It's true that Microsoft has been using non-copylefted open source code for years, but it's a greater accomplishment to segregate copylefted programs from proprietary programs.
The usual password-breaking methods require getting a hash of the password from/etc/passwd. The router, on the other hand, provides no known way to access this file.
and exploits be found?
Do you have any details of an alleged vulnerability in the HTTP server in the RP614 firmware that would allow a program to access the server without authenticating itself?
upgrades the router with a custom built firmware that removes all normal function and just starts pinging a target
1. Router upgrades are done through the admin control panel, which requires a password. I have changed the default password on my NETGEAR router, but others often haven't, so...
2. I'd imagine that router upgrades are digitally signed by the manufacturer.
CD's now cost about 1/10th as much to press as records cost at their cheapest
Cost "to press" refers only to replication. Have the costs of writing the songs, recording the songs, distributing the records to major chain stores, oromotion on MTV including production of music videos, and so-called "independent" promotion on Clear Channel radio declined in parallel?
CD's STILL cost almost 20 bucks apiece.
1. Most of the price of the CD doesn't lie in replication. 2. Many CD albums are much longer than vinyl albums were. 3. The general cost of labor has increased.
After inflation, CDs are actually just as cheap as vinyl ever was.
Easy. USA has bigger population; therefore, assuming equal technology producing an equal GDP per capita, USA can produce a greater GDP. GDP is leverage in trade issues. Therefore, USA can almost dictate the terms of trade.
Perhaps if the British Empire hadn't broke up, it'd have more people, and...
I've had one problem with getting any network application to work on Linux: getting it to recognize the winmodem that shipped with the computer that I bought before I decided that switching this particular box to Linux was an option. For this and other reasons, I stick with Windows 2000 on my desktop and Windows 98se on my laptop.
open source products like that tend towards monotonically increasing quality
They also tend toward nearly monotonically increasing footprint.
I don't think you dislike Jabber... I think you tried one or two, probably half-baked, clients and disliked those.
A couple years ago, I tried quite a few Jabber clients for Windows 98 (including at least Winjab and JIM), but I disliked them because they ate a sizable chunk of System Resources (that is, the 64 KB gdi.exe and user.exe heaps inherent in Windows 9x) and crashed quite often. Has this been fixed in the newer Jabber clients for Windows? Is Exodus any better?
Check for downloaded MP3s (from a database of known MD5s)
MD5 can't distinguish an infringing copy of a work from a a copy authorized by Title 17, U.S. Code, section 107 or 1008, provided they are from identical digital phonorecords using identical encoder settings. Only something that makes discs different, such as audio watermarking, can do this, but this is incompatible with current Compact Disc mass production techniques.
Check for P2P programs -- disable them
And watch as people b**** that Windows SMB File Sharing and BitTorrent (both P2P programs with a history of actual non-infringing use) don't work anymore.
Check for competitors' products (DRDOS, Java, Mozilla, OpenOffice, etc) -- disable them and alert user that their software was incompatable with the latest service pack.
In other words, "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"? Microsoft may be in for more than an antitrust slap on the wrist this time.
More specifically, Windows users are like GM owners. They believe that they are driving a top notch quality reasonably new vehicle only to find themselves on the side of the road, broken down. These people refuse to believe that their car IS A PIECE OF SHIT.
Do you mean to imply that FixOrRepairDaily owners are any better off? What about DamnOldDirtyGasEater owners?
Do you mean that the worm deactivates itself on New Year's Day 2004, or on-or-after? Many businesses do not start their machines on New Year's Day of any year because their employees are on vacation.
It's related to the lag between dragging the mouse pointer down a menu and having the items highlight. It's related to dragging the scroll bar and having the view move smoothly. It's related to dragging a window and having both it and what's under it react smoothly.
3) Your driver does not support hardware acceleration
This is one of the major problems. Hardware vendors tend to expose too many of their trade secrets at the register level, and then they use this as an excuse not to release information to driver developers in Free window system implementation projects.
It goes through a user-space socket instead of using the kernel to access the AGP bus? That's a hoop.
Network-transparent window system libraries tend to have a few special cases that kick in when the display is running on the same machine that the apps are running on. I'd assume that a window system implementing something like X11's MIT Shared Memory Extension would let the app mmap() AGP memory in such a special case.
The goal is to run Linux on the PlayStation 2 without having to go through that blasted sandbox, to run NetBSD on PlayStation 2, to run games from Japan on U.S. PlayStation 2 consoles, etc.
Which usually require packing up the PS2 (and possibly a TV) and carrying it to the place where the computer serving NFS, CODA, wget, or ftp is located.
USB storage.
Does cdrecord support any of the available USB CD recorders? Do manufacturers even make USB CD recorders anymore? I couldn't find any on Pricewatch.com.
Is the PS2 Linux kit all that useful? For one thing, the I/O sandbox that the PS2 Linux kit sets up does not allow reading CD-R or CD-RW discs. How is one supposed to get data onto the system?
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It's true that Microsoft has been using non-copylefted open source code for years, but it's a greater accomplishment to segregate copylefted programs from proprietary programs.
but can't passwords be broken?
The usual password-breaking methods require getting a hash of the password from /etc/passwd. The router, on the other hand, provides no known way to access this file.
and exploits be found?
Do you have any details of an alleged vulnerability in the HTTP server in the RP614 firmware that would allow a program to access the server without authenticating itself?
upgrades the router with a custom built firmware that removes all normal function and just starts pinging a target
1. Router upgrades are done through the admin control panel, which requires a password. I have changed the default password on my NETGEAR router, but others often haven't, so...
