I am sorry, but i think your sadly wrong. This is like saying that there is a hardware region protection in a DVD player, to make sure the disk can only be played in its region. I hate to break it to you but anyone who spends 15 minutes of browsing on the net can crack his PC DVD player to work with any region, and disable the screen warp feature buildinto DVD players to prevent them being copied unto VHS tapes. For hardware players, such as sony, philips, and samsung make, its a little harder, you have to go to a place like www.dvdkits.com, and open your DVD player, and mess with some chips and/or cables, and your free of any copie AND region protection as well... Ive got local DVD stores here to who will fix just about any DVD player for about 100 USD including components and labor.
Now if this 'security' was so easy to hack, its common now amongst most 'knowledgable' DVD users, why do you feel this reading of keys off a DVD drive will be any harder? Its just a matter of tapping into the DVD decoder chip, and reading the key from memory. Thats the same method they use to make DVD players warp and region free, so its a known and proven implimentation.
That also is my main problem with this whole DVD CCA crackdown, they will prevent me from playing DVD's on my nice linux box, while i could be copying and riping DVD's all day long if i wanted to. There are already plenty of DVD rippers out there in the warez & dvd scene (DVDRip by Drink Or Die, and some other tool by EvilIso), so they lost that battle, so please please mister DVD CCA, let me play the material i bought and paid for!
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Parodies on known names are perfectly legal. Microslutsux.com would be a perfectly legal names, as long as they dont pretend to be a true microsoft site, but present (anything near obvious) them selves are a real parodie. Think of 'Naked gun' and other parodies..
The trademark/copyright infriction comes into places if they try to setup a linux site, with the real Linux(Tm) name doing linux stuff.
This would obviously be a difference to a parodie.
However linus has done this kind of thing before, to prevent people from misusing the linux name,think of the (old?) owner of linux.co.uk, who was abusing the linux name and domain, linus used his Tm there in a benifitial way as well. But most of the time, he'll allow just about anything to happen, as long as it doesnt 'hurt' the 'linux(tm)' name.
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Is it just me, or do more people get the feeling that the magic 'carmack touch' was applied here?
In the matroxuser.com sniplet it sums up the history of the matrox & linux community relationship, from the first matrox driver in 1992, upto the GLX project, where it -clearly- states the nature and development of carmack's role in the GLX project. And if you would expand this history line with 'the present' it would be this order:
Start of GLX Carmack messing with GLX Matrox Funding GLX development.
Now doesnt that make a great coinsidence? Specialy considering the weight carmack's word usualy carries in the OpenGL / Games scene, it wouldnt supprise me to find that he was the final drop for matrox to go ahead.
If this all is true? donno, but if so, kuddles to u carmack for helping this to happen!
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
It was anounced previously that 3.3.6 would quickly follow up (reportedly @ the same time ) as the 3.9.17 snapshot. This baby has been on the mirrors for a while now so is ready for test driving. 4.0 is supposedly released in Q2 of 2000, and judging by the buggyness (got a geforce, it worked but netscape and many motif&other apps crashed like a feather in a 2^10 G vacum space), they better take there time fixing it. I'd rather have a working release later, then a buggy-as-hell(Tm) release now. Also keep in mind that all the agp and DRI hooks for the kernel are also in way-beta-stage and likely to crash ur machine on there own..
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
First of all, the emu10k1 driver. Though the framework was made by a creative employee, most of the fixes and linuxifying (new verb?) was done by alan cox and about 30 other unsung hero's.
Second driver that got me to wet my self is the GeForce support for XFree. (http://www.s2.org/~jpaana/nv), which i think is now included in the XFree pre 4.0 snapshots (since 3.8.17).
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Finaly it compiled! GeForce support is working, and its fast as hell. Still im reverting to 3.3.x cause of its buggyness. Netscape doesnt render most of the page when its done downloading it, and mozilla causes XFree 3.9.17 to just plainly dump back to the text mode. So all in all, a great pre release, showing great potential, but for a production envirioment, this pre release just doesnt cut it yet, ill just w8 for 2 months for the final:)
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Linux has a very good reputation when it comes to mp3 stream serving. The best utility for this is (a href="http://www.icecast.org">icecast. The web site includes pointers on what other software ull need (decoders such as bladeenc).
