Really remarkable, I guess that perspective shapes the reality. I know many people that have had BSODs in Win2K and WinXP. Of course I hear about many of the problems because of my 18 years in IT and people call me for answers. YMMV. One mans relic is another mans nightmare.
Along with BSOD jokes, they are relics of the 90s. Thank you for being that decade's spokesperson!
Relic of the 90s, right... When windows stops giving BSODs the jokes will be relics, not before. Clippy was a joke, is a joke and will remain a joke from the brilliant minds that produced MS Bob. Follow the link and look at the dog helper, ever seen that one before? Right! In the WinXP Search tool as the animated helper.
I like this quote from the last page of the Bob guide: "The Office Assistance included with Office 97 appear to be directly evolved from the Bob Guides." Yeah, nothing to make a joke about with Microsoft stuff. Move along.
Overly Critical Guy takes one for his hero, film at 11pm.
If it also slows down the rate that water can give off heat energy as well as slow the evaporation rate, this would be great for extending the usable season for outdoor pools.
If this prevents evaporation, does it also increase the surface tension of the water? That could make diving into a treated lake a painful proposition.
Are you kidding? The druggies would all be high on duplicated crank/coke/jolt-cola and the bankers would all be sitting on piles of gold. Every geek would have a dozen P4 and Athlon64 systems and their own personal petrified Natalie Portman. No one would want to work and probably wouldn't need to for survival purposes.
What government could survive if the people didn't want for anything?
Keep in mind the original 1995 MS antitrust slap on the wrist case. Who was president then?
I think that most in congress are ignorant of technical matters and vote based on the loudest voices from their districts. MS has twice gotten away with barely a scratch as punishment for their dirty dealing, they have no real fear to hold them back from doing whatever they wish. Sad, but true.
After reading the article, what I really wonder about is "why is Roland upset about information they have no copyright for?".
If the response from canadacow is correct, then this is plain harrasment from Roland. The three authors contacted Roland before starting their project and got no response about the copyright concerns. They even let Roland know that there was no valid copyright on the MT-32 rom info and got no response. Seems like the Roland legal team has been asleep on the job.
In short, Roland can't license what they don't own copyright for (see SCO for more examples).
I used the past tense "gave". Without their funding between 1998 and early 2003, mozilla would not be what it is and the framework that will live on in many different forms. Yeah, "I do appreciate the funding they gave mozilla", how much cash did you or I contribute? Very little on my part, don't know about you.
With AOL-TimeWarner losing billions in cash, seems like they didn't have much left for mozilla, maybe they will need what did get produced as a replacement browser. I bet even JWZ would laugh about that one.
Yeah, an AOL client with no browser sounds like a real winner. If IE shipments are stopped, then the AOL client would have to stop shipping until they could remove the "offending" version of IE. If you install the newest AOL client, it will install the version of each IE.dll that it needs. That means they ship IE with their client. How they embed that browser function and expose it to the user dosen't mean much unless that too infringes the Eolas patent.
The AOL client will play flash content even if a seperate flash plug-in hasn't been installed. Seems like it has to have the same infringing problems as the standalone IE.
Actually, Netscape is dead and the Mozilla project is no longer sponsored by AOL.
If Eolas gets the injunction to stop IE distribution, that will include the AOL client... Maybe AOL would then regret snuggling up to Billy G. and helping to snuff Netscape. I do appreciate the funding they gave mozilla though.
I'm getting the torrent now @ 160KBps right now. The new torrent clients released last week are much faster, did you get the new version? But if someone is sharing a corrupt file, then don't blame that on BitTorrent.
Forget the tar and feathers, cover him with the spammers delight: a golden shower from middle aged russian women followed by rolling him in penis enlargment pills. Then sign him up for a home improvment loan on his "mobile palace".
So you mean that I am going to start dreaming about mowing the lawn and fixing the leaky gutter? Come to think of it, PMS would explain the Cuban Missile Crisis too...
that must mean that many people here were just informed of the existence of beer-goggles. More slashdot regulars are going to get laid this weekend! Well, as laid as one can get while semi-conscious from alcohol poisoning.
Note to mods: This is a joke! Not an attack of your lifestyle.:)
I went to a monthly ham breakfast meeting just this morning to meet some new people and ask questions. I don't have my license yet, but already have my exam scheduled. I wanted to ask questions about radios, APRS and local packet. They were eager to answer questions and offer suggestions. The cranky responses I've gotten so far are from online forums like eham.net.
