I know somebody who installed SUSE and now openSUSE on computers for the elderly. In fact he made a living out of it. Wether you install Ubuntu, Kubuntu, openSUSE or any other distribution is irrelevant. Just use the one that you work with on a daily basis.
I personally would rather use openSUSE then Ubuntu, because that is what I know and I know where to go when there are problems. I would get lost in Ubuntu. So any distribution will do. Basically for them it will be like any other pre-installed system.
There the person talks about having a look at 11. There was no openSUSE 11. Only 11.0. The fact that people are sometimes so narrow minded and think there is only one way to number should lighten up. There is more then one way to give names and numbers to things then the *.0 is an advanced Beta.
No, they can not cancel my contract just if they want to. Wether I would bother to fight their decision is something else. I do have more rights as an individual then the company has. The company has (generaly) more power, so it evens out with a bit more in favor of the customer.
You gave up your privacy right when you turned on your torrent program that makes the rar file available to the public.
That is not the case. I still have my rights to privacy. If somebody wants to sue me, they have to go trough court. The company can not give up my identity by themselves.
Not only that. I know several musicians and some of them even get some money from songs they made, but barely enough to pay for the fee. OTOH all the others play covers all the time and they get payed for it, without paying anything themselves to the copyright holder. The RIAA are NOT there for the artists. They are there for the copyright holders, Those are the record companies, because the artists had to give up their rights to do whatever.
Someone associated with the RIAA will fire up a P2P app and kick off a download for 'metalica.rar' They'll log every single IP address that they're connected to, and then they'll send off a pile of court orders.
In Belgium these end up at the end of the pile. So if all other crimes are solved and they have had all their holidays, then only will they begin with this. In reality this means these things will never get to court and they have been informed that sending much more will be looked at as contempt of court and they could get sued themselves.
Luckily you gave the answer yourself. No. Read the licenses and it will become clear. Novell put YaST under GPL. It openend up the development of the distro. It made available their Build Service. It gave tools to remove trademarks and the ability to make your own distribution. (somethink like CentOS is pretty easy to do with openSUSE)
It stopped the time difference of availablity of boxed set and downloadable version. It gives a lot of time and people to coding directly.
Yet when Novell does something, it must be evil.
I am still waiting on the collaps of Linux after the Novell/Microsoft deal. All that I see is that Novell giot a load of money from Microsoft and Novell keeps going on fighting for OSS all the way to court.
The sole reason the license has been changed is because thay want to put their money where their mouth is. I know they are interested in even better ways to do this, so if you have an idea, do not hesitate to tell them. If youi have a good case with a good explanation, they will listen. (That does not mean they will do what you sugest)
Well, that is because there are no x.0 products. All products are just a follow up on the previous one. The x.0 does not exist in the way it exists in numbering with software packages.
11.0 could have easily been named 10.4 and be identical, except for the naming. 11.1 could have been named 10.5 or 7.15 or 3.1415 (or whatever) There is NO relevance to a release x.0, except that is vaguely is the version that usually is the version before a SLE release, although this is not a fixed truth.
So you must have never used even S.u.S.E. or SuSE or SUSE, because this has been the case since forever.
What is the legality of this? RIAA tells them that they represent Metallica and I have a rar file called metalica. This would mean that the provider opens my rar file and looks into it. They should not be allowed to do so. Privacy and such, you know.
In Belgium what happens is that a letter is send to the provider that user X with IP Y at time Z was downloading a file that they believe to contain copyrighted material. The provider then could do several things. Basicaly 1) forward the letter or 2) ignore it.
No information could go to the local RIAA. This is called privacy. So the only thing they could do was try to sue. However the courts said that they would not follow up unless people where making money out of it.
So copying songs and selling them: burn in hell. Downloading them and sharing with friends or strangers: nothing happens.
The fact that I have 60 petabyte of songs downloaded does not mean they lost money. I stopped buying long before the internet made it possible to download. I shared music with friends on casette. Hey, that is a good casette, can you make me a copy? How did you get it? Well, I got copies from friends and using my dual-cassette player copied the different numbers so I had my own music, minus the crap.
When I think since when this has been going on, I am getting old.
The fact that it can be patented could be a good thing in the broken system. It could or should be that when the government patents it, everybody can use it. That way no company can claim the patent as their own.
However patents are used not to protect ideas as it is to create a scarcity to drive the price up.
The way patents work is even if all of us 6.7 million run to the patent office, because we all had the same idea, the first would still get it (or Edison if he were still alive).
Then there are those who do not have the money to patent something or do not want to do so and are forced to prove prior-art later on.
