Why Dr. Kai-Uwe and not one of the other authors? There are many people involved with this project and although he is a leading light in the project he is not solely responcible. Put it this way: it takes a lot of people to built a Ford car, if its not built correctly and it drives its self in to a tree, killing your cat in the process, who do you sue? It certainly ain't the guy in the factory who made a mistake when he put the wheels on.
Of course I'm sure there is a counter example that carries the same amount of common sense as too why Dr. Kai-Uwe should be the target?
Something else more worrying, the article states they sued his employeer and not Dr. Kai-Uwe directly could this possible prompt employers to start having new emloyees sign agreements that they are not to work on Open source projects etc? Another bit of common sense, if I go and steal a car it's not my employeer that gets arrested, it's me, where does this logic come from in trademark law? I though law for the most part was meant to follow common sense.
Ah, bugger this thing smell a little anyway and I seriously wonder if the law firm hasn't just seen a chance to make an easy buck (unlikely I know but it's lawyers we're talking about), if so I don't think it's going to be so easy.
I honestly think that is a very good idea, this is one thing that really would hurt M$, wasn't there another project that started out as a BBS but now is adding a MAPI backend also?
Attacking the GPL etc could be a very smartly timed move by M$, imagine, get the Opensource zealots in to a fit and state "No way is.NET going to be ported to Linux" and let the fools do the work. Are they smart enough for this? Are we a porn in their little game? Maybe not but then again?
I guess time will tell, going to be an intersting ride anyway...
ISL does work on Gig now but I's recommend dot1q as it has a lot lower processing overhead (it does less:-)
Cisco support, seems great if you don't know anything about Cisco's and you've dealt with poor support in the past; the setup is how support should be done. Be warned however the 1st liners vary a lot in technical ability but this is the same as with any support I guess. As stated above they tend to fall back to "please upgrade to the latest ISO" if they are unsure of things.
Well this post is going to be off topic but it's something that I need to get off my chest. The meaning of the word ironic, especially by Americans, is complete crap. Take the title of your post, that is not one bit ironic its just unlucky. In fact if you listen to the song that you took the title from everything in the lyrics is just unlucky. E.g. "Like a traffic jam when you're already late" is not one bit ironic, it would only be ironic if you were a town planner and got caught in a traffic jam on your way to a meeting to discuss the traffic problem.
"10,000 spoons when all you want is a knife", how is that ironic? It would only be ironic if later you discovered that a spoon would have done just as well for say, opening a can of paint.
This choice by at home has very little to do with the DMCA but rather an atempt to cut costs. Binary news postings cost a massive amount of bandwidth and I mean massive, alt.binaries.movies alone uses over 5 gigs a day and when you have multinews servers shunting this much bandwidth around costs a lot of money.
The DMCA is a lot nicer get out than saying "Sorry, the service you signed up for is costing us too much were taking some of it away". Telstra in Oz did this and there users are not happy. This way @home gets to say "hey, it's not us who passed the law".
I guess some of the other high bandwidth groups will be hit next. I wonder what knock on effects this could have on commercial news providors though? I though news was regarded as distributed anyway and hence news was treated just like the postal service or a telephone carrier.
Craig Black is getting quite famous (unfortunatly), nice to see it not just me he pissed right off. I would have to disagree that he is a troll however, I think the guy is just very young and doesn't know when to hold is mouth.
That is without doubt one of the most insightful things I've read on/. in a long time. I'm unfortunatly in almost the same position and the personal cost is becoming a little too high.
I don't really now much about XP, I'm happy using Linux on the desktop BUT I am now curious about these features (#1 & 2). How is M$ going to hurt MP3 in XP, of course its no surprise given their own formats exist. Also why break CD burning software deliberately? What do they gain from that and how are they going about it?
I'll assume it must have, I've been running render on a MACH64 for months now as it was added to CVS right after 4.02 was released, I would have thought though that 4.03 had it it anyway.
I don't know if he has a valid point as Mandrake give back quite a lot when they sponsor developers working on Open Source projects such as KDE (David Faure & Mosfet - who left a little back), the kernel etc etc.
I seriously think that giving full time paid developers is give back in a big way even without the free downloads.
It seems that there is a knee jerk reation to licenses on/. if we put this in English it isn't that bad:
By posting communications on or through the Service, you automatically grant Google a:
Royalty-free = You're posting it on usenet, if you wanted royalities in the first place this isn't such a good idea.
