Why is it that finding drivers for junk that people buy from CompUSA is so damn difficult?
I have people call me from the States and say "I have this modem that I got with my PC,... yeah, I got it from CompUSA,... OK, I'll call you back in a few"
I spend hours looking for drivers and usually end up with having to get generic drivers for the chipset which sometimes have undocumented features that are undesirable.
you'd probably be hard pushed to prove you don't use it for regular viewing!
You cannot prove this, even if you have the tuning circuit taken out of the box, you are still liable for the TV license, as it was produced to be a TV receiver, not a monitor.
Hearsay: I know a guy who claimed to have been prosecuted personally with the scenario outlined above.
On another topic, if you're ever stuck for something to Google, read up on how TV detector vans work. Its cool beans.
this is no different whatsoever from the behavior of any copyright holder
As OSS is developed by the community, its up to the community to defend the copyright on it, and foam at the mouth on behalf of those who are disinclined to foam, even for their own benefit.
If the provisions of the GPL aren't ever enforced, every Tom, DICK (read: Darl) and Harry will be having a pop at our community and its copyright.
I ripped my first DVD yesterday, as I rented one from a store and thought it would only be polite to rip it before returning.
I looked up dvd ripping on Google and downloaded DvdX, tried to use it without RTFM, then read the FAQ and downloaded DivX 5.1.1. From there I ripped a perfectly good copy of the movie that came out at 640megs AVI.
No keys, regions, hassle, frame servers (whatever those are) or anything.
But, this was under WindowsXP, I will start looking into doing it under Linux when I get round to it.
To replace the wiring, he had to read the chassis number and send off for a new wiring harness from Germany!
I'm in the UK, but nearly every Dealer-Only part you can think of requires the chassis number to be given over to the Dealer, one reason ostensibly being that chop-shop outfits often buy parts to reassemble cars and this practice cuts down on their ability to do that.
If the sticker says that you aren't allowed to operate a mobile phone in the car that isn't BMW approved, do you think that only applies to the driver?
That way we don't have to worry about whether the little one can work up the balls to drive around the big one.
Ralf's biggest problem this season was the fear of overtaking the Ferarri. The BMW could have been a great car.
Little wonder Juan jumped ship. I imagine if Ralf pulls his socks up this year, Juan may decide to break transfer contract and stay with Williams. No point being dragged down by a Schumacher though, so right now leaving is a safe bet.
Formula One, Grand Prix, ITV website. They even play their 200mph games in Indianapolis now!
I would suggest that you buy a 6 month old model and leave the bleeding edge crap for people who expect to have bugs in their beta-prerelease-notforpublicuse-hasafewbugs drivers.
As someone that has bought NEW hardware, and seen the RAPID drop in prices of the same kit after 6 months, its not worth it AT ALL. The games that can use the new features of the card are still going to be there in 6 months, the speed increase you get from buying the card will still be there in 6 months... The only thing missing is the damn bugs in the rush-to-market drivers that haven't been mass tested.
Apparently, then, you have used the Windows kernel without the stuff on top of it, to be able to make this claim
Would the Windows PE count as doing just that?
There is an ISO on many P2P systems that lets you use the Preinstallation Environment for recovery and fully controlled installation of Windows. I wouldn't care to guess if the PE was the full kernel or not, but someone here might know.
1. Post on SlashDot
2. Engage in farmyard animal sex
3. ???
4. Profit!
Although, I have a feeling that 3. might be something along the line of
3. Sell mpegs of said animal sex to preverts all over the world via iTunes, thus bringing Apple into disrepute and making Linux the only choice for Macs in the future...
They should thank me for the piracy.
If I had to pay for this, I wouldn't. But seeing as I stole it I'm giving the weblogs an extra Windows OS statistic.
OK, its a Mozilla Firebird browser hit, but the OS is Windows.
You have to go back after the install and manually (un)install OS applications in the control panel. Even then the selection is slim picking compared to previous versions of Windows.
XP makes it even harder by having to edit.INF files to take out the crap that me and you don't need.
Thankfully there is a utility called XP Lite that takes care of this for us these days.
There are three stages of user for every program out there.
The first stage is the one that most people are at.
"Never heard of it, whats it do?" Second stage is the one that we were all at once.
"Oh like <insert WindowsXP name here, IE [netmeeting msn IE paint notepad media player]>?"
