Can't buy physical Apple Priducts eh? What on earth is the MacBook that I'm typing thing on then? Scotch Mist? What on earth are you smoking?
Here in the UK, you don't have any taxes to pay on competition winnings. You don't even have to declare them as a source of income to the Inland Revenue. So this luck person is free & clear to spend $10K on any Apps they want.
So why hasn't anyone taken Microsoft to court over the terms of their EULA Then? Perhaps it is because the lawyers think you have not a chance in hell of winning?
Brain Damage flowing into Eclipse? Simply because they played the whole of DSOTM as one piece. As a complete piece it works. How many copies have they sold since 1973?
DSOTM was originally called Eclipse when it was first played in 1972, Jan 20th Brighton Dome. Then another band released an album called Eclipse (as I rrad at the time in Melody Maker) so they changed the name
so? This is more about the HISTORY when IBM did a lot of the basic research on rotating magnetic storage. They were pioneers in at lot of this technology. Many of the landmark leaps in capacity/performance were driven by the needs of Mainframes not PC's as they weren't a reality when most of this tech was hot. Even Winchester Tech (as used in HDD's today) was around before the PC's became really popular and graduated beyond the capacity of FDD's.
Sine the growth in the overall IT market from the late 1970's onwards sure many other companies have contributed to HDD tech advancement but for many readers of/. (you know those who rarely venture out of their Mom's basement) are far too young to know the ancient history of HDD's.
I started writting Software in 1972. Punched Cards & Paper Tape were the medium of the day. By 1974 we had PDP-11's with 2.4Mb HDD's. Now we have 1TB Laptop drives. Progress....
Then Amazon should be on the list. '...other people who purchased yyy also bought xxx'. I wonder why they aren't on the list? Perhaps Mr Allen is a shareholder in Amazon inc?
I still have the source code in 1 file of my degree project from 1974/5. This was cross assembler (written in Fortran) for an NatSemi 4 bit micro. It ran on PDP 11 Dos V8. It is some 1150+ lines of code.
It has moved from Dos V8 RK05 -> via Paper Tape to RSX11-D-> RSX11-M-> VMS V1.5->VMS-V6->Windows 3.1->NT->XP->Linux
Digital Cameras put this stuff in the exif data structures.
Add a GPS device to your DSLR and it goes in too.
Many Serious (both Pro & Amatuer) Snappers find this information really useful. Match the GPS up with Google Maps and locating where you took a particular shot is simple. You can easily get rid of the data in the images you publish. In fact this is useful to help you prove your copyright of the image.
So not all 'Traitorware' is bad to all people. There is a thriving marked for GPS Addons' to high end DSLR's.
Things like the Laser Printer data is IMHO worse that useless. Just but yourself a $50 inkjet, print the offending pages and junk it. After all, the replacment inks will often cost more than a new printer....
Good point. I'd go one step further and say that soon there will be a hell of a lot more products that carry the warning. "Not for sale/resale in the USA" SME sized companies won't want to sell stuff their just to line the pockets of lawyers rather than their shareholders.
Instead of us saying "Windows, broken by Design" (well some of us anyways), now we can say, "USA, patently broken."
At the moment, most Linux systems (Apart from embedded) are Servers. This is ideal for LTS versions. i.e. Ubuntu LTS, RHEL, SLES etc.
My biggest gripe is that producers of apps that are targetted for use on Servers seem to always want the latest & greatest versions of dependent packages such as PHP and not the versions that are supported on LTS Distros.
UH? Why? A rolling release won't solve this. It will probably make it worse as the stable base provided by SLES/RHEL etc is suddenly not so stable anymore. Now do you know when a server may upgrade from one version of PHP to another? you don't. At least with a release like RHEL, you know the version of the base platform for each release and that between releases (Eg 5.3 & 5.4) the PHP version won't change apart from bugfixes.
Rolling releases IMHO is a big thumbs down. It's going to give me more problems in the long run. I'm now less likely to go with SUSE than before.
nowt, if debian is your thing. For me? nope. I don't get along with it but many of my friends do. A lot of them have returned to the Debian fold after dabbling with Ubuntu and they've decided that they don't like the way Canonical is going. But that is decidedly off topic.
I'm firmly in the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Camp. Mainly because all the commercial S/W I use in my day job just works on RHEL/CentOS and can be made to work on Fedora with a little effort. But hey, choice is what FOSS is all about.
Some UK PAYG Tariffs do have time limits on the period that the 'Top-Up' is vaild for, AFAIK, these are not from the main carriers but secondary networks that buy space on the main networks.
Back to Data Tariff's. '3' has a contract £15.00/month for 15Gb. i use the same Sim in a 3G Dongle and in a 'mifi' unit. No problems with 1Mb 1Mb here.
exactly my sentiments. I've used Linux since Slackware 1.1 (on Floppies) and like you am an RHCE.
