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Mirrors part 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-16 07:10 · Score: 0 · on New DVD Lawsuits Filed by the MPAA (UPDATED)

Note: This mirror list has been copied from http://www.humpin.org/decss/, on January 2nd 2000 13:13 GMT

Mirrors since 28-Dec-99 added by me.
To my main DVD page (containing list of lists of mirrors) Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Fri, Dec 31, 8:18pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

Re:I don't think this will work. by Jonathan+the+Nerd · 2000-01-12 05:51 · Score: 1 · on DOJ Allegedly Reaches Consenus on Breaking up MS UPDATED

As a college student, I don't have the time or money to invest to make Linux a suitable alternative.

Money's no problem. Every Linux distribution I know of makes their OS freely downloadable. If you don't want to take the time to download an entire operating system, you can buy a Linux CD for just a few dollars. I got a Red Hat 6.0 CD from Linuxmall.com for less than $10, including shipping. If you don't want to try to repartition your hard drive (for which I wouldn't blame you), you can get Slackware and do a UMSDOS install, or download a miniature Linux like Peanut Linux.

Now as for finding time to learn Linux, that's a little harder, but it's not impossible. I learned Linux in my spare time in my sophomore year of college, but I'm a nerd, and you may not be willing to invest such a huge chunk of your free time in learning an entirely new OS. But once you do learn it, you'll never again have to deal with one of those #@$# blue screens, which I think is enough to justify the time spent.

Okay, getting back on topic...

...MS will still be dominent and should be forced to either release or auciton off its source code.

I'll admit MS deserves to be reduced and/or broken up, but forcing them to release their source code seems more like a mugging than a fair solution. Practically all of Microsoft's revenue comes from the sale of their software. Forcing them to give away all of their source would destroy their revenue stream. There's no way they would be able to recover. I personally wouldn't mind seeing Microsoft die, but I'd rather they die in a fair fight than be murdered by the government. I think splitting the company, or simply requiring them to open their API's and file formats, would be sufficient.

This brought back some fond memories by dsplat · 2000-01-08 04:46 · Score: 3 · on Geek Matrix Parody

Okay, it is time to establish my credentials as a net.old.foggy, not that I expect anyone to believe me or care. This reminded me a bit of the Usenet Olympics. Okay, the content is different, but the excellent use of net references is dead on. There are two more olympiads in that directory. And not all of the naes you'll see are ancient history. Yup, back in my day, Sonny, all we had was text, and we were glad to have it because we knew people with online services that weren't connected to the Internet. Heck, we had to use it in the dark days before Al Gore invented it.

This brought back some fond memories by dsplat · 2000-01-08 04:46 · Score: 3 · on Geek Matrix Parody

Okay, it is time to establish my credentials as a net.old.foggy, not that I expect anyone to believe me or care. This reminded me a bit of the Usenet Olympics. Okay, the content is different, but the excellent use of net references is dead on. There are two more olympiads in that directory. And not all of the naes you'll see are ancient history. Yup, back in my day, Sonny, all we had was text, and we were glad to have it because we knew people with online services that weren't connected to the Internet. Heck, we had to use it in the dark days before Al Gore invented it.

If your FTP connection is slow.... by TBone · 2000-01-04 21:15 · Score: 3 · on Linux Opera Beta Released

....try the web interface to the ftp server

Try this! by Chuck+Chunder · 2000-01-04 21:13 · Score: 1 · on Linux Opera Beta Released

Use http instead!

(glitch in the matrix) Re:Vooja Day by mistalinux · 2000-01-04 20:50 · Score: 2 · on Linux Opera Beta Released

This article seems very familiar... like maybe it was posted a week or two ago.

Call me crazy.

An article similar to this one was posted a few weeks ago, although there was nothing on Opera's web site acknowedging the existance of a Beta for Linux yet. The File was at metalab, so it is unknown how official it was. You can download that version here

Re:Fast Serial I/O?? -- Reality Check by Anonymous Coward · 2000-01-03 00:49 · Score: 0 · on Future I/O Standards

A break, how about a clue. From Multi-Gigabit CMOS Signaling: "A single pair of 4Gb/s links has four times the bandwidth of a 32 bit PCI bus ... will significantly reduce packaging costs, power dissipation, and system noise." Remember that this Future I/O is directed towards servers, and the distance to those hundreds of PCI cards is a major consideration.

