A few years ago with an old mini-laptop type thing(Windows CE 3), I was trying to get it to dial in to my ISP. I was messing with the dial options(like dial 9 before a #, etc), and didn't notice that it would be dialing like 1-911-#... So, when I dialed I could hear the 911 person, but since I had no mic, I had to hang up and let them call me back. Definately one of those "Oh shit" moments.
If CentOS was advertising/claiming it's distro is Red Hat Enterprise(even though it kind of is), then I would have no problem with RH telling them to stop. But when CentOS is just saying that their distro is based off of RHEL(which it undebiably is), then I have a very big problem with RH doing this. Using a trademarked name to accurately describe their product's history/heritage should be perfectly OK. And linking to RH's site is a good thing. It clearly shows that CentOS is not RHEL and tells people that if they want expensive hand-holding support(not saying that's bad, there are many, many scenarios where that is very, very good. But also many scenarios where IRC or newsgroups would suffice), then they should go with something like Red Hat Enterprise. I doubt most major companies that RH makes a lot of money from would seriously consider using CentOS on production servers. I don't think CentOS is exactly hurting RH that much. It probably helps them in the long run.
Unless you're a patent/trademark/copyright laywer, I don't think that you could say that RH is on "our side".
I'm sure that is almost entirely BS, but still just the small chance that it does have a little bit of fact behind it makes it kind of interesting. I'd be more convinced if they published their little line graph thing that "predicts the future". Granted they could just make that up, but it kind of seems like that's what their thing is doing anyway.
I'm glad I switched from Symantec Corp to McAfee Enterprise a few months ago. While I'm not terribly happy with McAfee(uses lots of CPU when browsing directories with many gigs of files), Symantec really pissed me of when I removed it. I had to spend about an hour removing reg. keys that their uninstaller was too lazy to remove. It couldn't have been that difficult for them to have the installre remove them, but instead they give you a three pages of crap that you must remove from various locations in the registry. That has totally made me rethink using Symantec stuff again.
Have you ever used VB? I feel like I need to take a shower to rid myself of its dirty syntax.
Honestly, atleast its a start that M$ is realizing that their OS's have some serious problems, but the only things that will really stop spyware is user education, and fixing the problems in their OS's(yes, they made a start w/ SP2, though many of the things are very bloated/useless for anyone who has a clue). The problem with making big changes in their OS is that so many apps will be broken because they've waited so long to make their OS's reasonable secure(when did Windows 95/NT4 come out?), so M$ is stuck between a rock and a hard place. I can't say I feel terribly sorry for them.
Oh, since its "100% free" where can I download the source code? And what forks are available as alternatives? Oh, then its not "100% free".
Honestly I tried Picasa a while back and wasn't impressed. I can keep track of my photos(maybe 1000ish) just fine by making and using a logical directory tree. Like: Photos -2004 Summer Vacation --Card 1 --Card 2 -2004 My Birthday --Card 1 etc.
I can edit them in any program I like, and can take them with me fairly easily, or use it directly on another OS.
And its somewhere the stupid windows thumbnail view actually comes in handy
I've validated my copy of XP Pro VLK that is definately not legal. Serial was generated and it validated just fine(atleast when I tried a few months back).
It comes fairly close according to the orbit sim(here), but the comet's orbit is a fair ways off the ecliptic. Where it would "intersect" Mar's orbit then, it would be over Mars. By the time it gets to Mar's orbit it would have already pulled ahead of Mars.
What would they do if the person moved to another country? DOS their IP? The person could just move around a lot, get it under a false name/credit card, use unprotected WAP, etc. Short of monitoring them 24/7/365 there's nothing they could do to stop them from accessing the internet.
Windows Server 2k3 really isn't that bad for having centralized authentication and stuff for windows desktops. The admin interfaces are damn good, and even things like Exchange 2003 and Sharepoint are pretty good. If M$ does one thing good, then its integration. For the most part, there big products work together pretty well. If a Linux server distro could have the level of integration and relative easiness to set up as Windows 2k3(atleast SBS, I haven't used the regular versions quite as much), then it would be wildly popular. SLES is kind of on the right track, and hopefully it'll have a lot more features when Novell releases their Open Enterprise Server next Feburary. Also, with Samba 4, hopefully it will be possible to have Windows desktops authenticate natively with Linux, and have the Linux box act as a domain controller.
can I get access to all private property in my area to make sure no one with portable cd players is listening to my music illegally?
For christs sake! Don't give 'em any ideas!
