11 pirates, considered the "world's biggest" software pirates, have been sentenced to jail time today by the Futian People's Court in Shenzhen, China.
The group were 'ringleaders' in a counterfeiting syndicate that specialized in 'high-quality' fake Microsoft software. It is estimated that the pirates manufactured over $2 billion USD worth of counterfeits.
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^ problem is they keep sneeking in wga software with the security updates. you use to be able to turn off wga and still get the security updates, now i have that stupid bootleg notification in my tool bar. im an "advanced" user. ubuntu would just plain old suck for me. i need windows, i dont like limiting myself. i want access to all the wonderful (free) fruits the internet has to offer.
Honestly...I tried running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) as my main operating system. Lack of game support just hurts it too much for me. I understand it's the game developer's issue and that they won't support Linux. Until they break free from their DirectX dependency it will remain this way. I really mainly play Everquest, but like to play other stuff as well on occasion. Winex is just too flaky. Everquest player models disappear and their body parts end up at coordinate 0,0 unless you have a hacked directX dll. Couldn't even get Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines to install because I could not unmount a CD image during a multi-CD install. It would tell me the CD was still active. No amount of trying to force umount to do it...or any of the utilities I tried worked.
So then I tried installing it on my wife's computer. She decides she wants to play games (as well as my kids wanting to play all sorts of Popcap games on it). Some of them pull up web pages. I forget what little web browser you need to install on it to support it, but that didn't work. I installed Firefox inside WineX which totally confused my wife (Firefox inside Winex didn't fix the problem and ran very buggy). The native Linux Firefox would randomly just shut down and disappear...no error message or anything (was running Firefox v3 which had just came out when I was trying this Ubuntu experiment with my wife). She wanted to play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines as well, and you read that heartache. I did get Bookworm Adventures Deluxe to install in Winex, but that was really my only solid success story.
Too many issues taking too much of my time trying to get people in the house to use Linux.
Call me ignorant or whatever...I've been using computers since I was 11 with my Vic-20. I have 10+ years as 2nd level desktop support for companies like Exxon & Amoco...and now set up servers for industrial automation...but I could not get my Linux to game as well as I wanted to.
Granted there is no perfect OS.
But it P O me when pick on Linux.
Windows has just as many problem like most other OS, but most major distro of Linux do work out the box, unlike windows new releases, I have use windows sense my first PC and that was a Amstrad with a wapping 256 k with 286 processor. So I do know a little bit of PC history and programing.
I have worked for Cisco Systems for quite a few years, work Sun system, and micromedia, and done programing on in bedded systems.
And as for all the bibliography, of who is better there is no better system much less OS, there is all ways something new in the horizon.
Today windows tomorrow its OS X, and some cases it is Linux, BSD, so on.
So do not BS any one saying this is better and that is crap, you are all full of it!
What I do mean a bought Linux, there is a Linux just for anything that you can do, and a Linux distro for everyone out there.
Originally posted by IguanaC64: Honestly...I tried running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) as my main operating system. Lack of game support just hurts it too much for me. I understand it's the game developer's issue and that they won't support Linux. Until they break free from their DirectX dependency it will remain this way. I really mainly play Everquest, but like to play other stuff as well on occasion. Winex is just too flaky. Everquest player models disappear and their body parts end up at coordinate 0,0 unless you have a hacked directX dll. Couldn't even get Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines to install because I could not unmount a CD image during a multi-CD install. It would tell me the CD was still active. No amount of trying to force umount to do it...or any of the utilities I tried worked.
So then I tried installing it on my wife's computer. She decides she wants to play games (as well as my kids wanting to play all sorts of Popcap games on it). Some of them pull up web pages. I forget what little web browser you need to install on it to support it, but that didn't work. I installed Firefox inside WineX which totally confused my wife (Firefox inside Winex didn't fix the problem and ran very buggy). The native Linux Firefox would randomly just shut down and disappear...no error message or anything (was running Firefox v3 which had just came out when I was trying this Ubuntu experiment with my wife). She wanted to play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines as well, and you read that heartache. I did get Bookworm Adventures Deluxe to install in Winex, but that was really my only solid success story.
Too many issues taking too much of my time trying to get people in the house to use Linux.
Call me ignorant or whatever...I've been using computers since I was 11 with my Vic-20. I have 10+ years as 2nd level desktop support for companies like Exxon & Amoco...and now set up servers for industrial automation...but I could not get my Linux to game as well as I wanted to.
