Yes, in fact you can use the IntelliMouse Explorer with a Mac. The drivers are available here.
BTW, I have one of these things (IntelliMouse Explorer), and the bundled drivers don't support the two side buttons. I downloaded the latest drivers, and the side buttons still don't work. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? (Yes, this is on a Windows box.)
Congress originally enacted copyright protection...
Congress reasoned that...
The point that you get that Katz obviously missed is that Congress did nothing of the sort. Everything was originally provided for by the framers of the Constitution. They were simply the ones that created the legal vehicle, not the ones who decided that we should have copyright in the country.
Probably the same inbred clueless moderator that marked it as over rated.
Probably marked it as a troll because of the comments at the very beginning.
Probably marked it as over-rated because (s)he didn't want to get marked down in meta-moderation. Although I haven't looked hard for it, this is probably a copy-and-paste, and the proper moderation could be argued to be "Redundant". (Probably afraid of "inbred clueless meta-moderators".)
Now, if only it weren't saddled to the proprietary, expensive chewing-gum Memory Stick, this would jump even higher on my wishlist.
Methinks timothy is missing the point a bit. Open hardware is always a Good Thing, but they set out to create a really small camera, didn't they? How would you create a camera that small with commonly-available, inexpensive hardware? Use PCMCIA cards? That would've at least doubled the size.
Anyway, let's hope that this new small camera will drop the prices (or at least pave the way for a price drop) on regular-sized, better-resolution digital cameras.
And I'd count the pure IPv6 as somewhat significant (for the future, maybe not immediately).
As a non-BSD user, I'd consider the IPv6 improvements to be the single most significant achievment in the 4.1 release.
Slightly OT: IPv4 will certainly be here for a long time; on my home network, even it's overkill. Joe User might not be making the change anytime soon, but it's nice to know that when IPv6 really takes off, you won't have to have any "cruft hardware" in place to support a fresh install.
Then, to counter that argument, you could mention that most SysV servers these days run a BSDcompat package. It's really a circular argument, don't you think?
Quite. Aside from your normal/bin, there are/ucb or/5bin directories, depending on the flavor of Unix you're using.
I've been thinking more and more about trying some flavor of BSD. FreeBSD is the "Linux", of sorts, of the BSD world, OpenBSD has an impressive security track record, and NetBSD seems like it would be a godsend if you've got wacky hardware.:)
I'm not knocking on Linux, but if you want REAL UNIX, this comes from the original source.
Not to be argumenative (okay, so maybe I am), but *BSD contains no more of the original AT&T Unix source than Linux does.
That said, the heritage is different, yes; BSD came from the original source, but it wound up being totally rewritten to avoid heat while AT&T was suing Berkeley. Linux, of course, was written ground-up (okay, actually started on Minix, which was itself a re-implementation) to mimic Unix.
Different lineage, same result in the "purity" of the code. They're both good.
According to the Release Notes (note the link in the story), some of the changes just in the kernel are:
Significantly improved IPSEC functionality. In particular, IPSEC security associations must no longer be manually keyed: the new code supports racoon, the KAME IKE daemon, which is located in/usr/ports/security/racoon. Racoon has been shown to interoperate well with other vendor IKE systems, meaning that FreeBSD 4.1 can be used in a heterogeneous IPSEC environment. However, racoon *is* still a work in progress, meaning that there may still be bugs, configuration syntax changes, etc.
About 9 months of fixes and improvements to the IPv6 code relative to what was in 4.0-RELEASE.
FreeBSD 4.1 can now be installed on an IPv6-only network - this will be the first release of FreeBSD that never needs to operate using IPv4 at all! ftp7.jp.freebsd.org (Listed as Japan #7 in sysinstall) is an IPv6-reachable mirror site for installation and package-fetching.
The ALTQ traffic-shaping system has not yet been merged - it will hopefully be added before the release of 4.2. The more experimental KAME code has also not been merged. If you need those features, consider using the the 4.1-RELEASE+KAME snapshots from ftp://ftp.kame.net which will become available after 4.1-RELEASE.
KNOWN ISSUES: NFS mounts over IPSEC do not seem to work reliably in all cases - mount hangs and possible data corruption have been observed.
There are other nifty changes in userspace, but it looks more like a maintenance release than anything really groundbreaking.
How does the museum determine what things to put on display? Is it enough for the information to be declassified, or are there other governmental approvals still required?
Why does the museum exist? It was apparent for a long while that that the NSA preferred to remain unknown -- why the change of heart now? Is this a public relations move on the part of the NSA since it's now determined to actually exist:), an act of goodwill, or some other reason?
Does Debian provide ISO images of their frozen branch?
Check out http://cdimage.debian.org/. There is an unobtrusive link towards the bottom about getting official CD images for potato. (It's not more prominent because they don't want to push "beta" software. IMO, potato is wonderfully stable.)
PS They use the pseudo-image kit because of limited bandwidth on those sites which mirror the.iso images. The idea being that you conserve bandwidth on the main mirrors and get a fast mirror for the packages, then you rsync it (which, according to them, takes up around 1% of the bandwidth of an.iso download) against one of the rsync mirrors. They have kits for both Linux and Windows.
A co-worker told me about the "Black Loop of Death" or some such. One accomplishes this by taping several sheets of construction paper together, end-to-end and lengthwise. Then start faxing it to your favorite number. Once the first end comes through, tape it to the other end. Voila.:)
...I don't see RedHat releasing a "Unofficial RedHat CD" for $5 to help Linux reach more people.
