The Asus Transformer isn't exactly cheap, but you can run full blown Linux distros on it. I've read of people running Ubuntu on it. I've had Arch Linux running on mine. I went back to Android after a bit just because my OS choices were more for the "cause I could" factor.
I second this. I've been a tera-byte customer for about 4 years now. Very reliable service. And in the oh so rare occurrence of a problem, each time I have called I have reached a person directly. All of this without an automated help line:)
Try entering the 10 or 26 digit long HEX number when you are prompted for you WEP passphrase. This often works for me. It seems the XP Aglorithm for turning the passphrase into a hex passphrase doesn't quite work the way it is supposed to.
You can always use the UnxUtils. A good portion of all of the unix utilities are ported to windows. You can even start SH and use a unix style shell. I use these tools for scripting in windows quite a bit. Makes life a lot easier.
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Over the past few years, I have helped clients register.cc domains by typing in domain.cc and if that page came up, I knew it wasn't registered. ENIC has been using this blank page service for a while. The page has been changed a few times, but, it has always been pretty much the same "Welcome to Your Future Home", or "Buy this unredistered domain" pitch. Why is it that someone just now noticed? Then, just because by change ENIC happens to be a subsidiary (or however you spell it) of Verisign, this service is automatically dubbed "SiteFinder". I find this very sad.
(Get out the fire extinguishers, tin foil hats, and flame throwers. This one might catch on fire and explode in contempt.)
A couple years back, I worked doing tech support for Siemens Speedstream / Efficient Networks. On the wireless products, we would not support the product outside of the default configuration. If they customer enabled WEP or MAC Filtering, we would tell them to turn it off, and call us back. If they asked us how to turn it on, we would say "We don't support that feature. You can read the quick start guide for more information on that subject." I don't know if this policy still applies, but it would seem that some manufacturers may implement some kind of securtiy, but turn a blind eye to supporting it.
Well, I wouldn't call it free advertising. I would call it preventitive measures. It appears their website has been slashdotted. The slashdot effect seams to be a very good defence for preventing people from visiting a website. Maybe, we should just run a different story every hour or so with the website address of this software in it.
Have you seen the costs of a phone call to some of the islands in the pacific? Or islands offshore of India. I know for a fact that a call to some of the islands in the pacific have charges of $7.50 a minute. Granted, internet connections are hard as hell to get into places like that, but, it would be cheaper to have VOIP. Yes, I understand that places like this are special cases, but it goes to show even in small volume, VOIP can save money.
I have a fully working system, with apache, a mysql database, fully working kde, and tons of libraries and fullfillment programs, and I am only using 2 gig s of space. I dont have any source code on the drive. Source is only needed if you are compiling on the machine. I compile on one machine and build a slackball to install it on the other machine. Now, install windows, just the default installation. windows xp takes almost 900 megs. Add office xp to it. That is another 400 megs. Look, we haven't installed any servers yet, and we are all the way up to 1.3 gigs. Just for kicks, lets install Visual Studio. Look, we just hit the 2 gig point. I haven't even installed basic burning apps, multimedia apps, or day to day software. size of an os with a gui and fully working system is determined by the user. But, it is possible to install a fully working system on 2 gigs or less with a *nix os.
Besides reading my profile, what is to say I am even talking about QT for a personal use, or even QT for linux. I work for a company that uses the Professional Version of QT for development of "in house" applications which run mainly on FreeBSD. Source compatibility isn't always the best thing. A recompile of our applications isn't the quickest thing either. And after the recompile, we still have policies that say we have to test the new compiled app for 2 weeks before we push it to the network, just to make sure everything is stable. Big change costs money. Our company is far from scared of change. We just need to consider the investment of time and manpower to cope with it.
I'm not saying change isn't good. Change is very good. The thing I see here is they aren't only implementing 5-6 new features and a small architecture change. Yes, they are trying to maintain source compatibility, but the style of coding is just far antiquated. Personally, when I write code, I implement a new feature, get it working very very well, and then move on to the next feature. This leaves room for other projects to implement the new feature, and start using it, while I then move onto the next feature. It proves to be a very stable, dependable method of coding.
I'm not saying everyone should code this way, and I'm definitly not saying I'm better than everyone else. Rather, I am giving my unwanted $0.02. Coding in such a syle really lets people move forwared, in a very steady pace. Remember, the rabbit didn't win the race. The turtle did cause he was very steady and persistant.
but, is it absolutely essential? In a time where code needs to remain compatible due to the large amount of projects that are depending on that code, huge architectual changes implemented in a large number at one time will just show that the project wont get used for quite a while. It will take time for developers to start supporting the new format, which will leave end users wanting.
The specifics of copyright law are that you can make one copy of something "without" the permission of the owner for backup purposes. GPL'd code isn't released with a single owner. It has several owners. All of which, when they released there code under the GPL, "gave" permission to make as many copies as you want. So, the GPL in no way violates copyright law. I am not making copies "without" the copyright holders permission, but rather "with" the copyright holders permission. I am now going to use the permission I was given by the GPL to make another copy of my Slackware CD, and give it to my friend, absolutely free. He in turn, will make a copy of his copy, and give it to someone else, with 100% full permission to do so; thus spreading the yummy goodness!!
