They have some nerve telling other companies to give out free licencing.
My company that just purchased 3 computers from HP. There was a total of 5 dual core CPUs. We had to purchase 10 licences for HP-UX 11.11. Utilities that were an extra charge had to be purchased on a per CPU basis as well. A utility that cost $300 ended up costing $3000 even if it was only used on one machine. And they have the nerve to tell other companies to make their licences free???
HP, if you want others to change their licences, lead by example.
I agree. Children are not taught how to think. As a child I was never taught exactly what thinking was. I was often told to think, and told that my thinking was completely wrong, but never told how to think.
It was not until college that I took a class on critical thinking and learned exactly what thinking was. (I had been doing it for years through trial and error[mostly error].) Had I learned it as a child, my education would have been greatly improved.
Don't get me wrong, I was almost always at the top of my class. But that doesn't mean that I was always learning. I had a talent for taking tests, even if I didn't always understand the material. If I had learned how to think properly when I was younger, I know that I could have learned more throughout school.
By the same token, if children are taught how to think early enough, the hunger for knowledge will propel them much farther than they go today. Often that hunger is squashed by peer pressure, or poor teaching very early in life. Teach children how to think and the self-educator will become more common instead of the rare exception.
I agree. When was the last time your newspaper wouldn't let you turn the page because you hadn't read the ad on that page? When was the last time you tried to throw away a newspaper and it jumped back into your hands asking if you were sure you wanted to close it without reading another ad? When was the last time you were reading a newspaper and an ad moved in front of the article, blocking it until you tore out the ad?
I realize that this may sound impossible to/. users, but maybe this tool could be useful to non-spammers. For example, perhaps a business that sends out newsletters to customers wishes to see how many of its customers are marking the newsletters as spam. If a lot of people mark the newsletters as spam, perhaps it is time to a) change the format of the newsletter, b) make it easier and more clear how to stop receiving the newsletters, or c) stop sending newsletters.
There has always been a trade off between Power and Ease of Use and this is no exception. Easy is never simple. In fact, the easier it is, the more complicated and difficult it is. For example, a simple Yes/No button is very difficult. First, you have to have something that will display the graphics of the button. You have to be able to place it on the screen. And you have to set up standards so that it doesn't matter what size the screen is, or what the resolution is. (Making it so the box can move around is even more complicated.) Next, the interface has to recognize mouse movement so you can tell if the pointer is on the Yes or the No. (We will assume that recognizing the click is pretty easy.) The computer has to process a lot of information in order to make a simple yes/no button on the screen. As any avid gamer will tell you, graphics takes a lot of power and memory to display.
The question becomes, what do you want the computer to be doing. Traditionally, server memory and CPU processing time was too valuable to waste on graphics that were not really needed. This was especially true in the enterprise environment where many users connected to a few servers. Although memory has gone way down in price since then, and servers are more and more powerful, many systems are asked to do more and more. Look at the trend for multi-processor machines and Dual-core CPUs.
At one time the question was "Why waste my server's resources with graphics?" (Which, I admit, is still a valid question.) Now the question is "Is the GUI powerful and flexible enough for me to switch?" Do you want to wade through menus to get to an option that used to be added with a simple -option?
Recently, I was working on a Win2000 server and an option I neeeded in one program was greyed out. I spent days looking for the reason it was not available when all other options said that it should be available. In this instance, it turned out that because of some choices made by a previous admin, this option would not display until I installed something else. (Although the installation was necessary anyway, the instructions on the GUI said to choose the option, then perform the installation.) My point is that the GUI front end limited me and would not let me do what it said it was supposed to do. The command line version in Linux would not have cared which order I performed the tasks.
I guess the big trade off with GUI and CLI is that a CLI I have to learn up front what I am doing and a GUI I can learn by which options are displayed and which are not. If all you are doing is playing games, writing papers, or balancing books (not an easy task!), a GUI works great. I prefer administering a server with a CLI.
Make the Federation fall somehow after being hit by the strongest enemy ever, then we'll have tons of possibilities on how create new series/movies.
I'm sure the old Trekkies would love a movie trilogy involving fugitives on all kind of ships escaping from the occupied known galaxy, teaming together to find a new place where they can settle, grow their forces, find a weak point in the enemy and after a credible amount of time starting the long trip back to fight for their original homes. From this point a new TV series could start.
This was actually the plot of Starship Andromeda. Originally it was supposed to be in the Trek Universe, but (wisely IMHO) it was decided that it would be a completely different setting. Changes were made to the way space travel worked and the species. I actually followed it for a few seasons, but it never gathered a huge fan base.
