I installed Windows 2000 on a dual cpu machine in either late 2000 or early 2001. Since then I've gone through several video cards (currently using an agp nvidia and pci voodoo3), scanners, printers, sometimes using SCSI and sometimes not. I've gone up and down with various versions of WMP. I've installed, uninstalled, reinstalled, and currently have uninstalled the.Net framework. Including the SDK. Also gone back and forth with Visual C++ 6 and.Net, currently both are uninstalled. I have yet to have to reinstall the OS.
The times when I have had to resort to registry editing, I've been trying to purge an application. Simply searching for pertinent keywords and deleting every key found (like looking for "Visioneer" when removing the scanner software) has worked. I certainly don't think having to go to the registry is acceptible, but it was never done for the sake of stability. I haven't reinstalled windows 2000 in almost 4 years despite many hardware changes and upgrades and manual registry editing. So just because it didn't work for you doesn't mean it doesn't for anyone (the converse that just because it works for me doesn't mean it will for everyone is also true, of course).
I'll take MS's RDP implementation over VNC any day. It's way more smooth (speed of screen draws, yes I know they integrate code at a much lower level than VNC to get this performance and I don't care*). Even for windows to linux connections, I'd rather just install cygwin, start X on the windows box, and ssh over to the linux box. If I absolutely need real remote desktop from windows to linux, then I'll use VNC.
I do have one machine (RHEL 2.1, with garnome 0.27.1 and the MS fonts from corefonts.sf.net) where the fonts are all jacked up when I connect to a Windows 2003 server using RDP. But VNC is even worse on that machine.
* It would certainly be nice if VNC had free code access to get the same performance boosting integration. Maybe then I would go back to using that by default.
senators were in fact appointed by state legislatures until the 17th (?) amendment was passed.
Right, but that still has them as a separate entity. My proposal is that they are serving members of the state legislature. Kinda like how in parliamentary systems the Prime Minister is really just the party leader of the party which received the most votes. Anyway, I can't imagine congress ever approving such a measure, and voters in this country are likely too apathetic to try any such change.
I've been sitting on my 1000th post (I'm such a nerd) for a while now, waiting for a good opportunity for a 5, Funny. But I just haven't been able to take the time to really put something good together.
So anyway, if you're in the U.S., write to your Senators. Tell them about your concerns about having your taxes spent on government officials pursuing civil suits on behalf of the RIAA. Point out the unconstitutionality of double jeopardy.
And while we're talking about senators, does anyone else think it would be a good idea to have senators in federal congress be the party leaders from the state congress? That would be a big step in going back to a republic of states (Assuming you're a propponent of states rights). It'd be kinda neat to replace the house that way too, but I can't think of a good way to do it with the current representation by population that we currently have in the house (which I think is a good thing). Something where voters elect our state government, and the president, and the federal congressional reps are a subset of the elected state reps. I think that would be really cool.
You know, there's a reason the U.S. has the highest percentage of its population incarcerated. Putting criminals in prison is a means to protect the citizens from potential physical harm. Spammers shouldn't serve jail time any more than Tommy Chong or anyone in prison for smoking marijuana they grew in their own home. If there's no physical threat to the public, then don't put them in prison on my dime.
Geez, and people wonder why the government is prone to grandstanding and empty gestures, or to policies written for them by lobbyists. They pass a sensible, cautious law, monitor violations and prepare to bring legal action against violators. And all they get is complaints that the magic anti-spam fairies haven't been deployed yet.
The CAN-SPAM Act was largely written by the Direct Marketing Association.
Most likely the discrepancy is that most Spam companies are US based (according to Spamhaus), but they mostly all use non-US based servers to send Spam.
licensing and redistribution rights. You can't redistribute Macromedia and Java plugins without paying for the 'right'. Same thing with MP3, various video codecs, and NTFS.
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What's that Arch distribution the guy is talking about? He says you can get any package easy in the Article. I'm intrigued.
GNU Arch. It's not a distribution. It's a version control system like CVS or subversion.
Your journal entry for the Fedora Core 2 review is dated April 8. Fedora Core 2 was released May 18th. Since I'm pretty SELinux was still enabled in the development versions, and has been disabled in the final release, your review is invalid.
