For my 64 bit machine, both opensolaris and gcc-2.95.3 and the ancient software will install/compile seamlessly, including my T61 laptop. I have installed it on an older 32 bit ubuntu install, but the old software doesn't like linux very much, and will not compile under any other gcc either. Opensolaris works just fine for it though, especially considering that the old software was developed for unix in the early 90's anyway. I just really don't want to get into modifying the gcc configure files that would allow gcc 2.95.3 to be compiled on a newer 64 bit machine with linux on it.
I have to use opensolaris on my intel boxes because I have to use gcc-2.95.3 to compile some ancient software I use for research, and not because of some fancy file system or dtrace. I can't help but wonder if other people are in the same boat. Anybody?
When I worked in the oilfields we had a natural gas fired engine running a compressor. My boss made a deal with some company that had us put magnets on the fuel intake. The idea was that the molecules of the natural gas would line up in some fashion that would get the engine better economy, but of course, it didn't work (but they sure made a good pitch for it).
As a Ph.D student going into my third year, I disagree with you just a little bit. When the universities get these patents and then license them, they make money from them. I think making this little bit of money is better than using tax dollars. The people who pay taxes (everybody) may not necessarily have anybody in their family who is going or will go to college, so they aren't getting as much benefit from these tax dollars. Of course, everybody benefits from universitites in some form or fashion, but at least with the money coming in from patents, the people don't feel the pinch as much. Other than that, I completely agree with you, the research should be available to everybody.
Look stupid, if you'll notice the timestamp of my original post, you'll notice I posted shortly after the story was posted, and if you'll read all the threads, you'll notice a lot of people posted exactly the same thing. If you had bothered to RTFA, you have seen that I copied and pasted what was in the article. The point I am trying to make is that you flamed me for no other reason than my sig, so again, fuck off.
According to the article:
How to uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
You can uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
For more information about Windows Genuine Advantage, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine
Whether or not they'll leave the ability to remove it in the software is debatable though.
Your attempt at sarcasm falls flat since the high murder rate is one of the reasons why I like to have weapons to protect myself. Just up the road and across the border in Nuevo Larado, the Mexicans have had 156 murders (gun related) this year alone. There is a war going on between drug lords. This is quite big news around here, and my point is that Mexico has strict gun laws, but a high(er) murder rate.
That is a meaningless statistic. You should actually compare the actual murder rate instead, because it doesn't matter what you murder somebody with, just the fact that you murdered them. Even then I don't think it will be all that easy to compare apples to apples because the cultures are different. I'm just glad I live in Texas where I can and do own guns so as to be able to protect myself and family, because criminals certainly don't give a damn about gun laws.
From the article: "To be or not to be" soliloquy is rendered: "2B? NT2B?=???".
So are they following in that ridiculous "ubonics" tradition and further degrading the English language or what?
Microsoft is unhappy about the way the problem was disclosed. The company urges security researchers to report problems in its products privately so it can provide a fix. "This public disclosure potentially puts computer users at risk," the Microsoft representative said.
Security through obscurity, yeah right. IMHO this just makes Microsoft get on the ball and do something about the problem rather than putting it on the back burner since "nobody would know about it."
When I was an undergrad, one of my professors told me that 20-30 years ago the army tried to institute a program whereby they would give you schooling to be a doctor in return for a extended stint in the army (sorry, I don't have a link to verify). But the upshot was that the AMA lobbied against it, so it didn't pass. If it had passed, then there would be quite few more doctors than there are now, which presumably would give us cheaper medical care.
Perhaps, but I think you are forgetting that in the 1950's, it was the "big thing" to own a car and do the all American Sunday drive outing. Detroit probably did have a hand in urban sprawl and some of the light-rail and metro system's issues, but on the other hand, they only gave Americans what they wanted. That self-absorbtion went all the way from the CEO's to the poorest of Americans. They wanted what they wanted, and somebody was going to sell it to them. It is only recently that people have really started to consider the long-term consequences of different issues, and hopefully that kind of thinking will only grow stronger, but Americans tend to be the instant gratification type, and it may take awhile.
I worked in the oilfields for 20 years, and I can tell you that the oil and gas companies aren't all evil. This isn't to say that there aren't greedy people at the top in some companies (Enron) who won't screw everybody to get ahead, but to automatically paint any oil company as evil with some kind of hidden agenda to make sure that a project like the monorail in Seatle will fail is just a little too left-wing stupid for my tastes. The simple fact is that everybody drives, and oil companies don't have to engage in conspiracies to make money. I realize that on slashdot it is considered trendy and kewl to be on the left and hate and mistrust any company, but a little intelligence should be applied to any situation like this and not automatically assume there is some kind of conspiracy.
He noted open source infringes on "tens of thousands" of patents granted in the US and that companies taken to court over these would "lose some of the cases."
I sure wish he would have given some examples of these "tens of thousands" because IMHO that is just a thrown out figure aka FUD.
Absolutely correct; its just another way to make a buck....and it reminds me of that old saying...there's a sucker born every minute...because you would have to be extremely involved with the game to actually spend money on virtual property.
While I didn't read the entire book, I did skip around enough to determine it gives a reasonable outline of reverse engineering (although I doubt it will be complete enough to reverse-engineer a large program).
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For my 64 bit machine, both opensolaris and gcc-2.95.3 and the ancient software will install/compile seamlessly, including my T61 laptop. I have installed it on an older 32 bit ubuntu install, but the old software doesn't like linux very much, and will not compile under any other gcc either. Opensolaris works just fine for it though, especially considering that the old software was developed for unix in the early 90's anyway. I just really don't want to get into modifying the gcc configure files that would allow gcc 2.95.3 to be compiled on a newer 64 bit machine with linux on it.
