B) It's not normal to have to reinstall the OS every 3 weeks.
You are right, it is not... whoever is doing this is obviously not meant to ever use anything even remotely involving computers. At most I would expect someone to try reinstalling windows every year, and thats only if they have installed so much stuff as to simply not want to deal with removing it all. I have a win2k install going for about 3 years now, and a winXP that I have just done a reinstall on ( to repartition ) that was good for 2 years previous. I dont know what all these people are doing to their computers, even my parents generally dont fubar up theirs until a year or two down the line.
I can't speak for other people but I myself haven't had to reinstall windows much except in the case of all sorts of malware (spyware, addware, viruses) which are really hard to clean off sometimes. Reinstalling windows is sometimes the easiest way to solve it. Also, badly behaving uninstallers sometimes delete stuff from the registry that they shouldn't. And in any case, trying to clean up a win98 registry after 1 year on a heavily used box is going to take you a hell of a lot longer than reinstalling.
And then there's drivers issues. My current windows xp install is acting really flakey, locking up now and then and what not. With this kind of stuff you usually don't have any choice but to completely reinstall windows (especially after having gone through all the necessary steps).
So yeah, there are good reasons to reinstall windows. Just not everyone has the misfortune of running into them.
True. But usually it's best to hold it in a big enough room that you can open some windows to combat smells etc. Heat is a different thing. Airco systems or anything remotely like it is just way to expensive for a small to midsize lanparty and the cost doesn't scale well either. Airco for a weekend is basically undoable, unless the airco company would like to sponsor your event.
I can agree with this. I was part of the organisation of a small lanparty last year(about 70-80 people) and it was absolutely hell pulling it together. First off the power requirements, then there are prices, catering, server setup... There's a lot involved. We had quite a large team of people (6 people) setting this up and putting a lot of time in it. We also had significant help during the event from other people.
Then there is off course the profit you're hoping to make. We barely broke even (made a small profit eventually) and we did have several sponsors who contributed quite a bit of the initial cost for the event. Off course your situation might be different, depending on local cost but I think it would probably be quite comparable.
Unlike what other people are reporting here people in the school didn't really have problems with the playing of violent games. But it was held as a private event and not in the US so that's normal I guess. We did have the luxury of being in a technical school where we only had to pull some cables to the workshops which had plenty of power...
The L in EULA stands for License. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you can license hardware, this being a copyright practice. What you could have is some sort of contract that you would sign when buying your iPod. Sounds a bit orwellian though.
I think what the judge is basically saying to the prosecution is "you're prosecuting this guy under the wrong law, pick another one". There must be some laws on privacy at least that this guy broke. Not to mention the contract with his employer, that hopefully forbids exactly this kind of activity.
Inclusion of gpl'd code in a propietary program would not require one to open source the entire program. No court could make them do that, they could however make them pay a hefty fee to the original developers for copyright violations.
Do they still make newer models of such units, or are these becoming extinct? I've read some comments going both ways in this thread and just wondering...
That's all unnecessary. IRC is trackable in the same way that the web is. They just join the channel, write down the ip of everybody who's serving files, and then sue them. None of this legislation is really needed.
You have a point. On the other hand a robot does not require large amounts of living space, food, oxygen and energyconsuming utilities to be launched in other space. So it costs less to send one up there and in that respect manned spaceflight is a foolish waste of money and resources. We might need or want to send people up there at some point but when the work can be automated why not? Our resources are sarce as it is, no need to deliberately make them even scarcer.
I don't know about the museum but I do know that hospitals sometimes stream live feeds from operations. That's one possible use. Since this is in some way connected to education a network like this could probably be used to give classes by streaming them to the students. A sufficiently high resolution image would be needed (how else would they make out what their professor is cutting in) so a big pipe would probably come in handy.
I had to search a while but I found this OECD raport which among other things has a table of immigration per 1000 inhabitants. You can see right there that the US is in the low end compared to other countries, including many European ones. So this disproves (1) (assuming the data is somewhat correct, it is off course a bit off).
Secondly, most immigrants to European countries come from Third World countries (I'm thinking Arab and African nations here). And I don't know what anybody meant by 3.
