There have been plenty of credible reports documenting them down through the ages, including some which go into enough consisent detail to rule that some of them did indeed have unusually hot breath (if not up to the standards of (e.g.) Shrek's donkey's newfound romantic interest). Some could fly, some could not, but I somehow doubt that the fliers did it with vestigial/token wings like the ones depicted on said romantic interest.
Since very few of the dinosaurs proper had any soft parts preserved (but do take the time to wonder a lot about the ones that were, supposedly over a span of 60+ million years - I want a patent on that preservation process), there is plenty of scope for hereinbefore unexpected biological processes.
Some cultures don't call them dragons. Think about AmerIndian "ThunderBird" legends and so on as well.
In general, they're not nice people. Certainly not as nice as our beloved autopr0n. (-:
Example? The Adult Shop in Perth, WA. I found out who I was working for (contacted through an intermediary) when I read the name on the door - I'd only been given an address. Their server worked fine for about a month, then they asked me to put in MajorDomo so they could spam people.
I warned them that MajorDomo was insecure and they might lose the box because of it, and that spamming would attract negative attention.
They told me to go ahead anyway, I did, and 90 minutes after the first spam went out someone broke in through MajorDomo and trashed the box. Then about an hour after that they and their network neighbours got DDoS'ed, big time.
They never paid me for any of the work.
The office politics in there were incredible, the intensity of hatred and jealousy floating about was amazing, and everyone wore black. And I'm afraid that's typical of the adult places I've bumped into over the years.
When their case folds, SCO are going to vanish beyond the financial event horizon at relativistic speeds. Expecting to recover from them is just dumb: as dumb as leaving a rucksack full of hundred dollar bills on a Harlem street and coming back a week later to recover them.
No, this was a buddy-buddy deal. Whether SCO is rewarding EV1, or Microsoft, EV1 is not doing this primarily for the stated reasons.
boot-image notices that box is bare == fraction of second
system image (make it comprehensive, call it 1GB packed into 300MB) -> ungzip -> disk @ 100Mb/s == 10MB/s == 30 seconds
edit config files to suit, remount system image == under 1 second
bring up firewall, named, sshd, apache, ftpd == 3 seconds
total time bare -> running Linux, under a minute, and you don't even need to reboot if you sent out the right kernel the first time
you can also broadcast the disk image and do as many Linux machines as you like roughly every 30 seconds...and MS-Windows setup is faster? How? They shipped it on the hard disks?
EV1, porn capital and Windows Popup spammer extraordinaire, is the end user here. EV1, not the customers, would get sued. And since they use Red Hat, they're indemnified even if TSG win their barratrous suit. They had nothing to gain by paying the Danegeld, so why did they do it? Evidently Mister HeadSurfer plans to get the money back somehow, all we need to do is find out how and we can probably blow TSG's racket right open.
EV1 don't give you a discount for choosing a FreeBSD server instead of MS-Windows 2003 or Red Hat Enterprise server. Why not?
EV1 were one of the first big rollouts of MS-Windows 2003, does this suggest anything to you about their real feelings? As in, "We'd love to go all Windows, Bill, but our customers aren't interested. Is there anything else we can do for you? Help out a friend?"
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Yes, I believe they deserve recognition, but why not on websites rather than my OS???
Because you'll never see it, and never know. NIMBY syndrome. My beef is not with the recognition, but that it it mandated and in particular that this mandate makes it GPL-incompatible because it is an additional restriction not found in the GPL.
If you'd posted under a real name, you'd get a real reply.
Thanks for the link. I'm not much into payback, but I'm glad to see the copier's authors excising protection features as well as the descrambler. It puts across the message that they have been playing nicely despite being attacked, but that they will not make a doormat of themselves.
I'm wondering whether this might also have an impact.
Good point, and I don't see a quick solution.
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We can always hope that some genius will find a way to work that into GPLv3, but the legal gymnastics to do that safely are beyond me.
...I'd only ever see it once anyway. As it is, I'll never buy another NVidia card again if I can help it. Reliable NVidia drivers are a highly ephemeral thing.
...and it's not like an application's splash screen, which comes up every time you launch the app. Saturation advertising. Ptui! Because you can't say it well, you have to say it constantly before anyone accepts it.
