From this information, it seems they are regarding themselves as the rightful copyright owner. If this is the case, nothing can stop them from re-licensing it as they please. That said, code released as GPL should remain GPL, simple as that, but duel licensing is pretty common.
So the real issue is: who is the copyright owner. The outcome of that depends on the local laws and the contract you had. If you sincerely think you are the copyright owner, you could claim the profit they make from it. Proving you are the copyright owner might be harder, and most of all, costly.
If i were you. I'd just work on your own GPL'd code. Continue to distribute it. Maybe on your webpage dedicate a page to this very issue. And, apart from gathering as much proof as you can to protect yourself from a potentional lawsuit from their side, do exactly entirely nothing, except working on your project and make sure it's better than their product. Making your GPL code better than their commercial code seems to me the best way to get back on them.
Ping (roundtrip) is usually measured in milliseconds, on consumer lines varying from anything in between 25 and 200 ms as considered reasonable and acceptable. Rounding to seconds would make no sense, as 500 ms would be acceptable for an australian player on european servers, but nowhere near acceptable for a european citizen, let alone 700 ms or more. Using the 'millisecond' unit makes perfect sense here.
Apart that, i can confirm british players, typically on BT, are complaining about their ping on a regular base.
Relevant quote, translated: ``We regret having taken this action, and are open for future cooperation with members of Copiepresse. Would we keep the material in our index, we risk fines up to 25,000 euro per incident. We would be pleased to include Copiepresse in our index if they declare they want to be included on Google Search and refrain from potentional charges``, Google declares to Webwereld.
Original response in dutch: ``"Het spijt ons dat we dit moeten doen, en we staan open voor samenwerking met leden van Copiepresse in de toekomst. Zouden we het materiaal in de index houden, dan riskeren we boetes tot 25.000 euro per inbreuk. We nemen Copiepresse graag weer op in de index als ze aangeven op Google Search te willen verschijnen en afzien van potentiële boetes", verklaart Google tegenover Webwereld.``
I agree with any line you say, but like to comment on it please. Yes, i have considered asking meds for my addiction control. However, might (rightful?) fear is i'll just get addicted to the meds as well. Also, caffeine addiction is really in no comparison to other drugs. I quit caffeine without problems once. Heck, in the past i quit some of those other earth- and cloud colored drugs.
Yet, the situation may not be as simple as you suggest. 'Grab the problem by its root' sounds to me pretty much as 'never got born'. Yes, i also have borderline-issues, dont care how you classify them ppl use terms like 'adhd' and 'autism' so often these days it almost got meaningless, in my youth i -apparently- was considered 'a bit odd but still within normal deviation'.. Over-diagnosis and over-treatment might actually be the worse choice in lots of cases; especially if you consider the hard truth of liquor and tabacco (and to a lesser degree marihuana) being generally entirely socially accepted.
The line between 'social, responsable use' and 'abuse' is in fact a large grey zone, and all i could suggest is encourage yourself by some self discipline to try stay on the safer side of that zone. Drink less, smoke only little, internet with care. No psychoanalyst or (over)diagnoses needed here some common sense could help too... Cause in terms of 'adhd' 'bipolar','schizo','autist','asperger' about 80% of/. probably fits such indication yet i doubt they all are heavy smokers or drinkers.
It's quite obvious your addiction is the major problem. In your post you even already mention your escapes : 'can internet at work' (and on smartphone and at friends and offline at home). Others here tell you, and other others even also say internet can no longer be socially avoided. It's like telephone has been for 100 years, TV for 50 etc.
Now, my advise from here would be addiction control. Yes, the AA will tell alcoholics to entirely quit. Such hardly ever works. Any cigarette smoker will tell you the same. Smoke 1 cigarette after 5 years of quitting, and you'r hooked up again. Also, again, as others point out: internet is an essential part of modern society, and as such even its addiction needs special treatment.
My [patent pending] proposal for most addicts is: Addiction control. Quit the idea of quitting altogether, as a regular thc, ethanol and nicotine user i can guarantuee you such idea is prone to fail. It comes down to some self-discipline and yes, technology makes it easy. It can help you, morally.