Paul Jones (SunSITE/Metalab) by gbnewby · 2000-01-02 22:38 · Score: 1 · on Category: Unsung Hero

Who started the first SunSITE (as a vast FTP archive, comparable to wustl)? Paul Jones.

This was the original home of the LDP, and hosts hundreds of Web and FTP collections. It's a super-mirror of Linux distributions and much more. At 175G of FTP (including nearly 60G of Linux) and another 35G HTML, this is still a public collection of awesome proportion.

metalab.unc.edu (formerly SunSITE).

Disclaimer: Paul's office is about 10 yards from mine.

My Y2K brush with death by Jeff+Newbern · 1999-12-31 12:08 · Score: 2 · on Y2K Rollover - Post Your Experiences Here!

I had this Y2K problem with my Linux box: When I checked to see that my CMOS clock rolled over corectly, hwclock aborted with a message saying mktime(3) failed. If anyone else has the problem, the solution is to get the source to hwclock and compile against an up-to-date version of libc (glibc2.1.2 worked for me).

OOPS - Trying Humpin list again by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-30 11:08 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Temporary restraining order DENIED!

Thanks to the efforts of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the organization and support provided by a few of our fellow defendants we are still here! Another hearing is scheduled for January 14th.

We would like to point out to all of the mirror sites with things like "fuck the lawyers" on them that it is because of a generous group of lawyers that we are still here. These lawyers are working for free (or much less than they could get by going over to the Dark Side) and don't deserve this kind of abuse.

Here is the EFF's stance on this case.
If you need a REAL reason to host these files, try reading this. Truth has never been more purely distilled.

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Thu, Dec 30, 2:55am EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

Re:Should have... by reflector · 1999-12-30 03:44 · Score: 1 · on eToys Drops Lawsuit Against eToy

I think you're missing my point entirely, so I'll spell it out for you:

The eToy.com site is the virtual canvass of some Swiss artists. It's completely unfair to them to ask them to deface their art for the sake some clueless eToys.com shoppers who don't know where the hell they're going.

And yes, Manet is an artist.

Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-29 06:42 · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Today - Are You Ready to Rumble?

You have one bat and there are 100 million holes Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Save a copy of this web page now!

We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Here is a 2600 story on this.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors Last updated: Wed, Dec 29, 3:14pm EST
Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
http://www.hack.b3.nu/

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://134.173.94.44

Re:Amusing? by Pointer80 · 1999-12-24 01:04 · Score: 1 · on MS Tells How to Delete Linux, Install NT or Win2K

That's a pretty immature way to react. We aren't born with any knowledge. We spent time accumulating it. You have just spent your time accumulating information about other things. That's not something that you can change overnight either. Play with it. Check out PPPKit on sunsite. Look at the scripts that it generates for you. Learn from someone elses work. Then help someone else along.

pointer

Re:Dual Overclocked celerons and Linux by Jadeus · 1999-12-19 03:10 · Score: 2 · on Celeron 466 - Good Or Bad?

I also have the BP6. I'm using two 400A (Mendocino) CPUs. They're not overclocked at the moment because of cooling issues - they run at 55 degress C cracking RC5. However, I was able to overclock them to 572 running stable, if way too hot.

The ATA/66 support works great under Linux. You need to get the HPT366 patch (available from here or any other kernel.org mirror). The README says it won't boot from the ATA/66 bus, but it works fine for me.

The Win9x and NT support is fine, but get the newest drivers from here. After applying the newest BIOS flash I was unable to install Win2k, but with the earlier BIOS it worked fine.

Also, the BP6 website has some useful information.

Re:More than one cookie file? by Black+Parrot · 1999-12-04 03:00 · Score: 2 · on Cookies are Security Hole in HTML Email

> Is it possible that cookie info is stored in multiple places on modern browsers?

More reason to go to an open source browser.

Also, it would be nice to be able to hack your browser to support cookies only from authorized sites. That way you could enable them for your /. login (if you so wished), but no one else. I leave them enabled with confirmation required in Netscape, but I really get tired of having to click 'no' up to 7 times per page at some sites.

> Anybody got a decent URL for cleaning out the cookie jar?