I believe there is a free version of Maya available, though there are a few rules about what you can and can't do with it. And I'm sure you can an old version of Photoshop fairly cheap off of eBay.
and they're not crazy enough to launch them
Kim does not strike me as a particularly mentally stable. If, say, an invasion of South Korea failed, I could easily see him launching missiles on the rest of the world. After WW1 and WW2, we stopped a lot of programs and left our selves to some extent, vulnerable. Just because there may not be a clearly defined threat today doesn't mean there couldn't be one tomorrow. Who's to say there couldn't be a coup in Russia, or that Putin couldn't start to go back to the old Soviet days. Who's to say that China will never invade Taiwan. Who's to say that India or Pakistan won't try to start a nuclear war. Missile defense systems shouldn't defend just the US, they should defend our allies around the world who could be targets, and to say there's no use for them and that the world will live happily ever after is extremely short sighted and naive.
Tis the season to be jolly,
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Linux releases from places like Raleigh, (and Utah)
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Novell Linux, and Fedora,
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SuSE Pro, plus Ma-a-andrake
Fa la la la la, la la, la la.
About a week ago, as part of a field trip for Computer Systems in high school, I got to take a tour of one of Engenio's (hard drive controller manufacturer) engineering facilities. On their wall of patents, one of the plaques said it was a patent for "Enclosure". Nothing else, just the word Enclosure. I assume they're talking about some particular method of enclosing hard drive controllers, but still, you'd think the Patent Office would be a little more specific than just "Enclosure".
Usenet can kind of be a pain to search sometimes, and a lot of it is spread out on a lot of different newsgroups. There's also probably even more viruses and false stuff on usenet than P2P networks(atleast Ed2k).
Its not terribly surprising, they really don't care if the people their accusing is guilty or not. They're just throwing out hundreds of lawsuits in the hope that they'll get to steal a little money from people. Even if they have virtually no evidence, they'll eventually get lucky.
Just because they are downloading one movie doesn't mean they haven't ever gone to a movie theater or have never bought a DVD/tape. The music/software/video industries are just getting greedy. They're not happy with getting $700 billion (just a random #), they want $900 billion. They just want to steal more money from more people.
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That's great but most people do not have autos that run on any type of diesel. So the painless transition stuff is kind of incorrect.
A few years ago with an old mini-laptop type thing(Windows CE 3), I was trying to get it to dial in to my ISP. I was messing with the dial options(like dial 9 before a #, etc), and didn't notice that it would be dialing like 1-911-#... So, when I dialed I could hear the 911 person, but since I had no mic, I had to hang up and let them call me back. Definately one of those "Oh shit" moments.
I hereby nominate Bill Gates and Darl McBride to test this first. In the mean time, lets put up some more space junk. :P
If CentOS was advertising/claiming it's distro is Red Hat Enterprise(even though it kind of is), then I would have no problem with RH telling them to stop. But when CentOS is just saying that their distro is based off of RHEL(which it undebiably is), then I have a very big problem with RH doing this. Using a trademarked name to accurately describe their product's history/heritage should be perfectly OK. And linking to RH's site is a good thing. It clearly shows that CentOS is not RHEL and tells people that if they want expensive hand-holding support(not saying that's bad, there are many, many scenarios where that is very, very good. But also many scenarios where IRC or newsgroups would suffice), then they should go with something like Red Hat Enterprise. I doubt most major companies that RH makes a lot of money from would seriously consider using CentOS on production servers. I don't think CentOS is exactly hurting RH that much. It probably helps them in the long run.
Unless you're a patent/trademark/copyright laywer, I don't think that you could say that RH is on "our side".
I'm sure that is almost entirely BS, but still just the small chance that it does have a little bit of fact behind it makes it kind of interesting. I'd be more convinced if they published their little line graph thing that "predicts the future". Granted they could just make that up, but it kind of seems like that's what their thing is doing anyway.
I'm glad I switched from Symantec Corp to McAfee Enterprise a few months ago. While I'm not terribly happy with McAfee(uses lots of CPU when browsing directories with many gigs of files), Symantec really pissed me of when I removed it. I had to spend about an hour removing reg. keys that their uninstaller was too lazy to remove. It couldn't have been that difficult for them to have the installre remove them, but instead they give you a three pages of crap that you must remove from various locations in the registry. That has totally made me rethink using Symantec stuff again.
Would a star not be any object that makes light on its own(ie, not reflects it)? IANAA(Astronomer)
Have you ever used VB? I feel like I need to take a shower to rid myself of its dirty syntax.
Honestly, atleast its a start that M$ is realizing that their OS's have some serious problems, but the only things that will really stop spyware is user education, and fixing the problems in their OS's(yes, they made a start w/ SP2, though many of the things are very bloated/useless for anyone who has a clue). The problem with making big changes in their OS is that so many apps will be broken because they've waited so long to make their OS's reasonable secure(when did Windows 95/NT4 come out?), so M$ is stuck between a rock and a hard place. I can't say I feel terribly sorry for them.