...And they're not required to do so. Remember, the raison d'etre for a business, by definition, is to make money. However, they do release much (if not all) of the code they produce under the GPL. This is in contrast to, say, Caldera or others. It also means that you can take an "Official Red Hat" and burn a copy as-is and give it to a friend. They make their distro available for download from their ftp servers (yes, all of the distributions do this, but it's not required of them by the GPL, at least not version 2, as long as they give you the source with the CDs, which they do) at no charge. It also means that you can get an Unofficial Red Hat CD from CheapBy tes or L inuxMall for under $5.00, and it'll be the same as someone that walked into the store and paid $30, $50, or $80 for it (aside from the lack of manual and tech support). In contrast is Caldera, who (if I'm not mistaken) has a time-limited demo of their desktop.
Well, you know, posting copyrighted material (and remember, everything is copyrighted by default unless explicitly put into the public domain) is the brou-ha-ha that's currently getting Slashdot into some hot shit with Microsoft. And for the site maintainers' view of it, check out a section from the Slashdot FAQ, specifically, Slashdot should Cache linked sites in case of the Slashdot Effect. Quoting, "Sure, its a great idea, but it has a lot of legal implications... So the quick answer is: Sure, Caching would be neat. It would make things a lot easier when servers go down. But I'm just not interested in dealing with the legal aspects, or the overhead required to ask permission."
Obviously, they won't delete what readers post. Lord knows they've shown that up to this point.:) But I get the impression that it's frowned upon. (But who knows, maybe that's the impression we're supposed to get. To look all good legally and stuff. I don't know.)
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BTW, I have one of these things (IntelliMouse Explorer), and the bundled drivers don't support the two side buttons. I downloaded the latest drivers, and the side buttons still don't work. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? (Yes, this is on a Windows box.)
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The point that you get that Katz obviously missed is that Congress did nothing of the sort. Everything was originally provided for by the framers of the Constitution. They were simply the ones that created the legal vehicle, not the ones who decided that we should have copyright in the country.Oh, and somebody please moderate that post up.
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Probably marked it as over-rated because (s)he didn't want to get marked down in meta-moderation. Although I haven't looked hard for it, this is probably a copy-and-paste, and the proper moderation could be argued to be "Redundant". (Probably afraid of "inbred clueless meta-moderators".)
Anyway, the metalab link was wrong. It can actually be found at htt p://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat /redhat-7.0beta/pinstripe/.
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Actually, the install support was what I was talking about.
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Anyway, let's hope that this new small camera will drop the prices (or at least pave the way for a price drop) on regular-sized, better-resolution digital cameras.
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Slightly OT: IPv4 will certainly be here for a long time; on my home network, even it's overkill. Joe User might not be making the change anytime soon, but it's nice to know that when IPv6 really takes off, you won't have to have any "cruft hardware" in place to support a fresh install.
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I've been thinking more and more about trying some flavor of BSD. FreeBSD is the "Linux", of sorts, of the BSD world, OpenBSD has an impressive security track record, and NetBSD seems like it would be a godsend if you've got wacky hardware. :)
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That said, the heritage is different, yes; BSD came from the original source, but it wound up being totally rewritten to avoid heat while AT&T was suing Berkeley. Linux, of course, was written ground-up (okay, actually started on Minix, which was itself a re-implementation) to mimic Unix.
Different lineage, same result in the "purity" of the code. They're both good.
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- Significantly improved IPSEC functionality. In particular, IPSEC security associations must no longer be manually keyed: the new code supports racoon, the KAME IKE daemon, which is located in
/usr/ports/security/racoon. Racoon has been shown to interoperate well with other vendor IKE systems, meaning that FreeBSD 4.1 can be used in a heterogeneous IPSEC environment. However, racoon *is* still a work in progress, meaning that there may still be bugs, configuration syntax changes, etc. - About 9 months of fixes and improvements to the IPv6 code relative to what was in 4.0-RELEASE.
- FreeBSD 4.1 can now be installed on an IPv6-only network - this will be the first release of FreeBSD that never needs to operate using IPv4 at all! ftp7.jp.freebsd.org (Listed as Japan #7 in sysinstall) is an IPv6-reachable mirror site for installation and package-fetching.
- The ALTQ traffic-shaping system has not yet been merged - it will hopefully be added before the release of 4.2. The more experimental KAME code has also not been merged. If you need those features, consider using the the 4.1-RELEASE+KAME snapshots from ftp://ftp.kame.net which will become available after 4.1-RELEASE.
- KNOWN ISSUES: NFS mounts over IPSEC do not seem to work reliably in all cases - mount hangs and possible data corruption have been observed.
There are other nifty changes in userspace, but it looks more like a maintenance release than anything really groundbreaking.--
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Someone posted a link to a 1994 Pat Volkerding interview done by Linux Journal in which, among other things, he talks about how Slackware came into existence.
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PS They use the pseudo-image kit because of limited bandwidth on those sites which mirror the .iso images. The idea being that you conserve bandwidth on the main mirrors and get a fast mirror for the packages, then you rsync it (which, according to them, takes up around 1% of the bandwidth of an .iso download) against one of the rsync mirrors. They have kits for both Linux and Windows.
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A co-worker told me about the "Black Loop of Death" or some such. One accomplishes this by taping several sheets of construction paper together, end-to-end and lengthwise. Then start faxing it to your favorite number. Once the first end comes through, tape it to the other end. Voila. :)
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After all, only somebody with something to hide would use an envelope, for god's sake...
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Obviously, they won't delete what readers post. Lord knows they've shown that up to this point. :) But I get the impression that it's frowned upon. (But who knows, maybe that's the impression we're supposed to get. To look all good legally and stuff. I don't know.)
"But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong..."
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