for satellite transmissions, there is legal precedence with regards to transmissions being on your property with or without your wanting them to be there; I believe there was a case in which this was the primary issue and the defendant won. A cursory search on google hasn't found anything with regards to it but this discussion has cropped up here on slashdot previously.
I think a more complicated issue is that from what I understand (as a non-subscriber) directv content is encrypted? if that is indeed true, then to access those encrypted streams and decrypt them even in an extremely simplistic method could be construed as a DMCA violation. again that beast rears it's ugly head.
I dunno... I'll stick to broadcast analog as long as I can. DVI adapters that encrypt my video to the TV and sound cards that encrypt the sound out put to my speakers is just not where I want to go. I'll stick to just taping things on analog tape and watching them on my 10 yr old VCR that won't ever complain about fair-use abuses or anything at all.
It's like Mr. Weasley said in the Harry Potter books: "Don't trust anything without a brain that can think.".... no smart PVRs for me:)
Well, I just grabbed all the source, and while I realize it's early alpha and all that it still seems extremely linux-centric. It bugs me when something is plugged for many different operating systems when I (admittedly not a coder, but I'm not totally clueless) can't compile it for the life of me on a recent stable FreeBSD release. This might not be such a problem if there was any kind of documentation, of any sort, anywhere, regarding other operating systems.
So while this product looks really slick, not all of us can bear the thought of slapping RH 7.1 on our boxes, which is unfortunate. oh well:)
98 degrees, N'sync, and the backstreet boys "came out of the blue" ? that is a complete fallacy. The backstreet boys and N'sync are both creations of Lou Pearlman, who manufactures groups like ford manufactures cars. these bands fall COMPLETELY in line with the kinds of changes the author was discussing, and only serve to further his point.
So, in reality, your longwinded rebuttal only serves to strengthen the author's hypotheses. thanks!
Actually, he's not really being anal; for those of us who actually work with VoIP, people who randomly throw these terms around due to lack of knowledge annoy the living hell out of us.
You'd probably get pissed off if I compared visual basic and C++, but to me they are more or less the same thing... so I avoid making those kinds of comparisons. do the same for us:P
That's probably true- i've worked at much larger companies with lotus notes than with exchange. notes always seemed to scale better, too.
however, at least in the securities industry, everyone seems to have exchange these days. I think it has something to do with conservative IT shops that are full of MS-oriented managers, who all view Lotus Notes as some old fringe product that is dying out.
I personally prefer to use a combination of postfix and IMAP, but then again I don't make purchasing or deployment decisions about mail. and god forbid I not have a nice drag-n-drop solution for you to manage your contacts and your calendar!!!
wow, an intelligent and thoughtful post on slashdot. I thought they were all gone:)
I think that the security aspects are definitely an issue, however many facilities actually do differentiate between secure and insecure systems. I speak from experience on that one. However, I can also attest that some people use computer systems that should only be used to order toilet paper to type up short quick memos that should only be done on secure B1 level systems... bleh. So I guess what I'm trying to saye is keep your shitter and your datacenter separate:)
Doing a DoD spec 7 pass wipe will make it difficult to retrieve data off a hard drive but definitely not impossible. there are many companies that do this as a service, as well as software and hardware you can buy to perform these sorts of tasks. just by using OnTrack's Tiramisu ( now called Easy Recovery ) software I have been able to retrieve data after ex-employees tried to "nuke" their systems completely. When you start looking at repetitive wipes, then you start needing more useful hardware tools, such as the forensic units available to police departments and the FBI, etc. These typically cost from 5000 to 15000 dollars.
The whole point of the story though is this- while it has always been policy to physically destroy drives that have ever come near classified data (as one would hope!) unclassified systems were just required to be wiped and then could be disposed with at will. someone changed this (don't know who or when...) but the DRMO has still been selling systems like hotcakes with fully functional HDD's so someone hasn't been doing their job, I suppose:)
I'm glad to see them change this back so these systems can be put to a better use for schools, poor folks, and the like. Considering the equipment turnover in some military and governmental facilities, some of those kids might really be lucking out!!!
Scanmail for Exchange or whatever else it is you people use for uni email (I like the other 70-odd percent of corporate america use MS exchange, and it does it's job relatively well.) if you use something else like basic sendmail/smtp stuff they have products for those as well.
Trend Micro's desktop scanning software, no client required; you can either have it scan fileshares (ala NT c$ etc) or have the end user do it from a web page that starts a little java app and scans.
