Ehh, no not really, the iPod Mini uses a drive that's more like 1". This 100GB drive is 2.5" 9.5mm thick, which is the standard form factor these days for laptop hard drives. Drives in that form factor have already been available with 80GB for several months, and with 60GB for a while before that, so 100 GB is just another incremental improvement over the previous 80 GB. Anyway, these drives are for laptops including subnotes, and largish audio players like the old Creative jukeboxes. The regular (40GB etc). iPod uses a 1.8" diameter drive which is about half the size of this 2.5" unit, and the mini-iPod's drive is the size of a CF card.
I saw some mention somewhere of a trade show demo of an ultra-thin subnotebook that had a 100GB 1.8" drive, like the drive in an iPod (those are currently available up to 40 GB and the 40GB drive is about $200 retail from dealers). I figure the 100GB version will be available by the end of the year.
Texinfo is used to make printed manuals and online docs for GNU programs. It uses a simple, Scribe-like syntax and is implemented as TeX macros (for printing) and as a standalone C program for conversion to online docs (HTML or GNU Info format). There's an Emacs mode for editing it that works pretty well. It's about the easiest thing I can think of.
If I have a lower level domain under some ISP, then I'm trapped with them. If my ISP's service goes down the tubes, or if they go out of business altogether, or if they jack up their prices or whatever, I can't switch ISP's without losing email or web contact with anyone I gave my address or URL to. I move around a lot; my physical addresses and phone numbers change all the time. My internet domain is the most stable point of contact that I have.
I had a stable email address with an ISP for about ten years, but the ISP discontinued my service plan and said I'd have to change addresses if I wanted to stay with them, so that's why I registered a domain, so I have a permanent net address that I can give out to friends and acquaintances. That doesn't mean I want it advertised to the public. It's like an unlisted phone number. I'm ok with the registrar having my contact info in case law enforcement needs to find me, but I see absolutely no reason they have to publish it in WHOIS.
Badge Cameras are a project by H. Keith Henson of space colony and anti-Scientology fame, to put cameras into police badges, hopefully preventing future Rodney King incidents. The HP scheme sounds similar.
Great, just great. Who needs yet another outlet for corporate propaganda beamed into our living rooms? If there's available spectrum somewhere, it should be released for unlicensed services. A longer range, lower bandwidth Wifi capability in the VHF band is far more beneficial to the public than yet another Disney channel.
and for heaven's sakes, don't quit. Just follow the policy and leave your cell phone at home or in your car when you're at the office. Just explain that you're following the new policy. After a few days of not being able to reach you on it, they'll have a discussion with you about it and you can work something out.
You shouldn't have to use your personal cell phone for work anyway. The company should provide you with one, to be used ONLY for work. That may be the best solution.
I've had three of them go bad or crash. One of them I was stupid enough to actually buy, and two that came with new laptops. I'll never buy another. They are all Crashstars as far as I'm concerned.
Drug dealers and mobsters have been killing each other in bloody shootouts (or swordfights or whatever) for centuries and it hasn't slowed them down one bit. I don't see it being different for spammers.
Of Enron vs. accounting regulations fame? Looks like he's still SEC chairman. The SEC under the current admin seems determined to let big corps do whatever they want.
But if EV1 honors the GPL then they have to breach their contract with SCO. If they don't intend to honor their SCO contract, then why did the pay the money to SCO to begin with?
If I rent a Red Hat server from ev1, that means I can download a copy of/boot/vmlinux, right? And since that's GPL'd, EV1 has to give me the source if I ask for it, correct? Presumably they can do that by just having the Red Hat source RPM's online somewhere that I can get to them, no big deal.
Except what about this SCO license--doesn't it include no-redistribution terms that conflict with the GPL? Is EV1's permission to redistribute Linux now terminated under the GPL as well as under the SCO license? Can they be required to stop offering Linux hosting, by anyone that has GPL'd code compiled into the kernel? That would include quite a few parties like Red Hat and IBM, whose attitude towards SCO is less than favorable and which have the lawyers to back it up.
EV1 may find itself much more screwed by its SCO deal than if it had refused to deal with SCO.
"It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the President and
machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of
emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics at the time... That
was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be
temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People
stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some
direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on...
Things continued in that state of suspended animation for weeks,
although some things did happen. Newspapers were censored and some
were closed down, for security reasons they said. The roadblocks
began to appear, and Identipasses. Everyone approved of that, since
it was obvious you couldn't be too careful."
That press release doesn't say anything about a lawsuit. It just says there was a settlement and that there was infringement. Presumably there was at least the threat of a lawsuit, but it doesn't say whether a suit was actually filed. Does anyone know? And yes, the FSF writes free software--perhaps you've heard of GCC, for example.