Perpetual = Its on going, they don't have to renew this "license".
irrevocable = You can't take this license away from google, of course there going to put this in there.
non-exclusive = You can license what you post to third parties regardless of google's license.
reproduce = As soon google's news server distributes it to it's news peers, it's reproduced.
modify = One of the same freedoms the GPL grants.
publish = In essence when someone does a search on google and your post is returned, they are publishing it and again if you didn't want people to see it why post it?
edit = Correct your spelling.
translate = Provide an additional service so the article you posted can be seen and possible help more people.
distribute = Send to other news peers.
perform = If you post guitar tab / a play for people to perform, why can't google do the same?
All of the above are things would would expect to happen if you posted information to usenet, I think Google are just ass covering a bit here. Maybe it's to stop newbies complaining that don't understand usenet. For people that post to news and understand it, you generally know what you post is for the world to do with as they please.
Furthermore, you still retain the copyright to whatever you post, so they don't "own" it, you've just given them a license to use it as they please. The only problem I could see is that Google could license your post to third parties without your consent but really if you had get rich plans by licensing something would you really post it for the world to see for free? Is this such a small price to pay for a good free service and guess what, if you don't like the license, don't use the service.
"I noticed that UseNet volumes went down significantly when Remarq and then Deja went down. Then volumes went down again in the traditional slowing accompanied by college summer recess.
Do these volumes include binaries? Working for an ISP that handles 90gig of new volume a day, I'm more than a little surprised.... The biggest attraction for usenet now are the binaries posts it seems, 90Gig isn't just students posting Linux support questions. Also, as we're on news server issues, why has the RIAA etal left news alone? I guess because it's de-centralized?
Seriously where do the news service providors stand legally, they own the servers and people download copied software / music off those servers. I realise the articles don't orginate from a single news providor and I guess news providor's are counted legally the same way as telephone companies, but if 2600 can be found guilty of something for just linking how long before this changes. I recall a case in the UK where a news providor was found guily of libel for just carring an article, how much safe ground does usenet have against the MPAA & the RIAA?
I've go one of these sets and I'm lucky if I can use the keyboard / mouse 10 Ft away from the PC. Whoever discovered a way to sniff the things 100's of feet away, can you please get in touch with Logitech so they can get more range on their own product.
No thanks, if a content providor wants to provide files, they can pay for the bandwidth. If I want to download that file, that's my choice and thus I pay for the bandwidth it takes to download it at my end. However, just becasue I decide to download the file doesn't automatically mean I want to serve this file to anyone and everyone else.
This saves the content providor bandwidth at my expense. Bandwidth is, of course, not free and somebody has to pay for it. Ximian take note, if you don't want to pay for the bandwidth involved in being in the software distribution business, get out of that business. For Joe Average that installs Red Carpet and doesn't understand that it now includes this new feature, is going to be mighty pissed when he gets his bandwidth bill only to discover that he's been serving 10 gigabytes to strangers due to this feature.
Chello in Sweden provide 4 real ip addresses per customer even if the customer only needs one. RIPE must be fairly mad over this (unless of course they don't know)?
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Well officer, I'm just out in my Penguin suit spreading love to little children......
Of course I'm sure there is a counter example that carries the same amount of common sense as too why Dr. Kai-Uwe should be the target?
Something else more worrying, the article states they sued his employeer and not Dr. Kai-Uwe directly could this possible prompt employers to start having new emloyees sign agreements that they are not to work on Open source projects etc? Another bit of common sense, if I go and steal a car it's not my employeer that gets arrested, it's me, where does this logic come from in trademark law? I though law for the most part was meant to follow common sense.
Ah, bugger this thing smell a little anyway and I seriously wonder if the law firm hasn't just seen a chance to make an easy buck (unlikely I know but it's lawyers we're talking about), if so I don't think it's going to be so easy.
As for new name sugestions I quite like Kartist.
I've given away slightly more insight in to my life than I wanted to there I think.
Attacking the GPL etc could be a very smartly timed move by M$, imagine, get the Opensource zealots in to a fit and state "No way is .NET going to be ported to Linux" and let the fools do the work. Are they smart enough for this? Are we a porn in their little game? Maybe not but then again?
I guess time will tell, going to be an intersting ride anyway...
It's not perfect yet but it's certainly getting there, certainly something to watch for the future.
Cisco support, seems great if you don't know anything about Cisco's and you've dealt with poor support in the past; the setup is how support should be done. Be warned however the 1st liners vary a lot in technical ability but this is the same as with any support I guess. As stated above they tend to fall back to "please upgrade to the latest ISO" if they are unsure of things.