Chances are you have a modern router. Find 'parental settings' or something, and set a time clock. Of course, you can overrule it (and from an addictive point of view i even say: feel free so, to do so, at any time you wish). But the netto effect is: If you do nothing (have this self discipline) your internet will be on between 19:00 and 20:00, enough to check your email after cooking, and shuts down after. In the morning dito, have a 30 minute timeframe to fetch that mail or facebook.
On older routers, just plug in such simple 24h wall-clock.
Also, leave pc on, purposely, to rediscover the stuff we could do with computers for 30+ years (about since home computer was invented, around 80's) without ever using internet. Yes, the good old cassette tapes etc, maybe you have nostalgia to that times? [personally, nostalgia, yes. longing back to it, no. how convenient 'just clicking download' is these days]. Going off-topic here, cause my key point was: it's about addiction control:
Make appointments with yourself. Try to keep to them. Do NOT feel guilty when you don't keep to them, just review the appointments you made with yourself.
Most likely, a system like this is so inefficient in terms of network usage vs potentional computational power plus added administrative overhead, that it would only be wasted bandwidth and electricity and netto only harmful on a macro scale.
Better have the wikipedia servers, and other datacenters, run some boinc when idling. But they won't do that cause it's directly translated to the electricity bill. Network and cpu power are cheap, but still not free, and cpu's make up a large part of that power bill especially when used.
I do however like the general idea though, of 'giving some useful cpu time back' as thanks for using a free service. For example, as alternative for the now-common advertise system. As long if it could be done efficient, i see no objection at all, but i'm afraid it can't, at least not on a 'per-web-request' microscale.
I totally agree with the fraction part. Concluding: metric units using base-8 numbers would make most sense. Whoever thought base-10 was convenient for anything but finger counting wasn't very prescient.
If the law survives a pending legal challenge by Google, Ebay and others, it may well keep some major services out of the country entirely.
Actually, that's probably exactly what the French are after; even if it's only a `side-effect` in this case. The French don't like foreign companies taking their market. France is like a mini-version of the world: they got to redo everything themselves, in french style.
Stating that this effect is 'on purpose' is hard to prove. After all, european legislation would come and demand open markets. So they found a sneaky way around it. Make up some privacy breaking law....? Profit!.
That's flawed. 'I', as white board criminal, would file insane amounts of patents just to get them rejected. My 1o1 with the patent officer to split the profit would make me rich. Less worse case scenario is that the officer 'only' is black mail-able.
As far as i'm concerned, it's not a technical issue or even a matter of security. It's a legal issue.
If someone uses my internet connection and uses it to [insert random illegal action here], i'l be the one that is responsible for that. At least, that's how the current situation here in holland looks like, and i bet it accounts for some other countries as well. Untill that legal issue is solved, by some trial court or whatever, it's seems highly unadvisable to share your internet connection with strangers, unless of course you want to keep your router's log files for years, in case you have to prove your innocence.
I'd love to share the connection for bypassers or neighbours, but i won't. Cause it's a stupid thing to do, right now, unless you dont mind all kind of charges against you. Has nothing to do with technical limitations, just a bunch of lawmakers who claim whatever public IP address transmits is tracked down to my personal address and my person...
'Lol' is a dutch word, meaning more or less 'fun' or 'funny'. You could say it instead of laughing, almost exactly like it is internationally used now in chat. Claiming it means 'laughing out loud' may explain the meaning, but is historic anything but correct.
Way before internet existed, we used the word 'lol' in the classroom like this: we would use a simple digital calculator, hold it upside down, and while mentioning 'what you get when you add lol to lol', typed in 707 + 707 and the answer (upside down) would read 'hihi' (='haha' or 'hehe',...also in dutch).
It's funny how people claim new meanings, or even 'inventing' an abbreviating. Whereas it's true roots are in dutch ppl saying 'lol' over some (international) chat, where it got picked up by you english speaking fellows.
As a result, many electronic devices made today are effectively disposable. The cost involved to fix them just isn't justified. As an EE, I do try to repair my own devices if they are out of warranty coverage, but sometimes the effort required is just not worth it. It's far easier and cheaper to replace in many cases.
