That's just the tip of the iceberg over here. I'm sure there are more countries with higher rates but, well, I don't really feel sorry for the US if that is all that is being paid. For shits and giggles, have a look at the phone costs and plans. It's fun for the whole family. BTW, I only pick on them because I am using them at the moment, albeit, not for their data plans.
It has intermittent problems with connection failure and not reestablishing connections when turning it back on. Once he does get it reconnected it is a crapshoot as to whether or not it will actually browse to anywhere. It's a bug but one that should have been caught pretty early on in testing. BTW, not isolated to DLink by a LONG shot as I have a Micronet AP I'm using at the moment.
You may want to check with the particular University and check to see whether your son, while enrolled at the uni, can use XP for free. I'm not sure of what MS is doing over there regarding schools anymore (been away too long) but in other parts of the world they have given schools pretty liberal use licenses and to corporates as well to use fully licensed products while enrolled or employed. There have been options as well for students/employees to pay a $20 fee for a license for XP/Vista/whathaveyou. It may be something worth looking into. Then again so might Linux but I won't go there... hehehe (had to do it)
There are substantially cheaper ways of implementing PDF functionality in Office then buying Adobe's Acrobat product just for a plugin. If you want to use a commercial product, there is always http://www.pdf995.com/ which is substantially cheaper than Acrobat. There is also http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm for substantially cheaper still. Neither of these products are going to give you the wizbang super duper features Acrobat does but, you know what, they aren't missed 99% percent of the time unless you job entails sending print once documents which are also forms with drop-down lists that need umpteen different encryption schemes tacked onto them and self-destruct when the moon is inline with Jupiter on the summer solstice.
I would have thought this was a no brainer. My only question is why you are so stuck on the 7200rpm condition? Personally, I get by beautifully on a 30GB hard drive running at 5400rpm in a little noname USB2.0 enclosure for reimaging. Granted, I reimage Linux and Windows boxes but that doesn't really make a difference. Then again, if money is no object, there are plenty of Firewire enclosures out there for 2.5" drives and a good, fast, 7200rpm drive you should look at would probably be at the Seagate website. I would start there just based on their warranties to get an idea of what you can get. get ahold of resellers in your area to find out prices.
I wish more companies would do this. Granted, I don't play UT (or much of anything anymore) but I may pick it up again just to see how things have progressed. I feel that shipping early with a ton of bugs is a lot worse then shipping when ou feel everything is as sorted as it's going to get. No one is going to write a complicateed piece of software and not have bugs in it, but at least they can ship and minimise any possible showstoppers they would have if they were up against the wall with a ship date. Frankly, certain companies should think about this as well when announcing release dates or leaking info. Most everyone would like to have a polished product no matter how long they have to wait and, ultimately, where investors are involved, they will see fatter wallets from a successful, bug free launch then they will from a half-assed launch where everyone gives the product a bad name in the first month.
And what would be so wrong with NessusPlus for $$$? It is a company. They DO have to pay the bills. There were getting VERY LITTLE outside help from other developers. I say go for it. It is and has been an excellent product and I'm sure we'll get nothing less on the quality side in the future, be it free or for money. I for one would buy their product if they decided to sell a Plus version and would still use their free version as well just to give them a bit more support. I'm a LOUSY programmer for the most part so I have had no way of helping them through code but I'm sure there are plenty of decent coders out there that could have helped, have used their product, and either didn't bother or were going to get around to it eventually. We have ourselves to blame if we think this is some kind of punishment (which it isn't).
Ok, I'm done with my rant. I guess the only thing left to say is to keep your chins up and keep up the excellent work and their are plenty of people out there whom do and will continue to support you, even if it does go to a pure commercial product (which no one has said that it will).