Whenever a business is sold, one of the things the new buyer usually wants is the phone number, especially if it's something like 1-800-BANANAS or whatever, where the phone number may be the main asset. And after Scientology sued the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) into the ground, they made sure get the assets at the bankruptcy auction including the phone number, so that people calling CAN because their kid is in a cult end up talking to a Scientologist who tries to suck the kid into Scientology instead.
Verizon seems to be saying corporations have the right to buy and sell phone numbers but regular folks don't. It figures, it's just more of the same crap we get all the time.
was about the original 2x HP/Philips CD recorder that had primature failures like this Deathstar. The recorder cost around $1000 and mine failed a few months after the warranty expired, after writing just a few dozen discs. There was chatter on Usenet about other people's similar experiences with that drive. I was madder than hell. The lawfirm put up a web site about it and asked people who had had problems with the drive to contact them. I spoke with Jonathan Shub at some length, as a potential class plaintiff or whatever the term is. Anyway, to make a long story short, when the suit eventually settled a year or so later, everyone who filled in the claim forms got around $200, which by then was about enough to buy a new drive (I bought a 4x Yamaha for $265 or something). There was also the option of getting some newer HP/Philips model for free, but I figured I'd have enough of those drives.
So the amount paid out wasn't anywhere near what the drive cost in the first place, and wouldn't have been enough to replace the drive at the minute the warranty expired and the drive failed, but it was a reasonable chunk of that, not anything like getting a couple pieces of blank CD media while the lawyers got rich.
I actually seem to remember I never got my $200 because I didn't stay on top of the paperwork enough, but that's a typical thing, like not sending in rebate coupons. I stay away from rebates for basically that reason.
Stronghold basically doesn't exist any more. It's just regular Apache with mod_ssl now. There stopped being any reason to maintain the old Stronghold module. And mod_ssl is included with Apache 2.0 by default. So yeah, RHEL comes with an SSL web server; whether they bother still labelling it "Stronghold" is not terribly relevant.
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The old way of producing artificial diamonds, used by DuPont, is to wrap explosives around some graphite and set it off.
Oh man, those guys in Iraq were actually trying to make diamonds and not A-bombs, so the explosives were wrapped around graphite instead of uranium. No wonder the WMD search squad didn't find anything. Thanks for the explanation.
I got one of the low cost Panasonic models (SL-SV550), not many features but that's no problem. The issue is it can't drive the headphones to reasonable listening levels. I don't want to blast my eardrums or anything, but the highest level (digital volume control goes to 25) is what I'd call "medium" volume, not even slightly "loud". The $2.50 FM earbud stereo that I got drives the Panasonic headphones quite a bit louder. I have no idea whether the fancier Panasonic models are any better, but I suspect the max level was set at what someone in a quiet lab thought was right. It's not enough to listen in loud subways or similar noisy environments.
The SCO filing says something like "here's these couple dozen short patches of directly copied code, and discovery on IBM's AIX codebase will show millions more". This filing isn't trying to prove there's enough infringement that damages can be collected. All it's trying to show is that there's the faintest glimmer of evidence that even the slightest infringement occurred, in order to get further discovery and delay the case some more. IOW it's yet another attempt to circumvent the judge's order to show with specificity where all the infringement is.
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Ehh, no not really, the iPod Mini uses a drive that's more like 1". This 100GB drive is 2.5" 9.5mm thick, which is the standard form factor these days for laptop hard drives. Drives in that form factor have already been available with 80GB for several months, and with 60GB for a while before that, so 100 GB is just another incremental improvement over the previous 80 GB. Anyway, these drives are for laptops including subnotes, and largish audio players like the old Creative jukeboxes. The regular (40GB etc). iPod uses a 1.8" diameter drive which is about half the size of this 2.5" unit, and the mini-iPod's drive is the size of a CF card.
I saw some mention somewhere of a trade show demo of an ultra-thin subnotebook that had a 100GB 1.8" drive, like the drive in an iPod (those are currently available up to 40 GB and the 40GB drive is about $200 retail from dealers). I figure the 100GB version will be available by the end of the year.
http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/texinfo.html
See http://www.opensource.org and http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for definitions. Most people in the FOSS community accept them.
I had a stable email address with an ISP for about ten years, but the ISP discontinued my service plan and said I'd have to change addresses if I wanted to stay with them, so that's why I registered a domain, so I have a permanent net address that I can give out to friends and acquaintances. That doesn't mean I want it advertised to the public. It's like an unlisted phone number. I'm ok with the registrar having my contact info in case law enforcement needs to find me, but I see absolutely no reason they have to publish it in WHOIS.
