcast on these subcarriers.
There currently is a nationwide network that broadcasts the same thing in every major city. It's called Clearchannel Communications. Go to Cleveland, Chicago, New York, L.A., Orlando, Seattle, and Dallas and you should be able to find a clearchannel station that is basically playing the same format and same playlist as in the other markets.;-) Whatever would we do without our nationwide radio monopolies!? Thanks Telecommunications act of 1996! Before it was much more confusing with dozens of companies owning the different stations.
Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today?
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If you get FreeBSD 4.7, it is exactly the same as anybody else's FreeBSD 4.7 in terms of included software. There's no RedHat FreeBSD, SuSE FreeBSD, Debian FreeBSD, etc. It's just FreeBSD.
Now if only they could get that NVidia driver working, it would be perfect.
That's kind of funny. The nvidia driver works fine under x86 Linux. What it really comes down to is you can have 15,000 different Linux distributions but they're all basically the same when it comes to kernel, libraries, X distribution, etc. So, getting the Nvidia driver to work under Debian is just as easy as getting it working under Red Hat or Mandrake. FreeBSD on the other hand seems to be a stable solid target with a well supported standard configuration base yet it has much less driver support available for it. Why is that? Less users spurring development I suppose.
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Wartrapping?
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When does the copyright run out on him?
Isn't that a Disney character? If so, probably never. If you have enough money you can buy a never-expiring copyright from your local congressman.:-)
Of course, this argument would all be irrelevent if the airlines weren't such cheap bastards and just stuck an AC outlet or a standard 12v DC car outlet into the back of each seat. If they can run power for those stupid $10/minute air phones they can run them for passenger's portable devices. I don't even care if it's a $5 charge or some other insane cost, but at least offer it. Oh and no, I don't want to hear about sitting in first class where the flight attendants give you handjobs while you drink martinis and have a 6 outlet power strip per seat. Frankly I don't remember the last time I've been on a plane that even HAD a first class or business class or anything except coach. Do they even have first class anymore? I would imagine they have to for snobs.
How will I win lunch at my local restaurant then though? Do I shake hands with the cashier and hope it gets inputted into a database for the business card lunch contest?
Don't forget to catch Mr. Winter playing Steven doing all those Dell commercials either. Dude! You're getting arrested for downloading 50 gigs of pirated mp3s on your new Dell! SWEET! Oh, I guess that's someone else.
I wouldn't trust Sun even if they did. Staroffice was free, now it isn't. Solaris 8 was free, now Solaris 9 isn't (on more than 1 processor capable systems). I would say they've operated by following the drug dealer's game. The first hit is free but the next is going to cost you big time.
When you want to run a giant website on a machine with 100's of CPU's, you CAN'T turn x86; there is no such machine.
Only the quacks try to run a "giant website" on one machine. There's not point when you can buy hundreds of cheaper x86 boxes for much much less than a multimillion dollar high end Sun server and cluster them. You'll get better performance in the long run. Now, maybe a database server or something is another story, but web servers are easily clustered.
Actually, you can make one copy for personal use and Apple doesn't have a problem with you.
Interesting. Do you have a link tho that information? I have access to a lot of MacOS X cds if I had a Mac. I wonder why they bother to sell "family" license packs for home use then when you have multiple machines since they don't care if you copy it? Are you sure they don't care if you copy it?
Apple knows that as the little guy they have to actually make their users happy. DRM doesn't make for happy users, but "Rip, Mix, Burn" commercials do.
Unless you "Rip, Mix, Burn" a MacOS X 10.2 Jaguar image, then you're a criminal right?:-)
Does anyone know if we need all 5 ISO images? Seems pretty bloated. What do I need to install a running system? I want to upgrade (or reinstall) from RH 6.0.
Why don't you just do an FTP install? Last time I checked that only needed one 1.44 meg floppy disk (at least with Mandrake it does). Then you're only downloading what you need instead of 3 gigs worth of packages you won't ever install. As for the loaded FTP sites just wait a week. Nobody is going to shoot any kittens if you don't upgrade to Redshat 8.0 today. Besides, it's a dot-oh release and probably has tons of major bugs which is typical of major Red Hat dot-oh releases. (5.0, 6.0, and 7.0 were all very buggy IMHO and weren't stable until 5.2, 6.2 and 7.2). Anyway, not a flame, just another perspective. It's a waste to download ISO images to just install it on one machine if you have broadband anyway. If you DON'T have broadband or a high speed internet connection then you're on crack for downloading 5 ISO images over 56k dialup or ISDN.:-)
The problem, I think, is that people really haven't taken a whole lot of interest in it so far, because in general it doesn't really do anything that Linux doesn't already do better.
