Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by the VCDEasy comment? You can still download the freeware version, and it's just a front-end to vcdimager/cdrdao which you can get the GPL'd win32 binaries for.
You don't by chance know of a good VCDEasy like program for Linux do you? I'd rather not have to write the raw XML to use vcdimager:(.
SaX is actually the part I really don't like -- I had a dual-head setup for a while and every time I started SuSE, SaX popped up and figured my settings had changed so it helpfully had me confirm everything.
Unfortunately, I was never able to get it to work right, and I was never able to get it to go away.
I tried to figure out SuSE's magic init system (It seems stuff in/etc/init.d would get executed even though there was nothing in/etc/rc.d pointing to it?? What the hell?) to prevent SaX from starting but I couldn't figure it out.
YaST makes things magically happen; however, it does so many bizarre things it is very difficult to track what is going on.
Where as in Slackware, if I want to change my IP address I can either run the handy-dandy netconfig, or edit the obvious line in/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf, in SuSE you either have to click the magic button and hope it works (and I had bad experiences with this; YaST never liked my dual-head setup), or track down some obscure file in/etc/sysconfig/network or something and grimace as you edit files with a menacing "Don't edit this by hand!!" at the top of each file..
I meant community support -- Advice for Red Hat and Mandrake seems to grow on trees -- SuSE advice does not. I'm assuming this is because SuSE costs $$$.
That not to say it isn't well-supported, just not as well as other distros.
Disclaimer: This is only my experiencew with SuSE. Yours may differ.
I bought SuSE 9.0 and tried it a few months ago, and must say I didn't particularly care for it.
While they are definately producing one of the most polished distro's available, it deviates from most linux distributions somewhat dramatically; I still don't know how exactly the init system works. (It's not exactly SysV, it's not exactly BSD).
When I used it I had a problem in which it repeatedly would launch the X configurator if I had dual-head enabled. I don't know if that was just me or not.
Everything is tightly integrated in SuSE -- the KDE desktop is pretty amazing, but GNOME support is almost non-existant. Unfortunately, I found the KDE desktop to be pretty slow on my machine (P3 800mhz machine. Slackware with KDE3.1 runs great on it).
I also found that you HAD to do things SuSE's way -- if there wasn't a button for it in YaST, the SuSE configurator (and generally, there was.. YaST is probably the most comprehensive config tool for Linux), or YaST didn't give you all the options you needed, you couldn't do it yourself because YaST would stomp all over your changes.
SuSE is also the most proprietary of Linuxes, and there's not alot of support for it online (again, you can't just update say, package X from a source tarball because SuSE will throw a fit).
It's probably not bad for novice and intermediate computer users; I'd reccomend that experienced users who want a pretty desktop with little hassle use Mandrake.
As they are not taxes/tarrifs (it's a levy) you do not pay it.. the store does. They pass the cost on to you (in fact, to make people aware of it many stores either add it on as a tax at the register so people know, like London Drugs, or post signs everywhere explaining the situation with the address for the CCFDA).
Anyway, you get around that by importing your CD's -- you can buy them online in 100-packs from the States and it's perfectly legal. You just have to be careful to do it in such a way to avoid ridiculous customs charges..
If you are running with a *dm (gdm/kdm/xdm) at runlevel 4/5 (depending on your distro), CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, will kill your X-Server. It will be respawned, and it will read the new settings. Voila!
X alone is uncompressed; if you want good performance over wan/dialup/dsl you need some more stuff.
Nomachine makes a really awesome point-and-click X client thing for windows with a caching, compressing, X proxy on the back-end *NIX box. There's also *NIX clients, AFAIK, but the performance is supposedly similar to or better than Terminal Services. I tried it with their on-line demo Red Hat 9 machine and it worked pretty good over DSL. (On their end the machine is connected by a 256k DSL connection, last time I checked)
It's not free; but the components are GPL'd with the exception of the pretty client software, so if you're really cheap (and it's not that expensive) you could kludge something together..
Umm.. to make a dot matrix printer work you piss characters out the parallel port. It prints them.
