When I have "all those bills" in my hands, it doesn't cost me any extra to buy something. How much does that check card really cost you?? I know they told you it was free when you signed up, but how much interest or hidden fees do you have to pay when you use it?? And why do you intentionally place that much control over your money into the hands of someone else? Those cards do expire you know. There are retailers out there who automatically add surcharges on purchases done with those cards, and there are many more places that are of the "sorry, no credit cards or check cards" than there are "sorry no cash." No thanks, I do NOT want my money controlled by the likes ov VISA or MasterCard. (check out your "check card", and see how much money goes to one of the other of those companies. Probably not directly, but it does get there.)
I don't quite get your statement that you don't trust Gator..... I mean, why, if you don't really trust Gator do you use it to save your PASSWORDS??? If I don't really trust a person, or comapny, or government agency, I sure as Hell don't use them or their products to store my passwords. So you must trust them if you use their product... you just may not want to.
The last two times I attended a Microsoft seminar (company mandated) they gave me certificates for free Windows XP. I tore them both up, as I don't agree to their EULAs, and according to Microsoft, if I don't agree, I don't get the software. That's fine by me, I have no use for any of their stuff. Bill Gates himself could hand deliver a copy of MS Office to me for free, and not only would I not use it, I could not use it, for my machines are running Linux or BeOS. I am not sure, but I think companies that are convicted of monopolistic behavior actually can't give away their stuff for free to whomever they choose. I know they have to abide by different rules than the rest of us.
Well, I bought OpenLinux from caldera 6 or 7 years ago, and the box came with a rebate coupon for $20.00. It said it would arrive 6 to 8 weeks after I sent it in. I sent it in the day I bought it, and am still waiting. That's a Hell of a way to "continue support" for those who bought their products. I guess I'm torn on the whole SCO suit. I mean, they should just die and all, but, maybe if they won the suit, I'd get my 20 bucks finally. I won't even charge interest... Nah, that $20.00 is probably in the same place their "evidence" of IP infringement is...in the curling wisps of smoke blown up the world's collective ass by corporate crackheads.
Umm, isn't the OpenOffice Team a separate entity from Sun?? I know they started with the STAROffice source, but I didn't know they were part of Sun.
Oh, that's right!!! Sun can give away OpenOffice for free, as it's not theirs!! I can't wait to download OpenOffice from Microsoft's servers... I mean, Sun gives it away, so could Microsoft. The difference is, OpenOffice (no matter who owns them) is freely available for download, whereas the crap that is Office is not. If I have to pay $300-$600 dollars for a product, and someone else only pays $0-$100 for an indentical product then, you may say I didn't lobby hard enough, but I call bullshit. Not only will I not do business with the company with such practices, but I will actively try to discourage anyone from doing business with them as well, for it appears to me that said company is engaging in what I term "ripping off segments of customers". If they think product is worth XX to some people, but only worth X less than XX to others, well, screw them. I don't care if they give volume discounts, that would be understandable. But, as another poster said, if you paid full price for a product, and someone else got it free, just because they didn't want it, or were considering something else, you'd be a little upset.
How about this? Why don't we ban publicly traded companies? If your privately owned company can't handle the changing economy, then they should die, rather than run to the government for some sort of protection for their shareholders and their CEOs. What ever happened to companies caring about their products and their customers? All these companies today can do is whine about profit margins, stockholders, etc. etc. ad nauseum. I say let them all die. They don't care about their products, they don't care about their customers, they only care about multi-million dollar bonuses, and shit like that. Also, while I'm on a rant, why don't all congressmen have to live in dorms, or quonset huts, or cheap government housing projects? They should be representative of the people, rather than trying to lord it over them. Last time they voted themselves a pay raise, one of the congress critters said they needed the raise because it was very hard for him to keep up payments on the three houses he owned! Hey, sell one or two, eh?!? Most Americans either can't afford just one house, or are going bankrupt trying to own one. All corporate leaders and government officials should get off their high horse and actually find out how the majority of people live.
