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That is really weird, all of the CD's I have purchased in the last 8 months were from artists I discovered from mp3's I randomly downloaded from P2P ( often entire albums ). If I like it, I buy it, then rerip it at 224bitrate for playing on the computer/car mp3player. so yes, it didn't put a dent in my usage of P2P( and other ) networks, but it also didn't cause me not to buy the music.
Look up the definitions of Theft and Copyright Violation. Research Thomas Jefferson's comments on copyright, research the history of copyright law ( started in England, 18th century, I believe ), and then get back to us with an informed comment.
I am being a bit sarcastic with this reply, but I actually do hope you do the research. It's how you learn.
I don't run Kazaa or Grokster right now,( gtk-gnutella for me ), but I just might do it to "join 'in' the crowd" that got this message. I don't want to feel left out:(.
I remember when I took C++ back in 1994 ( we used the compiler on an Open VMS mainframe if I remember correctly, Anyhow, he emailed this joke to the entire class.
I have been looking for my printout of it ( on that cool green and white line printer paper, very old school ) but it hasn't turned up yet. Now I can stop looking as I can just print up this post.
I agree, pigs flying down the street is pretty unlikely, but what about human-sized butterflies on rolleskates racing down the street yelling "It's better with the butterfly!".
Thank you for your informative reply. This does bring up a question I forgot in my original post. I am using both Linux software RAID and the quasi-hardware RAID chip from Highpoint Technology(HPT370). Are either of these solutions capable of being transferring to another system ( or recovering the RAID set if the OS gets trashed?
Let's say I don't like the answer for either of those RAID implementations, would the Promise SX6000 card work under Linux and Windows AND be easily transferrable/recoverable in case of OS failure?
Can you post the details on this one? Lile make/manufacture of the HD case? And are there ones that support USB? That would be a good way for me to bring mp3's to work, as we are not allow to store them on company hard drives, but removable media is acceptable.
I am thinking of this as well. I spent a ton of money on Onstream's USB tape drive and it took me a solid week to do a file backup of just 1 of my systems( they average 240GB/system ). Not to mention that I HAD to do the backup under Windows as OnStream's backup software doesn't support Linux( my main OS ). Right now I am looking at 2 solutions:
1) Implement software RAID 5 on all systems ( I still need to back up all data to something to make this work ) and hope no more than one drive fails at a time. This way I wouldn't need to do backups at all. The downside to this would be expandibility. To my knowledge, you cannot easily add storage to an existing RAID set. That means I would need to buy additional storage in sets of 3 HD's and make sure I don't underestimate my storage capacity requirements.
2) Purchase Extra Hard drives just for backup purposes. While I won't get the fault tolerance of RAID 5, it has the advantage of easily accessing files in another PC, as long as I use an FS both Windows and Linux can read. A possible downside is the degradation of data over time...the data will eventually "disappear" as the hard drives demagnetize themselves. Btw, wouldn't backup tapes experience the same problem?
Re:How many subscribers do they have?
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All I can say is that Transgaming sucks. Why do I say that? Well, I subscribed to Transgaming for a year and **my** experience was that:
*Their development cycle is slow. *I couldn't any games out of the box. *I couldn't find any tried and true instructions to get a game running under linux in their forums ( or anywhere else on their web site, for that matter.. *Their forums are very disorganized, trying to search them is a lesson in futility. And when you do find some information, it's always a hodgepodge of 'Joe User tried this' and Jane User tried that' , nothing like 'If you are running Mandrake Linux with WineX ver. X.X., then do this to get the game to work...'
Oh, and I think 'Want Linux Games?' advertisement is nothing less that misleading. Originally it made me think Transgaming put out ports of games for Linux. In truth, if you 'Want Linux Games', you better go somewhere other than Transgaming...they will only give you Winex.
My whole experience with Transgaming is...rip-off.
Re:Native ports wont happen until
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All I can say is that Transgaming sucks. Why do I say that? Well, I subscribed to Transgaming for a year and **my** experience was that:
*Their development cycle is slow. *I couldn't any games out of the box. *I couldn't find any tried and true instructions to get a game running under linux in their forums ( or anywhere else on their web site, for that matter.. *Their forums are very disorganized, trying to search them is a lesson in futility. And when you do find some information, it's always a hodgepodge of 'Joe User tried this' and Jane User tried that' , nothing like 'If you are running Mandrake Linux with WineX ver. X.X., then do this to get the game to work...'
My whole experience with Transgaming is...rip-off.