Real nice, mature comment there. If that's actually your opinion then you should have the balls to stand by it and not post as anonymous coward.
Oh, since its "100% free" where can I download the source code? And what forks are available as alternatives? Oh, then its not "100% free".
Honestly I tried Picasa a while back and wasn't impressed. I can keep track of my photos(maybe 1000ish) just fine by making and using a logical directory tree. Like:
Photos
-2004 Summer Vacation
--Card 1
--Card 2
-2004 My Birthday
--Card 1
etc.
I can edit them in any program I like, and can take them with me fairly easily, or use it directly on another OS.
And its somewhere the stupid windows thumbnail view actually comes in handy
I've validated my copy of XP Pro VLK that is definately not legal. Serial was generated and it validated just fine(atleast when I tried a few months back).
Oddly enough, my M$ keyboard and mouse work great with Firefox.
It comes fairly close according to the orbit sim(here), but the comet's orbit is a fair ways off the ecliptic. Where it would "intersect" Mar's orbit then, it would be over Mars. By the time it gets to Mar's orbit it would have already pulled ahead of Mars.
What would they do if the person moved to another country? DOS their IP? The person could just move around a lot, get it under a false name/credit card, use unprotected WAP, etc. Short of monitoring them 24/7/365 there's nothing they could do to stop them from accessing the internet.
If we can just do to all the sites that exploit this what we did to the demonstration site, then this shouldn't be much of a problem.
Windows Server 2k3 really isn't that bad for having centralized authentication and stuff for windows desktops. The admin interfaces are damn good, and even things like Exchange 2003 and Sharepoint are pretty good. If M$ does one thing good, then its integration. For the most part, there big products work together pretty well. If a Linux server distro could have the level of integration and relative easiness to set up as Windows 2k3(atleast SBS, I haven't used the regular versions quite as much), then it would be wildly popular. SLES is kind of on the right track, and hopefully it'll have a lot more features when Novell releases their Open Enterprise Server next Feburary. Also, with Samba 4, hopefully it will be possible to have Windows desktops authenticate natively with Linux, and have the Linux box act as a domain controller.
can I get access to all private property in my area to make sure no one with portable cd players is listening to my music illegally?
For christs sake! Don't give 'em any ideas!
I believe there is a free version of Maya available, though there are a few rules about what you can and can't do with it. And I'm sure you can an old version of Photoshop fairly cheap off of eBay.
and they're not crazy enough to launch them
Kim does not strike me as a particularly mentally stable. If, say, an invasion of South Korea failed, I could easily see him launching missiles on the rest of the world. After WW1 and WW2, we stopped a lot of programs and left our selves to some extent, vulnerable. Just because there may not be a clearly defined threat today doesn't mean there couldn't be one tomorrow. Who's to say there couldn't be a coup in Russia, or that Putin couldn't start to go back to the old Soviet days. Who's to say that China will never invade Taiwan. Who's to say that India or Pakistan won't try to start a nuclear war. Missile defense systems shouldn't defend just the US, they should defend our allies around the world who could be targets, and to say there's no use for them and that the world will live happily ever after is extremely short sighted and naive.
An exploit affecting IE?! That's something you don't hear everyday.
Oh, wait...
Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la, la, la Linux releases from places like Raleigh, (and Utah) Fa la la la la, la la, la, la Novell Linux, and Fedora, Fa la la, la la la, la, la, la SuSE Pro, plus Ma-a-andrake Fa la la la la, la la, la la.
About a week ago, as part of a field trip for Computer Systems in high school, I got to take a tour of one of Engenio's (hard drive controller manufacturer) engineering facilities. On their wall of patents, one of the plaques said it was a patent for "Enclosure". Nothing else, just the word Enclosure. I assume they're talking about some particular method of enclosing hard drive controllers, but still, you'd think the Patent Office would be a little more specific than just "Enclosure".
Usenet can kind of be a pain to search sometimes, and a lot of it is spread out on a lot of different newsgroups. There's also probably even more viruses and false stuff on usenet than P2P networks(atleast Ed2k).
Its not terribly surprising, they really don't care if the people their accusing is guilty or not. They're just throwing out hundreds of lawsuits in the hope that they'll get to steal a little money from people. Even if they have virtually no evidence, they'll eventually get lucky.
Just because they are downloading one movie doesn't mean they haven't ever gone to a movie theater or have never bought a DVD/tape. The music/software/video industries are just getting greedy. They're not happy with getting $700 billion (just a random #), they want $900 billion. They just want to steal more money from more people.