"We're trying to find something good out of the bad here," Avilla said. "There's got to be more than one way to fight this. They get us in so many ways. There's got to be a way for us to get them."
Is this for real?
So instead of fixing Windows' security model, or reworking the flawed NTFS filesystem, they patch 'em up and give the patches catchy names!
Profit!
totem-xine is a different implementation of Totem that uses Xine instead of GStreamer. The thing is that totem now increasingly seems to be a dependency of GNOME (just try to replace totem with totem-xine on Ubuntu Edgy and you'll see what I mean) Maybe we should just wait until GStreamer/ffmpeg rolls out the promised Quicktime & WMV support.
More on topic... I tried to help a Red Hat/Fedora stalwart install FC6 on his new Philips X53 laptop today, what a nightmare. After trying FC6, FC5, RHEL ES 4, OpenSuse 10.1, & Ubuntu Dapper & Edgy, all hung on loading the 8139too module for the Realtek 8139 NIC... very annoying, surpisingly MEPIS was the only distro that would boot on the hunk 'o junk. I ended up suggesting that he should go with Gentoo (so he could customize the Linux kernel during install), post a bug report, or return the laptop for a more mainstream piece of kit if he wants RHEL or FC running on his new purchase. Maybe it would be helpful if distros could include interactive hardware detection during installation. On a lighter note though, FC6 is now running like a beast on my desktop and pimping AIGLX bling on my Acer laptop.
Opera has used tabs for a long time yes, but the Mozilla browser had tabs first. After all Firefox is just the 'slimmed-down' version of the Mozilla browser.
"GT HD is not even a new Gran Turismo game. It is apparently just a high-res revision of GT4"
True, although GT HD will be just an intermediary title to satisfy GT4 fans over until GT5's release.
No doubt gamer's activities in GT HD could give them an advantage in GT5 much like GT Concept did on the PS2 before GT4, only this time the advantages will likely be carried over via an online account instead of a memory card.
I think we where just pointing out the reason why China's prison population is so much proportionally smaller that the US.
If the US started a similar regime of coldly disposing of rapists, murderers, drug dealers, etc. then the US wouldn't have so many in prisoners because the said prisoners would either be deterred from doing the crime in the first place or would be lying in an unmarked grave.
More on topic, I think the 6 year sentence is fair for the software pirate, considering...
There's no reason to pirate software nowadays as there's such a wide range of free software available that can either replace the majority of proprietory software or provide an alternative solution.
He made profit from pirating the software rather than doing it quietly for personal use, then purposefully laundered the money.
True... I'd also like to add that China also gives out the death penalty for crimes such as car theft and drug related crimes. After the criminal is paraded around town with their crime displayed on a sign hung around their neck and later shot in the back of the head, the actual shell casing is posted to the family so they can repay the state for the use of the bullet.
No games?
What about the Doom3, Quake 1,2,3 & 4, UT 1,2003,2004, Nexuix, Tremulous, Enemy Territory, Medal of Honour AA, Kingpin, Americas Army... and all the games I can play with Cedega?
Maybe you should start using word processors as they are all meant to be used nowadays, using styles, defined tabs and page breaks to format your documents rather than changing fonts throughout the document's default style and building your layout with carriage returns & spaces, which it sounds as if you're doing. You'll soon find that once you adopt this practice you'll find that formatting your documents will take less time, you can save out your own preferred styles out to your global template for use in all of your future documents and the layout will be slicker & consistent across different word processors namely Word, OpenOffice, Word Pro, Abiword etc.
"Almost all word processors enable users to employ styles,[citation needed] which are used to automate consistent formatting of text body, titles, subtitles, highlighed text, and so on.
Styles are the key to managing the formatting of large documents, since changing a style automatically changes all text that the style has been applied to. Even in shorter documents styles can save a lot of time while formatting. However, most help files refer to styles as an 'advanced feature' of the word processor, which often discourages users from using styles regularly."
Calm down & pay attention before you fly off the handle with mis-read assumptions, where we talking about 'fixing' anything with Live boot OSs?.