Not that I don't see where you're coming from. I'm currently diddling around with WINE, and I've run across one app (a game) whose splash-screen locks up hard under WINE but if you bypass it (turn the call into NOPs) it works without trauma, and another whose splash-screen works but the hotspot isn't over the drawn button and the mouse cursor doesn't change so it's very hit-and-miss to get the thing started.
Fedora, Mandrake, OpenBSD and others have also "no thanksed" the new licence.
XFree86 has been willing to talk, but not (quoth Theo deRaadt) to "use the same words" as every other advertising-clause BSD licence. Talk the talk, yes, but walking the walk hasn't happened much.
I would personally be happy to add a splash screen or whatever, but not to be required to so do.
...is there one for the delta between 4.4rc2 and 4.4.0? It's probably a much shorter list, and IIRC at least the VIA, SiS, nv drivers, FreeType2 and Mesa stuff can't fall under the new licence.
No worries: /usr/Y1R04/ or /usr/FD1R04 any good?
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My AOpen Optical OpenEye WheelMouse O35G...
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...(I kid you not, that's it's full name) has two scroll-wheels plus four other buttons. Coming soon, Ctrl, Shift and Alt buttons and the Dvorak Mouse.
...that BSD and the new XFree86 licence require you to acknowledge the authorship and GPL forbids you from adding restrictions not in the GPL - including an advertising clause.
I would be happy to see the licence backed out and the major distributors voluntarily add a splash screen giving major credits and referring the viewer to a website with extended acknowledgements.
I would be just as happy to see a GPL "A" variant arise which was GPL plus advertising clause. This would allow you to GPLA-license BSD code which you are modifying, effectivly getting the GPL's sterner protection but without treading on the intentions and rights of the original authors.
Of course, if you're working from a no-advertising BSD licence, these problems evapourate. Personally, I'd like to see XFree86 with a splash screen since it'd give you something to read while KDE (or whatever) starts, and it'd overwrite the splash screen from NVidia (or other manufacturer) who are not at all shy about claiming credit for stuff.
Do you think if I "upgraded" to linux and spent the time learning to use the command line tools it would aleviate the overheating problems?
It will definitely run cooler unless the Inspiron's power management is so non-standard that Linux can't drive it properly. But if you're relatively happy on XP, I would be reluctant to change you in order to maybe solve just one problem.
Get a sheet of particle board or MDF, silhouette your platop on it, trench it maybe 5-6mm deep from a fan-shaped circle adjacent the Dell to all of the vents on the bottom of the machine and bolt a real fan atop the circle. Remember to also dig out holes for the "feet" to make the seal (such as it is) around the rebating better.
I do do development work while ripping and can not notice any speed difference or UI unresponsiveness.
Can't speak for MSWin2k but can say that MSWinXP on at least two installations does borrow time for the burner. It might depend on how much of the unit's DMA etc is supported by the drivers.
Linux can have badly-written drivers running built-down-to-a-price hardware, no questions there, that's why my NForce boards are now all running ATI video cards.
What Linux doesn't have is the mystery indistinguishable semi-sub-versions of DLLs, each with a special something that one or another app requires, but in turn missing or mis-implementing something that the other copies of itself do right. We have a real, extensible version numbering system so a program can request a specific version of a library, or the latest of a specific version range with arbitrary degrees of specificity. It also has much better partitioning between libraries. The problems you have with NForce will be due to NVidia point-blank refusing to Open their drivers, not weird interactions between libraries.
ATI have opened a large part of their drivers, XGI will open at least the 2D parts and hopefully also the 3D parts of their drivers. Spot the odd manufacturer out.
With one and a half gigapeople, they can do more or less what they please, and the WTO can go whistle. What they please is not having some dog-eyed custard-pie magnet supply practically all of their IT. In other news, welcome to China again, the head of Red Flag Linux is the son of...?
Down in the details, you'll notice that this is for government purchases only, so IOW they're not doing a WTO-actionable trade ban anyway.
Also, this may have been done now rather than at any other particular time as an answer to Steve Ballmer's recent statements about how China is Microsoft's next Great White Hope.
