Win4Lin Terminal Server 2.0 is derived from proven technologies developed for Unix® based operating systems over the last 15 years, most notably those of SCO® (Caldera®), under the product name of Merge(tm).
So their technology is actually derivated from SCO's... prepare to get sued.
But don't really believe - and I definitely don't think I'm the only/. reader who doesn't - that MS really does is best to write secure code. They have paid more attention to security recently than yet just few years ago, though, but I think they could still do more.
When holes are found, they should be naturally patched asap. I didn't try to argue against that. I did argue against MS coding quality, or what it seems to have been.
I had read on the boards that the MS Bluetooth mouse did not work with Apple's Bluetooth (which did not surprise me considering its MS). How hard was it for you to get it working?
I was afraid of this when I purchased it too, but luckily it seems to be completely FUD. OS >= 10.2.5 is required - see this document by Apple (it says "Bluetooth Setup Assistant now works with certain Microsoft keyboards and mouse devices").
The difficulty is, however, that the manual for the mouse is only available electronically after running setup.exe under Windows - and neither the printed installation guide nor readme.txt tells you, that to make the mouse discoverable you have to press the small "Connect channel" button embedded to the bottom of the mouse (MS's own setup wizard seems to be somehow crippled to get the mouse work without using the standard discovery method at all). After you've pressed the button and launched the "Set up Bluetooth Device" wizard, the rest will be breeze - unlike under Windows, according to readme.txt.
The receiver works too, if you just need it - a friend of mine tested it with his iBook, and I for some reason my box kernel panicked when he turned off the receiver after we had used BT file exchange.
Using my new 12" AluBook at 4th day now - first Mac I've ever own - and I just got my first kernel panic under OS X, after which the box refused to boot properly at first attempt.
And if I had ordered this thing not 3 weeks ago but now, I'd have spared about 300 - great feeling indeed.
Feels like a great day to try out an alternative OSes...
OK, I admit: some positive things too. My friend visited with his iBook, and Rendezvous worked as expected - and the M$ bluetooth mouse of mine also works perfectly (except the thumb buttons).
Copy protections only have effect for entertainment consumers living in welfare societies. Such entertainment products or services are by no means necessary for our everyday life and thus cannot be even in same context with crimes against humanity.
Yes, copy protection creates some artificial limits for receiving information, but that effect is not very significant as long as information availability in non-electronic formats (like newspapers) is not somehow (for example by goverment or by some media cartel) limited. This can change sometime in future if the paper will eventually disappear, but that will still take at least many decades, even if it will finally happen. We have to remember that today many people are still living without personal computers.
Now don't get me wrong: I hate copy protections as much as an average/. guy, but the real problem are DCMA-like laws meant to enforce copy protections, which create potential threats against on-line privacy and freedom of speech.
The point is: the existence of copy protections alone is not any real problem, the laws enforcing them are.
I appreciate all ideas to reduce polluting too, but still can't help thinking what will happen when some drunkie crashes a NEV, which had right of the way, with one of those heavy SUVs nowadays so popular there in U.S.
Luckily public traffic in most European cities works quite well, so one does actually need to drive less frequently.
I'm not exactly an environmentalist, but everything is going throw-away it seems.
I think somebody should tell them to build such dual-layer disks, whose upper layer would be self-destructing, and lower layer normal dvd+/-rw. Such disks would be easily reusable, yet meet their original purpose from rentals' point of view.
But wait... that would make MPAA embrace writable disks. How absolutely dreadful! To hell then with environment protection, profit!
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Actually, SuSE doesn't ship ISO's for free, so kids can't get legal SuSE even now (as CD images, that is).
But if all the content on their ISOs is covered by GPL, what prevents copying it from someone who has it? AFAIK it's still legal.
Of course if those ISOs have bundled proprietary software (say StarOffice, Crossover Office) on them, then this naturally doesn't apply.
