What if I don't want to purchase Nero for windows?
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Nero Burning for Linux
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Seems like the only way to get the linux version is to purchase the windows version.
What if someone doesn't have any windows boxes? Is it that tough to make it available to purchase directly??
I'm glad they've done this. The more products that are ported natively to Linux, the better in my opinion. They just need to stop tying it to their windows products.
These companies need to be held responsible for the results of letting private information slip through their fingers.
They make money off or people's personal information. They should stand up and reimburse people for losses when they fuck up and let said information out to the wrong people.
You should do what someone else did. Give the wrong phone number.
I got called the other day, on my cell phone, about somebody's late movie. It's an automated call, so you can't do anything about it during the call, but they do give you the store and phone number to call.
I called, and politely asked them to remove my number from that account. So far, no repeat of it.
He would commission the writing of a novel lacking in any redeeming features: no plot or character development, no social insight, and definitely no verbal skill.
In the next paragraph they include three of the four things it was suppose to leave out, a Plot, and character development, and certainly purports to have some social insight. Even if it was minimal, it existed.
The plot of the novel, such as it was, involved a suburban housewife who hatched a plan to sleep with all the married men in her neighborhood in order to get back at her husband for having an affair.
However, given the American fascination for sex and violence, it's no wonder the book sold well. None of the pr0n "novels" I've read have had much of a plot to them.
Probably too late to be seen, but what the hell? Here's my 2 cents worth.
Securing a stand-alone workstation, either linux, or windows using any kind of OS login scheme is useless today.
It seems that, if the PC can be booted up on a CDRom, all one needs to do is boot using any number of live CD's out there, mount the local drive (even if it is read only) and copy what you find there to a USB thumb drive and shut down again.
Nobody would ever know anything happened.
In order to truly secure the workstation, some sort of boot password is needed.
The real solution to this would be for people having trouble with this to band together, and demand their money back.
Take it to the courts as a class action lawsuit, and demand a full refund of the purchase price. It should be fairly easy to prove that without the steam systems being online and working, that the game is not payable. This should not be acceptable to anyone.
Once even ONE of these lawsuits succeeds, this idea will go away. So long as they can get away with it, they will.
Gentoo with a friendly UI? That is... wrong, obscene somehow. Like LFS with an XFCE-4.2 style graphical installer. A major selling point of Gentoo is that it breaks you, kicks you, and forces you to understand how a Linux distro is built - like a marine bootcamp for the OS-impaired.
Personally, I've yet to get an actual working installation of Gentoo. Every time, it's something different. The last time, It would not let me copy the kernel to the proper place because there was no room, even though I made it using their recommended size. I suspect I missed something somewhere earlier, but I'll be damned if I could find it.
Maybe next weekend, I'll have time to try again...
At any rate, a Gentoo-like distro (using portage) would be cool, if it had a good installer. Building your own linux workstation is an accomplishment, if you can get it working, and actually like the thrill of trying to do so, but it does nothing for linux advocacy and trying to bring new people to Linux.
H.
Re:OT: EMERGENCY. TAKE THESE SCAMMING FUCKERS DOWN
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I called Red Cross.
There are people manning the phones, and technical people on site due to a telethon they held. Apparently, the site was getting hit pretty hard already.
The gentleman I spoke to said he was going to talk to their people right away.
I ran it with similar results. RealVNC was detected, but the default was to ignore it, so at least it realizes that this app could be legitimate.
It also searches based on text strings, such as file and folder names. I have two bookmarks for crack sites in my IE bookmarks. The scanner reported the folder name, as well as one of the two sites listed as high warnings, recommending removal.
It is very fast, and I noticed no slowdown of my machine when it ran the other night, regardless of being online playing world of warcraft at the time.
I do have to question the applications trying to reach the internet while doing nothing else thoguh. My Sygate firewall reported it trying to access the internet several times. There is no option for scheduling updates or even to stop it from doing so, or to schedule it for a set time.
All in all, it's become a good addition to my spyware arsinal. I will even reccomend it to clients, if they wish some sort of real-time protection.
I have not yet tried installing any spyware infested applications to see how it handles them. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will detect and prevent (or at least offer to prevent) such installations.
On the first scan I ran, it detected two files in my Favorites. One was a folder called "Cracks" and the other was a URL that had the word cracks in it, so yea, you need to watch what it comes up with, and not let it do whateve it wants.
/. needs a category called "Duh!" for articles like this.
I will not even give my zip code at a store register. I always ask if they're going to give me a discount with it, and the answer is always no.
I can even remember when this started. The first time I was asked for one I spent 10 min in front of the clerk, who insisted I must give one to her. Granted, she was just following orders, but it took her way too long to call a manager over.
Any more, if you decline, they either enter in something and continue on, or just hit a key or two and continue. It's not as much fun any more.
What's really frightening though is that there is a "Don't ask me again" option in this dialog... which means that if you check the box you could end up running any old garbage on your system without so much as a single warning. Doesn't sound so secure to me...