This i where our current (capatalist) system failes. (Not blaming capitalism per sé btw, but it has influenced our pricing and thinking). The reason repairs are not worth the trouble are basically because manufacturing does not take in account _all_ costs, both money-wise and 'virtual' - like environmental cost.
Any idea how much CO2 was used producing a digital camera? You'd be surprised. Or how much toxic waste was produced manufacturing those electronics? How much people died in mines (or have their life shortened) mining the minerals? Repairing to expensive: It's because you compare US/European wages to Chinese or Taiwanese wages. ''Disassemble to 100 components''-> that's obviously a case of bad design where maintenance/repair was not being taken into consideration.
The situation not only holds for electronics. Take cars for example, cars that are 'total loss' here in the west, because repairs outcost the value of a 2nd hand car.. This same car, once driven to Afrika (Marocco for example) can live another 10-15 years with ease. Simply because of the difference in price of labour vs materials. (Not that that is always best for environment...)
Repairs not being economically feasable is much more of a choice, than a necessaty. Guess the situation only will be turned once we either run out of resources either have to pay for all real cost including environmental and eliminating differences in hourly labor costs worldwide.
It's pretty ironic that we call this 'Information Technology' if we aren't able to do perform a very basic task like storing information..
I don't share this pessimistic view though, i think spreading the material on several different media (cd/dvd/usb) would most likely solve it. If i look at the crap i collected last 10-15 year, i doubt i'l live without a CD-ROM player in 16 years. Actually, the one i once bought around 1995 is still just working fine and can connect with no problems to any IDE bus around on modern motherboards... Don't try hook up another modern device on same cable, that's all really.
I certainly agree with others here that legacy is too important to just drop support for old formats. I wouldnt care if my PC is a 100 or 1000 times faster in 15 years, but i do care if i can still watch my 20 year old digital holiday pictures. And most like millions of others think the same. If people only cared gigaherzes, they wouldnt use modern cellphones and netbooks, right? People care applications, not hardware. The market will follow without problem.
[Attractive]... [under 40]... [until they get fat, grow old, become unable to have sex for health reasons, etc.]
Where you got this nonsense from? Older woman can be perfectly attractive, it depends on the eyes that judge. Fat woman not necessarely inattractive too but that's another discussion..
I'm running towards 40, i find myself enjoying watching woman of all ages. If you are 20, of course you will not be interested in a 45-year old lady, just as i will not be interested in a 17-year old girl. Nature made this happen to us, not sure how nature did it before mirrors were invented, but it works.
I think you ment to say "You are not attracted to woman above your age". I can see that point of view, although chances you will get a more flexible view the next couple of years. Stating 40+ woman are not attractive, without a clear hint that you don't mean this as such, is very shortminded, if not even a troll (y,y, go ahead make the joke). Same goes to 40+ men by the way, depending on your preferences.
Love and hate are the same thing. You can't hate someone withing loving him, and you can't love someone without hating him now and then. Hate is not synonym for dislike, it's more synonym to 'care', although i agree the word is abused often, but that case you probably ment something else than hate.
If there were a good alternative, there probably wouldn't be traffic to begin with.
This alternative exists. Simply don't use a car, or if you can't, try not to use it daily. We all think we have the 'right' to drive car, our economy is based on it. I know how hard it is for an individual to make this choice between location of work and living and shopping and family visits, still, it's the only valid alternative. Anything else is deemed to fail sooner or later, or a theoretical solution, like perfect public transport.
We should focus more on a solution where job and house are located very closely, where you can transport yourself using a bike or your feet.
If you don't believe. Come to holland, you will see it is a problem that cannot be fixed by more roads and more technical solutions. Actually, we are even running out of space for more roads. Simply put: as soon as you fix it, it will attract even more traffic. Unfortunately no-one (or: no politican) wants to admit this.
So what happens next? A torrent containing the entire OLGA database, available for anyone, findable with google within few days, or some.
-flashback- hej this already happened in 1996 or so, same OLGA, same legal stuff and somewhere in my basement a dusty CD containing a dump of the olga archive - it came with a magazine.