But it proves a point that you should be careful about saying "we have x immigrants more", while usually when you break down the numbers it just isn't correct. (in this case the US does have more immigrants in absolute numbers, but this is logical with it being the biggest nation)
I think many unices work with dirty buffers. I.e. they keep the blocks in memory and don't guarantee an immediate write. This makes file access faster since if you modify the file twice, it might just get written once.
Anyway, if the OS still has buffers that it needs to write to the drive, and the drive is gone, that would be the error.
Okay I know you're being relative here. But I wouldn' exactly call http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland a small country. And the US is not really far behind on this sort of stuff. I recall at least one zdnet article on switching to firefox and several columns. It's all in your head, really.
The lifecycle of windows 2000 ends in june 2005. This means it is still supported by Microsoft till at least then. If users don't upgrade (especially business users) it's because they believe that they are still "under warranty" and being served security updates for all vulnerabilities in the OS.
Yes, they could upgrade to windows XP but this is a costly operation and you don't want to upgrade everytime Microsoft upgrades it's OS. With a bit of luck (or bad luck if you do upgrade), Microsoft will release a new one within the lifecycle of your current windows. It just doesn't make any sense blowing all your money on licenses every 2 years if Microsoft offers you the possibility to stay with it for 4 years.
It is that Microsoft is now telling those people the same thing (albeit not to their face): "Using windows 2000? Well, you're shit out of luck". I don't think it's okay to tell your clients one thing, then do the other. But hey, if it works for them...
Get your facts straight. linux is not supported by major hardware (and software) companies _because_ it only has 1 or 2% market share. And don't point to macintoshes either. It took big industry a looong while before supporting hardware on the mac. But at some point they started to realise that apple was capitalizing on hardware they could have been building. The same will probably be true one day for linux.
I don't think flying a plane into a razor-thin superstrong material would be very smart, let alone productive. And compared to that, buildings are easy to hit, aren't they?
And I'd add that this whole "what will you read them with in 200 years" thing is grossly overrated. If somebody wants to read them in 200 years, they will probably be able to. And if you're still around when everything is switching from one format/carrier to another format/carrier, what's stopping you from converting your old files to the new format?
This problem really only rears its head when you are managing a very large library of works, in which case it would cost millions to re-archive everything. But that's a whole different ball park from local archiving.
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I can't speak for other people but I myself haven't had to reinstall windows much except in the case of all sorts of malware (spyware, addware, viruses) which are really hard to clean off sometimes. Reinstalling windows is sometimes the easiest way to solve it. Also, badly behaving uninstallers sometimes delete stuff from the registry that they shouldn't. And in any case, trying to clean up a win98 registry after 1 year on a heavily used box is going to take you a hell of a lot longer than reinstalling.
And then there's drivers issues. My current windows xp install is acting really flakey, locking up now and then and what not. With this kind of stuff you usually don't have any choice but to completely reinstall windows (especially after having gone through all the necessary steps).
So yeah, there are good reasons to reinstall windows. Just not everyone has the misfortune of running into them.
True. But usually it's best to hold it in a big enough room that you can open some windows to combat smells etc. Heat is a different thing. Airco systems or anything remotely like it is just way to expensive for a small to midsize lanparty and the cost doesn't scale well either. Airco for a weekend is basically undoable, unless the airco company would like to sponsor your event.
I can agree with this. I was part of the organisation of a small lanparty last year(about 70-80 people) and it was absolutely hell pulling it together. First off the power requirements, then there are prices, catering, server setup... There's a lot involved. We had quite a large team of people (6 people) setting this up and putting a lot of time in it. We also had significant help during the event from other people.
Then there is off course the profit you're hoping to make. We barely broke even (made a small profit eventually) and we did have several sponsors who contributed quite a bit of the initial cost for the event. Off course your situation might be different, depending on local cost but I think it would probably be quite comparable.
Unlike what other people are reporting here people in the school didn't really have problems with the playing of violent games. But it was held as a private event and not in the US so that's normal I guess. We did have the luxury of being in a technical school where we only had to pull some cables to the workshops which had plenty of power...
The L in EULA stands for License. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you can license hardware, this being a copyright practice. What you could have is some sort of contract that you would sign when buying your iPod. Sounds a bit orwellian though.
This must be one of the fastest /.ings in the history of /.
I think what the judge is basically saying to the prosecution is "you're prosecuting this guy under the wrong law, pick another one". There must be some laws on privacy at least that this guy broke. Not to mention the contract with his employer, that hopefully forbids exactly this kind of activity.
