Until some asshole installs Kazaa and leaves it at the default setting of 'unlimited' for the bandwidth usage. That and they don't realize that when they close the window it just iconifies to the icon tray next to the clock. Then your outbound connection will be saturated and interactive sessions like ssh will suffer greatly.
We use a lot of Polycom equipment where I work. Although the standalone units are expensive, there are smaller units that hookup to your computer called ViaVideo. They work pretty well and just plug into a USB port. The software will let you do most of what a larger Polycom unit will do with regards to connecting to other Polycom stations and showing all the other people's cameras that you are connected to. I think it's about $500 or $600 per unit. The only negative is that it only supports IP whereas the dedicated Polycom units will handle IP or ISDN connections. I don't use one of these myself but a coworker down the hall does and he loves it.
Also, there's always MS Netmeeting and a cheap camera.
This doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft following their guidelines. It's about Apple following those guidelines. Just because the MS CD player or media player looks different, does that mean that Apple's quicktime player must look different as well? Do Microsoft media applications have to be the measuring stick? Outlook is fine in my opinion because it looks the same as all the other applications on my system.
Apple is the underdog here. Apple is trying to get people to install and use the quicktime player and quicktime technologies. But instead of making it easy, they make it annoying. The interface doesn't look like the majority of my other applications. I get ads every time that I start it. It always pesters me to purchase some more advanced quicktime. Apple wants people to use thier free product but then they don't bother to make it look and act like most other apps on the target platform.
I don't have a mac so I don't know what things are like on that platform, but how do the microsoft products compare on there? I'd expect that Office for mac would look and function like every other Mac program and wouldn't accept any less. Does it look different? Does it have Windows XP widgets and look like a PC app running on a Mac?
I don't use WinAmp or Real. And Windows Media Player doesn't support skins (unless you are thinking of the new one which does have a "classic" skin that makes it look normal again).
A lot of Windows people tend to bash QuickTime on x86. I've played with it, and while I agree that it's somewhat clunkier...
QuickTime is a truly remarkable system that has never been fully appreciated I feel. The scope and breadth - and elegance - of the QuickTime architecture is absolutely stunning.
It may have a stunning architecture but until it starts following the Windows GUI guidelines and looks like my other apps, it'll be a second class citizen as far as I'm concerned. I want visually consistency on my computer not funky, non-standard widgets and brushed metal window graphics.
I also don't appreciate being annoyed with ads everytime I start quicktime's player nor do I appreciate having to tell it that "No, I don't want to buy quicktime pro" or whatever it is. If Apple wants me to use thier player then they should supply it with no strings attached.
I keep seeing these stories about SCO wanting to sue people over code in Linux but they never will answer the question of what code they have a problem with. The problem will never get fixed if they won't say what's wrong.
Why not configure your upstream SMTP server as a smarthost on your SMTP server? That way outgoing mail from your MTA is sent to your ISPs MTA for delivery.
IIRC, no one forked IPfilter. The OpenBSD team dumped and replaced it with one of their own called pf.
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So they sue spammers (that's good) but spam my postal mail box with CD's and they think it's ok? I'm a little bit confused.
Last time I checked, all of those CDs came postage paid. Let us know when you get a bunch of AOL CDs that come with postage due. That will be a more accurate analogy to spam.
I thought that when Microsoft won the Apple v. Microsoft case it set the precedent that you can't copyright "look and feel"?
There's a difference between look and feel and wholesale copying of copyrighted artwork. What XPde has done is willful copyright violation by using the same icons and artwork found in Windows XP. I doubt they secured permission from Microsoft to use thse graphical elements. What they should have done is make something that looks similar enough that it feel familar but that is not using any Microsoft owned graphcs. Expect for XPde to disappear very quickly when Microsoft's lawyers get wind of this. The XPde people could also be liable for damages.:-(
The idea, according to Cotter, is that people will choose not to visit "sinful" websites if they know a close friend or family member will be aware of their actions.
I think that people who would subject themselves to this have psychological problems. Seriously. If you want to view porn then view porn. If you don't want to, then don't. You have a problem if you feel that you can't control your own actions and must have someone watch over you. I hope that they eventually see how unhealthy such actions and attitudes are and seek counseling. Healthy adults take responsibility for their own actions and act accordingly.
