Much agreed; the word here is diversity. The young folks should be taught the basics of all operating systems, so their resumes will look better if nothing else. Supposing a university library needs to choose between two student worker candidates, both with 4.0 GPA, same gender and ethnicity, and generally all variables are the same except that one can only use Windows and the other one can use a Macintosh. The school has some Macs, as many academic institutions do. Who do you think will be hired?
...then by extension, probably all other EULAs do as well, and we are free to do anything with our software that isn't specifically forbidden under our respective copyright laws. Have SCO/Caldera realized that they just called for the banning of license agreements.
In that case, I'd suggest an Audigy1, an Extigy, or one of those M-Audio devices if the poster intends to do anything with sound and Linux. Audigy2 can be coaxed into working on Linux,but not easily.
It's like a standard Audigy, but I think it sounds worse than an Audigy. My advice: Go for the plain Audigy or the Audigy2. I have an Audigy2 and I am still trying to tweak it into producing sound under Linux; I understand it sounds better than the more Linux-friendly Audigy though.
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I say that as far as computers are concerned, I spend my money mon the inside. A high-end graphics card (and if you already have that, the full four gigs of RAM and if you already have that there's always room for more drives, more speakers, and a big LCD) is a better use of your money. With functional hardware you actually improve your performance.
Okay, then it is likely a vulnerability, in which case I hope it is fixed soon; consider my words eaten. Vulnerabilities are ALWAYS worth noting, because though you can never find them all, the ones that are found can be sealed.
It IS insignificant as far as security is concerned, because it's almost certainly an inside job or a password theft. It'd be insignificant even if it were on an MS-DOS webserver.
The only reason this is on/., or is significant in any way, is that GNU is the victim and evidently they haven't been doing proper backups.
Indeed, there is always the "analog hole." As long as there is line out, digital audio can be copied, and as long as there are monitors, the written word can be copied almost as easily as from a book.
I'd like to make it clear that I was not bashing interpersonal communication; hell, I love the stuff. But let's put it this way: I believe that it's possible to go without it, and moreover (and more to the actual point of my post) I am of the opinion that this study is greatly flawed.
Never said anything about addiction. I said "habit-forming," which is similar to but slightly different from "addictive." But yes, reductions in interpersonal communication are probably closer to reductions in addictive substances than anything else.
First off, the experiment involves the fast reduction of quantity of several social relationships. Socialization is habit-forming. You could get the same effect from taking a small group of pot smokers and switching them to tobacco.
Second off, the conclusion is fallacious. The problem supposedly demonstrated is not so much too much technology as too little socialization, though for my money, the problem is the sudden removal of habit-forming face-to-face interpersonal communcication.
It was still supercrashy, but it was better than the 95 I had been using, so it was most welcome. Especially considering I got the upgrade for free with a new hard drive and some RAM. Needless to say I no longer own that computer, having donated it to the kindergarten at the local public school, where it was most welcome. It's patched up so apart from its mediocre Packard Bell hardware (with some parts replaced of course) it's worth donation.
You are thinking about a 700 MHz PowerPC, which is different from a 700 MHz x86. Intel's been thinking a lot about 900 MHz these days, I understand. Will you bash them for that? *coughITANIUMcough*
I used it in near exclusivity (I kept my 3.11 box) for a year or so, and I'd had enough; I was one of the first in line at my Best Buy the morning Windows 98 came out.
I believe you are paying for the disc, the box, and the papers. There is no license because there is no contract; like a book, when you buy a CD you buy the product under no special terms, and the only restrictions on your conduct are whatever copyright and trademark laws apply in your neck of the woods.
is that they will take the next step and start running afoul of the DMCA (if people use encryption to protect themselves) and various cracking and terrorism laws.
For now though it seems like they go after those who make their collections available to the world.
The "next generation" of which you speak is actually the oldest, videlicet, bootlegging. As long as there are analog outputs, piracy is alive and well as far as I'm concerned.
In all honesty, what is the best overall desktop operating system at this time, and what do you think will be the best overall desktop operating system in a year? Two years? Five years?
That is, I'm afraid, too often the case. The US is well on the way to being a Spanish-speaking country, and if that actually happens, I think it'll be in the best interests of Americans actually being able to understand each other.
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Much agreed; the word here is diversity. The young folks should be taught the basics of all operating systems, so their resumes will look better if nothing else. Supposing a university library needs to choose between two student worker candidates, both with 4.0 GPA, same gender and ethnicity, and generally all variables are the same except that one can only use Windows and the other one can use a Macintosh. The school has some Macs, as many academic institutions do. Who do you think will be hired?
