all you have to do for this to work is dual boot their winxp and any other OS (even regular winxp if you swing that way). When you're using your computer, use the real os. when you're not (ie while sleeping or at work/school) boot their os. you'll get those 30 hours in with no trouble, no ads, and none of them bitching at you or saying you violated the terms.
I was unfortunate enough to just catch this article at about 10:00 boulder time. I ran out to my porch which looks over most of boulder and can't seem to see anything. It is an extremely clear night, though. Perhaps the giant laser isn't visible if there's nothing for it to bounce off of?
If it's in a geostationary orbit, you don't need to worry about a giant laser cutting you in half. Flight paths can be redirected. Not so sure about ducks, though.
Obviously, this wouldn't work for NTFS partitions that don't have an actual NT-based O/S installed on it, but if that's the case, why do you have that partition on your HD in the first place?!
Ok, I'll bite. My computer has 3 hard drives. One is an NTFS win2k boot drive. When this got to be too small, I bought another one and added it. It's NTFS too. That got full and I got interested in linux. I now have a 3rd hard drive where the first partition is NTFS and the rest is linux. I use all of it. I'd love to be able to write to all of it.
I'm slightly torn about games, as there is, in fact, participation in anything that goes on. However, there is an extremely important difference between R rated movies and M rated video games (let's face it, how many video games really are analogous to X rated movies? Duke Nukem doesn't count). The difference is that movies, and especially at theatres are fully realistic and fully immersive. Even on the best currently available gaming machine, nobody could mistake the action onscreen for anything real.
Music is even one step further, as very little music is intended to be taken as any view of reality. Rather, much of it is artistic in one way or another (yes, in the eye of the beholder) and is not a specific view of something unacceptable in reality (ie shooting lots of people). Even in the cases of songs about such things, I would be very hesitant to say that they are an influence toward anything beyond stupid fanboyism.
Let me know how it works. It took me a while and a lot of weird problems to get it to work at all, so I'm curious if it really was that simple after all.
This is the quick and dirty method, but it'll get you upgraded and running. Please note that if you have lots of special needs, it might not work as well.
Start by reading this article: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799 but don't follow those steps quite yet. You may not need to at all, depending on your setup and needs.
Now go to http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/ and download all necessary files as outlined in the previous document. Before you install the kernel RPM, make damn sure that you aren't missing anything or things break very fast. You should also take steps to backup as outlined in the first document. Now install the RPM and make any necessary bootloader changes/bootdisks. That may do it for you.
If you have to make some changes (ie I needed ntfs), download the kernel source (I had trouble with the rpm on that site, ymmv) and do a make oldconfig followed by a make (x or g)config to get the small changes you need. Good luck!
This seems like an extremely good thought except for a few changes that have happened since then. Specifically, until after World War II, civilian casualties were a normal part of war. Both sides killed civilians because it was a way to weaken the enemy. It is only in more recent times that this has become unacceptable. In Hiroshima, the Americans were deliberately killing civilians because it looked like a good way to win the war.
Terrorism as we have seen it is also a newer phenomenon. Yes, there were previously actions by individuals to hurt a state or cause, but terrorism was not generally controlled by large organizations, nor was it terribly effective.
Actually, most bills that are seriously intended to pass are sponsored by members of both parties, even if one of them is stepping outside of party lines. If it is proposed only by members of one party, you are much more likely to run into a party-line vote.
Microsoft is pretty smart to do this. For one thing, it takes one piece of ammo away from those trying to degrade Microsoft (which it certainly deserves for other things, just not this). Besides that, it not only encourages continued windows usage, it strongly discourages Linux usage -- when you're emulating an OS, you do it only for things you can do in that OS, rather in the one you're running. In addition, even if they don't mess with how well it works, an OS running under an emulator will never run quite as well as it would if you're booting it. The result is that people using VirtualPC to play with Linux will find it slow and redundant. Good business, nasty little ethics.
The greates inventors of our times (Watt, Marconi, Daimler & Benz, Aitken, The Wright Bros) were literally standing on the shoulders of giants, i.e. developing ideas of their predecessors.
So what it really takes to invent great things is not good ideas or hard work, but simply a very large friend who'll let you hang out on his shoulder for a while?
40,000 voluntary computer users who allow their computers to be monitored...
I have no idea what made you think this. I participate in NPD surveys. There is no monitoring. a few times a week, I recieve an email from them asking that I take a survey. If I feel like it then, I take it; if I don't feel like it, I don't. There is no software. Occaisionally, there is even financial compensation for taking their surveys. Besides, as a Slashdottish sort of person, I help to represent the Slashdot point of view in surveys like this one (which I participated in). NPD is a research group, not spyware.
