Wow, so those folks who listen to this CD may incur long distance or ISP charges just so they can listen to it on their computer at home? And they'd have to do the same thing for their computer at work, assuming that they didn't have a removable media to copy them to for work.
I've got an office full of folks who listen to audio CD's on their computers at work. We're fine with that, but if the listening of CD's at work on the PC means that my network is going to become slower and slower while they download the music files then we may have to put a stop to it. That won't make them very happy.
Neither would the fact that they cannot install this proprietary file player for this proprietary music format cuz I've got program installations impossible in their security group. Hmmm...that could mean a lot of pissed of geriatrics in the office.
Actually I was thinking that after the second trip bringing in a laptop would be great here. Preferrably one that has Linux running on it. Then you can offer to play any other CD in the store (they tend to have open CD's that they play on the local stereo system). Betcha they work. Heck, install Mandrake 8 and they'd likely not even notice that it was a Linux box.
Also, is it such a waste of part of your day when you aren't the one being jailed for a month and a half? Sure, he's out on bail now but he's trapped in the "Land of the Free" until he runs through the legal mess that is the US Justice System.
"Hi, I bought this CD yesterday but cannot get it to play on my PC at home. The other CD I bought yesterday plays fine, so this must be defective. Can I get a replacement?"
Day Two
"Hi, I got this replacement for a CD that wouldn't play on my PC yesterday and this one seems bad, too. Might be a bad production run of CD's. Can I try another?"
Rinse well, repeat as necessary until all CD's of that recording are sent back to label marked "defective".
"A better tactic is to take aim at where the IT market is going to be and your opportunities will be much wider."
Considering much of the IT market has been laid off in the last 12 months I'd say that giving it away is keeping pace with that. The only way they could do it any better would be to provide CD's of StarOffice at the local soup kitchens.
Gill Bates writes: "According to this bugtraq report a rogue Mozilla programmer has inserted illegal DVD descrambling code into the freely-distributable Mozilla browser source code. Is there any question now whether open-source software is dangerous to intellectual property?
That should keep those Mozilla folks busy awhile. Who needs to script up some virus to take over broadband computers to send DDOS attacks at targets when you can just link to a website in a/. submission?
Seriously, isn't it time that Slashdot start mirroring some of these web pages that they kill via the/. effect? This could have easily been saved on the/. servers and then linked to without kiling the bugtraq servers over there.
Mind you I'm unable to quote whatever article that Hemos is referring to as there is no link to the story and I've searched the PCWorld website and found nothing about Linux and USB 2.0, but just going off of the quote it says that Linux won't have support until the first half of 2002 while this story quotes that Microsoft already has beta drivers and final WinXP drivers will be available by either the end of this year or the first part of next.
Sure there was no linked article, but at least read the freaking POST before you go trumpeting Linux beating M$.
I know a lot of programmers, and this fact stands:
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Re:Two most important lessons I have learned...
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"1) If it works, not fix it."
1a)If it works, keep adding features until it doesn't.
"Seems to me if Skylarov was only interested in promoting better security he wouldn't have tried to sell his product. This looks to me like someone trying to make a buck off an insecure product."
If it takes someone with a financial interest to stand up for our rights then so be it. I don't particularly care for Larry Flint but his fights for free speech affect all Americans from puritans to perverts.
"Instead of doing that, however, I decide to market and sell keys that can break into every Ford. Now, don't you see what's wrong with that? I could have taken the high road, but instead I tried to make a buck. This is pretty much what Dmitry did."
No he did not. He made it so that we could, to properly use your Ford analogy, loan the Ford to someone else to use for a period of time, or even sell our Ford to someone else whenever we want to without the vehicle needing to do a DNA test on the driver before it allows the owner to use it.
The only way we can adequately inform the uninformed about this travesty of justice is to have the correct information in the first place.
"The Unreal Tournament UI certainly pushed game UIs to a new level, with easy to access, well organized drop down menus. . If I had more time I would probably hack up enlightenment to make it work like that."
Actually that would be a really cool Windows hack. Instead of spitting out the standard BSOD I'd like the screen to rotate 90 degrees and show the uptime rankings of Linux desktops in the area. If only we could get one of those guys who breaks into Microsoft's network to insert THAT into the code base...
"Rather than see the world's first, largest, and most beautiful, Butter PDA go to waste, we recognized the market demand for such an item [Emphasis personally added]and now offer it to the public in a charity auction."
