It would be great if programs could run on any OS but you know M$ would do everything in their power to prevent it as they could never live with even a 1% profit loss despite all the money they have in the bank.
I agree with simple copy protection meant to keep Joe User from just sending files over the web but it's impossible to stop him from lending his CD to a buddy to be ripped. This will never hurt the pirates as they'll just find a way around it and continue what they do. The RIAA is hurting the legit users more than pirates who could care less.
Well I've always thought terrorists were stupid for going after heavily defended targets. All they have to do is hit the WoW datacenter, EQ and other online games and the implications would rock the world with mass suicides and social breakdown!
lol sadly, this is true because the actual effect of that would strike fear in a lot of people...loose my 60 mage! OMG! lol
Most companies will have you sign user agreements that prohibit this type of thing. At work I use windows because I have no choice. The military is like that, and I need connections to exchange. I would be installing linux in a heartbeat if I could. I have managed to get a linux server into our network by waiting until our end of fiscal year budget was tight and the need for a file server was high. I used an older machine with CentOS and it worked better than the other server we have here. It pretty much has command support now so it's here to stay.
I work with US Navy AUVs so power efficiency it a good part of my work. You are going to run into problems as your storage batteries only have so many amp/hrs of capacity and depending on the type you use deep cycling may not be an option. The best options for power efficiency use embedded processors (yes running linux. I even have a tux sticker on the side of it) and solid state hard drives (expensive) that don't draw hardly any power until you read or write to them. Then again you don't exactly get video editing caliber performance from the setup. You're not going to get around the power draw of the file server. If you need a lot of hard drives mini-itx limits your expandability due to lack of PCI slots for controller cards and such. My take... improve your power generation and storage capability to provide the power to the systems. You're not going to get much out of a video editing server/system otherwise.
I can already see Blizzard taking Sony to court because their rootkit allows people to cheat. Yes it may seem stupid but if you ever look at some court cases a lot of them are very stupid indeed. There's no question that the US legal system is broken and provides just the means to pull off a stunt like this.
Well first off I use linux because I dislike some of Micro$oft$ practices. The windows registry is awful and the system gets bogged down over time requiring a reinstall to get your performance back. While stability has improved a lot in XP I hate the activation requirement. I hate having to explain that I did a hardware upgrade on my system to some microsoft goon who asks me over and over if I'm installing on another computer. I have a legit license I shouldn't have to deal with that bullshit. I still have my gaming rig that runs XP but that's all it's for, games.
I discovered linux when I was in my junior year of highshool in 1996. I was a student network assisant and the IT guy there was trying linux on some of the servers he had (we all know school IT budgets are usually quite low) I started playing around with it and was amazed at how quick it was compaired to the NT system that was installed before. I asked where he got it and he told me he downloaded it and gave me the site. I installed it on my old desktop and I've been using it ever since. The only thing that keeps me from switching over totally is games. I use a painfully slow win2k system at work though I'd install linux on my system if I could get away with it.
I don't know about anyone else but I can't hardly read my own handwriting as it is (the reason I type on a computer:P ) I can't really see much use for it in games. Then again someone will come up with an off the wall idea that will fly. What's next? Voice recognition for pokemon games? I can already see kids yelling at their DS more so than nintendogs cause.
I was working as a network manager on a US Navy vessel in the gulf during the start our little invasion. Our exchange server was buggy and had to be rebooted quite a bit as it handled a huge amount of message traffic for the boat. In short, the exchange server crashed hard and we had no email until I pulled out a laptop that I'd been playing with linux on and set up a mail server with the right configurations (biggest pain was adding all the users ~180). It was an older dell P2 and it came up running handling all of the traffic with no problems at all, and doing it faster. I recieved a pat on the back for fixing the exchange server so quickly. I told them it would take days to get it running again and told them I had an alternate server up until I got the main online. They were not pleased since it was 'not authorized' for our system installation and I would have likely gotten in serious trouble had we not been in a combat zone.
The exchange server came back online and before I told anyone a chief commented to me that it seemed my little project was finally choking under the load. I simply smiled and said, my little project was back in the locker and the dual processor exchange servers were choking as usual.
Well that's your fault for not using proper virus protection, though the chance of FreeBSD being infected is unlikely means it was likely a inert virus on the disk, one which you could execute therefor I suggest you format and reinstall yourself to fix the virus issue.:)
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It would be great if programs could run on any OS but you know M$ would do everything in their power to prevent it as they could never live with even a 1% profit loss despite all the money they have in the bank.
