Why isnt the registry properly documented via comment code? There's soo many of those {qwrgqrwgq-wqrg-q3gqtrgqrg} crap that does X unspecified action on the system. What would be wrong with mounting the registry on a drive letter (yeah, heresy, whatever) and having a structure like Reg:\System\Microsoft\Explorer\Window_Attributes\.. ? With that structure, it would be easy to understand what's going on in there. But I dont think they want us to.
Antitrust law has always been concerned about physical goods and services.
As per your example, a state mandated monopoly starts giving out free water bottles while displacing the other water dealers. Ok, I agree that's misuse of a monopoly position. Now, we look at Microsoft. Back when Netscape and others were for-profit businesses, bundling a web browser was fair to call abuse of a monopolistic position.
I could argue and say that due to the boom of the internet, FTP, POP3, SMTP, HTTP, NNTP and others are protocols that an OS should provide basic services for. How else, especially in todays Internet, do you get a web browser if you dont understand commandline ftp? Or for that matter, find the server that hosts it?
And about the Monopoly position: do they really have that kind of influence any more? There's another price influence called FREE. Linux is free to download, free to change, free to do nothing with, free to develop on, and free to ignore. Linux is no company or organization to bankrupt. Linux doesnt care if it makes money. In fact, Linux is no more than thousands of independent groups working for the benefit of all.
How does Microsoft, champion of Capitalism, deal with thousands of neer-do-wells, many of which make this software for fun?
If there was a monopoly, there isnt now. That's because there IS a choice and that choice will never go away.
I know exactly what GPO's are. I also know how they miserably fail in doing what their specific policy prevents.
Windows machines have many ways to do the same behavior. You click on "cant see my computer". Ok. The main button is disabled. The MS Office button-file-open dialog isnt and can see everything.
GPO's are broken like that. They do work, for decreasingly low values of work. However, it does stop the casual "I dunno what Im doing so Im going to surf the Web" users.
RHEL is only worth that much because of the requisite service agreement. Red Hat's agreement is overall cheaper than MS's equivalent agreement.
And "Highly Skilled Person Time".... If you've ever hired a reboot/reinstall monkey, you know those "windows admins" are a waste. When the real problems come, they simply cant solve it. And that would be a real admin, whether it be Windows, Linux, Mac, OS/360, or any other operating system.
A pro is a pro, and you compare peanuts with a pro. That just doesnt work, and you should know it.
You're expecting a bunch of hippie loving MS haters who recommend Linux. Guess again.
---We all know the same code base can run anything from a simple (i.e. "starter") PC running Wordpad, Outlook Express and Firefox to an enterprise server running AD on 32 cores managing thousands of workstations.
Good point. Microsoft software has always required more hardware to run properly. Any of their version bumps never reduced operating requirements; in fact, there has been no version that calls for the same requirement. Vista was made fun of, joking about how many TB of ram you need. In a way, they were right. It's a disk hog, ram hog, and a cpu hog. 2003, XP, and 2000 all do the same on less.
And dont say those extra services require that variance. My WRT54G does all those network services on what? 50 MIPS total?
---Would you (as a "for-profit" company) price the former at $1,000? Or the latter at $100?
Charging is compared to what the market will bear. Windows is going against Linux in the server department. There, Linux can do 90-95% what MS can. Linux is free, licensing and all. MS has what? Easy domains, Outlook, and Sharepoint?
On the desktop front, we have OSX, Linux, and Windows duking it out. Mac is winning the (perceived) high end. Linux is taking the low power cheapie machines, and Windows is being ate out of house and home. The conversion between Non-Vista and Vista threw out a bunch of drivers and their associated hardware, so Linux has more hardware compatibility. I will assume that due to capitalistic pressures, Mac price will continue to fall, Linux will climb inexorably higher in quality, and MS will feel the squeeze more.
So, for the server question: how much is "Easy setup of Domains", Outlook integration, and Sharepoint licensing worth? Because Linux can handle the rest. With more work, Linux can even handle 2 of the 3 nicely (domains are still stupid in Linux). 100$? 200$?
And for the clients... Add/Remove in Linux actually can add, much to users amazement. Most programs are already there, Wine can handle most, leaving VirtualBox for the last few. Even Windows requires a crapload of 3rd party software for it to be really useful, unlike Mac and Linux that come with usable stuff out of the box. 25$? Perhaps 50$ total.
