Actually, this is for nerds. Nerds use Linux and free software, remember? This piece of "contemporary" music is actually made in Linux, with snd software. But it's not news at all, I listened to this back in july. I found it quite interesting, since it sounds a lot like modern ambient eletronica. It also sounds very unlike Beethoven, although it's note for note exactly the same (it's stretched in the time domain while the frequency domain stays the same).
So it's obviously a political statement too, since it is a completely unoriginal work (it's only one long sample), although musically very different from the original. This should touch upon the old/. theme of "fair use". Imagine if they did this with a song by James Brown! His record companies would be on them like the Loch Ness monster on $3.50. (Hell, now I want to try that. But I won't release the results on the web.)
I doubt Longhorn is more stable than XP (it's an alpha, after all), but I've had terrible experiences with the stability of XP. Of course, it's probably all my fault (installing drivers from the HW manufacturers instead of the ones you get from Windows Update). My point is, XP is far from crash-proof if you use crash-prone drivers. The same goes for 2000, BeOS and Linux. And probably FreeBSD, although it hasn't crashed on me yet.
The moral of this is of course: if it works, don't try to install drivers supplied by ATI.
The only sane thing is a merger. I predict that in 2003 we will se a merger of most of the great editors, as with the distributions. It's name will be Elvim Sexmacs, incorporating the great noobfriendlyness of vim and Elvis, the intuitive interface of sed, yet more friendlyness from ex, all within the smart, light packaging of emacs. It's going to be OSS's notepad-killer, with the most marketing-friendly name since Ogg Vorbis.
Haven't tried it for OSX (haven't tried OSX at all), but Videolan seems to support OSX. AFAIK, libdvdcss doesn't care about region encoding, so any other player using that on OSX should work too.
Maybe they need a migration path away from the win32-based format they use now..NET also seems to follow that path. Remember that MS needs access to other platforms than the i386/desktop in the future - mobile devices for instance. Keeping a format that is basically a binary image from a PC is good for locking out competition, but not when you have to start competing with yourself.
I live in Norway, one of the countries rated as number one on the list. We have the same problem here -- the press really sucks. So that's obviously not the reason why it is rated as more free than the USA. We don't have any newspaper here of the same depth or journalistic integrity as the NY Times. However, they can be critical of whatever they want (although they seem to shy away from some issues, like invading the privacy of the royal family), and they do criticize Israel, Bush, our own political, religious, intellectual etc. leaders. They just don't do it very well, and they're always very proud of being Norwegian. I'm sure this list will make them even more proud.
Of course it does, but it only supports women that are DFSG free. And as we all know, the best women are proprietary.
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My experience is FreeBSD is a bit faster, at least on slow hardware, so it definately has it's place. But you can't just take the two kernels and merge them (although it has happened that code from FreeBSD has been stolen by linux hackers).
However, FreeBSD does have quite good Linux emulation, and Debian has ports to all the free BSDs on the way. That will probably give you a GNU userspace on a BSD kernel.
Thanks. Yes, I noticed NFS was the only option. I don't like that very much, as it means I will have to download the whole.iso. A waste of bandwidth, but I'm downloading right now.
I won't argue against Slack, since I have never used it. But I'll tell why I use Debian. I've used Red Hat 6.0 (buggy as hell), Debian Slink, Suse 6.3 before I went back to Debian Potato. Last time I installed Debian GNU/Linux on my main computer was 9/19 2000 (at least that's last time/etc/hostname was modified), and since then I've upgraded to testing and later unstable, and changed all of my hardware except my floppy drive. Debian just works, so I have no need to get rid of it. I guess I run Debian because that's what I use and it never causes me enough trouble to demand a reinstall.
Now, I wanted to try Slack when I got an old laptop a month or so ago, but I couldn't find an easy way to do a network install with a PCMCIA network card and no cd-rom. It currently runs Woody, but I still think Slack would do better on such old hardware (133 MHz Pentium, 40 MB RAM).
Now if I can just get ghostscript to work, I'll be able to print from Linux to the printer on my Mac. I'm really impressed with cups.
