What about foreign authors, are they required to be aware of US law and abide by it even if their own country doesn't have such a law? And who decides what violates the DMCA, if not a court of law?
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Ok, that's nice. So if it's DVB, that should work with the cards and VDR. But if it is encrypted than you also need a CI and CAM and that maybe hard to get. Maybe the people I heard from were talking about free to air (FTA) transmissions.
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There is a USB solution and people are working on linux drivers for that, so maybe soon you'll have DVB on PS2. You'll need a software MPEG decoder, though.
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The Siemens card was the first on the market. The card was designed by Technotrend for Siemens and Hauppauge also picked it up. Siemens were the only ones who helped with the developement of the drivers, for which we are very thankful. Hauppauge never really helped with the developement. Neither with the DVB cards nor with any of their other TV cards. That's why there are no drivers for the Hauppauge PVR yet, although the kfir MPEG encoder chip is already supported in another card. But the Hauppauge design has to be reversed engineered first.
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Of course, VDR won't have any problems with the DMCA because it is a German project and there are very few DVB transmissions in the US. Still, it could be adapted to the ATSC standard provided there will be any cards for PC and information for the drivers available. This seems to be highly doubtful since there is currently talk about preventing any unauthorized recording of ATSC transmissions. I think there is more information about that on the EFF's web site. The driver for the Linux cards support NTSC and there have been reports by people on the linux-dvb mailing list at www.linuxtv.org that they work for the few US DVB satellite transmissions. Although it seems to be hard to get the hardware in the US.
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VDR is for DVB cards only. DVB is the European standard for digital satellite, cable and terrestial reception. The drivers for DVB cards can be found at www.linuxtv.org. There are mainly two types of cards available paired with the respective tuner for DVB-S, DVB-C or DVB-T. One is a full featured card containing an MPEG2 decoder and the other a budget card which only delivers the transport stream from the respective transmitter. The latter are very good for Internet via sat, cable or terrestial sources because they can deliver a full transport stream. The DVB standard provides an electonic program guide (EPG) which allows VDR to get information about the programming and transmission times. So it differs from Tivo because it doesn't need to encode the programs and gets the programming information directly from the respective providers. Replay is done via the MPEG decoders of the full featured cards, so you always need one to have the full benefit of VDR, it also uses the TV out of the DVB card so no graphics card is required. Of course, you can use a software decoder to decode the transport stream that comes from the card, but that is not yet implemented in VDR. There is also the possibility to add a common interface (CI) to the DVB card, so that you can use a common acces module (CAM) to decode encrypted channels using the smartcard you get from your provider.
Since we are talking about legal issues and correct classifications and obviuosly some people will never get it straight: copyright infringement != theft
Property rights have nothing to do with copyright. The laws governing those two subjects have totally different motivations.
Well, at least some of them were redundant, with all the work already done for the ipaq and an existing debian distribution for arm and familiar distribution for the ipaq. I am sure they overpaid, but that's their problem. In the long run, building (or even buying) their own expertise in the form of some competent programmers or only Linux savy consultants would probably save them money. But who thinks for the long run. What do they need Lineo and Trolltech for?
what could have happened in case of a "normal" fire. Not that such constructions have to be build to withstand such catastrophic events as an airplane crash, but if an uncontrolled fire could cause a building to collapse in such a short time one should rethink some building codes. Would the Empire State Building have collapsed in case of a crash, with all its multiple redundancies built into its infrastructure?
Have a look at handhelds.org and their link to OPIE. Soon you will be able to run the same system on the ipaq. After all they have the same CPU and the linux support for the ipaq hardware is just as good as for the Zaurus (kernel wise and GUI wise).
Ever thought about the fact that mozilla may be too large for the 16MB Rom. For the ipaq they are using dillo, so be glad that they include a usable browser. Although, I don't agree with theri choice of qt and java as developement platform, it probably made the most sense for them at the time. Following the corporate need to be able to blame someone, they went with Lineo, Trolltech and Opera in spite of the fact that they could have everything for free. At least it provides a good starting point for everyone who wants to get into Linux programming as well as for the experienced Linux user who will have no problem to get mozilla, X11 or whatever to run on the Zaurus.
Just use madplay, ssh, rsync or whatever other Linux/Unix tool you like. They probably don't mention them because they think people (i.e. Windoze user) might get confused. Have a look at linuxdevices.com for reviews.
