At first glance, I thought the title of this submission was "Major humps iPod phone". My first thought was, Man, the military always gets to fuck with the cool shit first!
Not trying to sound like some marketoid or something, but your warranty expired. What makes you entitled to anything other than them saying, "Uh, well, you're out of warranty-- sucks for you!"?
My warranty went out on my iPaq PDA last year. 5 days later, it wouldn't turn on, I think it was a bad logic board. Know what? I was screwed, plain and simple. The manufacturer is not bound to do anything once the warranty expires.
For that kind of bang/buck, manufacturers might want to start bundling Linux with Windows in a dual-boot configuration.
I don't know if it still stands, but I remember that in times past, OEM agreements with Microsoft wouldn't allow this. Basically, the terms of the license stated that if you installed a Windows product on your OEM system from the factory, you could not have any method installed for booting anything other than Windows.
I recall this was tested in the past: I think it was Compaq, but they had two partitions on the system: Windows 95 and BeOS. They were both there, but the MBR could only be configured to boot to Windows 95. Essentially, the only way you could boot into BeOS was if you sought out the method to re-enable the bootloader on your own.
Essentially, what this works out to is you'd have the same deal with Linux: You could put a Linux partition on there, but not have a bootloader for it, or you'd have to go either completely Windows or completely Linux. What would be neat is if they did dual-boot partitions, and then put a Linux LiveCD in there whose only boot option did something like "Click here to enable Linux boot functionality on your system". I don't think that'd violate the license agreement, but it'd give people the option of dual booting on their own.
And when they want to play their music on the go, they'll get an iPod. (or an iPod Shuffle if you want something portable)
Come on... What's the size of an iPod... Like, a deck of playing cards? Sounds plenty portable to me, unless you're walking around naked, or something...
The iPod Shuffle is nice, and it is smaller than the iPod, but it's not like they started with an un-portable device the size of like, a phonograph player.
While not defending the Grandparent entirely, I see where he's coming from, somewhat.
I can say "militants" all day long in the title of my submission. Someone's going to look at that like, "uh-WHA!??! WTF is going on?! Have to check this out!", and then read the submission.
I'm all for headlines tht entice the reader and all, but there was enough space to clarify a little further. Could we not have been told in the title whether they were Kashmere militants, or Al Qaeda, etc?
MSDN subscriptions have valid serial numbers, just like a retail version. Another member mentioned this earlier. More than likely, MSDN subscribers like myself will have to call in to activate their systems, too. I don't know about anyone else, but that's kind of an irritation-- MSDN is meant for test-bed type stuff and evaluation; does it make much sense to have to call in, when in a test environment, you could likely have a reason to reinstall a copy of Windows on a single machine (or virtual machine, in my situation) at least once a day?
An MSDN Universal subscription 2005 is supposed to cost around $2799 US. Does it make much sense to ask a customer paying that much to go through that hassle?
This is the way I understand it, and I'm not really a programmer. So, I know someone's going to clarify or refute:
You have some memory allocated for some type of variable, or something. That's called a buffer, and it's usually a certain number of bytes "big". There's a function in your program that puts a value into that variable. If you can feed more data into the buffer than it can handle, you can have a buffer overflow.
The reason why this is dangerous is because that data "spills" into another portion of the memory, which could already be occupied by anything from more data, to executable code. In the latter case, if you've overwritten executable code, you can replace that code with your own executable code, and do all kinds of nasty things that the original program wasn't intended to do.
...And again, this is from one layman to another-- that's how I understand it.
Slashdot is now a free legal resource for people in this situation:
DON'T DO STUPID CRAP LIKE THIS
If anyone else needs legal advice with regards to downloading a developer copy of a software, and then breaking the license you agreed to in order to download said software, kindly point them to this post.
It's the same principle of those 4-item cookbooks you see at the bookstore:
"Fast and easy recipies that only take 4 items!"
But what they don't tell you is that 3 of the 4 ingredients are really easy to find, like salt, water, rosemary, etc, but that 4th item is something you'd never find in a common cupboard, like pickel scallions, or something wierd like that.
This has to be one of the most insightful posts I've seen in recent Slashdot submissions. Too bad many will miss it because this jerk couldn't type correctly.
Okay... I'll go stand in the corner now. It was a joke....
They make little x86-compatible systems, and they run awesomely with NetBSD. You can get premade boxen with these boards in them, or simply BYO enclosure. They've got 1-3 Ethernet connections, and some have PCI and miniPCI slots.
There is just about no place I know of in town that serves RC products. So this is a highly choreographed ritual they go through about twice a year. They even coach the hostesses and wait staff to offer an "RC" cola, not just a "soda" or even worse a "Coke".
Why couldn't they just eat at White Castle for their whole visit? They've got RC products.
