The conference call has just finished, but according to Yahoo:
After the event has finished, the audio will be available from this page until Fri, May 28, 2004
I only caught the last few questions, but was most amused to hear them asserting that the 4? people involved in the Novell->SCO transfer believed they were transferring the copyrights, but that the document doesn't necessarily reflect that. They also made out that there was some calls made to Novell people, but that the people higher up in the tree thought 'if SCO wants it then we want it too'. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few hours/days, but given the significant backpedalling (pulling linux from the shelves and now talking about contracts instead of copyright) I'd say they're clutching at straws.
Anyway these are merely my own opinions - go listen to it yourself if you're really interested...
My understanding of this stuff is that it works by superseding the table of contents with a deliberately corrupted one in a way that is only interpreted by computers. That is, (legacy) consumer equipment will ignore the pointer (for want of a better description) to the new table and read the old one. CD-ROM drives will follow the pointer to the junk data and get confused. Now, this functionality is apparently useful for multi session CDs but if that's all I were to lose, I'd happily update the firmware in a similar fashion to how I update the firmware to allow playing of imported DVDs (eg for content not available here). In fact if modified firmware were available for a reasonably common drive I'd dedicate one to ripping in a flash... CD-ROM drives ~= the price of CDs nowdays anyway! And of course it only takes one person with this modified equipment to rip the CD and publish it. That said I'm *very* picky about the quality of rips (usually using ogg with q=6, considering moving to flac and forgetting about it) so I don't download anything. Gotta run...
The intention was to refer to the order of magnitude... as opposed to the 100Mhz common in embedded systems, and the 1Ghz-10Ghz we're starting to see in desktops now.
I think we'll start seeing all sorts of systems in the 10^2 to 10^3Mhz range over the next year or two. VIA in particular have some interesting products with their fanless C3 processors which operate at 500Mhz - plenty for most applications, and the Eden platform. People will be more interested in smaller systems which are quieter, cheaper, and which use less power. And when you can run things like Linux or Lindows you start seeing things like the Walmart PCs, which I figure is pretty much what they're after. Of course VIA aren't the only ones in this area, although I am more interested in supporting them (and Transmeta) than a certain other chip manufacturer with a virtual monopoly.
A while ago the Commonwealth Bank of Australia sent an email 'To/Cc' its Quickline (modem based electronic banking software) requesting they reply with their secret 'gateway ID'. There were plenty of embarassing emails sent to the list in reply, and an article in The Australian (IT) that I'll bet they would have rathered was not printed.
In one hand we have Sun Increasing [its] Commitment to Gnome, and yet on the other it's abandoning a critical product in its battle against MSFT and professing that Linux on the Mainframe [is] Not a Good Idea. Microsoft are regularly raising the bar when it comes to talking to their client operating systems from non Windows Servers (eg the infamous Kerberos PAC), so surely having your own office suite appearing on Windows clients can't hurt, especially as everything starts to look like a big (.NET centred) communications network. I wonder what IBM thinks about all this? I get the feeling they're closer to the mark than Sun, and if nothing else they've decided their direction and are throwing their whole weight behind it, which is commendable (certainly preferrable over this wishy washy floundering from Sun). And what's with bashing Linux *and* pulling Solaris for Intel architectures. Ok, so you're a hardware vendor, but how's anyone meant to know their way around Solaris with uni labs migrating to Linux left right and centre and with you revoking any chance a hobbyist had of playing with it without parting with arms and legs for Sun hardware? Why don't you just let go of Java so we can stop concerning ourselves with what direction you've chosen for today and get on with ensuring J2EE retains its position in the web services market.
Interesting someone would choose to base a company like this in Australia... given our track record with Internet censorship, banning porn [hosted down under], forcing gambling overseas (where it does just as much damage, except without our collecting taxes on it), etc.
I'll bet they'll completely ignore the idea that this might actually be a GoodThing[tm] and use it as an excuse to push through more shitty laws.
Now our government has managed to sell 1/2 of something we already own back to us it's time they hung onto what's left and split the services and infrastructure components in two. This would go a long way towards flattening an otherwise uneven playing ground and protecting our precious infrastructure from a seemingly insane services company. There is no excuse for the amount we're paying for broadband Internet (and we call ourselves the 'knowledge nation'... with internet censorship and the banning of online gambling [both of which cost arms and legs in implementation and lost revenue while having no tangible effect on either!] I tend to prefer 'global village idiot'). The fact we pay for the data itself rather than the size of the pipe, and at rates that have been virtually static for many many years is ridiculous.
The USB has been hacked to prevent the use of standard PC devices. If this has been done well then it'll be very difficult to use Xboxes as X-terminals, but that almost certainly won't stop you from using them as cheap network servers. For example, even if we can't get other OS's running on it, we could just port apache and friends over - all they need is disk and network access. I think the future of the Xbox in non-gaming applications is looking fairly good. I'm definitely looking forward to building and MS sponsored rack full of Xboxes pumping out web pages for me:)
Having said that it looks like the USB may not be that difficult to hack. I figure the boot process will be the next thing that needs attention.
I've just finished putting my iBook back together and am pleased to report that it's running very nicely indeed at 600Mhz w/100Mhz system bus. The components were smaller than I expected and even after trying hard to keep track of the screws I still have 2 leftovers.. oh and the battery's foot that I pried off before I realised only 3 of the feet were hiding screws. I'm installing 10.1 and Photoshop 6.0.1 which I won today at a 10.1 launch BBQ here in Sydney:P
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The conference call has just finished, but according to Yahoo:
After the event has finished, the audio will be available
from this page until Fri, May 28, 2004
I only caught the last few questions, but was most amused to hear them asserting that the 4? people involved in the Novell->SCO transfer believed they were transferring the copyrights, but that the document doesn't necessarily reflect that. They also made out that there was some calls made to Novell people, but that the people higher up in the tree thought 'if SCO wants it then we want it too'. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few hours/days, but given the significant backpedalling (pulling linux from the shelves and now talking about contracts instead of copyright) I'd say they're clutching at straws.
