I DID (not yelling at you, mind you, but I feel profound disappointment, enough to want to light a cig and down a few cups of sake and risk missing work tomorrow). And, with much heartbreak, it seems they (or the team back then) got territorial (remember the days of: This is OUR thing; we don't have to be embracing...?)
I know the **code** has improved, but every single time they released OO.o, I crossed my fingers and gave it a try. Every time, I found they made NO significant, meaningful improvement in the areas I recommended, begged, cried for changes. Every time, I want to pound my desk into splinter when I feel ignored as each release eviscerates me when the screen time after time shows they obviously never LOOKED at and USED Lotus Approach as a user. Maybe it's because Lotus has maybe under 5% of the market. Maybe they're afraid of IP lawsuits. Maybe they're afraid to just **ASK** IBM if a collaboration would be nice and sweet for a few years.
Every time, I wanted to take my laptop (which died months ago) into Sun's and Star Offices offices and show them the Lotus WordPro and Lotus Approach projects I do which can NEVER be done in SO/OO.o the way they are.
Every release, I download and try it, just to keep my Libra scales balanced on integrity. It TEARS ME TO PIECES that it seems to me they operate in a vacuum.
Base took too long to get out the barn, and it can't EVEN touch Lotus Approach-- at least in the past pre-releases. Lotus Approach is an award-winning database that exemplifies what END-USERS need and want, not what dorks and geeks and nerds THINK the end-user needs or wants. I don't know what focus group Sun and OO.o are using, but they need to FIRE them. Lotus SmartSuite would be the perfect focus group. Then, just offer IBM an offer IBM wouldn't refuse, all for the sake of propelling Linux forward to the END-USERS.
I guess, to be balanced, I'll grant Sun & OO.o THIS possibility: They're evolving sloooowwwly. Slowly enough to buy time that IBM might actually not give a shit what Sun and OO.o rip from SmartSuite. By then, -if they take 5 more years to mimic what I NEED that exists in SmartSuite, it won't matter because Win4Lin might be part of the Kernel, or Wine or Cedega or something else will render my tears dry and moot.
I bitch and moan, but not out of selfishness. SmartSuite is a very, very good product. By many accounts, it ought to be neck and neck with orifice, yet IBM and Lotus persist in limiting it to corporate sales, and I hardly EVER see it in Fry's anymore, much less MicroCenter. Worse, IBM and Lotus let the code slip into "maintenance mode", and even as it is with mostly pre-1999 code, it would have been great if IBM/Lotus delineated what was IBM/Lotus-owned and what wasn't, and then donated the code to FOSS teams to improve it and allow IBM to reap some of the code.
Instead, StarOffice took off, reinvented the wheel, cost us time, spawned into orifice-mimicking OO.o, and we still have half-baked features floating under a name or description that defy logic (my logic, I'll admit). I even showed some hackers/speakers at the Linux/Open Source convention in Portland in 2003 Lotus SmartSuite and a couple databases and forms I made. They were "wowed" a bit, yet nobody of rank and power seems to want to lend Lotus some cred. Probably there is fear that Linux-ized SmartSuite will gut OO.o.
Well, IBM/Lotus and Sun/OO.o ought to collaborate and spawn 2 or 3 products to various markets: Corporate, Small-Business, Non-Profit/Home and GeekLand, with necessary variations in the licensing and such.
All that good code (IBM/Lotus-owned as well as the private-party-owned code that is licensed to IBM/Lotus just languishing, going to waste...
How fitting and funny: word image is: "justness"... I want to cry...
I say bullshit. GOOGLE should buy Opera. Google at least is MUCH quicker at real-time updating of user interfacing with the world.
On top of that, if the web-based apps become the new OS environment, then Google and Opera would be a finer marriage than Opera being bought and destroyed by ms' hands.
C'mon. How is ms a good thing for us and for Opera users???!!!
And STOP spending so much effort lending credibility to ms orifice. Lotus SmartSuite and a user interface that is quite enjoyable to me.
For example, I'd a few years ago written to you and asked you to LOOK at and USE SmartSuite to enhance what you keep claiming as document insertion/linking.