...then by extension, probably all other EULAs do as well, and we are free to do anything with our software that isn't specifically forbidden under our respective copyright laws. Have SCO/Caldera realized that they just called for the banning of license agreements.
In that case, I'd suggest an Audigy1, an Extigy, or one of those M-Audio devices if the poster intends to do anything with sound and Linux. Audigy2 can be coaxed into working on Linux,but not easily.
It's like a standard Audigy, but I think it sounds worse than an Audigy. My advice: Go for the plain Audigy or the Audigy2. I have an Audigy2 and I am still trying to tweak it into producing sound under Linux; I understand it sounds better than the more Linux-friendly Audigy though.
I say that as far as computers are concerned, I spend my money mon the inside. A high-end graphics card (and if you already have that, the full four gigs of RAM and if you already have that there's always room for more drives, more speakers, and a big LCD) is a better use of your money. With functional hardware you actually improve your performance.
In that case, as I suspected, social engineering and/or an ID10T error was to blame,
Okay, then it is likely a vulnerability, in which case I hope it is fixed soon; consider my words eaten. Vulnerabilities are ALWAYS worth noting, because though you can never find them all, the ones that are found can be sealed.
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It IS insignificant as far as security is concerned, because it's almost certainly an inside job or a password theft. It'd be insignificant even if it were on an MS-DOS webserver. The only reason this is on /., or is significant in any way, is that GNU is the victim and evidently they haven't been doing proper backups.
Indeed, there is always the "analog hole." As long as there is line out, digital audio can be copied, and as long as there are monitors, the written word can be copied almost as easily as from a book.
If you don't already, I'd suggest you dualboot that with Linux, either Red Hat or (if you want better hardware support) Mandrake.
I'd like to make it clear that I was not bashing interpersonal communication; hell, I love the stuff. But let's put it this way: I believe that it's possible to go without it, and moreover (and more to the actual point of my post) I am of the opinion that this study is greatly flawed.
Never said anything about addiction. I said "habit-forming," which is similar to but slightly different from "addictive." But yes, reductions in interpersonal communication are probably closer to reductions in addictive substances than anything else.
First off, the experiment involves the fast reduction of quantity of several social relationships. Socialization is habit-forming. You could get the same effect from taking a small group of pot smokers and switching them to tobacco. Second off, the conclusion is fallacious. The problem supposedly demonstrated is not so much too much technology as too little socialization, though for my money, the problem is the sudden removal of habit-forming face-to-face interpersonal communcication.
It was still supercrashy, but it was better than the 95 I had been using, so it was most welcome. Especially considering I got the upgrade for free with a new hard drive and some RAM. Needless to say I no longer own that computer, having donated it to the kindergarten at the local public school, where it was most welcome. It's patched up so apart from its mediocre Packard Bell hardware (with some parts replaced of course) it's worth donation.
You are thinking about a 700 MHz PowerPC, which is different from a 700 MHz x86. Intel's been thinking a lot about 900 MHz these days, I understand. Will you bash them for that? *coughITANIUMcough*
I used it in near exclusivity (I kept my 3.11 box) for a year or so, and I'd had enough; I was one of the first in line at my Best Buy the morning Windows 98 came out.
I might also note that if you put VNC on, you'd want to go with Java VNC or at least include the Mac and/or Linux version.
I believe you are paying for the disc, the box, and the papers. There is no license because there is no contract; like a book, when you buy a CD you buy the product under no special terms, and the only restrictions on your conduct are whatever copyright and trademark laws apply in your neck of the woods.
is that they will take the next step and start running afoul of the DMCA (if people use encryption to protect themselves) and various cracking and terrorism laws. For now though it seems like they go after those who make their collections available to the world.
The "next generation" of which you speak is actually the oldest, videlicet, bootlegging. As long as there are analog outputs, piracy is alive and well as far as I'm concerned.
In all honesty, what is the best overall desktop operating system at this time, and what do you think will be the best overall desktop operating system in a year? Two years? Five years?
That is, I'm afraid, too often the case. The US is well on the way to being a Spanish-speaking country, and if that actually happens, I think it'll be in the best interests of Americans actually being able to understand each other.
"Almost anyone"? Show me the data. And of course, you must remember that while many can speak English, fewer can speak it well.
Especially considering that Mac OS X runs on top of Darwin, a BSD. I think I read somewhere that Mac OS X is now the most-distributed Unix-family OS.