No, I don't hide in the closet and play with anything Microsoft. I don't agree to the EULA they spout off, so I don't use Microsoft products. I believe the hardware I buy is mine, and if you actually understood the EULA to XP, you would find that agreeing to it would mean you do not own the hardware anymore. By agreeing to the EULA, you give Microsoft control of said hardware, and they feel if you no longer want XP on it, you must throw it away and purchase some other hardware. I'd show you, but I don't have any Microsoft product around to look it up for you. Sure, you could trot out the old tripe that the EULAs aren't legally enforceable, but, what if they are? Whose machine do you have? Your's, or some machine that Microsoft lets you use? I hate the way they do business, so I don't do business with them. Simple, eh?
Boy, that's funny! Scariest thing I've read all day, but funny none the less...... They wouldn't really do that would they??? Suddenly, I don't feel so good....best sit down and let the fuzziness return....breathe rapidly in a paper bag....just let me die and get this shit over with...
I've not read all the comments here, but I have read the article. So far, most of the comments are about a spoofed status bar or the boraders that look different on the secured windows versus the unsecured ones. Anybody whose done work as a bench tech for a company servicing the general public for any length of time has surely had the conversation about porn dialers that the customer never even knew they had installed. With Active X controls, JavaScript, Macros, CGI sripts, or whatever the.NET crap will allow, I think most commenters are missing the point. You don't have to spoof anything. I mean, there are snippets of code you can put into a normal HTML page that can format a drive for you if you're running Windows, and using IE. Sure, there's patches, but so what? there's updated virus defs all the time, and the by far most prevalent viruses are months, even years old. So, to get back on topic, in this type of environment, someone will think they are safe, because they see poochies name running around the window border, when, in actuality, they "somehow" had the equivilent of a porn dialer downloaded to their system, and, rather than dialing Lybia, it just tells Windows that anything it does is trusted, and the person is well and truly fucked, for they bought into the great lie that Microsoft is telling with it's Trustworthy Platform bullshit.
You may be trolling, I'm not sure, but, on my mandrake 9.1 systems (one at work, one at home) power management works fine. Also, half the hardware in the world won't work with Windows, just the crap on Best Buy's shelves. So, you may have to do a little research to find what works and what doesn't, but both my systems have lite-on burners, one a GeForce4 Ti4200, the other intel on board video, one an SB live, the other the Via onboard sound, one is an Athlon 1700+, the other a P4 1.6Ghz, etc. etc. etc....
I have no problems with either of my systems. Most of my customers have problems with their $499 WinXP special they picked up off the shelves. I wouldn't even want to run plain jane DOS on a system I got off the shelves (Compaq & HP) they are pure crap, and they were designed for Microsoft. No, I don't care for Red Hat either. I seem to have more trouble with Red Hat than other distros, but other people have the opposite view. By the way, I never re-compiled my kernel to get power management, it just worked when I did a normal install.
Sure, maybe at first it will only be those places, but... On the other hand, if someone in New York is being paid to watch the Hoover dam, a few thousand miles away, who do they call?? or do they just e-mail the relevant authorities, who are trying to wade through 100s of SPAM messages.... And further more, if I don't trust the people who are trained properly by the government (the police, and all the TLA agencies) Why in the fuck would I want to trust someone who used to work fast food?? I have a beard, and that right there is enough for some people to be wary of me. I've never been to more than 5 states here, much less ever left the country for anything, but hey, I've got a beard, and I'm from the mountains, so I must be dangerous eh??
I could actually use that!!! One of my clients would really like to get his Altair up and running, if for nothing else but to say he's got it running. (He's actually willing to pay my going rate). Alas, it's got issues, and he has the machine, but no manuals... Just because one person wouldn't find information useful doesn't mean every person would. Look at the literary critics of today. They claim the originals of stuff like Moby Dick are classic, and if the writers of today would just go back to their roots..... But I find the original Moby Dick to be obtuse, hard to read, and thoroughly unenjoyable. Even so, it should be public domain, as should all works that are 14-28 years old. All corporate institutions should die.
