How long has it been since MS had to rely on loyalty? My best guess is just before IBM became the last major holdout to license Win95 under their 'secret' terms that forbade selling non-MS operating systems on pc hardware. When even IBM would(could?) only sell OS/2 shipped in the box but not installed, MS no longer had to worry about petty issues like loyalty. They had all of the major pc players tied together and played against each other.
Nambia now knows that MS plays an expensive game of poker; if you can't afford to loose your money, then don't sit down at the table.
Actually, driving a car is a privilege, thus a drivers license is a privilege license. Driving is not a right. You cannot sell your privilege to do something to someone else that dosen't have the privilege.
OTOH, I can sell or give away my licensed 'rights' to MS software. They even have established procedures to allow for the transfer. Remember the ruckus over donating computers to schools? MS contends that the entire computer package must be transfered, computer and all original license/media and any upgrade license/media. This method works for corporate and individual donations. The same applies for selling used computers.
They are now moving to registration codes, they don't seem to want to follow the precedent that they established.
It was very important from the perspective that the Win2K server sitting next to it had about a two week max uptime. When Win2k stopped recognizing domain logons, the MS suggested fix was a reboot. The Linux box never stopped doing it's chores. When it came time for another server, which do you think went in? One that took constant attention or something that worked with minimal interaction?
Just because *you* don't care about uptime dosen't mean that it is unimportant or irrelevant to everyone. You may try expanding your universe beyond your own ego.
I once moved a server by dropping to init 1; setting HD sleep timeout to 5sec and moving the sever and extended runtime ups as a unit. That way we kept the 300 day uptime.:) Yes, it was a short move and only took about 30 minutes.
I am on a fast pipe in Raleigh, NC and the elapsed load time went from.32s @ slashdot.org to.52s @ brak.slashdot.org. Not really a huge jump, but enough to notice on large page loads. The hops did drop from 20 to 18, fewer routers to break!
I have only used PayPal to make donations in the past. From now on I will only donate to organisations that don't put *my* remaining funds at risk. I used my visa check card as the payment source at PP and any screw-up or complaint and PP could have frozen or captured all of my readily available funds. If even a small fraction of the stories on the forums are completely true, I can't justify supporting their business.
Linux ( FreeBSD, etc...) already has many small single purpose cool apps, but not many large ( mozilla scale) cool apps. Agenda spawned a whole wave of business users to the DOS world and could do the same for Linux.
From the feature list, this takes care of 80% of the needs that keep business people using windows just to have Outlook calender functions. Agenda was replaced by Symphony and Symphony wasn't the simple freeform database/calendar app that Agenda had been.
Agenda was allowing complex datamining from freeform databases before the term 'datamining' existed. If this is going to be an extension of Agenda, then much coolness is ahead and many people will be interested in trying Linux just to run the new Agenda.
...the kernel hackers buy a BK license or they stop using it...
From the Bitkeeper website:
"Per seat pricing varies from around $400 to $800, depending on volumes."
Per seat means you buy a license for each developer. Have you looked at the kernel contributors file lately? Figure $400 minimum from each developer for the privilege of donating code to the kernel. Annual support is 20% of purchase price. I don't begrudge the company making money at all, but this can raise some substantial artificial barriers around Linux kernel development when people are involved in more than one project.
MS and Nvidia are in arbitration right now over the pricing of the xbox chipset. MS demanded lower pricing and Nvidia balked because the price MS was willing to pay left no profit. From the article:
The real blow for the graphics chipmaker could come when the arbitration panel issues a ruling on Microsoft's request for damages and lower prices on the supplied chips. Nvidia could, if Microsoft prevails, be forced to produce Xbox chips at a loss. Furthermore, increased demand for Xbox chips could reduce production of other Nvidia chips and delay shipments of new products.
MS seems to be the perpetual hunter, they are using companies like Nvidia to finance development and proof of concept for DRM hardware and will probably strike back at Xbox Linux sometime soon. Nvidia had to eat about $10 million US in obselete xbox chips when MS changed the security keys to thwart the first round of modchips. Who profits from partnership with MS besides MS?
It is quite possible from a windows box, I use WinXP quite often and half of my work is done through a secure connection to my Linux boxes.
Putty is a great windows ssh client that is free to boot. It supports compression and port forwarding ( relaying too).
When configuring a new connection under putty, check the 'Connection->SSH-Tunnels' panel and check X11 forwarding, and add a local forwarding of say 5903 and destination as something like networkbox:5903. Then click Add and it will display like 'L5903 networkbox:5903'. Rember to save the session with a name and you will be set.
