There is a difference between trademarks used as a generic name for that class of product (as in Xerox, Kleenex, Google, etc) or names that happen to be trademarks in one product category being used do describe something in an entirely different category. Spam is a trademark for a meat product and unsolicited mail, for which the term is often used, has nothing to do with meat. Just like Coke is a trademark for a softdrink and a term for a hard-drug. The contexts are different and there is no risk of confusion or opportunity for trademark enforcement.
Hormel knows that. They just want to take advantage of the hausse in the use of "spam" to advertise their meat product.
Take any issue of the NYT, or any newspaper, count the pages with full-page ads, and you get a very large sum that could have been spent on poverty or clean drinking water.
And then we are not even talking about all the trees that were used up to fabricate the paper the ads were printed on... how much could they have contributed to cleaning our atmosphere, adding oxygen and removing carbon dioxide.
But be careful, such thinking does not fit into the American way of life!
This bug only means you see http://www.microsoft.com/ in the status bar while hovering over that link, but as soon as you click it the address bar will show the real location you are visiting.
So it is useless for phishing. It is just a bug, not a security problem.
They claim Mozilla has over 17% market share. Maybe for a select group of users. Slashdot statistics could be similar. But for a website for the general public, that figure would be much too large.
The issue probably is not the filesystem, but rather the UI programming and the linking of programs to document types. This is of course very different between Windows, Mac and Linux (and within Linux there are, as usual, several different methods)
When a paid-for corporate license number gets leaked to the Internet and used to manufacture rip-off CDs, they could trace the original company and try to sue it. However, it will probably be very hard to get a company to pay for something like this, and then still have more corporate customers closing this deal. What company wants to get liable for a leak like this, which will be impossible to trace to an indvidual, and for which it will be impossible to hold someone responsible?
In the end it will be cheaper to buy single licenses for which there is no liability, and to setup your scheme to move away from Microsoft software.
Hunting down the illegal copies is going to raise the Windows TCO, something Microsoft will not want to do as it is their key comparison point against competition.
The first thing that occurs to me is that they announce all these domains "for a specific purpose"..post "for national post agencies".travel "for travel agencies" etc.
This is like the system as it was originally setup..com "for companies",.org "for organizations" etc. In practice this has turned out to be completely unworkable, and has resulted in a total mess where just everything is accepted and registered.
What makes them think that new TLDs will be so much better to manage than the existing ones? I expect that registration will be open for everyone, or it will be like that after one year of discussion about registrations. So Steve Jobs can register steve.jobs without using it for anything job-related, first.post is registered by some lamer from/. etc.
And most important: all those registering a new domain will already have 1000 of them in the existing namespace, and the few newcomers will "just in case" also register something in.com or.org or.whatever.
So all in all it just increases the confusion and the overall mess.
I hope you don't limit your information to other counties' politics. You would oversee the fact that in many European contries, the USA and Bush' politics has lead to the situation where the official government still is pro-USA and considers the country to be a US Ally, but the majority of the population is anti-USA.
Well, I was thinking about this when I sent my old car, with properly working engine, off to the junk yard. However it is a bit unpractical to run a car engine based generator in a city.
On a small car those conversions are not very simple anyway... and certainly not on a modern car. I would have difficulty fitting any larger-than-original part in my new car, and as the whole thing is controlled by electronic control units and uses a multiplexed bus instead of wiring harnesses any simple mod is going to be a challenge...
Of course it has airconditioning with climate control, so the simplest option is to just drive around.
It seems a waste to use only the heat from the engine and not its output power. With a car engine you should be able to build a big generator that provides lots of electricity in addition to the heat.
The problem with those batteries is that they are designed to give 5-second bursts of energy to start the engine, not to give sustained power. Of course it will work, but not optimally.
Many smallish UPS systems operate at 24V internally, so you can use two car batteries in series with them.
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If you don't mind the overhead, add FEC at the link at the point of loss. But anyway, solve it at the point of the problem, not end-to-end.
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Unreliability is best solved by adding a retransmitting link layer at the point where it occurs. So, when unreliability of a wireless hop is a problem, use something like LAPB over that hop. Just as it was done in error-correcting modems (V.42). This way you solve the problem locally without adding end-to-end overhead and without modifying the transport protocol.
Your first mistake: you assume that the admins are logged in to their workstation as a user with admin privileges.
A good admin does not do that. For one, it is usually not necessary. Furthermore, by logging in as an ordinary user during the day, he knows what limitations ordinary users can hit (and do not report) so it is much easier for him to tune the system.
The figures were from the population density of the country as a whole. But of course these are all big countries, with dense cities and less dense country areas.
