I have been using Open Office as my only office suite at work since October. I write a lot of build documents, user guides, test scripts, and all that other misc text that happens to get in the way when I'd rather be up to my eyeballs in Perl on XEmacs.
It has consistently been at least as reliable as MS-Office, with the exception of graphics in Writer. With 1.1 Beta 2, even that is nailed down. No one can tell I'm not using Word and Excel, and the PDF thing is as easy as printing, which it should be.
Buy all the CDs you want, used. No, the artist doesn't get anything, and that's a shame. Yes, the cartel already got their money, and that's a shame. But you get a legal (for now) copy of the music, you paid a fair market price for it, and you can listen all you want.
And I do find local bands in my local used-CD store.
I go camping for two weeks straight every year. Primitive camping, no cabins, no RVs, no electricity. This is a lot better than lugging a car battery or trying to find spares for my three year old phone.
They actually ran FDDI (100Mbit over fiber) ten years ago, and put FDDI cards in everyone's PCs.
My guess is that they're using the same fiber, just switching to a Gigabit protocol, since the migration to ATM a few years ago was kinda lame. (Yes, they were doing ATM to the desktop.)
If indeed cellular automations are somehow at the heart of the universe around us, then the human effort to reduce the universe to understandable models and formulas and simulations is ultimately doomed to failure. Because of the nature of cellular automation computation, there is no way to come up with a shortcut method that will deduce the final outcome of a system in advance of it actually running to completion.
This sounds strangely familiar. Didn't someone once posit that the only way to tell if a reasonably-complex program is going to end or not is to run the program and wait?
So the Universe is also subject to the Halting Problem. And this took 10 years? Or did he also found the church of Conway in the process?
AFAIK, PayPal is another service that isn't for everybody. Once you get over all of the trust and functional issues (why do PayPal buttons never appear in K-meleon?) it works for lots of people. When a friend asks me about trusting it, I tell them that I trust it with a credit card that I use for nothing else. If you have a card like that, I think it's reasonable to trust PayPal.
Here's how we solved the multi-home problem despite CIDR. We wanted to make a web service (Citrix ALE) available over our T-1, or over our DSL (from a different provider) if the T-1 fails. The solution was to get a cheap Web hosting service that will use our (already registered) domain name to host a couple of static pages that point to our servers by IP address. One set of pages points to the address we got from the T-1 provider, the other points to the DSL address.
When Big Brother thinks the main connection is down, we ftp over the backup connection to the off-site web host, make the other set of pages the default, and our users now come in on the other circuit. We change the Alternate Address on the Citrix servers, and we're back in business.
You ask: why does my service provider deserve more $$$s ?
This is really very simple. Most cable companies are allowed by law to be monopolies, but in exchange their rates are limited or controlled by the authority that licensed them. Their most profitable (Cable TV) market is already saturated, so in order to make more money, with less effort, they need to do things that are within their monopoly agreement but easy.
They did the same thing in the 70's and 80's with charging per television, until the FCC had a moment of clarity. Rather than adopt the reasonable practices of the existing bandwidth industry, they will try their old favorites first.
As for the claim of cost of theft, they've been pushing that lie for decades. It's the same lie the BSA uses: they assume that the revenue they might have gotten, absent piracy, would have (a) all been profit, and (b) all been realized. There would be expenses incurred in collecting that profit (those expenses would be blamed on the pirates, of course), and some pirates, forced to choose between paying up and disconnecting, will disconnect. (Or in the case of software, uninstall.)
If my cable company was willing to be honest with me about the load on my local cable network, and my upload and download caps, and could make their e-mail server work as advertised, (OK, skip the mail server, just stop blocking port 80 at the router) I would be honest with them about how many machines I have, and why I want a static IP address.
And by the way, Adelphia, if you're reading this, grow up. The 'no porn' clause in the ToS is a joke. (Think I'm kidding? Read for yourself.))
OK, so let's say Company X is going to switch from Oracle to MySQL. If we set aside all technical and cost arguements for or against the change, you are still left with the fact that if a measurable percentage of the shareholders also hold ORA, they will not want to see Oracle hurt.
I just tried it with Mozilla 0.9.5 under Windows NT 4.0, and was turned away. Lynx Version 2.8.2pre.6 got the same message (under RedHat 6.2), but Netscape Communicator 4.76 under the same RedHat 6.2 box go the page without problems.
While I agree that there's no need to browse this page, as there are plenty of other news sources, it is curious that they would start blocking some agents.
