Why the heck is the backbone even an issue?
I used to work for a (now-defunct) company that made fiber optic equipment and I know first hand how much dark fiber is out there and how much optic equipment going for pennies on the dollar.
This is just the owners of the buried fiber trying to work up the case against net-neutrality and squeeze as much mon.....987(^&^ [connection lost]
Ya but I think its a dam shame that I have to keep a database, 5 figures in length of sites for which I want my browser to say "SHOVE YOUR COOKIES WHERE ONLY YOUR PROCTOLOGIST WILL FIND IT", because of idiotic corporate jar heads like the poster of this story.
Oh ya wasn't too hard to make this decision when auto manufacturers already slop their vehicles over with Onstar, Sinc, what-have-you, tech that is already lousy with GPS.
I use UltraEdit instead of Notepad++. UltraEdit has a much cleaner column mode and actually does a regular expression "end of line" replacement (with no other characters) correctly. Notepad++ has a really clunky and unusable column mode and just will not perform something like "s/$/end/" in its replacement correctly, and it has been that way for a very long time.
I use RealVNC instead of TightVNC. TighVNC just has way too many bugs when using its video driver. If running Excel through TightVNCs video driver, you constantly get a "Not enough system resources" popup. And, if you edit anything with high ascii characters in it, the rest of the text goes invisible. The RealVNC video driver just works correctly immediately after you install it.
Now before you all call me a trator;P note that I have TRIED the above packages, and tried to live with them for quite sometime, but I just could not live with the bugs.
The reason I have not updated my very old version of Flash is because I heard about Omniture and 2o7.net and no they have not sufficiently explained themselves to their user base.
How about implementing a true repeat one/all sceme instead of that annoying A->B function.
How about cleaning up the numerous bugs in the shoutcast browser.
Oh of course we cant have changes where they really count, can we?
I quite seriously would not mind shelling out 299 for the full professional if it weren't for that pesky little thing in my head called morals.
It is morally reprehensible that INTEL was literally crucified when they came up with the idea of a processor ID and yet Microsoft gets away, fairly unscathed when they implement a hash of hardware data as part of WPA. To me, there is zero difference.
I never have been a big fan of VLC because I think its interface is clunky at best.
I'm going to list out what I don't like and who knows, maybe some./ers can tell me the solutions and I'll become a fan.
1.) Repeating. VLC uses the clunky "A to B" strategy and one can not just check a "repeat all" check-box.
2.) Shoutcast radio lists. Right-click + Open-Folder on a folder, does not work and if you double-click on a folder, it opens the first station in the list and starts playing it. (ug) Also, you have to click "Title" twice if you want the channels in alphabetical order after opening up a folder. (ug)
MP3 player I truly love which happens to play ogg vorbis, and probably will never do this DECE crap. (big bonus in my book)
Sorry but I still do not see a reason to switch from buying CDs, "in stores", with "good old fashion cash", thus spoiling their wet dream of targeted advertising.
The sad thing is, if it weren't for the SUM TOTAL of all the evils they have committed over the years, I might still be a Microsoft fan today. I started off being a Microsoft fan from the days of MS-DOS 6.11. I even was a fan of Windows 3.11 despite me knowing that they had deliberately engineered an error into the installer that prevented the installation into DR-DOS. If it had stopped there, I would have brushed it of and stayed a Microsoft fan, continually upgrading to their latest and greatest OSes.
But it didn't stop there. Next they were caught culling information on installed software packages when you upgraded from Win3.11 to Win95 in the now infamous Registration Wizard. Because of that act, I never once used a Win95 based OS on any personal system that I owned. Next, we have the infamous NSAKEY. I only started using NT and 2K after I found out that it is trivially easy to revoke it. I have never used IE explorer, because of the free bundling, which was done because of some petty dispute with the Netscape management.
And I have never once used XP. Once upon a time the mighty Intel said, let there be a processor ID. The people rose up and threatened to chop off their heads. When this idea died from public opinion, of course Microsoft just had to do an end around and establish a hash of hardware IDs in windows product activation. Yes I know they have said that they will do nothing with this information and not identify it with personal information. But, lets face it. Personal information was not going to be identified with Intel's processor ID either. It's the fact that it exists at all, that can give advertisers an edge to relate the ID later to personal information, using in house databases, or even overreaching government agencies doing this, that should be the concern. No I wont use XP and am frankly happy with 2K for the time being. And obviously, I don't trust Microsoft at their word.