I have to use opensolaris on my intel boxes because I have to use gcc-2.95.3 to compile some ancient software I use for research, and not because of some fancy file system or dtrace. I can't help but wonder if other people are in the same boat. Anybody?
Looks like posting to this article has been abandoned as well :)
When I worked in the oilfields we had a natural gas fired engine running a compressor. My boss made a deal with some company that had us put magnets on the fuel intake. The idea was that the molecules of the natural gas would line up in some fashion that would get the engine better economy, but of course, it didn't work (but they sure made a good pitch for it).
Oh God, yes.
As a Ph.D student going into my third year, I disagree with you just a little bit. When the universities get these patents and then license them, they make money from them. I think making this little bit of money is better than using tax dollars. The people who pay taxes (everybody) may not necessarily have anybody in their family who is going or will go to college, so they aren't getting as much benefit from these tax dollars. Of course, everybody benefits from universitites in some form or fashion, but at least with the money coming in from patents, the people don't feel the pinch as much. Other than that, I completely agree with you, the research should be available to everybody.
Look stupid, if you'll notice the timestamp of my original post, you'll notice I posted shortly after the story was posted, and if you'll read all the threads, you'll notice a lot of people posted exactly the same thing. If you had bothered to RTFA, you have seen that I copied and pasted what was in the article. The point I am trying to make is that you flamed me for no other reason than my sig, so again, fuck off.
I copied and pasted straight out of the article. I don't use MS, and I don't care about following any links to MS, so fuck off.
According to the article:
How to uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications You can uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel. For more information about Windows Genuine Advantage, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine
Whether or not they'll leave the ability to remove it in the software is debatable though.
Now we have to worry about inattentive pigeons flying into our cars along with business men and teenage girls while they're on the phone.
Your attempt at sarcasm falls flat since the high murder rate is one of the reasons why I like to have weapons to protect myself. Just up the road and across the border in Nuevo Larado, the Mexicans have had 156 murders (gun related) this year alone. There is a war going on between drug lords. This is quite big news around here, and my point is that Mexico has strict gun laws, but a high(er) murder rate.
That is a meaningless statistic. You should actually compare the actual murder rate instead, because it doesn't matter what you murder somebody with, just the fact that you murdered them. Even then I don't think it will be all that easy to compare apples to apples because the cultures are different. I'm just glad I live in Texas where I can and do own guns so as to be able to protect myself and family, because criminals certainly don't give a damn about gun laws.
From the article: "To be or not to be" soliloquy is rendered: "2B? NT2B?=???".
So are they following in that ridiculous "ubonics" tradition and further degrading the English language or what?
Microsoft is unhappy about the way the problem was disclosed. The company urges security researchers to report problems in its products privately so it can provide a fix. "This public disclosure potentially puts computer users at risk," the Microsoft representative said.
Security through obscurity, yeah right. IMHO this just makes Microsoft get on the ball and do something about the problem rather than putting it on the back burner since "nobody would know about it."
When I was an undergrad, one of my professors told me that 20-30 years ago the army tried to institute a program whereby they would give you schooling to be a doctor in return for a extended stint in the army (sorry, I don't have a link to verify). But the upshot was that the AMA lobbied against it, so it didn't pass. If it had passed, then there would be quite few more doctors than there are now, which presumably would give us cheaper medical care.
Perhaps, but I think you are forgetting that in the 1950's, it was the "big thing" to own a car and do the all American Sunday drive outing. Detroit probably did have a hand in urban sprawl and some of the light-rail and metro system's issues, but on the other hand, they only gave Americans what they wanted. That self-absorbtion went all the way from the CEO's to the poorest of Americans. They wanted what they wanted, and somebody was going to sell it to them. It is only recently that people have really started to consider the long-term consequences of different issues, and hopefully that kind of thinking will only grow stronger, but Americans tend to be the instant gratification type, and it may take awhile.
I worked in the oilfields for 20 years, and I can tell you that the oil and gas companies aren't all evil. This isn't to say that there aren't greedy people at the top in some companies (Enron) who won't screw everybody to get ahead, but to automatically paint any oil company as evil with some kind of hidden agenda to make sure that a project like the monorail in Seatle will fail is just a little too left-wing stupid for my tastes. The simple fact is that everybody drives, and oil companies don't have to engage in conspiracies to make money. I realize that on slashdot it is considered trendy and kewl to be on the left and hate and mistrust any company, but a little intelligence should be applied to any situation like this and not automatically assume there is some kind of conspiracy.
He noted open source infringes on "tens of thousands" of patents granted in the US and that companies taken to court over these would "lose some of the cases."
I sure wish he would have given some examples of these "tens of thousands" because IMHO that is just a thrown out figure aka FUD.
g-e-t-k-i-n-k-y-p-o-r-n "your fired"
...can I switch shells to Bash inside it?
Absolutely correct; its just another way to make a buck....and it reminds me of that old saying...there's a sucker born every minute...because you would have to be extremely involved with the game to actually spend money on virtual property.
While I didn't read the entire book, I did skip around enough to determine it gives a reasonable outline of reverse engineering (although I doubt it will be complete enough to reverse-engineer a large program).
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/national/12cnd-j ackson.html
This must explain all that heavy breathing when I call those 1-900-XXX numbers.
Since nobody can be bothered to put the first post up, I guess I will, so there.