If a site offers an RSS feed and Google reads it, how is that a copyright violation? Nobody is forcing you to host RSS, and you can't hold anyone liable just because they use a service you offer.
Please stop linking to Hexus! Their site is shit and their servers are uberslow. It's a shame since their writeups are usually not that bad. For fucks sake, I've got client side CSS that highlights Hexus links just so I can avoid them.
I tried running one of our company web servers off an Ubuntu livecd and is stunk! I don't know why people like it! I'll keep all my servers on Yggdrasil thank you.
..licenses of your purchased software in a Digital Locker on your system..
It's my understanding that it's all kept on their system, not your own. Otherwise there wouldn't be much of a reason for them to do this at all. I can't believe the biggest reason this was thought up is for your convenience. With all the data held central, they can monitor how many times you install a product and on what machines.
** If these aretists - and others - were really so much interested in DRM-free music, why not make an appropriate deal with their label? Did these guys even try to tell their label that they wanted this CD without DRM?
It's my understanding that Switchfoot originally signed with a smaller label that was later bought by Sony. For a band to sign a contract specificaly stating they do't want DRM no matter who may eventually own their contract would be extremely forward thinking and suprising.
** Are the artists prepared to lose sales to piracy or will they demand that their label pays them as promised?
If the label has promised to pay them then there shouldn't be a demand to follow through, unless they can be declared in violation of their contract by their recent actions. Plus, even if they succomb to a little privacy it might mean they lose a few immediate sales but gain a wider audience, meaning possible larger crowds for concerts.
** Before a court, this entire piece is worthless. No judge will let some filesharing kiddies go free because the band itself endorsed DRM circumvention.
I can see that happening, but it could take a lot. Switchfoot is more of an employee of Sony, and it may be determined thay don't have any authority on how to handle their CDs, i.e. speaking on behalf of their employer. On paper, Sony would be ultimately responsible, but I could see a court understanding that direct instruction from the band gives the appearance of legality.
** All this sounds like a cheap marketing move: "Look at us, we are really cool, freedom-loving anti-DRM guys!"
If it is a marketing move I doubt it's cheap. Details are details but in the end Sony is no fan of p2p or copying in any form. It's tough to imagine they would go through the expense to copy protect discs and then have the bands leak info on how to get around it just to be "cool". It could be a ploy by the band I guess, but they've just opened the door to getting around not only their own album, but evey other Sony album protected in the same way, and Sony can't be happy about that.
And for the record, though I do appreciate Switchfoot's recent actions, I'm no fan of their music.
ALA is an awesome sight for real-world web development. Also interesting is that they've recently redesigned their site as well and moved to Ruby On Rails in the process.
Don't worry, even as we speak, both our major political parties and their supporters are busy shitting on each other more then being terribly concerned with actually doing anything effective, even during a time of crisis... oh, you meant "our own" as in human beings. Well, as long as red vs. blue political supporters are involved we're pretty much SOL.
Most people are under the impression that it is free, because it most likely came with their computers.
So, you're saying we should do whatever fits the impression people have because it's most likely true. If that's not what you're saying then where's your point?
Ken Kutagari has already warned us that its going to be ridiculously expensive.
There it is though. He's forewarned us that it may be more expensive then we expect. So when it does come out and it's pricey we can't turn around and scream bloody murder.
The 360's major problem is that the lower priced model is an insult. It essentially comes with *nothing* in the box, seemingly just so they can say they offer a lower pricepoint. The cost of accessories is unjustified. The memory cards hold, what, 64MB? And they cost $40?! I found a 512MB USB thumbdrive on Froogle for that price. Christ, how about just slapping on a USB port and letting us use any generic thumbdrive?
Now, I'm not a Sony fanboy. I'm just saying they've done us a favor and hinted at it's potentially large price. It's possible they're come out and charge an ass-ton for accessories also, in which case they can Suck It(TM) too.
I maintain a bunch of servers (Win 2003/XP Pro) at our labs in the university.
How many is a bunch? It's all realative, and an exact number isn't the point, just that some poeple consider 6-12 a bunch and others think of 250-500 as a bunch. What's mostly important is that you thought to call them a bunch, so we'll consider them as such.
Does it cost less than US$100?
There's a lot more you could have added to your question, but you've essentially shown your hand with just this bit. There are a couple of reasons why you could be interested in such a cheap solution and didn't chose to further explain:
You've been directed by higher-ups to implement a solution and given a much-to-small budget. Experience would have told you you'll need more money or you wouldn't have passed the question on.
You're at a university, but you're doing some kind of small, fringe work, possibly not directly under the actually campus MIS team. You mentioned using 2003 as well as XP for server software. XP allows only a limited number of simultanous connection so you've either got a small user base or you're using it for something non-standard. Maybe you need a cheap solution because they'd just as easily shut you down over giving you any real money.
