It's interesting that the few posts here that say they've had no problems with Ghost/Spybot have been using Ghost 8. As I mentioned in another post, Ghost 9 and 10 are repackaged versions of Drive Image, which were obtained from PowerQuest. They have nothing to do with prior versions of Ghost except for the name. Does anyone here have any experience with Ghost 9 or 10 and Spybot?
This couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that the newer versions of Ghost (post-2003, iirc) are complete and utter crap and don't work properly, could it? I believe they repackaged a program called Drive Image as Ghost 9 and that it has absolutely nothing to do with prior versions of Ghost.
Reread my post. I never said that someone in a cover band isn't a musician. I said they are not a songwriter or composer. Which they are not. They are merely replaying music that someone else wrote. Also, I would not necessarily call a sound engineer or a mixer a musician. They may be highly trained in the recording arts. That doesn't mean they can sit down and play a piano or guitar. Some can, but that's because they have a love for music and are multidisciplined. Only if they actually have musical talent or training (self-taught counts) would I call them a musician. As for your software engineer comment, that's one that's actually come up several times in other posts on slashdot. I'll leave that for others to fight.
I think putting these people in with musicians is belittling to musicians. Seriously.
Agreed. This is the same as calling someone in a cover band a songwriter or composer (no offense to the GP, every band covers someone else at some point).
...but which vendor makes the patching and updating experience the least complex, most efficient and easiest to manage.
My office recently donated some P3 machines to a homeless shelter. The process of wiping the drive and installing Win 2000(SP4) and updating it to be current took nearly 4 hours for one machine. This was a machine that had just the OS. I had to run Windows Update and reboot at least a dozen times. Each time, I'd select and install all patches available. Due to prerequisite patch dependencies, however, each update/reboot cycle would make another 10-15 patches available. Hardly efficient. You'd think they could roll it all up into one huge patch and make it available. (And yes, I can understand the need for some places to avoid certain patches - make that the option, not the norm!)
Okay, it may not be as painfully obvious as I made it out to be. I only noticed the ability to disable those things because I always look through all the prefs just to see what's available. I only found I actually had a use for the iTMS and radio disable features when IT firewalled those functions from working. Rather than get an error message everytime I accidentally click them, I'd rather just get rid of them entirely.
Because MacWorld is going on right now? If major announcements about new products and corporate strategies get made at LinuxWorld, there are a high amount of Linux-related articles. Go figure...
The easiest solution to this whole thing is to simply change all of your filenames and ID3 tags to something like "STOP SPYING ON ME, APPLE!" It'll at least be interesting to see what they try to match you up with.
...but they weren't exactly putting it out front for people to see easily, were they?
I guess if you're blind and can't see the ministore that now takes up nearly half of your iTunes window with bright colorful icons and album covers that were never there before, then yes, they aren't putting it out front for people to see easily. Do you even know of what you speak?
Something else to mention (although it should be painfully obvious) is that the ministore doesn't appear at all if you've disabled the iTMS in the parental controls preference panel. If you have no use for the iTMS, just get rid of it altogether.
Well, I know that when I fired up iTunes after updating, I saw the ministore down there, decided I didn't care to see it, and clicked the little hide/minimize icon underneath it. Wow it was tough to get rid of it!
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Now the DRM 'block;, can we not purchase that 'block' ? Id prefer my comptuer to be fully functional and under MY control.
That's easy. You just avoid the Windows block and instead use the Linux block or OS X block (although you'd end up with 'lite' DRM in this case).
It's interesting that the few posts here that say they've had no problems with Ghost/Spybot have been using Ghost 8. As I mentioned in another post, Ghost 9 and 10 are repackaged versions of Drive Image, which were obtained from PowerQuest. They have nothing to do with prior versions of Ghost except for the name. Does anyone here have any experience with Ghost 9 or 10 and Spybot?
This couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that the newer versions of Ghost (post-2003, iirc) are complete and utter crap and don't work properly, could it? I believe they repackaged a program called Drive Image as Ghost 9 and that it has absolutely nothing to do with prior versions of Ghost.
But...But...But Symantec is part of the Anti-Spyware Coalition. They would never lie about something like this...
Reread my post. I never said that someone in a cover band isn't a musician. I said they are not a songwriter or composer. Which they are not. They are merely replaying music that someone else wrote. Also, I would not necessarily call a sound engineer or a mixer a musician. They may be highly trained in the recording arts. That doesn't mean they can sit down and play a piano or guitar. Some can, but that's because they have a love for music and are multidisciplined. Only if they actually have musical talent or training (self-taught counts) would I call them a musician. As for your software engineer comment, that's one that's actually come up several times in other posts on slashdot. I'll leave that for others to fight.
Look over there at the horizon. I think I see an E. And is that a V slowly coming up behind it?
True, if you are reworking the original orchestration, you are an arranger. In fact, that is part of the definition of arranger.
Oh, good one. Now you're gonna get slashdot shut down...
I think putting these people in with musicians is belittling to musicians. Seriously.
Agreed. This is the same as calling someone in a cover band a songwriter or composer (no offense to the GP, every band covers someone else at some point).
Ahhh. I wasn't aware of the Malware Coalition.
Shouldn't Sony be included in the coalition?
Nevermind that they absolve themselves of any responsibility via the EULA. Then again, let's test the validity of a EULA in court!
Probably. I didn't read TFA. I just needed to gripe a little because my boss threw that on me the other day thinking it would take 10 minutes.
...but which vendor makes the patching and updating experience the least complex, most efficient and easiest to manage.
My office recently donated some P3 machines to a homeless shelter. The process of wiping the drive and installing Win 2000(SP4) and updating it to be current took nearly 4 hours for one machine. This was a machine that had just the OS. I had to run Windows Update and reboot at least a dozen times. Each time, I'd select and install all patches available. Due to prerequisite patch dependencies, however, each update/reboot cycle would make another 10-15 patches available. Hardly efficient. You'd think they could roll it all up into one huge patch and make it available. (And yes, I can understand the need for some places to avoid certain patches - make that the option, not the norm!)
Of course the next step in DRM will be special booths that you have to be strip searched to enter...
Sign me up for the DRM'd pr0n!
Okay, it may not be as painfully obvious as I made it out to be. I only noticed the ability to disable those things because I always look through all the prefs just to see what's available. I only found I actually had a use for the iTMS and radio disable features when IT firewalled those functions from working. Rather than get an error message everytime I accidentally click them, I'd rather just get rid of them entirely.
Because MacWorld is going on right now? If major announcements about new products and corporate strategies get made at LinuxWorld, there are a high amount of Linux-related articles. Go figure...
You clearly have never seen the show...It's worth checking out.
The easiest solution to this whole thing is to simply change all of your filenames and ID3 tags to something like "STOP SPYING ON ME, APPLE!" It'll at least be interesting to see what they try to match you up with.
...but they weren't exactly putting it out front for people to see easily, were they?
I guess if you're blind and can't see the ministore that now takes up nearly half of your iTunes window with bright colorful icons and album covers that were never there before, then yes, they aren't putting it out front for people to see easily. Do you even know of what you speak?
Thank god I bought that software that stops me from transmitting my IP address!
Google scans your emails for ads...
Well, that's silly of them. I don't put ads in my emails...
Wow! A daveschroeder post I actually agree with. The end is nigh!
Something else to mention (although it should be painfully obvious) is that the ministore doesn't appear at all if you've disabled the iTMS in the parental controls preference panel. If you have no use for the iTMS, just get rid of it altogether.
Well, I know that when I fired up iTunes after updating, I saw the ministore down there, decided I didn't care to see it, and clicked the little hide/minimize icon underneath it. Wow it was tough to get rid of it!