For fancy formatting, you use a driver.
The driver happens to be BUILT-IN to Windows XP, and has been BUILT-IN to Windows since Windows 3.1. Every single Epson dot-matrix ever made is supported under XP.
You are right in that it gets very vague in the digital realm..
For one to make the (legal) download, another has to make the file (illegally?) available to be downloaded.
BTW, maybe there was a phrasing problem with my original post.. You can borrow a CD from a friend and copy it. It's legal. They can lend it to you and you can copy it. That's legal too, in fact it's the same thing just phrased differently. What they can't do is copy their own CD and give you the copy.
You have the right to make private copies of media for your own use. You do not have to own the original to make the copy.
The CRIA isn't bothering to try going after downloaders -- the law isn't on their side.
They're going after uploaders -- this is not protected by law.
So, basically how it works is that your friend can buy a new computer game and you can copy it legally, however they can't copy it for you legally. That's the difference, however minor.
Of course the controversial anti-hate speech laws have some effect on this..
Basically, you can say whatever you want until someone considers it "hate speech", and then there is a good chance that you will not be allowed to say it.
Holocaust deniers can not claim that the Holocaust did not happen, here in Canada.
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is a matter of opinion..
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905 is much of Southern Ontario with the exception of Toronto (which is an island of it's own now, 416, which used to be the area code for the whole area).
It's important to note the difference between going after people who provide ROMs and going after people who provide emulators.
There is clearly something wrong with downloading ROMs for games (that you can still buy in stores, at least..).
There is nothing wrong with a piece of software that recreates the hardware of a system.
Nintendo goes after people who provide ROMs, now Nintendo is going after people who provide emulators.
Sega has (through the IDSA), gone after people who provide ROMs, but they have not gone after people who provide emulators, and they don't go claiming that you can't copy the data from the cartridge to your computer. AFAIK, Sega has no problem with you buying a ROM dumper and dumping your old Genesis cartridges to ROM files on your computer to play with an emulator.
Nintendo apparently believes that this is bad, bad, bad, and that you should give them more money.
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You don't by chance know of a good VCDEasy like program for Linux do you? I'd rather not have to write the raw XML to use vcdimager :(.
I can't say I particularly agree with some of their design decisions, but they are trying to create a Linux standard.
Afaik, SuSE is LSB-compliant. (The /etc hierarchy certainly looks like it)
Red Hat/Fedora implements some if it, and Mandrake has it as an option (see the "LSB" option in the installer).
Unfortunately, I was never able to get it to work right, and I was never able to get it to go away.
I tried to figure out SuSE's magic init system (It seems stuff in /etc/init.d would get executed even though there was nothing in /etc/rc.d pointing to it?? What the hell?) to prevent SaX from starting but I couldn't figure it out.
YaST makes things magically happen; however, it does so many bizarre things it is very difficult to track what is going on.
Where as in Slackware, if I want to change my IP address I can either run the handy-dandy netconfig, or edit the obvious line in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf, in SuSE you either have to click the magic button and hope it works (and I had bad experiences with this; YaST never liked my dual-head setup), or track down some obscure file in /etc/sysconfig/network or something and grimace as you edit files with a menacing "Don't edit this by hand!!" at the top of each file..
That's Slashcode's way of keeping trolls from making the page unreadable by inserting really long lines..
Damned thing seems to not like my dual-head setup..
That not to say it isn't well-supported, just not as well as other distros.
I bought SuSE 9.0 and tried it a few months ago, and must say I didn't particularly care for it.
While they are definately producing one of the most polished distro's available, it deviates from most linux distributions somewhat dramatically; I still don't know how exactly the init system works. (It's not exactly SysV, it's not exactly BSD).
When I used it I had a problem in which it repeatedly would launch the X configurator if I had dual-head enabled. I don't know if that was just me or not.
Everything is tightly integrated in SuSE -- the KDE desktop is pretty amazing, but GNOME support is almost non-existant. Unfortunately, I found the KDE desktop to be pretty slow on my machine (P3 800mhz machine. Slackware with KDE3.1 runs great on it).
