Something to note for those who aren't familiar with the UK papers is that the Daily Mail is not generally highly regarded. It has a reputation for scaremongering and articles which greatly exaggerate things (and are simply made up in some cases).
"Tony Blair has let in X million immigrants, and they're all armed with deadly nuclear warheads and taking our jobs! (Plus, doesn't he look fat?)" kind of thing.
Except that - if the Europe/US stores are anything to go by - you can only buy from the store in your country. Presumably because that's the way Apple have negotiated the music rights.
Should be interesting to see what Apple do here. I strongly suspect that people are right and they will just shut the store, rather than have to open specs.
I'm amazed nobody's mentioned rsync.net so far, particularly on Slashdot. Cheap storage, access via rsync, instructions for mounting it remotely on Linux/FreeBSD (as well as Windows), plus they've given some thought to both the legal and privacy aspects: "rsync.net does not merely recommend that users encrypt their data, but provides resources, tutorials and unlimited technical support for such usage".
I like the way Slashdot carefully arranged "New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame" and "Social Networking From Your Cell" next to each other. I had to read it twice before I realised it was a story about phones...
I don't read the comments that much any more, but I haven't seen too many numbers lower than mine around in a while (to the degree that I've been paying attention, anyway). Yours beats it quite handily.:-)
I don't see any conflict there. Have a headline that tells people what the story is about (so they decide whether to read it or not), then have a well written article to back it up.
I just went to the download site, selected Ubuntu, and there are packages for 5.10, 5.4, and 4.10. For most places, you're lucky to get "Debian-ish, if you're lucky".
Making packages for Debian unstable and testing is definitely something most companies wouldn't do, though. Above and beyond the call of duty.
They're perfectly placed but, from talking to a guy I work with who used to be at a company making P2P caching systems, most ISPs are extremely nervous of doing MITM, for the DMCA reason you mentioned.
Except that the GPL explicitly says that vendor A must make the source code available to anyone who has the binaries they redistributed, regardless of whether they came directly from A or through B.
I didn't ask whether other services had it, I asked whether the OP used it, or knew of people who did. Like I said, I don't know of anyone who's used voice/video in IM.
Without commenting on his specific example (because I can't be bothered to check his posting history), "thanks" is something people don't say enough of these days. Particularly with respect to free software.
C'mon folks, drop your software authors a line to say thanks; bet it'll be well received.
It depends on the country, but at least in the UK, once people have a work under a particular licence, you can't just turn round and say "that isn't valid any more, you can't use it".
No, I'm afraid that's wrong. As well as the text, there are various binaries in there.
And it's a 5MB zip archive, not 5MB of text into an archive. That makes a difference.;-)
After you've unzipped it, removed the binaries and the bits that id didn't write, you're left with somewhere over 10MB of code. Which is a fairly respectable lump, it must be said.
Yes - but in this case, he wasn't working for the competition, because he wasn't working for BitMover. You've mixed your metaphors, I think.:)
If BitMover had a problem with what the guy was doing, they should have sorted it out with him, not try to drag the company he works for into the mess. Call me suspicious, but this smells a bit like an excuse to do something BitMover has had in mind for some time.
K3B is very nice, but really brings home the limitations of the usual win32 single desktop screen when you bring it up on a windows desktop via X. There are so many windows that pop up
Eh? You get precisely one window while you're composing the CD, then one on top of that while it's burning - exactly the same number as Nero uses. Are you sure you're talking about k3b...?
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Have you read his blog? Sure, there are some spelling mistakes (we all make them), but on the whole it's interestingly written and very readable.
I don't have anything useful to add, I just wanted to say that it's a good thing you're doing, and thank you. :-)
Something to note for those who aren't familiar with the UK papers is that the Daily Mail is not generally highly regarded. It has a reputation for scaremongering and articles which greatly exaggerate things (and are simply made up in some cases).
"Tony Blair has let in X million immigrants, and they're all armed with deadly nuclear warheads and taking our jobs! (Plus, doesn't he look fat?)" kind of thing.
Except that - if the Europe/US stores are anything to go by - you can only buy from the store in your country. Presumably because that's the way Apple have negotiated the music rights.