Anyway these are merely my own opinions - go listen to it yourself if you're really interested...
probably not
My understanding of this stuff is that it works by superseding the table of contents with a deliberately corrupted one in a way that is only interpreted by computers. That is, (legacy) consumer equipment will ignore the pointer (for want of a better description) to the new table and read the old one. CD-ROM drives will follow the pointer to the junk data and get confused. Now, this functionality is apparently useful for multi session CDs but if that's all I were to lose, I'd happily update the firmware in a similar fashion to how I update the firmware to allow playing of imported DVDs (eg for content not available here). In fact if modified firmware were available for a reasonably common drive I'd dedicate one to ripping in a flash... CD-ROM drives ~= the price of CDs nowdays anyway! And of course it only takes one person with this modified equipment to rip the CD and publish it. That said I'm *very* picky about the quality of rips (usually using ogg with q=6, considering moving to flac and forgetting about it) so I don't download anything. Gotta run...
The intention was to refer to the order of magnitude... as opposed to the 100Mhz common in embedded systems, and the 1Ghz-10Ghz we're starting to see in desktops now.
I think we'll start seeing all sorts of systems in the 10^2 to 10^3Mhz range over the next year or two. VIA in particular have some interesting products with their fanless C3 processors which operate at 500Mhz - plenty for most applications, and the Eden platform. People will be more interested in smaller systems which are quieter, cheaper, and which use less power. And when you can run things like Linux or Lindows you start seeing things like the Walmart PCs, which I figure is pretty much what they're after. Of course VIA aren't the only ones in this area, although I am more interested in supporting them (and Transmeta) than a certain other chip manufacturer with a virtual monopoly.
It's about time us aussies got to laugh at you guys for a change - have you imported some of our lawmakers?
Then again there has been the DMCA etc. to keep us amused.
A while ago the Commonwealth Bank of Australia sent an email 'To/Cc' its Quickline (modem based electronic banking software) requesting they reply with their secret 'gateway ID'. There were plenty of embarassing emails sent to the list in reply, and an article in The Australian (IT) that I'll bet they would have rathered was not printed.
In one hand we have Sun Increasing [its] Commitment to Gnome, and yet on the other it's abandoning a critical product in its battle against MSFT and professing that Linux on the Mainframe [is] Not a Good Idea. Microsoft are regularly raising the bar when it comes to talking to their client operating systems from non Windows Servers (eg the infamous Kerberos PAC), so surely having your own office suite appearing on Windows clients can't hurt, especially as everything starts to look like a big (.NET centred) communications network. I wonder what IBM thinks about all this? I get the feeling they're closer to the mark than Sun, and if nothing else they've decided their direction and are throwing their whole weight behind it, which is commendable (certainly preferrable over this wishy washy floundering from Sun). And what's with bashing Linux *and* pulling Solaris for Intel architectures. Ok, so you're a hardware vendor, but how's anyone meant to know their way around Solaris with uni labs migrating to Linux left right and centre and with you revoking any chance a hobbyist had of playing with it without parting with arms and legs for Sun hardware? Why don't you just let go of Java so we can stop concerning ourselves with what direction you've chosen for today and get on with ensuring J2EE retains its position in the web services market.
Interesting someone would choose to base a company like this in Australia... given our track record with Internet censorship, banning porn [hosted down under], forcing gambling overseas (where it does just as much damage, except without our collecting taxes on it), etc.
I'll bet they'll completely ignore the idea that this might actually be a GoodThing[tm] and use it as an excuse to push through more shitty laws.
Anyway it's past my bedtime.
Now our government has managed to sell 1/2 of something we already own back to us it's time they hung onto what's left and split the services and infrastructure components in two. This would go a long way towards flattening an otherwise uneven playing ground and protecting our precious infrastructure from a seemingly insane services company. There is no excuse for the amount we're paying for broadband Internet (and we call ourselves the 'knowledge nation'... with internet censorship and the banning of online gambling [both of which cost arms and legs in implementation and lost revenue while having no tangible effect on either!] I tend to prefer 'global village idiot'). The fact we pay for the data itself rather than the size of the pipe, and at rates that have been virtually static for many many years is ridiculous.
The USB has been hacked to prevent the use of standard PC devices. If this has been done well then it'll be very difficult to use Xboxes as X-terminals, but that almost certainly won't stop you from using them as cheap network servers. For example, even if we can't get other OS's running on it, we could just port apache and friends over - all they need is disk and network access. I think the future of the Xbox in non-gaming applications is looking fairly good. I'm definitely looking forward to building and MS sponsored rack full of Xboxes pumping out web pages for me :)
Having said that it looks like the USB may not be that difficult to hack. I figure the boot process will be the next thing that needs attention.
I've just finished putting my iBook back together and am pleased to report that it's running very nicely indeed at 600Mhz w/100Mhz system bus. The components were smaller than I expected and even after trying hard to keep track of the screws I still have 2 leftovers.. oh and the battery's foot that I pried off before I realised only 3 of the feet were hiding screws. I'm installing 10.1 and Photoshop 6.0.1 which I won today at a 10.1 launch BBQ here in Sydney :P
I use qmail, and create a .qmail-default file in my home directory. This allows me to dynamically create an email address in the form user-*@host. If I were to register with /. for example I'd use samj-slashdot@mydomain.com. If I were to post to newsgroups I'd use samj-news@mydomain.com. This allows me not only to identify the source of spam, but also to disable any address which is discovered by spammers (by creating suitable a .qmail-slashdot file for example).