I also found that you HAD to do things SuSE's way -- if there wasn't a button for it in YaST, the SuSE configurator (and generally, there was.. YaST is probably the most comprehensive config tool for Linux), or YaST didn't give you all the options you needed, you couldn't do it yourself because YaST would stomp all over your changes.
SuSE is also the most proprietary of Linuxes, and there's not alot of support for it online (again, you can't just update say, package X from a source tarball because SuSE will throw a fit).
It's probably not bad for novice and intermediate computer users; I'd reccomend that experienced users who want a pretty desktop with little hassle use Mandrake.
As they are not taxes/tarrifs (it's a levy) you do not pay it.. the store does. They pass the cost on to you (in fact, to make people aware of it many stores either add it on as a tax at the register so people know, like London Drugs, or post signs everywhere explaining the situation with the address for the CCFDA).
Anyway, you get around that by importing your CD's -- you can buy them online in 100-packs from the States and it's perfectly legal. You just have to be careful to do it in such a way to avoid ridiculous customs charges..
No. Gnome was designed in an era in which efficiency was less important.
Motif apps are graphically simpler and probably designed with efficiency in mind..
If you are running with a *dm (gdm/kdm/xdm) at runlevel 4/5 (depending on your distro), CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, will kill your X-Server. It will be respawned, and it will read the new settings. Voila!
Nomachine makes a really awesome point-and-click X client thing for windows with a caching, compressing, X proxy on the back-end *NIX box. There's also *NIX clients, AFAIK, but the performance is supposedly similar to or better than Terminal Services. I tried it with their on-line demo Red Hat 9 machine and it worked pretty good over DSL. (On their end the machine is connected by a 256k DSL connection, last time I checked)
It's not free; but the components are GPL'd with the exception of the pretty client software, so if you're really cheap (and it's not that expensive) you could kludge something together..
There was a Slashdot article on it...
That is, you get instant treatment in the States if you are rich..
You're lucky to be able to read the keys through all the years of dirt and grime and god knows what built up on them..
Sorry to ruin your MS bashing..
For fancy formatting, you use a driver.
The driver happens to be BUILT-IN to Windows XP, and has been BUILT-IN to Windows since Windows 3.1. Every single Epson dot-matrix ever made is supported under XP.
This is really sad..
I'm sure Shaw must be able to track what dunamic IP was mapped to which username at any given point in time..
For one to make the (legal) download, another has to make the file (illegally?) available to be downloaded.
BTW, maybe there was a phrasing problem with my original post.. You can borrow a CD from a friend and copy it. It's legal. They can lend it to you and you can copy it. That's legal too, in fact it's the same thing just phrased differently. What they can't do is copy their own CD and give you the copy.
You have the right to make private copies of media for your own use. You do not have to own the original to make the copy.
The CRIA isn't bothering to try going after downloaders -- the law isn't on their side.
They're going after uploaders -- this is not protected by law.
So, basically how it works is that your friend can buy a new computer game and you can copy it legally, however they can't copy it for you legally. That's the difference, however minor.
Basically, you can say whatever you want until someone considers it "hate speech", and then there is a good chance that you will not be allowed to say it.
Holocaust deniers can not claim that the Holocaust did not happen, here in Canada.
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is a matter of opinion..
What a load of horse shit!
Muskoka is in 705, but it's close enough..
There is clearly something wrong with downloading ROMs for games (that you can still buy in stores, at least..).
There is nothing wrong with a piece of software that recreates the hardware of a system.
Nintendo goes after people who provide ROMs, now Nintendo is going after people who provide emulators.
Sega has (through the IDSA), gone after people who provide ROMs, but they have not gone after people who provide emulators, and they don't go claiming that you can't copy the data from the cartridge to your computer. AFAIK, Sega has no problem with you buying a ROM dumper and dumping your old Genesis cartridges to ROM files on your computer to play with an emulator.
Nintendo apparently believes that this is bad, bad, bad, and that you should give them more money.
But it did give an American a good chance to prove their ignorance, once again.