If someone would read the story they would notice, AppleSoup, the new company, was founded by an early Napster investor and founder (Who left). This not Napster. It is a totally new, different company.
I have a few comments, some on topic, some off-topic. Hopefully more on than off.
1. They call it co-location, or a dedicated server. I hope you didn't think it would be free?
2. What security concerns do you have with SourceForge exactly? (see next comment...)
3. I find it interesting this question was posted, comming from Bowie. We all know he had a big falling out with VA (Sourceforge is run by VA) and also we know he is bitter. (that whole tiles thing) I don't see why he had to include the poke at Sourceforge, from what I can tell, they are doing a great service to the community.
4. Did you try Area 51? That is Andover's dealie. See how private they are, though I think they are the same as SourceForge.
5. Xnot also runs a code thing that is less popular and can probably be made secure (maybe it would seperate them from the rest of the "code-houses" crowd.
Reading over my post, I think there is more on topic than off, hopefully Bowie will respond to a few of my points though...perhaps even in a polite way.
I am all for what you stand for 90% of the time -- but sometimes I feel you are a little TOO open. Look at Bugtrag -- There are no official rules for posting, but common curtesy maintains that the poster should notify the company of the product first and give about two weeks notice. After that, it is fair game.
Also, you know if I didn't write it, someone else would have:)
While the/. way was perhaps more "kosher" and nice. We are linux users, we are zealots.
The appropriate way to handle it would have been to tell Bruce Perens and let him start a/. flame fest and not notify Nvidia. By giving them notice, we allowed them to explain themeselves, this is wrong and it makes them not seem so bad.
tech@ (coders, engrs, peeps interested in tech) (informal)
engr@ (all engrs, formal)
staff@ (everyone, informal)
employee@ (everyone, moderated, formal)
mrkt@ (informal, anyone into marketing info)
mrkt-staff@ (formal, all marketing)
.... you get the picture.
It makes it easy to sift though a lot of mail. Nothing critical would be on an informal list and could be deleted if needed. But, it leaves a place for important messages that must be read.
I was talking to the sysadmin at my high school and we thought about 30 of these suckers that would boot off a server would be sweet in the library, or all over campus.
If one breaks, not as big a deal as a 2000 computer. Just replace it. All it would be used for is web surfing, etc.
If netpliance was smart they would tap this market and go after it. By closing their hardware, they are screwing them.
I just sold a 100 shares of them I had bought. Unless they turn around, I don't see a profit in their future. Everyone knows they won't make money on a subscription model.
I just called to check my order. When I asked if I would get the new one, the rep asked why. When I explained I wanted to be able to have full control of it he cancelled my order because I expressed interest in violating the terms of service.:( -Davidu
GD can do visible watermarking. Or do you mean the digital signature kind? I have a feeling the perl or php will cut it. If you want to do visible watermarking, GD has perl and php support, if not, just dump whatever "signature" you want into the image. Kinda like stego. -Davidu
What are you talking about? Beam-it has nothing to do with uploading of CDs or encoding or anything. How was this moderated up? This guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Beam-it according to the report on the site, only sends checksum type info. It doesn't send over whole songs -- that would be assinine.
flash forward about 10 years or so, i am now the CTO of an internet startup, getting paid way more than i "deserve" by my old scale, and yet all i do is, sit on the phone, talk to the people that work for me, talk to the people i work for, and think... and for me, there is no difference between home and work. i understand now what my father told me so many years ago...
So that would make you umm, a CTO at age 16 or 17? hehe. (assuming you were asking those questions at age 6 or 7...hopefully not at age 20!) [GRIN]
Screw the BFG-9000, just gimme a ball lightening gun to throw through walls. I only use a micro size amount of silicon, et al. with some electriciti and BAM! 100 frags!:)
In fact the only similarity is that a big guy is trying to smash the little guy.
Hehe, that is the similarity. You are completely correct about the RIAA vs. MP3.com suit but I left that out of my post. I knew someone else would mention it.
Lets hope that the DVD-CCA lawsuit goes away like this one did -- down the drain! With all the support Etoy had and the support DeCSS has, it should be no problem to overcome corporate greed.
Does anyone wonder what would happen if there were a judge who was actually net-competant?
Would these cases take this long?
Has anyone ever had a great judge who understood computers and the net?
Slashdot Mirror
All the boxes used were cracked...gotta contact the owners of those boxes who are prolly cowering in fear right now.
-Davidu
If someone would read the story they would notice, AppleSoup, the new company, was founded by an early Napster investor and founder (Who left). This not Napster. It is a totally new, different company.
This isn't Napster. Gosh!
-Davidu
The answer:
http://www.egroups.com/message/fr eedows-chat/237?
-Davidu
http://www.cgchannel.com/cgelite/dimitrisladopoulo s/G5%20Server.jpg
-Davidu
At K5 you don't see noise like this. The signal/noise ratio is almost perfect...
From a code standpoint, it is much more stable than slashcode IMHO, and it has been open from the beginning. People are activly developing it.
