Forgive me if this in inaccurate, but you get the idea...
The Free Software Foundation helps pay for certain things in the Free Software community, correct? Then why doesn't it take donations to buy a TLD and then just run a Domain Name Server based on their TLD. The Free Software community could just set it up themselves and avoid the middleman of having to go through other TLD's to begin with.
This would allow for a fair useage policy, and could run like normal - most likely off of donations and with the help of community members to keep the server(s) up and running and secure.
I don't think that this would be that hard to pull off, and I think a lot of people would want to donate to further both the community and themselves.
IMHO, I think we're in too deep to get away from HTTP completely, though if it was integrated into the browsers smoothly, noone would complain.
Think about it, how many people are on the web that don't even know what FTP is compared to HTTP? Their life revolves around http://www.whatever.com, and they even have troubles with.org or.net sometimes too! Makes you wonder how many of these people even know about places like lyrics.ch.
BTW, microsoft.net redirects to microsoft.com's site.
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Those games are more like 350-400lbs. I've had one fall on me while I was moving it... not fun (and the designer was pissed cause it was 1 of 5 machines made and the entire backbox of the unti had to be reconstructed, I had saved the main body with my foot. Naturally people were pissed cause I tried to save it but damn I loved that game.
The company I worked for was Capcom, which was in buisness for about 3 years and only put out 3-4 games because of crappy funding, little interest, and Williams stealing ideas. Oh well, it's all done and I've got lots of pieces and backbox glasses to prove it. It was damn fun, but the general public just doesn't love pinball anymore.
Now you've got two seperate companies, both with powers to rule a certain software type, they both can use evrey dirty trick in the book to get to the "top", and not a single person can say anything neither is a monopoly.
I would have rather have seen them make Microsoft take some responsibility for what their programs do, rather then split them up.
The pure facts is that if you are to fight a battle and win, you must know more then your opponent, be much stronger then your opponent, or have a better strategy then your opponent.
In this case what they don't realize is that it is true hackers who are the geniuses behind all the little things that end up being banned. Take a look around in the piracy world and you'll realize that the people who make things happen aren't just some joe shmoe idiots who are on AOL.
Before they even get around to banning one thing, another will have become into existance and will take the original's place, making that old ban ineffective.
Now granted, this futile battle will be a never-ending one that will just cause more and more advanced solutions to problems. This is actually a Good Thing though because it promotes thinking and creativity so that things we never would have dreamt of being done years ago are no possible. For example, you know what it would have taken to transfer a whole audio cd over the net to someone 6 years ago (pre-MP3)? A good several days of straight transferring of wav flies. Now you've got a 10-12:1 compression for audio files that cuts transfer time down VERY significantly.
Now that you know that MP3's are "illegal" take into consideration all the streaming video codecs that learned from MP3 technology and now deliver extremely rich content to users who would have never thought they'd have seen something like that on their 56k or even 28.8 modem.
It's give and take, don't get into too much an uproar, just fight back silently.
What I want to know is if I can play all my games for PSX that are out-of-country games or copies of beta games on plain disc with that system. If so, I am going Dreamcast. Crazy Taxi RULES!:-)
look at lines 5 & 8... they both have upside-down Ort's towards the end... if you follow with your finger you'll see that if you go over it one way then back the other through the rows, you'll cross this obviously same word the wrong direction the second time. Only way this could be is if certain letters were represented by several characters and it could be repeated backwards like MOM or DAD or BOB or RADAR, etc.
I think most of the pages I've ever designed have easily weighed in under 5k, even with graphics. Normally when I do something that looks clean, it will be made up of a few gif's and html, thats it.
But didn't this community give up on gif, though since it was patented or something? Too bad, I like it's size:-)
I haven't mod'd a PSX yet that I haven't burnt at least one finger... Usually 2. I need to learn how to desolder, though. Too many times I've cleaned up after a freind that had a habit of puttnig more solder on the wire while it was above the motherboard and had managed to drip a huge drip on it... Usually over 2-3 diodes. I actually managed to get them all working again, and all but 1 I got chipped sucessfully after that.
