I'm probably missing something, but didn't this already exist? My version 0.8 used to show a white/green envelope in my sys tray (Windows XP) when I had unopened mail - no extensions, before someone suggests I'd installed poptray without realising!
He states that they used Qlogic SCSI firmware inadvertantly, and when asked to stop, threatened to comply with the request. That's "activism"?
I didn't read it like that: I interpreted it as "Theo et al thought the firmware was free enough to include in OpenBSD. When they became aware that it wasn't they contacted Qlogic, who eventually conceded and now the firmware is free enough."
In other words, the threat to stop was made by OpenBSD, not Qlogic. I think!
I have a feeling that they knew they would have very few supporters on that site
IIRC, SCO weren't going to permit posting. My suspicion is that SCO realised that it'd be deadly dull with no posting. (It's a tribute to Groklaw volunteers that Groklaw manage to make a very dry topic quite interesting - without volunteers I doubt SCO could have given "watching paint dry" a run for its money).
Aye, fair point. I've got a lot of time for Guardian Media Group; I've gone off the Guardian itself though (disagreed with some of their policies...), but I agree that the hands-off approach of the board makes a refreshing change from the <ahem> more Australian </ahem> style of media ownership;)
Didn't the Guardian call for the assassination of the United States' President?
Nope! A writer in the Guardian jokingly asked where John Wilkes Booth was when we needed him. I seriously doubt the Guardian editorial team want Bush assassinated. I mean, I'd be happy if he wasn't President but I appreciate the instability an assassination would cause.
The Guardian, by the way, isn't a tabloid, but it does have a tabloid section ("G2") which has lighter, often humerous stories and articles (I'm presuming that this is where the comment you refer to was made). Neither the main section nor G2 tend to be read by people who'd take the John Wilkes Booth comment seriously; Guardian readers write letters to the editor, they don't take up arms against foreign heads-of-state - they're much to lower-upper-middle-class for that;)
dedicated to impartiality like we have the Guardian and the BBC
The BBC is certainly supposed to be impartial (though its right-wing detractors claim that BBC stands for Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation...!), but the Guardian - and I say this as a former long-time reader - is an unashamedly left-of-centre paper. Until recently it openly supported the Labour Party, only switching allegiance to the Liberal Democrats a few days ago because it regards the Labour Government as too right-wing.
Not intending to dis the Guardian, which is a pretty good paper, just offering a little perspective on impartiality.
but America is still catching up to Europe when it comes to being spied upon regularily.
In the UK, maybe, but the rest of Europe is still pretty sane. As a New Zelanader travelling round Europe I've felt far less "oppressed by the state" than I have arriving at LAX - and that was before the current round of paranoia-induced fingerprinting for foreigners. I won't travel through the US now if I can avoid it. (Mind you, I won't travel through the UK if I can avoid it: UK Customs seem to be learning fast from their US colleagues...presumably in exchange for advice on ubiquitous CCTV)
Why not hide the admin account after a Windows install?
To be fair <shudders> to Microsoft, XP does hide the admin account (aside: using Linux too long now: when I installed XP on the g'friend's laptop I created an admin account because I didn't realise the real admin account was there but hidden;)
BUT: and it's a big but, there's still a lot of 3rd-party AND Microsoft apps that won't run except under the admin account. Yes, there are workarounds like RunAs etc, but they are, frankly, shite.
Therefore, if you release your patented software under an open source license, your patent is now meaningless since the oss license now says how your software can be used.
Strictly speaking, the OSS license says how *one* implemenation of your patent can be used. It's like Tomcat - Tomcat's the reference implementaion of a "Java Servlet Container", and it's OSS, but there are other - proprietary and OSS - Java Servlet Containers out there. I believe Sun (someone more clueful than me chime in if I've got this wrong) initiated work on Tomcat (nee JServ) and then handed it over to the ASF, but that in no way stopped Sun from working on other J2EE projects - even projects very similar to Tomcat.
He began with a telephone order music service that was (at the time) very innovative.