I tried to install grandmadocs-1.1-3, but RPM is telling me that I have to have momdocs-2.4.8_1-34.8_1 as a dependancy! The site only has the 2.4.8_1-34.8 version-- it won't work!
What do I do?!? Plz hlp... my mom's gonna be so pissed that I was messing with her puter...
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At first glance, I thought the title of this submission was "Major humps iPod phone". My first thought was, Man, the military always gets to fuck with the cool shit first!
Hey! I still get laughs at my AYB T-Shirt! ...or maybe they're laughing because the shirt has shrunken so much it doesn't cover my gut anymore... :'(
If you smack your dog with a rolled-up newspaper, it can be looked at as discipline.
If you smack your dog with a cellphone, PDA or laptop, it is looked at as abuse.
I'm joking folks-- don't hit your dog.
I'd like to know: Ug need fire, because rival caveman stole his.
Not trying to sound like some marketoid or something, but your warranty expired. What makes you entitled to anything other than them saying, "Uh, well, you're out of warranty-- sucks for you!"?
My warranty went out on my iPaq PDA last year. 5 days later, it wouldn't turn on, I think it was a bad logic board. Know what? I was screwed, plain and simple. The manufacturer is not bound to do anything once the warranty expires.
Would hooversucks.com be a hate site, or an informative site?
You forgot to mention complaining about dupes, too
I don't know if it still stands, but I remember that in times past, OEM agreements with Microsoft wouldn't allow this. Basically, the terms of the license stated that if you installed a Windows product on your OEM system from the factory, you could not have any method installed for booting anything other than Windows.
I recall this was tested in the past: I think it was Compaq, but they had two partitions on the system: Windows 95 and BeOS. They were both there, but the MBR could only be configured to boot to Windows 95. Essentially, the only way you could boot into BeOS was if you sought out the method to re-enable the bootloader on your own.
You can check out more information about the license deal here:
http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
Essentially, what this works out to is you'd have the same deal with Linux: You could put a Linux partition on there, but not have a bootloader for it, or you'd have to go either completely Windows or completely Linux. What would be neat is if they did dual-boot partitions, and then put a Linux LiveCD in there whose only boot option did something like "Click here to enable Linux boot functionality on your system". I don't think that'd violate the license agreement, but it'd give people the option of dual booting on their own.
I'll pass.
Come on... What's the size of an iPod... Like, a deck of playing cards? Sounds plenty portable to me, unless you're walking around naked, or something...
The iPod Shuffle is nice, and it is smaller than the iPod, but it's not like they started with an un-portable device the size of like, a phonograph player.
A restaurant, I could maybe let pass on an outdated website, but come on, a computer company?
A redundant comment about redundancy modded as redundant. Slashdot's going to implode under its own redundancy!
I can say "militants" all day long in the title of my submission. Someone's going to look at that like, "uh-WHA!??! WTF is going on?! Have to check this out!", and then read the submission.
I'm all for headlines tht entice the reader and all, but there was enough space to clarify a little further. Could we not have been told in the title whether they were Kashmere militants, or Al Qaeda, etc?
An MSDN Universal subscription 2005 is supposed to cost around $2799 US. Does it make much sense to ask a customer paying that much to go through that hassle?
You have some memory allocated for some type of variable, or something. That's called a buffer, and it's usually a certain number of bytes "big". There's a function in your program that puts a value into that variable. If you can feed more data into the buffer than it can handle, you can have a buffer overflow.
The reason why this is dangerous is because that data "spills" into another portion of the memory, which could already be occupied by anything from more data, to executable code. In the latter case, if you've overwritten executable code, you can replace that code with your own executable code, and do all kinds of nasty things that the original program wasn't intended to do.
I'd hate to know what speaking via IM is called then....
DON'T DO STUPID CRAP LIKE THIS
If anyone else needs legal advice with regards to downloading a developer copy of a software, and then breaking the license you agreed to in order to download said software, kindly point them to this post.
"Fast and easy recipies that only take 4 items!"
But what they don't tell you is that 3 of the 4 ingredients are really easy to find, like salt, water, rosemary, etc, but that 4th item is something you'd never find in a common cupboard, like pickel scallions, or something wierd like that.
Okay... I'll go stand in the corner now. It was a joke....
http://soekris.com/
They make little x86-compatible systems, and they run awesomely with NetBSD. You can get premade boxen with these boards in them, or simply BYO enclosure. They've got 1-3 Ethernet connections, and some have PCI and miniPCI slots.
Where are the jumpers? I clicked on the thumbnail picture, and didn't see anything.
Why couldn't they just eat at White Castle for their whole visit? They've got RC products.
Would it be considered "ironic" that he used the wrong "word" to describe the "mistake" that the parent made?
What do I do?!? Plz hlp... my mom's gonna be so pissed that I was messing with her puter...
It will play WAY faster. Like, in an instant you could shoot everything at the same time!