Um, dude, you are so completely wrong. Grocery store 'smart' price tags use the same RF network that their handheld inventory scanners and bar-code readers use. Ever notice that the "Scan your stuff here to see the price" box has an antenna sticking out the top?
There is an article about these systems in the current 2600: "Secrets of Electronic Shelf Labels".
My Mother-In-Law uses Linux on her computer at home, and complains about being stuck with Windows at work. She came from a mainframe world and couldn't believe that anyone would tolerate an OS that crashes as often as a typical install of Windows.
Linux on the desktop isn't dead. It's in the same place now that Altair was 20 years ago: In a few homes, inspiring a few people to 'make it better', paving the way for what's next. (And if I knew what was next, we could all make a lot of money.)
Why is this such a big deal?
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Linux vs. NT aside, if you were/are following anything even vaguely resembling reasonable security policy, you would already be protected. For example, if you're running RedHat 6.2, and signed up for their security mailing list, you should have upgraded to a new version that fixes this hole two months ago.
All of the NT exploits that have been getting the attention lately are old holes that were not patched by SysAdmins. The combination of keeping current patches and an IDS is like an alarm and a "Club" on your car: It won't stop an attack, but it makes other targets look easier.
If you can't have physical security at the room level, you should be able to set it up at the box level. ATX power supplies can usually be wired for always on, and AT's that don't have the switch built into the power supply can be fixed with a little bit of solder. (If they have the spade connectors on the back of the switch, you can just push the females together behind the switch, and you are once again idiot-resistant.
(Don't forget the reset switch. I like to wire it to the keylock, so I can still use it if I have to.)
But if they're installing the copy of Windows 95/98 that was provided with an old peice of hardware, they might not have the right to do that, based on the license they accepted. Many OEM licenses from Microsoft don't allow transfer to another piece of hardware.
I don't know or care how enforceable that is, but you can't just assume you can move Microsoft software from one machine to another.
There's no need. The PERL version mentioned in the article will run under PERL for Windows. Hell, it's even in a.ZIP file. It might have been written in Windows.
There is an important difference between WAVE and SlashDot: SlashDot allows you to be anonymous in front of your peers, opening room for a discussion. I can create a new nick and call you all sorts of names, but a) everyone knows about it, and b) you can reply. If I don't care about your reply and I'm just trolling, I'll never use that nick again. If I'm really worried that you're going to do some harm, that theory is now in the open where you can refute it if you wish.
All of the checks and balances provided by an open forum are removed with the WAVE program.
Perhaps every school should use SlashCode instead of WAVE?
It sounds to me like you're suggesting that the file should start with a header that describes what format it's in, and the compression program then figures out which engine to apply, sort of like starting a text file with:
#!/bin/perl
So that bash knows what engine to load for it when it's the first thing on the command line, right?
I found the Franklin-Neumann project on MP3.com and liked the music so much I bought the CDs.
I wasn't planning on buying Bob Kanefsky's new CD (Roundworm) until I heard four tracks on it that MP3.com is distributing for free.
So how is this new 'cassette' format helping artists? Anyone with a couple of home stereo components can copy any albumn they own from vinyl to tape, and then give the tape to a friend, or take it to a party, or even trade it for other music. This kind of outrage will ruin the music industry.
In the U.S. it was illegal until Roe v. Wade. I don't know whether that figure is right or not, but it certainly is a non-trivial number. I think the reason that it is still legal (like you, I'm trying to leave my opinion out of this) is because a supreme court decision is tough to get around.
Thank you for a considered and well-written reply.
1) The government gets a chunk of your paycheck. (Sales or Income Tax, usually both)
2) If you die, they don't get your money.
3) They don't want you to die or kill anyone else.
...Because they won't get any more money.
If you look at most insane things governments of any country undertake, they make sense from this context. Motorcycle Helmets (a good idea, IMHO, but I want to choose for myself), Speed Limits, Euthanasia (allowed in some places, not here in the US), Voluntary Suicide, and whole hosts of other stuff left out to keep this down to a reasonable size.
If it were legal for stupid people to do stupid things, there'd be fewer stupid people. (Fewer smart people, too, but that's the chance you take.)
You can go on-line and buy as much pot from Amsterdam as you want, and they will sell you. The snag is that as soon as you and the seller agree to ship the product into the US, you are an internation drug smuggling conspiracy, and that is illegal, at least for you, in the U.S. (I don't know about the other end.)
