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I needed to run IE once in a while to access some sites that wouldn't allow Safari, and even then some sites wouldn't work properly on IE for the Mac surprisingly. But I found out about Safari Enhancer, which helps with the problem and is free. If you don't know about it, check it out. Turn on the debugging menu checkbox, and it automatically enables Safari to pretend it's IE on a Windows box if that's what the site needs. It proves that many of these browser incompatibility sites are actually on the server side which conviniently lock-in users to IE on Windows. There's no reason why a site without any fancy DHTML or Active X components should work on IE for Windows and not work properly on IE for the Mac, yet Safari Enhancer lets the site work on Safari. I've actually witnessed this. Just make sure you set "History Menu Items Limit" to 999, and don't leave the field blank. It doesn't completely eradicate the problem, like sites that rely heavily on IE DHTML. And strangely enough, a Whatis.com search results page would make Safari hang. But other than that, it really helps.

RMS is one of several ways that the maximum output of a piece of stereo equipment is rated.

You were going to actually explain what RMS stands for, and what the term means, right?

Shamelessly ripped from whatis.com:

root-mean-square

Also see peak and peak-to-peak.

In a direct current (DC) circuit, voltage or current is simple to define, but in an alternating current (AC) circuit, the definition is more complicated, and can be done in several ways. Root-mean-square (rms) refers to the most common mathematical method of defining the effective voltage or current of an AC wave.

To determine rms value, three mathematical operations are carried out on the function representing the AC waveform:

(1) The square of the waveform function (usually a sine wave) is determined.

(2) The function resulting from step (1) is averaged over time.

(3) The square root of the function resulting from step (2) is found.

In a circuit whose impedance consists of a pure resistance, the rms value of an AC wave is often called the effective value or DC-equivalent value. For example, if an AC source of 100 volts rms is connected across a resistor, and the resulting current causes 50 watts of heat to be dissipated by the resistor, then 50 watts of heat will also be dissipated if a 100-volt DC source is connected to the resistor.

For a sine wave, the rms value is 0.707 times the peak value, or 0.354 times the peak-to-peak value. Household utility voltages are expressed in rms terms.? A so-called "117-volt" AC circuit carries about 165 volts peak (pk), or 330 volts peak-to-peak (pk-pk).

Better than the jargon file for techno words (as opposed to techno-cultural words) is whatis.

Just missed getting a job w/ those folks, darn the luck.

The real question is if governement agencies should be allowed to use expensive licensed software for which there is a viable alternative in the OS/FS community (read without paying required license fees). I think we have since long passed the time that we should believe that e.g running GNU/Linux in combination with OOo is at least as expensive as well know commercial products and can dismiss these statements as FUD.

I for one think they should not buy those products, though it is not any better where I live. In those cases, they are not only throwing our hardly earned (and often reluctantly paid) tax money out the window, which could be used for far better alternatives, they are also increasing the power of a monopolist, a self fulfulling prophecy.

I think this is the strength of the Australian proposal and the ISC tries to oppose (instead of using the money 'equally' (?) for the own population, it would now go to a few companies, from which a lot of them are foreign (not Australian).

webopedia.com
whatis.com

MacSlash has a brief note how NASA's JPL has put together a cluster of 33 XServes that was able to achieve 1/5 teraflop

I think you meant:

MacSlash has a brief note how NASA's JPL has put together a cluster of 33 XServes that was able to achieve 1/5 teraflop. Apple.

Wait, isn't a "honeypot" a dummy system used to trap malicious crackers? Whatis.com seems to think so too.

Does the word "honeypot" now also mean a "free wireless access point?" Nobody tells me these things...

