You just stole my obligatory insensitive clod joke about not living in a country where iTMS operates.
Damn guys from Turku, always getting on the way... even on Slashdot, perkele!
(For those who didn't get it: me and parent live in different cities in Finland, and people on my and his city are always ready to start flamewar with each other. I don't think there are enough of us on/. for that, though.;-) )
Well, I'm not an U.S. citizen so I do not vote there, have never even visited there, know that DMCA is not really a democrat v. republican issue (and that Clinton signed it into law), and that this guy is from copyright/DRM enforcement point of view probably as bad kind of asshole as Valenti ever was.
But that said, I'm still always kind a way happy when I'll hear, that some elected/chosen person somewhere in the States was a democrat instead of a republican; every republican happens to get connected into Reagan/Bush -style administrations in my mind, and I think every rep. president of the U.S. at least after T.R. has somehow sucked - save perhaps Eisenhower, who wasn't even a politican in the first place - comparing to democrat ones.
Perhaps it is just, because I'm a foreigner; for me, the republicans always seem to have been those, who seem to have forgotten that U.S. != World. Lately (during Bush admin at least) they also seem to have been those, who do not care anything about the greed of megacorps (or who even run them by themselves).
Mark Russinovich is a known pro-windows guy, whose views are for sure heavily biased. Kudos for him though, that he really knows his OS inside out - he is one of the guys behind Sysinternals, and I've more than once found their tools very helpful when dealing with problems of Windows boxes.
Despite his talk being biased, I think he got one important point mostly right:
But ultimately, said Russinovich, the gap between the two operating systems will continue to narrow to a point where their underlying kernel becomes irrelevant. "Layered services will become more important," he concluded.
On server space the kernel performance probably counts out more, but at least for most (not all, though) desktop users the kernel really isn't the most important part; it is the common APIs that do the trick. One could build two very similar boxes, one running Linux and the other FreeBSD - both running same apps, with differences hardly noticeable for the end user. Switch the BSD box to Mach kernel, keep userland, and still no much difference. But then just throw Apple's Quartz instead of X on top of that, and we suddenly have totally different world! This is just because we'll now suddenly have a totally different set of APIs.
However - what Russinovich left out - Windows will inevitably be the very last one to jump on this bandvagon, due to Microsoft's policies' closed nature and it's dominant position on the market. Windows just does not have to be compatible with other systems on the market the same way POSIX systems does have to - not at least from it's vendor's viewpoint.
IATA does not currently allow methanol on aeroplanes as hand luggage, so you wouldn't be allowed to take these onboard anyway. Actually the tech corps are currently trying to develop ethanol-based cells just for this particular reason. I just red about this today from a newspaper, although it was a tabloid, so I won't be giving too high credits for it.
But then again, it is 2.30 am EEST, and I'm currently really drunk (that's why I'm on/., I just can't sleep yet), so anyway...;-)
Mac OS X does not have autorun for data-only tracks (audio-cds, photo-cds, video-dvds and blank discs are still automatically opened in assigned apps). That is why it does not cause any problems - you'll only get them if you're stupid enough to double-click the installer located in an automatically opened Finder window (as the disc's back cover tolds you to do), which will then install the copyprotection crap into your box. If you just rip it in iTunes or some other app instead - no problem.
Therefore, if your data is important you won't just trust that an unlikely event won't happen - you'll assume that it will happen and make sure that it won't affect the integrity of your data.
You're just way too paranoid. I've never had any problems with my SCSI drives whatsoever, and I never back them up either - its just too much hassle. But wait, where is that strange clicking sound coming fr
For me, Camino currently has two important problems:
1. On Safari, I can change tabs with command-shift-left/right arrow. On Camino, I have to use command-{ and command-}, which is too painful, as triggering { or } with Finnish keyboard layout (perhaps with some other non-US layouts too!) requires pressing shift and option too (i.e. command-option-shift-8 or command option-shift-9). I won't switch until this changes.