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I have been using Open Office as my only office suite at work since October. I write a lot of build documents, user guides, test scripts, and all that other misc text that happens to get in the way when I'd rather be up to my eyeballs in Perl on XEmacs.
It has consistently been at least as reliable as MS-Office, with the exception of graphics in Writer. With 1.1 Beta 2, even that is nailed down. No one can tell I'm not using Word and Excel, and the PDF thing is as easy as printing, which it should be.
Bob shipped on Floppies. I have a copy. I'm hoping to open a "horrors of computing" that will include it.
Buy all the CDs you want, used. No, the artist doesn't get anything, and that's a shame. Yes, the cartel already got their money, and that's a shame. But you get a legal (for now) copy of the music, you paid a fair market price for it, and you can listen all you want.
And I do find local bands in my local used-CD store.
I go camping for two weeks straight every year. Primitive camping, no cabins, no RVs, no electricity. This is a lot better than lugging a car battery or trying to find spares for my three year old phone.
They actually ran FDDI (100Mbit over fiber) ten years ago, and put FDDI cards in everyone's PCs.
My guess is that they're using the same fiber, just switching to a Gigabit protocol, since the migration to ATM a few years ago was kinda lame. (Yes, they were doing ATM to the desktop.)
This sounds strangely familiar. Didn't someone once posit that the only way to tell if a reasonably-complex program is going to end or not is to run the program and wait?
So the Universe is also subject to the Halting Problem. And this took 10 years? Or did he also found the church of Conway in the process?
AFAIK, PayPal is another service that isn't for everybody. Once you get over all of the trust and functional issues (why do PayPal buttons never appear in K-meleon?) it works for lots of people. When a friend asks me about trusting it, I tell them that I trust it with a credit card that I use for nothing else. If you have a card like that, I think it's reasonable to trust PayPal.
Here's how we solved the multi-home problem despite CIDR. We wanted to make a web service (Citrix ALE) available over our T-1, or over our DSL (from a different provider) if the T-1 fails. The solution was to get a cheap Web hosting service that will use our (already registered) domain name to host a couple of static pages that point to our servers by IP address. One set of pages points to the address we got from the T-1 provider, the other points to the DSL address.
When Big Brother thinks the main connection is down, we ftp over the backup connection to the off-site web host, make the other set of pages the default, and our users now come in on the other circuit. We change the Alternate Address on the Citrix servers, and we're back in business.
You ask: why does my service provider deserve more $$$s ?
This is really very simple. Most cable companies are allowed by law to be monopolies, but in exchange their rates are limited or controlled by the authority that licensed them. Their most profitable (Cable TV) market is already saturated, so in order to make more money, with less effort, they need to do things that are within their monopoly agreement but easy.
They did the same thing in the 70's and 80's with charging per television, until the FCC had a moment of clarity. Rather than adopt the reasonable practices of the existing bandwidth industry, they will try their old favorites first.
As for the claim of cost of theft, they've been pushing that lie for decades. It's the same lie the BSA uses: they assume that the revenue they might have gotten, absent piracy, would have (a) all been profit, and (b) all been realized. There would be expenses incurred in collecting that profit (those expenses would be blamed on the pirates, of course), and some pirates, forced to choose between paying up and disconnecting, will disconnect. (Or in the case of software, uninstall.)
If my cable company was willing to be honest with me about the load on my local cable network, and my upload and download caps, and could make their e-mail server work as advertised, (OK, skip the mail server, just stop blocking port 80 at the router) I would be honest with them about how many machines I have, and why I want a static IP address.
And by the way, Adelphia, if you're reading this, grow up. The 'no porn' clause in the ToS is a joke. (Think I'm kidding? Read for yourself.))
OK, so let's say Company X is going to switch from Oracle to MySQL. If we set aside all technical and cost arguements for or against the change, you are still left with the fact that if a measurable percentage of the shareholders also hold ORA, they will not want to see Oracle hurt.
I just tried it with Mozilla 0.9.5 under Windows NT 4.0, and was turned away. Lynx Version 2.8.2pre.6 got the same message (under RedHat 6.2), but Netscape Communicator 4.76 under the same RedHat 6.2 box go the page without problems.
While I agree that there's no need to browse this page, as there are plenty of other news sources, it is curious that they would start blocking some agents.
I've downloaded a couple of games from poptop.com lately that are completely abstract and non-violent, like Bejeweled. And the price is right too.
