This is not '99, every website I have visited works fine under linux. name me one that doesnt, and please refraine from nasty porn crap. The only reason a website wouldnt work would be if the web design person fucked it up or has no idea what they are doing.
I'm a Linux User, and have only had one issue with it. That site is http://support.charter.com/, it installs some bullshit plugin which is not NIX compatible and I get redirected over and over. Pisses me off, I've complained a few times but I am but one person.
Tell that to the people who were on board the Hindenberg...
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I have the Dell card you speak of, and I used the Agere driver for WPA support with it.
Works fine and I didn't have to do anything special.
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Firmware != Driver
Your point would have been better made if you were talking about using a Dell TruMobile and swapping it out with an Orinoco and it still work with the same driver. With older versions of Windows will need different drivers, XP of course has them both internally.
On Linux, of course the same driver handles em all.
Maybe someone should tip them off that Martha Stewart is involved. Sure she probably isn't, but that seemed to be the only thing that got the SEC moving.
I didn't vote for bush in 2000 and I won't vote for Bush in 2004. Everyone made their voice heard, but unfortunately in free countries like the USA we don't elect the most powerful position directly. Rather it is done by the electoral college.
Having his bro in Fl helped him cheat Gore out of the election, and everyone knows it. Hopefully Dubya will go away much like his father before him after one term. Unfortunately I get the feeling he's got Osama in some basement and will be pulling him out around Aug/Sept right in time for the elections.
If George Bush is complaining the sex in his marriage is always the same, the answer is not changing the constitution.
George Bush has been complaining about same sex marriages, the parent poster took this to mean marriages where the sex is always the same, a pun as it were.
Thus 'If George Bush is complaining the sex in his marriage is always the same,..."
He then continues with '... the answer is not changing the constitution." because George Bush has been mouthing off to anyone who will listen about how he intends on banning "same sex marriages"
Personally I am glad that we have a president who has solved so many of our major problems like the economy, terrorism and high taxes that he can now worry on trivial shit like same sex marriages. (For those humor-less anonymous cowards, yes I am being sarcastic)
Linux is an OS by geeks, for geeks. 1 size does not fit all. As Linux gets easier and easier to use, it will take n more users of all types, but dont for one second think that it will stop being by geeks or for geeks first.
Which is not to say that software shouldn't be easier to install, just saying that it isn't about elitism.
Since this is Xerox that's developing the technology, I'll start worrying about it in about 20 years.
You mean after Apple clones it, then Microsoft clones it, then Apple sues Microsoft for cloning the Apple implementation?
Yeah 20 years seems about right.... Eventually the biggest complaint for the Apple one will be that the nic has only one blinking light, while the Microsoft has two. Then there will be an after market second blinking light for the Apple version that the Apple zealots will point to.
There are two competing US Standards that all are charging crazy royaltees, and one that is higher quality and free from China.
Royaltees must be paid for each DVD and DVD player currently and that probably won't change. There is no current 1 standard that everyone plays for like standard dvd's.
Meanwhile movie studios are wisening up, removing DRM from their dvd's like the Harry Potter series, which was sold without macrovision. The studios realize it doesn't stop piracy, but costs them a boatload.
You expect me to believe that the current movie studios aren't looking at this playing field and thinking maybe we should go free? You expect me to believe that the South East Asian's aren't thinking, this won't cut into our already razor thin profits?
We, as the US, suffer from this wasn't created here (not made here isn't important), but in the end it is the almighty buck that will decide the outcome.
1 million pennies is still only 10,000.00. I'd wager that they spent way more than that on R&D for the codec.
This still assumes the following:
1) HD-DVD takes off, and BluRay or (insert competition here) doesn't 2) The manufactuers mostly based in South East Asia don't sign on to the DRM & Royaltee Free Chinese HD DVD standard. (Wow China free'er than the US, interesting times indeed.) 3) They don't price themselves out of a cutthroat market
Those are all pretty big assumptions. With the average dvd player costing around 60 bucks, HD DVD will have to be really clear and cost really cheap to license.