I knew that he started in mail-order music; I didn't realise it was considered innovative. I presume mail-order music hadn't really been done before? (Disclaimer: before my time;)
Branson of all people should know that if you don't differentiate, you won't beat the incumbent
Not trolling, but (with one obvious exception - Virgin Galactic) when has Branson innovated? Virgin Atlantic was just another airline, Virgin Cola just another cola, etc. There's probably something obvious I've missed but when I think of Virgin/Branson, I *don't* think innovation, I think discount prices.
(Still, with Virgin Galactic I'm prepared to forgive him...)
So the Labour Party, and the Labour Cabinet, cannot be viewed as one and the same, no?
Correct. The Labour Party is a political organisation that is currently in power; the cabinet is the office that the Government - of whatever persuasion - holds. Incidentally, the Cabinet is not the "Labour Cabinet": it has obligations that transcend party-political boundaries.
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What appservers are available for C# though? Anything not made by Microsoft?
Not trolling, just curious: what appservers are available for C#, period? I'd guess IIS now has some kind of.net binding? Any others?
Dude, not only can you get a mouse-gesture extension for Firefox, but (I've been told - by a friend - honest) you can also get an extension that will download all images linked to from a page into one directory. You might <ahem> find that useful?
"But the included browser (if they know this expression) works fine. I'm used to it."
Aye, I get this argument too (and also from people I'd expect to know better;) but I just don't get it: wordpad comes bundled with Windows; yet the first thing most people do is install Word. I think that that needs to be our argument: "IE is a capable-enough browser, a bit like wordpad or the Windows firewall, but a power-use like you would probably want to upgrade to a proper browser"... or something similar.
Also, don't underestimate the power of themes and extensions! Most of the interest I get in my "strange" browser is from it (a) looking different fairly frequently (usually when a new Firefox is released and my usual theme breaks:( ) or from (b) me using an extension to do something faster than my colleagues.
It's a slow process, but I feel I'm winning people over bit by bit...
What's wrong with me digging that old celeron-400 out of the corner, installing smoothwall on it, and shoving it away in the cupboard to serve out it's days?
Well, nothing, obviously, and many of us would no doubt do that rather than (or as well as;) spending money. But... this little box draws no more than 5W power. That's certainly an argument my significant other can understand at electricity-bill time...
Disclaimer: I have no idea what Echelon *really* does.
My "knowledge" of Echelon is based on
(a) French and EU complaints against Britain, complaints that allege the UK (and her allies) routinely spy on French and other EU commerical interests. Now, I accept this is rampant hypocrisy; the French (and, as you mention, the Dutch) do exactly the same.
(b) "Revelations" from former NZ politicians, primarily David Lange.
You're no doubt correct to point out that the USA has tough laws to prevent its own agencies from spying on its own citizens; if French allegations are correct those laws are no longer relevant: the Canadian (et al) intelligence service will be used to bypass those laws. Incidentally, I'm not thinking of Carnivore: Carnivore is a US-internal (FBI?) system, and has no impact on me, a New Zealand citizen living in the UK!
The bottom line, however, is that I have no more knowledge of Echelon than anyone else, excepting those involved with it directly. Maybe it's a myth. I hope so, as I'm ashamed to be associated with two nations that may spy on their allies' citizens.
...at least here in the UK. The last flight I was able to make plans in advance to see it live, but this is the first I've heard about this one - and it's the real thing!
Still, very best of luck to everyone involved - proof that some folk still have the "Right Stuff".
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The contestant must have its principal place of business in the United States of America.
...well that rules out Brazil, then :(
Brazil's now got its own rocket for satellite launches - and it's America's Space Price and technically Brazil's in America... ;)
I'm probably missing something, but didn't this already exist? My version 0.8 used to show a white/green envelope in my sys tray (Windows XP) when I had unopened mail - no extensions, before someone suggests I'd installed poptray without realising!
He states that they used Qlogic SCSI firmware inadvertantly, and when asked to stop, threatened to comply with the request. That's "activism"?