I would try this hack with this card myself but I have no need for an ATA66 controller, nor a raid card. I've got one IDE drive, one SCSI drive, 2 SCSI CD-R's, and an IDE CD read drive in my machine. Whacko setup and it still works, go figure. Oh, and I managed to set it up so I boot off the SCSI drive (in Windows), figure that one out:-)
I know nothing about NetBUI but I'm SURE somewhere they are using it as a primary protocol for a network and it is just nice to be able have the option of running Linux on it. So all the Linux people should be happy that more people can run Linux now.:-)
Take a look at the article... Check out this qoute from it - "We never speculate about what we may or may not do in the future," company spokesman Bill Curry said. The company applied for the patent on June 27, 1997 and received it Tuesday."
They applied for the patent 2.5 YEARS ago. This was well before anyone even started doing this kind of thing so they weren't thinking about shutting other sites down for violation at that time, they wanted to protect what they invented. Seems rational to me but I just wonder why it took so long to go through.
I speak as a person who has tried to use Linux for everyday use and went BACK to Windows...
If you made it easy to learn, then that is one thing, if you make it completely easy, that is yet another. It seems to be that noone in the Linux community (and I mean NOONE) is attempting to make a GOOD set of troubleshooting tools and a help system that is at least decent. 'man' only goes so far, and is rather pathetic all things considered. man will tell you everything in the world about the topic you asked about... LITERALLY. I've never seen a man page that explained what the topic was in any small amount of space. It rambles and rambles until you have no desire to do whatever you were trying to in the first place.
As for making the desktop easier to use, I'm all for it. How about support for fonts that actually look good without having to run in circles to get a font server running and then somehow tieing it into the desktop environment or window manager (something I've given up on several times). How about a configuration tool that actually works? linuxconf sure doesn't. Redhat's control-panel is a start but it is still lacking something... like maybe words telling you what button does what. Who was the genius who thought of that one? He must've been really impressed with Tooltips...
Back onto the topic of learning... Don't you realize that some people out here in the real world don't have time to sit and learn how to use console-based configuration utils that don't work in the end to set up a couple of NIC's that don't work after 2 weeks of trying? Or maybe you'd just like to tell those people that have video problems in X that they are idiots because they just have to change settings in this.conf file and restart X. Or how about those people that can't get hardware working because Linux's precious kernel doesn't support it? -- but a module does!! Well how do you install the module? Recompile your kernel? You're kidding me, right?
I got another one for ya... How about those people that go out and get situated on Linux, and get it working correctly, and want some of this free software they keep hearing about. How are you going to explain to them that they will have to un-tar.gz it and then compile it themselves and THEN install it? But wait, there's more! Libraries are missing, out-of-date, or even worse - they're NEWER then the source needs to compile!! What then? Get the needed libraries, compile them, install them (if there aren't any more conflicts, that is) and then finally go back to compiling that program, and then installing it? That is a LOT of work for something equalled in Windows by clicking an.EXE file and following instructions on where it will be installed and watching it make icons so you can actually find the program to use it (which, I'd like to add, the install scripts don't give you a chance to tell it where to put anything in Linux).
You want to complain about people unwilling to learn? I think you should recompile your brain's kernel so it's not so one-sided.
I before said that I left Linux for Windows... I will go back as soon as Linux is decent to use for everyday use (and maybe when I can run binaries from Windows under it natively rather then using something idiotic like VMWare or WINE).
I found out about this a while ago, when I first heard about Litestep, but I've always wondered one thing...
Could you rewrite a version of DOS that'll work with Windows 9x and have the correct slashes ( / ) in the filesystem instead of those bass-ackward ones ( \ ) that are always in the wrong spot to type quickly?
I think a lot of you have forgotten what you stand for... Open Source.
You see, when you create a means of DVD Encryption that is, in your minds, strictly for the playing of the files, and then release it as Open Source code, how many people think that someone else won't grab the code and rewrite it to decrypt for piracy?
