Competition is essential to a thriving capitalist democracy, and therefore beneficial to us all. When one company has a stranglehold on a software product we all lose out.
Promoting open source products creates competition, increases quality, fosters innovation and lowers prices.
I'm guessing that you don't have access to change these NAT settings ?
If you have got access you can port forward incoming connections (google turns up loads on this). If you use azureus then all incoming connections come in on a single port which can be useful.
Apologies if I'm being patronising... that means talk down to you by the way;)
HackerDefender is the worst thing I've come across so far (fixing somebody else's PC I may add). Removal took a reboot, rescue mode, identification of services and manually stopping them. I couldn't even get rid of it in safe mode, because that kept on restarting before I got chance to do anything.
To quote something I wrote nearer the time on a different forum
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:40 pm
I've just spent the last 4 hours removing trojans, virus, spyware, browser hijack etc from a Windows XP machine. It's been a while since I've had to do it (thanks to Gentoo) and boy have they got nastier ! At the root of it was something called HackerDefender which amongst other things protected all the worms/trojans/backdoors on there. It stopped cwshredder and stinger working. I also put a cd in which had spybot on it, but it wouldn't show in a directory listing until I removed HackerDefender !! Unfluckingbelievable OS.
Took a reboot into rescue mode to get rid of the damn thing. HackerDefender has an associated ini file, you need to open it as the trojans are randomly named. I opened it for examination and notepad.exe was another f**king virus, it had been replaced as part of the payload. Rest was standard stuff, they'd got on there through an unpatched IE and/or pr0n exe install
It's the schools, grammar doesn't get taught anymore. I used to be guilty of it (maybe I still am).
I don't think I learnt how to use it properly until my final year of a CS degree. They specifically convened the whole year to give final year project advice, a 15-minute section dedicated to apostrophe usage. It's a mistake a whole lot of people make. I still don't completely get it; things like "don't use the apostrophe if it's a possessive pronoun" don't stay in memory too long.
Grammar is a guide not a gaol. Language evolves; it's about getting your message across. Communication protocols suited to one media can be tweaked to make them more efficient when used across a different media.
A) Capitalisation of words has been devolving for long time now. There used to be a time when you had to capitialise a lot more nouns that we do nowadays.
B) Like./ ?
C) Maybe they're emulating Shakespeare
Grammar is a guide not a gaol. Language evolves. All the things you've cited as problems, are ways in which language will evolve and adapt to our changing needs. Ways in which it moved from Latin to Greek to English.
A lot of this is sociological rather than practical. People of a younger age develop their own language, different to that of their progenitors as a way to strengthen camaraderie and bonding in that group and a way to exclude the older influences. All perfectly natural and healthy evolution, not devolution.
"The world of grammar is divided into berks and wankers -- berks being those who are outrageously slipshod about language, and wankers those who are abhorrently over-precise." - Kingsley Amis, The King's English
That makes the original poster a berk, leaving you with...
Making these jokes is getting to be worse than the zealots who made the ill-advised compiler flag comments in the first place.
Gentoo is an impressive distribution, although admittedly it has its faults (find me a distribution that doesn't). I'm glad I got to experiment with it before it became fashionable to make derogatory jokes about it. Tthere's a fair chance all the +5 funny/insightful diminishing comments might have deterred me.
This guy asks an interesting question. Yet the majority of replies don't offer anything but a didactic as to why he shouldn't be asking the question.
Why not just answer the question or mod up the first person who questioned him ? The same polemic repeated gets kinda screws up the comments for the rest of us.
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He's also got a 300lb bench press, not many geeks I know can do that.
I could see this happening if the Firefox developers thought the w3c spec was incorrect or lacking in some manner.
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Just a guess
Competition is essential to a thriving capitalist democracy, and therefore beneficial to us all. When one company has a stranglehold on a software product we all lose out.
Promoting open source products creates competition, increases quality, fosters innovation and lowers prices.
Shouldn't the trade partner (or even the Apple employee) that let the information leave the company be held ultimately culpable ?
Maybe this is why IANAL
I'm guessing that you don't have access to change these NAT settings ?
If you have got access you can port forward incoming connections (google turns up loads on this). If you use azureus then all incoming connections come in on a single port which can be useful.