In Lotus WordPro, when I create a master document that has material OWNED by others (or, by myself) and which should NOT be bastardized by a master file format/style, I simply go to the menu and select Create/Insert document. I can link it or merge it. BUT, most conveniently and extremely smartly done is there is a TAB atop the document. I can name that tab, irrespective of the file's real name. The insterted document that is linked (vice merged/inserted) is ALSO given a tab. Soon, my document has chapters that are nicely arranged and rearrangeable by TABs. EACH and every tabbed section KEEPS its own formatting and style and is not turned into a mess.
More important and the stuff above is this:
When I insert a LINKED document, each section does NOT **ram up** butt flush with the lines of the previous document. That is extremely important when creating documents, estimating pages, and looking at formatting, whether in print preview or in file layout.
Oh, and Lotus has had that feature for about 10 years now.
Is OO.o or is StarOffice going to take 10 YEARS from the date of this posting to effect the changes?
Please, in OO.o and SO, allow the user to MOVE the tabs to any side of a document. Yeh, it's cosmetic, but nice.
Please, stop curly underlining the mis-spelled words a-la ms. At the very least allow the user to choose word color hilight/hilite the selection or underlining it.
Please, allow the user to context edit text even when the properties palette/dialog box is present. This would save steps and make for much faster speed-typing and editing instead of constantly having a modal box obstruction speed typists such as myself.
Also, I'd LIKE to see WYSIWYG print previewing in OO.o/SO that is a live view of the fonts and formatting, not blurbs or tiny printing.
And, let us have some color touching to the borders. I HATE gray with a PASSION. It reminds me of ms orifice and blurb. I like Lotus WordPro's yellow and gray blend, tight, crisp icons, and snazzy/cool interface.
Until you remedy those niggles for me, or for users like me but who don't complain and just silently avoid OO.o/SO, then I'll keep using Lotus SmartSuite in Win98 in Win4Lin.
I applaud your code and successes, but there's GOT to be a way to get around visual patent issues. First, try by ASKING Lotus for some concesseions in the name of helping OO.o & SO & SmartSuite gain traction and help other FOSS projects in the same area.
The one that sucks the molecular substance out of these henchmen who bully or pay the police to seize equipment, documents, and cause upheaval in the lives of the occasionally innocent?
They NEED to get in the habit of being forensically competent enough to COPY what they are looking for and then get the hell out of the house or abode. If they "carry out the public duty" and hold people's STUFF for months, depriving the person of his or her work, homework, or hobby, they should expect the WORST possible nutcase response or the mildest (if lucky) response.
If they get in the habit of doing a thorough search and then COPYING instead of seizing, then the people who actually turn up innocent will be less pissed off. Those who ARE guilty of something will have to decide to be smart enough to 'booby trap' their servers. Even so, they'll have to use a load of attention-getting crypto, which will only implicate them more. So, when the police get a warrant to search and possibly seize, they should do some homework via the ISP and say, "If you can show us this guy is NOT really up to 'no good', then we can show up to you in the future with a better disposition (even if the RIAA is paying us or causing us to order you with this warrant...)..."
Seizing equipment is not just about "preserving evidence" and "looking for clues"; it's the punishment factor that serves as a deterrent. But when the deterrent hits the wrong, innocent person... (Think "RAGE", George C. Scott movie in the 70's, in which the US Army loses several soldiers to chemical weapons test poisoning and then lies to their parents... GCS' character finds out he'd been lied to; hence, the title... Not the best of movies, but it can serve even in THESE times... stopy spying on the populace, lying to the populace, subjecting the populace to the whims of lazy corporations...
I felt dismayed reading the article, but felt better that he's getting his stuff back. Was only a few months, but even if you have archives and try to get back to work with new equipment and your tapes or off-site disks, they'll find out from watching your traffic on the wire or signals leaking from your home, and they' be back with another warrant. You most likely will NEVER get anything done if they suspend their search for guilt in the name of suspending the search for innocence. Hence, a round-robbin of deterrence, delay, punishment and state-sponsored low-level terrorism in the name of corporates that over-price, get lazy about protection, over-protect, then whine about pirates.
I think my copyrighted materials will be designed and released in such a way that copying will be less enjoyable than the real thing. I'll try to derive money not so much from selling copies of ones and zeroes, but from (affordable, non-greed-based) licensing and support... but, the proof will be in the future...
