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Linux vs. Windows (pg. 17)
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| ogvh5150 |
I am sure no one feels guilty they have a bootleg ISO of xp since it and previous versions of Windows are always vulnerable to some sort of attack regardless of how many patches and service packs there are.
If windows were a car I am sure no one would buy it with all it's recalls. But sure enough people will buy a faulty product like windows. |
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| trancaholic |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Btw, anyone got the BBCode extension to work properly with firefox 1.5 on TA? :conf: |
Works fine for me. What's your symptoms?
Well, even though I'm a happy Linux user, I still get annoying emails addressed to "all" with warnings in them from the sysadm at work. Guess Windows users are too lazy to create a mailinglist for their warnings and patches. |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancaholic
Works fine for me. What's your symptoms? |
Well there is no BBcode menu when I right click in the text box :conf:
Screenshot of what happens when I rightclick:
http://pics.erikenglund.com/temp/prob1.png
On the other hand, if I rightclick in the field where you type the title, it seems to work perfect :conf:
http://pics.erikenglund.com/temp/prob2.png
So it seems like it in some way does not like this textbox :conf:
(and yes I installed BBcode extra as well to see if that worked any better :p Also it seems like the spell checker doesn't work in the "body"textbox either, but it does in the "title"textbox like the bbcode one...) |
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| trancaholic |
| quote: | Microsoft's file system patent upheld
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update Two patents covering one of Microsoft's main Windows file-storage systems are valid after all, federal patent examiners have decided.
The decision, announced Tuesday by the software giant, effectively ends a two-year saga over the patents and reverses two non-final rulings--the latest issued in October--in which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected Microsoft's claims.
In their latest action, filed last week, the examiners concluded that the company's File Allocation Table (FAT) file system is, in fact, "novel and non-obvious," entitling it to patentability. Now the office is in the process of issuing a "patent re-examination certificate," which signals the finality of the decision, a Microsoft representative said.
The FAT file system, a common means of storing files, was originally developed for the DOS operating system, but has also been employed in Microsoft's Windows and on removable flash memory cards used in digital cameras and other devices. Some Linux- and Unix-related products also use the system to exchange data with Windows.
The Patent Office agreed to re-examine two patents covering the FAT system at the request of a little-known public interest group called the Public Patent Foundation in April 2004.
That organization claimed there was "prior art" that proved Microsoft was not the first company to come up with the file format.
It also voiced concern that Microsoft would try to seek royalties from companies that sell and support Linux for using the technology, potentially posing a threat to the free software community. Under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License, Linux cannot be distributed if it contains patented technology that requires royalty payments.
Microsoft indicated in the past that it would license the file format. In December 2003, it said it had struck such a deal with flash memory vendor Lexar Media.
The Patent Office's final decision followed several non-binding decisions that were unfavorable to Microsoft. After issuing its preliminary rejection of the patents in September 2004, examiners handed down a similar decision about a year later.
All along, Microsoft voiced confidence that the patents would be upheld. David Kaefer, the company's director of business development, said Tuesday that the company was "very pleased" with the office's final decision. "This result underscores the validity of these patents but also the importance of allowing third parties to request re-examinations," he said in a statement.
Public Patent Foundation President Dan Ravicher said his organization disagreed with the Patent Office's conclusions and offered a broader critique.
"Microsoft has won a debate where they were the only party allowed to speak, in that the patent re-examination process bars the public from rebutting arguments made by Microsoft," he told CNET News.com. "We still believe these patents are invalid and that a process that gave the public equal time to present its positions would result in them being found as such." |
From c-net
Guess that license-thingy pretty much punctures M$'s claims of only "wanting to protect themselves against lawsuits" as the reason for their patent hunting activities.
Also kinda shocking to see that only M$ is allowed to argue the case in front of the Patent Office. |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
I don't know about any native app, but apperntly Traktor DJ Studio should work pretty well with wine according to the Wine Application Database
"Description: Professional DJing app from the people that brought you Reaktor. Works (allmost) like a charm with Wine, seems to need no native DLLs, and the latency is better than on the same box running Windows (Linux 22ms/ Windows 36ms). BTW, the free Traktor DJ Player also works pretty well..." |
Apparently that doesn't work for the version I'm using. I imported the dlls and everything :sadgreen:. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by ogvh5150
If windows were a car I am sure no one would buy it with all it's recalls. But sure enough people will buy a faulty product like windows. |
While I won't make any excuses for Microsoft, you do have to put it in better perspective.
To complete the analogy - there would be service stations everywhere and you would constantly be having to add safety equipment to the car (which they didn't have ready at the time of production), you could make backup copies of your car so that if you were in an accident you could just restore it to it's original condition.
Oh yeah, further down on the list (don't forget to read the fine print) - thieves would always have skeleton keys to your doors, trunk and ignition so that they could remotely enter it and drive it around without you knowing, even at times when you thought that were the one controlling the wheel. There would also be a Metafile Exploit (among the many other hidden backdoors) so that hackers, the NSA, Wackenhut's cyber-terrorist team or anyone else for that matter could execute code which would make your car tell them where you've been, where you might be planning to go, or just plain do whatever they wanted it to do.
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
Apparently that doesn't work for the version I'm using. I imported the dlls and everything :sadgreen:. |
Weird :nervous: It pretty much always work when you import the DLLs! And apperntly version 2 you could use without any native dlls... Do you have the latest version? Nothing else you are missing? Have you googled it? etc :p |
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| sensorium |
| quote: | Originally posted by NeoPhono
shaolin_z (or anyone else thinking of switching to linux or a different linux release), I can make it really easy for you to run and setup Fedora Core 4 (if you'd like to switch from mandrake). Go to this link and follow the instructions.
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_co...tion_notes.html
It's a painless step by step guide to get everything up and running. Yeah, it's more fun to figure it out and do it yourself, but if you'd like to skip that "learning" step, you can do it the painless way. After following those steps you'll have yum and yum extender installed which makes updates a breeze (as easy as they are in Windows *gasp*). I'm really impressed so far with Fedora Core 4, and I'd suggest new linux users give it a shot and experienced linux users will appreciate the many features it has.
/end FC4 rave |
Thanks for the link, made the install much easier. I still have some things to take care of, sound being one of them, but overall Fedora is nice to me. |
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| Trancer-X |
This new motherboard rocks!!!
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Weird :nervous: It pretty much always work when you import the DLLs! |
I know, that is very strange. Apparently when I loaded Traktor with wine, it tries to debug something or the other. then stops and gives some errors.
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
And apperntly version 2 you could use without any native dlls... Do you have the latest version? Nothing else you are missing? Have you googled it? etc :p |
I'm using 2.5 or 2.6 I think. They added some new features in that, like a visual display of the track loaded in eighter deck for example. Yeah, I googled and checked the wine website and didn't find anything helpful. I got the a newer version of Traktor though (3.something). I haven't gotton around to installing it on my windows partition yet and testing it with wine. |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancer-X
This new motherboard rocks!!!
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Why do you use windows? :nervous: :p Nice motherboard btw. |
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| NeoPhono |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancer-X
This new motherboard rocks!!!
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Must be more than just a nice motherboard if you're running it at 4.2 GHz. |
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