can I make a copy of the cdrom and pass it on to my friends and even charge for my time in making the copy???
do those licensed codecs conflict with my rights under the GPL for the rest of the distro?
The explosives would be detonated over the atlantic (to ensure maximum fatalities).
actually, it's far more effective to detonate them over land when they are at cruising altitude... remember Lockerbie... I certainly do... I did not enjoy my Christmas that year as I was a member of the search parties for the bodies... a right mess that was... spread over hundreds of square miles...
yes it is... here, they are ultimately planning it so that it will not be possible to make any purchase without this "financial instrument". Your every transaction will be logged and if you are on the wanted list it will have the location of the transaction flagged up to the authorities for them to come and arrest you (having alerted all the local surveillance cameras to start tracking you)... They plan to have this happen in real time...
It won't stop a barter economy from developing, but you will have to come out of the woodwork to make some purchases
this, my dear little anonymous coward, is the ultimate distopian nighmare... welcome to New Labour's vision of the future...
the sooner we can vote these twats out and secede from Europe the better... and if the tories want this bloody nightmare as well, then we're all fucked...
you want to see stupid??? one UK based ISP uses peoples phone numbers for the account name... ie. 0181******@xxxxxxx.co.uk. Madness... it's a spammer's wet dream... no need to do a dictionary attack... just make up phone numbers for any particular town or exchange you want to hit with a "targeted" mailshot, or raid the phone book to hope that person uses that ISP so you can really personalise the spam or phishing attempt.
They're options, so cancelling them cannot result in a benefit to the issued party.
it does result in a benefit... the "absence of a loss" happening that's what... they're a bet that you can't lose.
With my company's employee share purchase scheme, I actually had to stump up money and buy them... I'm now sweating on our shares going back up above the offer price that I bought them at (that price was slightly lower than the current market price then but I have to hold them for a year first). These execs have it easy, they never have to commit any of their own money up front. So, if the price is down, they cancel the option and they're not out of pocket...
actually I went out and got a wireless keyboard... (not optical)... finally had a reason to shell out for one... my teenage daughters are now giving me very strange looks... personally I think they wanna a go, but they're a bit embarrassed by dad looking a prat rockin out with a keyboard
I'm saving the actuall wooden mock-up guitar controller project for later:)
Oh, and a fucking cd burner that also burns dvds and doesn't just magically flake out on its own as if it had a personality. Twq years I've been using uubuntu, they still haven't got this right. If Shuttleworth would shuttle some of that money into 'encouraging" a replacement for the pain in the ass cdrecord package it would be a boon to... prety much everyone.
some upstream change somewhere broke DVD burning for a lot of people on upgrading from Breezy to Dapper... I, for one, was not impressed... and it doesn't help that bugzilla and malone have got it listed on several different bugs... some people just failed to do a proper search first before posting the bug... it's very confusing trying to work out exactly what's broke.
Also, it runs inside the kernel which means a bug in the software can kill the whole OS. The kernel is GPL meaning that a closed source module is illegal. They use a GPLed wrapper though, putting it in the legal grayzone instead...
if they want to do things right with the community, then the least they can do is provide basic 3D support in the open source nv driver and get that one working properly with AIGLX and XGL... the fancy stuff they can keep in the proprietary one, but please, please, please get the nv one doing 3D good enough for running stuff like Flightgear and doing the fancy desktop....
1) They came up with a novel control scheme that's not too far off from being as good as the guitar hero controller:
Pick up your keyboard. Place your left hand under the F1 - F4 keys. Your right index finger should fall on F1 -- this is the "First Fret", F2 is the second, etc. Hold the keyboard like you would the neck of a guitar.
The default "Pick" key is enter, but I think I'd suggest space.
However, I was unable to actually play this game correctly, as I'm on a laptop, and as such, cannot "pick up" my keyboard as described. I've got keyboards around, but none of those damn PS/2 to USB adaptors.
well with usb keyboards going dirt cheap these days, it shouldn't be too hard to hack up a halfway decent controller based on a guitar shaped hunk of wood and some keys hacked in and the keyboard circuit board hidden inside the body...
I'm off to find some wood and a cheap USB keyboard for hacking this up with... I'm just off to the shops... I may be some time...:)
this pricing pissed me off... It was cheaper for me to purchase a new motherboard, processor (2.4GHz Celeron D) and 1/2 gig of ram than it was to upgrade the existing rdram to 256MB from 128MB
(mind you, I recently rescued that old system and stuck it into a cheapo case and am now using it to "stress test" Linux software in "low" ram. ie. if it's acceptable in only 128MB and 1.4GHz P4 (2000 "vintage" hardware) using KDE or Gnome then it's fine for normal use)
use WINE you wally... Google is your friend here... a simple search (such as keywords wsftp+linux or irfanview+linux) reveals irfanview AND wsftp both work on Linux using wine... so does winrar and several other popular little utility progs. Heck, to get flash 9 running on my daughter's box so she can access those videos and other annoyances on places like myspace, we use the windows version of Firefox with the windows version of flash9 installed in it...
I've RTFA and I have a physics degree... if this is true, then surely halving the half-life will double the rate of emission which will require serious shielding and will also have the effect of the shielding becoming contaminated...
and cooling this stuff to a few degrees above absolute zero will be a real bear... as one thing that happens when atoms decay is that things get hot, so there will be all this heat to get rid of as well.