Why, that's too costly, even for NASA. They'll contract their Marshi-pino counterparts to pack up the pieces and ship them back to Earth.
Or, worse, the US & UK will advocate ignoring the Earth-based policies toward abandoned vesses and craft. Then, they'll tell the Martians (a la Columbus), "WE discovered YOU!"... There'll be mumbo jumbo about minutae in contracts and then it'll end with the Earthers saying, "Look, a DEAYUL's A DEAYUL!"..
Then, the Martians will promptly (and, rightly) zap our asses back to kingdom come...
""There is a lot of disturbance in this crater, particularly a big patch on the north crater wall which we think is the primary impact site," Professor Pillinger explains.""
It must've been quite a windy day in Arizona...
But, like the other poster said: "Wow, we can't find Bin Laden on Earth, but we can find Beagle 2 on Mars."
Seems like we've got our priorities misplaced...
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chrisssmus juss ain' chrissmus, widhout sumhwun to hummmp...
WOW, the screen word image is CONDOM... holey moley...
I think ms is upset NOT solely over the licensing and piracy and malware issues surrounding the lack up uptake/upgrading.
What about TurboLinux? What about Mandriva, RH, Novell Suse? Hell, with all the rigmarole and trepidation around arduous upgrading or being caught wihth illegit copies, there must (I think) be some more silent uptake up Linux (GNU/Linux, if you prefer).
For ms, this can't be GOOD.
Consider that in China alone, some 176,000 computers (See Linux Format, current or one of the previous 3 issues...) in just ONE city are being deployed to schools, and Red Flag or SOME other distro of Linux will go on them. Moreover, since IBM AND Dell lost out in the bidding to supply (read: SELL) hardware, that's less hard-coding of authentic product IDs to track or claim for Wall Street/Nikkei/HangSeng (sp?).
Now, couple that with the Italian and French cities (and all the others... pick your nation--and SMILE), ms has got to be worried. LTSP, virtualization/Virtual Machine, VMWare, Win4Lin, WINE, CodeWeavers and others must be causing nightmares for ballmer and his chair-throwing supporters.
I wonder what would happen if you tell them that they can COPY the shit, but not take your originals.
Well, they'll say, "We're not the forensics guys; we're here to retrieve items in or allowed by the warrant...."
I think a weekly backup is not enough. You almost have to MIRROR your activities. But then they'll slap your ISP with a warrant to seize all of your mirrored stuff.
Making live copies and them "beaming" to an off-site backup facility and then "forgetting" to tell them that you have archives which are older than but not different than the stuff on the disk they're carting away will only piss them off and you'll be the ball bouncing off a hard wall, so to speak. The judge might slap you with a fine for obstructing justice/investigation...
It seems like we're getting to the point where all it takes is some vengeful/destructive asshole to purport (sane or deranged, but who is intent on falsifying information or setting you up) activities and then you get ensnared. Even WHEN the cops figure out they've been had, they'll likely take a WHILE getting your stuff back to you...
What the cops OUGHT to do is arrive forensically ready. They could run a dictionary scan against your machine for stuff the JUDGE said is OK to search for. If it fails, the cops should leave. If it's marginal, they should compromise with you to stay longer, provided you haven't booby-trapped the machine.
But, then if it is your SOP to "bobby-trap" your machine, then how will you win except to keep untouchable archives offsite. Even so, a judge could toss you in jail just because he/she will be expecting cops votes for promotion.
that typically, when the police seize anything--ESPECIALLY computers--- they tend to hold on to the items as evidence that they "did the public duty". Worse, than having your shit seized is having it in THEIR hands for MONTHS because of either their being backlogged (in which case the complainant should pay an expedite fee so that even IF their is their stolen material on it, it should be scraped, tagged, and your original stuff returned PRONTO so you can get back to work or homework), OR the cops LIKE what they see and decide to drag ass on returning it.
With digital content being wrung harder for profits and with the studios and others hell-bent to make examples of others, and with the police needing to show the public its money is being well spent, it's probably inevitable that more people will be pulled into the hollywood/content provider dragnet.
The best thing WE can do is to archive ALL our work and make SO many identical copies that it would be PROFOUNDLY egregious (in the eyes of a FAIR judge AND in the eyes of the public) for ANY police or complainant to say "give us ALLLLL of your archives, no matter how redundant they are".