I agree with simple copy protection meant to keep Joe User from just sending files over the web but it's impossible to stop him from lending his CD to a buddy to be ripped. This will never hurt the pirates as they'll just find a way around it and continue what they do. The RIAA is hurting the legit users more than pirates who could care less.
Well I've always thought terrorists were stupid for going after heavily defended targets. All they have to do is hit the WoW datacenter, EQ and other online games and the implications would rock the world with mass suicides and social breakdown! lol sadly, this is true because the actual effect of that would strike fear in a lot of people.. .loose my 60 mage! OMG! lol
Most companies will have you sign user agreements that prohibit this type of thing. At work I use windows because I have no choice. The military is like that, and I need connections to exchange. I would be installing linux in a heartbeat if I could. I have managed to get a linux server into our network by waiting until our end of fiscal year budget was tight and the need for a file server was high. I used an older machine with CentOS and it worked better than the other server we have here. It pretty much has command support now so it's here to stay.
I work with US Navy AUVs so power efficiency it a good part of my work. You are going to run into problems as your storage batteries only have so many amp/hrs of capacity and depending on the type you use deep cycling may not be an option. The best options for power efficiency use embedded processors (yes running linux. I even have a tux sticker on the side of it) and solid state hard drives (expensive) that don't draw hardly any power until you read or write to them. Then again you don't exactly get video editing caliber performance from the setup. You're not going to get around the power draw of the file server. If you need a lot of hard drives mini-itx limits your expandability due to lack of PCI slots for controller cards and such. My take... improve your power generation and storage capability to provide the power to the systems. You're not going to get much out of a video editing server/system otherwise.
I can already see Blizzard taking Sony to court because their rootkit allows people to cheat. Yes it may seem stupid but if you ever look at some court cases a lot of them are very stupid indeed. There's no question that the US legal system is broken and provides just the means to pull off a stunt like this.
Well first off I use linux because I dislike some of Micro$oft$ practices. The windows registry is awful and the system gets bogged down over time requiring a reinstall to get your performance back. While stability has improved a lot in XP I hate the activation requirement. I hate having to explain that I did a hardware upgrade on my system to some microsoft goon who asks me over and over if I'm installing on another computer. I have a legit license I shouldn't have to deal with that bullshit. I still have my gaming rig that runs XP but that's all it's for, games. I discovered linux when I was in my junior year of highshool in 1996. I was a student network assisant and the IT guy there was trying linux on some of the servers he had (we all know school IT budgets are usually quite low) I started playing around with it and was amazed at how quick it was compaired to the NT system that was installed before. I asked where he got it and he told me he downloaded it and gave me the site. I installed it on my old desktop and I've been using it ever since. The only thing that keeps me from switching over totally is games. I use a painfully slow win2k system at work though I'd install linux on my system if I could get away with it.
Amen to that. Free software is great, open source is great, but I can't feed my family on free software.
I don't know about anyone else but I can't hardly read my own handwriting as it is (the reason I type on a computer :P ) I can't really see much use for it in games. Then again someone will come up with an off the wall idea that will fly. What's next? Voice recognition for pokemon games? I can already see kids yelling at their DS more so than nintendogs cause.
I was working as a network manager on a US Navy vessel in the gulf during the start our little invasion. Our exchange server was buggy and had to be rebooted quite a bit as it handled a huge amount of message traffic for the boat. In short, the exchange server crashed hard and we had no email until I pulled out a laptop that I'd been playing with linux on and set up a mail server with the right configurations (biggest pain was adding all the users ~180). It was an older dell P2 and it came up running handling all of the traffic with no problems at all, and doing it faster. I recieved a pat on the back for fixing the exchange server so quickly. I told them it would take days to get it running again and told them I had an alternate server up until I got the main online. They were not pleased since it was 'not authorized' for our system installation and I would have likely gotten in serious trouble had we not been in a combat zone. The exchange server came back online and before I told anyone a chief commented to me that it seemed my little project was finally choking under the load. I simply smiled and said, my little project was back in the locker and the dual processor exchange servers were choking as usual.
Well that's your fault for not using proper virus protection, though the chance of FreeBSD being infected is unlikely means it was likely a inert virus on the disk, one which you could execute therefor I suggest you format and reinstall yourself to fix the virus issue. :)