That was actually designed for a public library system...I remember reading an article about it somewhere (/. or other), but it contained almost everything needed (network tools, OO, browser, etc)...
Anyone know what I'm talkin about? I've googled to no avail........
If anyone RTFA (I know it's early in the discussion), the man is insane! He wants both companies to pretty much allow copying and sharing of files....I bet Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen both shit a brick after hearing this guy. Examples -
"Create a "My Radio" option and a "My Radio" guide....These files should be saved to MP3 and be portable. "
Heh..."should be saved to mp3 and portable"...Might as well give a big middle finger to the RIAA.
"Provide Ethernet connectivity to their HDTV unit and include the ability to share recorded files with a Windows-based PC. "
While this doesn't run entirely afoul (see previous TiVo sharing articles of yore on/.) of DRM, he doesn't mention it anywhere in TFA. Sharing/fair use seems to be encouraged...
Two more -
"Provide a DVD burner with all units. Copying should be as simple as selecting a program and pressing "Burn to disc" on a menu."
and
"Provide the ability to connect external hard drives."
The RIAA/MPAA/AAA would be up in arms over this....It will never happen - They'd rather eat their own sh!t than allow for fair use and sharing to actually occur...The man has valid (and good) points, but none of them will ever happen in corporate-controlled America.......
Unsolicited messages in pop-up dialogs from Messenger Service
Microsoft has investigated reports that individuals are using the Messenger Service in Windows to send unsolicited messages in pop-up dialog boxes to customers. While the messages can be annoying, they do not pose a security risk. The Messenger service that is being used to send these messages is a simple text-only broadcast service that is typically used by network administrators to send alerts to users notifying them of pending service outages, server maintenance, etc. The Messenger Service is not an instant message service like MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger.
* You can close the dialog box by clicking OK or the Close button in upper-right corner of the dialog box. Virtually any home internet firewall product will block the messages. Windows XP customers can enable Internet Connection Firewall to block them.
I didn't quite mean to say that Orkut was the only blogging site around....I should have added an "etc" to the end of that....I'm just referring to the fact that blogging is not as popular as it might have been before
I thought blogging was on the downhill slope anyway, with the problems at Orkut (the Brazlian issues, the invite style of membership).....
TFA also talks about MS thinking that their blog should become some form of "business communication"....Bah! I'd take a press release and a PR firm over a nerd with a blog anyday;)
I used to work at a grocery store (I believe the title was "courtesy clerk", but I likened it to being the "head b!tch....:) ), and I asked my boss one day about the music that was pumped into the store. He replied that they subscribed to a certain radio feed and that was paid through the grocery company I worked for. It was a special feed, and the store had a tuner for the specific frequency or other.....
I would assume that most of these locations (stores, lounges, etc) follow the same sort of setup. My dentist played his own music, but I figure that would fall under fair-use, right? I mean, he's listening to it while he's working -
Did you RTFA at all? (Of course not, this is/.;) )
Hell yes it was the service pack! Three friggin bluescreens that cause more havoc than Joe Sixpack would know how to remedy. While MS help was able to help them fix their problems, how many of your most average users can run a DOS command line and then fix the registry?
One would think MS would make this rollover as simple as possible, but with this, and the fact that SP1 must be reinstalled, along with various hardware devices, they may as well call in the tech support cavalry on this one....
"Microsoft's objective with Windows XP SP2 is to make it easier for end users to configure and manage security resources via new functionality and stronger security settings. "
Heh...easier my ass...Make good backups and/or switch to Linux, and godspeed WinXP users who plan to update
As for your systems, call for help if three out of five don't come back....Service pack or no service pack-something is very very screwy there....
At my school (Univ. of Arizona), there are definitely more MS-PCs more than Macs. I would assume this isn't some sort of takeover, but rather, simply because most people use Windows-running PCs. I wouldn't call this some sort of anti=(insert OS of your choice here) plan,but it just makes more sense. Simple economics also apply in this case. Most manufacturers do offer educational discounts, but I would assume under most circumstances, the PC is cheaper than the Mac....Consider
PC - $999 vs Mac - $1399
Now, don't mod me down or call my prices stupid/inaccurate/flamebaity, but just use those numbers as an example. For any college in these cash-strapped times (public or private), saving money where needed is mighty important, and if there is money to be saved somewhere, upgrading at lowest cost is probably one of the best ways to do so....Hell, if they had it their way, they'd probably not upgrade at all......
The Messiah chips were offered as a way to allow UK PS2s not only to play legitimate US and Japanese games, but pirated titles and back-up copies made by users, which Sony forbids in the UK.