I don't really know if it would have made much difference if it was based on the Trek Universe. I believe that it would have caused almost as many problems as Enterprise did.
All your information is, of course, completely correct. The difference is the return on investment. In other words, how much work it takes to achieve gains. For example, if I work at the Post Office and want to steal Social Secuirty Numbers, I get one or two SSNs for each tax envelope that I open. Each one takes a little time if I don't care about getting caught, and a little more time if I want other people to believe that the envelope was not opened. There is only so much work I can do to prepare for the actual theft. Most of my work is opening the envelope and possibly re-sealing it.
On the other hand, with electronic theft, I can spend a lot of my theft time programming something to recognize and capture those SSNs. It takes only a little more effort to steal thousands of numbers than it does to steal 50. Furthermore, I don't have to be in any one physical location. Even if my program has to run on a specific server, I can program it, go on vacation, and collect the harvest when I get back.
Now look at the damage potiential. Because I can only open so many envelopes in a day, I am very limited to how much damage I can cause. If I enlist the help of others, I can do more damage, but I have to share some of the spoils. Electronically, I can work alone, minimizing my investment, and harvest more numbers, maximizing my returns.
You can obviously see the attraction for electronically capturing or even stealing data. That is why it gets more attention than the paper or hand methods. Yes, we have always had people that could steal or capture personal data for theft or marketing. But because it is easier to do it electronically, it is more attractive and therefore more prevelant.
Wait!! Are you saying that we cannot change the amount of sun light simply by changing our clocks?? You must be joking, right?? If we all change our clocks at the same moment, time itself can be changed! We can even accomplish time travel, simply by changing are clocks!!
Here in AZ we decided that we did not want to get up an hour early and then change our clocks so we wouldn't notice it. </sarcasm>
Okay, Okay, I will stop with the sarcasm. I have noticed that southern states get more sunlight anyway.
I have also noticed that the East Coast seems to do things later in the day that the West or Central states anyway. For example, the 10:00 News is broadcast at 11:00 on the East Coast. It seems to me that the East Coast prefers to have their daylight later that I do.
On another note... How do vampires feel about DST?
Let me share a personal experience with merging companies. I worked for a company that was in bankruptcy. After working hard for several years, the company pulled itself out of bankruptcy and went public. Not too long after that we merged with a different company. At first the new company wanted to run things the way they had before, but soon realized that they were over their heads. Everyone sat down and worked out which things would be best for the combined company. Some things were taken from one company and other from the second company. Things that worked were accepted and things that didn't work were dropped. In short, it was the ideal merger.
Unfortunately, it did not last. After a couple of years, the new company bought out a third company. This third company was in bankruptcy with little or no hope of pulling itself out. I helped on the discovery/review process and found several things in just one department where they were losing money hand over fist because of poor practices. We bought them anyway. After we purchased them, we let all the management of the parent company go, and promoted the management of the company we had just purchased. The management then tried to impose the same practices that had put them in bankruptcy on the parent company. After a few clashes with management, my job title was eliminated and I was offered severance. I took it and ran. Since then the company I was with has been purchased twice.
I really hate to think what those executives who ran at least two companies into the ground are doing now.
Think about the teachers.
"Timmy, hand me your pen."
"Do I have to?? Okay"
"Pen, how many words are in Timmy's essay?"
"483"
"Timmy, this was a 500 word essay. Take it back and write some more."
"Stupid tattletale pen!!"
Back before I had broadband and was stuck on a SLOW dialup connection, I played text MUD's a lot. (I hated the combat ones because I **ALWAYS** was toast to someone with broadband connection.) Plus they reminded me of my Zork/Enchanter/Other Infocom games. It got to the point where I would walk into a room and think, "Bedroom: You have walked into a messy bedroom. You see an unmade bed, a desk, a dresser with drawers pulled halfway out and clothes (some of which used to be clean) all over the floor. There seems to be a path where there are less clothes to the bed and to the desk. The paths lead West and NorthWest."
I won't go into detail about wanting to cast spells or just lop off the heads of Luser's asking very, very stupid questions. "Last week it said my password would expire in three days. Now I can't log in. Should I have changed my password? It is telling me to pick a new password. Should I change my password now? ". Please?? Just one fireball?
There are no stupid questions. But there are sure a lot of inquisitive idiots out there.
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Several people have mentioned that this is about changing registrars, not hijacking. However, having worked at a cheap registrar, let me tell you how a hijacking can and sometimes does take place.
To start, let me explain how domain sales usually worked at this registrar. First, there was a fee to change ownership, even though it could be done by simply modifying the whois information. There was another fee to transfer to a new registrar. Since the person buying the domain name rarely wanted to use the same registrar, many sales would take place by simply transferring the domain to a new registrar. Then they would not have to pay both the name change fee and the transfer domain fee. It used to work something like this.
