It doesn't do that if it is turned off, since it isn't running. Likewise, printers don't say they need paper if they are turned off. Obviously it is running since it updated itself.;-)
The Windows Update website, as you know, is a frequently accessed server - to a degree where a byte saved per connection causes significant savings in both access time and bandwidth usage. I'm fully aware of that but it really can't be the customers problem to fix MS bandwidth issues.
The update only updated the Windows Update software itself, nothing in Windows. The Windows Update software is at least as much a part of Windows as Internet Explorer.
It did not update if you have automatic updates turned off. ...and why didn't it just tell you that it needed an update ?
It did update if you had "Notify me" turned on. This is a point of contention, but MS says they needed to do the update to continue to notify users of actual updates. So basically what I do know now is that Microsoft is unable to develop a backward compatible update service ?...and I'm suppose to trust a company like that ?
Finally, this doesn't apply to any networks running a WSUS (or whatever it's called now) server. ...and that is the majority of Microsofts customers ?
if you're talking about the PC98 specification... then no... they just came to a solution for their proprietary language and character set wich was not supported on the "standarized" PC platform by any US vendors.
...the signal they are sending to customers and (worse yet) potential customers is what matters... ...and that signal is: "Yes we do belive Linux is violating Microsoft's patents." Do not sign those deals, Microsoft will kill you wheather you sign or not and you are giving them more ammo to kill you with.
hmmm... we usually post "Just use some other browser" and when you run text-only Lynx is the only browser available. ...and my std. question for people comparing an UNIX with Commodore 64 is "What exactly do I need a GUI for ?"
Well... yes... I don't have the room for all my stuff in my Ferrari so I need a Land Rover beside the Ferrari. Supercars sucks. Usually I drive in my Land Rover and my Ferrari rides on a trailer pulled by my Land Rover Anyway, Gimp may not be a plug-in replacement for Photoshop but I haven't yet anyone who uses all Photoshop features...
"- not something that can only be used by someone who already knows how to code." Someone who doesn't know how to code shouldn't be coding... and shouldn't call himself a coder.
You are right, I used the name DMCA as an alias for the InfoSec directive. The InfoSec directive is the EU version of DMCA with the exact same purpose but slightly adjusted to the european reality.
The quoted article is very interesting... it effectivly says that
InfoSec does not apply (in Denmark) to personal use of a digital media (you are allowed to break encryption for personal use)
that the copyright holder has to provide a player for any platform the users choose to use (if the holder want to be protected by the InfoSec directive)
that copy protection should allow you to make functional copies for personal use but prevent illegal copying (and that copyright holders should provide this functionality)
that it is allowed to develop and distribute Open Source software wich allow use of encrypted media as long as the use is as intended by copyright holder (you may make a player but you may not make a copier)
What do you mean ? It's right there in the text you quoted, the very last sentence "...which achieves the protection objective.". The ruling says that the CSS implementation does not achive the protection objective so it is no longer protected by the directive.
You have misunderstood something... this doesn't allow you to copy and distribute copyrighted material. This makes it legal to play your DVD's on a Linux box or whatever else and it makes it legal to make backup copies of your own DVD disks to any media you like (both these things were previously violations of the DMCA).
Well, I don't play much games, I see them as an expensive waste of time (sorry). I play chess and OpenTTD (a multiplatform Transport Tycoon clone). 90% of what I needed was on my distro (SuSE 9.3) and what a sw-package does is described in Yast (SuSE management tool) and the list is searchable. I didn't have any real hardware issues but I did what I did when I bought hw for my first NT4 box back in '96: I've checked the HCL.
My point was just that Linux is not (and was never ment to be) a plug-in replacement for Windows and it can't be blamed for lack of compatibility with Windows apps.
We can agree on the part about "Windows suffer from ID10T user error"...;-) Linux is hard for sombody used to Windows (and that's 90% of all PC users)... all Mac user I know consider Windows a pita. Its not personal... but Linux do fill all my needs for everyday computing: write some letters, do some calc, pay my bills, surf teh Net, check my email, listen to music, chat with friends, see a DVD, dump pictures from my camera, burn those pictures to a CD, make a new font, make a new funny sound for my phone, edit my homepage and edit my pictures... I can scan and print... what am I missing ?
Define "work" and "use"... when did you last reinstall btw. and why ? I don't really care how to USE Windows... I'm a sysadm. I'm sitting with everyone else problems (with Windows). Do you know what the most common advice I'm giving my users ? "Please reboot and it will work" and that is the most common advice in Windows support in general... but it shouldn't be nessesary to reboot, it should just work... All the time.
A) is hardly a Linux issue is it ? Complain to the manufacturers of your software over lack of support for Linux. B) it does, you just can't see it on paper (its hidden by the OEM system). C) they will if they can get away with it.
...the "average" luser really knew what he was doing then 70% of Windows security issues wouldn't be critical. Joe Luser don't know how to use his fucking Windows... he just think he know. Try to learn a average Windows user how to use his Windows safely and you will learn what the problem is... "it's fucking too complicated" is the first remark. I have run Windows for 7+ years without reinstallation... show me a Joe Luser with a Windows that has run anything near that without problems.
Oh yes, they need to sue... noone in the industry (or in the financial sector) will belive any claim like that after the SCO case. Microsoft is in fact in really bad position now... if they don't sue they'll lose and if they sue they lose.