Not only do they require IE to access their web site, they also sent me a.doc file to apply for the Zaurus developer program. Well, I wrote them an e-mail and explained that it was strange to require a Linux developer to read and fillout a proprietary M$ document. After 2 weeks they resent it as PDF. So maybe we should just ask them politely to change their web site's policy regarding browsers, so that they may reach a larger portion of potential buyers of the Zaurus. After all, it should be made clear that web sites should be writen according to standards and not so that just some browser can display them.
or any other system where gravity is simulated via centripetal forces. You also get coriolis forces in that case and changes in the centripetal forces depending on the distance to the hub. Apart from being even sicker, playing baseball (like they did on B5) would be very interesting.
With the USB ports working under Linux and a decent MPEG decoder optimized for the PS2 graphics hardware, it would be great to watch digital TV with one of those Haupauge USB DVB receivers. The drivers for them are coming along (no thanks to Haupauge) and it should be possible to adapt mplayer or xine for playback. Then you would have a nice STB which isn't as noisy as a PC. Get Java running and even MHP might be possible. Even if it doesn't work with the USB receivers you could still stream it to your living room and put your PC into the basement.
Or even better. Get a random string and memorize a word for every character. Then make up a picture in your mind and of the word and link all words together using the pictures. Take e.g. %g5$mka1 I already have words for numbers, because I read "The memory book", so 1 is "tie" and 5 is "law". Which would be a tie and lady justice as a picture. Now % could be anything you would associate with that or just a huge % sign. $ is easy, just think of money. For the letters you can make up standard words and pictures, so that you have the alphabet covered. Like "gold", "mule", "kite" and "ape". Now you have a huge percent sign, made of gold. You have to remember that as your starting picture. Next is the golden justicia, after that justicia is drowned in a lake of money (dollar bills maybe). Then you could have a mule laden with bags of money. Then a mule flying a kite, followed by an ape doing the same thing. And the last one is easy. The ape wears a tie. Now you have those 8 ridiculous images and can connect them in a series. With practice you can remember all your passwords and other stuff as well. It is easier to remember images and even easier to remember unusual images. Using the technique, which is described in the aforementioned book, I could learn the 50 states in alphabetical order in about 30min (and I am not even an american nor do I live in the US).
Well maybe I should have said, their marketing. At least that how it looks like here. Qt is not much better in my view, why limit the code base by using it.
Not that I like Java or intend to use it, but Sharp seems to build their entire handheld software on Java. Here is the developer site Since it's a Linux PDA and has a fast CPU, I will probably get one. But I will put X11 on it, so that it gets really useful.
they should make a deal with them and/or change their business model. They could put programming information into their video signal (like in teletext and vps) and using those make them include commercials when recording. Since there are virtually no privacy laws in the US, they could get back detailed information about the viewing audience. Or they could find another more innovative way to make money with their material. But no, they have to throw away their money to lawyers. In the end, all the attempts to prevent people from copying something which can be heard or seen anyway, will waste more and more money.
The only way to protect their copyrighted material is to implant chips into the viewers brain, and nobody wants that. If you give people a convenient and fair way to pay for the things they like, you just might make some money, but if your only goal is to suck every possible cent out of them with low grade cheap entertainment people will always find other ways to get what they want.
I know this link and I have been using these drivers for a long time now (using it right now), but since November
or so WEP doesn't work with the newer versions and the old versions have problems with clients connecting to the AP.
It always takes 2-5 tries to get a connection to the AP. I guess, what I really wanted to ask is, if openap is better than this,
or just built on this driver. Or maybe WEP is the problem?!
I have been looking for a reliable software that can be used to turn a notebook into an AP. There is
a driver for prism2 cards which works well enough, but lacks roaming support and in the latest version
WEP doesn't seem to work.
I had been looking for AP software under Linux, but the prism2 card combined with bridging in the kernel
was all I could find. It works, but could be better.
So, the question is, if I could use this to turn an old notebook into something more usefull. And,
if so, why has it only been announced as Linux for certain AP hardware.
When I got my answer from Sharp to the application
for the developer version of their Linux PDA, they
send me a Word document to fill out and mail in.
I replied that it seems a bit strange to send a Word
document to a Linux developer and a week or so later
they sent a new email with a PDF attachment.
So I think RMS has a point here. Although PDF may
not be the best format, it sure beats Word if you
don't use Windows and you can even use xpdf if
you don't have a Linux platform that is supported
by adobe.
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It's not Digital Copyright Millennium Act (although it may feel like it).
It's Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
What about foreign authors, are they required to be aware of US law and abide by it even if their own country doesn't have such a law?