Wouldn't it be funny if Palladium was just just a way to increase computer sales? Microsoft invests a ton of money into name-brand computer companies, announces Palladium, waits for the stock to rise as people rush to purchase non-palldium hardware, then
sells off the shares, then announces Palladium will be delayed,wait for stock prices to fall, rince and repeat.
Just a thought a had at 11:20PM while reading your post.
Good question. In my personal/professional circle, I am only one who has went to Linux as the main OS, delegating Windows to playing games. I switched because I loved the openess of the system, the amount of control it gives the user, the security, the stability, uptime, and of course the amount of choice it gives you in software ( the gcc compiler is my friend now that I am learning C programming ) that you want to run.
I did have troubles with it at first, and, with no one to ask for help, I spent long hours studying how XFreeX6 worked, how to run programs at bootup, how to mount file systems...and much more.
I think that the learning curve is the point where many people just go back to Windows ( assuming that is what they left ) and give up on Linux. That is sad, because after getting over that obstacle, Linux really starts to rock.
Is it perfect? No, I still want games, more plug and play functionality, and some better references ( most books I have found approach Linux from the
perspective of a server and not a workstation ).
Anyhow, I digressed a bit after explaining why I switched, you can skip over the rest.:)
Same here...when Windows XP Corporate first leaked I was excited to have a chance to get it before it came out in stores, now that Linux is my main OS, I am pretty happy just running Windows 98 to play the occasion game. Funny how things change.
Oh, did I mention I was once an MCSE who thought Linux and Unix were both doomed? Crap...I just reminded myself of that (/kicks self )
Contrary to your conclusion on previewing music via mp3's, the only music CD's I have purchased in the last 4 months ( and the ones I plan on purchasing ) are from artists I discovered by downloading mp3's and music videos. Oh, and the first thing I did was rip the cd audio tracks into mp3's and then put them both on my computer and on my car's mp3 player. The CD's now rest on shelf collecting dust. Funny how that worked out.
I go to great length to use Mozilla at work _mostly_ because of the tabbed browsing. I do a lot of research when I coding ( what function do I need for this, what is a good compiler for that language, etc ), and I will often open up about 30 web pages at a time for reference...seriously. Think about how many instances of Internet Explorer ( and the memory usage ) you would need to do that.
And when I have to leave work for the day, I can just bookmark all the open pages tabs at once under one heading ( usually the name of the project I am trying working on ) and reopen all of them with 2-3 clicks when I return to work the next day. Kick arse is all I can say.
Killing popup advertisements is a side benefit, and only sites I trust get to store cookies.
To sum it up, Mozilla just 'fits' my browsing style. I am pushing for it at work, emphasising the features I listed here plus the fact it will run on all the OS's used in the company...giving a common browser for the web admins to code their sites for.
Hope that this answered your question as to why I run Mozilla remotely when it is disallowed at my workplace.
I agree 100% with this. I actually used to love Hotmail until after M$ got its hands on it. I left Hotmail for good in mid-2000 and finally just set up my own domain and mail server...I still have access to my email from anywhere and NO SPAM! None.
Note: be sure to secure you SMTP server quickly...within a few minutes after I turned mine up the log files showed people trying to relay ( they failed ) email through it. Those dang spammers are fast!
A contraire, Linux IS ready for the desktop, I started my study of a Linux as replacement for MS Windows XP last year ( August ) and haven't gone back to Windows since. You have easy to use GUI, the installation detected and supported all of my devices ( printer, scanner, sound card , etc ) and which help files and community support galore.
The feature list of Linux systems IMHO outdoes Windows XP by far, I especially like the ability to access my home system via my work computer ( Windows XP ) using putty and Cygwin. The stability is profound, the options it give you ( shell, GUI file system, etc. ) stuff Windows into a garbage can. And if you are ( like me ) and are forced to use MS IE at work with no other browsers allowed, its great to have the ability ( as I mentioned earlier in this post ) to be able to run it remotely from my home linux box.
I could go on for hours about what Linux has that Windows XP wish it had ( MPLayer, anyone ? ), but then I would be late for work,
Oopps, time to go, I hope I didn't make any major typos. Enjoy the post, and one more thing, for Gaming use WINE/WINEX. Nuff said.
"Let look at the difference between theft and copyright infringement as pertains to its effect on a software vendor."
The purpose of my post is to compare and contrast theft from copyright infringement. Read it over a few times ( including the typos ), _think_ about it a bit and you should see that they are two distinct entities. i.e. theft is not copyright infringement and copyright infringement is not theft. You may need to look the definitions of both terms to get a good perspective on each.
Thank you for paying attention. Oh, and this is my last post in this thread.