There's other stuff out there but honestly speaking, trend micro's stuff is pretty nice. I had a few probs with scanmail to start but got it sorted and it's worked great (ILOVEYOU and other VBS email stuff dropped dead.) We used to use norton AV (corporate edition) but that is just a complete piece of crap. I dumped it entirely and moved to the (cheaper) trend micro stuff once I scored a demo copy.
In terms of handling multi-OS'es, and yadda yadda yadda... that's why students have to meet a code of conduct and follow the rules. make one of those be that they have to comply with virus updates or scanning, or not have network access to the uni's network. Or, if you don't feel like being so heavy handed, you could offer supported AV platforms for different architectures and then support installing and updating them- say, emailing SARC updates instead of pushing them down, or whatever. I suppose that would depend on how fascist you want to be- I personally would lock down all computers that the uni owns, but personal machines would just have to meet the criteria that is set out in the usage policy (properly updated AV software that, if you want, we'll help you to install and keep updated.)
Anyhow, you need to take some hard steps at first to keep it in check, and then that makes it easier later.... good luck!
That's quite true, I guess. as a network engineer, the only necessity I really have is outlook- nobody has anything that can tie in with it or offer the same capabilities. if there was ANY alternative to outlook that ran on *nix, even a costly one, I'd jump on board.
but that being said, there's a difference between your home use (which could be anything) and business use (in which someone is paying you to do what they want.) While I think you and I are in the same boat there, where we could use what we wanted as long as it got the job done, most corporate employees aren't. And I'll be the first to admit that if I tried to replace MS Exchange with something else that didn't work in EXACTLY the same way, I'd be strung up from the nearest pole. oh well.
This guy developed a panoramic imaging system totally independently from iPIX. they are, and have been going after him solely for having a system that does the same thing as their patented system. It has nothing to do with him releasing their "secrets" or any such nonsense; for that matter, a patented process is not "secret" since that's the whole purpose of patents (as several other posters have pointed out.)
To use the threat of legal action as a way to force small developers or individuals into a particular path of action is reprehensible, and that's one of the biggest issues here. We all understand the concepts of IP, and of the fact that money is what puts food on the table. However, using legal manuevering to crush completely legitimate competition or development is NOT something any of us want to encourage.
Try reading some of the links and background info before you spew pointless rants. thanks.
really, nobody ever said you had to use whatever MS has to offer. neither you nor anyone else is being forced into that situation, and if people wanted something different they could use something different.
I prefer different operating systems, so I install them, and the world is good. when I'm at work, I use microsoft, so I can actually share information with the other 95% of the lemmings out there like myself. Just because they or I use it doesn't mean we are oblivious to the issues of monopolies or anything of that nature- it's just convenient and lets face it, business is about making money, not bandying about social issues. But maybe that's just my opinion from actually working for a living instead of being an intellectual recluse like many of the readers here:) *shrug*
This puts in context the fact my grandfather just turned 79 (served for 3 yrs during WWII.) that would have made him 20 when he first experienced death on a grand scale.
Being 23 right now myself, I can't imagine how different I would be if the last 3 years of my life had been spent fighting for my survival instead of working for a internet startup. Somehow I think working late nights to try to get things up and running by a deadline is nothing compared to the death march at Bataan.
I wish these movies were more introspective and personal, so that some of the torment and history of the situation would be more accessible to the normal schmuck watching films. I think a good example of something in this vein would be the book "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"- something that is inside someone's head, focuses on mundane things but gets the horror of the situation across perfectly to the reader.
Of course, when you spend 130 million on a movie, I guess someone is going to want to get that back and then some. all hail the almighty buck.
I really miss the older geek crowd who grew up William Gibson and the like. all I see these days are little punks who listen to Korn and saw the movie "Hackers" and have morphed themselves into some kind of media-acceptable stereotype. I miss the days of pale geeks with commodore 64's, 300 baud modems and phreaking... *sigh*
Someone back in the mid 90's made a laptop with a split keyboard that folded up in the middle, i.e. two different halves that each were anchored on the outside edge. this allowed for the keyboard to be folded up almost vertically, with each half on the sides of the laptop. it was really nice to use, felt like holding a ball in your hands or something.
there are some benefits to working in a laptop repair depot; you see many cool things. I think the manufacturer was either Sager or Twinhead, but that's just my guess.
Actually, all of the test engines build by Bussard worked wonderfully... the Bussard Ramjet (a nuclear fission/fusion powered engine) is one of the things that fascinated me as a youth and convinced me to follow physics as a life pursuit.