What the law enforcement agencies need to do or be FORCED to do is this:
Perform NO search and NO seizure unless the party asking for the warrant provides forensic and archival equipment to protect the accused from suffering work stoppage, psychological damage (hey, I'd go goddam ballistic if my shit were seized, as I PAY for my DVDs and music, even if it costs $15-$30-- I don't even really lament not copying music from amaroK), and to keep unnecessary eyes from prying too deeply and too long at stuff on the seized machines that is NOT their business (business plans, school work, love letters, research...), not of danger value and probably would take them YEARS just to sort out before even reading the multiple versions and revisions of endless stuff.
Nice police will insist the accusers not run all over the accused. We're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. With abuse of unsecure (not INsecure) internet access, poorly protected windoze boxes, ignorant users, and a lot of greedy or lazy pirates and "fair-use" abusers, it's just a matter of time before almost ANYone with a computer connected to the Net is a recipient of a boilerplate letter.
Talk about a fraggin' "gang bang"... Gives new meaning to the song "I love a man in a yoo-nee-form"... Soldiers better dress up as nurses in white skirts and spray red crosses on their vehicles...
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boards, you money-grubbing engineers' board of directors...
Sounds to me like some kind of boondoggling, pork-barrel, bullshit project meant to jumpstart the economy with "new booming technology" that won't pan out as planned...
What the HELL happened to the idea of using small fly/mosquito-like surveillance drones. They are supposedly light, nearly undetectable, and can send back snapshots or low-bandwidth frames.
Hey, Diebold, mshaft may be providing the base windoze warez, but aren't YOU doing the add-ons and customizations? Stop trying to BULLSHIT the judge. Since WHEN was mshaft in the ATM and voting machines software development/customization business?
"AutoCAD as an open system
With the re-architecting of the internals of AutoCAD anticipated for Release 12 (the OOPS project), Autodesk will be in a position to take a bold step which, if successful, may ensure the preeminence of AutoCAD for the next quarter century, greatly accelerate the pace of AutoCAD development, and establish a new paradigm for the relationship between a PC software vendor and its customers which our competitors will find difficult to emulate.
I'm talking about making the source code for AutoCAD available, and before you stop reading, let me explain the reasons for such a move as well as the means I've come up with for testing the concept without incurring any substantial risk."
As for shipbuilding, check out Defcar. Some of their software still runs on Win95. If that is so, then how hard can it be to just run the stuff in WINE, CrossOver, or something else?
For those using SolidWorks, and are worried about staying within license counts, see:
But, if major corporations (and, in their free time, aspiring Linux sysadmins) actually take VariCAD for a spin and add it to their portfolios or resumes, then maybe hiring managers will be keen to hire people who actually have user experience with VariCAD. Hopefully VariCAD gets enough activity and paying customers to enable them to add those few extra enticing pieces people don't see in VariCAD.
I am sure VariCAD can integrate with Star Office and OpenOffice.org, and maybe even other word processing suites/apps.
But, to expect AutoCAD to weaken ms' posterior probiscus is probably folly. Maybe AutoCAD LIKES the pelvic torsion and gyration?
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I DID (not yelling at you, mind you, but I feel profound disappointment, enough to want to light a cig and down a few cups of sake and risk missing work tomorrow). And, with much heartbreak, it seems they (or the team back then) got territorial (remember the days of: This is OUR thing; we don't have to be embracing...?)
I know the **code** has improved, but every single time they released OO.o, I crossed my fingers and gave it a try. Every time, I found they made NO significant, meaningful improvement in the areas I recommended, begged, cried for changes. Every time, I want to pound my desk into splinter when I feel ignored as each release eviscerates me when the screen time after time shows they obviously never LOOKED at and USED Lotus Approach as a user. Maybe it's because Lotus has maybe under 5% of the market. Maybe they're afraid of IP lawsuits. Maybe they're afraid to just **ASK** IBM if a collaboration would be nice and sweet for a few years.
Every time, I wanted to take my laptop (which died months ago) into Sun's and Star Offices offices and show them the Lotus WordPro and Lotus Approach projects I do which can NEVER be done in SO/OO.o the way they are.