What exactly is the problem? You can use cups under Linux as well as under OSX (and yes, it's quite nice). Do you really need ghostscript if you set it up to print via ipp on the other computer? I though you just had to do a "lpadmin -p foo -E -v ipp://bar/printers/foo" on the client, and it would use the printer foo on server bar, or use the much nicer web interface. (But I've never set up cups for a network, so I might be wrong.)
Similarly, the free email at mail.com doesn't allow you to delete emails when you refuse pop-ups in Opera (in Mozilla it will open a window no matter what). But that's probably just because the script for deleting the selected mail is contained in the pop-up window. Of course - you can just block images from doubleclick.net.
Jon Johansen is tried (translation:) "for having broken a protection or in a similar fashion gotten access to data that are stored or are transferred by electronical or other technical means and for having caused damage by appropriation or use of such knowledge, or complicity to this." (Yes, this translation sucks. I'm tired.)
The case is in two parts: he breaks a protection, which gives him access to a work that he has bought the right to access. I think the judges will understand this, but Økokrim seems to think otherwise: "The access is unauthorised because the DVDs were sold under the condition that the users should use authorised playback equipment and respect the copy protection." Personally, I know of no such condition. The other part is whether he caused any damage by spreading information on CSS and the DeCSS program itself. (This part has been added in the new incitement.) Obviously, DeCSS has made DVD piracy a lot easier, but, as you say, so has CD-recorders. If Jon Johansen in considered to be an "accomplice to piracy", so should Plextor and all good ISPs.
No, the point is not whether he violated the DMCA, since the DMCA is an American law, and Jon Johansen is tried in Norway. Your American laws don't count in a Norwegian court.
Atomised (or The Elemementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq could definately be called a dystopia, allthough it's setting is mostly France in the last 30 years.
Apparently, some people hate the book: it's cynical, dark, cold, immoral, pornographic; it criticizes the freedoms won during the seventies and at the same time it's quite touching. I recommend it.
Lots of kids use pirated versions of Photoshop, 3D Studio MAX, etc.: expensive stuff they never could afford (unless they have rich parents). Adobe and others would only lose users if these kids for some reason were prevented from using it, not real money. And less users means less skillfull users, which in turn means that not as many people would know how to use the products professionally.
OTOH: educational institutions should be funded well enough to buy licenses for the software they need. Of course, Malaysia can't afford to do that, so they just look another way when they force their universities into crime. Ah, I forgot what I intended to say. I guess it was something along the lines of: "Software piracy is wrong, except when it isn't". Yes, that will do. Now mod me up +1 insightfull.
Of course you'd want your pacemaker connected to the internet! Not sure it's still working? Ping it. Want to reboot it too? Ping it with even larger packets.
The best thing is: you can do this from anywhere as long as you have a connection to the net. You don't even need to have your body - hey wait a minute, yes it is totally stupid. Who the hell comes up with this stuff?
Actually, KDE has more support for Norwegian than MS and Apple. There are two flavours of Norwegian -- bokmål and nynorsk (for historical reasons. This has something to do with the fact that Norway was in a union with Denmark until 1814). MS does not want to support the latter one, as it's the least used of the two (well, there is a spellchecker for Word, but no localisation). In addition, there is a small sami speaking population, supported with keymaps for X11 and hopefully translations for KDE sometime in the future (it has some support in Skolelinux, the Linux in schools project).
Yeah, it's not without problems, which might partly explain why it's still not in main. AFAIR, it has something to do with libarts. KDE3 includes/depends on libarts1, which replaces and conflicts with libarts, and wine depends on libarts >= something. Or something like that.
If you can't live without wine, you should wait for KDE3 to be put in main. It's not that much of an upgrade from 2.2 anyway.
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Actually, this is for nerds. Nerds use Linux and free software, remember? This piece of "contemporary" music is actually made in Linux, with snd software. But it's not news at all, I listened to this back in july. I found it quite interesting, since it sounds a lot like modern ambient eletronica. It also sounds very unlike Beethoven, although it's note for note exactly the same (it's stretched in the time domain while the frequency domain stays the same).