What the creators should have done was find the key, and then put it in some sort of binary (Closed Source) and then run their stream through it. This would prevent anyone that wanted to rewrite the code for their own piracy purposes fairly well.
What a lot of people here overlook is the fact that Open Source means all is showing and all can take the code and use it where they want. Licenses are just a legality, but when it comes to piracy, you just don't care about them. Hence the reason that D.O.D. (Drink Or Die - a software piracy group) was able to write their program "DVD Speed Ripper v1.1" ( Some page I found with a link to it ).
BUT, if you look here you'll see that there are many programs to do this. I myself, quite a while ago, found a page describing how to do it with just Microsoft GraphEdit (a multimedia program in which you could rearrange filters and output types to decode anything to file).
This seems to be a link to a story about how DeCSS was created, almost an interview.
Well, I can keep finding resources but these are the best for you all to read.
I am -NOT- against Open Source, by ANY means. Please do not take it as such. All I am saying is that Open Source projects should have legalities taken into consideration, and this one started as an illegal idea and ended up in court with a backing that wants someone's illegal activity to be legal since they can use it. I believe that someone could have just paid them royalties and written a player for linux without a hitch, though, and this is what they'll stand by if they get intelligent about these things.
If you scroll down to the punctuation of the words, you'll see they're exactly the same...
I just don't hear that 'U' in there anywhere. To me that last section would be more like the 'ooh' sound in 'you' -er (the sound of the last budweiser frog).
Out of all my friends I'm the only one that is constantly online and I am the only one that downloads MP3's, and know what else? I'm DAMN glad I do. I'm proud to say that I download illegal MP3's because in this day and age, there is SO much music I download from a group I've known for years that just plain SUCKS. It would be to the point of taking the CD's back to the store and demanding a refund. I've listened to more music from MP3.com that I liked then on the radio recently.
And on that topic, why is it you can't return a CD to the store after you've bought and opened it? You're returning the original media in undamaged form with undamaged complete packaging... Anyone else ever try to return a CD to the store and got REALLY big hassles?
My opinion - I don't care where it came from, if it sucks, I'm getting rid of it.
Yeah, I used to pull a constant 600k/sec and spikes over 800k when I first got on (through DU Meter)... Lately best I can get is about 250k/sec sustained and 500k spikes, though speed tests sit me just double 56k users. Lame, lame, lame.
I can get on almost any DalNet server and my hostmask shows *.home.com clearly, not even just the IP.
Try liberty.dal.net (my favorite), raptor.dal.net, or qis.dal.net (I think). These are just a few I connect to daily... and BTW, I'm an op on a channel that gets into the mid-500's so I know what I am talking to about. And yes, lots of @Home people in there too.
Possibly it was your subnet banned at that time though, since I got cable just 11 mts ago now and hadn't had trouble since then. I was on dialup previous to that.
BTW, I know what you are talking about with clogged networks... I've been told there was 64 machines going through the router that I am on. 64!! When I got on total was 3!
@Home is going commercial, and this happens when people flock to one thing or another. Obviously, because of the story, more and more stupid people are getting on also. I hope that they get banned, I really do. I hate spam also, though I've learned to ignore it, unfortunately.
I'm in a 'group' and in which I am the head of newsgroup posting. My status in the group itself is based upon how and what I post... But the problem lies in the fact that I post to @Home servers, sometimes up to 2.5gig/week and NOTHING spam.
Rest assured, I WILL be contacting them and fighting my way through their system to talk to someone intelligent about this whole situation.
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Forgive me if this in inaccurate, but you get the idea...
The Free Software Foundation helps pay for certain things in the Free Software community, correct? Then why doesn't it take donations to buy a TLD and then just run a Domain Name Server based on their TLD. The Free Software community could just set it up themselves and avoid the middleman of having to go through other TLD's to begin with.
This would allow for a fair useage policy, and could run like normal - most likely off of donations and with the help of community members to keep the server(s) up and running and secure.
I don't think that this would be that hard to pull off, and I think a lot of people would want to donate to further both the community and themselves.