Every release, I download and try it, just to keep my Libra scales balanced on integrity. It TEARS ME TO PIECES that it seems to me they operate in a vacuum.
Base took too long to get out the barn, and it can't EVEN touch Lotus Approach-- at least in the past pre-releases. Lotus Approach is an award-winning database that exemplifies what END-USERS need and want, not what dorks and geeks and nerds THINK the end-user needs or wants. I don't know what focus group Sun and OO.o are using, but they need to FIRE them. Lotus SmartSuite would be the perfect focus group. Then, just offer IBM an offer IBM wouldn't refuse, all for the sake of propelling Linux forward to the END-USERS.
I guess, to be balanced, I'll grant Sun & OO.o THIS possibility: They're evolving sloooowwwly. Slowly enough to buy time that IBM might actually not give a shit what Sun and OO.o rip from SmartSuite. By then, -if they take 5 more years to mimic what I NEED that exists in SmartSuite, it won't matter because Win4Lin might be part of the Kernel, or Wine or Cedega or something else will render my tears dry and moot.
I bitch and moan, but not out of selfishness. SmartSuite is a very, very good product. By many accounts, it ought to be neck and neck with orifice, yet IBM and Lotus persist in limiting it to corporate sales, and I hardly EVER see it in Fry's anymore, much less MicroCenter. Worse, IBM and Lotus let the code slip into "maintenance mode", and even as it is with mostly pre-1999 code, it would have been great if IBM/Lotus delineated what was IBM/Lotus-owned and what wasn't, and then donated the code to FOSS teams to improve it and allow IBM to reap some of the code.
Instead, StarOffice took off, reinvented the wheel, cost us time, spawned into orifice-mimicking OO.o, and we still have half-baked features floating under a name or description that defy logic (my logic, I'll admit). I even showed some hackers/speakers at the Linux/Open Source convention in Portland in 2003 Lotus SmartSuite and a couple databases and forms I made. They were "wowed" a bit, yet nobody of rank and power seems to want to lend Lotus some cred. Probably there is fear that Linux-ized SmartSuite will gut OO.o.
Well, IBM/Lotus and Sun/OO.o ought to collaborate and spawn 2 or 3 products to various markets: Corporate, Small-Business, Non-Profit/Home and GeekLand, with necessary variations in the licensing and such.
All that good code (IBM/Lotus-owned as well as the private-party-owned code that is licensed to IBM/Lotus just languishing, going to waste...
How fitting and funny: word image is: "justness"...
I want to cry...
I say bullshit. GOOGLE should buy Opera. Google at least is MUCH quicker at real-time updating of user interfacing with the world.
On top of that, if the web-based apps become the new OS environment, then Google and Opera would be a finer marriage than Opera being bought and destroyed by ms' hands.
C'mon. How is ms a good thing for us and for Opera users???!!!
And STOP spending so much effort lending credibility to ms orifice. Lotus SmartSuite and a user interface that is quite enjoyable to me.
For example, I'd a few years ago written to you and asked you to LOOK at and USE SmartSuite to enhance what you keep claiming as document insertion/linking.
In Lotus WordPro, when I create a master document that has material OWNED by others (or, by myself) and which should NOT be bastardized by a master file format/style, I simply go to the menu and select Create/Insert document. I can link it or merge it. BUT, most conveniently and extremely smartly done is there is a TAB atop the document. I can name that tab, irrespective of the file's real name. The insterted document that is linked (vice merged/inserted) is ALSO given a tab. Soon, my document has chapters that are nicely arranged and rearrangeable by TABs. EACH and every tabbed section KEEPS its own formatting and style and is not turned into a mess.
More important and the stuff above is this:
When I insert a LINKED document, each section does NOT **ram up** butt flush with the lines of the previous document. That is extremely important when creating documents, estimating pages, and looking at formatting, whether in print preview or in file layout.
Oh, and Lotus has had that feature for about 10 years now.
Is OO.o or is StarOffice going to take 10 YEARS from the date of this posting to effect the changes?
Please, in OO.o and SO, allow the user to MOVE the tabs to any side of a document. Yeh, it's cosmetic, but nice.
Please, stop curly underlining the mis-spelled words a-la ms. At the very least allow the user to choose word color hilight/hilite the selection or underlining it.
