The connection between $DEVICE and $DISPLAY will be an encrypted HDCP/HDMA connection. You cannot connect your black box in the middle of that chain, without the HDCP/HDMA devices throwing a hissy fit and refusing to send their signal.
Of course, when I said this was coming last year, and two years ago, people said I was nuts.
Let's take a look at the T2 disc that is available with WM9 HD content now.
To watch it, you have to install the player on the disc.
Then, the player needs to "call home" to make sure you're allowed to use it (via the Internet).
Then, the player needs to be updated.
Then the update needs to call home.
If it hasn't crashed by then (mine did, three times), you MIGHT get to watch your DVD.
Remember DIVX? Not the codec, the abomination Circuit City was pushing as an alternative to what we now call DVD? Basically a dial-home, pay-per-view DVD format.
Do we REALLY want that whole scenario all over again?
I HATE the way companies try to push all of this before the general consumer populace is even aware it's occurring. DVD early-adopters won the DIVX battle, but primarily because Circuit City was the only distributor, and they were easy to boycott. They were also in poor financial shape to begin with, and couldn't bankroll a protracted battle to push their format through.
MS can. MS will. And our DVD players will have to dial home to ask for permission every time we want to watch a DVD. And you can be certain that "ask permission" will morph into "pay for use" at some point in the future.
Or, just get a decent notebook. My Sager 5680 (128MB ATi 9600 Pro Turbo, 1GB dual-channel DDR, desktop 3.2GHz P4 w/HT, 800MHz FSB, 7200RPM, 60GB HD) handles it just fine.
The days of "notebooks aren't as powerful as desktops" ended some time ago.
I've done something like this for work. Created a custom bootable Linux CD (SuSE 8.2-based), with all the necessary drivers for the hardware it'd run on.
Then, I have an image server elsewhere on the network, full of dd images of various installs. So, when I build a new machine, I simply boot from the CD, and then pipe dd through ssh ("ssh remotehost 'dd if=foo.dd' |dd of=/dev/sda"), and within an hour (they're 18GB images), the new system is built.
I can use the same process in reverse for imaging an existing system (or simply use the ssh-piped dd on a live system), to create the stored images.
I spent so much time rewriting bits of systemimager that I got frustrated. Finally, I ran into hardware systemimager wouldn't support out-of-the-box (devices that only had drivers in 2.4, and SI's 2.2-based), and figured since I was going to have to build a new bootable ROMfs anyway, I may as well make a bootable CD and ditch SystemImager altogether.
I used to own a Pronto TSU-2000. I sold it, and bought a Pronto TSU-3000. I've had it for about a year, and it's still not fully configured.
My wife hates touchscreens. So, as a holiday present to the both of us, I bought the Harmony 659. It's got tons of real buttons. In under 30 minutes, I had it controlling EVERYTHING, including some fairly obscure (for remote manufacturers) equipment: My plasma TV, my SliMP3, my Zektor component switcher, etc.
It's activity-based, and configured via a java applet loaded from their website. You tell it the make and model of all your equipment. Then, you tell it what you need set to what to do things like watch tv, listen to music, watch a DVD, and so on (these are all customizeable). When you're done, it downloads everything via this java applet to your remote, using a USB connection.
30 minutes, and I've done with a $150 remote what I've yet to be able to do with a $500 remote.
...you should buy a Tivo instead. Tivo produces a reliable product running on Linux, is hacker-friendly, and respects your privacy. And with over 1 million users (as of this month), they've passed the critical "consumer acceptance" threshhold generally used as a metric in the industry to assess the success of consumer electronics.
Oh! Yes, sorry. I bought a Sleevecase from them. It's gel-padded. I got it in the vertical orientation with the ballistic flap. I passed on the d-rings and strap, since I carry it in an Oakley backpack.
The Waterfeld line from SF Bags is outstanding. The padding is thick gel, the outer and inner covering are extremely well-made (and with a great deal of care), and the person who runs the place seems to take a genuine interest in making sure his customers are happy.