You've been directed by the higher-ups to implement a solution, and you think that by keeping it cheap you'll impress them. How much do you value your data? No more then $100? How much of a bind would you be in if those machines went down?
There's a lot more that could be tacked on here, but the point is that $100 for a firewall solution is pretty much a joke. Software firewalls in and of themselves are not the way to go in the first place. If you're in a true university setting managing any number of servers, there's no reason they should not be behind some kind of hardware firewall part. Even a PIX501 would be a start.
I had intentions of saying more, but I just found out I don't have to work as late as I thought tonight.
"I know the Amish insist on doing things the hard way,..."
If you think the Amish haven't been using things like fully computer automated cow milking gear and such for the past couple years, you're dead wrong. Hell, it's nowhere near our saturation, but they use cellphones and laptops too.
Some posts argue that Apple switching to Intel would mean switching byte endianness, and that would piss off a whole slew of Mac developers and require enough software rewrites to be extremely uncomfortable.
That's a good arguement, but it's interesting to note that IA64 can go both ways. I'm not saying they'd go IA64, but that Intel is capable of making that a non-issue.
Personally, I think this while notion is awesome entertainment no matter what happens. And I don't think Apple will be going Intel any time soon.
The OS that drove the original Xbox was a hacked down, highly modified version of a Windows 2000 kernel, purposely specialized for what the Xbox was intended for. FEX, there's no reason to keep multiple HAL support since the hardware platform is standardized (enough) so you can immediately rip that out. But that's superficial.
The Xbox360 runs a majorly reshaped version of the original Xbox OS, which makes sense for Microsoft since they like to pick a platform and stick to it. So I hardly think it's "contradictory" that Windows 2000 is being shut out while they're birthing the Xbox360 since I doubt they share any common code these days anyway. At least, no more then Photoshop might still have bits around from ILM. In any case it's a non-issue.
And I don't know who these people are that are "shocked and astounded", but if they're as informed as you then they certainly shouldn't have been included in the census.
Slashdot Mirror
If a site offers an RSS feed and Google reads it, how is that a copyright violation? Nobody is forcing you to host RSS, and you can't hold anyone liable just because they use a service you offer.
Please stop linking to Hexus! Their site is shit and their servers are uberslow. It's a shame since their writeups are usually not that bad. For fucks sake, I've got client side CSS that highlights Hexus links just so I can avoid them.
I tried running one of our company web servers off an Ubuntu livecd and is stunk! I don't know why people like it! I'll keep all my servers on Yggdrasil thank you.
Yes. Just maybe the where.
..licenses of your purchased software in a Digital Locker on your system..
It's my understanding that it's all kept on their system, not your own. Otherwise there wouldn't be much of a reason for them to do this at all. I can't believe the biggest reason this was thought up is for your convenience. With all the data held central, they can monitor how many times you install a product and on what machines.
Please, we get the point already. You're 12 and aren't capable of thinking outside yourself.
Seriosly, stop posting.
Seriosly.
** If these aretists - and others - were really so much interested in DRM-free music, why not make an appropriate deal with their label? Did these guys even try to tell their label that they wanted this CD without DRM?
It's my understanding that Switchfoot originally signed with a smaller label that was later bought by Sony. For a band to sign a contract specificaly stating they do't want DRM no matter who may eventually own their contract would be extremely forward thinking and suprising.
** Are the artists prepared to lose sales to piracy or will they demand that their label pays them as promised?
If the label has promised to pay them then there shouldn't be a demand to follow through, unless they can be declared in violation of their contract by their recent actions. Plus, even if they succomb to a little privacy it might mean they lose a few immediate sales but gain a wider audience, meaning possible larger crowds for concerts.
** Before a court, this entire piece is worthless. No judge will let some filesharing kiddies go free because the band itself endorsed DRM circumvention.
I can see that happening, but it could take a lot. Switchfoot is more of an employee of Sony, and it may be determined thay don't have any authority on how to handle their CDs, i.e. speaking on behalf of their employer. On paper, Sony would be ultimately responsible, but I could see a court understanding that direct instruction from the band gives the appearance of legality.
** All this sounds like a cheap marketing move: "Look at us, we are really cool, freedom-loving anti-DRM guys!"
If it is a marketing move I doubt it's cheap. Details are details but in the end Sony is no fan of p2p or copying in any form. It's tough to imagine they would go through the expense to copy protect discs and then have the bands leak info on how to get around it just to be "cool". It could be a ploy by the band I guess, but they've just opened the door to getting around not only their own album, but evey other Sony album protected in the same way, and Sony can't be happy about that.
And for the record, though I do appreciate Switchfoot's recent actions, I'm no fan of their music.
Sony: STFU
Walmart has Sponge Bob branded DVD players for $30 and ThinkGeek wants $149.99 for a TAPE DECK.
