The easiest way I've found to do this is to setup a PPP connection for the Palm over the serial port to the cradle. Then just do a modem sync in AvantGo.
He was probably moderated up becuse he has a valid point, and some people may be interested in hearing it. For example, if I didn't already own a Toshiba Libretto running linux, I'd probably have gone out and bought one of these. Then I'd have realized that it's not everything I wanted, then I'd discover that I could've got a "real" laptop in the same form factor for the same price, then I'd get bitter.
Then maybe I'd post an article to slashdot that talks about x86 mininotebooks that run linux and BSD, and some people would think "gee that's cool" and buy those and maybe not like them as much as they'd like a z50.
The point is that it is worthwhile to discuss alternatives in the same forum as the thing itself, therefore allowing readers to compare options and think for themselves.
I'm sorry, but I have to say that I despise this kind of sentiment. I don't want to see the money that I paid for Quake to go into the hands of some lawyer just because some asshole decided to violate the GPL. I want the money that I paid for Quake3 to go into the production of Quake4, or into John's purchase of a Tommy Kaira ZZ, or anything other than being wasted in a legal battle with some kid trying to piggyback off someone else's work.
And I must admit that I am quite disturbed to see the deeply ingrained American mindset of "sue, Sue, SUE!" pervert the mentality of the open source community. We don't need big corporations, government courts, and high-priced law firms to tell us what's right. Let's just take out the punk's server, release his code for him, and just not play QuakeLives or whatever the hell it's called anyway? (hint- that last sentence was a joke...)
Hmmmm.... Picture genetic implants at birth in your eyes and ears !! As you grow older you get new keys to what you can see - only when you are of legal drinking age can you see Beer ads or Bar signs on the street.
perhaps, but the tabacco lobbyists in congress will make sure that you can always see the cigarette adds, even if you aren't 18. don't forget the other people that control congress...
They had a CAVE at Supercomputing '93 in Portland, OR (1993!). I went and checked it out, and it was pretty cool for 1993. But unless the tech has really improved, it would be pretty damn boring next to a stereoscopically rendered quake3.
From what other people here have said, it appears that Beam-it answers some kind of challenge-reponse protocol from the server in which it does send pieces of the audio track sometimes.
The Beam-it README states that it relies on cdparanoia, which I believe is doing some scratch detection-and-compenstation.
So, as long as cdparanoia can read your audio tracks, then Beam-it will work for you. But if that's the case, you don't need My.MP3.com anyway. Unless the part they ask for isn't the scratched part of your disc.
I had hoped to use My.MP3.com in a similar way: I wanted to take advantage of their Instant-Listening program to get access to pre-encoded MP3s of all the CDs I buy. I have an empeg that I am migrating all my music to, and ripping/encoding get tedious.
However, their server software seems to do some tricky stuff to be sure that you're using a "streaming only" player, and not downloading the MP3 file. Nothing that can't be circumvented I'm sure, but maybe it's not worth circumventing.
But to get back to the point, yes, you could just use a WAV-writer plugin with your MP3 player and get your audio data back as long as Beam-it recognized your CD. I have several very scratched disks that I tried with Beam-it and they all worked. Of course, some of my discs that were in perfect condition didn't work, but that's another story.
it's a library (libsmp is the one in question, and as far as I can tell it's only available as a binary). So it would appear that there is a GPL violation in effect here.
These could host reverse engineered open-source programs, CVS repositories, cryptography software, text documents, and other free speech related stuff.
I'm sorry, did I miss something? Is it really that hard to find open-source programs, CVS repositories, cryptography software, text documents, and other free speech related stuff on the net right now? Hell, that stuff is all legal in most countries anyway. Perhaps your data haven can collect copyrighted media like movies and music. No, wait. That stuff is easy to get, too. Guess the only real application is to collect lots of "personal profile for my.site.com" databases, so the data pirates can collect it all and construct mega-profiles on individuals. Then they can resell the info to marketers in order to pay for their phat bandwidth needs. Yup, that's about as interesting as this idea seems to get.
