This is one ruling I agree with. Any real techie knows that the majority of these clients are designed and created for the express purpose of sharing copyrighted material. I have yet to see a lot of "legal" activity taking place on them, not lots of people sharing public-domain music / movies:)
When did slashdot become a political action group? Posting senators numbers? I thought this was a purely a tech/geek-news site. They are doing this more and more, and are starting to instead become another lame lobbying group.
The problem with development on Linux, especially in a GUI desktop, is that it keeps changing too often! Its frusterating to be a developer on linux, because you waste so much time trying to ensure that your products work properly with all the new distros, which ship library X as apposed to library Y, and very often break compat....
One thing windows has going for it, is that software written 10 years ago will still run, and software written today will still run on a windows box many years old... The same cannot be said for linux... Try running something on RH 6.2 nowadays..
I use a Win MCE 2005 box, and hooking up to a TV via HDMI would be sweet, but the only video cards I have seen right now have DVI connectors. Anybody have a luck with using a DVI/HDMI converter cable for their TV? Hows the quality, does it suffer any?
They may not need server access to monitor your chat session in your MUD. Simply monitoring your incomming / outgoing data should be sufficient. Remember, even encryption can be broken:)
By running Open Source Software on Windows, it builds acceptance and framiliarity with these software packages that will make more users comfortable with migrating in the future. Its hard enough to go to Linux as it is, but if you were already comfortable with these software packages on your windows box, it would make the transition much smoother in the long run.
I.E. FireFox, OpenOffice, etc. These in and of them themselves aren't worth moving to linux for, but If you already know how to use them, and you do migrate, it isn't so daunting of a task.
A big portion of what pulled the UL project apart was SCO's lawsuit right at the beginning of it. They then pulled out, leaving on SuSE, Turbolinux, and Connectiva. Not exactly a star studded cast:)
Well, this is something pretty common it seems like with GPL code. Look at how many spinoff's of WINE there are right now. Or just about any other popular GPL package. Cdrecord anyone?
Somehow I just don't think the world needs another Linux distro... Maybe when we can get 1 that works good, and becomes a standard then we'll see desktop linux take off.
Hey, if its popular today, its cool with Kerry, if its unpopular tomorrow, its unpopular with Kerry... I get confused watching this man, seriously, he is like the Uber Politician, always changing to support whatever is trendy at the time, reguardless of right or wrong...
Opine-It!
I Have Vonage VOIP & another VOIP phone to connect to my office with, and both work great. Only about 2/10ths a second delay at most, not even noticable. You just gotta make sure the wifi signal strength is decent.
Seriously, when will these companies stop supplying SCO with more money for these legal challenges? I work with a company that sells software for both Linux & OpenServer, and let me tell you, about 1/2 to 2/3 of our major SCO Resellers have switched or are switching to Linux. Still havent had a single customer switch to SCO from linux.. If companies just sit tight and let SCO keep pursuing their death-wish, they will implode on their own.
Figured i'd better point this out, but there are already some good solutions to fixing this problem with FBSD. Check out this software router project called M0n0wall.
I currently use it on a old p1, 200mhz, 40Mb of ram to control up and downstream bandwidth, so my computers dont interfere with my Vonage phone service. Works like a champ! Must have taken a total of 30 minutes to setup. Only a 5 MB download, no Harddrive required, just a CDROM and a floppy drive.
Figured i'd better point this out, but there are already some good solutions to fixing this problem with FBSD. Check out this software router project called M0n0wall. http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php
I currently use it on a old p1, 200mhz, 40Mb of ram to control up and downstream bandwidth, so my computers dont interfere with my Vonage phone service. Works like a champ! Must have taken a total of 30 minutes to setup.
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Thats exactly what PC-BSD allows you to do. It lets you download self-extracting / installing pacakges, and install just like windows / mac.
What wrong with including IE? Every linux distro out there includes firefox and a billion other packages :)
This is one ruling I agree with. Any real techie knows that the majority of these clients are designed and created for the express purpose of sharing copyrighted material. I have yet to see a lot of "legal" activity taking place on them, not lots of people sharing public-domain music / movies :)
When did slashdot become a political action group? Posting senators numbers? I thought this was a purely a tech/geek-news site. They are doing this more and more, and are starting to instead become another lame lobbying group.
