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Easy it is called a joint marketing venture or co-branding agreement. Basically Skype and Intel signs a contract that basicallys says that "Intel will mention and/or promote skype in its ads in exchange Skype gives an extra 5 users for those using computers with Intel chips." That kind of stuff goes on all the time across industries. Think SBC/ATT & Dish Network teaming up to offer combined services to compete with cable. We've been a Dish network customer for 5 years. Well our telephone company now offers a package that is unlimited local/long distance, DSL, and DISH for a package deal. Well we went to them and actually "cancelled" our dish network account to resubscribe through SBC. We got a new HD receiver to replace our "legacy" Model 6000 reciever, get our local channels now as part of the basic 180 package and get the HD channels for $5 less than we were paying before. Another area are bundled programs. By a XYZ video capture device and get a free copy of Premiere Elements or Ulead or Avid/Pinnancle....Or graphics card makers and game studios: get an ATI card and get this cool game for it free! Or This game best run on Nvidia cards.

Nvu is the opensource continuation of the old Netscape Communicator web editor from days gone by. Currently it's my favourite free WYSIWYG HTML editor for Mac. If you go to my site, http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, you'll see the "created with" NVU logo there. The Linspire folks are the ones supporting the project so of course there are Linux & Linspire (formally Lindows OS) ports as well as good ole Windows. Although on Windows, my favorite editing program is Evrsoft.com's 1st page 2000 and now 1st page 2006, both free. In windows I use Filezilla FTP program which you can find here: https://filezilla-project.org/ However there are no Mac or Linux ports of the program. I used to use WS_FTP_LE/95, which you can find still online if you google. WS_FTP_LE was actually a great basic FTP client that also allowed you to CHMOD files.

Costs Money: VbulletinFree/SQL based: Invision Power BoardFree/non-SQL: YABBI've used IVP quit a bit, but currently am using YABB2 on my site since it is not widely used and I am using the member ship text file to enable users to PERL script somewhere else. Since everyone disallows connection to MySQL from remote locations and I'm not ready to spend the big $$ on a dedicated server, it works for my needs. Invision is a pretty powerful BBS without the security flaws that plagued phpBB.

I will take norton over McAfee anyday. For one I have NEVER EVER got McAffee to install on a windows based PC and not screw up everything else on the box. Norton may take up more resources, but doesn't tend to play havoc with the systems.But my ultimate anitvirus software is Mac OSX and I used to get virus scan through my .Mac account. Although I think they discontined that part of the service, however the virus scanner never caught anything. Spyware too isn't quite the issue as it is on the PC either.

Wow, you know, why not sue Sony for their headphones and walkmans that started the trend 25 years ago? Why not sue Bose or KLH, or Creative, or the artists that created the music in the first place? And people wonder why there needs to be some kind of TORT reform so that cases like this get dismissed and the person that brings it is responsible for both his and Apple's legal expenses.Should you sue craftsman or Stanley tools if you keep hitting yourself in the head with a hammer and keep wondering why it hurts and/or causes death? I mean the product liablity laws and user labels are sometimes down right funny, but have to be there because peopel lack common sense. Like the warnings on Preperation-H boxes. This is like sueing AB for claiming that they made you an alcoholic by producing beer, not the fact that you had a choice whether or not to start drinking in the same place or the responsiblity to seek treatment if it is a problem. Still, there needs to be somekind of TORT reform that would allow judges to make a decision whether a product was defective or some coverup (like the Ford Pinto case) for a design flaw should go to trial, or if the plaintiff is a victum of their own doing. If they choose to listen to their music too loud, that was their choice, time to pay Mircle Ear for some help...

Vegastrike https://sourceforge.net/projects/vegastrike/ great game like the original Privateer completely Opensource and available on Windows, Linux, and Mac.

I'd be willing to bet peanuts that it is due to server load issues. If apache starts to take up a lot of resources it will crash. Usually it will restart itself given the system if correct configured to do so. Also, if I remember correctly, the apache process has to be restarted after every new account to update the httpd.conf changes. So it's possible you just happen to be connecting at the wrong times. I've had that happen. It not work, wait a couple seconds click refresh and the site pops up. If Apache has to restart under load it may fail or something else might of tripped it up.

What I suspected. When it dies finally, I'm marching him up to the Apple store and he's getting shiny new iMac and be done with it. He can use the Taxcut online edition or get turbotax for Mac. I already have quicken and quickbooks for Mac I can give him, so....

