>> I've noticed how uploading can significantly cripple download speed
-nod- I've found that if I run bt totally unbounded , I usually get around 120K/s down and 22K/s up. If I cap uploads to 15, I get around 320K/s down and, of course, steady 15K/s up. I've got a little script set up to run with capped upload until the download is done, then take the cap off. As a previous poster said, I usually fire this up when on my way to bed.
> Even with respect to driver support for more recent desktop peripherals? My scanner didn't > come with a SANE driver on its CD, and there exists no such driver in SANE CVS either.
Rather than just stating that it doesn't, think about why it doesn't. Is it because of the technical superiority of Windows? Or the superior innovation coming out of Microsoft? Do you think they wrote all those drivers themselves?
Or, is it because the Windows monopoly is, like most monopolies, self-perpetuating? Since they have the monopoly, not only do the realities of the market make it more likely that Scanners, Inc. will write a Windows driver before, or perhaps to the exclusion of all others; it also means that Microsoft is in a position to illegally abuse their monopoly by REQUIRING that Scanners, Inc. play by MS's rules if they want their scanner to work on Windows at all.
The playing field is not level at all, as should be obvious. Vendors bend over backwards to make their devices work within the bizarro world that is Windows. Counterwise, most of them expend no effort whatsoever, often denying even basic documentation that would cost them nothing to provide, to the development of Linux drivers. The very existence of drivers for ANY sufficiently complex devices is a small miracle, and should be taken as testament to the innate superiority of Linux and her developers.
Once the Windows stranglehold is broken, just you sit back and watch what Linux turns into when the playing field is leveled.
-nod- I always have similar musings about the upscale clothing store 'Cache' in our local mall. They have a small, very busy store on level 1 of the mall.
If you want to see what a blank stare looks like, ask them if they have a larger but less busy store on level 2.
> Developpers would slowly but surely stop developping new ideas for fear of > being fined/sued/thrown in jail. OSS would trickle to almost a halt.
Just like all the car companies have closed down because of safety standards, right ? Bah...
The test for liability of a manufacturer is simply, were they negligent ? There's more than enough wiggle room there to allow manufacturers to safely innovate while clamping down on those that are grossly dismissive of safety concerns.
> a lot of people here sure are quick to whip out the MBA-as-puppy-kickers stereotypes.
That's because working in the computer industry, most of us get our puppies kicked on a thrice-daily basis, at least. If it isn't Microsoft or Adobe it's f'ing SCO.
Whoops, I just bought myself an audit by the BSA for that post...
> I'm working on getting my MBA and that doesn't mean that I'm going to try > to walk all over the other businesses and perform illegal activities
Then you'll fail or, at best, be marginalized due to competition from those companies who are willing to lie, cheat, and steal, and so won't make much of an impact on public perceptions.
Haven't you ever heard that nice guys finish last?
> So, when are the consumers going to sue and and how do I convince the authorities > to go after Corsair, as that's the only memory I purchased in that timeframe?
You must have to rent storage space for all your receipts.
-nod- Clinton had a few misadventures in bombing to his name, this is true. I don't necessarily think any of his were on the same scale as Bush's Iraq adventure, though. And at least Bill never sent a troop into battle who didn't come home to his or her family.
> It prevents you including GPL-licensed code in an X server derived from > XFree86; that is enough reason for Debian to avoid the new release, it seems.
Debian just moved X 4.3.0 into the unstable tree about a week and a half ago; I don't think any of us Debianistas were really worried about seeing XFree 4.4 in any of the three main Debian trunks this year anyway.;)
> They're not actually trying to patent virtual desktops, they're > trying to patent a pager with a preview of each desktop.
Both vtwm 5.4.5a and fvwm 1.24r have previews in their pagers. Granted, these are the latest versions straight out of apt, but I'll lay dollars to donuts that these major feature enhancements haven't been added in after October of 2003 when MS filed the patent in question.
> I'll take proprietary drivers if it means I can use > the hardware I like with the OS I love to get work done.
Did you ever stop to consider that maybe the reasons that you want to use Linux in the first place (security, stability and flexibility) only came about as a result of it having been 100% open from the start ?
> If you do as most spammers do and connect directly to the receiving server, then you can feed it > whatever you like in the envelope sender, and it has no way of checking whether it's genuine or not.
Isn't it typical for the receiver to reverse-lookup the sender's IP, or at least forward-lookup whatever you hand it in the HELO to make sure you're legit ? I could be mistaken here, but that's always been my perception.
