Giganews still carries all the groups, and they won't roll over for any little half-legit handwritten MPAA subpoena either. You pay for the privilege, but I think Usenet won't miss Verizon's more cheapass customers. The ones who pay for non-crap service are obviously unaffected.
Actually it would be like a thief showing up in court as a witness for another thief against a homeowner.
Soap Box, Ballot Box, Jury Box, Ammo Box-- to be used in that order.
The first has clearly done nothing. Perhaps it's time for the second? Write to your presidential nominees, fellow USians, and see what they think about this. Slashdotters in other countries: If you have the vote, use it. Make this kind of fearmongering and blind persecution criminal. If it already is, get into a few jury boxes and work to make it stick. Ammo box I can't help you with, but it should be pretty self-explanatory.
While it's not a very practical method, I suggested to my wife years ago that I should just trigger Paypal's 'verify' test as often as possible while never completing it. They would transfer an average of 50 cents each time, and they did not take it back if you never got around to finishing the verify. 50 cents every 2 weeks doesn't sound like much, but if you have 3 or 4 legit bank accounts doing it, and you can get a few hundred stupid online merchants to participate, it could add up to a free dinner out every now and then. Nothing illegal if you do it right, it's free money.
This is bound to get modded down, but I'm seriously trying to help.
Many many years ago, I had to learn how to configure and compile the Linux kernel to get some of my bleeding-edge hardware working. I still do it, and never ever have the problems you describe.
Really, you have to build the configure ONCE, after that you can copy the.config to your new kernel source dir and run make oldconfig, it'll only ask you options that are new or have changed since the last kernel.
These days I even have it scripted. My distro downloads new stable kernel releases automatically, so all I do is fire up a terminal, go to/usr/src/linux-newversion/ and run do_the_kernel.
Everything else is automatic, my 8GB of ram shows up, and I never have Xen in when I don't want it, nor VMware hard locking my machine because I left kqemu in. Really, you should try it.
This isn't news, but then again, when has/. worried about that?
Back when this 'hack' was first introduced to the unwashed masses, MS made official comment to the effect of 'we meant for it to work that way'. They hope that folks buying upgrade editions would be *upgrading*, and that this just allows folks who upgraded but didn't want to reinstall XP before reinstalling Vista and folks who had misplaced their restore media to get by.
I simply can't agree with these conclusions. I'm on fairly low/medium doses of Sertraline, and I have *often* found myself feeling down, starting a depressive slide, only to realize I'd missed my dose for two or three days. I have *never* started to slip into a depressed state and found that I *have* taken my meds.
It's only my observations, true, but it argues strongly AGAINST the placebo effect.
Actually, if you research further, you'll find that many Sith apprentices kept secret sub-apprentices in expectation of soon killing off their master.
The Rule of Two doesn't always apply. There are documented canon enclaves of Sith around the galaxy, they just remain hidden and inactive. Also, there are many Dark Side users who aren't Sith per se.
Nope. A bit of hex editing and your 'legit' OEM BIOS is no different from the ones on real Dell or HP or IBM PCs.
MS won't blacklist it either, since it would piss off the bread'n'butter to do so. Can't even make a bios version/system details whitelist, since it would have to be updated for every new CTO rig or system model a big OEM makes!
Piracy. The nag-free way to play with Monopoly-ware OSes.
4GB of DDR2, Core 2 Duo 3GHz, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, WD Raptor 150GB for the OS, two Seagate 320s for data and crap.
Why does Vista BSOD on me a couple times a month?
Why has it done so since launch?
Why do processes I've never dealt with routinely crash and need restarting?
Why does UAC nag me till I TweakUAC it away, and then gravely warn me each startup about how I'm critically unsafe and headed for destruction?
Vista really does suck, and that is the truth. I really do want to like it, but it needs a lot of work still. Bring on SP1/RTM and then things might change, but probably not till SP2, when most MS OSes seem to lose most of their suck.
Actually, Medieval: Total War models that very nicely. If you get up a good solid steamroller and manage to accrue something like ~75% of the game's landmass, you're sitting on a lit powderkeg. When your current regent dies, ALL of the heirs typically make a grab for a chunk of the empire. Your unstoppable juggernaut becomes a hydra, and your advance is horribly stalled. The new AI players break down one by one, with your victims often resurging, and you have to do the whole thing over again.