2. Camino does not regonise those private root CAs I've added to X509Anchors system keychain. Furthermore, there are no other ways to make Camino understand additional CAs either. I won't switch until this changes.
3. The keychain items Camino creates should be type "web form password", not "internet password" like Safari creates, to separate them from those that are non-form passwords. This would be nice, but not a critical issue.
4. Who the hell changed the nice toolbar icons of Camino 0.7 to those ugly ones in 0.8b...
5. Yes, yes, I should file a bugzilla report for 1. and 2... but then again, it is so much pain - better post these here than never, maybe some Camino developer is reading this... and Camino still has hope with me; I don't really like metal, and Gecko is rendering better than KHTML.
Besides, Safari currently has a nasty internationalisation issue, where it submits form as UTF-8 in certain conditions, when it should submit as latin-1. Went broken in 10.3.2 and wasn't fixed in 10.3.4, although I'd reported it...
most SACDs have a regular cd audio layer, so you can still use them in current players.
I have one such disc - works fine with my DVD/SACD player. BUT: When I inserted it to the DVD-R drive of my PowerBook to rip the CD layer with iTunes, I got a box which claimed that I had inserted a blank DVD disc! I then had to rip it on my friend's CD-ROM-only iBook.
So, the SACD's with CD layer should behave like regular RedBook discs, but this doesn't always seem to be the case...
Every day, Microsoft employees are physically in CIO and CEO boardrooms trying to convince executives that Microsoft is a better bet than Linux. Even with a large body of evidence to the contrary, this is something Linux is missing - the financial warchest to use the media and "war buses" to convince people to the contrary.
Isn't IBM doing this kind of promotion for Linux? Maybe they're not spending quite as much money for that as MS does for their stuff, but anyway.
Other companies also do it in smaller scales; I've seen HP's Linux server advertisements in front cover of Finland's largest business daily for several times. But sure, there are still MS adverts, too...
Compared to his homeland, he'll probably find the weather here pleasantly warm.
Yes. Many people here do not seem to realize that Linus has publicly stated that he never liked the coldness and darkness of Helsinki. And Portland is warmer; compare thesestatistics, for example.
Sure, the data transfer speed of BT are laughable if you're just transmitting large amount of data between two devices, like uploading MP3s to your phone's memory card or something. But still, at least for me, my main use of BT has been using my phone's GPRS connection with my laptop, and for that usage BT speed is well enough - although EDGE- or WCDMA-connections could theoretically transfer faster than BT, but what I've heard they practically do hardly over 64 kbit/s...
However, what I found laughable in this story is the phrase "less heat generated" - or at least I've never heard that the BT heat generation would've been even noticeable - even less an issue.
The lower power consumption would be very good, though. Nowadays BT connections are a real battery hog, and I've 2 times even been unable to go online because my phone battery has dried, although my laptop has still had lots of power left!
Back in late 2001, I had no problems running Windows XP on a box with 450 MHz PIII and 448 MB of RAM. No performance problems whatsoever. Bootup was slow, but it was only due to slow disk.
My mother is still running XP on her 600 MHz PIII with 256 MB of RAM and relatively fast HDD (one of the infamous DeathStars, btw.;-) ). The system works quickly, and boots quickly too. But I'm administering it, so Gator and friends are not there eating CPU cycles...
These systems are for sure little faster than 333 MHz PIIs, but I've also used XP on 233 MHz Pentium MMX, and although it felt a little sluggish I had a feeling that it was mostly due to insignificant amount of RAM (it was swapping rather lot, and really choke when you started to run multiple applications at the same time). Besides, they are still relatively slow ones comparing to todays >2 GHz boxes.
Well, system halting is good, but or produce error noice? If the heatsink has fallen completely off you've hardly started to hear that error beep when the CPU core has already permanently damaged.
It'd be really interesting to know, what option applies in which case!