The problem with development on Linux, especially in a GUI desktop, is that it keeps changing too often! Its frusterating to be a developer on linux, because you waste so much time trying to ensure that your products work properly with all the new distros, which ship library X as apposed to library Y, and very often break compat.... One thing windows has going for it, is that software written 10 years ago will still run, and software written today will still run on a windows box many years old... The same cannot be said for linux... Try running something on RH 6.2 nowadays..
I use a Win MCE 2005 box, and hooking up to a TV via HDMI would be sweet, but the only video cards I have seen right now have DVI connectors. Anybody have a luck with using a DVI/HDMI converter cable for their TV? Hows the quality, does it suffer any?
They may not need server access to monitor your chat session in your MUD. Simply monitoring your incomming / outgoing data should be sufficient. :)
Remember, even encryption can be broken
By running Open Source Software on Windows, it builds acceptance and framiliarity with these software packages that will make more users comfortable with migrating in the future. Its hard enough to go to Linux as it is, but if you were already comfortable with these software packages on your windows box, it would make the transition much smoother in the long run.
I.E. FireFox, OpenOffice, etc. These in and of them themselves aren't worth moving to linux for, but If you already know how to use them, and you do migrate, it isn't so daunting of a task.
First, wow that never happens!
Totally Agree. The nations that signed this are ultimately going to be the losers here.
Do you opine?
www.opine-it.com
A big portion of what pulled the UL project apart was SCO's lawsuit right at the beginning of it. They then pulled out, leaving on SuSE, Turbolinux, and Connectiva. Not exactly a star studded cast :)
Do you Opine?
http://www.opine-it.com
Well, this is something pretty common it seems like with GPL code. Look at how many spinoff's of WINE there are right now.
Or just about any other popular GPL package. Cdrecord anyone?
http://www.opine-it.com
Somehow I just don't think the world needs another Linux distro...
Maybe when we can get 1 that works good, and becomes a standard then we'll see desktop linux take off.
Do you opine?
http://www.opine-it.com
Hey, for all of us who have seen the "6th day", you know that this type of security can be easily breached.
:)
Route 1. Blow off the fingers of the person you wish to impersonate, and take their fingers with you.
Route 2. Create a clone of the person you wish to impersonate, and take that person with you.
http://www.opine-it.com Do you Opine?
I'm still a squaresoft fanboy! Although my fav RPG's were the older ones, like FF3, Secret of Mana, and from Nintendo, Earthbound. Do you Opine?
Gotta love it, hopefully my extension wont be broken on this new release :)
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HURD! Uggg... Linux is bad enough, get a real OS, like FreeBSD for server's, otherwise its back to Windows for a desktop :)
Let the OS wars begin!
Be Heard, Opine-it!
Hey, if its popular today, its cool with Kerry, if its unpopular tomorrow, its unpopular with Kerry... I get confused watching this man, seriously, he is like the Uber Politician, always changing to support whatever is trendy at the time, reguardless of right or wrong... Opine-It!
Lucas likes to shake things up, maybe this will be the first sequels where the main actors have been replaced with all CG copies of themselves :)
I Have Vonage VOIP & another VOIP phone to connect to my office with, and both work great. Only about 2/10ths a second delay at most, not even noticable. You just gotta make sure the wifi signal strength is decent.
Seriously, when will these companies stop supplying SCO with more money for these legal challenges? I work with a company that sells software for both Linux & OpenServer, and let me tell you, about 1/2 to 2/3 of our major SCO Resellers have switched or are switching to Linux. Still havent had a single customer switch to SCO from linux.. If companies just sit tight and let SCO keep pursuing their death-wish, they will implode on their own.
Figured i'd better point this out, but there are already some good solutions to fixing this problem with FBSD. Check out this software router project called M0n0wall.
http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php
I currently use it on a old p1, 200mhz, 40Mb of ram to control up and downstream bandwidth, so my computers dont interfere with my Vonage phone service. Works like a champ! Must have taken a total of 30 minutes to setup. Only a 5 MB download, no Harddrive required, just a CDROM and a floppy drive.
Figured i'd better point this out, but there are already some good solutions to fixing this problem with FBSD. Check out this software router project called M0n0wall. http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php I currently use it on a old p1, 200mhz, 40Mb of ram to control up and downstream bandwidth, so my computers dont interfere with my Vonage phone service. Works like a champ! Must have taken a total of 30 minutes to setup.
Sheesh, DivX uses way to much overhead for so little quality, check out VP6, if you want to see real video quality.