Wasnt it Philips that first came out with CDs and as such hold the rights to the name Compact Disc? I remember when this whole copy protection thing first came about, they had said about suing any company protecting their CDs as it was not part of the "standard" and if they did want to use protection they could not use the name compact disc. Wish I had a link to the article I read about this however long ago it was. Anyone else remember this or know what ever happened?
What would be great is if someone would resurrect Tesla's plans for wireless transmission of energy (circa 1910 or so, dont have the book on me to look up the exact date). then we wouldnt even need to worry about finding a mat.
I ran FreeBSD for about a year and a half. Just recently I switched back to Red Hat. Biggest reason I switched, hardware support. I could only get BSD to use my video card correctly once, version 4.5 or something like that. Sound never worked.
Red Hat was super slick, found everything, setup X for me, as opposed to me having to do it manually for BSD, and everything worked after rebooting from the setup, something that never happened with BSD.
Another big advantage Red Hat has over BSD is up2date as opposed to cvsup. I could never get cvsup to work, I was plagued with server timeouts and the amount of time it took to run was unbearable. Not sure which version the little Red Hat network thing started in, but it is just as simple to use, actually it is a little easier to use than windows update.
Im not trying to beat down on BSD, it is a good OS, but linux, at least Red Hat going to try gentoo tonight, has made some impressive steps in the realm of usability and that is what I believe makes it a superior OS.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/technology/05VIR U.html?ex=1076562000&en=4c668483a7875695&ei=5062&p artner=GOOGLE
I believe this is the same thing that Wyle E Coyote tried to catch the roadrunner. Hopefully NASA will get better contractors than ACME
Wasnt it Philips that first came out with CDs and as such hold the rights to the name Compact Disc? I remember when this whole copy protection thing first came about, they had said about suing any company protecting their CDs as it was not part of the "standard" and if they did want to use protection they could not use the name compact disc. Wish I had a link to the article I read about this however long ago it was. Anyone else remember this or know what ever happened?
What would be great is if someone would resurrect Tesla's plans for wireless transmission of energy (circa 1910 or so, dont have the book on me to look up the exact date). then we wouldnt even need to worry about finding a mat.
I ran FreeBSD for about a year and a half. Just recently I switched back to Red Hat. Biggest reason I switched, hardware support. I could only get BSD to use my video card correctly once, version 4.5 or something like that. Sound never worked.
Red Hat was super slick, found everything, setup X for me, as opposed to me having to do it manually for BSD, and everything worked after rebooting from the setup, something that never happened with BSD.
Another big advantage Red Hat has over BSD is up2date as opposed to cvsup. I could never get cvsup to work, I was plagued with server timeouts and the amount of time it took to run was unbearable. Not sure which version the little Red Hat network thing started in, but it is just as simple to use, actually it is a little easier to use than windows update.
Im not trying to beat down on BSD, it is a good OS, but linux, at least Red Hat going to try gentoo tonight, has made some impressive steps in the realm of usability and that is what I believe makes it a superior OS.