Surely I'm not the only parent that will under no circumstances give my children a credit card # to shop at iTunes.
7" singles are affordable and can be purchased without parental supervision; to say nothing of the coolness associated with rooting (apologies to the Aussies) around a hip urban record store with the good looking Byronic student type behind the counter.
Lastly, for my daughter, some retro seems to be very cool for here. She was ecstatic to receive my vinyl collection (discovered when my own parents were doing a big spring cleaning).
Where I work they are trying to create bureaucratic process as substitute for Engineering knowledge and experience. This is not working but the main players do not have the experience or knowledge to know it is not working.
The sad reality is that this is the norm. We're doomed.
Knowing both Larry and the poster about whom you're whining, I can assure you that they are both _very_ different people living and working over 3000 miles apart.
I _have_ tried evilwm (as part of a series of life-altering experiments).
I left the gnome-sawfish world and started using blackbox. It was OK, but I found myself spending a whole bunch of time making the decorations go away on permanent windows like my browser (even on 1600x1200, real estate is valuable).
Then I tried fluxbox and really liked the tabs. But it had two problems. Button 1 _always_ raised the window underneath (and that wasn't configurable) and I spent _even_more_ time making decorations invisible.
Then I tried evilwm. This was really nice. I no longer spent any time making decorations go away... but I missed the tabs.
Enter pwm. The joy of evilwm with the tabs. And a config file that allows me to make some windows appear without the tabs.
Q. Folks have even built a Linux-Xbox computer. How can you control this?
A. Electronic hobbyists will do what they want to do...the numbers are not really that big. It's not a commercial as much as it is an intellectual property issue and we always pursue those. If someone finds a way to cheat, we close it down and do an update so people can't anymore.
I'd be very curious to know how running Linux on an Xbox is cheating.
So you're doing an embedded linux to control a microwave oven (a really fancy oven). No network connection, etc. You think the software should expire? Not.
And then there is software that could be considered free of bugs if people stopped updating it. Consider cat and ls which are both a lot bigger and buggier than they were in their youth. For this class of software, the expiry-update process becomes a NOOP (creating a potentially worse problem of man-in-the-middle attacks causing believed stable software to be updated with trojans and the like).
No, expiry alone doesn't solve the problem of mass cluelessness.
The argument could be made that this kind of advertising is an unauthorized use of your computing resources. Maybe supporting somebody like the EFF to counter-lobby isn't such a bad idea.
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Particularly sweet are the WiFi hot spots in the middle of large lakes.
Surely I'm not the only parent that will under no circumstances give my children a credit card # to shop at iTunes.
7" singles are affordable and can be purchased without parental supervision; to say nothing of the coolness associated with rooting (apologies to the Aussies) around a hip urban record store with the good looking Byronic student type behind the counter.
Lastly, for my daughter, some retro seems to be very cool for here. She was ecstatic to receive my vinyl collection (discovered when my own parents were doing a big spring cleaning).
For those of us that live in Canada, the bright side is that this really helps to ameliorate our national inferiority complex.
Actually, their last CD release was not You Forgot It In People but rather a self titled work with a water colour cover containing the genius 7/4.
The sad reality is that this is the norm. We're doomed.
Knowing both Larry and the poster about whom you're
whining, I can assure you that they are both
_very_ different people living and working over
3000 miles apart.
I _have_ tried evilwm (as part of a series of life-altering experiments).
I left the gnome-sawfish world and started using blackbox. It was OK, but I found myself spending a whole bunch of time making the decorations go away on permanent windows like my browser (even on 1600x1200, real estate is valuable).
Then I tried fluxbox and really liked the tabs. But it had two problems. Button 1 _always_ raised the window underneath (and that wasn't configurable) and I spent _even_more_ time making decorations invisible.
Then I tried evilwm. This was really nice. I no longer spent any time making decorations go away... but I missed the tabs.
Enter pwm. The joy of evilwm with the tabs. And a config file that allows me to make some windows appear without the tabs.
My search is complete.
I'd be very curious to know how running Linux on an Xbox is cheating.
So you're doing an embedded linux to control a microwave oven (a really fancy oven). No network connection, etc. You think the software should expire? Not.
And then there is software that could be considered free of bugs if people stopped updating it. Consider cat and ls which are both a lot bigger and buggier than they were in their youth. For this class of software, the expiry-update process becomes a NOOP (creating a potentially worse problem of man-in-the-middle attacks causing believed stable software to be updated with trojans and the like).
No, expiry alone doesn't solve the problem of mass cluelessness.
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The argument could be made that this kind of advertising is an unauthorized use of your computing resources. Maybe supporting somebody like the EFF to counter-lobby isn't such a bad idea.