There are two 'sender' fields that one is concerned with: The envelope-sender and the From: header. The latter can be spoofed as much as you like. The former cannot be spoofed in most cases, at least the host/domain part (the username can be spoofed if the server uses unauthenticated SMTP, which almost all do).
A typical message would look like this: From spammer@baddomain.com From: Your friend <yourfriend@gooddomain.org> Subject: Re: your mail
Buy our crap ! Click below to be removed. Blah blah.
The first From field is the 'envelope sender' and comes entirely from the servers that have touched the mail. The rest of the fields are just a freeform part of the message, which by convention most (all?) MUA's treat in a special way to add convenient features like having the 'real name' next to your mail address in the visible From: field.
> Now that's what I call one law for the rich and one for the poor!
So you feel that the poor should be fined in such a way as to seriously impact their monthly food budget, while the rich should be fined in a way with no discernible impact on their lives whatsoever? Why should the poor be punished much, much more severely for the same crime?
If Amazon had any intention of keeping this information a secret, then why did their database even preserve information on who posted what? I would think if you post something anonymously, the posted_by attribute for that entry in the database would be set to anonymous, and that would be that. I hope that's how it works here at slashdot...
> Perhaps if the plaintiff had to pay ALL court costs if he/she > lost there would be fewer nonsensical lawsuits.
There would also be a lot fewer "ordinary people" who would be willing to take the risk of standing up to giant corporations when said corporations were doing something wrong.
>> Is there any sort of OpenGL support >> for PS2? Maybe PS3 will make the jump...
Console makers in general, and sony in particular, benefit hugely from exclusive titles. They have a lot to lose by making it trivial to port off of their console to other systems.
Would playstation be the success it is without Sony's relationship with Square ?
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> Please, that is SO pre Bush Administration.
Or, if you were asking my personal favorite spinmeister, Rummy:
Mr. Rumsfeld, is it true that the Senator is in rehab for a debilitating drug habit ?
If you're asking if the Senator is a good and honest man, then the answer is, absolutely he is.
Some context of this:
http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/aa011.htm
>> I've noticed how uploading can significantly cripple download speed
-nod- I've found that if I run bt totally unbounded , I usually get around 120K/s down and 22K/s up. If I cap uploads to 15, I get around 320K/s down and, of course, steady 15K/s up. I've got a little script set up to run with capped upload until the download is done, then take the cap off. As a previous poster said, I usually fire this up when on my way to bed.
> Even with respect to driver support for more recent desktop peripherals? My scanner didn't
> come with a SANE driver on its CD, and there exists no such driver in SANE CVS either.
Rather than just stating that it doesn't, think about why it doesn't. Is
it because of the technical superiority of Windows? Or the superior innovation
coming out of Microsoft? Do you think they wrote all those drivers themselves?
Or, is it because the Windows monopoly is, like most monopolies, self-perpetuating?
Since they have the monopoly, not only do the realities of the market make it
more likely that Scanners, Inc. will write a Windows driver before, or perhaps
to the exclusion of all others; it also means that Microsoft is in a position to
illegally abuse their monopoly by REQUIRING that Scanners, Inc. play by MS's
rules if they want their scanner to work on Windows at all.
The playing field is not level at all, as should be obvious. Vendors bend over
backwards to make their devices work within the bizarro world that is Windows.
Counterwise, most of them expend no effort whatsoever, often denying even
basic documentation that would cost them nothing to provide, to the development
of Linux drivers. The very existence of drivers for ANY sufficiently complex
devices is a small miracle, and should be taken as testament to the innate superiority
of Linux and her developers.
Once the Windows stranglehold is broken, just you sit back and watch what Linux
turns into when the playing field is leveled.
-nod- I always have similar musings about the upscale clothing store 'Cache' in our local mall. They have a small, very busy store on level 1 of the mall.
If you want to see what a blank stare looks like, ask them if they have a larger but less busy store on level 2.
> Developpers would slowly but surely stop developping new ideas for fear of
> being fined/sued/thrown in jail. OSS would trickle to almost a halt.
Just like all the car companies have closed down because of safety standards, right ? Bah...
The test for liability of a manufacturer is simply, were they negligent ? There's more than enough wiggle room there to allow manufacturers to safely innovate while clamping down on those that are grossly dismissive of safety concerns.
> a lot of people here sure are quick to whip out the MBA-as-puppy-kickers stereotypes.
That's because working in the computer industry, most of us get our puppies kicked on a thrice-daily basis, at least. If it isn't Microsoft or Adobe it's f'ing SCO.
Whoops, I just bought myself an audit by the BSA for that post...