Well, I'll give him a few years to claim it. I'm positive he invented this one.
Sorry, it just sounds hilarious. :-)
.org or .net sometimes too! Makes you wonder how many of these people even know about places like lyrics.ch.
IMHO, I think we're in too deep to get away from HTTP completely, though if it was integrated into the browsers smoothly, noone would complain.
Think about it, how many people are on the web that don't even know what FTP is compared to HTTP? Their life revolves around http://www.whatever.com, and they even have troubles with
What's even worse is that you use IE to do it.
At least you have the good taste to run Agent.
BTW, microsoft.net redirects to microsoft.com's site.
Those games are more like 350-400lbs. I've had one fall on me while I was moving it... not fun (and the designer was pissed cause it was 1 of 5 machines made and the entire backbox of the unti had to be reconstructed, I had saved the main body with my foot. Naturally people were pissed cause I tried to save it but damn I loved that game.
The company I worked for was Capcom, which was in buisness for about 3 years and only put out 3-4 games because of crappy funding, little interest, and Williams stealing ideas. Oh well, it's all done and I've got lots of pieces and backbox glasses to prove it. It was damn fun, but the general public just doesn't love pinball anymore.
Such a shame.
Now you've got two seperate companies, both with powers to rule a certain software type, they both can use evrey dirty trick in the book to get to the "top", and not a single person can say anything neither is a monopoly.
I would have rather have seen them make Microsoft take some responsibility for what their programs do, rather then split them up.
...is that they are fighting a no-win battle.
The pure facts is that if you are to fight a battle and win, you must know more then your opponent, be much stronger then your opponent, or have a better strategy then your opponent.
In this case what they don't realize is that it is true hackers who are the geniuses behind all the little things that end up being banned. Take a look around in the piracy world and you'll realize that the people who make things happen aren't just some joe shmoe idiots who are on AOL.
Before they even get around to banning one thing, another will have become into existance and will take the original's place, making that old ban ineffective.
Now granted, this futile battle will be a never-ending one that will just cause more and more advanced solutions to problems. This is actually a Good Thing though because it promotes thinking and creativity so that things we never would have dreamt of being done years ago are no possible. For example, you know what it would have taken to transfer a whole audio cd over the net to someone 6 years ago (pre-MP3)? A good several days of straight transferring of wav flies. Now you've got a 10-12:1 compression for audio files that cuts transfer time down VERY significantly.
Now that you know that MP3's are "illegal" take into consideration all the streaming video codecs that learned from MP3 technology and now deliver extremely rich content to users who would have never thought they'd have seen something like that on their 56k or even 28.8 modem.
It's give and take, don't get into too much an uproar, just fight back silently.
What I want to know is if I can play all my games for PSX that are out-of-country games or copies of beta games on plain disc with that system. If so, I am going Dreamcast. Crazy Taxi RULES! :-)
Personally I LIKE it when people don't like the chicks that aren't ultra-skinny... it just leaves more for me!! ;-)
look at lines 5 & 8... they both have upside-down Ort's towards the end... if you follow with your finger you'll see that if you go over it one way then back the other through the rows, you'll cross this obviously same word the wrong direction the second time. Only way this could be is if certain letters were represented by several characters and it could be repeated backwards like MOM or DAD or BOB or RADAR, etc.
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I doubt it'll have anywhere near the capacity or processing power yet for Quake anything... GLDOOM would definetly be cool, though.
- 8Complex
Trey and MATT, dude... Dunno who Brad is. :-)
I agree though, bleeping would do everyone good, including, as you mentioned, adding to it's comedic value.
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I think most of the pages I've ever designed have easily weighed in under 5k, even with graphics. Normally when I do something that looks clean, it will be made up of a few gif's and html, thats it.
:-)
But didn't this community give up on gif, though since it was patented or something? Too bad, I like it's size
- 8Complex
I haven't mod'd a PSX yet that I haven't burnt at least one finger... Usually 2. I need to learn how to desolder, though. Too many times I've cleaned up after a freind that had a habit of puttnig more solder on the wire while it was above the motherboard and had managed to drip a huge drip on it... Usually over 2-3 diodes. I actually managed to get them all working again, and all but 1 I got chipped sucessfully after that.