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It doesn't do that if it is turned off, since it isn't running. Likewise, printers don't say they need paper if they are turned off. ;-)
Obviously it is running since it updated itself.
The Windows Update website, as you know, is a frequently accessed server - to a degree where a byte saved per connection causes significant savings in both access time and bandwidth usage.
I'm fully aware of that but it really can't be the customers problem to fix MS bandwidth issues.
The update only updated the Windows Update software itself, nothing in Windows.
...and I'm suppose to trust a company like that ?
The Windows Update software is at least as much a part of Windows as Internet Explorer.
It did not update if you have automatic updates turned off.
...and why didn't it just tell you that it needed an update ?
It did update if you had "Notify me" turned on. This is a point of contention, but MS says they needed to do the update to continue to notify users of actual updates.
So basically what I do know now is that Microsoft is unable to develop a backward compatible update service ?
Finally, this doesn't apply to any networks running a WSUS (or whatever it's called now) server.
...and that is the majority of Microsofts customers ?
Sorry dude... but a laptop design that can't run with the lid closed has a design fault and should have at least a label warning about it.
I have btw. seen the 4 pin Molex power plug (the one for power to 5.25" drives) forced in the wrong way.
...and why exactly is your girlfriend NOT on /. ?
Oh Yes we do... Blizzard's p2p is blocked at my firewall. If Blizzard wants me to distribute their patches they have to pay me something for it.
if you're talking about the PC98 specification... then no... they just came to a solution for their proprietary language and character set wich was not supported on the "standarized" PC platform by any US vendors.
...where I save my pr0n...
...the signal they are sending to customers and (worse yet) potential customers is what matters...
...and that signal is: "Yes we do belive Linux is violating Microsoft's patents."
Do not sign those deals, Microsoft will kill you wheather you sign or not and you are giving them more ammo to kill you with.
hmmm... we usually post "Just use some other browser" and when you run text-only Lynx is the only browser available.
...and my std. question for people comparing an UNIX with Commodore 64 is "What exactly do I need a GUI for ?"
Well... yes... I don't have the room for all my stuff in my Ferrari so I need a Land Rover beside the Ferrari. Supercars sucks. Usually I drive in my Land Rover and my Ferrari rides on a trailer pulled by my Land Rover
Anyway, Gimp may not be a plug-in replacement for Photoshop but I haven't yet anyone who uses all Photoshop features...
"- not something that can only be used by someone who already knows how to code."
Someone who doesn't know how to code shouldn't be coding... and shouldn't call himself a coder.
No but... there have been several 0-day exploits also recently wich were either simply denied by Microsoft or left unpatched for months.
You are right, I used the name DMCA as an alias for the InfoSec directive. The InfoSec directive is the EU version of DMCA with the exact same purpose but slightly adjusted to the european reality.
What do you mean ? It's right there in the text you quoted, the very last sentence "...which achieves the protection objective.".
The ruling says that the CSS implementation does not achive the protection objective so it is no longer protected by the directive.
You have misunderstood something... this doesn't allow you to copy and distribute copyrighted material.
This makes it legal to play your DVD's on a Linux box or whatever else and it makes it legal to make backup copies of your own DVD disks to any media you like (both these things were previously violations of the DMCA).
Well, I don't play much games, I see them as an expensive waste of time (sorry). I play chess and OpenTTD (a multiplatform Transport Tycoon clone).
90% of what I needed was on my distro (SuSE 9.3) and what a sw-package does is described in Yast (SuSE management tool) and the list is searchable. I didn't have any real hardware issues but I did what I did when I bought hw for my first NT4 box back in '96: I've checked the HCL.
My point was just that Linux is not (and was never ment to be) a plug-in replacement for Windows and it can't be blamed for lack of compatibility with Windows apps.
We can agree on the part about "Windows suffer from ID10T user error"... ;-)
Linux is hard for sombody used to Windows (and that's 90% of all PC users)... all Mac user I know consider Windows a pita.
Its not personal... but Linux do fill all my needs for everyday computing: write some letters, do some calc, pay my bills, surf teh Net, check my email, listen to music, chat with friends, see a DVD, dump pictures from my camera, burn those pictures to a CD, make a new font, make a new funny sound for my phone, edit my homepage and edit my pictures... I can scan and print... what am I missing ?
Define "work" and "use"... when did you last reinstall btw. and why ?
I don't really care how to USE Windows... I'm a sysadm. I'm sitting with everyone else problems (with Windows). Do you know what the most common advice I'm giving my users ? "Please reboot and it will work" and that is the most common advice in Windows support in general... but it shouldn't be nessesary to reboot, it should just work... All the time.
A) is hardly a Linux issue is it ? Complain to the manufacturers of your software over lack of support for Linux.
B) it does, you just can't see it on paper (its hidden by the OEM system).
C) they will if they can get away with it.
...the "average" luser really knew what he was doing then 70% of Windows security issues wouldn't be critical.
Joe Luser don't know how to use his fucking Windows... he just think he know.
Try to learn a average Windows user how to use his Windows safely and you will learn what the problem is... "it's fucking too complicated" is the first remark. I have run Windows for 7+ years without reinstallation... show me a Joe Luser with a Windows that has run anything near that without problems.
Oh yes, they need to sue... noone in the industry (or in the financial sector) will belive any claim like that after the SCO case.
Microsoft is in fact in really bad position now... if they don't sue they'll lose and if they sue they lose.