And who decides what violates the DMCA, if not a court of law?
Ok, that's nice. So if it's DVB, that should work with the cards and VDR. But if it is encrypted than you also need a CI and CAM and that maybe hard to get. Maybe the people I heard from were talking about free to air (FTA) transmissions.
There is a USB solution and people are working on linux drivers for that, so maybe soon you'll have DVB on PS2. You'll need a software MPEG decoder, though.
The Siemens card was the first on the market. The card was designed by Technotrend for Siemens and Hauppauge also picked it up.
Siemens were the only ones who helped with the developement of the drivers, for which we are very thankful.
Hauppauge never really helped with the developement.
Neither with the DVB cards nor with any of their other TV cards. That's why there are no drivers for the Hauppauge PVR yet, although the kfir MPEG encoder chip is already supported in another card. But the Hauppauge design has to be reversed engineered first.
Of course, VDR won't have any problems with the DMCA because it is a German project and there are very few DVB transmissions in the US. Still, it could be adapted to the ATSC standard provided there will be any cards for PC and information for the drivers available. This seems to be highly doubtful since there is currently talk about preventing any unauthorized recording of ATSC transmissions. I think there is more information about that on the EFF's web site.
The driver for the Linux cards support NTSC and there have been reports by people on the linux-dvb mailing list at www.linuxtv.org that they work for the few US DVB satellite transmissions. Although it seems to be hard to get the hardware in the US.
VDR is for DVB cards only. DVB is the European standard for digital satellite, cable and terrestial
reception. The drivers for DVB cards can be found at www.linuxtv.org.
There are mainly two types of cards available paired with the respective tuner for DVB-S, DVB-C or DVB-T. One is a full featured card containing an MPEG2 decoder and the other a budget card which only delivers the transport stream from the respective transmitter. The latter are very good for Internet via sat, cable or terrestial sources because they can deliver a full transport stream.
The DVB standard provides an electonic program guide (EPG) which allows VDR to get information about the programming and transmission times.
So it differs from Tivo because it doesn't need to encode the programs and gets the programming information directly from the respective providers. Replay is done via the MPEG decoders of the full featured cards, so you always need one to
have the full benefit of VDR, it also uses the TV out of the DVB card so no graphics card is required. Of course, you can use a software decoder to decode the transport stream that comes from the card, but that is not yet implemented in VDR.
There is also the possibility to add a common interface (CI) to the DVB card, so that you can use a common acces module (CAM) to decode encrypted channels using the smartcard you get from your provider.
what's behind the carnivore program.
Since we are talking about legal issues and correct classifications and obviuosly some people will never get it straight:
copyright infringement != theft
Property rights have nothing to do with copyright. The laws governing those two subjects have totally different motivations.
Well, at least some of them were redundant, with all the work already done for the ipaq and an existing debian distribution for arm and familiar distribution for the ipaq.
I am sure they overpaid, but that's their problem.
In the long run, building (or even buying) their own expertise in the form of some competent programmers or only Linux savy consultants would probably save them money. But who thinks for the long run.
What do they need Lineo and Trolltech for?
what could have happened in case of a "normal" fire.
Not that such constructions have to be build to withstand such catastrophic events as an airplane crash, but if an uncontrolled fire could cause a building to collapse in such a short time one should rethink some building codes.
Would the Empire State Building have collapsed in case of a crash, with all its multiple redundancies built into its infrastructure?
Have a look at handhelds.org and their link to OPIE.
Soon you will be able to run the same system on the ipaq. After all they have the same CPU and the linux support for the ipaq hardware is just as good as for the Zaurus (kernel wise and GUI wise).
Ever thought about the fact that mozilla may be too large for the 16MB Rom. For the ipaq they are using dillo, so be glad that they include a usable browser. Although, I don't agree with theri choice of qt and java as developement platform, it probably
made the most sense for them at the time.
Following the corporate need to be able to blame someone, they went with Lineo, Trolltech and Opera in spite of the fact that they could have everything for free. At least it provides a good starting point for everyone who wants to get into Linux programming as well as for the experienced Linux user who will have no problem to get mozilla, X11 or whatever to run on the Zaurus.
Just use madplay, ssh, rsync or whatever other Linux/Unix tool you like.
They probably don't mention them because they think people (i.e. Windoze user) might get confused.
Have a look at linuxdevices.com for reviews.
Not only do they require IE to access their web site, they also sent me a .doc file to apply for the
Zaurus developer program. Well, I wrote them an e-mail and explained that it was strange to require a Linux developer to read and fillout a proprietary M$ document. After 2 weeks they resent it as PDF.