Then there are the third stage people like we have here at/.
"Yeah, I used to use that too, but this is better"
Stage 1.5 doesn't count: "I use it, but I don't care" for this post.
Once you have learned to use something, you start to want to use it better, and right now XP has a large group of users that can identify most programs with something they got as part of the OS.
People don't want to know about changing until they have used up all the features in one program because they lose friends lists, settings, skins, they have to learn new commands and interfaces and this can all be daunting for the kind of person that is still using XP provided junk.
If Linux didn't come with 5 CDs (I use SuSE as an example because I prefer it, although in this case, maybe Fedora with 3 CDs or Vector with 1 CD would have done?), how much of the stuff on them would you actually go out and find for yourself, making sure that you had the best featureset for each and every program?
We all want the best from the programs we install on our machines, but for the stage two people, they don't know their shit isn't the best.
You should never have to do that kind of 'crap' to get a usb mouse working if you're installing a commercial distribution.
You're absolutely right.
Yet at the same time you are mistaken.
This kernel is not distributed with any Commercial Distributions, its brand new, untested, unstable and not recommended in any way for your Joe Public to install on his Windows dual boot machine that he is just learning Linux on.
This is the kernel that people PLAY with. It might one day make it to a distro, but not for at least... Two years?
This is version 2.6, the latest stable kernel (and even now, Commercial Distributions aren't including this one yet) is 2.4.22.
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Yeah, but I, like Mike, blew my points by posting in this discussion.
probably to keep Gator and its ilk from suing the pants off of them
Gator got pissed that people were calling their product spyware, and instead of changing their product, they changed its name.
Gator is now known as Claria.
Tell a friend.
You need this T-Shirt ...
Why is it that finding drivers for junk that people buy from CompUSA is so damn difficult?
... yeah, I got it from CompUSA, ... OK, I'll call you back in a few"
I have people call me from the States and say "I have this modem that I got with my PC,
I spend hours looking for drivers and usually end up with having to get generic drivers for the chipset which sometimes have undocumented features that are undesirable.
If she takes her teeth out, why the hell not?
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
In that case HAL, I'm going to have to crack your firmware and replace you with a small shell script.
you'd probably be hard pushed to prove you don't use it for regular viewing!
You cannot prove this, even if you have the tuning circuit taken out of the box, you are still liable for the TV license, as it was produced to be a TV receiver, not a monitor.
Hearsay: I know a guy who claimed to have been prosecuted personally with the scenario outlined above.
On another topic, if you're ever stuck for something to Google, read up on how TV detector vans work. Its cool beans.
TY.
this is no different whatsoever from the behavior of any copyright holder
As OSS is developed by the community, its up to the community to defend the copyright on it, and foam at the mouth on behalf of those who are disinclined to foam, even for their own benefit.
If the provisions of the GPL aren't ever enforced, every Tom, DICK (read: Darl) and Harry will be having a pop at our community and its copyright.
I ripped my first DVD yesterday, as I rented one from a store and thought it would only be polite to rip it before returning.
I looked up dvd ripping on Google and downloaded DvdX, tried to use it without RTFM, then read the FAQ and downloaded DivX 5.1.1. From there I ripped a perfectly good copy of the movie that came out at 640megs AVI.
No keys, regions, hassle, frame servers (whatever those are) or anything.
But, this was under WindowsXP, I will start looking into doing it under Linux when I get round to it.
To replace the wiring, he had to read the chassis number and send off for a new wiring harness from Germany!
I'm in the UK, but nearly every Dealer-Only part you can think of requires the chassis number to be given over to the Dealer, one reason ostensibly being that chop-shop outfits often buy parts to reassemble cars and this practice cuts down on their ability to do that.
If the sticker says that you aren't allowed to operate a mobile phone in the car that isn't BMW approved, do you think that only applies to the driver?
Only YOU will be able to drive your car,
In Soviet Russia, cars drive YOU!
Can we get Ralf and Michael running in 2005?
That way we don't have to worry about whether the little one can work up the balls to drive around the big one.
Ralf's biggest problem this season was the fear of overtaking the Ferarri. The BMW could have been a great car.
Little wonder Juan jumped ship. I imagine if Ralf pulls his socks up this year, Juan may decide to break transfer contract and stay with Williams. No point being dragged down by a Schumacher though, so right now leaving is a safe bet.