---What other alternatives do they have for a pricing structure?
They ran out the lot of us by not including any sort of IDE for making Windows programs easily. Linux and Mac come with free IDEs and compilers. In fact, Apple relies on the GPL GCC. MSWindows thought they could extract more money from users by charging extra for what I would consider an essential part of an OS. The fact that it's easier to make Linux/Mac programs means more things are made for them by poor/non-pirating users. First things first, remedy the situation by providing a decent IDE/compiler.
Not much. After the Vista debacle and their wasting of resources on that pig, Linux and Mac are in the attempt of displacing them. Mix that with the economy downturn, and that price of "FREE" is hard to beat. And good admins in this downturn are cheaper than ever. So, the proper answer would be to low-ball the OSes. Include the DRM, because at 25$ for client and 200$ per server is damned hard for the likes of Linux to beat in the short run.
As to the complaints of "Antitrust violations in cheap MS OS prices", they should respond STFU.
"Linux is cheaper, and we can never beat that price. They're the monopoly, and the unbeatable competitor."
How are they different than just not having the programs on the machine, or not in that user group?
In the Linux side of things, we can force modules not to load, only load certain hardware, not allow hardware access to any device, inbound/outbound kernel based firewall, and much others. If a user needs only a spreadsheet and inventory tracking, only allow those 2.
And if a user is being stupid and fired, we can forcefully unmount his NFS share, log him out, and change password. We could write a script that could accomplish that in 1 second. Does Windows have that fine grained control over users?
That's because it takes thousands of people to make an OS.
Look at Microsoft and their lines of OSes.. They have what, 50k people on staff at any one time with perhaps 2/3 of them doing programming work? Most of their code is already written from buy-oughts, so they now provide mostly maintenance and scripting. There's maybe 20-50 people doing *interesting* stuff at any one time, it being 10 years away.
Look at OSX now. They have a similar issue, but leveraged theirs away by choosing a FreeBSD-like platform which to design everything on top of. They also reduce features for their core GUI programs to reduce testing and errors. They also focus much more aesthetically, in direct comparison to Linux GUIS and Windows. And their equipment is much higher priced (can buy 2-3 laptops of the same quality of 1 mac laptop), considering they discourage Hackintoshes.
The Linux guys ad to design everything from the ground up, because of the choice in license. It was also a NiH kind of "I can do it better" kind of game, because Linux was new and exciting. But development still requires large resources. Linus happened to be the appropriate coder/manager to herd the cats at the bottom. Then everything else fell into place: some by luck and others by necessity.
FreeBSD: Its THE academic system, and it works well. It's a traditional fork from SYS I which they license it very openly. There's work done on it, but the "cool" work is Linux. The BSD's are perfect for stability, file sharing, and network code. It has a healthy set of adherents and users, but mostly is relegated to core network technologies.
Now, we look at HURD.. It's there, with a Debian/HURD system install possible. It's there's few device drivers, even fewer developers, doesnt work with basic equipment, buggy as hell (because few developers), and there's something that's "Just As Free", and works to boot (Linux). Would the FSF be better off on discontinuing the HURD? Probably, but it's their choice, and we dont know what its possible uses are yet either.. There's always a critical mass which things like these hit that make them explode, and they might be right about making their own kernel.
I've got a dialup server that's a 300MHz P2. It also runs a print server and firewall. And only 2 cables: Power and phone. Even uses wifi to conect to our internal network.
Guess what's on the wifi: WRT54GS. And another firewall. Different passwords too. And wouldnt you know... Channel 14:D I wonder...
Im now looking at consolidating my dialup and file server to 1 machine (and dumping the 300MHz). Im hesitant to for security reasons. Still, its dialup. Not many people scan our network these days.
---"Taking" is a legal term that describes the government taking *material* property from some people. Read the Fifth amendment. Spying on people has nothing to do with "takings" (although once the civil suits by EFF and such were filed, one could make argument that the FISA bill constituted a taking).
If I recall correctly, there was that case of the US govt temporarily co-opting Cipro's patent controller and allowing other drug companies to make it without fear of patent retribution. In the US govt's defense, it was done during the anthrax scare. As a result, the Govt allowed the patent to continue X years longer as a payment.
---Income taxes are definitely in the gray area or borderline---a lot of people felt that the federal government had no such power when they started doing that, but, well, taxes in U.S. are definitely lower than that of any of the "liberal" countries in Europe.