Now that is just funny, considering that this has been a standard in IE for as long as I can remember.
If a site tries to install something, you get the pop-up, there is also the option (not including XP, SP2, since I'm not at home to check my machine) to "Always trust content from XXX"
What needs to be added to BOTH browsers is an optino to NEVER trust content from XXX, then we can button things down as they come up, and will cease to see this bullshit all the time. Let the browsers simply tell the offending site to fuck off.
John
Despite the pricing issues I have with any MMORPG, WoW was a lot of fun and it is the first MMORPG that I have considered purchasing.
What exactly are your issuse with pricing?
I'm not going to bash you for your opinion, but I'm genuily curious about it. Personally, I believe the monthly charge is a necessary evil in order to keep servers going, and get updated content.
Been playing MMORPG's since Nov 2000, when AC1 came out, and still play it. I plan to purchase and create an account for WoW on the 1st (payday).
The one thing that all MMO's need in order to give them some excitement is a perma-death option.
Read that again before you reply. OPTION. As in, not mandatory, but something you actively have to choose to take on character creation, never to be changed.
My reasoning is this: Most people get attached to their characters to some extent. The higher level you get, the more risks you face, but it's all the same. If you die, you run back to your leveling spot, collect a corpse, or items, or just experience points to compensate, and continue.
In some games, I've seen this become a game. I've seen toons throw themselves off a lighthouse in Asherons Call for fun. What's the problem? It's just a bit of vitality penalty, and easy to work off.
Now, if someone were to choose a perma-death character (perhaps marked so that other's could tell) then they have something to continue to strive for. The longer such a character survives, the higher level they reach, the higher the status they can achieve amongst their peers.
Imagine a max-level character that has never died? It's possible, but there is no way to prove it in any of the games I've played. Screenshots can be faked, and people can lie. Having Perma-Death under a toons name or in the ID screen, and seeing that toon at max level would be impressive, IMO.
This got very off-topic, but it's been one of my pet peeves for a long time with most games. To date, I've only seen one game (PC, single player) that offered this. It was a blast to play, and while it could be frustrating to actually die, and have to start over from scratch, it kept the excitement just a bit higher. Made me just a bit more cautious. Made the game just a bit more serious.
True, but they're not going after the Australian web site, but rather, the one based in the US. Of course, they have to prove a connection between the two...
Ever since I have installed SP2, Ad-Aware from Lavasoft has not found one spyware program -- even after installing the worst offending sites - porn sites.
You installed porn sites? Man, I'm a n00b. All I seem to be able to do is browse to them. Where can I download the program for this? It would save a ton of download time.
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Seems like the only way to get the linux version is to purchase the windows version.
What if someone doesn't have any windows boxes? Is it that tough to make it available to purchase directly??
I'm glad they've done this. The more products that are ported natively to Linux, the better in my opinion. They just need to stop tying it to their windows products.
H.
These companies need to be held responsible for the results of letting private information slip through their fingers.
They make money off or people's personal information. They should stand up and reimburse people for losses when they fuck up and let said information out to the wrong people.
H.
You should do what someone else did. Give the wrong phone number.
I got called the other day, on my cell phone, about somebody's late movie. It's an automated call, so you can't do anything about it during the call, but they do give you the store and phone number to call.
I called, and politely asked them to remove my number from that account. So far, no repeat of it.
H.
I have to agree with you there.
I will drive 45 min further (each way) to rent at a much better stocked video store. They carry so much more, and their prices are better.
H.
In the next paragraph they include three of the four things it was suppose to leave out, a Plot, and character development, and certainly purports to have some social insight. Even if it was minimal, it existed.
However, given the American fascination for sex and violence, it's no wonder the book sold well. None of the pr0n "novels" I've read have had much of a plot to them.
Except that that one was published
The Red Tape War was written by three authors (Jack L. Chalker, Mike Resnick, and George A. Effinger), each seemingly trying to outdo the others.
It made for an interesting read. In fact, I think I'll have to dig it out again...
H.
Damn...
All this has made me think I really need to start backing up my HD's, given that I've NEVER had one go bad on me.
Well, Ok, not never, but close. I had one that started loosing sectors. It was an old 1.2gig and the new computer solved that one at the time.
Guess I'll start putting my new DVDRW to work after work tomorrow.
Probably too late to be seen, but what the hell? Here's my 2 cents worth.
Securing a stand-alone workstation, either linux, or windows using any kind of OS login scheme is useless today.
It seems that, if the PC can be booted up on a CDRom, all one needs to do is boot using any number of live CD's out there, mount the local drive (even if it is read only) and copy what you find there to a USB thumb drive and shut down again.
Nobody would ever know anything happened.
In order to truly secure the workstation, some sort of boot password is needed.
The real solution to this would be for people having trouble with this to band together, and demand their money back.
