Not to defend them, but I'll bet they tried to resolve this. When Win95 first came out, it was no different than Win 3.x regarding changing video settings. Make a change, you have to reboot. Shortly after Win95 came out, you could get their PowerToys package which included a little utility called QuickRes. This allowed you to change color settings and resolution on the fly. Win95 OSR2 included this ability without needing QuickRes and it remains in Win98 SE.
My guess is if they *could* change from Large Fonts to Small Fonts without rebooting, they would have included it with this functionality. Who knows why you can't !
The MS Proxy Server is possibly also using authentication that only MS products "speak". I can't even use Netscape or Mozilla -- Internet Explorer only !!
The $90 very likely includes everything, if you're talking about DSL. All rates I've seen includes the ISP's monthly rate, the 2nd line, etc, etc.
As for the per-minute charges with ISDN, ask your ISP about something called "call-back ISDN" (I just made that up 'cause I can't remember what it's really called...). Apparently, you don't pay per-minute charges with this. For you information, their dual-ISDN rate is $34.95/month !!
I do believe this is the case. As someone has already mentioned, fruit-based sodas can not have caffeine in them. I guess that includes drinks like 7-Up, Mountain Dew, etc. What is Jolt "based" on, by the way ?? I've tried and didn't like it.
I saw this on one of those news shows... It was about how terrible caffeine was for kids and how soooo many are addicted (one or two kids drank Mountain Dew by the 2-liter !! Ummm, Mom and Dad -- don't buy it !!).
Of course, they then had the infamous taste test and guess what ?? The kids couldn't tell the difference between Canadian Mountain Dew (and other sodas) and the American versions !
A fair amount of ILOVEYOU required Outlook support. I don't know what will happen if you're running StarOffice on a machine with or without Outlook and/or Office installed.
Not necessarily, the VBScript portion that was bad for the local user was the part of it that deleted files. The Outlook part was only used to forward these message on to other people. As for that part, I've been told that *any* MAPI-compliant program would do the same, not just Outlook. I've got to wonder about that though, as even Outlook Express wasn't affected. Then again, maybe it's not MAPI-compliant.
I just read about "international waters" recently and it may not be as people here think.
If your boat is flying a U.S. flag (registered in the U.S.), they Coast Guard can board it in international waters. If it's flying no flag, they can also board. Again, this, I believe is set by international law, not some "American" law. If it's flying a British flag, for example, in international waters, they cannot board it.
Ideally, when a user double-clicks on an attachment in Outlook that can carry a virus like an exe, doc, vbs, etc. file, it should:
Warn the user that this type of file can carry virus.
Offer to run that file through the user's virus scanning software.
Running it through a virus scanner will often do do no good. Today, if someone sends me the "ILOVEYOU" *worm* and I try and double-click it to run, McAfee will pop-up and warn me. Why ?? Because 6-8 hours after "ILOVEYOU" caused all the reported damage, they had an update.
Their software, contrary to what they claim, won't catch new virii/worms until they know about them. I'm referring to their "heuristic" whatever logic !! They claim it catches what appear to be virii/worms.
Isn't the burden of proof for these sorts of things on Metallica?
yeap, it's up to the prosecution to prove that you're guilty, not up to you to prove that you're innocent. Something called the Constitution "guarantees" that.;-)
Besides, what if you're not in the U.S.? Copyright laws only apply here, but I think other countries honor them, as we agree to honor theirs. But typical, companies and even dumb-ass Congress thinks our laws rule the earth !!
Redhat often waits for packages to become tried-and-true and tested before including them. With new major kernel releases, they usually wait until 4 or 5 updates before using it.
Uhh, that's not true. Redhat has caught flack many times for actually releasing with "pre" kernels !! They've released a new version with a kernel that was not officially released yet more than once.
They're only "paper" rich at this point. Since they're employees, I don't believe they are allowed to sell their shares until later on (I remember 6 months being mentioned in regard to RedHat; 2 years in regards to the infamous LinuxOne).
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Not related to Rob's wealth, but last week on "Geeks in Space", either Hemos or Nate were complaining about BMG's music club. Apparently he was shopping to replace CDs that he lost in a fire and at some point found out that BMG's shopping cart only holds 20 CDs. He obviously had a lot more than that. One of the others asked how many he'd reduced it down to and he stated 163. At BMG's average price, let's say $15.99 each, that's over $2600. And he had more than that since he started taking CDs out.
