Contributors to open source projects donate their personal skills and time. There's no contractual obligation or guarantee of any level of competence. If you can't handle that concept, then you should probably stick to commercial software or purchase commercial support. Although that won't get you any guarantees of competence either, at least you'll have someone to yell at.
I saw that on a documentary one time - a whole artist community that had shacked up in some run-down apartment building. I thought it was pretty interesting. I wonder what the legal reasons for letting people squat are? maybe to discourage property owners from letting their places go?
Here in Chicago, when the owner wants his property back, it is fairly easy. He just sends in a group of nice gentlemen with baseball bats.
I suppose some other company might buy it just to scrap it for parts, or to simply kill off the competition. Although a relatively unknown email client - I don't see MS getting too worried about that hurting their Outlook sales.
I'm not sure what would happen if the code is never sold? Maybe it remains in some kind of limbo and nobody can legally touch it?
I see. If you don't consider the DVD price fair, or if the distribution company isn't releasing it quickly enough for your liking, then it is ok to steal it.
Myself, I would just say that I pirated this TV show off of the Internet because I could and it was easy. I didn't feel like paying. Fuck 'em. I pirated Sabrina the Teenage Witch season 3 because I was too lazy to drive to Wal-Mart.
So, before you pirate your movies, do you always go out and try to find it somewhere where you can legally purchase it? Then, once you've found it (which we all know that you do not really try, but for the sake of argument) how do you determine if the price is "fair?" Maybe, $5/episode is what you would consider fair? Should that be the same for everyone else too?
why can't anyone just say the plain truth - we found a way to get movies for free. one person buys it and then copies it for everyone else. i suppose these rationalizations helps you to feel noble about it, though.
I was under the impression that when I buy something, I can do whatever I want with it, aside from copying it & selling or whatever. If I am ok with voiding the warranty, I'm free to do what I want with it.
But, that made me wonder if there are any products that we currently buy, but are not allowed to modify or use in an unapproved way? (aside from safety or criminal type things, of course). I'm just curious if there's any real-world analogy to what this guy is saying?
Why not? I'm sure MS would love to get their meat-hooks into Linux. What could be better for them? Linux intertwined with MS technology is an ingenius strategy. One thing MS is good at is finding the candy with which to lure developers in.
If you can beat them, join them... literally. You will be assimilated!
If you couldn't afford $100 writing Windows drivers, I shudder to think how much you'll earn writing Linux desktop apps. Hope your users are generous PayPal donators. ZZiing!
It is true that, once you know one or two languages, you can essentially pick up the syntax of a new one quickly. But, simply understanding the syntax of a language is only the beginning.
These days "knowing" a language also includes a knowledge of the libraries and frameworks that are available. Not to mention the different styles and techniques that are used.
Because all information should be free. Uh, except MY information, I mean. My work is copyrighted so keep your damn links away! All corporate information should be free, though. That's what I mean. Screw the man!
I don't know if this qualifies as a hardware mishap, but this story is worth repeating. (Yes, this happened to me personally.)
I had lent out a computer to a girlfriend. (this was back in the days when the cheapest computer was still around $1,500.) Well, the relationship came to a sour end and we exchanged back all of our stuff. I had a rather expensive leather jacket of hers, so I went to her place and we traded back (a rather unpleasant visit).
At this point in my life, I was fairly desparate for cash & had needed to sell this computer. I plugged the machine back in only to find... tada... she and one of her girlfriends (who was an admin or something) had decided it would be great revenge to set the BIOS password so that it was required to boot the PC! Wow... wasn't expecting that!
This chick is no match for my superior computing skills, I decide! I will not give her the satisfaction of asking for the password. Some research tells me that I can remove the motherboard battery and reset the BIOS to its default. This I do, but no luck. I leave that frickin' battery out for an entire week! I hear tell of reset jumper switches. No joy. I even called the motherboard manufacturer. No help. In desparation, I began trying every possible BIOS password combination of "dickhead" and "jackass" I could imagine (because you know that is what it will be).
Finally, after about 3 weeks, I was getting desperate. I really needed the money & had to sell the PC. It was looking grim. So, with great reluctance and my tail between my legs, I called the old girlfriend. Luckily, she gave me the password without much fuss. She spelled it out for me: A S s h o l e 5 7 9.
I was using the Outlook connector at a client's a while back. It worked ok for mail, but I couldn't participate in a lot of the groupware functions like scheduling, etc.
That was a couple of years ago, so perhaps that has all be ironed out.
Re:That's funny. I'm still getting spam.
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You would only get a decrease in spam if you you've signed up for the blue security do-not-email registry.
I'm sure it has little/no effect yet, but if the community becomes large enough, spammers might decide that it's not worth the hastle to email blue security community. In which case they will run their lists againast the do-not-email. That is the idea anyway.
I don't know how many members this would take - or if the spammers will figure out some way to filter the responses first.
fckeditor is an in-browser WSYWIG. It has a "Paste from MS Word" button that actually strips out a lot of the unecessary baggage. I don't know how well it handles embedded images or tricky layouts, but for the basic stuff it works well.