Residential ISPs should have their servers configured to require authentication when you're not on their network. And you should too. Otherwise you're an open relay. Well, if you just don't allow people to use your server when not on your network that works too, but that can be irritating for telecommuters whithout a tru VPN. I was at a place where everone was a telecommuter. We did actually have a small office, but none of the corporate servers were there, it was all in a remote data center. I had the SMTP server behind the firewall, setup SMTP auth to require a secure connection (either TLS on port 25 or SMTPS on port 465). If you weren't on an internal IP (which could be achieved by setting up and ssh tunnel) then you had to auth to send. It's a very low hassle solution to allowing roaming users to use the server securely without opening the door to spammers.
In that case you have just told us computers aren't needed at all, since they are just inanimate objects.
The server is an inanimate object. The server doesn't need anything. We, the administrators, need the high priced distribution to run on our servers, for the reasons already mentioned.
The condition placed on the donation of money makes it a bribe. The part about threating to support the opponent is exactly how it's supposed to work. If there's no financial benefit or penalty to the laws you support as a legislator, the only thing left to care about is whether or not the people voting you into office will approve.
Misunderstood the question. Rather than purely "without the ISOs" I read it as "without running the installer." My mistake. Although it seems to have been a useful comment regardless.;)
Patent laws exist in the US and OSS continues to thrive . ..
Have you heard the people who complain that Red Hat no longer ships mp3 codecs for audio players, or video players (not just certain codecs but the players themselves)? Or a driver for read-only NTFS support? Software patents are the reason. Debian has the non-US repos for these things. Suse and Mandrake are European already, which is why they ship these things by default. Be prepared to either see these things taken out of Mandrake and Suse, or only included in retail versions with a price increase.
Yours is prior art to theirs _if_ you can _prove_ it is in court. Which rather requires that patent lawyer you couldnt afford in the first place.
bollocks. Just write down a description of your idea, have one or two people sign/date it, and have it notarized. No $500 an hour patent lawyer needed. This is what a group of patent lawyers told the software development group in a persentation on what we should keep an eye out for with regards to patentable work, while I was working at Optical Solutions in Minnesota. Note to those who have heard of it, mailing it to yourself doesn't hold up in court. You can steam open the envelope and reseal it with whatever you want inside. The lawyers said, repeatedly, have one or two people sign and date a description, and have that notarized. Cheap and easy way to establish prior art. Just don't loose it.
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The times when I have had to resort to registry editing, I've been trying to purge an application. Simply searching for pertinent keywords and deleting every key found (like looking for "Visioneer" when removing the scanner software) has worked. I certainly don't think having to go to the registry is acceptible, but it was never done for the sake of stability. I haven't reinstalled windows 2000 in almost 4 years despite many hardware changes and upgrades and manual registry editing. So just because it didn't work for you doesn't mean it doesn't for anyone (the converse that just because it works for me doesn't mean it will for everyone is also true, of course).
nice.
I'll take MS's RDP implementation over VNC any day. It's way more smooth (speed of screen draws, yes I know they integrate code at a much lower level than VNC to get this performance and I don't care*). Even for windows to linux connections, I'd rather just install cygwin, start X on the windows box, and ssh over to the linux box. If I absolutely need real remote desktop from windows to linux, then I'll use VNC.
I do have one machine (RHEL 2.1, with garnome 0.27.1 and the MS fonts from corefonts.sf.net) where the fonts are all jacked up when I connect to a Windows 2003 server using RDP. But VNC is even worse on that machine.
* It would certainly be nice if VNC had free code access to get the same performance boosting integration. Maybe then I would go back to using that by default.
Right, but that still has them as a separate entity. My proposal is that they are serving members of the state legislature. Kinda like how in parliamentary systems the Prime Minister is really just the party leader of the party which received the most votes. Anyway, I can't imagine congress ever approving such a measure, and voters in this country are likely too apathetic to try any such change.
I was under the impression that government prosecutors were only for criminal prosecution too.
I've been sitting on my 1000th post (I'm such a nerd) for a while now, waiting for a good opportunity for a 5, Funny. But I just haven't been able to take the time to really put something good together.
