I tried all kinds of arguments about the copy being made in Russia, import laws, etc., but they are all moot. In reality, copies are made all the time in computing, and copyright law counts them ALL as copies, even copying to RAM. Anyway, I stopped using AllofMP3.com since.
Does that mean that Cisco will be the next target for a lawsuit since Cisco routers contain thousands of copies of music all the time? They are effectively assisting in the copying of all media!!?!? Those bastards.
Yet Cisco has managed to avoid any kind of anti-trust action over the years. And there's no talk of anti-trust pressure on Google either. Wonder why that is?
A monopoly in itself is not illegal. Illegally leveraging what you got for what you want is.
As far as I know Google has never forced HP to ship with a link to Google on the desktop or risk having all HP users redirected to MSN Search.
In addition Cisco routers don't detect Foundry switches and shut down the ports.
Repeat after me, having a monopoly is not illegal!?!?
Ah. But are they leveraging their market dominance in one area - digital music players - to lock consumers into another, separate product of theirs - music sales?
Not true, this is more akin to a device/subscription model ala TiVo. You buy a TiVo with the understanding that you need to get TiVo service before you can use it. Same thing with the iPod, you buy the iPod with the knowledge that you will either have to use iTunes OR rip your own cd's.
Clearly, the answer is yes, and this is in contrast to MS here, who liberally licenses their tech to many manufacturers/vendors. This hasn't - yet - crossed into coercing of vendors, though I would not be surprised to see that happen. If/when it does, though, I fully expect Apple apologists to claim it's a benefit to consumers.
Not the same thing. Apple is not in the drm format business, they are in the hardware/content sales business. It is in Microsoft's best interest to license their technology, since that's all they can do with it. There is no Microsoft Portable Music Player. Get the difference? No? Let me further explain. If I make a drm format and I don't make a player, for me to make money I must license it to third parties.
I'm not an Apple fanboi, just stating the obvious.
iPods cannot play WMAs so it's possible that Microsoft is playing the same game as Apple. In fact, WMV encoded AVI videos cannot play on Macs either. Windows Media only has lukewarm support on Linux, WMV has virtually no support on non-x86 Linux systems.
But on my mac I can play WMV just fine. Unfortunately this only supports up to WMV v.9 and not v.10 yet, but I haven't run into any site where that is a problem yet.
Forget Maxblast - boot back into Knoppix and zero the drive with dd.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=100
Although I concur with using dd instead of third party programs, the gp did state that he used Maxblast to zero out the drive. Not sure how this would give different results. As far as I know dd does not have any magical drive fixing powers that I am aware of.
What are you talking about? By definition, everything anyone does in this country is legal except as prohibited by law.
Driving without a license is prohibted by law.
Or are you trying to imply that one action someone commits that's in violation of the law makes all their actions at that moment in violation of every law?
No, but that's not the point. Try not paying a parking ticket and then try renewing your license. It won't happen! Break a law and lose your driving privilege happens, it's the same things with illegals. They are here illegaly and thus have no privilege to drive.
As we all remember from Drivers Ed, driving is a privilege and not a right. If you are here illegally, then get your papers and drive legally or you will be driving illegally.
Passports are required by the United States when a US citizen crosses the border inbound, no matter where you're coming from.
Last year a buddy and I drove to Mexico to check out some property that he had inherited after his mother passed away. When we passed the border on the way back in all we were asked for was our state issued ID.
if it keep whitebox linux alive longer....seems the owner of the whiteboxlinux.net and whiteboxlinux.com domains has decided to offer them on ebay as a peace offering between wbel and himself.
I'm glad he decided to sell. I always thought it was fucked up of that guy to register the.net and.org just to reroute people to CentOS.
Most people think Whitebox is dying, however if you go to whiteboxlinux.org (the real site) it says another story.
That said, CentOS is probably the best ticket right now. TaoLinux has dropped amd64 for v.3 and Whitebox is always a few steps behind. CentOS seems to be on it, and releasing updates at near RH speed.
Whitebox may be the first RHEL cloner, but it is a one man show, and is showing the bottlenecks. It's nice of the guy to share his work, but it doesn't seem sustainable to me.
Microsoft have founded there entire software empire on the lowest common denominator of users (often at the expense of security).
Not true. Microsoft founded the entire software empire by capitalizing on opportunity presented.
All of the non-geeks that I know hate Microsoft with a passion. Complain that nothing works as advertised. So how does a company stay on top when the majority of the users hate the product? Leverage.
Microsoft has a lot of intertia from when it was the best thing around. Linux interfaces were pretty lame (fvwm anyone?) copies of Windows. MacOS had the most basic of task switching and crashed more often than not. And OS/2 tried to sell itself as Windows++, which was it's fatal move. Why buy Windows++ from IBM when I can wait for a real Windows release from Microsoft.