We were talking in the context of using a Live disk as a non volatile operating system, not for fixing a hosed installed OS.
Then you dribble on about...
"Now, why live CD if not for maintenance ?"
err... did I say this?
"Personally, I'd never use a Linux LIVE CD to 'fix' anything on a windows system,"
Then you don't know what you're doing, or maybe you just prefer to spend hours setting up a CD that enables you to click a button to receive a problem report from an unguaranteed 3rd party program... STFU.
"Miles ahead if you're lazy perhaps, there another tool seemingly lost on you 'slipstreaming'."
You seemed to miss the bit about BartsPE didn't you, which still (in my opinion) doesn't make Windows any more successfull as a Live boot OS, all very well if you're going to use it on one or two PC's but not practicle otherwise, I'm not saying it's impossible, note I said NOT PRACTICLE, write that down if you like.
Some ISPs do just that. I used to work for the abuse team for a cable ISP in the UK.
We had a policy of disconnecting customers who we'd found to have worm or spambot activity originating from their address.
If we weren't able to contact them straight away, we'd disconnect with the prejudice they deserved... n00bs
UBCD for Windows is just a collection of Barts PE plugins to help you build your own Windows Live CD from Barts PE and your Windows disk, even then it's only really a maintenance CD, you wouldn't want to use it as a Live boot OS, I've tried it on many PCs in the past and I've never been able to get networking going once.
Windows is inherantly a bad choice for a live boot OS because of the messy issue of having as many 3rd party drivers as possible loaded into the image.
Linux distros are now miles ahead of Windows when it comes to hardware detection on first boot.
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"We're trying to find something good out of the bad here," Avilla said. "There's got to be more than one way to fight this. They get us in so many ways. There's got to be a way for us to get them."
..Stop using Windows?
hard link = ln target linkname
soft / symbolic link = ln -s target linkname
"windows defender, auto defragging"
Is this for real?
So instead of fixing Windows' security model, or reworking the flawed NTFS filesystem, they patch 'em up and give the patches catchy names!
Profit!
Maybe the original moderator though he meant Bolo Yeung, who's also got a bit of a reputation as a cold street-fighting robot.
I'm running Crossover 6 on Linux right now and Quickbooks is right there in the 'Supported Applications' list.
You mean you've never seen 'Airplane!'?
Let him have his glory. Your first first post is special.. ahh
..and just over 25 times that of the 5K in my first computer, the good ol' Vic 20 (and only 3.5K of that was for user space!)
totem-xine is a different implementation of Totem that uses Xine instead of GStreamer.
The thing is that totem now increasingly seems to be a dependency of GNOME (just try to replace totem with totem-xine on Ubuntu Edgy and you'll see what I mean)
Maybe we should just wait until GStreamer/ffmpeg rolls out the promised Quicktime & WMV support.
More on topic... I tried to help a Red Hat/Fedora stalwart install FC6 on his new Philips X53 laptop today, what a nightmare. After trying FC6, FC5, RHEL ES 4, OpenSuse 10.1, & Ubuntu Dapper & Edgy, all hung on loading the 8139too module for the Realtek 8139 NIC... very annoying, surpisingly MEPIS was the only distro that would boot on the hunk 'o junk. I ended up suggesting that he should go with Gentoo (so he could customize the Linux kernel during install), post a bug report, or return the laptop for a more mainstream piece of kit if he wants RHEL or FC running on his new purchase.
Maybe it would be helpful if distros could include interactive hardware detection during installation.
On a lighter note though, FC6 is now running like a beast on my desktop and pimping AIGLX bling on my Acer laptop.
Opera has used tabs for a long time yes, but the Mozilla browser had tabs first. After all Firefox is just the 'slimmed-down' version of the Mozilla browser.
Now all they need now is some wireless VDU glasses hooked up to the laptop so they can see real time subtitles. Now that would be wierd and cool.
I noticed that too, and mentioned it to my girlfriend.... who just gave me 'one of those looks'.