But what if I'm in Auckland and you're in Wellington (both NZ)? Well, we're only 485km away, yet we'll have more than double the latency that a terrestrial system would have. A wireless solution is not sufficient (I think) for spanning gaps of hundreds of kilometers, so you will need to lay fiber somewhere. Also, wireless border hopping (in Europe, for example) would be a pain in the arse, since you'd have to obtain rights to the same frequency on both sides of the border, a bothersome proposition. And even if you go to laser, you still have latency in the transmission hardware being tacked on

So you've got latency issues going to satellite. This isn't a new issue, and I might write it off if I gained the ability to read Slashdot on my yacht in the Mediterranean (what do you think I do during the summer?).

However, there's one more issue: upgrades. You may have heard the term "dark fiber" (or fibre, depending). Simply, when Joe's Telco decides to lay fiber, they lay a lot more than they need, since they can't just go back and lay more easily. There's this unused ("dark") fiber laying around that can have equipment hooked on to it to expand the network. And the network hardware can be upgraded at any time (optical switches, anyone?). You can upgrade a satellite (such as Hubble), but it's not cheap. And in all probability, the network will not improve all that much over time (maybe better compression routines).

So don't write off fiber/fibre entirely. Of course, a satellite AND fibre network would be ideal.

Try holding the power button down for a few seconds, BTW. If Linux had decent/any(?) ACPI support, it would behave the same way. I question why you would want to do that to ANY operating system, but to each his own. I reckon you would fare much better with your own components as well -- even without the chassis cover, I rarely hear the 30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP in my PII, and it also happens to be one of the fastest IDE drives currently available...

Know what you want. Are you connecting a network or just one system? (Some providers will actually charge you based on how many systems will use the line.) Are you hosting servers? (Some providers have restrictions on what you can host, and for this you'll want SDSL, and a static IP connection.)

Do your research on available providers. DSLReports is an invaluable resource for getting information on your area, and The List isn't bad, either. You'll also want to check out whatis.com's page on DSL . Find out what is their bandwidth oversubscription ratio. (ISPs make money by selling more bandwidth beneath them than they have coming in above them; otherwise the DS3 that feeds a network, $6k-$9k, would cost at least $133 per megabit before anything else was paid for. Typically the ratio is between 7.5:1 and 20:1.) If you're going to be spending big bucks for the connection, get references from the prospective companies.

Realize that a necessary part of the equation is the ILEC.(?) When nearly everyone gets DSL, a new copper local loop(?) must be installed, and that means the phone company in all their ignorance, circular logic, and incompetence must be involved. Realize up front that the loop installation will probably not go smoothly, and you'll save yourself some aggravation later on. Most people would agree that getting DSL installed ranges from a little annoying to a major nightmare, but that once it's installed, they're happy as clams; most of the installation problems are because of the ILEC.

When things don't work, kick ass and take names. When you talk to someone in the NOC or in customer service, don't accept half-assed or blow-off explanations. Make an issue when something you're told doesn't make sense. Make sure that they know you're taking notes and that you've written down their name. Don't take any crap. (One of our customers was recently told that their circuit was down because of bad weather in her area. "But there's a clear blue sky outside." No, the tech assured her, there was bad weather in her area and her line would be back up soon after the storm passed.)

Know what you want. Are you connecting a network or just one system? (Some providers will actually charge you based on how many systems will use the line.) Are you hosting servers? (Some providers have restrictions on what you can host, and for this you'll want SDSL, and a static IP connection.)

Do your research on available providers. DSLReports is an invaluable resource for getting information on your area, and The List isn't bad, either. You'll also want to check out whatis.com's page on DSL . Find out what is their bandwidth oversubscription ratio. (ISPs make money by selling more bandwidth beneath them than they have coming in above them; otherwise the DS3 that feeds a network, $6k-$9k, would cost at least $133 per megabit before anything else was paid for. Typically the ratio is between 7.5:1 and 20:1.) If you're going to be spending big bucks for the connection, get references from the prospective companies.

Realize that a necessary part of the equation is the ILEC.(?) When nearly everyone gets DSL, a new copper local loop(?) must be installed, and that means the phone company in all their ignorance, circular logic, and incompetence must be involved. Realize up front that the loop installation will probably not go smoothly, and you'll save yourself some aggravation later on. Most people would agree that getting DSL installed ranges from a little annoying to a major nightmare, but that once it's installed, they're happy as clams; most of the installation problems are because of the ILEC.

