It is usually possible to refine out of the way certain products - my beef is the stores. I do not want to be searching through hundreds of the exact same product all with different entries that sell at 'auction' or on eBay.
Yeah. My friend got his network access revoked for using a LiveCD (while the kid next to him was playing games, which is against school rules.. glad I graduated) but what was always fun was their remote control system. They had a thing like VNC where they could take control of the student's computers.. well, I'm sure they didn't plan on being able to turn the SP2 firewall on and block it! Silly school.
Well, that's beyond the point of my comment. It's obvious our admins were incompetent (we could boot into Knoppix too and get online) but if they were then I wouldn't have been able to use that method, obviously.
What I'd do, in high school, is just open a SSH connection to home with the -D flag on the client, for a SOCKS proxy. School couldn't track where I was going nor filter anything.
Well I thought it was a 64 width (PCI-e video cards are usually x16, and two would make x32, and four would make x64..) but if there are only two cards then it'd still max at x32.
Congradulations, you hit it on the mark. I dual boot Windows and Gentoo. I usually boot into Windows, so I can play games, etc. My laptop runs Windows and does all my normal tasks like school work, IM, etc., and my server/router also runs Gentoo. I put Gentoo on my desktop because it's the fastest machine in the house, and the only 64-bit processor, as well as highest power video card, and I wanted to play with it. I got 64-bit Gentoo and XGL running just fine.
Yeah, sure I could have installed Fedora or Ubuntu or something. But I don't want to. I like Gentoo, I like having each package compiled just for my system with the fine grain control I get over it, and I know how to install Gentoo. Installing some other Linux distro would take longer (compiling excluded) just because I'd have to poke around every five minutes with 'how do I do this or that?' with distro-specific stuff like package managers.
There's only two reasons I wouldn't use Gentoo on a machine of mine:
a. It's too slow to wait for packages to compile
b. I need linux -now-
Otherwise I'll take Gentoo any day.
So why aren't they using this with everything else, instead attaching icky DRM? Or is this just a test for that system?
Right now I buy CDs because there's no DRM (er, no Sony CDs either, just to be safe) and I can do what I want with them. If they start selling watermarked non-DRM'd music I'll be happy to buy it online.
Why does that mean less engineering for them? It's not like they're going to say, "Okay, MSN and Yahoo merged, so we're going to pick one, stop working on the other, and force you to use it." I'll probably never use the cross-client messaging, because I have accounts on both services. Why would the IM clients be any different?
No. Two problems with that: One, that type would not return as a binary executable (aka download and run), it'd return HTML or the like. Two, they're looking for malicious programs (or, more likely, using Google to search for the actual malicious code in them.) If they were looking for all executables then they'd have to sift through every file on shareware sites, SourceForge, etc.
While that may be true, unfortunately they just can't do it. Vista is the next version of Windows.. there needs to be solid release dates and timeframes because hardware manufacturers, developers, and retailers all need to know when to allocate resources to be ready for it. If MS said Vista would be ready when it's ready, my brand new laptop wouldn't have been labeled Vista Capable because HP would have been afraid it may not be by the time MS actually does release it, and then they have unhappy customers. At least at this rate if MS holds off too long, since they already have a timeframe, then manufacturers and retailers can hound on them about it not being out because they've been ready for it for too long already. Microsoft just doesn't have the freedom to do that.
Yeah, but do you really want to pay shipping on a single item? Though, if you use the service a lot, Amazon Prime (if supported) might not be a bad idea.
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Read the summary again: They -bought- the French AOL. It doesn't mean they're using the AOL services, just their customers.
It is usually possible to refine out of the way certain products - my beef is the stores. I do not want to be searching through hundreds of the exact same product all with different entries that sell at 'auction' or on eBay.
Well I don't know if Internet Explorer is 12 megs, (maybe 120..) but I know it'll do a good job at making you not want to use the internet anymore.
They're regulating the ISPs from regulating their customers!
I missed 'kind of like a car' and thought you were analogizing 250,000 miles in reference to the computer.