The interface is similar to Word - maybe if you're lucky, you could get some of your content producers to use it.
I work for a similar place. You can try the FireFox User Agent Switcher plugin and set it to IE. It works as long as the vendor didn't put in some really IE specific stuff. ActiveX controls in particular tend to not run in FireFox. I know there is even an ActiveX plugin for FireFox, but I have not tried that.
These laws kinda remind me of patent laws - at one point they were geared toward protecting the little guy so that the big guys can't crush them, steal their ideas, buy away their key employees, etc. The heart of these ideas was to keep things fair.
As usual, greedy corporations twist the laws around to suit their purposes. Lawyers are all too happy to make a buck off of anything, no matter how it screws up the system. Somehow they're able to take a law and make it work the exact opposite way it was originally intended.
Re:I liked Internet Explorer 7 the first time...
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You gotta keep in mind that IE is also a component embedded into shitloads of corporate software. At this point they probably just want to see how much of this stuff is going to blow up with the new tab feature.
If I were a network admin in a shop where there is a lot of IE component utilization, I would be testing the hell out of this beta right now.
For the UI stuff, we probably won't see much of that until the next beta or an RC.
The top bar with the back/forward button, address bar and quick search is permentantly stuck in that top position. There doesn't seem to be any way to move it. Having the address bar below that is also bugging the hell out of me.
You could create a batch file to turn off/on services to a level that suited your particular needs at that moment. just create a batch file like so:
echo Closing Down... net stop "Help and Support" net stop "IIS Admin" net stop "Messenger"
when you're done playing your game or whatever, you can start 'em back up with another batch file:
echo Starting Up... net start "Help and Support" net start "IIS Admin" net start "Messenger"
(new-school guys could probably do this easily with a neato vbs script.)
I have a couple of batch files that I use for just this purpose. I work with a few different server setups like, Apache + MySQL, IIS + SQL Server, etc. When I'm working on one, I can turn off all the other stuff I don't need.
Just on the off chance that you are still "evaluating" windows;-) it should noted at the beginning of the installer for IE7 you have to do the genuine windows validation thing. The check is built into the intaller this time. wonder if this has been hacked already?
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Contributors to open source projects donate their personal skills and time. There's no contractual obligation or guarantee of any level of competence. If you can't handle that concept, then you should probably stick to commercial software or purchase commercial support. Although that won't get you any guarantees of competence either, at least you'll have someone to yell at.
I'm sorry sir, your finger was declined. It says here that we're supposed to cut it up...
What makes you think that just because you've decided to use an open source product that they "own" you anything? I say you owe them!
It doesn't sound to me like you are an ardent OSS supporter - you don't seem to understand what it's about at all. I'll give you fanboy, though.
Knock off two zeros from all of your figures and your post is a lot more accurate for the vast majority of professional bands.
I saw that on a documentary one time - a whole artist community that had shacked up in some run-down apartment building. I thought it was pretty interesting. I wonder what the legal reasons for letting people squat are? maybe to discourage property owners from letting their places go?
Here in Chicago, when the owner wants his property back, it is fairly easy. He just sends in a group of nice gentlemen with baseball bats.
I suppose some other company might buy it just to scrap it for parts, or to simply kill off the competition. Although a relatively unknown email client - I don't see MS getting too worried about that hurting their Outlook sales.
I'm not sure what would happen if the code is never sold? Maybe it remains in some kind of limbo and nobody can legally touch it?
I see. If you don't consider the DVD price fair, or if the distribution company isn't releasing it quickly enough for your liking, then it is ok to steal it.
Myself, I would just say that I pirated this TV show off of the Internet because I could and it was easy. I didn't feel like paying. Fuck 'em. I pirated Sabrina the Teenage Witch season 3 because I was too lazy to drive to Wal-Mart.
So, before you pirate your movies, do you always go out and try to find it somewhere where you can legally purchase it? Then, once you've found it (which we all know that you do not really try, but for the sake of argument) how do you determine if the price is "fair?" Maybe, $5/episode is what you would consider fair? Should that be the same for everyone else too?
why can't anyone just say the plain truth - we found a way to get movies for free. one person buys it and then copies it for everyone else. i suppose these rationalizations helps you to feel noble about it, though.
I was under the impression that when I buy something, I can do whatever I want with it, aside from copying it & selling or whatever. If I am ok with voiding the warranty, I'm free to do what I want with it.
But, that made me wonder if there are any products that we currently buy, but are not allowed to modify or use in an unapproved way? (aside from safety or criminal type things, of course). I'm just curious if there's any real-world analogy to what this guy is saying?
Why not? I'm sure MS would love to get their meat-hooks into Linux. What could be better for them? Linux intertwined with MS technology is an ingenius strategy. One thing MS is good at is finding the candy with which to lure developers in.
If you can beat them, join them... literally. You will be assimilated!
