The best example is probably the Cube incident. The manufacturer of the graphics board (I think it was NVidia, but I can't remember for sure) leaked their specs the day before the Cube was going to be announced. It was a h0t card. Jobs punished them by pulling the card and replacing it with a less impressive card from the same manufacturer. A day before the announcement.
BTW, 1x FW800 and 2x FW400 is also the configuration on the 17" AlBook, so they've already shipped one machine in exactly this "impossible" configuration.
The current MDD models have two FW400 ports, and unused traces on the motherboard where a FW800 chip and port would go. Again proving that this is not only possible, but the expected configuration.
Never mind. I see now that they contain the source. So now I have a copy of all the code to go along with the genuine AT&T V7 manual I found at a thrift store a few years back.
Wow, that stuff is small by today's standards! I should burn all of those versions onto a 3" CD and stick it in my V7 manual.
Hard to improve on this really, perhaps using LZIP to shrink the size of the payload.
Whatever you gain by compressing something that small, you lose in the space that the decompression code takes up, unless the OS provides a decompression service for you.
The way Slammer worked, it had to fit in a single packet, which meant it had about 1500 bytes to work with. That means it could have been more than four times bigger than it was, but no more.
5. One of the important (and well-known) copyright mechanisms is a barcode-like section of the far innermost track of GCN discs (look closely at a game and you can see it - no, not that one, further to the inside). It is probably just not possible to replicate this on any writable DVD format.
The patent for this was linked to in some article back in late March or so. I seem to recall that the barcode is an encrypted value related to the relative angular position of the start of the barcode and the start of the game data track. Sounds like some kind of Apple ][ copy protection, except using stuff that you can't record.
And of course the only way to get any of this (and Linux) to boot is probably going to be a hacked boot ROM with support for standard DVD-R discs. Time to bone up on your mad surface-mount s01d3r1ng sk177z!
It seems like he posted a story about illegal copies of an unreleased game.
What's wrong with that? Slashdot posts stories about unreleased games all the time!
coupled with the write-up that got posted, it seems like a 1337 plug for the ISOs.
Well, they were the first to announce that they've ripped the games. The real/. story here that you're not seeing is "How long until we can get Linux running on it?"
Now that you mention it... I seem to recall that Microsoft's wondeful licensing arrangements require the site to pay for a copy of Windows for every computer, including Macs. On the other hand, their Office licensing means that Macs are automatically licensed for the Mac version of Office.
I knew they used that centronics port thing, but I can get a "harmonica" adapter at Fry's, so that's no problem.
On the other hand, I already have a 3030 chassis (with a Xyplex, an Ethernet, and an ancient Cisco router card), and didn't know they made a localtalk blade for them. I wouldn't need more than one board (since the only thing that I have to use LocalTalk on is a IIgs or a really ancient Mac, and I'm avoiding ancient Macs). But I just did a quick check of ebay and it looks like these things are pretty rare.
Do you have a model number to make searching easier? A while back I downloaded lots of SynOptics documentation and I don't recall seeing anything about a Localtalk board.
You are correct. The USB adapters are only for regular serial stuff. Localtalk is gone from OS X, and good riddance. My own solution (for when I decide to start playing with one of my IIgs computers someday) is to simply keep a MacOS 9 computer handy. It's also good for the times when I need to read old 800K floppy disks. In fact, I just got it up to shape this past week. It's an old PowerWave that I got for $60 at a thrift store about a year ago.
Now if only I could find one of those old Farallon LocalTalk star hubs to put in my wiring closet at home.
Every version of the linux kernel and the diffs between it and the previous version is available. If SCO wouldn't be so cagey about the allegedly stolen code, someone could trace down the history of kernel changes and find out exactly when the code first appeared, and who submitted it.
This isn't like the Cisco/Huawei case, where IOS has been proprietary for years, without an open source equivalent forked out of it in the distant past, and without various companies working with both codebases. In that case, there's nothing to cross-pollinate with, and copied code could clearly go in only one direction.
And if it's not in the kernel, then it's not in Linux, is it? Linux is the kernel and the kernel alone. Everything else is GNU and other third-party utilities, and distro-specific stuff.
Of course SCO wants to make it difficult because what they really want is to muscle someone (primarily IBM) into buying them out. If they made it easy for people to investigate, the truth would be found in a week, and their case would vanish. And people would also be working to replace the code in question, just as they did in the days of the BSD/AT&T debacle. I'm surprised they've let anybody see it yet.
With BitTorrent (and other technology) it's now easy for a momentarily popular clip to be quickly and widely distributed.
And I'm living it... I get more anime than I have time to watch (mostly due to lack of time) thanks to usenet binaries groups and bittorrent. And I'm not talking about lame-o rips of R1 DVDs, either, I'm talking about Japanese brodcasts within 48 hours, and fansubs a week or two later. Between that, DVD, and laserdisc, I have no need to watch the crap that passes for TV in the U.S. these days.
I dropped cable a couple years back when I realized there was hardly anything left that I wanted to watch (and this after I got it for free with apartment rent), and I didn't want to pay 40 bucks to Time Weiner for the privilege of watching mostly crap. So instead, I pay $160/month to SBC for the privilege of getting four times T1 download bandwidth. Just a little something to tide me over until FTTH arrives in five or ten years or so.
Don't get me wrong, I still do watch a bit of TV every now and then, but it's usually PBS. I'm even planning to get a HD tuner next week to go with my HD-ready set, so I can watch PBS in HD.
The funny part is that their main competitor in San Antonio makes a point of advertising that they have an actual 24-hour news staff. And guess who doesn't?
Uh, launch which it? There's dozens of files in that.app directory. Do I use the 'open' command? Do I run the executable in the MacOS directory? Do I do something with the.pyc files? If it's so easy, would you care to provide an example?