When things don't work, kick ass and take names. When you talk to someone in the NOC or in customer service, don't accept half-assed or blow-off explanations. Make an issue when something you're told doesn't make sense. Make sure that they know you're taking notes and that you've written down their name. Don't take any crap. (One of our customers was recently told that their circuit was down because of bad weather in her area. "But there's a clear blue sky outside." No, the tech assured her, there was bad weather in her area and her line would be back up soon after the storm passed.)

Know what you want. Are you connecting a network or just one system? (Some providers will actually charge you based on how many systems will use the line.) Are you hosting servers? (Some providers have restrictions on what you can host, and for this you'll want SDSL, and a static IP connection.)

Do your research on available providers. DSLReports is an invaluable resource for getting information on your area, and The List isn't bad, either. You'll also want to check out whatis.com's page on DSL . Find out what is their bandwidth oversubscription ratio. (ISPs make money by selling more bandwidth beneath them than they have coming in above them; otherwise the DS3 that feeds a network, $6k-$9k, would cost at least $133 per megabit before anything else was paid for. Typically the ratio is between 7.5:1 and 20:1.) If you're going to be spending big bucks for the connection, get references from the prospective companies.

Realize that a necessary part of the equation is the ILEC.(?) When nearly everyone gets DSL, a new copper local loop(?) must be installed, and that means the phone company in all their ignorance, circular logic, and incompetence must be involved. Realize up front that the loop installation will probably not go smoothly, and you'll save yourself some aggravation later on. Most people would agree that getting DSL installed ranges from a little annoying to a major nightmare, but that once it's installed, they're happy as clams; most of the installation problems are because of the ILEC.

When things don't work, kick ass and take names. When you talk to someone in the NOC or in customer service, don't accept half-assed or blow-off explanations. Make an issue when something you're told doesn't make sense. Make sure that they know you're taking notes and that you've written down their name. Don't take any crap. (One of our customers was recently told that their circuit was down because of bad weather in her area. "But there's a clear blue sky outside." No, the tech assured her, there was bad weather in her area and her line would be back up soon after the storm passed.)

Know what you want. Are you connecting a network or just one system? (Some providers will actually charge you based on how many systems will use the line.) Are you hosting servers? (Some providers have restrictions on what you can host, and for this you'll want SDSL, and a static IP connection.)

Do your research on available providers. DSLReports is an invaluable resource for getting information on your area, and The List isn't bad, either. You'll also want to check out whatis.com's page on DSL . Find out what is their bandwidth oversubscription ratio. (ISPs make money by selling more bandwidth beneath them than they have coming in above them; otherwise the DS3 that feeds a network, $6k-$9k, would cost at least $133 per megabit before anything else was paid for. Typically the ratio is between 7.5:1 and 20:1.) If you're going to be spending big bucks for the connection, get references from the prospective companies.

Realize that a necessary part of the equation is the ILEC.(?) When nearly everyone gets DSL, a new copper local loop(?) must be installed, and that means the phone company in all their ignorance, circular logic, and incompetence must be involved. Realize up front that the loop installation will probably not go smoothly, and you'll save yourself some aggravation later on. Most people would agree that getting DSL installed ranges from a little annoying to a major nightmare, but that once it's installed, they're happy as clams; most of the installation problems are because of the ILEC.

When things don't work, kick ass and take names. When you talk to someone in the NOC or in customer service, don't accept half-assed or blow-off explanations. Make an issue when something you're told doesn't make sense. Make sure that they know you're taking notes and that you've written down their name. Don't take any crap. (One of our customers was recently told that their circuit was down because of bad weather in her area. "But there's a clear blue sky outside." No, the tech assured her, there was bad weather in her area and her line would be back up soon after the storm passed.)