Let me clearify my remark about this torrent thing. At the time of napster, i i wanted to hear a particular song of say, Madonna, i downloaded that song and listened it. Nowadays, as most mp3 p2p networks are polluted with crap, what do you do if you want to listen one Madonna song? The easiest way is to download the torrent containing Madonna's full discography. 18 Albums if i remember correctly. And priotize the song you were after in Azureus in listen 5 minutes later. It's not necessarely the torrent, it is just that you'll force distribution of data to the darkest underground suburbs of the internet.
Keep them poor. Keep them dumb. Take the money. Make home-written interpretations of music evil. I've get a much better idea, close all schools now! That will keep them dumb! They will never learn how to read, and never abuse services like Olga again! More opium for the people!
Who cares about this GUI? I am more interested in the CLI, heard it will be greatly improved, allowing to automize more tasks in a batch job.
And do they solve other issues, like the dvorak keyboard hell on XP which lacks international charater support, can not remap the ctrl-c/v/x keys, forces me to write down my password as a combination of unremindable charaters as with the logon it still thinks i have qwerty. And no, i do not want to spend 200 euro on a hard-wired keyboard.
I understand MS markets this new GUI. But here on/., it would be way more interesting to learn about the other improvements, like details on how security is improved etc. or if webdav gets better integrated with explorer or even better: with the filesystem. Or [fill in your major annoyance about XP shortcomings]...
How glassy a window looks doesn't care, i have real windows here with a nice view to the outside world, my PC is ment for other tasks.
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From this information, it seems they are regarding themselves as the rightful copyright owner. If this is the case, nothing can stop them from re-licensing it as they please. That said, code released as GPL should remain GPL, simple as that, but duel licensing is pretty common.
So the real issue is: who is the copyright owner. The outcome of that depends on the local laws and the contract you had. If you sincerely think you are the copyright owner, you could claim the profit they make from it. Proving you are the copyright owner might be harder, and most of all, costly.
If i were you. I'd just work on your own GPL'd code. Continue to distribute it. Maybe on your webpage dedicate a page to this very issue. And, apart from gathering as much proof as you can to protect yourself from a potentional lawsuit from their side, do exactly entirely nothing, except working on your project and make sure it's better than their product. Making your GPL code better than their commercial code seems to me the best way to get back on them.
Ping (roundtrip) is usually measured in milliseconds, on consumer lines varying from anything in between 25 and 200 ms as considered reasonable and acceptable. Rounding to seconds would make no sense, as 500 ms would be acceptable for an australian player on european servers, but nowhere near acceptable for a european citizen, let alone 700 ms or more. Using the 'millisecond' unit makes perfect sense here.
Apart that, i can confirm british players, typically on BT, are complaining about their ping on a regular base.
Google responded to a query from a dutch newsite regarding this issue.
Source: http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107318/google-verbant-belgische-kranten--uitgevers-woest.html
Relevant quote, translated:
``We regret having taken this action, and are open for future cooperation with members of Copiepresse. Would we keep the material in our index, we risk fines up to 25,000 euro per incident. We would be pleased to include Copiepresse in our index if they declare they want to be included on Google Search and refrain from potentional charges``, Google declares to Webwereld.
Original response in dutch:
``"Het spijt ons dat we dit moeten doen, en we staan open voor samenwerking met leden van Copiepresse in de toekomst. Zouden we het materiaal in de index houden, dan riskeren we boetes tot 25.000 euro per inbreuk. We nemen Copiepresse graag weer op in de index als ze aangeven op Google Search te willen verschijnen en afzien van potentiële boetes", verklaart Google tegenover Webwereld.``
I agree with any line you say, but like to comment on it please. Yes, i have considered asking meds for my addiction control. However, might (rightful?) fear is i'll just get addicted to the meds as well. Also, caffeine addiction is really in no comparison to other drugs. I quit caffeine without problems once. Heck, in the past i quit some of those other earth- and cloud colored drugs.
