I've gone to four seperate colleges and found all of thier classes lacking. I first went to CCA, a commuity college in Aurora, CO, and then moved to Metro State College of Denver, CU in Boulder, and finilly Colorado School of Mines. Each school's CS department was not very apealling in terms of what I wished to learn. I am predominatley self educated in the first place I felt that it was unfiar that I couldn't just skip certian classes in which I already knew the critera. I finaly gave up college and just put together a decent resume and got my foot in the door working for one of the local defence contractors in InfoSec. I'm getting paid $20,000 more for my skillset than my freinds who have graduated and earned a degree (I'm getting $70,000). I feel that I'm underpaid for my skillset but I know that if I went to college and only learned what they were teaching that I would not be where I am today through self education. Honestly I would rather not goto college. I feel that college cannot teach me what I need to know. Until the day that they get better classes where I feel that I can be properly challenged then I have no intentions of returning.
I would like to thank you for taking notice of linux, however, you
made a couple of mistakes. Let us review.
1) I can get it for free IF I have a paid and registered for a windows
version of the software.
Just because we use "free" (as in speech) doesn't mean that we are
below paying for a peice of software commercially. Hell I'd pay $29.99
for a good CD burning kit if it had noticably better features than my
current software (k3b). Unforunatly I do have an issue with having to
buy one piece of software that is completly useless to me to use
another. I have not run (MS) Windows for at least 4 years and when I
did I really did not have use for a cd burner anyways. I am not below
paying for (quality) commecial software I own a copy of Photoshop CS
that I use on my Apple G5. I play Doom 3, World of Warcraft, Half Life
2 and UT2k3-4 with cedega and I listen to and purchase music on iTunes
using CrossOver Office. Each piece of the software I have purchased
and use almost daily. Just sell it for $29.99 or whatever you guys
charge for your software.
2) Unlike most Windows users Linux users will read the EULA and
everything else we can find on and about the software.
Why on earth did you use Microsoft's DRM on a Linux product. There is
no way in hell you will catch any Linux user running that. Most Linux
users absolutley hate Microsoft we use Linux not always because it's
"free" but because it is better than the mainstream OS (Microsoft).
Excuse the analogy but I prefer to be able to grab my OS by the balls
and make it do what ever the hell I tell it to. DRM in most of our
opinions removes fair-use from the game. Besides it's Microsoft. Can't
you use some other form of DRM or other. Please.
3) It's a nice gesture you'll probably take a lot of flak for the way
it was released. Don't stop though keep working on it. The only way
you get a piece of software to be adopted by the linux community
though is for it to be better than everything else. Seriously I do not
see any benifit to my current software. I have no intentions of
installing your software until you stop the farse of a "free copy" and
just sell it for fuck's sake, and remove MS's DRM and use something
more appropriate ( None MS ).
Sincerly,
JD Geier
Yes I did RTFA. I know that Solaris/x86's driver support stinks. But if were one of the creators of a peice of software that just called garbage by another person I'm pretty sure I'd be either pissed or at least disgruntled. I most definitely would try and either defend my software or would get very hostile and insult the other person. Again with the tactics that Sun has shown in the past in terms of linux I would be curious as to see what thier responce would be. I hope this clears up what I meant in the post.
I wouldn't be suprised if Sun came out with a responce to this article. I mean Linus essentially just called thier operating system a joke. I wonder what kind of responce Sun will have to that.
This will make Symantec one of the largest software makers out there. As if they were not big enough in the first place. Personaly though on my WinXP partition I use F-Prot for virus scanning.
Actually here's the run down as I see it. SCO owns Unix code, and trademark for Unix. What SCO does not own is the intelectual property or the copyright for Unix, as a matter of fact Novell still owns these according to the APA (Asset Prurchase Agreement) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200311102 3050367 which clearly show exactly what SCO owns and what SCO does not in Schedule 1.1(a) Assets and Schedule 1.1(b) Excluded Assets respectivly. Pretty stright forward if you ask me. The thing is if this holds water in court SCO is pretty much down the drain as Novell pulled this ace out of it's sleve in it's latest "Reply in Support of Novell's Motion to Dismiss Amended Complaint" http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Novell-56.pdf. Now if this proves true then SCO's ownership of the "concept of Unix" doesn't hold water, and all they can do is claim that the GPL is unconstitutional, which they are doing, and try and play it out from there. As for the IBM case all that they can say is "stop using our code" but in order to do this they have to prove that IBM has unix in linux.
