I agree completely and I wonder why this is not considered an antitrust issue. I thought this behavior is basically the definition of antitrust; Using your monopoly in one market to force out competition in another market. Between paying off Murdoch *and* setting Bing as the default search engine in MS products, is this not illegal monopoly behavior?
I believe most of the time, historically, when this occured it was because the site based what was served up on the user agent accessing the site. Thus, content providers could allow Googlebot to completely index the site so that it showed up in Google's search results, however when an actual user showed up at the site they would receive a "Subscribe Now" type of page.
I remember that used to be the case with experts-exchange.com; if you set your browser agent to Googlebot you could see the search results, otherwise you ended up with a "Subscribe Now" page. They have since changed that so that even Google's cached page is a Subscribe page. Whoever does SEO for that site sure knows his tricks.
I agree completely with your assessment that "those sites piss me off" and regardless of how good a service they might provide I refuse to use them on principal.
I just set up a Brother HL-2170W yesterday and it did use DHCP by default. Once you figure out the IP address you can go to the web interface from any machine on the network and set a static address very easily.
What are the things that can make an OS kernel bloat up to 11 millions lines?
Mostly drivers. Which are kind of irrelevant with regard to bloat because if you so desire, you can build a kernel that only contains drivers that you need. I realize that no distro can realistically do this with their pre-compiled kernels however, no one is going to compile support for everything that the Linux kernel is capable of supporting in a single kernel either.
I still think it is funny that Linux is considered "bloatware" when Windows will still use several times the same resources as Linux. For instance, take any desktop distro (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc...) and a complete installation including multiple desktop environments, browsers, office suites, etc... still takes up less disk space, memory and CPU than does a bare installation of Windows Vista/7.
Seems to me that "bloat" is completely relative and arbitrary.
In the article he does mention that this solution is not for everyone and that failover and other features are outside the scope of the article. However, for his particular usage this is a nice solution.
My question is, where does one acquire the case he uses? My company currently stores a lot of video and the 10TB 4U machines I have been building are quickly running out of space. This would be an ideal solution for my needs.
This is very similar to the situation I am in. I currently head IT for a dot-com. Our plan is to replace desktop machines with Linux or OSX depending on job function (writers/sales get Linux, graphics guys get Macs). We have absolutely no intention of "upgrading" _anything_ to Vista/7.
"...the server will open the connection and wait for the complete header to be received. However, the client (the DoS tool) will not send it and will instead keep sending bogus header lines which will keep the connection allocated."
In other words.. the connection is not allowed to "timeout" as there is (bogus) traffic on the connection.
It will take some time to ramp up the used connections again (assuming that, as the article states, this exploit is fairly slow). While certainly not a real fix, this could be an effective temporary solution until a better solution is available.
I could not agree more. Just last week I had a designer friend who accidentally deleted the partition his portfolio was on. We tried to recover the partition however the MFT had become lost/corrupted.
My first attempt to recover his data was with ntfsundelete, however it did not recognize the partition at all. I next used Disk Internals NTFS Recovery program (Commercial) with the same results.
Finally, I Googled a bit and found the testdisk/photorec package and used that. It took about 40 hours to recover ~225GB data. It was unable to recover filenames, however it did create new directories for each directory it found and recreated the files in those directories, albeit with arbitrary names. Most impressively it did recreate the files with the proper file name extensions. With some creative perl scripting I could have even renamed some of these files based on meta data in the files. This was not necessary in my case.
Ok, my primary OS is Linux. I do use Windows on occasion though and while it may not be after every IE update, IE periodically reverts back to MSN home page and Live.com search. I know this is not something I am doing as I don't care for either service.
Also, MS has the resources to make IE a good browser if they want to. (pretty much all they have to do is cut it loose from Windows, make it standards compliant, and kill ActiveX forever).
You have just taken away every reason that MS develops a browser.
I would think that Microsoft's Live Search is a bad source as well being that a). it is the default search in IE and b). whenever there is an update to IE MS seems fit to switch my preference *back* to live.com.
On the other hand... Google's numbers are questionable being that FF defaults to Google. Yahoo's numbers are probably not great either due to the fact that their damn toolbar is bundled in everything.
To get more reliable results I would suggest popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter, NY Times. Of course, my sample is still biased towards the English language.
Which is *exactly* the reason why he mentions it to his clients. If someone is made aware of an issue before it becomes a problem (thus giving them all the information they need to avert the potential problem), in their mind there is no problem.
The copyright holder, also, in theory, reserves the right to revoke any licenses that were given out.
I am going to have to see a citation for that. Unless that is written into the original license, that is completely wrong. In the case of the GPL, that is most certainly *not* the case. I am calling FUD.
I Have Seen Blog Articles On Methods That Allow DRM Mobipocket Books To Work On Kindle. Can I Use That Method On Fictionwise Secure Mobipocket eBooks?
We do not support the use of such methods to transfer Fictionwise Secure Mobipocket eBooks to Kindle. For one thing, Amazon could take steps at any time to disable such methods from working. So you might purchase a book thinking it will work on your Kindle when it does not. We have to pay the publisher as soon as you download the eBook, we can't refund you if this transfer method doesn't work.
