he was perfectly OK until he announced that they were planning to release the dirt on a major US finacial house... the banks etc. are the one who're really pulling the strings here, NOT the governments...
Though it saddens me to say it, when it comes to hardware support, Windows just works.
try explaining that to my father... every time he's updated his computer, he's found existing expensive hardware is no longer supported by the manufacturer on the new version of windows
his A3 format scanner was no longer supported when he went from win 3.11 to win95, his audio capture card (high end for speech recognition usage) stopped working when he went from 95 to XP as there weren't any drivers for it and quite a few of his perfectly good apps refused to install on windows 7
as they were the only ones involved in the experiment, then their costs of writing drivers weren't being shared out... also, they should have absolutely insisted on hardware having to have Linux support out of the box from the suppliers. Expecting winprinters to work is rather stupid as winprinters aren't really printers at all as the manufacturer has shed a lot of cost by using the computer itself to do the hard work.
as the other departments were using windows and so the cost of writing the drivers wasn't being shared out amongst all of them, but kept in the single department... anyway, they should have been insisting on hardware only coming from manufacturers who provided Linux support... buying winprinters and expecting them to work on Linux is just stupid...
Is it a MSI Wind? If so, MSI told me that removing the sticker won't actually void the warranty if all you're doing is a HDD or RAM upgrade.
yes it is an MSI wind U135DX; was going cheap as an end of line stocck clearance sale... anyway... the label clearly states "warranty sticker void if tampered", if they'd meant to allow user HDD and RAM upgrades, then they should have added hatches for this.
PS. has anyone managed to get wireless working in Linux with the RT3090 (MS-6891) module?
before the manufacturers will do it... same as the WEEE regulations had to come in before they would finally take back their broken items... it will take legislation to force them to design for disassembly and design for repair... currently, they hide behind other product liability regulations where they can use "scary" labels and weird proprietary fasteners to prevent the owner from taking the machine apart...
my new netbook has a "warranty void if tampered with" label over one screw hole which effectively prevents me from swapping out the hard disk and sticking a new one in to put a clean Linux install on (thus keeping the original disk ready to slip back in if needed).
Being a fully "qualified" geek who has built systems from scratch since almost day one of the personal computer revolution this sad fact really annoys me as I'm perfectly competent to fix things if I can get at them...
the entire POINT of DRM is to keep premium content away from Linux users and to make it the exclusive preserve of those who pay the Microsoft tax... that is the ONLY reason Microsoft is so in bed with it and made Vista such a hive of tilt-bits etc. to make it seem to the content providers that their precious premium content is only safe on Microsoft certified hardware, running an entirely Microsoft software stack... why else did they get the DMCA in place before hand? They want to make Linux irrelevant and if at all possible, outlawed as a circumvention technology.
I worked for Lernout & Hauspie at the time of the technology merger... Microsoft got to add speech recognition tech to Office and windows (and pretend it was their own) and L&H died as there was no longer a reason for people to buy their add-on package... (they never had a chance to develop products using the tech they'd licensed back from Microsoft)
come off it... Apple only exist now because Microsoft pumped money into them to keep them alive so that:
1) they could continue to claim they weren't a monopoly
and
2) to keep a safety valve open for the arty types who couldn't stand windows to prevent them from running to Linux and picking it up and making it beautiful...
If Microsoft was really playing to win the entire market, they'd have allowed Apple to go belly up
Getting back onto topic, look into DropBox. Distributed copies on multiple computers, drag and drop interface, history and version control. Damn handy.
Damn handy, but vulnerable to business failure... if they suddenly go belly up, unless you've got other copies of that data, you're screwed... I currently use my google mail account to stash stuff by emailing copies of items to myself. Can't see Google going belly up for quite some time...
on 2nd May 1990 MS-DOS product manager Mark Chestnut said: "On the PR side, we have begun an 'aggressive leak' campaign for MS-DOS 5.0. The goal is to build an anticipation for MS-DOS 5.0 and diffuse potential excitement/momentum from the DR DOS 5.0 announcement. At this point, we are telling the press that a major new release from Microsoft is coming this year which will provide significant memory relief and other important features."
promptly followed by "We copy you Apollo 13, but we'll have to wait for the press office to work out how to release this in the next news cycle before we know what to do..."
by now they should be big enough to be able to afford to run proper supernodes on the cloud proper and not rely on ordinary people's clients to do the "cloud" job for them.
This is not the end of the case, the plaintiff can go back and amend the complaint to meet the standard. It is sort of embarrassing that these high-priced and supposedly very highly skilled attorneys couldn't even draft a complaint that states the claim & prayer for relief though.
It was deliberate... it caused the defendants to burn time and money.
has anyone considered the weather impacts of taking all that energy which currently heats the Sahara out of the Sahara so the Sahara isn't being heated so much? It will have a massive effect, not necessarily for the good.
