IMHO, I believe the statement "Red Hat has become the Micro$soft of Linux." Why? Many reasons:
* Red Hat believes they are the only real Linux distributor.
* In Linux, it's Red Hat's way, or no way (See what they're doing to KDE in their next version).
* They're way too political. Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little lobbying, but Red Hat is the onlny company openly doing the heavy lobbying that Micro$oft does.
* Their distro blows.
Hey, I can sit here all day and moan and groan about the things I don't like about them, but I think you already know the rest.
I don't like Red Hat, I don't like their distro or their attitudes. I'll happily choose my own distro and be satisfied with it. After all, that's my RIGHT TO CHOOSE. Right, Red Hat?
How many times has THIS happened: as soon as your fav distro has gone beta, a new version of KDE is released, guaranteed NOT to make the final release of that beta distro.
This is a good idea, but the concept of requiring California's government offices to use software with freely available source code will never happen. There's too many lobbyists to grease the palms of politicians to vote against such a measure. Do you actually believe that there is fairness in government and big business? Duh.
A lot of people are going to hate to hear this, but this decision to mandate the installation of digital tuners was really needed. How else were we going to move to a digital future if no one's buying it? Force it. It's something we need, so don't complain.
More MS EULA Fun
[ Microsoft ]Posted by timothy on 09:28 AM August 4th, 2002
from the if-a-eula-falls-in-the-forest dept.
gray code writes: "The Register is reporting that Microsoft has placed an interesting wrinkle in the EULA of WinXP SP1 and Win2k SP3 that asks for the same remote admin rights as the Windows Media Player patch that raised such an uproar. I think I'll be leaving my Win2k box at SP2, thank you very much." Update: 08/04 15:05 GMT by T: Helix150 writes that a separate EULA for W2K's SP3 "contains this nasty bit: 'You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the.NET Framework component of the OS Components to any third party without Microsoft's prior written approval.' Hmmm..."
This is great. MS is putting restrictions on free speech. The ACLU would love to hear about this.
Dosen't any contract that contains an illegal request nullify the entire contract making M$ EULAs void?
It might have been a good idea to leave the UCITA alone to be passed. Once passed, it can be thrown out in its entirety on Free Speech violations, by allowing the prohibition of public speech. This way, we'll be rid of the whole UCITA instead of parts of it like some people want...
I honestly believe that the entire industry will attempt to kill off the floppy, but due to the fact that it is a PC staple, it will never go away. I will never dump mine.
ZDNet is reporting that SP1 will hide the icons, but not get rid of the apps. Is this true? Windows is still useless if it keeps all the bloatware apps loaded into memory.
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This is a wholly BAD idea. I am a paid subscriber, but you're going to find a way to squeeze in an advertisment even though I'm PAYING you to get rid of them from my view? You've just pissed off your paying customers too.
Unless you find a way for us to "turn these off", I'm not renewing.
Actually, this is not feasible. I have spent the last few years designing and building beowulf clusters. A year or so ago, I emailed the the team and asked them about it. Their reply was the way the client was designed currently, the client would not benefit from a computational cluster like Beowulf. Beowulf is a computational cluster, the dnetc client does not use computational algorythms (sp?). It is simply a brute force client that takes an encrypted code and attempts to open it with a set string of keys (password).
Believe me, it would be nice to utilize any one of my clusters to the cause... Maybe the d.net team will read this and perhaps design their next-gen client with bproc extentions for Beowulf use.
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I've always disliked Red Hat and Scyld. I'm a Mandrake person.
Now Mandrake has a Beowulf distro. I now need to change my underwear.
Personally, I use Blackbox. Why? Because I have the right to *choose*.
No worries here. I use Linux.
Long live Mozilla.
Install Linux.
* Red Hat believes they are the only real Linux distributor.
* In Linux, it's Red Hat's way, or no way (See what they're doing to KDE in their next version).
* They're way too political. Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little lobbying, but Red Hat is the onlny company openly doing the heavy lobbying that Micro$oft does.
* Their distro blows.
Hey, I can sit here all day and moan and groan about the things I don't like about them, but I think you already know the rest.
