Sure, that could have happened, but at least there would be a dissenting opinion to reflect back on. Anyways, a veto-override is not automatic; they must propose a separate vote for it. If President Clinton were to have opposed it and made a big deal out of it, they might have reconsidered their position in the Senate.
Couple that with MS control of the BIOS soon and what'll you have?
I'm not trolling here; I'm dead serious. If that happens, and we are all forced to use MS crap or nothing at all, we will all have a reason to go out and find something else to do with out time and money. Computers are cool and everything, but you're talking about totally ruining our hobby. Furthermore, I would expect computers to go totally down the toilet because Microsoft would control everything. There would be no incentive whatsoever to produce anything of value. The only imaginable way out would be MacOS.
Um, excuse me, our government system requires both the Senate AND the President to pass legislation; I didn't mean to say that only the Senate was responsible. I just wanted to point out that generally politicians are clueless when it comes to technology.
Well, first of all, there are the arguments that in principle, we shouldn't have to, and then again, setting up WINE can be quite a pain in the neck and many applications don't operate correctly with it.
I know that many of you are of the opinion that nothing is being done about this because the current administration is somehow "anti-consumer."
Please allow me to remind you that the DMCA passed through the Senate unapposed - No one in the Senate voted against it. There were 99 votes for it and 0 against. We have patents on simple software algorithms that last 20 years with no end in sight. Remember, even if you understand that software patents are bad, if you're in the business, you've got to play the game the way it's set up, or your competitors will not hesitate to screw you over. Remember the Amazon.com one-click patent?
The problem is that politicians clearly don't understand technology, plain and simple.
I think that a good starting point would be to impose strict term limits on our Representatives and Senators. Our country can do without the people who make it their career to be politicians and contribute nothing else. Furthermore, those career politicians live in a world of their own; they have no idea what it's like to have your ideas taken away from you because of some stupid patent law. Look at Gray Davis; he's pissed off because he's been recalled from office by angry voters. Gray Davis passed stupid laws from which he was detached from the consequences. He had a big political machine that crushed the opposition in the last election cycle. He didn't care that he raised car taxes through the roof. He didn't care that foolish policies crippled California's power system. It's great to see that someone finally made him face the music.
My point is, politicians don't understand anything but politics these days because that's all they do.
Steve Balmer has sent a deace and desist letter to Linus Torvalds demanding that he stop calling Microsoft software "insecure." Steve Balmer insists that the correct term is "accessible." Steve Balmer further declared in a press release that Microsoft pursue anyone who misrepresents the nature of their software.
We need to brand M0zil]a with teh AOL cr@p. We all love the A0L branding in N3tsc@pe so much, I need 30 megs of AOL artwork and ads to slow down Mozilla. If you're still not convinced, just check out how popular Netscape has become since becoming branded with A0L. AOL Rox0rs!!!
The idea of self-destructing documents just brings back the idea that "Information wants to be free." I think that this is a brilliant idea, not just applied to computer codes and what not. Just look at the lengths people and organizations will go to in order to stop information from spreading, and fail in spite of it all.
I would imagine that people make an informed decision when they decide to buy that car. It's not like it's a secret that it's a gas guzzler. OTOH, Gator tries to trick you into turning loose their monster on your machine.
Bill Clinton was not impeached because he received a blowjob. Bill Clinton was impeached because he lied under oath and obstructed a federal investigation.
I'm not familiar with different kinds of PCI busses. I just know that the board was brand new when I bought it several months ago and it has on-board RAID. I couldn't get the on-board RAID to work with SAMBA/LINUX, so I ended up using software RAID. However, I made sure that the mirror-RAID drives are not on the same master/slave combo. I'm nowhere near the machine right now, otherwise I'd mention exactly what I'm using. The ethernet is on an ordinary 32-bit PCI slot.
The issue I've been dealing with is network performance. I set up a new SAMBA server, outfitted with 160 GB RAID, 2 GHz Celeron, and gigabit ethernet; the performance sucks. I get about 120 Mbps max transferring large files. Yes, the client machine is a fast machine too, but I've read that I should be getting 500 Mbps or more. I've checked everything and I have no idea what could possible wrong.
Anyways, it seems that network performance has always been more of a bottleneck than hard drive performance. Is it the other way around then for many other admins???
Even if CD-Rs don't last a long time, I use them at a local business where a new backup is created every few days. It doesn't matter how long the CD-R lasts, because it goes in the trash can in pieces within a month anyways because old backups are useless in my case.
We're considering moving to DVD-R for obvious reasons.
Let me put in my rant here. I purchased a copy of Waterloo Maple 6, student edition. I installed it on my Linux box. The damn thing requires you to e-mail your serial number to their tech support, who then sends you an authorization "file."
The authorization interfaces with this stupid licensing server called "flexlm." I swear to God, I don't ever want to buy another product that uses this activation scheme. I'll do without. If all software vendors do this to us, I'll quit using computers. You have to have this stupid program running in the background on your machine all the time to use the software. I did a little research, and found out that this little bastard program from hell is published by Globetrotter. I little research and found that this is a division of Macrovision, the evil demon-spawn company that forced that copy protection on our TV sets. They bill themselves as "secure and flexible distribution for your product." FLEXIBLE MY ASS!!! As far as I'm concerned, they can go &@*% themselves.
I just checked Maple's web page; it looks like they don't require this anymore for a single user version of the program.
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Interesting discussion. I must add that almost all politicians get donations from a large variety of industry groups. It's just how politics is.