> Why target a group that makes up less than one percent of your buyers?
What? Can you cite a source for that figure? At every Quake LAN party I had at my college, 20-40% of the people who showed up and played were female. (And one of those women was the best flag defender we had.)
Here here. HTML is a markup language and is used to mark the structure of text. Table tags like TD are used to mark the limits of a span of text that is part of a table cell. As tags that mark a span of content, they damn well should have starting tags and ending tags. Just like the P tag. It marks a paragraph. There should be a tag that shows where the paragraph begins, and where it ends.
Now, IMG tags and such are replaced entities and therefore need no closing tag. They mark the location in a document where another entity is placed. The BR tag is the same. But don't use a P tag when you mean two BR's. And don't use a TD tag as if it were a replaced entity.
HTML is not a layout language, and it's the goddamn treating of it as such and "fixing" broken tags that has made this www the mess that it is. If people would just use the language as intended, as a markup language, oh the wonders we could work. Imagine, if our content marked up by structure we could acutally build decent search engines that could parse the structure of documents they crawl in order to better distill their content. Hey, we could actually get some work done on the Internet rather than using it to just replace the Sears catalog and the movie channel.
...if every Linux user dropped the attitude and helped the newbies instead of getting off on how superior they are because they know Linux.
Not every Linux user has that attitude. I don't get off on being "superior" because I know Linux. If I could prove the Weil conjecture, then I'd get off on being superior. But knowing how to recompile my kernel and write mod_perl apps just doesn't do it for me.
Simply reading the manual/readme/whatever doesn't always work.
You're right. Sometimes you have to think, experiment, make mistakes, and learn from them.
If someone is used to OS xyz or 123 jumping to Linux takes a little help.
A little help can make things easier for a newbie, but a little help often turns into a lot of help and in turn you end up with a newbie that's dependent on help for everything because they haven't figured out how to figure out Linux.
I think that the Linux community doesn't want average Joe to use Linux because that would put average Joe on the same level.
That's an odd opinion. From what I can tell, the Linux community does want every average Joe and Jane running Linux. God knows why. I don't care who runs Linux and who doesn't, as long as I get to.
-- Brandt (who gets asked way too many Linux questions every day)
And the purpose of this mass emailing would be...?
I'm all for communicating with representatives, but treating each member of the CCTCI to a slashdotted inbox probably won't make them feel warm and fuzzy inside.
What it will teach them is that when they deal with Microsoft et al they end up dealing with one contact that obviously is supported by a very large organization. When they deal with the free software community they end up being overwhelmed by a slew of redundant emails having a very low signal-to-noise.
I like your intentions, but I'm afraid the effect could be counterproductive. A thousand proponents won't be able to convince a congressman nearly as effectively as one proponent will.
This is good news, I guess, but I still can't use RedHat on my SPARCstation 5 Model 170. I wonder if Sun might help resolve the bootloader problems that redhat has with the TurboSPARC? Not that they really care about supporting my slow old sparcstation, but I care.
While I'm procrastinating, does anyone know of another distro that will install on a 5/170? According to the sparclinux pages, the new kernels do work on the turbosparc, but redhat says that their installer doesn't work on it yet.
RMS suggests: If you are the author of a book sold by Amazon, you can provide powerful help to this campaign by putting this text into the "author comment" about your book, on Amazon's web site.
But if you visit amazon and browse through books with his name on them, it seems that he hasn't done this himself. I'd respect his wishes here a bit more if he'd at least follow through on his own requests.
I don't think that RMS targets anyone who makes money. After all, he's asking people to boycott Amazon because of their stupid patent. RMS isn't saying "boycott amazon because they make money."
Not that I wouldn't understand if the man did go on a rampage. The last few weeks have seen more pimping of Free Software than ever before. The efforts of RMS have spawned a great model of software development, but dotcom overspeculation has touched that model in an ugly way.
