Will Microsoft even allow you to recycle your Win2k license on a new computer?
This really pisses me off. This should of been part of the settlement from the DOJ. M$ Screwed Consumers.
The OEMS had to accept the M$ price discount plan, and only sell OEM versions to stay in business. M$ should of never been allowed to tie an OS to hardware, too late, damage done.
We had a site license for m$ at work. We bought 40 pc's and could not get them without windows. We just paid for an OS which we would never use, and couldnt sell. What about all the schools across America that got double billed for an OS? Thats alot of tax money M$ should pay back. I wont even go into the tax scam m$ has, they do not pay federal income tax.
If I was going to roll out desktops. 1. Terminal Services/Citrix/etc... Will NEVER tie M$ into hardware, repeat never, rinse repeat, never. 2. Linux workstations. 3. Fast network, with gigabit upstream to the TS servers. 4. Ghost images on CD.
BTW, 400mhz boxes make good linux workstations.
- Where does an 800 pound gorilla sleep, anywhere he wants.
1. Leave your number and someone will contact you shortly. (This is for expensive 24/7 coverage) 2. Please use our Web site for automated help. (Humm, Net connection down...) 3. We sold that product to another company, you can contact them at... 4. Sorry you reached the wrong department, and again, and again. 6. We are only open 9-4pm EST, closed on weekends. 7. Your product id doesnt match your record in our datebase.. 8. Please upgrade your product support to super duper gold plus, with cherries on top. 9. Our product is not ment to be used that way. 10. Tech on Call (Sorry, im out dinner, it will take me an hour to get to a computer..) 11. You can only use product X with our product Z, but we will gladly port it for the cost of your first born child. 12. Honest, this will do exactly what you want!
And the most common!
13. I cant figure it out, let me get with the developers...
Kinda neat, but its a P233 pc. Really the only cool thing is the led display. I have an old IBM thermal printer that uses fax paper also, used it on my c64. Now put linux on a c64 (load "linux",8,1) and I will be impressed.
Mod this up, dont every buy the bull "Drivers will mature".
Learn from past mistakes, even if the hardware is good, they write bad drivers, bad software, and they lie about benchmarks.
Im sticking with Nvidia, and My version 2880 linux nvidia drivers rock my linux world.
modified kernel version 2.4.18 (with Andre's VM)
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suse modified kernel version 2.4.18 (with Andre's VM)
Ok, whats modified? Wheres the changelog? Is Andre's VM not included in 2.4.18?
Currently I am using 2.4.19-pre7 with preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.19-pre7-1.patch. Im very happy, stable as hell, smooth desktop now. Really would like to know what Suse has modified.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Secure - Free from the risk of being intercepted by unauthorized persons.
There is too much to discuss about this, but it comes down to word "Reasonable". And this changes from person to person.
You find it "Resonable" to trade Privacy for Security. Patriot ACT on that thought was "Reasonable" to some men and women to combat terrorisism.
I find that "Unreasonable". The founding fathers had to deal with "Unreasonable" searchs under Kings Law, they would have no such repeat. - The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I found vmware 3.0 for 139 bux on the web. And vmware 3.1 is a free upgrade. Win98 runs games fine, came with an older PC. The Game will cost you 50 bux either way. Total cost (not including game) is 139 bux.
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Loki went out of business, not enough demand.
Vmware runs most things, if it had DirectX support, team this up with a pre-empt/blah new fangled linux kernel, and you dont NEED to port games.
I bet 5 years from know you will be able to emulate any OS, just run it under linux. So far I have Mac OS 9, VMWare, Amiga, Atari, N64, PS, DreamCast, Mame, C64, etc...
I would be a Republican, but I dont want forced Religion. I would be a Democrat, but I dont want political correctness. I would be a Libertarian, if they could win.
Maybe a Party already exists with Slashdot values.
* WASHINGTON, DC -- A new federal regulation that turns every cellular phone into a "homing beacon" -- and allows the government to pinpoint the exact location of a phone call -- is an ominous development with troubling implications for privacy, the Libertarian Party said today.