We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code
And where's the proof SCO (or some programmer there) didn't use the GPLed code of Linux, and shove it into their own sorry excuse of an OS??? According to the GPL, they can do this all day long as long as they release their changes back. But who's to say, some young, enterprising programmer at SCO didn't get stuck with some piece of SCO kernel code he could not get working right, so he 'borrowed' some Linux code lines, tweaked them into place, and hoped no one would find out. You'd better be DAMN sure this isn't the case, McBride, or you'll lose your 20 years of IP crap by violating the GPL!! Wouldn't that just take the cake!! Think about that while you feel the icy water lap around your ankles as your ship slowly glides to a watery death.
I think I figured out the problem with your XP box. You should install a CD burner drive in it also, as XP is in no way modular, and, just like Internet Explorer, has cd burning software (by Roxio, barf!!) "innovatively integrated" into whatever it is that Microsoft passes off as it's kernel. So, with no burner, the kernel falls over and chokes, because, since Microsoft is so good at "innovation" and "integration", the burner software is probably also the memory mapper, and since it can't find a burner, it can't function properly, and blows chunks of memory all over. : )
I don't run XP for I do NOT agree to the terms in the EULA. I don't miss anything by not using XP. As a matter of fact, XP actually makes my job of fixing computer problems much harder. Their new way of giving error messages for instance. No, I don't want to send a bunch of gibberish to Microsoft, I want to know what files are involved, what kind of error, etc. When 9x crashed, I'd read ther error message, and know where to start fixing. As an aside, I was updating a customer's XP box, and decided to read the EULA presented from the newest service pack, or update or whatever. It specifically states in there that you cannot publish any benchmarks without written permission from Microsoft. I don't need Toyota's permission to publish how fast my pickup is, so why do I need Microsoft's permission to publish how fast an XP box is? As for getting your money back, well, from who? Microsoft sold the stuff to an OEM, who is required to bundle it with a system, or lose their pricing level with Microsoft. So, if you ask Microsoft for your money back, they say, contact the machine builders, as that's who bought it from them, and the machine builders say you have to return the machine with the software, as it was a bundled deal, and they don't sell naked PCs. (I'm talking about the non-white-box builders.) And don't tell me you can get naked PCs from Dell, I know that, but you can't buy every model they make naked, just a select few. You commented that it's software and not crack and I can't help but think most people treat it like crack. I mean, the EULA is not friendly at all, and if it were ever legally enforced, most people would be severely screwed. So, just like crack, you are aware of the dangers of using it, but do it anyway, with the cavalier attitude that you aren't hooked, it won't hurt you, etc. What happens when the other shoe drops?? I've seen what happens to crack addicts when they hit bottom, what happens to you? There may not be greater advantages other places in your opinion, but for me, Linux does everything I want, and so much more than I even imagined a computer could do. So, you can keep your EULA, your Microsoft owned machines, and I wish you well.
I'd still like to know where the $20 rebate check they promised me after buying OpenLinux. The rebate slip said I should get the check in about 6 weeks. It's been five years since I sent it in!! I stopped recommending anything from SCO or Caldera years ago.
The cable company only "poked one hole through the wall". Their prefered method of running mulitple IPs is to connect the cable modem to a switch, so the customer only has to pay for one modem, and then connect the machines to the switch, and run multiple IPs through the modem some how. It is a ridiculous setup, and their tech support people always suggest pay for one account, and run a nat box.
I went on a call not too long ago, where the customer was in your situation. They were paying for two IP addresses, and weren't using any sort of router, or NAT, as they didn't need it, since they were paying for two IPs. Well, the problem they were having was their two machines weren't seeing each other anymore, but the switch they were plugged into showed they were getting links, and they could both still get online.
To make a long story short, the cable company changed one of their IPs to a different one, and it was on a completely different segment of the network (don't ask for too much technical details on how this happened, for I don't really know what the hell the cable company did to them), and since they were no longer on the same segment, they could no longer talk, as all their local traffic was going out through the cable companies DHCP to get to the other machine.. So tell me, how is your local sharing setup?? I fixed their issue by installing a NAT router and firewall, and they called the cable company to cancel one of the IPs. The cable company agreed with putting in the NAT, as they would not guarantee them completely static IPs. I feel it is perfectly fine to pay the cable company a connection fee to allow my network to connect to their network, but what is on their side of the NAT is theirs, and whats on my side is mine.