What the hell? Does Sony allow this kind of crap anywhere else? I suppose they don't forbid this kind of use in Japan, eh? Don't want to piss off the local markets.....
Rant aside, I don't see the problem with modchips. People still buy the games, and no one really loses out at all. If you like screwing over your customers, I guess this is a surefire way to go....
I figured the tinfoil hatters would side with me. You know, maybe I should have rewritten that-but hey, you know I don't care. Neither do you. When the shit hits the fan. and the police state that the US is becoming widens, you'll be the first to bitch about losing your rights. Mod me down, but don't complain when it goes down
What the hell do you mean, why do I care? I'm in public, and damn it, I reserve the right not to be watched while I'm doing whatever the hell it is I'm doing! I'm not plotting or "planning on doing something I shouldn't", I'm allowed some sort of freedom, aren't I? We are not in the former Soviet Union, this (used to be) the United States. Land of the free, home of the brave? It gets old that we live in this semi-police state with a government that continues to spread FUD about the ongoing "terrorist attacks" and "terror threat". I call bullshit. The minute you say "So what", you may as well get the barcode stamped on your head and install the cameras in your home.
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin
Wonder why the cost is higher....Can't be too hard to load up Linspire. Even states in TFA that it loads in only 10 mins. If anything, the costs should slightly lower (although TFA does not take into account for rebates, discounts, etc, so we can't be sure, eh?)
The store remains focused on the Linspire (formerly Lindows) OS and office suite, says Silverman, with no immediate plans to start selling other distros from the store. For the regular user, Linspire is the most simple to work with," says Silverman. "It installs in less than ten minutes."
I've been to their site before...They state on both Canadian and American sites the following -
"Do you prefer a different Linux distro? We can accommodate most requests."
Which does seem contradictory to TFA...Linspire seems hokey to me to be the primary distro. One would think that they would use a popular distro (ie-Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc) While Linspire is easy to use, I threw my younger sister into SuSE and Yast and she had a decent handle on things (Mind you, she's no geek but quite trendy, so a shock indeed:) ) I think they might be better off offering better/more distro options...
Ditto on the hard disks preloaded with Linspire. A neat idea, although I bet it takes a bit for the distro to auto-detect the hardware, etc. For the non-Linux, this might troublesome.But a good idea nonetheless...Like Knoppix on steriods or something....
The open source heroes I know aren't Novell...Try PJ with Groklaw or all the linux-zealot/.-ers...(Yes, me included:) ) A better title needed indeed....
Anywho, if anything, I see SuSE and open source being Novell's savior, although it's previous history does not seem to indicate so...With the quality and issues with Fedora/Red Hat, SuSE has a remote (remote damn it, don't you all jump my @$$ for saying there are problems with Fedora, if you don't believe me, read previous/. posts about such issues) chance of taking the Linux lead. Novell/SuSE has had some successes recently (McDonalds, others, it's late and I won't bother to search) With the article stating 8/10 companies looking to upgrade in 04-05, it just might happen......
Don't know what the hell you're talking about....I mean, how many/.-ers don't know Unix and it's code...It's not hard stuff. CD - Change Directory RM - Remove MKDIR - Make Directory
I mean, is that hard to understand? I know some of stuff is harder to cipher, but even a literate monkey with light Google-ing could probably decipher the rest....
"Spoiled by all those half-days and days spent struggling to install software."
I'll admit sometimes software is a PITA when the right dependencies aren't taken care of, but no program has ever taken me "half-days and days" to install...
" Spoiled by all that quality time trying to get my wireless adapter going."
Quality time my @$$...go get yourself either a license from Linuxant ($20) or use the free ndiswrapper...Painless, and works well.....Yes, the hardware companies won't put drivers out for linux, but that doesn't mean you have to flounder around wasting your "quality time"
Spoiled by the absence of decent documentation.
I call bullshit...Go google and you'll find plenty of docs and forums on anything, and there are plenty of people in the linux community more than willing to help a newbie out...
While I'm no total linux zealot (yeah yeah, I smell the sarcasm too:) ), I felt the need to properly dissect parent post....There's plenty of (linux) help out there if you look hard enough....
Let the RIAA complain all they want-it will not get them anywhere anyway....Personally, I don't think the NAB would let this fly
There are other ways to get around this (casettes, radio to line-in, etc - and watch out, they'll want to ban obsolete hardware next) and the RIAA can really do little to stop it...Another RIAA attempt to stifle pirates, terrorists, and baby-killers, and innovation as well, all in the name of saving their bottom line
We're working towards a solution...Suprised that MS is on the list of supporters....
