Where is the bluetooth support? Or WIFI? I need either to connect to internet and read my mail.
Bluetooth is a must, wifi would be neat. With bluetooth I can get internet access through my GSM phone with GPRS. I use this all the time with my ipaq and Ericsson T68i (or Nokia 7650).
I can drool all day long over how cool the applications are, but without easy internet access when I am on the move, the device is useless.
The vg01 volume group consist of two raid 5's. One is 8 x 80 GB, the other 4 x 160 GB.
I tried to use 6 promise tx2 controller cards. Each have two ide ports, so that would give me 12 ports in total - one for each disk. However it turns out that linux 2.4.x doesn't support more than 10 IDE controllers. Plus you run out of letters and get to deal with drives named things like hd.
So now I am using only four promise cards, with the 8x80 GB array as primary disks, and the 4x160 GB array as secondary on the first four IDE controllers.
This setup is not stable. I get regularly filesystem corruption if I stress the system. Apparently linux can't deal with the fact that the total transfer rate of 12 modern ultra dma133 disks more than maxes the PCI bus.
Currently I am thinking about changing the raid 5 arrays into just plain volume groups without stripping. This would allow me to lose some of the transfer rate and avoid stressing the pci bus.
In the pirate report (the last link to a pdf file) IFPI says that amount of pirate CDR recording increased in Denmark during the year of 2001.
However, it was recently made legal to make digital copies of CDs and it has been so for the entire year 2001. You can even borrow CDs at the library and copy them at home legally.
It is still illegal to sell such copies, so it is possible IFPI is right and danes are too stupid to just borrow from the library and friends, and instead buy copies of real pirates. But it doesn't seem likely.
The directive is made up of two parts. The first part defines copyright in general, and the second part is the DMCA equalent.
The directive has a list of exceptions to copyright that each country can optional implement. One of those is the right to copy digital content for private purposes. The country I live in, Denmark, already allows this. It it is the equalent of fair use, except it is spelled clear out in the law.
The DMCA part is confusing. It is required that the copyright holder makes it possible to copy in the circumstates where those exceptions apply. So in Denmark, the copyright holder needs to make it possible for me to copy the content for private purposes??
Looks to me like the different interrest groups in EU could not agree on if they wanted freedom or the DMCA nightmare from USA. So they tried to do both, which will not work.
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Third, the Appellants argue that an individua who buys a DVD has the "authority of the copyright owner" to view he DVD, and therefore is exempted from the DMCA pursuant to subsection I 1201 (a) (3) (A) when the buyer circumvents an encryption technology in order to view the DVD on a competing platform (such as linux). The basic flaw in this argument is that it misreads subsection 1201(a)(3)(A). That provision exempts from liability those who would "decrypt" an encrypted DVD with the authority of a copyright owner, not those who would "view" a DVD with the authority of a copyright owner. In any event, the Defendants offers no evidence that the Plaintiffs have either explicitly or implicitly authorized DVD buyers to circumvent encryption technology to su port use on multiple platforms.
So you apparently might have the right to view the DVD but not the right to decrypt it, not even if you can't view it without decrypting.
And just because you bought and payed for the DVD, the studios never agreed that you had the right to view it on a device of your own choosing.
You can use the mediaplayer to record a radio show. Then you start another mediaplayer and play the file as it records - BINGO. You have a time delayed play of a live feed....
It might not be circular, but it should be close enough...
1) Both Netscape and IE only supports an ancient version of java that nobody wants to work with. Writting an applet is a nightmare, nothing works like it is documented and you can't expect your code to work in other browsers than the one you are testing on. This would have been fixed years ago, but the first browser to use a recent JDK is Netscape 6.
2) Applets can do almost nothing with the browser compared to javascript. This reduces the potential usefullness greatly. We could have had applets that worked like client side servlets, controlling a frame with ordinary HTML etc, replacing many of the more complex usages of javascript.
If browsers used a recent JDK with usefull extensions like Java 3D available, maybe flash wouldn't have been that popular.
You give the right to modify/etc/passwd to the passwd program instead of giving it to the user 'root'.
If you then run a daemon as root, and someone finds an exploit in it allowing them to trick it to modify/etc/passwd, it can't even if it has root privileges.
Even if the hacker finds a root exploit in the daemon, and thus has a root shell, he can't modify/etc/passwd without the passwd program. That means whatever he does, it will get logged - he of course can't delete the log files even if you have a log rotating program doing cleanups, only the log rotation program can do that etc.
They could just make a VNC client and it would magically run any X11 application. Or any windows application if remote controlling a windows machine counts.
Actually the 30m cables just go down in the basement and up again. They can take them in and out of the powerloop at any time. This is purely to test how the cables work out with the load generated by a real city.
According to the article, they want to be sure that the cables can cope with the power spikes before making the real investment.
The government should publish all laws on Internet
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Here in Denmark we have a governmental instituion publish all laws, including any changes, notes etc. on Internet.
It is the full system that our parlament uses internally for creating the laws. It has various search and index functions, making it easy to find the laws that interrest you.
Actually having read the law can be really usefull to cut the crap out of authorities that want to bully you.
This is a guy that dreams about replacing one monopoly with another. If your future world only has one major OS be it Linux, MacOS or something third then nothing has been archieved.
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Where is the bluetooth support? Or WIFI? I need either to connect to internet and read my mail.