My dad has an older Compaq with an Aureal 3D chipset and he said one day he came down, went to listen to a CD and nothing would come out of the speakers. Or almost nothing, the sound is extremely muted and fuzzy. Only loud parts of music or files play and then it has a lot of static. It is not the speakers, I hooked those up to my Ipod, sound was clear. Used by headphones and had the same result, dull and staticy.The best way I can discribe the sound is either like a blown speaker or an AM radio station on an old dial tuner that isn't quite dialed in. I checked all the settings, he hadn't installed or updated anything. He said one day it worked, the next day it didn't. I had an old Aureal Vortex 2 card (Diamond MX400), but over the years lost the drivers and Diamond apparently no longer provides them online for download either. Tried for find other drivers online and install, but they never correctly detected the new card. Windows knows it's there, but the drivers say "Please make sure the MX400 is plugged in". So I gave up on that idea.Basically I have no idea why this is happening. The Mic is disabled and I there isn't anything else around that I know of that would be creating any type of electrical interfernce with the signal. I am at a loss. The computer is almost 7 years old anyway and this looks to be the year that he'll have to get a new one. (Especially if Tax Cut doesn't come out with a version that'll run on 98SE). So if it doesn't get fixed it will not be a big deal, but I've never experienced this happening to any other system in my numous years in IT and just wondered if anyone might know why this happens?

Is there no sound at all or no sound from a CD/DVD drive? If there is no sound at all, that is usually a sound card driver problem or hardware releated (the card doesn't work). More than less likely, driver issue. If your not getting sound from a CD-Rom drive (or DVD-ROM) then the cable link from the CD drive to the sound card is not physically connected. Either you don't have the speaker wire connected to the correct mini jack (try switching around see if you get output) or there is something funky with the soundcard drivers.

I really hate to say this, but coding for memory usage is a lost art these days. I can remember running early PC's with 64k of RAM out of memory with a large enough spreadsheet. Back when each line of code being coded correctly meant the difference between running and "Out of memory". Of course not such an issue anymore in the days of 512MB standard and many getting 1GB+ of Ram with their systems these days. Sometimes I wish people would look at right better code to run more with less, but like everything, we seem to want to consume more and more... Personally, I'll wait for a Beta version they release FF 2 final. Right now I mainly use Safari unless I come to page that Safari 2 really goofs on. There are a few.

I have a sprint, cell, pda, telnet terminal, and food dehydrator all in one phones at work. I let my personal phone contract laps last year. I hate the damn thing. Why? Because now if something goes wrong at work or after hours, it is a quick call to me. On weekends, I often leave the thing in my car or at home. And the number of calls I get sometimes for trivial things liketoday one of the production teams was working on a film project and FCP crashed taking an hour or two worth of work with it. I was in Church and left the phone in my car. They left me like 15 messages in a hour both text, email, and voice.Finally called them back and got the: "FCP Crashed and took two hours of work with it?" whiny crap. ME: "Did you have Autosave on?"

I still have a Sega Gensis (one of the first models too back when they came out in 1989 and were $200) and one of the few with Sega CD with NHL '94 hockey. I mean all the new hockey games still aren't as fun as NHL '94 and "95. I also got Madden Football, the first one with his voice doing color and play by play. Not as clear, but still more fun in my opinion than many of today's games.I mean with all the danged buttons today it's hard to remember what does what unless you play video games all the time. I like my PS2, but play it like a couple hours a week while I do laundry, then back to homework.

If there is file corruption, then something is wrong with the files. I've transfer pic files to win and mac and back without problems either with a cross-over ethernet cable on through a network using network sharing.

When we need high quality stuff for Lightwave at work, we often visit Turbosquid.com or whatever the new site name is...We can spend upwards of $650 for a good model, but that is cheap when we're doing a project for $30,000 or even cheaper for a $150,000 project. It is faster and cheaper (time wise) to buy the work someone else has done, reward them for their work, and get to rendering. The faster the job is out the door the sooner we move to the next project. 3Dcafe.com is another old time hang out we look at as well as 3dlinks.com. There there are a couple other sites we look at, but chances are we've already purchased their texture or model CD's at some point. We have a 50-disc networked CD-changer full with nothering but Lightwave models and textures. You just have to remember what disc it's on....

