Does this mean that soon we'll see big companies going after Undernet, DALnet, Mirabilis (for ICQ), AOL for (AIM), or other such companies? Napster might be the easiest way to share MP3s, but it's definately not the only, nor the first. (Remember plain old FTP warez accounts back in the early 90s?) It would be pretty interesting to see the RIAA and AOL fight it out in court.
One complaint about the Netscape 6 PR1 web-based installer... No proxy support. I can't seem to install NS6 on the nice fast pipe here at work. Uggh. Oh well...
Does anyone happen to know if PS2 will play normal Redbook Audio CD-R's? Judging by the blue color of PS2 CD-ROMs I don't think it'll be a problem, but who knows...? And what about VCDs or video CD-R's? I personally have a number of small European and Japanese CD-R-only audio releases and some Asian martial arts films on standard VCD (the ONLY way to see Jet Li, etc). It'd be nice to find a console unit that will play all of these. My current Sony S550D has a VERY hard time when it comes to CD-R media because of it's single laser.
I'm going to be spending my Y2K inside of some sort of bunker at one of the big three auto manufacturers tech centers in the Detroit area. It seems that we'll have various state and fedral government organizations sitting around with us (watching us?) too... This makes the extent of my preparations a DAT of everything important that I've ever written, in my pocket. That, and various non-alcoholic bevarages, realistic enough to mess with management's head.
If you stop shopping at major chains (HMV, Tower, Sam Goody, etc) and start frequenting smaller, local stores and small internet-based mail order stores CDs become incredibly cheap. (ie: I was able to order four German discs from Soleilmoon for about $60 after shipping. That's $15 a disc for stuff which normally costs about $22-$25 a piece in stores. Domestic stuff is especially cheap, often under $10. Take a look around and don't just give in to the big names and I'm sure you and your wallet will be alot happier.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not the broadcast done from the Holland, MI area (yes, where/. is from) done by some of the people who hang out on EFnet's #linuxwarex? I heard some scanning like this done by someone there about a year ago, except that was streamed with RealMedia stuff...
It makes me wonder what MS pulled to get someone at Compaq to spout off like this. My understanding was that for the longest time MS hadn't been allowing (per contractial obligations) Compaq to ship other OSs with their machines. Wasn't this covered in a number of articles within the past few months/years?
What about those who are in need of a bit more integrated machine such as a notebook? While it's nice having access to OEM notebook parts, I know that not everyone has such access. Most retailers won't carry parts so that consumers to build their own notebooks because they are aware of all the warranty risks involved. We need to find a nice, high quality notebook manufacturer who is willing to sell a tested, bare machine.
I don't have much of a tie to the music community except through the local industrial/goth scene here, but I can't think of how many times I've been streaming MP3s (via shoutcast) for friends who ended up going out and buying the disc. How do you know if you like somthing without hearing it first? One of the biggest reasons for this in this area is the proliferation of mainstream commercial radio and a lack of local/import/independant radio shows. It's just too hard to introduce others to the more obsecure aural pleasures out there without the use of MP3s or mixed cds.
Personally I feel this boycott is getting a bit out of hand. I can see reason for not purchesing a Pentium III which has the identifier enabled by default, but on the *new* Pentium IIIs where you have to enable it by hand, let it be. There's nothing wrong with a serialized processor any more than there is somthing wrong with a VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) on your car. As you all (hopefully) know, TCP/IP has no provisions in it for transmitting the CPU identifier. Therefore it always will require external software to transmit it. And because of all the people who run older or non-Intel processors, I don't see vendors requiring a CPU identifier except in the most extreme cases, probebly those which currently require dongles (or hardware keys). I guess this could potentially be bad for the dongle vendors, though.
Because when you have a software-accessable serial number on each piece of hardware, it is possible for you to be tracked on a per-cpu basis. This is somewhat similar to being forced to use a standard logon id whenever you use the internet. Imagine the possibilities.
Personally I'd like to see another bios option to prevent software from accessing the cpu's serial number. This way we don't have to wait around for someone to make the software patch available for whatever non-standard OS that one chooses to run.
Uhm... Magnesium isn't exactly EASY to light. If it were then I'm sure there'd be a problem with thousands of poor soul's wheelchairs suddenly bursting into flames every day.
