Actually, as the article submitter suggests, I think Apple is a safer bet. C++ and Java never gained much traction at apple, but objective C has. Objective C is based in C, like C++ is, however it implements an object model very similar to smalltalk. If Apple is interested in moving the language forward and make it a serious contender in the OO world, it wouldn't hurt to have OO daddy on board.
desicanuk created and seeded the torrent, but soon after there were several other "buddy seeds" from _independent_ copies of the file (i.e. not from other users who downloaded desicanuk's file)
It seems that Apple is only going after desicanuk because he's the only one that they can tie his MTKA (BT tracker) IP and username to the ADC IP and username.
Furthermore, desicanuk is not the one who originally leaked the software (obviously), he was just stupid enough to share it. His claim that he didn't realize that he did anything wrong probably doesn't hold much water. However, as others pointed out, there's no monetary, reputational, or intellectual damage to Apple, and it seems that Apple is going after the easy target.
One thing that didn't come out in the interview and discussions: Did desicanuk give up the identity of the person who sent him his copy of Tiger? It seems that if Apple wants to find the real leak, that's the right direction to go.
>Also, AT&T's telephone adapter sits on the internet side of your home network - this allows the device to perform QoS functions by prioritizing the voice packets. Vonage's device sits behind your router and therefore can't do anything about a busy connection.
Not true about the current vonage telephone adapters. I signed up about 6 months ago, and the motorola box that they sent can sit either in front of the router and perform QoS, or behind the router with no QoS.
I still haven't given up my POTS line, although I've reduced to the bare minimum service with no features. Problems with echo and occasional service disruptions made me hesitant to switch to VoIP exclusively.
Well said. I can see a program that does on-the-fly translation of assembly code, but the first time you try to access a windows.dll on a mac, or a linux.so on windows (for example), or make any kind of system call on a foreign platform, you will hit problems.
Now here's an interesting thought: MacOS X on x86. Or windows on PowerPC.
There's a problem with your thinking... the same principles that make it ok with you to state your opinion in public, like you just did, also state that everyone over a certain age has the right to cast a ballot in a general election. Not just the people who make the effort to go to the polling station.
And there's definitely something wrong with thinking that there's a sobering effect with the voting process today. People make perfectly valid decisions at home or in front of computers every day. I would also assert that most voters don't wait until the drive to the polling station to think about who they're voting.
I agree that internet voting would increase the number and percentage of impulsive votes. However, it also makes the election result more statistically sound. Currently, we are only approximating what the entirety of eligible voters would choose. The more people vote, the better that approximation becomes.
The ritual is not the important part of voting. Casting your vote is.
Funny! But there's a good point in this: Unless they come up with good spam detection, their content-based advertising is going to be pretty useless, given the signal-to-noise ratio of what arrives at inboxes. I get at least 5 spam for every "good" email - so how does Google figure out that I'm not really interested in penis enlargement?
What do you mean exactly by "1 terabyte disk array" and "serve up to my plasma display"? What hardware do you actually have? Are we talking a single PC with 4 250G hard drives inside, or a storage area network?
In any case, if you're running the whole thing on windows, you should be able to use nero 6.0 to copy the DVDs to image files, and then use imagedrive (also part of nero) to mount them as if they were in a DVD drive. Then use any win DVD player (nero includes one of those too - showtime) to play the DVD.
For the actual hookup of your PC to your plasma display, any HTPC howto will tell you how to get good component output from you PC to your display that will likely look better than any standalone DVD player. AVSforum is a great resource.
Ok so you get two nice-looking blank CDRs with the album (only the first 5000 albums will contain those btw). However, are you actually allowed to rip-and-burn the songs from the official album? How are those copies "legal"?
More specifically, is the band actually relinquishing their copyright on the songs? Or are they including a limited-copy license? If they don't, then it's still illegal to copy their album onto their CDR blanks or any other kind of media.
If I'm wrong, I'd like to check out the band. Can someone make a copy of the album and send it to me? Even better if it's on one of the official blanks.
If SCO owns the header files, what kinds of claim does it have on all the software that's been written, compiled and distributed that #include's all these header files? Can their claim baloon to cover not just users of the operating system, but also all software that gets distributed for such?
I see what you're saying about software on sale and such, but at least every version of Freddy Fish ever made, and everything else that comes from Humongous Entertainment, comes on multiplatform CDs that also run on macs. Go tell your neighbor.
Redhat with advanced server tries to provide a more stable (as in not changing) target for independent software vendors, who do not like the idea of the operating system vendor releasing more frequently than them. I'm talking about big corporate staples like sybase, oracle, veritas etc, who always lag behind support for latest-and-greatest distros because they don't like moving targets.
So if you're an ISV OR use ISV software, the choice has been made for you.