I've said this before: I've had mixed results with AMD processors in the past, but not with intel based systems. The big sticking point AMD has are their 64-bit systems which is the "must have" thing for gamers and even the rendering comunity that I am a part of. Having worked around 64-bit UltraSparc and Alpha systems in the past, I'm not sure how that is going to help AMD in the business world that consumes most of the PC purchased. Most business applications are tuned for 32-bit and 64-bit doesn't buy you a whole lot in performance if your not doing serious number crunching. Now I think where AMD is really gaining ground on Intel is in the Server market thanks to the bust of Itanium. That set Intel back a couple years. That being said, Intel is now stressing performance per Watt and AMD doesn't seem to care about that, only trying to get the image of the best performance benchmarks. When you look at the heat modern equipement puts out and juice it sucks down, performance per watt is something to consider especially given that energy costs are not going down anytime soon. But the one Market that Intel has a serious lock on and AMD has major catch up to do is the mobile industry. Last year notebooks/laptops outsold desktops. That is a trend I see continuing as more businesses just purchase laptops for their employees and people buy them for home computing over desktops as well. This is really where performance per watt matters and something that AMD doesn't seem to care all that much about at the moment. To me that is potential pitfall down the road.The enterprise server market however is one that Intel is losing. That is a different ball game compared to desktops/laptops. It is also one of the more lucrative, but it is clear that high end performance folks are shelling out money for the AMD Opteron over anything Intel. The one execption maybe the SMB market thanks to dominance by Dell. I know most companies in our business that use a mixed enviroment are buying AMD64 servers for Mental Ray rendering on Linux. (We're an Mac shop and we've had a number of G5's for a couple years now)Still, if I were going to buy a laptop in the next year, it would be an Intel based Macbook Pro. Otherwise it would be something running a centrino processor to max performance and batterylife.

at home I use Apple Remote Desktop on several Mac Mini's that I use as a rendering cluster for my 3D programs since I don't have them plugged into monitors. But that's also Apple...I recomend SSH. You won't be able to do anything graphical, everything is command prompt, but it is the best option since until Telnet, SSH uses encrpytion.I have SSH enabled on the XServesr to log in from home or the road and get files or restart something if a service fails and I don't feel like going to the office. Infact I can log in from my blackberry...that is until they shut off service in a few days thanks to the SCOTUS ruling...

Little lesson from Politics 101:Those yelling the most are usually the ones trying to pass blame away from themselves.That being said, I don't think that disaster planning on the federal level has been great. If NO was a test for the new and improved FEMA...well let's just say "F's" across the board.Unlike say a sudden NBC attack on a major city, the storm was tracked for days. As Sarah said: they had plenty of time to do something about it at the local and state level and failed.However, to me the real lessons is this: The only agency with the ablity to move massive numbers of people and supplies in a short time is the US military. In case of major disasters where either local officals failed or there is a sudden event, we need to seriously think about passing a law that suspends Posse Comtius allowing the Military to be put in charge for a limited and finite period (say 7 days) until Civilian agencies can mobilize and get things set up and then transfer control over to FEMA/DHS over say an additional 7 - 10 day period. FEMA is much better at managing the long term rebuilding than spur of the moment happenings. Say what you want about the military: they are quite effective at logistics and are the only ones with the equipement, manpower, and expertise to do things like build temperary air strips, field medical centers, etc. in a short period of time. Although if I remember my civil defense proceedures, if an NBC was detonated in the US, I believe that a defacto state of war is "declared" and the military could then be deployed within the US and do what ever is needed including suspepention of Habous Corpus and Posse Comitus. I'm in consitutional law 1, so I'm sure I'll learn about this at some point this semester....

The biggest problem that I've seen video games cause is addiction. I know I've played games before, looked up and 4 hours passed and it seemed like 30 minutes. Shame I don't get time to play the ole PS2 anymore it seems like....At anyrate, people have to take responsiblity for their actions. People today seem to want to blame their woes on something else rather than standing up and saying "I did bad, it's my fault". Responsiblity just doesn't seem to be taught anymore. We're like a nation run by trail lawyers...you can find a loophole (or try) for anything...err wait a minute...I think I might have figured something out... That being said, when I started college I was a hobbesain. Then I was told this man named Loche had it all right and that we can all make rational decisions. In order to facilitate higher GPA I smiled and nodded. Now that I've been back out into the real world for a few years I'm back to being a Hobbesian: you need King with absolute power. Then if the King does a bad job, you kill 'em! Replace with another King...

My guess would be they would carry an AO rating making them extremely hard to find sales outlets. I've heard about these programs in Japan. Apparently popular there. I am sure there are places that sell these products in the states, but they are also the kind of stores that require you to be 18 to enter and sell a number of other "novelty" items...