The major difference is that everytime you boot into Linux, Richard Stallman kills another kitten out of sheer frustration and anger. This was supposed to be HIS triumphant free UNIX not that kid from Finland! How dare he steal St. Gnucious's thunder!:-)
I guess you may call me a "mouse freak", and I suppose that I am one indeed. With lots of high-tech mice, including the Logitech Cordless MouseMan, TrackMan FX and Microsoft's IntelliMouse Optical, floating around my desktop, I still wasn't satisfied - well, until I got the MX700. My "mouse dream" has been finally fulfilled by Logitech.
Maybe someone could help me find my dream mouse. Actually, my dream trackball. Does anyone know of a good trackball WITHOUT that god damn wheel thing on it? I'm talking a good old fashioned optical trackball with three buttons like the old Logitech Marbles. Mine is still working fine for now but the buttons are starting to crack and if I lose it I'll be screwed. I tried playing Counter-strike wtih a mouse but I just can't get the feel for it. That middle button has become as necessary as breathing since I have it bound to backwards movement and the scroll wheel just doesn't cut it since it's too small and I miss it. I have large hands so I want a nice large trackball. The ones with the large ball seem to be interesting but again, they all come with wheels.
BTW: Anyone want a stupid Microsoft Explorer mouse? $60 and it sits on the side of my desk unused and unhooked up. I kept it too long to return it within 30 days so I'm stuck with the piece of junk.
...just how the hell did you find yourself in a position to be targeted by a CEO who thinks you infected him with Klez? Is he your boss or what? I don't disbelieve that this guy is completely clueless, I'm just wondering how one would end up being blamed for something like this.
It's not that hard to imagine. Someone had Dr. Harm in his address book probably, they got infected with Klez, and it sent mail using his forged address to someone else in the guy's address book (the CEO). Personally I think we should stop accusing people in the From address and start accusing these stupid idiots who use Outbreak for spreading the viruses. How hard is it for Microsoft to simply remove this stupid "functionality" in Outbreak that allow these viruses to spread? 4 or 5 years ago there were NO email viruses, why is that exactly? Because the mail readers didn't execute visual basic scripts?
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The rule is: no CDR's. He did break that rule.
Did YOU bother to read the rules on ebay? The page you linked has this big bold exceptions paragraph which exempts him because he is the copyright owner!
Exception
Sellers may list copies of software, music, movies, television programs, or games on CD-R, DVD-R (or other forms of recordable media) where:
the seller is the copyright owner; or
the underlying material is in the public domain
I've been using Debian for about a year now and I've never used dselect. I used tasksel when doing a woody install a few times recently but it was very straight forward. Select the type of apps you want to have installed. Done. apt-get is much easier than messing around trying to find RPMs like I used to since the urpmi stuff under Mandrake never worked right for me.
Maybe some people don't like to talk on the phone? I go out of my way to communicate entirely through e-mail. In fact, I've got a ticket in a queue that's several months old about a problem with e-mail between a remote site and ours. Since I can't e-mail the remote person to do diagnostics I have to call him. Since I don't like talking on the phone it sits in the queue. I really don't want to e-mail them anyway so it's not a big deal. I just tell people their network is broke.
Honestly? Try WebDAV over SSL. Under recent versions of Windows (since win98se?) this is known as Web Folders. Unfortunately I don't know if it associates an actual legacy DOS drive letter to it but for all intents and purposes it looks like any other drive share to the user. Mac users are familiar with this technology since I believe the iDisk is based around it. Anyway, for more info go to the WebDAV page. We've been working with it in the lab testing interoperability and it seems to work nicely. Apache supports it well through a module. The alternative as other users have suggested is to establish an IPSEC tunnel to the server and use NetBIOS over that but it's probably more complex than you want to deal with. Putty (windows ssh client) also has some nice GUI frontends linked from their web page that use scp but hide all the complex bits from the user. Search for Putty on google and it should be the first result.
But they DO have Ellen Feiss. And it was like beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. If the stoned goddess uses Macs, maybe they're not that bad eh?
And the problem with this is what exactly? Your firewall should block everything unless you specifically exempt it. Only people living in 1994 are still trying to play the "I'll just block dangerous ports" whack-a-mole game with their firewalls. Any el-cheapo home Linksys box will block all inbound connections by default. There isn't any reason to be using NetBIOS across the Internet period. It's a horribly insecure protocol that was never designed to be used across a WAN. Keep it on the intranet where it is meant to be used.