But that is not even the end of the story. Along comes fat cat, uber-rich, big media saying, there shall be digital rights management. Microsoft didn't even question the need, before making Vista lousy with it and bundling the latest media player with the OS.
Sorry. For me, its not the perceived lack of performance of Vista. In fact I have talked with some administrators about it, and despite it being a fairly heavy memory hog, apparently Vista is an extremely stable OS. For me, its the sum total of all the evils over the years, treating their users like dirt and not ever listening to their opinions. For me they have already proven that they will never change, despite any statements to the contrary by their management.
They dug this hole for themselves and now they are going to have to lie in it.
My primary machine is an AMD 64 bit running 2K duel booted with Fedora Core 64bit. If the wine project ever gets certain various small applications working flawlessly, then the 2K partition on my computer goes away in a heartbeat and Microsoft will never grace any of my personal CPU's again.
Ob Disclaimer: Yes I know that many of you will be able to come up with more MS evils. In fact I think there is a web page out there somewhere.;P
Deliberately putting code into Win3.1 so that it would error when trying to install under DR-DOS when there was no technical reason it couldnt be loaded in DR-DOS.
2
Having the Registration Wizard in Win95 call home to report on software that you had installed on Win3.1 when upgrading. The first true spyware.
3
Six letters. N S A K E Y. Need I say more?
4
Bundling IE with windows, just to be petty and drive Netscape out of business.
5
Slopping DRM over everything in sight despite what they claim are their preferences. They could have stood up to Holywood.
6
Engineering the equivilant of Intels processor ID in the form of the windows product activation hash.
7
Bullying computer manufacturers into preinstalling windows so there is a windows tax, under the gise of combatting windows pirates.
I know there are a couple more that are slipping my mind at the moment.
Ya, that is until the thousands of Linux contributors (who ARE copywrite holders) tell Novel that they are in violation of the GPL and not allowed to use their code anymore. Dont think that that cant happen. In my opinion it should happen.
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Why the heck is the backbone even an issue? I used to work for a (now-defunct) company that made fiber optic equipment and I know first hand how much dark fiber is out there and how much optic equipment going for pennies on the dollar. This is just the owners of the buried fiber trying to work up the case against net-neutrality and squeeze as much mon.....987(^&^ [connection lost]
Wish I could tell these 2 what I think of their company's purchase of Omniture (2o7.net) but I want to keep it office safe.
I don't think the EU proposal goes far enough.
Oh ya wasn't too hard to make this decision when auto manufacturers already slop their vehicles over with Onstar, Sinc, what-have-you, tech that is already lousy with GPS.
I use RealVNC instead of TightVNC. TighVNC just has way too many bugs when using its video driver. If running Excel through TightVNCs video driver, you constantly get a "Not enough system resources" popup. And, if you edit anything with high ascii characters in it, the rest of the text goes invisible. The RealVNC video driver just works correctly immediately after you install it.
Now before you all call me a trator ;P note that I have TRIED the above packages, and tried to live with them for quite sometime, but I just could not live with the bugs.
The reason I have not updated my very old version of Flash is because I heard about Omniture and 2o7.net and no they have not sufficiently explained themselves to their user base.
How about implementing a true repeat one/all sceme instead of that annoying A->B function.
How about cleaning up the numerous bugs in the shoutcast browser.
Oh of course we cant have changes where they really count, can we?
It is morally reprehensible that INTEL was literally crucified when they came up with the idea of a processor ID and yet Microsoft gets away, fairly unscathed when they implement a hash of hardware data as part of WPA. To me, there is zero difference.
After the Omniture debacle I would very much like to see Adobe go the way of SCO.
I'm going to list out what I don't like and who knows, maybe some ./ers can tell me the solutions and I'll become a fan.
1.) Repeating. VLC uses the clunky "A to B" strategy and one can not just check a "repeat all" check-box.
2.) Shoutcast radio lists. Right-click + Open-Folder on a folder, does not work and if you double-click on a folder, it opens the first station in the list and starts playing it. (ug) Also, you have to click "Title" twice if you want the channels in alphabetical order after opening up a folder. (ug)
Once you do, make sure you take a snapshot image so verizon doesn't have any wiggle room. I have that picture saved now.
