At the end of the article, they mention that the company offered to settle for $2,000. That's a LOT better than $14,000+ she'd have to pay if she loses (with interest). I gotta admit she's got guts going up against them, but I think her case is pretty shaky. A lot of her information relies on evidence that is really in the cell phone company's hands (i.e., how the computer system works to detect fraud). When you get into a contract, you're basically at the mercy of the contract holder. It may suck but in the legal system it's very difficult to fight it. Also, did that company manager know she was getting tape recorded by her partner? I find it doubtful someone would say something like that (i.e. all the stuff about the CEO's phone getting cloned) if it was getting recorded.
My recommendation (IANAL): Take the settlement. The court fees will probably be more than the settlement!
It's true, I would like to see less of the abundantly female characters in video games. It's really distracting to playing the game. I end up staring at the breasts more than at what's going on elsewhere.
Also I think it would make games a lot more engaging if the female characters were less eyecandy and had more character. I can't think of any game that does this because I haven't played one that did... it would kickass though.
Mandrake 9 is much older than a year. It has not been supported for almost a year. 9.2 support was dropped when Mandriva 2005LE was released. Mandrake 9.2 was released in October 2003.
There _are_ repositories for the main and contrib packages for mandrake 9.2 on most mirrors; for e.g. mirrors.usc.edu still has mandrake 9.2 packages. However, no official updates exist from mandriva for versions older than 10.0.
RE the wireless network browsing capability, Mandriva 2006 has this capability built in upon install. (called net_applet). All you do is right click on the systray icon. This is a case of a linux distro filling a hole in functionality. I really like it actually; it works quite well. 2006 on my laptop is a hasslefree experience (also the startup time is much improved over previous versions).
They left out the case! Cases are like 60$ for a good one. What are they going to do, leave all the parts scattered over the floor, or pinned up on the wall? (of course pinning up on the wall also requires parts).
The final cost of this machine is more like around $570, and then when you include the shipping on the parts you bought online... Well... I'd say it comes to more like $600. (Possibly more?)
Still... A good guide for the newbies to budget PC design. This article really makes me feel outdated with my Geforce FX 5600 and Athlon 2800+... I guess I definitely don't have a decent rig for most modern games. But that's ok because I don't play any modern games.
BTW anyone know a good way to avoid the annoying linkified ads in firefox? I just used links2. All those ads really slow down my browsing experience.
Yeah, really in the long term downloading from the net is the way to go. After the urpmi mirrors come up, usually a few days from release due to propogation delays, I uncheck all my removable media and use only net sources. It's the only way to go; it's so convenient since the internet is always on.
Dependencies are really not a problem with urpmi, as long as you stick to official mandrake/mandriva rpms. As soon as you go on pbone or get rpms from other distributions, problems will probably happen.
Usually if it's not in the mandrake main or contrib repositories (that's pretty rare) then the best option is to either search for a mandrake rpm, look for a.i386.rpm (one that isn't distribution specific) or failing that compiling from the tar file.
Mandriva isn't for everybody of course, if you've got debian working great then that's the way to go. I really like it because I just don't have to waste time (though debian is pretty awesome, if you know what you're doing).
I installed it on my desktop and laptop, and this version of Mandrake/Mandriva is definitely one of the best in a while. Everything just works (wireless setup/installation has become a breeze). If you haven't used Mandriva before, wait until the Discovery shows up on some torrent sites or wait for the public release. It's well worth it. Especially after the Connectiva merger, Mandriva seems to have gained a lot in terms of stability. I don't use KDE all the time so I can't speak to the features, but when I fired it up it looked very nice
A lot of the artwork has changed to a much more professional look than 2005LE (You will know what I'm talking about if you installed/used 2005LE).
I'm using the powerpack since I'm a silver club member and I volunteered to be an early seeder so I got it early, and I couldn't be happier. If you want a linux distro that Just Works, try it out some time.
Why is that funny? I don't get it. Maybe I'm just too tired after a day of classes... But it seems to me like the guy loves linux and is also really political. They aren't mutually exclusive you know.
I really like that idea. You're absolutely right. The lack of a space for casual gamers at the high end game makes it real hard to get any kind of instance going if you're not completely devoted to the game. I really like your suggestion for the no respawn feature.
I was playing the high end game in WoW and I really got tired of it. I was spending like 2-3 hours a day during the week and 10-12 hours on weekends (something like 20 hours a week?). Even that was considered light gaming. It was very, very hard to get anything done with a fulltime job. I stopped playing a month ago, and I haven't been back.
