If you don't value your waranty (he he... what warenty?), there is a third-party commmand line tool to change this limit. You can't remove the limit, but you can make it something like 10,000. I've switched to Linux now and I can't remember what it's called, but you can Google for it like a good geek.
Google normally produces similar results but with better handling of strange characters.
from the Google Translation of TFA:
Munich sets on Debian
The companies Softcon and Gonicus received the addition from the Bavarian state capital Munich, the IT Migrationsprojekt LiMux with the production to support configuration and care of a basis Clients which is based on open SOURCE often commodity for the 14,000 jobs of the city administration. That means, which will be based future basis Client of the city administration on the Linux distribution Debian. The city Munich had European-wide written this order out.
LiMux project manager Peter Hofmann is pleased about a high participation in the advertisement and the quality of the offered achievements. That shows that a migration on Linux on the job is not "Exotenloesung at the market". The offerer with the best relationship received the addition from technical authority and price. Now a prototype is to be provided briskly, in order to be able to begin the actual migration at year end.
The town councillor Muenchens decided in May 2003 to begin on the personal computers of the city open SOURCE often commodity since the support for the operating system used at present was stopped by Microsoft. Up to the summer 2004 a fine concept was provided to the technical conversion and the organizational conditions, which the town councillor absegnete on 16 June 2004 . In September previous yearly confirmed a legal opinion Munich Linux course ( anw/c't)
Maybe they don't need to be all the same? A tarball to install a standard base system and then according to the needs of the user? There is still the issue of updates though. They'll probably have their own server.
OK, Windows as it is now should die. If MS decides today that Longhorn is going to be POSIX compliant and have a built-in X server and run "standard" (not as in defacto) apps, then it should continue to be used. My point is that as long as Windows holds most of the market, everything is incompatible. There are now only really two OSs (excepting handhelds and embedded): UNIX-like systems (OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris), which are mostly compatible with each other, and Windows, which isn't. Without Windows, almost all OSs would have very similar APIs, and it would be much easier to write code which would compile on any of them.
I for one don't want "Linux to kill Windows" any more than I want "Firefox to kill IE".
Ideally, Windows should die and everyone should be free to run the same programs on anything POSIXish they have around: Linux, BSD, OS X, Solaris, etc., just as IE should die and everyone should be able to use and W3C compliant browser.
When all the apps/web pages are compatible with all the OSs/browsers, people will use what is best because there will be nothing to make it hard to switch.
7th post 45 mins later. Not worth bragging about this time...
I tried Mandrake, nearly put me off Linux. It took longer to boot up than XP, was as slow once booted, and was harder to configure than Gentoo. And the nvidia drivers sucked at that point on Mandrake, making text mode unusable once X had been started, though I take it that's been fixed.
No, Firefox being marked as spyware was a hoax. VNC was real; I have seen it for myself. The reason is that it could be used by really stupid "hackers" fro remote access.
This lead to MS antispyware being uninstalled from my grandparents's machine, because I wasn't having stupid software scare them just because their computer needs fixing remotely.
No they don't. I've tried Mandrake, Gentoo and Debian, and MDK and Debian both prompt you to set up your account, while Gentoo (at least when I installed it) doesn't really have an installer but if you follow the instructions (and if you're not following the instructions you WILL already know...) it tells you to set one up, and how to set one up.
NTL (UK cable provider) does this. They once started redirecting all HTTP requests from our home network to a page saying "You have netsky. Download this." or something. I had to try this with the Linux box before I believed this wasn't an attempt to distribute malware. Thing is, I checked all the Windows machines with NTL's tool and with Sophos AV, and they were all clean.
Other people with this problem have speculated that Linux machines (which NTL allows but "doesn't support") are sometimes mis-detected as Netsky-infected Windows PCs.
The moral is, if this sort of thing is going to become widespread, they need good detection of many different types of network usage, and they need to tell them by phone instead of just giving them what looks like a default-homepage highjack.
In a similar vein, remember MS marking VNC as spyware? Imagine if an ISP starts taking down VNC servers for the users own security, etc, etc.
No offence meant. It's just quite funny. I know there are a lot of unix clones. I wonder what percentage of OSs are at least partly a unix clone (not counting NT's use of BSD network code).
I know we have a minimum wage here in the UK, but does the US have one? And is it a criminal or civil offence? Will there be legal action without a complaint?
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So in 2010 when an SCO-type firm claims they wrote it IBM will do the legal defence?
If you don't value your waranty (he he... what warenty?), there is a third-party commmand line tool to change this limit. You can't remove the limit, but you can make it something like 10,000. I've switched to Linux now and I can't remember what it's called, but you can Google for it like a good geek.
Nmap.
Google normally produces similar results but with better handling of strange characters.