The "someone" that redid Slashdot was A List Apart, more commonly refered to as ALA. It was a two part series.
ALA is an awesome sight for real-world web development. Also interesting is that they've recently redesigned their site as well and moved to Ruby On Rails in the process.
Don't worry, even as we speak, both our major political parties and their supporters are busy shitting on each other more then being terribly concerned with actually doing anything effective, even during a time of crisis... oh, you meant "our own" as in human beings. Well, as long as red vs. blue political supporters are involved we're pretty much SOL.
It's worth pointing out that Microsoft has always made free viewers available for their Office products:
Word 2003 Viewer
Excel 2003 Viewer
"Microsoft Office Converters and Viewers" homepage
So, you don't have to own Office in order to read documents produced by it.
Of course, because I do not have a multimillion dollar marketing budget, there is nothing I can do to get the word out about it.
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But you're doing a good job jizzing about yourself on
Most people are under the impression that it is free, because it most likely came with their computers.
So, you're saying we should do whatever fits the impression people have because it's most likely true. If that's not what you're saying then where's your point?
Ken Kutagari has already warned us that its going to be ridiculously expensive.
There it is though. He's forewarned us that it may be more expensive then we expect. So when it does come out and it's pricey we can't turn around and scream bloody murder.
The 360's major problem is that the lower priced model is an insult. It essentially comes with *nothing* in the box, seemingly just so they can say they offer a lower pricepoint. The cost of accessories is unjustified. The memory cards hold, what, 64MB? And they cost $40?! I found a 512MB USB thumbdrive on Froogle for that price. Christ, how about just slapping on a USB port and letting us use any generic thumbdrive?
Now, I'm not a Sony fanboy. I'm just saying they've done us a favor and hinted at it's potentially large price. It's possible they're come out and charge an ass-ton for accessories also, in which case they can Suck It(TM) too.
That's funny, I don't see any adverts on your site at all.
Ohhhh.. that's right. I've got an adblock list a mile long.
And you're really doing a really incredible job of really showing you have a fucking real clue yourself.
Really.
"Tcl/Tk front end?"
And for X-less webservers? Maybe something like the menuconfig frontend to kernel building would be neat.
I maintain a bunch of servers (Win 2003/XP Pro) at our labs in the university.
How many is a bunch? It's all realative, and an exact number isn't the point, just that some poeple consider 6-12 a bunch and others think of 250-500 as a bunch. What's mostly important is that you thought to call them a bunch, so we'll consider them as such.
Does it cost less than US$100?
There's a lot more you could have added to your question, but you've essentially shown your hand with just this bit. There are a couple of reasons why you could be interested in such a cheap solution and didn't chose to further explain:
There's a lot more that could be tacked on here, but the point is that $100 for a firewall solution is pretty much a joke. Software firewalls in and of themselves are not the way to go in the first place. If you're in a true university setting managing any number of servers, there's no reason they should not be behind some kind of hardware firewall part. Even a PIX501 would be a start.
I had intentions of saying more, but I just found out I don't have to work as late as I thought tonight.
ADIDAS!
You're free to have your rant against WMV, but it works perfectly fine with mplayerplug-in.
I'll believe that when the Red Sox win the World Series!
Whadda you know, there wasn't a curse. They just sucked for 86 years!
"I know the Amish insist on doing things the hard way,..."
If you think the Amish haven't been using things like fully computer automated cow milking gear and such for the past couple years, you're dead wrong. Hell, it's nowhere near our saturation, but they use cellphones and laptops too.
Wired 7.01 - Look Who's Talking
Some posts argue that Apple switching to Intel would mean switching byte endianness, and that would piss off a whole slew of Mac developers and require enough software rewrites to be extremely uncomfortable.
That's a good arguement, but it's interesting to note that IA64 can go both ways. I'm not saying they'd go IA64, but that Intel is capable of making that a non-issue.
Personally, I think this while notion is awesome entertainment no matter what happens. And I don't think Apple will be going Intel any time soon.
PEBCAK?
The OS that drove the original Xbox was a hacked down, highly modified version of a Windows 2000 kernel, purposely specialized for what the Xbox was intended for. FEX, there's no reason to keep multiple HAL support since the hardware platform is standardized (enough) so you can immediately rip that out. But that's superficial.
The Xbox360 runs a majorly reshaped version of the original Xbox OS, which makes sense for Microsoft since they like to pick a platform and stick to it. So I hardly think it's "contradictory" that Windows 2000 is being shut out while they're birthing the Xbox360 since I doubt they share any common code these days anyway. At least, no more then Photoshop might still have bits around from ILM. In any case it's a non-issue.
And I don't know who these people are that are "shocked and astounded", but if they're as informed as you then they certainly shouldn't have been included in the census.