-Davidu
This has been in moderation at Kuro5hin all morning...funny how things tend to repeat themselves...
-Davidu
First, Read this:
http://www.smh.com.au/ne ws/0004/03/features/features2.html
So, who are you? What is your background?
Who lives on the island?
Why would I host on a man-made island I could crash a plane into?
-Davidu
is that why you are user 12,XXX?
-Davidu
I have a few comments, some on topic, some off-topic. Hopefully more on than off.
1. They call it co-location, or a dedicated server. I hope you didn't think it would be free?
2. What security concerns do you have with SourceForge exactly? (see next comment...)
3. I find it interesting this question was posted, comming from Bowie. We all know he had a big falling out with VA (Sourceforge is run by VA) and also we know he is bitter. (that whole tiles thing) I don't see why he had to include the poke at Sourceforge, from what I can tell, they are doing a great service to the community.
4. Did you try Area 51? That is Andover's dealie. See how private they are, though I think they are the same as SourceForge.
5. Xnot also runs a code thing that is less popular and can probably be made secure (maybe it would seperate them from the rest of the "code-houses" crowd.
Reading over my post, I think there is more on topic than off, hopefully Bowie will respond to a few of my points though...perhaps even in a polite way.
-Davidu
Heh,
:)
I am all for what you stand for 90% of the time -- but sometimes I feel you are a little TOO open.
Look at Bugtrag -- There are no official rules for posting, but common curtesy maintains that the poster should notify the company of the product first and give about two weeks notice. After that, it is fair game.
Also, you know if I didn't write it, someone else would have
-Davidu
The WebSurfer is $199.
They have a deal if you sign up for two years of Earthlink it is $49.99.
some people were able to get by this cuz the workers at CompUSA were stupid. They wised up, real fast.
-Davidu
I disagree,
/. way was perhaps more "kosher" and nice. We are linux users, we are zealots.
/. flame fest and not notify Nvidia. By giving them notice, we allowed them to explain themeselves, this is wrong and it makes them not seem so bad.
:)
While the
The appropriate way to handle it would have been to tell Bruce Perens and let him start a
How can we stand for this?
-Davidu
I think a good system is too have multiple.
For a tech company for instance:
tech@ (coders, engrs, peeps interested in tech) (informal)
engr@ (all engrs, formal)
staff@ (everyone, informal)
employee@ (everyone, moderated, formal)
mrkt@ (informal, anyone into marketing info)
mrkt-staff@ (formal, all marketing)
.... you get the picture.
It makes it easy to sift though a lot of mail. Nothing critical would be on an informal list and could be deleted if needed. But, it leaves a place for important messages that must be read.
-Davidu
Is Jeeves well endowed?
The answer is way to geeky/funny.
-Davidu
1) zoot-i386.iso
2) RedHat 6.2
And check out my site, for my web-based Gnutella client, Phreedom.Net.
-Davidu
If one breaks, not as big a deal as a 2000 computer. Just replace it. All it would be used for is web surfing, etc.
If netpliance was smart they would tap this market and go after it. By closing their hardware, they are screwing them.
I just sold a 100 shares of them I had bought. Unless they turn around, I don't see a profit in their future. Everyone knows they won't make money on a subscription model.
-Davidu
I just called to check my order. When I asked if I would get the new one, the rep asked why. When I explained I wanted to be able to have full control of it he cancelled my order because I expressed interest in violating the terms of service. :(
-Davidu
What the hell are you talking about? -
-Davidu
Is there a CHANGELOG? Does it have better support for my VooDoo3 3000?
-Davidu
GD can do visible watermarking. Or do you mean the digital signature kind? I have a feeling the perl or php will cut it. If you want to do visible watermarking, GD has perl and php support, if not, just dump whatever "signature" you want into the image. Kinda like stego.
-Davidu
What are you talking about? Beam-it has nothing to do with uploading of CDs or encoding or anything. How was this moderated up? This guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Beam-it according to the report on the site, only sends checksum type info. It doesn't send over whole songs -- that would be assinine.
Just my $0.02,
-Davidu
flash forward about 10 years or so, i am now the CTO of an internet startup, getting paid way more than i "deserve" by my old scale, and yet all i do is, sit on the phone, talk to the people that work for me, talk to the people i work for, and think... and for me, there is no difference between home and work. i understand now what my father told me so many years ago...
So that would make you umm, a CTO at age 16 or 17? hehe. (assuming you were asking those questions at age 6 or 7...hopefully not at age 20!) [GRIN]
-Davidu
Screw the BFG-9000, just gimme a ball lightening gun to throw through walls. I only use a micro size amount of silicon, et al. with some electriciti and BAM! 100 frags! :)
-Davidu
In fact the only similarity is that a big guy is trying to smash the little guy.
Hehe, that is the similarity. You are completely correct about the RIAA vs. MP3.com suit but I left that out of my post. I knew someone else would mention it.
-Davidu
-Davidu