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  1. corection: by iamblades · · Score: 1 · on More About Copy Control on Hard Drives

    the last link for the CPRM docs is actually here. sorry for the mishap, I was in a bit of a rush though...

  2. Re:What do we do? by iamblades · · Score: 1 · on More About Copy Control on Hard Drives

    Well, no company has yet adopted the spec, and t hasnt even been approved by the standards body. IBM seems as if they will be the first. You can contact IBM's storage dept. here, and you can find t13's website here, where you can email the members, or even join by yourself, if you wish. The docs on CPRM arehere, here, and here, and you can see all the documents from the future spec here. Who says we have no say?

  3. Re:What do we do? by iamblades · · Score: 1 · on More About Copy Control on Hard Drives

    Well, no company has yet adopted the spec, and t hasnt even been approved by the standards body. IBM seems as if they will be the first. You can contact IBM's storage dept. here, and you can find t13's website here, where you can email the members, or even join by yourself, if you wish. The docs on CPRM arehere, here, and here, and you can see all the documents from the future spec here. Who says we have no say?

  4. Re:What do we do? by iamblades · · Score: 1 · on More About Copy Control on Hard Drives

    Well, no company has yet adopted the spec, and t hasnt even been approved by the standards body. IBM seems as if they will be the first. You can contact IBM's storage dept. here, and you can find t13's website here, where you can email the members, or even join by yourself, if you wish. The docs on CPRM arehere, here, and here, and you can see all the documents from the future spec here. Who says we have no say?

  5. Re:No SCSI? by Munky_v2 · · Score: 1 · on Western Digital Pulling Out Of SCSI HD Business

    Ehhh! Wrong. UDMA 66 has a maximum burst transfer rate of 66 MB per second when it is being used with a UATA controller that fully supports the spec.
    Read the data sheet.


    Munky_v2

  6. We build our own by anewsome · · Score: 1 · on New portable MP3 player from RCA

    If you're interested in building your own mp3 stereo player, send a message with subject subscribe to mp3stereo@itchy.wdc.com.

  7. Get your facts right and then post by anewsome · · Score: 1 · on Is Red Hat the Next Microsoft?
    it doesn't matter, because they still have to release the code under the GPL.


    Maybe you should understand the facts before you profess to know them. Writing software for Linux in no way obligates you to release the software under the GPL or give your source code away for free.

    This is a choice made by RedHat to release their software under the GPL. There is nothing that forces RedHat (or any other vendor) to release programs they write under the GPL, modifications to the kernel or system libraries are a different story though.

    These damn AC's piss me off sometime.

    --Aaron Newsome

  8. Maybe some truth there by anewsome · · Score: 5 · on Is Red Hat the Next Microsoft?
    Personally I think it's a stretch to say the Redhat may be the next MS. It might be more accurate to say they'll be the next MS of the free software world.

    The practice of being in the free software business is just too different to put them on the same playing field as Microsoft, who focus on just te bottom line, FUD and hardball tactics.

    I don't see Redhat as being the strongarm of the free software world, but I also don't think that Red Hat's philosophy is at all in line with Linus'.

    Linus says that his personal drive for Linux is guided by technical excellence and nothing more. I don't see any technical excellence being driven by Redhat with their 'not quite their yet' tools, stranger than strange file locations and other general 'do it their way' crap.

    And yes I am a bit bitter about having to upgrade all ny boxes to redhat only becuase none of the commercial software (Oracle) ran on my Slackware boxes that I'd had for years.

    Thanks, Aaron Newsome.