I think you could have added the new disk to the old running system, fdisk and format it using yast or commandline tools, move your home there, and then re-install the system on the 30GB disk. I would have done: - login as root - cd/ - mv home home.orig - mkdir home - yast
(add the disk, say it will be/home, format it) - df
(make sure the/dev/sdb1 is now mounted as/home) - mv/home.orig/*/home - rmdir/home.orig
home is now on the new disk. reboot system from CD, install 9.1 on 30GB and during partition selection tell it that/home is/dev/sdb1. that should do it.
Of course you could have done this with SuSE as well, but you should not have tried two things (upgrade and drive reassignment) in one go. You could have upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1 first and then add the new drive and move/home to it, or first add the new drive and move/home, then re-install from scratch on the old drive.
Of course, with a local phone jammer operating in the theatre the problem is not your weak signal getting out (this is the same with or without jammer) but the base station signal overpowering the jammer. So you will gain nothing by using more outputpower; you need some receiver that ignores the local jamming and receives the remote base station anyway.
NMEA is the lowest-level protocol used by these devices. In fact, even a bare GPS receiver module talks NMEA. When you have a GPS handheld, there are many more things that can be done via a PC. Download waypoints, tracks, upload maps, etc. This is not done using the NMEA protocol but with some proprietary protocol specific to the GPS unit manufacturer.
Usually: yes. I have some USB devices and they all work with Linux. In fact, with Linux they worked plug-and-play while for Windows 2000 I needed to install the drivers that came with them.
You are not supporting the stations by watching their commercials, you are supporting the stations by buying the products that are advertised (even when you don't watch TV at all). Your only way to avoid payment is to only buy products that are not advertised. For example, when you buy a new car, at least 5% of the retail price is spent on advertising. You will probably have a hard time finding a brand of car that isn't advertised. So you pay for your TV station via the markup on the price of your car.
To me, this seems very close to "being forced to support". The situation would be much clearer when it would be mandatory to list the amount paid for advertising separately in the retail price, like a shipping fee or a sales tax. You would at least know how much of your spending goes to support of entities not related to the product you are buying.
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There is a difference between trademarks used as a generic name for that class of product (as in Xerox, Kleenex, Google, etc) or names that happen to be trademarks in one product category being used do describe something in an entirely different category.
Spam is a trademark for a meat product and unsolicited mail, for which the term is often used, has nothing to do with meat.
Just like Coke is a trademark for a softdrink and a term for a hard-drug.
The contexts are different and there is no risk of confusion or opportunity for trademark enforcement.
Hormel knows that. They just want to take advantage of the hausse in the use of "spam" to advertise their meat product.
That is the same thing IE does.
Take any issue of the NYT, or any newspaper, count the pages with full-page ads, and you get a very large sum that could have been spent on poverty or clean drinking water.
And then we are not even talking about all the trees that were used up to fabricate the paper the ads were printed on... how much could they have contributed to cleaning our atmosphere, adding oxygen and removing carbon dioxide.
But be careful, such thinking does not fit into the American way of life!
It does not work in other versions either.
This bug only means you see http://www.microsoft.com/ in the status bar while hovering over that link, but as soon as you click it the address bar will show the real location you are visiting.
So it is useless for phishing. It is just a bug, not a security problem.
They claim Mozilla has over 17% market share.
Maybe for a select group of users. Slashdot statistics could be similar. But for a website for the general public, that figure would be much too large.
The issue probably is not the filesystem, but rather the UI programming and the linking of programs to document types.
This is of course very different between Windows, Mac and Linux (and within Linux there are, as usual, several different methods)
When a paid-for corporate license number gets leaked to the Internet and used to manufacture rip-off CDs, they could trace the original company and try to sue it.
However, it will probably be very hard to get a company to pay for something like this, and then still have more corporate customers closing this deal.
What company wants to get liable for a leak like this, which will be impossible to trace to an indvidual, and for which it will be impossible to hold someone responsible?
In the end it will be cheaper to buy single licenses for which there is no liability, and to setup your scheme to move away from Microsoft software.
Hunting down the illegal copies is going to raise the Windows TCO, something Microsoft will not want to do as it is their key comparison point against competition.
The first thing that occurs to me is that they announce all these domains "for a specific purpose". .post "for national post agencies" .travel "for travel agencies" etc.
.com "for companies", .org "for organizations" etc.
/. etc.
.com or .org or .whatever.
This is like the system as it was originally setup.
In practice this has turned out to be completely unworkable, and has resulted in a total mess where just everything is accepted and registered.
What makes them think that new TLDs will be so much better to manage than the existing ones?