In addition, with a free standard available in a region where all the manufacturing takes place there is a possibility that we may all end up using that instead. These South East Asian companies are like the OPEC of the Entertainment Industry, and don't think for one second that they don't realize they can wreak havoc on how things are done in the US with a few tweaks or changes here and there.
A) We want to make it free (I think that's what the higher ups are thinking).. but want a slight level of accountability.. (I argue what's to keep someone from filling the form in laksjdflkajsdflkjasdflkj) but anyway.
Sounds good, why not require an authentication system like NoCat and only allow certain types of traffic in and out, like http, https, ssh, pop, imap, and block the rest.
B) The higherups would like a 'splash page' that is displayed when you aren't authorized, which, ot my knowledge, can't be done via 802.1x radius. (which BTW seems to work fairly nice.. hehe)
You don't need iexplore.exe installed to use Windows Update (at least on XP+). Automatic updates don't use it at all (except for the parts that *should* be part of the OS.
Automatic Updates does call upon mshtml.dll and a few other DLL's that make up Internet Explorer. Nowhere in my post did I say iexplore.exe was requird but Internet Explorer.
This would be akin to saying that you don't need bind to use nslookup, but nslookup is a part of bind.
Actually you are wrong, most video dvds are the 4.7 capacity, but thanks for playing. I've ripped most of my collection for watching on my computer... dvd drive on one computer video and sound on a different one and ~80% were 4.7.
And I've ripped most of my collection for watching on my computer, around ~80% were DVD-9 Capacity but usually right near 7.5 GB. That seems to be the magic #. In fact thus far, the only movies that weren't were foreign.
Now in order to make this useful, I would suggest attaching numbers to the size of the collection might be useful. My collection was at 100, while not major still pretty extensive.
Say all the article is accurate and all they are taking out is IE, WMP, ms messenger and outlook express... for each of these programs there are better alternatives out there that are free.
IE = Firefox Only removable if Microsoft makes a vendor agnostic version of Windows Update, otherwise must remain on system.
WMP = Mplayer (w32 binary is available) for movies, winamp for audio Provide Link Please, I have never heard of an mplayer port to Windows.
outlook express = thunderbird I prefer Eudora on Windows myself
I'm not dumping on your suggestion, and in fact run Linux on my desktop's. I'm just saying that IE is too heavily integrated and unless WindowsUpdate became a full blown app that didn't rely on IE then it can't be removed.
The ruling in the DVD X Copy case didn't state that ALL DVD ripping software is illegal. They only found that in this specific case, the software's primary purpose was copyright infringement, and it didn't have sufficient non-infringing use to support continued sale of the product.
Actually it was believed by the court that DVD Media is still too expensive to be used primarily for piracy. The reason they still got ruled against is the use of decrypting CSS. They didn't purchase a license, and in fact reverse engineered it illegally. This was a violation of the DMCA and this is why 321 got hosed.
Cryogenically freeze it now and maybe in thirty or fourty years it will be cheap to take it to a data recovery company, cure what ails it and what not.
I don't buy it! How can they move that stuff, not only physically, but also logically? To re-plug the servers, they need:
Or they can clone all the drives with ghost (now with ext3 support) and use Ghost Explorer in Windows to find specific files and folders without ever booting the machines into Linux and dealing with bullshit. (also dd/mount -o loop)
I prefer to read (between the lines) that they wanted something to be stopped, and eventually an occasion to get the information on the long term (weeks at least) on who/where it is
I believe one of two things: 1) They possibly thought whatever was going on might have been contributed to by someone on the inside and didn't want to give time for people to erase evidence. Maybe a raving lunatic anonymous coward but link. 2) They got impatient and thought they could do it faster, which probably ended up not being the case.
The strange part, for a European citizen like me, is that no reason at all is given. Normally (in democratic/free world), an investigation means a judge, some reasons, some rule brake, some arguments on why the police is acting.