The hardware is quite easy to, a P II 400 will cope easely as long as you give it enough ram. 256Mb would be a nice amount to start out with.. Mailing lists and websites wont realy impact on performance that much. The main problem you will encounter however is bandwidth usage. For a good quality stream you need 128kbit - dual isdn.. thats 14 K a second PER listener. So its very important to decide on a good speed (64Kbit is still decent quality)... or offer several streaming speeds (modem / isdn / cable), and make sure you do you do the math, what type of line are you on, and how many do you want to serve. Suppose you want to be able to serve 100 clients, with a full quality stream.. thats 100 * 14 K/sec.. thats 140K/second.. this will easely eat up a full t1.. suppose you want to grow and serve over 1000 clients ?... well u get the picture:)
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
When amiga showed a demo movie at some big show, they also had a part where they showed all the logo's of all the companies that are helping to build parts of the new amiga systems. One of these logo's was Transmeta's... this video was available online as wel, and is thus a good source. It did not describe the role however that transmeta would play in the new amiga machine. But since transmeta's current patents all relate to CPU's, it is a very educated estimate, but a estimate non the less.
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Well thats just the -first- wave of shit to hit the fan.... a lot of programmers use a 'special sequence' for a error or infinity etc... the special sequence used within dates is often 9999.. thus the date 9/9/99.. this could setof a lot of bank computers thinking our accounts have infinite cash, or error out, and think there's no cash what so ever:)
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
I think you missed the major point here, imo that is. It all started out with minoraties/etc... but its gone a lot further then that. Right now the 'latino/black' population in the US is growing a lot faster then the 'gadget happy white' population, so soon i think the statement 'minority' will be very off-whack.... what is happening is that we are growing towards a midevil style culture, where the top 5% owns 95% of the worlds... before you know it, a sysadmin will be called 'Earl of cnn.com' instead of webmaster@cnn.com... This is the situation we have to prevent since it spoils the lives for the majoraty of the world, while it leaves the top 5% to rampage over the backs of others unchecked... So the race issue... nice way to 'describe' the situation, but in the end, its the big seperation beween the have's and the havenots that counts
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Since slashdot is hosting our comments here, does the 'we do not hold ourselves responcible...' still hold true? in a way slashdot is the 'isp' (read carier) for all these comments, etc... more so for dejanews maybe?
man this situation is gonna get real messy real fast if thats the way things are going
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
If i remeber correctly (and im prety sure i do:P) the SGI people stated that they prefer to release XFS under GPL licences, but can not promise anything yet, since there lawyers have to review the GPL licence to decide if this will conflict with the patents and author rights they currently hold.
If the two situations are compatible, they will GPL the XFS source, if not, they will come up with a 'Open Source Compatible' licence, which will prevent true kernel intergration, but allow open source modules / software layers, to exsist outside of the kernel.
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
man it makes me feel bad to read reports like that (recent article: Take my job, please!). Sometimes i feel like the best thing this community has to offer, is also gonna be its downfall. In a way it represents the way whole of humanity is structured. We learn how to get a great new tool, be it fire, nuclear power, or be it linux, then once we have mastered this tool, harnased its power, or some of it, we use it to burn our selves. We kill millions of people, just to see how well this new bomb can go boom. Now sometimes it seems like the same thing is happening to the linux comunity, we have a great tool, something that can revolutionise the way we see the world, the real and virtual, the way we deal with econimic issues, and more... Then once we have gatherd all these items, using our main 'tool', our voices and opionions, we again, as a human race, not just hackers, use it to burn our selves.
I just wanted to let you know i feel for you, and want to express my deepest apoligies, for my self, and other fellow coders, who have just a little more social skill then a chimpansee...
Hope you'll hang in there for now, till we can have this situation sorted out, and again, may the power, and source be with you my friend...
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
/dev/null will give you an eof char, so maybe it messes up your partition/boot table, but leaves the content of the drive intact./dev/zero on the other hard, outputs the character 0 to infinity... thus dd will write 0's all over your HD... destroying your disk... totaly!:)
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Hmmm as i remeber the redhat beta distro has been carying the 2.2.x kernel for quite a few weeks now... so the first beta with kernel 2.2, i dont think so, and as a fellow./'er pointed out, stampede and mandrake linux have the 2.2's to... so what does this all prove? Hmm... zdnet has a few years of linux expiriance to catch up with i gues:)
-- Chris Chabot "I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Slashdot Mirror
I am sorry, but i think your sadly wrong. This is like saying that there is a hardware region protection in a DVD player, to make sure the disk can only be played in its region. I hate to break it to you but anyone who spends 15 minutes of browsing on the net can crack his PC DVD player to work with any region, and disable the screen warp feature buildinto DVD players to prevent them being copied unto VHS tapes. For hardware players, such as sony, philips, and samsung make, its a little harder, you have to go to a place like www.dvdkits.com, and open your DVD player, and mess with some chips and/or cables, and your free of any copie AND region protection as well... Ive got local DVD stores here to who will fix just about any DVD player for about 100 USD including components and labor.
