No, but when other vendors ship hacked versions of the Xbox BIOS to support their mod chips, then they are infringing on copyright, and hence MS tries to shut them down.
You could hack your own Xbox's BIOS all you want and its not infringement. When others supply mod chips that do this and then distribute them, they can be silenced.
That's because lockpicks are specifically designed to open locks you don't have a key to. DeCSS is different. Jon created it so he could watch DVDs on his Linux box (a DVD which he had purchased legally). It so happens that an unpleasant (or pleasant, depending on how you look at it) side-effect of his creation is that you can use it to copy a DVD.
DeCSS's specific purpose is not to copy DVDs, but to allow one who has legally purchased a DVD to watch it on the equiptment of his choice. Quite different than a lockpick's intended purpose.
The installer is very similar to that of 4.7, which is probably not as easy to setup as RedHat is. FreeBSD still requires you to know a bit about what hardware is installed, and how you want the system to function (disk partitioning, package installation, user creation, X setup are all still a manual process within the installer).
That being said, I still find it quite easy to install and it works great on newer hardware (FINALLY!! CardBus and ACPI support). Besides, I still think the ports tree is perhaps the easiest and most complete package management system around, light-years ahead of RPM.
Read the article. Microsoft will be giving claimants a voucher redeemable for any computer manufacturer's products and software, not just Microsoft-ware.
Redhat is bad example since iirc they have copyrighted images in their distro.
Not exactly... Red Hat has trademarked the name Red Hat, so if you (not Red Hat) distribute the GPLed distro they produce, you must not call it Red Hat or it is trademark infringement (which they must actively defend, or they risk to lose the trademark).
While they don't have freely-available tracks for download, they usually have some RealAdudio or WMA clips of songs on a particular album.
I don't work for these guys, but with their selection (particularly in independent and non-mainstream artists) and the "listen before you buy" policy as described above, I've purchased many CDs from them.
The _Running Linux_ book from O'Reilly is a good start. I have one of the older editions (2nd edition), and it describes exactly what you are asking (minus the streaming MP3 server, which can be setup with some help from www.shoutcast.com or www.icecast.org). I hear the newer editions of this book focus more on the GUIs of Linux (KDE and Gnome), but I imagine that most of the core stuff is still there as well. Might be what your looking for.
You know, most women today are totally shallow anyhow. The last three or four times I've gone clubbing lately (admittedly, these are mysteriously superficial clubs to begin with), the conversation always seems to start the same way:
me- "Hi, can I buy you a drink?" her- "I don't know, can you?" *wink*
...one drink later...
her- "So, what operating system do you use?"
Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I play the truth card ("you know, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, I'm into the group thing") and have been laid more times than I can count in the last month alone.
For all DSL carriers I've seen, unless you have a business-class SDSL account, you aren't guaranteed any upstream or downstream bandwidth outside of "best effort" service.
See, we have this little thing in the U.S. called innocent until proven guilty (granted, its becoming less and less so nowadays). Until you can prove that every single person who sells a CD to a used CD shop is in fact pirating it, then your argument holds no ground.
Quite simple really. $300 million a year is all the money in the U.S. that they don't have. They figure since they don't have it yet, someone must be stealing/pirating it from them.
You obviously don't know the difference between whining about free stuff and demanding respect. The bobblyhead doll is an insult to someone who's been working their tail off all year. Nothing would have been better.
I hope I never have to share the same room with such a self-righteous aloof twit as you.
Welcome to the real world chummo, in this economy you take whatever gifts you can get. I don't expect my bonus this year (or any year), but I'm damned sure to take it when its offered. A company has an obligation to offer incentives for employees (especially hard-working ones), otherwise they run the risk of those same employees heading for the door. I'm sure your "agreement among equals" works in your world but when my "equals" are giving me projects on top of projects to complete with less headcount than last year (which translates to more hours for the same salary), I figure some extra $$$ is the LEAST they can do to say thanks.
If you're going to use RAID 1, why not just use IDE-RAID? SCSI's main calling is reliability, but if you are going to be using disk mirroring anyway just use cheaper/bigger IDE disks. You can probably buy 2 80GB disks and a hardware ATA133-RAID controller for the price of one 36GB SCSI-3 disk.
You can have both quality and quantity if you know how to minimize the risks.
Even if this were the case, they neglect the ratio of admins to boxes. In my company's case, the ratio of admins to servers is much higher with Windows NT/2k than it is with Solaris/BSD/Linux. Even if the *NIX admins are more expensive, one of them is generally cheaper than 2 NT/2k admins.
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A sex toy that, when overused, tastes like fish... hasn't a more-natural version of this already been discovered?
Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did?
No, but when other vendors ship hacked versions of the Xbox BIOS to support their mod chips, then they are infringing on copyright, and hence MS tries to shut them down.
You could hack your own Xbox's BIOS all you want and its not infringement. When others supply mod chips that do this and then distribute them, they can be silenced.
