The overall audio qualitiy is really good if you throw away the supplied headphones and get something like the Sennheiser MX500s.
But: the MP3 decoder software in the versions 1.0.2 and 1.0.4 has a bug so that it creates a whining noise about 24db below the original sound. The nature is not quite clear but it looks like it is at ca. 4khz. Apple did fix this with version 1.0.3 but that had other problems (mostly UI slowness).
Since the gIFT site is currently slashdotted, I can't verify this, but I thought that gIFT does not implement the Kazaa supernodes which basically help searches by pooling searches and search results on high bandwidth nodes.
Looks like Apple needs a lesson in software temper resistance. I know that it's hard to do (part of my current job) and security by obscurity sucks, but at least don't name the crucial file "CheckForOSX"... better use something bland like "OFUpdate", or if you're in the mood, "MicrosoftEngineersAreWeenies";)
I second that. Lua is really neat and compact. It is in a way a sort of meta-language, allowing to override many of the built-in functions like variable access, function calls or arithmetic operators so you can build your own language.
Last I checked it has gained some popularity in the game developer scene but I don't know how that has evolved.
The limit is probably imposed by the software used in the base station, e.g. if you have it running in NAT mode or if you use MAC-based access control. Somehow like:
An employee that retains copyright on the source code, if you bother to check.
Actually, I'm not too sure about this, not knowing Russian copyright law. At least in Germany, there is a distinction between the rights you have as an author of a work (Urheberrrecht) and the rights you have to use said work by selling, renting... (Nutzungsrecht). If I as an employee develop software for a company, I have ususally no rights to sell that software on my own. If programmers put a notice like "Copyright Joe Blow" into a program, I'd figure it is invalid since they usually don't have the right to grant others the usage of the software. As a regular emplyee, you give that right to your employer. What programmers actally want to express with such a notice that they are the authors of the software.
Assuming that Dmitri is a regular employee (which I am not sure of), then there should not be a case against him but Elcomsoft as a corporation and perhaps its CEO or president as a representative, meaning that you go after the people who are responsible and not those who simply carry out the task of implementing something.
It is really interesting to read the affidavit. It clearly makes the connection between the copyright notice stating that Dmitri is the copyright owner and him being responsible for violating the DMCA. If you assume that this copyright notice is bogus (i.e. Dmitri does not have the copyright at all, he is just the author), then he should have a good chance winning his case.
While I agree that a free download would have been really nice for those who wanted the upgrade fast, you could get the upgrade CDs for X and 9 for free at a some stores (e.g. MicroCenter, CompUSA, Elite and the Apple stores themselves). I figure Apple wanted the people to actually go to the stores so that they might buy other stuff while they get their upgrade CDs. Too bad that the supply for the update CDs wasn't that great, so you had to wait a couple of days to catch a fresh shipment at your local store.
The Finder is a separate process as well in the classic (i.e. pre-X) Mac OS. You can kill it and the other running applications don't loose their GUI. The GUI in classic Mac OS is established by the Toolbox. That includes menus, dialog boxes, window handling etc. The Finder doesn't implement any of that, it just uses it like any other application.
Now you repeat after me: All registration packages include the exhibits, Keynotes, Feature Presentations, Birds of-a Feather Sessions and a complimentary subscription to Dr. Dobb?s Journal (a $34.95 value).
Is it really that hard to read?
No it isn't. It might not be what you see there on that site, but just do a quick google for "Microsoft" and "eHome" (not the defunct company) and you'll see that something is going on in that direction.
If you registered early enough, it was free (as well as the exhibits). Later (a week before?), it was $25. Hardly a price only the "rich elite" could pay...
Actually, what I meant was that the Linux distributors add it to their retail versions only. It would then be an additional incentive to get a boxed version... I would definitely like it.
Well, what I would like to see is that the big Linux companies like RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake,... make a deal with Codeweavers and bundle CrossOver with their distributions. I'm sure that would be profitable for both sides.
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Here we go... the International Court of Justice ruled in favour of Germany in this case and acknowledged that the USA have violated the Vienna Convention.
You don't really need it. But the content owner need it to finally implement copy protection for TV. First steps have been taken by Sony and Warner to use DTCP as the copy protection mechanism for the "digital home network". DTCP will most likely be used over FireWire (which itself contains mechanisms for authentication and authorization).
Now, what I really like is the naming of the groups who come up with copy protection schemes: 4C, 5C,...