It cheats, too. If you time things so that you begin the great war of assimilation while your regent is young, the generals in your armies get all nutty and go civil war on you once you get too close to winning.
Actually, the decryption of the movie for playback or copying is the part being attacked by IP laws everywhere. You can own a disc, and you can make copies of that disc. You can decrypt your original for playback only.
You can NOT, however, make an unencrypted copy of the movie. Also, an encrypted movie with no encryption keys on the disc is effectively unplayable.
You can't out-law the lawyers. They do this for a living.
Unfortunately for your grand plan, reality conflicts.
Recordable DVDs have the area which would be used to store the CSS keys pre-burned to 000000000. This is *precisely* to keep the end user from making a bit-for-bit copy.
Furthermore, you can't make a bit-for-bit copy of even just the contents of the largest dual layer silvers. A dual layer silver can hold roughly 9GB, while a dual layer recordable maxes out at 8.5GB. It doesn't really do much to stop anyone from anything, but sometimes bit-for-bit is legal while a re-encode is not.
When I was working at CompUSA, there was a guy there in the tech shop that wiped/reimaged stolen laptops at home for thieves. He got a pretty decent cut for his time, and none of these laptop lojack POSes would come close to surviving that. Use the BIOS password backdoor (they seem to all have them), clear out the BIOS passwords and reset the CMOS, then wipe out the hard disk a few passes and restore a factory Dell/HP/whoever image of XP Home (seems like 99% of stolen laptops were set for XP Home). He got from 50-100$ for about 15 minutes work and about an hour or two of wall socket/desk time. The thieves then sold them at pawnshops or on eBay for a few hundred bucks and the software side was clean and untraceable.
He did get escorted from work in handcuffs eventually, since the serial numbers were intact and the one thief squealed like a little girl when eBay and the feds tracked him down.
The software trackers were a big scam, though. Very little chance of return on investment.
I meant a third option *for MS*. I'd be just thrilled if the world went OpenGL/OpenAL all the way. Would make me gaming under Linux a lot easier, and my Macs wouldn't mind ditching Cider.
One could argue that they are much the same. Slashdot isn't just reading, it's participating.
As for Valve's big shocker: No duh. I don't know what MS thought would happen, but I've known that DX10 would be slow to catch on and possibly a flop in the long run ever since they announced Vista exclusivity. The only way that it could have worked was if Vista was the hottest thing since Win9X and it took off like a rocket. Since Vista's uptake has been slow, in fact slower than MS planned, it's stifling DX10 as well.
MS can choose: Make DX10.1 available to XP, see DirectX succeed at the cost of Vista sales, or keep DX10 Vista-only, which will preserve some Vista sales while smothering DX10.
Plus the only parts of most OSes that gets written 'over and over' is the swap file. Put that on a different medium and you're golden for many many years. Heck, Vista's Readyboost is a step in that direction anyways. For those of us using good OSes, some 'Vista edition' motherboards are out with semi-integrated USB flash drives, connected to the mobo. Set that whole thing to swap, set the bigger SSD for your OS and programs.
Secure maybe. The one at the local Wawa goes into a BSOD/reboot loop about once a month. It's really amusing when it loops while debiting your account. I've personally had to call the bank twice to get a series of thousands of non-existant 20$ withdrawals reversed.
I'd rather they got to the 'die' part of their name already.
I'm actually more tempted to try a Zune because of MS's weak DRM.
I can sign up to rent any and all music I ever wanted to hear, and then strip it with any of the WMA DRM-removing utils.
It's just as dishonest and illegal as hitting up P2P, but the quality should be the same or better, fewer mislabeled or missing tracks, and no RIAA snooping (that we know of).
Since all my stuff is on my iPod in legally acquired MP3 format, and I think most newer music sucks balls, it'll probably remain an inert idea instead of an acted-on plan.
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Giganews still carries all the groups, and they won't roll over for any little half-legit handwritten MPAA subpoena either. You pay for the privilege, but I think Usenet won't miss Verizon's more cheapass customers. The ones who pay for non-crap service are obviously unaffected.
Actually it would be like a thief showing up in court as a witness for another thief against a homeowner.
Soap Box, Ballot Box, Jury Box, Ammo Box-- to be used in that order.