Since then Microsoft has pretty much blackmailed every OEM into shipping with M$ latest and greatest at a discount or paying full price. Since paying full price on a product whose margins are ever shrinking was so bad for their business they went for it.
Anyways my rant can be summed up into this:
Microsoft founded a software empire by leveraging their monopoly illegaly (DOJ agrees). The fact that it's #1 is because users had no choice. In my area the #1 power comany is PG&E because it was the only choice forever, and now that there is deregulation and competition PG&E still has intertia.
If you disagree and thin that Microsoft really got there by building easier to use software, then the Mac would be at the top spot. It's easier than shit, and was easier when all this was going on too.
Maybe it's just me, but I really disagree with that. The ability to render badly formatted pages indicates a flexibility to produce output from poorly written code. Most of the world doesn't care about 110% compliant HTML, it cares about being able to see the webpage they've requested.
I disagree, not in principal but in practice. Remember that the reason we have this abomination that passes itself off as HTML is because IE was:
1) So lax about it 2) Encouraged it by not following the standards 3) People wanted to target the #1 browser
Now if people targetted HTML compliance, and proper formatting we wouldn't have to worry about being locked in ever. A webmaster would design 1 site and it would just work. Remember although the user doesn't care how it's written, the user will make a fuss that the site fails. The more users raising a fuss about badly coded sites, the faster they will disappear into oblivon.
What I want to happen is the following:
1) IE users move off big time, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. reach a combined browser dominance of ~80% of the market. 2) At this point, Mozilla, Opera, & Apple own the market. They include a "Strict Mode" that will only render properly coded pages, default to on! 3) Users bitch to webmasters@foo until the rest of the community is now in tune with the standards.
This would be the greatest thing for the internet in general. Thereby reducing lock in and increasing standards. Unfortunately by the time IE bites the dust, there will probably be a newer, bigger and badder distraction on the internet that will fill in the hole...
They also need to use their brain. A cow-irker of mine was baffled when I said that I don't run any antivirus or antispyware products on my home PC, and I don't have problems with said threats.
They said, "How do you keep from getting infected?"
To which I replied, "I don't have any antivirus or antispyware, how the hell would I know if I'm infected? Does a crack without an AIDS test know if she's infected?"
Virus infections usually use your PC to spread and infect others. Spyware comes from websites and program installations and doesnt spread from your PC. There are some that cross the line but thats the easiest definition i've come across.
You are correct. Spyware is more like trojans, which most anti-viruses deal with as well. Personally I would like to see spyware categorized as trojans and dealt with default antivirus.
Soon, you'll be able to download the OpenSolaris distribution. For now -- just to prove that we're serious -- we've made available the source code to DTrace; it's available here under the CDDL License.
A self contained module is not a GPL violation. Having a GPL'd wrapper that can load your proprietary module is not a GPL violation. Having a driver that has headers and kernel source in the compiled version would make it a GPL violation since it is a "derivative".
Panasas is a GPL Violator, as per conversations with them during a demo. They have a proprietary module that is built against only RHEL kernels. They confirmed that this module uses kernel headers and other parts of the kernel, but they refuse to release the source to any customer.
If you are ever in a situation where you need to upgrade kernels in a hurry, switch branch (2.4 to 2.6) or the company goes outta business then you will have just a bunch of nfs file servers with locally attached disks. Makes debugging kernels a pain.
I remember reading an article from one of the developers (think it was Tridge) where he was asked if Wine Is Not an Emulator, then what is it. His response was "basically an emulator".
other examples of non-competing industries using similar trademarks are: united arlines, united postal service,...
It's true people, things that are in non-competing industries are allowed to use similar trademarks. That's why Apple had no problems starting a computer name which shared the same name as a record company . . . oh wait they did . ..
Hmm, well maybe all copies of tiger sold from TigerDirect will include an updated Sosumi now in AAC!
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I tried all kinds of arguments about the copy being made in Russia, import laws, etc., but they are all moot. In reality, copies are made all the time in computing, and copyright law counts them ALL as copies, even copying to RAM. Anyway, I stopped using AllofMP3.com since.
Does that mean that Cisco will be the next target for a lawsuit since Cisco routers contain thousands of copies of music all the time? They are effectively assisting in the copying of all media!!?!? Those bastards.
Yet Cisco has managed to avoid any kind of anti-trust action over the years. And there's no talk of anti-trust pressure on Google either. Wonder why that is?
A monopoly in itself is not illegal. Illegally leveraging what you got for what you want is.
As far as I know Google has never forced HP to ship with a link to Google on the desktop or risk having all HP users redirected to MSN Search.
