Oh, and if you ever had called their tech support for a bad product, you would how clueless and poor service they provide. I used to call them, telling them about a home router DI-604 that would become unresponsive (say, stop assigning DHCP address, router internal ip address not response to ping - even I setup the ip address manually) after a few minutes of last reboot, even with the router disconnected any other networking device. Their tech support, who has an Indian accent, kept telling me to reinstall Windows - even I told him that I also tried Linux, both installed one, and Knoppix LiveCD.
Then, you know what? The tech support refused to assign an RMA# to me, since that piece of shit device can still work for that "few minutes" after reboot. I asked to speak to the supervisor, but was turned down without any reason. I know it is not due to any of my other devices / computers because I tried another Netgear home router (it worked perfectly), and even tried to unplug everything for that DI-604.
As a result, I wowed not to buy any other D-Link product, and I kept recommend people against their products.
Even though I am a Chinese, I can't understand why the Chinese government would have asked Wales to censor Wikipedia.
As most of us know, the Wikipedia can be edited by everybody on the Net. It is impractical to have Wales to "monitor" all those changes made by others. It is also impossible to assign a person to delete some content that are not-so-friendly to the government, since the next editor would add it back.
By blocking Wikipedia in mainland China, the Chinese government is sorta taking out the balancing opportunity to give justified point of views in Wikipedia. In other words, their "enemies" can write what they want (e.g. give biased point of view or simply lies, which is not uncommon), yet the Chinese can't help the government to criticize / correct those.
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Why am I getting such a weird feeling that they are copying Mac OS X?
Well, same thing applied to me... though you may have to realize that it's part of life. Ya know, those events such as a big cut on gas prices after you just filled in happens some time.
Given the deterioration of US freedom (jailed blogger, increased government spying, court retracted AT&T spying lawsuit, hand-over of Google search records, etc), when will the Bush administration finally implement the Great Firewall idea?
Well, for all those friends who come to me for advices on their WGA illegal copy warning, I do recommend them to get a Mac Mini or install Ubuntu / PCBSD.
Since most of them are not wanting to spend any dollar, how could I help them to get over that legally? (given that they don't want to rollback to older version of Windows that came preinstalled)
Agree. The lack of namespace and the inconsistent naming scheme is the biggest drawback for PHP to be suitable for large project. I bet most of the good PHP developers out there found those 2 issues annoying. As a matter of fact, I would usually build classes and put my php functions / methods under the classes.
I am wondering if any Gentoo user really doesn't mind using proprietary drivers? I used the Nvidia kernel module before. Since it was compiled in GCC 3.3, I could never make it work with my kernel compiled in GCC 3.4 unless I recompile my kernel back in GCC 3.3 It seems like if you are using proprietary drivers, you would be limited to use whatever those vendors want you to use.
Would anyone tell me if it is more environmental friendly to recycle CRT or LCD monitors? You know, I don't mind paying a little extra on products that are easier to recycle / less harmful to the environment.
I know that's a bit off-topic regarding to "Learning Japanese".
I just want to say, there are more CJK input methods than pinyin/romanization and hand-writing. For the Chinese, there is CangJie and Dayi, which makes Chinese-typing faster than pinyin.
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Some companies blocked employees from downloading windows executables.
It may be possible that a company allow network traffic to the file server, yet deny the workstations from accessing the Internet directly. Who knows.
However, if a company goes that far to block http access on workstations, I wonder if the company has no security policy against USB storage device.
Talking about Theo, I could not understand which part of Theo affects their choice of using / supporting OpenBSD. As far as I know, Theo is also involved in OpenSSH. Does that mean we are not gonna use OpenSSH? On the other hand, the glibc maintainer Ulrich Drepper has a similar personality as Theo, does that mean we should dump glibc for good?
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Besides the GPL that they had violated, let's not forget their stratum-1 NTP server abuse.
Oh, and if you ever had called their tech support for a bad product, you would how clueless and poor service they provide. I used to call them, telling them about a home router DI-604 that would become unresponsive (say, stop assigning DHCP address, router internal ip address not response to ping - even I setup the ip address manually) after a few minutes of last reboot, even with the router disconnected any other networking device. Their tech support, who has an Indian accent, kept telling me to reinstall Windows - even I told him that I also tried Linux, both installed one, and Knoppix LiveCD.
Then, you know what? The tech support refused to assign an RMA# to me, since that piece of shit device can still work for that "few minutes" after reboot. I asked to speak to the supervisor, but was turned down without any reason. I know it is not due to any of my other devices / computers because I tried another Netgear home router (it worked perfectly), and even tried to unplug everything for that DI-604.