* The Libertarian Party joined with thousands of concerned Internet users in "turning its web pages black" in protest of President Clinton's signing the unconstitutional "Communications Decency Act" in 1995.
* The Libertarian Party continues to speak out today against the attempts by Democrats and Republicans to find loop-holes in the First Amendment, so they can turn the Internet into a government-controlled medium. - Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I like it when a site does a good indepth review, showing screen shots, telling about how many hours of play, replay value (Very important), multiplayer option, what hardware is supported, what gfx resolutions, audio (ex, eax? eax2? directsound, surround sound?), mod support, special features..
And about 100 things I forgot. Not everyone has 49 bux to drop on the 10 new games that come out each month, some guide helps pick out the good games and dump the crap.
BTW, power to the reviewers.. Let them get all the goods they can, cheap hookers, booze, whatever. I think I'll notice when all the reviews sites say a game suck, and JoeBlow reviewer says its the greatest game since quake10. - Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I dont have a need for rs232 on my workstation, thou I do need it on my ppp/firewall box. The only rs232 connection I had was a modem, and not that I use ethernet no need for it. Plus there are alot of USB modems on the market.
Easy dont buy this motherboard. This motherboard has most of the stuff a home user would need online. But 3 PCI would be pushing it, but Since my 2 of my 3 PCI cards are Ethernet and Audio (SB Audigy), it does make sense.
Why not just get a "USB TO SERIAL CONVERTER DB25M", its even supported under linux. I wanted to do this for a bbs, but the price per unit 45 bux was a little expensive.
Why is it hard to sign up for a free account, and always use it? Even if you create a fake account, you can have mozilla fill it in for you every time..
This is actually a "GOOD THING" (tm), I'm rather impressed someone in local Government understands that people are moving parts of their lives online. There needs to be some basic protection from companies to mine this data.
Just think of some of the areas, support groups for rape, drug use, violence, addictions, cancer, etc... Discussion groups, political, sex, food, hobbies, art, cars, investing, etc..
These laws act like a catalyst. If we make opt-in mandatory, we can push other areas to require opt-in methods. Opt-out is a scam that big companies like AOL and Yahoo love. It takes a couple weeks for your Opt-out to register, while your data is already sold.
Its bad enough, you can pull most of a persons life from DMV and Credit reports, do we need a persons intimate personal life also? - Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Humm, FUD about the USA Law doesnt touch the rest of the world...
Yes, the USA might not be the rest of the world, but we are a major player. Taiwan and China will put DRM in if its the only way to sell hardware to Americans. Why will they build 2 versions of the hardware, with and without DRM? They wont, its cheaper to build 1 version.
The world has allot of global players, and they all work with US corporations. Don't kid yourself, what happens to America rubs off on you. Russian citizens being arrested by America, CIA funding the Afghanistan's freedom fighters, FBI installing sniffing software for England, IBM financing Cisco to install logging firewalls for China.
Wake up, Most Americans don't care what their government is doing, reminds me of the germans under hilters rule, they are only doing it to proctect the citizens, right? - A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. - unknown
I just upgraded my DVD-rom just to find out that its RPC-2. They moved the Region code from the OS (RPC-1) to the firmware on the drive. You can only switch it 5 times, then it locks in firmware. No where on the box did it say it was RPC-2, nor is there any requirements for them to do so.
Maybe DRM is closer than you think. - chmod +a rwx/bin/freedom
Are we seeing the trend that one OS is always a M$ OS?
My workplace...
Linux running VMware running Win98 FreeBSD running VMware running WinXP WinXP running cygwin with Xfree WinXP running VMWare running Linux Solaris running citrix clients. - I need the driver support, so Ill use WinXP. - me
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Actually, for a while, the Marines had a custom version of Doom [army.mil] for training purposes!
I wonder if a team of Marines playing RTCW, MOHAA, Ghost Recon or CS would kick ass against us noncombatants.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. - Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
Will Microsoft even allow you to recycle your Win2k license on a new computer?
This really pisses me off. This should of been part of the settlement from the DOJ. M$ Screwed Consumers.