The new owner submits a transfer request to the new registrar with new whois information
The new registrar submits a request to the old registrar
The old registrar (not having access to the new whois info) sends an email asking the current registrant to confirm the domain transfer
After receiving confirmation, control of the domain is transferred to the new registrar. (whois info rarely transferred with the domain, though)
New registrar completes the new Whois with information from the domain transfer request
The new registrar supposedly verified the information before submitting the transfer request to the old registrar. However, if the information did not match, it was assumed that a domain sale was taking place. Only if there were blatent red flags did anyone stop to question a transfer.
Can you see how someone might try to use the new rule to complete a "sale" of a domain? I am sure that there are now more checks to prevent this since I have been away from that cheap registrar for a couple of years. Just to be on the safe side, I will check a few domains to make sure they are locked.
You'll notice that the kids who have no TV tend to have fewer social problems and fewer problems in life in general, namely because their identity of reality is based off of something solid.
I have to disagree. When I grew up, I had no TV. The reasons were two-fold. First, we couldn't afford it, and second, my dad felt it was a waste of time and a destroyer of minds. (I really cannot tell you which reason took precedence.) The phrase "Boob Tube" was often used around my house. But I was not socially adept, or even competent, because of this lack. Instead of TV, I burried myself in books and lived my fantasy life in Science Fiction and Mysteries. (It was not until later that I disovered Fantasy books.) I feel that I made many mistakes and few friends because of this. While I learned more from my books than others did from TV, it was still a less than desirable path for me to take.
As stated in earlier posts, parents must take a role in raising their children. For some, it means taking a much larger role. Others should take a lesser role. Knowing when to guide a child and when to step back and let them learn from their own mistakes is a skill that is difficult to master. I do not have it, and will not pretend to have it. It is something that must be learned by experience.
My Signature is so on-topic that I don't know what else to say. Give me a great theory over facts any day.
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There is a.pdf file listed in the article. Downloading it shows Claria belongs in circle 6, The Heretics. Browser hijackers are circle 7, The Violent. Software that charges you without your knowledge is circle 8, the Liars, and software that tracks you keystrokes or transmits personal information belongs in the lowest of the low, The Betrayers.
Seems to have many of the same features and is shareware. You can pay $69.95 to get rid of the annoying popup box when you exit, but you can run it for free.
Two decent ones are NetTerm and TerraTerm. There are a lot of things that I like about NetTerm. My Favorite is the ability to have different keyboard layouts for each host you connect to. It includes multiple methods for connection as well.
One of the troubles with terminal emulators is the lack of ability to custom map function keys. We have an old HP Unix system and some software that looks for a specific escape sequence when a function key is pressed.
In Windows, NetTerm allows me to load a custom keymap file. I can connect to one system with one keymap, and connect to a completely different one with a different keyboard map. I have yet to find anything like that in Linux.
I have been able to edit the Xdefaults file to change the keymap for Xterm, but it is always the same keymap no matter who I connect to.
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My company that just purchased 3 computers from HP. There was a total of 5 dual core CPUs. We had to purchase 10 licences for HP-UX 11.11. Utilities that were an extra charge had to be purchased on a per CPU basis as well. A utility that cost $300 ended up costing $3000 even if it was only used on one machine. And they have the nerve to tell other companies to make their licences free???
HP, if you want others to change their licences, lead by example.
I agree. Children are not taught how to think. As a child I was never taught exactly what thinking was. I was often told to think, and told that my thinking was completely wrong, but never told how to think.
It was not until college that I took a class on critical thinking and learned exactly what thinking was. (I had been doing it for years through trial and error[mostly error].) Had I learned it as a child, my education would have been greatly improved.
Don't get me wrong, I was almost always at the top of my class. But that doesn't mean that I was always learning. I had a talent for taking tests, even if I didn't always understand the material. If I had learned how to think properly when I was younger, I know that I could have learned more throughout school.
By the same token, if children are taught how to think early enough, the hunger for knowledge will propel them much farther than they go today. Often that hunger is squashed by peer pressure, or poor teaching very early in life. Teach children how to think and the self-educator will become more common instead of the rare exception.
Reasons:
- Free
- Comes with KDE
- Syntax highlighting
- Project mode - group pages into projects
- remote connections - edit remote files with WEBDAV, SFTP, FTP, FISH, NFS, or SMB mounts
- CVS enabled
- debugger
- preview mode
It has more features that I do not use, but they might be helpful to you.I agree. When was the last time your newspaper wouldn't let you turn the page because you hadn't read the ad on that page? When was the last time you tried to throw away a newspaper and it jumped back into your hands asking if you were sure you wanted to close it without reading another ad? When was the last time you were reading a newspaper and an ad moved in front of the article, blocking it until you tore out the ad?
