They're just doing like LynuxWorks former Lynx with their Blue Cat Linux. I have a strong suspicion that WindRiver just wants to profit from some of the Linux hype, given that, apart from the price, quite frankly, their OS and tool suites are just way better than any embedded Linux suite I've ever seen/worked on/worked with.
It's just another company trying to jump on the Linux bandwagon. Nothing to see here folks...
On Tuesday, the USPTO awarded a patent to Microsoft for its Method and system for reporting a program failure,
Yeah, so it's justified. I mean, other OSes display cryptic error messages, "guru meditation" errors (amiga), oopses, kernel panics or bombs with all kinds of unintelligible information only hackers can use.
Microsoft, on the other hand, introduced the large blue screen-wide postage stamp, so you *know* immediately it's time to hit that button next to the floppy drive, without having to read idiotic messages. How that for user-friendliness, hmm? uh?
Stop the Microsoft bashing. These guys really do innovate, whether you like it or not. Even Linux doesn't have that user-friendly reboot signal. It's such a sadly made OS it doesn't even crash in fact, that's how boring it is...
Open-source startups, anyone?
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Yeah okay, I'll bite : my company, Acme Inc., makes a device that creates unlimited amounts of electrical energy from common household dirt. I was about to patent it and show it to big investors under serious control. But now I'm convinced : where should I upload the blueprints for all to see ?
I mean come on, I know it's Slashdot, but let's be serious for a minute...
Everybody says X sucks, that it's bloated, that it's slow,... and everybody wants to replace it. The best effort I've seen so far it Qt (especially Qtopia for palm devices).
I think X is like Unix : it was inadequate and bloated but computers have caught up with their demands, in terms of power and disk capacity.
Computers get more and more powerful, networks are faster and faster, and X is more and more lightweight comparatively. Combine that with decades of testing and millions of developers who have experience with it, and I can guarantee X is there to stay and evolve.
Is this encryption deniable? If not - what's the point?
What for for on a partition ? "Uh, no your honnor, that's not a partition full of encrypted pr0n, that's just some random free space that happens to take up most of my disk..."
This article is a trap. it's not an article about planets, it's the yearly Slashdot teenagers counter : they post an article with "Uranus" in it, wait a bit, then count the number of people who made witty rectal comments.
Seriously though, is it not possible to read an article about Uranus without seeing all those "uranus *lol* *giggle* *pffft!*" posts ?
If I was Ransome Love, I wouldn't shoot my mouth off : his business choices for Caldera were disastrous, he was noisy, obnoxious and just plain laughable on licensing issues, and generally contributed greatly to turn Caldera from the average Linux company with a vague aura of open-source pioneers it was after Bryan Sparks left it into the giant pile or worthless hot-air it was before turning SCO.
IBM's fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers is on the side of the GPL.
(1) It's IBM that's on the side of the GPL. It's fire-breath lawyers are on the side of whoever pays them.
(2) IBM is on the side of the GPL because they don't have much of a choice : they don't really have an OS of their own, and they had already invested millions in promoting Linux before this whole SCO idiocy.
This said, if IBM's lawyers reckon the GPL is a tool worth using in court, then you can be pretty sure it's a solid license, which is good news for the rest of us (read: IBM's money has paid for a very thorough review of the GPL for the rest of us. Thanks guys!)
one set of "encrypted" songs that can be handled by CD players but cannot be ripped
CD -> CD player -> sound card ->/dev/dsp -> lame
No track is unrippable. Provided your audio chain is somewhat decent, the quality loss will be inaudible (much less than from the MP3 encoding anyway).
In CD players, the disc plays normally (in theory)
Yes, "in theory" is the keyword. In practice, it is quite different. Anyhow, if enough of those silly copy-protected CDs come out, some CDROM manufacturers will start selling units that can read them at a higher price. Who's the loser in all cases? the consumer/listener.
When put into a computer, the disc installs software to keep the music secure
Does it work under Wine?
portable MP3 player doesn't support WMA.
