If Microsoft were to drop support for older formats today, couldn't I simply install an older version of Office to get that unsupported format?
Just seems to make sense to me, especially when I have Office 2003 installed on my Win7-64bit laptop (along with the Office format convertor to get newer format compatibility).
Actually, I bought the Macmillan Publishing Mandrake 6.1 in 2000 (which they decided to renumber as 6.5), but starting there, if memory serves me:
Mandrake 7.0, 7.1,
Red Hat 6.2
Mandrake 7.2 (my favorite of all time)
Some version of Caldera
Decided to give Debian a try and grabbed 2.2/Potato
Mandrake 8.0, 8.1
Red Hat 7.0, 7.1
Mandrake 8.2,
Progeny Linux
Slackware 8, IIRC
Mandrake 9.0, 9.1,
Red Hat 9
Mandrake 9.2, 10, 10.1, 10.2
Red Hat Enterprise 2.1
some version of DSL
Fedora Core 4
Red Hat Enterprise 3
Mandriva 2006, 2007
Red Hat Enterprise 4.x
Mandriva 2008
This is similar to used car dealerships that use PassTime , whereby a person that doesn't pay for their car on-time can't drive it and, thanks to the built-in GPS, the person constantly has their whereabouts tracked. This is done purely to keep the money rolling in, hardship be damned.
... oh wait....
you just said pretty much the same thing I said... Albeit with a bit more info, but the same basic principle.
Are you logged into Google or any other search/email service right now? Then the data collected is most definitely not anonymous. Your search and surfing data is being collected and can be tied to you, or at least your online identity.
The Internet is a great, recent, example. Nobody predicted it, not even in Sci-Fi. The idea of a truly global, integrated, universal network was just not something people thought of. Hell even when it was first developed as ARPAnet it was just envisioned for government and research, they didn't say "We are going to connect all the computers in the world!" Their goals were much smaller, it just ended up evolving in to that.
Incremental changes we can sometimes predict. The real revolutionary ones we almost never can.
and refrigerators... don't forget about the refrigerators...
Every few years, someone pops up and says "Everything is going in X direction, this is what we'll be using/how software will look". Generally speaking they're usually dead wrong. Most famously, Andrew Tanenbaum once argued in 1992 that "... 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5".
1997 came and went, everyone was running non-free Windows 95 on their 200MHz PentiumMMX beige boxes.
As others have said, Audition was the once awesome Cool Edit Pro. However, you COULD swap Audition out with something like Energy XT (€39 multi platform, Win, Linux, and OSX), Reaper ($60 discounted license, $225 for full license, functionally the same, Windows and OSX), or even FL Studio ($199.00 for Producer edition to get full-on audio editing and processing).
There's a third class: "Power Users". I'm sorry, but properly-configured XP on the same hardware IS faster than Windows 7. Better machines than what you describe still perform better on XP than Windows 7. To me, it's a waste of money to upgrade to Windows 7 when I'm going to take a performance hit in the process. I also waste a lot more time reconfiguring Windows 7 to the way I like it than XP.
You're right that the only compelling reason for upgrading is 64-bit, >4GB (technically >2GB) applications. You're also right that partitioning the OS on one partition, data/users on another is an exercise in frustration (there are multiple ways to do it, all of which suck. I even tried junctions. What a mess). The only other reason I can think of at this point for choosing Windows 7 (when you have the choice) will be if hardware vendors stop supporting drivers for XP.,
Some companies still support Windows 2000 with their drivers, though the number is getting pretty small (hell, a few even support Win98!). For instance, D-Link's Wireless N PCI cards still have 2k drivers. Nvida only stopped a few years ago and ATI dropped 2K support a year before Nvidia did. With XP being far more popular than 2K, I would expect that it would be supported for quite a while longer.
I guess somewhere down the line we may get an answer, but I really have to wonder: Why GoDaddy?
The license you speak of exists on *BSD. Still waiting for commercial apps there.
I run OpenVPN on one of my OpenBSD machines on a non-standard port, it's the only way to get in through my firewall (another OpenBSD machine). Once I've made my vpn connection, I can then ssh to the other machines on the network.
To the question at hand, if you can identify the ip address that the breach originated from, plug it into Network Solutions' whois lookup and you can usually find the ISP the ip is connected to. They usually have an abuse email account listed in their whois info. If they don't have info, try plugging the ip into RIPE or APNIC's whois database and report accordingly.
Branding is key to getting people to use the stuff you created (and that you -want- people to use, lest you keep your code on you own machines). Ease of use keeps people interested in what you're offering by making the barrier to entry low. Many, many otherwise good FOSS projects die because of these two things.
Take LMMS (http://lmms.sourceforge.net) for instance. I've been trying to use it for a while now, and I'm pretty much ready to submit a laundry list of changes to the project, starting with a name and/or logo change (I've already whipped up a sample logo if the name must remain LMMS). The majority of changes are for usability, making things that should be obvious to the user stand out more.
I've tried to get guys on various message boards to look at LMMS as another tool to consider for making music on a tight budget even though its really not as complete as the tool it mimics the most (FL Studio - http://www.image-line.com/documents/flstudio.html). Those that do try all complain about the same thing: Usability... And they hate the logo.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928