But note the end, which states -
"The last major changes to patent law were in 1952 and there is no legislation before Congress which means that ideas like a patented method for picking up a box by bending your knees may well continue for some time. "
Ook, let's hold on a minute...AND RTFA (Again)!
Yahoo's toolbar uses PestPatrol for its' spyware application, and even the article states that
"On its Web site, PestPatrol does categorize software from Claria as adware."
But later states that -
"In a test of PestPatrol's free, online scanning tool, eWEEK.com confirmed that it does detect the presence of Claria's GAIN software automatically."
Hmph, I says...I don't think (I dunno, maybe I'm not into the/. conspiracy theory mentality yet;) ) Yahoo! is behind this, it smells like an issue with the PestPatrol software....But who knows?
Not everyone is out to get us, people....
Well, before we pull out our tinfoil hats and scream random obscenities at MS, let's RTFA, okay?
TFA states that patent revolves around giving other options when holding the click, and uses the default program when double clicked...Smells like Apple, anyone?
Furthermore, it's not as if they patented the motion of clicking a mouse button twice, as the poster makes it seem....Don't sound the alarm yet people....
If you want to get scared, worry about that last part of the article which states that MS wants to start charging for the FAT file system....How are they going to swing that one? Higher fees on XP (tough sh!t, I use SuSE) ? Online scans for people with FAT and a bill in the mail?
As hard drive/memory chip/etc devices get smaller and smaller, I wonder how people will be able to keep track of where the hell their (physical, not logical) memory is....
I can see a new market now, not for data recovery, but for recover-the-data-device recovery....I'll make millions!
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That was actually designed for a public library system...I remember reading an article about it somewhere (/. or other), but it contained almost everything needed (network tools, OO, browser, etc)...
Anyone know what I'm talkin about? I've googled to no avail........
If anyone RTFA (I know it's early in the discussion), the man is insane! He wants both companies to pretty much allow copying and sharing of files....I bet Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen both shit a brick after hearing this guy.
/.) of DRM, he doesn't mention it anywhere in TFA. Sharing/fair use seems to be encouraged...
:)
Examples -
"Create a "My Radio" option and a "My Radio" guide....These files should be saved to MP3 and be portable. "
Heh..."should be saved to mp3 and portable"...Might as well give a big middle finger to the RIAA.
"Provide Ethernet connectivity to their HDTV unit and include the ability to share recorded files with a Windows-based PC. "
While this doesn't run entirely afoul (see previous TiVo sharing articles of yore on
Two more -
"Provide a DVD burner with all units. Copying should be as simple as selecting a program and pressing "Burn to disc" on a menu."
and
"Provide the ability to connect external hard drives."
The RIAA/MPAA/AAA would be up in arms over this....It will never happen - They'd rather eat their own sh!t than allow for fair use and sharing to actually occur...The man has valid (and good) points, but none of them will ever happen in corporate-controlled America.......
But a geek's wet dream if you ask me
Look http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Issues.aspx here. They addreess the issue as noted below -
Unsolicited messages in pop-up dialogs from Messenger Service
Microsoft has investigated reports that individuals are using the Messenger Service in Windows to send unsolicited messages in pop-up dialog boxes to customers. While the messages can be annoying, they do not pose a security risk. The Messenger service that is being used to send these messages is a simple text-only broadcast service that is typically used by network administrators to send alerts to users notifying them of pending service outages, server maintenance, etc. The Messenger Service is not an instant message service like MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger.
* You can close the dialog box by clicking OK or the Close button in upper-right corner of the dialog box. Virtually any home internet firewall product will block the messages. Windows XP customers can enable Internet Connection Firewall to block them.
I didn't quite mean to say that Orkut was the only blogging site around....I should have added an "etc" to the end of that....I'm just referring to the fact that blogging is not as popular as it might have been before
I guess you can MS blog now.......IN JAPAN! :)
;)
I thought blogging was on the downhill slope anyway, with the problems at Orkut (the Brazlian issues, the invite style of membership).....
TFA also talks about MS thinking that their blog should become some form of "business communication"....Bah! I'd take a press release and a PR firm over a nerd with a blog anyday
I used to work at a grocery store (I believe the title was "courtesy clerk", but I likened it to being the "head b!tch....:) ), and I asked my boss one day about the music that was pumped into the store. He replied that they subscribed to a certain radio feed and that was paid through the grocery company I worked for. It was a special feed, and the store had a tuner for the specific frequency or other.....