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The Asus Transformer isn't exactly cheap, but you can run full blown Linux distros on it. I've read of people running Ubuntu on it. I've had Arch Linux running on mine. I went back to Android after a bit just because my OS choices were more for the "cause I could" factor.
I second this. I've been a tera-byte customer for about 4 years now. Very reliable service. And in the oh so rare occurrence of a problem, each time I have called I have reached a person directly. All of this without an automated help line :)
Try entering the 10 or 26 digit long HEX number when you are prompted for you WEP passphrase. This often works for me. It seems the XP Aglorithm for turning the passphrase into a hex passphrase doesn't quite work the way it is supposed to.
You can always use the UnxUtils. A good portion of all of the unix utilities are ported to windows. You can even start SH and use a unix style shell. I use these tools for scripting in windows quite a bit. Makes life a lot easier. http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
just by chance** Sorry, my fingers got excited
Over the past few years, I have helped clients register .cc domains by typing in domain.cc and if that page came up, I knew it wasn't registered. ENIC has been using this blank page service for a while. The page has been changed a few times, but, it has always been pretty much the same "Welcome to Your Future Home", or "Buy this unredistered domain" pitch. Why is it that someone just now noticed? Then, just because by change ENIC happens to be a subsidiary (or however you spell it) of Verisign, this service is automatically dubbed "SiteFinder". I find this very sad.
(Get out the fire extinguishers, tin foil hats, and flame throwers. This one might catch on fire and explode in contempt.)
A couple years back, I worked doing tech support for Siemens Speedstream / Efficient Networks. On the wireless products, we would not support the product outside of the default configuration. If they customer enabled WEP or MAC Filtering, we would tell them to turn it off, and call us back. If they asked us how to turn it on, we would say "We don't support that feature. You can read the quick start guide for more information on that subject." I don't know if this policy still applies, but it would seem that some manufacturers may implement some kind of securtiy, but turn a blind eye to supporting it.
Well, I wouldn't call it free advertising. I would call it preventitive measures. It appears their website has been slashdotted. The slashdot effect seams to be a very good defence for preventing people from visiting a website. Maybe, we should just run a different story every hour or so with the website address of this software in it.
Have you seen the costs of a phone call to some of the islands in the pacific? Or islands offshore of India. I know for a fact that a call to some of the islands in the pacific have charges of $7.50 a minute. Granted, internet connections are hard as hell to get into places like that, but, it would be cheaper to have VOIP. Yes, I understand that places like this are special cases, but it goes to show even in small volume, VOIP can save money.
Gnupg is an implementation of pgp. So your two examples are the same thing. Don't mean to be nit picky, but, I just couldn't help it.
intellitoast Just thought it matched the topic perfectly :)
I have a fully working system, with apache, a mysql database, fully working kde, and tons of libraries and fullfillment programs, and I am only using 2 gig s of space. I dont have any source code on the drive. Source is only needed if you are compiling on the machine. I compile on one machine and build a slackball to install it on the other machine. Now, install windows, just the default installation. windows xp takes almost 900 megs. Add office xp to it. That is another 400 megs. Look, we haven't installed any servers yet, and we are all the way up to 1.3 gigs. Just for kicks, lets install Visual Studio. Look, we just hit the 2 gig point. I haven't even installed basic burning apps, multimedia apps, or day to day software. size of an os with a gui and fully working system is determined by the user. But, it is possible to install a fully working system on 2 gigs or less with a *nix os.
Besides reading my profile, what is to say I am even talking about QT for a personal use, or even QT for linux. I work for a company that uses the Professional Version of QT for development of "in house" applications which run mainly on FreeBSD. Source compatibility isn't always the best thing. A recompile of our applications isn't the quickest thing either. And after the recompile, we still have policies that say we have to test the new compiled app for 2 weeks before we push it to the network, just to make sure everything is stable. Big change costs money. Our company is far from scared of change. We just need to consider the investment of time and manpower to cope with it.
I'm not saying change isn't good. Change is very good. The thing I see here is they aren't only implementing 5-6 new features and a small architecture change. Yes, they are trying to maintain source compatibility, but the style of coding is just far antiquated. Personally, when I write code, I implement a new feature, get it working very very well, and then move on to the next feature. This leaves room for other projects to implement the new feature, and start using it, while I then move onto the next feature. It proves to be a very stable, dependable method of coding. I'm not saying everyone should code this way, and I'm definitly not saying I'm better than everyone else. Rather, I am giving my unwanted $0.02. Coding in such a syle really lets people move forwared, in a very steady pace. Remember, the rabbit didn't win the race. The turtle did cause he was very steady and persistant.
but, is it absolutely essential? In a time where code needs to remain compatible due to the large amount of projects that are depending on that code, huge architectual changes implemented in a large number at one time will just show that the project wont get used for quite a while. It will take time for developers to start supporting the new format, which will leave end users wanting.
The specifics of copyright law are that you can make one copy of something "without" the permission of the owner for backup purposes. GPL'd code isn't released with a single owner. It has several owners. All of which, when they released there code under the GPL, "gave" permission to make as many copies as you want. So, the GPL in no way violates copyright law. I am not making copies "without" the copyright holders permission, but rather "with" the copyright holders permission. I am now going to use the permission I was given by the GPL to make another copy of my Slackware CD, and give it to my friend, absolutely free. He in turn, will make a copy of his copy, and give it to someone else, with 100% full permission to do so; thus spreading the yummy goodness!!