Other than the fact that this is old news. I would have figured that the focus would be more on the new nforce4 chipset http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce4_family.html familiy. There are three board types in this family The Nforce4 Standard, the Nforce4 Ultra, and the Nforce SLI. As a matter of fact Asus is releaseing an sli board based on this right now called the A8N-SLI with a slew of added features that you could expect out of and asus board including dual gigabit ethernet ports! Why the via board is even being covered is beyond me the nforce is a much more better chipset. Here is a [H]ardOCP benchmark page here http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njk2. Enjoy.;)
So what are we going to do tonight Brain?
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Review: Evil Genius
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Try to take over the world! I'm planning on buying this game when it comes out, main reason is lately I've been tired of always saving the world in a one man against all battle for good. I think the idea of being the villian is great idea once in awhile. I also plan on playing City of Villians as well. It's not like I want to be a bad guy, but killing demon hordes to protect the masses or foiling the dastardly bad guys who are always trying to take over the world has kind of got played out. I think this is a game that I would enjoy to play as much as I enjoy Fable where I can choose to be good or evil. Either way I think this will be a great game to play. Thanks for the review.
Set backs in technology supplies and support to our troops were delayed due to a discrepency in who we should outsource to first. After spending 60 billion on a defence project given to the lowest bidder in some third world country developments broke down after we found out we just couldn't understand a fucking word they were saying. I mean it's not like the guy running the current administration isn't all about making sure we have the "proper tools" to stop these "terrorists".
Right now most people have multiple phones a house phone and a cell phone. Some even have a buisness cell phone that their employer has them use. all have different numbers. Some people have family plans with multiple phones each with seperate numbers. Imagine this. You call my phone number lets say its (234)555-xxxx. When you dial that number my home phone connected via ATA, my VoIP enabled handheld with 802.16a and my wifes phone all ring. Just one number. Each phone (although having individual IP adresses with inside my network including my modile which is VPN'd via [insert your favorite flavor of VPN technology] share 1 number. Basicly makeing my old PBX connection dead. So what's bad about this. Granted the quality is a little lesser than my PBX connceted home phone but my cell phone is pretty much worse than both. The reason for this is probably because your VoIP provider lives miles away across high latency cabling. QoS helps yes, but maybe when you have a VoIP provider that lives in the same state as you do you wont have such a bad signal. Besides it's still relitivly new give it some time so we can work out the kinks.
I will never watch Star Wars again. I used to be a big fan of Star Wars. I collected the books, watched the movies many many times, joined the fan club, read fan-zines, had lots and lots of apperal. Then one day a very starnge thing happened to me. I saw Episode 1. Confused and yet calm I decided I would watch one more time just to make sure and to confirm my decision. I was right Lucus has gone nuts. I quickly burned all of my Star Wars gear, and complained endlessly about how bad the movie was. So pissed was I that I refuse to watch Episode II or III. Why?
Jar-Jar Binks.
I've seen breif glimpse of Episode II one in awhile I'll have flipped through a channel and seen it watch in breif curiosity realize how bad the acting was. Now I realize how influential Star Wars was to sci-fi. I know that. But you can not tell me that
1) Episode 1 was good in any shape or form
2) Episode 2 is worth watching
3) Episode 3 will be better
Cause I really don't believe you.
At my place of work I program embedded linux systems. Building a GNU tool chain for cross compiling binaries for other architecture such as mips(el) and arm is nearly trivial on Debian. I fond this out the hard way playing with all differnt environment values in SuSE just to make it function. This leads me to believe that Debian is a better development platform for GNU software. Yet the main problem is still there in terms of commercial software. If your company is planning on running commercial software I would use SuSE or RedHat. They are better geared to this type of commercial software. But to be honest I'd stick with what your corporate overlords have mandated you to run. Like everyone else has said you'll find support for it much better than spending endless days trying to figure it out.
Well first off Sony is done with the PDA market. Secondly it's really not that powerful My linksys router has a 200Mhz processor. And finally while many a PDA can act as a remote control this is a home automation remote. Last time I checked my $700 iPAQ 5555 running familiar linux cannot do home automation. I would actually say that considering the price $700 dollars is not that expensive for a home automation device. I've seen some go for about $2000.