The first has clearly done nothing. Perhaps it's time for the second? Write to your presidential nominees, fellow USians, and see what they think about this. Slashdotters in other countries: If you have the vote, use it. Make this kind of fearmongering and blind persecution criminal. If it already is, get into a few jury boxes and work to make it stick. Ammo box I can't help you with, but it should be pretty self-explanatory.
While it's not a very practical method, I suggested to my wife years ago that I should just trigger Paypal's 'verify' test as often as possible while never completing it. They would transfer an average of 50 cents each time, and they did not take it back if you never got around to finishing the verify. 50 cents every 2 weeks doesn't sound like much, but if you have 3 or 4 legit bank accounts doing it, and you can get a few hundred stupid online merchants to participate, it could add up to a free dinner out every now and then. Nothing illegal if you do it right, it's free money.
This is bound to get modded down, but I'm seriously trying to help.
.config to your new kernel source dir and run make oldconfig, it'll only ask you options that are new or have changed since the last kernel.
/usr/src/linux-newversion/ and run do_the_kernel.
Many many years ago, I had to learn how to configure and compile the Linux kernel to get some of my bleeding-edge hardware working. I still do it, and never ever have the problems you describe.
Really, you have to build the configure ONCE, after that you can copy the
These days I even have it scripted. My distro downloads new stable kernel releases automatically, so all I do is fire up a terminal, go to
Everything else is automatic, my 8GB of ram shows up, and I never have Xen in when I don't want it, nor VMware hard locking my machine because I left kqemu in. Really, you should try it.
This isn't news, but then again, when has /. worried about that?
Back when this 'hack' was first introduced to the unwashed masses, MS made official comment to the effect of 'we meant for it to work that way'. They hope that folks buying upgrade editions would be *upgrading*, and that this just allows folks who upgraded but didn't want to reinstall XP before reinstalling Vista and folks who had misplaced their restore media to get by.
Again, NOT news, but since when is that news?
I like that. A 'lost' roll for Gygax, and he gave you a natural 20 in return.
It's a damned shame that good folks die just like the rest of us.
In every campaign I ever participate in from here on, 'Gygax' is a recognized and respected deity of creativity.
I simply can't agree with these conclusions. I'm on fairly low/medium doses of Sertraline, and I have *often* found myself feeling down, starting a depressive slide, only to realize I'd missed my dose for two or three days. I have *never* started to slip into a depressed state and found that I *have* taken my meds. It's only my observations, true, but it argues strongly AGAINST the placebo effect.
Actually, if you research further, you'll find that many Sith apprentices kept secret sub-apprentices in expectation of soon killing off their master.
The Rule of Two doesn't always apply. There are documented canon enclaves of Sith around the galaxy, they just remain hidden and inactive. Also, there are many Dark Side users who aren't Sith per se.
Nope. A bit of hex editing and your 'legit' OEM BIOS is no different from the ones on real Dell or HP or IBM PCs.
MS won't blacklist it either, since it would piss off the bread'n'butter to do so. Can't even make a bios version/system details whitelist, since it would have to be updated for every new CTO rig or system model a big OEM makes!
Piracy. The nag-free way to play with Monopoly-ware OSes.
4GB of DDR2, Core 2 Duo 3GHz, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, WD Raptor 150GB for the OS, two Seagate 320s for data and crap.
Why does Vista BSOD on me a couple times a month?
Why has it done so since launch?
Why do processes I've never dealt with routinely crash and need restarting?
Why does UAC nag me till I TweakUAC it away, and then gravely warn me each startup about how I'm critically unsafe and headed for destruction?
Vista really does suck, and that is the truth. I really do want to like it, but it needs a lot of work still. Bring on SP1/RTM and then things might change, but probably not till SP2, when most MS OSes seem to lose most of their suck.
Actually, you're still without an answer, because the mobo maker said ECC ram works, not that the ECC checking is done.
Them Taiwanese mobo guys are shiftier than a bad transmission, never ASSUME they mean anything.
Actually, Medieval: Total War models that very nicely. If you get up a good solid steamroller and manage to accrue something like ~75% of the game's landmass, you're sitting on a lit powderkeg. When your current regent dies, ALL of the heirs typically make a grab for a chunk of the empire. Your unstoppable juggernaut becomes a hydra, and your advance is horribly stalled. The new AI players break down one by one, with your victims often resurging, and you have to do the whole thing over again.
It cheats, too. If you time things so that you begin the great war of assimilation while your regent is young, the generals in your armies get all nutty and go civil war on you once you get too close to winning.