If we go back to the law concerning taxes, there is no representation behind taxing money for services rendered. It was codified as profit on selling objects. Some lawyer in Lousiana took the IRS to task on that, saying that the 1040 was optional to fill out, so he didnt. They took him to court, and evidently asked the presiding judge for the law that said as such the IRS was claiming. As far as I know, he's been successful. But he's also a lawyer, so take that with a pound or two of salt. I sure as hell wouldnt try a stunt like that.
---I won't deny that US government has done a lot of bad things (at least to my libertarian sensibilities), but among the thieves that are governments of the world, US is the most "moral" of them all, and US is the single country most committed to individual liberties (at least of its own citizens).
I could care less about labels (dem, repub, lib, green, whatever).. I have a problem when the 'rulers' take a dump on the Constitution.
1. There are talks of reporters getting immunity from federal prosecutions. Should never happen, because the internet makes us ALL reporters.
2. "right of the people peaceably to assemble" : 3 words "Free Speech Zones"
3. Gun laws are flat out against the Constitution. It was meant in the Federalist Papers that it was the "4th branch" of government, if you get my drift. And, what do they mean by militia? State National Guard? Private military service? A group of drunken hicks who cling to their guns?
4. Unreasonable searches are carried out all the time. We can look at the past and current administration and their snooping programs. The courts those admissions are made in are secret, as are the rulings, as are the people. This kind of behavior was why we broke apart from the UK to begin with.
I can go on and on. As long as you dont disturb the majority, you're fine. As long as you dont screw with anybody in power, you'll be fine. And as long as you dont question authority, you'll be fine. If you dont care about your rights as they're trampled on, you'll be fine. After all, you'll be like any other American.
Shucks. I guess Im in their target market as a computer professional (and a student).
I have 2 laptops. One's an 8gig ssd EEE and my other is a T61 IBM. That says nothing of the largish amount of weird hardware desktops I have.
Hpowever, when I choose OSes, I go Ubuntu. I _have_ iso's of every Windows OS, including the disks of Windows 1 and Vista Ultimate. I have cracks for them so that almost all of them authenticate under WGA. My T61 hardware is similar to a powerbook, so I can run a Hackintosh. I can find damn near any piece of software for any OS, along with cracks, so filling in the holes would be slightly more than trivial.
I still choose Ubuntu. And before that, I chose Debian Testing. And before that (back in the mid-late 90's) Red Hat. I was always a Win98 kind of person, so switching was more of a curiosity. I first had experience with Unix when I logged into a real sysIV back in the early 80's on my dads Commie64 over a 300baud modem. It was all commandline back then, so my dad helped me with commands to do stuff. I was back then, around 6, reading comp.sci and other newsgroups. I really didnt do much in terms of bulk transfer as we were going too slow.. And that was when the backbone was 56K
Now, after really teaching myself about the internals of Linux, can I now actually use my computer as I wish. And thanks to Ubuntu, all my hardware is set up so that oit just works. Bewfore you buy, check up on what and what doesnt work. A good 'sudo lspci -vv' will tell you exactly what you need to know.
As per John Gage's quote, and Sun's slogan "The Network IS the Computer", my home network is exactly that. I have a domain via Kerberos, Samba and NFS storage (we have Windows machines here), X redirection and remote login, network sound via PulseAudio, a Jabber server for communication, remote webcam viewing (poor man security cam network), and other less useful services. And all of that's for free. Like I said, I have all those OS disks with cracks, but no OS listed above can provide what I do, no matter the cost.
Linux can provide that, at no charge. And it works on the lowest p200 with 32MB ram for a firewall/ticket system, up to the most massive machines the market can muster. What extra features does Windows 7 offer that I currently obtain (legally) for free?
And your answer is brain-dead when they quit "offering" reactivations. And you say... that they will always offer reactivations?? Look at their "Plays for Sure" label.. I dont think it plays anymore.
I had a friend who bought a eBook from CourseSmart (hint: DONT BUY from them).
He's not that smart in computers, but bought this ebook and then found out you can only print 10 pages and it disables itself after 6 months. He paid 50$ less than the real textbook. I said WTF...
Anyways, he's stuck with some god awful cripple-book... until I un-fucked it. Well, what did I do?