2. I'd imagine that router upgrades are digitally signed by the manufacturer.
Tough luck. Dump the cable and get a DSL line instead.
Most people can't afford DSL's $200,000 installation fee, which includes the cost of moving the family to an area within 3.5km of the telco's switch.
Most of the first-generation RAF-terrorist hid in the former German Democratic Republic ("DDR").
If the terrorists are hiding next to DDR machines, I guess I better stay out of the arcade.
CD's now cost about 1/10th as much to press as records cost at their cheapest
Cost "to press" refers only to replication. Have the costs of writing the songs, recording the songs, distributing the records to major chain stores, oromotion on MTV including production of music videos, and so-called "independent" promotion on Clear Channel radio declined in parallel?
CD's STILL cost almost 20 bucks apiece.
1. Most of the price of the CD doesn't lie in replication. 2. Many CD albums are much longer than vinyl albums were. 3. The general cost of labor has increased.
After inflation, CDs are actually just as cheap as vinyl ever was.
Easy. USA has bigger population; therefore, assuming equal technology producing an equal GDP per capita, USA can produce a greater GDP. GDP is leverage in trade issues. Therefore, USA can almost dictate the terms of trade.
Perhaps if the British Empire hadn't broke up, it'd have more people, and...
I never had problems with gabber on Linux
I've had one problem with getting any network application to work on Linux: getting it to recognize the winmodem that shipped with the computer that I bought before I decided that switching this particular box to Linux was an option. For this and other reasons, I stick with Windows 2000 on my desktop and Windows 98se on my laptop.
open source products like that tend towards monotonically increasing quality
They also tend toward nearly monotonically increasing footprint.
I don't think you dislike Jabber... I think you tried one or two, probably half-baked, clients and disliked those.
A couple years ago, I tried quite a few Jabber clients for Windows 98 (including at least Winjab and JIM), but I disliked them because they ate a sizable chunk of System Resources (that is, the 64 KB gdi.exe and user.exe heaps inherent in Windows 9x) and crashed quite often. Has this been fixed in the newer Jabber clients for Windows? Is Exodus any better?
Isn't AAC that format with pre-echo problems that can't be played with free software in the United States?
Isn't outlawing card counting kind of like outlawing a certain thought process?
Yes.
But this doesn't mean those in charge can't try and succeed to outlaw thought processes. See an example. Another.
is the BSD copyright notice intact, as the BSD license requires?
Yes.
Check for downloaded MP3s (from a database of known MD5s)
MD5 can't distinguish an infringing copy of a work from a a copy authorized by Title 17, U.S. Code, section 107 or 1008, provided they are from identical digital phonorecords using identical encoder settings. Only something that makes discs different, such as audio watermarking, can do this, but this is incompatible with current Compact Disc mass production techniques.
Check for P2P programs -- disable them
And watch as people b**** that Windows SMB File Sharing and BitTorrent (both P2P programs with a history of actual non-infringing use) don't work anymore.
Check for competitors' products (DRDOS, Java, Mozilla, OpenOffice, etc) -- disable them and alert user that their software was incompatable with the latest service pack.
In other words, "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"? Microsoft may be in for more than an antitrust slap on the wrist this time.
More specifically, Windows users are like GM owners. They believe that they are driving a top notch quality reasonably new vehicle only to find themselves on the side of the road, broken down. These people refuse to believe that their car IS A PIECE OF SHIT.
Do you mean to imply that FixOrRepairDaily owners are any better off? What about DamnOldDirtyGasEater owners?
Do you mean that the worm deactivates itself on New Year's Day 2004, or on-or-after? Many businesses do not start their machines on New Year's Day of any year because their employees are on vacation.
I take Xouvert's non-disclosure policy to mean that a hardware manufacturer's NDA covers only the spec, not any source code derived from the spec.
What is a "GUI refresh rate?"
It's related to the lag between dragging the mouse pointer down a menu and having the items highlight. It's related to dragging the scroll bar and having the view move smoothly. It's related to dragging a window and having both it and what's under it react smoothly.
3) Your driver does not support hardware acceleration
This is one of the major problems. Hardware vendors tend to expose too many of their trade secrets at the register level, and then they use this as an excuse not to release information to driver developers in Free window system implementation projects.
It goes through a user-space socket instead of using the kernel to access the AGP bus? That's a hoop.
Network-transparent window system libraries tend to have a few special cases that kick in when the display is running on the same machine that the apps are running on. I'd assume that a window system implementing something like X11's MIT Shared Memory Extension would let the app mmap() AGP memory in such a special case.
The goal is to run Linux on the PlayStation 2 without having to go through that blasted sandbox, to run NetBSD on PlayStation 2, to run games from Japan on U.S. PlayStation 2 consoles, etc.
Network file system, CODA, wget, ftp
Which usually require packing up the PS2 (and possibly a TV) and carrying it to the place where the computer serving NFS, CODA, wget, or ftp is located.
USB storage.
Does cdrecord support any of the available USB CD recorders? Do manufacturers even make USB CD recorders anymore? I couldn't find any on Pricewatch.com.
If Windows won't run on the PS2, will OS2?
Is the PS2 Linux kit all that useful? For one thing, the I/O sandbox that the PS2 Linux kit sets up does not allow reading CD-R or CD-RW discs. How is one supposed to get data onto the system?
Make it work.. don't make it just to attract Windows and Mac users.
If an operating system doesn't have market share, developers of device drivers will tend to ignore it.
Yeah Microsoft sure is great for playing games
*sigh* another Xbox fanboy...
So what happens when doctors perform the first fetus transplant?