I would assume that most of these locations (stores, lounges, etc) follow the same sort of setup. My dentist played his own music, but I figure that would fall under fair-use, right? I mean, he's listening to it while he's working -
No fair use you say? Oh.....
Did you RTFA at all? (Of course not, this is /. ;) )
Hell yes it was the service pack! Three friggin bluescreens that cause more havoc than Joe Sixpack would know how to remedy. While MS help was able to help them fix their problems, how many of your most average users can run a DOS command line and then fix the registry?
One would think MS would make this rollover as simple as possible, but with this, and the fact that SP1 must be reinstalled, along with various hardware devices, they may as well call in the tech support cavalry on this one....
"Microsoft's objective with Windows XP SP2 is to make it easier for end users to configure and manage security resources via new functionality and stronger security settings. "
Heh...easier my ass...Make good backups and/or switch to Linux, and godspeed WinXP users who plan to update
As for your systems, call for help if three out of five don't come back....Service pack or no service pack-something is very very screwy there....
-thewldisntenuff
At my school (Univ. of Arizona), there are definitely more MS-PCs more than Macs. I would assume this isn't some sort of takeover, but rather, simply because most people use Windows-running PCs. I wouldn't call this some sort of anti=(insert OS of your choice here) plan,but it just makes more sense. Simple economics also apply in this case. Most manufacturers do offer educational discounts, but I would assume under most circumstances, the PC is cheaper than the Mac....Consider
PC - $999 vs Mac - $1399
Now, don't mod me down or call my prices stupid/inaccurate/flamebaity, but just use those numbers as an example. For any college in these cash-strapped times (public or private), saving money where needed is mighty important, and if there is money to be saved somewhere, upgrading at lowest cost is probably one of the best ways to do so....Hell, if they had it their way, they'd probably not upgrade at all......
The Messiah chips were offered as a way to allow UK PS2s not only to play legitimate US and Japanese games, but pirated titles and back-up copies made by users, which Sony forbids in the UK.
What the hell? Does Sony allow this kind of crap anywhere else? I suppose they don't forbid this kind of use in Japan, eh? Don't want to piss off the local markets.....
Rant aside, I don't see the problem with modchips. People still buy the games, and no one really loses out at all. If you like screwing over your customers, I guess this is a surefire way to go....
Hey hey hey! FUCKOFF
I figured the tinfoil hatters would side with me. You know, maybe I should have rewritten that-but hey, you know I don't care. Neither do you. When the shit hits the fan. and the police state that the US is becoming widens, you'll be the first to bitch about losing your rights. Mod me down, but don't complain when it goes down
-thewldisntenuff
What the hell do you mean, why do I care? I'm in public, and damn it, I reserve the right not to be watched while I'm doing whatever the hell it is I'm doing! I'm not plotting or "planning on doing something I shouldn't", I'm allowed some sort of freedom, aren't I? We are not in the former Soviet Union, this (used to be) the United States. Land of the free, home of the brave? It gets old that we live in this semi-police state with a government that continues to spread FUD about the ongoing "terrorist attacks" and "terror threat". I call bullshit. The minute you say "So what", you may as well get the barcode stamped on your head and install the cameras in your home.
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin
-thewldisntenuff
Wonder why the cost is higher....Can't be too hard to load up Linspire. Even states in TFA that it loads in only 10 mins. If anything, the costs should slightly lower (although TFA does not take into account for rebates, discounts, etc, so we can't be sure, eh?)
:) ) I think they might be better off offering better/more distro options...
The store remains focused on the Linspire (formerly Lindows) OS and office suite, says Silverman, with no immediate plans to start selling other distros from the store.
For the regular user, Linspire is the most simple to work with," says Silverman. "It installs in less than ten minutes."
I've been to their site before...They state on both Canadian and American sites the following -
"Do you prefer a different Linux distro? We can accommodate most requests."
Which does seem contradictory to TFA...Linspire seems hokey to me to be the primary distro. One would think that they would use a popular distro (ie-Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc) While Linspire is easy to use, I threw my younger sister into SuSE and Yast and she had a decent handle on things (Mind you, she's no geek but quite trendy, so a shock indeed
Ditto on the hard disks preloaded with Linspire. A neat idea, although I bet it takes a bit for the distro to auto-detect the hardware, etc. For the non-Linux, this might troublesome.But a good idea nonetheless...Like Knoppix on steriods or something....
Gotta love the rotating pengiun though....
-thewldisntenough
The open source heroes I know aren't Novell...Try PJ with Groklaw or all the linux-zealot /.-ers...(Yes, me included :) ) A better title needed indeed....
