Since you seem to think that everyone should have an unfettered right to duplicate data, so long as they don't make profit off it, or deprive the original owner of the data, I think you'll be happy to hear that I have your credit card number and expiration date, and I've made up copies of your card and am handing them out for free to anyone who wants one.
The duplication and distribution of the credit card number would not be the problem. If somebody used the number to buy something, then that is the problem. Then, they are stealing real goods.
There'd need to an x86 IRIX first, and that would take some time and money to develop.
There was an in house port of IRIX to x86 a few years ago. However, this project was abandoned when SGI decided to go the Linux route on commodity hardware. Since then, Linux has been the OS of choice even on their IA64 based NUMA machine. AFAIK, there has never been a port of IRIX to IA64.
On IA64, maybe, but SGI has no plans to put Linux on their MIPS based machines. More likely is that they will slowly replace the userland stuff with free stuff from the Free Software community and keep the IRIX kernel going.
XFS has write speads in comparison with *ext2*. Ext3 writes are almost twice as slow as ext2 because of the journalling overhead. Ext3 was an addon to ext2 whereas XFS had journalling built into the design from the beginning.
XFS supports ACL's (or access control lists) which are much better than standard UNIX permissions.
XFS is an extent based filesystem which means that you don't end up wasting tons of space having to allocate a 4K block for every small file. And you don't need to jump through tons of indirect blocks to get large files.
XFS allocated inodes on the fly so it grows with what data you put on there. Once again, not wasting space up front. And it sticks the inode near the file itself so the head does not have to move far on the hard drive.
XFS supports extended attributes which can be used for all kinds of extensions later on.
XFS has been around since 1994 and is the most mature of the journalling filesystems.
And there are many other reasons that I cannot think of right now.
> What is a one-time $10,000 price tag for a car > when it lets you drive hundreds of thousands of > miles of free highway?
Actually, a pretty good deal. If people had to pay for every mile they drove on a highway, I assure you there would be a lot less cars and a lot less driving. And the cost of goods would go up a lot as well since trucking would cost a lot more.
At least in the U.S., the highway system is a huge government subsidy for the trucking industry. And everybody pays for it with their taxes.
You could implement some sort of file locking protocol that would not allow multiple users to access the same song at the same time.
But, with an archive of significant size, the chances of two people listening to the same song become very small. Unless of course the song happens to be fairly popular.
So, I can imagine a system where I go to access a given file and it says, "3 people are currently queued to listen to that song. It will be 15 minutes before you can."
This would not be very intrusive because I could just listen to something else during that time...
Then, you are just implementing a "virtual" cd archive where people could go to a room, grab a disk and bring it back to their office.
I can't see how this could be stopped legally by the RIAA.
I would not mind people sending me email using Outlook if it only did a few things:
1) set References and In-Reply-To properly, so I could thread them in my mailer
2) not let them send mail greater than 78 chars wide
3) when replying, would use chevrons ( > symbol) and put the cursor/below/ the quoted text so they would respond there (instead of above)
Until Outlook stops violating these/basic/ email standards, I respond to most people that send me mail using Outlook with the first line starting something like this:
begin super_secret_message.doc
which totally f*cks up outlook and makes the email look like a UUencoded attachment that cannot be opened in Word...ha ha
Eudora works perfectly under wine. Here is the cookbook:
1) install the codeweavers wine rpm 2) install eudora through wine 3) run eudora
it is really that easy. You can get fancy if you want to grab the latest cvs or tar ball, but don't bother if you just want Eudora which has worked for ages.
My problem with Eudora is that it is not RFC 2822 compliant and does not setup the References header properly. This causes threading to get screwed up in other mailers:(
Many of the "mp3" players have upgradable firmware and will support ogg in the near future. There is no reason *not* to have support in the devices (unless you are Sony and want to protect your own interests, like Celine Dion:)
Most of the time, I only play music on my computer, so I want to use the format that is better compression/sounding for me. I don't care about the guy who wants to copy it from me over Gnutella. He can get the ogg plugin if he wants my music.
Well, there are many legitamite uses for Ogg. In fact, many game designers are using it so they don't have to pay royalties to Fraunhofer (the folks who own the patents on mp3).
And Ogg does not circumvent anything. It is a simple codec. It might become illegal under the SSSSSSSSCA, but they could not hit it with DMCA.
AOL has the vested interest to promote anthing but Windows Media Player format. Ogg and mp3 fit that bill. Plus why would AOL want to play royalties to Fraunhofer (the company that owns the patent on mp3) for their software?
> wouldn't it be perfectly legal for them to simply release him the minute he gets back home?