I realize that this may sound impossible to /. users, but maybe this tool could be useful to non-spammers. For example, perhaps a business that sends out newsletters to customers wishes to see how many of its customers are marking the newsletters as spam. If a lot of people mark the newsletters as spam, perhaps it is time to a) change the format of the newsletter, b) make it easier and more clear how to stop receiving the newsletters, or c) stop sending newsletters.
Oink, flap. Oink, flap. Oink, flap.
The question becomes, what do you want the computer to be doing. Traditionally, server memory and CPU processing time was too valuable to waste on graphics that were not really needed. This was especially true in the enterprise environment where many users connected to a few servers. Although memory has gone way down in price since then, and servers are more and more powerful, many systems are asked to do more and more. Look at the trend for multi-processor machines and Dual-core CPUs.
At one time the question was "Why waste my server's resources with graphics?" (Which, I admit, is still a valid question.) Now the question is "Is the GUI powerful and flexible enough for me to switch?" Do you want to wade through menus to get to an option that used to be added with a simple -option?
Recently, I was working on a Win2000 server and an option I neeeded in one program was greyed out. I spent days looking for the reason it was not available when all other options said that it should be available. In this instance, it turned out that because of some choices made by a previous admin, this option would not display until I installed something else. (Although the installation was necessary anyway, the instructions on the GUI said to choose the option, then perform the installation.) My point is that the GUI front end limited me and would not let me do what it said it was supposed to do. The command line version in Linux would not have cared which order I performed the tasks.
I guess the big trade off with GUI and CLI is that a CLI I have to learn up front what I am doing and a GUI I can learn by which options are displayed and which are not. If all you are doing is playing games, writing papers, or balancing books (not an easy task!), a GUI works great. I prefer administering a server with a CLI.
This was actually the plot of Starship Andromeda. Originally it was supposed to be in the Trek Universe, but (wisely IMHO) it was decided that it would be a completely different setting. Changes were made to the way space travel worked and the species. I actually followed it for a few seasons, but it never gathered a huge fan base.
I don't really know if it would have made much difference if it was based on the Trek Universe. I believe that it would have caused almost as many problems as Enterprise did.
On the other hand, with electronic theft, I can spend a lot of my theft time programming something to recognize and capture those SSNs. It takes only a little more effort to steal thousands of numbers than it does to steal 50. Furthermore, I don't have to be in any one physical location. Even if my program has to run on a specific server, I can program it, go on vacation, and collect the harvest when I get back.
Now look at the damage potiential. Because I can only open so many envelopes in a day, I am very limited to how much damage I can cause. If I enlist the help of others, I can do more damage, but I have to share some of the spoils. Electronically, I can work alone, minimizing my investment, and harvest more numbers, maximizing my returns.
You can obviously see the attraction for electronically capturing or even stealing data. That is why it gets more attention than the paper or hand methods. Yes, we have always had people that could steal or capture personal data for theft or marketing. But because it is easier to do it electronically, it is more attractive and therefore more prevelant.
Wait!! Are you saying that we cannot change the amount of sun light simply by changing our clocks?? You must be joking, right?? If we all change our clocks at the same moment, time itself can be changed! We can even accomplish time travel, simply by changing are clocks!!
Here in AZ we decided that we did not want to get up an hour early and then change our clocks so we wouldn't notice it. </sarcasm>
Okay, Okay, I will stop with the sarcasm. I have noticed that southern states get more sunlight anyway.
I have also noticed that the East Coast seems to do things later in the day that the West or Central states anyway. For example, the 10:00 News is broadcast at 11:00 on the East Coast. It seems to me that the East Coast prefers to have their daylight later that I do.
On another note... How do vampires feel about DST?
"Psst! I got an advance copy of a MS security patch. I can get it for you for next to nothing."
Would you trust a stolen security patch? After all, if it can be stolen, it can be modified.
"Just download it and install. If your virus scanner complains, just ignore it. It is part of the patch."
He is suggesting that if the bill is passed that true.com be required to post a similar "truth in advertising" notice.
Let me share a personal experience with merging companies. I worked for a company that was in bankruptcy. After working hard for several years, the company pulled itself out of bankruptcy and went public. Not too long after that we merged with a different company. At first the new company wanted to run things the way they had before, but soon realized that they were over their heads. Everyone sat down and worked out which things would be best for the combined company. Some things were taken from one company and other from the second company. Things that worked were accepted and things that didn't work were dropped. In short, it was the ideal merger.