I didn't read it like that: I interpreted it as "Theo et al thought the firmware was free enough to include in OpenBSD. When they became aware that it wasn't they contacted Qlogic, who eventually conceded and now the firmware is free enough."
In other words, the threat to stop was made by OpenBSD, not Qlogic. I think!
I have a feeling that they knew they would have very few supporters on that site
IIRC, SCO weren't going to permit posting. My suspicion is that SCO realised that it'd be deadly dull with no posting. (It's a tribute to Groklaw volunteers that Groklaw manage to make a very dry topic quite interesting - without volunteers I doubt SCO could have given "watching paint dry" a run for its money).
It's an ad that's always amused me: Dell recommendsWindows XP Professional, but supplies Windows XP Home (unless you choose to "upgrade").
Aye, fair point. I've got a lot of time for Guardian Media Group; I've gone off the Guardian itself though (disagreed with some of their policies...), but I agree that the hands-off approach of the board makes a refreshing change from the <ahem> more Australian </ahem> style of media ownership ;)
Didn't the Guardian call for the assassination of the United States' President?
Nope! A writer in the Guardian jokingly asked where John Wilkes Booth was when we needed him. I seriously doubt the Guardian editorial team want Bush assassinated. I mean, I'd be happy if he wasn't President but I appreciate the instability an assassination would cause.
The Guardian, by the way, isn't a tabloid, but it does have a tabloid section ("G2") which has lighter, often humerous stories and articles (I'm presuming that this is where the comment you refer to was made). Neither the main section nor G2 tend to be read by people who'd take the John Wilkes Booth comment seriously; Guardian readers write letters to the editor, they don't take up arms against foreign heads-of-state - they're much to lower-upper-middle-class for that ;)
dedicated to impartiality like we have the Guardian and the BBC
The BBC is certainly supposed to be impartial (though its right-wing detractors claim that BBC stands for Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation...!), but the Guardian - and I say this as a former long-time reader - is an unashamedly left-of-centre paper. Until recently it openly supported the Labour Party, only switching allegiance to the Liberal Democrats a few days ago because it regards the Labour Government as too right-wing.
Not intending to dis the Guardian, which is a pretty good paper, just offering a little perspective on impartiality.
but America is still catching up to Europe when it comes to being spied upon regularily.
In the UK, maybe, but the rest of Europe is still pretty sane. As a New Zelanader travelling round Europe I've felt far less "oppressed by the state" than I have arriving at LAX - and that was before the current round of paranoia-induced fingerprinting for foreigners. I won't travel through the US now if I can avoid it. (Mind you, I won't travel through the UK if I can avoid it: UK Customs seem to be learning fast from their US colleagues...presumably in exchange for advice on ubiquitous CCTV)
Pedant: 0 degrees is either Celcius or Fahrenheit, or some other system. You meant 0 Kelvin. Kelvin's the unit, it doesn't need degrees.
Why not hide the admin account after a Windows install?
To be fair <shudders> to Microsoft, XP does hide the admin account (aside: using Linux too long now: when I installed XP on the g'friend's laptop I created an admin account because I didn't realise the real admin account was there but hidden ;)
BUT: and it's a big but, there's still a lot of 3rd-party AND Microsoft apps that won't run except under the admin account. Yes, there are workarounds like RunAs etc, but they are, frankly, shite.
Therefore, if you release your patented software under an open source license, your patent is now meaningless since the oss license now says how your software can be used.
Strictly speaking, the OSS license says how *one* implemenation of your patent can be used. It's like Tomcat - Tomcat's the reference implementaion of a "Java Servlet Container", and it's OSS, but there are other - proprietary and OSS - Java Servlet Containers out there. I believe Sun (someone more clueful than me chime in if I've got this wrong) initiated work on Tomcat (nee JServ) and then handed it over to the ASF, but that in no way stopped Sun from working on other J2EE projects - even projects very similar to Tomcat.
He began with a telephone order music service that was (at the time) very innovative.