I find it rather humourous that the DOJ says crimminals are criminals, and ex-criminals should not be allowed to guard corporate interests, but the DOJ doesn't mind putting Poindexter (who was convicted, and then let off on a technicality, thus making him an ex-criminal) in charge of the largest database of personal records on the citizens the DOJ is supposed to be looking out for. Makes you kind of wonder about this government that's supposed to be by, of, and for the people.
If I join one of those clubs, I could get the quantity of the discs you say, but they don't carry the bands I like, nor do they carry cd's that are by bands no longer around, and never made a big hit. This is something that everyone on both sides of this copyright shit need to realize. Especially the RIAA and other corporate entities. I don't want Brittney Spears, or Metallica , or whatever bullshit is lining the shelves of Walmart. If they really want to stop piracy, then I should be able to walk into anyplace that sells cds, and pick up a copy of Haunted Garage, or LawnmowerDeath, or anything else I decide. No, special orders do not cut it. The biggest music store here never even heard of these bands, and they don't find them on their little order sheets, so I must search all over to find my kind of music. Gee, the internet has sure made it easy to find my music. I buy from band pages when I find bands worth buying from, but when the band is dead and gone, and the RIAA decides to discontinue the cds, well, what then? P2P fills this bill. If they would think ahead just a bit, they could setup the motherlode of all napsters, and charge a reasonable fee for access, and then they would, at the very least, quadruple their income and reduce costs. This will never happen though, because Corporate thinking corrupts all that it touches, and the RIAA is certainly corrupt. But hey, what do I know? I work for a living.
The thing I can't wait for is 64-bit laptops with a real advantage over their 32-bit counterparts Peruse the following link for 64-bit mobile goodness... http://hw.tadpole.com/html/ (Maybe If I could get one of those laptops, I could finally figure out this "href" thing and make my posts "clicky");).
Palladium hardware is useless without palladium software. Some of the articles I've read on the subject say this little chip will have software in it, with connectivity to the internet, etc. Do you remember the PII serial number that was supposed to secure all financial transactions forever? It was supposed to be impossible to turn it on or off unless you were physically in front of the machine. Remember when the German mag C't wrote a program that would turn it on or off over the internet?
You may call it paranoia, but what if that little chip were to be turned on somehow? What if the only way you could turn it off was a software setting in the registry of whatever crap Microsoft is spewing out as their current OS? What if the only way you could connect to an ISP was through the graces of the little chip? Why do we need something from company A to assure us the code is to be trusted that we choose to run that comes from company H? Why should I trust that chip? What gives that chip the right to even exist on MY machine? I don't trust the government to decide what I want to read, why should I trust Microsoft to decide what I want to run? Irregardless of whether it will affect me running Linux, it is MY machine. I guess what I am trying to say is, If I had on-board navigation in my car, and it were palladium, then what choice would I have for a trip through a town? If the route were not safe, then suddenly, I would not be allowed to travel those roads. If I happened to live in a part of town that the city decided was not safe, gee, my car would suddenly no longer be able to go there. To get back on topic, I say fuck Microsoft and their idea of secure computing. I prefer security through knowledge, and a loaded Glock.40.
As a system builder, I can tell you that if you get the retail box processors from AMD (or their resellers) they come with a fan/heatsink combo that is actually quite impressive. the 2000+ has a fan that only spins about 3400RPMs and is very very quiet. Oh, and if you're worried about it overheating, don't be. Without using any fancy schmany tricks of slowing down your processor (speed step anyone?) this AMD rig at 2000+, after four hours of Unreal Tournament2003, only gets to 101 degrees farenheit. If it's just sitting there doing nothing, it runs at 92F. That's actually less than most P4 rigs I've ever seen, and no fans but the CPU fan and the P/S fan.
The Intel secret police will not come banging at your door if you circumvent the protections and overclock your own CPU. YET. Intel would love to have the police power that Microsoft does. Wait until they form their own style of BSA. Face it, once a corporation gets a certain size, it no longer cares about their products or their customers, just the power they can wield over both.
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Nice, very nice. Mind if I use that occasionally?