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he was perfectly OK until he announced that they were planning to release the dirt on a major US finacial house... the banks etc. are the one who're really pulling the strings here, NOT the governments...
I'm NOT running an x86 capable processor...
try explaining that to my father... every time he's updated his computer, he's found existing expensive hardware is no longer supported by the manufacturer on the new version of windows
his A3 format scanner was no longer supported when he went from win 3.11 to win95, his audio capture card (high end for speech recognition usage) stopped working when he went from 95 to XP as there weren't any drivers for it and quite a few of his perfectly good apps refused to install on windows 7
as they were the only ones involved in the experiment, then their costs of writing drivers weren't being shared out... also, they should have absolutely insisted on hardware having to have Linux support out of the box from the suppliers. Expecting winprinters to work is rather stupid as winprinters aren't really printers at all as the manufacturer has shed a lot of cost by using the computer itself to do the hard work.
as the other departments were using windows and so the cost of writing the drivers wasn't being shared out amongst all of them, but kept in the single department... anyway, they should have been insisting on hardware only coming from manufacturers who provided Linux support... buying winprinters and expecting them to work on Linux is just stupid...
yes it is an MSI wind U135DX; was going cheap as an end of line stocck clearance sale... anyway... the label clearly states "warranty sticker void if tampered", if they'd meant to allow user HDD and RAM upgrades, then they should have added hatches for this.
PS. has anyone managed to get wireless working in Linux with the RT3090 (MS-6891) module?
for a laptop? that defeats the entire point of the laptop form factor...
before the manufacturers will do it... same as the WEEE regulations had to come in before they would finally take back their broken items... it will take legislation to force them to design for disassembly and design for repair... currently, they hide behind other product liability regulations where they can use "scary" labels and weird proprietary fasteners to prevent the owner from taking the machine apart...
my new netbook has a "warranty void if tampered with" label over one screw hole which effectively prevents me from swapping out the hard disk and sticking a new one in to put a clean Linux install on (thus keeping the original disk ready to slip back in if needed).
Being a fully "qualified" geek who has built systems from scratch since almost day one of the personal computer revolution this sad fact really annoys me as I'm perfectly competent to fix things if I can get at them...
the entire POINT of DRM is to keep premium content away from Linux users and to make it the exclusive preserve of those who pay the Microsoft tax... that is the ONLY reason Microsoft is so in bed with it and made Vista such a hive of tilt-bits etc. to make it seem to the content providers that their precious premium content is only safe on Microsoft certified hardware, running an entirely Microsoft software stack... why else did they get the DMCA in place before hand? They want to make Linux irrelevant and if at all possible, outlawed as a circumvention technology.
I worked for Lernout & Hauspie at the time of the technology merger... Microsoft got to add speech recognition tech to Office and windows (and pretend it was their own) and L&H died as there was no longer a reason for people to buy their add-on package... (they never had a chance to develop products using the tech they'd licensed back from Microsoft)
come off it... Apple only exist now because Microsoft pumped money into them to keep them alive so that:
1) they could continue to claim they weren't a monopoly
and
2) to keep a safety valve open for the arty types who couldn't stand windows to prevent them from running to Linux and picking it up and making it beautiful...
If Microsoft was really playing to win the entire market, they'd have allowed Apple to go belly up
torrents can die... there still needs to be a master seed kept active... and that costs money
but, but... Microsoft's real customers won't be able to install their copyright "protection" drivers then... you know, Sony et al...
I prefer to be outside the wall in control of my own destiny than inside the wall being force fed what someone else want me to see/use
can I build one now? if it can stimulate some areas of the brain, then I want one that can stimulate the pleasure receptors...
Damn handy, but vulnerable to business failure... if they suddenly go belly up, unless you've got other copies of that data, you're screwed... I currently use my google mail account to stash stuff by emailing copies of items to myself. Can't see Google going belly up for quite some time...
what I find highly amusing about PirateBay is that they take down fake & malware torrents very quickly when downloaders report them...
promptly followed by "We copy you Apollo 13, but we'll have to wait for the press office to work out how to release this in the next news cycle before we know what to do..."
fucking twat... thanks for derailing the entire discussion...
by now they should be big enough to be able to afford to run proper supernodes on the cloud proper and not rely on ordinary people's clients to do the "cloud" job for them.
NASA needs some gas certified plumbing engineers to send out to service the boiler...
It was deliberate... it caused the defendants to burn time and money.
was listening to Gimme Shelter at the time this came up... wow...
War, children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away...
has anyone considered the weather impacts of taking all that energy which currently heats the Sahara out of the Sahara so the Sahara isn't being heated so much? It will have a massive effect, not necessarily for the good.