I haven't checked lately, but the GTK+ Application Repository used to have a cookie editor. It was submitted quite a while back, so you may have to hack it a bit to make it work with the more recent GTK libraries.

--
It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?

Mirror here by Magnifico · 1999-11-30 23:35 · Score: 2 · on The 21" Frankenstein iMac

Here is a mirror: http://metalab.unc.edu/TH/bigmac/imac2 1.html. It is only partial since it was reconstructed from my browser's cache. I hope it helps out.

Depends on the purpose by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-30 19:16 · Score: 1 · on Choosing the Right Cluster System

If you want a highly parallel application engine, Beowulf is for you. Otherwise check out the linux-ha pages at http:/ /metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/linux-ha/High-Ava ilability-HOWTO.html.

Linux is the OS for parallel clusters, but for High Availability you might to better just to buy redundant hardware and run a single linux box for now (since the main reason you need NT clusters is 'cause you have to reboot the box for installs, memory problems and general BSOD problems). If you want to run a clustered database server or something for scalability, look to Sun right now. Maybe with the 2.4 release we'll be able to make some inroads there, but right now Linux has some architectural issues with sharing disk systems.

Let them walk! by ArgoTango · 1999-11-20 05:58 · Score: 1 · on The Dismounted Soldier Problem

For those that don't mind actually walking, researchers at UNC have created a solution of sorts. They can allow you to actually walk through a rendered virtual environment by tracking your movements with a head tracker and projecting updated images to your goggles. The system uses infrared LEDs embedded in ceiling tiles to synchronize your position with the computer environment. The use of inexpensive tiles allows them to create room environments of almost any size for realistic simulations. The realism is further enhanced by placing real objects throughout the space (a styrofoam block in place of a cabinet) which prevents you from walking through things that you perceive to be solid. While not as high-tech as some of you might like, I find it a wonderfully elegant (and feasible) solution to the problem of immersive VR. The research is funded by DARPA and NSF.

Let them walk! by ArgoTango · 1999-11-20 05:58 · Score: 1 · on The Dismounted Soldier Problem

For those that don't mind actually walking, researchers at UNC have created a solution of sorts. They can allow you to actually walk through a rendered virtual environment by tracking your movements with a head tracker and projecting updated images to your goggles. The system uses infrared LEDs embedded in ceiling tiles to synchronize your position with the computer environment. The use of inexpensive tiles allows them to create room environments of almost any size for realistic simulations. The realism is further enhanced by placing real objects throughout the space (a styrofoam block in place of a cabinet) which prevents you from walking through things that you perceive to be solid. While not as high-tech as some of you might like, I find it a wonderfully elegant (and feasible) solution to the problem of immersive VR. The research is funded by DARPA and NSF.

Re:hmmm by lovelace · 1999-11-20 02:59 · Score: 2 · on The Dismounted Soldier Problem

Actually, the UNC Walkthrough group hasn't used that for several years. Right now we have what is probably the only "wide area tracker" in existence. It uses cameras to reference know spots on the ceiling (in our case, infra-red LEDs) and is accurate to 0.2mm with less than 1ms of latency. You can find more information about it here. Or, you can read about an interesting experiment we did with it last year where we studied what works better: flying (as with a joystick), walking in place (to simulate walking), or real walking.

Re:hmmm by lovelace · 1999-11-20 02:59 · Score: 2 · on The Dismounted Soldier Problem

Actually, the UNC Walkthrough group hasn't used that for several years. Right now we have what is probably the only "wide area tracker" in existence. It uses cameras to reference know spots on the ceiling (in our case, infra-red LEDs) and is accurate to 0.2mm with less than 1ms of latency. You can find more information about it here. Or, you can read about an interesting experiment we did with it last year where we studied what works better: flying (as with a joystick), walking in place (to simulate walking), or real walking.

completely unconstitutional, at least in the US by / · 1999-11-17 12:17 · Score: 2 · on Giving Project Gutenberg Recognition

Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution enumerates the relevant federal power as "Congress shall have the power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" The key phrase here is "for limited Times". Retroactively extending the duration of copyrights or bestowing perpetual copyrights is plainly unconstitutional.

