Even IF it could get in the hard-drive and ruin it, who says you are going to have the whole computer submersed in it?
For a desktop, you could just have half the motherboard submersed (half with the cpu, etc. keep slots for memory, IDE, AGP, etc. slots on the other side to allow easy access) and not have to worry about hard-drives. With mainframes couldn't you just submerse most of the electronics and leave the hard-drives in a seperate part of the case, not submersed?
I use a pentium II 200 for a firewall, router, web server (several sites), mail server, MUD server (2 muds), ssh server and a few other things. My connection runs through at about 500kb/s (can get about 510kb/s if not through it). I experience very little lag when accessing services, too. So ya, it handles everything I can dish at it.
Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, but can't one person just buy the file on a DRM computer, play it out and have a connection from the line out of computer A to the line in of computer B, so you could make a copy? The quality would drop even with the most expensive hardware but the point is we still have a fairly decent copy of the music un-drm'ed.
Even if Computer A had full DRM hardware, unless it was able to verify that it was playing out to speakers, not my non-drm Computer B, then the DRM is more or less useless, is it not?
I have to point out, though, that no matter how hard some people work, it's just not in the cards for them to get to go to school and get a great education and be able to buy that volvo. Does that mean that they should have a less safe car? (This is not saying that all people without an education worked hard, though)
I point out my mom as an example. Had to quit high school at 15 to get a job to help support her family. Obviously if they hardly had enough to live on, they didn't have enough for college or university. Is that her fault? No. She's worked incredibly hard since trying to earn a decent living, but is definitly not rich. Does this mean she doesn't deserve a safer car? Does this mean she doesn't deserve decent medical care? (We live in Canada, so it doesn't matter for us, but for similar people in the US, it will)
Ok, so I compile some totally diffirent code and run it, then what?
So I use this code: if (vote!=0) {
int i;
for (i=0;i100;i++)
{
db.CowboyNeal++;
} }
(CowboyNeal used because I'm not American and thus do not prefer any candidate.)
So I run that on the terminal, there goes the election.
So they check the MD5 of the executable, which means I cannot use other GCC versions, if I use the wrong compiler switch, or if they just plain don't want me running it (even if it is the correct executable) it wont run. So we are still back to trusting them with the source.
Sheesh, wimp. At the old building I was staying at (on the 23rd floor) I'd come home every day after school, run up the 46 (two flights per floor) flights of stairs, switch into my swimming trunks, run back down to the first floor (46 flights), swim between 25 and 200 laps (depending on how tired I was) then again, run back up the 46 flights of stairs.
So don't tell me you need an elevator for 5 fricking floors!
If they reported all messages with 'civil disobidience' in them, all we'd have to do is have a majority of slashdot sending messages containing the 'bad words' in them to each other on g-mail, and it would completely choke their system. How's a million or so messages being sent, then reported in a 10 minute timeframe sound:D
Damn it would be nice if my parents had that much money. As of right now it looks as if I'll have to pay for my own education, never mind my clothing and food.
-<ASP>-
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"So what do you think has happened here. Someone found a fault with Red hat or did someone find a fault with the Gnome setup of their Red Hat server?"
The part I was specifically referring to with that quote was: "with the Gnome setup of their Red Hat server." Why the hell would they be running gnome on a web server? Call me an idiot but I've always been told that for a critical system like that (dedicated web server) you run what you need to and NOTHING more, everyone non-essential service is just one more security hole...
I'll put it this way, if you can take the same crap from idiotic users day after day after day and only go mildy crazy, then you'd do well in an IT position. Otherwise stick to photography. (Leave my incorrect grammer alone grammer nazis!)
I'd also like to point out, that although money != happiness, happiness is usually inversely proportional to intelligence, and I'd guess 1 out of 7 people in IT jobs are ID10TS. That would explain why 1 out of 7 people in IT jobs are happy.