Doesn't that sound like precisely the Why $FREE_UNIX_SYSTEM Can Never Succeed on the Desktop Argument? I am sure that Windows is no harder to administer than Unix. But I have fifteen years of Unix adminning experience, and zero Windows experience. To people who grew up on PC-DOS and Wintel, it is as intuitive for them as dd is to me.
You hit straight to the nail.
Back in 2001, I was still very much pro-MS guy. I had used linux, started to understand its benefits compared to Windows like scriptability - W2k/WBA is quite good, too, but NT4 was horrible without something like Cygwin, and it didn't help me a bit as I did not really know Unix.
I first played with Slackware at 1997, at home. Back then, I only had a modem, and downloading anything was rather hopeless. The distro was really primitive comparing to today's distros, and I really felt it was just a toy.
Then, at 2001, the company I was working for at that time hired a guy to develop Java servlets. I had just started to get the company network managed - when I came a year earlier, it was hell; a totally unmanaged local network and web administration outsourced to a company, which was totally incapable to provide any customer service whatsoever. As the company had both W98 and WNT4 boxes, and I knew the W2k was coming, I decided to upgrade all boxes to W2k ASAP to make the network management easier, and manage the webserver by myself in the future, and the CEO agreed.
Anyway, that Java coder absolutely wanted to place his creation to a Linux box! I rather opposed, but as we were both geeks we get to talks rather easily, and I finally agreed to install a RH6.2 box as a new web server, if he'd just make it easy enough for me to administer. I had a little earlier got broadband at home, and had briefly tested RH6.0, but although I had started to understand Linux a little better, I still did not know a lot about Apache, Tomcat or any other its server software. I then learned Linux yet a little better, although not that much yet, and started to believe it as a possible server alternative.
Btw, back then I was running an MS DNS software, and actually I found it rather straightforward, although I don't really remember that well anymore. In WNT4 that was a separate app, but in W2k that was some MMC snap-in. But then again I later found BIND to be a rather straightforward too, and it only became a burden later, when I first learned about chrooting.
At 2001 that company was aquired by a major publishing company, and I worked few months in a new position, where I also had to learn Macs. I have to say, that I really loved the Mac OS 9's UI compared to Windows, but I hated the poor memory management and multitasking. However, I also briefly tested Mac OS 10.0.3, and although that felt cool, it was not yeat ready for primetime use. I left the company before I could've get my hands to 10.1.
Later at that autumn, I finally made the switch at home, and it happened all of sudden; I had just upgraded my home box (which was an about one year old W2k install) to XP few weeks earlier, when Explorer got really broken; every time I opened any folder, it opened a search box instead - i.e. the default context-menu-function for directory had changed from "open" to "search". I've usually been quite pro with registry, so I tried to fix that - I tried really hard, and spent a lot of time. But somehow, I failed anyway.
As I thought the nature of the problem, I came to conlusions that I probably couldn't fix it without reinstall, and as the problem was in settings, which theoretically worked correctly - just a wrong option had been selected - a reinstall over existing install probably wouldn't have fixed anything and I'd had to do a clean install.
Now, just the thought about the work required for that really made me felt pissed, and as a MS customer, I started to do what any rational customer does, when (s)he isn't satisfied with a product: I started to look for alternatives! I downloaded a beta copy of Sta
Yes. The whole order was mostly to help OEM's, as vast majority of users will use whatever OS came preinstalled with their box. Thus, MS can perhaps make such file associations to retail versions - although I somehow suppose that that already would be found to be a violation of the order - but now an OEM, who has decided to preinstall a program X in place of WMP, can re-associate those files to be opened in that program.
Not just that, but there is also the detail, that the EU didn't require MS to license anything for free, just "for a reasonable price". This means that neither Samba nor any other GPL'd software will benefit anything from this decision, unless someone big enough (perhaps IBM, for example) manages to negotiate an unlimited license for themselves.
