Well, here in Europe copy-protected CD's exist for a while already. Most of them are more advanced than an Autorun applet that fucks up the CD-ROM driver. (By the way, does this also break the driver when you insert the CD when logged in as something else than Administrator?)
Some of them are even slightly malicious; when you try to rip them, you get all kinds of ugly peaks and other distortions. When you play the result, it's possible that they break your audio equipment... And yeah, try to find the "Compact Disc" logo on those CD's, it isn't there. It's not a CD anymore, it just looks like one.
But so far, copy-protected CD's still exist. Fortunately, most decent CD shops do allow you to bring the CD back and get your money back, because more and more CD players fail to read the discs (players with MP3 support, for example). The sad thing is that not only the dull Britney Spears CD's are copy-protected, but also stuff like Radiohead and Placebo.
So well, let's hope the anger will come, it didn't really come here, unfortunately.
Darwin is just a monolithic kernel on top of a microkernel. Windows NT used to be a microkernel OS, but that's a long time ago already. AFAIK NT4 went "back" to monolithic already.
I think it's like most things in the computer world. Megapixels are numbers which can easily be compared with each other, whereas you can't just easily state that camera A has a better picture quality than camera B. Partially, maybe, because it's a matter of taste, but mainly because the picture quality can't be measured in a number that can be put on the label that also tells the customer how expensive the cam is.
And well, as some people say, higher resolutions can be useful when you want large prints of the pictures.
Hmmm, this certainly looks interesting! Did you also experience some bugs (like skipping tracks, or "crashes") with the 1.50b version, which disappeared with the 1.60N?
Unfortunately, at least on my iMP-550 there's still only beta support for Ogg-files, and indeed the code is not too stable. I'd like iRiver to fix that soon...:-/
Slightly off-topic, but just unplugging a removable disk on any operating system with sane write-back (which includes OS X) caching might/will cause filesystem inconsistencies.
But of course, it's indeed still way easier to drag the disk to the recycle bin.
> The improvements have been won thanks to GNU/Linux.
Hmm, I find it interesting that Windows has a way lower "Total Cost of Ownershop" than Linux, but still they lower their prices to try to compete with Linux. That doesn't make their TCO campaigns very credible, does it?
I wonder what'd happen too. There are many people who would never notice it, apart from the lack of reactions to their e-mails to me.
And what would happen to the open source stuff I wrote? Will someone else take care of it or will it die with me? I tried to post something about this on/. some time ago, but the moderator didn't seem to find it very interesting back then.
For one, I can imagine it to cause problems with PGP-signed mails... Or just be unreadable at all for some reason. You don't have problems like that when you just insert a little header.
I wanted to try DSPAM some time ago, but I stopped as soon as I read that DSPAM puts an ID string in every mail it processes. In the mail body, that is. I have no problems with a program that adds headers, but it should leave the message body alone.
Does DSPAM do that now? Can't find anything about it...
Uhm, would you want to have to enter a 20-50 characters passphrase every time you log in? Even when you have to type it more than once a day/hour? (Hey, leaving your workstation logged in all day so you won't have to type the passphrase the next day is not exactly secure eh!) I wouldn't...
I sometimes have a hard time to enter my 8-char password without any mistakes already, having to enter a long passphrase without echoing would be hell for me (and many others, probably).
New 2.4 versions appeared quite quickly as well in the early days. See the dates in the file listing. It just needs some time to mature...
I have to say that 2.6.5 seems to be quite okay on my home server already. I wouldn't even think about running it on a colocated server (ie one with an unreachable reset-button and a certain level of importance) though. Just because of my experiences with other early kernels...
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Enterprise Linux means a 24/7 support contract, a guarantee that every problem (including those weird problems you see on the forum without any replies) should be fixed ASAP because the company depends on the box.
And this box might also be a non-x86 box (ia64? s390? What does RHEL currently run on?) or something else the average Gentoo developer probably hasn't even heard of yet.
A distro like Gentoo (and, for that matter, Debian) can't become an Enterprise Linux distro. Seriously.
Uhm, a Gentoo boot CD? Where does it save all the compiled programs? How long will I have to wait before XFree86 is compiled and running after putting the CD in my drive?
> Advantage number two is the ease of making own ebuilds. They are just a small shellscript, anybody who is interessted could probably pick it up in a day or two.
Yeah, probably. I'm told that making.spec files to build RPM's isn't that hard either, and I know from my own experience that building.deb's is very easy as well.
However, creating good.debs takes a lot more time, and is not always easy. Same for RPM's, and I'm pretty sure the same goes for ebuilds. I've seen an.ebuild of a program of mine in Gentoo without a build-dependency on glib (while my program heavily depends on it) for months and nobody noticed. That's not exacctly what I consider good packaging.
(Btw, this was not a "Gentoo packagers are teh sux0rs" troll, I'm just telling that, while creating My First Package[tm] might be easy, you can't learn to be a good packager in two days. Not even for Gentoo, probably.)
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Actually, I even remember seeing some FrontPage meta-tags on their pages...
And I've never even heard of an real web site that used VBScript.
Unfortunately, I have. Just try to download new firmware from the Lite-On website...
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I remember that one of the lesser known features of DOSKEY (you surely know its main purpose, right?) was support for macro's/aliases...
and menus responded with vigor
Vigor? Word 5.1 had Clippy already? That's impressive! (Screenshot / Home page)
Well, here in Europe copy-protected CD's exist for a while already. Most of them are more advanced than an Autorun applet that fucks up the CD-ROM driver. (By the way, does this also break the driver when you insert the CD when logged in as something else than Administrator?)