A warrant means that a Judge signed off on the investigation. They were able to convince a Judge that they had probable cause, how is this different from Europe? (I'm not trolling, I just don't know much about the legal system in European Countries and realize that it probably differs from Euro Country to Euro Country)
I hope that with these new laws in Europe we are not going to become like that too soon;-).
I agree, big brother is getting scary here in the states.
As a Sun admin for NASA, I have around 80 Suns running versions of Solaris from old Sun OS boxen to the new Blades with Sol 8. It's down right tough dealing with so many iterations... but I have found that by putting "Sun admin" on my resume garners more pay... I guess I have a love/hate relationship when you think about it.
As a Linux Admin for NASA (JPL), I didn't know the Sun Admin's got paid better. I will be changing up my resume next time I apply for a job.
Please do, that is something that everyone who uses NFS on linux would really like to see. Even Sun themselves have been providing funding for linux NFS, they want to see it work quickly as well. This isn't about cheering on your team, Sun is on the same team - everyone wants good performance with networked filesystems, as well as the reliability that is already there.
I have gotten @ Disk speed using NFS from Linux to Linux on a Rocks Cluster.
These are the options we are using with NFS in fstab.
Linux to Sun is about 20-30% less for me. I work on clusters all day, I have benchmarks and will produce in a few days on this thread. But Linux NFS is damn good these days.
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As for your CD burner, burning CDs in *nix isn't always easy, I know :(
I think K3b is much better than anything else. There is nothing like it in the Windows world, and damn is it easy....
This is not '99, every website I have visited works fine under linux. name me one that doesnt, and please refraine from nasty porn crap. The only reason a website wouldnt work would be if the web design person fucked it up or has no idea what they are doing.
I'm a Linux User, and have only had one issue with it. That site is http://support.charter.com/, it installs some bullshit plugin which is not NIX compatible and I get redirected over and over. Pisses me off, I've complained a few times but I am but one person.
Making hydrogen explode is difficult.
Tell that to the people who were on board the Hindenberg...
I have the Dell card you speak of, and I used the Agere driver for WPA support with it.
Works fine and I didn't have to do anything special.
Firmware != Driver
Your point would have been better made if you were talking about using a Dell TruMobile and swapping it out with an Orinoco and it still work with the same driver. With older versions of Windows will need different drivers, XP of course has them both internally.
On Linux, of course the same driver handles em all.
Firmware is the software inside the card.
Maybe someone should tip them off that Martha Stewart is involved. Sure she probably isn't, but that seemed to be the only thing that got the SEC moving.
I didn't vote for bush in 2000 and I won't vote for Bush in 2004. Everyone made their voice heard, but unfortunately in free countries like the USA we don't elect the most powerful position directly. Rather it is done by the electoral college.
Having his bro in Fl helped him cheat Gore out of the election, and everyone knows it. Hopefully Dubya will go away much like his father before him after one term. Unfortunately I get the feeling he's got Osama in some basement and will be pulling him out around Aug/Sept right in time for the elections.
Makes perfect sense.
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If George Bush is complaining the sex in his marriage is always the same, the answer is not changing the constitution.
George Bush has been complaining about same sex marriages, the parent poster took this to mean marriages where the sex is always the same, a pun as it were.
Thus 'If George Bush is complaining the sex in his marriage is always the same,
He then continues with '... the answer is not changing the constitution." because George Bush has been mouthing off to anyone who will listen about how he intends on banning "same sex marriages"
Personally I am glad that we have a president who has solved so many of our major problems like the economy, terrorism and high taxes that he can now worry on trivial shit like same sex marriages. (For those humor-less anonymous cowards, yes I am being sarcastic)
Or is Linux doomed to be used only by elitists?
Linux is an OS by geeks, for geeks. 1 size does not fit all. As Linux gets easier and easier to use, it will take n more users of all types, but dont for one second think that it will stop being by geeks or for geeks first.
Which is not to say that software shouldn't be easier to install, just saying that it isn't about elitism.