Unfortunately, it did not last. After a couple of years, the new company bought out a third company. This third company was in bankruptcy with little or no hope of pulling itself out. I helped on the discovery/review process and found several things in just one department where they were losing money hand over fist because of poor practices. We bought them anyway. After we purchased them, we let all the management of the parent company go, and promoted the management of the company we had just purchased. The management then tried to impose the same practices that had put them in bankruptcy on the parent company. After a few clashes with management, my job title was eliminated and I was offered severance. I took it and ran. Since then the company I was with has been purchased twice.
I really hate to think what those executives who ran at least two companies into the ground are doing now.
Obviously this is a redisovery of the process used to create Flamberge, the Swinging Sword.
Very useful if Prince Valiant needs a replacement sword.
Think about the teachers.
"Timmy, hand me your pen."
"Do I have to?? Okay"
"Pen, how many words are in Timmy's essay?"
"483"
"Timmy, this was a 500 word essay. Take it back and write some more."
"Stupid tattletale pen!!"
"Here I was writing some erotic fiction in my spare time, when my pen started moaning! I will never write erotic fiction in court again."
I won't go into detail about wanting to cast spells or just lop off the heads of Luser's asking very, very stupid questions. "Last week it said my password would expire in three days. Now I can't log in. Should I have changed my password? It is telling me to pick a new password. Should I change my password now? ". Please?? Just one fireball?
Several people have mentioned that this is about changing registrars, not hijacking. However, having worked at a cheap registrar, let me tell you how a hijacking can and sometimes does take place.
To start, let me explain how domain sales usually worked at this registrar. First, there was a fee to change ownership, even though it could be done by simply modifying the whois information. There was another fee to transfer to a new registrar. Since the person buying the domain name rarely wanted to use the same registrar, many sales would take place by simply transferring the domain to a new registrar. Then they would not have to pay both the name change fee and the transfer domain fee. It used to work something like this.
The new registrar supposedly verified the information before submitting the transfer request to the old registrar. However, if the information did not match, it was assumed that a domain sale was taking place. Only if there were blatent red flags did anyone stop to question a transfer.
Can you see how someone might try to use the new rule to complete a "sale" of a domain? I am sure that there are now more checks to prevent this since I have been away from that cheap registrar for a couple of years. Just to be on the safe side, I will check a few domains to make sure they are locked.
KnarflingI have to disagree. When I grew up, I had no TV. The reasons were two-fold. First, we couldn't afford it, and second, my dad felt it was a waste of time and a destroyer of minds. (I really cannot tell you which reason took precedence.) The phrase "Boob Tube" was often used around my house. But I was not socially adept, or even competent, because of this lack. Instead of TV, I burried myself in books and lived my fantasy life in Science Fiction and Mysteries. (It was not until later that I disovered Fantasy books.) I feel that I made many mistakes and few friends because of this. While I learned more from my books than others did from TV, it was still a less than desirable path for me to take.
As stated in earlier posts, parents must take a role in raising their children. For some, it means taking a much larger role. Others should take a lesser role. Knowing when to guide a child and when to step back and let them learn from their own mistakes is a skill that is difficult to master. I do not have it, and will not pretend to have it. It is something that must be learned by experience.
My Signature is so on-topic that I don't know what else to say. Give me a great theory over facts any day.
There is a .pdf file listed in the article. Downloading it shows Claria belongs in circle 6, The Heretics. Browser hijackers are circle 7, The Violent. Software that charges you without your knowledge is circle 8, the Liars, and software that tracks you keystrokes or transmits personal information belongs in the lowest of the low, The Betrayers.
Seems to have many of the same features and is shareware. You can pay $69.95 to get rid of the annoying popup box when you exit, but you can run it for free.
Two decent ones are NetTerm and TerraTerm. There are a lot of things that I like about NetTerm. My Favorite is the ability to have different keyboard layouts for each host you connect to. It includes multiple methods for connection as well.
NetTerm can be found here.
Never try to be funny on /. unless you have enough karma to withstand Mods with no sense of humor.
One of the troubles with terminal emulators is the lack of ability to custom map function keys. We have an old HP Unix system and some software that looks for a specific escape sequence when a function key is pressed.
In Windows, NetTerm allows me to load a custom keymap file. I can connect to one system with one keymap, and connect to a completely different one with a different keyboard map. I have yet to find anything like that in Linux.
I have been able to edit the Xdefaults file to change the keymap for Xterm, but it is always the same keymap no matter who I connect to.