Microsoft has a huge patent portfolio. Very few poeple have bigger portfolios like IBM. MS probably has some obscure patent that can be used against almost any OS if they wanted to. IBM does too. Patent warfare can and will get ugly if this is the avenue that MS, Novell, IBM, or Apple wish to take.
I agree, they are saying they are responsible, like they were no matter what. This is a I'm here to cover you to the extent of the law requires me to statement. They are just stating what they couldn't avoid doing anyways.
I see a lot of posts already saying "you still need a power cable, so they technically aren't wireless". You can transmit electricity through the air. The problem becomes RF radiation. I have worked with multiple sytems that are capable of 10-2000 watts of power over the air. Some of them are even capable of knocking remotely powered unmanned hobby planes out of the air and frying the circuits.
The bandwidth is plenty, the technology is there, but I really dont want to wear a lead jacket around so my speakrs can be wireless.
While I take serious objection to the Killing of innocent people comment (I was there for 366 days and the only dead people I saw had recently fired weapons, and our vehicles had recently created holes), the underlying theme of only uneducated personnel vote Bush is rather insulting. I wont vote for Kerry because he has changed his position on several issues that I see very relavent, and he has voted to cut military spending. That in itself is killing of "innocent people". You can't protect if your equipment is broke and unavailable.
I wont vote for Bush because I disagree with his economic policy.
I would vote for a third party, but they have no chance of winning, so my vote still dont count.
Instead I sit at work, knowing that I have no reason to bitch, cant if I want to (depends on how they want to interprit the regs), and realize that I dont care eitherway because it isnt going to change jack.
BTW, IMO, Kerry's plan may have worked in the beginning, but wont be anymore effective now because of the situation on the ground (coming from first hand expierence).
You have stated publicly many times that you have a better plan for Iraq then what we have in place now. Will this plan be put forth to congress for the better of the country regardless of you status (win/lose) in the upcomming election?
Mr. President, you are actively working to ban homosexual marriage. Do you consider this restriction of rights descrimination against homosexuals or not and is the USA going twards a faith based rule instead of a government with church and state separated?
You just saw the grey area...
The black and white version is:
Situation 1. Man kills girl, life sentance.
Situation 2. Girl kills man, life sentance.
The grey area comes from the circumstances surrounding the situation. Fortunately, laws are adapting for this. Judgements cannot be made in a vaccum. Once, granted... in this case its legal to kill (situation 2) but it wasn't always... and that was the grey area.
I am running SuSE 9.0 Professional, they are default on suse still. Single click, double click to shade, middle button paste, are all still the default.
To answer any person out there that has said rtfm or type man "command"....what is the command that the person is to magically know in order to find out how to do what they dont know how to do? If someone gave my a live cd with Suse, or Knoppix or any other distro, and I had never used linux. Would it automount all of my removable media or would I have to find out about mount some how??? The manuals are there.....but if you dont know there is a command that even does what you are looking for, the manual is useless.
Maybe we as a community need to stop saying RTFM and start saying... here is a good linux noob site with a lot of commonly used commands and explinations of what they do......we might be able to sway some of the neophites that say linux is too hard becuase it doesnt work. It does work, we just have to help them find out how to make it work.
So you say a man that kills a girl because she has a blonde hair (not only a sick fuck but illegal as well) and a woman that shoots and kills a man trying to strangle her (self defence and legal in many places) should both get a life sentance?
Seriously, it's called fstab.
do you mean to make it ro only when mounted, or not make it mountable.
If its read only, or I only have 400 access, I can still copy it, and I still get it home. All I have to do is cut and past it into a text file. Then I burn it to cd, email it, ftp it, floppy, do an rlogin and cut from one document and paste it to the window one line at a time with >> fred.txt at the end of each line.... there are too many ways to get around using fstab to stop people from taking information away from a computer.
I think the real purpose for this is to stop people from transferring stuff off a trusted network (that isnt connected to the normal lan or the net) to a unsecured (normal lan or net connection). The abiltiy to stop this would have made my job easier. Even if there is a policy, cross contamination of information from one network to another happens because people are unaware of the policy or the scope of the policy. This is not to stop people with a clue, its to stop people period from using the device where they shouldnt be anyways. This is just an easier way to do it than my last post.
There is a setting in the local security policy that stops people from adding hardware.... This includes usb drives and ipods. Been there for a long time too Win2K without the SP's and later. I find it hard to believe that MS would put that into Local Security Policy and not have it at the Domain Security Policy. I dont feel the need to upgrade my system to a domain controller to verify that though.
I completely disagree. I am a relative newbie to linux. I have only been using it for a few years, but I never learned how to fix/admin/use it properly. I can do the most simple things, but that is about it.