Take it to the courts as a class action lawsuit, and demand a full refund of the purchase price. It should be fairly easy to prove that without the steam systems being online and working, that the game is not payable. This should not be acceptable to anyone.
Once even ONE of these lawsuits succeeds, this idea will go away. So long as they can get away with it, they will.
H.
Personally, I've yet to get an actual working installation of Gentoo. Every time, it's something different. The last time, It would not let me copy the kernel to the proper place because there was no room, even though I made it using their recommended size. I suspect I missed something somewhere earlier, but I'll be damned if I could find it.
Maybe next weekend, I'll have time to try again...
At any rate, a Gentoo-like distro (using portage) would be cool, if it had a good installer. Building your own linux workstation is an accomplishment, if you can get it working, and actually like the thrill of trying to do so, but it does nothing for linux advocacy and trying to bring new people to Linux.
H.
I called Red Cross.
There are people manning the phones, and technical people on site due to a telethon they held. Apparently, the site was getting hit pretty hard already.
The gentleman I spoke to said he was going to talk to their people right away.
At least the real Red Cross is aware of it.
H.
I ran it with similar results. RealVNC was detected, but the default was to ignore it, so at least it realizes that this app could be legitimate.
It also searches based on text strings, such as file and folder names. I have two bookmarks for crack sites in my IE bookmarks. The scanner reported the folder name, as well as one of the two sites listed as high warnings, recommending removal.
It is very fast, and I noticed no slowdown of my machine when it ran the other night, regardless of being online playing world of warcraft at the time.
I do have to question the applications trying to reach the internet while doing nothing else thoguh. My Sygate firewall reported it trying to access the internet several times. There is no option for scheduling updates or even to stop it from doing so, or to schedule it for a set time.
All in all, it's become a good addition to my spyware arsinal. I will even reccomend it to clients, if they wish some sort of real-time protection.
I have not yet tried installing any spyware infested applications to see how it handles them. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will detect and prevent (or at least offer to prevent) such installations.
Eric the Grey
A good lawyer can get them off.
Oh, wait....
On the first scan I ran, it detected two files in my Favorites. One was a folder called "Cracks" and the other was a URL that had the word cracks in it, so yea, you need to watch what it comes up with, and not let it do whateve it wants.
Kinda like the others...
No...
They're going to call them Boomers.
/. needs a category called "Duh!" for articles like this.
I will not even give my zip code at a store register. I always ask if they're going to give me a discount with it, and the answer is always no.
I can even remember when this started. The first time I was asked for one I spent 10 min in front of the clerk, who insisted I must give one to her. Granted, she was just following orders, but it took her way too long to call a manager over.
Any more, if you decline, they either enter in something and continue on, or just hit a key or two and continue. It's not as much fun any more.
Right, you wouldn't want to bring down those pr0n sites, would you?
You should be ashamed of yourself. Bittorrent downloading of Mazda's is just wrong.
Serves you right.
What exactly are your issuse with pricing?
I'm not going to bash you for your opinion, but I'm genuily curious about it. Personally, I believe the monthly charge is a necessary evil in order to keep servers going, and get updated content.
Been playing MMORPG's since Nov 2000, when AC1 came out, and still play it. I plan to purchase and create an account for WoW on the 1st (payday).
H.
I thought that was people like me who worked the holidays, not spend them with family.
The one thing that all MMO's need in order to give them some excitement is a perma-death option.
Read that again before you reply. OPTION. As in, not mandatory, but something you actively have to choose to take on character creation, never to be changed.
My reasoning is this: Most people get attached to their characters to some extent. The higher level you get, the more risks you face, but it's all the same. If you die, you run back to your leveling spot, collect a corpse, or items, or just experience points to compensate, and continue.
In some games, I've seen this become a game. I've seen toons throw themselves off a lighthouse in Asherons Call for fun. What's the problem? It's just a bit of vitality penalty, and easy to work off.
Now, if someone were to choose a perma-death character (perhaps marked so that other's could tell) then they have something to continue to strive for. The longer such a character survives, the higher level they reach, the higher the status they can achieve amongst their peers.
Imagine a max-level character that has never died? It's possible, but there is no way to prove it in any of the games I've played. Screenshots can be faked, and people can lie. Having Perma-Death under a toons name or in the ID screen, and seeing that toon at max level would be impressive, IMO.
This got very off-topic, but it's been one of my pet peeves for a long time with most games. To date, I've only seen one game (PC, single player) that offered this. It was a blast to play, and while it could be frustrating to actually die, and have to start over from scratch, it kept the excitement just a bit higher. Made me just a bit more cautious. Made the game just a bit more serious.
But... Windows said it was secure. Isn't that good enough??
True, but they're not going after the Australian web site, but rather, the one based in the US. Of course, they have to prove a connection between the two...
Harker
You installed porn sites? Man, I'm a n00b. All I seem to be able to do is browse to them. Where can I download the program for this? It would save a ton of download time.