Yet, the situation may not be as simple as you suggest. 'Grab the problem by its root' sounds to me pretty much as 'never got born'. Yes, i also have borderline-issues, dont care how you classify them ppl use terms like 'adhd' and 'autism' so often these days it almost got meaningless, in my youth i -apparently- was considered 'a bit odd but still within normal deviation'.. Over-diagnosis and over-treatment might actually be the worse choice in lots of cases; especially if you consider the hard truth of liquor and tabacco (and to a lesser degree marihuana) being generally entirely socially accepted.
The line between 'social, responsable use' and 'abuse' is in fact a large grey zone, and all i could suggest is encourage yourself by some self discipline to try stay on the safer side of that zone. Drink less, smoke only little, internet with care. No psychoanalyst or (over)diagnoses needed here some common sense could help too... Cause in terms of 'adhd' 'bipolar','schizo','autist','asperger' about 80% of /. probably fits such indication yet i doubt they all are heavy smokers or drinkers.
It's quite obvious your addiction is the major problem. In your post you even already mention your escapes : 'can internet at work' (and on smartphone and at friends and offline at home). Others here tell you, and other others even also say internet can no longer be socially avoided. It's like telephone has been for 100 years, TV for 50 etc.
Now, my advise from here would be addiction control. Yes, the AA will tell alcoholics to entirely quit. Such hardly ever works. Any cigarette smoker will tell you the same. Smoke 1 cigarette after 5 years of quitting, and you'r hooked up again. Also, again, as others point out: internet is an essential part of modern society, and as such even its addiction needs special treatment.
My [patent pending] proposal for most addicts is: Addiction control. Quit the idea of quitting altogether, as a regular thc, ethanol and nicotine user i can guarantuee you such idea is prone to fail. It comes down to some self-discipline and yes, technology makes it easy. It can help you, morally.
Chances are you have a modern router. Find 'parental settings' or something, and set a time clock. Of course, you can overrule it (and from an addictive point of view i even say: feel free so, to do so, at any time you wish). But the netto effect is: If you do nothing (have this self discipline) your internet will be on between 19:00 and 20:00, enough to check your email after cooking, and shuts down after. In the morning dito, have a 30 minute timeframe to fetch that mail or facebook.
On older routers, just plug in such simple 24h wall-clock.
Also, leave pc on, purposely, to rediscover the stuff we could do with computers for 30+ years (about since home computer was invented, around 80's) without ever using internet. Yes, the good old cassette tapes etc, maybe you have nostalgia to that times? [personally, nostalgia, yes. longing back to it, no. how convenient 'just clicking download' is these days]. Going off-topic here, cause my key point was: it's about addiction control:
Make appointments with yourself. Try to keep to them. Do NOT feel guilty when you don't keep to them, just review the appointments you made with yourself.
gl from a junkie.
Most likely, a system like this is so inefficient in terms of network usage vs potentional computational power plus added administrative overhead, that it would only be wasted bandwidth and electricity and netto only harmful on a macro scale.
Better have the wikipedia servers, and other datacenters, run some boinc when idling. But they won't do that cause it's directly translated to the electricity bill. Network and cpu power are cheap, but still not free, and cpu's make up a large part of that power bill especially when used.
I do however like the general idea though, of 'giving some useful cpu time back' as thanks for using a free service. For example, as alternative for the now-common advertise system. As long if it could be done efficient, i see no objection at all, but i'm afraid it can't, at least not on a 'per-web-request' microscale.
I totally agree with the fraction part. Concluding: metric units using base-8 numbers would make most sense. Whoever thought base-10 was convenient for anything but finger counting wasn't very prescient.
If the law survives a pending legal challenge by Google, Ebay and others, it may well keep some major services out of the country entirely.
...? Profit!.
Actually, that's probably exactly what the French are after; even if it's only a `side-effect` in this case. The French don't like foreign companies taking their market. France is like a mini-version of the world: they got to redo everything themselves, in french style.
Stating that this effect is 'on purpose' is hard to prove. After all, european legislation would come and demand open markets. So they found a sneaky way around it. Make up some privacy breaking law.
That's flawed. 'I', as white board criminal, would file insane amounts of patents just to get them rejected. My 1o1 with the patent officer to split the profit would make me rich.
Less worse case scenario is that the officer 'only' is black mail-able.