I think the point is that they are tightening it down by way of moving into yet another market which was created and based around their shoddy software and people's ease in exploiting it. This is the main thing that has Symantec frothing at the mouth. If MS were simply fixing their software instead of putting the band-aid manufatcurers on the back foot, there wouldn't be a problem. As it is, they are giving you some keys to an MS car, telling you to drive wherever you want, and when you do bang it up, offering a free fixup. It may not be as good as the others but, who cares? It's FREE!!! Ok, enough of my incoherent rant for the day...
... to the Mepis guys in Morgantown, WV. Goto www.mepis.org and see if they are asking for donations. If they are (and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to ship or live relatively close to the PA-WV state line) then go for it. Ruling them out, I'm sure there is a LUG or many a user group in your area that could put it to good use. As far as a tax break goes, I still think Mepis may be a good bet.
Minimum cards are the GeForce FX5700 and Radeon 8500 or greater
This will probably change a few people's minds as to whether they download or not. I'm not even going to attempt it until I hear otherwise on my Ti4200 w/128MB.
Ah, but there lies the difference. In Mac OSX (regular OSX users can correct me on this) and in Linux (or BSD) distributions the bundling is of seperate apps which may or may not depend on parts of the OS and can be seperated from the OS as a whole. For Linux and *BSD, you don't HAVE to use Firefox if you use a certain Window Manager, in OSX you don't HAVE to use Safari if you don't wish to (and I think you can choose not to install it or at least get rid of it). In WinXP, you HAVE to keep IE on the system for functionality. In the *nix's and OSX you don't HAVE to use or even keep the media players provided to you but you HAVE to keep WMP (insert version here) in order to keep functionality. For anyone game enough to have a play, pickup a copy of nLite (use Google as I'm too lazy, tired, and sick to put the address in at the moment), make up a new reduced ISO with said items removed, and see what you can and can't do. You will walk away with what MS is trying to sell developing countries as a reduced edition which is barely useful for anything. What I'm saying is you don't have to libraries to the apps. If they would have tied the apps to the libraries, none of this would be an issue. Ok, I'm done with my incoherent rant and bad spelling...
This not only isn't news (as most people already knew about it), if anyone on here has done any searching they would probably figure out that it isn't a cam rip either. It's one of the review screeners. Not that I've downloaded it (was tempted). I actually want to go out and see this on the big screen and get the full effect of all the people around me as well. Some movies, yeah, you download. Others, nothing is going to replace the experience of being around a mass amount of other people sharing the same experience.
Ok, time to burn some karma. This will be redundant, inflammatory, and a general rant. As has been said, it is MS's property. They created it. You know, it would be WONDERFUL if they opened the source to Windows (XP, 2000, 2003). Maybe with even more critical eyes they can clean up some of the code and clean up some of the security (without the marketting beauracracy holding it back). But, you know what? It's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!! Why on EARTH would they open up Windows? Why would they open up Office? Opening CIFS/SMB? That would do worlds of good but again, why would they? Now, opening up IE would be a major coup and would probably win some added seats for them. Not that they are necessarily hurting now, but it would/could open up huge doors for them on alternative operating systems. Opening up DirectX. That would be good as well, although not for them. All I'm trying to say is, they will never, EVER open up anything that is anywhere near a money maker for them, especially their two flagship products.
I don't think that's what the parent is complaining about. If the install was setup a bit more sanely, it would only take one cd for the desktop, add another for server tools, another for development, and the last for the extras. The fact that you have to download around 2 1/2 gig worth of images (CD or DVD) just to get a desktop is a bit silly. For those of us that just don't care (I download the DVD images anyway)it's not a big deal. For those on a cap (and I am on a cap of 10GB/month as well) it makes a huge difference in what you decide to get.
I hate to say this, but, despite what we (general population) accept and what corporations accept are two entirely different things. If the threat of another accident happening and the money you have to pay out to resultant victims is less then the money it costs to fix the problem, it is acceptable to have the problem and the accident that will possibly happen again. Take any plane crash due to faulty parts. If it was cheaper to pay off the victims rather then fix it, they paid off the victims. That's harsh and cold sounding but that is the world we live in, depending on where we live.