I'd reccomend poking around on Suprnova or other bittorrent sites. These sorts of things will tend to show up pretty soon. That's legal, but you don't get support from Redhat. I'm not certain whether this one gives you up2date like Redhat 9 does, but all updates are available, whether Redhat puts them in your face or not.
The truth is that as long as you're generally carful and take reasonable precautions, nothing is too likely to go wrong, especially if you have a little expereince putting in various components. Just read the instructions for every component in advance, know what you're going to do and be reasonably careful about it. If you're not sure about something, don't do it until you've checked with somebody who has. And static. Don't let that happen. Make sure the outlets you're plugging into are grounded. Failing that (I don't have any), grab pipes to discharge (and don't shuffle your feet on the way back to your work). There's nothing terribly difficult about any of this. Best of Luck!
This is due to the Windows myth-that everybody uses it, so that's what you should build software for. I'll do 100% linux as soon as I get warcraft III, adobe premiere, and my scanner's software for linux. However, I don't normally use these, so I can have the better day-to-day experience and just reboot for these sorts of applications.
A couple weeks ago, I had had enough with MS's shenanigans and went for a dual boot with Redhat 9. I had played with unix before, but didn't really know my way around linux. In all honesty, a couple weeks later, I've found I can spend most of my time on my linux boot with a much smoother experience than is possible with windows. This isn't to say it's perfect (that's OS X), but at least it's not trying to kill me like MS.
But this doesn't really mean much. Kazaa's best argument is that the RIAA used illegal software with Kazaa lite. Maybe they could even win on that. That only helps the Kazaa company. The RIAA only needs to use Kazaa proper or raid other networks to continue precisely what they've been doing this whole time. Sorry, but it looks like Joe P2P doesn't stand to gain anything from this.
I've got my TiVo, VCR, & TV on a UPS. That solves the flashing 12:00 problem most of the time.
But it's an absolute disaster for the acronym challenged.
In all seriousness, I think a fine makes a lot more sense here. No human was harmed-the spammer made money and people and companies lost money. Taking money from the spammer seems far more logical than putting it in jail. Maybe taking its computers away would also make sense.
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all you have to do for this to work is dual boot their winxp and any other OS (even regular winxp if you swing that way). When you're using your computer, use the real os. when you're not (ie while sleeping or at work/school) boot their os. you'll get those 30 hours in with no trouble, no ads, and none of them bitching at you or saying you violated the terms.
I was unfortunate enough to just catch this article at about 10:00 boulder time. I ran out to my porch which looks over most of boulder and can't seem to see anything. It is an extremely clear night, though. Perhaps the giant laser isn't visible if there's nothing for it to bounce off of?
If it's in a geostationary orbit, you don't need to worry about a giant laser cutting you in half. Flight paths can be redirected. Not so sure about ducks, though.
Obviously, this wouldn't work for NTFS partitions that don't have an actual NT-based O/S installed on it, but if that's the case, why do you have that partition on your HD in the first place?!
Ok, I'll bite. My computer has 3 hard drives. One is an NTFS win2k boot drive. When this got to be too small, I bought another one and added it. It's NTFS too. That got full and I got interested in linux. I now have a 3rd hard drive where the first partition is NTFS and the rest is linux. I use all of it. I'd love to be able to write to all of it.
I'm slightly torn about games, as there is, in fact, participation in anything that goes on. However, there is an extremely important difference between R rated movies and M rated video games (let's face it, how many video games really are analogous to X rated movies? Duke Nukem doesn't count). The difference is that movies, and especially at theatres are fully realistic and fully immersive. Even on the best currently available gaming machine, nobody could mistake the action onscreen for anything real.
Music is even one step further, as very little music is intended to be taken as any view of reality. Rather, much of it is artistic in one way or another (yes, in the eye of the beholder) and is not a specific view of something unacceptable in reality (ie shooting lots of people). Even in the cases of songs about such things, I would be very hesitant to say that they are an influence toward anything beyond stupid fanboyism.
I suspect there are quite a lot of single geeks out there with a "freudian obsession with beavers"
Let me know how it works. It took me a while and a lot of weird problems to get it to work at all, so I'm curious if it really was that simple after all.