The OEMS had to accept the M$ price discount plan, and only sell OEM versions to stay in business. M$ should of never been allowed to tie an OS to hardware, too late, damage done.
We had a site license for m$ at work. We bought 40 pc's and could not get them without windows. We just paid for an OS which we would never use, and couldnt sell. What about all the schools across America that got double billed for an OS? Thats alot of tax money M$ should pay back. I wont even go into the tax scam m$ has, they do not pay federal income tax.
If I was going to roll out desktops.
1. Terminal Services/Citrix/etc... Will NEVER tie M$ into hardware, repeat never, rinse repeat, never.
2. Linux workstations.
3. Fast network, with gigabit upstream to the TS servers.
4. Ghost images on CD.
BTW, 400mhz boxes make good linux workstations.
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Where does an 800 pound gorilla sleep, anywhere he wants.
1. Leave your number and someone will contact you shortly. (This is for expensive 24/7 coverage)
2. Please use our Web site for automated help. (Humm, Net connection down...)
3. We sold that product to another company, you can contact them at...
4. Sorry you reached the wrong department, and again, and again.
6. We are only open 9-4pm EST, closed on weekends.
7. Your product id doesnt match your record in our datebase..
8. Please upgrade your product support to super duper gold plus, with cherries on top.
9. Our product is not ment to be used that way.
10. Tech on Call (Sorry, im out dinner, it will take me an hour to get to a computer..)
11. You can only use product X with our product Z, but we will gladly port it for the cost of your first born child.
12. Honest, this will do exactly what you want!
And the most common!
13. I cant figure it out, let me get with the developers...
Kinda neat, but its a P233 pc. Really the only cool thing is the led display. I have an old IBM thermal printer that uses fax paper also, used it on my c64. Now put linux on a c64 (load "linux",8,1) and I will be impressed.
Mod this up, dont every buy the bull "Drivers will mature".
Learn from past mistakes, even if the hardware is good, they write bad drivers, bad software, and they lie about benchmarks.
Im sticking with Nvidia, and My version 2880 linux nvidia drivers rock my linux world.
suse modified kernel version 2.4.18 (with Andre's VM)
Ok, whats modified? Wheres the changelog? Is Andre's VM not included in 2.4.18?
Currently I am using 2.4.19-pre7 with preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.19-pre7-1.patch. Im very happy, stable as hell, smooth desktop now. Really would like to know what Suse has modified.
I think the 4th admendment says it all.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Secure - Free from the risk of being intercepted by unauthorized persons.
There is too much to discuss about this, but it comes down to word "Reasonable". And this changes from person to person.
You find it "Resonable" to trade Privacy for Security. Patriot ACT on that thought was "Reasonable" to some men and women to combat terrorisism.
I find that "Unreasonable". The founding fathers had to deal with "Unreasonable" searchs under Kings Law, they would have no such repeat.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I found vmware 3.0 for 139 bux on the web. And vmware 3.1 is a free upgrade. Win98 runs games fine, came with an older PC. The Game will cost you 50 bux either way. Total cost (not including game) is 139 bux.
Loki went out of business, not enough demand.
Vmware runs most things, if it had DirectX support, team this up with a pre-empt/blah new fangled linux kernel, and you dont NEED to port games.
I bet 5 years from know you will be able to emulate any OS, just run it under linux. So far I have Mac OS 9, VMWare, Amiga, Atari, N64, PS, DreamCast, Mame, C64, etc...
Nice, Slashocrat. :)
I would be a Republican, but I dont want forced Religion.
I would be a Democrat, but I dont want political correctness.
I would be a Libertarian, if they could win.
Maybe a Party already exists with Slashdot values.
* WASHINGTON, DC -- A new federal regulation that turns every cellular phone into a "homing beacon" -- and allows the government to pinpoint the exact location of a phone call -- is an ominous development with troubling implications for privacy, the Libertarian Party said today.
* The Libertarian Party joined with thousands of concerned Internet users in "turning its web pages black" in protest of President Clinton's signing the unconstitutional "Communications Decency Act" in 1995.