I use BlockHosts and even though I still get hit, the amount of tries is 4-5 and the IP address will be blocked for 12 hours. Very seldom I see them hit me a second time. The advantage is that it is live and although initially looks in the log files it does not depend on them.
Entry currently in my hosts.allow, which is after some IP addresses I specifically always allow.
Let me guess, the submitter likes to enable all the useless bling effects on Compiz but never gets any work done, and has racing stripes on his Civic....
Reminds me of the manager who works a whole week on his presentation. 90% of the time is used for special effects. And then when he gives the presentation realizes he needs to move on, but can't because his nice slides force him to show every special effect he has put into it. Other people realise that Powerpoint is just a tool. Giving the presentation is what you need to do yourself.
I never had a boss who I wanted to tickle. It would have been torture for me. Now in other departments there are some people I would love to tickle. I however doubt that that will help with job security.
I have worked in many places and I have never heard of any religion being part of any decisions considering employment. I have never heard so from friends of one changes job about every year or two. In almost all companies you got evaluated (and promoted/got a raise) on performance. Never has anybody spoken to me about religion or my or their believes. From some people we know what believe they are and nobody really cares.
The moment something like that would happen, I would go to any union of a different mindset and they will take serious action and sue that person/company for racism. Not something they would want. Oh yeah, I live in Europe, Belgium.
I believe the 9/11 attack would have happened with any president. The way it would be dealt with would have been completely different. Others would not have raped peoples rights so much.
I'd rather lose some freedoms than die in a nuclear fireball, or live in perpetual misery in the Dhimmitude of an Islamic theocracy.
The first I understand although I disagree. There are many people who have fought for their freedom and rather died then not to be free. The second are limitations on your freedom. So basically you do not like the restrictions that will be forced upon you, so you give up your freedom voluntarily.
Many years ago I took a picture inside a mall and a rent-a-cop came up to me and explained that I was not allowed to take photos. When I told him I already had taken all the photos I wanted he said basicaly "Good for you." Smiled and went on his way.
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You are aware that at least one of you has to be female, right?
I know somebody who installed SUSE and now openSUSE on computers for the elderly. In fact he made a living out of it. Wether you install Ubuntu, Kubuntu, openSUSE or any other distribution is irrelevant. Just use the one that you work with on a daily basis.
I personally would rather use openSUSE then Ubuntu, because that is what I know and I know where to go when there are problems. I would get lost in Ubuntu. So any distribution will do. Basically for them it will be like any other pre-installed system.
There the person talks about having a look at 11. There was no openSUSE 11. Only 11.0. The fact that people are sometimes so narrow minded and think there is only one way to number should lighten up. There is more then one way to give names and numbers to things then the *.0 is an advanced Beta.
No, they can not cancel my contract just if they want to. Wether I would bother to fight their decision is something else. I do have more rights as an individual then the company has. The company has (generaly) more power, so it evens out with a bit more in favor of the customer.
That is not the case. I still have my rights to privacy. If somebody wants to sue me, they have to go trough court. The company can not give up my identity by themselves.
Not only that. I know several musicians and some of them even get some money from songs they made, but barely enough to pay for the fee. OTOH all the others play covers all the time and they get payed for it, without paying anything themselves to the copyright holder.
The RIAA are NOT there for the artists. They are there for the copyright holders, Those are the record companies, because the artists had to give up their rights to do whatever.
In Belgium these end up at the end of the pile. So if all other crimes are solved and they have had all their holidays, then only will they begin with this.
In reality this means these things will never get to court and they have been informed that sending much more will be looked at as contempt of court and they could get sued themselves.
Luckily you gave the answer yourself. No. Read the licenses and it will become clear.
Novell put YaST under GPL. It openend up the development of the distro. It made available their Build Service. It gave tools to remove trademarks and the ability to make your own distribution. (somethink like CentOS is pretty easy to do with openSUSE)
It stopped the time difference of availablity of boxed set and downloadable version. It gives a lot of time and people to coding directly.
Yet when Novell does something, it must be evil.
I am still waiting on the collaps of Linux after the Novell/Microsoft deal. All that I see is that Novell giot a load of money from Microsoft and Novell keeps going on fighting for OSS all the way to court.
The sole reason the license has been changed is because thay want to put their money where their mouth is. I know they are interested in even better ways to do this, so if you have an idea, do not hesitate to tell them. If youi have a good case with a good explanation, they will listen. (That does not mean they will do what you sugest)
Well, that is because there are no x.0 products. All products are just a follow up on the previous one. The x.0 does not exist in the way it exists in numbering with software packages.