Apologies if I'm being patronising ... that means talk down to you by the way ;)
Each official copy of Half-Life that's sold is associated with a Unique Steam ID.
Valve has started banning accounts which cracked Steam to obtain the recently released CS:Source.
They could easily to the same to people who get Half-Life 2 in that way.
The movie is essentially about fidelity and his refusal to 'grow up' and commit to his wife
Follow the link if you want to read an informative and unpretentious reviewenjoy ac
Alternatively, once a pattern is found it is followed by many and becomes a self fulfulling prophesy. Making it more meaningful than initially though.
There was a subtle warning on the ftp site. The 2004.2 was visible before 1.20am BST, just gave a 550 when you tried to access it.
To quote something I wrote nearer the time on a different forum
It's the schools, grammar doesn't get taught anymore. I used to be guilty of it (maybe I still am).
./ ?
I don't think I learnt how to use it properly until my final year of a CS degree. They specifically convened the whole year to give final year project advice, a 15-minute section dedicated to apostrophe usage. It's a mistake a whole lot of people make. I still don't completely get it; things like "don't use the apostrophe if it's a possessive pronoun" don't stay in memory too long.
Grammar is a guide not a gaol. Language evolves; it's about getting your message across. Communication protocols suited to one media can be tweaked to make them more efficient when used across a different media.
A) Capitalisation of words has been devolving for long time now. There used to be a time when you had to capitialise a lot more nouns that we do nowadays.
B) Like
C) Maybe they're emulating Shakespeare
Grammar is a guide not a gaol. Language evolves. All the things you've cited as problems, are ways in which language will evolve and adapt to our changing needs. Ways in which it moved from Latin to Greek to English.
A lot of this is sociological rather than practical. People of a younger age develop their own language, different to that of their progenitors as a way to strengthen camaraderie and bonding in that group and a way to exclude the older influences. All perfectly natural and healthy evolution, not devolution.
I use gentoo at home, but I'd be very hesitant to let it near a real, work server.
Compilation takes up too much CPU time, I want my server to be serving not compiling. I'd go for RedHat, SuSe or debian in a professional environment.
"The world of grammar is divided into berks and wankers -- berks being those who are outrageously slipshod about language, and wankers those who are abhorrently over-precise." - Kingsley Amis, The King's English
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That makes the original poster a berk, leaving you with
They have the openoffice-bin in portage, compilation isn't necessary.
I'd guess a 400Mhz laptop isn't your only machine, if that's the case distcc might be worth a look.
It's also a client program for nedit
It would be nice, but any site checking their HTTP Referrer could lock all accounts coming from the bugmenot.com
Making these jokes is getting to be worse than the zealots who made the ill-advised compiler flag comments in the first place.
Gentoo is an impressive distribution, although admittedly it has its faults (find me a distribution that doesn't). I'm glad I got to experiment with it before it became fashionable to make derogatory jokes about it. Tthere's a fair chance all the +5 funny/insightful diminishing comments might have deterred me.
You've gotta ask that question, but it looks like this guy has been forced into making a few tough, no win decisions lately.
First off, lose money buying SCO licenses or face a costly protracted legal battle.
Secondly, sit tight don't admit any mistakes and hope it all blows over or come out and admit you'd made a mistake.
Then again he's a CEO, he's paid to make these decisions I don't think he's likely to starve anytime soon
This guy asks an interesting question. Yet the majority of replies don't offer anything but a didactic as to why he shouldn't be asking the question. Why not just answer the question or mod up the first person who questioned him ? The same polemic repeated gets kinda screws up the comments for the rest of us.
Switching between user levels on windows isn't as simple as it is on a *nix machine. The time/memory overhead switching would send me crazy.
Goddam record companies forcing me to pay for 2 blank CDrs that I don't need. This is what happens when you have a monopoly.
I'm going to download the tracks off p2p in protest.
Could mean any number of things.
My first thought that it's some kind of McBride parody.
At first glance the trusting side of me thinks this is a good idea. It seems like one appropriate way for MS to approach their problems.
On the other hand they might just use the information for propaganda, publicity and FUD, whilst carrying on regardless about the real issues
I'm still undecided on whether filling it out will do any good.