They're big, but are they big enough to take on Microsoft?
Sure they are. They just need a license clause with their studio film:
By using this film you agree not to reproduce it using any product created by Microsoft. Most motion pictures use kodak film in their camaras, and MS wan't a piece of Holywood.
But Kodak has had antitrust lawsuits agnist them, and this might not help. Then again, MS isn't making film so they aren't a competitor to Kodak (in that area anyway.)
Not really, when I have a new cryptic password I write it down and stick it in my pocket for a few days, just incase. Change the password when I get in in the morning, and by the end of the day I've got it memorized. Once memorized, the paper with my password is subjected to digestive juices to destroy it completely.:)
That what's being said is that the modules shouldn't be spitting out this information as part of their code, as modprobe could handle that function. It could then be turned on and off as needed. Makes sense to me, why does every kernel module need to have code in it to print out information when the software loading the modules could do it, it would then only be written once, could be configurable. (verbose level = X, or modprobe -v, modprobe -vv, modprobe -vvv, etc.)
If it fails, print out a message "Module X failed to load. Noncritical error, continuing to load linux. Fix me if you dare."
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I just skimmed things a bit, but somewhat suprised not to see topics like ssl and smtp-auth. I know I would have loved to see something like "your mail server is your first line of defence for Outlook Transmitted Diseases," but since it's mostly a procmail thing maybe it's mentioned. I encourage ever e-mail administrator to at least look at Email Security through Procmail. By using this, I've managed to keep my network OTD free.:)
I'm suprised it made it past the Linux Gazette Editors actually, considering it was in Issue 27! You've got one year of HS left, but I suggest you try harder in college or someone will call you on plagiarism. I admit however that I didn't actually read the artice, as I'm not likely to find any new information.
If you run VNC over SSH compression I find it to be a decent soultion. I usually use the viewer with the -bgr233 (xvncviewer) or restrict pixels to 8-bot (for windows).
Someone on the rdesktop mailing list mentioned creating a RDP server for UNIX, similar to the VNC server. How well it works, if it works with MS RDP clients, and where to find more information I do not know.
Lastly, Citrix has created versions of MetaFrame for Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 on SPARC and 7 and 8 on x86, AIX 4.3.3, and HP-UX 11.0. Too bad they don't do Linux.
They could perhaps take the same approach the developers of Giants did. When shipped, blood was green and breasts were covered. Remove/rename/edit a file, and the red blood returns and the breasts are uncovered. This little feature wasn't documented, but made it into PC Gamer's review of the game, and most likely showed up on many a gaming site.
Is more than just the hardware. It's the service. I love having a TiVo. Without TiVo service, it's just a VCR with a few refinements. With TiVo service, well, those not subscribed to TiVo service are missing out on a great deal of functionality.
But you don't want to pay for information that is free over the internet? It's not free in the first place. Most sites offering TV listings want some personal information and you have to deal with advertising. You pay for the listings in your paper when you buy the paper. The listings in the paper contain advertisments. For what, $10 a month TiVo delivers full listings to your TiVo unit, no adds, all sorted according to the TV service in your area.
When it's just one area, it's still alot of information. How many shows does just one TV station run in a week? Well, there are 336 30 minute time slots in a 7 day period. With 10 brodcast channels that's 3360 30 minutes time slots. With cable, well...that's a hell of a lot of information, and it all has to be localized, put into a format so that your TiVo canuse it, delivered via dialup...
It's a service. If you want it to be free, go set it up yourself. When you're finished, you see if you want to offer it for free.
If you're using a TiVo without a subscription, relize that your are not TiVo's primiary consern because you are not generating any revenue for them. TiVo already profited from your unit before your bought it. TiVo is being rather generous letting you upgrade at no cost, IMHO.
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Exciting as this is, if you dig a little deeper, it isn't all that exciting. Exciting would be GIMP running as an Aqua application. As it is, you still need to run an Xserver on your OSX box, which means you either have to shutdown AQUA and start up the Xserver, or use a rootless Xserver.
Shutting down AQUA doesn't sound appealing at all. Running a rootless Xserver is better, but you still have to run a seperate window manager to manage the Xapps. Aqua won't do it.
And face it, most Mac users will give you strange strange looks when you mention needing an Xserver. Unless their installed covers instalation of the Xserver and GIMP, GIMP on Mac won't replace Photoshop. And everyone who "thinks different" will mostly ignore the GIMP port.
Most Mac users are going to want Aqua applications, not Xapplications. Xtools from Tenon Intersystems or eXodus from PowerLan might make the idea of using an Xapplication on your OSX box more apealing due to tighter AQUA intigration, but will be turned off by having to purchase the product.
Something just hit me with all this talk of IP...MS and free software are fighting the same IP battle it two totally different ways. Stick with me here for a second...
Say I create a nifty library. Something everybody needs. Something everybody wants. But I worked very hard on it, and I want compensation for my hard work. The compensation I'm asking for: the source to any software using my library must be made available in the same fashion my source code is available. If that's asking too much, write your own library. You don't have to compinsate me until you finish the project.