I knew that he started in mail-order music; I didn't realise it was considered innovative. I presume mail-order music hadn't really been done before? (Disclaimer: before my time ;)
Branson of all people should know that if you don't differentiate, you won't beat the incumbent
Not trolling, but (with one obvious exception - Virgin Galactic) when has Branson innovated? Virgin Atlantic was just another airline, Virgin Cola just another cola, etc. There's probably something obvious I've missed but when I think of Virgin/Branson, I *don't* think innovation, I think discount prices.
(Still, with Virgin Galactic I'm prepared to forgive him...)
So the Labour Party, and the Labour Cabinet, cannot be viewed as one and the same, no?
Correct. The Labour Party is a political organisation that is currently in power; the cabinet is the office that the Government - of whatever persuasion - holds. Incidentally, the Cabinet is not the "Labour Cabinet": it has obligations that transcend party-political boundaries.
What appservers are available for C# though? Anything not made by Microsoft?
Not trolling, just curious: what appservers are available for C#, period? I'd guess IIS now has some kind of .net binding? Any others?
Sir, you deserve dome sort of award for not mentioning the hated blink-tag.
(Apologies if it's bringing back horrible memories)
(Those one-handed guestures. ;)
Dude, not only can you get a mouse-gesture extension for Firefox, but (I've been told - by a friend - honest) you can also get an extension that will download all images linked to from a page into one directory. You might <ahem> find that useful?
"But the included browser (if they know this expression) works fine. I'm used to it."
Aye, I get this argument too (and also from people I'd expect to know better ;) but I just don't get it:
wordpad comes bundled with Windows; yet the first thing most people do is install Word. I think that that needs to be our argument: "IE is a capable-enough browser, a bit like wordpad or the Windows firewall, but a power-use like you would probably want to upgrade to a proper browser"... or something similar.
Also, don't underestimate the power of themes and extensions! Most of the interest I get in my "strange" browser is from it (a) looking different fairly frequently (usually when a new Firefox is released and my usual theme breaks :( ) or from (b) me using an extension to do something faster than my colleagues.
It's a slow process, but I feel I'm winning people over bit by bit...
What's wrong with me digging that old celeron-400 out of the corner, installing smoothwall on it, and shoving it away in the cupboard to serve out it's days?
Well, nothing, obviously, and many of us would no doubt do that rather than (or as well as ;) spending money. But... this little box draws no more than 5W power. That's certainly an argument my significant other can understand at electricity-bill time...
Pedant: the Korean war didn't end. A ceasefire was agreed, and UN and North Korean officials still meet to discuss terms. No peace treaty has yet been signed, fifty years later.
...but aye, I know what you mean. I'm just a pedant when it comes to history... ;)
Disclaimer: I have no idea what Echelon *really* does.
My "knowledge" of Echelon is based on
(a) French and EU complaints against Britain, complaints that allege the UK (and her allies) routinely spy on French and other EU commerical interests. Now, I accept this is rampant hypocrisy; the French (and, as you mention, the Dutch) do exactly the same.
(b) "Revelations" from former NZ politicians, primarily David Lange.
You're no doubt correct to point out that the USA has tough laws to prevent its own agencies from spying on its own citizens; if French allegations are correct those laws are no longer relevant: the Canadian (et al) intelligence service will be used to bypass those laws. Incidentally, I'm not thinking of Carnivore: Carnivore is a US-internal (FBI?) system, and has no impact on me, a New Zealand citizen living in the UK!
The bottom line, however, is that I have no more knowledge of Echelon than anyone else, excepting those involved with it directly. Maybe it's a myth. I hope so, as I'm ashamed to be associated with two nations that may spy on their allies' citizens.
I was hoping really for advance notice, so I could plan my day round watching live video-feeds, and not generating test cases for web apps :(
Still, at least I found out in time, and the boss seems quite amenable to the office all skiving off for an hour or so...!
...at least here in the UK. The last flight I was able to make plans in advance to see it live, but this is the first I've heard about this one - and it's the real thing!
Still, very best of luck to everyone involved - proof that some folk still have the "Right Stuff".