When I have "all those bills" in my hands, it doesn't cost me any extra to buy something. How much does that check card really cost you?? I know they told you it was free when you signed up, but how much interest or hidden fees do you have to pay when you use it?? And why do you intentionally place that much control over your money into the hands of someone else? Those cards do expire you know. There are retailers out there who automatically add surcharges on purchases done with those cards, and there are many more places that are of the "sorry, no credit cards or check cards" than there are "sorry no cash."
No thanks, I do NOT want my money controlled by the likes ov VISA or MasterCard. (check out your "check card", and see how much money goes to one of the other of those companies. Probably not directly, but it does get there.)
I don't really trust Gator at all,
I don't quite get your statement that you don't trust Gator..... I mean, why, if you don't really trust Gator do you use it to save your PASSWORDS ???
If I don't really trust a person, or comapny, or government agency, I sure as Hell don't use them or their products to store my passwords. So you must trust them if you use their product... you just may not want to.
The last two times I attended a Microsoft seminar (company mandated) they gave me certificates for free Windows XP. I tore them both up, as I don't agree to their EULAs, and according to Microsoft, if I don't agree, I don't get the software. That's fine by me, I have no use for any of their stuff. Bill Gates himself could hand deliver a copy of MS Office to me for free, and not only would I not use it, I could not use it, for my machines are running Linux or BeOS. I am not sure, but I think companies that are convicted of monopolistic behavior actually can't give away their stuff for free to whomever they choose. I know they have to abide by different rules than the rest of us.
Well, I bought OpenLinux from caldera 6 or 7 years ago, and the box came with a rebate coupon for $20.00. It said it would arrive 6 to 8 weeks after I sent it in. I sent it in the day I bought it, and am still waiting. That's a Hell of a way to "continue support" for those who bought their products. I guess I'm torn on the whole SCO suit. I mean, they should just die and all, but, maybe if they won the suit, I'd get my 20 bucks finally. I won't even charge interest...
Nah, that $20.00 is probably in the same place their "evidence" of IP infringement is...in the curling wisps of smoke blown up the world's collective ass by corporate crackheads.
Umm, isn't the OpenOffice Team a separate entity from Sun?? I know they started with the STAROffice source, but I didn't know they were part of Sun.
Oh, that's right!!! Sun can give away OpenOffice for free, as it's not theirs!! I can't wait to download OpenOffice from Microsoft's servers... I mean, Sun gives it away, so could Microsoft. The difference is, OpenOffice (no matter who owns them) is freely available for download, whereas the crap that is Office is not. If I have to pay $300-$600 dollars for a product, and someone else only pays $0-$100 for an indentical product then, you may say I didn't lobby hard enough, but I call bullshit. Not only will I not do business with the company with such practices, but I will actively try to discourage anyone from doing business with them as well, for it appears to me that said company is engaging in what I term "ripping off segments of customers". If they think product is worth XX to some people, but only worth X less than XX to others, well, screw them. I don't care if they give volume discounts, that would be understandable. But, as another poster said, if you paid full price for a product, and someone else got it free, just because they didn't want it, or were considering something else, you'd be a little upset.
How about this? Why don't we ban publicly traded companies? If your privately owned company can't handle the changing economy, then they should die, rather than run to the government for some sort of protection for their shareholders and their CEOs. What ever happened to companies caring about their products and their customers? All these companies today can do is whine about profit margins, stockholders, etc. etc. ad nauseum. I say let them all die. They don't care about their products, they don't care about their customers, they only care about multi-million dollar bonuses, and shit like that. Also, while I'm on a rant, why don't all congressmen have to live in dorms, or quonset huts, or cheap government housing projects? They should be representative of the people, rather than trying to lord it over them. Last time they voted themselves a pay raise, one of the congress critters said they needed the raise because it was very hard for him to keep up payments on the three houses he owned! Hey, sell one or two, eh?!? Most Americans either can't afford just one house, or are going bankrupt trying to own one. All corporate leaders and government officials should get off their high horse and actually find out how the majority of people live.