Please, allow the user to context edit text even when the properties palette/dialog box is present. This would save steps and make for much faster speed-typing and editing instead of constantly having a modal box obstruction speed typists such as myself.
Also, I'd LIKE to see WYSIWYG print previewing in OO.o/SO that is a live view of the fonts and formatting, not blurbs or tiny printing.
And, let us have some color touching to the borders. I HATE gray with a PASSION. It reminds me of ms orifice and blurb. I like Lotus WordPro's yellow and gray blend, tight, crisp icons, and snazzy/cool interface.
Until you remedy those niggles for me, or for users like me but who don't complain and just silently avoid OO.o/SO, then I'll keep using Lotus SmartSuite in Win98 in Win4Lin.
I applaud your code and successes, but there's GOT to be a way to get around visual patent issues. First, try by ASKING Lotus for some concesseions in the name of helping OO.o & SO & SmartSuite gain traction and help other FOSS projects in the same area.
Please?
The one that sucks the molecular substance out of these henchmen who bully or pay the police to seize equipment, documents, and cause upheaval in the lives of the occasionally innocent?
They NEED to get in the habit of being forensically competent enough to COPY what they are looking for and then get the hell out of the house or abode. If they "carry out the public duty" and hold people's STUFF for months, depriving the person of his or her work, homework, or hobby, they should expect the WORST possible nutcase response or the mildest (if lucky) response.
If they get in the habit of doing a thorough search and then COPYING instead of seizing, then the people who actually turn up innocent will be less pissed off. Those who ARE guilty of something will have to decide to be smart enough to 'booby trap' their servers. Even so, they'll have to use a load of attention-getting crypto, which will only implicate them more. So, when the police get a warrant to search and possibly seize, they should do some homework via the ISP and say, "If you can show us this guy is NOT really up to 'no good', then we can show up to you in the future with a better disposition (even if the RIAA is paying us or causing us to order you with this warrant...)..."
Seizing equipment is not just about "preserving evidence" and "looking for clues"; it's the punishment factor that serves as a deterrent. But when the deterrent hits the wrong, innocent person... (Think "RAGE", George C. Scott movie in the 70's, in which the US Army loses several soldiers to chemical weapons test poisoning and then lies to their parents... GCS' character finds out he'd been lied to; hence, the title... Not the best of movies, but it can serve even in THESE times... stopy spying on the populace, lying to the populace, subjecting the populace to the whims of lazy corporations...
I felt dismayed reading the article, but felt better that he's getting his stuff back. Was only a few months, but even if you have archives and try to get back to work with new equipment and your tapes or off-site disks, they'll find out from watching your traffic on the wire or signals leaking from your home, and they' be back with another warrant. You most likely will NEVER get anything done if they suspend their search for guilt in the name of suspending the search for innocence. Hence, a round-robbin of deterrence, delay, punishment and state-sponsored low-level terrorism in the name of corporates that over-price, get lazy about protection, over-protect, then whine about pirates.
I think my copyrighted materials will be designed and released in such a way that copying will be less enjoyable than the real thing. I'll try to derive money not so much from selling copies of ones and zeroes, but from (affordable, non-greed-based) licensing and support... but, the proof will be in the future...
EFF'ed? That's going to be quite some long digita...
Sorry, i just had to...
Why, that's too costly, even for NASA. They'll contract their Marshi-pino counterparts to pack up the pieces and ship them back to Earth.
Or, worse, the US & UK will advocate ignoring the Earth-based policies toward abandoned vesses and craft. Then, they'll tell the Martians (a la Columbus), "WE discovered YOU!"... There'll be mumbo jumbo about minutae in contracts and then it'll end with the Earthers saying, "Look, a DEAYUL's A DEAYUL!"..
Then, the Martians will promptly (and, rightly) zap our asses back to kingdom come...
""There is a lot of disturbance in this crater, particularly a big patch on the north crater wall which we think is the primary impact site," Professor Pillinger explains.""
It must've been quite a windy day in Arizona...
But, like the other poster said: "Wow, we can't find Bin Laden on Earth, but we can find Beagle 2 on Mars."
Seems like we've got our priorities misplaced...
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WOW, the screen word image is CONDOM... holey moley...