It is also not clear whether such methods violate your Amazon Kindle terms of service, which might mean you could void your Kindle warranty by using such methods.
Our Kindle-compatible Multiformat eBooks are in unencrypted Mobipocket format and the Amazon Kindle documentation expressly allows those kinds of file to be used on the Kindle. However, the Amazon Kindle documentation specifies that encrypted Mobipocket eBooks cannot be used on the Kindle.
For these reasons, Fictionwise strongly discourages the use of any such methods, and we will provide no support for them. Fictionwise only supports our MultiFormat eBooks for use on Kindle, not our Secure (DRM) Mobipocket eBooks.
So you *can* use non-DRM'd ebooks, but there isn't a legal option for the DRM'd ebooks at Fictionwise. I suspect that has a serious affect on title selection:D All of Baen Books, on the other hand, appear to not be DRM'd.
Can you show me somewhere that the guy was being a dick? He returned some items. Apparently there is an unwritten policy at Amazon that if you return X number of high-ticket items (regardless of whether the CS rep says to do so or not) you are banned. No warning, nothing - just banned.
Regardless there is no reason his Kindle should be effectively bricked. Yes, he can use the content he has already purchased, however he can never (legally) obtain any new content for that Kindle; a "feature" designed into the Kindle by Amazon. This sounds like a fundamental problem with DRM to me. Where do we draw the line? Also, not only can he not purchase new content, he cannot even use the warranty on the Kindle should he need to. All at the whim of Amazon.
As far as karma goes, mine is excellent and I don't need it. Why don't you quit being an asshat and go read the article?
I think the problem is that not only is this guy Jack Thompson, but he is also a spammer. That is akin to a division by zero or adding multiple infinities - the human mind simply cannot comprehend that level of low.
I don't think the GP was implying that you should learn two programs. He was saying that for 80% of the people currently editing images, they could be using the Gimp with equal results to PS. For the remaining 20%, the Gimp is not an option, so they may be better served using PS.
He wasn't saying that you should use the Gimp 80% of the time and then use PS for the remaining 20% of work that the Gimp lacks support for.
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I agree completely and I wonder why this is not considered an antitrust issue. I thought this behavior is basically the definition of antitrust; Using your monopoly in one market to force out competition in another market. Between paying off Murdoch *and* setting Bing as the default search engine in MS products, is this not illegal monopoly behavior?
I believe most of the time, historically, when this occured it was because the site based what was served up on the user agent accessing the site. Thus, content providers could allow Googlebot to completely index the site so that it showed up in Google's search results, however when an actual user showed up at the site they would receive a "Subscribe Now" type of page.
I remember that used to be the case with experts-exchange.com; if you set your browser agent to Googlebot you could see the search results, otherwise you ended up with a "Subscribe Now" page. They have since changed that so that even Google's cached page is a Subscribe page. Whoever does SEO for that site sure knows his tricks.
I agree completely with your assessment that "those sites piss me off" and regardless of how good a service they might provide I refuse to use them on principal.
Both of your links are reprints of the first linked article in the summary.... Neither better nor worse as they are the same....
I just set up a Brother HL-2170W yesterday and it did use DHCP by default. Once you figure out the IP address you can go to the web interface from any machine on the network and set a static address very easily.
What are the things that can make an OS kernel bloat up to 11 millions lines?
Mostly drivers. Which are kind of irrelevant with regard to bloat because if you so desire, you can build a kernel that only contains drivers that you need. I realize that no distro can realistically do this with their pre-compiled kernels however, no one is going to compile support for everything that the Linux kernel is capable of supporting in a single kernel either.
I still think it is funny that Linux is considered "bloatware" when Windows will still use several times the same resources as Linux. For instance, take any desktop distro (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc...) and a complete installation including multiple desktop environments, browsers, office suites, etc... still takes up less disk space, memory and CPU than does a bare installation of Windows Vista/7.
Seems to me that "bloat" is completely relative and arbitrary.
One of them is that the customer has a claim against the dealer he got the software from. Not against Microsoft directly.
This may actually work out better if there are large corporate customers that deal directly with MS rather than through a reseller.
In the article he does mention that this solution is not for everyone and that failover and other features are outside the scope of the article. However, for his particular usage this is a nice solution.
My question is, where does one acquire the case he uses? My company currently stores a lot of video and the 10TB 4U machines I have been building are quickly running out of space. This would be an ideal solution for my needs.
This is very similar to the situation I am in. I currently head IT for a dot-com. Our plan is to replace desktop machines with Linux or OSX depending on job function (writers/sales get Linux, graphics guys get Macs). We have absolutely no intention of "upgrading" _anything_ to Vista/7.
From the article:
"...the server will open the connection and wait for the complete header to be received. However, the client (the DoS tool) will not send it and will instead keep sending bogus header lines which will keep the connection allocated."
In other words.. the connection is not allowed to "timeout" as there is (bogus) traffic on the connection.