Russia would not do this because then they would be breaking the treaty and the U.S. would not send any more of their citizens back. They would be shooting themselves in the foot for future incidents.
The biggest problem is normally the states don't want to give up their prisoners to other countries. The governors want to appear tough on crime, and sending bad guys out of state makes them look weak. Especially if they are sent to countries with more liberal laws regarding drugs or death penalty or copyright like in this case. The Feds have to deal with rouge states that don't want to recognize the U.S. treaties. This might be the biggest stumbling block.
The US has a treaties to deal with this sorta thing. Cases like this happen all the time. If a Russian comes to the states and murders somebody, he is tried and convicted in the States. He can, under prisoner transfer treaties, decide that he wants to spend the rest of his sentence in Russia instead of in the U.S. (To be closer to family, or because a Russian prison might be better than a U.S. prison, etc.) Under the terms of these treaties, he is transfered back to Russia and serves the remainder of his time there.
The U.S. has treaties setup with most of the countries in the world that they have normal diplomatic ties to.
If somebody does commit a crime in the States and then escapes to their home country, these same treties apply and the home country is abliged to capture and detain the accused.
After all, it is a two way street. If an American were to go to Russia and commit a crime, the Russians would want that individual to get tried in Russia.
There is a whole division in the U.S. Department of Justice dedicated to dealing with all these prisoner transfers. They negotiate with the local authorities (like individual states or municipalities) in the States and the authorities in the foreign nations to figure out the terms of the transfer.
> Now consider that if your local news station > can't compete in its market against some station > from New York, you aren't going to get local > news.
Local news is already on its way out. With national news shows like CNN, very few people actually watch local news any more (especially younger viewers). Plus, who has the time to go and schedule yourself to watch the news at a given time.
Most people in Gen X and Y just pop on Headline News and watch the 15 minutes or so. You can catch the headlines and read the news tickers on the bottom. Get the sports score, etc.
I would not be surprised if local TV news goes away in the near future. Deregulation will only accelerate the inevitable.
I got a TiVo and now I don't have to worry at all when something is on. I work late and would miss all of "prime time", but with a TiVo, I can watch the stuff when I get home at 10 or 11. Or I can wait til Saturday when I have more time.
I watch it when I want and fast forward through all the commercials meaning I can get through and hour of programming in 45 minutes. I can save up episodes of a show and watch them in a row...no more, "Damn, I have to wait til next week to figure out what happens."
you should think of the Third World that gets all the hand-me-down computers from the First World. They need good software for free and Linux could really fill that niche.
there sure is a galeon rpm that ximian builds. maybe it does not get installed by default, but you can grab it via red-carpet under the Install submenu.
that is what I am using right now to post this message:)
I used to work at SGI. They instituted a blocking proxy to stop all the evil pr0n surfing. It started hindering access to good sites...and the spit hit the fan when we could not download a linux kernel through this...
Turns out some bad work just happened to be in the binary of the tar ball of one of the particular revs of the kernel. Escalated to a V.P. and suddenly, the blocker was turned off. Basically, he said that after many complaints, if workers could show that it hurting them from doing their job, he would make I.T. take it down.
My company will be rolling out PR1 to all it's employees on Linux and Solaris which is about 90%. We have an Exchange backend (don't ask) and Evolution works great with it. We use IMAP for mail, LDAP for contacts. And the calendering stuff we use Lookout for the web, *but* Evolution can receive the iCal requests and schedule them on a user's local calendar. This is our only complaint -- Evolution cannot see the Exchange calendar backend, thus a manager cannot see the schedules of his/her employees or other colleages.
In our beta tests with a few managers and directors (these guys are not your normal Linux hackers), they have been very pleased. As the new Evolution betas came out, they were psyched to see more functionality and less bugs. Evolution combined with the Crossover plugin, so they can read MS DOC and PPT and XLS attachments is going to save us $500 a seat since we do not need Citrix licenses (except to edit MS formats, which is only about 10% of the time spent in Citrix after our studies). So all in all, Evolution is a great replacement for Lookout. And the Crossover plugin (with Citrix as a backup) allow us to mostly rid ourselves of M$ desktops.
-tduffy
ps. Citrix is a UNIX client that allows you to connect and run a Windows desktop in an X window.
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I want to read the minority opinion on this and see who the two dissenting justices were. My guess -- not Republican appointees.
No, no, use your cycles to crack something real like the TiVo password!
The duplication and distribution of the credit card number would not be the problem. If somebody used the number to buy something, then that is the problem. Then, they are stealing real goods.