Decibels are ratios between two levels, such as the amplitude of sound waves. Here are some relevant links and some excerpts I found using Google. The first explains the meaning in electronics, and the second is more about sound: The decibel, or dB, is a means of expressing the gain of an active device (such as an amplifier) or the loss in a passive device (such as an attenuator or length of cable). It is simply the ratio of output to input expressed in logarithmic form The decibel (abbreviated as dB, and also as db and DB) is a common unit of measurement for the relative loudness of a sound or, in electronics, for the relative difference between two power levels. A decibel is one-tenth of a "Bel", a seldom-used unit named for Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. In sound, the difference between two sound levels is ten times the common logarithm of the ratio of their power levels. In sound, decibels measure a scale from the threshold of human hearing, 0 dB, upward towards the threshold of pain, about 120-140 dB. As examples: the sound level in the average residential home is about 40 dB, average conversation is about 60 dB, typical home music listening levels are about 85 dB, a loud rock band about 110 dB, and a jet engine close up is 150dB.

Go have a look at the SETI@Home Downloads page. Tell me there are no processors in there that might have vector-optimised maths units.

Go have a look at the Crusoe Technology page, or the VMWare site. Tell me that it's impossible to use hardware or software to emulate or translate from one instruction set to another. Besides, what's stopping the KrosnoConv "surplus military" stock being military-spec MIPS or SPARC clones? I didn't read the "about the company" bit, so I expected this was just an American company picking up after the excesses of the United States war machine.

Heck, check any Pentium III and tell me that it's impossible to execute another device's instruction set (8088) natively.

The only points that concerned me about the KrosnoConv boards were the Linux-in-Flash claim, and 32Mb of RAM per processor for less than $US200 (either very slow memory, or only 32Mbit perhaps, co-packaged RAM from the old 8086 days). There are projects out there to put Linux in a PC BIOS, or even an LS120. You can get CompactFlash cards, which behave like very small hard drives (either Flash memory pretending to be an IDE drives, or IBM microdrives really being IDE drives). But they're not cheap.

x86 is not the only architecture that SETI@Home supports. Why shouldn't someone produce an add-in card that uses your existing infrastructure? I would still be interested in getting a (cheap!) board full of heavy-maths processors to do hardware encryption for Virtual Private Networks, or even just a heavy duty key server.

I've already got the expensive bits like hard drives, network cards, monitors, cases and memory. I'd actually love to have a "parasitic" processor running its own OS, where I can download software to it, and have it process data that I store for it in my real RAM. Kinda like a multi-processor machine, where one or more processors are especially suited to encryption math.

Don't just spout "that's not how things work". Because with the introduction of technology like that used in the Crusoe, or even older technology like that used in VMWare, or any C64 emulator, you know this is how things work now.

MySQL (notice the capital M) lets you create, update and administer a relational database through SQL statements. According to both your references, it is a full RDBMS.

You are probably referencing ACIDity, which can be achieved with a transaction logging RDBMS, and which is a completely different beast.
Either you just experienced a brainfart after a long caffeine driven coding session, or you should have studied a bit harder.

Okay... I'll do the stupid things first, then you shy people follow.

I've searched the site for 10 minutes and have not been able to find anything so can someone please provide a link or answer how much it'll cost for a support license for DB that will be used by 20 to 30 employees who will all be accessing it over a local intranet via a web interface?

I am working on my final project for school which involves writing a project management application for a local business and unfortunately all the current RDBMS costs for Windows are in thousands of dollars (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2). We do not plan to support the software after the project is done so a support license is necessary.

PS: I didn't mention mySQL because it isn't an RDBMS. Read the definition of an RDBMS as well as that of a relational database or simply read C.J.Date's reviews of E.F. Codd's seminal 1970 work on relational DBs. Here's part two and part three of C.J. Date's work for anyone who's interested.