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"10,000 spoons when all you want is a knife", how is that ironic? It would only be ironic if later you discovered that a spoon would have done just as well for say, opening a can of paint.
He's 5 years out, Luxo Jr. was made in 1986.
Contender to replace all your base are...?
The DMCA is a lot nicer get out than saying "Sorry, the service you signed up for is costing us too much were taking some of it away". Telstra in Oz did this and there users are not happy. This way @home gets to say "hey, it's not us who passed the law".
I guess some of the other high bandwidth groups will be hit next. I wonder what knock on effects this could have on commercial news providors though? I though news was regarded as distributed anyway and hence news was treated just like the postal service or a telephone carrier.
Craig Black is getting quite famous (unfortunatly), nice to see it not just me he pissed right off. I would have to disagree that he is a troll however, I think the guy is just very young and doesn't know when to hold is mouth.
That is without doubt one of the most insightful things I've read on /. in a long time. I'm unfortunatly in almost the same position and the personal cost is becoming a little too high.
Could be nice avocacy material.
That's got to be an oxymoron :-)
I'll assume it must have, I've been running render on a MACH64 for months now as it was added to CVS right after 4.02 was released, I would have thought though that 4.03 had it it anyway.
I seriously think that giving full time paid developers is give back in a big way even without the free downloads.
And then if a Taco post gets mod'ed to +5 people would be claiming that he added the points himself. Either way he can't really win.
I second that, perl-devel is required and harddrake works perfectly.
By posting communications on or through the Service, you automatically grant Google a:
Royalty-free = You're posting it on usenet, if you wanted royalities in the first place this isn't such a good idea.
Perpetual = Its on going, they don't have to renew this "license".
irrevocable = You can't take this license away from google, of course there going to put this in there.
non-exclusive = You can license what you post to third parties regardless of google's license.
reproduce = As soon google's news server distributes it to it's news peers, it's reproduced.
modify = One of the same freedoms the GPL grants.
publish = In essence when someone does a search on google and your post is returned, they are publishing it and again if you didn't want people to see it why post it?
edit = Correct your spelling.
translate = Provide an additional service so the article you posted can be seen and possible help more people.
distribute = Send to other news peers.
perform = If you post guitar tab / a play for people to perform, why can't google do the same?
All of the above are things would would expect to happen if you posted information to usenet, I think Google are just ass covering a bit here. Maybe it's to stop newbies complaining that don't understand usenet. For people that post to news and understand it, you generally know what you post is for the world to do with as they please.
Furthermore, you still retain the copyright to whatever you post, so they don't "own" it, you've just given them a license to use it as they please. The only problem I could see is that Google could license your post to third parties without your consent but really if you had get rich plans by licensing something would you really post it for the world to see for free? Is this such a small price to pay for a good free service and guess what, if you don't like the license, don't use the service.
Do these volumes include binaries? Working for an ISP that handles 90gig of new volume a day, I'm more than a little surprised.... The biggest attraction for usenet now are the binaries posts it seems, 90Gig isn't just students posting Linux support questions. Also, as we're on news server issues, why has the RIAA etal left news alone? I guess because it's de-centralized?
Seriously where do the news service providors stand legally, they own the servers and people download copied software / music off those servers. I realise the articles don't orginate from a single news providor and I guess news providor's are counted legally the same way as telephone companies, but if 2600 can be found guilty of something for just linking how long before this changes. I recall a case in the UK where a news providor was found guily of libel for just carring an article, how much safe ground does usenet have against the MPAA & the RIAA?
I've go one of these sets and I'm lucky if I can use the keyboard / mouse 10 Ft away from the PC. Whoever discovered a way to sniff the things 100's of feet away, can you please get in touch with Logitech so they can get more range on their own product.
This saves the content providor bandwidth at my expense. Bandwidth is, of course, not free and somebody has to pay for it. Ximian take note, if you don't want to pay for the bandwidth involved in being in the software distribution business, get out of that business. For Joe Average that installs Red Carpet and doesn't understand that it now includes this new feature, is going to be mighty pissed when he gets his bandwidth bill only to discover that he's been serving 10 gigabytes to strangers due to this feature.
Cisco do have IPv6 images availible but yeap, you're correct there are no general deployment images with IPv6 support.
Chello in Sweden provide 4 real ip addresses per customer even if the customer only needs one. RIPE must be fairly mad over this (unless of course they don't know)?