Redhat also claims that they release in-house developed advanced scheduling-and-stability code in advanced server first, and then eventually to the community. THIS may be just a sales pitch - but note that advanced server is not free as in beer.
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This paper is a gem. It provides a good history of unix and unix-like OSs, and in my mind it establishes that SCO has no claim to the UNIX trademark. SCO willfully misrepresents itself as a much bigger player in the enterprise market than it actually is, for the purpose of claiming bigger damages. My favorite quote:
Examination of SCO's 10Ks reveals that, even were we to assume that every dime of their revenue came from the enterprise market, their 2002 share could not have exceeded 3.1% [5] This is at the level of statistical noise.
Digging deeper into pathetic land: So, even if she knew that the server's internal address was 10.2.2.2, how did she arrange for the ssh binary exploit to be at the host that she was hacking from?
This statement doesn't really say that computers have been infected with Trojan's because of Windows Update, just "since the inception of"... Read that how you want. Are there any examples of Windows Update actually introducing Trojans?
Patrick's assertion that the size of the "compressed" files plus size of the decompressor is less than the size of the original is false. The compressed files have replaced the ASCII character "5" with the ASCII character EOF (end of file), a one-to-one substitution that doesn't reduce size.
His trick implicitly relies in the way "wc -b" operates: it doesn't count EOF in the number of bytes it returns. One could argue that the true size of the compressed files is + and construct a tool to measure file size according to this definition, which would show that Patrick failed the challenge.
However, Mike's arrogant attitude and posturing to the newsgroup gets him no brownie points either. His challenge is impossible in spirit, but his poor wording allows trickery.
Didn't ATI recently supply an API to their rage128 cards that included DVD decoding functions? Has anyone written any code to utilize it?
It wasn't clear (to me) from their announcement if their API would be all that's needed to do the decoding or if you would still need to posess a key at the software level. It'd be interesting to hear from anyone that actually tinkered with it.
After the current situation blows over, do you think there can be a way to release a public-domain DVD decryption program/player without using reverse engineering or cracked keys? In other words, without breaking a click license or exposing any trade secrets, but perhaps by utilizing the experience that you and others have accumulated?
The defaced page posted by attrition.org is NOT what was done when the machine was first cracked. AFAIK, the web site wasn't defaced when Dan Jacobowitz first cracked the machine, but Dan left a back door open for script kiddies to exploit and said kiddie went and did his "look at me I'm so cool send me email via hotmail - page created with frontpage" act.
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Actually, as the article submitter suggests, I think Apple is a safer bet. C++ and Java never gained much traction at apple, but objective C has. Objective C is based in C, like C++ is, however it implements an object model very similar to smalltalk. If Apple is interested in moving the language forward and make it a serious contender in the OO world, it wouldn't hurt to have OO daddy on board.
Or for a bit geekier reference, check it out on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters
Interesting point from the article:
desicanuk created and seeded the torrent, but soon after there were several other "buddy seeds" from _independent_ copies of the file (i.e. not from other users who downloaded desicanuk's file)
It seems that Apple is only going after desicanuk because he's the only one that they can tie his MTKA (BT tracker) IP and username to the ADC IP and username.
Furthermore, desicanuk is not the one who originally leaked the software (obviously), he was just stupid enough to share it. His claim that he didn't realize that he did anything wrong probably doesn't hold much water. However, as others pointed out, there's no monetary, reputational, or intellectual damage to Apple, and it seems that Apple is going after the easy target.
One thing that didn't come out in the interview and discussions: Did desicanuk give up the identity of the person who sent him his copy of Tiger? It seems that if Apple wants to find the real leak, that's the right direction to go.
The 150 piece bucket. Endless hours of nut and bolts fun.
And some board games too: parcheesi, monopoly, hungry hippos, candyland.
Not true about the current vonage telephone adapters. I signed up about 6 months ago, and the motorola box that they sent can sit either in front of the router and perform QoS, or behind the router with no QoS.
I still haven't given up my POTS line, although I've reduced to the bare minimum service with no features. Problems with echo and occasional service disruptions made me hesitant to switch to VoIP exclusively.
Well said. I can see a program that does on-the-fly translation of assembly code, but the first time you try to access a windows .dll on a mac, or a linux .so on windows (for example), or make any kind of system call on a foreign platform, you will hit problems.
Now here's an interesting thought: MacOS X on x86. Or windows on PowerPC.
and probably cost more than the rest of your PC.
There's a problem with your thinking... the same principles that make it ok with you to state your opinion in public, like you just did, also state that everyone over a certain age has the right to cast a ballot in a general election. Not just the people who make the effort to go to the polling station.
And there's definitely something wrong with thinking that there's a sobering effect with the voting process today. People make perfectly valid decisions at home or in front of computers every day. I would also assert that most voters don't wait until the drive to the polling station to think about who they're voting.