There was an in house port of IRIX to x86 a few years ago. However, this project was abandoned when SGI decided to go the Linux route on commodity hardware. Since then, Linux has been the OS of choice even on their IA64 based NUMA machine. AFAIK, there has never been a port of IRIX to IA64.
On IA64, maybe, but SGI has no plans to put Linux on their MIPS based machines. More likely is that they will slowly replace the userland stuff with free stuff from the Free Software community and keep the IRIX kernel going.
XFS has write speads in comparison with *ext2*. Ext3 writes are almost twice as slow as ext2 because of the journalling overhead. Ext3 was an addon to ext2 whereas XFS had journalling built into the design from the beginning.
XFS supports ACL's (or access control lists) which are much better than standard UNIX permissions.
XFS is an extent based filesystem which means that you don't end up wasting tons of space having to allocate a 4K block for every small file. And you don't need to jump through tons of indirect blocks to get large files.
XFS allocated inodes on the fly so it grows with what data you put on there. Once again, not wasting space up front. And it sticks the inode near the file itself so the head does not have to move far on the hard drive.
XFS supports extended attributes which can be used for all kinds of extensions later on.
XFS has been around since 1994 and is the most mature of the journalling filesystems.
And there are many other reasons that I cannot think of right now.
> What is a one-time $10,000 price tag for a car
> when it lets you drive hundreds of thousands of
> miles of free highway?
Actually, a pretty good deal. If people had to pay for every mile they drove on a highway, I assure you there would be a lot less cars and a lot less driving. And the cost of goods would go up a lot as well since trucking would cost a lot more.
At least in the U.S., the highway system is a huge government subsidy for the trucking industry. And everybody pays for it with their taxes.
> Or a common protocol for copy/paste?
/any/ X application. Seems pretty common to me...
umm, select the text with left mouse button, and click with middle. That works in
You could implement some sort of file locking protocol that would not allow multiple users to access the same song at the same time.
But, with an archive of significant size, the chances of two people listening to the same song become very small. Unless of course the song happens to be fairly popular.
So, I can imagine a system where I go to access a given file and it says, "3 people are currently queued to listen to that song. It will be 15 minutes before you can."
This would not be very intrusive because I could just listen to something else during that time...
Then, you are just implementing a "virtual" cd archive where people could go to a room, grab a disk and bring it back to their office.
I can't see how this could be stopped legally by the RIAA.
I would not mind people sending me email using Outlook if it only did a few things:
/below/ the quoted text so they would respond there (instead of above)
/basic/ email standards, I respond to most people that send me mail using Outlook with the first line starting something like this:
1) set References and In-Reply-To properly, so I could thread them in my mailer
2) not let them send mail greater than 78 chars wide
3) when replying, would use chevrons ( > symbol) and put the cursor
Until Outlook stops violating these
begin super_secret_message.doc
which totally f*cks up outlook and makes the email look like a UUencoded attachment that cannot be opened in Word...ha ha
Eudora works perfectly under wine. Here is the cookbook:
:(
1) install the codeweavers wine rpm
2) install eudora through wine
3) run eudora
it is really that easy. You can get fancy if you want to grab the latest cvs or tar ball, but don't bother if you just want Eudora which has worked for ages.
My problem with Eudora is that it is not RFC 2822 compliant and does not setup the References header properly. This causes threading to get screwed up in other mailers
Many of the "mp3" players have upgradable firmware and will support ogg in the near future. There is no reason *not* to have support in the devices (unless you are Sony and want to protect your own interests, like Celine Dion :)
Most of the time, I only play music on my computer, so I want to use the format that is better compression/sounding for me. I don't care about the guy who wants to copy it from me over Gnutella. He can get the ogg plugin if he wants my music.
Well, there are many legitamite uses for Ogg. In fact, many game designers are using it so they don't have to pay royalties to Fraunhofer (the folks who own the patents on mp3).
And Ogg does not circumvent anything. It is a simple codec. It might become illegal under the SSSSSSSSCA, but they could not hit it with DMCA.
AOL has the vested interest to promote anthing but Windows Media Player format. Ogg and mp3 fit that bill. Plus why would AOL want to play royalties to Fraunhofer (the company that owns the patent on mp3) for their software?
> wouldn't it be perfectly legal for them to simply release him the minute he gets back home?
Russia would not do this because then they would be breaking the treaty and the U.S. would not send any more of their citizens back. They would be shooting themselves in the foot for future incidents.
