Psst. Red Hat isn't the only company producing Linux distributions right now.
If you want to shell out money for a commercial Linux distro, I'd recommend SuSE anyway -- some very powerful configuration tools, a damned nice installer, and some of the best-produced and most thorougly documented paper manuals I've ever seen.
I urge everyone to buy one of these anti-litigation licenses, so that we can all file a class action lawsuit when it's proven that they don't have any rights to code within Linux.
This is a good idea, because you know, for the life of me, I can never, ever remember my password -- I can remember the keystrokes for it, but I don't remember what it is. I tried making the switch to Dvorak a few months ago, and failed for this reason.
Then again, I doubt other people have passwords like Q#34tyb9x!y± (note: not actual password:D), but it's still nice.
My grassroots campaign to try to get people to acknowledge they are, in fact, stealing when they download music without license to that media. Join my campaign:)
It's not that I don't know, Bob. It's just that I don't care.
I'm sure that's been tried on the black market for organs, as well.
"Here, pay $500,000 for this cardboard box and I'll throw a kidney inside it as a bonus."
This is still besides the fact that eBay is a privately owned company, not a public service, and it is at their sole discretion what is and is not a violation of their AUP. You're not going to lawyer your way out of it.
OGG is a fairly new compression format, and hasn't matured enough yet to be as fast as MP3. Duh.
Do you remember all the old MP3 encoders from back in the day, such as BladeEnc (damned slow) and XingEnc (more reasonable, but still nowhere near what we've got nowadays)? Technology, and the algorithms that drive it, take a good many years to mature and develop.
If by "make it work better with Windows" you mean "crashes Internet Explorer every 15 seconds and makes Sun's Java look like a joke in an effort to devalue the Java programming language" you're dead-on.
My provider (Optimum Online in New York) decideed to take this initiative by blocking port 139 inbound and outbound, blocking ports for VNC, Terminal Services and NetMeeting, in addition to a lot of others that I happen to use. FTP and HTTP are somewhat understandable, but this shit is ridiculous. I work for a web host and I used to RDP to my computer at home all the time to run diagnostics against our network, and being able to access the SMB share for my website really helped eliminate the trouble of constantly FTPing files.
Needless to say, I'm pissed and contemplating switching to DSL if this continues, and I really wish users could educate themselves so I wouldn't need to be subjected to this bullshit.
A properly configured NT/2000/XP systems with the correct security settings and policies in place wouldn't have any problem preventing virii from doing anything.
If Linux were in the mainstream, everyone and their mom would be logged in as root, like Windows users are with administrative accounts anyway. So why even pretend that Linux, should it ever become as mainstream as Windows, would be inherently more secure? The issue here is educating the users who open "FREE COLLEGE WEBCAM HOTTIES.EXE" rather than improving the quality of the software.
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Psst. Red Hat isn't the only company producing Linux distributions right now.
If you want to shell out money for a commercial Linux distro, I'd recommend SuSE anyway -- some very powerful configuration tools, a damned nice installer, and some of the best-produced and most thorougly documented paper manuals I've ever seen.
I urge everyone to buy one of these anti-litigation licenses, so that we can all file a class action lawsuit when it's proven that they don't have any rights to code within Linux.
Well, then, you own the CD, and you shouldn't have any trouble claiming fair use on a CD you own, right?
Haha, Soviet Russia. I get it.
Seriously, you people need to stop saying the same things over and over again.
This is a good idea, because you know, for the life of me, I can never, ever remember my password -- I can remember the keystrokes for it, but I don't remember what it is. I tried making the switch to Dvorak a few months ago, and failed for this reason.
:D), but it's still nice.
Then again, I doubt other people have passwords like Q#34tyb9x!y± (note: not actual password
Are you kidding me? Haven't you ever seen Throw Momma From the Train? That's what the parents of Slashdot regulars are like.
Would an intelligent cocaine dealer sell cocaine at white flour prices? If so, please tell me where I can find him!
My grassroots campaign to try to get people to acknowledge they are, in fact, stealing when they download music without license to that media. Join my campaign :)
It's not that I don't know, Bob. It's just that I don't care.
When the detail in question has no relevance to the actual issue, then it becomes a matter of semantics.
Bantering about semantics of privately owned vs. publicly traded companies doesn't change the fact that it's their call regardless.
Matters not what this message says, be modded +5 funny it will.
I'm sure that's been tried on the black market for organs, as well.
"Here, pay $500,000 for this cardboard box and I'll throw a kidney inside it as a bonus."
This is still besides the fact that eBay is a privately owned company, not a public service, and it is at their sole discretion what is and is not a violation of their AUP. You're not going to lawyer your way out of it.
It's worth noting that eBay's AUP forbids the sale of non-tangible items via its service.
OGG is a fairly new compression format, and hasn't matured enough yet to be as fast as MP3. Duh.
Do you remember all the old MP3 encoders from back in the day, such as BladeEnc (damned slow) and XingEnc (more reasonable, but still nowhere near what we've got nowadays)? Technology, and the algorithms that drive it, take a good many years to mature and develop.
Dean Kamen is a robot.
Haven't you seen his house? He has a machine shop next to his kitchen. The only plausible explanation for this is that he eats nuts and bolts.
Will Justin Frankel use it as his blogging service now?
If by "make it work better with Windows" you mean "crashes Internet Explorer every 15 seconds and makes Sun's Java look like a joke in an effort to devalue the Java programming language" you're dead-on.
Postfix ++ returns the value before incrementing it, so it's almost like C++'s name itself is mocking it: Grown up, but too little, too late.
How about we rename it C=*((long *)0)?
Or does C++ have too many pointer problems already?
I'm waiting for the USS Bill Clinton, with fully retractable onboard ramming penis.
My provider (Optimum Online in New York) decideed to take this initiative by blocking port 139 inbound and outbound, blocking ports for VNC, Terminal Services and NetMeeting, in addition to a lot of others that I happen to use. FTP and HTTP are somewhat understandable, but this shit is ridiculous. I work for a web host and I used to RDP to my computer at home all the time to run diagnostics against our network, and being able to access the SMB share for my website really helped eliminate the trouble of constantly FTPing files.
Needless to say, I'm pissed and contemplating switching to DSL if this continues, and I really wish users could educate themselves so I wouldn't need to be subjected to this bullshit.
A properly configured NT/2000/XP systems with the correct security settings and policies in place wouldn't have any problem preventing virii from doing anything.
If Linux were in the mainstream, everyone and their mom would be logged in as root, like Windows users are with administrative accounts anyway. So why even pretend that Linux, should it ever become as mainstream as Windows, would be inherently more secure? The issue here is educating the users who open "FREE COLLEGE WEBCAM HOTTIES.EXE" rather than improving the quality of the software.
Does it have menu shadows? :(
This product is suitable not only for use in notebook PCs, but also in servers and desktop computers.
I don't know about you, but I sure as hell wouldn't want so much as a drop of moisture anywhere NEAR a $35k Sun blade server.
When can they water-cool my shower? Damn furnace has been acting up for weeks now.