However, other proprietary software vendors can now take any piece of LGPL'd ore more loosely (like BSD) -licensed OSS, and develop proprietary extensions to it using a license aquired from MS. This is still better for market than MS only -solutions.
Well, no government is perfect, either is ours. Far from it. But sure, it could be worse.
I've only ever met five Finnish people (they were a band) and although four of them threatened to kill me (due to the fifth who was rather more friendly;), I must say I liked all of them.
Interesting - sounds like some black/death metal stuff.;-) Makes me wonder, what band it happened to be...
A friend who lives there, described the country as a nation of alchoholic psychopaths, but he said it in a very affectionate way.
Yeah, perhaps that is a good description.:D Actually, Finns are quite a depressive people, and suicide rates are high. I think it is mostly the long and dark winter that makes that - it is commonly referred as "polar night depression". I have also often felt little depressed during the darkest winter (December-January). Strictly speaking, though, true polar night (when sun does not rise at all) only exist in northern Finland, but it is generally rather dark in south then, too.
All this and Linux too.
Well, this isn't probably as good as it sounds. Most people here, like almost everywhere else, are running Windows. IIRC, Linux's market share on desktop is twice as large as Apple's, though. I think something like 4% of desktops are running Linux, and 2% are Macs. Then again, very many people are probably heard of Linus Torvalds...
What are your policies on immigration?
Depends a lot about your current residence. If you're from an another EEA country, you mostly have to find yourself a job here, and then you'll be granted a residence permission; under three months visits can be done without, whether you'll work here or not. If you're from anywhere else, things get little more complicated, as you'll need both work and residence permissions before you're allowed to start working here.
For more information about Finnish public sector as a whole (immigration information too), see this goverment portal. Citizenship and visa information can be found from the Ministry for Foreing Affairs (but most western nationals won't need a visa).
And yes, it is always a good idea to read some Wikipedia. Btw, see the section "International Rankings", too.;-)
. I'm based in the UK at present. These phones are cheap because the network provider (e.g. T-Mobile, Vodaphone, etc) knows that you will be locked into their service for evermore with that phone. Conversely, a non-subsidized phone will cost you much more.
It seems many of the Union countries allow this sort of bundling, but not all. I live in Finland, where it is forbidden by law. I have to say that I'm happy with that legislation, as this makes it very easy to compare both phone and operator prices separately, and also switch the operator without switching the phone (or vice versa).
Don't get involved in patent pissing contest with IBM when money is on the line
Well - the story was about Opera. If IBM, HP and similar-size companies would be the only ones who could reasonably have any legal stand against MS, it wouldn't be that funny for the OSS community. See, not every project that is critical to success of OSS has something like Big Blue among their major contributors.
For Opera-like proprietary ISV's who are not backed by big ones it would create even worse threat than for OSS community. Think about if MS had reacted to this thing like "Okay, let's go to court. Btw, lets also sue them for 4 patent infringements, as they are using [insert at least 4 obvious-but-patented-by-MS technologies here] in their products."
No, that is not happening yet, but that is mostly because MS has only recently switched to very aggressive gear in building their patent portfolio. And that was the point of my joke.
OK, I promise: we will use only legal business practices in the future. To achieve this and still keep our market postition we also will, from this day forth, patent everyting under the sun and later sue anybody whom we think is infringing into oblivion.
Don't know about that, but imagine a copy of MS Virtual PC running on top of that! Now you'd have a x86 emulator on top of a PPC emulator on top of a natively running x86 OS, and perhaps even the speed of this machine!
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You just stole my obligatory insensitive clod joke about not living in a country where iTMS operates.
/. for that, though. ;-) )
Damn guys from Turku, always getting on the way... even on Slashdot, perkele!
