Your best bet would just be to release it as a binary package for multiple distributions. Odds are, most non-standard distros will handle an RPM or a deb or what have you. So, if you just release for the fashionable, major distros, you'll reach 90% of the Linux users, I'll bet. Heck, the Slackware install method is just to tar up the installed program's directory! That'd work for practically anyone!
Of course, by far the easiest install method is to have the source. You could just sell the source. Binary installs don't really drastically reduce the risk of piracy, and theres always the added revenue from suing source-thieves! Just look at how well it's worked out for SCO!
Hahaha, your sig reminded me of another thing I keep on my desk, inherited from my Grandfather, an engineer who designed analog computer control systems for aluminum forging =]
It's called ntfsdecrypt, yo =]. Course, I hadta run it under my win2k system =/. Kind of a pain, but pretty spiffy nonetheless.
An alternate method would have been simply to recover the password for the account used to secure the files. But I didn't wanna hafta wait for Sarca to get back to me =/. Faster than a brute crack, though. Hahaha =]
Actually, in my experience, the single most useful tool for computer diagnostic/repair (next to a philips screwdriver, of course =]) is Linux. Whenever a friend needs to reformat or gets some virus that keeps their machine from booting, or some such, I just plug their hard drive into my Linux box here and do whatever needs to be done.
Recently, my Chief (I'm a Navy recruit) needed some files recovered from a system who's admin password was lost and/or corrupted. I just hooked his hard drive into my system, recovered encrypted NTFS files with ease and burnt'em onto a CD.
Yes, a 15" CRT is nice, but if all you're hooked up to is a BSoD, it's not terribly helpful =]
Also, both the laptop offerings are called "m5000 Series." Typo?
According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 10^13 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html
This is off-topic, but you seem to have been in the Navy. I just signed my NF contract and I ship out in February. Any words of wisdom? I've already gotten everything from "You're going to commit suicide in A School" to "It's an easy road to officer-hood." I'm really interested in anything anyone has to say about it.
Well, I did make an effort to fix the problem I had found, only to be completely ignored... They had local administrator access passwords on every machine, which is what I recovered, and they decided to change them all by hand, instead of using a (disgusting) VB script I wrote to remove the accounts altogether (which I also submitted to them in a "change all the passwords" form)...
What can you expect with Dells, though? Probably came that way.
IMO, IBM has a much better track record than Microsoft. IBM has filed innumerable (thousands) patents on technology that has revolutionized different aspects of the industry; these were open patents, not exclusive patents. IBM has a history of protecting technology from becoming trade secrets. Microsoft wouldn't tell you how their OS really worked if you were programming it.
*passes around beers* Any good news is drinkin' news around here!
As for Plan 9, once more people are using Linux, the much-less-obvious flaws in it's design will become much more obvious and insightful projects like Plan 9 will gain much mindshare =]. Someday it will be replaced by something that sucks less. It's like Winston Churchill said, IIRC, "Linux is the worst OS except for all those others that have been tried."
*markedly does not discuss the alleged superiority of BeOS, entirely for a lack of knowledge thereof*
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Of course, by far the easiest install method is to have the source. You could just sell the source. Binary installs don't really drastically reduce the risk of piracy, and theres always the added revenue from suing source-thieves! Just look at how well it's worked out for SCO!
Sorry, that last bit is kinda ranting.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375 702121/002-9908256-4490441?v=glance
Of course, his is a first edition =]
An alternate method would have been simply to recover the password for the account used to secure the files. But I didn't wanna hafta wait for Sarca to get back to me =/. Faster than a brute crack, though. Hahaha =]
Actually, in my experience, the single most useful tool for computer diagnostic/repair (next to a philips screwdriver, of course =]) is Linux. Whenever a friend needs to reformat or gets some virus that keeps their machine from booting, or some such, I just plug their hard drive into my Linux box here and do whatever needs to be done. Recently, my Chief (I'm a Navy recruit) needed some files recovered from a system who's admin password was lost and/or corrupted. I just hooked his hard drive into my system, recovered encrypted NTFS files with ease and burnt'em onto a CD. Yes, a 15" CRT is nice, but if all you're hooked up to is a BSoD, it's not terribly helpful =] Also, both the laptop offerings are called "m5000 Series." Typo?
http://omlette.net/psp/roto/
According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 10^13 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane. http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html
Oh sh*t! The Libyans! *drives off*
This is off-topic, but you seem to have been in the Navy. I just signed my NF contract and I ship out in February. Any words of wisdom? I've already gotten everything from "You're going to commit suicide in A School" to "It's an easy road to officer-hood." I'm really interested in anything anyone has to say about it.
What can you expect with Dells, though? Probably came that way.
*cough*
Lame.
IMO, IBM has a much better track record than Microsoft. IBM has filed innumerable (thousands) patents on technology that has revolutionized different aspects of the industry; these were open patents, not exclusive patents. IBM has a history of protecting technology from becoming trade secrets. Microsoft wouldn't tell you how their OS really worked if you were programming it.
Damn, 'cause I was gonna say that I'm glad Sony has shifted the focus from ridiculously useless graphics to actually enthralling gameplay.
As for Plan 9, once more people are using Linux, the much-less-obvious flaws in it's design will become much more obvious and insightful projects like Plan 9 will gain much mindshare =]. Someday it will be replaced by something that sucks less. It's like Winston Churchill said, IIRC, "Linux is the worst OS except for all those others that have been tried."
*markedly does not discuss the alleged superiority of BeOS, entirely for a lack of knowledge thereof*
But for this, I have one word: Dolphins.
Wow, Pascal must've been one gawd-awful programming language...
Do you measure class balancing by straight dps?
6. ??? 7. Profit!
*cough* vaporware *cough* .NET
- Me circa two years ago, in regards to
Which is now run from the same rendering engine...
KOrganizer prolly has a feature like that, if you're a gooey guy.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
People should pay better attention at movies.
The largest cause of death is using a faulty brain designed to need oxygen.
Of course it's been done. I mean, a game about Jesus? We already have tons of games where you kill zombies!
*weeps*