This seems like an extremely good thought except for a few changes that have happened since then. Specifically, until after World War II, civilian casualties were a normal part of war. Both sides killed civilians because it was a way to weaken the enemy. It is only in more recent times that this has become unacceptable. In Hiroshima, the Americans were deliberately killing civilians because it looked like a good way to win the war. Terrorism as we have seen it is also a newer phenomenon. Yes, there were previously actions by individuals to hurt a state or cause, but terrorism was not generally controlled by large organizations, nor was it terribly effective.
Actually, most bills that are seriously intended to pass are sponsored by members of both parties, even if one of them is stepping outside of party lines. If it is proposed only by members of one party, you are much more likely to run into a party-line vote.
Microsoft is pretty smart to do this. For one thing, it takes one piece of ammo away from those trying to degrade Microsoft (which it certainly deserves for other things, just not this). Besides that, it not only encourages continued windows usage, it strongly discourages Linux usage -- when you're emulating an OS, you do it only for things you can do in that OS, rather in the one you're running. In addition, even if they don't mess with how well it works, an OS running under an emulator will never run quite as well as it would if you're booting it. The result is that people using VirtualPC to play with Linux will find it slow and redundant. Good business, nasty little ethics.
I turned up my speakers so I could hear it on the other side of the room.
The greates inventors of our times (Watt, Marconi, Daimler & Benz, Aitken, The Wright Bros) were literally standing on the shoulders of giants, i.e. developing ideas of their predecessors.
So what it really takes to invent great things is not good ideas or hard work, but simply a very large friend who'll let you hang out on his shoulder for a while?
Nah, get the Toothbrush Hackers Bible, it covers the blue tooth and serial versions as well.
Maybe it's just a distro difference, but I prefer the white tooth version over the blue tooth one.
40,000 voluntary computer users who allow their computers to be monitored... I have no idea what made you think this. I participate in NPD surveys. There is no monitoring. a few times a week, I recieve an email from them asking that I take a survey. If I feel like it then, I take it; if I don't feel like it, I don't. There is no software. Occaisionally, there is even financial compensation for taking their surveys. Besides, as a Slashdottish sort of person, I help to represent the Slashdot point of view in surveys like this one (which I participated in). NPD is a research group, not spyware.
Personally, I like my naked girls mobile, especially when I'm trying to get them to find something for me, but whatever runs your algorithm
I'd reccomend poking around on Suprnova or other bittorrent sites. These sorts of things will tend to show up pretty soon. That's legal, but you don't get support from Redhat. I'm not certain whether this one gives you up2date like Redhat 9 does, but all updates are available, whether Redhat puts them in your face or not.
The truth is that as long as you're generally carful and take reasonable precautions, nothing is too likely to go wrong, especially if you have a little expereince putting in various components. Just read the instructions for every component in advance, know what you're going to do and be reasonably careful about it. If you're not sure about something, don't do it until you've checked with somebody who has. And static. Don't let that happen. Make sure the outlets you're plugging into are grounded. Failing that (I don't have any), grab pipes to discharge (and don't shuffle your feet on the way back to your work). There's nothing terribly difficult about any of this. Best of Luck!
This is due to the Windows myth-that everybody uses it, so that's what you should build software for. I'll do 100% linux as soon as I get warcraft III, adobe premiere, and my scanner's software for linux. However, I don't normally use these, so I can have the better day-to-day experience and just reboot for these sorts of applications.
It's gaming, mostly. I do also use Kazaa on occaision, and also use Premiere for video editing. It's working out to about 70% linux 30% windows usage.
A couple weeks ago, I had had enough with MS's shenanigans and went for a dual boot with Redhat 9. I had played with unix before, but didn't really know my way around linux. In all honesty, a couple weeks later, I've found I can spend most of my time on my linux boot with a much smoother experience than is possible with windows. This isn't to say it's perfect (that's OS X), but at least it's not trying to kill me like MS.
But this doesn't really mean much. Kazaa's best argument is that the RIAA used illegal software with Kazaa lite. Maybe they could even win on that. That only helps the Kazaa company. The RIAA only needs to use Kazaa proper or raid other networks to continue precisely what they've been doing this whole time. Sorry, but it looks like Joe P2P doesn't stand to gain anything from this.
I've got my TiVo, VCR, & TV on a UPS. That solves the flashing 12:00 problem most of the time.
But it's an absolute disaster for the acronym challenged.
In all seriousness, I think a fine makes a lot more sense here. No human was harmed-the spammer made money and people and companies lost money. Taking money from the spammer seems far more logical than putting it in jail. Maybe taking its computers away would also make sense.
Sure they're GPL! I can't wait to see the derivative works and the innovative ways of distributing those PCs to anyone who wants one!