If you couldn't afford $100 writing Windows drivers, I shudder to think how much you'll earn writing Linux desktop apps. Hope your users are generous PayPal donators. ZZiing!
It is true that, once you know one or two languages, you can essentially pick up the syntax of a new one quickly. But, simply understanding the syntax of a language is only the beginning.
These days "knowing" a language also includes a knowledge of the libraries and frameworks that are available. Not to mention the different styles and techniques that are used.
Because all information should be free. Uh, except MY information, I mean. My work is copyrighted so keep your damn links away! All corporate information should be free, though. That's what I mean. Screw the man!
I don't know if this qualifies as a hardware mishap, but this story is worth repeating. (Yes, this happened to me personally.)
I had lent out a computer to a girlfriend. (this was back in the days when the cheapest computer was still around $1,500.) Well, the relationship came to a sour end and we exchanged back all of our stuff. I had a rather expensive leather jacket of hers, so I went to her place and we traded back (a rather unpleasant visit).
At this point in my life, I was fairly desparate for cash & had needed to sell this computer. I plugged the machine back in only to find... tada... she and one of her girlfriends (who was an admin or something) had decided it would be great revenge to set the BIOS password so that it was required to boot the PC! Wow... wasn't expecting that!
This chick is no match for my superior computing skills, I decide! I will not give her the satisfaction of asking for the password. Some research tells me that I can remove the motherboard battery and reset the BIOS to its default. This I do, but no luck. I leave that frickin' battery out for an entire week! I hear tell of reset jumper switches. No joy. I even called the motherboard manufacturer. No help. In desparation, I began trying every possible BIOS password combination of "dickhead" and "jackass" I could imagine (because you know that is what it will be).
Finally, after about 3 weeks, I was getting desperate. I really needed the money & had to sell the PC. It was looking grim. So, with great reluctance and my tail between my legs, I called the old girlfriend. Luckily, she gave me the password without much fuss. She spelled it out for me: A S s h o l e 5 7 9.
I can only laugh about it now, after many years.
flamebait?! don't you guys have a sense of humor?
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I was using the Outlook connector at a client's a while back. It worked ok for mail, but I couldn't participate in a lot of the groupware functions like scheduling, etc.
That was a couple of years ago, so perhaps that has all be ironed out.
You would only get a decrease in spam if you you've signed up for the blue security do-not-email registry.
I'm sure it has little/no effect yet, but if the community becomes large enough, spammers might decide that it's not worth the hastle to email blue security community. In which case they will run their lists againast the do-not-email. That is the idea anyway.
I don't know how many members this would take - or if the spammers will figure out some way to filter the responses first.
fckeditor is an in-browser WSYWIG. It has a "Paste from MS Word" button that actually strips out a lot of the unecessary baggage. I don't know how well it handles embedded images or tricky layouts, but for the basic stuff it works well.
The interface is similar to Word - maybe if you're lucky, you could get some of your content producers to use it.
I work for a similar place. You can try the FireFox User Agent Switcher plugin and set it to IE. It works as long as the vendor didn't put in some really IE specific stuff. ActiveX controls in particular tend to not run in FireFox. I know there is even an ActiveX plugin for FireFox, but I have not tried that.
These laws kinda remind me of patent laws - at one point they were geared toward protecting the little guy so that the big guys can't crush them, steal their ideas, buy away their key employees, etc. The heart of these ideas was to keep things fair.
As usual, greedy corporations twist the laws around to suit their purposes. Lawyers are all too happy to make a buck off of anything, no matter how it screws up the system. Somehow they're able to take a law and make it work the exact opposite way it was originally intended.
You gotta keep in mind that IE is also a component embedded into shitloads of corporate software. At this point they probably just want to see how much of this stuff is going to blow up with the new tab feature.
If I were a network admin in a shop where there is a lot of IE component utilization, I would be testing the hell out of this beta right now.
For the UI stuff, we probably won't see much of that until the next beta or an RC.
The top bar with the back/forward button, address bar and quick search is permentantly stuck in that top position. There doesn't seem to be any way to move it. Having the address bar below that is also bugging the hell out of me.
You could create a batch file to turn off/on services to a level that suited your particular needs at that moment. just create a batch file like so:
echo Closing Down...
net stop "Help and Support"
net stop "IIS Admin"
net stop "Messenger"
when you're done playing your game or whatever, you can start 'em back up with another batch file:
echo Starting Up...
net start "Help and Support"
net start "IIS Admin"
net start "Messenger"
(new-school guys could probably do this easily with a neato vbs script.)
I have a couple of batch files that I use for just this purpose. I work with a few different server setups like, Apache + MySQL, IIS + SQL Server, etc. When I'm working on one, I can turn off all the other stuff I don't need.
Just on the off chance that you are still "evaluating" windows ;-) it should noted at the beginning of the installer for IE7 you have to do the genuine windows validation thing. The check is built into the intaller this time. wonder if this has been hacked already?