Formula One, Grand Prix, ITV website. They even play their 200mph games in Indianapolis now!
This is my fault how?
... The only thing missing is the damn bugs in the rush-to-market drivers that haven't been mass tested.
I would suggest that you buy a 6 month old model and leave the bleeding edge crap for people who expect to have bugs in their beta-prerelease-notforpublicuse-hasafewbugs drivers.
As someone that has bought NEW hardware, and seen the RAPID drop in prices of the same kit after 6 months, its not worth it AT ALL. The games that can use the new features of the card are still going to be there in 6 months, the speed increase you get from buying the card will still be there in 6 months
Apparently, then, you have used the Windows kernel without the stuff on top of it, to be able to make this claim
Would the Windows PE count as doing just that?
There is an ISO on many P2P systems that lets you use the Preinstallation Environment for recovery and fully controlled installation of Windows. I wouldn't care to guess if the PE was the full kernel or not, but someone here might know.
Its ok to point out the mistake, IMO, but FGS, tell him what he is doing wrong.
If he never took the time to do highschool, is he even going to bother looking up why you advised him to change the word?
Grandparent:
Threw is the past tense (means you already did it) of throw, as in PReD threw a brick at the parent.
Through means to pass between the inner restrictions of something, as in go through a tunnel.
No, that's OK, don't mod me up +5 informative, I don't need the Karma, but all donations are gratefully accepted.
Why on earth would you want to fuck my donkey?
1. Post on SlashDot
2. Engage in farmyard animal sex
3. ???
4. Profit!
Although, I have a feeling that 3. might be something along the line of
3. Sell mpegs of said animal sex to preverts all over the world via iTunes, thus bringing Apple into disrepute and making Linux the only choice for Macs in the future...
You're paying $100 for windows XP
Do you pay for it?
They should thank me for the piracy.
If I had to pay for this, I wouldn't. But seeing as I stole it I'm giving the weblogs an extra Windows OS statistic.
OK, its a Mozilla Firebird browser hit, but the OS is Windows.
You have to go back after the install and manually (un)install OS applications in the control panel. Even then the selection is slim picking compared to previous versions of Windows.
.INF files to take out the crap that me and you don't need.
XP makes it even harder by having to edit
Thankfully there is a utility called XP Lite that takes care of this for us these days.
I would, but I just gave up my mod points to post something pretty similar myself
lol
What you say has merit.
/.
There are three stages of user for every program out there.
The first stage is the one that most people are at.
"Never heard of it, whats it do?"
Second stage is the one that we were all at once.
"Oh like <insert WindowsXP name here, IE [netmeeting msn IE paint notepad media player]>?"
Then there are the third stage people like we have here at
"Yeah, I used to use that too, but this is better"
Stage 1.5 doesn't count: "I use it, but I don't care" for this post.
Once you have learned to use something, you start to want to use it better, and right now XP has a large group of users that can identify most programs with something they got as part of the OS.
People don't want to know about changing until they have used up all the features in one program because they lose friends lists, settings, skins, they have to learn new commands and interfaces and this can all be daunting for the kind of person that is still using XP provided junk.
If Linux didn't come with 5 CDs (I use SuSE as an example because I prefer it, although in this case, maybe Fedora with 3 CDs or Vector with 1 CD would have done?), how much of the stuff on them would you actually go out and find for yourself, making sure that you had the best featureset for each and every program?
We all want the best from the programs we install on our machines, but for the stage two people, they don't know their shit isn't the best.
When 2.6 comes out with special girl-friedly instructioon set for Barbie PDA's - - -
Fluffy Beaver
You should never have to do that kind of 'crap' to get a usb mouse working if you're installing a commercial distribution.
You're absolutely right.
Yet at the same time you are mistaken.
This kernel is not distributed with any Commercial Distributions, its brand new, untested, unstable and not recommended in any way for your Joe Public to install on his Windows dual boot machine that he is just learning Linux on.
This is the kernel that people PLAY with. It might one day make it to a distro, but not for at least... Two years?
This is version 2.6, the latest stable kernel (and even now, Commercial Distributions aren't including this one yet) is 2.4.22.
I hope this helps clear it up a little?
Or.. IHBT, IHL, I'mHAND. Who knows?