:-)
I would try this hack with this card myself but I have no need for an ATA66 controller, nor a raid card. I've got one IDE drive, one SCSI drive, 2 SCSI CD-R's, and an IDE CD read drive in my machine. Whacko setup and it still works, go figure. Oh, and I managed to set it up so I boot off the SCSI drive (in Windows), figure that one out
- 8Complex
I know nothing about NetBUI but I'm SURE somewhere they are using it as a primary protocol for a network and it is just nice to be able have the option of running Linux on it. So all the Linux people should be happy that more people can run Linux now. :-)
- 8Complex
Take a look at the article... Check out this qoute from it - "We never speculate about what we may or may not do in the future," company spokesman Bill Curry said. The company applied for the patent on June 27, 1997 and received it Tuesday."
They applied for the patent 2.5 YEARS ago. This was well before anyone even started doing this kind of thing so they weren't thinking about shutting other sites down for violation at that time, they wanted to protect what they invented. Seems rational to me but I just wonder why it took so long to go through.
- 8Complex
Puzzles are good... however, they shouldn't be in some other language such as chess-speak :-)
- 8Complex
I speak as a person who has tried to use Linux for everyday use and went BACK to Windows...
.conf file and restart X. Or how about those people that can't get hardware working because Linux's precious kernel doesn't support it? -- but a module does!! Well how do you install the module? Recompile your kernel? You're kidding me, right?
.EXE file and following instructions on where it will be installed and watching it make icons so you can actually find the program to use it (which, I'd like to add, the install scripts don't give you a chance to tell it where to put anything in Linux).
If you made it easy to learn, then that is one thing, if you make it completely easy, that is yet another. It seems to be that noone in the Linux community (and I mean NOONE) is attempting to make a GOOD set of troubleshooting tools and a help system that is at least decent. 'man' only goes so far, and is rather pathetic all things considered. man will tell you everything in the world about the topic you asked about... LITERALLY. I've never seen a man page that explained what the topic was in any small amount of space. It rambles and rambles until you have no desire to do whatever you were trying to in the first place.
As for making the desktop easier to use, I'm all for it. How about support for fonts that actually look good without having to run in circles to get a font server running and then somehow tieing it into the desktop environment or window manager (something I've given up on several times). How about a configuration tool that actually works? linuxconf sure doesn't. Redhat's control-panel is a start but it is still lacking something... like maybe words telling you what button does what. Who was the genius who thought of that one? He must've been really impressed with Tooltips...
Back onto the topic of learning... Don't you realize that some people out here in the real world don't have time to sit and learn how to use console-based configuration utils that don't work in the end to set up a couple of NIC's that don't work after 2 weeks of trying? Or maybe you'd just like to tell those people that have video problems in X that they are idiots because they just have to change settings in this
I got another one for ya... How about those people that go out and get situated on Linux, and get it working correctly, and want some of this free software they keep hearing about. How are you going to explain to them that they will have to un-tar.gz it and then compile it themselves and THEN install it? But wait, there's more! Libraries are missing, out-of-date, or even worse - they're NEWER then the source needs to compile!! What then? Get the needed libraries, compile them, install them (if there aren't any more conflicts, that is) and then finally go back to compiling that program, and then installing it? That is a LOT of work for something equalled in Windows by clicking an
You want to complain about people unwilling to learn? I think you should recompile your brain's kernel so it's not so one-sided.
I before said that I left Linux for Windows... I will go back as soon as Linux is decent to use for everyday use (and maybe when I can run binaries from Windows under it natively rather then using something idiotic like VMWare or WINE).
- 8Complex
I found out about this a while ago, when I first heard about Litestep, but I've always wondered one thing...
Could you rewrite a version of DOS that'll work with Windows 9x and have the correct slashes ( / ) in the filesystem instead of those bass-ackward ones ( \ ) that are always in the wrong spot to type quickly?