No, I don't hide in the closet and play with anything Microsoft. I don't agree to the EULA they spout off, so I don't use Microsoft products. I believe the hardware I buy is mine, and if you actually understood the EULA to XP, you would find that agreeing to it would mean you do not own the hardware anymore. By agreeing to the EULA, you give Microsoft control of said hardware, and they feel if you no longer want XP on it, you must throw it away and purchase some other hardware. I'd show you, but I don't have any Microsoft product around to look it up for you. Sure, you could trot out the old tripe that the EULAs aren't legally enforceable, but, what if they are? Whose machine do you have? Your's, or some machine that Microsoft lets you use?
I hate the way they do business, so I don't do business with them. Simple, eh?
Boy, that's funny! Scariest thing I've read all day, but funny none the less...... They wouldn't really do that would they??? Suddenly, I don't feel so good....best sit down and let the fuzziness return....breathe rapidly in a paper bag....just let me die and get this shit over with...
...sound of crickets in still night air...
I've not read all the comments here, but I have read the article. .NET crap will allow, I think most commenters are missing the point. You don't have to spoof anything. I mean, there are snippets of code you can put into a normal HTML page that can format a drive for you if you're running Windows, and using IE. Sure, there's patches, but so what? there's updated virus defs all the time, and the by far most prevalent viruses are months, even years old. So, to get back on topic, in this type of environment, someone will think they are safe, because they see poochies name running around the window border, when, in actuality, they "somehow" had the equivilent of a porn dialer downloaded to their system, and, rather than dialing Lybia, it just tells Windows that anything it does is trusted, and the person is well and truly fucked, for they bought into the great lie that Microsoft is telling with it's Trustworthy Platform bullshit.
So far, most of the comments are about a spoofed status bar or the boraders that look different on the secured windows versus the unsecured ones. Anybody whose done work as a bench tech for a company servicing the general public for any length of time has surely had the conversation about porn dialers that the customer never even knew they had installed. With Active X controls, JavaScript, Macros, CGI sripts, or whatever the
You may be trolling, I'm not sure, but, on my mandrake 9.1 systems (one at work, one at home) power management works fine. Also, half the hardware in the world won't work with Windows, just the crap on Best Buy's shelves. So, you may have to do a little research to find what works and what doesn't, but both my systems have lite-on burners, one a GeForce4 Ti4200, the other intel on board video, one an SB live, the other the Via onboard sound, one is an Athlon 1700+, the other a P4 1.6Ghz, etc. etc. etc.... I have no problems with either of my systems. Most of my customers have problems with their $499 WinXP special they picked up off the shelves. I wouldn't even want to run plain jane DOS on a system I got off the shelves (Compaq & HP) they are pure crap, and they were designed for Microsoft. No, I don't care for Red Hat either. I seem to have more trouble with Red Hat than other distros, but other people have the opposite view.
By the way, I never re-compiled my kernel to get power management, it just worked when I did a normal install.
Sure, maybe at first it will only be those places, but...
On the other hand, if someone in New York is being paid to watch the Hoover dam, a few thousand miles away, who do they call?? or do they just e-mail the relevant authorities, who are trying to wade through 100s of SPAM messages....
And further more, if I don't trust the people who are trained properly by the government (the police, and all the TLA agencies) Why in the fuck would I want to trust someone who used to work fast food?? I have a beard, and that right there is enough for some people to be wary of me. I've never been to more than 5 states here, much less ever left the country for anything, but hey, I've got a beard, and I'm from the mountains, so I must be dangerous eh??
I could actually use that!!! One of my clients would really like to get his Altair up and running, if for nothing else but to say he's got it running. (He's actually willing to pay my going rate). Alas, it's got issues, and he has the machine, but no manuals...
Just because one person wouldn't find information useful doesn't mean every person would.
Look at the literary critics of today. They claim the originals of stuff like Moby Dick are classic, and if the writers of today would just go back to their roots..... But I find the original Moby Dick to be obtuse, hard to read, and thoroughly unenjoyable. Even so, it should be public domain, as should all works that are 14-28 years old. All corporate institutions should die.