/. posts about such issues) chance of taking the Linux lead. Novell/SuSE has had some successes recently (McDonalds, others, it's late and I won't bother to search) With the article stating 8/10 companies looking to upgrade in 04-05, it just might happen......
Anywho, if anything, I see SuSE and open source being Novell's savior, although it's previous history does not seem to indicate so...With the quality and issues with Fedora/Red Hat, SuSE has a remote (remote damn it, don't you all jump my @$$ for saying there are problems with Fedora, if you don't believe me, read previous
-thewldisntenuff
Mod down, O moderators.....Link is down below
The Google Cache
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http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:1VsHz0EXid
Sorry bout the unclickable link....four times and my
HTML is still kinda screwy
-thewldisntenuff
The Google Cache
"Spoiled by arcane command line syntax"
/.-ers don't know Unix and it's code...It's not hard stuff.
:) ), I felt the need to properly dissect parent post....There's plenty of (linux) help out there if you look hard enough....
Don't know what the hell you're talking about....I mean, how many
CD - Change Directory
RM - Remove
MKDIR - Make Directory
I mean, is that hard to understand? I know some of stuff is harder to cipher, but even a literate monkey with light Google-ing could probably decipher the rest....
"Spoiled by all those half-days and days spent struggling to install software."
I'll admit sometimes software is a PITA when the right dependencies aren't taken care of, but no program has ever taken me "half-days and days" to install...
" Spoiled by all that quality time trying to get my wireless adapter going."
Quality time my @$$...go get yourself either a license from Linuxant ($20) or use the free ndiswrapper...Painless, and works well.....Yes, the hardware companies won't put drivers out for linux, but that doesn't mean you have to flounder around wasting your "quality time"
Spoiled by the absence of decent documentation.
I call bullshit...Go google and you'll find plenty of docs and forums on anything, and there are plenty of people in the linux community more than willing to help a newbie out...
While I'm no total linux zealot (yeah yeah, I smell the sarcasm too
-thewldisntenough
"
The feds can't handle the /. effect, eh? :)
Let the RIAA complain all they want-it will not get them anywhere anyway....Personally, I don't think the NAB would let this fly
There are other ways to get around this (casettes, radio to line-in, etc - and watch out, they'll want to ban obsolete hardware next) and the RIAA can really do little to stop it...Another RIAA attempt to stifle pirates, terrorists, and baby-killers, and innovation as well, all in the name of saving their bottom line
We're working towards a solution...Suprised that MS is on the list of supporters....
But note the end, which states -
"The last major changes to patent law were in 1952 and there is no legislation before Congress which means that ideas like a patented method for picking up a box by bending your knees may well continue for some time. "
So let's not hold our breath, eh?
I ask my fellow /.-ers, why? Why waste your money on "virtual real estate"? Are we all really this stupid?....
Or is this spam gone wrong?
Ook, let's hold on a minute...AND RTFA (Again)! Yahoo's toolbar uses PestPatrol for its' spyware application, and even the article states that "On its Web site, PestPatrol does categorize software from Claria as adware." But later states that - "In a test of PestPatrol's free, online scanning tool, eWEEK.com confirmed that it does detect the presence of Claria's GAIN software automatically." Hmph, I says...I don't think (I dunno, maybe I'm not into the /. conspiracy theory mentality yet ;) ) Yahoo! is behind this, it smells like an issue with the PestPatrol software....But who knows?
Not everyone is out to get us, people....
Well, before we pull out our tinfoil hats and scream random obscenities at MS, let's RTFA, okay?
TFA states that patent revolves around giving other options when holding the click, and uses the default program when double clicked...Smells like Apple, anyone?
Furthermore, it's not as if they patented the motion of clicking a mouse button twice, as the poster makes it seem....Don't sound the alarm yet people....
If you want to get scared, worry about that last part of the article which states that MS wants to start charging for the FAT file system....How are they going to swing that one? Higher fees on XP (tough sh!t, I use SuSE) ? Online scans for people with FAT and a bill in the mail?
This whole thing is BS, but the high school will most likely get moved around (once again, as noted by the article - yeah, I RTFA) ...
Another example of the little guy getting his ass kicked yet again by the Powell and his idiot-brigade known as the FCC...
As hard drive/memory chip/etc devices get smaller and smaller, I wonder how people will be able to keep track of where the hell their (physical, not logical) memory is....
I can see a new market now, not for data recovery, but for recover-the-data-device recovery....I'll make millions!
-thewldisntenuff