(For those who didn't get it: me and parent live in different cities in Finland, and people on my and his city are always ready to start flamewar with each other. I don't think there are enough of us on
Well, I'm not an U.S. citizen so I do not vote there, have never even visited there, know that DMCA is not really a democrat v. republican issue (and that Clinton signed it into law), and that this guy is from copyright/DRM enforcement point of view probably as bad kind of asshole as Valenti ever was.
But that said, I'm still always kind a way happy when I'll hear, that some elected/chosen person somewhere in the States was a democrat instead of a republican; every republican happens to get connected into Reagan/Bush -style administrations in my mind, and I think every rep. president of the U.S. at least after T.R. has somehow sucked - save perhaps Eisenhower, who wasn't even a politican in the first place - comparing to democrat ones.
Perhaps it is just, because I'm a foreigner; for me, the republicans always seem to have been those, who seem to have forgotten that U.S. != World. Lately (during Bush admin at least) they also seem to have been those, who do not care anything about the greed of megacorps (or who even run them by themselves).
Mark Russinovich is a known pro-windows guy, whose views are for sure heavily biased. Kudos for him though, that he really knows his OS inside out - he is one of the guys behind Sysinternals, and I've more than once found their tools very helpful when dealing with problems of Windows boxes.
Despite his talk being biased, I think he got one important point mostly right:
But ultimately, said Russinovich, the gap between the two operating systems will continue to narrow to a point where their underlying kernel becomes irrelevant. "Layered services will become more important," he concluded.
On server space the kernel performance probably counts out more, but at least for most (not all, though) desktop users the kernel really isn't the most important part; it is the common APIs that do the trick. One could build two very similar boxes, one running Linux and the other FreeBSD - both running same apps, with differences hardly noticeable for the end user. Switch the BSD box to Mach kernel, keep userland, and still no much difference. But then just throw Apple's Quartz instead of X on top of that, and we suddenly have totally different world! This is just because we'll now suddenly have a totally different set of APIs.
However - what Russinovich left out - Windows will inevitably be the very last one to jump on this bandvagon, due to Microsoft's policies' closed nature and it's dominant position on the market. Windows just does not have to be compatible with other systems on the market the same way POSIX systems does have to - not at least from it's vendor's viewpoint.
IATA does not currently allow methanol on aeroplanes as hand luggage, so you wouldn't be allowed to take these onboard anyway. Actually the tech corps are currently trying to develop ethanol-based cells just for this particular reason. I just red about this today from a newspaper, although it was a tabloid, so I won't be giving too high credits for it.
/., I just can't sleep yet), so anyway... ;-)
But then again, it is 2.30 am EEST, and I'm currently really drunk (that's why I'm on
Mac OS X does not have autorun for data-only tracks (audio-cds, photo-cds, video-dvds and blank discs are still automatically opened in assigned apps). That is why it does not cause any problems - you'll only get them if you're stupid enough to double-click the installer located in an automatically opened Finder window (as the disc's back cover tolds you to do), which will then install the copyprotection crap into your box. If you just rip it in iTunes or some other app instead - no problem.
Therefore, if your data is important you won't just trust that an unlikely event won't happen - you'll assume that it will happen and make sure that it won't affect the integrity of your data.
You're just way too paranoid. I've never had any problems with my SCSI drives whatsoever, and I never back them up either - its just too much hassle. But wait, where is that strange clicking sound coming fr
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For me, Camino currently has two important problems:
1. On Safari, I can change tabs with command-shift-left/right arrow. On Camino, I have to use command-{ and command-}, which is too painful, as triggering { or } with Finnish keyboard layout (perhaps with some other non-US layouts too!) requires pressing shift and option too (i.e. command-option-shift-8 or command option-shift-9). I won't switch until this changes.
2. Camino does not regonise those private root CAs I've added to X509Anchors system keychain. Furthermore, there are no other ways to make Camino understand additional CAs either. I won't switch until this changes.
3. The keychain items Camino creates should be type "web form password", not "internet password" like Safari creates, to separate them from those that are non-form passwords. This would be nice, but not a critical issue.