You could be safe from keystrokin', too, I suppose, but...
worms with bugs:
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http://www.google.com/search?q=worms+with+bugs&ie
parasites on insects:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&o
Brood Insects:
(pick your favorite hated OS maker...)
www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/tutorial/carnivor
Now, what happened to Slapper? Is slapper "slappin' ass" somewhere?
We're really in trouble if "Gasher" arrives and actually gouges random chunks of memory or disks.
Funny tho that Dasher was not named "Stroker": It keySTROKES ya; it gives you a STROKin' (where you least hope); and it gives you a STROKE...
Now, if Stroker starts strokin' Dasher, Dasher will be a CRASHER and HEAD straight for the ground like a real ground-pounder... Ground deer, anyone?
(How funny: word image is: "crawler"... how "creepy"...)
I think ms is upset NOT solely over the licensing and piracy and malware issues surrounding the lack up uptake/upgrading.
What about TurboLinux? What about Mandriva, RH, Novell Suse? Hell, with all the rigmarole and trepidation around arduous upgrading or being caught wihth illegit copies, there must (I think) be some more silent uptake up Linux (GNU/Linux, if you prefer).
For ms, this can't be GOOD.
Consider that in China alone, some 176,000 computers (See Linux Format, current or one of the previous 3 issues...) in just ONE city are being deployed to schools, and Red Flag or SOME other distro of Linux will go on them. Moreover, since IBM AND Dell lost out in the bidding to supply (read: SELL) hardware, that's less hard-coding of authentic product IDs to track or claim for Wall Street/Nikkei/HangSeng (sp?).
Now, couple that with the Italian and French cities (and all the others... pick your nation--and SMILE), ms has got to be worried. LTSP, virtualization/Virtual Machine, VMWare, Win4Lin, WINE, CodeWeavers and others must be causing nightmares for ballmer and his chair-throwing supporters.
I wonder what would happen if you tell them that they can COPY the shit, but not take your originals.
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Well, they'll say, "We're not the forensics guys; we're here to retrieve items in or allowed by the warrant...."
I think a weekly backup is not enough. You almost have to MIRROR your activities. But then they'll slap your ISP with a warrant to seize all of your mirrored stuff.
Making live copies and them "beaming" to an off-site backup facility and then "forgetting" to tell them that you have archives which are older than but not different than the stuff on the disk they're carting away will only piss them off and you'll be the ball bouncing off a hard wall, so to speak. The judge might slap you with a fine for obstructing justice/investigation...
It seems like we're getting to the point where all it takes is some vengeful/destructive asshole to purport (sane or deranged, but who is intent on falsifying information or setting you up) activities and then you get ensnared. Even WHEN the cops figure out they've been had, they'll likely take a WHILE getting your stuff back to you
What the cops OUGHT to do is arrive forensically ready. They could run a dictionary scan against your machine for stuff the JUDGE said is OK to search for. If it fails, the cops should leave. If it's marginal, they should compromise with you to stay longer, provided you haven't booby-trapped the machine.
But, then if it is your SOP to "bobby-trap" your machine, then how will you win except to keep untouchable archives offsite. Even so, a judge could toss you in jail just because he/she will be expecting cops votes for promotion.
Ugggghhhh....
This is soooo sickening a feeling.
that typically, when the police seize anything--ESPECIALLY computers--- they tend to hold on to the items as evidence that they "did the public duty". Worse, than having your shit seized is having it in THEIR hands for MONTHS because of either their being backlogged (in which case the complainant should pay an expedite fee so that even IF their is their stolen material on it, it should be scraped, tagged, and your original stuff returned PRONTO so you can get back to work or homework), OR the cops LIKE what they see and decide to drag ass on returning it.
With digital content being wrung harder for profits and with the studios and others hell-bent to make examples of others, and with the police needing to show the public its money is being well spent, it's probably inevitable that more people will be pulled into the hollywood/content provider dragnet.
The best thing WE can do is to archive ALL our work and make SO many identical copies that it would be PROFOUNDLY egregious (in the eyes of a FAIR judge AND in the eyes of the public) for ANY police or complainant to say "give us ALLLLL of your archives, no matter how redundant they are".
