That's it! I don't remember any Christmas special, but I have vague memories of Leia wishing Chewie a happy Life Day, while Han was running from some pesky Star Destroyers hoping to make it in time for his buddy's Life Day celebration.
DSN Client is not your DNS server and is not required to resolve IP's and you can safely disable it. All it does is cache previously entered DNS entries. IP's are resolved from your Primary and Alternate DNS Server entries in your Network connection properties, and are either entered manually during network setup, or assigned automatically by your ISP.
ipconfig/all at the command prompt will show your DNS servers.
Although I don't have a dell, I noticed the same thing. My wireless connections now work the first time all the time. SP2 improves power management as well. My laptop now comes out of sleep mode every single time in a couple seconds. Pre-SP2 half the time it would reboot or just sit there with a blank screen until I hit the power button.
Better driver management (rollback), system restore, better power manangement, more administrative command line commands, more flexible administration console, faster boot, faster response & feel.
I had some big issues with drivers causing blue screens on Win2k that I never get on XP.
The search puppy is not one of the reasons I upgraded. Is it just me, or does search in windows gets worse and worse with each release? I just want a simple find utility like they had in 95. XP search you have to click a dozen times to open up all the options you want.
Ditto! The only time I have used IE in the past year is for windows update, which is usually daily, but it's the only site I use IE for. I can't remember the last time or the last site I went to that did not render well in Firefox. I'm sure they exist, but either the web designers are using less IE-only features or Firefox is doing a better job. I suspect it's a bit of both.
In UNIX everything's a file. In Windows, every file is an executable. Doesn't seem such a smart idea now, does it MS?
...I can pull my cell phone out of my pocket and catch up with the latest news and sports scores in an instant.
I'm sick and tired of the instant-info-internet too. I'm moving back to TV where I have to watch for 20 minutes to see the sports scores or news that I want.
She was nervous. A previous vocation of mine was being a lab technician, and when I worked in Haematology I went on the "blood run" three times/day + emergencies. When I was training the first few times was some of the most stressful & nerve wracking tasks of my life. You can't feel the veins, you don't know how much pressure to apply or how deep to go. In the back of your mind you're thinking "what if I miss, what if I hurt him, what if I miss and hit a nerve or artery, etc, etc" You shake, you cold sweat, you feel butterflies in your stomach. You get used to it and practice makes perfect, but some stress persists.
No kidding! In my home I can pick up four WAP's, including mine, and two of them use no encryption, no password, and use the default SSID's (not mine). They have been like that for almost a year.
I never use them, except for the one time I verified I can connect to them, but they are there for the taking. My area is purely residential so I wish I could find out who it is so I could let them know their WAP is wide open for anyone to connect.
Worst movie I ever saw was something I rented in the early 90's, and it was called Roller-something. It was a movie about a post-apoctalyptic world where girls in tight shorts and t-shirts in rollerskates (yes rollerskates, not rollerblades) skated around on the surface randomly stabbing people as they walked in parks. There was an evil character who had a little head growing out of his chest that gave him orders, and he ruled an underground community and he was trying to find a way to take over the surface people. Man it was bad, it literally looked like it was filmed on a $500 camera, and the end credits listed the same person for actor, cameraman, editor, director, etc.
After that movie, the worst move I saw was Cabin Boy. Star Trek V ranks pretty far up there too.
copyright protection for a concept, process or algorithm would easily be avoided by simply "rewriting" it differently (rearranging some code, or adding some minor steps to the process)
And that's why copyright works for software, and exactly why software patents should not be allowed. You have a right to protect your work and avoid your work from being copied, but not stifle competition and prevent others from producing similar, yet different, methods.
There are multiple methods of achieving the same results with software, sorting for example, but what is being patented are blanket concepts that are so vague that they cover all possible alternatives, so that anyone attempting to work around them are still in violation of that patent. Instead of patenting specific methods, algorithms, and code, granted patents often resemble something like "a method of sorting data and saving it to semi-permanent storage media", or "a way of storing user information from a website so the user only has to click once to reload his userdata" To me, these broad patens would be like a chemical company patenting "a way of extracting gold from ore", or a manufacturing company patenting "a method of using robotics to fasten screws"
As much as I dislike them, software patents are here to stay, at least in the US. Lawyers make too much money off them to let them go, and what field do most politicians come from?
It's hard to keep up with what MS patch fixes which exploit, but I thought a patch for this was issued a few days after the exploit was discovererd. Am I confusing this with that that recent firefox run-shell bug?
All these bugs are difficult to keep track of. It was so much simpler before the net. Virus scanner updates came once a month, windows updates came once a quarter or longer, and most of them were fixes for feature or performance bugs, not security updates. Now we have daily virus updates and each week half a dozen OS updates for serious exploits.