Needless to say, unconstitutionality has never prevented legislators from passing unconstitutional acts, and the late Sonny Bono had his day in Congress a year ago and changed the rules, and we'll all suffer for it. There are some legal battles being fought on this issue, but I can't seem to drag up the references.

Imagine!! by GeorgeMcBay · 1999-11-17 11:17 · Score: 1 · on Giving Project Gutenberg Recognition

Beowulf cluster. Awww yeah!!!

It's apparently about "narrative" or something by grady · 1999-11-12 03:37 · Score: 1 · on Who Owns College Students' Notes?

Last week there was a prof on NPR talking about this issue, and his take was that professors begin with this great huge un-sequenced body of work in their field, and they go through that work and apply order to it, in the form of narrative arcs, or outlines, or whatever. It is this ordering/editing/sequencing which is the supposed "intellectual property" portion of their lectures.

I was sitting there in the car screaming at the radio "but the fuggin students, in taking their notes, are applying their *own* ordering/editing/sequencing to the profs' lectures--therefore, if the profs can claim IP rights to their interpretations of the source material which they provide in their lectures, then by the same token the students must be allowed to claim IP rights to their own handwritten interpretations of the profs' lectures."

Of course, since we're still waiting for digital radio w/enough bandwidth to actually transmit my real-time bellowing from my car back to NPR in Washington, nobody heard me but me.

Anyway. My dad's a prof and I'm getting ready to go home for Thanksgiving, so I guess I'll ask him what he thinks. When I was teaching freshman english, I didn't give exams, so there wasn't a lot of note-taking going on in my classes to begin with. I hated the whole stupid attend-lecture/cram-notes/regurgitate-on-test cycle when I was in college, so as far as I'm concerned, anything to hasten its demise is more than welcome.

grady

Extraordinary popular delutions and the madness of by john+wave · 1999-11-04 23:41 · Score: 3 · on Cobalt IPO Opens...High

Maybe you should read Mackay's classic Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds

Volume 2

Volume 3

Extraordinary popular delutions and the madness of by john+wave · 1999-11-04 23:41 · Score: 3 · on Cobalt IPO Opens...High

Maybe you should read Mackay's classic Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds

Volume 2

Volume 3

Extraordinary popular delutions and the madness of by john+wave · 1999-11-04 23:41 · Score: 3 · on Cobalt IPO Opens...High

Maybe you should read Mackay's classic Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds

Volume 2

Volume 3

Upload to Metalab, Announce at AppWatch by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-03 09:39 · Score: 0 · on Open-Source Component Repository?

I don't know why you need to register another site. Metalab is actually the best place to upload your files, and is mirrored all around the world. AppWatch is the only site that tracks only OpenSource projects that are actively developed and good. They also don't seem to like broken links (check their FAQ). No need to reinvent the well. Metalab AppWatch

Metalab (aka sunsite) pretty much does a good job by nyet · 1999-11-03 08:25 · Score: 1 · on Open-Source Component Repository?

Metalab does a bang up job, especially since they require an LSM submission for stuff that goes in /pub/linux

Not real clustering... by Anonymous Coward · 1999-10-27 02:20 · Score: 2 · on TurboLinux Releases "Potentially Dangerous" Clustering Software?

This is basically comercialisation of the Linux Virtual Server Project... it's a load balancer - much like Cisco's LocalDirector...

Now if you want real clustering, help with the Linux High-Availability Howto or go look at HP/UX's MC/ServiceGuard - or if you are forced to play with toys, MS makes NT Enterprise...

GEEK!

Re:hmm... by JM_the_Great · 1999-10-23 06:44 · Score: 1 · on Is Media Attention Bad for Linux?

http://sunsite.unc.edu. You can find a whole lot of how-to's and faq's and other stuff.

That's my $(2^4*3+1/7%3*2/100)

Re:Links? by Kelvin · 1999-10-09 15:37 · Score: 1 · on New Mexico Drops Creationists, Decides to Evolve

You can find a number of technical articles in favor of creationism at http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/.

Re:which creationism? by Kelvin · 1999-10-09 15:35 · Score: 1 · on New Mexico Drops Creationists, Decides to Evolve

it just does NOT muster the required experiemental evidentiary requirements

Well, if you actually look at it, one of the requirements for scientific work is that your theories are testable and that you can verify the correctness of your theories through experimentation.