I agree that internet voting would increase the number and percentage of impulsive votes. However, it also makes the election result more statistically sound. Currently, we are only approximating what the entirety of eligible voters would choose. The more people vote, the better that approximation becomes.
The ritual is not the important part of voting. Casting your vote is.
Funny! But there's a good point in this: Unless they come up with good spam detection, their content-based advertising is going to be pretty useless, given the signal-to-noise ratio of what arrives at inboxes. I get at least 5 spam for every "good" email - so how does Google figure out that I'm not really interested in penis enlargement?
What do you mean exactly by "1 terabyte disk array" and "serve up to my plasma display"? What hardware do you actually have? Are we talking a single PC with 4 250G hard drives inside, or a storage area network?
In any case, if you're running the whole thing on windows, you should be able to use nero 6.0 to copy the DVDs to image files, and then use imagedrive (also part of nero) to mount them as if they were in a DVD drive. Then use any win DVD player (nero includes one of those too - showtime) to play the DVD.
For the actual hookup of your PC to your plasma display, any HTPC howto will tell you how to get good component output from you PC to your display that will likely look better than any standalone DVD player. AVSforum is a great resource.
Ok so you get two nice-looking blank CDRs with the album (only the first 5000 albums will contain those btw). However, are you actually allowed to rip-and-burn the songs from the official album? How are those copies "legal"?
More specifically, is the band actually relinquishing their copyright on the songs? Or are they including a limited-copy license? If they don't, then it's still illegal to copy their album onto their CDR blanks or any other kind of media.
If I'm wrong, I'd like to check out the band. Can someone make a copy of the album and send it to me? Even better if it's on one of the official blanks.
If SCO owns the header files, what kinds of claim does it have on all the software that's been written, compiled and distributed that #include's all these header files? Can their claim baloon to cover not just users of the operating system, but also all software that gets distributed for such?
I see what you're saying about software on sale and such, but at least every version of Freddy Fish ever made, and everything else that comes from Humongous Entertainment, comes on multiplatform CDs that also run on macs. Go tell your neighbor.
Redhat with advanced server tries to provide a more stable (as in not changing) target for independent software vendors, who do not like the idea of the operating system vendor releasing more frequently than them. I'm talking about big corporate staples like sybase, oracle, veritas etc, who always lag behind support for latest-and-greatest distros because they don't like moving targets.
So if you're an ISV OR use ISV software, the choice has been made for you.
Redhat also claims that they release in-house developed advanced scheduling-and-stability code in advanced server first, and then eventually to the community. THIS may be just a sales pitch - but note that advanced server is not free as in beer.
This paper is a gem. It provides a good history of unix and unix-like OSs, and in my mind it establishes that SCO has no claim to the UNIX trademark. SCO willfully misrepresents itself as a much bigger player in the enterprise market than it actually is, for the purpose of claiming bigger damages. My favorite quote:
Examination of SCO's 10Ks reveals that, even were we to assume that every dime of their revenue came from the enterprise market, their 2002 share could not have exceeded 3.1% [5] This is at the level of statistical noise.
Digging deeper into pathetic land: So, even if she knew that the server's internal address was 10.2.2.2, how did she arrange for the ssh binary exploit to be at the host that she was hacking from?
This statement doesn't really say that computers have been infected with Trojan's because of Windows Update, just "since the inception of"... Read that how you want. Are there any examples of Windows Update actually introducing Trojans?
Patrick's assertion that the size of the "compressed" files plus size of the decompressor is less than the size of the original is false. The compressed files have replaced the ASCII character "5" with the ASCII character EOF (end of file), a one-to-one substitution that doesn't reduce size.
His trick implicitly relies in the way "wc -b" operates: it doesn't count EOF in the number of bytes it returns. One could argue that the true size of the compressed files is + and construct a tool to measure file size according to this definition, which would show that Patrick failed the challenge.
However, Mike's arrogant attitude and posturing to the newsgroup gets him no brownie points either. His challenge is impossible in spirit, but his poor wording allows trickery.
It wasn't clear (to me) from their announcement if their API would be all that's needed to do the decoding or if you would still need to posess a key at the software level. It'd be interesting to hear from anyone that actually tinkered with it.
After the current situation blows over, do you think there can be a way to release a public-domain DVD decryption program/player without using reverse engineering or cracked keys? In other words, without breaking a click license or exposing any trade secrets, but perhaps by utilizing the experience that you and others have accumulated?
Emphyrio, I'm just curious, if you had tried it, just what would you have done? This is not an easy hole...
The defaced page posted by attrition.org is NOT what was done when the machine was first cracked. AFAIK, the web site wasn't defaced when Dan Jacobowitz first cracked the machine, but Dan left a back door open for script kiddies to exploit and said kiddie went and did his "look at me I'm so cool send me email via hotmail - page created with frontpage" act.