I dealt with the HDD issue by buying an 8GB compactflash card and $10 cf-ide adaptor from ebay. Data's stored on a mirrored terabyte (which can now be turned off for 90% of the time), and Debian is running quite nicely on the Atom board I've got in there. The loud chipset fan was shitting me but I fixed it with a less-cheap aftermarket 40mm fan (which incidentally is held to the board with a bent paperclip).
My favourite bit is the 3.5" ext. HDD docking bay that automatically selectively syncs my portable drive to my storage array.
So no-one could say who JW Smythe really is... if it weren't for the likely proximity between "J.W. Smythe" and your real name in your personal search history file in Google's database?
The problem seems to be getting the outside servers anonymous yet still accessible - but why not make the outside servers the ones that contact the inside clients, instead of the other way round?
Sure, it could open the way for easy detection of people on the inside, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
But when a case like this comes up, it is useful to have it go to the courts, and perhaps later brought to the attention of the legislature, so that we can have some clearly defined boundaries for the future.
That's not the problem - the problem is that said boundaries could be completely and utterly crap. If they rule in favour of the school, (depending on the circumstances and severity of the ruling), it could possibly be something that brings the "right" to free speech into question. And no-one wants that, do they?
That computer now has Vista on it, so I guess Microsoft won after all.
So your computer is running an operating system, worth around $200, that you recieved for free, and will work for a year.
After that year, there is nothing preventing you from clean installing WinXP, Linux, hell, even OSX x86!
I misread it the same way, and I am in the process of actually founding an "Open Source Religion". A coherent organized worldview that is dynamic, module-based and upgradable. In contrast with the thousands of years old, monolithic, static and all-to-often fundamentalist doctrines that monopolize the religious market today. I say it's about time they get some competition.
And outside of Slashdot in-the-real-world (aka Google) there aren't 10 unique occurences for the following phrases:
"stop trusting Microsoft" or "stopped trusting Microsoft"
1) Start leveraging your compiler to inflate SPEC scores - special case and hardcode as many parts of SPEC as you can
2) Keep adding more cache so more synthetic benchmarks fit completely in high speed memory to inflate those SPEC scores
3) Dump truckloads and truckloads of cash on x86 hardware sites
4) Leverage Steve Jobs - there is no limit to how much he will lie about performance - you saved his ass when he got his annoying ass dumped by IBM, he's owes you guys big time
You forgot:
5) Do NOT put hardware DRM on your chips.
I think it's quite clear that most educated end-users (yes, all forty of them) will choose a chip that doesn't affect what they can and can't do.
Secondly, Bungie is the developer of Halo2, they actually make the decisions on the platform and graphics requirements, Microsoft doesn't micro manage their work.
Yes, but apart from owning them, Microsoft are their publisher as well. Bungie can't just make something and it mircaulously appears on store shelves - SOMEONE has to make them. And evil as it is, Microsoft are well within their rights to say "Make it Vista only or it won't be published."
The music industry needs to stop thinking "We're in the CD business."
No, the music industry needs to start thinking "Hey, if we're going to get rid of CDs, we're going to need to replace them with something." Because at the moment digital music stores all provide their wares in lossy formats. So that's why I usually don't bother with them. As soon as Apple starts giving out FLACs, (well, it'd probably be Apple Lossless), then we have a viable alternative to CDs.
Then the company with the patents can, if it wants, try to sue the huge pool of potential violators
Problem is, then they might actually have a chance of winning a suit. Most of these potention violators wouldn't have the multi-billion dollar budget to pay for lawyers.
And anyway, do we really want ANOTHER company doing the whole RIAA evilness act?
Can this work in reverse? i.e. Could you set up a controller to send instructions that replace those of the steering wheel/pedals?
MIB 2 was a shithouse movie, but that car controller sure was a good idea...
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I dealt with the HDD issue by buying an 8GB compactflash card and $10 cf-ide adaptor from ebay. Data's stored on a mirrored terabyte (which can now be turned off for 90% of the time), and Debian is running quite nicely on the Atom board I've got in there. The loud chipset fan was shitting me but I fixed it with a less-cheap aftermarket 40mm fan (which incidentally is held to the board with a bent paperclip). My favourite bit is the 3.5" ext. HDD docking bay that automatically selectively syncs my portable drive to my storage array.
So no-one could say who JW Smythe really is... if it weren't for the likely proximity between "J.W. Smythe" and your real name in your personal search history file in Google's database?
The problem seems to be getting the outside servers anonymous yet still accessible - but why not make the outside servers the ones that contact the inside clients, instead of the other way round?
Sure, it could open the way for easy detection of people on the inside, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
That's not the problem - the problem is that said boundaries could be completely and utterly crap. If they rule in favour of the school, (depending on the circumstances and severity of the ruling), it could possibly be something that brings the "right" to free speech into question. And no-one wants that, do they?
So your computer is running an operating system, worth around $200, that you recieved for free, and will work for a year.
After that year, there is nothing preventing you from clean installing WinXP, Linux, hell, even OSX x86!
And Microsoft won, you say?
Sorry, mate, it's already been done: Shazanity - the world's first Wiki-based religion!
Nope, but there are some more photos of what they did in this PDF (1.1MB).
However, there are 18,200 results for "don't trust Microsoft".
Some other things for you Intel guys to try:
1) Start leveraging your compiler to inflate SPEC scores - special case and hardcode as many parts of SPEC as you can
2) Keep adding more cache so more synthetic benchmarks fit completely in high speed memory to inflate those SPEC scores
3) Dump truckloads and truckloads of cash on x86 hardware sites
4) Leverage Steve Jobs - there is no limit to how much he will lie about performance - you saved his ass when he got his annoying ass dumped by IBM, he's owes you guys big time
You forgot:
5) Do NOT put hardware DRM on your chips.
I think it's quite clear that most educated end-users (yes, all forty of them) will choose a chip that doesn't affect what they can and can't do.
Secondly, Bungie is the developer of Halo2, they actually make the decisions on the platform and graphics requirements, Microsoft doesn't micro manage their work. Yes, but apart from owning them, Microsoft are their publisher as well. Bungie can't just make something and it mircaulously appears on store shelves - SOMEONE has to make them. And evil as it is, Microsoft are well within their rights to say "Make it Vista only or it won't be published."
The music industry needs to stop thinking "We're in the CD business."
No, the music industry needs to start thinking "Hey, if we're going to get rid of CDs, we're going to need to replace them with something." Because at the moment digital music stores all provide their wares in lossy formats. So that's why I usually don't bother with them. As soon as Apple starts giving out FLACs, (well, it'd probably be Apple Lossless), then we have a viable alternative to CDs.
Why didn't they call it the iBud? Better yet, what about the iEye?
Oh my God! Google is the default search engine for Opera Desktop too! What a coincidence!
Then the company with the patents can, if it wants, try to sue the huge pool of potential violators Problem is, then they might actually have a chance of winning a suit. Most of these potention violators wouldn't have the multi-billion dollar budget to pay for lawyers. And anyway, do we really want ANOTHER company doing the whole RIAA evilness act?
Can this work in reverse? i.e. Could you set up a controller to send instructions that replace those of the steering wheel/pedals? MIB 2 was a shithouse movie, but that car controller sure was a good idea...
In other words: treat the cause, not the symptoms.