The article was similar to Tridge's talk on the same subject at linux.conf.au in January - "towards full NTFS semantics in Samba."
The talk (in Ogg Speex audio format) and accompanying paper are on the linux.conf.au CD. There's a list of mirrors on their web site, both to mounted copies of the CD so you can download individual talks, and ISO images of the whole thing.
Given that a faggot is a length of wood, it sounds like you're talking about a cluebat.
how about setting up a way for domain admins to specify valid smtp servers for a domain. Then when mail comes in from, for example, yahoo.com, your mail server can query yahoo.com for the list, and if the originating server isn't on it, then the mail isn't accepted.
Except there are legitimate reasons for wanting to send mail from me@somewhere.com, when I'm nowhere near somewhere.com's network.
Look, there are platforms out there that kick Windows butt very, very badly when it comes to performance. Some carry a premium ( Irix/MIPS )
And on the whole X speed thing, I'd like to point out that the GUI on SGI's Irix machines is X11, and it's certainly fast enough. A couple of years back I remember a day when I used a then-ancient SGI Indy (133mhz cpu) running X11, a Sun workstation running X11, and a Win2K box in the space of a few hours, and the X11 boxes wiped the floor with Win2K on GUI responsiveness.
(does anyone program C without assuming that the standard I/O library is available?)
Off the top of my head: Palm applications, Win32 applications, operating system kernels, plugins for various programs, libraries with no business doing I/O..
Anyway, how do you think they are detecting NAT/PAT? Is there any way to stop this detection?
It may be due to initial sequence numbers, or possibly the way that a computer responds to IP packets with certain header options set (although I'm not sure if that would be possible when NAT is involved). You could probably get around it by having OpenBSD do the NAT - as it can basically rewrite NATted packets so it looks like it's all coming from the OpenBSD box. The OpenBSD pf firewall is being ported to other BSDs too, apparantly, so you might find you can get it to do the same thing on FreeBSD.
Mr Moore acknowledged: "It is not and has never been the case that [a] person has the right to make a 'back-up' copy in any digital media of [any] commercially released sound recording."
Would this hold up in US court since there is actual written law about the right to "back-up" / "Fair-use"????
No, it wouldn't hold up in a US court, since in the US there is actual written law about the right to backup.
However, in Australia, which is where all this took place, you do not have the right to make personal backups, unless you receive permission from the copyright holder.
Electronic Frontiers Australia have been trying to get a list of sites from the authorities over here. While there isn't an all-encompassing list of sites that ISPs must block, there is a list of sites that have been reported to the authorities. If these sites are deemed sufficiently offensive by the same governmental body that issues classifications for movies, and the site falls under Australian jurisdiction, it will be issued a takedown notice.
So far the government has managed to weasel it's way out of complying with EFA's Freedom of Information requests, due to exemptions in the law. Whether the exemptions should protect the government in this case isn't an open and shut case though - in fact, the government is worried enough that they're currently pushing legislation that would explicitly put such information outside of the scope of the FOI Act.
The problem with keeping this information from the public is that there is no ability to properly review the process. Many in Australia are of the opinion that our content regulation regime is a farce.
They say "C++ requires an expensive set of skills."
What that means is "out of all our monkeys with 6 months trade school education and a few years experience, mostly in Javascript and Flash, only 1 seem to have the skill level required."
I don't think C++ makes programming any harder. It does, however, raise the entry level point you need to reach before you're capable of doing anything at all.
I've encountered this myself, and I don't think words can do justice to it's suckiness. It just isn't ready for production use.
If you've ever used a PocketPC or a Palm Pilot, you'd be used to the way that applications start instantly (they're executed in place in memory - no loading from disk required) and behave in a snapping fashion. A.NET CF application takes about 8 seconds to start - CF initialisation I assume. Then it runs slow as molasses, and some actions in particular (like opening a new window and drawing it's controls) take a few seconds, which is a few seconds too long.
VM versus compile-to-native arguments are irrelevant, because the thing is so slow it has to be the poor implementation, not a because-this-is-a-VM thing. Java ran faster on slower CPUs than a modern PocketPC has.
When the compact framework is shipped by default with the OS and always running, and the implementation has improved by miles, it might be ready. But not yet.
So if you have, say, Window Media Player, you'll need to install an MPEG-2 codec to view the video. I found a shareware one with annoying overlay on playback here: http://www.etymonix.com/
There is a free decoder out there for Windows, but I don't remember where it was..
Patent claim: A method of increasing sales comprising the distribution of items to a plurarity of customers, in exchange for financial reward (the "sale price"), wherein the sale price is of lesser quantity than the sale price offered by competing merchants.
All those times the euro trash bois post their AC flamebait to the tune of
you americans are so pathetic while we here in Germany|Sweden|France|Belguim|Whatever we anjoy very many freedoms and the DMCA* has no powerful and everything is wonderful and blah blah blah.. [sic]
Of course, this is just a proposal for thinking about some future laws that probably won't happen (how often is this sort of idea floated and then forgotten about?), wheras the DMCA is law in the US right now.