What is equally distrubing is that these are probably the same people that think the rest of us have the same problem and must be saved from ourselves. They lobby to get laws passed because "someone must watch over us" to protect us from ourselves.
Be aware that some of these can block email from entire countries..uk for example is blocked in one of the rfc-ignorant.org lists because the company that handles the registration database doesn't make domain contact information available.
I think American companies will patent every obvious thing in existence preventing overseas companies from selling anything here without the American companies getting their cut (patent royalties).
I also use Compaq hardware and I'm in the same position as you. People are suggesting programs that monitor applications and such which isn't what you are asking about.
Just to clarify for other readers, he's asking about the Compaq health and wellness drivers which are binary only kernel modules and daemons that monitor things like the power supplies, temperature, if the case was opened, the speed and health of every fan in the system as well as things like memory errors and the state of the hard drives. They provide information that things like Nagios and Big Brother won't be aware of because the information isn't in/proc without these drivers.
That being said, you'd do well to subscribe to the Compaq and Linux mailing list. There are some solutions to getting those Compaq drivers working with versions of Red Hat that are newer than what Compaq supports. I haven't had the time to try any of the suggestions out on one of our servers yet.
Also, since everyone else is thinking you want application monitoring, I'd recommend Nagios.
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Also, there's always MS Netmeeting and a cheap camera.
Apple is the underdog here. Apple is trying to get people to install and use the quicktime player and quicktime technologies. But instead of making it easy, they make it annoying. The interface doesn't look like the majority of my other applications. I get ads every time that I start it. It always pesters me to purchase some more advanced quicktime. Apple wants people to use thier free product but then they don't bother to make it look and act like most other apps on the target platform.
I don't have a mac so I don't know what things are like on that platform, but how do the microsoft products compare on there? I'd expect that Office for mac would look and function like every other Mac program and wouldn't accept any less. Does it look different? Does it have Windows XP widgets and look like a PC app running on a Mac?
I don't use WinAmp or Real. And Windows Media Player doesn't support skins (unless you are thinking of the new one which does have a "classic" skin that makes it look normal again).
If you want to roll your own: http://quozl.netrek.org/ts/
I bought the kit for the one on the second link and it works great.
I also don't appreciate being annoyed with ads everytime I start quicktime's player nor do I appreciate having to tell it that "No, I don't want to buy quicktime pro" or whatever it is. If Apple wants me to use thier player then they should supply it with no strings attached.
I keep seeing these stories about SCO wanting to sue people over code in Linux but they never will answer the question of what code they have a problem with. The problem will never get fixed if they won't say what's wrong.
Do you really want your server component for this to run in PHP? That's not going to be very efficient as compared to a daemon written in, say, C.
If all of this stuff is so good and improves security, why isn't it rolled into the main Debian distribution?
Why not configure your upstream SMTP server as a smarthost on your SMTP server? That way outgoing mail from your MTA is sent to your ISPs MTA for delivery.
Last time I checked, all of those CDs came postage paid. Let us know when you get a bunch of AOL CDs that come with postage due. That will be a more accurate analogy to spam.
Can someone put the ISO images up on Kazaa, please?
Hey, if it ain't broke, no need to break it.
What about 2.0.x? Are they okay?
What is equally distrubing is that these are probably the same people that think the rest of us have the same problem and must be saved from ourselves. They lobby to get laws passed because "someone must watch over us" to protect us from ourselves.
You plagarized that word for word from http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/ki rkmck.html. Why don't you cite your references next time?
Be aware that some of these can block email from entire countries. .uk for example is blocked in one of the rfc-ignorant.org lists because the company that handles the registration database doesn't make domain contact information available.
I think American companies will patent every obvious thing in existence preventing overseas companies from selling anything here without the American companies getting their cut (patent royalties).
Just to clarify for other readers, he's asking about the Compaq health and wellness drivers which are binary only kernel modules and daemons that monitor things like the power supplies, temperature, if the case was opened, the speed and health of every fan in the system as well as things like memory errors and the state of the hard drives. They provide information that things like Nagios and Big Brother won't be aware of because the information isn't in /proc without these drivers.
That being said, you'd do well to subscribe to the Compaq and Linux mailing list. There are some solutions to getting those Compaq drivers working with versions of Red Hat that are newer than what Compaq supports. I haven't had the time to try any of the suggestions out on one of our servers yet.
Also, since everyone else is thinking you want application monitoring, I'd recommend Nagios.