1.The book was reminiscent of a PDF reader, however, rotation options are not present. So, I tell the screen driver (running on the eeeclone from acer) to flip 90 degrees. 2.I tell the cripplebook reader to go full screen, which it does. It turns out, you can turn pages by pressing left and right. 3.I found a GPL MSWindows screenshot tool that formats pngs via name_0001 I set it up to save to./book/ 4.I do prtscn/right 812 times for those images.
Hooray, you have unDRMed images of cripplebook.
Now for cleaning: 5.Use gimp to determine crop area (use mogrify to mass crop). We need a rect region with offset. Then use mogrify to mass crop. 6.Use convert to convert all sequential images to 1 pdf.
You now have an unfucked PDF that would have "deleted" itself otherwise.
Do I know exactly the draw? Nope. But I know I was using a lantern battery for xmit and recv for a few hours and it still wasnt dead. It was one of those '70s argonauts.
---Worrying over a device drawing milliwatts is silly.
Is it now?
Have you ever heard of QRP? It's a code for power reduction in terms of ham radio. When we're talking QRP, we're talking about 1w or LESS power to communicate anywhere in the world. In the early spring, we can communicate with Midway (the island), and we're in Indiana. We've done satellite communications on.5w, however that was using a parabolic antenna.
Or if you hand your CC to a drive-thru to pay for food/drink.. Our receipt paper is thin enough to easily take an imprint of a CC. All you'd need to do is remember 3-4 numbers, the CVV2.
I found out this accidently, while holding a customer CC while rubbing it: it indented the CC, expr, and name perfectly.
Good thing im honest in dealings... They wouldnt catch me if I wasnt. I know decent stat to calculate my danger, and how to mitigate any possible repercussions.
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Why isnt the registry properly documented via comment code? There's soo many of those {qwrgqrwgq-wqrg-q3gqtrgqrg} crap that does X unspecified action on the system.
What would be wrong with mounting the registry on a drive letter (yeah, heresy, whatever) and having a structure like Reg:\System\Microsoft\Explorer\Window_Attributes\.. ? With that structure, it would be easy to understand what's going on in there. But I dont think they want us to.
You can pry /etc from my cold dead hands.
Antitrust law has always been concerned about physical goods and services.
As per your example, a state mandated monopoly starts giving out free water bottles while displacing the other water dealers. Ok, I agree that's misuse of a monopoly position. Now, we look at Microsoft. Back when Netscape and others were for-profit businesses, bundling a web browser was fair to call abuse of a monopolistic position.
I could argue and say that due to the boom of the internet, FTP, POP3, SMTP, HTTP, NNTP and others are protocols that an OS should provide basic services for. How else, especially in todays Internet, do you get a web browser if you dont understand commandline ftp? Or for that matter, find the server that hosts it?
And about the Monopoly position: do they really have that kind of influence any more? There's another price influence called FREE. Linux is free to download, free to change, free to do nothing with, free to develop on, and free to ignore. Linux is no company or organization to bankrupt. Linux doesnt care if it makes money. In fact, Linux is no more than thousands of independent groups working for the benefit of all.
How does Microsoft, champion of Capitalism, deal with thousands of neer-do-wells, many of which make this software for fun?
If there was a monopoly, there isnt now. That's because there IS a choice and that choice will never go away.
My point exactly. You log in to a machine that provides a proper Posix environment, like FreeBSD or Linux.
I know exactly what GPO's are. I also know how they miserably fail in doing what their specific policy prevents.
Windows machines have many ways to do the same behavior. You click on "cant see my computer". Ok. The main button is disabled. The MS Office button-file-open dialog isnt and can see everything.
GPO's are broken like that. They do work, for decreasingly low values of work. However, it does stop the casual "I dunno what Im doing so Im going to surf the Web" users.
I figured you'd say something like that.
RHEL is only worth that much because of the requisite service agreement. Red Hat's agreement is overall cheaper than MS's equivalent agreement.
And "Highly Skilled Person Time".... If you've ever hired a reboot/reinstall monkey, you know those "windows admins" are a waste. When the real problems come, they simply cant solve it. And that would be a real admin, whether it be Windows, Linux, Mac, OS/360, or any other operating system.
A pro is a pro, and you compare peanuts with a pro. That just doesnt work, and you should know it.
You're expecting a bunch of hippie loving MS haters who recommend Linux. Guess again.
