because it will create a big demand for those with Linux skills to support those boxes. And I for one intend to be at the front of the queue... and deity help any MCSE waver who thinks he can jump it...
The whole "Options" thing is crazy... these people are buying and selling intangibles they don't own, using other people's stock borrowed for a couple of minutes???
They can't all be making money... someone somewhere is always on the losing end of these transactions... funnily, this time it was the ones who thought they'd take advantage of an unbelievably low price... payback time... in spades.
"$15 for a new ATX power supply and I have a PC that people would have once KILLED to have."
What do you mean WOULD... there are people out there in the world who _will_ kill for them... they're the ones who're having to make do with clapped out old 486's and 386's...
If the MPAA really, really wanted to stop insider leaks via screeners, then it should mandate that all screeners get watermarks digitally embedded in the image... not only that, but the watermarks should be of variable translucency and wander around the edge of the screen so they can't be removed easily.
The Spyware in question here (which everyone appears to be pussyfooting around) is Microsoft's Media Player. AdAware removes the "unique machine identifier" key so that Microsoft can no longer track what DVDs you watch or MP3's, CD's etc you listen to on that installation of the OS... all Microsoft's CDDB or DVDDB knows when Media Player goes online to get the title and track info is that that particular CD or DVD is being played... and they'll have an IP for it as well, but with dialups and other dynamic IP systems, they can't tie it down to a particular machine and user's registration anymore...
Partly a liability thing, but it's mainly putting the customer in breach of the EULA that he clicks thru with Microsoft. Dell effectively were abetting this EULA breach and it wouldn't surprise me if it were Microsoft themselves who're really behind Dell issuing this internal memo by leaning heavily on Dell for breach of their OEM terms.
If the "renegade" bunch have to ditch the Linux Gazette name... I'll still follow them. The "new" SSC site is a nightmare. I have a major preference for the format on the linuxgazzette.net site... not only that, but they provide a palm friendly download of the current issue:) and the offline browsing version has always been a winner for me.
"The "remedy" ruling is in effect for five years unless the court chooses to extend it, and orders Microsoft not to retaliate against computer makers who offer competing software products with the PCs they sell."
"In a related matter, Kollar-Kotelly ordered Microsoft to disclose and license communications protocols used by clients running on Windows to interoperate with Microsoft servers. The company is also required to disclose APIs and technical information that Microsoft middleware uses to interoperate with the operating system, but the disclosure provisions fall far short of the states' requests."
DRM is not subject to the order
"Microsoft does not, however, have to document, disclose or license APIs (application programming interfaces) or communications protocols that would compromise the security of systems used for antipiracy, antivirus, software licensing, digital rights management, encryption or authentication."
Fuzzy logic is a strange beast:) I wonder if by mistake one of the times they tried running the ai, against all odds the orcs won:) I've never really read about the massive engine they used but I've heard a lot of funny stories"
As much fun as the urban myth about the kangaroos shooting the helicopter down cos they forgot to remove the stinger missiles from the infantry models that were converted to kangaroo figures???
started my download an hour and twenty minutes ago over a cable connection... the highest rate I've seen so far is 4 Kb/s (on which I normally see 65Kb/s) and I've got some two hours left to go??? this sucks worse than my old modem... oh... it's picked up...w00t...damn... got my hopes up there...:)
Their search engine... their rules... if you don't like it then tough... go and use another service. Oh shucks... what a bummer... Their's is the "best"...
"Point being is that the jobs won't move back to the states but the skillset will improve to the point where we can't tell the operator is overseas."
soon as they can they'll replace even the Phillipinos and Indians with voice recognition systems and speech synthesisers... and only escalate to a live human when the AI has problems...
That's just as bad. Bringing with it tones of class war. Perhaps, we should call them "Comrades", holding an election to see who gets to be "more equal" than the others...
wow... looks like you'se guys got the whole camel snuck under that tent flap and not just the nose...
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"So how about a tool which would allow users to search on the internet for packages where "missing" files can be found, install them and notify the package maintainers as to how they managed to fix it?"
Almost... rpmfind will let you search on a dependency because it can parse the rpm files for the requires and provides info. (There are more local mirrors available as well). So when you try and install a package that gives you a dependencies error, you can query it (or google, cos google also indexes rpmfind:)) and it will come back with the rpms that will satisfy that dependency.
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urpmi...
for Mandrake go to easy urpmi to get the correct lines to enter to sort out your local mirrors and then you're sorted... It works with Mandrakes Software Installer and any software you search for using that tool that isn't on your distro CDs but exists out on contribs or PLF etc. and you've got configured as a source for urpmi will be downloaded along with all the required dependencies and installed for you.
oh and by the way... using tar.gz files and compiling from source is what screws up your system... cos what you're doing is sticking libraries in that are not covered in the rpm database. No wonder your system gets it's knickers in a twist and you consider rpms to be unreliable... stick with using urpmi and wait for the package to be built for you and put up on the contribs site... otherwise, learn how to build your own rpms cos that way your rpm database will not get messed up when compiling from source.