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That is really weird, all of the CD's I have purchased in the last 8 months were from artists I discovered from mp3's I randomly downloaded from P2P ( often entire albums ). If I like it, I buy it, then rerip it at 224bitrate for playing on the computer/car mp3player. so yes, it didn't put a dent in my usage of P2P( and other ) networks, but it also didn't cause me not to buy the music.
So, at least one example contrary to your point.
You mean IIS web servers, I don't know that any other web servers were infected. Apache definitely wasn't.
I am comfortable with it, too, as long as it isn't any near any of my computer systems.
Look up the definitions of Theft and Copyright Violation. Research Thomas Jefferson's comments on copyright, research the history of copyright law ( started in England, 18th century, I believe ), and then get back to us with an informed comment.
I am being a bit sarcastic with this reply, but I actually do hope you do the research. It's how you learn.
I found the code that matches up exactly, the top five matches are ( drum roll )
.cpp file! Linux developers will pay for this blatant violation of SCO's IP rights!
5) for ( int x=0;x lt 10;x++)
4) while ( x lt 10 ) {
3) #include stdio.h
2) #include math.h
1) int main( String args[] )
Number 1) shows up in every
Note: for some reason the board wigged out with greater than and less than signes, so I had to leave those out. lt = less than
I don't run Kazaa or Grokster right now,( gtk-gnutella for me ), but I just might do it to "join 'in' the crowd" that got this message. I don't want to feel left out :(.
Individualism is futile, run with the herd!
I remember when I took C++ back in 1994 ( we used the compiler on an Open VMS mainframe if I remember correctly, Anyhow, he emailed this joke to the entire class.
I have been looking for my printout of it ( on that cool green and white line printer paper, very old school ) but it hasn't turned up yet. Now I can stop looking as I can just print up this post.
Very funny. Hehe.
I agree, pigs flying down the street is pretty unlikely, but what about human-sized butterflies on rolleskates racing down the street yelling "It's better with the butterfly!".
:-)
Microsoft did manage to pull that one off.
Thank you for your informative reply. This does bring up a question I forgot in my original post. I am using both Linux software RAID and the quasi-hardware RAID chip from Highpoint Technology(HPT370). Are either of these solutions capable of being transferring to another system ( or recovering the RAID set if the OS gets trashed?
:-)
Let's say I don't like the answer for either of those RAID implementations, would the Promise SX6000 card work under Linux and Windows AND be easily transferrable/recoverable in case of OS failure?
This should really narrow things down.
Can you post the details on this one? Lile make/manufacture of the HD case? And are there ones that support USB? That would be a good way for me to bring mp3's to work, as we are not allow to store them on company hard drives, but removable media is acceptable.
Thank You,
1) Implement software RAID 5 on all systems ( I still need to back up all data to something to make this work ) and hope no more than one drive fails at a time. This way I wouldn't need to do backups at all. The downside to this would be expandibility. To my knowledge, you cannot easily add storage to an existing RAID set. That means I would need to buy additional storage in sets of 3 HD's and make sure I don't underestimate my storage capacity requirements.
2) Purchase Extra Hard drives just for backup purposes. While I won't get the fault tolerance of RAID 5, it has the advantage of easily accessing files in another PC, as long as I use an FS both Windows and Linux can read. A possible downside is the degradation of data over time...the data will eventually "disappear" as the hard drives demagnetize themselves. Btw, wouldn't backup tapes experience the same problem?
Hmm, RAID 5 is looking better and better. :)
What about Internet Exploder? That name has been suggested for another browser for years, but it is still available.
In other news, Bill Gates is attacked by a giant penguin. Story at eleven.
ROFLMAO.
All I can say is that Transgaming sucks. Why do I say that? Well, I subscribed to Transgaming for a year and **my** experience was that:
*Their development cycle is slow.
*I couldn't any games out of the box.
*I couldn't find any tried and true instructions to get a game running under linux in their forums ( or anywhere else on their web site, for that matter..
*Their forums are very disorganized, trying to search them is a lesson in futility. And when you do find some information, it's always a hodgepodge
of 'Joe User tried this' and Jane User tried that' , nothing like 'If you are running Mandrake Linux with WineX ver. X.X., then do this to get the game to work...'
Oh, and I think 'Want Linux Games?' advertisement is nothing less that misleading. Originally it made me think Transgaming put out ports of games for Linux. In truth, if you 'Want Linux Games', you better go somewhere other than Transgaming...they will only give you Winex.
My whole experience with Transgaming is...rip-off.