> I'm working on getting my MBA and that doesn't mean that I'm going to try
> to walk all over the other businesses and perform illegal activities
Then you'll fail or, at best, be marginalized due to competition from those companies who are willing to lie, cheat, and steal, and so won't make much of an impact on public perceptions.
Haven't you ever heard that nice guys finish last?
> So, when are the consumers going to sue and and how do I convince the authorities
> to go after Corsair, as that's the only memory I purchased in that timeframe?
You must have to rent storage space for all your receipts.
>> And at least Bill never sent a troop into battle who didn't come home to his or her family.
> Is that true?
It is. There were a number of casualties in Somalia. But remember, Bush Sr. sent those troops in, not Bill Clinton.
> Ever seen the movie "Black Hawk Down"? Bill did that.
Bill produces movies ?
-nod- Clinton had a few misadventures in bombing to his name, this is true. I don't necessarily think any of his were on the same scale as Bush's Iraq adventure, though. And at least Bill never sent a troop into battle who didn't come home to his or her family.
> Coin becomes
> Self-aware 00.2%
Dammit, please don't make my next game of Galaga into a Prime Directive issue.
> Seeing as it's the way Bush determines his foreign policy choices,
> I think it's very important to study the coin toss.
Eek ! Somebody please hand him the coin with the "don't bomb" face showing next time !
> It prevents you including GPL-licensed code in an X server derived from
;)
> XFree86; that is enough reason for Debian to avoid the new release, it seems.
Debian just moved X 4.3.0 into the unstable tree about a week and a half ago; I don't think any of us Debianistas were really worried about seeing XFree 4.4 in any of the three main Debian trunks this year anyway.
> They're not actually trying to patent virtual desktops, they're
> trying to patent a pager with a preview of each desktop.
Both vtwm 5.4.5a and fvwm 1.24r have previews in their pagers. Granted, these are the latest versions straight out of apt, but I'll lay dollars to donuts that these major feature enhancements haven't been added in after October of 2003 when MS filed the patent in question.
> I'll take proprietary drivers if it means I can use
> the hardware I like with the OS I love to get work done.
Did you ever stop to consider that maybe the reasons that you want to use Linux in the first place (security, stability and flexibility) only came about as a result of it having been 100% open from the start ?
> If you do as most spammers do and connect directly to the receiving server, then you can feed it
> whatever you like in the envelope sender, and it has no way of checking whether it's genuine or not.
Isn't it typical for the receiver to reverse-lookup the sender's IP, or at least forward-lookup whatever you hand it in the HELO to make sure you're legit ? I could be mistaken here, but that's always been my perception.
There are two 'sender' fields that one is concerned with: The envelope-sender and the From: header. The latter can be spoofed as much as you like. The former cannot be spoofed in most cases, at least the host/domain part (the username can be spoofed if the server uses unauthenticated SMTP, which almost all do).
A typical message would look like this:
From spammer@baddomain.com
From: Your friend <yourfriend@gooddomain.org>
Subject: Re: your mail
Buy our crap ! Click below to be removed. Blah blah.
The first From field is the 'envelope sender' and comes entirely from the servers that have touched the mail. The rest of the fields are just a freeform part of the message, which by convention most (all?) MUA's treat in a special way to add convenient features like having the 'real name' next to your mail address in the visible From: field.
> Now that's what I call one law for the rich and one for the poor!
So you feel that the poor should be fined in such a way as to seriously impact their monthly food budget, while the rich should be fined in a way with no discernible impact on their lives whatsoever? Why should the poor be punished much, much more severely for the same crime?
If Amazon had any intention of keeping this information a secret, then why did their database even preserve information on who posted what? I would think if you post something anonymously, the posted_by attribute for that entry in the database would be set to anonymous, and that would be that. I hope that's how it works here at slashdot...
> Perhaps if the plaintiff had to pay ALL court costs if he/she
> lost there would be fewer nonsensical lawsuits.
There would also be a lot fewer "ordinary people" who would be willing to take the risk of standing up to giant corporations when said corporations were doing something wrong.
> And if you are using Windows, what other .doc?
> format fits that bill besides
I think you mean 'If you're using MS Office'. OO.o runs on Windows fine.
> 'never argue with an idiot, people might not know the difference'
I believe it's "Never argue with an idiot, because he'll drag the fight down to his level and then beat you with experience"
>> Is there any sort of OpenGL support
>> for PS2? Maybe PS3 will make the jump...
Console makers in general, and sony in particular, benefit hugely from exclusive titles. They have a lot to lose by making it trivial to port off of their console to other systems.
Would playstation be the success it is without Sony's relationship with Square ?