/c't)
from the Google Translation of TFA:
Munich sets on Debian
The companies Softcon and Gonicus received the addition from the Bavarian state capital Munich, the IT Migrationsprojekt LiMux with the production to support configuration and care of a basis Clients which is based on open SOURCE often commodity for the 14,000 jobs of the city administration. That means, which will be based future basis Client of the city administration on the Linux distribution Debian. The city Munich had European-wide written this order out.
LiMux project manager Peter Hofmann is pleased about a high participation in the advertisement and the quality of the offered achievements. That shows that a migration on Linux on the job is not "Exotenloesung at the market". The offerer with the best relationship received the addition from technical authority and price. Now a prototype is to be provided briskly, in order to be able to begin the actual migration at year end.
The town councillor Muenchens decided in May 2003 to begin on the personal computers of the city open SOURCE often commodity since the support for the operating system used at present was stopped by Microsoft. Up to the summer 2004 a fine concept was provided to the technical conversion and the organizational conditions, which the town councillor absegnete on 16 June 2004 . In September previous yearly confirmed a legal opinion Munich Linux course ( anw
Maybe they don't need to be all the same? A tarball to install a standard base system and then according to the needs of the user? There is still the issue of updates though. They'll probably have their own server.
Very interesting site linked to in the 4th to last link of that article. I hadn't heard of this "/." before.
Oh, wait...
OK, Windows as it is now should die. If MS decides today that Longhorn is going to be POSIX compliant and have a built-in X server and run "standard" (not as in defacto) apps, then it should continue to be used.
My point is that as long as Windows holds most of the market, everything is incompatible. There are now only really two OSs (excepting handhelds and embedded): UNIX-like systems (OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris), which are mostly compatible with each other, and Windows, which isn't. Without Windows, almost all OSs would have very similar APIs, and it would be much easier to write code which would compile on any of them.
I for one don't want "Linux to kill Windows" any more than I want "Firefox to kill IE".
Ideally, Windows should die and everyone should be free to run the same programs on anything POSIXish they have around: Linux, BSD, OS X, Solaris, etc., just as IE should die and everyone should be able to use and W3C compliant browser.
When all the apps/web pages are compatible with all the OSs/browsers, people will use what is best because there will be nothing to make it hard to switch.
1/3 else?
BSD servers, yes, but on the desktop? WTF? Solaris maybe?
FP! Well done!
7th post 45 mins later. Not worth bragging about this time...
I tried Mandrake, nearly put me off Linux. It took longer to boot up than XP, was as slow once booted, and was harder to configure than Gentoo. And the nvidia drivers sucked at that point on Mandrake, making text mode unusable once X had been started, though I take it that's been fixed.
No, Firefox being marked as spyware was a hoax. VNC was real; I have seen it for myself. The reason is that it could be used by really stupid "hackers" fro remote access.
This lead to MS antispyware being uninstalled from my grandparents's machine, because I wasn't having stupid software scare them just because their computer needs fixing remotely.
Pretty static. They say they change very occasionally though.
No they don't. I've tried Mandrake, Gentoo and Debian, and MDK and Debian both prompt you to set up your account, while Gentoo (at least when I installed it) doesn't really have an installer but if you follow the instructions (and if you're not following the instructions you WILL already know...) it tells you to set one up, and how to set one up.
NTL (UK cable provider) does this. They once started redirecting all HTTP requests from our home network to a page saying "You have netsky. Download this." or something. I had to try this with the Linux box before I believed this wasn't an attempt to distribute malware. Thing is, I checked all the Windows machines with NTL's tool and with Sophos AV, and they were all clean.
Other people with this problem have speculated that Linux machines (which NTL allows but "doesn't support") are sometimes mis-detected as Netsky-infected Windows PCs.
The moral is, if this sort of thing is going to become widespread, they need good detection of many different types of network usage, and they need to tell them by phone instead of just giving them what looks like a default-homepage highjack.
In a similar vein, remember MS marking VNC as spyware? Imagine if an ISP starts taking down VNC servers for the users own security, etc, etc.
I agree with all of that, but Fedora?
(In the spirit of making fun of our own attitudes, not of your OS choice. It's probably got better since I tried it's beta anyway.)
Window manager, etc. etc.
Mandrake takes ages to boot. Gentoo is faster to Google than XP on my box. And that is with KDE. Maybe different for you.
And netris and robotfindskitten...
I am ashamed to have missed that reference, and more so to have corrected it.
You mean j, k, l, ;
Where are your home keys then?
No offence meant. It's just quite funny. I know there are a lot of unix clones. I wonder what percentage of OSs are at least partly a unix clone (not counting NT's use of BSD network code).
OT, but your sig is the funniest thing I've seen in a while...
Silly question, but are you allowed to open port 6881, TCP?
That would be enough for one torrent at a time.
Auto-reload on; over the peak of the bell curve; no mod points...
I know we have a minimum wage here in the UK, but does the US have one? And is it a criminal or civil offence? Will there be legal action without a complaint?
Does the US have a minumum wage?
Can you get done for underpaying yourself, or does the wronged party have to complain to start legal action?