It will take some time to ramp up the used connections again (assuming that, as the article states, this exploit is fairly slow). While certainly not a real fix, this could be an effective temporary solution until a better solution is available.
I could not agree more. Just last week I had a designer friend who accidentally deleted the partition his portfolio was on. We tried to recover the partition however the MFT had become lost/corrupted.
My first attempt to recover his data was with ntfsundelete, however it did not recognize the partition at all. I next used Disk Internals NTFS Recovery program (Commercial) with the same results.
Finally, I Googled a bit and found the testdisk/photorec package and used that. It took about 40 hours to recover ~225GB data. It was unable to recover filenames, however it did create new directories for each directory it found and recreated the files in those directories, albeit with arbitrary names. Most impressively it did recreate the files with the proper file name extensions. With some creative perl scripting I could have even renamed some of these files based on meta data in the files. This was not necessary in my case.
Ok, my primary OS is Linux. I do use Windows on occasion though and while it may not be after every IE update, IE periodically reverts back to MSN home page and Live.com search. I know this is not something I am doing as I don't care for either service.
....the best thing for everybody is going to be when IE 6 dies the horrific death it deserves, abomination that it was.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
:D
Also, MS has the resources to make IE a good browser if they want to. (pretty much all they have to do is cut it loose from Windows, make it standards compliant, and kill ActiveX forever).
You have just taken away every reason that MS develops a browser.
I would think that Microsoft's Live Search is a bad source as well being that a). it is the default search in IE and b). whenever there is an update to IE MS seems fit to switch my preference *back* to live.com.
On the other hand... Google's numbers are questionable being that FF defaults to Google. Yahoo's numbers are probably not great either due to the fact that their damn toolbar is bundled in everything.
To get more reliable results I would suggest popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter, NY Times. Of course, my sample is still biased towards the English language.
Which is *exactly* the reason why he mentions it to his clients. If someone is made aware of an issue before it becomes a problem (thus giving them all the information they need to avert the potential problem), in their mind there is no problem.
You may want to re-read my comment... I quoted the GP and said exactly what you just reiterated.
The copyright holder, also, in theory, reserves the right to revoke any licenses that were given out.
I am going to have to see a citation for that. Unless that is written into the original license, that is completely wrong. In the case of the GPL, that is most certainly *not* the case. I am calling FUD.
Very interesting, however from Fictionwise FAQ:
:D All of Baen Books, on the other hand, appear to not be DRM'd.
I Have Seen Blog Articles On Methods That Allow DRM Mobipocket Books To Work On Kindle. Can I Use That Method On Fictionwise Secure Mobipocket eBooks?
We do not support the use of such methods to transfer Fictionwise Secure Mobipocket eBooks to Kindle. For one thing, Amazon could take steps at any time to disable such methods from working. So you might purchase a book thinking it will work on your Kindle when it does not. We have to pay the publisher as soon as you download the eBook, we can't refund you if this transfer method doesn't work.
It is also not clear whether such methods violate your Amazon Kindle terms of service, which might mean you could void your Kindle warranty by using such methods.
Our Kindle-compatible Multiformat eBooks are in unencrypted Mobipocket format and the Amazon Kindle documentation expressly allows those kinds of file to be used on the Kindle. However, the Amazon Kindle documentation specifies that encrypted Mobipocket eBooks cannot be used on the Kindle.
For these reasons, Fictionwise strongly discourages the use of any such methods, and we will provide no support for them. Fictionwise only supports our MultiFormat eBooks for use on Kindle, not our Secure (DRM) Mobipocket eBooks.
So you *can* use non-DRM'd ebooks, but there isn't a legal option for the DRM'd ebooks at Fictionwise. I suspect that has a serious affect on title selection
Can you show me somewhere that the guy was being a dick? He returned some items. Apparently there is an unwritten policy at Amazon that if you return X number of high-ticket items (regardless of whether the CS rep says to do so or not) you are banned. No warning, nothing - just banned.
Regardless there is no reason his Kindle should be effectively bricked. Yes, he can use the content he has already purchased, however he can never (legally) obtain any new content for that Kindle; a "feature" designed into the Kindle by Amazon. This sounds like a fundamental problem with DRM to me. Where do we draw the line? Also, not only can he not purchase new content, he cannot even use the warranty on the Kindle should he need to. All at the whim of Amazon.
As far as karma goes, mine is excellent and I don't need it. Why don't you quit being an asshat and go read the article?
This is just another reason why DRM is not a benefit to the consumer and why consumers should *not* support DRM.
Did. He *did* have friends.
I think the problem is that not only is this guy Jack Thompson, but he is also a spammer. That is akin to a division by zero or adding multiple infinities - the human mind simply cannot comprehend that level of low.
Best said by The Who; "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
I don't think the GP was implying that you should learn two programs. He was saying that for 80% of the people currently editing images, they could be using the Gimp with equal results to PS. For the remaining 20%, the Gimp is not an option, so they may be better served using PS.
He wasn't saying that you should use the Gimp 80% of the time and then use PS for the remaining 20% of work that the Gimp lacks support for.