We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code
And where's the proof SCO (or some programmer there) didn't use the GPLed code of Linux, and shove it into their own sorry excuse of an OS??? According to the GPL, they can do this all day long as long as they release their changes back. But who's to say, some young, enterprising programmer at SCO didn't get stuck with some piece of SCO kernel code he could not get working right, so he 'borrowed' some Linux code lines, tweaked them into place, and hoped no one would find out. You'd better be DAMN sure this isn't the case, McBride, or you'll lose your 20 years of IP crap by violating the GPL!! Wouldn't that just take the cake!! Think about that while you feel the icy water lap around your ankles as your ship slowly glides to a watery death.
I think I figured out the problem with your XP box. You should install a CD burner drive in it also, as XP is in no way modular, and, just like Internet Explorer, has cd burning software (by Roxio, barf!!) "innovatively integrated" into whatever it is that Microsoft passes off as it's kernel. So, with no burner, the kernel falls over and chokes, because, since Microsoft is so good at "innovation" and "integration", the burner software is probably also the memory mapper, and since it can't find a burner, it can't function properly, and blows chunks of memory all over. : )
I don't run XP for I do NOT agree to the terms in the EULA. I don't miss anything by not using XP. As a matter of fact, XP actually makes my job of fixing computer problems much harder. Their new way of giving error messages for instance. No, I don't want to send a bunch of gibberish to Microsoft, I want to know what files are involved, what kind of error, etc. When 9x crashed, I'd read ther error message, and know where to start fixing. As an aside, I was updating a customer's XP box, and decided to read the EULA presented from the newest service pack, or update or whatever. It specifically states in there that you cannot publish any benchmarks without written permission from Microsoft. I don't need Toyota's permission to publish how fast my pickup is, so why do I need Microsoft's permission to publish how fast an XP box is? As for getting your money back, well, from who? Microsoft sold the stuff to an OEM, who is required to bundle it with a system, or lose their pricing level with Microsoft. So, if you ask Microsoft for your money back, they say, contact the machine builders, as that's who bought it from them, and the machine builders say you have to return the machine with the software, as it was a bundled deal, and they don't sell naked PCs. (I'm talking about the non-white-box builders.) And don't tell me you can get naked PCs from Dell, I know that, but you can't buy every model they make naked, just a select few.
You commented that it's software and not crack and I can't help but think most people treat it like crack. I mean, the EULA is not friendly at all, and if it were ever legally enforced, most people would be severely screwed. So, just like crack, you are aware of the dangers of using it, but do it anyway, with the cavalier attitude that you aren't hooked, it won't hurt you, etc. What happens when the other shoe drops?? I've seen what happens to crack addicts when they hit bottom, what happens to you? There may not be greater advantages other places in your opinion, but for me, Linux does everything I want, and so much more than I even imagined a computer could do. So, you can keep your EULA, your Microsoft owned machines, and I wish you well.
I'd still like to know where the $20 rebate check they promised me after buying OpenLinux. The rebate slip said I should get the check in about 6 weeks. It's been five years since I sent it in!! I stopped recommending anything from SCO or Caldera years ago.
The cable company only "poked one hole through the wall". Their prefered method of running mulitple IPs is to connect the cable modem to a switch, so the customer only has to pay for one modem, and then connect the machines to the switch, and run multiple IPs through the modem some how. It is a ridiculous setup, and their tech support people always suggest pay for one account, and run a nat box.
I went on a call not too long ago, where the customer was in your situation. They were paying for two IP addresses, and weren't using any sort of router, or NAT, as they didn't need it, since they were paying for two IPs. Well, the problem they were having was their two machines weren't seeing each other anymore, but the switch they were plugged into showed they were getting links, and they could both still get online. To make a long story short, the cable company changed one of their IPs to a different one, and it was on a completely different segment of the network (don't ask for too much technical details on how this happened, for I don't really know what the hell the cable company did to them), and since they were no longer on the same segment, they could no longer talk, as all their local traffic was going out through the cable companies DHCP to get to the other machine .. So tell me, how is your local sharing setup?? I fixed their issue by installing a NAT router and firewall, and they called the cable company to cancel one of the IPs. The cable company agreed with putting in the NAT, as they would not guarantee them completely static IPs.