Is the law in Britain to take (and store) DNA samples when you are simply arrested? Convicted, yes, I can see....but just arrested?
worse.... the DNA recording is no longer limited to "serious arrestable offences", you can have your DNA taken for what they define as a "recordable offence" which means they needn't even arrest you... they will take the sample out there in the street while giving you a caution or writing up your ticket for dropping litter... if you object, they'll arrest you... simple innit...
and soon they'll be fingerprinting newborns in the maternity suites... it's the only way they can get a massive database as the rest of us are all refusniks
The bad - It's trusted computing giving complete control of what software will or will not run on your computer to the vendors.
BZZZT wrong... with a Linux based software stack, you should be able to sign your own code and thus ensure only code you've signed and code signed by others YOU trust can be run...
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can I make a copy of the cdrom and pass it on to my friends and even charge for my time in making the copy??? do those licensed codecs conflict with my rights under the GPL for the rest of the distro?
probably to replace the one that was blown not so long ago... remember the .wmf exploit?
actually, it's far more effective to detonate them over land when they are at cruising altitude... remember Lockerbie... I certainly do... I did not enjoy my Christmas that year as I was a member of the search parties for the bodies... a right mess that was... spread over hundreds of square miles...
the hackers are busy diffing the new release against the previous release to determine exactly what the hole was...
most excellent... but I'd still have to go online every now and again to selectively archive or delete items.
Can I produce binaries that I can distribute for free, or are we hamstrung and have to purchase the pro version???
It won't stop a barter economy from developing, but you will have to come out of the woodwork to make some purchases
this, my dear little anonymous coward, is the ultimate distopian nighmare... welcome to New Labour's vision of the future...
the sooner we can vote these twats out and secede from Europe the better... and if the tories want this bloody nightmare as well, then we're all fucked...
that's peanuts for "turnkey" control software...
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
you want to see stupid??? one UK based ISP uses peoples phone numbers for the account name... ie. 0181******@xxxxxxx.co.uk. Madness... it's a spammer's wet dream... no need to do a dictionary attack... just make up phone numbers for any particular town or exchange you want to hit with a "targeted" mailshot, or raid the phone book to hope that person uses that ISP so you can really personalise the spam or phishing attempt.
it does result in a benefit... the "absence of a loss" happening that's what... they're a bet that you can't lose.
With my company's employee share purchase scheme, I actually had to stump up money and buy them... I'm now sweating on our shares going back up above the offer price that I bought them at (that price was slightly lower than the current market price then but I have to hold them for a year first). These execs have it easy, they never have to commit any of their own money up front. So, if the price is down, they cancel the option and they're not out of pocket...
I may cut my loses and sell mine anyway...
I'm saving the actuall wooden mock-up guitar controller project for later :)
oh boy... do they ever need to cull the comment spam from that page...
some upstream change somewhere broke DVD burning for a lot of people on upgrading from Breezy to Dapper... I, for one, was not impressed... and it doesn't help that bugzilla and malone have got it listed on several different bugs... some people just failed to do a proper search first before posting the bug... it's very confusing trying to work out exactly what's broke.
if they want to do things right with the community, then the least they can do is provide basic 3D support in the open source nv driver and get that one working properly with AIGLX and XGL... the fancy stuff they can keep in the proprietary one, but please, please, please get the nv one doing 3D good enough for running stuff like Flightgear and doing the fancy desktop....
well with usb keyboards going dirt cheap these days, it shouldn't be too hard to hack up a halfway decent controller based on a guitar shaped hunk of wood and some keys hacked in and the keyboard circuit board hidden inside the body...
I'm off to find some wood and a cheap USB keyboard for hacking this up with... I'm just off to the shops... I may be some time... :)
(mind you, I recently rescued that old system and stuck it into a cheapo case and am now using it to "stress test" Linux software in "low" ram. ie. if it's acceptable in only 128MB and 1.4GHz P4 (2000 "vintage" hardware) using KDE or Gnome then it's fine for normal use)
use WINE you wally... Google is your friend here... a simple search (such as keywords wsftp+linux or irfanview+linux) reveals irfanview AND wsftp both work on Linux using wine... so does winrar and several other popular little utility progs. Heck, to get flash 9 running on my daughter's box so she can access those videos and other annoyances on places like myspace, we use the windows version of Firefox with the windows version of flash9 installed in it...
and cooling this stuff to a few degrees above absolute zero will be a real bear... as one thing that happens when atoms decay is that things get hot, so there will be all this heat to get rid of as well.
and you can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear...
Perhaps microsoft should start to make their own boxes... dictating to the OEMs how a PC should look is madness.
worse.... the DNA recording is no longer limited to "serious arrestable offences", you can have your DNA taken for what they define as a "recordable offence" which means they needn't even arrest you... they will take the sample out there in the street while giving you a caution or writing up your ticket for dropping litter... if you object, they'll arrest you... simple innit...
and soon they'll be fingerprinting newborns in the maternity suites... it's the only way they can get a massive database as the rest of us are all refusniks
do xyz... on a cellphone...
BZZZT wrong... with a Linux based software stack, you should be able to sign your own code and thus ensure only code you've signed and code signed by others YOU trust can be run...
is it possible to regress easily from ie7 to ie6 without having to re-install the entire OS?