Call me poor, if you want, but I could certainly never go on a CD shopping trip and spend that kind of money.
Now that I think about it, he *might* have been paying for this with an insurance settlement...
Hey, can we safely say that George Lucas reads Slashdot ?? Seems entirely possible that someone in the Lucas-camp read this thread or at least was pointed to it. When they saw mention of these videos, two phone calls took care of it -- one to their lawyers and one from their lawyers to eBay.
how big is the drive in it (i checked their faq but they don't really get into the specifics, only saying they sell a "14 hour" and a "30 hour" version of tivo
You didn't check very hard... From their FAQ:
What size are the drives in the receiver? The drive in the 14 hour receiver is 13.6 GB and in the 30 receiver is 27.2 GB.
My Sony Trinitron 200SX tells the "current" numbers. This was somewhat helpful a few months ago when I could not run higher than 1024x768 in Linux, but could run at 1280x1024 in Windows.
At the 1024 setting, Windows and Linux ran at different rates, which didn't really make sense. Same with 1280 setting, although in Linux it was un-usable.
It turns out that Mandrake Linux had messed up something in the X-server and corrected it in the version in Cooker. At least I had some clues that something wasn't wrong with my monitor.
Checking/proc/cpuinfo does give info about the CPU's model and such, as best it can guess. I have a K6-2 @ 450mhz at home. I'll check it later today and see exactly what/proc/cpuinfo says.
As far as the clock speed though, it simply reports what it's running at. If you overclock a 300mhz to 500mhz, it's gonna report 500mhz.
I believe they do. That's half their arguement... after AOL made it public, MS and others started using it. I believe Yahoo tried the same, as did some company or client called something like "Tribal" (??)
If all they want to do is send messages to AIM users, TOC would work fine. The protocol was released by AOL, so they cant yell about MS using it.
Now AOL "claims" is was released so the Unix-based clients could be built using it.
I picked up a set of Altec Lansing's ACS-44 at a computer show for $29 !! I think they're like last year's models, so I guess they're kinda closeouts. There is still info on them... Check 'em out: ACS44 PowerCube Speaker System
They're a 3-piece set, two very small satellites (approx 3x3x3 inches) and a subwoofer (approx 10x6x6).
Is a situation with DVD-II signicantly different? The manufacturers told us that this was THE standard for DVD. Fine, DVD is the standard... for DVD. It can still be obsoleted. Replaced with DVD-II, so be it -- a new standard.
Well, first off, why do people feel the need to sue for every little thing ?? It's truly sad. I'm sure everyone has bought something that didn't make it.
I mean really, has movie piracy been a big deal before? It's not like it's really that hard to copy a VHS tape.
Have you tried to copy a commercial VHS tape ? A friend and I tried a few years ago... It was Jurassic Park when it first became available to rent. It had some sort of "block" 'cause were copied the entire movie and when we checked the dubbed copy, all we got was sound and a black picture !! We watched it as we (thought) we were copying it, so no big deal there.
I've only got one VCR now, so I have no use for a device that would "fix" this.;-) But, does anyone know anything more about what I'm talking about ? And yes, we had everything hooked up right, using RCA cables from the video/audio outputs to the other VCR's video/audio inputs.
That was an article by John Dvorak after he got his new cable modem or DSL line installed. And yes, he got ripped apart for using the wrong terminology then too !
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My guess is if they *could* change from Large Fonts to Small Fonts without rebooting, they would have included it with this functionality. Who knows why you can't !
The MS Proxy Server is possibly also using authentication that only MS products "speak". I can't even use Netscape or Mozilla -- Internet Explorer only !!
As for the per-minute charges with ISDN, ask your ISP about something called "call-back ISDN" (I just made that up 'cause I can't remember what it's really called...). Apparently, you don't pay per-minute charges with this. For you information, their dual-ISDN rate is $34.95/month !!
I saw this on one of those news shows... It was about how terrible caffeine was for kids and how soooo many are addicted (one or two kids drank Mountain Dew by the 2-liter !! Ummm, Mom and Dad -- don't buy it !!).
Of course, they then had the infamous taste test and guess what ?? The kids couldn't tell the difference between Canadian Mountain Dew (and other sodas) and the American versions !