Admittedly not as pretty as the MS-Windows software, but you could use it with a frontend like acidrip, kmencoder or Gmencoder. They're all fairly portable (AcidRip is even written in PERL), so you could use them on Windows with a great deal less effort than using Nero on Linux.
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Dragons did, possibly still do exist.
There have been plenty of credible reports documenting them down through the ages, including some which go into enough consisent detail to rule that some of them did indeed have unusually hot breath (if not up to the standards of (e.g.) Shrek's donkey's newfound romantic interest). Some could fly, some could not, but I somehow doubt that the fliers did it with vestigial/token wings like the ones depicted on said romantic interest.
Since very few of the dinosaurs proper had any soft parts preserved (but do take the time to wonder a lot about the ones that were, supposedly over a span of 60+ million years - I want a patent on that preservation process), there is plenty of scope for hereinbefore unexpected biological processes.
Some cultures don't call them dragons. Think about AmerIndian "ThunderBird" legends and so on as well.
Example? The Adult Shop in Perth, WA. I found out who I was working for (contacted through an intermediary) when I read the name on the door - I'd only been given an address. Their server worked fine for about a month, then they asked me to put in MajorDomo so they could spam people.
I warned them that MajorDomo was insecure and they might lose the box because of it, and that spamming would attract negative attention.
They told me to go ahead anyway, I did, and 90 minutes after the first spam went out someone broke in through MajorDomo and trashed the box. Then about an hour after that they and their network neighbours got DDoS'ed, big time.
They never paid me for any of the work.
The office politics in there were incredible, the intensity of hatred and jealousy floating about was amazing, and everyone wore black. And I'm afraid that's typical of the adult places I've bumped into over the years.
When their case folds, SCO are going to vanish beyond the financial event horizon at relativistic speeds. Expecting to recover from them is just dumb: as dumb as leaving a rucksack full of hundred dollar bills on a Harlem street and coming back a week later to recover them.
No, this was a buddy-buddy deal. Whether SCO is rewarding EV1, or Microsoft, EV1 is not doing this primarily for the stated reasons.
PXE -> boot-image == under 5 seconds
...and MS-Windows setup is faster? How? They shipped it on the hard disks?
boot and self-test == under 10 seconds
boot-image notices that box is bare == fraction of second
system image (make it comprehensive, call it 1GB packed into 300MB) -> ungzip -> disk @ 100Mb/s == 10MB/s == 30 seconds
edit config files to suit, remount system image == under 1 second
bring up firewall, named, sshd, apache, ftpd == 3 seconds
total time bare -> running Linux, under a minute, and you don't even need to reboot if you sent out the right kernel the first time
you can also broadcast the disk image and do as many Linux machines as you like roughly every 30 seconds
EV1 don't give you a discount for choosing a FreeBSD server instead of MS-Windows 2003 or Red Hat Enterprise server. Why not?
EV1 were one of the first big rollouts of MS-Windows 2003, does this suggest anything to you about their real feelings? As in, "We'd love to go all Windows, Bill, but our customers aren't interested. Is there anything else we can do for you? Help out a friend?"
Because you'll never see it, and never know. NIMBY syndrome. My beef is not with the recognition, but that it it mandated and in particular that this mandate makes it GPL-incompatible because it is an additional restriction not found in the GPL.
If you'd posted under a real name, you'd get a real reply.
...so long ago I'd forgotten it was necessary.
Thanks for the link. I'm not much into payback, but I'm glad to see the copier's authors excising protection features as well as the descrambler. It puts across the message that they have been playing nicely despite being attacked, but that they will not make a doormat of themselves.
I'm wondering whether this might also have an impact.
We can always hope that some genius will find a way to work that into GPLv3, but the legal gymnastics to do that safely are beyond me.
The more the merrier.
...I'd only ever see it once anyway. As it is, I'll never buy another NVidia card again if I can help it. Reliable NVidia drivers are a highly ephemeral thing.
...and it's not like an application's splash screen, which comes up every time you launch the app. Saturation advertising. Ptui! Because you can't say it well, you have to say it constantly before anyone accepts it.
