unfortunatly the codecs are closed source, so it's gonna be pretty tough to get those sites to work. x86 users can use libavifile, but that still leaves ppc, alpha, sparc, whatever users out of luck.
The story is about them being able to retain control over the.com domain registry. So they maintain the root dns servers for it, and they are paid a fee by registrars who register domains. The concern is based on Network Solutions being a Verisign company, which could be used to their Verisigns advantage in undercutting other registrars. The article did mention that they would be audited on that though. It has nothing to do with them keeping versign.com
Not everyone doing this is cheating on purpose, but when it happens it's hard not to take advantage of it. My roommate had a problem with his machine when he had a TNT 2 in it using the nvidia detonator drivers. Sometimes he'd magically be able to see through walls, it wasn't something he was trying for though. Seemed to be either a bug in the drivers or something, I never had it happen on my machine though.
How is Apple any different? Media Player => Quicktime + iTunes. Windows Movie Maker => Quicktime + iMovie. I'm sure there are other examples but I try not to get any Apple on me these days. Heck, even Sherlock replaces several Shareware and Commercial products which used to be around on MacOS.
Not defending Apple for doing it either
Right, now microsoft only sells major release number updates, and gives us the point releases for free via the web and/or service packs. Even from NT 3.51, though, the commercial-intent packages have given you point releases for free, in the form of NT service packs. Windows 9x really should have been much cheaper ($50?) since the "framework" it provides to you is really seriously limited. Then, paying for major revisions wouldn't have felt so ridiculous.
Microsofts update system is much better now, and NT's service pack and hotfix system has always been fairly good. My biggest complaint was with Windows 95 and to a lesser extent 98. How many revisions of 95 did Microsoft put out, I think it was 4 maybe 5. Out of those only the first edition could be purchased in stores, the rest had to be obtained through OEM's who were willing to illegally sell the cds without a new hard drive or motherboard, or with a new system. This mean no upgrade version, you paid the full $120 upgrade price for essentially bugfixes ontop of the OS you bought originally. To add insult to injury MS clearly posted on their website that only some of the bugfixes were available without the new version. 98 was a reasonable version to sell as a new version, although even then the $99 upgrade price was a bit steep for what didn't seem all that different. They really did a good job with the $50 upgrade with ME, even if I don't particularly like the new product.
As for NT and 2000, MS always seems to have done a much better job on it, look at the major releases. 3.5, 4.0, and 5.0 (2000) have all been pretty major changes to the OS and well worthy of the upgrade prices.
Certainly they should be free to write/buy whatever software they want to, but I think that including it in the OS can be bad for users in the long run. It definitly is something that we have to look at carefully before we decide it's either a good thing or a bad thing.
Microsoft has a very powerful position as the defacto standard in home operating systems, and as such I think should have to play by different rules than others should have to.
We* use distributions that come with literally thousands of programs. We complain when Microsoft adds a couple to their new OS/Distro.
Except that when Microsoft adds a couple new one it's plan is to eliminate competition from the other companies who have been traditionally been selling their products. If MS ships a version that does most everything about as well as the competition bundled with the OS, must people won't look to someone else to write a slightly better version. The distros are shipping others software, usually not righting their own. The software being shipped is also free in most cases, so noone is losing out here.
We call Windows bloated at 400MB, but when someone points out that distro X takes 7 CD's, we defend that distro
The 7 cds doesnt necesarrily reflect the installed size. Debian's package archive is about 4 gigs, yet it can happily be installed and used on a 1 gig hard drive, and the default install takes 50 megs. Redhat seems to take about 600 megs in it's default install, but it can be adjusted down to maybe 300 megs. Too me the big difference is that I look at Windows with it's 400 meg install and then look at a 400 meg RedHat install, and compare the functionality. With most Linux distro's I get a majority of the tools I need for my daily use. I get a gui, development tools, word proccessing, internet, and multimedia players. From their I may have to do updates if I want more recent versions and a few extra apps, but most stuff is there. With Windows I still would have to install Office, Ms Dev Studio, WinAmp, and all of the little tools that I may want.
We're happy to use software that updates several times a month, some update daily. When Apple releases two patches in one month, we say their forcing people to update against their will or something.
