Actually, you've got it a bit wrong. You didn't even need to RTFA to know that "the decryption code that was later used by an anonymous developer to create the playfair utility." Jon didn't write playfair. Somebody else did. This is Jon's version of playfair.
I got in last week (or was it the week before). It took about a day for everything to get setup properly after I signed up, but after that it just worked (slowly). They don't have much bandwidth (or processor cycles for that matter), but the service does work (eventually).
I've only had excellent experiences with the core team of developers. Every well-crafted PR that I've submitted has been treated to a solution in less than one week. The team is very responsive and is quick to escalate a problem when necessary. I've never received such dedicated attention on a paid support contract. These guys deserve every penny we donate to them.
The tax rate there is astounding!
But I do agree: the FreeBSD community is getting a great deal here. We would be foolish to not take you up on this offering. In fact, we would be foolish to not employ you next year as well.
You know, I hadn't thought about it this way before, but you're right. The more firewalls we throw to the monkeys, the more defense the world has agains spam/virii/worms/etc.
So now they have a hardware firewall, XP's firewall, and often some additional software firewall. The only problem with monkeys having this type of stuff is that they often have problems with it and disable the functionality. I've seen this happen far too often.
I'm with you on this. I have been building my own PCs for about 12 years now. I've ALWAYS been of the opinion that the motherboard should not have any video/sound/net hardware built-in. That all changed when the A7N8X came out. This is a superb motherboard with commodity sound and network hardware that does the job quite well.
I'm not an audiophile, so the sound hardware is more than adequate. And 100mbps on the NIC is far more bandwidth than most of my home PCs have (all of the others are 802.11b).
I recommend this motherboard to all friends who are building PCs because it allows them to save money on the NIC and sound card and redirect that money to where it counts: hard drives, RAM, CPU, and video card.
It doesn't matter WHAT rights that "worked out". The fact is that ALL fair use is perfectly legal and legitimate, and a copyright holder has absolutely no legal right to say squat when I make fair use.
Everybody who's been posting comments such as "Circumventing the DRM on downloaded music is like modifying GPL software" needs to read the above post. These are the facts, plain and simple. In America, for now anyway, we have the right to fair use. Period. You buy something, and you have the right to use it.
My problem with your statement above is that I didn't sign any contract when I bought a DVD. I merely bought a video at the store. There's no contract there. I have never received a copy of any such contract. I have no idea what you are talking about. Sure, there may be some sort of implied contract, but I've never seen it.
In the legal system, one who has $60 million set aside for lawsuits is not anywhere near equivalent to a 90 year old man. More like a 25 year old hotshot with something to prove.
It doesn't matter to me if they start enforcing these patents. I already own plenty of hardware that plays non-DRM MP3s. And thousands of others own similar hardware. The installed base is too great to be overcome by some silly patent enforcement. It's just not going to happen.
Not trying to give M$ any props here or anything, but Access isn't just a frontend for JET. It can also, via ODBC, be a frontend for just about any other database, including MySQL. Sure, it's slow and feature-limited when using linked tables via ODBC, but it sure beats JET over a network.
As a new rider, I really appreciate your post. Got my bike last week. Just got my license today...no kidding. Sure, this is a bit off-topic for/., but being a techie, I don't exactly frequent many bike sites. Heck, I don't really know of any good ones. Anyway, thanks again for your advice.:)
As an aside, Anybody know when Moz will officially be branched off into firebird/thunderbird components? I thought this was supposed to happen around 1.6 apparently I was wrong.
Actually, you are dead on. I think the milestone has slipped since that announcement, however. And while the roadmap mentions Firebird and Thunderbird extensively, it neglects to give a revised milestone for branching off.
Your eyes, whether naked or aided by a piece of glass, are seeing an image that is distorted by Earth's atmosphere. Why rely on cameras on a robot that is actually on Mars? Because they can provide far more accurate imagery.