All I can say is that Transgaming sucks. Why do I say that? Well, I subscribed to Transgaming for a year and **my** experience was that:
*Their development cycle is slow.
*I couldn't any games out of the box.
*I couldn't find any tried and true instructions to get a game running under linux in their forums ( or anywhere else on their web site, for that matter..
*Their forums are very disorganized, trying to search them is a lesson in futility. And when you do find some information, it's always a hodgepodge
of 'Joe User tried this' and Jane User tried that' , nothing like 'If you are running Mandrake Linux with WineX ver. X.X., then do this to get the game to work...'
My whole experience with Transgaming is...rip-off.
Wouldn't it be funny if Palladium was just just a way to increase computer sales? Microsoft invests a ton of money into name-brand computer companies, announces Palladium, waits for the stock to rise as people rush to purchase non-palldium hardware, then
sells off the shares, then announces Palladium will be delayed,wait for stock prices to fall, rince and repeat.
Just a thought a had at 11:20PM while reading your post.
I agree also. The Internet is for sharing information freely with _everyone_. Adding any other requirements is just plain lame. Power to the P2P'ple!
Good question. In my personal/professional circle, I am only one who has went to Linux as the main OS, delegating Windows to playing games. I switched because I loved the openess of the system, the amount of control it gives the user, the security, the stability, uptime, and of course the amount of choice it gives you in software ( the gcc compiler is my friend now that I am learning C programming ) that you want to run.
:)
I did have troubles with it at first, and, with no one to ask for help, I spent long hours studying how XFreeX6 worked, how to run programs at bootup, how to mount file systems...and much more.
I think that the learning curve is the point where many people just go back to Windows ( assuming that is what they left ) and give up on Linux. That is sad, because after getting over that obstacle, Linux really starts to rock.
Is it perfect? No, I still want games, more plug and play functionality, and some better references ( most books I have found approach Linux from the
perspective of a server and not a workstation ).
Anyhow, I digressed a bit after explaining why I switched, you can skip over the rest.
-- Has never purchased a pre-assembled computer. So looks like I get the last laugh where Microsoft tax is concerned. :)
Same here...when Windows XP Corporate first leaked I was excited to have a chance to get it before it came out in stores, now that Linux is my main OS, I am pretty happy just running Windows 98 to play the occasion game. Funny how things change.
/kicks self )
Oh, did I mention I was once an MCSE who thought Linux and Unix were both doomed? Crap...I just reminded myself of that (
And when I have to leave work for the day, I can just bookmark all the open pages tabs at once under one heading ( usually the name of the project I am trying working on ) and reopen all of them with 2-3 clicks when I return to work the next day. Kick arse is all I can say.
Killing popup advertisements is a side benefit, and only sites I trust get to store cookies.
To sum it up, Mozilla just 'fits' my browsing style. I am pushing for it at work, emphasising the features I listed here plus the fact it will run on all the OS's used in the company...giving a common browser for the web admins to code their sites for.
Hope that this answered your question as to why I run Mozilla remotely when it is disallowed at my workplace.
Note: be sure to secure you SMTP server quickly...within a few minutes after I turned mine up the log files showed people trying to relay ( they failed ) email through it. Those dang spammers are fast!
A contraire, Linux IS ready for the desktop, I started my study of a Linux as replacement for MS Windows XP last year ( August ) and haven't gone back to Windows since. You have easy to use GUI, the installation detected and supported all of my devices ( printer, scanner, sound card , etc ) and which help files and community support galore.
The feature list of Linux systems IMHO outdoes Windows XP by far, I especially like the ability to access my home system via my work computer ( Windows XP ) using putty and Cygwin. The stability is profound, the options it give you ( shell, GUI file system, etc. ) stuff Windows into a garbage can. And if you are ( like me ) and are forced to use MS IE at work with no other browsers allowed, its great to have the ability ( as I mentioned earlier in this post ) to be able to run it remotely from my home linux box.
I could go on for hours about what Linux has that Windows XP wish it had ( MPLayer, anyone ? ), but then I would be late for work,
Oopps, time to go, I hope I didn't make any major typos. Enjoy the post, and one more thing, for Gaming use WINE/WINEX. Nuff said.
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Look at my topic sentence:
"Let look at the difference between theft and copyright infringement as pertains to its effect on a software vendor."
The purpose of my post is to compare and contrast theft from copyright infringement. Read it over a few times ( including the typos ), _think_ about it a bit and you should see that they are two distinct entities. i.e. theft is not copyright infringement and copyright infringement is not theft. You may need to look the definitions of both terms to get a good perspective on each.
Thank you for paying attention. Oh, and this is my last post in this thread.