In addition Cisco routers don't detect Foundry switches and shut down the ports.
Repeat after me, having a monopoly is not illegal!?!?
Ah. But are they leveraging their market dominance in one area - digital music players - to lock consumers into another, separate product of theirs - music sales?
Not true, this is more akin to a device/subscription model ala TiVo. You buy a TiVo with the understanding that you need to get TiVo service before you can use it. Same thing with the iPod, you buy the iPod with the knowledge that you will either have to use iTunes OR rip your own cd's.
Clearly, the answer is yes, and this is in contrast to MS here, who liberally licenses their tech to many manufacturers/vendors. This hasn't - yet - crossed into coercing of vendors, though I would not be surprised to see that happen. If/when it does, though, I fully expect Apple apologists to claim it's a benefit to consumers.
Not the same thing. Apple is not in the drm format business, they are in the hardware/content sales business. It is in Microsoft's best interest to license their technology, since that's all they can do with it. There is no Microsoft Portable Music Player. Get the difference? No? Let me further explain. If I make a drm format and I don't make a player, for me to make money I must license it to third parties.
I'm not an Apple fanboi, just stating the obvious.
iPods cannot play WMAs so it's possible that Microsoft is playing the same game as Apple. In fact, WMV encoded AVI videos cannot play on Macs either. Windows Media only has lukewarm support on Linux, WMV has virtually no support on non-x86 Linux systems.
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http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherp
Perhaps I am missing something . .
But on my mac I can play WMV just fine. Unfortunately this only supports up to WMV v.9 and not v.10 yet, but I haven't run into any site where that is a problem yet.
5. Tell him not to run any executable pr0n he downloads off of p2p.
Some of my best material comes from p2p . . .
Forget Maxblast - boot back into Knoppix and zero the drive with dd.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=100
Although I concur with using dd instead of third party programs, the gp did state that he used Maxblast to zero out the drive. Not sure how this would give different results. As far as I know dd does not have any magical drive fixing powers that I am aware of.
She said the iPod only accepts iTunes tracks and songs she ripped from her CDs, but not from OTHER stores.
Maybe she should get a copy of old school Winamp + out_stacker. With that you can get any song on the iPod!
Hey if the grand parent poster can mention Hymm . . .
What are you talking about? By definition, everything anyone does in this country is legal except as prohibited by law.
Driving without a license is prohibted by law.
Or are you trying to imply that one action someone commits that's in violation of the law makes all their actions at that moment in violation of every law?
No, but that's not the point. Try not paying a parking ticket and then try renewing your license. It won't happen! Break a law and lose your driving privilege happens, it's the same things with illegals. They are here illegaly and thus have no privilege to drive.
As we all remember from Drivers Ed, driving is a privilege and not a right. If you are here illegally, then get your papers and drive legally or you will be driving illegally.
That's the point the parent poster was making.
Don't make me laugh. The only thing that Soviet Russia taught people is how to steal from the state (aka your employer), guess what happens now...
or to rephrase in a way slashdot'ers can understand:
In Soviet Russia, you steal from your employer!
Passports are required by the United States when a US citizen crosses the border inbound, no matter where you're coming from.
Last year a buddy and I drove to Mexico to check out some property that he had inherited after his mother passed away. When we passed the border on the way back in all we were asked for was our state issued ID.
if it keep whitebox linux alive longer....seems the owner of the whiteboxlinux.net and whiteboxlinux.com domains has decided to offer them on ebay as a peace offering between wbel and himself.
.net and .org just to reroute people to CentOS.
I'm glad he decided to sell. I always thought it was fucked up of that guy to register the
Most people think Whitebox is dying, however if you go to whiteboxlinux.org (the real site) it says another story.
That said, CentOS is probably the best ticket right now. TaoLinux has dropped amd64 for v.3 and Whitebox is always a few steps behind. CentOS seems to be on it, and releasing updates at near RH speed.
Whitebox may be the first RHEL cloner, but it is a one man show, and is showing the bottlenecks. It's nice of the guy to share his work, but it doesn't seem sustainable to me.
Microsoft have founded there entire software empire on the lowest common denominator of users (often at the expense of security).
Not true. Microsoft founded the entire software empire by capitalizing on opportunity presented.
All of the non-geeks that I know hate Microsoft with a passion. Complain that nothing works as advertised. So how does a company stay on top when the majority of the users hate the product? Leverage.
Microsoft has a lot of intertia from when it was the best thing around. Linux interfaces were pretty lame (fvwm anyone?) copies of Windows. MacOS had the most basic of task switching and crashed more often than not. And OS/2 tried to sell itself as Windows++, which was it's fatal move. Why buy Windows++ from IBM when I can wait for a real Windows release from Microsoft.