We can't exactly reproduce the entire evolution of our species from the absolute beginning...

All we really have are guesses.

There's evidence that points both directions.

We've done carbon dating and other methods to determine ages of different things and think we have an idea about how the the universe started and we ended up here, but there are weird exceptions.

As an example, the first tool-making humans were supposedly around 2 million years ago and confined to Africa, but there have been a number of archeological finds that just don't fit those numbers, like tools and artifacts assumed to be made by humans in France from 50-55 million years ago and a human skeleton in switzerland from 38-45 million years ago.

Also, if you get into population genetics and look at mitrochondrial DNA which is passed unchanged from mother to child and looking at actual observed mutation rates, you find out that to get the population diversity we currently have would take around 6,000 years.

A number of articles showed up in Scientific American and other places a year or so ago when this info turned up.

Interesting stuff.

One place with some evidence for creationism including technical rationals is available at http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/.

Amusing Cartoon on This Subject by My+Little+Pony · 1999-10-06 23:53 · Score: 2 · on Scared of Your Own Words?

From the wonderful world of Dr. Fun:

http://metalab.unc.edu/Dave/ Dr-Fun/df9601/df960124.jpg.

Amusing Cartoon on This Subject by My+Little+Pony · 1999-10-06 23:53 · Score: 2 · on Scared of Your Own Words?

From the wonderful world of Dr. Fun:

http://metalab.unc.edu/Dave/ Dr-Fun/df9601/df960124.jpg.

Please send us corrections by Matt+Welsh · 1999-10-05 04:59 · Score: 3 · on Running Linux, 3rd Edition

First of all, I really appreciate all of the good reviews here on Slashdot, and I'm glad that folks find Running Linux to be useful. I wanted it to be a book that Slashdot readers would appreciate :-)

I'd just like to point out that if you do find any mistakes or incorrect information in the book, please feel free to send corrections my way: mdw@metalab.unc.edu. Usually we can correct small things in subsequent printings without waiting for the next edition to be released. In a book of this size, sometimes things slip through the cracks, but we do our best.

Also, feel free to send me any suggestions or ideas for future editions. We really depend upon readers to help us to shape the direction of the book's content, since it's often hard to tell which topics are important to cover and which are not. Now that Linux has grown so much this task is even more difficult than in previous editions.

It is true that our bias towards KDE was due to Kalle being on-board for this edition, but we did our best to talk about GNOME (albeit in an appendix). I hope that the next edition will have a bona fide section on GNOME incorporated into the book, but unfortunately we ran out of time to include it in this one.

Thanks everyone!
Matt Welsh

mirror + kernel question by supton · 1999-10-02 16:31 · Score: 1 · on Red Hat Releases Version 6.1

I'm getting 210 kilobytes/sec. on metalab, downloading to a machine on a network with dual T1s. This of course, is at 5:30 EST on Sunday, which isn't exactly prime usage time for metalab.

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Unrelated Question: I didn't get a chance to play around with lorax - Did RedHat fix that annoying kernel compile issue with SMBFS (Win95 bug workaround should be turned OFF!)? I don't want to have to recompile the kernel one more time just because of RedHat's inability to realize that enabling the workaround did more harm than good! I assumed originally that 6.0 would be compiled without the option enabled, as dictated by both rules of common sense and "cover-your-ass by putting out non-volitile stuff and let the users customize the experiemental stuff." Anyone know if they've addressed this, or do I have to do another recompile on a slow P100.

Sean

Re:Mirrors? : sunsite.unc.edu by Mathieu+Lu · 1999-10-02 05:13 · Score: 1 · on Red Hat Releases Version 6.1

Sunsite is going around 50k/s.

ftp:// sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/red hat-6.1/6.1-i386.iso

Access-HOWTO by davie · 1999-09-30 21:31 · Score: 3 · on One-Handed Linux?

Start with the Access HOWTO:
http://metalab.unc.edu/Linux/H OWTO/Access-HOWTO.html

Then the Keyboard and console HOWTO:
http://metalab.u nc.edu/Linux/HOWTO/Keyboard

Access-HOWTO by davie · 1999-09-30 21:31 · Score: 3 · on One-Handed Linux?

