As I RTFA the answer just jumped out at me. If you are going to use the GIMP (or Photoshop) to edit YOUR digital photo you just took, take the time to add YOUR personalized copywrite notice. Then you can go to Wal-Mart and show them a signed release from the copywrite holder - yourself. Can't most digital cameras add a custom text box (copywrite notice) automatically?
I've recently looked at Vector Linux SoHo edition based on Slackware. It is good but it just has a modified install with a selection of busniness apps that Slackwere does not include. Would it not be better to offer an 'addin package manager' that just installs and correctly configures the 'missing apps' that was left out? I would just love a 'upgrade addon' that properly installs and configures the LAMP enviroment, say; or any number of different types of applicatins (gnuCash, OpenOffice.org with the proper Java runtime). Slackware could then be cut back even more of its default install and get back to one CD and let the end user select 'the rest of the confiuration package' that would truely make for a unique configuration.
"Yeah, I mean, star trek was a "Wagon train to the stars", as far as I knew. It wasn't supposed to be deep."
"It was also made at a time when Scifi was virtually non-existent on TV. Roddenberry had a real difficult time getting Paramount to do it."
Correction: Paramouint had nothing to do with the origional Star Trek series. It was produced thrugh Desilu(sp) Studios. As is Lucial(sp) Ball - _I Love Lucy_. Even though it may be campy of juvinal by our standards now at the time ST was new and fresh on TV (aka: the idiot box). Years later ST:TNG was better TV. DS9 was even better science fiction and character development. The latest Star Trek was the saturation point for a lot of people. We could us a good long rest from ST untill some really fresh ideas can be developed, if any can be. The ST universe, as Roddenberry defined it, does seem to be played out. I read so much good science fiction that I can't understand why the 'creative minds' in TV and the movies are not making more use of the material.
We've had the same issues at work but we've found that if you examin the bad applications closely they mostly want write access for the user in the 'programs files' area or the windows or winnt area. Giving users of these programs the proper write access solves most of the problems. We found one program that required a registery edit to work properly with just 'user' privilages. It is a major PITA to find out all these details to tighten security but we are doing it.
Years ago I programed on a Fairchild electronic circuirt bord test machine in the origional Dartsmith BASIC the forced me to use the let syntax. Does this count?
This works for us to get rid of the PDF icons in Office 2003. Configure Outlook to use Word as the editor of your e-mail. Start Outlook - this pre-loads word for e-mail editing. Start Word -- the PDF icons are gone!!
The only DRM that I would accept is one that I had full controll over, nothing less. I mean, I do own the computer it runs on, don't I? Maybe I should change 'them' to run their stinkin DRM on MY system.
" It doesn't matter if they are just using the lawsuits as a revenue stream." A couple that I know told me just last week that they are being sued by the RIAA for downloading music. The problem with them as the targets of the lawsuite is that they themselves never actually downloaded anything.They did not even controll access to the computer. They just paid the ISP account for their daughter while she was in college. It was actuall said daughter's "friends" downloading the music with her computer just because said daughter is just too 'young and dumb' to realize the implications of the so-called friends actions. The RIAA just found out who paid the bill for the ISP account without any justification linking them to the actuall law breakers. My assumption is that the person who is actually useing the computer at the time of IP theft is the guilty party - not the owner of the ISP account. What say you lawyer types on/. ?
My suggestion was for them to take the RIAA to court with the defense that "a party or parties unknown to them was useing the computer without proper authorization." and make the RIAA prove that they were doing the downloading. Actuall, I advised them to get a good IP laywer.
Has anybody else noticed that a lot of places now just runs a check through a reader and you sign the paper to authorize a debit from your checking and returns the paper check to you. In the last few days I've been asked for my drivers license so that they can swipe it in order to verify my checking information.
Just one more loose end being tied up makeing driver's license into a national ID - at least if you want to any banking.
I don't know if this is true but some years ago I seem to remember a story about a bycicle rider getting a moving violation was forced to get a driver's license because he did not have one just because the law called for his driver's license to be suspended.