Yeah, I'm happy to see the redhat people and the va linux people and andover.net and all those folks making a ton of money off their efforts. I like seeing people I respect being rewarded. But right now is when open source software and the business world are really getting to know each other, and this relationship is really starting off on the wrong foot.
I'd have preferred to see open source really take off after the market crashes. I'm in no rush for corporate america to adopt my favorite operating system. I don't really care who uses linux as long as I get to use it. I just hate to see free software become prematurely adopted by people who shouldn't be using it yet, and then seeing them left with a sour taste in their mouth.
OK, that's enough ranting and raving for me for now, I guess.
A good massage is also a reasonable preventative measure
Here here! A good massage from your SO can also lead to, um, other activities. Which means taking a break from the computer. Which means giving your wrists a rest. Which is good, right?
...the defendant would still be up a creek, as all her past and present encrypted data would be exposed.
Um, no. If the defendant used a decent cryptosystem with session keys, she'd only have to use her private key to recover the session key. She could then present her session key to the court and reveal the correct plaintext.
Still not a good thing, but not as bad as it could be.
Paying for binaries isn't the only way that the software business can work.
My company pays for software support. The support pays for, in part, development of the software.
I often pay for copies of RedHat. Not that I get to use them, though. I bough 5.1 and rapidly switched to 5.2 when it came out. I bought 6.0 and never installed it becase 6.1 was up for d/l before I got 6.0 in the mail. But the point is, Redhat gives money to people who write software I like. So I'll give redhat money so they can continue that practice.
And my next machine will come from VA Linux. Yeah, they're pricier than other places, but they pay raster, mandrake, and so on, so...
I think free (speech not beer) software is great. And I'm willing to pay for it.
I'll buy that an OS is a necessity. And depending on your work environment, an office app suite may be a necessity. But VMWare?
I'm curious as to why people see VMWare as being so important. Sure, there's a guy I work with who uses it to run Photoshop. I prefer GIMP. I'm sure other people use VMWare to run MS Office. I prefer vim.
If VMWare is so important to your way of computing, perhaps it's time to rethink your choice of OS?
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The easiest way I've found to do this is to setup a PPP connection for the Palm over the serial port to the cradle. Then just do a modem sync in AvantGo.
Then maybe I'd post an article to slashdot that talks about x86 mininotebooks that run linux and BSD, and some people would think "gee that's cool" and buy those and maybe not like them as much as they'd like a z50.
The point is that it is worthwhile to discuss alternatives in the same forum as the thing itself, therefore allowing readers to compare options and think for themselves.
And I must admit that I am quite disturbed to see the deeply ingrained American mindset of "sue, Sue, SUE!" pervert the mentality of the open source community. We don't need big corporations, government courts, and high-priced law firms to tell us what's right. Let's just take out the punk's server, release his code for him, and just not play QuakeLives or whatever the hell it's called anyway? (hint- that last sentence was a joke...)
Oh yeah, "WORTHLESS." I guess that everyone in the world uses debuggers, and that nobody finds #ifdef DEBUG to be more useful. Yeah, ok.
perhaps, but the tabacco lobbyists in congress will make sure that you can always see the cigarette adds, even if you aren't 18. don't forget the other people that control congress...
They had a CAVE at Supercomputing '93 in Portland, OR (1993!). I went and checked it out, and it was pretty cool for 1993. But unless the tech has really improved, it would be pretty damn boring next to a stereoscopically rendered quake3.
From what other people here have said, it appears that Beam-it answers some kind of challenge-reponse protocol from the server in which it does send pieces of the audio track sometimes.
The Beam-it README states that it relies on cdparanoia, which I believe is doing some scratch detection-and-compenstation.
So, as long as cdparanoia can read your audio tracks, then Beam-it will work for you. But if that's the case, you don't need My.MP3.com anyway. Unless the part they ask for isn't the scratched part of your disc.