I am actually glad for the choice of 2 or 3 Desktops, or window managers. I like the choice of 12 text editors, it lets me toy with things and see what I like best. It also introduces me to new ideas in how to do things. I personally like Gnome, but my wife preferrs KDE. Without both coming on the same DVD, I would have had serious problems downloading, compiling, and installing them. Having multiple options to choose from in the install is a major plus for a newbie.
I do agree, sometimes the selection may be overboard, but if I find two editors (say ed and pico) that I like....it was worth the extra work wading through the ones I didnt like.
Actually, an explosion 400 ft up would not be as bad. The reflection of the blast off the road and into the barriers in the truck help make the blast as bad as it would be. That is why they put cement into the vehicle to shape the charge. The blast could be shaped, but the reflection of the blast would move the car up, down, or more likely away from the intended target. This may actually cause less damage then a truck bomb on the gound. There is also the issue of no friction to stop the vehicle from sliding in the reflected blast.
In the simple matter of physics, a bomb detonated in the air next to a building should do less damage.
There is just one issue with your statement. That we should act on Biblical Principal. If you are a Christian (I use the term to encompass all religions that believe in the God of Abraham), then act as you see is right. Unfortunately, If your God is the God of Mohammod, then jihad is right. We have avoided this kind of segregation in society based on religous beliefs for many reasons. We founded this country because we were persecuted for our religion (or because we were criminals, depends on what ship one was on). To introduce that exact type of ruling structure, where we rule by our religion and not by freedom of choice (life, religion, language, sexuality), we become no better than the Thoelogical governments of Iraq (Baath), Afganistan (Taliban), and others. I may not agree with how people act, but I believe in their right to choose without worrying about me discrimintating against them for that choice. I have chosen to put my life on the line to defend this country in order to make sure peoples rights remain intact, reguardless of what I think of them and their beliefs.
"MS should produce a crapload of service pack CDs and give them to OEMs and every new computer should come with a current one. (They did this with NT4 SP3 and haven't done it since to my knowledge"
I have a version that I bought with win2k SP1, they still do it, but not very often.
Dont mean this to be a flame, sorry if it looks like one.
Yes, there is a way to update without paying 80 for a box set... get the update set. It should only run you about 60. You could also do the online install (you lose all the commercial apps) and chose the upgrade option.
There are many reasons why you can't get a Windows user to switch or even try...
1. Never Quest (Ever Crack, Ever Quest). It doesnt work right out of the box. You ever see a common user hop into a command prompt to get things done??? try to explain compiling a program to run a program half as well as it did before he left windows.
2. Geek appeal. I actually know a person that will not try linux because he doesnt want to be labeled a geek.
3. Hardware support. I still have hardware that I cant use... and I dont have the time to try and code a driver (and fail miserably).
4. I just bought a dell with MS on it already.... if it works (it does what I want it to do), then why fix it?
5. My wife's company uses a lot of MS publisher.... Is there an open souce equivelant?
There are many reasons not to switch from windows to linux.
Mod me down for trolling for all I care, these are true for the general populus. Knoppix is a good start, as is the SuSE live CD, but we still have a long way to go.
BTW, I haven't ran windows for 4 years now and am glad to be free.
PS. If you guys are having troubles getting people to try linux, maybe its your approach and not the software. The software can be the best thing in the world, but if you can't make it sound L337 or cool, interesting, fun, and usable... then you will never get past the stigmata that GNU/Linux has
They say that the patch was a previously issued patch, and it just was re issued. That is a problem, but not a major one (unless the re issued patch has some undocumented modifications). I also see many people saying that the once a month patch gives black hats time to exploit a critical flaw. I dont remember where it was said, but I read that the critical flaws were to be patched immediately and the minor flaws were going to be patched monthly. I am going to do a search and post a link in response to this post when I do find the article.
YEAH ! because crime in the real world doesnt exist or cause anyone problems.
We cant keep our troops from getting killed
I dont know if you are trying to be sarcastic here. Please forgive this flame if you are only being sarcastic.
If you aren't expieriencing the fire over here in the desert with the rest of us, you have absolutely no rum to talk. I have seen the people that we "liberated", and for the most part they are thankful. I have seen the cruelties that they lived under while Saddam was in charge. We did the right thing over here, wheather our reasons were accurate or not.
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I can only say they have definately succeeded. If I had mod points, itd be worth 1 funny
If you look at UL's website, they SCO is still members of united linux . how ironic
http://www.unitedlinux.com/en/partners/index.html
Microsoft has a huge patent portfolio. Very few poeple have bigger portfolios like IBM. MS probably has some obscure patent that can be used against almost any OS if they wanted to. IBM does too. Patent warfare can and will get ugly if this is the avenue that MS, Novell, IBM, or Apple wish to take.