Now I'm in school fulltime with a lot going on, and I just can't bring myself to log on. My guild is probably pissed at me, but doing high end instances which take 4 hours a pop is just too much for me.
Am I the only one that got tired of WoW because it started to feel like a job that you didn't get paid for, but were paying for?
I want a game where I can play a few hours a week, and still get something out of it. Things just take too long in the high level game in WoW!
You do realize that almost all those games run perfectly in Cedega by Transgaming? (www.transgaming.com)
There's no reason to use windows for games anymore. I have entirely gotten rid of windows partitions as all the games I like to play run perfectly in Cedega.
Running through the game list:
Sid Meier's Pirates! - Some minor playability problems, need to tweak some configs to get it right.
World War 2 Online - Someone got a screenshot but doesn't seem to work too well
World of Warcraft - Works perfectly, I play it using Cedega myself
Europe Universalis 2 - Works with _no_ known problems.
Rome: Total War - Doesn't work as of Cedega 4.1
City of Heroes - This game is officially supported by Transgaming
RRT2 - No playability ratings, so I'm not sure if this works or not. There are screenshots of it in play
Hearts of Iron 2 - This has a 4/5 rating, not sure how it performs
Crusader Kings - has a 5/5 playability rating
Disciples 2 - Couldn't find this game on the transgaming list... I've never heard of it (??)
Homeworld 2 - This works, I have it installed and play it occassionally
Halflife 2 - Officially supported by transgaming
A few of the games you like don't work, but most of them do... so really unless you can't do without those few games, the only thing keeping you off linux is yourself:)
Of course, you still have the absolute right to make that decision. Just letting you know that this option exists if you didn't know about it.
I got one of their first gen nomad jukeboxes, and that thing did last me for quite a while. I used to really like creative's products. I still do in many ways. I remember the playlist creation was pretty easy to do, and it was nice to be able to save playlists on the fly etc. The one I had was a bit clunky, and only 6gigs of storage.
If I hadn't fallen victim to the siren song of the 20gig iPod in the store I would have gotten one of their nomad products instead (Which are cheaper). But there's something really attractive to the iPod that just made me want to have it.
Now I've got an iPod shuffle and I really like it. In some ways I feel locked in to apple products now, since I bought stuff off the iTunes store, and I've gotten so used to using gtkpod for everything. But that's not a problem because Apple's products are good and I am happy with them.
I do think it's interesting that Creative was able to get this patent on mp3 player user interfaces, and especially what their action will be. I hope they don't specifically target Apple, as that would make me mad at Creative. I would much rather they concentrate on making better players to get my business. If they were to come up with something more attractive than Apple's offerings, I'd just burn all my m4a's to CD and rerip them.
IMO they should really try to come up with a better design than their iPod mini imitations. Maybe there isn't a better design than the iPod but we'll never know if everyone goes around copying the iPod!
However, I'm not holding my breath. It seems corporations these days are much more focused on protecting their existing IP than creating new IP; which is very sad, especially from any consumer's point of view.
Just use a lot of \ - / | _ bars. I used a laptop for all my notes in CS courses. The only thing I had to use paper for was in my AI class where we were doing diagrams of decision trees. Man those things fan out quickly!
Be creative. You _can_ use a laptop for everything if you force yourself to figure out ways to record stuff so you'll remember what the teacher was talking about later.
Although, I type at 120wpm so that helps. My handwriting is also illegible so I don't have much a choice.
Well at least they're not actively refusing. Microsoft _does_ make unix services for windows; not specifically for linux I know, but linux can take advantage of that.
I'm not saying Microsoft is all nice and good and everything, but I'm just glad they let us hack at it and let us do what we want. Maybe, just maybe, they'll even give us a hand... one day.
Oh yeah one more thing: you need to make sure that winbind/smb/nmb starts _before_ ssh if you want it to authenticate. At least, I think that's why ssh wouldn't authenticate when I had them all starting up at runlevel 3. Once I put smb/winbind/nmb all in runlevel 2, ssh accepted connections on bootup (otherwise I had to restart the ssh service). Maybe it was related to some other issue, but if you have problems with ssh authentication that may help. This could also just be a suse thing.