/. theme of "fair use". Imagine if they did this with a song by James Brown! His record companies would be on them like the Loch Ness monster on $3.50. (Hell, now I want to try that. But I won't release the results on the web.)
So it's obviously a political statement too, since it is a completely unoriginal work (it's only one long sample), although musically very different from the original. This should touch upon the old
I doubt Longhorn is more stable than XP (it's an alpha, after all), but I've had terrible experiences with the stability of XP. Of course, it's probably all my fault (installing drivers from the HW manufacturers instead of the ones you get from Windows Update). My point is, XP is far from crash-proof if you use crash-prone drivers. The same goes for 2000, BeOS and Linux. And probably FreeBSD, although it hasn't crashed on me yet.
The moral of this is of course: if it works, don't try to install drivers supplied by ATI.
The only sane thing is a merger. I predict that in 2003 we will se a merger of most of the great editors, as with the distributions. It's name will be Elvim Sexmacs, incorporating the great noobfriendlyness of vim and Elvis, the intuitive interface of sed, yet more friendlyness from ex, all within the smart, light packaging of emacs. It's going to be OSS's notepad-killer, with the most marketing-friendly name since Ogg Vorbis.
Haven't tried it for OSX (haven't tried OSX at all), but Videolan seems to support OSX. AFAIK, libdvdcss doesn't care about region encoding, so any other player using that on OSX should work too.
Maybe they need a migration path away from the win32-based format they use now. .NET also seems to follow that path. Remember that MS needs access to other platforms than the i386/desktop in the future - mobile devices for instance. Keeping a format that is basically a binary image from a PC is good for locking out competition, but not when you have to start competing with yourself.
I live in Norway, one of the countries rated as number one on the list. We have the same problem here -- the press really sucks. So that's obviously not the reason why it is rated as more free than the USA. We don't have any newspaper here of the same depth or journalistic integrity as the NY Times. However, they can be critical of whatever they want (although they seem to shy away from some issues, like invading the privacy of the royal family), and they do criticize Israel, Bush, our own political, religious, intellectual etc. leaders. They just don't do it very well, and they're always very proud of being Norwegian. I'm sure this list will make them even more proud.
Of course it does, but it only supports women that are DFSG free. And as we all know, the best women are proprietary.
My experience is FreeBSD is a bit faster, at least on slow hardware, so it definately has it's place. But you can't just take the two kernels and merge them (although it has happened that code from FreeBSD has been stolen by linux hackers).
However, FreeBSD does have quite good Linux emulation, and Debian has ports to all the free BSDs on the way. That will probably give you a GNU userspace on a BSD kernel.
The Futurama version. Not really scary, but very violent.
Thanks. Yes, I noticed NFS was the only option. I don't like that very much, as it means I will have to download the whole .iso. A waste of bandwidth, but I'm downloading right now.
I won't argue against Slack, since I have never used it. But I'll tell why I use Debian. I've used Red Hat 6.0 (buggy as hell), Debian Slink, Suse 6.3 before I went back to Debian Potato. Last time I installed Debian GNU/Linux on my main computer was 9/19 2000 (at least that's last time /etc/hostname was modified), and since then I've upgraded to testing and later unstable, and changed all of my hardware except my floppy drive. Debian just works, so I have no need to get rid of it. I guess I run Debian because that's what I use and it never causes me enough trouble to demand a reinstall.
Now, I wanted to try Slack when I got an old laptop a month or so ago, but I couldn't find an easy way to do a network install with a PCMCIA network card and no cd-rom. It currently runs Woody, but I still think Slack would do better on such old hardware (133 MHz Pentium, 40 MB RAM).
Howto here.
What exactly is the problem? You can use cups under Linux as well as under OSX (and yes, it's quite nice). Do you really need ghostscript if you set it up to print via ipp on the other computer? I though you just had to do a "lpadmin -p foo -E -v ipp://bar/printers/foo" on the client, and it would use the printer foo on server bar, or use the much nicer web interface. (But I've never set up cups for a network, so I might be wrong.)