Um, dude, you are so completely wrong. Grocery store 'smart' price tags use the same RF network that their handheld inventory scanners and bar-code readers use. Ever notice that the "Scan your stuff here to see the price" box has an antenna sticking out the top?
There is an article about these systems in the current 2600: "Secrets of Electronic Shelf Labels".
My Mother-In-Law uses Linux on her computer at home, and complains about being stuck with Windows at work. She came from a mainframe world and couldn't believe that anyone would tolerate an OS that crashes as often as a typical install of Windows.
Linux on the desktop isn't dead. It's in the same place now that Altair was 20 years ago: In a few homes, inspiring a few people to 'make it better', paving the way for what's next. (And if I knew what was next, we could all make a lot of money.)
Also try warehouse 23 at www.sjgames.com
Linux vs. NT aside, if you were/are following anything even vaguely resembling reasonable security policy, you would already be protected. For example, if you're running RedHat 6.2, and signed up for their security mailing list, you should have upgraded to a new version that fixes this hole two months ago.
All of the NT exploits that have been getting the attention lately are old holes that were not patched by SysAdmins. The combination of keeping current patches and an IDS is like an alarm and a "Club" on your car: It won't stop an attack, but it makes other targets look easier.
If you can't have physical security at the room level, you should be able to set it up at the box level. ATX power supplies can usually be wired for always on, and AT's that don't have the switch built into the power supply can be fixed with a little bit of solder. (If they have the spade connectors on the back of the switch, you can just push the females together behind the switch, and you are once again idiot-resistant.
(Don't forget the reset switch. I like to wire it to the keylock, so I can still use it if I have to.)
But if they're installing the copy of Windows 95/98 that was provided with an old peice of hardware, they might not have the right to do that, based on the license they accepted. Many OEM licenses from Microsoft don't allow transfer to another piece of hardware.
I don't know or care how enforceable that is, but you can't just assume you can move Microsoft software from one machine to another.
There's no need. The PERL version mentioned in the article will run under PERL for Windows. Hell, it's even in a .ZIP file. It might have been written in Windows.
There is an important difference between WAVE and SlashDot: SlashDot allows you to be anonymous in front of your peers, opening room for a discussion. I can create a new nick and call you all sorts of names, but a) everyone knows about it, and b) you can reply. If I don't care about your reply and I'm just trolling, I'll never use that nick again. If I'm really worried that you're going to do some harm, that theory is now in the open where you can refute it if you wish.
All of the checks and balances provided by an open forum are removed with the WAVE program.
Perhaps every school should use SlashCode instead of WAVE?
It sounds to me like you're suggesting that the file should start with a header that describes what format it's in, and the compression program then figures out which engine to apply, sort of like starting a text file with:
#!/bin/perl
So that bash knows what engine to load for it when it's the first thing on the command line, right?
You want a real example, here's a couple:
I found the Franklin-Neumann project on MP3.com and liked the music so much I bought the CDs.
I wasn't planning on buying Bob Kanefsky's new CD (Roundworm) until I heard four tracks on it that MP3.com is distributing for free.
So how is this new 'cassette' format helping artists? Anyone with a couple of home stereo components can copy any albumn they own from vinyl to tape, and then give the tape to a friend, or take it to a party, or even trade it for other music. This kind of outrage will ruin the music industry.
In the U.S. it was illegal until Roe v. Wade. I don't know whether that figure is right or not, but it certainly is a non-trivial number. I think the reason that it is still legal (like you, I'm trying to leave my opinion out of this) is because a supreme court decision is tough to get around.
Thank you for a considered and well-written reply.
Vaguely on-topic rant: (please be patient)
1) The government gets a chunk of your paycheck. (Sales or Income Tax, usually both)
2) If you die, they don't get your money.
3) They don't want you to die or kill anyone else.
...Because they won't get any more money.
If you look at most insane things governments of any country undertake, they make sense from this context. Motorcycle Helmets (a good idea, IMHO, but I want to choose for myself), Speed Limits, Euthanasia (allowed in some places, not here in the US), Voluntary Suicide, and whole hosts of other stuff left out to keep this down to a reasonable size.
If it were legal for stupid people to do stupid things, there'd be fewer stupid people. (Fewer smart people, too, but that's the chance you take.)
You can go on-line and buy as much pot from Amsterdam as you want, and they will sell you. The snag is that as soon as you and the seller agree to ship the product into the US, you are an internation drug smuggling conspiracy, and that is illegal, at least for you, in the U.S. (I don't know about the other end.)