Trust me, not all libraries are "standard" and there are quite a few "elite" users going around with custom tweaked boxes where those lib files are on their systems. Now most of those users can usually figure that out themsevles and place dynamic links to where the files should be to where they are. However, experience has taught me otherwise...As far as writing applications, I write programs for video editors and animators. Sometimes using odd libraries for some of the works cannot be avoided. Again where problems come in. However, a lot of our software was coded for the ALPHA platform...which needless to say doesn't exist anymore, so even more odd libraries. I remember working help desk and 60% of our inbox for support requests would be "Does not run on Deibian, or Slackware, or Mandrake, etc." We also had a BSD version of the product that ran on both FreeBSD and OpenBSD with the Linux support libraries installed. Although I am not aware of anyone actually deploying the software on BSD...We were recoding those products for OSX just before the tech bubble burst and the company went under. Which was a shame because the company was $10k from breaking even when it closed in 2000. If they could have gotten another $1M from the VC I think they would started making a profit by 2001, 2002. Instead the company I work for now bought their assets (mainly code) out of liquidation for like $15,000 and hired three of us to work on the project to complete the project for their own internal use. They pay better too...

I dunno, there is something to be said about getting up early on a saturday morning, heading to the woods, putting on the BDU's and combat boots and making sure the M-4 marker with 23" sniper barrel is properly sighted with the mounted 3.5x scope and adjusted for windage...getting out the woodsman camo pancho I use along with RIS mounted tactical grip & red-dot sight, spending an hour camped out in an excellent hiding spot waiting for an enemy player to make their presence known....You just don't get that from a video game. There is just something about playing against other people where all your senses are keen and you see just how effective modern digital camo patterns really are! Although I've been getting into Airsoft more and more too.I'll take my Rainbow 6 on computer because getting MILES systems or playing with real guns and bullets get a tad bit more dangerous (I mean you can't legally purchase WP gernades here). Real vs. digital....even though it costs more, I am going to have to go real.

I set my dad up on Netscape 8 about a year ago when it was released. He also uses the low cost Netscape internet service, but things have been great. He leaves it in FF mode with high security, but can use MSIE for IE only sites like his bank's and credit card company's (which NS allows since they have all their secure stuff on file). I remember he went to paypal to buy something from ebay and a security warning popped up telling about the many phishing scams and paypal even though he typed in https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/home in the address bar. Anyway, NS has become my favourite broswer on the windows platform because it allows the best of both worlds: FF & IE in a single application plus the intergrated Google search box and tabbed browsing we've come to enjoy. If they offered a Macintosh version, i'd probably use it over Safari, but they don't so I use (and I am quite happy with) Safari on the Mac side of the house.

There are some area where flash is great. Making online cartoons for instance. But still most flash based sites are evil. As far as Adobe releasing a version for Linux...not bloody likely. Why? Apple almost has to pay them to keep releasing a Macintosh version. However, an extremely high % of Macs have Flash/Dreamweaver and the other Adobe et. al products installed on them. So yes, We're like 8% of of the market, but probably 85% of that market buys those products. I don't think it would be the same for Linux. Here is why: Supporting Linux gets expensive. I know from personal experience that even if you release a version and only support one or two distros (say Redhat/SuSE) all the slackware, debian, and other users will flood your support desk with "hey why won't this work on my system" and get even more ticked off when you say, "Sorry we only support SuSE and Red Hat". That is one reason why I switched to Mac and will not code products for Linux. One of the main reasons why I really, really, really dislike Linux and a large part of it's userbase. The other thing about Linux users is that most non-commicial users (ie home/hobby) often use Linux because they want something for nothing in terms of money. Now there are some shops that use Linux to run Maya. With Maya costing as much as it does....I don't blame them wanting to save money by not having to pay the microsoft tax. Xboxrulz, sorry to pick on you, almost was the poster boy for what I'm talking about in this post: Now the business enterprise Linux market....different ball game. Big Blue is supporting Linux and if I were going to buy a big blue system, I'd probably go with Linux for a big huge computer system in a corporate IT world especially if I were migrating from some other type of Unix.

As I stated before, working in the video business, I have tried a lot of different formats. Yes, some can be subjective, but most codecs can be compared side by side on many technical levels. Why we use Quictime W/Sorenson 3 is that it offers a good trade off between quality and file size for web viewing, plus most people already have quicktime installed on their computers. Divx can deliver similar (arguably better) quailty files at a smaller file size, however one has to download the Codec and the Codec and Macintosh doesn't always play nice with each other. To say I've tried them all, maybe not, but we have the capablity of rendering into 388 different Codecs at work. We are always tring to get the best trade off between file size and quality and there are a lot of discussions between folks in the industry itself. So sometimes, it can be subject, but most often times the discussions get to be extremely technical.