Security has been part of 802.16 from the beginning. Mostly this is because it's designed to be operated by ISPs, and they don't want non-customers to "borrow" free bandwidth off their access points.
I wouldn't be suprised to see Apple use some kind of integrety check on the kernel during boot. The idea is you can still run any OS you want, but OS X (as part of startup) would check the kernel (again, maybe using the trusted computing stuff) to make sure it hasn't been modified. That way if people try to modify it to get around ideas 1 or 2, OS X wouldn't boot.
Of course, the first thing you patch out is the part that checks the signature.
Broadcast Machine is a similar thing (which I'm sure has been mentioned on Slashdot before), but it's not live. I'm not really sure what the benefit of the live broadcast model is when the Internet can better support a video-on-demand model.
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That's called MPL or CDDL. Unfortunately there seem to be as many MPL variants as there are GPL exceptions.
Windows 2000 Server, for really old apps. Windows 2003 Server, for old apps. A few isolated copies of Longhorn Server, so when one crashes it doesn't take out the others.
Are you kidding? Most of the growth in the PC market seems to be as-cheap-as-possible crap boxes. Apple won't play in this market, so Linux still has a chance there.
I suspect either the Fedora Foundation will say "we can't afford to ask the lawyers if we can do it" or they'll ask Red Hat's lawyers who will just say no again.
There was never a patent on GIF; Unisys had a patent on the LZW algorithm which could be used in GIFs. Uncompressed GIFs were not covered by the patent.
But if you look at a simple XML format like Google Sitemaps, there is no novel algorithm involved in reading or writing the format and thus no basis for patent.
An idea cannot be copyrighted, and thus cannot be licensed under a copyright license like Creative Commons. File formats, being facts, shouldn't be copyrightable either. If the text of the spec is licensed as Attribution-ShareAlike, then all this allows is people to fork the spec, causing confusion.
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Security has been part of 802.16 from the beginning. Mostly this is because it's designed to be operated by ISPs, and they don't want non-customers to "borrow" free bandwidth off their access points.
If you're running a cracked version of OS X on a non-Apple PC, the firmware does no checking.
I wouldn't be suprised to see Apple use some kind of integrety check on the kernel during boot. The idea is you can still run any OS you want, but OS X (as part of startup) would check the kernel (again, maybe using the trusted computing stuff) to make sure it hasn't been modified. That way if people try to modify it to get around ideas 1 or 2, OS X wouldn't boot.
Of course, the first thing you patch out is the part that checks the signature.
Broadcast Machine is a similar thing (which I'm sure has been mentioned on Slashdot before), but it's not live. I'm not really sure what the benefit of the live broadcast model is when the Internet can better support a video-on-demand model.
That's called MPL or CDDL. Unfortunately there seem to be as many MPL variants as there are GPL exceptions.
The SLOF firmware was never relevant to Macs, thus it cannot become less relevant.
Meanwhile Apple's announcement has no effect on the embedded market that SLOF is intended for.
You can't port an OS that you don't have the source code for to a hardware platform that you don't have the specs for.
And for the nth time, the Xbox 360 does not use 970s.
Windows 2000 Server, for really old apps.
Windows 2003 Server, for old apps.
A few isolated copies of Longhorn Server, so when one crashes it doesn't take out the others.
I thought Xen supported Windows XP quite well, but that support couldn't be released because of licensing issues
Translation for normal people: Xen doesn't support Windows.
So when is Linux VServer going to be merged into the official Linux tree or supported by a major distro?
If Apple wants HyperTransport on an Intel chip, they can get it
Not really, since Apple is too small for Intel to modify their chip designs to accomodate them. But do some Googling for "CSI"...
The average Mac user doesn't care about OSX being technically better than Windows...
Then why are they a Mac user?
If someone wants to primarily run Windows, they're not going to buy a Mac at all, so your theory does not apply.
Are you kidding? Most of the growth in the PC market seems to be as-cheap-as-possible crap boxes. Apple won't play in this market, so Linux still has a chance there.
Sure, it's up to the vendors to decide. And almost all vendors will charge for the upgrade, just like they did when going from OS 9 to OS X.
The point is that you'll have to pay for those x86 builds, because they will be considered upgrades.
I predict that the transition kit is a generic x86 white box, maybe with a dongle. We'll know in two weeks.
Think. The transition kit is not the same as the final version of OS X for x86. One of them runs on generic x86 systems and one doesn't.
I suspect either the Fedora Foundation will say "we can't afford to ask the lawyers if we can do it" or they'll ask Red Hat's lawyers who will just say no again.
Besides, Fedora prefers GStreamer and Helix.
Why don't you just buy a processor that has the frequency you want in the first place and save a lot of money?
IBM has opened up Cell, royalty-free.
For software developers, not for competing chip makers.
ISPs can't afford to keep packet logs of their subscribers's traffic.
Napster has been dead for a few years now; I can't believe there are still lawsuits going on. Give it up, RIAA.
...Unisys's (now expired) .gif patent...
There was never a patent on GIF; Unisys had a patent on the LZW algorithm which could be used in GIFs. Uncompressed GIFs were not covered by the patent.
But if you look at a simple XML format like Google Sitemaps, there is no novel algorithm involved in reading or writing the format and thus no basis for patent.
An idea cannot be copyrighted, and thus cannot be licensed under a copyright license like Creative Commons. File formats, being facts, shouldn't be copyrightable either. If the text of the spec is licensed as Attribution-ShareAlike, then all this allows is people to fork the spec, causing confusion.
Unions are for sheep, IT people are cats... we don't hurd well.
Yeah, I tried installing the Hurd once and it wasn't pretty.