The biggest problem is normally the states don't want to give up their prisoners to other countries. The governors want to appear tough on crime, and sending bad guys out of state makes them look weak. Especially if they are sent to countries with more liberal laws regarding drugs or death penalty or copyright like in this case. The Feds have to deal with rouge states that don't want to recognize the U.S. treaties. This might be the biggest stumbling block.
The US has a treaties to deal with this sorta thing. Cases like this happen all the time. If a Russian comes to the states and murders somebody, he is tried and convicted in the States. He can, under prisoner transfer treaties, decide that he wants to spend the rest of his sentence in Russia instead of in the U.S. (To be closer to family, or because a Russian prison might be better than a U.S. prison, etc.) Under the terms of these treaties, he is transfered back to Russia and serves the remainder of his time there.
The U.S. has treaties setup with most of the countries in the world that they have normal diplomatic ties to.
If somebody does commit a crime in the States and then escapes to their home country, these same treties apply and the home country is abliged to capture and detain the accused.
After all, it is a two way street. If an American were to go to Russia and commit a crime, the Russians would want that individual to get tried in Russia.
There is a whole division in the U.S. Department of Justice dedicated to dealing with all these prisoner transfers. They negotiate with the local authorities (like individual states or municipalities) in the States and the authorities in the foreign nations to figure out the terms of the transfer.
> Now consider that if your local news station
> can't compete in its market against some station
> from New York, you aren't going to get local
> news.
Local news is already on its way out. With national news shows like CNN, very few people actually watch local news any more (especially younger viewers). Plus, who has the time to go and schedule yourself to watch the news at a given time.
Most people in Gen X and Y just pop on Headline News and watch the 15 minutes or so. You can catch the headlines and read the news tickers on the bottom. Get the sports score, etc.
I would not be surprised if local TV news goes away in the near future. Deregulation will only accelerate the inevitable.
I got a TiVo and now I don't have to worry at all when something is on. I work late and would miss all of "prime time", but with a TiVo, I can watch the stuff when I get home at 10 or 11. Or I can wait til Saturday when I have more time.
I watch it when I want and fast forward through all the commercials meaning I can get through and hour of programming in 45 minutes. I can save up episodes of a show and watch them in a row...no more, "Damn, I have to wait til next week to figure out what happens."
you should think of the Third World that gets all the hand-me-down computers from the First World. They need good software for free and Linux could really fill that niche.
there sure is a galeon rpm that ximian builds. maybe it does not get installed by default, but you can grab it via red-carpet under the Install submenu.
:)
that is what I am using right now to post this message
mod this parent up! it is really important to let google know it matters that search be uncorrupted.
x enu+dot+net+you+chickenshit+stanford+assholes > /dev/null; done
If you can't make it there in person, as Don pointed out, you can protest from the comfort of your own home:
while (true) do lynx -dump http://google.com/search?query=where+the+fuck+is+
I used to work at SGI. They instituted a blocking proxy to stop all the evil pr0n surfing. It started hindering access to good sites...and the spit hit the fan when we could not download a linux kernel through this...
Turns out some bad work just happened to be in the binary of the tar ball of one of the particular revs of the kernel. Escalated to a V.P. and suddenly, the blocker was turned off. Basically, he said that after many complaints, if workers could show that it hurting them from doing their job, he would make I.T. take it down.
Gotta love that "smart" blocking software.
My company will be rolling out PR1 to all it's employees on Linux and Solaris which is about 90%. We have an Exchange backend (don't ask) and Evolution works great with it. We use IMAP for mail, LDAP for contacts. And the calendering stuff we use Lookout for the web, *but* Evolution can receive the iCal requests and schedule them on a user's local calendar. This is our only complaint -- Evolution cannot see the Exchange calendar backend, thus a manager cannot see the schedules of his/her employees or other colleages.
In our beta tests with a few managers and directors (these guys are not your normal Linux hackers), they have been very pleased. As the new Evolution betas came out, they were psyched to see more functionality and less bugs. Evolution combined with the Crossover plugin, so they can read MS DOC and PPT and XLS attachments is going to save us $500 a seat since we do not need Citrix licenses (except to edit MS formats, which is only about 10% of the time spent in Citrix after our studies). So all in all, Evolution is a great replacement for Lookout. And the Crossover plugin (with Citrix as a backup) allow us to mostly rid ourselves of M$ desktops.
-tduffy
ps. Citrix is a UNIX client that allows you to connect and run a Windows desktop in an X window.
> A MCSE is to ranting Unix users what a McDonalds
> Certified Food Specialist is to those who prefer
> Burger King.
actually, it's more like:
A MCSE is to a ranting Unix user what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to a vegetarian anti-globalisation pacifist.
-tduffy