I've searched the site for 10 minutes and have not been able to find anything so can someone please provide a link or answer how much it'll cost for a support license for DB that will be used by 20 to 30 employees who will all be accessing it over a local intranet via a web interface?

I am working on my final project for school which involves writing a project management application for a local business and unfortunately all the current RDBMS costs for Windows are in thousands of dollars (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2). We do not plan to support the software after the project is done so a support license is necessary.

PS: I didn't mention mySQL because it isn't an RDBMS. Read the definition of an RDBMS as well as that of a relational database or simply read C.J.Date's reviews of E.F. Codd's seminal 1970 work on relational DBs. Here's part two and part three of C.J. Date's work for anyone who's interested.

I guess before anyone can give you a lot of help, the question has to be asked...newby to what? In other words are you new to the Internet, to open source software, to programming...etc.? Slashdot covers a lot of topics.

One good, all-things-computer, general reference site is whatis.com It has an alphabetical reference, "learning curves" that organize all the related entries on a specific topic together, and a wealth of other information.

Also using any search engine and typing in the topic of interest along with "how to" or "tutorial" usually turns up lots of helpful sites.

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Last week my local central office installed DSL. I have been using it since. In fact, just about everyone I know in my city has been using DSL.
"Broadband" is the wave of the future! POTS is good for fast and easy voice transmission, but admit it: it's dead for Internet.

Sorry to disappoint you, but DSL *DOES* run on POTS by definition. That's the good thing about DSL. It doesn't require re-wiring, and your POTS will do. You can have a good explanation of DSL and its variations (ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, and others) here.

whatis.com has a nice definition of DBMS.

whatis.com has a nice definition of DBMS.

It sounds to me like they're recreating what IIOP provides, and with the added cost that you need to encode data in the rather wasteful XML format.

I half figure that someone will eventually build an "XML over IIOP" scheme that will allow compressing it.

The Casbah project's LDO provides another alternative.

I prefer this chart since it's slightly more detailed. Plus, it's not in a damn frame, ugh.

Of course, as this part of a tutorial indicates that higher bitrates allow for fewer channels, getting 80 might not be possible, so we may just have to settle for `only' 160gbps.
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Qwest has a really, really fast backbone with many trans-atlantic links. They use an OC-768 link in North America. Check out their network. Our company hosts our web server (needs like yours...it has international audience) with them and its fast but the only problem is that their customer service sucks (well...from our experience). Many trans-atlantic companies have redundancy plans. The canada to iceland link went down last year (severed fibre) and it routes through satalite. Its slow ping wize but it is still fast. There are also many redundant fibre pairs that they can use in times of failure. If you are affraid of your traffic not making it overseas, don't worry because even if some place looses ALL of their connections they will route through another ISP and people can still get to your web site if the involved parties (including you) have a BGP scheme implemented.

Close, but not it. UMTS operates between 1.885 and 2.2 GHz.

The spectrum for UMTS has been identified as frequency bands 1885-2025 MHz for future IMT-2000 systems, and 1980-2010 MHz and 2170-2200 MHz for the satellite portion of UMTS systems. - whatis.com

http://www.whatis.com/bigendia.htm

that was the first hit I got on google searching for "big endian little endian".

At least you didnt submit it to "ask slashdot".
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Are you sure you're not talking about minicomputers here?

This guy here clearly lists the PDPs under minicomputers (just the first link I grabbed off google, is he wrong as well?)

..Wait, I found a better link with an actual definition of what a minicomputer is.

To your first point...check out What Is...spamdexing (a definition)...I have a hard time believing that our use of metatags qualifies as spamdexing.

To your second point, it's actually Times New Roman exclusively.

It's not pretty, but it is full of content and conforms to a reasonable estimation of standardized HTML (with the exception of some lame font elements in a list item array). If it matters, it has less than 1/2 of the standardized design problems of our competitors...

;)

No, that is incorrect. A CODEC (coder/decoder) is typically used to transform analog signals to/from the digital domain. The integrated circuit that the telephone company uses to convert analog voice on subscriber loops to/from 64 KBPS digital data streams is a CODEC.