Start with the Access HOWTO:
http://metalab.unc.edu/Linux/H OWTO/Access-HOWTO.html

Then the Keyboard and console HOWTO:
http://metalab.u nc.edu/Linux/HOWTO/Keyboard

Re:Linux?? ooops I mean here by pjones · 1999-09-28 19:45 · Score: 1 · on Netscape 4.7 Arrives on the Scene

metalab.unc.edu in pub/packages/infosystems/WWW/clients/Netscape/comm unicator/english/4.7/ silly boys moved the trees a bit.

yes linux is there!

Armlib by lovelace · 1999-09-27 03:51 · Score: 1 · on Haptic Feedback Nanomanipulator

Actually, we don't use armlib anymore (for those of you who are wondering what armlib was, it was a library to talk to haptic devices. It started out as the library to talk to the Argonne Remote Manipulator, or ARM, and hence the name.) We now use something called VRPN (Virtual Reality Peripheral Network) written by Russ Taylor, the guy who wrote the nanoManipulator. It's code is freely available here. This is a library that allows you to easily connect and talk to a bunch of 3D tracker/haptic devices.

Tanner Lovelace

Re:more affordable haptics by nic · 1999-09-27 03:42 · Score: 1 · on Haptic Feedback Nanomanipulator

A few years ago, when I worked at Discovery World we ported the armlib software from UNC to work on RT-Linux with the PHANToM. Our work is available here . It was pretty fun work while it lasted. Unfortunately, when I left, the project died. We did develop an extension of the UNC client/server protocol for remote manipulation - we called it TouchU-TouchME, but we never had a chance to present a paper on it. Oh well... I note on the UNC web site that someone has created a scanning-tunneling probe using Lego Mindstorms. This would be an ideal mate to the work that WillWare describes above.

Re:more affordable haptics by nic · 1999-09-27 03:42 · Score: 1 · on Haptic Feedback Nanomanipulator

A few years ago, when I worked at Discovery World we ported the armlib software from UNC to work on RT-Linux with the PHANToM. Our work is available here . It was pretty fun work while it lasted. Unfortunately, when I left, the project died. We did develop an extension of the UNC client/server protocol for remote manipulation - we called it TouchU-TouchME, but we never had a chance to present a paper on it. Oh well... I note on the UNC web site that someone has created a scanning-tunneling probe using Lego Mindstorms. This would be an ideal mate to the work that WillWare describes above.

Re:more affordable haptics by lovelace · 1999-09-27 02:30 · Score: 1 · on Haptic Feedback Nanomanipulator

Actually, one of our guys is doing his dissertation on how to run the nanomanipulator over the commodity Internet. I think, from what I've heard, it has something to do with sending over reference frames of images and doing image warping between them. See Tom Hudson's web page, however, for more info.

Tanner Lovelace
lovelace@NoSpAm.cs.unc.edu

Software Release Practice HOWTO by Anonymous Coward · 1999-09-23 07:58 · Score: 1 · on Open Source Project Management Guides?

The only thing like this that I've seen is Eric Raymond's Sofware Release Practice HOWTO. It doesn't address everything you asked about, but it does cover some common practices among open source software writers. It may help you follow the "standard practice" as far as announcements and releases are concerned. It's pitched to the Linux crowd (since it's for the LDP), but much of it should be applicable to any open source project.

Some back story on Hacker... by cirby · 1999-09-20 17:39 · Score: 1 · on Re-Release of Illuminati Card Game

Read "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling.

*Sigh* So much for being unbiased... by knife_in_winter · 1999-09-16 04:46 · Score: 3 · on Yet Another BSD vs Linux article

I have been an avid Linux user since 1990. I think my first ISP used FreeBSD, so I had a shell account on that server. That is the limit of my experience with any sort of BSD. However, as much as I am devoted to Linux, I am still open-minded about BSD. I just really have not had any reason to dual/triple/quad boot my machine.

But I digress. BSD has been around a long time. So of course it is going to be stabler and more robust than Linux in certain applications. I have no problem with that. It is nice that the BSD's are getting more press. More power to us all, I say. But I think the quality of that press is as important as the recognition that BSD (or Linux) gets.

My problem is with articles like these. Aside from a couple token points of recognition to Linux, he lavishes disputable credits to BSD.