---We all know the same code base can run anything from a simple (i.e. "starter") PC running Wordpad, Outlook Express and Firefox to an enterprise server running AD on 32 cores managing thousands of workstations.
Good point. Microsoft software has always required more hardware to run properly. Any of their version bumps never reduced operating requirements; in fact, there has been no version that calls for the same requirement. Vista was made fun of, joking about how many TB of ram you need. In a way, they were right. It's a disk hog, ram hog, and a cpu hog. 2003, XP, and 2000 all do the same on less.
And dont say those extra services require that variance. My WRT54G does all those network services on what? 50 MIPS total?
---Would you (as a "for-profit" company) price the former at $1,000? Or the latter at $100?
Charging is compared to what the market will bear. Windows is going against Linux in the server department. There, Linux can do 90-95% what MS can. Linux is free, licensing and all. MS has what? Easy domains, Outlook, and Sharepoint?
On the desktop front, we have OSX, Linux, and Windows duking it out. Mac is winning the (perceived) high end. Linux is taking the low power cheapie machines, and Windows is being ate out of house and home. The conversion between Non-Vista and Vista threw out a bunch of drivers and their associated hardware, so Linux has more hardware compatibility. I will assume that due to capitalistic pressures, Mac price will continue to fall, Linux will climb inexorably higher in quality, and MS will feel the squeeze more.
So, for the server question: how much is "Easy setup of Domains", Outlook integration, and Sharepoint licensing worth? Because Linux can handle the rest. With more work, Linux can even handle 2 of the 3 nicely (domains are still stupid in Linux). 100$? 200$?
And for the clients... Add/Remove in Linux actually can add, much to users amazement. Most programs are already there, Wine can handle most, leaving VirtualBox for the last few. Even Windows requires a crapload of 3rd party software for it to be really useful, unlike Mac and Linux that come with usable stuff out of the box. 25$? Perhaps 50$ total.
---What other alternatives do they have for a pricing structure?
They ran out the lot of us by not including any sort of IDE for making Windows programs easily. Linux and Mac come with free IDEs and compilers. In fact, Apple relies on the GPL GCC. MSWindows thought they could extract more money from users by charging extra for what I would consider an essential part of an OS. The fact that it's easier to make Linux/Mac programs means more things are made for them by poor/non-pirating users. First things first, remedy the situation by providing a decent IDE/compiler.
Not much. After the Vista debacle and their wasting of resources on that pig, Linux and Mac are in the attempt of displacing them. Mix that with the economy downturn, and that price of "FREE" is hard to beat. And good admins in this downturn are cheaper than ever. So, the proper answer would be to low-ball the OSes. Include the DRM, because at 25$ for client and 200$ per server is damned hard for the likes of Linux to beat in the short run.
As to the complaints of "Antitrust violations in cheap MS OS prices", they should respond STFU.
"Linux is cheaper, and we can never beat that price. They're the monopoly, and the unbeatable competitor."
Really, how powerful are GPOs?
How are they different than just not having the programs on the machine, or not in that user group?
In the Linux side of things, we can force modules not to load, only load certain hardware, not allow hardware access to any device, inbound/outbound kernel based firewall, and much others. If a user needs only a spreadsheet and inventory tracking, only allow those 2.
And if a user is being stupid and fired, we can forcefully unmount his NFS share, log him out, and change password. We could write a script that could accomplish that in 1 second. Does Windows have that fine grained control over users?
Uh, you better STFU man. Dont use language like that.
Oh wait, that Interix pile of shit :(
If you want something good, use XMing, or use Linux/FreeBSD.
That's because it takes thousands of people to make an OS.
Look at Microsoft and their lines of OSes.. They have what, 50k people on staff at any one time with perhaps 2/3 of them doing programming work? Most of their code is already written from buy-oughts, so they now provide mostly maintenance and scripting. There's maybe 20-50 people doing *interesting* stuff at any one time, it being 10 years away.
Look at OSX now. They have a similar issue, but leveraged theirs away by choosing a FreeBSD-like platform which to design everything on top of. They also reduce features for their core GUI programs to reduce testing and errors. They also focus much more aesthetically, in direct comparison to Linux GUIS and Windows. And their equipment is much higher priced (can buy 2-3 laptops of the same quality of 1 mac laptop), considering they discourage Hackintoshes.