I love M:TW. It's freaking impossible.
Actually, the decryption of the movie for playback or copying is the part being attacked by IP laws everywhere. You can own a disc, and you can make copies of that disc. You can decrypt your original for playback only.
You can NOT, however, make an unencrypted copy of the movie. Also, an encrypted movie with no encryption keys on the disc is effectively unplayable.
You can't out-law the lawyers. They do this for a living.
Unfortunately for your grand plan, reality conflicts.
Recordable DVDs have the area which would be used to store the CSS keys pre-burned to 000000000. This is *precisely* to keep the end user from making a bit-for-bit copy.
Furthermore, you can't make a bit-for-bit copy of even just the contents of the largest dual layer silvers. A dual layer silver can hold roughly 9GB, while a dual layer recordable maxes out at 8.5GB. It doesn't really do much to stop anyone from anything, but sometimes bit-for-bit is legal while a re-encode is not.
Laws sometimes suck.
When I was working at CompUSA, there was a guy there in the tech shop that wiped/reimaged stolen laptops at home for thieves. He got a pretty decent cut for his time, and none of these laptop lojack POSes would come close to surviving that. Use the BIOS password backdoor (they seem to all have them), clear out the BIOS passwords and reset the CMOS, then wipe out the hard disk a few passes and restore a factory Dell/HP/whoever image of XP Home (seems like 99% of stolen laptops were set for XP Home). He got from 50-100$ for about 15 minutes work and about an hour or two of wall socket/desk time. The thieves then sold them at pawnshops or on eBay for a few hundred bucks and the software side was clean and untraceable. He did get escorted from work in handcuffs eventually, since the serial numbers were intact and the one thief squealed like a little girl when eBay and the feds tracked him down. The software trackers were a big scam, though. Very little chance of return on investment.
I meant a third option *for MS*. I'd be just thrilled if the world went OpenGL/OpenAL all the way. Would make me gaming under Linux a lot easier, and my Macs wouldn't mind ditching Cider.
One could argue that they are much the same. Slashdot isn't just reading, it's participating.
As for Valve's big shocker: No duh. I don't know what MS thought would happen, but I've known that DX10 would be slow to catch on and possibly a flop in the long run ever since they announced Vista exclusivity. The only way that it could have worked was if Vista was the hottest thing since Win9X and it took off like a rocket. Since Vista's uptake has been slow, in fact slower than MS planned, it's stifling DX10 as well.
MS can choose: Make DX10.1 available to XP, see DirectX succeed at the cost of Vista sales, or keep DX10 Vista-only, which will preserve some Vista sales while smothering DX10.
I can't really see any third option.
Plus the only parts of most OSes that gets written 'over and over' is the swap file. Put that on a different medium and you're golden for many many years. Heck, Vista's Readyboost is a step in that direction anyways. For those of us using good OSes, some 'Vista edition' motherboards are out with semi-integrated USB flash drives, connected to the mobo. Set that whole thing to swap, set the bigger SSD for your OS and programs.
JUST DON'T DEFRAGMENT!
Secure maybe. The one at the local Wawa goes into a BSOD/reboot loop about once a month. It's really amusing when it loops while debiting your account. I've personally had to call the bank twice to get a series of thousands of non-existant 20$ withdrawals reversed. I'd rather they got to the 'die' part of their name already.
Slashdot needs a '-1, Didn't get the joke' just for folks like you.
I'm actually more tempted to try a Zune because of MS's weak DRM. I can sign up to rent any and all music I ever wanted to hear, and then strip it with any of the WMA DRM-removing utils. It's just as dishonest and illegal as hitting up P2P, but the quality should be the same or better, fewer mislabeled or missing tracks, and no RIAA snooping (that we know of). Since all my stuff is on my iPod in legally acquired MP3 format, and I think most newer music sucks balls, it'll probably remain an inert idea instead of an acted-on plan.
Ubuntu = 2.6.22.0 Ubuntu rev 8
Kernel.org = 2.6.22.1
Different, but thanks for playing the Smartass Game! You lose, play again soon!
Ummm no, OSX is supplying PPC32, PPC64, ia32 and supposedly x86-64. Apple has no interest in IA64, and rightfully so.
Only for 24 hours at a go. After that, it auto-reboots to keep you from using it as your primary OS.