Decent info is a close as google, my Ham folder under bookmarks proves that.
Even carrier wave radio has a place for Morse. But in these days of 10 MIPs per dollar microcontrollers that can convert Morse and any other code to ASCII characters (and then translate its language), it's hard to justify requiring Morse proficency in order to get a radio licence. Seems like just a means of radio geeks keeping the riff-raff away from their little hobby.
This has nothing to do with the no-code tech license. At the moment you must pass a 5wpm morse test to gain access to the HF (international) bands or to go beyond tech and get your general or extra class ticket. If you want to work below 6m then you will certainly encounter lots of morse communication and will need to know it anyway.
If someone wants to be a ham and only do packet, 2m and 70cm, then they don't need access to the HF bands and I don't understand the complaining about the test.
Liken this to requiring people to understand the international standard highway signs (stop, yield, do not pass, etc...) before giving them the privelege of traveling on international roadways. Instead of saving lives by preventing wrecks, this is a courtesy that we still extend even though several other countries let hams that can't understand morse loose on the HF bands.
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Perhaps because of/var/spool/mail, they must expect large amounts of mail on this mail server. If they were using a.maildir type spool, then/home would need to be much larger.
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Subject: schvalne jestli ve SCO ctou ceske servery From: root Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:59:24 -0600 To: redakce@root.cz
That seems to be Friday morning, just before 6:00am by my reading.
I also wonder if their mail server may still be vulnerable to this little problem
ESR has learned from SCO tactics. McBride & Company don't have to be honest, they are only press releases. They have only made simple breach of contract charges in court where things like lies are punishable.
SCO is fighting a war not of fact, truth or honor, but one of perception. Mr. McBride seems mainly interested in raising SCOX share price regardless of method and it has been effective so far, the stock price went up $1.30 ( just shy of 10%) on Monday. Gee, press releases really are a short term substitute for R&D.
I don't really feel sorry for the people that are going to loose large with the influx of daytraders that see SCO as a good inventment and powerful force that can shake even the mighty IBM. They will have lost their money in spite of the truthful information that is easily found. But when they do start loosing large chunks of money, SCO will feel the backlash and it won't be pretty. Those people will have no real allegaance to SCOs business, ideals or Unix history, only money.
I think it is going to be a blood bath that SCO will be luck to escape, ESR has given a good accounting of motivation that the investors are likely to ignore, probably until it is too late to save their investments.
It dosen't have to be legal liability to cause trouble. A pissed off client, boss or girlfriend can be plenty of liability to have to deal with. If they have trouble understanding the actual causes, then good luck reasoning with them.
Add a signature to your email client for a couple of weeks that says you don't use Outlook or any microsft email client. If someone has email from you with headers that originated within Outlook, then please delete the message because it is almost certainly a virus. But the people would have to understand how to view full headers under outlook and outlook express. Send this to everyone in your address book and let them worry about how many of the people in their address books got spammed in your name.
Also, my email logs have already been handy in proving the ownership of questionable email and in tracking sensitive email that was sent but the client did not receive. The mail server at their ISP was swamped and couldn't get a dns lookup on our mail server. They bounced the email, but didn't send us a bounce message. The client called and was upset that they had not gotten the information. Luckily I had also cc'd the email to the company owner and he had gotten it, so I sent the log entries to the client and suggested that they may have lost more email.
The moral here is that windows insecurity has bitten me this week and I wasn't using windows. My linux servers are having trouble communicating with other servers that are buckling under the strain. It will be great when MS actually gets some substance in their "Trustworthy Computing".
Since you said method (meaning radio emission), that also leaves out cell phones, wifi, bluetooth, microwave relay towers, pretty much every communication method except wire or optical fiber.
I am just taking your flamebait post as a chance to remind you that if it dosen't use wires, hams have probably been involved in development at some stage.
Troll?! Here I sit with moderator points and try to use them wisely. I think I recognize most of the humor around here, but it dosen't seem that everyone with mod points even has a sense of humor or could even recognize one.
To the humor impaired moderator, please watch some Monty Python ( BBC shows are great) or maybe even read the Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy and watch Airplane. You will then be better prepared for your next encounter with this humor thing you've been hearing about...