Sure thing, I'm pretty sure I know all the steps. Getting SSH to get going was a pain, but after some googling I got it eventually. (lemme tell you, it's not hard to find info about AD integration with samba... but it is hard to find info that works!) I think I'd want to set up another test box so I can test going through all the steps again before I release the documentation of how I did it. Basically the core steps are to make sure you have kerberos installed (as well as the pam authentication modules), and winbind etc.
I found the easiest step to be authenticating against the AD server. Once you set up the/etc/krb5.conf file properly, you can add the linux machine as a member of the domain (using kinit domainuser@DOMAIN.COM, and then doing net ads join). Remember that the DOMAIN.COM needs to be in all caps when doing kinit, I tried doing lowercase and it didn't work (same thing for specifying the realm in the krb5.conf file).
After that you need to make sure the winbind conf is set up properly. This varies from distro to distro; in Suse Enterprise Server 9 this was just in the/etc/samba/smb.conf file.
Then you have to change all the lines in/etc/pam.d/login and/etc/pam.d/sshd and/etc/pam.d/jabberd (depending on what you want to authenticate against AD with). I actually haven't set up jabber yet since I was updating the tons of patches from the initial 9 install to SP2. (I didn't realize SP2 was even out but the online updates said it was SP2.. oh well).
I can post all my relevant conf files on my journal if you want, let me know. Take note that a lot of what I did is specific to Suse, so it may be slightly different for other distros.
There were some other pages I used that aren't in the bookmarks on this machine, but those should be helpful... There is some out of date info on some of them, and some of the examples don't work (I found the pam_stack.so references in pam.d did not work _at all_ in suse enterprise server).
What plans does Microsoft have to make it easier for corporations to let Windows and Linux live together happily? Are there plans to increase integration and open standards between platforms?
I just went through integrating a linux server on the Windows 2003 Active Directory network here, and though it took some commandline work and messing with pam.d and samba, it wasn't actually that hard to get it joined up to the domain. Now everyone who has a login and password can login locally, as well as via SSH/sftp and jabber.
I'm glad that Microsoft is letting linux/unix machines integrate at least somewhat, but it would please me to no end to see Microsoft extending their existing Unix services for Windows servers. I know that unix services exist for Windows servers, but we just haven't needed to install them yet (no need for LDAP at this point).
Yes I know that, but that doesn't keep the plugins/profile from getting corrupted... It happened to me on linux, and I had to wipe my profile completely since firefox would freeze when I started it up.
I shouldn't have to worry about things like that. Granted, I probably had way too many obscure plugins installed, but then that's part of the problem; you see plugins you think are cool, then you keep 'em around because they seem cool. But, you never ever use them...
Maybe I need to revise my plugins but, for now, Opera makes it easy. I do like firefox and I still use it, and I may go back to it after a while... There are some annoyances about opera that don't make it perfect (and I can't really customize some things, like adblocking).
But really, they are both two really good browsers IMO. Firefox would probably be perfectly fine for me now, especially when they make their next big release.
Oh great,here we go with firefox vs. opera again. But seriously, I'm an Opera user, and I'd say Firefox is a modular implementation of opera. Firefox doesn't try to be a monolithic browser that does everything all in one piece; it lets users decide how they want to make their browser. In many ways, Firefox can be whatever the user wants it to be.
Opera is much more managed, and in many ways I like it because I just don't have to worry about if all those addins I installed will work with the next version of firefox, etc... I just want a browser that works.
Oh and I love the session management in opera.
But I wouldn't say Firefox is a poor implementation of opera. It's just another way of looking at the experience of the web browser, that is influenced by Opera heavily.
Fujitsu is actually based in Japan. Probably the poster of the original story didn't think through what he wrote. Gosh, how many times has that happened on slashdot;)
I'm even an example of that. I should have added this to my previous post before submitting. *sigh*
Slashdot Mirror
My recommendation (IANAL): Take the settlement. The court fees will probably be more than the settlement!
Also I think it would make games a lot more engaging if the female characters were less eyecandy and had more character. I can't think of any game that does this because I haven't played one that did... it would kickass though.
That was awesome. Thanks. There should be an "Soda-spewing Funny" mod that gives you karma.
There _are_ repositories for the main and contrib packages for mandrake 9.2 on most mirrors; for e.g. mirrors.usc.edu still has mandrake 9.2 packages. However, no official updates exist from mandriva for versions older than 10.0.