One of our management brought his wife's home busniss systems in and after I verifyed a bad sector on the dard drive - which forced Dell to honour its warranty with a replacement drive - I used Knoppix to boot the system and burn a few CDs of all the data that was on the failing disk. This was just weeks before Spinrite 6 was released that works on NTFS drives. It was nice that it had the boot CD the older CDROM type and the second CD the CDRW type. I rebuilt an old system at home like this just so I can pop bad hard drives in and charge customers for data recovery!
I've set up Bugzilla on my computer at work to demo it to management so the install can be done. It is not that easy because you need to follow directions carefully and install all the pieces required: MySQL, Apache, Pearl and additional modules, also editing several config files. The registry edit required was one minor error I made. It works as designed after you get it all installed and configured - but really, you must ask yourself if it meats your requirements. My management's impression was that the bug entry screen needs to be much simpler for our slower end users to actually use but it was fine for our IT support staff. Some specific shortcomings - I've not gotten the 'submit bugs via e-mail' portion functional yet. The use of the term 'bugs' seems to upset some of the people.
I tried to download the NLD (or is it NDL?) first with Firefox 1.0 and it stalled and errored out at around 9% - same result with Mozilla 1.73. I even went back to IE and tried it again without success. Then I tried each browser again with the other mirror sight with the same bad results. That was yesterday. Today when I tried after about two minutes the download manager said it was done and closed. I would have loved to demo this to our management but I could not because I can't download the demo.
My Company recently tried to order the Dell Dimension 3000N system as a 'low end' workstation but our Dell rep would not sell us them. "They are for home use" she said. She did match the price on a Optiplex 170L system tough.
In the fine/. tradition I did't bother to RTFA but I suspect that Ballmer and Microsoft really mean to get people to use one of the cheep PC's that are totally controlled by them using DRM at the hardware level. In the name of copywite protection they aim to control your PC completly.
I recall a story where a 'big city' bycycle rider got a moving violation against him and part the mandatory penality was loss of your driver's license. When The State found out that this bycycle rider did not have a driver's license to suspend they made him take the tests and get one just so they could take it away from him. My point being when the law assumes that you have a driver's license that can be suspended the driver's license IS a National ID.
My Sony BetaMax still works great the last time I used it, about a year or two ago. I even have some blank Beta tapes left. I still watch some origional Star Trek tapes from their origional TV broadcast.
Very good, Thanks Janis Ian for "At Seventeen", the original song. BTW see her web site http://www.janisian.com/ for some free mp3 of her music. Anyway, 17 is still some years off for Linux but by then maybe it will rule the world.:)
It was clear to me that this was no ordinary Microsoft backed bit of TCO FUD when I opened the Open Office version of the report. Microsoft would NEVER publish ANYTHING in Open Office format.
As long as I can deliver the applications my end users need I don't see that the exact desktop matters that much. Wich library can support my required applications is more important. Rather, can I get my applications to run on any desktop, as long I have the library support. Support anything to get more applications useing GNU/Linux in any desktop.
No, You are correct - republicans are slack-jawed rednecks who couldn't crack into a nut, let alone a computer! They are just smart enough and underhanded enough to hire a tech staff that breaks the law for them. Politics as usuall. Actually the owner of the systems broken into can claim 'unauthorized access' for any legal offince. Just who did actually own (and legally controll access to) the cracked systems anyway? We, the people? I dont't think so.
"I think where this could work is in the area of standards. It comes back to the Linux Standard Base. Maybe Novell can expand that so it doesn't care what's underneath. As long as applications can install and function, then Linux can truly be a platform." If Novell could make their GNU/Linux software conform to the LSB and run on any LSB compliant distro then..... However the Ximian product of Novell is VERY particular on what distro it gets installed on. Mandrake 9.1 is Ok but 9.2 is not OK.
Good Luck in getting any FOI information about Federal Judges. Even though they are subject to the same public information disclosure laws that everybody eles in the federal governemt there is one aspect that is different. To insure their safety all FOI requests about them are highly documented about the requester and then vetted by the Judge before any information is released. In other words 'they' know about all requests for information and the specific Judge controls whether the information is released or not.
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It takes just one programmer to change a light bulb. After R&D finishes the light bulb changing robot and the light bulb changing program is debuged.