I have a 2.5 year old IBM Thinkpad A30p. 1600x1200 and probably a lot brighter than the screen on your Dell. Still rock solid today. I won't need to upgrade until I decide that I can't live without built-in 802.11i/n/whatever.
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You must be new around here--it doesn't have to be newsworthy for the /. editors to post it. ;-)
Actually, you've got it a bit wrong. You didn't even need to RTFA to know that "the decryption code that was later used by an anonymous developer to create the playfair utility." Jon didn't write playfair. Somebody else did. This is Jon's version of playfair.
I got in last week (or was it the week before). It took about a day for everything to get setup properly after I signed up, but after that it just worked (slowly). They don't have much bandwidth (or processor cycles for that matter), but the service does work (eventually).
I've only had excellent experiences with the core team of developers. Every well-crafted PR that I've submitted has been treated to a solution in less than one week. The team is very responsive and is quick to escalate a problem when necessary. I've never received such dedicated attention on a paid support contract. These guys deserve every penny we donate to them.
The tax rate there is astounding! But I do agree: the FreeBSD community is getting a great deal here. We would be foolish to not take you up on this offering. In fact, we would be foolish to not employ you next year as well.
And it would be foolish to believe that Microsoft isn't already worried about this exact same scenario.
You know, I hadn't thought about it this way before, but you're right. The more firewalls we throw to the monkeys, the more defense the world has agains spam/virii/worms/etc.
So now they have a hardware firewall, XP's firewall, and often some additional software firewall. The only problem with monkeys having this type of stuff is that they often have problems with it and disable the functionality. I've seen this happen far too often.
I'm with you on this. I have been building my own PCs for about 12 years now. I've ALWAYS been of the opinion that the motherboard should not have any video/sound/net hardware built-in. That all changed when the A7N8X came out. This is a superb motherboard with commodity sound and network hardware that does the job quite well. I'm not an audiophile, so the sound hardware is more than adequate. And 100mbps on the NIC is far more bandwidth than most of my home PCs have (all of the others are 802.11b). I recommend this motherboard to all friends who are building PCs because it allows them to save money on the NIC and sound card and redirect that money to where it counts: hard drives, RAM, CPU, and video card.
The family of the dude who offed himeself are probably fairly angry and embarrassed about the matter.
My problem with your statement above is that I didn't sign any contract when I bought a DVD. I merely bought a video at the store. There's no contract there. I have never received a copy of any such contract. I have no idea what you are talking about. Sure, there may be some sort of implied contract, but I've never seen it.
I've never purchased anything that said the warranty was not valid if I happened to move to a different address.
Most of Mr. Dell's money is in the company. Sure, he's taken a lot out, but the majority of it is in his Dell stock.
In the legal system, one who has $60 million set aside for lawsuits is not anywhere near equivalent to a 90 year old man. More like a 25 year old hotshot with something to prove.
It doesn't matter to me if they start enforcing these patents. I already own plenty of hardware that plays non-DRM MP3s. And thousands of others own similar hardware. The installed base is too great to be overcome by some silly patent enforcement. It's just not going to happen.
Not trying to give M$ any props here or anything, but Access isn't just a frontend for JET. It can also, via ODBC, be a frontend for just about any other database, including MySQL. Sure, it's slow and feature-limited when using linked tables via ODBC, but it sure beats JET over a network.
Or maybe it was Franklin who said that. I don't remember. Ask teh intarweb.
Your eyes, whether naked or aided by a piece of glass, are seeing an image that is distorted by Earth's atmosphere. Why rely on cameras on a robot that is actually on Mars? Because they can provide far more accurate imagery.
You are basically just restating what I said in different terms.
Dude, you shouldn't have bought a Dell.
I have a 2.5 year old IBM Thinkpad A30p. 1600x1200 and probably a lot brighter than the screen on your Dell. Still rock solid today. I won't need to upgrade until I decide that I can't live without built-in 802.11i/n/whatever.