Sorry, something about me not wanting my computer to become the local kiddie pr0n hub...
Cause that's about the only use "FreeNET" will ever see. Don't believe me? What is it being used for now?
But OMG Andy!!! Don't you want the Internet to be opaque to the prying eyes of Big Brother? No I don''t really give a damn. I have nothing to hide. Do you?
And all of that stuff is ABSOLUTELY downright horrible for you. I am guilty of it too, but recently mostly pizza places and "diners", (I will never go to a fast food chain anymore) but only because -
a) Nothing more decent around where I work. There is some decent stuff around my uni, but I can't afford taking 3 hour lunches.
b) I can't afford to go home and cook either, as I can't have 3 hour lunches.
Come to think of it, I barely remember the last time I "lunched". I resolved that I either will go to decent restaurants or just not eat at all. Sure, you pay a bit more... but seriously... if you have to think about how much you spend on food, you need to do something with your life:.
Are you incoherently parroting someone else's opinion or can you coherently explain your thoughts? PowerPC is a nice architecture, but there isn't a whole lot "wrong" per se either with IA-32 or with x86-64.
You, my friend, should explore the *nix world beyond GNU... like seeing Sun's tar horribly fuck up extracting GCC (cuz dood, you gotta build GCC on Solaris) because of directory depth issues. And that's just shits and giggles. The only "compatible" and "working" TAR is GNU/Tar.
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Why? People don't just upgrade because they think its time to upgrade. People upgrade when a new version comes out that has more features. I just don't see someone going from Office 2003 to OpenOffice just because Office 2004 didn't come out soon enough. They might only if OOo get some crucial features, missing from O2k3.
Samsung Connect i.e. HP OpenMail i.e. Scalix.
Stay away from it.
Proprietary. Buggy as hell. In particular the Outlook plugin sucks... a lot. Hard to explain to out clients why THEY can't perform some reasonable Outlook operation. If you think you're saving money by going with this crock instead of Exchange - you're wrong. Lost a bunch of big clients due to this.
Uh buddy, the BIOS is just a piece of code that runs at power-up. No modern OS uses it beyond boot-up. The OS doesn't run on the BIOS. Show me one x86 SYSTEM emulator that doesn't provide the proper BIOS emulation.
No, unfortunately I am not aware of anything better. The only solution would be a common licensing framework embraced by all vendors, which as you might image, will happen about the same time hell freezes over.
Not really. AllOfMp3.com is pretty generic and platform-agnostic, if you use their web store. Plus since the music is offered is a multitude of formats (including OGG and FLAC), you're not being locked into any particular format.
Worst software ever. I worked for my school IT department, where I worked under a guy (really: did his job for him) who dealt with providing software access to university faculty.
First of all, the Keying shit fails horribly for all but the most trivial applications. What do I mean by that? I mean that you cannot use it to magically patch the installer - first of all the installer will EXIT since most do a CRC check (this means you effectively cannot patch the installer), and secondly this does nothing to the files inside the installation package (which means you have to patch one or two of those POST installation).
So, effectively the keying shit did not really enforce any licensing protection, since you would have to install the PRISTINE application, and then put your keyed executables in. That's literally what the genius I worked for came up with. Anyone with a non-negative IQ can figure out that the pseudo-installer distributed is actually a WSF script that first calls the original launcher over the network, then copies the patched files. So basically, keying provides no real protection but makes for great inconvenience. Moreover, a whole lot of apps really didn't like their code meddled with by the keying application and would just refuse to run after being patched. And yup, updates are fun too. Want to update Office to the latest security pack? Well, better start creating a new patched (and pseudo-keyed) installation cuz there is no other way. This means it takes forever to distribute application updates (due to the work needing to be performed, the need to re-install a HUGE application over network, etc). The developer is some hack working out of his garage. He is useless and likely won't be able to help you with any issues that will arise (and they will, especially with the key server itself. Buggiest POS I ever had to deal with).