Not necessarily, the VBScript portion that was bad for the local user was the part of it that deleted files. The Outlook part was only used to forward these message on to other people. As for that part, I've been told that *any* MAPI-compliant program would do the same, not just Outlook. I've got to wonder about that though, as even Outlook Express wasn't affected. Then again, maybe it's not MAPI-compliant.
If your boat is flying a U.S. flag (registered in the U.S.), they Coast Guard can board it in international waters. If it's flying no flag, they can also board. Again, this, I believe is set by international law, not some "American" law. If it's flying a British flag, for example, in international waters, they cannot board it.
Warn the user that this type of file can carry virus.
Offer to run that file through the user's virus scanning software.
Running it through a virus scanner will often do do no good. Today, if someone sends me the "ILOVEYOU" *worm* and I try and double-click it to run, McAfee will pop-up and warn me. Why ?? Because 6-8 hours after "ILOVEYOU" caused all the reported damage, they had an update.
Their software, contrary to what they claim, won't catch new virii/worms until they know about them. I'm referring to their "heuristic" whatever logic !! They claim it catches what appear to be virii/worms.
Isn't the burden of proof for these sorts of things on Metallica?
yeap, it's up to the prosecution to prove that you're guilty, not up to you to prove that you're innocent. Something called the Constitution "guarantees" that. ;-)
Besides, what if you're not in the U.S.? Copyright laws only apply here, but I think other countries honor them, as we agree to honor theirs. But typical, companies and even dumb-ass Congress thinks our laws rule the earth !!
Uhh, that's not true. Redhat has caught flack many times for actually releasing with "pre" kernels !! They've released a new version with a kernel that was not officially released yet more than once.
By then, the price may greatly "normalize".
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First, why do you not want them to index your site ?
Second, if you've read the other replies to your question, you might want to re-consider...
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Call me poor, if you want, but I could certainly never go on a CD shopping trip and spend that kind of money.
Now that I think about it, he *might* have been paying for this with an insurance settlement...
Hey, can we safely say that George Lucas reads Slashdot ?? Seems entirely possible that someone in the Lucas-camp read this thread or at least was pointed to it. When they saw mention of these videos, two phone calls took care of it -- one to their lawyers and one from their lawyers to eBay.
Huh ?? Never heard of this one, but probably should have, given my circumstances !
You didn't check very hard... From their FAQ:
What size are the drives in the receiver?
The drive in the 14 hour receiver is 13.6 GB and in the 30 receiver is 27.2 GB.
At the 1024 setting, Windows and Linux ran at different rates, which didn't really make sense. Same with 1280 setting, although in Linux it was un-usable.
It turns out that Mandrake Linux had messed up something in the X-server and corrected it in the version in Cooker. At least I had some clues that something wasn't wrong with my monitor.
As far as the clock speed though, it simply reports what it's running at. If you overclock a 300mhz to 500mhz, it's gonna report 500mhz.
I believe they do. That's half their arguement... after AOL made it public, MS and others started using it. I believe Yahoo tried the same, as did some company or client called something like "Tribal" (??)
If all they want to do is send messages to AIM users, TOC would work fine. The protocol was released by AOL, so they cant yell about MS using it.
Now AOL "claims" is was released so the Unix-based clients could be built using it.
They're a 3-piece set, two very small satellites (approx 3x3x3 inches) and a subwoofer (approx 10x6x6).
They have more than enough power too!
Well, first off, why do people feel the need to sue for every little thing ?? It's truly sad. I'm sure everyone has bought something that didn't make it.
*shrug*
Have you tried to copy a commercial VHS tape ? A friend and I tried a few years ago... It was Jurassic Park when it first became available to rent. It had some sort of "block" 'cause were copied the entire movie and when we checked the dubbed copy, all we got was sound and a black picture !! We watched it as we (thought) we were copying it, so no big deal there.
I've only got one VCR now, so I have no use for a device that would "fix" this. ;-) But, does anyone know anything more about what I'm talking about ? And yes, we had everything hooked up right, using RCA cables from the video/audio outputs to the other VCR's video/audio inputs.
A lawsuit ? On what grounds ? I didn't realize that the DVD player mfgs guaranteed that the format would be around forever.
Many "standards" have come and gone... Betamax is the first to come to mind.
That was an article by John Dvorak after he got his new cable modem or DSL line installed. And yes, he got ripped apart for using the wrong terminology then too !