Now I'm off to spend my points by elevating the good posts and ignoring the trolls.
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Really remarkable, I guess that perspective shapes the reality. I know many people that have had BSODs in Win2K and WinXP. Of course I hear about many of the problems because of my 18 years in IT and people call me for answers. YMMV. One mans relic is another mans nightmare.
Relic of the 90s, right... When windows stops giving BSODs the jokes will be relics, not before. Clippy was a joke, is a joke and will remain a joke from the brilliant minds that produced MS Bob. Follow the link and look at the dog helper, ever seen that one before? Right! In the WinXP Search tool as the animated helper.
I like this quote from the last page of the Bob guide: "The Office Assistance included with Office 97 appear to be directly evolved from the Bob Guides." Yeah, nothing to make a joke about with Microsoft stuff. Move along.
Overly Critical Guy takes one for his hero, film at 11pm.
It should be visible tonight after the eclipse.
If it also slows down the rate that water can give off heat energy as well as slow the evaporation rate, this would be great for extending the usable season for outdoor pools.
If this prevents evaporation, does it also increase the surface tension of the water? That could make diving into a treated lake a painful proposition.
Are you kidding? The druggies would all be high on duplicated crank/coke/jolt-cola and the bankers would all be sitting on piles of gold. Every geek would have a dozen P4 and Athlon64 systems and their own personal petrified Natalie Portman. No one would want to work and probably wouldn't need to for survival purposes.
What government could survive if the people didn't want for anything?
Keep in mind the original 1995 MS antitrust slap on the wrist case. Who was president then?
I think that most in congress are ignorant of technical matters and vote based on the loudest voices from their districts. MS has twice gotten away with barely a scratch as punishment for their dirty dealing, they have no real fear to hold them back from doing whatever they wish. Sad, but true.
After reading the article, what I really wonder about is "why is Roland upset about information they have no copyright for?".
If the response from canadacow is correct, then this is plain harrasment from Roland. The three authors contacted Roland before starting their project and got no response about the copyright concerns. They even let Roland know that there was no valid copyright on the MT-32 rom info and got no response. Seems like the Roland legal team has been asleep on the job.
In short, Roland can't license what they don't own copyright for (see SCO for more examples).
I used the past tense "gave". Without their funding between 1998 and early 2003, mozilla would not be what it is and the framework that will live on in many different forms. Yeah, "I do appreciate the funding they gave mozilla", how much cash did you or I contribute? Very little on my part, don't know about you.
With AOL-TimeWarner losing billions in cash, seems like they didn't have much left for mozilla, maybe they will need what did get produced as a replacement browser. I bet even JWZ would laugh about that one.
Yeah, an AOL client with no browser sounds like a real winner. If IE shipments are stopped, then the AOL client would have to stop shipping until they could remove the "offending" version of IE. If you install the newest AOL client, it will install the version of each IE .dll that it needs. That means they ship IE with their client. How they embed that browser function and expose it to the user dosen't mean much unless that too infringes the Eolas patent.
The AOL client will play flash content even if a seperate flash plug-in hasn't been installed. Seems like it has to have the same infringing problems as the standalone IE.
If Eolas gets the injunction to stop IE distribution, that will include the AOL client... Maybe AOL would then regret snuggling up to Billy G. and helping to snuff Netscape. I do appreciate the funding they gave mozilla though.
In the context of servers, Linux is used as the platform for more internet serving duties ( web, email, ftp) than windows. Thus it is attacked more.
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In the desktop arena, yes, windows is used more and many trojans and viri are freely available as unwanted upgrades.
You are mixing two different subjects, not hardly rational. I guess we should expect this type of behaviour from "Overly Critical Guy" though...
I'm getting the torrent now @ 160KBps right now. The new torrent clients released last week are much faster, did you get the new version?
But if someone is sharing a corrupt file, then don't blame that on BitTorrent.
Forget the tar and feathers, cover him with the spammers delight: a golden shower from middle aged russian women followed by rolling him in penis enlargment pills. Then sign him up for a home improvment loan on his "mobile palace".
So you mean that I am going to start dreaming about mowing the lawn and fixing the leaky gutter? Come to think of it, PMS would explain the Cuban Missile Crisis too...
that must mean that many people here were just informed of the existence of beer-goggles. More slashdot regulars are going to get laid this weekend! Well, as laid as one can get while semi-conscious from alcohol poisoning.