Agreed on this one, as long as the patches are free I say update them on a reular basis. I only have problems with the way Microsoft used to do updates, sell a new version of Windows. I for one usually update my debian systems every other day or so.
Some _might_, most will be running Windows 98 though, which is still behind the times in Microsofts eyes. The point still holds that not everyone upgrades overnight, and some people will even downgrade if the replacement isnt as good. I know many gamers who tried 2000 or me and dropped back to 98 for better performance. Same thing when 98 first came out. Some people still do run 95 to play current games because not all of them need high powered machines running the latest wizbang os. The Sims ( a fairly current and popular game) even runs on NT 4.0. The most gamer unfriendly OS I can think of besides DOS.
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Finally, there's no reason to keep using Netscape 4.7x
Hopefully this means it's DNS problems have been fixed. A bug that at least existed 3 days ago was that certain web sites could not load because Mozilla couldn't resolve an IP from the name. While every other network application installed on my machine could.
technocrat.net was being shutdown a couple months ago
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Easy, they want to provide better documentation along with it. It's also quite likely that they have to go over all of the distribution to ensure there isn't any sensitive material/image damaging material in there.
I still dont see why the "path to aim.exe" is such a bad idea.
It's a nice idea, but it seems to require a very specific version of AIM which would be harder to find. For reference, here's a thread. In particular look at message 159 for a message by a GAIM author. treke
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is
oblivion.
Jabber isn't a solution to not being able to use task at hand, using AIM to communicate with other AIM users. When Jabber has the same users on it as AIM, then we'll talk. treke
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is
oblivion.
Very possible, Lionhead have mentioned both a Linux port and the possibility of releasing the source code. Both made possible by Lionhead funding the project privately. treke
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is
oblivion.
http://www.muhri.net/skipstone, it's a pure GTK+(No gnome libs) browser using the Mozilla renderer treke
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is
oblivion.
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That's probably true
Kernel Drivers do not have to be under the GPL
unfortunatly the codecs are closed source, so it's gonna be pretty tough to get those sites to work. x86 users can use libavifile, but that still leaves ppc, alpha, sparc, whatever users out of luck.
get the patch for the 2.4.4 source? It's only about 900k
Reboot after patches? I reboot after a new kernel, but not for the average patch.
The story is about them being able to retain control over the .com domain registry. So they maintain the root dns servers for it, and they are paid a fee by registrars who register domains. The concern is based on Network Solutions being a Verisign company, which could be used to their Verisigns advantage in undercutting other registrars. The article did mention that they would be audited on that though. It has nothing to do with them keeping versign.com
Not everyone doing this is cheating on purpose, but when it happens it's hard not to take advantage of it. My roommate had a problem with his machine when he had a TNT 2 in it using the nvidia detonator drivers. Sometimes he'd magically be able to see through walls, it wasn't something he was trying for though. Seemed to be either a bug in the drivers or something, I never had it happen on my machine though.
Neither does Direct3d
That's what I meant.
That and the GPL is owned by the Free Software Foundation, note the little Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc In the document.
General Public License.
How is Apple any different? Media Player => Quicktime + iTunes. Windows Movie Maker => Quicktime + iMovie. I'm sure there are other examples but I try not to get any Apple on me these days. Heck, even Sherlock replaces several Shareware and Commercial products which used to be around on MacOS.
Not defending Apple for doing it either
Right, now microsoft only sells major release number updates, and gives us the point releases for free via the web and/or service packs. Even from NT 3.51, though, the commercial-intent packages have given you point releases for free, in the form of NT service packs. Windows 9x really should have been much cheaper ($50?) since the "framework" it provides to you is really seriously limited. Then, paying for major revisions wouldn't have felt so ridiculous.
Microsofts update system is much better now, and NT's service pack and hotfix system has always been fairly good. My biggest complaint was with Windows 95 and to a lesser extent 98. How many revisions of 95 did Microsoft put out, I think it was 4 maybe 5. Out of those only the first edition could be purchased in stores, the rest had to be obtained through OEM's who were willing to illegally sell the cds without a new hard drive or motherboard, or with a new system. This mean no upgrade version, you paid the full $120 upgrade price for essentially bugfixes ontop of the OS you bought originally. To add insult to injury MS clearly posted on their website that only some of the bugfixes were available without the new version. 98 was a reasonable version to sell as a new version, although even then the $99 upgrade price was a bit steep for what didn't seem all that different. They really did a good job with the $50 upgrade with ME, even if I don't particularly like the new product.