Not that I don't see where you're coming from. I'm currently diddling around with WINE, and I've run across one app (a game) whose splash-screen locks up hard under WINE but if you bypass it (turn the call into NOPs) it works without trauma, and another whose splash-screen works but the hotspot isn't over the drawn button and the mouse cursor doesn't change so it's very hit-and-miss to get the thing started.
...there were no more hypothetical questions?
...at least 99% of known squabbles. (-:
I find it much more productive to start from the premise that I'm wrong, even if it goes squarely against my nature.
Fedora, Mandrake, OpenBSD and others have also "no thanksed" the new licence.
XFree86 has been willing to talk, but not (quoth Theo deRaadt) to "use the same words" as every other advertising-clause BSD licence. Talk the talk, yes, but walking the walk hasn't happened much.
I would personally be happy to add a splash screen or whatever, but not to be required to so do.
...is there one for the delta between 4.4rc2 and 4.4.0? It's probably a much shorter list, and IIRC at least the VIA, SiS, nv drivers, FreeType2 and Mesa stuff can't fall under the new licence.
G/D/R
...(I kid you not, that's it's full name) has two scroll-wheels plus four other buttons. Coming soon, Ctrl, Shift and Alt buttons and the Dvorak Mouse.
...and a few other non-standard configs like monitor-plus-TV.
Simple enough for you?
...is that you're never left wondering where you stand with him. (-:
...that BSD and the new XFree86 licence require you to acknowledge the authorship and GPL forbids you from adding restrictions not in the GPL - including an advertising clause.
I would be happy to see the licence backed out and the major distributors voluntarily add a splash screen giving major credits and referring the viewer to a website with extended acknowledgements.
I would be just as happy to see a GPL "A" variant arise which was GPL plus advertising clause. This would allow you to GPLA-license BSD code which you are modifying, effectivly getting the GPL's sterner protection but without treading on the intentions and rights of the original authors.
Of course, if you're working from a no-advertising BSD licence, these problems evapourate. Personally, I'd like to see XFree86 with a splash screen since it'd give you something to read while KDE (or whatever) starts, and it'd overwrite the splash screen from NVidia (or other manufacturer) who are not at all shy about claiming credit for stuff.
It will definitely run cooler unless the Inspiron's power management is so non-standard that Linux can't drive it properly. But if you're relatively happy on XP, I would be reluctant to change you in order to maybe solve just one problem.
Get a sheet of particle board or MDF, silhouette your platop on it, trench it maybe 5-6mm deep from a fan-shaped circle adjacent the Dell to all of the vents on the bottom of the machine and bolt a real fan atop the circle. Remember to also dig out holes for the "feet" to make the seal (such as it is) around the rebating better.
Can't speak for MSWin2k but can say that MSWinXP on at least two installations does borrow time for the burner. It might depend on how much of the unit's DMA etc is supported by the drivers.
Linux can have badly-written drivers running built-down-to-a-price hardware, no questions there, that's why my NForce boards are now all running ATI video cards.
What Linux doesn't have is the mystery indistinguishable semi-sub-versions of DLLs, each with a special something that one or another app requires, but in turn missing or mis-implementing something that the other copies of itself do right. We have a real, extensible version numbering system so a program can request a specific version of a library, or the latest of a specific version range with arbitrary degrees of specificity. It also has much better partitioning between libraries. The problems you have with NForce will be due to NVidia point-blank refusing to Open their drivers, not weird interactions between libraries.
ATI have opened a large part of their drivers, XGI will open at least the 2D parts and hopefully also the 3D parts of their drivers. Spot the odd manufacturer out.
With one and a half gigapeople, they can do more or less what they please, and the WTO can go whistle. What they please is not having some dog-eyed custard-pie magnet supply practically all of their IT. In other news, welcome to China again, the head of Red Flag Linux is the son of...?
Down in the details, you'll notice that this is for government purchases only, so IOW they're not doing a WTO-actionable trade ban anyway.
Also, this may have been done now rather than at any other particular time as an answer to Steve Ballmer's recent statements about how China is Microsoft's next Great White Hope.
Admittedly not as pretty as the MS-Windows software, but you could use it with a frontend like acidrip, kmencoder or Gmencoder. They're all fairly portable (AcidRip is even written in PERL), so you could use them on Windows with a great deal less effort than using Nero on Linux.