Where is my choice as an administrator to set upgrade policy? If mozilla provided a centralized management system, then this would be OK for home users, but at work, we need the browser to work with our web apps, and FF3 doesn't.
Great - more users upgrading to FF3.x which DOES NOT WORK with our timecard system... 2.x is fine. IE6 and IE7 are fine. This is really a problem for managed use of FF, in fact, it drives users back to IE6, which we can still keep on the systems because MS lets us actually say "Don't update that".
Sure, we do have plans to go to the latest version of the Timecard system, but it won't be for a while, as there is really no reason to update it save for FF3. We'll go back to IE6 before we upgrade the entire system in some emergency schedule because Mozilla wants everyone on the latest and greatest.
Well, what are the benefits of being exempt? As far as I can tell, you can be salaried and non-exempt... So what does the individual gain from being exempt?
That the point of view is mostly not too interested in intellectual property in the ways the estlabishment is. Maybe that many people here disagree with the concept entirely. Or possibly that we don't really care about indie game devs? There is the possibility, however strange seeming, that society (or a subset anyway) is changing their ideas about what entertainment ought to be, and just don't care enough to economically support games in the way they used to.
I a relativist mostly, so while I may be worried about sweeping societal change, it does seem that the RIAA has proved that a) you can't stop people copying your stuff for whatever reason b) suing your current and potential customers is bad business, and also doesn't seem to help prevent copying
In the US we've pretty much failed to stop all sorts of "bad" behavior. We haven't stopped massive drug use, fraud on massive scales, and I don't think we're going to do anything to even slow down piracy. We might end up with 2 million more people in prison for non-violent crimes and just draining money from our government like we have with drug users, but what does that accomplish? It'd be a net loss to the economy as far as I can see.
Heck, I'm still using it at home. Really, the Adobe Photoshop/InDesign model with the pallets works really well. There's one place to look to work on text, and one for the Page...
Some other things I liked back in the day when they were actually updating it was that it would open and save from and to damn near anything. There were filters for something like 30 different program formats, and they worked pretty well. Of course, now adays no one is updating SmartSuite.
What still pisses me off is that if IBM has abandoned Lotus SmartSuite... could they open source it? Let people who like that program work on it?
Well, not having a Car in the US would basically mean abandoning well over 50% of the country, as I really doubt anyone is going to massivly increase public transit to useable levels in many of our smaller cities, forget about the massive rural areas. Great for a nature preserve, maybe not so great for a sudden doubling of the population of the cities (I seem to recall that about 50% of the US population lives in smallish (100k or less cities or rural areas).
In the cities in the US, or for moving to another country, I can easily imagine the costs for *that* lifestyle equalling the million of the car over the other costs of living rurally (rent, higher prices for food, the cost to move to another country, get a visa, etc).
I would expect that the choices aren't really to save money, but to pick where and how you want to live.
The worst part was it took me weeks to find out how to get tabs in Firefox. (I don't really use it that often). Why oh why isn't the tab bar there by default if you're using tabs?
I would argue that costs are different, but not more than for commercial software. One thing that always seems to be lost in these discussions that I've found disproportionatily large in my Real World job, is the time spent managing licensing. Not the license cost, or the ongoing maintenence cost, but the time running extra FlexLM servers, changeing license keys, getting keys, running paperwork to move a license to a new computer, time spent getting licenses, license compliance etc...
Maybe we're doing it wrong, but for software you need on every PC, you end up spending several hours getting the licenses for the software. Every time you want to deploy a PC. Then you have to spend time maintaing a database where you indicate if you have a license for use when you decomission a PC. Then you have to either work to get the maitenence times synchronized or you have to every year after each PC renew your license/maitenance.
OSS works out to be much simpler - you just ignore all of that and spend the time once getting it working. After that, it's basically the same investment as commercial software for patching etc, and the same time spent on managing a support contract if you want one. At least where I work, we often don't have/need one for most software, commercial or not. And when we do have one, it's about a coin flip if it solves our problem anyway. YMMV of course.
But I think the thing that is boggling slashdotters ISN'T that you have to follow Blizzards rules on their servers, or even that you are contractually obligated to do things in a certain way - but that somehow you are making an unauthorized copy here.
Whatever the law says, using a product as intended should not cause you to infringe copyright by itself...
I get this, but then how is this a copyright infringment case, and not a contract law case where you've broken your contract?
I can see getting fined or something because you broke your contract. I can see getting banned from the game. I don't see how you're infringing copyright...
I think it is reasonable for the Secret Service to investigate people who threaten the Presidents life. I believe it is a somewhat well known law that threatening the presidents life will get you investigated. In fact, it's not unreasonable for the police to investigate people for threatening *anyone's* life. Of course, there ought to be a clear definition of actually threatening someone, an offhand comment probably ought not qualify. Credible threats and all that.
Which is great, but I have to pay $35 a month for a local phone, extra for long distance.
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What about RAID-Z? I've been interested in RAID-Z for a while for the snapshotting, the redundancy vs JBOD and cheap (don't need $200 controller cards). I'm not really sure how I could, or if I could, do a Hot Spare with that...