Since then Microsoft has pretty much blackmailed every OEM into shipping with M$ latest and greatest at a discount or paying full price. Since paying full price on a product whose margins are ever shrinking was so bad for their business they went for it.
Anyways my rant can be summed up into this:
Microsoft founded a software empire by leveraging their monopoly illegaly (DOJ agrees). The fact that it's #1 is because users had no choice. In my area the #1 power comany is PG&E because it was the only choice forever, and now that there is deregulation and competition PG&E still has intertia.
If you disagree and thin that Microsoft really got there by building easier to use software, then the Mac would be at the top spot. It's easier than shit, and was easier when all this was going on too.
Maybe it's just me, but I really disagree with that. The ability to render badly formatted pages indicates a flexibility to produce output from poorly written code. Most of the world doesn't care about 110% compliant HTML, it cares about being able to see the webpage they've requested.
I disagree, not in principal but in practice. Remember that the reason we have this abomination that passes itself off as HTML is because IE was:
1) So lax about it
2) Encouraged it by not following the standards
3) People wanted to target the #1 browser
Now if people targetted HTML compliance, and proper formatting we wouldn't have to worry about being locked in ever. A webmaster would design 1 site and it would just work. Remember although the user doesn't care how it's written, the user will make a fuss that the site fails. The more users raising a fuss about badly coded sites, the faster they will disappear into oblivon.
What I want to happen is the following:
1) IE users move off big time, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. reach a combined browser dominance of ~80% of the market.
2) At this point, Mozilla, Opera, & Apple own the market. They include a "Strict Mode" that will only render properly coded pages, default to on!
3) Users bitch to webmasters@foo until the rest of the community is now in tune with the standards.
This would be the greatest thing for the internet in general. Thereby reducing lock in and increasing standards. Unfortunately by the time IE bites the dust, there will probably be a newer, bigger and badder distraction on the internet that will fill in the hole...
s/crack/crack whore/
They also need to use their brain. A cow-irker of mine was baffled when I said that I don't run any antivirus or antispyware products on my home PC, and I don't have problems with said threats.
They said, "How do you keep from getting infected?"
To which I replied, "I don't have any antivirus or antispyware, how the hell would I know if I'm infected? Does a crack without an AIDS test know if she's infected?"
Virus infections usually use your PC to spread and infect others. Spyware comes from websites and program installations and doesnt spread from your PC. There are some that cross the line but thats the easiest definition i've come across.
You are correct. Spyware is more like trojans, which most anti-viruses deal with as well. Personally I would like to see spyware categorized as trojans and dealt with default antivirus.
Solaris will be opensourced
Solaris has been open source for awhile now.
According to your link:
"Open" for download
Soon, you'll be able to download the OpenSolaris distribution. For now -- just to prove that we're serious -- we've made available the source code to DTrace; it's available here under the CDDL License.
I believe you were mistaken . . .
A proprietary module is not a GPL violation.
A self contained module is not a GPL violation. Having a GPL'd wrapper that can load your proprietary module is not a GPL violation. Having a driver that has headers and kernel source in the compiled version would make it a GPL violation since it is a "derivative".
Panasas http://www.panasas.com/products_overview.html has some products which probably fit your requirement of high speed distributed storage.
Panasas is a GPL Violator, as per conversations with them during a demo. They have a proprietary module that is built against only RHEL kernels. They confirmed that this module uses kernel headers and other parts of the kernel, but they refuse to release the source to any customer.
If you are ever in a situation where you need to upgrade kernels in a hurry, switch branch (2.4 to 2.6) or the company goes outta business then you will have just a bunch of nfs file servers with locally attached disks. Makes debugging kernels a pain.
From Wine's web site: Myths
As Wine's name says: "Wine Is Not an Emulator"
I remember reading an article from one of the developers (think it was Tridge) where he was asked if Wine Is Not an Emulator, then what is it. His response was "basically an emulator".
Have you tried rebooting?
-- Tech Support
Yes I have and it's still frozen, now if you tell me to reinstall I will kill you!
such nonsense is not what one would expect form a 5 digit slashdotter.
Us in the five digit club can put out nonsense as good as the next slashdotter. Only difference is we got more practice!
other examples of non-competing industries using similar trademarks are: united arlines, united postal service, ...
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It's true people, things that are in non-competing industries are allowed to use similar trademarks. That's why Apple had no problems starting a computer name which shared the same name as a record company . . . oh wait they did . .
Hmm, well maybe all copies of tiger sold from TigerDirect will include an updated Sosumi now in AAC!
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Port 135 is used by Vonage. You bastard.
Not True! My ISP blocks port 135 and Vonage is unaffected. Vonage uses standard SIP, which usually goes over port 5060.