He has no debt. He has "free" memberships at hundreds of porn sites. He has a bunch of decks of cards with Iraqis on them. He has an "authentic 9/11 flag". He has a bunch of commemoritive coins.
"and would also impair the delivery of local, targeted ads.."
I get a laugh out of those ads with the singles ads with the customized state\province name.
It shows me a chick in a bikini on a nice sunny day and asks "Single in Saskatchewan?". I find this funny because not only does Saskatchewan not fit on the ad, no one in Saskatchewan would wear a bikini simply because it's too damn cold.
So I go out and buy game X which is built on Knoppix and sold as a bootable cd. So what happens when it doesn't support my video card? my sound card? Wouldn't that make it just like the "old" days when a DOS game programmer had to program for every possible sound and video card?
Also, where are you going to put saved games? Remember, we can't mess with Mommy's and Daddy's documents. There's no way I'm going to buy a game if I can't even save it. Ok, let's assume for a moment it simply mounts up a partition and saves it there.
That would bring us to another problem. Say I throw this game in my machine a few years from now and it's (my computer) running the ext5 file system (hypothetical situation), I won't be able to save my game, or worse, it tries to treat my ext5 partition as an ext3 partition, and trashes it. Oops. Actually, while I wrote that I thought up somewhat of a solution, use floppy disks like memory cards... but then most newer computers (that I've seen at least) don't come with floppy drives.
I could ramble on for another hour, but I think I'll stop now... before I make more of a fool of myself.
But, you'll still be stuck buying a new subscription once every year or two to allow yourself to continue to use the LiveUpdate feature.
Or, you can just get a err... 'cheap' copy of NAV corporate version, and install the NAV NT client, and set it up not to use a central server. It will allow you to continue updating for as long as you want... no subscription required, and it is more or less the same is the normal NAV.
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I say that has about as much change at becoming popular as a one legged guy at an ass-kicking contest, but that's just my opinion...
For a desktop, you could just have half the motherboard submersed (half with the cpu, etc. keep slots for memory, IDE, AGP, etc. slots on the other side to allow easy access) and not have to worry about hard-drives. With mainframes couldn't you just submerse most of the electronics and leave the hard-drives in a seperate part of the case, not submersed?
I use a pentium II 200 for a firewall, router, web server (several sites), mail server, MUD server (2 muds), ssh server and a few other things. My connection runs through at about 500kb/s (can get about 510kb/s if not through it). I experience very little lag when accessing services, too. So ya, it handles everything I can dish at it.
$10/month
Religious wars on which editor is better:
$20 in bandwidth
Not having either text editor on your host:
Priceless
There are somethings money can't buy. For everything else, there's CasterMard.
Even if Computer A had full DRM hardware, unless it was able to verify that it was playing out to speakers, not my non-drm Computer B, then the DRM is more or less useless, is it not?
I point out my mom as an example. Had to quit high school at 15 to get a job to help support her family. Obviously if they hardly had enough to live on, they didn't have enough for college or university. Is that her fault? No. She's worked incredibly hard since trying to earn a decent living, but is definitly not rich. Does this mean she doesn't deserve a safer car? Does this mean she doesn't deserve decent medical care? (We live in Canada, so it doesn't matter for us, but for similar people in the US, it will)
ASP
Sorry about that. Was reading that after a few days of no sleep. Reading it now I look like an ass.
ASP
Ok, so I compile some totally diffirent code and run it, then what?
So I use this code:
if (vote!=0)
{
int i;
for (i=0;i100;i++)
{
db.CowboyNeal++;
}
}
(CowboyNeal used because I'm not American and thus do not prefer any candidate.)
So I run that on the terminal, there goes the election.
So they check the MD5 of the executable, which means I cannot use other GCC versions, if I use the wrong compiler switch, or if they just plain don't want me running it (even if it is the correct executable) it wont run. So we are still back to trusting them with the source.
ASP
Makes me want to be an American so I could vote for CowboyNeal :)
ruby -e 'require "base64";puts decode64("S2V0aGlub3YgU3Vja3M=")'
How about living in Saskatchewan?