4. Who the hell changed the nice toolbar icons of Camino 0.7 to those ugly ones in 0.8b...
5. Yes, yes, I should file a bugzilla report for 1. and 2... but then again, it is so much pain - better post these here than never, maybe some Camino developer is reading this... and Camino still has hope with me; I don't really like metal, and Gecko is rendering better than KHTML.
Besides, Safari currently has a nasty internationalisation issue, where it submits form as UTF-8 in certain conditions, when it should submit as latin-1. Went broken in 10.3.2 and wasn't fixed in 10.3.4, although I'd reported it...
Now this would be something. ;-)
most SACDs have a regular cd audio layer, so you can still use them in current players.
I have one such disc - works fine with my DVD/SACD player. BUT: When I inserted it to the DVD-R drive of my PowerBook to rip the CD layer with iTunes, I got a box which claimed that I had inserted a blank DVD disc! I then had to rip it on my friend's CD-ROM-only iBook.
So, the SACD's with CD layer should behave like regular RedBook discs, but this doesn't always seem to be the case...
Every day, Microsoft employees are physically in CIO and CEO boardrooms trying to convince executives that Microsoft is a better bet than Linux. Even with a large body of evidence to the contrary, this is something Linux is missing - the financial warchest to use the media and "war buses" to convince people to the contrary.
Isn't IBM doing this kind of promotion for Linux? Maybe they're not spending quite as much money for that as MS does for their stuff, but anyway.
Other companies also do it in smaller scales; I've seen HP's Linux server advertisements in front cover of Finland's largest business daily for several times. But sure, there are still MS adverts, too...
Compared to his homeland, he'll probably find the weather here pleasantly warm.
Yes. Many people here do not seem to realize that Linus has publicly stated that he never liked the coldness and darkness of Helsinki. And Portland is warmer; compare these statistics, for example.
Sure, the data transfer speed of BT are laughable if you're just transmitting large amount of data between two devices, like uploading MP3s to your phone's memory card or something. But still, at least for me, my main use of BT has been using my phone's GPRS connection with my laptop, and for that usage BT speed is well enough - although EDGE- or WCDMA-connections could theoretically transfer faster than BT, but what I've heard they practically do hardly over 64 kbit/s...
However, what I found laughable in this story is the phrase "less heat generated" - or at least I've never heard that the BT heat generation would've been even noticeable - even less an issue.
The lower power consumption would be very good, though. Nowadays BT connections are a real battery hog, and I've 2 times even been unable to go online because my phone battery has dried, although my laptop has still had lots of power left!
Back in late 2001, I had no problems running Windows XP on a box with 450 MHz PIII and 448 MB of RAM. No performance problems whatsoever. Bootup was slow, but it was only due to slow disk.
;-) ). The system works quickly, and boots quickly too. But I'm administering it, so Gator and friends are not there eating CPU cycles...
My mother is still running XP on her 600 MHz PIII with 256 MB of RAM and relatively fast HDD (one of the infamous DeathStars, btw.
These systems are for sure little faster than 333 MHz PIIs, but I've also used XP on 233 MHz Pentium MMX, and although it felt a little sluggish I had a feeling that it was mostly due to insignificant amount of RAM (it was swapping rather lot, and really choke when you started to run multiple applications at the same time). Besides, they are still relatively slow ones comparing to todays >2 GHz boxes.
Well, system halting is good, but or produce error noice? If the heatsink has fallen completely off you've hardly started to hear that error beep when the CPU core has already permanently damaged.
It'd be really interesting to know, what option applies in which case!
Doesn't that sound like precisely the Why $FREE_UNIX_SYSTEM Can Never Succeed on the Desktop Argument? I am sure that Windows is no harder to administer than Unix. But I have fifteen years of Unix adminning experience, and zero Windows experience. To people who grew up on PC-DOS and Wintel, it is as intuitive for them as dd is to me.