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" and will he or she know about all the ocnfigure options..."
oh heck!!! now he tells me... I've only just got the hang of the "configure" options and now he lets out that there are "ocnfigure" options as well...
"My advice? Ask the oldest guy (or the person who's been there the longest) in your company what they did last time the same thing happened. They usually know, but you might not know that."
the problems really start when you find that in the great big downsizing rush, they chucked out all the older guys who actually knew why things were done that way in the first place...
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because it will create a big demand for those with Linux skills to support those boxes. And I for one intend to be at the front of the queue... and deity help any MCSE waver who thinks he can jump it...
They can't all be making money... someone somewhere is always on the losing end of these transactions... funnily, this time it was the ones who thought they'd take advantage of an unbelievably low price... payback time... in spades.
What do you mean WOULD... there are people out there in the world who _will_ kill for them... they're the ones who're having to make do with clapped out old 486's and 386's...
Distributed clusters of beowulf clusters anyone??? make one humongous supercluster up when you need it just by linking existing clusters...
If the MPAA really, really wanted to stop insider leaks via screeners, then it should mandate that all screeners get watermarks digitally embedded in the image... not only that, but the watermarks should be of variable translucency and wander around the edge of the screen so they can't be removed easily.
Bob??? isn't that what morphed into XP???
Looking at that
welcome screen on the page you gave sure reminds me of the XP HE login screen...
1. Announce service
2. Make mistakes
3. ?*?*?...
4. Profit!!!!
ahhh... so they've woken the onboard pixie up then... just wish she could hold the camera a little steadier...
Partly a liability thing, but it's mainly putting the customer in breach of the EULA that he clicks thru with Microsoft. Dell effectively were abetting this EULA breach and it wouldn't surprise me if it were Microsoft themselves who're really behind Dell issuing this internal memo by leaning heavily on Dell for breach of their OEM terms.
If the "renegade" bunch have to ditch the Linux Gazette name... I'll still follow them. The "new" SSC site is a nightmare. I have a major preference for the format on the linuxgazzette.net site... not only that, but they provide a palm friendly download of the current issue :) and the offline browsing version has always been a winner for me.
I hope you've tied up the TV rights to that game show...
MS/DOJ: Judge accepts most of settlement agreement
Judge Goes Easy on Microsoft
DRM is not subject to the order
so why don't they have access to the Cuban courts then if it's legally Cuban soil???
As much fun as the urban myth about the kangaroos shooting the helicopter down cos they forgot to remove the stinger missiles from the infantry models that were converted to kangaroo figures???
all al la William Gibson and his cyberspace novels...
have YOU no imagination???
started my download an hour and twenty minutes ago over a cable connection... the highest rate I've seen so far is 4 Kb/s (on which I normally see 65Kb/s) and I've got some two hours left to go??? this sucks worse than my old modem... oh... it's picked up...w00t...damn... got my hopes up there... :)
Why the heck can't slashdot give site maintainers a heads up so that they can make sure the mirrors are online?????????????
Their search engine... their rules... if you don't like it then tough... go and use another service. Oh shucks... what a bummer... Their's is the "best"...
soon as they can they'll replace even the Phillipinos and Indians with voice recognition systems and speech synthesisers... and only escalate to a live human when the AI has problems...
That's just as bad. Bringing with it tones of class war. Perhaps, we should call them "Comrades", holding an election to see who gets to be "more equal" than the others...
wow... looks like you'se guys got the whole camel snuck under that tent flap and not just the nose...
Almost... rpmfind will let you search on a dependency because it can parse the rpm files for the requires and provides info. (There are more local mirrors available as well). So when you try and install a package that gives you a dependencies error, you can query it (or google, cos google also indexes rpmfind :)) and it will come back with the rpms that will satisfy that dependency.
for Mandrake go to easy urpmi to get the correct lines to enter to sort out your local mirrors and then you're sorted... It works with Mandrakes Software Installer and any software you search for using that tool that isn't on your distro CDs but exists out on contribs or PLF etc. and you've got configured as a source for urpmi will be downloaded along with all the required dependencies and installed for you.
oh and by the way... using tar.gz files and compiling from source is what screws up your system... cos what you're doing is sticking libraries in that are not covered in the rpm database. No wonder your system gets it's knickers in a twist and you consider rpms to be unreliable... stick with using urpmi and wait for the package to be built for you and put up on the contribs site... otherwise, learn how to build your own rpms cos that way your rpm database will not get messed up when compiling from source.
oh heck!!! now he tells me... I've only just got the hang of the "configure" options and now he lets out that there are "ocnfigure" options as well...
the problems really start when you find that in the great big downsizing rush, they chucked out all the older guys who actually knew why things were done that way in the first place...