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Time to say something good about Microsoft for once

#81
I had to un-ignore Alu for a little bit. Curiosity got the best of me.
Dude, you have no idea how IPs work at all. You don't share them with anyone while you're using it. It's DHCP so when your lease is up it might get assigned to someone else, that's it. But, the funny thing is, ISPs track which customers had which IPs on which dates. So it would just take someone to ask TalkBass for the IPs for your username, find out who owns those IPs, go to that owner and ask for an audit on it and there you go.
How do you think the RIAA finds out who people are that are P2P sharing? They find out your IP and go from there. Now, not all ISPs will share that audit without a court order, and even then some fight it (some cases have had major publicity on this).
 
#82
Alucard817 said:
That looks really cool man, now I just have to make sure my router is supported.
I never knew linux had come this far, hell even wine is looking good. I might have to format AGAIN and try this out.
Is it still a pain to install software on linux? is it still all command based? cuz I hate commands.
Thanks for the heads up.

EDIT:
I got ubuntu...but
HOLY **** I CAN'T SEE A DAMN THING. the resolution is so high I have to strain (not good when your going blind in one eye.) If I can't fix this I'll have no choice but to go back to windows.
Gonna try and fix this, at least firefox (hate it) has a magnifier option.
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I just saw your edit. C'mon over to...

Linux - Distro-Junkies Unite!
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10277627#post10277627

I'll need the exact make & model # of your graphics card (and for that matter the rest of your machine's specs) so that I can look things up.

I almost forgot...

http://ubuntuforums.org/

I go by MIJ-VI there as well.
 
#88
This will be my last reply in this thread as it's run its course and I have proven that I'm not a criminal. Not to mention that Pacman was wrong in his assumptions.



Ray Salamon said:
I had to un-ignore Alu for a little bit. Curiosity got the best of me.
Dude, you have no idea how IPs work at all. You don't share them with anyone while you're using it. It's DHCP so when your lease is up it might get assigned to someone else, that's it.
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I never said you share IP's, I said you share hubs.

Ray Salamon said:
But, the funny thing is, ISPs track which customers had which IPs on which dates. So it would just take someone to ask TalkBass for the IPs for your username, find out who owns those IPs, go to that owner and ask for an audit on it and there you go.
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The IP that talkbass has is useless by itself because its the IP assigned by the hub, it's not my actual home IP. That's stored on the hub and with the ISP.
Ray Salamon said:
How do you think the RIAA finds out who people are that are P2P sharing? They find out your IP and go from there. Now, not all ISPs will share that audit without a court order, and even then some fight it (some cases have had major publicity on this).
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Ya some ISP's do give people up without warrants, the legality of this is highly questionable, and is also why the RIAA has yet to win a case ( to my knowledge) Besides they're too busy suing 83 year old dead women.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/05/riaa_sues_the_dead/
In the state that I live they MUST have a warrant in order to get any info about me from the ISP.
 
#91
#93
I managed to get a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate from Microsoft through the launch part scheme and I think it's a fantastic desktop O/S - easily my favorite out of the bunch and I've used them all (including Linux and OS X).

However I don't get why people bash Vista so much. Windows 7 is just a more optimized version of Vista. The reason Vista got such a bad rep in the first place was because of computer manufacturers selling crap PCs pumped full of bloatware branded as Vista compatible when it first came out. I saw loads PCs with half a gig of RAM and really underpowered graphics on sale with Vista on when it first came out.

If 7 was released in Vista's place at the time Vista came out and was treated in the same way that Vista was by computer manufacturers then it would have the same rep. It's the hardware that's evolved really.
 
#94
bongomania said:
I'll go check out the links that were already posted, but could a Ubuntu fan here just make a quick case why somebody would want to go from Win 7 to Ubuntu?
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Assuming that one already has a legal Windows 7 Ultimate license (~ $200) for each PC (IMO there's no point in buying the feature reduced versions of Win 7) that one intends to use, and assuming that one's hardware runs Win 7 well, then I'd say the main reasons to include Ubuntu in one's setup are:
- the cost savings re the garden variety apps & utils. one uses,
- the comparatively more secure computing environment, and
- not having to deal with unending anti-malware rituals (although this can be a temporal wash if one's existing hardware is not properly supported by Ubuntu--various versions of which have run on every intel Pentium II, III, P4, and S462 & S754 AMD machine I've tried it on).

In my very limited experience with Windows 7 (~ one month) it proved to be a fine OS which ran fast and looked great (and whose installation included both a Win 7 and a Vista partition interestingly).

I just preferred the more elegant and malware protection racket-free computing experience which Ubuntu offered this non-gamer.

Then there's the freedom to install it on any machine without buying additional (or any) licences or effectively having to seek permission just to run it.
 
#95
Hugh9191 said:
I managed to get a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate from Microsoft through the launch part scheme and I think it's a fantastic desktop O/S - easily my favorite out of the bunch and I've used them all (including Linux and OS X).

However I don't get why people bash Vista so much. Windows 7 is just a more optimized version of Vista. The reason Vista got such a bad rep in the first place was because of computer manufacturers selling crap PCs pumped full of bloatware branded as Vista compatible when it first came out. I saw loads PCs with half a gig of RAM and really underpowered graphics on sale with Vista on when it first came out.

If 7 was released in Vista's place at the time Vista came out and was treated in the same way that Vista was by computer manufacturers then it would have the same rep. It's the hardware that's evolved really.
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Nail on the head right here. Vista needed to be ran on a really nice machine to run smoothly which some of my gamer friends had. They didn't have any problems with it.
Anyway I've had W7 for a few weeks now and I love it :hyper:
 
#96
MIJ-VI said:
Assuming that one already has a legal Windows 7 Ultimate license (~ $200) for each PC (IMO there's no point in buying the feature reduced versions of Win 7) that one intends to use, and assuming that one's hardware runs Win 7 well, then I'd say the main reasons to include Ubuntu in one's setup are:
- the cost savings re the garden variety apps & utils. one uses,
- the comparatively more secure computing environment, and
- not having to deal with unending anti-malware rituals (although this can be a temporal wash if one's existing hardware is not properly supported by Ubuntu--various versions of which have run on every intel Pentium II, III, P4, and S462 & S754 AMD machine I've tried it on).

In my very limited experience with Windows 7 (~ one month) it proved to be a fine OS which ran fast and looked great (and whose installation included both a Win 7 and a Vista partition interestingly).

I just preferred the more elegant and malware protection racket-free computing experience which Ubuntu offered this non-gamer.

Then there's the freedom to install it on any machine without buying additional (or any) licences or effectively having to seek permission just to run it.
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Security thought obscurity is in fact, not security at all. Mac people have been hiding behind this for ages now as well, and now that Macs are finally gaining a lot of market share, are finding their fair share of attacks (zero-day exploits, malware/spyware etc.). That'll trickle to *nix users really fast too, since OSX isn't much of a step from there ;).
 

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