Get a Rio Volt. Or even better, play the MP3s generated with the method above.
I hope more and more of these CDs come out, so more and more lawsuits against the idiots who make them happen, and eventually the entire music industry gets its reputation even more tarnished than it already is, hastening its long-overdue demise.
Where does bionic come in? I presumed bionic was an electronic or electromechanical supplement to an individual or being. Not an environment.
This is Slashdot and "bionic" is a shiny technical word. with a 5-digit UID, you shouldn't be surprised.
Bionic office : disappointing I say ...
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It's so padded with carpetting even Jamie can't ear anything, and I keep bumping on furniture when I run over 60mph around the cubicles. Oscar told me it was all hype...
What happens when even the geeks can't get it work?
Blame it on Windows : it always works with budget overruns as well as questions about technical problems. Tell the family you told them about Linux but they wouldn't hear. Make sure you use a patronizing tone.
Good thing they did that in Poland. If they had tried this in the US, they'd have been sued by DirecTV for hacking a satellite TV system and the RIAA for trying to set up a P2P link. Of course, none of this would matter since they'd all be in a 3x2 federal pen cell awaiting for months to be charged with setting up a data link that could be used for terrorism...
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if an optimization would break gcc's portability model they could just fork.
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Surely you forgot the "off"
I know it's an example of how to start messing with gcc, but perhaps it would have been better not to use a dead CPU and a dead OS to make the point?
I am sure most Slashdot readers know Schneier's name and his work.
Oh sure,if he's from soviet russia and he, for one, welcomes 1-2-3-profiting from first posts, I'm sure most Slashdot readers know him.
They're just doing like LynuxWorks former Lynx with their Blue Cat Linux. I have a strong suspicion that WindRiver just wants to profit from some of the Linux hype, given that, apart from the price, quite frankly, their OS and tool suites are just way better than any embedded Linux suite I've ever seen/worked on/worked with.
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It's just another company trying to jump on the Linux bandwagon. Nothing to see here folks
On Tuesday, the USPTO awarded a patent to Microsoft for its Method and system for reporting a program failure,
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Yeah, so it's justified. I mean, other OSes display cryptic error messages, "guru meditation" errors (amiga), oopses, kernel panics or bombs with all kinds of unintelligible information only hackers can use.
Microsoft, on the other hand, introduced the large blue screen-wide postage stamp, so you *know* immediately it's time to hit that button next to the floppy drive, without having to read idiotic messages. How that for user-friendliness, hmm? uh?
Stop the Microsoft bashing. These guys really do innovate, whether you like it or not. Even Linux doesn't have that user-friendly reboot signal. It's such a sadly made OS it doesn't even crash in fact, that's how boring it is
Yeah okay, I'll bite : my company, Acme Inc., makes a device that creates unlimited amounts of electrical energy from common household dirt. I was about to patent it and show it to big investors under serious control. But now I'm convinced : where should I upload the blueprints for all to see ?
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I mean come on, I know it's Slashdot, but let's be serious for a minute
are the spammers actually winning the battle by using viruses?
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Just look at the godawful appearance of the meat, and smell the nasty stench from the can : how can you *not know* there are viruses in spam?
Yuk
Everybody says X sucks, that it's bloated, that it's slow, ... and everybody wants to replace it. The best effort I've seen so far it Qt (especially Qtopia for palm devices).
I think X is like Unix : it was inadequate and bloated but computers have caught up with their demands, in terms of power and disk capacity.
Computers get more and more powerful, networks are faster and faster, and X is more and more lightweight comparatively. Combine that with decades of testing and millions of developers who have experience with it, and I can guarantee X is there to stay and evolve.
Is this encryption deniable? If not - what's the point?
..."
What for for on a partition ? "Uh, no your honnor, that's not a partition full of encrypted pr0n, that's just some random free space that happens to take up most of my disk
We all know how complication three-body motion is
Wrong : most Slashdot readers only know single-body motion and tissues.