As far as i'm concerned, it's not a technical issue or even a matter of security. It's a legal issue.
If someone uses my internet connection and uses it to [insert random illegal action here], i'l be the one that is responsible for that. At least, that's how the current situation here in holland looks like, and i bet it accounts for some other countries as well. Untill that legal issue is solved, by some trial court or whatever, it's seems highly unadvisable to share your internet connection with strangers, unless of course you want to keep your router's log files for years, in case you have to prove your innocence.
I'd love to share the connection for bypassers or neighbours, but i won't. Cause it's a stupid thing to do, right now, unless you dont mind all kind of charges against you. Has nothing to do with technical limitations, just a bunch of lawmakers who claim whatever public IP address transmits is tracked down to my personal address and my person...
'Lol' is a dutch word, meaning more or less 'fun' or 'funny'. You could say it instead of laughing, almost exactly like it is internationally used now in chat. Claiming it means 'laughing out loud' may explain the meaning, but is historic anything but correct.
Way before internet existed, we used the word 'lol' in the classroom like this: we would use a simple digital calculator, hold it upside down, and while mentioning 'what you get when you add lol to lol', typed in 707 + 707 and the answer (upside down) would read 'hihi' (='haha' or 'hehe',...also in dutch).
It's funny how people claim new meanings, or even 'inventing' an abbreviating. Whereas it's true roots are in dutch ppl saying 'lol' over some (international) chat, where it got picked up by you english speaking fellows.
just fyi...
Right now, searching for Michelle Obama results in google saying:
"Related searches: Michelle Obama Monkey"
Appears to me the cure was worse than the disease.
As a result, many electronic devices made today are effectively disposable. The cost involved to fix them just isn't justified. As an EE, I do try to repair my own devices if they are out of warranty coverage, but sometimes the effort required is just not worth it. It's far easier and cheaper to replace in many cases.
This i where our current (capatalist) system failes. (Not blaming capitalism per sé btw, but it has influenced our pricing and thinking). The reason repairs are not worth the trouble are basically because manufacturing does not take in account _all_ costs, both money-wise and 'virtual' - like environmental cost.
Any idea how much CO2 was used producing a digital camera? You'd be surprised. Or how much toxic waste was produced manufacturing those electronics? How much people died in mines (or have their life shortened) mining the minerals? Repairing to expensive: It's because you compare US/European wages to Chinese or Taiwanese wages. ''Disassemble to 100 components''-> that's obviously a case of bad design where maintenance/repair was not being taken into consideration.
The situation not only holds for electronics. Take cars for example, cars that are 'total loss' here in the west, because repairs outcost the value of a 2nd hand car.. This same car, once driven to Afrika (Marocco for example) can live another 10-15 years with ease. Simply because of the difference in price of labour vs materials. (Not that that is always best for environment...)
Repairs not being economically feasable is much more of a choice, than a necessaty. Guess the situation only will be turned once we either run out of resources either have to pay for all real cost including environmental and eliminating differences in hourly labor costs worldwide.
It's pretty ironic that we call this 'Information Technology' if we aren't able to do perform a very basic task like storing information..
I don't share this pessimistic view though, i think spreading the material on several different media (cd/dvd/usb) would most likely solve it. If i look at the crap i collected last 10-15 year, i doubt i'l live without a CD-ROM player in 16 years. Actually, the one i once bought around 1995 is still just working fine and can connect with no problems to any IDE bus around on modern motherboards... Don't try hook up another modern device on same cable, that's all really.
I certainly agree with others here that legacy is too important to just drop support for old formats. I wouldnt care if my PC is a 100 or 1000 times faster in 15 years, but i do care if i can still watch my 20 year old digital holiday pictures. And most like millions of others think the same. If people only cared gigaherzes, they wouldnt use modern cellphones and netbooks, right? People care applications, not hardware. The market will follow without problem.
Mod parent up pls, he's absolutely right.
"koeieuier"
According to new (1996) spelling this is supposed to be 'koeienuier'.
[Attractive]... [under 40] ... [until they get fat, grow old, become unable to have sex for health reasons, etc.]