Rember though that the ip or system name will be relative to the box you have the ssh connection into. Packets will arive at the end of the tunnel and then be routed to the destination machine and port specified. In the above example, once connected to the remote machine, you will then be able to fire up vncviewer and connect to localhost:3 and have your connection attempt forwarded through the tunnel and on to the destination machine. Of course you will need to have vnc running as session 3 for this example to work without modification. Good luck.
I usually access VNC tunneled through ssh with compression turned on. This gives me the security of only having one port open on the router and with ssh, I can use port forwarding to access any services behind the firewall. Thus, VNC is just as secure as my ssh session. VNC communication is unencrypted and useful on a local, trusted network all alone, but not over the internet.
...several computers during this 64bit phase of RSA cracking. Started with a K6-233, then K62-450, dual Celeron 450, Duron 800, Athlon 1GHz, Athlon 1.4GHz and now AthlonXP 1700+ @ 2000+. I wonder what we will be running when (if?) RC5-72 is cracked.
I would like to know just how fast my PC is going to have to be to be able to play the new UT and enjoy it. Please let me know
We can't really presume to know what makes your PC happy. I will hazard a guess that either Linux or FreeBSD will make it feel free and alive.:)
I have found that the minimum cpu specs ( 733MHz PIII or Athlon) don't make for a smooth game. A 1GHz processor is my practical minimum. Couple that with a Geforce2 or faster under Linux, under windows expand that to include Radeon 7500 or faster.
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The only real windows attachment for many people are the games. If you show that Linux can run somee current games too, then they will be more open to trying Linux. It will also help encourage game developers to port to Linux.
If you want to show someone the power of the Linux Desktop, grab Knoppix
Close. A friend that worked at UPS while in college said that during his training, he was told that Fra-gi-le was french for 'throw against a wall as hard as you can'. No, I am not kidding. His tour guide then proceeded to demonstrate with the package he was holding and its contents audibly shattered. The package was then tossed onto the conveyor and on its merry way it went.
Another friend that later worked at the same facility as a supervisor said he wouldn't be surprised if the story was true considering many of the folks that worked there. Even though a relative works at UPS, I won't use them anymore unless there is no alternative. If I absolutely wanted the glue broken on the CD players, UPS could probably take good care of that for me though.:)
In this case, I'm sure that a decent lawyer could successfully argue that gravity could be used to circumvent the 'glue lock'. My reading of the DMCA text leads me to think that any device or method used for circumvention is illegal. Dropping the unit would be a method. Hmm, guilty of dropping the unit? Then jail time for you. I would not want to accept such a liability for a simple review.
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The Win32 executable is in the archive, ignore previous post....
No Win32 executables, then most of the crunching will probably be done on Linux. Makes me wonder how many Windows boxen have a C compiler.
How long has it been since MS had to rely on loyalty? My best guess is just before IBM became the last major holdout to license Win95 under their 'secret' terms that forbade selling non-MS operating systems on pc hardware. When even IBM would(could?) only sell OS/2 shipped in the box but not installed, MS no longer had to worry about petty issues like loyalty. They had all of the major pc players tied together and played against each other.
Nambia now knows that MS plays an expensive game of poker; if you can't afford to loose your money, then don't sit down at the table.
Actually, driving a car is a privilege, thus a drivers license is a privilege license. Driving is not a right. You cannot sell your privilege to do something to someone else that dosen't have the privilege.
OTOH, I can sell or give away my licensed 'rights' to MS software. They even have established procedures to allow for the transfer. Remember the ruckus over donating computers to schools? MS contends that the entire computer package must be transfered, computer and all original license/media and any upgrade license/media. This method works for corporate and individual donations. The same applies for selling used computers.
They are now moving to registration codes, they don't seem to want to follow the precedent that they established.
It was very important from the perspective that the Win2K server sitting next to it had about a two week max uptime. When Win2k stopped recognizing domain logons, the MS suggested fix was a reboot. The Linux box never stopped doing it's chores. When it came time for another server, which do you think went in? One that took constant attention or something that worked with minimal interaction?
Just because *you* don't care about uptime dosen't mean that it is unimportant or irrelevant to everyone. You may try expanding your universe beyond your own ego.
I once moved a server by dropping to init 1; setting HD sleep timeout to 5sec and moving the sever and extended runtime ups as a unit. That way we kept the 300 day uptime. :) Yes, it was a short move and only took about 30 minutes.
I am on a fast pipe in Raleigh, NC and the elapsed load time went from .32s @ slashdot.org to .52s @ brak.slashdot.org. Not really a huge jump, but enough to notice on large page loads. The hops did drop from 20 to 18, fewer routers to break!
Dude(ette?), :)
Just because a new open source codec was released dosen't mean you have to get a sex-change operation just to celebrate. Calm down.
It just has a new brother. Similar projects can exist without rendering others obsolete, that is one of the beauties of open source.