"GT HD is not even a new Gran Turismo game. It is apparently just a high-res revision of GT4"
True, although GT HD will be just an intermediary title to satisfy GT4 fans over until GT5's release. No doubt gamer's activities in GT HD could give them an advantage in GT5 much like GT Concept did on the PS2 before GT4, only this time the advantages will likely be carried over via an online account instead of a memory card.
Hail!
DailyRotation is a good example of this, just set it up to display ALL feeds and you won't know where to start...
I'm hopelessly addicted.
Good idea on encouraging more kids to take an interest in computer technologies but it might just get them into trouble with dumbass teachers.
If the US started a similar regime of coldly disposing of rapists, murderers, drug dealers, etc. then the US wouldn't have so many in prisoners because the said prisoners would either be deterred from doing the crime in the first place or would be lying in an unmarked grave.
More on topic, I think the 6 year sentence is fair for the software pirate, considering...
True... I'd also like to add that China also gives out the death penalty for crimes such as car theft and drug related crimes.
After the criminal is paraded around town with their crime displayed on a sign hung around their neck and later shot in the back of the head, the actual shell casing is posted to the family so they can repay the state for the use of the bullet.
Profit!
No games? What about the Doom3, Quake 1,2,3 & 4, UT 1,2003,2004, Nexuix, Tremulous, Enemy Territory, Medal of Honour AA, Kingpin, Americas Army... and all the games I can play with Cedega?
I wonder if this technology is anything like what the US government is hiding away?
Maybe you should start using word processors as they are all meant to be used nowadays, using styles, defined tabs and page breaks to format your documents rather than changing fonts throughout the document's default style and building your layout with carriage returns & spaces, which it sounds as if you're doing.
You'll soon find that once you adopt this practice you'll find that formatting your documents will take less time, you can save out your own preferred styles out to your global template for use in all of your future documents and the layout will be slicker & consistent across different word processors namely Word, OpenOffice, Word Pro, Abiword etc.
This Wikipedia article on word processors gives a quick & easy explanation...
"Almost all word processors enable users to employ styles,[citation needed] which are used to automate consistent formatting of text body, titles, subtitles, highlighed text, and so on.
Styles are the key to managing the formatting of large documents, since changing a style automatically changes all text that the style has been applied to. Even in shorter documents styles can save a lot of time while formatting. However, most help files refer to styles as an 'advanced feature' of the word processor, which often discourages users from using styles regularly."
@Yyrkoon
Calm down & pay attention before you fly off the handle with mis-read assumptions, where we talking about 'fixing' anything with Live boot OSs?.
We were talking in the context of using a Live disk as a non volatile operating system, not for fixing a hosed installed OS.
Then you dribble on about...
"Now, why live CD if not for maintenance ?"
err... did I say this?
"Personally, I'd never use a Linux LIVE CD to 'fix' anything on a windows system,"
Then you don't know what you're doing, or maybe you just prefer to spend hours setting up a CD that enables you to click a button to receive a problem report from an unguaranteed 3rd party program... STFU.
"Miles ahead if you're lazy perhaps, there another tool seemingly lost on you 'slipstreaming'."
You seemed to miss the bit about BartsPE didn't you, which still (in my opinion) doesn't make Windows any more successfull as a Live boot OS, all very well if you're going to use it on one or two PC's but not practicle otherwise, I'm not saying it's impossible, note I said NOT PRACTICLE, write that down if you like.
Some ISPs do just that. I used to work for the abuse team for a cable ISP in the UK.
We had a policy of disconnecting customers who we'd found to have worm or spambot activity originating from their address.
If we weren't able to contact them straight away, we'd disconnect with the prejudice they deserved... n00bs
UBCD for Windows is just a collection of Barts PE plugins to help you build your own Windows Live CD from Barts PE and your Windows disk, even then it's only really a maintenance CD, you wouldn't want to use it as a Live boot OS, I've tried it on many PCs in the past and I've never been able to get networking going once.
Windows is inherantly a bad choice for a live boot OS because of the messy issue of having as many 3rd party drivers as possible loaded into the image.
Linux distros are now miles ahead of Windows when it comes to hardware detection on first boot.
You mean like DOSBox?