Well, maybe Hasbro should officially sanction him to do a fully Hasbro approved version for their website, or, sponsor him (through Hasbro branding on the website) and keep the site up as an official Scrabble site. This is what I think was eluded to by the "pay him" comment in the article.
Going on a little rant, maybe Apple could lighten up on people making "aquaesque" themes for their WM's and shells and possibly sponsor some of these people to make, I don't know, time limited demos or full shell replacements to get people used to the look and feel of OS X. Hey, you never know, you may get more converts. This would be similar to IBM giving away the Workplace Shell replacement on Windows way back when before the launch of Warp (or was it after). I actually did get some people converted to OS/2 by using the shell instead of the tinker toy that was Program Manager in Win 3.1.
Ok, I'll quit ranting, get modded down, and go about my business.:)
CliffH
And if memory serves Corel included Tetris while the install was doing its thing. Games during installs are nothing new, but if you have to sit and wait, it's a nice distraction (if you want to be distracted).
YOu actually can with windows. Do a search for BartPE. It makes life a bit easier for Windows based troubleshooting. I always keep a Knoppix CD for the really tough jobs and a BartPE CD handy for virus and spyware scans. It makes life much simpler.:)
... to see what headline was up and I see that Hurd has ran its first app. What's the next headline going to be, "Duke Nukem Forever Net Test released to public"?:) Yes, it's flamebait. Yes, it's a troll. Like most people on here though, I wish them all very good luck and I look forward to the day I actually do get to run Hurd on a few systems.
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"I know things are more expensive in the US, "
Really???
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That's just the tip of the iceberg over here. I'm sure there are more countries with higher rates but, well, I don't really feel sorry for the US if that is all that is being paid. For shits and giggles, have a look at the phone costs and plans. It's fun for the whole family. BTW, I only pick on them because I am using them at the moment, albeit, not for their data plans.
It has intermittent problems with connection failure and not reestablishing connections when turning it back on. Once he does get it reconnected it is a crapshoot as to whether or not it will actually browse to anywhere. It's a bug but one that should have been caught pretty early on in testing. BTW, not isolated to DLink by a LONG shot as I have a Micronet AP I'm using at the moment.
You are not complaining about $30 for 450 minutes/month are you? Try here and see what some of us have to "happily" live with.... CliffH
You may want to check with the particular University and check to see whether your son, while enrolled at the uni, can use XP for free. I'm not sure of what MS is doing over there regarding schools anymore (been away too long) but in other parts of the world they have given schools pretty liberal use licenses and to corporates as well to use fully licensed products while enrolled or employed. There have been options as well for students/employees to pay a $20 fee for a license for XP/Vista/whathaveyou. It may be something worth looking into. Then again so might Linux but I won't go there... hehehe (had to do it)
There are substantially cheaper ways of implementing PDF functionality in Office then buying Adobe's Acrobat product just for a plugin. If you want to use a commercial product, there is always http://www.pdf995.com/ which is substantially cheaper than Acrobat. There is also http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm for substantially cheaper still. Neither of these products are going to give you the wizbang super duper features Acrobat does but, you know what, they aren't missed 99% percent of the time unless you job entails sending print once documents which are also forms with drop-down lists that need umpteen different encryption schemes tacked onto them and self-destruct when the moon is inline with Jupiter on the summer solstice.
Cliff
I would have thought this was a no brainer. My only question is why you are so stuck on the 7200rpm condition? Personally, I get by beautifully on a 30GB hard drive running at 5400rpm in a little noname USB2.0 enclosure for reimaging. Granted, I reimage Linux and Windows boxes but that doesn't really make a difference. Then again, if money is no object, there are plenty of Firewire enclosures out there for 2.5" drives and a good, fast, 7200rpm drive you should look at would probably be at the Seagate website. I would start there just based on their warranties to get an idea of what you can get. get ahold of resellers in your area to find out prices.