This article is a trap. it's not an article about planets, it's the yearly Slashdot teenagers counter : they post an article with "Uranus" in it, wait a bit, then count the number of people who made witty rectal comments.
Seriously though, is it not possible to read an article about Uranus without seeing all those "uranus *lol* *giggle* *pffft!*" posts ?
*sigh*
If I was Ransome Love, I wouldn't shoot my mouth off : his business choices for Caldera were disastrous, he was noisy, obnoxious and just plain laughable on licensing issues, and generally contributed greatly to turn Caldera from the average Linux company with a vague aura of open-source pioneers it was after Bryan Sparks left it into the giant pile or worthless hot-air it was before turning SCO.
Ransome, just shut the fuck up.
IBM's fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers is on the side of the GPL.
(1) It's IBM that's on the side of the GPL. It's fire-breath lawyers are on the side of whoever pays them.
(2) IBM is on the side of the GPL because they don't have much of a choice : they don't really have an OS of their own, and they had already invested millions in promoting Linux before this whole SCO idiocy.
This said, if IBM's lawyers reckon the GPL is a tool worth using in court, then you can be pretty sure it's a solid license, which is good news for the rest of us (read: IBM's money has paid for a very thorough review of the GPL for the rest of us. Thanks guys!)
12 by 12 centimeters (120 millimeters) is the same size as a CD... I wonder if one could squeeze one of these machines into one or two drivebays
File the corners and punch a hole in the middle : you won't even have to replace the original CDROM drive to fit in inside your PC.
I think the RS232 is still present : the link is so slow it just has to be over pppd.
one set of "encrypted" songs that can be handled by CD players but cannot be ripped
/dev/dsp -> lame
CD -> CD player -> sound card ->
No track is unrippable. Provided your audio chain is somewhat decent, the quality loss will be inaudible (much less than from the MP3 encoding anyway).
In CD players, the disc plays normally (in theory)
Yes, "in theory" is the keyword. In practice, it is quite different. Anyhow, if enough of those silly copy-protected CDs come out, some CDROM manufacturers will start selling units that can read them at a higher price. Who's the loser in all cases? the consumer/listener.
When put into a computer, the disc installs software to keep the music secure
Does it work under Wine?
portable MP3 player doesn't support WMA.
Get a Rio Volt. Or even better, play the MP3s generated with the method above.
I hope more and more of these CDs come out, so more and more lawsuits against the idiots who make them happen, and eventually the entire music industry gets its reputation even more tarnished than it already is, hastening its long-overdue demise.
Where does bionic come in? I presumed bionic was an electronic or electromechanical supplement to an individual or being. Not an environment.
This is Slashdot and "bionic" is a shiny technical word. with a 5-digit UID, you shouldn't be surprised.
It's so padded with carpetting even Jamie can't ear anything, and I keep bumping on furniture when I run over 60mph around the cubicles. Oscar told me it was all hype ...
-- Steve
What happens when even the geeks can't get it work?
Blame it on Windows : it always works with budget overruns as well as questions about technical problems. Tell the family you told them about Linux but they wouldn't hear. Make sure you use a patronizing tone.
You could access that across the English channel!
Yes, and just imagine the improvement when they finally dig the 802.11b tunnel!
3603 miles, between me in Paris and my friend Bob in New-York:
My_laptop <-> my_AP <-> The_innurnet <-> Bob's_AP <-> Bob's_laptop
Good thing they did that in Poland. If they had tried this in the US, they'd have been sued by DirecTV for hacking a satellite TV system and the RIAA for trying to set up a P2P link. Of course, none of this would matter since they'd all be in a 3x2 federal pen cell awaiting for months to be charged with setting up a data link that could be used for terrorism ...
Yorks peally hre4t
would Murphy's Law be a dictatorship, a democracy, or something else?
All of them ?
But is there a Mr. Sod in the UK ?