Hey, Komarov was a hero. I was born in East Germany,
my school was named after Vladimir Komarov. But soon after the German reunification, it was renamed to 'Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasium' for both political and historical reasons, as Schliemann, went to school there.
I know this from the reverse perspective: if I have to use a non-German keyboard, I frequently mix up z and y as well. Also, the US-keyboard layout is missing important keys as the o which I frequently use for typing my own name.
But the US layout is more useful for coding, as important symbols like {[]}\`@ can be typed faster if you don't have to use the Alt Graph key.
There are no PPC prereleases. There will be a final 9.2 for the PPC,I guess. The main development for Mandrake is on x86, there aren't enough people willing to develop Mandrake for the PPC to justify the reservation of mirror space and bandwith for the
development version.
If you want to participate in the Mandrake PPC development, you can find more information in the
Mandrake Ports Wiki.
There's a difference: libdvdcss cracks the CSS enrcryption and allows you to do everything the normal DVD player cannot do like skipping the FBI warning or copying everything to the HD.
As libdvdcss is GPL software, it cannot comply to this requirement from the DVD forum:
The first step for obtaining the Format Book is to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement with the DVD FLLC. Under the NDA, Company is prohibited from disclosing any technical information, trade secret and know-how in the Format Book, because the knowledge contained in the Format Book is proprietary and confidential.
This is not like MPEG audio layer 3, where you don't have a NDA.
It doesn't matter. The DeCSS code is everywhere now.
You can even buy the Lindows
DVD Player, which is a modified Xine containing libdvdcss. They advertise that it was licensed by the DVD consortium. So how can decss be illegal if it was even blessed by an official license?
My current spam filter is SpamOracle. It's a simple procmail filter based on Bayes' formula. It's really efficient, I haven't had a spam mail in my inbox for a week. The only bad thing is that it's written in ocaml which might not be on everybody's machine. Mandrake users can install a contribs package and don't need ocaml at all.
With Mandrake 9.1 you don't even need partition magic, as the installer can resize your NTFS partition reliably. Your Windows partition will be mounted as/mnt/windows after the installation, although it's still read-only.
He was living in the US when he bought that songs, then Apple took them away. Well, he could have made backups as audio CDs, but I guess I didn't interpret the license in a way that says the songs can be revoked from him.
That's the bad thing about DRM,
you don't have the control and you're extradited to the company that sold you the content.
The DVD players I've seen in the big shops here all have region code 2. If you want a code free player, you'll have to download some firmware update. As it would be impossible to close all web sites with that firmware, the law cannot really be enforced. But they went after people who were selling region 1-DVDs, even through this shouldn't be illega.
But the guy from that article didn't want to infringe that copyright, he just wanted to listen to the songs he has paid for. How is this reasonable from Apple's part to deny this?
If you hear a song that you think is good enough to collect, you should be interested in what else the artist/group has done. It may not be as good, but it should be something. If not, then realize that you "like" the one song, not because it is good, but because clearchannel has programmed you to like it.
I couldn't express that better (at least not in english:-)). I also have songs in my album collection that I don't like (often at the end of the CD after a few minutes of silence), but I wouldn't want to remove a single song. If I really
like a band, I want all of their stuff anyway.
This stupid law (DVD region) is actually not enforceable in Europe.
I don't know about your country, but here in Germany we have the new European Copyright law that makes it enforceable. I guess it would also be illegal to crack rot13, as that's a technical prevention measure.
I don't say that selling MP3s would be wrong. But that's not what the iTunes store does. They sell DRM-containers. You can only listen to the content when Apple unlocks that container. If they decide you shouldn't listen to it anymore, they don't give you the key and the file will become a useless pile of bytes.
I'd appreciate it if someone would sell unrestricted
MP3 (or Ogg) files instead of DRM-licenses.
BTW If an album contains crappy fillers, I wouldn't by it anyway, as I'm not into single hits, but that's just me.
He hasn't bought the songs, but a limited license to
listen to them while living in the US. If you buy a CD, you don't own the songs either, as you aren't allowed to copy them around.
But there's one difference: the licensor has much more control over the songs in the former case.
You don't need to detour that way, as you can burn the iTunes songs on CDs. If you rip the CDs again, the resultings files aren't protected anymore by DRM.
This teaches us one thing: There's no friendly DRM, DRM is always bad, especially if you notice it when it's too late. I hope the users will learn from this and boycott the iTunes store unless they remove the DRM from their songs.
The article doesn't mention it, but I've read it in a Spiegel
article (in German), that the form has no option
for non-US people to mail the US-president.
Well, I had no hopes he might have listened to wat I
had to say anyway.
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Football is really popular in Iraq. I know this because the national trainer was from East Germany, he had to flee from the bombs.
Hey, Komarov was a hero. I was born in East Germany, my school was named after Vladimir Komarov. But soon after the German reunification, it was renamed to 'Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasium' for both political and historical reasons, as Schliemann, went to school there.
I know this from the reverse perspective: if I have to use a non-German keyboard, I frequently mix up z and y as well. Also, the US-keyboard layout is missing important keys as the o which I frequently use for typing my own name. But the US layout is more useful for coding, as important symbols like {[]}\`@ can be typed faster if you don't have to use the Alt Graph key.
This doesn't work for me (SunRay terminal with a German keyboard layout), must be something specific to XFree86.
Please try to play something with the xscreensaver stopper and -vo sdl, it will segfault :-(
If you want to participate in the Mandrake PPC development, you can find more information in the Mandrake Ports Wiki.
As libdvdcss is GPL software, it cannot comply to this requirement from the DVD forum:
The first step for obtaining the Format Book is to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement with the DVD FLLC. Under the NDA, Company is prohibited from disclosing any technical information, trade secret and know-how in the Format Book, because the knowledge contained in the Format Book is proprietary and confidential.
This is not like MPEG audio layer 3, where you don't have a NDA.My current spam filter is SpamOracle. It's a simple procmail filter based on Bayes' formula. It's really efficient, I haven't had a spam mail in my inbox for a week. The only bad thing is that it's written in ocaml which might not be on everybody's machine. Mandrake users can install a contribs package and don't need ocaml at all.
With Mandrake 9.1 you don't even need partition magic, as the installer can resize your NTFS partition reliably. Your Windows partition will be mounted as /mnt/windows after the installation, although it's still read-only.
That's a good one. Seriously, you can resell your beer if it became stale, but try to sell your iTunes songs.
That's the bad thing about DRM, you don't have the control and you're extradited to the company that sold you the content.
The DVD players I've seen in the big shops here all have region code 2. If you want a code free player, you'll have to download some firmware update. As it would be impossible to close all web sites with that firmware, the law cannot really be enforced. But they went after people who were selling region 1-DVDs, even through this shouldn't be illega.
But the guy from that article didn't want to infringe that copyright, he just wanted to listen to the songs he has paid for. How is this reasonable from Apple's part to deny this?
I'd appreciate it if someone would sell unrestricted MP3 (or Ogg) files instead of DRM-licenses.
BTW If an album contains crappy fillers, I wouldn't by it anyway, as I'm not into single hits, but that's just me.
But there's one difference: the licensor has much more control over the songs in the former case.
You don't need to detour that way, as you can burn the iTunes songs on CDs. If you rip the CDs again, the resultings files aren't protected anymore by DRM.
This teaches us one thing: There's no friendly DRM, DRM is always bad, especially if you notice it when it's too late. I hope the users will learn from this and boycott the iTunes store unless they remove the DRM from their songs.
Well, I had no hopes he might have listened to wat I had to say anyway.
This is also true for the full mozilla, just unzip and run it. Nobody has to use IE at work anymore.