RE the wireless network browsing capability, Mandriva 2006 has this capability built in upon install. (called net_applet). All you do is right click on the systray icon. This is a case of a linux distro filling a hole in functionality. I really like it actually; it works quite well. 2006 on my laptop is a hasslefree experience (also the startup time is much improved over previous versions).
The final cost of this machine is more like around $570, and then when you include the shipping on the parts you bought online... Well... I'd say it comes to more like $600. (Possibly more?)
Still... A good guide for the newbies to budget PC design. This article really makes me feel outdated with my Geforce FX 5600 and Athlon 2800+... I guess I definitely don't have a decent rig for most modern games. But that's ok because I don't play any modern games.
BTW anyone know a good way to avoid the annoying linkified ads in firefox? I just used links2. All those ads really slow down my browsing experience.
Dependencies are really not a problem with urpmi, as long as you stick to official mandrake/mandriva rpms. As soon as you go on pbone or get rpms from other distributions, problems will probably happen.
Usually if it's not in the mandrake main or contrib repositories (that's pretty rare) then the best option is to either search for a mandrake rpm, look for a .i386.rpm (one that isn't distribution specific) or failing that compiling from the tar file.
Mandriva isn't for everybody of course, if you've got debian working great then that's the way to go. I really like it because I just don't have to waste time (though debian is pretty awesome, if you know what you're doing).
A lot of the artwork has changed to a much more professional look than 2005LE (You will know what I'm talking about if you installed/used 2005LE).
I'm using the powerpack since I'm a silver club member and I volunteered to be an early seeder so I got it early, and I couldn't be happier. If you want a linux distro that Just Works, try it out some time.
This works for me. What does IDN do anyway? Is it important?
It opened up a google search with ----------- whatever in it. Using firefox 1.0.6 on linux.
Oh wait is that because he's contradicting himself? I think I get it now. Sorry.
Why is that funny? I don't get it. Maybe I'm just too tired after a day of classes... But it seems to me like the guy loves linux and is also really political. They aren't mutually exclusive you know.
I really like that idea. You're absolutely right. The lack of a space for casual gamers at the high end game makes it real hard to get any kind of instance going if you're not completely devoted to the game. I really like your suggestion for the no respawn feature.
Now I'm in school fulltime with a lot going on, and I just can't bring myself to log on. My guild is probably pissed at me, but doing high end instances which take 4 hours a pop is just too much for me.
Am I the only one that got tired of WoW because it started to feel like a job that you didn't get paid for, but were paying for?
I want a game where I can play a few hours a week, and still get something out of it. Things just take too long in the high level game in WoW!
rofl that was great, thanks for that. If I could mod I'd mod you right up.
There's no reason to use windows for games anymore. I have entirely gotten rid of windows partitions as all the games I like to play run perfectly in Cedega.
Running through the game list: Sid Meier's Pirates! - Some minor playability problems, need to tweak some configs to get it right.
World War 2 Online - Someone got a screenshot but doesn't seem to work too well
World of Warcraft - Works perfectly, I play it using Cedega myself
Europe Universalis 2 - Works with _no_ known problems.
Rome: Total War - Doesn't work as of Cedega 4.1
City of Heroes - This game is officially supported by Transgaming
RRT2 - No playability ratings, so I'm not sure if this works or not. There are screenshots of it in play
Hearts of Iron 2 - This has a 4/5 rating, not sure how it performs
Crusader Kings - has a 5/5 playability rating
Disciples 2 - Couldn't find this game on the transgaming list... I've never heard of it (??)
Homeworld 2 - This works, I have it installed and play it occassionally
Halflife 2 - Officially supported by transgaming
(direct link to game listings: http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/
A few of the games you like don't work, but most of them do... so really unless you can't do without those few games, the only thing keeping you off linux is yourself :)
Of course, you still have the absolute right to make that decision. Just letting you know that this option exists if you didn't know about it.
If I hadn't fallen victim to the siren song of the 20gig iPod in the store I would have gotten one of their nomad products instead (Which are cheaper). But there's something really attractive to the iPod that just made me want to have it.
Now I've got an iPod shuffle and I really like it. In some ways I feel locked in to apple products now, since I bought stuff off the iTunes store, and I've gotten so used to using gtkpod for everything. But that's not a problem because Apple's products are good and I am happy with them.
I do think it's interesting that Creative was able to get this patent on mp3 player user interfaces, and especially what their action will be. I hope they don't specifically target Apple, as that would make me mad at Creative. I would much rather they concentrate on making better players to get my business. If they were to come up with something more attractive than Apple's offerings, I'd just burn all my m4a's to CD and rerip them.
