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Slashback: Drives, Errors, Copyright
Spin control for some IBM drives? If you are one ofthe people who have the same results with IBM 75GXP hard drives that Sean Kelly did when he posed a recent Ask Slashdot, you may be interested in this report from legLess, who writes: "Pair Networks is swapping out every IBM 75GXP hard drive they have "[b]ased on an amazingly high failure rate." Pair is a big host: 114,000 sites all running on FreeBSD 4.1.1, including cdrom.com and Tom's Hardware. "We currently use and recommend Maxtor drives" they say. Big black eye for IBM."
GNU isn't Linux, either. Amid the stream of recent and upcoming software releases (Suse 7.3, Red Hat 7.2, Qt 3.0), it's sometimes easy for projects with smaller followings or more esoteric goals to get lost. BorrisYeltsin writes: "The Debian HURD iso images are now available from your local ftp.gnu.org mirror. There are 3 iso's available, so get downloading now!" (And read through the recent months' on the HURD Kernel Cousin too.)
Update: 10/16 14:20 GMT by T : Please note that the GNU Project maintains a list of ftp mirrors -- look for one local to you for best results all around :)
Placing warning signs along the road to consumerism brigc writes: "Good interview in the Chronicle of Higher Education with Jessica Litman about changes in the copyright arena since the publication of her book.
For those who were asleep, Litman's book 'Digital Copyright' does a good job of discussing why the copyright process got handed over to the industry and Congress has failed to protect the rights of the public."
Litman's book got a rave review from Michael a few months back; I suggest you check it out, and better yet ask you local library to put it up on display. Libraries have a strong vested interest in not ceding all control to copyright holders forever and ever amen.
It might pay to have a big fat mouth and ask for a refund on defective merchandise, too. anonicon writes: "Here's a heads up to the web site I'm running at http://www.fatchucks.com. I've started both a Corrupt CDs list for people who wish to report 'copy-protected' CDs or find out which ones they are, and an Indie Rec for people who want to recommend independent artists to the public. Thank you."
The Debian HURD iso images are now available from your local ftp.gnu.org mirror.
Shouldn't that be Debian GNU/HURD, just to be fair?
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
Will you then be plugging a Maxtor into your AGP slot?
An imperfect plan executed violently is far superior to a perfect plan. -- George Patton
Sorry, cixelsyd am I :)
The RIAA will never change, ever. Remember when tapes first got easy to record on?
Luck favors the prepared, darling.
IBM drives are R.I.P.
:(
Music CD will be rip proof.
Wish these two were reversed.
May be these IBM drive are what RIAA wanted. You can't store anything including MP3 on them. The secured digital rights bill on electronic devices is sponsered by the letters 'I', 'B' and 'M'.
How the hell is this supposed to stop piracy? So these bands will just play thier little tunes while the pirates are our raping and pilliaging on the high seas? How will this help? The ONLY way to stop pirates is to protect every convoy with armed naval ships!
...um, wait a second... Wha? Since when did pirates copy music anyway?
:)
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
This is not the real world, it is Slashdot.
In Slashdotland, SCSI is for wimps and striping buggy ATA-100 disks using buggy ATA drivers and untested software is not only standard practice, but is considered best practice.
Real men run database servers on overclocked dual athlon VIA motherboards boards running the most unstable kernel available with MySQL without a cooling fan. They script in obfuscated perl and use zlib to filter out the crap from their database, which btw does not get backed up.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Check out The record industry's newest copy protection scheme. ;)
In other words, `the more you tighten your grasp, the more consumers slip through your fingers, Lord RIAAder'?
Absolutely! I'm on my third 75GXP (now a 60GXP) and they just keep coming... Boy, it's like ten hard drives for the price of one! =)
I've been trying to think of something along the lines of a "Boston Tea Party" to protest the dismantling of consumer rights.
Trashing a bunch of CDs would only be to the RIAA's benefit since we'd have to pay for all those CDs. Unless we steal them, but I doubt breaking into record stores would be good PR.
So my idea is to distribute copies of "corrupted" CDs for free. We do it standing outside the stores, too. Now, we could say that we're only providing computer-readable copies for people who have legally bought the CD, but it's such a hassle to have to ask every single person to show a receipt.
Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from Gods.
John Coltrane is up to 120 RPM in his grave.
-- Support Ometz le-Serev.