Who was polled in this market study, a tub of Parkay?
Interviewer: "What sort of changes or enhancements would need to be made to handheld computers of today to make you more likely to purchase one in the future?"
Small Plastic Tub: "Butter."
Marketing Department: *ding*
It doesn't appear to be over just yet
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From Egbert's linked email:
"Alan Hourihane has tried to obtain documentation for the latest Trident chipsest (CyberBladeXP and CyberBladeXPm) without success. He offered to sign an NDA with 'source code exception clause' a clause which allowed distribution of unobfuscated source developed with the help of documentation otherwise covered by the NDA.
Trident appearantly didn't accept a 'source code exception clause'."
Just being the casual observer that I am, I would question if it is in fact settled. Trident has yet to provide the documentation requested by the XFree86 group in the manner in which it has been received prior to this chipset. All Trident has provided is some PR spin about their "policy" not changing. This is often times done by companies to try and do some damage control.
Until they provide the documentation needed they still need to be pressured.
They've been a big player in laptop and budget systems for years, and judging by their press releases at their website it looks like HP, Sony, Toshiba, IBM, Compaq, etc. are choosing this CyberbladeXP chipset for at least SOME of their laptops. Sure they're just press releases but they do tend to point to agreements between Trident and the computer manufacturers.
By letting the channel know NOW that using Trident video chipsets in their laptops/cheap desktops will cost them some big contracts we are letting the rest of the industry (video or otherwise) know that not supporting open source options can be a costly decision.
"Their chipsets have been quite popular in portable systems like notebooks and have been widely used as on-board chipsets in low cost desktop computers."
It was a small email that was linked in the story. Consider reading it.
As soon as vendors announce that they will be CyberBladeXP or later Trident chipsets simply send an email to the vendors sales department notifying them that you will not be buying their laptop because the video subsystem does not work with your chosen security-based operating system.
Trident won't respond to a few users, but they will respond to vendors who are fielding complaints.
"Am I the only person who LIKES having a small internet terminal in the kitchen/family room?"
I'm sorry, but why would you need an Internet terminal in the kitchen when you shelled out $100 for a refridgerator next to your main workstation?
Hell, when my daughter was in the hospital awhile back I noticed that they had a toilet in the room itself that retracted into a cupboard! That took care of my last reason for leaving my computer!
One of the first things that jumps out at me after reading the article (try it sometime, it adds a new perspective to posting) was the comment about the 50% of the time being spent on four big commercial websites. Maybe this will be seemed as a troll, but quite possibly couldn't a lot of this time be credited to those folks that live and die in the chatrooms?
Also, he seems to be missing one important fact: online banner advertising is failing miserably. Click-through numbers are painfully low, pay rates are even lower (if the web admin gets paid at all), and banner companies are dropping like flies. And X10 is making more enemies than friends with their pop-under ads.
There will always be a large segment of society which will stick with what they feel is safe on the Internet and stay within the confines of the major providers. What makes the Internet truly great is the ability to get information out to the masses in a matter of hours when it used to take days, if not weeks.
This may be a stretch, but have you considered RTFM?
As new CPU's are released, if the motherboard can handle it the motherboard manufacturer will update the manual on the website. Look for the name of your CPU and set accordingly. And if you want to overclock then just get the settings for the CPU you want to aim for.
Or you can just let the motherboard autodetect, which is what most of the good motherboards do these days anyway.
You mean just like how the tobacco industry has moved to "help" Asia and third world countries? Nothing plucks my heartstrings more than those touching Philip Morris ads where they're sending Kraft Mac and Cheese to wartorn countries.
Nothing like Microsoft modernization to make an underdeveloped country want to to back to rocks and sticks.
Parents have to nurture the creativity in their child from a very young age. All children have it naturally, but if you plug them into a television or computer instead of books and blocks it is very difficult to get them back into the world of creativity later in life.
A few months ago there was a video of the 5-6 year old son of a hardware review site owner beating the final boss on some FPS. The overwhelming reaction to it was "What a cool little kid", while my reaction was "Good thing this kid isn't going to my son's school".
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Wow, so those folks who listen to this CD may incur long distance or ISP charges just so they can listen to it on their computer at home? And they'd have to do the same thing for their computer at work, assuming that they didn't have a removable media to copy them to for work.
