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And of course WinFS will provide them with the ability to enforce DRM down to the file system level. Which is the Holy Grail of squeezing every last penny out of your customers, and making exclusive deals with evil associations.
As far as I can understand, a limited user can not access the cd drive, plus it got the permissions of the files all fucked up as well as the permissions of the registry. This is simply another case of M$ not being able to handle a simple concept that is handled so well under unix. And yes this is M$'s fault, they provide the platform they have the megabucks for R&D and QA, they have a monopoly, therefore they are responsible for getting it right.
I have had a similar experience. I installed XP on my kids computer for one and only reason which is that it is suppose to have a security model, ie. i could set it up so that the kids could not install software on it. Like you we only use windows for games. Guess what, 90% of the games that we've tried to install on it will not run except with administrator rights. Good job M$!
The number of assholes calling had dropped off in that last while leading up to the Oct 1st date. Now since Oct 1st we've recieved more calls than we have in the previous month. It seems that with things in a state of limbo the telemarketers are figuring on getting as many calls in as they can.
I used to tell them simply that i'm not interested and hang up. Now i tell them i'm on the list, call them names and generally abuse them. I can't understand what would make a telemarketer think that they would have a successfull call to someone who has actively taken measures that indicate that they explicitely don't want to receive them.
Is that they do not work for you. They work for themselves and they want to place bodies no matter what. Another thing is that they know that there is little chance that they will get repeat business from you but there is a good chance that they will get repeat business from the employer, therefore they are more interested in pleasing the employer than pleasing you. Third, they make a big stinking commision for placing you. Don't be shy to ask them for some of it. They will pay you a signing bonus if they have to.
Exactly, i was going to post the same comment. It really seems that M$ looks around the industry and for anyone successful and targets them. Why? who knows, maybe it's just their obnoxious big egos, maybe it's some sort of strategy that says they can leverage their monopoly and force anyone out of a target market. Most likely it is their paranoia, they are afraid that anyone that is successful will someday challenge them on their own grounds. And if there is one thing that M$ knows, it is that they can not compete on an even playing field.
Breathed retired because he ran out of things to say and rather than let the strip turn into Garfield or the Peanuts, he did the right thing. Recently he said in a interview that he didn't think that the strips had lasting value because many of the things that they poked fun at are no longer relavant to todays readers. For the same reason I think the time is right for him to return, considering how much of has changed, I'm sure that he will have a lot of fun to poke at things like reality television and George the moron Bush.
I agree, my main stereo system is not in the same room as my tv. I'm currently using an old rio receiver to do the job but would like to have something better. A ps2 or xbox (running linux) seem like an attractive solution but i need to be able to control it without a tv.
One option is to have the box run a web server and control it from a laptop or maybe a small handheld device such as ipaq or palm pilot, or maybe even one of those lcd screen remote controls. All of which of course adds to the cost and complexity of the system.
Wonder if they'll ultimately be forced to release this code? Anyone know if the FSF has expressed an opinion on this? The FSF would be fools to force such an issue. Tivo is trying to work with the system as well and maintain their advantage over their competators. Jerking them around with the GPL would simply drive them and others away, thats not what we want, (right RMS?)
As a RedHat stock holder i think you should pay the 350K and be happy you aren't paying much more to M$, Sun or IBM. But if you don't want to, why do you need enterprise? Does Enterprise event require that you pay RedHat to use it? Personally I'd call them up and negotiate an arrangement where you get the coverage you want and pay them fairly for what they give you.
I found that locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ contained a file called *.mo, i copied this to gdesklets.mo and it installed, not sure why it is trying to install german on my machine.
Unfortunatley it still does not run becuase it can't find gconf, probably because i'm running Ximian2. Oh well, maybe next release.
Everytime i see one of these SCO stories (ie. everyday) I imagine SCO as a dumb puppet and somewhere behind the scenes is a an evil puppet master pulling the strings. Of course if I take this train of thought further the puppet master becomes a fat bald bastard with a skinny whinny nerd jerking his chain.
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And of course WinFS will provide them with the ability to enforce DRM down to the file system level. Which is the Holy Grail of squeezing every last penny out of your customers, and making exclusive deals with evil associations.
Get over it you filthy crybaby canuck. Boohoo, what is all this aboot, eh?
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Shouldn't it be SCO/GNU/Linux?
