...But, he says several times -- using slightly different words each time -- the second you sell software or hardware that contains Thomson's patented technology, the company wants money, and this is not negotiable, GPL or no GPL...
While this won't spell the end for xmms, etc. directly, what happens when (your distro here) bundles a GPLed MP3 player, then sells you the distro? It sounds to me like each distro-maker would need to have a license to sell a product that includes a MP3 player, even if the player is GPLed (or BSDed, or Artistic Licensed,...).
FWIW, NetWare 6 is bundled with Apache and Tomcat, which is used by some of NW6's new web services.
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If you have decent speakers and a decent soundcard, you shouldn't need to touch an equalzer.
In general, you're right. However, I have alot of...um, "semiprofessionally recorded live shows" that sound better with some tweaking. Also, there are a few other factors that come into play, such as room acoustics.
Now if only the XMMS eq supported Ogg, I'd be a happy, happy boy. I already use Ogg for all my ripping / encoding needs and I have a 'lil Compaq IA-1 connected to my stereo and LAN to play Ogg files. XMMS eq support would be the final piece for me.
poor little 206mHz ARM processor with 64mb running a webserver.
It's amazing what is considered slow...
No kidding. My current production SNMP management box is a P133 w/ 40MB. It happily runs full-blown Apache, Postfix, MRTG, NetSaint, et. al. *Never* throw away old hardware!:^)
Yup surface mount soldering really isn't that hard once you've done it a few times. I always used a temp-controlled solder iron with a very fine tip. I burnt through tips fairly often, but having that precise control of the heat was needed. Never really used extra flux, but solder wick was a life-saver. So was the dental pick that I used to gently pry up the corners of chips while blasting away with a heat gun (yes, the same type that is used to remove paint). With some ultra-fine solder, I could solder the chip on so clean it hardly looked like it had been replaced. Ahh the good old days!:^)
This one is running a httpd on a C64, but is slip connected to a Linux box for its connectivity rather than having its own ethernet. http://c64.cc65.org/
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for posting the new links. I thought the ELKS project died out years ago. Someday my 5150 will run Linux!:^)
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So, with cartoon characters and Alice discarded, I turned to the next obvious thing: an actress...
I decided to use a picture of Calista Flockhart.
Calista Flockhart isn't a cartoon character? Coulda fooled me.
...and enter a market that's already saturated and run by Nokia, Ericson, and Motorola. I think Qualcomm tried something similar, they should've stuck to making Eudora;)
Now all I need to do is write a proprietary OS for it, and convince IBM to let me keep the rights!
Write your own? Who the hell would do that? Just buy someone else's, slap your label on it, and then start bundling everything under the sun along with it.
So you want 1,000 copies of the Quantumsoft Ion OS? OK, we'll give you a great deal if you also buy 1,000 copies of Quantumsoft Cubix office suite and 1,000 copies of Quantumsoft Visual Q++.
Last time I bought a hard drive, I noticed the configuration diskette used Dr. DOS.
Novell has also continued to use DR-DOS for the NetWare boot partition and installation diskette, at least through NetWare 5.1. NetWare 6 probably uses it too, I just haven't installed it yet.
Virtually none of the "Name" brands manufacture their own laptops... For example an ODM named Compal makes the Dell Inspiron 5000e, the ChemBOOK 3015, the PowerNotebooks.com PowerPro III:16
Yup, the Inspiron 5000e (and many, many others) are just OEMs with a brand name slapped on 'em. But I'd probably still buy the Dell, even if it cost more.
My 5000e has a three-year warranty (and I won't buy any laptop without one). Would powernotebooks.com be around to honor that warranty? Maybe. But I'm pretty sure that Dell will be.
My experience with Dell's tech support (both phone and web) has been excellent. That familiarity and comfort is worth a few extra bucks to me.
Why did you USAnians not vote this guy in as president? Nader has consistently shown himself to be perhaps the only American politician with any clue, ever.
Hey! *I* voted for Nader and I still have the ballot to prove it!
Well, how about that. My little 5150 is 20! I'll hafta go get a cake or something.
Of course it's still in the basement, ressurected a few years ago by Minix 2.0.2. Imagine, a (somewhat) complete Unixoid, open-source system crammed into 640K. It even runs httpd! I love reusing old hardware...
So how the heck do the Win2K Pro boxen that people run somehow spontaneously install IIS on them without their knowledge?
Because lots of users don't use the default install. A custom install is always more interesting because you can see what options are available.
Also, many folks don't know what the hell Internet Information Server is. Sounds like one of those spiffy add-ons for Internet Explorer. So they install it (either at install-time or from fooling around in Add/Remove) and forget it.
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If you've been compromised even once, you frankly don't know what you're doing.
Or maybe he's getting hit by this which MS hasn't figured out yet either. Regardless, an IDS is a must.
...But, he says several times -- using slightly different words each time -- the second you sell software or hardware that contains Thomson's patented technology, the company wants money, and this is not negotiable, GPL or no GPL...
...).
While this won't spell the end for xmms, etc. directly, what happens when (your distro here) bundles a GPLed MP3 player, then sells you the distro? It sounds to me like each distro-maker would need to have a license to sell a product that includes a MP3 player, even if the player is GPLed (or BSDed, or Artistic Licensed,
FWIW, NetWare 6 is bundled with Apache and Tomcat, which is used by some of NW6's new web services.