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Does this mean that soon we'll see big companies going after Undernet, DALnet, Mirabilis (for ICQ), AOL for (AIM), or other such companies? Napster might be the easiest way to share MP3s, but it's definately not the only, nor the first. (Remember plain old FTP warez accounts back in the early 90s?) It would be pretty interesting to see the RIAA and AOL fight it out in court.
One complaint about the Netscape 6 PR1 web-based installer... No proxy support. I can't seem to install NS6 on the nice fast pipe here at work. Uggh. Oh well...
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Does anyone happen to know if PS2 will play normal Redbook Audio CD-R's? Judging by the blue color of PS2 CD-ROMs I don't think it'll be a problem, but who knows...? And what about VCDs or video CD-R's? I personally have a number of small European and Japanese CD-R-only audio releases and some Asian martial arts films on standard VCD (the ONLY way to see Jet Li, etc). It'd be nice to find a console unit that will play all of these. My current Sony S550D has a VERY hard time when it comes to CD-R media because of it's single laser.
I'm going to be spending my Y2K inside of some sort of bunker at one of the big three auto manufacturers tech centers in the Detroit area. It seems that we'll have various state and fedral government organizations sitting around with us (watching us?) too... This makes the extent of my preparations a DAT of everything important that I've ever written, in my pocket. That, and various non-alcoholic bevarages, realistic enough to mess with management's head.
Did anyone else happen to notice that they also offer armored vehicles, including military vehicles? Wow. :) That just makes me happy.
If you stop shopping at major chains (HMV, Tower, Sam Goody, etc) and start frequenting smaller, local stores and small internet-based mail order stores CDs become incredibly cheap. (ie: I was able to order four German discs from Soleilmoon for about $60 after shipping. That's $15 a disc for stuff which normally costs about $22-$25 a piece in stores. Domestic stuff is especially cheap, often under $10. Take a look around and don't just give in to the big names and I'm sure you and your wallet will be alot happier.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not the broadcast done from the Holland, MI area (yes, where /. is from) done by some of the people who hang out on EFnet's #linuxwarex? I heard some scanning like this done by someone there about a year ago, except that was streamed with RealMedia stuff...
It makes me wonder what MS pulled to get someone at Compaq to spout off like this. My understanding was that for the longest time MS hadn't been allowing (per contractial obligations) Compaq to ship other OSs with their machines. Wasn't this covered in a number of articles within the past few months/years?
What about those who are in need of a bit more integrated machine such as a notebook? While it's nice having access to OEM notebook parts, I know that not everyone has such access. Most retailers won't carry parts so that consumers to build their own notebooks because they are aware of all the warranty risks involved. We need to find a nice, high quality notebook manufacturer who is willing to sell a tested, bare machine.
I don't have much of a tie to the music community except through the local industrial/goth scene here, but I can't think of how many times I've been streaming MP3s (via shoutcast) for friends who ended up going out and buying the disc. How do you know if you like somthing without hearing it first? One of the biggest reasons for this in this area is the proliferation of mainstream commercial radio and a lack of local/import/independant radio shows. It's just too hard to introduce others to the more obsecure aural pleasures out there without the use of MP3s or mixed cds.
Personally I feel this boycott is getting a bit out of hand. I can see reason for not purchesing a Pentium III which has the identifier enabled by default, but on the *new* Pentium IIIs where you have to enable it by hand, let it be. There's nothing wrong with a serialized processor any more than there is somthing wrong with a VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) on your car. As you all (hopefully) know, TCP/IP has no provisions in it for transmitting the CPU identifier. Therefore it always will require external software to transmit it. And because of all the people who run older or non-Intel processors, I don't see vendors requiring a CPU identifier except in the most extreme cases, probebly those which currently require dongles (or hardware keys). I guess this could potentially be bad for the dongle vendors, though.
Because when you have a software-accessable serial number on each piece of hardware, it is possible for you to be tracked on a per-cpu basis. This is somewhat similar to being forced to use a standard logon id whenever you use the internet. Imagine the possibilities.
Personally I'd like to see another bios option to prevent software from accessing the cpu's serial number. This way we don't have to wait around for someone to make the software patch available for whatever non-standard OS that one chooses to run.
Uhm... Magnesium isn't exactly EASY to light. If it were then I'm sure there'd be a problem with thousands of poor soul's wheelchairs suddenly bursting into flames every day.