Another good speculation I heard was that licencing issues relating to DVD software forced Apple to reduce the possibility of reverse-engineering the DVD playback software somehow
I'm also pretty sure this is the reason behind the delay of the software DVD player for Mac OS X. It must have been physically painful for the Mac OS engineers to cripple Quartz so that other programs besides the DVD player can't access the screen content... Software-based DVD playback is a nice area! There are even some companies that boast that their software-based DVD players haven't been hacked.
Anyway, this is a pretty ugly mess. Companies still have to pay license fees to the friendly people at LMI for an encryption scheme that has been broken and still have to implement useless security mechanims to protect the content.
I'm not sure about Sweden, but at least in Germany, it is illegal to commercially import any movies that haven't been rated by the FSK (Voluntary Self Control, the rating agency in Germany). I figure this would apply to most non-RC2 movies. There is no law however that prohibits importing them for your own use.
Basically, what you have is a law being misused for the interests of the movie industry.
The only "risk" I see DRM posing to Open Source products, is that they may not get support for some multimedia apps that Win/Mac does.
Absolutely right. For a DRM to work, you need some kind of enforcing entity. This would ususally be a player or viewer application. A player has to enforce the rules set forth by the content owner. To do that, it has to prevent a third party from changing those rules. One way to do this is to implement tamper resistant software which handles the interpretation of the DRM rules. Tamper resistancy and Linux don't really work well together because Linux is an open execution environment where you as the developer have lots of ways to figure out what a program is doing.
It is in a way strange that CPRM with its hardware-based securing of content might actually help here. Because you delegate the security mechanism to hardware and don't have to implement them in (easier to hack) software. From a purely technical point of view, CPRM is good for Open Source because it opens the possibility to develop DRM-aware software. But to have technology that enforces weak laws is a different point alltogether...
I think the answer to why it should scare me should rather be that they're coupling WMA with their rights management system, backed by Passport and deployed by pressplay. This really scares me.
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The overall audio qualitiy is really good if you throw away the supplied headphones and get something like the Sennheiser MX500s.
But: the MP3 decoder software in the versions 1.0.2 and 1.0.4 has a bug so that it creates a whining noise about 24db below the original sound. The nature is not quite clear but it looks like it is at ca. 4khz. Apple did fix this with version 1.0.3 but that had other problems (mostly UI slowness).
Just for fun, I did a google for Z80 and TCP/IP and I found this... what a joy reading Z80 assembler still is...
I am using my Newton on a regular basis and I know a lot of other people who do so, thank you very much. You just sound like a troll in disguise...
Since the gIFT site is currently slashdotted, I can't verify this, but I thought that gIFT does not implement the Kazaa supernodes which basically help searches by pooling searches and search results on high bandwidth nodes.
Looks like Apple needs a lesson in software temper resistance. I know that it's hard to do (part of my current job) and security by obscurity sucks, but at least don't name the crucial file "CheckForOSX" ... better use something bland like "OFUpdate", or if you're in the mood, "MicrosoftEngineersAreWeenies" ;)
I second that. Lua is really neat and compact. It is in a way a sort of meta-language, allowing to override many of the built-in functions like variable access, function calls or arithmetic operators so you can build your own language.
Last I checked it has gained some popularity in the game developer scene but I don't know how that has evolved.
#define MAX_CLIENTS 10
struct client_info clients[MAX_CLIENTS];
Hmm, mine isn't. Care to elaborate?
Actually, I'm not too sure about this, not knowing Russian copyright law. At least in Germany, there is a distinction between the rights you have as an author of a work (Urheberrrecht) and the rights you have to use said work by selling, renting ... (Nutzungsrecht). If I as an employee develop software for a company, I have ususally no rights to sell that software on my own. If programmers put a notice like "Copyright Joe Blow" into a program, I'd figure it is invalid since they usually don't have the right to grant others the usage of the software. As a regular emplyee, you give that right to your employer. What programmers actally want to express with such a notice that they are the authors of the software.
Assuming that Dmitri is a regular employee (which I am not sure of), then there should not be a case against him but Elcomsoft as a corporation and perhaps its CEO or president as a representative, meaning that you go after the people who are responsible and not those who simply carry out the task of implementing something.
It is really interesting to read the affidavit. It clearly makes the connection between the copyright notice stating that Dmitri is the copyright owner and him being responsible for violating the DMCA. If you assume that this copyright notice is bogus (i.e. Dmitri does not have the copyright at all, he is just the author), then he should have a good chance winning his case.
Well there's a nice Boondocks strip about the DMCA (Part 1, part 2 and part 3).