I gave up on Windows almost three years ago now (But I have tried W7/Server 2008) Now, I use a Mac Book for my emails & web browsing. I just got fed up with AV Software making the system run like a dog, WGA implying that I am a software pirate if I change the Motherboard in a server. Don't even get me started on the builtin policies on Windows 7. Everything I want to do seems to get in blocked by the UAC whereas, with Server 2003 it didn't. Sorry MS you have gone backwards in your user experience especially when compared to Apple and even some recent Linux releases (F14 is pretty good).
As a result, I develop all my commercial software on Linux. I have 5 CentOS or Fedora servers and one remaining Windows Server 2003 system left (oh, and two Solaris Servers in the Garage)
As a Mechanical Design Engineer by Profession, I have to appreciate the work that Apple does on its whole user experience. Microsoft should be ashamed in comparison. I tried a Windows Smartphone the other day. It made me wish for my old Nokia 3310 it was so awful. Sorry, MS, thr world has moved on any frankly ain't....
Yeah, I'd forgotten that. But like AMD & Intel, their market share is miniscule. Most other CPU/GPU builders are far better placed in the market.
The Register has a bit about the ARM A15 and a 1U server rack with the current A9 CPU inside. Now this is interesting. Low power Powerful servers. I use a couple of EEEBoz boxes but the A15 has certainly made me think again about dumping X86 CPU's for this use.
NVidia had their opportunity but since AMD got their ATI dept's act together their GPU performance and importantly their Linux support has come on in leaps & bounds. With NVidia being squeezed out of the chipset market by AMD & Intel and even the consumer Graphics card able to play most FPS games at more than adequate frame rates, I see (sadly) NVidia slowly but surely going the way of Novel's Netware. i.e. to an inevitable death. They really need to buy an ARM user and get their GPU's into mobile devices, provided they can make them sip power instead of gulp it like a 6ltr Dodge Charger
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Nope.
Film at 11: Crash.
You mean like the state trooper neat the Cumberland Gap who asked me when I said I was from England, 'So you are from Maine then?'
Sigh.
Says Who then? Please provide a reputable source to backup that statement.
Can't buy physical Apple Priducts eh?
What on earth is the MacBook that I'm typing thing on then? Scotch Mist? What on earth are you smoking?
Here in the UK, you don't have any taxes to pay on competition winnings. You don't even have to declare them as a source of income to the Inland Revenue. So this luck person is free & clear to spend $10K on any Apps they want.
good luck to them I say.
you mean the one that is a sure fire certainty to get more than a few Oscars?
Yeah Right.
That's why it's called 'HP-SUX' even by people who work there.
http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor120.html
So why hasn't anyone taken Microsoft to court over the terms of their EULA Then?
Perhaps it is because the lawyers think you have not a chance in hell of winning?
Brain Damage flowing into Eclipse?
Simply because they played the whole of DSOTM as one piece.
As a complete piece it works. How many copies have they sold since 1973?
DSOTM was originally called Eclipse when it was first played in 1972, Jan 20th Brighton Dome.
Then another band released an album called Eclipse (as I rrad at the time in Melody Maker) so they changed the name
Ironically yes they were!
so? This is more about the HISTORY when IBM did a lot of the basic research on rotating magnetic storage.
They were pioneers in at lot of this technology. Many of the landmark leaps in capacity/performance were driven by the needs of Mainframes not PC's as they weren't a reality when most of this tech was hot.
Even Winchester Tech (as used in HDD's today) was around before the PC's became really popular and graduated beyond the capacity of FDD's.
Sine the growth in the overall IT market from the late 1970's onwards sure many other companies have contributed to HDD tech advancement but for many readers of /. (you know those who rarely venture out of their Mom's basement) are far too young to know the ancient history of HDD's.
I started writting Software in 1972. Punched Cards & Paper Tape were the medium of the day.
By 1974 we had PDP-11's with 2.4Mb HDD's. Now we have 1TB Laptop drives. Progress....
Circa 1972 DEC RK05 Disk Drive. 2.4Mb in a removable case.
Contained the PDP-11 DOS V8 + Compilers + Source to apps.
All loaded from Paper Tape.
This was replaced by the RK06 (28Mb)
Then we had the RL01/RL02 10Mb/20Mb Winchester Technology.
The Good Old RP06's (CDC drives rebadged) of 256Mb. You could make them dance over the floor in Diagnostic Max Seek mode.
Them were the days.
652 Patent
Then Amazon should be on the list. '...other people who purchased yyy also bought xxx'.
I wonder why they aren't on the list?
Perhaps Mr Allen is a shareholder in Amazon inc?
I still have the source code in 1 file of my degree project from 1974/5.
This was cross assembler (written in Fortran) for an NatSemi 4 bit micro.
It ran on PDP 11 Dos V8. It is some 1150+ lines of code.
It has moved from Dos V8 RK05 -> via Paper Tape to RSX11-D-> RSX11-M-> VMS V1.5->VMS-V6->Windows 3.1->NT->XP->Linux
Digital Cameras put this stuff in the exif data structures.