For instance, BSD is ported to more architectures. The author sites 22. But I also know for a fact that if you go to the Linux Documentation Project you will see that Linux is ported or being ported to *at least* 22 other architectures, more if you count the various subsets.

His "argument" that BSD developers are more concerned with "correctness" than Linux developers is pure flamebait and unsupported. That is a slap in the face. If this were true, Linus would never have started coding a new kernel nearly a decade ago and it would not have gotten the support it did.

"Businesses are now the driving force in the Linux community." I think this statement is a combination of jealousy over Linux's success and a statement of ignorance of Linux's roots. Ever hear of Debian: one of the stablest distributions with arguably the most advanced package management tools around, owing *nothing* to business? Is he trying to tell me that if IBM and Oracle decided tomorrow to drop their support of Linux and switch to one of the BSD's that the BSD developers would say "no thanks"?

I think the author also tries to capitalize on the whole GNU/Linux debacle by stating that Linux users neglect what Linux owes to BSD and GNU and that Linus "cobbled" the OS together. I think this is a diversionary tactic. What do you think GNU is for? GNU was envisioned as a non-Unix unix. How could it be inappropriate that the Linux kernel work with GNU software? Or BSD software for that matter? I may not *say* GNU/Linux or GNU/Linux-with-BSD-utilities, but I know where Linux came from, and I support GNU and BSD. I don't appreciate the author labeling Linux users/developers as essentially code thieves and ingrateful hacks.

Finally, the author gives no attention to how old Linux is compared to BSD. Sure, he sites a book proclaiming BSD's 20 year vintage. But does he mention that Linux is barely 10 years old? He seems to neglect the astonishing rate at which Linux has developed, with or without the support of business. Let's wait another 10 years and see how mature and stable and secure Linux is then.

If he wants to caution businesses about implementing Linux, that is fine. Any business *should* weight all the alternatives. Linux does have a long way to go, but it has also come a long way in a short time. It can *only* get better.

I think the author himself should have weighed all the evidence before writing such a flagrantly biased piece.

Nothing can possiblai go wrong. Er...possibly go wrong.
Strange, that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong.

Re:Loving my FreeBSD-3.3 RC #3 Box by guacamole · 1999-09-11 01:43 · Score: 2 · on The BSDs in the WSJ: "Help Build the Web"

1. Easy to harden. I have two ports open - X (6000, 6010) and SSH (22). It was very easy to get my box to this stage. Much easier than it was with RH 6.0, which I have also hardened.

vi /etc/inetd.conf

2. Easy to upgrade. I have yet to see any tool surpass /usr/ports for pure ease of use.

apt-get install "insert-name-here" is even easier and faster.

I cvsup my ports every night, and in the morning I check the logs to see what package have been tweaked and configured and are ready to be loaded up. Then once or twice I week I cvsup the source code for the OS and do a make world. Upgrading FreeBSD is very very easy - cvsup is gorgeous and I've found nothing like it.

FreeBSDs package management is great but it is NO match to Debian GNU/Linux. Debian is even easier to upgrade.
1) You don't have to fix /etc by hand
2) You don't have to wait for hours for your stuff to compile (apt-get downloads binary packages unless told otherwise)
3) You have to remake all your ports one by one after upgrading system. On Debian all packages are a part of distribution. If you upgrade system everything is upgraded.

apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; will sync your system with the ftp mirror, download and install all updated packages.

On FreeBSD you need to 1)cvsup everything, 2)make buildworld, 3) make installworld, 4)see if /etc, changes, 5) remake new ports one by one ..

Sounds like it is more difficult to stay up to date on FreeBSD ..

4. One distribution, great docs, great organization. FreeBSD.org maintains everything I need to deal with regarding the OS in a clear and concise manner. The FreeBSD handbook is available online. I get CD subscriptions multiple times a year, at a good price. I find the linux world of distros rather confusing. FreeBSD makes it easier for me to know the "source of truth".

FreeBSD handbook is great, but then most of the major linux distributions(Debian and RedHat) have such handbooks too (usually online too) + a huge collection of online docs at LDP

Don't get me wrong, FreeBSD is a great system, I would choose it over RedHat in most cases. However, I also choose Debian GNU/Linux over FreeBSD because this distribution is so well engineered and it is easier to maintain than any other *nix operating system.

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