While I agree that a free download would have been really nice for those who wanted the upgrade fast, you could get the upgrade CDs for X and 9 for free at a some stores (e.g. MicroCenter, CompUSA, Elite and the Apple stores themselves). I figure Apple wanted the people to actually go to the stores so that they might buy other stuff while they get their upgrade CDs. Too bad that the supply for the update CDs wasn't that great, so you had to wait a couple of days to catch a fresh shipment at your local store.
The Finder is a separate process as well in the classic (i.e. pre-X) Mac OS. You can kill it and the other running applications don't loose their GUI. The GUI in classic Mac OS is established by the Toolbox. That includes menus, dialog boxes, window handling etc. The Finder doesn't implement any of that, it just uses it like any other application.
Now you repeat after me: All registration packages include the exhibits, Keynotes, Feature Presentations, Birds of-a Feather Sessions and a complimentary subscription to Dr. Dobb?s Journal (a $34.95 value).
Is it really that hard to read?
No it isn't. It might not be what you see there on that site, but just do a quick google for "Microsoft" and "eHome" (not the defunct company) and you'll see that something is going on in that direction.
If you registered early enough, it was free (as well as the exhibits). Later (a week before?), it was $25. Hardly a price only the "rich elite" could pay...
Actually, what I meant was that the Linux distributors add it to their retail versions only. It would then be an additional incentive to get a boxed version... I would definitely like it.
Well, what I would like to see is that the big Linux companies like RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, ... make a deal with Codeweavers and bundle CrossOver with their distributions. I'm sure that would be profitable for both sides.
NN.NN.NN.NN - - [10/Aug/2001:04:11:20 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 7023 /753f7d950154aaec...1cc7 HTTP/1.0" 404 258 /scripts/root.exe HTTP/1.0" 404 210 /MSADC/root.exe HTTP/1.0" 404 208 /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe HTTP/1.0" 404 218 /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe HTTP/1.0" 404 218 /NULL.ida?http-42.AAAAAA...AAAAAAAAA=X HTTP/1.1" 404 214 /NULL.idq?http-42.AAAAAAAA...AAAAAAAA=X HTTP/1.1" 404 214
NN.NN.NN.NN - - [10/Aug/2001:04:11:20 -0700] "GET
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NN.NN.NN.NN - - [10/Aug/2001:04:11:21 -0700] "GET
NN.NN.NN.NN - - [10/Aug/2001:04:11:21 -0700] "GET
NN.NN.NN.NN - - [10/Aug/2001:04:11:25 -0700] "GET
NN.NN.NN.NN - - [10/Aug/2001:04:11:26 -0700] "GET
NN.NN.NN.NN - - [10/Aug/2001:04:11:29 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 7023
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NN.NN.NN.NN - - [10/Aug/2001:04:11:33 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 7023
Or is there somebody trying to exploit the CodeRed backdoors? Mind you, this is within a supposedly protected firefall.
Here we go ... the International Court of Justice ruled in favour of Germany in this case and acknowledged that the USA have violated the Vienna Convention.
Now, what I really like is the naming of the groups who come up with copy protection schemes: 4C, 5C, ...
I'm also pretty sure this is the reason behind the delay of the software DVD player for Mac OS X. It must have been physically painful for the Mac OS engineers to cripple Quartz so that other programs besides the DVD player can't access the screen content... Software-based DVD playback is a nice area! There are even some companies that boast that their software-based DVD players haven't been hacked.
Anyway, this is a pretty ugly mess. Companies still have to pay license fees to the friendly people at LMI for an encryption scheme that has been broken and still have to implement useless security mechanims to protect the content.
Basically, what you have is a law being misused for the interests of the movie industry.
Absolutely right. For a DRM to work, you need some kind of enforcing entity. This would ususally be a player or viewer application. A player has to enforce the rules set forth by the content owner. To do that, it has to prevent a third party from changing those rules. One way to do this is to implement tamper resistant software which handles the interpretation of the DRM rules. Tamper resistancy and Linux don't really work well together because Linux is an open execution environment where you as the developer have lots of ways to figure out what a program is doing.
It is in a way strange that CPRM with its hardware-based securing of content might actually help here. Because you delegate the security mechanism to hardware and don't have to implement them in (easier to hack) software. From a purely technical point of view, CPRM is good for Open Source because it opens the possibility to develop DRM-aware software. But to have technology that enforces weak laws is a different point alltogether...
I think the answer to why it should scare me should rather be that they're coupling WMA with their rights management system, backed by Passport and deployed by pressplay. This really scares me.
Well, there was FrameMaker. I'd love to see that for Mac OS X... besides that, there was a whole set of productivity applications from LightHouse Design.