If you have decent speakers and a decent soundcard, you shouldn't need to touch an equalzer.
...um, "semiprofessionally recorded live shows" that sound better with some tweaking. Also, there are a few other factors that come into play, such as room acoustics.
In general, you're right. However, I have alot of
Now if only the XMMS eq supported Ogg, I'd be a happy, happy boy. I already use Ogg for all my ripping / encoding needs and I have a 'lil Compaq IA-1 connected to my stereo and LAN to play Ogg files. XMMS eq support would be the final piece for me.
Not only has MS done this before, they've done it several times before.
I'm just amazed that it doesn't happen more often.
poor little 206mHz ARM processor with 64mb running a webserver.
:^)
It's amazing what is considered slow...
No kidding. My current production SNMP management box is a P133 w/ 40MB. It happily runs full-blown Apache, Postfix, MRTG, NetSaint, et. al. *Never* throw away old hardware!
Yup surface mount soldering really isn't that hard once you've done it a few times. I always used a temp-controlled solder iron with a very fine tip. I burnt through tips fairly often, but having that precise control of the heat was needed. Never really used extra flux, but solder wick was a life-saver. So was the dental pick that I used to gently pry up the corners of chips while blasting away with a heat gun (yes, the same type that is used to remove paint). With some ultra-fine solder, I could solder the chip on so clean it hardly looked like it had been replaced. Ahh the good old days! :^)
This one is running a httpd on a C64, but is slip connected to a Linux box for its connectivity rather than having its own ethernet. http://c64.cc65.org/
It is an Athlon 1.2Ghz machine, 128 Megs ram, and a 20 gig harddrive.
Bah. Real men setup MP3 / Ogg players in 16 Megs of flash.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for posting the new links. I thought the ELKS project died out years ago. Someday my 5150 will run Linux! :^)
So, with cartoon characters and Alice discarded, I turned to the next obvious thing: an actress... I decided to use a picture of Calista Flockhart.
Calista Flockhart isn't a cartoon character? Coulda fooled me.
...and enter a market that's already saturated and run by Nokia, Ericson, and Motorola. I think Qualcomm tried something similar, they should've stuck to making Eudora ;)
Hey, take that back! I love my pdqSmartBrick
Now all I need to do is write a proprietary OS for it, and convince IBM to let me keep the rights!
Write your own? Who the hell would do that? Just buy someone else's, slap your label on it, and then start bundling everything under the sun along with it.
So you want 1,000 copies of the Quantumsoft Ion OS? OK, we'll give you a great deal if you also buy 1,000 copies of Quantumsoft Cubix office suite and 1,000 copies of Quantumsoft Visual Q++.
Here's the blurb. Sonic burger-flipping? Attacking with ketchup packets? WTF?
There's a porn version!? Where in the hell do I get that. Waitaminit. Hot hobbit-on-hobbit action? Nevermind.
We name our servers after LOTR caracters... one day someone asked what type of network we were using. The answer:
Tolkien Ring
We clearly need a new moderation selection: Groaner
The parent didn't mention that it deletes the entire directory and all subdirectories of that file as well. I wouldn't call that non-destructive.
Quoth McAfee:Under Windows 9x/ME, the worm looks for the following processes in memory:
--A list of processes including AVs and personal firewalls--
If present, the process is terminated and all files in the directory containg that executable are deleted, as well as all files in that subdirectory.
That has my attention. Can anyone confirm this?
Last time I bought a hard drive, I noticed the configuration diskette used Dr. DOS.
Novell has also continued to use DR-DOS for the NetWare boot partition and installation diskette, at least through NetWare 5.1. NetWare 6 probably uses it too, I just haven't installed it yet.
Virtually none of the "Name" brands manufacture their own laptops... For example an ODM named Compal makes the Dell Inspiron 5000e, the ChemBOOK 3015, the PowerNotebooks.com PowerPro III:16
Yup, the Inspiron 5000e (and many, many others) are just OEMs with a brand name slapped on 'em. But I'd probably still buy the Dell, even if it cost more.
My 5000e has a three-year warranty (and I won't buy any laptop without one). Would powernotebooks.com be around to honor that warranty? Maybe. But I'm pretty sure that Dell will be.
My experience with Dell's tech support (both phone and web) has been excellent. That familiarity and comfort is worth a few extra bucks to me.
Why did you USAnians not vote this guy in as president? Nader has consistently shown himself to be perhaps the only American politician with any clue, ever.
Hey! *I* voted for Nader and I still have the ballot to prove it!
Oh, waitaminit...
Months? Try years. I bought my original Qualcomm PDQ SmartPhone in Nov '99.
This johnny-come-lately is hardly the first Palm phone.
Well, how about that. My little 5150 is 20! I'll hafta go get a cake or something.
Of course it's still in the basement, ressurected a few years ago by Minix 2.0.2. Imagine, a (somewhat) complete Unixoid, open-source system crammed into 640K. It even runs httpd! I love reusing old hardware...
So how the heck do the Win2K Pro boxen that people run somehow spontaneously install IIS on them without their knowledge?
Because lots of users don't use the default install. A custom install is always more interesting because you can see what options are available.
Also, many folks don't know what the hell Internet Information Server is. Sounds like one of those spiffy add-ons for Internet Explorer. So they install it (either at install-time or from fooling around in Add/Remove) and forget it.