Sometimes you have to let the underdog have a shot, because sometimes that's where the best things come from. defeatist attitudes get you nowhere.
NO kidding... don't be an idiot and please keep in mind that many of us read this from work, and don't wish to be explaining to management why we are looking at racist materials online. thanks again!
I just nabbed it and tossed it onto a laptop w/ FreeBSD; it's busy serving up 256k streams right now to my wintel desktop with no problems whatsoever.
maybe your files were VBR? it might choke on those, although I wouldn't really know. I don't know anyone who uses VBR anyway, so maybe it's some other weird bug.
I maintain a large media server for some internal usage, and I've been looking for a system somewhat like this. I've been tinkering with the apache::mp3 module for a while, and while it works nicely it's not really what I've been looking for. I'd love to see a system with MySQL support, rather than something that just creates hash tables on the fly, etc.
What I'm really trying to find is something that will resample mp3 files on the fly, and/or save the resampled tunes in a temporary database that will do some sort of intelligent size maintenance. (kind of like squid; "here's your 18GB of space, manage yourself.")
anyone have some ideas for that? I just grabbed this mod_mp3 and it works well- one nifty thing about it (which impresses me, anyway) is that I can define a ton of virtual servers and have it feed different streams simultaneously. the system usage seems very reasonable too. this product definitely has room for growth, and I'm looking forward to messing with it and adding horrible, codebloating features to it:)
along those same lines, i wonder if the optical switching people have considered using diamond for their products, as it slows light down by 2.5x... that would mean i could glue together leftover bits and save on that engagement ring, right?
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Cool, someone with actual practical experience and knowledge. wish there were more people like you on slashdot!
I know that they still have a lot of SCO based systems, or something like that, but the USS Yorktown did run aground due to a NT systems failure that disabled the engine control system or something like that. I'd dig up a link but that involves work, and we all know that IT professionals never work, right? those long nights @ nonovertime salaried pay are only things that happen to other people:P
That is dependent on the type of equipment you use- most of the large switches I deal with apply VLAN configuration etc before any interfaces become active. I agree though that air gap networking is your best bet for security, for sure.
there is a difference between the Extreme networks equipment disney is using there and a catalyst 3500 series or what have you- a large, large price/performance/quality difference!
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If they aren't already doing this, they are even more clueless than I previously thought. ugh.
for satellite transmissions, there is legal precedence with regards to transmissions being on your property with or without your wanting them to be there; I believe there was a case in which this was the primary issue and the defendant won. A cursory search on google hasn't found anything with regards to it but this discussion has cropped up here on slashdot previously.
.... no smart PVRs for me :)
I think a more complicated issue is that from what I understand (as a non-subscriber) directv content is encrypted? if that is indeed true, then to access those encrypted streams and decrypt them even in an extremely simplistic method could be construed as a DMCA violation. again that beast rears it's ugly head.
I dunno... I'll stick to broadcast analog as long as I can. DVI adapters that encrypt my video to the TV and sound cards that encrypt the sound out put to my speakers is just not where I want to go. I'll stick to just taping things on analog tape and watching them on my 10 yr old VCR that won't ever complain about fair-use abuses or anything at all.
It's like Mr. Weasley said in the Harry Potter books: "Don't trust anything without a brain that can think."
Well, I just grabbed all the source, and while I realize it's early alpha and all that it still seems extremely linux-centric. It bugs me when something is plugged for many different operating systems when I (admittedly not a coder, but I'm not totally clueless) can't compile it for the life of me on a recent stable FreeBSD release. This might not be such a problem if there was any kind of documentation, of any sort, anywhere, regarding other operating systems.
:)
So while this product looks really slick, not all of us can bear the thought of slapping RH 7.1 on our boxes, which is unfortunate. oh well
98 degrees, N'sync, and the backstreet boys "came out of the blue" ? that is a complete fallacy. The backstreet boys and N'sync are both creations of Lou Pearlman, who manufactures groups like ford manufactures cars. these bands fall COMPLETELY in line with the kinds of changes the author was discussing, and only serve to further his point.
So, in reality, your longwinded rebuttal only serves to strengthen the author's hypotheses. thanks!
Actually, he's not really being anal; for those of us who actually work with VoIP, people who randomly throw these terms around due to lack of knowledge annoy the living hell out of us.
:P
You'd probably get pissed off if I compared visual basic and C++, but to me they are more or less the same thing... so I avoid making those kinds of comparisons. do the same for us
That's probably true- i've worked at much larger companies with lotus notes than with exchange. notes always seemed to scale better, too.
however, at least in the securities industry, everyone seems to have exchange these days. I think it has something to do with conservative IT shops that are full of MS-oriented managers, who all view Lotus Notes as some old fringe product that is dying out.