What the law enforcement agencies need to do or be FORCED to do is this:
Perform NO search and NO seizure unless the party asking for the warrant provides forensic and archival equipment to protect the accused from suffering work stoppage, psychological damage (hey, I'd go goddam ballistic if my shit were seized, as I PAY for my DVDs and music, even if it costs $15-$30-- I don't even really lament not copying music from amaroK), and to keep unnecessary eyes from prying too deeply and too long at stuff on the seized machines that is NOT their business (business plans, school work, love letters, research...), not of danger value and probably would take them YEARS just to sort out before even reading the multiple versions and revisions of endless stuff.
Nice police will insist the accusers not run all over the accused. We're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. With abuse of unsecure (not INsecure) internet access, poorly protected windoze boxes, ignorant users, and a lot of greedy or lazy pirates and "fair-use" abusers, it's just a matter of time before almost ANYone with a computer connected to the Net is a recipient of a boilerplate letter.
SCARY.
a RAT RACE.
Maybe So, where there's a WILL there's a WILLARD...
Will the real Ben be a HASBEEN?
Maybe Hollywierd will come up with Ben-2: The RAT IN YOU
and
Willard 2...
They're "terrists" also known as "tear-wrists. Stop misunderestimating me....
e...?
Maybe somebody at Sandia was hopping, ummm, hoping to generate an offical press release:
"Sandia to SandBlast Your Ass in Our New Minefield"...
It would be "A bridge gone to-afar"...
Talk about a fraggin' "gang bang"... Gives new meaning to the song "I love a man in a yoo-nee-form"... Soldiers better dress up as nurses in white skirts and spray red crosses on their vehicles...
boards, you money-grubbing engineers' board of directors...
Sounds to me like some kind of boondoggling, pork-barrel, bullshit project meant to jumpstart the economy with "new booming technology" that won't pan out as planned...
What the HELL happened to the idea of using small fly/mosquito-like surveillance drones. They are supposedly light, nearly undetectable, and can send back snapshots or low-bandwidth frames.
article:n b20051209a2.htm
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?
Yomimasu kudasai...
Please read the URL above...
Standing up FOR the broken system means defending it in some way.
Standing up TO the broken system means challenging or defying it in some way.
(drops one tablet).. **TEN** Commandments...
Oh, and, I suppose if Diebold pulls out of the state (and, presumably, the voting AND ATM software business, Diebold can "die boldly"....
Hey, Diebold, mshaft may be providing the base windoze warez, but aren't YOU doing the add-ons and customizations? Stop trying to BULLSHIT the judge. Since WHEN was mshaft in the ATM and voting machines software development/customization business?
Sheesh...
word image: shames
(and, how appropriate...)
For those of you asking about Open Source-friendly CAD software, check out:
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www.varicad.de
Also, check out:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/subsubsectio
where they state on their page:
"AutoCAD as an open system
With the re-architecting of the internals of AutoCAD anticipated for Release 12 (the OOPS project), Autodesk will be in a position to take a bold step which, if successful, may ensure the preeminence of AutoCAD for the next quarter century, greatly accelerate the pace of AutoCAD development, and establish a new paradigm for the relationship between a PC software vendor and its customers which our competitors will find difficult to emulate.
I'm talking about making the source code for AutoCAD available, and before you stop reading, let me explain the reasons for such a move as well as the means I've come up with for testing the concept without incurring any substantial risk."
See:
http://www.defcar.es/
(Click on English, if you can't read Espan~ol)
As for shipbuilding, check out Defcar. Some of their software still runs on Win95. If that is so, then how hard can it be to just run the stuff in WINE, CrossOver, or something else?
For those using SolidWorks, and are worried about staying within license counts, see:
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/partners/PartnerD
But, if major corporations (and, in their free time, aspiring Linux sysadmins) actually take VariCAD for a spin and add it to their portfolios or resumes, then maybe hiring managers will be keen to hire people who actually have user experience with VariCAD. Hopefully VariCAD gets enough activity and paying customers to enable them to add those few extra enticing pieces people don't see in VariCAD.
I am sure VariCAD can integrate with Star Office and OpenOffice.org, and maybe even other word processing suites/apps.
But, to expect AutoCAD to weaken ms' posterior probiscus is probably folly. Maybe AutoCAD LIKES the pelvic torsion and gyration?
DS