I wish more companies would do this. Granted, I don't play UT (or much of anything anymore) but I may pick it up again just to see how things have progressed. I feel that shipping early with a ton of bugs is a lot worse then shipping when ou feel everything is as sorted as it's going to get. No one is going to write a complicateed piece of software and not have bugs in it, but at least they can ship and minimise any possible showstoppers they would have if they were up against the wall with a ship date. Frankly, certain companies should think about this as well when announcing release dates or leaking info. Most everyone would like to have a polished product no matter how long they have to wait and, ultimately, where investors are involved, they will see fatter wallets from a successful, bug free launch then they will from a half-assed launch where everyone gives the product a bad name in the first month.
CliffH
And what would be so wrong with NessusPlus for $$$? It is a company. They DO have to pay the bills. There were getting VERY LITTLE outside help from other developers. I say go for it. It is and has been an excellent product and I'm sure we'll get nothing less on the quality side in the future, be it free or for money. I for one would buy their product if they decided to sell a Plus version and would still use their free version as well just to give them a bit more support. I'm a LOUSY programmer for the most part so I have had no way of helping them through code but I'm sure there are plenty of decent coders out there that could have helped, have used their product, and either didn't bother or were going to get around to it eventually. We have ourselves to blame if we think this is some kind of punishment (which it isn't).
Ok, I'm done with my rant. I guess the only thing left to say is to keep your chins up and keep up the excellent work and their are plenty of people out there whom do and will continue to support you, even if it does go to a pure commercial product (which no one has said that it will).
I think the point is that they are tightening it down by way of moving into yet another market which was created and based around their shoddy software and people's ease in exploiting it. This is the main thing that has Symantec frothing at the mouth. If MS were simply fixing their software instead of putting the band-aid manufatcurers on the back foot, there wouldn't be a problem. As it is, they are giving you some keys to an MS car, telling you to drive wherever you want, and when you do bang it up, offering a free fixup. It may not be as good as the others but, who cares? It's FREE!!! Ok, enough of my incoherent rant for the day...
... to the Mepis guys in Morgantown, WV. Goto www.mepis.org and see if they are asking for donations. If they are (and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to ship or live relatively close to the PA-WV state line) then go for it. Ruling them out, I'm sure there is a LUG or many a user group in your area that could put it to good use. As far as a tax break goes, I still think Mepis may be a good bet.
You forgot some other important points:
Must use a Direct X 9.0c compatible card
These cards must have at least 128MB of RAM
Minimum cards are the GeForce FX5700 and Radeon 8500 or greater
This will probably change a few people's minds as to whether they download or not. I'm not even going to attempt it until I hear otherwise on my Ti4200 w/128MB.
Note to self: Send in patent for procedure of applying butter to burnt, toasted, or warm bread for consumption in the a.m.
Ah, but there lies the difference. In Mac OSX (regular OSX users can correct me on this) and in Linux (or BSD) distributions the bundling is of seperate apps which may or may not depend on parts of the OS and can be seperated from the OS as a whole. For Linux and *BSD, you don't HAVE to use Firefox if you use a certain Window Manager, in OSX you don't HAVE to use Safari if you don't wish to (and I think you can choose not to install it or at least get rid of it). In WinXP, you HAVE to keep IE on the system for functionality. In the *nix's and OSX you don't HAVE to use or even keep the media players provided to you but you HAVE to keep WMP (insert version here) in order to keep functionality. For anyone game enough to have a play, pickup a copy of nLite (use Google as I'm too lazy, tired, and sick to put the address in at the moment), make up a new reduced ISO with said items removed, and see what you can and can't do. You will walk away with what MS is trying to sell developing countries as a reduced edition which is barely useful for anything. What I'm saying is you don't have to libraries to the apps. If they would have tied the apps to the libraries, none of this would be an issue. Ok, I'm done with my incoherent rant and bad spelling...