I had hoped to use My.MP3.com in a similar way: I wanted to take advantage of their Instant-Listening program to get access to pre-encoded MP3s of all the CDs I buy. I have an empeg that I am migrating all my music to, and ripping/encoding get tedious.
However, their server software seems to do some tricky stuff to be sure that you're using a "streaming only" player, and not downloading the MP3 file. Nothing that can't be circumvented I'm sure, but maybe it's not worth circumventing.
But to get back to the point, yes, you could just use a WAV-writer plugin with your MP3 player and get your audio data back as long as Beam-it recognized your CD. I have several very scratched disks that I tried with Beam-it and they all worked. Of course, some of my discs that were in perfect condition didn't work, but that's another story.
bash$ ldd /usr/bin/beamit /usr/lib/libmsp.so (0x4001a000) /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40024000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
libmsp.so =>
libc.so.6 =>
it's a library (libsmp is the one in question, and as far as I can tell it's only available as a binary). So it would appear that there is a GPL violation in effect here.
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Moderators: please moderate the parent post up as "Funny"
I'll let you in on something: no news/media company with a publicly owned parent company is credible.
- I put real unix in quotes, "like so"
- According to uptime reports, BSD is more stable than either Linux or any Windows
- If you keep up with reports of vulnerabilities in different OSes, BSD does lead the pack in security.
So there. Mark this post Flamebait if you must, but the pervious one was unworthy of moderation down or up.THHBTHBBBBT!
- You want a "real unix"
- You want something more stable than either of the above mentioned OSes
- You want something more secure than either of the above mentioned OSes
If none of those apply, stick to linux.I'm sorry, did I miss something? Is it really that hard to find open-source programs, CVS repositories, cryptography software, text documents, and other free speech related stuff on the net right now? Hell, that stuff is all legal in most countries anyway. Perhaps your data haven can collect copyrighted media like movies and music. No, wait. That stuff is easy to get, too. Guess the only real application is to collect lots of "personal profile for my.site.com" databases, so the data pirates can collect it all and construct mega-profiles on individuals. Then they can resell the info to marketers in order to pay for their phat bandwidth needs. Yup, that's about as interesting as this idea seems to get.
> Why target a group that makes up less than one percent of your buyers?
What? Can you cite a source for that figure? At every Quake LAN party I had at my college, 20-40% of the people who showed up and played were female. (And one of those women was the best flag defender we had.)Here here. HTML is a markup language and is used to mark the structure of text. Table tags like TD are used to mark the limits of a span of text that is part of a table cell. As tags that mark a span of content, they damn well should have starting tags and ending tags. Just like the P tag. It marks a paragraph. There should be a tag that shows where the paragraph begins, and where it ends.
Now, IMG tags and such are replaced entities and therefore need no closing tag. They mark the location in a document where another entity is placed. The BR tag is the same. But don't use a P tag when you mean two BR's. And don't use a TD tag as if it were a replaced entity.
HTML is not a layout language, and it's the goddamn treating of it as such and "fixing" broken tags that has made this www the mess that it is. If people would just use the language as intended, as a markup language, oh the wonders we could work. Imagine, if our content marked up by structure we could acutally build decent search engines that could parse the structure of documents they crawl in order to better distill their content. Hey, we could actually get some work done on the Internet rather than using it to just replace the Sears catalog and the movie channel.
oops, i'm ranting. time to get back to work.
Not every Linux user has that attitude. I don't get off on being "superior" because I know Linux. If I could prove the Weil conjecture, then I'd get off on being superior. But knowing how to recompile my kernel and write mod_perl apps just doesn't do it for me.
Simply reading the manual/readme/whatever doesn't always work.
You're right. Sometimes you have to think, experiment, make mistakes, and learn from them.
If someone is used to OS xyz or 123 jumping to Linux takes a little help.