From WordNet (r) 1.7.1 (July 2002) [wn]:
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hipocracy
n : rule by hippopotamus, a massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.
Sorry, couldn't resist. Yes, as you said, tempting.
Similarly, the free email at mail.com doesn't allow you to delete emails when you refuse pop-ups in Opera (in Mozilla it will open a window no matter what). But that's probably just because the script for deleting the selected mail is contained in the pop-up window. Of course - you can just block images from doubleclick.net.
OK, I'll put it on Gnutella. The file is called reborn-i386-1_0.tar.gz, and md5 is f13c45dc2db335ceb64c0148b8bc251f. Wonder if anywone finds it... :-)
and I'll try to answer some of your questions.
Jon Johansen is tried (translation:) "for having broken a protection or in a similar fashion gotten access to data that are stored or are transferred by electronical or other technical means and for having caused damage by appropriation or use of such knowledge, or complicity to this." (Yes, this translation sucks. I'm tired.)
The case is in two parts: he breaks a protection, which gives him access to a work that he has bought the right to access. I think the judges will understand this, but Økokrim seems to think otherwise: "The access is unauthorised because the DVDs were sold under the condition that the users should use authorised playback equipment and respect the copy protection." Personally, I know of no such condition.
The other part is whether he caused any damage by spreading information on CSS and the DeCSS program itself. (This part has been added in the new incitement.) Obviously, DeCSS has made DVD piracy a lot easier, but, as you say, so has CD-recorders. If Jon Johansen in considered to be an "accomplice to piracy", so should Plextor and all good ISPs.
Oh well. I need some sleep now.
No, the point is not whether he violated the DMCA, since the DMCA is an American law, and Jon Johansen is tried in Norway. Your American laws don't count in a Norwegian court.
Atomised (or The Elemementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq could definately be called a dystopia, allthough it's setting is mostly France in the last 30 years.
Apparently, some people hate the book: it's cynical, dark, cold, immoral, pornographic; it criticizes the freedoms won during the seventies and at the same time it's quite touching. I recommend it.
I haven't tested it myself, but speex is both free and intended for this.
Lots of kids use pirated versions of Photoshop, 3D Studio MAX, etc.: expensive stuff they never could afford (unless they have rich parents). Adobe and others would only lose users if these kids for some reason were prevented from using it, not real money. And less users means less skillfull users, which in turn means that not as many people would know how to use the products professionally.
OTOH: educational institutions should be funded well enough to buy licenses for the software they need. Of course, Malaysia can't afford to do that, so they just look another way when they force their universities into crime.
Ah, I forgot what I intended to say. I guess it was something along the lines of: "Software piracy is wrong, except when it isn't". Yes, that will do. Now mod me up +1 insightfull.
Of course you'd want your pacemaker connected to the internet! Not sure it's still working? Ping it. Want to reboot it too? Ping it with even larger packets.
The best thing is: you can do this from anywhere as long as you have a connection to the net. You don't even need to have your body - hey wait a minute, yes it is totally stupid. Who the hell comes up with this stuff?
Of course we don't. We block images from images.slashdot.org with Mozilla. Or filter them out with squid. What do you think we are? Stupid?
Actually, KDE has more support for Norwegian than MS and Apple. There are two flavours of Norwegian -- bokmål and nynorsk (for historical reasons. This has something to do with the fact that Norway was in a union with Denmark until 1814). MS does not want to support the latter one, as it's the least used of the two (well, there is a spellchecker for Word, but no localisation). In addition, there is a small sami speaking population, supported with keymaps for X11 and hopefully translations for KDE sometime in the future (it has some support in Skolelinux, the Linux in schools project).
Yeah, it's not without problems, which might partly explain why it's still not in main. AFAIR, it has something to do with libarts. KDE3 includes/depends on libarts1, which replaces and conflicts with libarts, and wine depends on libarts >= something. Or something like that.
If you can't live without wine, you should wait for KDE3 to be put in main. It's not that much of an upgrade from 2.2 anyway.