- 8Complex
I think a lot of you have forgotten what you stand for... Open Source.
You see, when you create a means of DVD Encryption that is, in your minds, strictly for the playing of the files, and then release it as Open Source code, how many people think that someone else won't grab the code and rewrite it to decrypt for piracy?
What the creators should have done was find the key, and then put it in some sort of binary (Closed Source) and then run their stream through it. This would prevent anyone that wanted to rewrite the code for their own piracy purposes fairly well.
What a lot of people here overlook is the fact that Open Source means all is showing and all can take the code and use it where they want. Licenses are just a legality, but when it comes to piracy, you just don't care about them. Hence the reason that D.O.D. (Drink Or Die - a software piracy group) was able to write their program "DVD Speed Ripper v1.1" ( Some page I found with a link to it ).
BUT, if you look here you'll see that there are many programs to do this. I myself, quite a while ago, found a page describing how to do it with just Microsoft GraphEdit (a multimedia program in which you could rearrange filters and output types to decode anything to file).
This seems to be a link to a story about how DeCSS was created, almost an interview.
Well, I can keep finding resources but these are the best for you all to read.
I am -NOT- against Open Source, by ANY means. Please do not take it as such. All I am saying is that Open Source projects should have legalities taken into consideration, and this one started as an illegal idea and ended up in court with a backing that wants someone's illegal activity to be legal since they can use it. I believe that someone could have just paid them royalties and written a player for linux without a hitch, though, and this is what they'll stand by if they get intelligent about these things.
- 8Complex
Say the word... Color. Color. Colour. Colour.
Damnit, Slashdot strips IMG tags!!
(From Dictionary.com)
Color
Colour
If you scroll down to the punctuation of the words, you'll see they're exactly the same...
I just don't hear that 'U' in there anywhere. To me that last section would be more like the 'ooh' sound in 'you' -er (the sound of the last budweiser frog).
- 8Complex
Out of all my friends I'm the only one that is constantly online and I am the only one that downloads MP3's, and know what else? I'm DAMN glad I do. I'm proud to say that I download illegal MP3's because in this day and age, there is SO much music I download from a group I've known for years that just plain SUCKS. It would be to the point of taking the CD's back to the store and demanding a refund. I've listened to more music from MP3.com that I liked then on the radio recently.
And on that topic, why is it you can't return a CD to the store after you've bought and opened it? You're returning the original media in undamaged form with undamaged complete packaging... Anyone else ever try to return a CD to the store and got REALLY big hassles?
My opinion - I don't care where it came from, if it sucks, I'm getting rid of it.
- 8Complex
Yeah, I used to pull a constant 600k/sec and spikes over 800k when I first got on (through DU Meter)... Lately best I can get is about 250k/sec sustained and 500k spikes, though speed tests sit me just double 56k users. Lame, lame, lame.
- 8Complex
I can get on almost any DalNet server and my hostmask shows *.home.com clearly, not even just the IP.
Try liberty.dal.net (my favorite), raptor.dal.net, or qis.dal.net (I think). These are just a few I connect to daily... and BTW, I'm an op on a channel that gets into the mid-500's so I know what I am talking to about. And yes, lots of @Home people in there too.
Possibly it was your subnet banned at that time though, since I got cable just 11 mts ago now and hadn't had trouble since then. I was on dialup previous to that.
BTW, I know what you are talking about with clogged networks... I've been told there was 64 machines going through the router that I am on. 64!! When I got on total was 3!
@Home is going commercial, and this happens when people flock to one thing or another. Obviously, because of the story, more and more stupid people are getting on also. I hope that they get banned, I really do. I hate spam also, though I've learned to ignore it, unfortunately.
- 8Complex
I'm in a 'group' and in which I am the head of newsgroup posting. My status in the group itself is based upon how and what I post... But the problem lies in the fact that I post to @Home servers, sometimes up to 2.5gig/week and NOTHING spam.
Rest assured, I WILL be contacting them and fighting my way through their system to talk to someone intelligent about this whole situation.
- 8Complex