Whereas the 245 meg drive I bought in 1994 and the 545 meg drive I bought in 1995 are still chugging away in some of my old machines. It's really sad that we have to sacrifice that kind of reliability for size. We shouldn't need to. I'd be content with a much more reliable 20GB drive for the same price as one of these newer 100GB drives. And don't tell me to go get a SCSI drive because I've had NOTHING but horrible experiences with them. I've never had any drives failure more than SCSI drives! I went through 5 4.5GB Seagate SCSI drives, a 9GB Quantum SCSI, and a bunch of 18GB Seagates. My IDE drives have been much more reliable.
No, in a democracy you are responsible for the laws you vote for. In a democratic republic (like the United States of America) your representatives are responsible for their votes and you have to live with them and hope they match your ideology. I've never seen a candidate get 100% of the population voting for them unless they have no opponent so don't blame "All American Citizens" for the actions of the representatives of the majority... in the case of the DMCA, that would be former President Bill Clinton and the democrats and moderate republicans who voted for him.
Don't worry. If you look at Phoenix's roadmap, 0.6 begins integration of the KOffice suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tool. 0.7 will include integration with the xpdf codebase. 0.8 embeds ghostscript directly into the source tree. 0.9 merges with XFree86 4.3, and 1.0 is the coveted GNU/Phoenix OS release which is the highly anticipated competitor to Microsoft Windows XP.
Sure there are. Sun Ultrasparc IIe's are consumer priced and fully 64-bit. You can pick up a full system for just around $1k. They're not the speediest things on the planet, but you just said 64-bit consumer level processor.
I don't mean to sound like I'm doubting your numbers, but why on earth would you trade GPL software and programs that students have written themselves on a P2P network?? It'd be MUCH more efficient to just stick it on an FTP or web server. Hell, you could even put up a web page describing it's use and providing screenshots. There will of course be exceptions, but I think we all know the real reasons for P2P network usage has consistently been piracy of copyrighted music. Napster, Gnutella, Morpheus, Kazaa, etc. The vast majority of all that traffic was trading pirated mp3's. Later on they tried to justify their networks by saying "oh, but people are trading public domain stuff on here too! ". Right. I know I've never downloaded anything legit from any of those networks and I am willing to bet most people here aren't angels either. Now, do I agree with cracking down on P2P? No, I really think copyright as it stands today is an obsolete notion. Lifelong copyright is bullshit.
Unless this is going to be a nationwide digital radio network using stations to broadcast there signal on SCA for a nominal fee (there are currently analog networks like this, and some digital content (stock tickers, news feeds, etc) that broadcast on these subcarriers. ;-) Whatever would we do without our nationwide radio monopolies!? Thanks Telecommunications act of 1996! Before it was much more confusing with dozens of companies owning the different stations.
There currently is a nationwide network that broadcasts the same thing in every major city. It's called Clearchannel Communications. Go to Cleveland, Chicago, New York, L.A., Orlando, Seattle, and Dallas and you should be able to find a clearchannel station that is basically playing the same format and same playlist as in the other markets.
That's kind of funny. The nvidia driver works fine under x86 Linux. What it really comes down to is you can have 15,000 different Linux distributions but they're all basically the same when it comes to kernel, libraries, X distribution, etc. So, getting the Nvidia driver to work under Debian is just as easy as getting it working under Red Hat or Mandrake. FreeBSD on the other hand seems to be a stable solid target with a well supported standard configuration base yet it has much less driver support available for it. Why is that? Less users spurring development I suppose.
When does the copyright run out on him? :-)
Isn't that a Disney character? If so, probably never. If you have enough money you can buy a never-expiring copyright from your local congressman.
Of course, this argument would all be irrelevent if the airlines weren't such cheap bastards and just stuck an AC outlet or a standard 12v DC car outlet into the back of each seat. If they can run power for those stupid $10/minute air phones they can run them for passenger's portable devices. I don't even care if it's a $5 charge or some other insane cost, but at least offer it. Oh and no, I don't want to hear about sitting in first class where the flight attendants give you handjobs while you drink martinis and have a 6 outlet power strip per seat. Frankly I don't remember the last time I've been on a plane that even HAD a first class or business class or anything except coach. Do they even have first class anymore? I would imagine they have to for snobs.
How will I win lunch at my local restaurant then though? Do I shake hands with the cashier and hope it gets inputted into a database for the business card lunch contest?