Badge Cameras are a project by H. Keith Henson of space colony and anti-Scientology fame, to put cameras into police badges, hopefully preventing future Rodney King incidents. The HP scheme sounds similar.
Great, just great. Who needs yet another outlet for corporate propaganda beamed into our living rooms? If there's available spectrum somewhere, it should be released for unlicensed services. A longer range, lower bandwidth Wifi capability in the VHF band is far more beneficial to the public than yet another Disney channel.
You shouldn't have to use your personal cell phone for work anyway. The company should provide you with one, to be used ONLY for work. That may be the best solution.
I've had three of them go bad or crash. One of them I was stupid enough to actually buy, and two that came with new laptops. I'll never buy another. They are all Crashstars as far as I'm concerned.
Drug dealers and mobsters have been killing each other in bloody shootouts (or swordfights or whatever) for centuries and it hasn't slowed them down one bit. I don't see it being different for spammers.
Of Enron vs. accounting regulations fame? Looks like he's still SEC chairman. The SEC under the current admin seems determined to let big corps do whatever they want.
But if EV1 honors the GPL then they have to breach their contract with SCO. If they don't intend to honor their SCO contract, then why did the pay the money to SCO to begin with?
Except what about this SCO license--doesn't it include no-redistribution terms that conflict with the GPL? Is EV1's permission to redistribute Linux now terminated under the GPL as well as under the SCO license? Can they be required to stop offering Linux hosting, by anyone that has GPL'd code compiled into the kernel? That would include quite a few parties like Red Hat and IBM, whose attitude towards SCO is less than favorable and which have the lawyers to back it up.
EV1 may find itself much more screwed by its SCO deal than if it had refused to deal with SCO.
Things continued in that state of suspended animation for weeks, although some things did happen. Newspapers were censored and some were closed down, for security reasons they said. The roadblocks began to appear, and Identipasses. Everyone approved of that, since it was obvious you couldn't be too careful."
--Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
Don't let Paramount Studios find out.
That press release doesn't say anything about a lawsuit. It just says there was a settlement and that there was infringement. Presumably there was at least the threat of a lawsuit, but it doesn't say whether a suit was actually filed. Does anyone know? And yes, the FSF writes free software--perhaps you've heard of GCC, for example.
Verizon seems to be saying corporations have the right to buy and sell phone numbers but regular folks don't. It figures, it's just more of the same crap we get all the time.
Dell 4100 sounds like an Inspiron or Latitude laptop model number. If it's a laptop, it doesn't use a Deskstar 3.5" drive. Next.
So the amount paid out wasn't anywhere near what the drive cost in the first place, and wouldn't have been enough to replace the drive at the minute the warranty expired and the drive failed, but it was a reasonable chunk of that, not anything like getting a couple pieces of blank CD media while the lawyers got rich.
I actually seem to remember I never got my $200 because I didn't stay on top of the paperwork enough, but that's a typical thing, like not sending in rebate coupons. I stay away from rebates for basically that reason.
Stronghold basically doesn't exist any more. It's just regular Apache with mod_ssl now. There stopped being any reason to maintain the old Stronghold module. And mod_ssl is included with Apache 2.0 by default. So yeah, RHEL comes with an SSL web server; whether they bother still labelling it "Stronghold" is not terribly relevant.
Oh man, those guys in Iraq were actually trying to make diamonds and not A-bombs, so the explosives were wrapped around graphite instead of uranium. No wonder the WMD search squad didn't find anything. Thanks for the explanation.
I got one of the low cost Panasonic models (SL-SV550), not many features but that's no problem. The issue is it can't drive the headphones to reasonable listening levels. I don't want to blast my eardrums or anything, but the highest level (digital volume control goes to 25) is what I'd call "medium" volume, not even slightly "loud". The $2.50 FM earbud stereo that I got drives the Panasonic headphones quite a bit louder. I have no idea whether the fancier Panasonic models are any better, but I suspect the max level was set at what someone in a quiet lab thought was right. It's not enough to listen in loud subways or similar noisy environments.
The SCO filing says something like "here's these couple dozen short patches of directly copied code, and discovery on IBM's AIX codebase will show millions more". This filing isn't trying to prove there's enough infringement that damages can be collected. All it's trying to show is that there's the faintest glimmer of evidence that even the slightest infringement occurred, in order to get further discovery and delay the case some more. IOW it's yet another attempt to circumvent the judge's order to show with specificity where all the infringement is.
If you really can get to all the apartments, why not put an ethernet drop into each one? Let people install their own wifi points if they want them.
The dissenting judge obviously felt the camera requirement was bogus. If it wasn't a matter of controversy, how did s/he get to write about it?