So anyway, if you're in the U.S., write to your Senators. Tell them about your concerns about having your taxes spent on government officials pursuing civil suits on behalf of the RIAA. Point out the unconstitutionality of double jeopardy.
And while we're talking about senators, does anyone else think it would be a good idea to have senators in federal congress be the party leaders from the state congress? That would be a big step in going back to a republic of states (Assuming you're a propponent of states rights). It'd be kinda neat to replace the house that way too, but I can't think of a good way to do it with the current representation by population that we currently have in the house (which I think is a good thing). Something where voters elect our state government, and the president, and the federal congressional reps are a subset of the elected state reps. I think that would be really cool.
and American Idol, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and probably quite a few others.
You know, there's a reason the U.S. has the highest percentage of its population incarcerated. Putting criminals in prison is a means to protect the citizens from potential physical harm. Spammers shouldn't serve jail time any more than Tommy Chong or anyone in prison for smoking marijuana they grew in their own home. If there's no physical threat to the public, then don't put them in prison on my dime.
The CAN-SPAM Act was largely written by the Direct Marketing Association.
Most likely the discrepancy is that most Spam companies are US based (according to Spamhaus), but they mostly all use non-US based servers to send Spam.
licensing and redistribution rights. You can't redistribute Macromedia and Java plugins without paying for the 'right'. Same thing with MP3, various video codecs, and NTFS.
GNU Arch. It's not a distribution. It's a version control system like CVS or subversion.
Your journal entry for the Fedora Core 2 review is dated April 8. Fedora Core 2 was released May 18th. Since I'm pretty SELinux was still enabled in the development versions, and has been disabled in the final release, your review is invalid.
helix doesn't plat the proprietary real formats. didn't you even read the summary? (i didn't read the article)
what's the infamous wookie contradiction?
well, as long as you can't here it. the deep freeze of space cools down the lava enough to surf in, didn't you know?
Aahhhhh, it's a Vader! Congratulations.
Perhaps you didn't read the next sentence in my post, where I said exactly that.
Residential ISPs should have their servers configured to require authentication when you're not on their network. And you should too. Otherwise you're an open relay. Well, if you just don't allow people to use your server when not on your network that works too, but that can be irritating for telecommuters whithout a tru VPN. I was at a place where everone was a telecommuter. We did actually have a small office, but none of the corporate servers were there, it was all in a remote data center. I had the SMTP server behind the firewall, setup SMTP auth to require a secure connection (either TLS on port 25 or SMTPS on port 465). If you weren't on an internal IP (which could be achieved by setting up and ssh tunnel) then you had to auth to send. It's a very low hassle solution to allowing roaming users to use the server securely without opening the door to spammers.
The server is an inanimate object. The server doesn't need anything. We, the administrators, need the high priced distribution to run on our servers, for the reasons already mentioned.
The condition placed on the donation of money makes it a bribe. The part about threating to support the opponent is exactly how it's supposed to work. If there's no financial benefit or penalty to the laws you support as a legislator, the only thing left to care about is whether or not the people voting you into office will approve.
Misunderstood the question. Rather than purely "without the ISOs" I read it as "without running the installer." My mistake. Although it seems to have been a useful comment regardless. ;)
Have you heard the people who complain that Red Hat no longer ships mp3 codecs for audio players, or video players (not just certain codecs but the players themselves)? Or a driver for read-only NTFS support? Software patents are the reason. Debian has the non-US repos for these things. Suse and Mandrake are European already, which is why they ship these things by default. Be prepared to either see these things taken out of Mandrake and Suse, or only included in retail versions with a price increase.
I refuse to accept that there aren't enough good people in a given country to have a truly benevolent government.
bollocks. Just write down a description of your idea, have one or two people sign/date it, and have it notarized. No $500 an hour patent lawyer needed. This is what a group of patent lawyers told the software development group in a persentation on what we should keep an eye out for with regards to patentable work, while I was working at Optical Solutions in Minnesota. Note to those who have heard of it, mailing it to yourself doesn't hold up in court. You can steam open the envelope and reseal it with whatever you want inside. The lawyers said, repeatedly, have one or two people sign and date a description, and have that notarized. Cheap and easy way to establish prior art. Just don't loose it.