Bluetooth is a must, wifi would be neat. With bluetooth I can get internet access through my GSM phone with GPRS. I use this all the time with my ipaq and Ericsson T68i (or Nokia 7650).
I can drool all day long over how cool the applications are, but without easy internet access when I am on the move, the device is useless.
I have a simelar system:
/dev/hda1 72G 49G 23G 69% / /dev/vg01/stuff 980G 785G 196G 81% /mnt/stuff
bbn@dark:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
The vg01 volume group consist of two raid 5's. One is 8 x 80 GB, the other 4 x 160 GB.
I tried to use 6 promise tx2 controller cards. Each have two ide ports, so that would give me 12 ports in total - one for each disk. However it turns out that linux 2.4.x doesn't support more than 10 IDE controllers. Plus you run out of letters and get to deal with drives named things like hd.
So now I am using only four promise cards, with the 8x80 GB array as primary disks, and the 4x160 GB array as secondary on the first four IDE controllers.
This setup is not stable. I get regularly filesystem corruption if I stress the system. Apparently linux can't deal with the fact that the total transfer rate of 12 modern ultra dma133 disks more than maxes the PCI bus.
Currently I am thinking about changing the raid 5 arrays into just plain volume groups without stripping. This would allow me to lose some of the transfer rate and avoid stressing the pci bus.
In the pirate report (the last link to a pdf file) IFPI says that amount of pirate CDR recording increased in Denmark during the year of 2001.
However, it was recently made legal to make digital copies of CDs and it has been so for the entire year 2001. You can even borrow CDs at the library and copy them at home legally.
It is still illegal to sell such copies, so it is possible IFPI is right and danes are too stupid to just borrow from the library and friends, and instead buy copies of real pirates. But it doesn't seem likely.
The directive is made up of two parts. The first part defines copyright in general, and the second part is the DMCA equalent.
The directive has a list of exceptions to copyright that each country can optional implement. One of those is the right to copy digital content for private purposes. The country I live in, Denmark, already allows this. It it is the equalent of fair use, except it is spelled clear out in the law.
The DMCA part is confusing. It is required that the copyright holder makes it possible to copy in the circumstates where those exceptions apply. So in Denmark, the copyright holder needs to make it possible for me to copy the content for private purposes??
Looks to me like the different interrest groups in EU could not agree on if they wanted freedom or the DMCA nightmare from USA. So they tried to do both, which will not work.
Third, the Appellants argue that an individua who buys a DVD has the "authority of the copyright owner" to view he DVD, and therefore is exempted from the DMCA pursuant to subsection I 1201 (a) (3) (A) when the buyer circumvents an encryption technology in order to view the DVD on a competing platform (such as linux). The basic flaw in this argument is that it misreads subsection 1201(a)(3)(A). That provision exempts from liability those who would "decrypt" an encrypted DVD with the authority of a copyright owner, not those who would "view" a DVD with the authority of a copyright owner. In any event, the Defendants offers no evidence that the Plaintiffs have either explicitly or implicitly authorized DVD buyers to circumvent encryption technology to su port use on multiple platforms.
So you apparently might have the right to view the DVD but not the right to decrypt it, not even if you can't view it without decrypting.
And just because you bought and payed for the DVD, the studios never agreed that you had the right to view it on a device of your own choosing.
You can use the mediaplayer to record a radio show. Then you start another mediaplayer and play the file as it records - BINGO. You have a time delayed play of a live feed....
It might not be circular, but it should be close enough...
Two reasons java applets didn't make it:
1) Both Netscape and IE only supports an ancient version of java that nobody wants to work with. Writting an applet is a nightmare, nothing works like it is documented and you can't expect your code to work in other browsers than the one you are testing on. This would have been fixed years ago, but the first browser to use a recent JDK is Netscape 6.
2) Applets can do almost nothing with the browser compared to javascript. This reduces the potential usefullness greatly. We could have had applets that worked like client side servlets, controlling a frame with ordinary HTML etc, replacing many of the more complex usages of javascript.
If browsers used a recent JDK with usefull extensions like Java 3D available, maybe flash wouldn't have been that popular.
You give the right to modify /etc/passwd to the passwd program instead of giving it to the user 'root'.
/etc/passwd, it can't even if it has root privileges.
/etc/passwd without the passwd program. That means whatever he does, it will get logged - he of course can't delete the log files even if you have a log rotating program doing cleanups, only the log rotation program can do that etc.
If you then run a daemon as root, and someone finds an exploit in it allowing them to trick it to modify
Even if the hacker finds a root exploit in the daemon, and thus has a root shell, he can't modify
They could just make a VNC client and it would magically run any X11 application. Or any windows application if remote controlling a windows machine counts.
Actually the 30m cables just go down in the basement and up again. They can take them in and out of the powerloop at any time. This is purely to test how the cables work out with the load generated by a real city.
According to the article, they want to be sure that the cables can cope with the power spikes before making the real investment.
Here in Denmark we have a governmental instituion publish all laws, including any changes, notes etc. on Internet. It is the full system that our parlament uses internally for creating the laws. It has various search and index functions, making it easy to find the laws that interrest you. Actually having read the law can be really usefull to cut the crap out of authorities that want to bully you.
This is a guy that dreams about replacing one monopoly with another. If your future world only has one major OS be it Linux, MacOS or something third then nothing has been archieved.