The Linux guys ad to design everything from the ground up, because of the choice in license. It was also a NiH kind of "I can do it better" kind of game, because Linux was new and exciting. But development still requires large resources. Linus happened to be the appropriate coder/manager to herd the cats at the bottom. Then everything else fell into place: some by luck and others by necessity.
FreeBSD: Its THE academic system, and it works well. It's a traditional fork from SYS I which they license it very openly. There's work done on it, but the "cool" work is Linux. The BSD's are perfect for stability, file sharing, and network code. It has a healthy set of adherents and users, but mostly is relegated to core network technologies.
Now, we look at HURD.. It's there, with a Debian/HURD system install possible. It's there's few device drivers, even fewer developers, doesnt work with basic equipment, buggy as hell (because few developers), and there's something that's "Just As Free", and works to boot (Linux). Would the FSF be better off on discontinuing the HURD? Probably, but it's their choice, and we dont know what its possible uses are yet either.. There's always a critical mass which things like these hit that make them explode, and they might be right about making their own kernel.
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So now we know that the UK is by far worse than the US on similar issues.
"You updated a website protesting animal cruelty vs drug companies. Now we're gonna smack you with a conspiracy charge for 4.5 years in prison."
Damn.
Yeah. I learned that too after using it.
Late 90's?
I've got a dialup server that's a 300MHz P2. It also runs a print server and firewall. And only 2 cables: Power and phone. Even uses wifi to conect to our internal network.
Guess what's on the wifi: WRT54GS. And another firewall. Different passwords too. And wouldnt you know... Channel 14 :D I wonder...
Im now looking at consolidating my dialup and file server to 1 machine (and dumping the 300MHz). Im hesitant to for security reasons. Still, its dialup. Not many people scan our network these days.
When I first saw the "Ribbon", I thought it was more of Firefox Tabs with a text editor at the bottom.
---"Taking" is a legal term that describes the government taking *material* property from some people. Read the Fifth amendment. Spying on people has nothing to do with "takings" (although once the civil suits by EFF and such were filed, one could make argument that the FISA bill constituted a taking).
If I recall correctly, there was that case of the US govt temporarily co-opting Cipro's patent controller and allowing other drug companies to make it without fear of patent retribution. In the US govt's defense, it was done during the anthrax scare. As a result, the Govt allowed the patent to continue X years longer as a payment.
---Income taxes are definitely in the gray area or borderline---a lot of people felt that the federal government had no such power when they started doing that, but, well, taxes in U.S. are definitely lower than that of any of the "liberal" countries in Europe.
If we go back to the law concerning taxes, there is no representation behind taxing money for services rendered. It was codified as profit on selling objects. Some lawyer in Lousiana took the IRS to task on that, saying that the 1040 was optional to fill out, so he didnt. They took him to court, and evidently asked the presiding judge for the law that said as such the IRS was claiming. As far as I know, he's been successful. But he's also a lawyer, so take that with a pound or two of salt. I sure as hell wouldnt try a stunt like that.
---I won't deny that US government has done a lot of bad things (at least to my libertarian sensibilities), but among the thieves that are governments of the world, US is the most "moral" of them all, and US is the single country most committed to individual liberties (at least of its own citizens).
I could care less about labels (dem, repub, lib, green, whatever).. I have a problem when the 'rulers' take a dump on the Constitution.
1. There are talks of reporters getting immunity from federal prosecutions. Should never happen, because the internet makes us ALL reporters.
2. "right of the people peaceably to assemble" : 3 words "Free Speech Zones"
3. Gun laws are flat out against the Constitution. It was meant in the Federalist Papers that it was the "4th branch" of government, if you get my drift. And, what do they mean by militia? State National Guard? Private military service? A group of drunken hicks who cling to their guns?
4. Unreasonable searches are carried out all the time. We can look at the past and current administration and their snooping programs. The courts those admissions are made in are secret, as are the rulings, as are the people. This kind of behavior was why we broke apart from the UK to begin with.
I can go on and on. As long as you dont disturb the majority, you're fine. As long as you dont screw with anybody in power, you'll be fine. And as long as you dont question authority, you'll be fine. If you dont care about your rights as they're trampled on, you'll be fine. After all, you'll be like any other American.
Shucks. I guess Im in their target market as a computer professional (and a student).
I have 2 laptops. One's an 8gig ssd EEE and my other is a T61 IBM. That says nothing of the largish amount of weird hardware desktops I have.
