I basically had the same thing happen to me. Except that I'm not using any "custom" or binary-only drivers. I just have a simple Intel built-in i810 driver....but the damn upgrade deleted my driver. When I rebooted, I was greeted with a message saying that a driver was not found for my i810. That's just a bad upgrade process...
The whole idea of replacing two servers with an old dusty laptop certainly gives the impression that your servers aren't exactly "serving" a whole lot. In fact, the primary reason, it seems, that you would use virtualization in the datacenter is because you're something like a shared hosting provider that needs to isloate accounts for security reasons.
You obviously don't have any experience with large, inefficient, bureaucratic corporations. At my company, in my department alone, we have at least 25 2GHz+ machines running idly, serving nothing. The only requirement for virtualization would be enough RAM to run the OS on each VM. Processor is insignificant in such a scenario. Sure, a heavily loaded server won't do so well on a laptop, but then a heavily loaded server should probably be running natively.
I am a native speaker of English. English is the only language that I speak. I was taught the difference between then and than. I think most people here in the US were taught that difference. I also think that at least 50% of what most people in the US were taught as children was either quickly forgotten or ignored.
And, of course, you don't need to be running BGP on small networks...
I disagree. A small company that wishes to have a multi-homed internet connection needs BGP. 2 T1s. A moderately configured PC could easily handle that.
What's really stupid is that MS is making this an MSI download. An MSI that's easily copied. An MSI that you can burn to CDR and install on as many pirated XP systems as you like. And MSI that you can pirate just like you pirated XP. All you need is one legit system to get the downloads.
If you pirate Windows, you're helping Microsoft dominate the desktop market.
If you buy windows, you are helping Microsoft dominate the desktop market (amongst others). Please stop giving them their money. If you need software, download a good linux distro. Or buy a Mac. There are many other alternatives to buying Microsoft software.
But then again, for us Americans, Microsoft, being highly profitable, does do a bit to help out our economy. It's sort of a paradox.
Why is this post moderated as redundant? As far as I have seen in this thread, there is no mirror out yet. And most are downloading at 500Bps or less. Mirror, please?
Here's what you don't know about this particular case, though: UT Dallas is NOT the landlord. The apartments are on state-owned land, but they are owned and managed by a third party.
But if you read the article you will realize that it is truly FUD. The author states that DNS and DHCP client services are unnecessary on most home machines. That is only true if those home machines are not connected to the internet. And these days, most people I know buy computers primarily to connect to the internet. This is pure FUD.
What really doesn't make sense about this is that I have hardware that does this already. DISH Network broadcasts Sirius satellite radio along with all of the other music channels. And there's no problem with recording it on my DISH PVR. So I suppose XM is probably just upset because they didn't think of it first.
According to their accreditation page, they are accredited in a way that is recognized by the US Dept. of Education. I am not familiar with different accreditations, but that sounds reliable to me.
I chose to use commercial software that was licensed to create and display my GIFs. There was no need to contact any webmasters over the ordeal. It was very straightforward.
I find it interestingly ironic that most commercial software disrespected IP-rights by continuing to include GIFs, while the open source community showed far more respect for intellectual property law by going through great effort to avoid violating such patents.
I believe that you misunderstand the issue. The vendors of commercial software that produced GIFs were forced to license the GIF patents from Unisys. They were not in any way disrespecting the rights of Unisys. In fact, Unisys was benefitting (monetarily) from the commercial use of the GIF IP.
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I basically had the same thing happen to me. Except that I'm not using any "custom" or binary-only drivers. I just have a simple Intel built-in i810 driver....but the damn upgrade deleted my driver. When I rebooted, I was greeted with a message saying that a driver was not found for my i810. That's just a bad upgrade process...
I am a native speaker of English. English is the only language that I speak. I was taught the difference between then and than. I think most people here in the US were taught that difference. I also think that at least 50% of what most people in the US were taught as children was either quickly forgotten or ignored.
I remember that argument being used against C++ 10 years ago.
I'm with ya man. This dude has mad skillz.
That's a great question. And one that I'm sure many would like to have answered. I, unfortunately, am not the person to answer it.
What's really stupid is that MS is making this an MSI download. An MSI that's easily copied. An MSI that you can burn to CDR and install on as many pirated XP systems as you like. And MSI that you can pirate just like you pirated XP. All you need is one legit system to get the downloads.
But then again, for us Americans, Microsoft, being highly profitable, does do a bit to help out our economy. It's sort of a paradox.
I have been seeing URIs like that from Gmail for several weeks--much longer than this exploit has been out.
Mod parent up please!
Why is this post moderated as redundant? As far as I have seen in this thread, there is no mirror out yet. And most are downloading at 500Bps or less. Mirror, please?
I would pay more for a camcorder with these features. I think you're on to something. :)
Here's what you don't know about this particular case, though: UT Dallas is NOT the landlord. The apartments are on state-owned land, but they are owned and managed by a third party.
Cuban already has the "real money". Sure, it's not Bill Gates money, but it's more than he'll ever spend in his lifetime.
But if you read the article you will realize that it is truly FUD. The author states that DNS and DHCP client services are unnecessary on most home machines. That is only true if those home machines are not connected to the internet. And these days, most people I know buy computers primarily to connect to the internet. This is pure FUD.
The localhost link still works for me.
Works for me. Maybe it was just ./ed when you tried it.
What really doesn't make sense about this is that I have hardware that does this already. DISH Network broadcasts Sirius satellite radio along with all of the other music channels. And there's no problem with recording it on my DISH PVR. So I suppose XM is probably just upset because they didn't think of it first.
According to their accreditation page, they are accredited in a way that is recognized by the US Dept. of Education. I am not familiar with different accreditations, but that sounds reliable to me.
PHP is definitely not the only user of GD. Heck, GD is a C library. There are a lot of C apps out there that use it.
Personally, I've only used GD via perl and the many perl libraries that use it, primarily GD.pm.
There is a workaround to make IE/Win display alpha transparency properly.
I chose to use commercial software that was licensed to create and display my GIFs. There was no need to contact any webmasters over the ordeal. It was very straightforward.