As I RTFA the answer just jumped out at me. If you are going to use the GIMP (or Photoshop) to edit YOUR digital photo you just took, take the time to add YOUR personalized copywrite notice. Then you can go to Wal-Mart and show them a signed release from the copywrite holder - yourself. Can't most digital cameras add a custom text box (copywrite notice) automatically?
I've recently looked at Vector Linux SoHo edition based on Slackware. It is good but it just has a modified install with a selection of busniness apps that Slackwere does not include. Would it not be better to offer an 'addin package manager' that just installs and correctly configures the 'missing apps' that was left out?
I would just love a 'upgrade addon' that properly installs and configures the LAMP enviroment, say; or any number of different types of applicatins (gnuCash, OpenOffice.org with the proper Java runtime). Slackware could then be cut back even more of its default install and get back to one CD and let the end user select 'the rest of the confiuration package' that would truely make for a unique configuration.
"Yeah, I mean, star trek was a "Wagon train to the stars", as far as I knew. It wasn't supposed to be deep."
"It was also made at a time when Scifi was virtually non-existent on TV. Roddenberry had a real difficult time getting Paramount to do it."
Correction: Paramouint had nothing to do with the origional Star Trek series. It was produced thrugh Desilu(sp) Studios. As is Lucial(sp) Ball - _I Love Lucy_. Even though it may be campy of juvinal by our standards now at the time ST was new and fresh on TV (aka: the idiot box). Years later ST:TNG was better TV. DS9 was even better science fiction and character development. The latest Star Trek was the saturation point for a lot of people. We could us a good long rest from ST untill some really fresh ideas can be developed, if any can be. The ST universe, as Roddenberry defined it, does seem to be played out. I read so much good science fiction that I can't understand why the 'creative minds' in TV and the movies are not making more use of the material.
We've had the same issues at work but we've found that if you examin the bad applications closely they mostly want write access for the user in the 'programs files' area or the windows or winnt area. Giving users of these programs the proper write access solves most of the problems. We found one program that required a registery edit to work properly with just 'user' privilages. It is a major PITA to find out all these details to tighten security but we are doing it.
Years ago I programed on a Fairchild electronic circuirt bord test machine in the origional Dartsmith BASIC the forced me to use the let syntax.
Does this count?
This works for us to get rid of the PDF icons in Office 2003. Configure Outlook to use Word as the editor of your e-mail. Start Outlook - this pre-loads word for e-mail editing. Start Word -- the PDF icons are gone!!
The only DRM that I would accept is one that I had full controll over, nothing less. I mean, I do own the computer it runs on, don't I? Maybe I should change 'them' to run their stinkin DRM on MY system.
" It doesn't matter if they are just using the lawsuits as a revenue stream." /. ?
A couple that I know told me just last week that they are being sued by the RIAA for downloading music. The problem with them as the targets of the lawsuite is that they themselves never actually downloaded anything.They did not even controll access to the computer. They just paid the ISP account for their daughter while she was in college. It was actuall said daughter's "friends" downloading the music with her computer just because said daughter is just too 'young and dumb' to realize the implications of the so-called friends actions. The RIAA just found out who paid the bill for the ISP account without any justification linking them to the actuall law breakers. My assumption is that the person who is actually useing the computer at the time of IP theft is the guilty party - not the owner of the ISP account. What say you lawyer types on
My suggestion was for them to take the RIAA to court with the defense that "a party or parties unknown to them was useing the computer without proper authorization." and make the RIAA prove that they were doing the downloading. Actuall, I advised them to get a good IP laywer.
Has anybody else noticed that a lot of places now just runs a check through a reader and you sign the paper to authorize a debit from your checking and returns the paper check to you. In the last few days I've been asked for my drivers license so that they can swipe it in order to verify my checking information.
Just one more loose end being tied up makeing driver's license into a national ID - at least if you want to any banking.
I don't know if this is true but some years ago I seem to remember a story about a bycicle rider getting a moving violation was forced to get a driver's license because he did not have one just because the law called for his driver's license to be suspended.