As for NT and 2000, MS always seems to have done a much better job on it, look at the major releases. 3.5, 4.0, and 5.0 (2000) have all been pretty major changes to the OS and well worthy of the upgrade prices.
Certainly they should be free to write/buy whatever software they want to, but I think that including it in the OS can be bad for users in the long run. It definitly is something that we have to look at carefully before we decide it's either a good thing or a bad thing.
Microsoft has a very powerful position as the defacto standard in home operating systems, and as such I think should have to play by different rules than others should have to.
That 1 gig was with X, development tools, and LateX. You can definitly shrink it down pretty low if you don't need all that functionality.
We* use distributions that come with literally thousands of programs. We complain when Microsoft adds a couple to their new OS/Distro.
Except that when Microsoft adds a couple new one it's plan is to eliminate competition from the other companies who have been traditionally been selling their products. If MS ships a version that does most everything about as well as the competition bundled with the OS, must people won't look to someone else to write a slightly better version. The distros are shipping others software, usually not righting their own. The software being shipped is also free in most cases, so noone is losing out here.
We call Windows bloated at 400MB, but when someone points out that distro X takes 7 CD's, we defend that distro
The 7 cds doesnt necesarrily reflect the installed size. Debian's package archive is about 4 gigs, yet it can happily be installed and used on a 1 gig hard drive, and the default install takes 50 megs. Redhat seems to take about 600 megs in it's default install, but it can be adjusted down to maybe 300 megs. Too me the big difference is that I look at Windows with it's 400 meg install and then look at a 400 meg RedHat install, and compare the functionality. With most Linux distro's I get a majority of the tools I need for my daily use. I get a gui, development tools, word proccessing, internet, and multimedia players. From their I may have to do updates if I want more recent versions and a few extra apps, but most stuff is there. With Windows I still would have to install Office, Ms Dev Studio, WinAmp, and all of the little tools that I may want.
We're happy to use software that updates several times a month, some update daily. When Apple releases two patches in one month, we say their forcing people to update against their will or something.
Agreed on this one, as long as the patches are free I say update them on a reular basis. I only have problems with the way Microsoft used to do updates, sell a new version of Windows. I for one usually update my debian systems every other day or so.
The licensing of the kernel was specifically clarified to ensure that binary only drivers could be used.
Some _might_, most will be running Windows 98 though, which is still behind the times in Microsofts eyes. The point still holds that not everyone upgrades overnight, and some people will even downgrade if the replacement isnt as good. I know many gamers who tried 2000 or me and dropped back to 98 for better performance. Same thing when 98 first came out. Some people still do run 95 to play current games because not all of them need high powered machines running the latest wizbang os. The Sims ( a fairly current and popular game) even runs on NT 4.0. The most gamer unfriendly OS I can think of besides DOS.
Finally, there's no reason to keep using Netscape 4.7x
Hopefully this means it's DNS problems have been fixed. A bug that at least existed 3 days ago was that certain web sites could not load because Mozilla couldn't resolve an IP from the name. While every other network application installed on my machine could.
technocrat.net was being shutdown a couple months ago
Easy, they want to provide better documentation along with it. It's also quite likely that they have to go over all of the distribution to ensure there isn't any sensitive material/image damaging material in there.
I actually prefer the blue to the green.
treke
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
I still dont see why the "path to aim.exe" is such a bad idea. It's a nice idea, but it seems to require a very specific version of AIM which would be harder to find. For reference, here's a thread. In particular look at message 159 for a message by a GAIM author.
treke
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Jabber isn't a solution to not being able to use task at hand, using AIM to communicate with other AIM users. When Jabber has the same users on it as AIM, then we'll talk.
treke
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Very possible, Lionhead have mentioned both a Linux port and the possibility of releasing the source code. Both made possible by Lionhead funding the project privately.
treke
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
http://www.muhri.net/skipstone, it's a pure GTK+(No gnome libs) browser using the Mozilla renderer
treke
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.