IMO they should really try to come up with a better design than their iPod mini imitations. Maybe there isn't a better design than the iPod but we'll never know if everyone goes around copying the iPod!
However, I'm not holding my breath. It seems corporations these days are much more focused on protecting their existing IP than creating new IP; which is very sad, especially from any consumer's point of view.
Just use a lot of \ - / | _ bars. I used a laptop for all my notes in CS courses. The only thing I had to use paper for was in my AI class where we were doing diagrams of decision trees. Man those things fan out quickly!
Be creative. You _can_ use a laptop for everything if you force yourself to figure out ways to record stuff so you'll remember what the teacher was talking about later.
Although, I type at 120wpm so that helps. My handwriting is also illegible so I don't have much a choice.
I'm not saying Microsoft is all nice and good and everything, but I'm just glad they let us hack at it and let us do what we want. Maybe, just maybe, they'll even give us a hand... one day.
Oh yeah one more thing: you need to make sure that winbind/smb/nmb starts _before_ ssh if you want it to authenticate. At least, I think that's why ssh wouldn't authenticate when I had them all starting up at runlevel 3. Once I put smb/winbind/nmb all in runlevel 2, ssh accepted connections on bootup (otherwise I had to restart the ssh service). Maybe it was related to some other issue, but if you have problems with ssh authentication that may help. This could also just be a suse thing.
I found the easiest step to be authenticating against the AD server. Once you set up the /etc/krb5.conf file properly, you can add the linux machine as a member of the domain (using kinit domainuser@DOMAIN.COM, and then doing net ads join). Remember that the DOMAIN.COM needs to be in all caps when doing kinit, I tried doing lowercase and it didn't work (same thing for specifying the realm in the krb5.conf file).
After that you need to make sure the winbind conf is set up properly. This varies from distro to distro; in Suse Enterprise Server 9 this was just in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file.
Then you have to change all the lines in /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/sshd and /etc/pam.d/jabberd (depending on what you want to authenticate against AD with). I actually haven't set up jabber yet since I was updating the tons of patches from the initial 9 install to SP2. (I didn't realize SP2 was even out but the online updates said it was SP2.. oh well).
I can post all my relevant conf files on my journal if you want, let me know. Take note that a lot of what I did is specific to Suse, so it may be slightly different for other distros.
Some of the links I used are here:
Join Linux to Active Directory with Winbind
Active Directory Samba
Linux and Active Directory
Samba and Windows 2003 Active Directory Integration ---- A good reference for kerberos authentication (though there are many more out there via google).
There were some other pages I used that aren't in the bookmarks on this machine, but those should be helpful... There is some out of date info on some of them, and some of the examples don't work (I found the pam_stack.so references in pam.d did not work _at all_ in suse enterprise server).
HTH.
I just went through integrating a linux server on the Windows 2003 Active Directory network here, and though it took some commandline work and messing with pam.d and samba, it wasn't actually that hard to get it joined up to the domain. Now everyone who has a login and password can login locally, as well as via SSH/sftp and jabber.
I'm glad that Microsoft is letting linux/unix machines integrate at least somewhat, but it would please me to no end to see Microsoft extending their existing Unix services for Windows servers. I know that unix services exist for Windows servers, but we just haven't needed to install them yet (no need for LDAP at this point).
P.S. I hope they keep you around for a while!
I shouldn't have to worry about things like that. Granted, I probably had way too many obscure plugins installed, but then that's part of the problem; you see plugins you think are cool, then you keep 'em around because they seem cool. But, you never ever use them...
Maybe I need to revise my plugins but, for now, Opera makes it easy. I do like firefox and I still use it, and I may go back to it after a while... There are some annoyances about opera that don't make it perfect (and I can't really customize some things, like adblocking).
But really, they are both two really good browsers IMO. Firefox would probably be perfectly fine for me now, especially when they make their next big release.
Opera is much more managed, and in many ways I like it because I just don't have to worry about if all those addins I installed will work with the next version of firefox, etc... I just want a browser that works.
Oh and I love the session management in opera.
But I wouldn't say Firefox is a poor implementation of opera. It's just another way of looking at the experience of the web browser, that is influenced by Opera heavily.
I'm even an example of that. I should have added this to my previous post before submitting. *sigh*
I've become so sloppy.