As a result, I wowed not to buy any other D-Link product, and I kept recommend people against their products.
In addition to the DRM, iTune store is not available in all countries. (Ya, even though they are in "major" ones)
And then I don't like the idea that my music is not playable outside the country that I bought it in - you don't have such limitations on CD (yet).
Even though I am a Chinese, I can't understand why the Chinese government would have asked Wales to censor Wikipedia.
As most of us know, the Wikipedia can be edited by everybody on the Net. It is impractical to have Wales to "monitor" all those changes made by others. It is also impossible to assign a person to delete some content that are not-so-friendly to the government, since the next editor would add it back.
By blocking Wikipedia in mainland China, the Chinese government is sorta taking out the balancing opportunity to give justified point of views in Wikipedia. In other words, their "enemies" can write what they want (e.g. give biased point of view or simply lies, which is not uncommon), yet the Chinese can't help the government to criticize / correct those.
Why am I getting such a weird feeling that they are copying Mac OS X?
Well, same thing applied to me... though you may have to realize that it's part of life.
Ya know, those events such as a big cut on gas prices after you just filled in happens some time.
Given the deterioration of US freedom (jailed blogger, increased government spying, court retracted AT&T spying lawsuit, hand-over of Google search records, etc), when will the Bush administration finally implement the Great Firewall idea?
>The idea that I can be held hostage because I don't want to trust software from Microsoft. Well, that's kind of crazy.
Perhaps you shouldn't have installed Windows at the beginning.
Well, for all those friends who come to me for advices on their WGA illegal copy warning, I do recommend them to get a Mac Mini or install Ubuntu / PCBSD.
Since most of them are not wanting to spend any dollar, how could I help them to get over that legally? (given that they don't want to rollback to older version of Windows that came preinstalled)
Agree.
The lack of namespace and the inconsistent naming scheme is the biggest drawback for PHP to be suitable for large project. I bet most of the good PHP developers out there found those 2 issues annoying.
As a matter of fact, I would usually build classes and put my php functions / methods under the classes.
Here are some facts:
1. Mandarin is just the spoken part of the Chinese language
2. Hindi is not the only dialect in India
s/live/leave/
She was still Laura Lane Welch, not Laura Bush, at that time.
You forgot the GNU/FreeAmen
Open-source advocates were being known as Communists (Left), and now the same group of people become Christians (Right)?
Definitely, open-source advocates must have splitted personalities.
Anyway, sharing with others is a Christian virtue, instead of a form of Communist idealism (which is what proprietary software firms told you).
Huh? Is your ClosedBSD same as my ClosedBSD?
I am wondering if this 64-bit porting article is written specifically for Macromedia.
I am wondering if any Gentoo user really doesn't mind using proprietary drivers?
I used the Nvidia kernel module before. Since it was compiled in GCC 3.3, I could never make it work with my kernel compiled in GCC 3.4 unless I recompile my kernel back in GCC 3.3
It seems like if you are using proprietary drivers, you would be limited to use whatever those vendors want you to use.
The next thing that we know, US software companies are extradicting developers from countries that don't have software patent.
Would anyone tell me if it is more environmental friendly to recycle CRT or LCD monitors?
You know, I don't mind paying a little extra on products that are easier to recycle / less harmful to the environment.
Oh yes, get their daily food by working with those craps everyday,
and then get poisoned by the water polluted by those craps.
How ironic that is!
I know that's a bit off-topic regarding to "Learning Japanese".
I just want to say, there are more CJK input methods than pinyin/romanization and hand-writing. For the Chinese, there is CangJie and Dayi, which makes Chinese-typing faster than pinyin.
Some companies blocked employees from downloading windows executables.
It may be possible that a company allow network traffic to the file server, yet deny the workstations from accessing the Internet directly. Who knows.
However, if a company goes that far to block http access on workstations, I wonder if the company has no security policy against USB storage device.
Keep it up, Unisys.
Anybody knows if they are going to patent server fire?
Talking about Theo, I could not understand which part of Theo affects their choice of using / supporting OpenBSD.
As far as I know, Theo is also involved in OpenSSH. Does that mean we are not gonna use OpenSSH?
On the other hand, the glibc maintainer Ulrich Drepper has a similar personality as Theo, does that mean we should dump glibc for good?
Someone thinks he is William Wallace of the software industry?