I need some clarification. By Darl's teachers, did you mean Stalin, or Lenin?
Come on dude, why bash the Beatles?
Since this is Xerox that's developing the technology, I'll start worrying about it in about 20 years.
You mean after Apple clones it, then Microsoft clones it, then Apple sues Microsoft for cloning the Apple implementation?
Yeah 20 years seems about right.... Eventually the biggest complaint for the Apple one will be that the nic has only one blinking light, while the Microsoft has two. Then there will be an after market second blinking light for the Apple version that the Apple zealots will point to.
There are two competing US Standards that all are charging crazy royaltees, and one that is higher quality and free from China.
Royaltees must be paid for each DVD and DVD player currently and that probably won't change. There is no current 1 standard that everyone plays for like standard dvd's.
Meanwhile movie studios are wisening up, removing DRM from their dvd's like the Harry Potter series, which was sold without macrovision. The studios realize it doesn't stop piracy, but costs them a boatload.
You expect me to believe that the current movie studios aren't looking at this playing field and thinking maybe we should go free? You expect me to believe that the South East Asian's aren't thinking, this won't cut into our already razor thin profits?
We, as the US, suffer from this wasn't created here (not made here isn't important), but in the end it is the almighty buck that will decide the outcome.
1 million pennies is still only 10,000.00. I'd wager that they spent way more than that on R&D for the codec.
This still assumes the following:
1) HD-DVD takes off, and BluRay or (insert competition here) doesn't
2) The manufactuers mostly based in South East Asia don't sign on to the DRM & Royaltee Free Chinese HD DVD standard. (Wow China free'er than the US, interesting times indeed.)
3) They don't price themselves out of a cutthroat market
Those are all pretty big assumptions. With the average dvd player costing around 60 bucks, HD DVD will have to be really clear and cost really cheap to license.
In addition, with a free standard available in a region where all the manufacturing takes place there is a possibility that we may all end up using that instead. These South East Asian companies are like the OPEC of the Entertainment Industry, and don't think for one second that they don't realize they can wreak havoc on how things are done in the US with a few tweaks or changes here and there.
The link he posted was to his main web site, the domain in question is still down as of 8:44 PST
A) We want to make it free (I think that's what the higher ups are thinking).. but want a slight level of accountability.. (I argue what's to keep someone from filling the form in laksjdflkajsdflkjasdflkj) but anyway.
Sounds good, why not require an authentication system like NoCat and only allow certain types of traffic in and out, like http, https, ssh, pop, imap, and block the rest.
B) The higherups would like a 'splash page' that is displayed when you aren't authorized, which, ot my knowledge, can't be done via 802.1x radius. (which BTW seems to work fairly nice.. hehe)
Sounds like they want NoCat.
You don't need iexplore.exe installed to use Windows Update (at least on XP+). Automatic updates don't use it at all (except for the parts that *should* be part of the OS.
Automatic Updates does call upon mshtml.dll and a few other DLL's that make up Internet Explorer. Nowhere in my post did I say iexplore.exe was requird but Internet Explorer.
This would be akin to saying that you don't need bind to use nslookup, but nslookup is a part of bind.
Actually you are wrong, most video dvds are the 4.7 capacity, but thanks for playing. I've ripped most of my collection for watching on my computer... dvd drive on one computer video and sound on a different one and ~80% were 4.7.
And I've ripped most of my collection for watching on my computer, around ~80% were DVD-9 Capacity but usually right near 7.5 GB. That seems to be the magic #. In fact thus far, the only movies that weren't were foreign.
Now in order to make this useful, I would suggest attaching numbers to the size of the collection might be useful. My collection was at 100, while not major still pretty extensive.
How/who do you charge? Do you use NoCat or some other authentication software or just let anyone on and accept donations?
Say all the article is accurate and all they are taking out is IE, WMP, ms messenger and outlook express... for each of these programs there are better alternatives out there that are free.
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IE = Firefox
Only removable if Microsoft makes a vendor agnostic version of Windows Update, otherwise must remain on system.