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The article was similar to Tridge's talk on the same subject at linux.conf.au in January - "towards full NTFS semantics in Samba."
The talk (in Ogg Speex audio format) and accompanying paper are on the linux.conf.au CD. There's a list of mirrors on their web site, both to mounted copies of the CD so you can download individual talks, and ISO images of the whole thing.
Given that a faggot is a length of wood, it sounds like you're talking about a cluebat.
Except there are legitimate reasons for wanting to send mail from me@somewhere.com, when I'm nowhere near somewhere.com's network.
And on the whole X speed thing, I'd like to point out that the GUI on SGI's Irix machines is X11, and it's certainly fast enough. A couple of years back I remember a day when I used a then-ancient SGI Indy (133mhz cpu) running X11, a Sun workstation running X11, and a Win2K box in the space of a few hours, and the X11 boxes wiped the floor with Win2K on GUI responsiveness.
Off the top of my head: Palm applications, Win32 applications, operating system kernels, plugins for various programs, libraries with no business doing I/O..
So the Linux kernel's support was obviously stolen from SCO, and therefore doesn't count.
It may be due to initial sequence numbers, or possibly the way that a computer responds to IP packets with certain header options set (although I'm not sure if that would be possible when NAT is involved). You could probably get around it by having OpenBSD do the NAT - as it can basically rewrite NATted packets so it looks like it's all coming from the OpenBSD box. The OpenBSD pf firewall is being ported to other BSDs too, apparantly, so you might find you can get it to do the same thing on FreeBSD.
No, it wouldn't hold up in a US court, since in the US there is actual written law about the right to backup.
However, in Australia, which is where all this took place, you do not have the right to make personal backups, unless you receive permission from the copyright holder.
Electronic Frontiers Australia have been trying to get a list of sites from the authorities over here. While there isn't an all-encompassing list of sites that ISPs must block, there is a list of sites that have been reported to the authorities. If these sites are deemed sufficiently offensive by the same governmental body that issues classifications for movies, and the site falls under Australian jurisdiction, it will be issued a takedown notice.
So far the government has managed to weasel it's way out of complying with EFA's Freedom of Information requests, due to exemptions in the law. Whether the exemptions should protect the government in this case isn't an open and shut case though - in fact, the government is worried enough that they're currently pushing legislation that would explicitly put such information outside of the scope of the FOI Act.
The problem with keeping this information from the public is that there is no ability to properly review the process. Many in Australia are of the opinion that our content regulation regime is a farce.
More information at EFA
But if Halle Berry was blowing me at the time I think I'd stand a chance.
It got me. After all, it's the morning of April 2 here in .au.
In all seriousness, FreeBSD now supports the evil bit. Kernel patch here.
I bet we could get the US Congress to pass a law making it illegal to set this bit incorrectly.
They say "C++ requires an expensive set of skills."
What that means is "out of all our monkeys with 6 months trade school education and a few years experience, mostly in Javascript and Flash, only 1 seem to have the skill level required."
I don't think C++ makes programming any harder. It does, however, raise the entry level point you need to reach before you're capable of doing anything at all.
I've encountered this myself, and I don't think words can do justice to it's suckiness. It just isn't ready for production use.
If you've ever used a PocketPC or a Palm Pilot, you'd be used to the way that applications start instantly (they're executed in place in memory - no loading from disk required) and behave in a snapping fashion. A .NET CF application takes about 8 seconds to start - CF initialisation I assume. Then it runs slow as molasses, and some actions in particular (like opening a new window and drawing it's controls) take a few seconds, which is a few seconds too long.
VM versus compile-to-native arguments are irrelevant, because the thing is so slow it has to be the poor implementation, not a because-this-is-a-VM thing. Java ran faster on slower CPUs than a modern PocketPC has.
When the compact framework is shipped by default with the OS and always running, and the implementation has improved by miles, it might be ready. But not yet.
I'll work on whatever I bloody well want to, and so will everyone else.
*ceases to exist*
You forgot the 4 assed monkey!
Copyright is not "ownership" in the proper sense. It's an exclusive right to copy and redistribute.
So if you have, say, Window Media Player, you'll need to install an MPEG-2 codec to view the video. I found a shareware one with annoying overlay on playback here: http://www.etymonix.com/
There is a free decoder out there for Windows, but I don't remember where it was..
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The current Debian project leader, Bdale Garbee, is also at HP.
Patent claim: A method of increasing sales comprising the distribution of items to a plurarity of customers, in exchange for financial reward (the "sale price"), wherein the sale price is of lesser quantity than the sale price offered by competing merchants.
Of course, this is just a proposal for thinking about some future laws that probably won't happen (how often is this sort of idea floated and then forgotten about?), wheras the DMCA is law in the US right now.
.. our sheep porn!
Hmm, but you'd run a higher risk of downloading a trojaned/virus ridden binary. Some checksums of the authentic article would be nice..