Look at freenet which seems to already do this... Many won't use it because they don't want to be any part of some distributions, whether it be piracy, child porn, or secret communications.
One thing I really dislike is the default lack of a GUI and guaranteed built in ACLed filesystem. Even in RHEL5.1, you default to owner/group/world rather than setting any arbitrary access control list for files. This is painful for Windows users who want to store files on Linux SAMBA raid servers. It is not easy to set up for Windows style permissions to work.... Or I'm being stupid and can't figure it out.
Do you need a different filesystem for that? I mean, Directory Opus lets you create find folders that are live searches, and you can just drop in folders - it handles links of various sorts etc... Wouldn't tagging a file be the same as dropping it into a "virtual folder" in DO, especially as you can arbitrarily have it in multiple different folders? Well, I'm not really sure what more you could do with a database filesystem than various "views" which are searches...
I really don't know, there are a lot of users who HATE the whatever it is in Opera 9.5 that is like the AwesomeBar. I personally love it, bookmarks from the address bar, no need to search. But then again, I love Find and Run Robot over the start menu...
If I was needing to reinstall monthly, for 20 systems, I'd grab some free imaging software like Drive Image XML and make an image of each computer in a "just installed" state so I could restore it quickly. If I could justify the cost for Acronis True Image there, I'd make my own DVD Restore Disks after each initial setup of the new PC, and give them to the users. End users should be able to drop in a DVD and boot the computer, click next a couple times and wait...
I'd take a look at Likewise Enterprise or Centrify Direct Control. The built in Apple tools require a Schema extension and using a Mac system to set policies.
Have you ever tried a blocklist like sidki's or Grypen's? I've basically installed sidki's latest, and that's it. I get flashblock, I don't get ads, and I don't mess with the internals save occasionally bypassing the blocking to see if it's breaking a site. Does Adblock *really* never break a site so you need to bypass it?
Your other extensions I could do with prox or Opera. Greasmonky is UserJS in Opera. EXIF data is available built in. Wayback is added by prox filterset. Bookmark synch is in 9.5 built in.
But then, I do understand that building up a browser with extensions works for some (lots?) of users. And certainly if you work that way, it's great.
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Where is my choice as an administrator to set upgrade policy? If mozilla provided a centralized management system, then this would be OK for home users, but at work, we need the browser to work with our web apps, and FF3 doesn't.
Great - more users upgrading to FF3.x which DOES NOT WORK with our timecard system... 2.x is fine. IE6 and IE7 are fine. This is really a problem for managed use of FF, in fact, it drives users back to IE6, which we can still keep on the systems because MS lets us actually say "Don't update that".
Sure, we do have plans to go to the latest version of the Timecard system, but it won't be for a while, as there is really no reason to update it save for FF3. We'll go back to IE6 before we upgrade the entire system in some emergency schedule because Mozilla wants everyone on the latest and greatest.
Well, what are the benefits of being exempt? As far as I can tell, you can be salaried and non-exempt... So what does the individual gain from being exempt?
That the point of view is mostly not too interested in intellectual property in the ways the estlabishment is. Maybe that many people here disagree with the concept entirely. Or possibly that we don't really care about indie game devs? There is the possibility, however strange seeming, that society (or a subset anyway) is changing their ideas about what entertainment ought to be, and just don't care enough to economically support games in the way they used to.
I a relativist mostly, so while I may be worried about sweeping societal change, it does seem that the RIAA has proved that
a) you can't stop people copying your stuff for whatever reason
b) suing your current and potential customers is bad business, and also doesn't seem to help prevent copying
In the US we've pretty much failed to stop all sorts of "bad" behavior. We haven't stopped massive drug use, fraud on massive scales, and I don't think we're going to do anything to even slow down piracy. We might end up with 2 million more people in prison for non-violent crimes and just draining money from our government like we have with drug users, but what does that accomplish? It'd be a net loss to the economy as far as I can see.
Heck, I'm still using it at home. Really, the Adobe Photoshop/InDesign model with the pallets works really well. There's one place to look to work on text, and one for the Page...
Some other things I liked back in the day when they were actually updating it was that it would open and save from and to damn near anything. There were filters for something like 30 different program formats, and they worked pretty well. Of course, now adays no one is updating SmartSuite.
What still pisses me off is that if IBM has abandoned Lotus SmartSuite... could they open source it? Let people who like that program work on it?
Well, not having a Car in the US would basically mean abandoning well over 50% of the country, as I really doubt anyone is going to massivly increase public transit to useable levels in many of our smaller cities, forget about the massive rural areas. Great for a nature preserve, maybe not so great for a sudden doubling of the population of the cities (I seem to recall that about 50% of the US population lives in smallish (100k or less cities or rural areas).
In the cities in the US, or for moving to another country, I can easily imagine the costs for *that* lifestyle equalling the million of the car over the other costs of living rurally (rent, higher prices for food, the cost to move to another country, get a visa, etc).
I would expect that the choices aren't really to save money, but to pick where and how you want to live.