I won't even go into how the modifications performed were absolutely trivial and how anyone armed with a dead listing and hex editor could "fix" the program, of course - provided the original didn't do CRC checks, cuz then you're boned.
Umm no. Have you ever seen the power of the math package on LaTeX? I can create horrendously complicated expressions? HTML? You probably mean Math ML - this depends on browser support, and, (you guessed it), rendering depends on the browser.
As others pointed out - you lose the whole "looks same everywhere" aspect once you move away from DVI, PS and PDF. I mean for crying out loud - you have to put *hacks* in your CSS just to get the same page looking right between IE and Mozilla-based browsers. This isn't a solution.
...right. How is this good for printed material? What can this do as a LaTeX export format that PS or PDF can't, other than being more difficult to generate (in the case of LaTeX?)?
Cause you know, not all of us use PDFs to distribute snapshots of web pages. Really.
The problem is, when you don't have anything to replace your Shuttle Program with. Sure - it's a great idea. The shuttles are obsolete and need to replaced. Sure. But are there ANY viable replacements? AFAIK not on the American side - this means the future of ISS and *manned* space exploration depends on the Soyuz vehicle, and while this is doing wonders for all the Russian pride welling up in my heart, I can't fathom how Bush thinks the US space program can go anywhere by dismantling existing spacecraft and not coming up with anything new.
Boy, I wonder how long it took you to come up with that one.
Idiot. Deep in your soul, you're just like all the other losers on slashdot daily taking part in the Microsoft-bashing orgy - wishing desperately you were good enough for Microsoft to give you an interview.
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Sorry, something about me not wanting my computer to become the local kiddie pr0n hub... Cause that's about the only use "FreeNET" will ever see. Don't believe me? What is it being used for now? But OMG Andy!!! Don't you want the Internet to be opaque to the prying eyes of Big Brother? No I don''t really give a damn. I have nothing to hide. Do you?
And all of that stuff is ABSOLUTELY downright horrible for you. I am guilty of it too, but recently mostly pizza places and "diners", (I will never go to a fast food chain anymore) but only because -
:.
a) Nothing more decent around where I work. There is some decent stuff around my uni, but I can't afford taking 3 hour lunches.
b) I can't afford to go home and cook either, as I can't have 3 hour lunches.
Come to think of it, I barely remember the last time I "lunched". I resolved that I either will go to decent restaurants or just not eat at all. Sure, you pay a bit more... but seriously... if you have to think about how much you spend on food, you need to do something with your life
Well, now that you've said, it must be true. How could we be so blind. Move on people, nothing to see here.
TECO
Been there done that. Now I do my homework... it's just that I don't by the books, although I just got 0wn3d by that :.
Are you incoherently parroting someone else's opinion or can you coherently explain your thoughts? PowerPC is a nice architecture, but there isn't a whole lot "wrong" per se either with IA-32 or with x86-64.
You realize the Sun hasn't OSSed all portions of their OS either?
You, my friend, should explore the *nix world beyond GNU... like seeing Sun's tar horribly fuck up extracting GCC (cuz dood, you gotta build GCC on Solaris) because of directory depth issues. And that's just shits and giggles. The only "compatible" and "working" TAR is GNU/Tar.
Why? People don't just upgrade because they think its time to upgrade. People upgrade when a new version comes out that has more features. I just don't see someone going from Office 2003 to OpenOffice just because Office 2004 didn't come out soon enough. They might only if OOo get some crucial features, missing from O2k3.
Samsung Connect i.e. HP OpenMail i.e. Scalix. Stay away from it. Proprietary. Buggy as hell. In particular the Outlook plugin sucks... a lot. Hard to explain to out clients why THEY can't perform some reasonable Outlook operation. If you think you're saving money by going with this crock instead of Exchange - you're wrong. Lost a bunch of big clients due to this.