Hpowever, when I choose OSes, I go Ubuntu. I _have_ iso's of every Windows OS, including the disks of Windows 1 and Vista Ultimate. I have cracks for them so that almost all of them authenticate under WGA. My T61 hardware is similar to a powerbook, so I can run a Hackintosh. I can find damn near any piece of software for any OS, along with cracks, so filling in the holes would be slightly more than trivial.
I still choose Ubuntu. And before that, I chose Debian Testing. And before that (back in the mid-late 90's) Red Hat. I was always a Win98 kind of person, so switching was more of a curiosity. I first had experience with Unix when I logged into a real sysIV back in the early 80's on my dads Commie64 over a 300baud modem. It was all commandline back then, so my dad helped me with commands to do stuff. I was back then, around 6, reading comp.sci and other newsgroups. I really didnt do much in terms of bulk transfer as we were going too slow.. And that was when the backbone was 56K
Now, after really teaching myself about the internals of Linux, can I now actually use my computer as I wish. And thanks to Ubuntu, all my hardware is set up so that oit just works. Bewfore you buy, check up on what and what doesnt work. A good 'sudo lspci -vv' will tell you exactly what you need to know.
As per John Gage's quote, and Sun's slogan "The Network IS the Computer", my home network is exactly that. I have a domain via Kerberos, Samba and NFS storage (we have Windows machines here), X redirection and remote login, network sound via PulseAudio, a Jabber server for communication, remote webcam viewing (poor man security cam network), and other less useful services. And all of that's for free. Like I said, I have all those OS disks with cracks, but no OS listed above can provide what I do, no matter the cost.
Linux can provide that, at no charge. And it works on the lowest p200 with 32MB ram for a firewall/ticket system, up to the most massive machines the market can muster. What extra features does Windows 7 offer that I currently obtain (legally) for free?
Cant the UK govt legally steal it via some regulation that allows it?
Our govt is immune from copyright and patent infringement, and only listen to "entertain".
And your answer is brain-dead when they quit "offering" reactivations. And you say... that they will always offer reactivations?? Look at their "Plays for Sure" label.. I dont think it plays anymore.
I dont need to go ask mommy to reinstall.
I had a friend who bought a eBook from CourseSmart (hint: DONT BUY from them).
He's not that smart in computers, but bought this ebook and then found out you can only print 10 pages and it disables itself after 6 months. He paid 50$ less than the real textbook. I said WTF...
Anyways, he's stuck with some god awful cripple-book... until I un-fucked it. Well, what did I do?
1.The book was reminiscent of a PDF reader, however, rotation options are not present. So, I tell the screen driver (running on the eeeclone from acer) to flip 90 degrees. ./book/
2.I tell the cripplebook reader to go full screen, which it does. It turns out, you can turn pages by pressing left and right.
3.I found a GPL MSWindows screenshot tool that formats pngs via name_0001 I set it up to save to
4.I do prtscn/right 812 times for those images.
Hooray, you have unDRMed images of cripplebook.
Now for cleaning:
5.Use gimp to determine crop area (use mogrify to mass crop). We need a rect region with offset. Then use mogrify to mass crop.
6.Use convert to convert all sequential images to 1 pdf.
You now have an unfucked PDF that would have "deleted" itself otherwise.
And efficiency on small computer-like devices is exclusive to large power hungry vehicles and monitors?
I believe we can work on them all at once.
Do I know exactly the draw? Nope. But I know I was using a lantern battery for xmit and recv for a few hours and it still wasnt dead. It was one of those '70s argonauts.
Here's your Answer.
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---Worrying over a device drawing milliwatts is silly.
Is it now?
Have you ever heard of QRP? It's a code for power reduction in terms of ham radio. When we're talking QRP, we're talking about 1w or LESS power to communicate anywhere in the world. In the early spring, we can communicate with Midway (the island), and we're in Indiana. We've done satellite communications on .5w, however that was using a parabolic antenna.
So yes, 1w is a lot of power.
Or if you hand your CC to a drive-thru to pay for food/drink.. Our receipt paper is thin enough to easily take an imprint of a CC. All you'd need to do is remember 3-4 numbers, the CVV2.
I found out this accidently, while holding a customer CC while rubbing it: it indented the CC, expr, and name perfectly.
Good thing im honest in dealings... They wouldnt catch me if I wasnt. I know decent stat to calculate my danger, and how to mitigate any possible repercussions.