A little help can make things easier for a newbie, but a little help often turns into a lot of help and in turn you end up with a newbie that's dependent on help for everything because they haven't figured out how to figure out Linux.
I think that the Linux community doesn't want average Joe to use Linux because that would put average Joe on the same level.
That's an odd opinion. From what I can tell, the Linux community does want every average Joe and Jane running Linux. God knows why. I don't care who runs Linux and who doesn't, as long as I get to.
-- Brandt (who gets asked way too many Linux questions every day)
you mean developed-in-a-secret-underground-lair department, or is this a reference to the rumored 8-th layer of the ISO/OSI whatever 7 layer model?
And the purpose of this mass emailing would be...?
I'm all for communicating with representatives, but treating each member of the CCTCI to a slashdotted inbox probably won't make them feel warm and fuzzy inside.
What it will teach them is that when they deal with Microsoft et al they end up dealing with one contact that obviously is supported by a very large organization. When they deal with the free software community they end up being overwhelmed by a slew of redundant emails having a very low signal-to-noise.
I like your intentions, but I'm afraid the effect could be counterproductive. A thousand proponents won't be able to convince a congressman nearly as effectively as one proponent will.
While I'm procrastinating, does anyone know of another distro that will install on a 5/170? According to the sparclinux pages, the new kernels do work on the turbosparc, but redhat says that their installer doesn't work on it yet.
But if you visit amazon and browse through books with his name on them, it seems that he hasn't done this himself. I'd respect his wishes here a bit more if he'd at least follow through on his own requests.
Do you have a source for that? I'd really love to pass that info around...
I don't think that RMS targets anyone who makes money. After all, he's asking people to boycott Amazon because of their stupid patent. RMS isn't saying "boycott amazon because they make money."
Not that I wouldn't understand if the man did go on a rampage. The last few weeks have seen more pimping of Free Software than ever before. The efforts of RMS have spawned a great model of software development, but dotcom overspeculation has touched that model in an ugly way.
Yeah, I'm happy to see the redhat people and the va linux people and andover.net and all those folks making a ton of money off their efforts. I like seeing people I respect being rewarded. But right now is when open source software and the business world are really getting to know each other, and this relationship is really starting off on the wrong foot.
I'd have preferred to see open source really take off after the market crashes. I'm in no rush for corporate america to adopt my favorite operating system. I don't really care who uses linux as long as I get to use it. I just hate to see free software become prematurely adopted by people who shouldn't be using it yet, and then seeing them left with a sour taste in their mouth.
OK, that's enough ranting and raving for me for now, I guess.
Here here! A good massage from your SO can also lead to, um, other activities. Which means taking a break from the computer. Which means giving your wrists a rest. Which is good, right?
Um, no. If the defendant used a decent cryptosystem with session keys, she'd only have to use her private key to recover the session key. She could then present her session key to the court and reveal the correct plaintext.
Still not a good thing, but not as bad as it could be.
Paying for binaries isn't the only way that the software business can work.
My company pays for software support. The support pays for, in part, development of the software.
I often pay for copies of RedHat. Not that I get to use them, though. I bough 5.1 and rapidly switched to 5.2 when it came out. I bought 6.0 and never installed it becase 6.1 was up for d/l before I got 6.0 in the mail. But the point is, Redhat gives money to people who write software I like. So I'll give redhat money so they can continue that practice.
And my next machine will come from VA Linux. Yeah, they're pricier than other places, but they pay raster, mandrake, and so on, so...
I think free (speech not beer) software is great. And I'm willing to pay for it.
Necessity?
I'll buy that an OS is a necessity. And depending on your work environment, an office app suite may be a necessity. But VMWare?
I'm curious as to why people see VMWare as being so important. Sure, there's a guy I work with who uses it to run Photoshop. I prefer GIMP. I'm sure other people use VMWare to run MS Office. I prefer vim.
If VMWare is so important to your way of computing, perhaps it's time to rethink your choice of OS?