(quoted from NeTraverse Win4Lin Terminal Server S2.0 web page):
Win4Lin Terminal Server 2.0 is derived from proven technologies developed for Unix® based operating systems over the last 15 years, most notably those of SCO® (Caldera®), under the product name of Merge(tm).
So their technology is actually derivated from SCO's... prepare to get sued.
The author even already admitted he hasn't RTFA properly.
Of course nothing is ever completely secure.
/. reader who doesn't - that MS really does is best to write secure code. They have paid more attention to security recently than yet just few years ago, though, but I think they could still do more.
But don't really believe - and I definitely don't think I'm the only
When holes are found, they should be naturally patched asap. I didn't try to argue against that. I did argue against MS coding quality, or what it seems to have been.
How about writing secure code that is secure right out of the box?
Oh, but wait... this is M$. Sure they do not have resources for that. Nevermind.
I had read on the boards that the MS Bluetooth mouse did not work with Apple's Bluetooth (which did not surprise me considering its MS). How hard was it for you to get it working?
I was afraid of this when I purchased it too, but luckily it seems to be completely FUD. OS >= 10.2.5 is required - see this document by Apple (it says "Bluetooth Setup Assistant now works with certain Microsoft keyboards and mouse devices").
The difficulty is, however, that the manual for the mouse is only available electronically after running setup.exe under Windows - and neither the printed installation guide nor readme.txt tells you, that to make the mouse discoverable you have to press the small "Connect channel" button embedded to the bottom of the mouse (MS's own setup wizard seems to be somehow crippled to get the mouse work without using the standard discovery method at all). After you've pressed the button and launched the "Set up Bluetooth Device" wizard, the rest will be breeze - unlike under Windows, according to readme.txt.
The receiver works too, if you just need it - a friend of mine tested it with his iBook, and I for some reason my box kernel panicked when he turned off the receiver after we had used BT file exchange.
Using my new 12" AluBook at 4th day now - first Mac I've ever own - and I just got my first kernel panic under OS X, after which the box refused to boot properly at first attempt.
And if I had ordered this thing not 3 weeks ago but now, I'd have spared about 300 - great feeling indeed.
Feels like a great day to try out an alternative OSes...
OK, I admit: some positive things too. My friend visited with his iBook, and Rendezvous worked as expected - and the M$ bluetooth mouse of mine also works perfectly (except the thumb buttons).
Yeah, yeah, it's DMCA, not DCMA.
Ask Slashdot: How to avoid those typos?
(And I used the preview!)
Copy protections only have effect for entertainment consumers living in welfare societies. Such entertainment products or services are by no means necessary for our everyday life and thus cannot be even in same context with crimes against humanity.
/. guy, but the real problem are DCMA-like laws meant to enforce copy protections, which create potential threats against on-line privacy and freedom of speech.
Yes, copy protection creates some artificial limits for receiving information, but that effect is not very significant as long as information availability in non-electronic formats (like newspapers) is not somehow (for example by goverment or by some media cartel) limited. This can change sometime in future if the paper will eventually disappear, but that will still take at least many decades, even if it will finally happen. We have to remember that today many people are still living without personal computers.
Now don't get me wrong: I hate copy protections as much as an average
The point is: the existence of copy protections alone is not any real problem, the laws enforcing them are.
I appreciate all ideas to reduce polluting too, but still can't help thinking what will happen when some drunkie crashes a NEV, which had right of the way, with one of those heavy SUVs nowadays so popular there in U.S.
Luckily public traffic in most European cities works quite well, so one does actually need to drive less frequently.
Personally, i don't even own one.
I'm not exactly an environmentalist, but everything is going throw-away it seems.
I think somebody should tell them to build such dual-layer disks, whose upper layer would be self-destructing, and lower layer normal dvd+/-rw. Such disks would be easily reusable, yet meet their original purpose from rentals' point of view.
But wait... that would make MPAA embrace writable disks. How absolutely dreadful! To hell then with environment protection, profit!