Which of course doesn't help the people with GUI versions, like the OS X version. Use it on what executable? Why not add it to the preferences dialog, along with the port range preferences?
Great. They add support for upload rate limiting, and don't even bother to put support into the GUI for the OS X version. And the only instructions I could find on google about how use --max_upload_rate from the command line refer to a.pyc file that got renamed in this version.
I do like now being able to see what my absolute upload/download usage has been, so I can know when or whether I've uploaded more than I downloaded.
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Calling people like this "hackers" is like calling punks who spray paint graffiti on railroad cars "painters" and "artists".
Just a guess, but could it be... a regular salary?
Maybe you should try repricing that with two screens, like the system you're trying to compare against?
Or uses a Mac.
The best example is probably the Cube incident. The manufacturer of the graphics board (I think it was NVidia, but I can't remember for sure) leaked their specs the day before the Cube was going to be announced. It was a h0t card. Jobs punished them by pulling the card and replacing it with a less impressive card from the same manufacturer. A day before the announcement.
The current MDD models have two FW400 ports, and unused traces on the motherboard where a FW800 chip and port would go. Again proving that this is not only possible, but the expected configuration.
The Akamai image now refers to the G4, and your mirror is returning 403 Forbidden.
Wow, that stuff is small by today's standards! I should burn all of those versions onto a 3" CD and stick it in my V7 manual.
Are you sure that includes the source, or is it just the binary distribution?
Whatever you gain by compressing something that small, you lose in the space that the decompression code takes up, unless the OS provides a decompression service for you.
The way Slammer worked, it had to fit in a single packet, which meant it had about 1500 bytes to work with. That means it could have been more than four times bigger than it was, but no more.
Not much room for extra code in a program that has to fit in a single UDP packet.
The patent for this was linked to in some article back in late March or so. I seem to recall that the barcode is an encrypted value related to the relative angular position of the start of the barcode and the start of the game data track. Sounds like some kind of Apple ][ copy protection, except using stuff that you can't record.
And of course the only way to get any of this (and Linux) to boot is probably going to be a hacked boot ROM with support for standard DVD-R discs. Time to bone up on your mad surface-mount s01d3r1ng sk177z!
What's wrong with that? Slashdot posts stories about unreleased games all the time!
coupled with the write-up that got posted, it seems like a 1337 plug for the ISOs.
Well, they were the first to announce that they've ripped the games. The real /. story here that you're not seeing is "How long until we can get Linux running on it?"
Now that you mention it... I seem to recall that Microsoft's wondeful licensing arrangements require the site to pay for a copy of Windows for every computer, including Macs. On the other hand, their Office licensing means that Macs are automatically licensed for the Mac version of Office.
On the other hand, I already have a 3030 chassis (with a Xyplex, an Ethernet, and an ancient Cisco router card), and didn't know they made a localtalk blade for them. I wouldn't need more than one board (since the only thing that I have to use LocalTalk on is a IIgs or a really ancient Mac, and I'm avoiding ancient Macs). But I just did a quick check of ebay and it looks like these things are pretty rare.
Do you have a model number to make searching easier? A while back I downloaded lots of SynOptics documentation and I don't recall seeing anything about a Localtalk board.
Now if only I could find one of those old Farallon LocalTalk star hubs to put in my wiring closet at home.
Fine. Just tell us where we can get a copy of the SCO source code first.
This isn't like the Cisco/Huawei case, where IOS has been proprietary for years, without an open source equivalent forked out of it in the distant past, and without various companies working with both codebases. In that case, there's nothing to cross-pollinate with, and copied code could clearly go in only one direction.
And if it's not in the kernel, then it's not in Linux, is it? Linux is the kernel and the kernel alone. Everything else is GNU and other third-party utilities, and distro-specific stuff.
Of course SCO wants to make it difficult because what they really want is to muscle someone (primarily IBM) into buying them out. If they made it easy for people to investigate, the truth would be found in a week, and their case would vanish. And people would also be working to replace the code in question, just as they did in the days of the BSD/AT&T debacle. I'm surprised they've let anybody see it yet.
Welfare, of course.
Maybe ten years ago. But thanks to binaries, usenet passed the 500GByte/day mark a few months ago.
And I'm living it... I get more anime than I have time to watch (mostly due to lack of time) thanks to usenet binaries groups and bittorrent. And I'm not talking about lame-o rips of R1 DVDs, either, I'm talking about Japanese brodcasts within 48 hours, and fansubs a week or two later. Between that, DVD, and laserdisc, I have no need to watch the crap that passes for TV in the U.S. these days.
I dropped cable a couple years back when I realized there was hardly anything left that I wanted to watch (and this after I got it for free with apartment rent), and I didn't want to pay 40 bucks to Time Weiner for the privilege of watching mostly crap. So instead, I pay $160/month to SBC for the privilege of getting four times T1 download bandwidth. Just a little something to tide me over until FTTH arrives in five or ten years or so.
Don't get me wrong, I still do watch a bit of TV every now and then, but it's usually PBS. I'm even planning to get a HD tuner next week to go with my HD-ready set, so I can watch PBS in HD.
The funny part is that their main competitor in San Antonio makes a point of advertising that they have an actual 24-hour news staff. And guess who doesn't?
Uh, launch which it? There's dozens of files in that .app directory. Do I use the 'open' command? Do I run the executable in the MacOS directory? Do I do something with the .pyc files? If it's so easy, would you care to provide an example?
Which of course doesn't help the people with GUI versions, like the OS X version. Use it on what executable? Why not add it to the preferences dialog, along with the port range preferences?
I do like now being able to see what my absolute upload/download usage has been, so I can know when or whether I've uploaded more than I downloaded.