I agree, they are saying they are responsible, like they were no matter what. This is a I'm here to cover you to the extent of the law requires me to statement. They are just stating what they couldn't avoid doing anyways.
I see a lot of posts already saying "you still need a power cable, so they technically aren't wireless". You can transmit electricity through the air. The problem becomes RF radiation. I have worked with multiple sytems that are capable of 10-2000 watts of power over the air. Some of them are even capable of knocking remotely powered unmanned hobby planes out of the air and frying the circuits.
The bandwidth is plenty, the technology is there, but I really dont want to wear a lead jacket around so my speakrs can be wireless.
While I take serious objection to the Killing of innocent people comment (I was there for 366 days and the only dead people I saw had recently fired weapons, and our vehicles had recently created holes), the underlying theme of only uneducated personnel vote Bush is rather insulting. I wont vote for Kerry because he has changed his position on several issues that I see very relavent, and he has voted to cut military spending. That in itself is killing of "innocent people". You can't protect if your equipment is broke and unavailable.
I wont vote for Bush because I disagree with his economic policy.
I would vote for a third party, but they have no chance of winning, so my vote still dont count.
Instead I sit at work, knowing that I have no reason to bitch, cant if I want to (depends on how they want to interprit the regs), and realize that I dont care eitherway because it isnt going to change jack.
BTW, IMO, Kerry's plan may have worked in the beginning, but wont be anymore effective now because of the situation on the ground (coming from first hand expierence).
You can still BSOD an XP computer. Seen it done myself. (I think it was due to a bad video driver and an ooooolllllllddddd card).
You have stated publicly many times that you have a better plan for Iraq then what we have in place now. Will this plan be put forth to congress for the better of the country regardless of you status (win/lose) in the upcomming election?
Mr. President, you are actively working to ban homosexual marriage. Do you consider this restriction of rights descrimination against homosexuals or not and is the USA going twards a faith based rule instead of a government with church and state separated?
You just saw the grey area... The black and white version is: Situation 1. Man kills girl, life sentance. Situation 2. Girl kills man, life sentance. The grey area comes from the circumstances surrounding the situation. Fortunately, laws are adapting for this. Judgements cannot be made in a vaccum. Once, granted... in this case its legal to kill (situation 2) but it wasn't always... and that was the grey area.
I am running SuSE 9.0 Professional, they are default on suse still. Single click, double click to shade, middle button paste, are all still the default.
... here is a good linux noob site with a lot of commonly used commands and explinations of what they do......we might be able to sway some of the neophites that say linux is too hard becuase it doesnt work. It does work, we just have to help them find out how to make it work.
To answer any person out there that has said rtfm or type man "command"....what is the command that the person is to magically know in order to find out how to do what they dont know how to do? If someone gave my a live cd with Suse, or Knoppix or any other distro, and I had never used linux. Would it automount all of my removable media or would I have to find out about mount some how??? The manuals are there.....but if you dont know there is a command that even does what you are looking for, the manual is useless.
Maybe we as a community need to stop saying RTFM and start saying
So you say a man that kills a girl because she has a blonde hair (not only a sick fuck but illegal as well) and a woman that shoots and kills a man trying to strangle her (self defence and legal in many places) should both get a life sentance?
Seriously, it's called fstab. do you mean to make it ro only when mounted, or not make it mountable. If its read only, or I only have 400 access, I can still copy it, and I still get it home. All I have to do is cut and past it into a text file. Then I burn it to cd, email it, ftp it, floppy, do an rlogin and cut from one document and paste it to the window one line at a time with >> fred.txt at the end of each line.... there are too many ways to get around using fstab to stop people from taking information away from a computer. I think the real purpose for this is to stop people from transferring stuff off a trusted network (that isnt connected to the normal lan or the net) to a unsecured (normal lan or net connection). The abiltiy to stop this would have made my job easier. Even if there is a policy, cross contamination of information from one network to another happens because people are unaware of the policy or the scope of the policy. This is not to stop people with a clue, its to stop people period from using the device where they shouldnt be anyways. This is just an easier way to do it than my last post.
There is a setting in the local security policy that stops people from adding hardware.... This includes usb drives and ipods. Been there for a long time too Win2K without the SP's and later. I find it hard to believe that MS would put that into Local Security Policy and not have it at the Domain Security Policy. I dont feel the need to upgrade my system to a domain controller to verify that though.
I completely disagree. I am a relative newbie to linux. I have only been using it for a few years, but I never learned how to fix/admin/use it properly. I can do the most simple things, but that is about it.