Some of them are even slightly malicious; when you try to rip them, you get all kinds of ugly peaks and other distortions. When you play the result, it's possible that they break your audio equipment... And yeah, try to find the "Compact Disc" logo on those CD's, it isn't there. It's not a CD anymore, it just looks like one.
But so far, copy-protected CD's still exist. Fortunately, most decent CD shops do allow you to bring the CD back and get your money back, because more and more CD players fail to read the discs (players with MP3 support, for example). The sad thing is that not only the dull Britney Spears CD's are copy-protected, but also stuff like Radiohead and Placebo.
So well, let's hope the anger will come, it didn't really come here, unfortunately.
Darwin is just a monolithic kernel on top of a microkernel. Windows NT used to be a microkernel OS, but that's a long time ago already. AFAIK NT4 went "back" to monolithic already.
I think it's like most things in the computer world. Megapixels are numbers which can easily be compared with each other, whereas you can't just easily state that camera A has a better picture quality than camera B. Partially, maybe, because it's a matter of taste, but mainly because the picture quality can't be measured in a number that can be put on the label that also tells the customer how expensive the cam is.
And well, as some people say, higher resolutions can be useful when you want large prints of the pictures.
Nope, it seems that all sites powered by Akamai are unreachable right now...
Look at the picture. To me, it looks more like a border collie. And indeed, the text talks about "Rico, the nearly nine-year-old Border collie".
Fortunately, Border Collies are, AFAIK, one of the smartest dogs.
Hmmm, this certainly looks interesting! Did you also experience some bugs (like skipping tracks, or "crashes") with the 1.50b version, which disappeared with the 1.60N?
Unfortunately, at least on my iMP-550 there's still only beta support for Ogg-files, and indeed the code is not too stable. I'd like iRiver to fix that soon... :-/
Slightly off-topic, but just unplugging a removable disk on any operating system with sane write-back (which includes OS X) caching might/will cause filesystem inconsistencies.
But of course, it's indeed still way easier to drag the disk to the recycle bin.
Yep, I thought about mlock() too. Unfortunately, there's one problem with it: Only root is allowed to use it.
> The improvements have been won thanks to GNU/Linux.
Hmm, I find it interesting that Windows has a way lower "Total Cost of Ownershop" than Linux, but still they lower their prices to try to compete with Linux. That doesn't make their TCO campaigns very credible, does it?
I wonder what'd happen too. There are many people who would never notice it, apart from the lack of reactions to their e-mails to me.
/. some time ago, but the moderator didn't seem to find it very interesting back then.
And what would happen to the open source stuff I wrote? Will someone else take care of it or will it die with me? I tried to post something about this on
For one, I can imagine it to cause problems with PGP-signed mails... Or just be unreadable at all for some reason. You don't have problems like that when you just insert a little header.
I wanted to try DSPAM some time ago, but I stopped as soon as I read that DSPAM puts an ID string in every mail it processes. In the mail body, that is. I have no problems with a program that adds headers, but it should leave the message body alone.
Does DSPAM do that now? Can't find anything about it...
Hmm, two responses ... Will the real Anonymous Coward please stand up? :-)
Uhm, would you want to have to enter a 20-50 characters passphrase every time you log in? Even when you have to type it more than once a day/hour? (Hey, leaving your workstation logged in all day so you won't have to type the passphrase the next day is not exactly secure eh!) I wouldn't...
I sometimes have a hard time to enter my 8-char password without any mistakes already, having to enter a long passphrase without echoing would be hell for me (and many others, probably).
New 2.4 versions appeared quite quickly as well in the early days. See the dates in the file listing. It just needs some time to mature...
I have to say that 2.6.5 seems to be quite okay on my home server already. I wouldn't even think about running it on a colocated server (ie one with an unreachable reset-button and a certain level of importance) though. Just because of my experiences with other early kernels...
Enterprise Linux means a 24/7 support contract, a guarantee that every problem (including those weird problems you see on the forum without any replies) should be fixed ASAP because the company depends on the box.
And this box might also be a non-x86 box (ia64? s390? What does RHEL currently run on?) or something else the average Gentoo developer probably hasn't even heard of yet.
A distro like Gentoo (and, for that matter, Debian) can't become an Enterprise Linux distro. Seriously.
Uhm, a Gentoo boot CD? Where does it save all the compiled programs? How long will I have to wait before XFree86 is compiled and running after putting the CD in my drive?
> Advantage number two is the ease of making own ebuilds. They are just a small shellscript, anybody who is interessted could probably pick it up in a day or two.
.spec files to build RPM's isn't that hard either, and I know from my own experience that building .deb's is very easy as well.
.debs takes a lot more time, and is not always easy. Same for RPM's, and I'm pretty sure the same goes for ebuilds. I've seen an .ebuild of a program of mine in Gentoo without a build-dependency on glib (while my program heavily depends on it) for months and nobody noticed. That's not exacctly what I consider good packaging.
Yeah, probably. I'm told that making
However, creating good
(Btw, this was not a "Gentoo packagers are teh sux0rs" troll, I'm just telling that, while creating My First Package[tm] might be easy, you can't learn to be a good packager in two days. Not even for Gentoo, probably.)
Just keep your shift key pressed for five seconds in Win2K and you'll find out. Stickey keys!