Now if this 'security' was so easy to hack, its common now amongst most 'knowledgable' DVD users, why do you feel this reading of keys off a DVD drive will be any harder? Its just a matter of tapping into the DVD decoder chip, and reading the key from memory. Thats the same method they use to make DVD players warp and region free, so its a known and proven implimentation.
That also is my main problem with this whole DVD CCA crackdown, they will prevent me from playing DVD's on my nice linux box, while i could be copying and riping DVD's all day long if i wanted to. There are already plenty of DVD rippers out there in the warez & dvd scene (DVDRip by Drink Or Die, and some other tool by EvilIso), so they lost that battle, so please please mister DVD CCA, let me play the material i bought and paid for!
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Parodies on known names are perfectly legal. Microslutsux.com would be a perfectly legal names, as long as they dont pretend to be a true microsoft site, but present (anything near obvious) them selves are a real parodie. Think of 'Naked gun' and other parodies..
The trademark/copyright infriction comes into places if they try to setup a linux site, with the real Linux(Tm) name doing linux stuff.
This would obviously be a difference to a parodie.
However linus has done this kind of thing before, to prevent people from misusing the linux name,think of the (old?) owner of linux.co.uk, who was abusing the linux name and domain, linus used his Tm there in a benifitial way as well. But most of the time, he'll allow just about anything to happen, as long as it doesnt 'hurt' the 'linux(tm)' name.
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Is it just me, or do more people get the feeling that the magic 'carmack touch' was applied here?
In the matroxuser.com sniplet it sums up the history of the matrox & linux community relationship, from the first matrox driver in 1992, upto the GLX project, where it -clearly- states the nature and development of carmack's role in the GLX project. And if you would expand this history line with 'the present' it would be this order:
Start of GLX
Carmack messing with GLX
Matrox Funding GLX development.
Now doesnt that make a great coinsidence? Specialy considering the weight carmack's word usualy carries in the OpenGL / Games scene, it wouldnt supprise me to find that he was the final drop for matrox to go ahead.
If this all is true? donno, but if so, kuddles to u carmack for helping this to happen!
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
It was anounced previously that 3.3.6 would quickly follow up (reportedly @ the same time ) as the 3.9.17 snapshot. This baby has been on the mirrors for a while now so is ready for test driving. 4.0 is supposedly released in Q2 of 2000, and judging by the buggyness (got a geforce, it worked but netscape and many motif&other apps crashed like a feather in a 2^10 G vacum space), they better take there time fixing it. I'd rather have a working release later, then a buggy-as-hell(Tm) release now. Also keep in mind that all the agp and DRI hooks for the kernel are also in way-beta-stage and likely to crash ur machine on there own..
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
First of all, the emu10k1 driver. Though the framework was made by a creative employee, most of the fixes and linuxifying (new verb?) was done by alan cox and about 30 other unsung hero's.
Second driver that got me to wet my self is the GeForce support for XFree. (http://www.s2.org/~jpaana/nv), which i think is now included in the XFree pre 4.0 snapshots (since 3.8.17).
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Finaly it compiled! GeForce support is working, and its fast as hell. Still im reverting to 3.3.x cause of its buggyness. Netscape doesnt render most of the page when its done downloading it, and mozilla causes XFree 3.9.17 to just plainly dump back to the text mode. :)
So all in all, a great pre release, showing great potential, but for a production envirioment, this pre release just doesnt cut it yet, ill just w8 for 2 months for the final
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Linux has a very good reputation when it comes to mp3 stream serving. The best utility for this is (a href="http://www.icecast.org">icecast. The web site includes pointers on what other software ull need (decoders such as bladeenc).
The hardware is quite easy to, a P II 400 will cope easely as long as you give it enough ram. 256Mb would be a nice amount to start out with.. Mailing lists and websites wont realy impact on performance that much. .. thats 14 K a second PER listener. So its very important to decide on a good speed (64Kbit is still decent quality) ... or offer several streaming speeds (modem / isdn / cable), and make sure you do you do the math, what type of line are you on, and how many do you want to serve. Suppose you want to be able to serve 100 clients, with a full quality stream.. thats 100 * 14 K/sec .. thats 140K/second .. this will easely eat up a full t1 .. suppose you want to grow and serve over 1000 clients ? ... well u get the picture :)
The main problem you will encounter however is bandwidth usage. For a good quality stream you need 128kbit - dual isdn
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
What ever happend to the most glorious saying within the open source movement? (see subject)
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
When amiga showed a demo movie at some big show, they also had a part where they showed all the logo's of all the companies that are helping to build parts of the new amiga systems. One of these logo's was Transmeta's ... this video was available online as wel, and is thus a good source. It did not describe the role however that transmeta would play in the new amiga machine. But since transmeta's current patents all relate to CPU's, it is a very educated estimate, but a estimate non the less.