:)
Note to mods: This is a joke! Not an attack of your lifestyle.
I went to a monthly ham breakfast meeting just this morning to meet some new people and ask questions. I don't have my license yet, but already have my exam scheduled. I wanted to ask questions about radios, APRS and local packet. They were eager to answer questions and offer suggestions. The cranky responses I've gotten so far are from online forums like eham.net.
Decent info is a close as google, my Ham folder under bookmarks proves that.
This has nothing to do with the no-code tech license. At the moment you must pass a 5wpm morse test to gain access to the HF (international) bands or to go beyond tech and get your general or extra class ticket. If you want to work below 6m then you will certainly encounter lots of morse communication and will need to know it anyway.
If someone wants to be a ham and only do packet, 2m and 70cm, then they don't need access to the HF bands and I don't understand the complaining about the test.
Liken this to requiring people to understand the international standard highway signs (stop, yield, do not pass, etc...) before giving them the privelege of traveling on international roadways. Instead of saving lives by preventing wrecks, this is a courtesy that we still extend even though several other countries let hams that can't understand morse loose on the HF bands.
Perhaps because of /var/spool/mail, they must expect large amounts of mail on this mail server. If they were using a .maildir type spool, then /home would need to be much larger.
Subject: schvalne jestli ve SCO ctou ceske servery
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:59:24 -0600
To: redakce@root.cz
That seems to be Friday morning, just before 6:00am by my reading.
I also wonder if their mail server may still be vulnerable to this little problem
ESR has learned from SCO tactics. McBride & Company don't have to be honest, they are only press releases. They have only made simple breach of contract charges in court where things like lies are punishable.
SCO is fighting a war not of fact, truth or honor, but one of perception. Mr. McBride seems mainly interested in raising SCOX share price regardless of method and it has been effective so far, the stock price went up $1.30 ( just shy of 10%) on Monday. Gee, press releases really are a short term substitute for R&D.
I don't really feel sorry for the people that are going to loose large with the influx of daytraders that see SCO as a good inventment and powerful force that can shake even the mighty IBM. They will have lost their money in spite of the truthful information that is easily found. But when they do start loosing large chunks of money, SCO will feel the backlash and it won't be pretty. Those people will have no real allegaance to SCOs business, ideals or Unix history, only money.
I think it is going to be a blood bath that SCO will be luck to escape, ESR has given a good accounting of motivation that the investors are likely to ignore, probably until it is too late to save their investments.
It dosen't have to be legal liability to cause trouble. A pissed off client, boss or girlfriend can be plenty of liability to have to deal with. If they have trouble understanding the actual causes, then good luck reasoning with them.
Add a signature to your email client for a couple of weeks that says you don't use Outlook or any microsft email client. If someone has email from you with headers that originated within Outlook, then please delete the message because it is almost certainly a virus. But the people would have to understand how to view full headers under outlook and outlook express. Send this to everyone in your address book and let them worry about how many of the people in their address books got spammed in your name.
Also, my email logs have already been handy in proving the ownership of questionable email and in tracking sensitive email that was sent but the client did not receive. The mail server at their ISP was swamped and couldn't get a dns lookup on our mail server. They bounced the email, but didn't send us a bounce message. The client called and was upset that they had not gotten the information. Luckily I had also cc'd the email to the company owner and he had gotten it, so I sent the log entries to the client and suggested that they may have lost more email.
The moral here is that windows insecurity has bitten me this week and I wasn't using windows. My linux servers are having trouble communicating with other servers that are buckling under the strain. It will be great when MS actually gets some substance in their "Trustworthy Computing".
Since you said method (meaning radio emission), that also leaves out cell phones, wifi, bluetooth, microwave relay towers, pretty much every communication method except wire or optical fiber.
I am just taking your flamebait post as a chance to remind you that if it dosen't use wires, hams have probably been involved in development at some stage.
Troll?! Here I sit with moderator points and try to use them wisely. I think I recognize most of the humor around here, but it dosen't seem that everyone with mod points even has a sense of humor or could even recognize one.
To the humor impaired moderator, please watch some Monty Python ( BBC shows are great) or maybe even read the Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy and watch Airplane. You will then be better prepared for your next encounter with this humor thing you've been hearing about...
Now I'm off to spend my points by elevating the good posts and ignoring the trolls.