Add a GPS device to your DSLR and it goes in too.
Many Serious (both Pro & Amatuer) Snappers find this information really useful. Match the GPS up with Google Maps and locating where you took a particular shot is simple.
You can easily get rid of the data in the images you publish.
In fact this is useful to help you prove your copyright of the image.
So not all 'Traitorware' is bad to all people. There is a thriving marked for GPS Addons' to high end DSLR's.
Things like the Laser Printer data is IMHO worse that useless. Just but yourself a $50 inkjet, print the offending pages and junk it. After all, the replacment inks will often cost more than a new printer....
Good point.
I'd go one step further and say that soon there will be a hell of a lot more products that carry the warning.
"Not for sale/resale in the USA"
SME sized companies won't want to sell stuff their just to line the pockets of lawyers rather than their shareholders.
Instead of us saying "Windows, broken by Design" (well some of us anyways), now we can say, "USA, patently broken."
Shhhh. Or Microsoft will patent that.
So using my Mouse Click and the Touch Screen on the PC in the same APP is going to be in breach of this patent?
AFAIK, using a mouse button and a touch screen are different types of pointer devices.
Move the mouse, click.
Swipe the screen and touch it, click.
Pah. Bah Humbug.
At the moment, most Linux systems (Apart from embedded) are Servers.
This is ideal for LTS versions. i.e. Ubuntu LTS, RHEL, SLES etc.
My biggest gripe is that producers of apps that are targetted for use on Servers seem to always want the latest & greatest versions of dependent packages such as PHP and not the versions that are supported on LTS Distros.
UH? Why?
A rolling release won't solve this. It will probably make it worse as the stable base provided by SLES/RHEL etc is suddenly not so stable anymore. Now do you know when a server may upgrade from one version of PHP to another? you don't.
At least with a release like RHEL, you know the version of the base platform for each release and that between releases (Eg 5.3 & 5.4) the PHP version won't change apart from bugfixes.
Rolling releases IMHO is a big thumbs down. It's going to give me more problems in the long run. I'm now less likely to go with SUSE than before.
nowt, if debian is your thing. For me? nope. I don't get along with it but many of my friends do. A lot of them have returned to the Debian fold after dabbling with Ubuntu and they've decided that they don't like the way Canonical is going. But that is decidedly off topic.
I'm firmly in the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Camp. Mainly because all the commercial S/W I use in my day job just works on RHEL/CentOS and can be made to work on Fedora with a little effort. But hey, choice is what FOSS is all about.
Some UK PAYG Tariffs do have time limits on the period that the 'Top-Up' is vaild for, AFAIK, these are not from the main carriers but secondary networks that buy space on the main networks.
Back to Data Tariff's.
'3' has a contract £15.00/month for 15Gb. i use the same Sim in a 3G Dongle and in a 'mifi' unit. No problems with 1Mb 1Mb here.
This post sounds awfully like a parody of the 'Two Ronnies' 'Rook' Sketch.
exactly my sentiments.
I've used Linux since Slackware 1.1 (on Floppies) and like you am an RHCE.
I gave up on Windows almost three years ago now (But I have tried W7/Server 2008) Now, I use a Mac Book for my emails & web browsing. I just got fed up with AV Software making the system run like a dog, WGA implying that I am a software pirate if I change the Motherboard in a server. Don't even get me started on the builtin policies on Windows 7. Everything I want to do seems to get in blocked by the UAC whereas, with Server 2003 it didn't. Sorry MS you have gone backwards in your user experience especially when compared to Apple and even some recent Linux releases (F14 is pretty good).
As a result, I develop all my commercial software on Linux. I have 5 CentOS or Fedora servers and one remaining Windows Server 2003 system left (oh, and two Solaris Servers in the Garage)
As a Mechanical Design Engineer by Profession, I have to appreciate the work that Apple does on its whole user experience. Microsoft should be ashamed in comparison.
I tried a Windows Smartphone the other day. It made me wish for my old Nokia 3310 it was so awful. Sorry, MS, thr world has moved on any frankly ain't....
Yeah, I'd forgotten that. But like AMD & Intel, their market share is miniscule. Most other CPU/GPU builders are far better placed in the market.
The Register has a bit about the ARM A15 and a 1U server rack with the current A9 CPU inside. Now this is interesting. Low power Powerful servers. I use a couple of EEEBoz boxes but the A15 has certainly made me think again about dumping X86 CPU's for this use.
NVidia had their opportunity but since AMD got their ATI dept's act together their GPU performance and importantly their Linux support has come on in leaps & bounds.
With NVidia being squeezed out of the chipset market by AMD & Intel and even the consumer Graphics card able to play most FPS games at more than adequate frame rates, I see (sadly) NVidia slowly but surely going the way of Novel's Netware. i.e. to an inevitable death.
They really need to buy an ARM user and get their GPU's into mobile devices, provided they can make them sip power instead of gulp it like a 6ltr Dodge Charger