That is a possibility, but it could as easily backfire for the company initiating the litigation. SCO certainly hasn't stopped linux adoption.
Companies when confronted with alleged patent violations often roll over and pay up. For them it is a business decision. Pay $x million now for the right to use the technology, or pay $x million + $y million for laywers if they fight and lose. Sometimes it's better to pay $x and be done with it than pay $x+$y.
Open source is a different story. When open source gets attacked it's as like when a bear tries to get into the beehive-it's personal! The opensource bees get riled up and come out to protect the open source honey.
One bee against a bear in no match, but thousands will eventually come out, attack, and drive off the bear. If the bear gets stung too many times, it leaves the bees alone and wanders off to look for something else. The bees are smarter, more alert, and more wary, and notice sooner when a bear approaches. They know the bear wants their honey and work harder to protect it.
Now the bear thinks twice about trying to get the open source honey. Other bears that heard what happened stay away from the honey because they know how bad the first bear got stung and realize it isn't worth it. And all other creatures who know nothing about the open source honey hear of this bear and think of the bear as foolish, deparate, and a big bully and want nothing to do with the bear.
This is no troll, but I am wondering why bother putting Linux on a Mac? You already have a non-MS OS which has a great UI and is derived from unix (or is it bsd?), so what else does Linux give you? More apps, more versatility?
we'll take BC and the Yukon; you can keep the rest
If you anex any part of canada you have to take Quebec. You know you want to.
Imagine, the US with a near monopoly on maple syrup, and that stupid-looking disturbing clown from the Quebec winter carnival will be yours! He'll frighten any evil-dooer to surrender.
I used Net Positive. Many images it couldn't display, it didn't render tables correctly, forms didn't always work-click on submit and nothing happened, reading cookies values seemed hit and miss, and even so-called standard html did not display correctly. I don't think it had SSL, and I seem to remember it didn't support any type of scripting.
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That's it! I don't remember any Christmas special, but I have vague memories of Leia wishing Chewie a happy Life Day, while Han was running from some pesky Star Destroyers hoping to make it in time for his buddy's Life Day celebration.
DSN Client is not your DNS server and is not required to resolve IP's and you can safely disable it. All it does is cache previously entered DNS entries. IP's are resolved from your Primary and Alternate DNS Server entries in your Network connection properties, and are either entered manually during network setup, or assigned automatically by your ISP. ipconfig /all at the command prompt will show your DNS servers.
Although I don't have a dell, I noticed the same thing. My wireless connections now work the first time all the time. SP2 improves power management as well. My laptop now comes out of sleep mode every single time in a couple seconds. Pre-SP2 half the time it would reboot or just sit there with a blank screen until I hit the power button.
SCO did. They didn't want to take the chance that they might sue themselves.
...the computer reset because it ran our of memory.
That's because when the LM was being designed some engineer decided "640 Bytes should be enough for anyone."
Better driver management (rollback), system restore, better power manangement, more administrative command line commands, more flexible administration console, faster boot, faster response & feel.
I had some big issues with drivers causing blue screens on Win2k that I never get on XP.
The search puppy is not one of the reasons I upgraded. Is it just me, or does search in windows gets worse and worse with each release? I just want a simple find utility like they had in 95. XP search you have to click a dozen times to open up all the options you want.
Ditto! The only time I have used IE in the past year is for windows update, which is usually daily, but it's the only site I use IE for. I can't remember the last time or the last site I went to that did not render well in Firefox. I'm sure they exist, but either the web designers are using less IE-only features or Firefox is doing a better job. I suspect it's a bit of both.
In UNIX everything's a file. In Windows, every file is an executable. Doesn't seem such a smart idea now, does it MS?
...I can pull my cell phone out of my pocket and catch up with the latest news and sports scores in an instant.
I'm sick and tired of the instant-info-internet too. I'm moving back to TV where I have to watch for 20 minutes to see the sports scores or news that I want.
She was nervous. A previous vocation of mine was being a lab technician, and when I worked in Haematology I went on the "blood run" three times/day + emergencies. When I was training the first few times was some of the most stressful & nerve wracking tasks of my life. You can't feel the veins, you don't know how much pressure to apply or how deep to go. In the back of your mind you're thinking "what if I miss, what if I hurt him, what if I miss and hit a nerve or artery, etc, etc" You shake, you cold sweat, you feel butterflies in your stomach. You get used to it and practice makes perfect, but some stress persists.
No kidding! In my home I can pick up four WAP's, including mine, and two of them use no encryption, no password, and use the default SSID's (not mine). They have been like that for almost a year.
I never use them, except for the one time I verified I can connect to them, but they are there for the taking. My area is purely residential so I wish I could find out who it is so I could let them know their WAP is wide open for anyone to connect.
They're working on Project Pinto as we speak.