I am actually glad for the choice of 2 or 3 Desktops, or window managers. I like the choice of 12 text editors, it lets me toy with things and see what I like best. It also introduces me to new ideas in how to do things. I personally like Gnome, but my wife preferrs KDE. Without both coming on the same DVD, I would have had serious problems downloading, compiling, and installing them. Having multiple options to choose from in the install is a major plus for a newbie.
I do agree, sometimes the selection may be overboard, but if I find two editors (say ed and pico) that I like....it was worth the extra work wading through the ones I didnt like.
Actually, an explosion 400 ft up would not be as bad. The reflection of the blast off the road and into the barriers in the truck help make the blast as bad as it would be. That is why they put cement into the vehicle to shape the charge. The blast could be shaped, but the reflection of the blast would move the car up, down, or more likely away from the intended target. This may actually cause less damage then a truck bomb on the gound. There is also the issue of no friction to stop the vehicle from sliding in the reflected blast.
In the simple matter of physics, a bomb detonated in the air next to a building should do less damage.
There is just one issue with your statement. That we should act on Biblical Principal. If you are a Christian (I use the term to encompass all religions that believe in the God of Abraham), then act as you see is right. Unfortunately, If your God is the God of Mohammod, then jihad is right. We have avoided this kind of segregation in society based on religous beliefs for many reasons. We founded this country because we were persecuted for our religion (or because we were criminals, depends on what ship one was on). To introduce that exact type of ruling structure, where we rule by our religion and not by freedom of choice (life, religion, language, sexuality), we become no better than the Thoelogical governments of Iraq (Baath), Afganistan (Taliban), and others. I may not agree with how people act, but I believe in their right to choose without worrying about me discrimintating against them for that choice. I have chosen to put my life on the line to defend this country in order to make sure peoples rights remain intact, reguardless of what I think of them and their beliefs.
"MS should produce a crapload of service pack CDs and give them to OEMs and every new computer should come with a current one. (They did this with NT4 SP3 and haven't done it since to my knowledge"
I have a version that I bought with win2k SP1, they still do it, but not very often.
Dont mean this to be a flame, sorry if it looks like one.
They do make wood veneer computer cases. just go to http://www.exoticwoodcrafts.com/default.asp
Yes, there is a way to update without paying 80 for a box set... get the update set. It should only run you about 60. You could also do the online install (you lose all the commercial apps) and chose the upgrade option.
There are many reasons why you can't get a Windows user to switch or even try...
1. Never Quest (Ever Crack, Ever Quest). It doesnt work right out of the box. You ever see a common user hop into a command prompt to get things done??? try to explain compiling a program to run a program half as well as it did before he left windows.
2. Geek appeal. I actually know a person that will not try linux because he doesnt want to be labeled a geek.
3. Hardware support. I still have hardware that I cant use... and I dont have the time to try and code a driver (and fail miserably).
4. I just bought a dell with MS on it already.... if it works (it does what I want it to do), then why fix it?
5. My wife's company uses a lot of MS publisher.... Is there an open souce equivelant?
There are many reasons not to switch from windows to linux.
Mod me down for trolling for all I care, these are true for the general populus. Knoppix is a good start, as is the SuSE live CD, but we still have a long way to go.
BTW, I haven't ran windows for 4 years now and am glad to be free.
PS. If you guys are having troubles getting people to try linux, maybe its your approach and not the software. The software can be the best thing in the world, but if you can't make it sound L337 or cool, interesting, fun, and usable... then you will never get past the stigmata that GNU/Linux has
They say that the patch was a previously issued patch, and it just was re issued. That is a problem, but not a major one (unless the re issued patch has some undocumented modifications). I also see many people saying that the once a month patch gives black hats time to exploit a critical flaw. I dont remember where it was said, but I read that the critical flaws were to be patched immediately and the minor flaws were going to be patched monthly. I am going to do a search and post a link in response to this post when I do find the article.
YEAH ! because crime in the real world doesnt exist or cause anyone problems. We cant keep our troops from getting killed I dont know if you are trying to be sarcastic here. Please forgive this flame if you are only being sarcastic.
If you aren't expieriencing the fire over here in the desert with the rest of us, you have absolutely no rum to talk. I have seen the people that we "liberated", and for the most part they are thankful. I have seen the cruelties that they lived under while Saddam was in charge. We did the right thing over here, wheather our reasons were accurate or not.
The are hinting at a lawsuit against BSD...but say that BSD is clear on the linux ip license faq.
Just look at the last question.
just to nitpick, SuSE was bought by Novell, not SCO (aka caldera)