Many people are narrow minded zealots, period.
Inclusion of gpl'd code in a propietary program would not require one to open source the entire program. No court could make them do that, they could however make them pay a hefty fee to the original developers for copyright violations.
Do they still make newer models of such units, or are these becoming extinct? I've read some comments going both ways in this thread and just wondering...
That's all unnecessary. IRC is trackable in the same way that the web is. They just join the channel, write down the ip of everybody who's serving files, and then sue them. None of this legislation is really needed.
You have a point. On the other hand a robot does not require large amounts of living space, food, oxygen and energyconsuming utilities to be launched in other space. So it costs less to send one up there and in that respect manned spaceflight is a foolish waste of money and resources. We might need or want to send people up there at some point but when the work can be automated why not? Our resources are sarce as it is, no need to deliberately make them even scarcer.
Or... they'll still be killing and maiming each other over the limited resources we left behind. I find that much more plausible.
I don't know about the museum but I do know that hospitals sometimes stream live feeds from operations. That's one possible use. Since this is in some way connected to education a network like this could probably be used to give classes by streaming them to the students. A sufficiently high resolution image would be needed (how else would they make out what their professor is cutting in) so a big pipe would probably come in handy.
I had to search a while but I found this OECD raport which among other things has a table of immigration per 1000 inhabitants. You can see right there that the US is in the low end compared to other countries, including many European ones. So this disproves (1) (assuming the data is somewhat correct, it is off course a bit off).
Secondly, most immigrants to European countries come from Third World countries (I'm thinking Arab and African nations here). And I don't know what anybody meant by 3.
But it proves a point that you should be careful about saying "we have x immigrants more", while usually when you break down the numbers it just isn't correct. (in this case the US does have more immigrants in absolute numbers, but this is logical with it being the biggest nation)
I think many unices work with dirty buffers. I.e. they keep the blocks in memory and don't guarantee an immediate write. This makes file access faster since if you modify the file twice, it might just get written once.
Anyway, if the OS still has buffers that it needs to write to the drive, and the drive is gone, that would be the error.
Okay I know you're being relative here. But I wouldn' exactly call http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland a small country. And the US is not really far behind on this sort of stuff. I recall at least one zdnet article on switching to firefox and several columns. It's all in your head, really.
If you're only doing this for the money anyhow, you got what you asked for IMHO.
what karma whoring? The OP posted it anonymously.
The lifecycle of windows 2000 ends in june 2005. This means it is still supported by Microsoft till at least then. If users don't upgrade (especially business users) it's because they believe that they are still "under warranty" and being served security updates for all vulnerabilities in the OS.
Yes, they could upgrade to windows XP but this is a costly operation and you don't want to upgrade everytime Microsoft upgrades it's OS. With a bit of luck (or bad luck if you do upgrade), Microsoft will release a new one within the lifecycle of your current windows. It just doesn't make any sense blowing all your money on licenses every 2 years if Microsoft offers you the possibility to stay with it for 4 years.
It is that Microsoft is now telling those people the same thing (albeit not to their face): "Using windows 2000? Well, you're shit out of luck". I don't think it's okay to tell your clients one thing, then do the other. But hey, if it works for them...
Get your facts straight. linux is not supported by major hardware (and software) companies _because_ it only has 1 or 2% market share. And don't point to macintoshes either. It took big industry a looong while before supporting hardware on the mac. But at some point they started to realise that apple was capitalizing on hardware they could have been building. The same will probably be true one day for linux.
I don't think flying a plane into a razor-thin superstrong material would be very smart, let alone productive. And compared to that, buildings are easy to hit, aren't they?
I suggest you google for "debian LSB compliance"
Well said.
And I'd add that this whole "what will you read them with in 200 years" thing is grossly overrated. If somebody wants to read them in 200 years, they will probably be able to. And if you're still around when everything is switching from one format/carrier to another format/carrier, what's stopping you from converting your old files to the new format?
This problem really only rears its head when you are managing a very large library of works, in which case it would cost millions to re-archive everything. But that's a whole different ball park from local archiving.
Lucky you. CD's in europe are usually around 18-20 Euros. So that would be >23$. They're making lots of money on those things, I'm sure.
He probably meant Reiser4...