I bought one for my new 12" Powerbook, and couldn't be happier.
...is good for the gander.
Now he knows how it feels, for all those ejected from ICANN GAC meetings.
Now he knows how it feels, when the ICANN public comments meetings are skipped over entirely.
Now he knows how it feels, when all the non-commercial interests within ICANN are ignored.
Suck it up, Paul. It's just one of your own chickens, coming home to roost.
Yeah, he's a tool, but he has a point.
There are SO many people/businesses (including man ISPs) out their running servers, and routers, that have no clue how to set them up correctly and securely.
Errr...methinks you've missed his point. He wants to remove control of the 13 operational DNS roots from NPOs, and put them under the control of for-profits.
In case your rock blocks all EM radiation, you might be interested to know that Verislime's been busy breaking standards left and right to try to turn a fast buck. They've said publically they intend to keep doing it.
I suggest you consider these two sets of statements and actions in context with one another. I then suggest you look at the history of stability issues surrounding the volunteer root operators, versus the two operated by Verislime. You'll find that it is the volunteer roots, not Verislime, that are stable and reliable.
Root servers are a public service, and held as a public trust. Verislime's repeatedly betrayed that trust. They should have LESS, not MORE control over the roots. In fact, they should have the remaining registries they control (.net and.com) stripped from them by the USDOC.
No, I'm not humor or sarcasm-impaired. I just think that was the most craptacular review I've ever read. Unfunny, heavy-handed sarcasm does not a review make.
What? Iliad writes about Linux? He makes fun of Windows? Say it isn't so! We NEVER would have known that without this insightful review.
What's next, a/. review of RedHat that spends five paragraphs explaining what Linux is to us? Preacher, meet choir. Choir, preacher. Go get acquainted.
Not everyone is unhappy with the game. In fact, quite a few people (probably the 280,000 or so active players that don't use the SW:G fora, along with a significant percentage of forum users) are pleased with the game.
You should really look up the term, "vocal minority", and research why taking their whines as representative is wrong-headed.
...to bring this sort of whine to/.? It's bad enough that this sort of thing fouls the SW:G fora.
It's underhanded and dishonest to bring your rants to places like/., just because the folks at SOE won't let you belittle the developers and curse and whine and rant on their forums.
Yes, the patch has a few problems. Yes, it took longer than anticipated to complete the patch rollout yesterday.
No, there is no grand conspiracy to undermine the game. No, the game is not dying. No, SOE is not censoring bug reports and problem discussion: they're locking threads from the myriad juveniles and emotional cripples on the SW:G fora who have nothing more to contribute than profanity-laden invective and threats.
It's a real shame I'm out of moderator points currently; this entire story needs to be modded down to the level of troll.
I've just written a short book on this. Documentation for SysAdmins, SAGE/USENIX's 11th short-topic book, should be available shortly (probably at LISA 2003.
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The bulk number of identical lines is, as others have pointed out, meaningless.
What would be interesting would be a count of the number of consecutive identical lines.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that number would be vanishingly small. Where non-zero, it's probably because both codebases contain code licensed under the UC Regents.
Okay, that's the third or fourth comment I've seen saying they'll win the $100k prize if MS releases a signed loader.
They won't win the prize. The loader would still require the write-enable pads on the motherboard to be mechanically bridged. The prize specifies absolutely no hardware modifications as a prerequisite for winning.
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Not easily.
The connection between $DEVICE and $DISPLAY will be an encrypted HDCP/HDMA connection. You cannot connect your black box in the middle of that chain, without the HDCP/HDMA devices throwing a hissy fit and refusing to send their signal.
Of course, when I said this was coming last year, and two years ago, people said I was nuts.
Well, here it is, folks. Enjoy.
Really? Where's your proof? Sitting on that T2 DVD. Go buy one. Try to watch the WM9 content.
Really?
Let's take a look at the T2 disc that is available with WM9 HD content now.