* The Libertarian Party continues to speak out today against the attempts by Democrats and Republicans to find loop-holes in the First Amendment, so they can turn the Internet into a government-controlled medium.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
We could always create a "Ethics" for government employee law.
Hehe, You know that would be veto'ed!
I like it when a site does a good indepth review, showing screen shots, telling about how many hours of play, replay value (Very important), multiplayer option, what hardware is supported, what gfx resolutions, audio (ex, eax? eax2? directsound, surround sound?), mod support, special features..
And about 100 things I forgot. Not everyone has 49 bux to drop on the 10 new games that come out each month, some guide helps pick out the good games and dump the crap.
BTW, power to the reviewers.. Let them get all the goods they can, cheap hookers, booze, whatever. I think I'll notice when all the reviews sites say a game suck, and JoeBlow reviewer says its the greatest game since quake10.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I dont have a need for rs232 on my workstation, thou I do need it on my ppp/firewall box. The only rs232 connection I had was a modem, and not that I use ethernet no need for it. Plus there are alot of USB modems on the market.
Easy dont buy this motherboard. This motherboard has most of the stuff a home user would need online. But 3 PCI would be pushing it, but Since my 2 of my 3 PCI cards are Ethernet and Audio (SB Audigy), it does make sense.
"KEYBOARD AND MOUSE CONVERTER PS2 TO USB" works just fine on KVMs.
Why not just get a "USB TO SERIAL CONVERTER DB25M", its even supported under linux. I wanted to do this for a bbs, but the price per unit 45 bux was a little expensive.
chat.cnn.com port 6667
During 9/11 chat.cnn.com irc server was the best place to get real time news.
next they'll publish the findings of a multimillion dollar study that concludes that hackers tend to use computers.
Why is it hard to sign up for a free account, and always use it? Even if you create a fake account, you can have mozilla fill it in for you every time..
This is actually a "GOOD THING" (tm), I'm rather impressed someone in local Government understands that people are moving parts of their lives online. There needs to be some basic protection from companies to mine this data.
Just think of some of the areas, support groups for rape, drug use, violence, addictions, cancer, etc... Discussion groups, political, sex, food, hobbies, art, cars, investing, etc..
These laws act like a catalyst. If we make opt-in mandatory, we can push other areas to require opt-in methods. Opt-out is a scam that big companies like AOL and Yahoo love. It takes a couple weeks for your Opt-out to register, while your data is already sold.
Its bad enough, you can pull most of a persons life from DMV and Credit reports, do we need a persons intimate personal life also?
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The DMCA outlaws circumventing encryption. Dont worry, your country is looking at a DMCA law for your country too.
Humm, FUD about the USA Law doesnt touch the rest of the world...
Yes, the USA might not be the rest of the world, but we are a major player. Taiwan and China will put DRM in if its the only way to sell hardware to Americans. Why will they build 2 versions of the hardware, with and without DRM? They wont, its cheaper to build 1 version.
The world has allot of global players, and they all work with US corporations. Don't kid yourself, what happens to America rubs off on you. Russian citizens being arrested by America, CIA funding the Afghanistan's freedom fighters, FBI installing sniffing software for England, IBM financing Cisco to install logging firewalls for China.
Wake up,
Most Americans don't care what their government is doing, reminds me of the germans under hilters rule, they are only doing it to proctect the citizens, right?
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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. - unknown
I just upgraded my DVD-rom just to find out that its RPC-2. They moved the Region code from the OS (RPC-1) to the firmware on the drive. You can only switch it 5 times, then it locks in firmware. No where on the box did it say it was RPC-2, nor is there any requirements for them to do so.
/bin/freedom
Maybe DRM is closer than you think.
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chmod +a rwx
Are we seeing the trend that one OS is always a M$ OS?
My workplace...
Linux running VMware running Win98
FreeBSD running VMware running WinXP
WinXP running cygwin with Xfree
WinXP running VMWare running Linux
Solaris running citrix clients.
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I need the driver support, so Ill use WinXP. - me