I don't like Red Hat, I don't like their distro or their attitudes. I'll happily choose my own distro and be satisfied with it. After all, that's my RIGHT TO CHOOSE. Right, Red Hat?
How many times has THIS happened: as soon as your fav distro has gone beta, a new version of KDE is released, guaranteed NOT to make the final release of that beta distro.
This is a good idea, but the concept of requiring California's government offices to use software with freely available source code will never happen. There's too many lobbyists to grease the palms of politicians to vote against such a measure. Do you actually believe that there is fairness in government and big business? Duh.
A lot of people are going to hate to hear this, but this decision to mandate the installation of digital tuners was really needed. How else were we going to move to a digital future if no one's buying it? Force it. It's something we need, so don't complain.
If Linux sales accounted for less than 1% of all OS sales, why is Netcraft reporting that over 50% of all webservers are running Apache on Linux?
More MS EULA Fun
[ Microsoft ]Posted by timothy on 09:28 AM August 4th, 2002
from the if-a-eula-falls-in-the-forest dept.
gray code writes: "The Register is reporting that Microsoft has placed an interesting wrinkle in the EULA of WinXP SP1 and Win2k SP3 that asks for the same remote admin rights as the Windows Media Player patch that raised such an uproar. I think I'll be leaving my Win2k box at SP2, thank you very much." Update: 08/04 15:05 GMT by T: Helix150 writes that a separate EULA for W2K's SP3 "contains this nasty bit: 'You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the
This is great. MS is putting restrictions on free speech. The ACLU would love to hear about this.
Dosen't any contract that contains an illegal request nullify the entire contract making M$ EULAs void?
And to the authors of GPL'ed software with a click-through licence, I will not use your software. Shame on you.
It might have been a good idea to leave the UCITA alone to be passed. Once passed, it can be thrown out in its entirety on Free Speech violations, by allowing the prohibition of public speech. This way, we'll be rid of the whole UCITA instead of parts of it like some people want...
I honestly believe that the entire industry will attempt to kill off the floppy, but due to the fact that it is a PC staple, it will never go away. I will never dump mine.
Will these black boxes have a "rocking" sensor available? I'm sure parents would LOVE to know when their car is "rocking"...
Being a Linux user for 4 years now, I've noticed that Linux is good for some things, and bad for others.
GOOD: Servers like file, ftp, email; firewalls, etc...
BAD: Multimedia stations, video editing, doing anything with audio, connectivity, compatibility, and all those oh-so-cute USB thingies out there.
Linux makes a DAMN GOOD server. And I think that things will stay that way for a while. It's not mature yet.
I don't have this problem, I use Linux.
ZDNet is reporting that SP1 will hide the icons, but not get rid of the apps. Is this true? Windows is still useless if it keeps all the bloatware apps loaded into memory.
This is a wholly BAD idea. I am a paid subscriber, but you're going to find a way to squeeze in an advertisment even though I'm PAYING you to get rid of them from my view? You've just pissed off your paying customers too.
Unless you find a way for us to "turn these off", I'm not renewing.
Actually, this is not feasible. I have spent the last few years designing and building beowulf clusters. A year or so ago, I emailed the the team and asked them about it. Their reply was the way the client was designed currently, the client would not benefit from a computational cluster like Beowulf. Beowulf is a computational cluster, the dnetc client does not use computational algorythms (sp?). It is simply a brute force client that takes an encrypted code and attempts to open it with a set string of keys (password).
Believe me, it would be nice to utilize any one of my clusters to the cause... Maybe the d.net team will read this and perhaps design their next-gen client with bproc extentions for Beowulf use.
Personally, $5 per 1000 page views is nothing. I've already subscribed. It's a small price to pay to keep the best resource on the 'net alive.
...and add a 1394 firewire port to it. The first DVR vendor that does this will get my business.
My daughter was born January 4, 2001. Coincidence? I think not.
Is there an index of all the states and the spam laws in them anyone can reference? I'd love to find out what the laws are here so I can sue somebody.
I don't have this problem, I use Linux.