Did you read the post? The old forums have been brought back in read-only mode. No posting, just reading.
What could 100s of millions a year (I'm guessing) properly invested do for big Open Source projects?
uh... buy open source programmers $10,000 hammers and $50,000 toilet seats?
That's because lockpicks are specifically designed to open locks you don't have a key to. DeCSS is different. Jon created it so he could watch DVDs on his Linux box (a DVD which he had purchased legally). It so happens that an unpleasant (or pleasant, depending on how you look at it) side-effect of his creation is that you can use it to copy a DVD.
DeCSS's specific purpose is not to copy DVDs, but to allow one who has legally purchased a DVD to watch it on the equiptment of his choice. Quite different than a lockpick's intended purpose.
The installer is very similar to that of 4.7, which is probably not as easy to setup as RedHat is. FreeBSD still requires you to know a bit about what hardware is installed, and how you want the system to function (disk partitioning, package installation, user creation, X setup are all still a manual process within the installer).
That being said, I still find it quite easy to install and it works great on newer hardware (FINALLY!! CardBus and ACPI support). Besides, I still think the ports tree is perhaps the easiest and most complete package management system around, light-years ahead of RPM.
Read the article. Microsoft will be giving claimants a voucher redeemable for any computer manufacturer's products and software, not just Microsoft-ware.
Redhat is bad example since iirc they have copyrighted images in their distro.
Not exactly... Red Hat has trademarked the name Red Hat, so if you (not Red Hat) distribute the GPLed distro they produce, you must not call it Red Hat or it is trademark infringement (which they must actively defend, or they risk to lose the trademark).
Not technically Linux, but you can own any of the BSDs (minus BSDi) according to your definition.
One word:
Google.
Granted, they admin 1000+ servers in near-identical configurations, but 1000+ servers all the same.
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While they don't have freely-available tracks for download, they usually have some RealAdudio or WMA clips of songs on a particular album.
I don't work for these guys, but with their selection (particularly in independent and non-mainstream artists) and the "listen before you buy" policy as described above, I've purchased many CDs from them.
I am betting on Verizon myself.
The _Running Linux_ book from O'Reilly is a good start. I have one of the older editions (2nd edition), and it describes exactly what you are asking (minus the streaming MP3 server, which can be setup with some help from www.shoutcast.com or www.icecast.org). I hear the newer editions of this book focus more on the GUIs of Linux (KDE and Gnome), but I imagine that most of the core stuff is still there as well. Might be what your looking for.
me- "Hi, can I buy you a drink?"
her- "I don't know, can you?" *wink*
...one drink later...
her- "So, what operating system do you use?"
Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I play the truth card ("you know, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, I'm into the group thing") and have been laid more times than I can count in the last month alone.
Chicks dig unix.
For all DSL carriers I've seen, unless you have a business-class SDSL account, you aren't guaranteed any upstream or downstream bandwidth outside of "best effort" service.
Shhh...
;->
Its talk like this that puts security admins (like me) out of a job.
See, we have this little thing in the U.S. called innocent until proven guilty (granted, its becoming less and less so nowadays). Until you can prove that every single person who sells a CD to a used CD shop is in fact pirating it, then your argument holds no ground.
Quite simple really. $300 million a year is all the money in the U.S. that they don't have. They figure since they don't have it yet, someone must be stealing/pirating it from them.
You obviously don't know the difference between whining about free stuff and demanding respect. The bobblyhead doll is an insult to someone who's been working their tail off all year. Nothing would have been better.
I hope I never have to share the same room with such a self-righteous aloof twit as you.
...pathetically looks for gifts of approval.
Welcome to the real world chummo, in this economy you take whatever gifts you can get. I don't expect my bonus this year (or any year), but I'm damned sure to take it when its offered. A company has an obligation to offer incentives for employees (especially hard-working ones), otherwise they run the risk of those same employees heading for the door. I'm sure your "agreement among equals" works in your world but when my "equals" are giving me projects on top of projects to complete with less headcount than last year (which translates to more hours for the same salary), I figure some extra $$$ is the LEAST they can do to say thanks.
Likewise. Since our bonus isn't calculated until the end-of-year financials are in, I'll be lucky to get mine sometime in March.
Notice I said lucky, I am still grateful that I actually get a performance bonus.
If you're going to use RAID 1, why not just use IDE-RAID? SCSI's main calling is reliability, but if you are going to be using disk mirroring anyway just use cheaper/bigger IDE disks. You can probably buy 2 80GB disks and a hardware ATA133-RAID controller for the price of one 36GB SCSI-3 disk.
You can have both quality and quantity if you know how to minimize the risks.
You're backwards. It takes one highly literate propeller head to support Linux, and an army of mole-people to support Windows.
Even if this were the case, they neglect the ratio of admins to boxes. In my company's case, the ratio of admins to servers is much higher with Windows NT/2k than it is with Solaris/BSD/Linux. Even if the *NIX admins are more expensive, one of them is generally cheaper than 2 NT/2k admins.