I have only used PayPal to make donations in the past. From now on I will only donate to organisations that don't put *my* remaining funds at risk. I used my visa check card as the payment source at PP and any screw-up or complaint and PP could have frozen or captured all of my readily available funds. If even a small fraction of the stories on the forums are completely true, I can't justify supporting their business.
The rusty wheels in my head can't remember timelines well. Agenda was a DOS app and can still be downloaded for free.
Linux ( FreeBSD, etc...) already has many small single purpose cool apps, but not many large ( mozilla scale) cool apps. Agenda spawned a whole wave of business users to the DOS world and could do the same for Linux.
From the feature list, this takes care of 80% of the needs that keep business people using windows just to have Outlook calender functions. Agenda was replaced by Symphony and Symphony wasn't the simple freeform database/calendar app that Agenda had been.
Agenda was allowing complex datamining from freeform databases before the term 'datamining' existed. If this is going to be an extension of Agenda, then much coolness is ahead and many people will be interested in trying Linux just to run the new Agenda.
Why not? She couldn't possibly be worse than some of the girls I've ended up with after a night of heavy drinking. I almost signed up for AOL too.
Ok, I modded you up, but when I post this it will take away the point. Now, where can we find a pic of your sister?? :)
Per seat means you buy a license for each developer. Have you looked at the kernel contributors file lately? Figure $400 minimum from each developer for the privilege of donating code to the kernel. Annual support is 20% of purchase price. I don't begrudge the company making money at all, but this can raise some substantial artificial barriers around Linux kernel development when people are involved in more than one project.
Silly me, I was thinking it was the Enoch/Seventh Heaven, Enoch/Linux connection. :)
It is quite possible from a windows box, I use WinXP quite often and half of my work is done through a secure connection to my Linux boxes.
Putty is a great windows ssh client that is free to boot. It supports compression and port forwarding ( relaying too).
When configuring a new connection under putty, check the 'Connection->SSH-Tunnels' panel and check X11 forwarding, and add a local forwarding of say 5903 and destination as something like networkbox:5903. Then click Add and it will display like 'L5903 networkbox:5903'. Rember to save the session with a name and you will be set.
Rember though that the ip or system name will be relative to the box you have the ssh connection into. Packets will arive at the end of the tunnel and then be routed to the destination machine and port specified. In the above example, once connected to the remote machine, you will then be able to fire up vncviewer and connect to localhost:3 and have your connection attempt forwarded through the tunnel and on to the destination machine. Of course you will need to have vnc running as session 3 for this example to work without modification. Good luck.
I usually access VNC tunneled through ssh with compression turned on. This gives me the security of only having one port open on the router and with ssh, I can use port forwarding to access any services behind the firewall. Thus, VNC is just as secure as my ssh session. VNC communication is unencrypted and useful on a local, trusted network all alone, but not over the internet.
...several computers during this 64bit phase of RSA cracking. Started with a K6-233, then K62-450, dual Celeron 450, Duron 800, Athlon 1GHz, Athlon 1.4GHz and now AthlonXP 1700+ @ 2000+. I wonder what we will be running when (if?) RC5-72 is cracked.
It is for calling The Green Hornet and Kato!
We can't really presume to know what makes your PC happy. I will hazard a guess that either Linux or FreeBSD will make it feel free and alive.
I have found that the minimum cpu specs ( 733MHz PIII or Athlon) don't make for a smooth game. A 1GHz processor is my practical minimum. Couple that with a Geforce2 or faster under Linux, under windows expand that to include Radeon 7500 or faster.
The only real windows attachment for many people are the games. If you show that Linux can run somee current games too, then they will be more open to trying Linux. It will also help encourage game developers to port to Linux.
If you want to show someone the power of the Linux Desktop, grab Knoppix
Close. A friend that worked at UPS while in college said that during his training, he was told that Fra-gi-le was french for 'throw against a wall as hard as you can'. No, I am not kidding. His tour guide then proceeded to demonstrate with the package he was holding and its contents audibly shattered. The package was then tossed onto the conveyor and on its merry way it went.
:)
Another friend that later worked at the same facility as a supervisor said he wouldn't be surprised if the story was true considering many of the folks that worked there. Even though a relative works at UPS, I won't use them anymore unless there is no alternative. If I absolutely wanted the glue broken on the CD players, UPS could probably take good care of that for me though.
In this case, I'm sure that a decent lawyer could successfully argue that gravity could be used to circumvent the 'glue lock'. My reading of the DMCA text leads me to think that any device or method used for circumvention is illegal. Dropping the unit would be a method. Hmm, guilty of dropping the unit? Then jail time for you. I would not want to accept such a liability for a simple review.