You hit straight to the nail.
Back in 2001, I was still very much pro-MS guy. I had used linux, started to understand its benefits compared to Windows like scriptability - W2k/WBA is quite good, too, but NT4 was horrible without something like Cygwin, and it didn't help me a bit as I did not really know Unix.
I first played with Slackware at 1997, at home. Back then, I only had a modem, and downloading anything was rather hopeless. The distro was really primitive comparing to today's distros, and I really felt it was just a toy.
Then, at 2001, the company I was working for at that time hired a guy to develop Java servlets. I had just started to get the company network managed - when I came a year earlier, it was hell; a totally unmanaged local network and web administration outsourced to a company, which was totally incapable to provide any customer service whatsoever. As the company had both W98 and WNT4 boxes, and I knew the W2k was coming, I decided to upgrade all boxes to W2k ASAP to make the network management easier, and manage the webserver by myself in the future, and the CEO agreed.
Anyway, that Java coder absolutely wanted to place his creation to a Linux box! I rather opposed, but as we were both geeks we get to talks rather easily, and I finally agreed to install a RH6.2 box as a new web server, if he'd just make it easy enough for me to administer. I had a little earlier got broadband at home, and had briefly tested RH6.0, but although I had started to understand Linux a little better, I still did not know a lot about Apache, Tomcat or any other its server software. I then learned Linux yet a little better, although not that much yet, and started to believe it as a possible server alternative.
Btw, back then I was running an MS DNS software, and actually I found it rather straightforward, although I don't really remember that well anymore. In WNT4 that was a separate app, but in W2k that was some MMC snap-in. But then again I later found BIND to be a rather straightforward too, and it only became a burden later, when I first learned about chrooting.
At 2001 that company was aquired by a major publishing company, and I worked few months in a new position, where I also had to learn Macs. I have to say, that I really loved the Mac OS 9's UI compared to Windows, but I hated the poor memory management and multitasking. However, I also briefly tested Mac OS 10.0.3, and although that felt cool, it was not yeat ready for primetime use. I left the company before I could've get my hands to 10.1.
Later at that autumn, I finally made the switch at home, and it happened all of sudden; I had just upgraded my home box (which was an about one year old W2k install) to XP few weeks earlier, when Explorer got really broken; every time I opened any folder, it opened a search box instead - i.e. the default context-menu-function for directory had changed from "open" to "search". I've usually been quite pro with registry, so I tried to fix that - I tried really hard, and spent a lot of time. But somehow, I failed anyway.
As I thought the nature of the problem, I came to conlusions that I probably couldn't fix it without reinstall, and as the problem was in settings, which theoretically worked correctly - just a wrong option had been selected - a reinstall over existing install probably wouldn't have fixed anything and I'd had to do a clean install.
Now, just the thought about the work required for that really made me felt pissed, and as a MS customer, I started to do what any rational customer does, when (s)he isn't satisfied with a product: I started to look for alternatives! I downloaded a beta copy of Sta
Yes. The whole order was mostly to help OEM's, as vast majority of users will use whatever OS came preinstalled with their box. Thus, MS can perhaps make such file associations to retail versions - although I somehow suppose that that already would be found to be a violation of the order - but now an OEM, who has decided to preinstall a program X in place of WMP, can re-associate those files to be opened in that program.
Not just that, but there is also the detail, that the EU didn't require MS to license anything for free, just "for a reasonable price". This means that neither Samba nor any other GPL'd software will benefit anything from this decision, unless someone big enough (perhaps IBM, for example) manages to negotiate an unlimited license for themselves.
However, other proprietary software vendors can now take any piece of LGPL'd ore more loosely (like BSD) -licensed OSS, and develop proprietary extensions to it using a license aquired from MS. This is still better for market than MS only -solutions.
Let's see...