I personally prefer to use a combination of postfix and IMAP, but then again I don't make purchasing or deployment decisions about mail. and god forbid I not have a nice drag-n-drop solution for you to manage your contacts and your calendar!!!
wow, an intelligent and thoughtful post on slashdot. I thought they were all gone :)
:)
I think that the security aspects are definitely an issue, however many facilities actually do differentiate between secure and insecure systems. I speak from experience on that one. However, I can also attest that some people use computer systems that should only be used to order toilet paper to type up short quick memos that should only be done on secure B1 level systems... bleh. So I guess what I'm trying to saye is keep your shitter and your datacenter separate
Doing a DoD spec 7 pass wipe will make it difficult to retrieve data off a hard drive but definitely not impossible. there are many companies that do this as a service, as well as software and hardware you can buy to perform these sorts of tasks. just by using OnTrack's Tiramisu ( now called Easy Recovery ) software I have been able to retrieve data after ex-employees tried to "nuke" their systems completely. When you start looking at repetitive wipes, then you start needing more useful hardware tools, such as the forensic units available to police departments and the FBI, etc. These typically cost from 5000 to 15000 dollars.
:)
The whole point of the story though is this- while it has always been policy to physically destroy drives that have ever come near classified data (as one would hope!) unclassified systems were just required to be wiped and then could be disposed with at will. someone changed this (don't know who or when...) but the DRMO has still been selling systems like hotcakes with fully functional HDD's so someone hasn't been doing their job, I suppose
I'm glad to see them change this back so these systems can be put to a better use for schools, poor folks, and the like. Considering the equipment turnover in some military and governmental facilities, some of those kids might really be lucking out!!!
Scanmail for Exchange or whatever else it is you people use for uni email (I like the other 70-odd percent of corporate america use MS exchange, and it does it's job relatively well.) if you use something else like basic sendmail/smtp stuff they have products for those as well.
Trend Micro's desktop scanning software, no client required; you can either have it scan fileshares (ala NT c$ etc) or have the end user do it from a web page that starts a little java app and scans.
There's other stuff out there but honestly speaking, trend micro's stuff is pretty nice. I had a few probs with scanmail to start but got it sorted and it's worked great (ILOVEYOU and other VBS email stuff dropped dead.) We used to use norton AV (corporate edition) but that is just a complete piece of crap. I dumped it entirely and moved to the (cheaper) trend micro stuff once I scored a demo copy.
In terms of handling multi-OS'es, and yadda yadda yadda... that's why students have to meet a code of conduct and follow the rules. make one of those be that they have to comply with virus updates or scanning, or not have network access to the uni's network. Or, if you don't feel like being so heavy handed, you could offer supported AV platforms for different architectures and then support installing and updating them- say, emailing SARC updates instead of pushing them down, or whatever. I suppose that would depend on how fascist you want to be- I personally would lock down all computers that the uni owns, but personal machines would just have to meet the criteria that is set out in the usage policy (properly updated AV software that, if you want, we'll help you to install and keep updated.)
Anyhow, you need to take some hard steps at first to keep it in check, and then that makes it easier later.... good luck!
That's quite true, I guess. as a network engineer, the only necessity I really have is outlook- nobody has anything that can tie in with it or offer the same capabilities. if there was ANY alternative to outlook that ran on *nix, even a costly one, I'd jump on board.
but that being said, there's a difference between your home use (which could be anything) and business use (in which someone is paying you to do what they want.) While I think you and I are in the same boat there, where we could use what we wanted as long as it got the job done, most corporate employees aren't. And I'll be the first to admit that if I tried to replace MS Exchange with something else that didn't work in EXACTLY the same way, I'd be strung up from the nearest pole. oh well.
This guy developed a panoramic imaging system totally independently from iPIX. they are, and have been going after him solely for having a system that does the same thing as their patented system. It has nothing to do with him releasing their "secrets" or any such nonsense; for that matter, a patented process is not "secret" since that's the whole purpose of patents (as several other posters have pointed out.)
To use the threat of legal action as a way to force small developers or individuals into a particular path of action is reprehensible, and that's one of the biggest issues here. We all understand the concepts of IP, and of the fact that money is what puts food on the table. However, using legal manuevering to crush completely legitimate competition or development is NOT something any of us want to encourage.