I would disagree - and that's why I use Opera.
The worst part was it took me weeks to find out how to get tabs in Firefox. (I don't really use it that often). Why oh why isn't the tab bar there by default if you're using tabs?
I would argue that costs are different, but not more than for commercial software. One thing that always seems to be lost in these discussions that I've found disproportionatily large in my Real World job, is the time spent managing licensing. Not the license cost, or the ongoing maintenence cost, but the time running extra FlexLM servers, changeing license keys, getting keys, running paperwork to move a license to a new computer, time spent getting licenses, license compliance etc...
Maybe we're doing it wrong, but for software you need on every PC, you end up spending several hours getting the licenses for the software. Every time you want to deploy a PC. Then you have to spend time maintaing a database where you indicate if you have a license for use when you decomission a PC. Then you have to either work to get the maitenence times synchronized or you have to every year after each PC renew your license/maitenance.
OSS works out to be much simpler - you just ignore all of that and spend the time once getting it working. After that, it's basically the same investment as commercial software for patching etc, and the same time spent on managing a support contract if you want one. At least where I work, we often don't have/need one for most software, commercial or not. And when we do have one, it's about a coin flip if it solves our problem anyway. YMMV of course.
But I think the thing that is boggling slashdotters ISN'T that you have to follow Blizzards rules on their servers, or even that you are contractually obligated to do things in a certain way - but that somehow you are making an unauthorized copy here.
Whatever the law says, using a product as intended should not cause you to infringe copyright by itself...
I get this, but then how is this a copyright infringment case, and not a contract law case where you've broken your contract?
I can see getting fined or something because you broke your contract. I can see getting banned from the game. I don't see how you're infringing copyright...
I think it is reasonable for the Secret Service to investigate people who threaten the Presidents life. I believe it is a somewhat well known law that threatening the presidents life will get you investigated. In fact, it's not unreasonable for the police to investigate people for threatening *anyone's* life. Of course, there ought to be a clear definition of actually threatening someone, an offhand comment probably ought not qualify. Credible threats and all that.
Indeed, it seems clear they should have been prisoners of war, and released when the war ended (Has it ended in Afganistan?).
Which is great, but I have to pay $35 a month for a local phone, extra for long distance.
What about RAID-Z? I've been interested in RAID-Z for a while for the snapshotting, the redundancy vs JBOD and cheap (don't need $200 controller cards). I'm not really sure how I could, or if I could, do a Hot Spare with that...
Look at freenet which seems to already do this ... Many won't use it because they don't want to be any part of some distributions, whether it be piracy, child porn, or secret communications.
One thing I really dislike is the default lack of a GUI and guaranteed built in ACLed filesystem. Even in RHEL5.1, you default to owner/group/world rather than setting any arbitrary access control list for files. This is painful for Windows users who want to store files on Linux SAMBA raid servers. It is not easy to set up for Windows style permissions to work. ... Or I'm being stupid and can't figure it out.
Do you need a different filesystem for that? I mean, Directory Opus lets you create find folders that are live searches, and you can just drop in folders - it handles links of various sorts etc... Wouldn't tagging a file be the same as dropping it into a "virtual folder" in DO, especially as you can arbitrarily have it in multiple different folders? Well, I'm not really sure what more you could do with a database filesystem than various "views" which are searches...
I really don't know, there are a lot of users who HATE the whatever it is in Opera 9.5 that is like the AwesomeBar. I personally love it, bookmarks from the address bar, no need to search. But then again, I love Find and Run Robot over the start menu ...
Maybe - try Crossover Pro?
If I was needing to reinstall monthly, for 20 systems, I'd grab some free imaging software like Drive Image XML and make an image of each computer in a "just installed" state so I could restore it quickly. If I could justify the cost for Acronis True Image there, I'd make my own DVD Restore Disks after each initial setup of the new PC, and give them to the users. End users should be able to drop in a DVD and boot the computer, click next a couple times and wait...
I'd take a look at Likewise Enterprise or Centrify Direct Control. The built in Apple tools require a Schema extension and using a Mac system to set policies.
Edit the registry...
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"WUServer" = "http://WSUS"
"WUStatusServer" = "http://WSUS"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoUpdate" = dword:00000000
"AUOptions" = dword:00000004
"ScheduledInstallDay" = dword:00000002
"ScheduledInstallTime" = dword:00000005
"UseWUServer" = dword:00000001
"WUServer" = "http://WSUS"
"WUStatusServer" = "http://WSUS"
I'd use proxomitron for that.
Have you ever tried a blocklist like sidki's or Grypen's? I've basically installed sidki's latest, and that's it. I get flashblock, I don't get ads, and I don't mess with the internals save occasionally bypassing the blocking to see if it's breaking a site. Does Adblock *really* never break a site so you need to bypass it?
Your other extensions I could do with prox or Opera. Greasmonky is UserJS in Opera. EXIF data is available built in. Wayback is added by prox filterset. Bookmark synch is in 9.5 built in.
But then, I do understand that building up a browser with extensions works for some (lots?) of users. And certainly if you work that way, it's great.