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Well thats just the -first- wave of shit to hit the fan .... a lot of programmers use a 'special sequence' for a error or infinity etc ... the special sequence used within dates is often 9999 .. thus the date 9/9/99 .. this could setof a lot of bank computers thinking our accounts have infinite cash, or error out, and think there's no cash what so ever :)
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
I think you missed the major point here, imo that is. It all started out with minoraties/etc ... but its gone a lot further then that. Right now the 'latino/black' population in the US is growing a lot faster then the 'gadget happy white' population, so soon i think the statement 'minority' will be very off-whack .... what is happening is that we are growing towards a midevil style culture, where the top 5% owns 95% of the worlds ... before you know it, a sysadmin will be called 'Earl of cnn.com' instead of webmaster@cnn.com ... This is the situation we have to prevent since it spoils the lives for the majoraty of the world, while it leaves the top 5% to rampage over the backs of others unchecked ... So the race issue ... nice way to 'describe' the situation, but in the end, its the big seperation beween the have's and the havenots that counts
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
checkout www.icecast.org, its a shoutcast lookalike, but GPL, and in my opinion more complete, and allows for live mp3 encoding and 'shoutcasting'
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Since slashdot is hosting our comments here, does the 'we do not hold ourselves responcible...' still hold true? in a way slashdot is the 'isp' (read carier) for all these comments, etc ... more so for dejanews maybe?
man this situation is gonna get real messy real fast if thats the way things are going
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
If i remeber correctly (and im prety sure i do :P) the SGI people stated that they prefer to release XFS under GPL licences, but can not promise anything yet, since there lawyers have to review the GPL licence to decide if this will conflict with the patents and author rights they currently hold.
If the two situations are compatible, they will GPL the XFS source, if not, they will come up with a 'Open Source Compatible' licence, which will prevent true kernel intergration, but allow open source modules / software layers, to exsist outside of the kernel.
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
man it makes me feel bad to read reports like that (recent article: Take my job, ... Then once we have gatherd all these items, using our main 'tool',
please!).
Sometimes i feel like the best thing this community has to offer, is also gonna
be its downfall. In a way it represents the way whole of humanity is structured.
We learn how to get a great new tool, be it fire, nuclear power, or be it linux,
then once we have mastered this tool, harnased its power, or some of it, we use
it to burn our selves. We kill millions of people, just to see how well this new
bomb can go boom. Now sometimes it seems like the same thing is happening to the
linux comunity, we have a great tool, something that can revolutionise the way
we see the world, the real and virtual, the way we deal with econimic issues,
and more
our voices and opionions, we again, as a human race, not just hackers, use it to
burn our selves.
I just wanted to let you know i feel for you, and want to express my deepest
apoligies, for my self, and other fellow coders, who have just a little more
social skill then a chimpansee...
Hope you'll hang in there for now, till we can have this situation sorted out,
and again, may the power, and source be with you my friend...
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
... this is the kind of article u'd want to show them. Its from one of the bigest online publications, and one of the more respected ones to :)
...
:))
The article seems 'fair' and acurate, and slaughters MS with a blunt blade
this article made me laugh as loud as the one that stated
"I'd rather have my brains spooned out with a plastic spoon then having to re read 'Buisness at the speed of thought"
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
For shredding your hardrive you'd wanna use:
/dev/null will give you an eof char, so maybe it messes up your partition/boot table, but leaves the content of the drive intact. /dev/zero on the other hard, outputs the character 0 to infinity ... thus dd will write 0's all over your HD ... destroying your disk ... totaly! :)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
Hmmm as i remeber the redhat beta distro has been carying the 2.2.x kernel for quite a few weeks now ... so the first beta with kernel 2.2, i dont think so, and as a fellow ./'er pointed out, stampede and mandrake linux have the 2.2's to ... so what does this all prove? Hmm ... zdnet has a few years of linux expiriance to catch up with i gues :)
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
As soon as some one can post a mirror address i'd be glad to put it on 2 sites of mine to distribute this ./ effect around a bit :)
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"