As far as I can understand, a limited user can not access the cd drive, plus it got the permissions of the files all fucked up as well as the permissions of the registry. This is simply another case of M$ not being able to handle a simple concept that is handled so well under unix. And yes this is M$'s fault, they provide the platform they have the megabucks for R&D and QA, they have a monopoly, therefore they are responsible for getting it right.
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I have had a similar experience. I installed XP on my kids computer for one and only reason which is that it is suppose to have a security model, ie. i could set it up so that the kids could not install software on it. Like you we only use windows for games. Guess what, 90% of the games that we've tried to install on it will not run except with administrator rights. Good job M$!
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Hungarian Notation., the fashion of obfuscating your code.
The number of assholes calling had dropped off in that last while leading up to the Oct 1st date. Now since Oct 1st we've recieved more calls than we have in the previous month. It seems that with things in a state of limbo the telemarketers are figuring on getting as many calls in as they can.
I used to tell them simply that i'm not interested and hang up. Now i tell them i'm on the list, call them names and generally abuse them. I can't understand what would make a telemarketer think that they would have a successfull call to someone who has actively taken measures that indicate that they explicitely don't want to receive them.
Netscape has done this for years.
Is that they do not work for you. They work for themselves and they want to place bodies no matter what. Another thing is that they know that there is little chance that they will get repeat business from you but there is a good chance that they will get repeat business from the employer, therefore they are more interested in pleasing the employer than pleasing you. Third, they make a big stinking commision for placing you. Don't be shy to ask them for some of it. They will pay you a signing bonus if they have to.
Exactly, i was going to post the same comment. It really seems that M$ looks around the industry and for anyone successful and targets them. Why? who knows, maybe it's just their obnoxious big egos, maybe it's some sort of strategy that says they can leverage their monopoly and force anyone out of a target market. Most likely it is their paranoia, they are afraid that anyone that is successful will someday challenge them on their own grounds. And if there is one thing that M$ knows, it is that they can not compete on an even playing field.
Breathed retired because he ran out of things to say and rather than let the strip turn into Garfield or the Peanuts, he did the right thing. Recently he said in a interview that he didn't think that the strips had lasting value because many of the things that they poked fun at are no longer relavant to todays readers. For the same reason I think the time is right for him to return, considering how much of has changed, I'm sure that he will have a lot of fun to poke at things like reality television and George the moron Bush.
The Ximeta NetDisk 80GB looks like what you want.
What Apple comes up with after Panther and the 3.0 Linux kernel. Otherwise they are fresh out of ideas.
You're a waste of sperm and egg
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He's a load his momma should have swallowed
I agree, my main stereo system is not in the same room as my tv. I'm currently using an old rio receiver to do the job but would like to have something better. A ps2 or xbox (running linux) seem like an attractive solution but i need to be able to control it without a tv.
One option is to have the box run a web server and control it from a laptop or maybe a small handheld device such as ipaq or palm pilot, or maybe even one of those lcd screen remote controls. All of which of course adds to the cost and complexity of the system.
Wonder if they'll ultimately be forced to release this code? Anyone know if the FSF has expressed an opinion on this?
The FSF would be fools to force such an issue. Tivo is trying to work with the system as well and maintain their advantage over their competators. Jerking them around with the GPL would simply drive them and others away, thats not what we want, (right RMS?)
Microsoft announced today that they are in talks to use Homer Simpson as a spokes person.
But don't let facts get in the way of your zealotry... it's just not as much fun!
I won't but thank you for your concern.
As a RedHat stock holder i think you should pay the 350K and be happy you aren't paying much more to M$, Sun or IBM. But if you don't want to, why do you need enterprise? Does Enterprise event require that you pay RedHat to use it? Personally I'd call them up and negotiate an arrangement where you get the coverage you want and pay them fairly for what they give you.
I found that locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ contained a file called *.mo, i copied this to gdesklets.mo and it installed, not sure why it is trying to install german on my machine.
Unfortunatley it still does not run becuase it can't find gconf, probably because i'm running Ximian2. Oh well, maybe next release.
Everytime i see one of these SCO stories (ie. everyday) I imagine SCO as a dumb puppet and somewhere behind the scenes is a an evil puppet master pulling the strings. Of course if I take this train of thought further the puppet master becomes a fat bald bastard with a skinny whinny nerd jerking his chain.
a number of East-coast Canadian sites (la Roche Percee, for example, in Percee, Quebec), or Peggy's Cove, Newfoundland
Ah that's Peggy's Cove Nova Scotia
A beautiful redwood forest 30 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Easily one of the most beautiful spots on earth.