Uh buddy, the BIOS is just a piece of code that runs at power-up. No modern OS uses it beyond boot-up. The OS doesn't run on the BIOS. Show me one x86 SYSTEM emulator that doesn't provide the proper BIOS emulation.
you know... liquids... the mixing thing....
Well, it doesn't work in Safari.
What are you, an anti-semite...?
You know, the beige G3 can still run 10.4 with XPostFacto.
No, unfortunately I am not aware of anything better. The only solution would be a common licensing framework embraced by all vendors, which as you might image, will happen about the same time hell freezes over.
Not really. AllOfMp3.com is pretty generic and platform-agnostic, if you use their web store. Plus since the music is offered is a multitude of formats (including OGG and FLAC), you're not being locked into any particular format.
Worst software ever. I worked for my school IT department, where I worked under a guy (really: did his job for him) who dealt with providing software access to university faculty.
First of all, the Keying shit fails horribly for all but the most trivial applications. What do I mean by that? I mean that you cannot use it to magically patch the installer - first of all the installer will EXIT since most do a CRC check (this means you effectively cannot patch the installer), and secondly this does nothing to the files inside the installation package (which means you have to patch one or two of those POST installation).
So, effectively the keying shit did not really enforce any licensing protection, since you would have to install the PRISTINE application, and then put your keyed executables in. That's literally what the genius I worked for came up with. Anyone with a non-negative IQ can figure out that the pseudo-installer distributed is actually a WSF script that first calls the original launcher over the network, then copies the patched files. So basically, keying provides no real protection but makes for great inconvenience. Moreover, a whole lot of apps really didn't like their code meddled with by the keying application and would just refuse to run after being patched. And yup, updates are fun too. Want to update Office to the latest security pack? Well, better start creating a new patched (and pseudo-keyed) installation cuz there is no other way. This means it takes forever to distribute application updates (due to the work needing to be performed, the need to re-install a HUGE application over network, etc). The developer is some hack working out of his garage. He is useless and likely won't be able to help you with any issues that will arise (and they will, especially with the key server itself. Buggiest POS I ever had to deal with).
I won't even go into how the modifications performed were absolutely trivial and how anyone armed with a dead listing and hex editor could "fix" the program, of course - provided the original didn't do CRC checks, cuz then you're boned.
Good work. I invoke Godwin's Law.
The Zarya module, anyone? ISS was SOL without Russians. Skylab was just a flying tin can compared to Mir.
Umm no. Have you ever seen the power of the math package on LaTeX? I can create horrendously complicated expressions? HTML? You probably mean Math ML - this depends on browser support, and, (you guessed it), rendering depends on the browser.
As others pointed out - you lose the whole "looks same everywhere" aspect once you move away from DVI, PS and PDF. I mean for crying out loud - you have to put *hacks* in your CSS just to get the same page looking right between IE and Mozilla-based browsers. This isn't a solution.
...right. How is this good for printed material? What can this do as a LaTeX export format that PS or PDF can't, other than being more difficult to generate (in the case of LaTeX?)?
Cause you know, not all of us use PDFs to distribute snapshots of web pages. Really.
That's okay, no one wants you there anyway. The money provided was nice, but don't forget ISS is basically Mir 3.
The problem is, when you don't have anything to replace your Shuttle Program with. Sure - it's a great idea. The shuttles are obsolete and need to replaced. Sure. But are there ANY viable replacements? AFAIK not on the American side - this means the future of ISS and *manned* space exploration depends on the Soyuz vehicle, and while this is doing wonders for all the Russian pride welling up in my heart, I can't fathom how Bush thinks the US space program can go anywhere by dismantling existing spacecraft and not coming up with anything new.
"hive mind"?
Boy, I wonder how long it took you to come up with that one.
Idiot. Deep in your soul, you're just like all the other losers on slashdot daily taking part in the Microsoft-bashing orgy - wishing desperately you were good enough for Microsoft to give you an interview.