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I've gone to four seperate colleges and found all of thier classes lacking. I first went to CCA, a commuity college in Aurora, CO, and then moved to Metro State College of Denver, CU in Boulder, and finilly Colorado School of Mines. Each school's CS department was not very apealling in terms of what I wished to learn. I am predominatley self educated in the first place I felt that it was unfiar that I couldn't just skip certian classes in which I already knew the critera. I finaly gave up college and just put together a decent resume and got my foot in the door working for one of the local defence contractors in InfoSec. I'm getting paid $20,000 more for my skillset than my freinds who have graduated and earned a degree (I'm getting $70,000). I feel that I'm underpaid for my skillset but I know that if I went to college and only learned what they were teaching that I would not be where I am today through self education. Honestly I would rather not goto college. I feel that college cannot teach me what I need to know. Until the day that they get better classes where I feel that I can be properly challenged then I have no intentions of returning.
Notice who wrote the article (PaSTE).
Does this mean April Fools Day is over?
Darn I was hoping to get some free karma too.
Fork it.
Fork it
I would like to thank you for taking notice of linux, however, you made a couple of mistakes. Let us review. 1) I can get it for free IF I have a paid and registered for a windows version of the software. Just because we use "free" (as in speech) doesn't mean that we are below paying for a peice of software commercially. Hell I'd pay $29.99 for a good CD burning kit if it had noticably better features than my current software (k3b). Unforunatly I do have an issue with having to buy one piece of software that is completly useless to me to use another. I have not run (MS) Windows for at least 4 years and when I did I really did not have use for a cd burner anyways. I am not below paying for (quality) commecial software I own a copy of Photoshop CS that I use on my Apple G5. I play Doom 3, World of Warcraft, Half Life 2 and UT2k3-4 with cedega and I listen to and purchase music on iTunes using CrossOver Office. Each piece of the software I have purchased and use almost daily. Just sell it for $29.99 or whatever you guys charge for your software. 2) Unlike most Windows users Linux users will read the EULA and everything else we can find on and about the software. Why on earth did you use Microsoft's DRM on a Linux product. There is no way in hell you will catch any Linux user running that. Most Linux users absolutley hate Microsoft we use Linux not always because it's "free" but because it is better than the mainstream OS (Microsoft). Excuse the analogy but I prefer to be able to grab my OS by the balls and make it do what ever the hell I tell it to. DRM in most of our opinions removes fair-use from the game. Besides it's Microsoft. Can't you use some other form of DRM or other. Please. 3) It's a nice gesture you'll probably take a lot of flak for the way it was released. Don't stop though keep working on it. The only way you get a piece of software to be adopted by the linux community though is for it to be better than everything else. Seriously I do not see any benifit to my current software. I have no intentions of installing your software until you stop the farse of a "free copy" and just sell it for fuck's sake, and remove MS's DRM and use something more appropriate ( None MS ). Sincerly, JD Geier
You still have sex! I guess if you are going with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll theme.
At Compusa. It comes with the lightscribe
Thanks for the link. I think I'll be watching that for awhile to see if anything interesting pops up.
Yes I did RTFA. I know that Solaris/x86's driver support stinks. But if were one of the creators of a peice of software that just called garbage by another person I'm pretty sure I'd be either pissed or at least disgruntled. I most definitely would try and either defend my software or would get very hostile and insult the other person. Again with the tactics that Sun has shown in the past in terms of linux I would be curious as to see what thier responce would be. I hope this clears up what I meant in the post.
I wouldn't be suprised if Sun came out with a responce to this article. I mean Linus essentially just called thier operating system a joke. I wonder what kind of responce Sun will have to that.
I'm sure the movie will just as good.
This will make Symantec one of the largest software makers out there. As if they were not big enough in the first place. Personaly though on my WinXP partition I use F-Prot for virus scanning.
Actually here's the run down as I see it. SCO owns Unix code, and trademark for Unix. What SCO does not own is the intelectual property or the copyright for Unix, as a matter of fact Novell still owns these according to the APA (Asset Prurchase Agreement) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200311102 3050367 which clearly show exactly what SCO owns and what SCO does not in Schedule 1.1(a) Assets and Schedule 1.1(b) Excluded Assets respectivly. Pretty stright forward if you ask me. The thing is if this holds water in court SCO is pretty much down the drain as Novell pulled this ace out of it's sleve in it's latest "Reply in Support of Novell's Motion to Dismiss Amended Complaint" http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Novell-56.pdf. Now if this proves true then SCO's ownership of the "concept of Unix" doesn't hold water, and all they can do is claim that the GPL is unconstitutional, which they are doing, and try and play it out from there. As for the IBM case all that they can say is "stop using our code" but in order to do this they have to prove that IBM has unix in linux.