WMP = Mplayer (w32 binary is available) for movies, winamp for audio
Provide Link Please, I have never heard of an mplayer port to Windows.
ms messenger = gaim
Removeable now, not easy but removeable nonetheless
http://www.lecour.net/richard/archives/000278.htm
outlook express = thunderbird
I prefer Eudora on Windows myself
I'm not dumping on your suggestion, and in fact run Linux on my desktop's. I'm just saying that IE is too heavily integrated and unless WindowsUpdate became a full blown app that didn't rely on IE then it can't be removed.
You'll also need far more than 1TB if you plan to rip all those DVDs. Your average DVD hold 4GB of data; any fool can tell you 4GB * 1000 > 1TB
Did you read the posters question, and perhaps miss this part:
I'd like to rip a couple hundred of them to a 1 TB disk array, and serve them up to my big screen...
You yourself said that a 1/2 TB can store 100 DVD's, and so I would assume that 1 TB would be able to store a couple (IE 2) hundred DVD's.
Also your math is all wrong, most video dvd's are the 9 GB capacity...
The ruling in the DVD X Copy case didn't state that ALL DVD ripping software is illegal. They only found that in this specific case, the software's primary purpose was copyright infringement, and it didn't have sufficient non-infringing use to support continued sale of the product.
Actually it was believed by the court that DVD Media is still too expensive to be used primarily for piracy. The reason they still got ruled against is the use of decrypting CSS. They didn't purchase a license, and in fact reverse engineered it illegally. This was a violation of the DMCA and this is why 321 got hosed.
Cryogenically freeze it now and maybe in thirty or fourty years it will be cheap to take it to a data recovery company, cure what ails it and what not.
I don't buy it! How can they move that stuff, not only physically, but also logically? To re-plug the servers, they need:
;-).
Or they can clone all the drives with ghost (now with ext3 support) and use Ghost Explorer in Windows to find specific files and folders without ever booting the machines into Linux and dealing with bullshit. (also dd/mount -o loop)
I prefer to read (between the lines) that they wanted something to be stopped, and eventually an occasion to get the information on the long term (weeks at least) on who/where it is
I believe one of two things:
1) They possibly thought whatever was going on might have been contributed to by someone on the inside and didn't want to give time for people to erase evidence. Maybe a raving lunatic anonymous coward but link.
2) They got impatient and thought they could do it faster, which probably ended up not being the case.
The strange part, for a European citizen like me, is that no reason at all is given. Normally (in democratic/free world), an investigation means a judge, some reasons, some rule brake, some arguments on why the police is acting.
A warrant means that a Judge signed off on the investigation. They were able to convince a Judge that they had probable cause, how is this different from Europe? (I'm not trolling, I just don't know much about the legal system in European Countries and realize that it probably differs from Euro Country to Euro Country)
I hope that with these new laws in Europe we are not going to become like that too soon
I agree, big brother is getting scary here in the states.
As a Sun admin for NASA, I have around 80 Suns running versions of Solaris from old Sun OS boxen to the new Blades with Sol 8. It's down right tough dealing with so many iterations... but I have found that by putting "Sun admin" on my resume garners more pay... I guess I have a love/hate relationship when you think about it.
As a Linux Admin for NASA (JPL), I didn't know the Sun Admin's got paid better. I will be changing up my resume next time I apply for a job.
Thanks for a tip.
Please do, that is something that everyone who uses NFS on linux would really like to see. Even Sun themselves have been providing funding for linux NFS, they want to see it work quickly as well. This isn't about cheering on your team, Sun is on the same team - everyone wants good performance with networked filesystems, as well as the reliability that is already there.
/path nfs nfsvers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,intr 1 2
I have gotten @ Disk speed using NFS from Linux to Linux on a Rocks Cluster.
These are the options we are using with NFS in fstab.
server:/export/path
Linux to Sun is about 20-30% less for me. I work on clusters all day, I have benchmarks and will produce in a few days on this thread. But Linux NFS is damn good these days.