I've got an office full of folks who listen to audio CD's on their computers at work. We're fine with that, but if the listening of CD's at work on the PC means that my network is going to become slower and slower while they download the music files then we may have to put a stop to it. That won't make them very happy.
Neither would the fact that they cannot install this proprietary file player for this proprietary music format cuz I've got program installations impossible in their security group. Hmmm...that could mean a lot of pissed of geriatrics in the office.
Actually I was thinking that after the second trip bringing in a laptop would be great here. Preferrably one that has Linux running on it. Then you can offer to play any other CD in the store (they tend to have open CD's that they play on the local stereo system). Betcha they work. Heck, install Mandrake 8 and they'd likely not even notice that it was a Linux box.
Also, is it such a waste of part of your day when you aren't the one being jailed for a month and a half? Sure, he's out on bail now but he's trapped in the "Land of the Free" until he runs through the legal mess that is the US Justice System.
Consider it your duty as a pissed-off geek.
Day One
"Hi, I bought this CD yesterday but cannot get it to play on my PC at home. The other CD I bought yesterday plays fine, so this must be defective. Can I get a replacement?"
Day Two
"Hi, I got this replacement for a CD that wouldn't play on my PC yesterday and this one seems bad, too. Might be a bad production run of CD's. Can I try another?"
Rinse well, repeat as necessary until all CD's of that recording are sent back to label marked "defective".
Here's a quote from another Slashdot-linked website that deals with this idea:
When does open source make sense?
Who knows who wrote the paperclip in MS office? If it where open source, you could go to his house and shoot him.
"A better tactic is to take aim at where the IT market is going to be and your opportunities will be much wider."
Considering much of the IT market has been laid off in the last 12 months I'd say that giving it away is keeping pace with that. The only way they could do it any better would be to provide CD's of StarOffice at the local soup kitchens.
Gill Bates writes: "According to this bugtraq report a rogue Mozilla programmer has inserted illegal DVD descrambling code into the freely-distributable Mozilla browser source code. Is there any question now whether open-source software is dangerous to intellectual property?
That should keep those Mozilla folks busy awhile. Who needs to script up some virus to take over broadband computers to send DDOS attacks at targets when you can just link to a website in a /. submission?
Seriously, isn't it time that Slashdot start mirroring some of these web pages that they kill via the /. effect? This could have easily been saved on the /. servers and then linked to without kiling the bugtraq servers over there.
Mind you I'm unable to quote whatever article that Hemos is referring to as there is no link to the story and I've searched the PCWorld website and found nothing about Linux and USB 2.0, but just going off of the quote it says that Linux won't have support until the first half of 2002 while this story quotes that Microsoft already has beta drivers and final WinXP drivers will be available by either the end of this year or the first part of next.
Sure there was no linked article, but at least read the freaking POST before you go trumpeting Linux beating M$.
Beauty is in the eye of the C-coder.
"1) If it works, not fix it."
1a)If it works, keep adding features until it doesn't.
"Seems to me if Skylarov was only interested in promoting better security he wouldn't have tried to sell his product. This looks to me like someone trying to make a buck off an insecure product."
If it takes someone with a financial interest to stand up for our rights then so be it. I don't particularly care for Larry Flint but his fights for free speech affect all Americans from puritans to perverts.
"Instead of doing that, however, I decide to market and sell keys that can break into every Ford. Now, don't you see what's wrong with that? I could have taken the high road, but instead I tried to make a buck. This is pretty much what Dmitry did."
No he did not. He made it so that we could, to properly use your Ford analogy, loan the Ford to someone else to use for a period of time, or even sell our Ford to someone else whenever we want to without the vehicle needing to do a DNA test on the driver before it allows the owner to use it.
The only way we can adequately inform the uninformed about this travesty of justice is to have the correct information in the first place.
"The Unreal Tournament UI certainly pushed game UIs to a new level, with easy to access, well organized drop down menus. . If I had more time I would probably hack up enlightenment to make it work like that."
Actually that would be a really cool Windows hack. Instead of spitting out the standard BSOD I'd like the screen to rotate 90 degrees and show the uptime rankings of Linux desktops in the area. If only we could get one of those guys who breaks into Microsoft's network to insert THAT into the code base...
"Rather than see the world's first, largest, and most beautiful, Butter PDA go to waste, we recognized the market demand for such an item [Emphasis personally added]and now offer it to the public in a charity auction."