20 * 5€ = 100€
20 * 10€ = 200€
20 * 20€ = 400€
20 * 50€ = 1 000€
20 * 100€ = 2 000€
20 * 200€ = 4 000€
20 * 500€ = 10 000€
= 17 700€
Shit, maybe I should become a GIMP developer, too!
I envy you your government.
;), I must say I liked all of them.
;-) Makes me wonder, what band it happened to be...
:D Actually, Finns are quite a depressive people, and suicide rates are high. I think it is mostly the long and dark winter that makes that - it is commonly referred as "polar night depression". I have also often felt little depressed during the darkest winter (December-January). Strictly speaking, though, true polar night (when sun does not rise at all) only exist in northern Finland, but it is generally rather dark in south then, too.
;-)
Well, no government is perfect, either is ours. Far from it. But sure, it could be worse.
I've only ever met five Finnish people (they were a band) and although four of them threatened to kill me (due to the fifth who was rather more friendly
Interesting - sounds like some black/death metal stuff.
A friend who lives there, described the country as a nation of alchoholic psychopaths, but he said it in a very affectionate way.
Yeah, perhaps that is a good description.
All this and Linux too.
Well, this isn't probably as good as it sounds. Most people here, like almost everywhere else, are running Windows. IIRC, Linux's market share on desktop is twice as large as Apple's, though. I think something like 4% of desktops are running Linux, and 2% are Macs. Then again, very many people are probably heard of Linus Torvalds...
What are your policies on immigration?
Depends a lot about your current residence. If you're from an another EEA country, you mostly have to find yourself a job here, and then you'll be granted a residence permission; under three months visits can be done without, whether you'll work here or not. If you're from anywhere else, things get little more complicated, as you'll need both work and residence permissions before you're allowed to start working here.
For more information about Finnish public sector as a whole (immigration information too), see this goverment portal. Citizenship and visa information can be found from the Ministry for Foreing Affairs (but most western nationals won't need a visa).
And yes, it is always a good idea to read some Wikipedia. Btw, see the section "International Rankings", too.
. I'm based in the UK at present. These phones are cheap because the network provider (e.g. T-Mobile, Vodaphone, etc) knows that you will be locked into their service for evermore with that phone. Conversely, a non-subsidized phone will cost you much more.
It seems many of the Union countries allow this sort of bundling, but not all. I live in Finland, where it is forbidden by law. I have to say that I'm happy with that legislation, as this makes it very easy to compare both phone and operator prices separately, and also switch the operator without switching the phone (or vice versa).
Come on.
With what OS they'd run the system capable of processing all that video data? Windows?
An EU-US war is madness plain and simple. It's not going to happen.
Yeah, as an European I believe so too. Yankees are known to be as lunatic cowboys as their president, but never that mNO CARRIER
Don't get involved in patent pissing contest with IBM when money is on the line
Well - the story was about Opera. If IBM, HP and similar-size companies would be the only ones who could reasonably have any legal stand against MS, it wouldn't be that funny for the OSS community. See, not every project that is critical to success of OSS has something like Big Blue among their major contributors.
For Opera-like proprietary ISV's who are not backed by big ones it would create even worse threat than for OSS community. Think about if MS had reacted to this thing like "Okay, let's go to court. Btw, lets also sue them for 4 patent infringements, as they are using [insert at least 4 obvious-but-patented-by-MS technologies here] in their products."
No, that is not happening yet, but that is mostly because MS has only recently switched to very aggressive gear in building their patent portfolio. And that was the point of my joke.
OK, I promise: we will use only legal business practices in the future. To achieve this and still keep our market postition we also will, from this day forth, patent everyting under the sun and later sue anybody whom we think is infringing into oblivion.
Yours,
Bill
Don't know about that, but imagine a copy of MS Virtual PC running on top of that! Now you'd have a x86 emulator on top of a PPC emulator on top of a natively running x86 OS, and perhaps even the speed of this machine!