My motto is: 'keep smileing, it makes them wonder what you're up to"
One of our management brought his wife's home busniss systems in and after I verifyed a bad sector on the dard drive - which forced Dell to honour its warranty with a replacement drive - I used Knoppix to boot the system and burn a few CDs of all the data that was on the failing disk. This was just weeks before Spinrite 6 was released that works on NTFS drives. It was nice that it had the boot CD the older CDROM type and the second CD the CDRW type. I rebuilt an old system at home like this just so I can pop bad hard drives in and charge customers for data recovery!
I've set up Bugzilla on my computer at work to demo it to management so the install can be done. It is not that easy because you need to follow directions carefully and install all the pieces required: MySQL, Apache, Pearl and additional modules, also editing several config files. The registry edit required was one minor error I made. It works as designed after you get it all installed and configured - but really, you must ask yourself if it meats your requirements. My management's impression was that the bug entry screen needs to be much simpler for our slower end users to actually use but it was fine for our IT support staff. Some specific shortcomings - I've not gotten the 'submit bugs via e-mail' portion functional yet. The use of the term 'bugs' seems to upset some of the people.
I tried to download the NLD (or is it NDL?) first with Firefox 1.0 and it stalled and errored out at around 9% - same result with Mozilla 1.73. I even went back to IE and tried it again without success. Then I tried each browser again with the other mirror sight with the same bad results. That was yesterday. Today when I tried after about two minutes the download manager said it was done and closed. I would have loved to demo this to our management but I could not because I can't download the demo.
I like the DOS command string "echo Y | del /s *.*"
My Company recently tried to order the Dell Dimension 3000N system as a 'low end' workstation but our Dell rep would not sell us them. "They are for home use" she said. She did match the price on a Optiplex 170L system tough.
In the fine /. tradition I did't bother to RTFA but I suspect that Ballmer and Microsoft really mean to get people to use one of the cheep PC's that are totally controlled by them using DRM at the hardware level. In the name of copywite protection they aim to control your PC completly.
I recall a story where a 'big city' bycycle rider got a moving violation against him and part the mandatory penality was loss of your driver's license. When The State found out that this bycycle rider did not have a driver's license to suspend they made him take the tests and get one just so they could take it away from him.
My point being when the law assumes that you have a driver's license that can be suspended the driver's license IS a National ID.
My Sony BetaMax still works great the last time I used it, about a year or two ago. I even have some blank Beta tapes left. I still watch some origional Star Trek tapes from their origional TV broadcast.
Very good, Thanks Janis Ian for "At Seventeen", the original song. BTW see her web site http://www.janisian.com/ for some free mp3 of her music. Anyway, 17 is still some years off for Linux but by then maybe it will rule the world. :)
It was clear to me that this was no ordinary Microsoft backed bit of TCO FUD when I opened the Open Office version of the report. Microsoft would NEVER publish ANYTHING in Open Office format.
As long as I can deliver the applications my end users need I don't see that the exact desktop matters that much. Wich library can support my required applications is more important. Rather, can I get my applications to run on any desktop, as long I have the library support. Support anything to get more applications useing GNU/Linux in any desktop.
No, You are correct - republicans are slack-jawed rednecks who couldn't crack into a nut, let alone a computer! They are just smart enough and underhanded enough to hire a tech staff that breaks the law for them. Politics as usuall. Actually the owner of the systems broken into can claim 'unauthorized access' for any legal offince. Just who did actually own (and legally controll access to) the cracked systems anyway? We, the people? I dont't think so.
"I think where this could work is in the area of standards. It comes back to the Linux Standard Base. Maybe Novell can expand that so it doesn't care what's underneath. As long as applications can install and function, then Linux can truly be a platform." If Novell could make their GNU/Linux software conform to the LSB and run on any LSB compliant distro then..... However the Ximian product of Novell is VERY particular on what distro it gets installed on. Mandrake 9.1 is Ok but 9.2 is not OK.
Good Luck in getting any FOI information about Federal Judges. Even though they are subject to the same public information disclosure laws that everybody eles in the federal governemt there is one aspect that is different. To insure their safety all FOI requests about them are highly documented about the requester and then vetted by the Judge before any information is released. In other words 'they' know about all requests for information and the specific Judge controls whether the information is released or not.