Normally that refers to speed increases when you are talking about similar technology (ie. increasing the number of transistors on a chip) but this is a totally new concept. Removing individual hydrogen atoms from a monatomic surface layer to create a rotating potential well is far different from laying metallic transistors on silicon.

Eric

It means they are using an encrypted http protocol, basically. Like commercial sites use to protect credit card numbers and so forth. See whatis https for more info, although it's out of date (the protocol is no longer netscape only, and hasn't been for a long time, and 40 bit keys are definately not considered sufficient anymore) but it captures the essence of it.

Ok, how much better was Babylon 5 than The Phantom Menace?

Would (a googleplex)*(a googleplex) be excessive?

I think not....

(I have to post this at 2... I'm afraid humorless Star Wars moderators will think of it as flamebait. Would it mollify you Star Wars moderators if I said Empire Strikes Back was one of my all time favorite movies?)

I spent a 5 week period at Linuxcare this year. What I saw there was pretty ill. It was a rats nest of clueless managers slinging NT laptops spending money as fast they could. The CIO was a greyman drone who created a police state atmosphere where people were afraid to point out the insane path the company was on. I am very happy to have cut my losses and got out quick. There were many smart people in SF but nothing could make up for the inhuman working conditions and venomous politics. I am happy to be out.

When I was fired, after some panic from upper management, I was given three options: Come back and work under the CIO; Resign; or Remain fired.

I pointed out that I couldn't, in good conscience, work under the CIO (I had offered to work under another group, such as the one Art Tyde had headed at the time). The CIO had a plan and none of us who were there were a part of that plan. Resigning had negative financial consequences (I wasn't going to pay money to leave, especially since I would have preferred to stay working there) and I considered it an after-the-fact misrepresentation of what happened. So I accepted being fired.

But working at Linuxcare before that was so different: there were problems, but not venomous politics OR inhuman working conditions.

There were people using Windows (and MacOS), but most people used Linux. People used what they had to to get the job done. A lot of people, for reasons that should be obvious, needed compatibility with documents like Office 2000 in order to get contracts hashed out, etc. Office 2000 document compatibility isn't really available on Linux yet (last I checked).

I needed a good drawing program and the best one for my purposes ran on MacOS X Server (Glyphix rocks!). So one day, Linus Torvalds walks by my desk and peers at the screen. I felt about 6 inches tall at the time.

But as far as your characterization of what it was like under the CIO, I couldn't put it in better words myself. I know people working there who were just ducking their heads down, marking time until the IPO. That's not the kind of attitude that makes a company a good place to work.

Linux, after all, is the ultimate skunkworks project. Management that respects and fosters the skunkworks model would clearly be an advantage at a Linux firm.

_Deirdre

How does this system compare to Hyper-G ? Hyper-G is interesting because of the highly efficient P-Flood alogorythm used to distribute updates in a push fashion to other servers.

Ross Andersons' Cambridge crypto group have theorised a Steganographic distributed information system along these lines called The Eternity Service. Worth a look.

And there is me thinking for a moment the latter, SOAP, is a new protocol for the new application called soapbox, with which you can submit your latest advocacy to all relevant newsgroups and forums and the like, instead of all over the place. *grumble* A look at whatis woke from that illusion, so I'll still be seeing vi/emacs wars in alt.binary.pictures.sex.teenage.girls. *sigh* When will we learn...

Stefan.
All generalisations are untrue.

The acronym is SIMD. Which stands for Single Instruction Multiple Data.

http://www.whatis.com/simd.htm

Graphics programming uses lots of matrices and vectors to represent geometric elements. Often you have to scale a vector by a certain factor which involves multiplying each element by that factor.

[ 2 4 5 6 ] * 2 = [ 4 8 10 12 ].
Instead of multiplying each value by 2 using a seperate instruction you can multiply the entire vector, by 2 with just one instruction.