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MP3 player I truly love which happens to play ogg vorbis, and probably will never do this DECE crap. (big bonus in my book)
Sorry but I still do not see a reason to switch from buying CDs, "in stores", with "good old fashion cash", thus spoiling their wet dream of targeted advertising.
What does the scouter say about the number of downloads at 10:01 AM PST?
But it didn't stop there. Next they were caught culling information on installed software packages when you upgraded from Win3.11 to Win95 in the now infamous Registration Wizard. Because of that act, I never once used a Win95 based OS on any personal system that I owned. Next, we have the infamous NSAKEY. I only started using NT and 2K after I found out that it is trivially easy to revoke it. I have never used IE explorer, because of the free bundling, which was done because of some petty dispute with the Netscape management.
And I have never once used XP. Once upon a time the mighty Intel said, let there be a processor ID. The people rose up and threatened to chop off their heads. When this idea died from public opinion, of course Microsoft just had to do an end around and establish a hash of hardware IDs in windows product activation. Yes I know they have said that they will do nothing with this information and not identify it with personal information. But, lets face it. Personal information was not going to be identified with Intel's processor ID either. It's the fact that it exists at all, that can give advertisers an edge to relate the ID later to personal information, using in house databases, or even overreaching government agencies doing this, that should be the concern. No I wont use XP and am frankly happy with 2K for the time being. And obviously, I don't trust Microsoft at their word.
But that is not even the end of the story. Along comes fat cat, uber-rich, big media saying, there shall be digital rights management. Microsoft didn't even question the need, before making Vista lousy with it and bundling the latest media player with the OS.
Sorry. For me, its not the perceived lack of performance of Vista. In fact I have talked with some administrators about it, and despite it being a fairly heavy memory hog, apparently Vista is an extremely stable OS. For me, its the sum total of all the evils over the years, treating their users like dirt and not ever listening to their opinions. For me they have already proven that they will never change, despite any statements to the contrary by their management.
They dug this hole for themselves and now they are going to have to lie in it.
My primary machine is an AMD 64 bit running 2K duel booted with Fedora Core 64bit. If the wine project ever gets certain various small applications working flawlessly, then the 2K partition on my computer goes away in a heartbeat and Microsoft will never grace any of my personal CPU's again.
Ob Disclaimer: Yes I know that many of you will be able to come up with more MS evils. In fact I think there is a web page out there somewhere. ;P
Seriously, someday I would just love to see this article put before a judge in some case, as reductio ad absurdum.
I would start issuing invoices for fill-ups.
There is a poster over on groklaw who quite correctly noted that we now have a Novel who:
Has done a deal with the devil MS.
Now owns Unix free and clear.
Is instructing SCO to not proceed with the IBM case so that part of that case (infringing code) will not be tested in court.
Doesn't anyone see that this could be a recipe for more FUD about Linux infringement?
How are they going to stop you using something like that?
My only gripe with these is that the noise they put on the power line seems to interfere with X10 home automation systems.
Wonder if someone will make a car ubuntu. :P
LMAO
COTFLGOHAHA
Deliberately putting code into Win3.1 so that it would error when trying to install under DR-DOS when there was no technical reason it couldnt be loaded in DR-DOS.
2
Having the Registration Wizard in Win95 call home to report on software that you had installed on Win3.1 when upgrading. The first true spyware.
3
Six letters. N S A K E Y. Need I say more?
4
Bundling IE with windows, just to be petty and drive Netscape out of business.
5
Slopping DRM over everything in sight despite what they claim are their preferences. They could have stood up to Holywood.
6
Engineering the equivilant of Intels processor ID in the form of the windows product activation hash.
7
Bullying computer manufacturers into preinstalling windows so there is a windows tax, under the gise of combatting windows pirates.
I know there are a couple more that are slipping my mind at the moment.
require DX10, that is of course until Wine gets DX10 compatibility. ;P
Ya, that is until the thousands of Linux contributors (who ARE copywrite holders) tell Novel that they are in violation of the GPL and not allowed to use their code anymore. Dont think that that cant happen. In my opinion it should happen.