I expect that registration will be open for everyone, or it will be like that after one year of discussion about registrations. So Steve Jobs can register steve.jobs without using it for anything job-related, first.post is registered by some lamer from
And most important: all those registering a new domain will already have 1000 of them in the existing namespace, and the few newcomers will "just in case" also register something in
So all in all it just increases the confusion and the overall mess.
I hope you don't limit your information to other counties' politics. You would oversee the fact that in many European contries, the USA and Bush' politics has lead to the situation where the official government still is pro-USA and considers the country to be a US Ally, but the majority of the population is anti-USA.
Well, I was thinking about this when I sent my old car, with properly working engine, off to the junk yard. However it is a bit unpractical to run a car engine based generator in a city.
On a small car those conversions are not very simple anyway... and certainly not on a modern car.
I would have difficulty fitting any larger-than-original part in my new car, and as the whole thing is controlled by electronic control units and uses a multiplexed bus instead of wiring harnesses any simple mod is going to be a challenge...
Of course it has airconditioning with climate control, so the simplest option is to just drive around.
It seems a waste to use only the heat from the engine and not its output power.
With a car engine you should be able to build a big generator that provides lots of electricity in addition to the heat.
The problem with those batteries is that they are designed to give 5-second bursts of energy to start the engine, not to give sustained power.
Of course it will work, but not optimally.
Many smallish UPS systems operate at 24V internally, so you can use two car batteries in series with them.
If you don't mind the overhead, add FEC at the link at the point of loss. But anyway, solve it at the point of the problem, not end-to-end.
Unreliability is best solved by adding a retransmitting link layer at the point where it occurs.
So, when unreliability of a wireless hop is a problem, use something like LAPB over that hop. Just as it was done in error-correcting modems (V.42).
This way you solve the problem locally without adding end-to-end overhead and without modifying the transport protocol.
Your first mistake: you assume that the admins are logged in to their workstation as a user with admin privileges.
A good admin does not do that. For one, it is usually not necessary. Furthermore, by logging in as an ordinary user during the day, he knows what limitations ordinary users can hit (and do not report) so it is much easier for him to tune the system.
The figures were from the population density of the country as a whole. But of course these are all big countries, with dense cities and less dense country areas.
About 5 times more densely than the USA, and 15 times more densely than Russia.
Maybe that explains it?
I think you could have added the new disk to the old running system, fdisk and format it using yast or commandline tools, move your home there, and then re-install the system on the 30GB disk. / /home, format it) /dev/sdb1 is now mounted as /home) /home.orig/* /home /home.orig
/home is /dev/sdb1.
I would have done:
- login as root
- cd
- mv home home.orig
- mkdir home
- yast
(add the disk, say it will be
- df
(make sure the
- mv
- rmdir
home is now on the new disk.
reboot system from CD, install 9.1 on 30GB and during partition selection tell it that
that should do it.
Of course you could have done this with SuSE as well, but you should not have tried two things (upgrade and drive reassignment) in one go. /home to it, or first add the new drive and move /home, then re-install from scratch on the old drive.
You could have upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1 first and then add the new drive and move
Is this news?
The article was written a year ago, and even then it was not news (I have used Knoppix for this purpose longer than that)
Of course, with a local phone jammer operating in the theatre the problem is not your weak signal getting out (this is the same with or without jammer) but the base station signal overpowering the jammer.
So you will gain nothing by using more outputpower; you need some receiver that ignores the local jamming and receives the remote base station anyway.
NMEA is the lowest-level protocol used by these devices. In fact, even a bare GPS receiver module talks NMEA.
When you have a GPS handheld, there are many more things that can be done via a PC. Download waypoints, tracks, upload maps, etc. This is not done using the NMEA protocol but with some proprietary protocol specific to the GPS unit manufacturer.
Usually: yes.
I have some USB devices and they all work with Linux. In fact, with Linux they worked plug-and-play while for Windows 2000 I needed to install the drivers that came with them.
You are not supporting the stations by watching their commercials, you are supporting the stations by buying the products that are advertised (even when you don't watch TV at all).
Your only way to avoid payment is to only buy products that are not advertised.
For example, when you buy a new car, at least 5% of the retail price is spent on advertising. You will probably have a hard time finding a brand of car that isn't advertised. So you pay for your TV station via the markup on the price of your car.
To me, this seems very close to "being forced to support". The situation would be much clearer when it would be mandatory to list the amount paid for advertising separately in the retail price, like a shipping fee or a sales tax. You would at least know how much of your spending goes to support of entities not related to the product you are buying.
Just find the figures on spendings on TV commercials. It should be easy to calculate how much it costs you per year.