So maybe we should just ask them politely to change their web site's policy regarding browsers, so that they may reach a larger portion of potential buyers of the Zaurus.
After all, it should be made clear that web sites should be writen according to standards and not so that just some browser can display them.
or any other system where gravity is simulated via centripetal forces. You also get coriolis forces in that case and changes in the centripetal forces depending on the distance to the hub.
Apart from being even sicker, playing baseball (like they did on B5) would be very interesting.
With the USB ports working under Linux and a decent MPEG decoder optimized for the PS2 graphics hardware, it would be great to watch digital TV with one of those Haupauge USB DVB receivers. The drivers for them are coming along (no thanks to Haupauge) and it should be possible to adapt mplayer or xine for playback. Then you would have a nice STB which isn't as noisy as a PC. Get Java running and even MHP might be possible.
Even if it doesn't work with the USB receivers you could still stream it to your living room and put your PC into the basement.
Or even better. Get a random string and memorize a word for every character. Then make up a picture in your mind and of the word and link all words together using the pictures.
Take e.g. %g5$mka1
I already have words for numbers, because I read "The memory book", so 1 is "tie" and 5 is "law".
Which would be a tie and lady justice as a picture.
Now % could be anything you would associate with that or just a huge % sign. $ is easy, just think of money. For the letters you can make up standard words and pictures, so that you have the alphabet covered. Like "gold", "mule", "kite" and "ape".
Now you have a huge percent sign, made of gold.
You have to remember that as your starting picture. Next is the golden justicia, after that
justicia is drowned in a lake of money (dollar bills maybe). Then you could have a mule laden with bags of money. Then a mule flying a kite, followed by an ape doing the same thing. And the last one is easy. The ape wears a tie.
Now you have those 8 ridiculous images and can connect them in a series. With practice you can remember all your passwords and other stuff as well.
It is easier to remember images and even easier to remember unusual images. Using the technique, which is described in the aforementioned book, I could learn the 50 states in alphabetical order in about 30min (and I am not even an american nor do I live in the US).
Well maybe I should have said, their marketing.
At least that how it looks like here.
Qt is not much better in my view, why limit the code base by using it.
Not that I like Java or intend to use it, but Sharp seems to build their entire handheld software on Java. Here is the developer site
Since it's a Linux PDA and has a fast CPU, I will probably get one. But I will put X11 on it, so that it gets really useful.
they should make a deal with them and/or change their business model. They could put programming information into their video signal (like in teletext and vps) and using those make them include commercials when recording. Since there are virtually no privacy laws in the US, they could get back detailed information about the viewing audience. Or they could find another more innovative way to make money with their material. But no, they have to throw away their money to lawyers. In the end, all the attempts to prevent people from copying something which can be heard or seen anyway, will waste more and more money.
The only way to protect their copyrighted material is to implant chips into the viewers brain, and nobody wants that. If you give people a convenient and fair way to pay for the things they like, you just might make some money, but if your only goal is to suck every possible cent out of them with low grade cheap entertainment people will always find other ways to get what they want.
Or is that the maintainer of the preemptible kernel ;)
patch
I know it's not funny, but may cause a giggle.
Cordelia: "What's a rogue demon?"
I know this link and I have been using these drivers for a long time now (using it right now), but since November
or so WEP doesn't work with the newer versions and the old versions have problems with clients connecting to the AP.
It always takes 2-5 tries to get a connection to the AP. I guess, what I really wanted to ask is, if openap is better than this,
or just built on this driver. Or maybe WEP is the problem?!
I have been looking for a reliable software that can be used to turn a notebook into an AP. There is
a driver for prism2 cards which works well enough, but lacks roaming support and in the latest version
WEP doesn't seem to work.
I had been looking for AP software under Linux, but the prism2 card combined with bridging in the kernel
was all I could find. It works, but could be better.
So, the question is, if I could use this to turn an old notebook into something more usefull. And,
if so, why has it only been announced as Linux for certain AP hardware.
When I got my answer from Sharp to the application
for the developer version of their Linux PDA, they
send me a Word document to fill out and mail in.
I replied that it seems a bit strange to send a Word
document to a Linux developer and a week or so later
they sent a new email with a PDF attachment.
So I think RMS has a point here. Although PDF may
not be the best format, it sure beats Word if you
don't use Windows and you can even use xpdf if
you don't have a Linux platform that is supported
by adobe.