This not only isn't news (as most people already knew about it), if anyone on here has done any searching they would probably figure out that it isn't a cam rip either. It's one of the review screeners. Not that I've downloaded it (was tempted). I actually want to go out and see this on the big screen and get the full effect of all the people around me as well. Some movies, yeah, you download. Others, nothing is going to replace the experience of being around a mass amount of other people sharing the same experience.
Ok, time to burn some karma. This will be redundant, inflammatory, and a general rant. As has been said, it is MS's property. They created it. You know, it would be WONDERFUL if they opened the source to Windows (XP, 2000, 2003). Maybe with even more critical eyes they can clean up some of the code and clean up some of the security (without the marketting beauracracy holding it back). But, you know what? It's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!! Why on EARTH would they open up Windows? Why would they open up Office? Opening CIFS/SMB? That would do worlds of good but again, why would they? Now, opening up IE would be a major coup and would probably win some added seats for them. Not that they are necessarily hurting now, but it would/could open up huge doors for them on alternative operating systems. Opening up DirectX. That would be good as well, although not for them. All I'm trying to say is, they will never, EVER open up anything that is anywhere near a money maker for them, especially their two flagship products.
... Duke still sucks. Oh, wait a sec, wrong site. :)
I don't think that's what the parent is complaining about. If the install was setup a bit more sanely, it would only take one cd for the desktop, add another for server tools, another for development, and the last for the extras. The fact that you have to download around 2 1/2 gig worth of images (CD or DVD) just to get a desktop is a bit silly. For those of us that just don't care (I download the DVD images anyway)it's not a big deal. For those on a cap (and I am on a cap of 10GB/month as well) it makes a huge difference in what you decide to get.
Damn. I thought you were doing an Ewok impression. :)
I hate to say this, but, despite what we (general population) accept and what corporations accept are two entirely different things. If the threat of another accident happening and the money you have to pay out to resultant victims is less then the money it costs to fix the problem, it is acceptable to have the problem and the accident that will possibly happen again. Take any plane crash due to faulty parts. If it was cheaper to pay off the victims rather then fix it, they paid off the victims. That's harsh and cold sounding but that is the world we live in, depending on where we live.
Well, maybe Hasbro should officially sanction him to do a fully Hasbro approved version for their website, or, sponsor him (through Hasbro branding on the website) and keep the site up as an official Scrabble site. This is what I think was eluded to by the "pay him" comment in the article.
Going on a little rant, maybe Apple could lighten up on people making "aquaesque" themes for their WM's and shells and possibly sponsor some of these people to make, I don't know, time limited demos or full shell replacements to get people used to the look and feel of OS X. Hey, you never know, you may get more converts. This would be similar to IBM giving away the Workplace Shell replacement on Windows way back when before the launch of Warp (or was it after). I actually did get some people converted to OS/2 by using the shell instead of the tinker toy that was Program Manager in Win 3.1.
Ok, I'll quit ranting, get modded down, and go about my business. :)
CliffH
Maybe my memory doesn't serve. It may have been Caldera who did that. :)
And if memory serves Corel included Tetris while the install was doing its thing. Games during installs are nothing new, but if you have to sit and wait, it's a nice distraction (if you want to be distracted).
YOu actually can with windows. Do a search for BartPE. It makes life a bit easier for Windows based troubleshooting. I always keep a Knoppix CD for the really tough jobs and a BartPE CD handy for virus and spyware scans. It makes life much simpler. :)
and they are adding this new reveolutionary game that's over 10 years in the making, Duk.... (bang).... oops. Sorry mate...
... to see what headline was up and I see that Hurd has ran its first app. What's the next headline going to be, "Duke Nukem Forever Net Test released to public"? :) Yes, it's flamebait. Yes, it's a troll. Like most people on here though, I wish them all very good luck and I look forward to the day I actually do get to run Hurd on a few systems.