To watch it, you have to install the player on the disc.
Then, the player needs to "call home" to make sure you're allowed to use it (via the Internet).
Then, the player needs to be updated.
Then the update needs to call home.
If it hasn't crashed by then (mine did, three times), you MIGHT get to watch your DVD.
Remember DIVX? Not the codec, the abomination Circuit City was pushing as an alternative to what we now call DVD? Basically a dial-home, pay-per-view DVD format.
Do we REALLY want that whole scenario all over again?
I HATE the way companies try to push all of this before the general consumer populace is even aware it's occurring. DVD early-adopters won the DIVX battle, but primarily because Circuit City was the only distributor, and they were easy to boycott. They were also in poor financial shape to begin with, and couldn't bankroll a protracted battle to push their format through.
MS can. MS will. And our DVD players will have to dial home to ask for permission every time we want to watch a DVD. And you can be certain that "ask permission" will morph into "pay for use" at some point in the future.
Or, just get a decent notebook. My Sager 5680 (128MB ATi 9600 Pro Turbo, 1GB dual-channel DDR, desktop 3.2GHz P4 w/HT, 800MHz FSB, 7200RPM, 60GB HD) handles it just fine.
The days of "notebooks aren't as powerful as desktops" ended some time ago.
I have two original, green-screen Apple ][ monitors (and one color one) that I use for -- you guessed it -- my lovingly-restored, original Apple //e.
I've done something like this for work. Created a custom bootable Linux CD (SuSE 8.2-based), with all the necessary drivers for the hardware it'd run on.
Then, I have an image server elsewhere on the network, full of dd images of various installs. So, when I build a new machine, I simply boot from the CD, and then pipe dd through ssh ("ssh remotehost 'dd if=foo.dd' |dd of=/dev/sda"), and within an hour (they're 18GB images), the new system is built.
I can use the same process in reverse for imaging an existing system (or simply use the ssh-piped dd on a live system), to create the stored images.
I spent so much time rewriting bits of systemimager that I got frustrated. Finally, I ran into hardware systemimager wouldn't support out-of-the-box (devices that only had drivers in 2.4, and SI's 2.2-based), and figured since I was going to have to build a new bootable ROMfs anyway, I may as well make a bootable CD and ditch SystemImager altogether.
I used to own a Pronto TSU-2000. I sold it, and bought a Pronto TSU-3000. I've had it for about a year, and it's still not fully configured.
My wife hates touchscreens. So, as a holiday present to the both of us, I bought the Harmony 659. It's got tons of real buttons. In under 30 minutes, I had it controlling EVERYTHING, including some fairly obscure (for remote manufacturers) equipment: My plasma TV, my SliMP3, my Zektor component switcher, etc.
It's activity-based, and configured via a java applet loaded from their website. You tell it the make and model of all your equipment. Then, you tell it what you need set to what to do things like watch tv, listen to music, watch a DVD, and so on (these are all customizeable). When you're done, it downloads everything via this java applet to your remote, using a USB connection.
30 minutes, and I've done with a $150 remote what I've yet to be able to do with a $500 remote.
And my wife LOVES the hard buttons.
Switch to Yerba Mate.
Go to a Bang & Olufsen store and get their earphones -- they're silver and black, very comfortable, quite stealth, and have GREAT sound.
...you should buy a Tivo instead. Tivo produces a reliable product running on Linux, is hacker-friendly, and respects your privacy. And with over 1 million users (as of this month), they've passed the critical "consumer acceptance" threshhold generally used as a metric in the industry to assess the success of consumer electronics.
Oh! Yes, sorry. I bought a Sleevecase from them. It's gel-padded. I got it in the vertical orientation with the ballistic flap. I passed on the d-rings and strap, since I carry it in an Oakley backpack.
The Waterfeld line from SF Bags is outstanding. The padding is thick gel, the outer and inner covering are extremely well-made (and with a great deal of care), and the person who runs the place seems to take a genuine interest in making sure his customers are happy.
