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We need a PHP or Perl (or whatever) DeCSS downloading assistant installed on some of the sites that aren't concerned with the MPAA. The assistant acts as a filter for the DeCSS code-- it inserts random gobbledygook-- pointless functions or even comments-- into the DeCSS code, then sends the modified code to whoever wants to download it. The new code is functionally the same but every person who posts their version of it will have a unique hash and file size.
Hmm, maybe I'll write back in a few with that code...
It doesn't feel like a capitalist scam, but it's possible, you know. Knowing when a stock is going to go up isn't the only way to make money on the markets. Of course, so far the companies hit seem to be doing fine. But when a pattern emerges, and shareholders can guess the next victims (AOL and Microsoft would seem likely, and I bet Disney/ABC and other big media will be on the list... and what about those Dot Com People? But why hasn't the government been hit? Hmmm...), what happens to those stocks?
What's going on now certainly does make me feel something different than the plodding, creeping dread that I've felt watching the net over the last few years. Is it nervousness? Incipient glee? It will depend on the motives, which I doubt we've guessed, and the response, which nobody can as yet accurately predict. I'm guessing this is the most important thing to happen to the net since Netscape/AOL/Microsoft hooked our parents on it. This is an inflection point.
Oh, it's terribly interesting, isn't it? At least it's interesting.
Don't forget ktop, which is bigger but prettier than xosview (even bigger than Gtop!), and can be used to kill wayward tasks. In fact, it does everything that IDG says is missing in monitoring apps for Linux. And I believe it ships with Redhat 6.1.
Ktop and xosview are, last time I checked, the only graphical monitoring apps that give independent load graphs for each CPU on SMP systems. Which is good for proving to yourself that Q3Arena SMP support is broken.
Does Mandrake come with a default SMP kernel? The last time I checked out Caldera (2.2), it didn't. Sure I can recompile my kernel, but since it's a fairly common option, it makes more sense to me for the distributor to do it than maybe 100K users. RedHat does include an SMP image, but this is a newer kernel version.
Also, has anybody had much experience with Mandrake on laptops? My hardware is all supported by RedHat 6.1, but sound is a little flaky on boot until I run sndconfig (Crystal Sound 4232), and APM can't suspend to disk or within an X display (I have to switch to a console first.) Plus for some reason modprobe runs every couple of seconds, spiking the CPU... haven't found an obvious parent process for that yet, but it's likely hardware related, probably something in the kernel.
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Hmm, maybe I'll write back in a few with that code...
What's going on now certainly does make me feel something different than the plodding, creeping dread that I've felt watching the net over the last few years. Is it nervousness? Incipient glee? It will depend on the motives, which I doubt we've guessed, and the response, which nobody can as yet accurately predict. I'm guessing this is the most important thing to happen to the net since Netscape/AOL/Microsoft hooked our parents on it. This is an inflection point.
Oh, it's terribly interesting, isn't it? At least it's interesting.
Ktop and xosview are, last time I checked, the only graphical monitoring apps that give independent load graphs for each CPU on SMP systems. Which is good for proving to yourself that Q3Arena SMP support is broken.
Also, has anybody had much experience with Mandrake on laptops? My hardware is all supported by RedHat 6.1, but sound is a little flaky on boot until I run sndconfig (Crystal Sound 4232), and APM can't suspend to disk or within an X display (I have to switch to a console first.) Plus for some reason modprobe runs every couple of seconds, spiking the CPU... haven't found an obvious parent process for that yet, but it's likely hardware related, probably something in the kernel.