:D
It's so flat, empty and vast here you can watch your dog run away for three days.
ASP
Sheesh, wimp. At the old building I was staying at (on the 23rd floor) I'd come home every day after school, run up the 46 (two flights per floor) flights of stairs, switch into my swimming trunks, run back down to the first floor (46 flights), swim between 25 and 200 laps (depending on how tired I was) then again, run back up the 46 flights of stairs.
So don't tell me you need an elevator for 5 fricking floors!
-<ASP>-
You think yours are bad.
;)) pot hole.
I could probably ride that bike fairly smoothly down the roads around here, if I didn't fall into a 3m(6ft, using NASA conversion rates
If they reported all messages with 'civil disobidience' in them, all we'd have to do is have a majority of slashdot sending messages containing the 'bad words' in them to each other on g-mail, and it would completely choke their system. How's a million or so messages being sent, then reported in a 10 minute timeframe sound :D
They'd stop that REAL fast...
Any technically competent person I know knew that it wasn't going to be anything.
-<ASP>-
It's illegal to have a pirated DirectTV card, since it's 'stealing' (I could rant for quite a while on that...), did that stop anyone? Nope.
If DRM catches on, it will only be a hassle, it's not like there's going to be no way around it. That's my opinion, anyway.
-<ASP>-
I'm no open source zealot, but I think it's a bit rediculous that you even attributed part of this to open source.
-<ASP>-
The part I was specifically referring to with that quote was: "with the Gnome setup of their Red Hat server." Why the hell would they be running gnome on a web server? Call me an idiot but I've always been told that for a critical system like that (dedicated web server) you run what you need to and NOTHING more, everyone non-essential service is just one more security hole...
But then again, what do I know?
-<ASP>-
I'd also like to point out, that although money != happiness, happiness is usually inversely proportional to intelligence, and I'd guess 1 out of 7 people in IT jobs are ID10TS. That would explain why 1 out of 7 people in IT jobs are happy.
-<ASP>-
Sooo... I pull the hd out of the case, put it in another computer and format it with that one?
He has no debt.
He has "free" memberships at hundreds of porn sites.
He has a bunch of decks of cards with Iraqis on them.
He has an "authentic 9/11 flag".
He has a bunch of commemoritive coins.
Those are the first 5 e-mails in my inbox.
ASP
"and would also impair the delivery of local, targeted ads.."
I get a laugh out of those ads with the singles ads with the customized state\province name.
It shows me a chick in a bikini on a nice sunny day and asks "Single in Saskatchewan?". I find this funny because not only does Saskatchewan not fit on the ad, no one in Saskatchewan would wear a bikini simply because it's too damn cold.
I think I'm rambling again...
ASP
There's a few problems with your idea...
So I go out and buy game X which is built on Knoppix and sold as a bootable cd. So what happens when it doesn't support my video card? my sound card? Wouldn't that make it just like the "old" days when a DOS game programmer had to program for every possible sound and video card?
Also, where are you going to put saved games? Remember, we can't mess with Mommy's and Daddy's documents. There's no way I'm going to buy a game if I can't even save it. Ok, let's assume for a moment it simply mounts up a partition and saves it there.
That would bring us to another problem. Say I throw this game in my machine a few years from now and it's (my computer) running the ext5 file system (hypothetical situation), I won't be able to save my game, or worse, it tries to treat my ext5 partition as an ext3 partition, and trashes it. Oops. Actually, while I wrote that I thought up somewhat of a solution, use floppy disks like memory cards... but then most newer computers (that I've seen at least) don't come with floppy drives.
I could ramble on for another hour, but I think I'll stop now... before I make more of a fool of myself.
ASP
Or, you can just get a err... 'cheap' copy of NAV corporate version, and install the NAV NT client, and set it up not to use a central server. It will allow you to continue updating for as long as you want... no subscription required, and it is more or less the same is the normal NAV.