Worst movie I ever saw was something I rented in the early 90's, and it was called Roller-something. It was a movie about a post-apoctalyptic world where girls in tight shorts and t-shirts in rollerskates (yes rollerskates, not rollerblades) skated around on the surface randomly stabbing people as they walked in parks. There was an evil character who had a little head growing out of his chest that gave him orders, and he ruled an underground community and he was trying to find a way to take over the surface people. Man it was bad, it literally looked like it was filmed on a $500 camera, and the end credits listed the same person for actor, cameraman, editor, director, etc.
After that movie, the worst move I saw was Cabin Boy. Star Trek V ranks pretty far up there too.
Did you actually expect this movie to be good? :)
copyright protection for a concept, process or algorithm would easily be avoided by simply "rewriting" it differently (rearranging some code, or adding some minor steps to the process)
And that's why copyright works for software, and exactly why software patents should not be allowed. You have a right to protect your work and avoid your work from being copied, but not stifle competition and prevent others from producing similar, yet different, methods.
There are multiple methods of achieving the same results with software, sorting for example, but what is being patented are blanket concepts that are so vague that they cover all possible alternatives, so that anyone attempting to work around them are still in violation of that patent. Instead of patenting specific methods, algorithms, and code, granted patents often resemble something like "a method of sorting data and saving it to semi-permanent storage media", or "a way of storing user information from a website so the user only has to click once to reload his userdata" To me, these broad patens would be like a chemical company patenting "a way of extracting gold from ore", or a manufacturing company patenting "a method of using robotics to fasten screws"
As much as I dislike them, software patents are here to stay, at least in the US. Lawyers make too much money off them to let them go, and what field do most politicians come from?
It's hard to keep up with what MS patch fixes which exploit, but I thought a patch for this was issued a few days after the exploit was discovererd. Am I confusing this with that that recent firefox run-shell bug?
All these bugs are difficult to keep track of. It was so much simpler before the net. Virus scanner updates came once a month, windows updates came once a quarter or longer, and most of them were fixes for feature or performance bugs, not security updates. Now we have daily virus updates and each week half a dozen OS updates for serious exploits.
Man I am starting to sound like an old fart.
That is a possibility, but it could as easily backfire for the company initiating the litigation. SCO certainly hasn't stopped linux adoption.
Companies when confronted with alleged patent violations often roll over and pay up. For them it is a business decision. Pay $x million now for the right to use the technology, or pay $x million + $y million for laywers if they fight and lose. Sometimes it's better to pay $x and be done with it than pay $x+$y.
Open source is a different story. When open source gets attacked it's as like when a bear tries to get into the beehive-it's personal! The opensource bees get riled up and come out to protect the open source honey.
One bee against a bear in no match, but thousands will eventually come out, attack, and drive off the bear. If the bear gets stung too many times, it leaves the bees alone and wanders off to look for something else. The bees are smarter, more alert, and more wary, and notice sooner when a bear approaches. They know the bear wants their honey and work harder to protect it.
Now the bear thinks twice about trying to get the open source honey. Other bears that heard what happened stay away from the honey because they know how bad the first bear got stung and realize it isn't worth it. And all other creatures who know nothing about the open source honey hear of this bear and think of the bear as foolish, deparate, and a big bully and want nothing to do with the bear.
Now that was insightful!
This is no troll, but I am wondering why bother putting Linux on a Mac? You already have a non-MS OS which has a great UI and is derived from unix (or is it bsd?), so what else does Linux give you? More apps, more versatility?
Since when does sound not work on Win2k/xp/2k3? This is 2004. Hardware probems you had eight years ago with win 3.1/95 don't count anymore.
That being said, if sound doesn't work, then yes, it's not newbie friedly.
The original poster doesn't seem like the real troll here.
we'll take BC and the Yukon; you can keep the rest
If you anex any part of canada you have to take Quebec. You know you want to.
Imagine, the US with a near monopoly on maple syrup, and that stupid-looking disturbing clown from the Quebec winter carnival will be yours! He'll frighten any evil-dooer to surrender.
Hey, I know better - I'm in Seattle, and Vancouver's weather isn't that much different than here.
An American saying that it's WARMER in Canada than it really is! That's a new one. :)
I believe real men compile everything they want from source.
Yeah, we all know men who compile from source get more women than men with a fancy car, money, muscles, or being good with kids.
Where no matter how much $$ the corporation makes, or how many deals it signed with the RIAA, it is cheered when compared to MS.
Benedict groovymonster2000@hotmail.com
I used Net Positive. Many images it couldn't display, it didn't render tables correctly, forms didn't always work-click on submit and nothing happened, reading cookies values seemed hit and miss, and even so-called standard html did not display correctly. I don't think it had SSL, and I seem to remember it didn't support any type of scripting.
Any more examples of one dev browsers?