I feel it is perfectly fine to pay the cable company a connection fee to allow my network to connect to their network, but what is on their side of the NAT is theirs, and whats on my side is mine.
I find it rather humourous that the DOJ says crimminals are criminals, and ex-criminals should not be allowed to guard corporate interests, but the DOJ doesn't mind putting Poindexter (who was convicted, and then let off on a technicality, thus making him an ex-criminal) in charge of the largest database of personal records on the citizens the DOJ is supposed to be looking out for. Makes you kind of wonder about this government that's supposed to be by, of, and for the people.
If I join one of those clubs, I could get the quantity of the discs you say, but they don't carry the bands I like, nor do they carry cd's that are by bands no longer around, and never made a big hit. This is something that everyone on both sides of this copyright shit need to realize. Especially the RIAA and other corporate entities. I don't want Brittney Spears, or Metallica , or whatever bullshit is lining the shelves of Walmart. If they really want to stop piracy, then I should be able to walk into anyplace that sells cds, and pick up a copy of Haunted Garage, or LawnmowerDeath, or anything else I decide. No, special orders do not cut it. The biggest music store here never even heard of these bands, and they don't find them on their little order sheets, so I must search all over to find my kind of music. Gee, the internet has sure made it easy to find my music. I buy from band pages when I find bands worth buying from, but when the band is dead and gone, and the RIAA decides to discontinue the cds, well, what then? P2P fills this bill. If they would think ahead just a bit, they could setup the motherlode of all napsters, and charge a reasonable fee for access, and then they would, at the very least, quadruple their income and reduce costs. This will never happen though, because Corporate thinking corrupts all that it touches, and the RIAA is certainly corrupt. But hey, what do I know? I work for a living.
The thing I can't wait for is 64-bit laptops with a real advantage over their 32-bit counterparts ;).
Peruse the following link for 64-bit mobile goodness...
http://hw.tadpole.com/html/
(Maybe If I could get one of those laptops, I could finally figure out this "href" thing and make my posts "clicky")
Palladium hardware is useless without palladium software. .40.
Some of the articles I've read on the subject say this little chip will have software in it, with connectivity to the internet, etc. Do you remember the PII serial number that was supposed to secure all financial transactions forever? It was supposed to be impossible to turn it on or off unless you were physically in front of the machine. Remember when the German mag C't wrote a program that would turn it on or off over the internet? You may call it paranoia, but what if that little chip were to be turned on somehow? What if the only way you could turn it off was a software setting in the registry of whatever crap Microsoft is spewing out as their current OS? What if the only way you could connect to an ISP was through the graces of the little chip? Why do we need something from company A to assure us the code is to be trusted that we choose to run that comes from company H? Why should I trust that chip? What gives that chip the right to even exist on MY machine? I don't trust the government to decide what I want to read, why should I trust Microsoft to decide what I want to run? Irregardless of whether it will affect me running Linux, it is MY machine. I guess what I am trying to say is, If I had on-board navigation in my car, and it were palladium, then what choice would I have for a trip through a town? If the route were not safe, then suddenly, I would not be allowed to travel those roads. If I happened to live in a part of town that the city decided was not safe, gee, my car would suddenly no longer be able to go there. To get back on topic, I say fuck Microsoft and their idea of secure computing. I prefer security through knowledge, and a loaded Glock
As a system builder, I can tell you that if you get the retail box processors from AMD (or their resellers) they come with a fan/heatsink combo that is actually quite impressive. the 2000+ has a fan that only spins about 3400RPMs and is very very quiet. Oh, and if you're worried about it overheating, don't be. Without using any fancy schmany tricks of slowing down your processor (speed step anyone?) this AMD rig at 2000+, after four hours of Unreal Tournament2003, only gets to 101 degrees farenheit. If it's just sitting there doing nothing, it runs at 92F. That's actually less than most P4 rigs I've ever seen, and no fans but the CPU fan and the P/S fan.
The Intel secret police will not come banging at your door if you circumvent the protections and overclock your own CPU.
YET.
Intel would love to have the police power that Microsoft does. Wait until they form their own style of BSA. Face it, once a corporation gets a certain size, it no longer cares about their products or their customers, just the power they can wield over both.