11.0 could have easily been named 10.4 and be identical, except for the naming. 11.1 could have been named 10.5 or 7.15 or 3.1415 (or whatever)
There is NO relevance to a release x.0, except that is vaguely is the version that usually is the version before a SLE release, although this is not a fixed truth.
So you must have never used even S.u.S.E. or SuSE or SUSE, because this has been the case since forever.
What is the legality of this? RIAA tells them that they represent Metallica and I have a rar file called metalica. This would mean that the provider opens my rar file and looks into it. They should not be allowed to do so. Privacy and such, you know.
In Belgium what happens is that a letter is send to the provider that user X with IP Y at time Z was downloading a file that they believe to contain copyrighted material. The provider then could do several things. Basicaly 1) forward the letter or 2) ignore it.
No information could go to the local RIAA. This is called privacy. So the only thing they could do was try to sue. However the courts said that they would not follow up unless people where making money out of it.
So copying songs and selling them: burn in hell.
Downloading them and sharing with friends or strangers: nothing happens.
The fact that I have 60 petabyte of songs downloaded does not mean they lost money. I stopped buying long before the internet made it possible to download. I shared music with friends on casette. Hey, that is a good casette, can you make me a copy? How did you get it?
Well, I got copies from friends and using my dual-cassette player copied the different numbers so I had my own music, minus the crap.
When I think since when this has been going on, I am getting old.
Think again and look at the logs. I see attacks from all over the world. So if you want to block, start white listing not blacklisting.
You have a URL for that?
The fact that it can be patented could be a good thing in the broken system. It could or should be that when the government patents it, everybody can use it. That way no company can claim the patent as their own.
However patents are used not to protect ideas as it is to create a scarcity to drive the price up.
The way patents work is even if all of us 6.7 million run to the patent office, because we all had the same idea, the first would still get it (or Edison if he were still alive).
Then there are those who do not have the money to patent something or do not want to do so and are forced to prove prior-art later on.
Is localhost still available?
The power could be generated by using humans as an energy source like in The Matrix.
I use BlockHosts and even though I still get hit, the amount of tries is 4-5 and the IP address will be blocked for 12 hours.
Very seldom I see them hit me a second time.
The advantage is that it is live and although initially looks in the log files it does not depend on them.
Entry currently in my hosts.allow, which is after some IP addresses I specifically always allow.
#---- BlockHosts Additions
ALL: 216.146.46.29 : deny
ALL: 65.111.164.53 : deny
ALL: 77.48.41.174 : deny
#bh: ip: 122.166.17.253 : 1 : 2008-12-22 09:48:44 CET
#bh: ip: 216.146.46.29 : 5 : 2008-12-22 09:43:41 CET
#bh: ip: 65.111.164.53 : 4 : 2008-12-22 02:02:53 CET
#bh: ip: 77.48.41.174 : 5 : 2008-12-22 02:02:49 CET
#bh: logfile: /var/log/messages
#bh: offset: 5717251
#bh: first line:Dec 20 19:15:07 pasta syslog-ng[2148]: new configuration initialized
#---- BlockHosts Additions /usr/bin/blockhosts.py & : allow
sshd : ALL: spawn
Reminds me of the manager who works a whole week on his presentation. 90% of the time is used for special effects. And then when he gives the presentation realizes he needs to move on, but can't because his nice slides force him to show every special effect he has put into it.
Other people realise that Powerpoint is just a tool. Giving the presentation is what you need to do yourself.
I never had a boss who I wanted to tickle. It would have been torture for me. Now in other departments there are some people I would love to tickle. I however doubt that that will help with job security.
I have worked in many places and I have never heard of any religion being part of any decisions considering employment. I have never heard so from friends of one changes job about every year or two. In almost all companies you got evaluated (and promoted/got a raise) on performance.
Never has anybody spoken to me about religion or my or their believes. From some people we know what believe they are and nobody really cares.
The moment something like that would happen, I would go to any union of a different mindset and they will take serious action and sue that person/company for racism. Not something they would want. Oh yeah, I live in Europe, Belgium.
I believe the 9/11 attack would have happened with any president. The way it would be dealt with would have been completely different. Others would not have raped peoples rights so much.
If that would happen, no bill would ever be signed and I am not even saying that is a bad thing.
Many years ago I took a picture inside a mall and a rent-a-cop came up to me and explained that I was not allowed to take photos. When I told him I already had taken all the photos I wanted he said basicaly "Good for you." Smiled and went on his way.
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso.torrent
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-DVD-x86_64.iso.torrent
I am sharing these, now come and try to sue my ISP. He will be having a laugh. Try go after the originating provider and they will tear you a new one.
It is nice to see that what they wanted was to misinform people about their rights.