Sure, that could have happened, but at least there would be a dissenting opinion to reflect back on. Anyways, a veto-override is not automatic; they must propose a separate vote for it. If President Clinton were to have opposed it and made a big deal out of it, they might have reconsidered their position in the Senate.
Does that mean that no one is glad that Senator Fritz Hollings ( D - Disney ) is retiring because he might be replaced with someone of the same party?
I'm not trolling here; I'm dead serious. If that happens, and we are all forced to use MS crap or nothing at all, we will all have a reason to go out and find something else to do with out time and money. Computers are cool and everything, but you're talking about totally ruining our hobby. Furthermore, I would expect computers to go totally down the toilet because Microsoft would control everything. There would be no incentive whatsoever to produce anything of value. The only imaginable way out would be MacOS.
Um, excuse me, our government system requires both the Senate AND the President to pass legislation; I didn't mean to say that only the Senate was responsible. I just wanted to point out that generally politicians are clueless when it comes to technology.
Well, first of all, there are the arguments that in principle, we shouldn't have to, and then again, setting up WINE can be quite a pain in the neck and many applications don't operate correctly with it.
Please allow me to remind you that the DMCA passed through the Senate unapposed - No one in the Senate voted against it. There were 99 votes for it and 0 against. We have patents on simple software algorithms that last 20 years with no end in sight. Remember, even if you understand that software patents are bad, if you're in the business, you've got to play the game the way it's set up, or your competitors will not hesitate to screw you over. Remember the Amazon.com one-click patent?
The problem is that politicians clearly don't understand technology, plain and simple.
I think that a good starting point would be to impose strict term limits on our Representatives and Senators. Our country can do without the people who make it their career to be politicians and contribute nothing else. Furthermore, those career politicians live in a world of their own; they have no idea what it's like to have your ideas taken away from you because of some stupid patent law. Look at Gray Davis; he's pissed off because he's been recalled from office by angry voters. Gray Davis passed stupid laws from which he was detached from the consequences. He had a big political machine that crushed the opposition in the last election cycle. He didn't care that he raised car taxes through the roof. He didn't care that foolish policies crippled California's power system. It's great to see that someone finally made him face the music.
My point is, politicians don't understand anything but politics these days because that's all they do.
Actually, I think that robots that swim in our blood eating cholesterol is about the best thing that we'd have since sliced white bread.
Steve Balmer has sent a deace and desist letter to Linus Torvalds demanding that he stop calling Microsoft software "insecure." Steve Balmer insists that the correct term is "accessible." Steve Balmer further declared in a press release that Microsoft pursue anyone who misrepresents the nature of their software.
We need to brand M0zil]a with teh AOL cr@p. We all love the A0L branding in N3tsc@pe so much, I need 30 megs of AOL artwork and ads to slow down Mozilla. If you're still not convinced, just check out how popular Netscape has become since becoming branded with A0L. AOL Rox0rs!!!
The idea of self-destructing documents just brings back the idea that "Information wants to be free." I think that this is a brilliant idea, not just applied to computer codes and what not. Just look at the lengths people and organizations will go to in order to stop information from spreading, and fail in spite of it all.
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I would imagine that people make an informed decision when they decide to buy that car. It's not like it's a secret that it's a gas guzzler. OTOH, Gator tries to trick you into turning loose their monster on your machine.
::/me Clears throat::
Gator, kuso wo tabero!!!
Come get me spelling nazis; I have no idea how to spell lingeri.
Bill Clinton was not impeached because he received a blowjob. Bill Clinton was impeached because he lied under oath and obstructed a federal investigation.
You threw in an extra bit/byte conversion factor. 32 bits times 33 Mhz = 1056 megabits per second, so gigabit ethernet should be just fine with that.
I can't believe that for the Google searches that I've done, none have turned up any useful information on how to speed up this network.
Govt: MS, you are not giving users a choice here.
MS: "But your honor, we are giving users a choice. They can use IE to interface with the ICU life support system or just let their patients die."
Ahhhh, the MS way.
I'm not familiar with different kinds of PCI busses. I just know that the board was brand new when I bought it several months ago and it has on-board RAID. I couldn't get the on-board RAID to work with SAMBA/LINUX, so I ended up using software RAID. However, I made sure that the mirror-RAID drives are not on the same master/slave combo. I'm nowhere near the machine right now, otherwise I'd mention exactly what I'm using. The ethernet is on an ordinary 32-bit PCI slot.
That they rated our President the Weasliest Individual, but they still rated the Democrats more Weasley than the Republicans.
Anyways, it seems that network performance has always been more of a bottleneck than hard drive performance. Is it the other way around then for many other admins???
We're considering moving to DVD-R for obvious reasons.
There is a PCMCIA Token Ring card that has been sitting on the shelf of a small local retailer for as long as I can remember.
I assert that there will always be PDA as long as I have a girlfriend. Oh wait, a minute, I don't have a girlfriend. Maybe PDA is dying.
The authorization interfaces with this stupid licensing server called "flexlm." I swear to God, I don't ever want to buy another product that uses this activation scheme. I'll do without. If all software vendors do this to us, I'll quit using computers. You have to have this stupid program running in the background on your machine all the time to use the software. I did a little research, and found out that this little bastard program from hell is published by Globetrotter. I little research and found that this is a division of Macrovision, the evil demon-spawn company that forced that copy protection on our TV sets. They bill themselves as "secure and flexible distribution for your product." FLEXIBLE MY ASS!!! As far as I'm concerned, they can go &@*% themselves.
I just checked Maple's web page; it looks like they don't require this anymore for a single user version of the program.