Should be interesting to see what Apple do here. I strongly suspect that people are right and they will just shut the store, rather than have to open specs.
I do (which is why I mentioned them). Cheap (and increasing) storage, network seems fast enough. No complaints. :)
I'm amazed nobody's mentioned rsync.net so far, particularly on Slashdot. Cheap storage, access via rsync, instructions for mounting it remotely on Linux/FreeBSD (as well as Windows), plus they've given some thought to both the legal and privacy aspects: "rsync.net does not merely recommend that users encrypt their data, but provides resources, tutorials and unlimited technical support for such usage".
I like the way Slashdot carefully arranged "New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame" and "Social Networking From Your Cell" next to each other. I had to read it twice before I realised it was a story about phones...
I don't read the comments that much any more, but I haven't seen too many numbers lower than mine around in a while (to the degree that I've been paying attention, anyway). Yours beats it quite handily. :-)
I don't see any conflict there. Have a headline that tells people what the story is about (so they decide whether to read it or not), then have a well written article to back it up.
I just went to the download site, selected Ubuntu, and there are packages for 5.10, 5.4, and 4.10. For most places, you're lucky to get "Debian-ish, if you're lucky".
Making packages for Debian unstable and testing is definitely something most companies wouldn't do, though. Above and beyond the call of duty.
They're perfectly placed but, from talking to a guy I work with who used to be at a company making P2P caching systems, most ISPs are extremely nervous of doing MITM, for the DMCA reason you mentioned.
This might change, obviously.
Er... so you find iTunes less bloated than winamp? You have a strange definition of bloated... :-)
Except that the GPL explicitly says that vendor A must make the source code available to anyone who has the binaries they redistributed, regardless of whether they came directly from A or through B.
I didn't ask whether other services had it, I asked whether the OP used it, or knew of people who did. Like I said, I don't know of anyone who's used voice/video in IM.
You actually use this? I don't think I know anyone who actually *uses* video or voice over IM.
Without commenting on his specific example (because I can't be bothered to check his posting history), "thanks" is something people don't say enough of these days. Particularly with respect to free software.
C'mon folks, drop your software authors a line to say thanks; bet it'll be well received.
It depends on the country, but at least in the UK, once people have a work under a particular licence, you can't just turn round and say "that isn't valid any more, you can't use it".
No, I'm afraid that's wrong. As well as the text, there are various binaries in there.
;-)
And it's a 5MB zip archive, not 5MB of text into an archive. That makes a difference.
After you've unzipped it, removed the binaries and the bits that id didn't write, you're left with somewhere over 10MB of code. Which is a fairly respectable lump, it must be said.
Real life is about people, love, adventure, relationships, hardships and successes.
;-)
Computers are about reading e-mail, and surfing for porn.
Computers can easily be used for the other things you mentioned as well, which undermines your argument somewhat.
Yes - but in this case, he wasn't working for the competition, because he wasn't working for BitMover. You've mixed your metaphors, I think. :)
If BitMover had a problem with what the guy was doing, they should have sorted it out with him, not try to drag the company he works for into the mess. Call me suspicious, but this smells a bit like an excuse to do something BitMover has had in mind for some time.
I realise I may regret asking this question, but which one of you and the manatee is nude?
(Possibly both, I guess.)
* is just a way of adding emphasis. It's usually equivalent to bolding, same as / is for italics and _ is underlining.
K3B is very nice, but really brings home the limitations of the usual win32 single desktop screen when you bring it up on a windows desktop via X. There are so many windows that pop up
Eh? You get precisely one window while you're composing the CD, then one on top of that while it's burning - exactly the same number as Nero uses. Are you sure you're talking about k3b...?
Wikipedia's normal traffic is about 5 times higher than that of Slashdot. I don't think it should be a problem...
:-)
A "Wikipedia effect" could probably bring down most servers around, though.
Yes, but the backup page isn't hosted on the Wikipedia servers. Otherwise it wouldn't be much of a backup. ;-)
And, in fact, it's giving a "bandwidth exceeded" message as I type...