In a nutshell

IBM invented it and Microsoft absorbed it. Now Samba has another feature to be added...

Either I'm confused (likely), or we're not exactly talking about the same thing (more likely).

To me, bandwidth is the bit carrying capacity, measured in bps. After looking up Nyquist's and Shannon's formulas, and reading up on the correct terminology, I'm going to plant my foot firmly in my mouth.

By George! Bandwidth in EE land is a frequency range. So I stand corrected, a slice of the spectrum, regardless of position, has a constant bandwidth; meaning the difference between the top freq and bottom freq of the slice. Duh!

Would you accept that the bit rate of a bandwidth in a higher frequency range is greater than the bit rate of that same bandwidth in a lower frequency range? Does that even make sense? Or do I need to consider the properties of the medium as well?

For what it's worth, here's the reference that started my digging.

But DeCSS was not created for conversion to different formats. It was created as an offshoot from the development to produce a DVD player for Linux.

Whatever DVDCCA's concerns about piracy (or copyright theft as I prefer to call it), the law wasn't broken. DVDCCA is saying that DVD information was distributed only to allow copyright theft, if that were the case there would be a case to answer for, they are wrong.

Fair use includes reading/playing the DVD video that you have legally purchased in anyway that you wish. At least some, and I expect most, of the defendents (I am one, hence I'm posting anonymously) have no intention of breaking copyright law. I believe that copyright law is good and proper (some details could be changed though).

Information wants to be free, meaning that information has a tendency to spread and onces its out its pretty much impossible to stop. See the theory of memes. That's why we have encryption and copyright. People have different views on this, but none of it matters to this case (IMHO).

In this case the encryption was very weak. The information avaliable is legal, it was not stolen and its not patented. Nobody that I am awear of is being prosecuted for copyright theft involoving the use of the DeCSS program.

URL: http://www.whatis.com/slashdot_effect.htm

So, all along, Rob has been bullying Hemos into letting him take the credit! Of course, Whatis.com could be confused, but... let's face it... what are the chances of that happening?

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FYI, there is software that converts bitmap to text... or just scans for you and recognizes... OCR....optical character recognition... here's the one i use, and like... Cuneiform OCR

Here's some links to resources where you can learn more about HDML (WML), and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).

A quick definition of HDML from whatis.com
"What is HDML?", at w3.org

Another short definition of WML from whatis.com
The Wireless Application Forum - good resource for wireless info.
WAP, from both a technical and practical perspective.


It should be noted that HDML (Handheld Devices Markup Language) and WML (Wireless Markup Language) are, more or less, the same thing.


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Here's some links to resources where you can learn more about HDML (WML), and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).

A quick definition of HDML from whatis.com
"What is HDML?", at w3.org

Another short definition of WML from whatis.com
The Wireless Application Forum - good resource for wireless info.
WAP, from both a technical and practical perspective.


It should be noted that HDML (Handheld Devices Markup Language) and WML (Wireless Markup Language) are, more or less, the same thing.


.------------ - - -
| big bad mr. frosty
`------------ - - -

Here's some links to resources where you can learn more about HDML (WML), and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).

A quick definition of HDML from whatis.com
"What is HDML?", at w3.org

Another short definition of WML from whatis.com
The Wireless Application Forum - good resource for wireless info.
WAP, from both a technical and practical perspective.


It should be noted that HDML (Handheld Devices Markup Language) and WML (Wireless Markup Language) are, more or less, the same thing.


.------------ - - -
| big bad mr. frosty
`------------ - - -

Here's some links to resources where you can learn more about HDML (WML), and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).

A quick definition of HDML from whatis.com
"What is HDML?", at w3.org

Another short definition of WML from whatis.com
The Wireless Application Forum - good resource for wireless info.
WAP, from both a technical and practical perspective.


It should be noted that HDML (Handheld Devices Markup Language) and WML (Wireless Markup Language) are, more or less, the same thing.


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