In Australia there was a program on at the end of last year (www.cnnnn.com) and they went around the US asking where various countries where, and on some maps had renamed countries (ie. on one australia was labeled iraq, annother australia was labeld north korea andnew zealand was south korea i think) and the Americans did't notices the changes, it was quite funny!
I also find the hosts file does not always work. My uni gives out free dialup to all students (UQ)(www.uq.qld.edu.au) but this runs though proxies (an autoconfig for proxies a pac file) and so then i am on my uni account the hosts file is ignored (in windows only, and mozilla & firefox need to be setup seperately) the hosts file works well with my other dial up account and with firefox and mozilla
My Favorite AIDA32 you can get the user to do ana analysis of there system in a couple of clicks and e-mail it to you. the website has closed down and support is removed but you may be able to download it from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html it has been removed from some mirrors!
Our IP Laws are stuffed too, i cannot find a reference but i know sombody walked into the patent office not long ago (within the last 2 years i think) and patented the wheel.
I am an ozzie and we had the chance to be really big in IT, (ie. Silicon Valley big) but the co-olition and Howard threw it away. Howard sees this country as a big farm and mine nothing else.
So to get HL2 out quickly we need to steal the binaries or the sorce code, why hasen't any one thought of that before, hey wait a second didn't that sort of backfire
What we need is a third axis on the mouse, a scroll wheel with nearly zero friction for a z (depth) axis could work. they wouldn't be terribly effective but for the limited 3d nature of Looking Glass they would do the job.
I'm a BE/BInfTech student and i am interested in certifications, but i dont know the difference between them all. my uni only offers MS and Cisco, and i am wondering what the certifications really mean (what do you have to know/learn). I am also interested in other certifications like RHCE and RHCT and other Linux certifications (and if the skills from one would be transferable to other distos).
I go to the Universety of Queensland (Australia), and at uni there is Star Office on ALL library computers as well as netscape, and MS office and IE, as well as that ALL students are entitled to pick up a copy of SO (i use mine for windows so i don't have to save my OO.o files in.doc format). some how i don't see a cheeper solution to make sure all students have a word processor at home. can you guess what M$ would charge? Also the licence we get with SO (one disc for win32 linux and solaris) lets us install it on 5 machines. (single user only though).
I heared from somewhere that the NSA used a high tech (and cheap) peice of equipment to make sure the disks cannot be read after erasing them called a bullet. they actualy shoot bullets into the platters, to add some random interference
I agree, but even if somthing is relesed under GPL if it violates IP laws it is wrong (eg. if the kernel code was really written by SCO, highly unlikely).
This add is doing a simmliar thing - hey look at this chart, look how the TCO is much higher for Linux if you are a huge company like microsoft who doesent pay anything for the software or tech support, compated to training a monkey to install linux blindfolded (they must have forgotten to mention that).
On the other hand if the add stated the usage of MS or was a add that was completely true, I think the OSS community would not have a problem with it
I dont think the problem is what is being advertised, rather how it is being advertised.
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In Australia there was a program on at the end of last year (www.cnnnn.com) and they went around the US asking where various countries where, and on some maps had renamed countries (ie. on one australia was labeled iraq, annother australia was labeld north korea andnew zealand was south korea i think) and the Americans did't notices the changes, it was quite funny!
I also find the hosts file does not always work. My uni gives out free dialup to all students (UQ)(www.uq.qld.edu.au) but this runs though proxies (an autoconfig for proxies a pac file) and so then i am on my uni account the hosts file is ignored (in windows only, and mozilla & firefox need to be setup seperately) the hosts file works well with my other dial up account and with firefox and mozilla
Weapon
My life fits on a 3.5" floppy disc
Darl Darl he is our man if he can't do it no one can!
where is my check?
My Favorite AIDA32 you can get the user to do ana analysis of there system in a couple of clicks and e-mail it to you. the website has closed down and support is removed but you may be able to download it from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html
it has been removed from some mirrors!
Weapon
Does this mean that the new PS3 will only run with a sony TV, or that it will run better with a sony tv.
eg. on the TV designed for the PS3
Weapon
and Two years by valve
Our IP Laws are stuffed too, i cannot find a reference but i know sombody walked into the patent office not long ago (within the last 2 years i think) and patented the wheel.
Only in Australia!
Weapon
I am an ozzie and we had the chance to be really big in IT, (ie. Silicon Valley big) but the co-olition and Howard threw it away. Howard sees this country as a big farm and mine nothing else.
Weapon
I could say that there is no stable version of 32 bit Windows but that would be too easy
Weapon
Somone is being Optimistic, Half life 2 this year, yeah right. Halflife 2 is more likely to come out after Doom 30 not Doom 3
Weapon
I am a BE/BInfTech student (1st Year) and that little white book is on our textbook list as recomended for a first year course
Weapon
So to get HL2 out quickly we need to steal the binaries or the sorce code, why hasen't any one thought of that before, hey wait a second didn't that sort of backfire
Weapon
I'd like to see GRUB in bios! (Except i have never worked out how to boot floppy's or CD's from it, not that i tried hard0
Weapon
I think it really is that bush finaly realised some people don't like him! Weapon
You have to ask yourself how many sales they make from people installing Linux on them, both direct and indirect.
Weapon
What we need is a third axis on the mouse, a scroll wheel with nearly zero friction for a z (depth) axis could work. they wouldn't be terribly effective but for the limited 3d nature of Looking Glass they would do the job.
Weapon
You could always just connect wires between the satalite and the base station, that would work wouldent it.
I'm a BE/BInfTech student and i am interested in certifications, but i dont know the difference between them all. my uni only offers MS and Cisco, and i am wondering what the certifications really mean (what do you have to know/learn). I am also interested in other certifications like RHCE and RHCT and other Linux certifications (and if the skills from one would be transferable to other distos).
Weapon
Who is going to be the first to complain about linux support or the fact the dirvers are not open source
I go to the Universety of Queensland (Australia), and at uni there is Star Office on ALL library computers as well as netscape, and MS office and IE, as well as that ALL students are entitled to pick up a copy of SO (i use mine for windows so i don't have to save my OO.o files in .doc format). some how i don't see a cheeper solution to make sure all students have a word processor at home. can you guess what M$ would charge? Also the licence we get with SO (one disc for win32 linux and solaris) lets us install it on 5 machines. (single user only though).
Dave
I heared from somewhere that the NSA used a high tech (and cheap) peice of equipment to make sure the disks cannot be read after erasing them called a bullet. they actualy shoot bullets into the platters, to add some random interference
Dave
It seems that Linux does EXACTLY what you tell it to do whilst windows does what it thinks you told it to do. (which can be a real pain!)
Dave
Will they publicise which keys are affected by this "Feture/Bug"? Dave
I agree, but even if somthing is relesed under GPL if it violates IP laws it is wrong (eg. if the kernel code was really written by SCO, highly unlikely).
This add is doing a simmliar thing - hey look at this chart, look how the TCO is much higher for Linux if you are a huge company like microsoft who doesent pay anything for the software or tech support, compated to training a monkey to install linux blindfolded (they must have forgotten to mention that).
On the other hand if the add stated the usage of MS or was a add that was completely true, I think the OSS community would not have a problem with it
I dont think the problem is what is being advertised, rather how it is being advertised.
Dave