Try reading some of the links and background info before you spew pointless rants. thanks.
really, nobody ever said you had to use whatever MS has to offer. neither you nor anyone else is being forced into that situation, and if people wanted something different they could use something different.
:) *shrug*
I prefer different operating systems, so I install them, and the world is good. when I'm at work, I use microsoft, so I can actually share information with the other 95% of the lemmings out there like myself. Just because they or I use it doesn't mean we are oblivious to the issues of monopolies or anything of that nature- it's just convenient and lets face it, business is about making money, not bandying about social issues. But maybe that's just my opinion from actually working for a living instead of being an intellectual recluse like many of the readers here
This puts in context the fact my grandfather just turned 79 (served for 3 yrs during WWII.) that would have made him 20 when he first experienced death on a grand scale.
Being 23 right now myself, I can't imagine how different I would be if the last 3 years of my life had been spent fighting for my survival instead of working for a internet startup. Somehow I think working late nights to try to get things up and running by a deadline is nothing compared to the death march at Bataan.
I wish these movies were more introspective and personal, so that some of the torment and history of the situation would be more accessible to the normal schmuck watching films. I think a good example of something in this vein would be the book "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"- something that is inside someone's head, focuses on mundane things but gets the horror of the situation across perfectly to the reader.
Of course, when you spend 130 million on a movie, I guess someone is going to want to get that back and then some. all hail the almighty buck.
I really miss the older geek crowd who grew up William Gibson and the like. all I see these days are little punks who listen to Korn and saw the movie "Hackers" and have morphed themselves into some kind of media-acceptable stereotype. I miss the days of pale geeks with commodore 64's, 300 baud modems and phreaking... *sigh*
Go Dixie Flatline go.
there are some benefits to working in a laptop repair depot; you see many cool things. I think the manufacturer was either Sager or Twinhead, but that's just my guess.
Actually, all of the test engines build by Bussard worked wonderfully... the Bussard Ramjet (a nuclear fission/fusion powered engine) is one of the things that fascinated me as a youth and convinced me to follow physics as a life pursuit.
Sometimes you have to let the underdog have a shot, because sometimes that's where the best things come from. defeatist attitudes get you nowhere.
NO kidding... don't be an idiot and please keep in mind that many of us read this from work, and don't wish to be explaining to management why we are looking at racist materials online. thanks again!
I just nabbed it and tossed it onto a laptop w/ FreeBSD; it's busy serving up 256k streams right now to my wintel desktop with no problems whatsoever.
maybe your files were VBR? it might choke on those, although I wouldn't really know. I don't know anyone who uses VBR anyway, so maybe it's some other weird bug.
I maintain a large media server for some internal usage, and I've been looking for a system somewhat like this. I've been tinkering with the apache::mp3 module for a while, and while it works nicely it's not really what I've been looking for. I'd love to see a system with MySQL support, rather than something that just creates hash tables on the fly, etc.
:)
What I'm really trying to find is something that will resample mp3 files on the fly, and/or save the resampled tunes in a temporary database that will do some sort of intelligent size maintenance. (kind of like squid; "here's your 18GB of space, manage yourself.")
anyone have some ideas for that? I just grabbed this mod_mp3 and it works well- one nifty thing about it (which impresses me, anyway) is that I can define a ton of virtual servers and have it feed different streams simultaneously. the system usage seems very reasonable too. this product definitely has room for growth, and I'm looking forward to messing with it and adding horrible, codebloating features to it
I don't know about you, but my EN SFF is a P3 733 with an onboard TNT2. it works fine for games :)
along those same lines, i wonder if the optical switching people have considered using diamond for their products, as it slows light down by 2.5x ... that would mean i could glue together leftover bits and save on that engagement ring, right?
Cool, someone with actual practical experience and knowledge. wish there were more people like you on slashdot!
I know that they still have a lot of SCO based systems, or something like that, but the USS Yorktown did run aground due to a NT systems failure that disabled the engine control system or something like that. I'd dig up a link but that involves work, and we all know that IT professionals never work, right? those long nights @ nonovertime salaried pay are only things that happen to other people :P
That is dependent on the type of equipment you use- most of the large switches I deal with apply VLAN configuration etc before any interfaces become active. I agree though that air gap networking is your best bet for security, for sure.
there is a difference between the Extreme networks equipment disney is using there and a catalyst 3500 series or what have you- a large, large price/performance/quality difference!
EXACTLY! i think it's because they don't get enough vitamin C. I don't know about you, but I could eat that Vitamin C all day long...