Not as bad as my house. Mom(IM): Time for dinner. Me: Why are you IM'ing me? I'm in the next room.
If Linux gets put on it, we can scratch off the 'host webservers' part. Especially with the wireless.
How do you do it? Mine hangs at least once a week..
Yeah. My friend got his network access revoked for using a LiveCD (while the kid next to him was playing games, which is against school rules.. glad I graduated) but what was always fun was their remote control system. They had a thing like VNC where they could take control of the student's computers.. well, I'm sure they didn't plan on being able to turn the SP2 firewall on and block it! Silly school.
Well, that's beyond the point of my comment. It's obvious our admins were incompetent (we could boot into Knoppix too and get online) but if they were then I wouldn't have been able to use that method, obviously.
What I'd do, in high school, is just open a SSH connection to home with the -D flag on the client, for a SOCKS proxy. School couldn't track where I was going nor filter anything.
That's why I like my DSL. I don't miss cable one bit.
Well I thought it was a 64 width (PCI-e video cards are usually x16, and two would make x32, and four would make x64..) but if there are only two cards then it'd still max at x32.
I was hoping someone would bring that up!
Everyone's going to make fun of it because it's based on a Microsoft product.
Congradulations, you hit it on the mark. I dual boot Windows and Gentoo. I usually boot into Windows, so I can play games, etc. My laptop runs Windows and does all my normal tasks like school work, IM, etc., and my server/router also runs Gentoo. I put Gentoo on my desktop because it's the fastest machine in the house, and the only 64-bit processor, as well as highest power video card, and I wanted to play with it. I got 64-bit Gentoo and XGL running just fine. Yeah, sure I could have installed Fedora or Ubuntu or something. But I don't want to. I like Gentoo, I like having each package compiled just for my system with the fine grain control I get over it, and I know how to install Gentoo. Installing some other Linux distro would take longer (compiling excluded) just because I'd have to poke around every five minutes with 'how do I do this or that?' with distro-specific stuff like package managers. There's only two reasons I wouldn't use Gentoo on a machine of mine: a. It's too slow to wait for packages to compile b. I need linux -now- Otherwise I'll take Gentoo any day.
No, I'm talking about watermarking the music I (would) buy online.
So why aren't they using this with everything else, instead attaching icky DRM? Or is this just a test for that system? Right now I buy CDs because there's no DRM (er, no Sony CDs either, just to be safe) and I can do what I want with them. If they start selling watermarked non-DRM'd music I'll be happy to buy it online.
No wonder it's not implemented yet. The big companies just keep laughing at the silly consumers who 'think' they need it.
Why does that mean less engineering for them? It's not like they're going to say, "Okay, MSN and Yahoo merged, so we're going to pick one, stop working on the other, and force you to use it." I'll probably never use the cross-client messaging, because I have accounts on both services. Why would the IM clients be any different?
No. Two problems with that: One, that type would not return as a binary executable (aka download and run), it'd return HTML or the like. Two, they're looking for malicious programs (or, more likely, using Google to search for the actual malicious code in them.) If they were looking for all executables then they'd have to sift through every file on shareware sites, SourceForge, etc.
While that may be true, unfortunately they just can't do it. Vista is the next version of Windows.. there needs to be solid release dates and timeframes because hardware manufacturers, developers, and retailers all need to know when to allocate resources to be ready for it. If MS said Vista would be ready when it's ready, my brand new laptop wouldn't have been labeled Vista Capable because HP would have been afraid it may not be by the time MS actually does release it, and then they have unhappy customers. At least at this rate if MS holds off too long, since they already have a timeframe, then manufacturers and retailers can hound on them about it not being out because they've been ready for it for too long already. Microsoft just doesn't have the freedom to do that.
But that actually happened..
Yeah, but do you really want to pay shipping on a single item? Though, if you use the service a lot, Amazon Prime (if supported) might not be a bad idea.
The scary thing is they do run linux, and they have the wifi working. So, you actually could cluster them..