Who was polled in this market study, a tub of Parkay?
Interviewer: "What sort of changes or enhancements would need to be made to handheld computers of today to make you more likely to purchase one in the future?"
Small Plastic Tub: "Butter."
Marketing Department: *ding*
From Egbert's linked email:
"Alan Hourihane has tried to obtain documentation for the latest Trident chipsest (CyberBladeXP and CyberBladeXPm) without success. He offered to sign an NDA with 'source code exception clause' a clause which allowed distribution of unobfuscated source developed with the help of documentation otherwise covered by the NDA.
Trident appearantly didn't accept a 'source code exception clause'."
Just being the casual observer that I am, I would question if it is in fact settled. Trident has yet to provide the documentation requested by the XFree86 group in the manner in which it has been received prior to this chipset. All Trident has provided is some PR spin about their "policy" not changing. This is often times done by companies to try and do some damage control.
Until they provide the documentation needed they still need to be pressured.
My apologies. When I was looking I was only looking for ISO's.
The most current releases of SuSE are available for download as "Live Evaluation" only, which means that they run from the CD only.
They've been a big player in laptop and budget systems for years, and judging by their press releases at their website it looks like HP, Sony, Toshiba, IBM, Compaq, etc. are choosing this CyberbladeXP chipset for at least SOME of their laptops. Sure they're just press releases but they do tend to point to agreements between Trident and the computer manufacturers.
By letting the channel know NOW that using Trident video chipsets in their laptops/cheap desktops will cost them some big contracts we are letting the rest of the industry (video or otherwise) know that not supporting open source options can be a costly decision.
"Their chipsets have been quite popular in portable systems like notebooks and have been widely used as on-board chipsets in low cost desktop computers."
It was a small email that was linked in the story. Consider reading it.
As soon as vendors announce that they will be CyberBladeXP or later Trident chipsets simply send an email to the vendors sales department notifying them that you will not be buying their laptop because the video subsystem does not work with your chosen security-based operating system.
Trident won't respond to a few users, but they will respond to vendors who are fielding complaints.
"Am I the only person who LIKES having a small internet terminal in the kitchen/family room?"
I'm sorry, but why would you need an Internet terminal in the kitchen when you shelled out $100 for a refridgerator next to your main workstation?
Hell, when my daughter was in the hospital awhile back I noticed that they had a toilet in the room itself that retracted into a cupboard! That took care of my last reason for leaving my computer!
One of the first things that jumps out at me after reading the article (try it sometime, it adds a new perspective to posting) was the comment about the 50% of the time being spent on four big commercial websites. Maybe this will be seemed as a troll, but quite possibly couldn't a lot of this time be credited to those folks that live and die in the chatrooms?
Also, he seems to be missing one important fact: online banner advertising is failing miserably. Click-through numbers are painfully low, pay rates are even lower (if the web admin gets paid at all), and banner companies are dropping like flies. And X10 is making more enemies than friends with their pop-under ads.
There will always be a large segment of society which will stick with what they feel is safe on the Internet and stay within the confines of the major providers. What makes the Internet truly great is the ability to get information out to the masses in a matter of hours when it used to take days, if not weeks.
This may be a stretch, but have you considered RTFM?
As new CPU's are released, if the motherboard can handle it the motherboard manufacturer will update the manual on the website. Look for the name of your CPU and set accordingly. And if you want to overclock then just get the settings for the CPU you want to aim for.
Or you can just let the motherboard autodetect, which is what most of the good motherboards do these days anyway.
You mean just like how the tobacco industry has moved to "help" Asia and third world countries? Nothing plucks my heartstrings more than those touching Philip Morris ads where they're sending Kraft Mac and Cheese to wartorn countries.
Nothing like Microsoft modernization to make an underdeveloped country want to to back to rocks and sticks.
Parents have to nurture the creativity in their child from a very young age. All children have it naturally, but if you plug them into a television or computer instead of books and blocks it is very difficult to get them back into the world of creativity later in life.
A few months ago there was a video of the 5-6 year old son of a hardware review site owner beating the final boss on some FPS. The overwhelming reaction to it was "What a cool little kid", while my reaction was "Good thing this kid isn't going to my son's school".
I see a young, up-and-coming /. editor in the making here. Linky.
"10 years ago, internet wasn't something 99.99% of the people knew about"
Ah, the good old days. :\