Don't forget to catch Mr. Winter playing Steven doing all those Dell commercials either. Dude! You're getting arrested for downloading 50 gigs of pirated mp3s on your new Dell! SWEET! Oh, I guess that's someone else.
I wouldn't trust Sun even if they did. Staroffice was free, now it isn't. Solaris 8 was free, now Solaris 9 isn't (on more than 1 processor capable systems). I would say they've operated by following the drug dealer's game. The first hit is free but the next is going to cost you big time.
When you want to run a giant website on a machine with 100's of CPU's, you CAN'T turn x86; there is no such machine.
Only the quacks try to run a "giant website" on one machine. There's not point when you can buy hundreds of cheaper x86 boxes for much much less than a multimillion dollar high end Sun server and cluster them. You'll get better performance in the long run. Now, maybe a database server or something is another story, but web servers are easily clustered.
Actually, you can make one copy for personal use and Apple doesn't have a problem with you.
Interesting. Do you have a link tho that information? I have access to a lot of MacOS X cds if I had a Mac. I wonder why they bother to sell "family" license packs for home use then when you have multiple machines since they don't care if you copy it? Are you sure they don't care if you copy it?
Apple knows that as the little guy they have to actually make their users happy. DRM doesn't make for happy users, but "Rip, Mix, Burn" commercials do.
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Unless you "Rip, Mix, Burn" a MacOS X 10.2 Jaguar image, then you're a criminal right?
Does anyone know if we need all 5 ISO images? Seems pretty bloated. What do I need to install a running system? I want to upgrade (or reinstall) from RH 6.0.
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Why don't you just do an FTP install? Last time I checked that only needed one 1.44 meg floppy disk (at least with Mandrake it does). Then you're only downloading what you need instead of 3 gigs worth of packages you won't ever install. As for the loaded FTP sites just wait a week. Nobody is going to shoot any kittens if you don't upgrade to Redshat 8.0 today. Besides, it's a dot-oh release and probably has tons of major bugs which is typical of major Red Hat dot-oh releases. (5.0, 6.0, and 7.0 were all very buggy IMHO and weren't stable until 5.2, 6.2 and 7.2). Anyway, not a flame, just another perspective. It's a waste to download ISO images to just install it on one machine if you have broadband anyway. If you DON'T have broadband or a high speed internet connection then you're on crack for downloading 5 ISO images over 56k dialup or ISDN.
The problem, I think, is that people really haven't taken a whole lot of interest in it so far, because in general it doesn't really do anything that Linux doesn't already do better. :-)
The major difference is that everytime you boot into Linux, Richard Stallman kills another kitten out of sheer frustration and anger. This was supposed to be HIS triumphant free UNIX not that kid from Finland! How dare he steal St. Gnucious's thunder!
I guess you may call me a "mouse freak", and I suppose that I am one indeed. With lots of high-tech mice, including the Logitech Cordless MouseMan, TrackMan FX and Microsoft's IntelliMouse Optical, floating around my desktop, I still wasn't satisfied - well, until I got the MX700. My "mouse dream" has been finally fulfilled by Logitech.
Maybe someone could help me find my dream mouse. Actually, my dream trackball. Does anyone know of a good trackball WITHOUT that god damn wheel thing on it? I'm talking a good old fashioned optical trackball with three buttons like the old Logitech Marbles. Mine is still working fine for now but the buttons are starting to crack and if I lose it I'll be screwed. I tried playing Counter-strike wtih a mouse but I just can't get the feel for it. That middle button has become as necessary as breathing since I have it bound to backwards movement and the scroll wheel just doesn't cut it since it's too small and I miss it. I have large hands so I want a nice large trackball. The ones with the large ball seem to be interesting but again, they all come with wheels.
BTW: Anyone want a stupid Microsoft Explorer mouse? $60 and it sits on the side of my desk unused and unhooked up. I kept it too long to return it within 30 days so I'm stuck with the piece of junk.
...just how the hell did you find yourself in a position to be targeted by a CEO who thinks you infected him with Klez? Is he your boss or what? I don't disbelieve that this guy is completely clueless, I'm just wondering how one would end up being blamed for something like this.
It's not that hard to imagine. Someone had Dr. Harm in his address book probably, they got infected with Klez, and it sent mail using his forged address to someone else in the guy's address book (the CEO). Personally I think we should stop accusing people in the From address and start accusing these stupid idiots who use Outbreak for spreading the viruses. How hard is it for Microsoft to simply remove this stupid "functionality" in Outbreak that allow these viruses to spread? 4 or 5 years ago there were NO email viruses, why is that exactly? Because the mail readers didn't execute visual basic scripts?