Other than the fact that this is old news. I would have figured that the focus would be more on the new nforce4 chipset http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce4_family.html familiy. There are three board types in this family The Nforce4 Standard, the Nforce4 Ultra, and the Nforce SLI. As a matter of fact Asus is releaseing an sli board based on this right now called the A8N-SLI with a slew of added features that you could expect out of and asus board including dual gigabit ethernet ports! Why the via board is even being covered is beyond me the nforce is a much more better chipset. Here is a [H]ardOCP benchmark page here http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njk2. Enjoy. ;)
Try to take over the world! I'm planning on buying this game when it comes out, main reason is lately I've been tired of always saving the world in a one man against all battle for good. I think the idea of being the villian is great idea once in awhile. I also plan on playing City of Villians as well. It's not like I want to be a bad guy, but killing demon hordes to protect the masses or foiling the dastardly bad guys who are always trying to take over the world has kind of got played out. I think this is a game that I would enjoy to play as much as I enjoy Fable where I can choose to be good or evil. Either way I think this will be a great game to play. Thanks for the review.
Set backs in technology supplies and support to our troops were delayed due to a discrepency in who we should outsource to first. After spending 60 billion on a defence project given to the lowest bidder in some third world country developments broke down after we found out we just couldn't understand a fucking word they were saying. I mean it's not like the guy running the current administration isn't all about making sure we have the "proper tools" to stop these "terrorists".
It flies for christ sake.
Right now most people have multiple phones a house phone and a cell phone. Some even have a buisness cell phone that their employer has them use. all have different numbers. Some people have family plans with multiple phones each with seperate numbers. Imagine this. You call my phone number lets say its (234)555-xxxx. When you dial that number my home phone connected via ATA, my VoIP enabled handheld with 802.16a and my wifes phone all ring. Just one number. Each phone (although having individual IP adresses with inside my network including my modile which is VPN'd via [insert your favorite flavor of VPN technology] share 1 number. Basicly makeing my old PBX connection dead. So what's bad about this. Granted the quality is a little lesser than my PBX connceted home phone but my cell phone is pretty much worse than both. The reason for this is probably because your VoIP provider lives miles away across high latency cabling. QoS helps yes, but maybe when you have a VoIP provider that lives in the same state as you do you wont have such a bad signal. Besides it's still relitivly new give it some time so we can work out the kinks.
I will never watch Star Wars again. I used to be a big fan of Star Wars. I collected the books, watched the movies many many times, joined the fan club, read fan-zines, had lots and lots of apperal. Then one day a very starnge thing happened to me. I saw Episode 1. Confused and yet calm I decided I would watch one more time just to make sure and to confirm my decision. I was right Lucus has gone nuts. I quickly burned all of my Star Wars gear, and complained endlessly about how bad the movie was. So pissed was I that I refuse to watch Episode II or III. Why? Jar-Jar Binks. I've seen breif glimpse of Episode II one in awhile I'll have flipped through a channel and seen it watch in breif curiosity realize how bad the acting was. Now I realize how influential Star Wars was to sci-fi. I know that. But you can not tell me that 1) Episode 1 was good in any shape or form 2) Episode 2 is worth watching 3) Episode 3 will be better Cause I really don't believe you.
At my place of work I program embedded linux systems. Building a GNU tool chain for cross compiling binaries for other architecture such as mips(el) and arm is nearly trivial on Debian. I fond this out the hard way playing with all differnt environment values in SuSE just to make it function. This leads me to believe that Debian is a better development platform for GNU software. Yet the main problem is still there in terms of commercial software. If your company is planning on running commercial software I would use SuSE or RedHat. They are better geared to this type of commercial software. But to be honest I'd stick with what your corporate overlords have mandated you to run. Like everyone else has said you'll find support for it much better than spending endless days trying to figure it out.
We could compare Linux running on a WRT54G versus ...
OpenWRT is a better solution. They've moved their web site to openwrt.org .
free beer
Well first off Sony is done with the PDA market. Secondly it's really not that powerful My linksys router has a 200Mhz processor. And finally while many a PDA can act as a remote control this is a home automation remote. Last time I checked my $700 iPAQ 5555 running familiar linux cannot do home automation. I would actually say that considering the price $700 dollars is not that expensive for a home automation device. I've seen some go for about $2000.