Where you got this nonsense from? Older woman can be perfectly attractive, it depends on the eyes that judge. Fat woman not necessarely inattractive too but that's another discussion..
I'm running towards 40, i find myself enjoying watching woman of all ages. If you are 20, of course you will not be interested in a 45-year old lady, just as i will not be interested in a 17-year old girl. Nature made this happen to us, not sure how nature did it before mirrors were invented, but it works.
I think you ment to say "You are not attracted to woman above your age". I can see that point of view, although chances you will get a more flexible view the next couple of years. Stating 40+ woman are not attractive, without a clear hint that you don't mean this as such, is very shortminded, if not even a troll (y,y, go ahead make the joke).
Same goes to 40+ men by the way, depending on your preferences.
Love and hate are the same thing. You can't hate someone withing loving him, and you can't love someone without hating him now and then. Hate is not synonym for dislike, it's more synonym to 'care', although i agree the word is abused often, but that case you probably ment something else than hate.
From: http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/
How do I disable the Windows built-in defragger?
Windows 2000 & 2003:
The built-in defragger is not started automatically.
Windows XP:
1. Download the free * Tweak UI utility from Micorosft.
2. Click on 'General' and untick the 'Optimise hard disk when idle' box.
Windows Vista:
1. Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter
2. Untick the "Run on a schedule (recommended)" box.
Does this mean that CERN just spent 6 billion euro for building a useless device called LHC?
This stuff from M.C. Shampoo fails for the Turing test.
If there were a good alternative, there probably wouldn't be traffic to begin with.
This alternative exists. Simply don't use a car, or if you can't, try not to use it daily. We all think we have the 'right' to drive car, our economy is based on it. I know how hard it is for an individual to make this choice between location of work and living and shopping and family visits, still, it's the only valid alternative. Anything else is deemed to fail sooner or later, or a theoretical solution, like perfect public transport.
We should focus more on a solution where job and house are located very closely, where you can transport yourself using a bike or your feet.
If you don't believe. Come to holland, you will see it is a problem that cannot be fixed by more roads and more technical solutions. Actually, we are even running out of space for more roads. Simply put: as soon as you fix it, it will attract even more traffic. Unfortunately no-one (or: no politican) wants to admit this.
So what happens next? A torrent containing the entire OLGA database, available for anyone, findable with google within few days, or some.
-flashback- hej this already happened in 1996 or so, same OLGA, same legal stuff and somewhere in my basement a dusty CD containing a dump of the olga archive - it came with a magazine.
Let me clearify my remark about this torrent thing. At the time of napster, i i wanted to hear a particular song of say, Madonna, i downloaded that song and listened it. Nowadays, as most mp3 p2p networks are polluted with crap, what do you do if you want to listen one Madonna song? The easiest way is to download the torrent containing Madonna's full discography. 18 Albums if i remember correctly. And priotize the song you were after in Azureus in listen 5 minutes later. It's not necessarely the torrent, it is just that you'll force distribution of data to the darkest underground suburbs of the internet.
Keep them poor. Keep them dumb. Take the money. Make home-written interpretations of music evil. I've get a much better idea, close all schools now! That will keep them dumb! They will never learn how to read, and never abuse services like Olga again! More opium for the people!
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it sucks that windows doesn't use symlinks though
It comes with vista:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2006/04/15/
just another small tiny step towards compatability. or just another argument that unix is superior.
Who cares about this GUI? I am more interested in the CLI, heard it will be greatly improved, allowing to automize more tasks in a batch job.
/., it would be way more interesting to learn about the other improvements, like details on how security is improved etc. or if webdav gets better integrated with explorer or even better: with the filesystem. Or [fill in your major annoyance about XP shortcomings]...
And do they solve other issues, like the dvorak keyboard hell on XP which lacks international charater support, can not remap the ctrl-c/v/x keys, forces me to write down my password as a combination of unremindable charaters as with the logon it still thinks i have qwerty. And no, i do not want to spend 200 euro on a hard-wired keyboard.
I understand MS markets this new GUI. But here on
How glassy a window looks doesn't care, i have real windows here with a nice view to the outside world, my PC is ment for other tasks.