I bought one for my new 12" Powerbook, and couldn't be happier.
...is good for the gander.
Now he knows how it feels, for all those ejected from ICANN GAC meetings.
Now he knows how it feels, when the ICANN public comments meetings are skipped over entirely.
Now he knows how it feels, when all the non-commercial interests within ICANN are ignored.
Suck it up, Paul. It's just one of your own chickens, coming home to roost.
The Farming Game. Imagine monopoly with seasons and crops and much more debt.
It's quite a tricky little game.
Yeah, he's a tool, but he has a point. There are SO many people/businesses (including man ISPs) out their running servers, and routers, that have no clue how to set them up correctly and securely.
.com) stripped from them by the USDOC.
Errr...methinks you've missed his point. He wants to remove control of the 13 operational DNS roots from NPOs, and put them under the control of for-profits.
In case your rock blocks all EM radiation, you might be interested to know that Verislime's been busy breaking standards left and right to try to turn a fast buck. They've said publically they intend to keep doing it.
I suggest you consider these two sets of statements and actions in context with one another. I then suggest you look at the history of stability issues surrounding the volunteer root operators, versus the two operated by Verislime. You'll find that it is the volunteer roots, not Verislime, that are stable and reliable.
Root servers are a public service, and held as a public trust. Verislime's repeatedly betrayed that trust. They should have LESS, not MORE control over the roots. In fact, they should have the remaining registries they control (.net and
I wouldn't know. I didn't read that one. ;)
...that the book is funnier than the review.
/. review of RedHat that spends five paragraphs explaining what Linux is to us? Preacher, meet choir. Choir, preacher. Go get acquainted.
No, I'm not humor or sarcasm-impaired. I just think that was the most craptacular review I've ever read. Unfunny, heavy-handed sarcasm does not a review make.
What? Iliad writes about Linux? He makes fun of Windows? Say it isn't so! We NEVER would have known that without this insightful review.
What's next, a
Not everyone is unhappy with the game. In fact, quite a few people (probably the 280,000 or so active players that don't use the SW:G fora, along with a significant percentage of forum users) are pleased with the game.
You should really look up the term, "vocal minority", and research why taking their whines as representative is wrong-headed.
...to bring this sort of whine to /.? It's bad enough that this sort of thing fouls the SW:G fora.
/., just because the folks at SOE won't let you belittle the developers and curse and whine and rant on their forums.
It's underhanded and dishonest to bring your rants to places like
Yes, the patch has a few problems. Yes, it took longer than anticipated to complete the patch rollout yesterday.
No, there is no grand conspiracy to undermine the game. No, the game is not dying. No, SOE is not censoring bug reports and problem discussion: they're locking threads from the myriad juveniles and emotional cripples on the SW:G fora who have nothing more to contribute than profanity-laden invective and threats.
It's a real shame I'm out of moderator points currently; this entire story needs to be modded down to the level of troll.
I've just written a short book on this. Documentation for SysAdmins, SAGE/USENIX's 11th short-topic book, should be available shortly (probably at LISA 2003.
The bulk number of identical lines is, as others have pointed out, meaningless.
What would be interesting would be a count of the number of consecutive identical lines.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that number would be vanishingly small. Where non-zero, it's probably because both codebases contain code licensed under the UC Regents.
No, truth is that there's a policy that disallows connecting Windows machines to the Sun network from home.
Okay, that's the third or fourth comment I've seen saying they'll win the $100k prize if MS releases a signed loader.
They won't win the prize. The loader would still require the write-enable pads on the motherboard to be mechanically bridged. The prize specifies absolutely no hardware modifications as a prerequisite for winning.
Re: the scaled-down images...that's Expose. That's what it's designed to do. It's not an app, it's a new system extension.
Never attribute to fakery what can adequately be explained by new functionality.
Perhaps they meant SSH2. TGssh, and every other Palm client I've seen, is only SSH1.