Now say Microsoft creates a nifty librars. Something everybody wants. Something everybody needs. But some of their staff worked very hard on it, and the company wants compensations. So they wrap it into developer kits, MFC's, etc. Now that they've been compinsated, you can start work on your project.
Linux isn't the cancer. No no, it's the users who don't really understand what Linux, the GPL, FSF, monoplies, profits, IP, etc. are.
It targeted a specific type of game. Arcade coin-ops that use replica weapons as input devices with simulated Human targets. So Area 51 is ok (despite it's M rating) and Police Squad (or whatever.) isn't. There are perhaps legitimate conserns with games like Silent Scope (If that's the right name, can't remember. The big sniper rifle is the only interface.).
From the sound of it, those are the type of games this law targeted. One good point doesn't make up for a bad law however.
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There are different licenses. For what they're doing, Launch probally signed the wrong license and got basic webcaster license. So they can loop a playlist that goes for 3 hours (minimum) without repeating, can't take requests, etc. I'm not well informed myself, but the RIAA's Licensing and Royalties page is a good place to start.
So why don't you figure out what kind of license Launch has, compare what the license covers to what their doing, then flame away. Just a thought...
Ok everyone, calm down. Fnord isn't written by MS. The researchers probally choose it because they needed some kind of server application to test out on their IPv6 machine, and adding IPv6 support to IIS isn't pratical for their research and testing. So they found this small open source webserver that they could hack at and get running on IPv6 in a few hours. As required by the GPL, they've released their modifications to the public. Personally, I think it would have been fun if they forced you to download the code via IPv6. Would have given the/. community a reason to setup IPv6.
In the grand scheme of things, there really isn't much to see here. It's a Microsoft research/test server running something besides IIS, on IPv6. The webserver is a small, GPLed little server that they made a few patches to. I'm still trying to figure out how the hell this is newsworthy. Did everyone download the fnord code and check them for GPL complience? Don't bother. It's there. The author of the Linux today article obviously has no idea about the orgin of fnord, or the nature of research. Why the hell would IPv6 support get into IIS before their IPv6 stack was ready? Why would a small research team modify IIS to support IPv6? They wouldn't. That's what MS pays the IIS developers to do. Please, use you're grey matter just a little bit.
Why not add a feature to slash that will look for a URL ( in this case http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/fnord.htm and http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05 -25-005-20-OS-MS ) and automatically reject the story (since you're motivation for posting this story was "stop fscking submitting it!")
Ok, I think I'm done now.
Microsoft's Ultimate TV product can only record two shows at once when it's hooked into a Direct TV system, I think it's even limited to Direct TV only. You don't have Direct TV, you can't use Ultimate TV.
The Ultimate TV also has WebTV like stuff added (surfing, chat, e-mail). It is not a joint MS/TiVo effort. (Unless I totally missed something.)
On a slight tangent: Funny TiVo story of the week. I have a Sony TiVo. The remote started going through batteries in a week. I called waranty service, and they told me I would have to send my remote in before they would send me a new one. Considering TiVo's have no controls on the box, they are totally useless without the remote. Stupid, stupid, stupid...
China will have an increases presence in space, which will most likely trigger more spending in the US, cause you know, the last thing US polititans want is the Chinese showing them how mindlessly stupid they are. They don't need any help doing that.
Personally I can't wait until the first manned Aussie space flight is handed over to Dallas, and the Dallas controllers all look at eachother with blank stares commenting "Was that english?" You think slang in America is interesting? "I just got rooted" has a whole different meaning down under...
While open hardware will keep prices low, you also get into the infinite hardware configurations situation. While the issues related to this have declined recently, it still is the bane of tech support everywhere.
Thankfully the PC has aged long enough to the point where this is a minor issue, and tied mostly to bargin PC's and hardware. Will new comers remember history or throw it out the window only to learn if all over again? Time will tell.
Perhaps nokia will do something similar to TiVo. You can get the hardware from Sony or Phillips, but it is pretty much the same hardware.
Too bad people (USians in particular) have such an irrational fear of anything nuclear...
Given the design of some nuculear reactors the fear isn't unjustified. Outside the US, there are reactors whos fule could be converted into nuclear weapons.
Really though, it's an understanding issue. The media blows anything nuclear far out of proportion (not that it isn't a big deal, it's just not as bad as they make it seem. Same goes for any disaster.)
Finite supply goes for nucluear fule as well. It just last a hell of alot longer. (And some varities can be produced synthetically.)
It's mostly an education issues. Most people only know about nucluear power from headlines and weapons, and thus have a negitive impression.
I have the benifit of "education" from a nucluear engineer (former navy, now at a power plant) and just general curisoty. (The ability to recongize bias and form my own opinions helps.) Personally, I'd rather have a nucluear power plant in my back yard than a fossil fule based plant. Thing is, my back yard is far from ideal for either!
Power sources aren't good or bad. We have short term (ok, now damnit!) and long term power problems.
My intent with the posting was to provide a different insite to the one given. I thought it was interesting and the discussion could benifit from listening to it. Oh yeah, I forgot,/. isn't about discussion anymore. It's about getting the +5. Ah well. Everyone has an agenda. What's yours?
Oh yeah, forgot a tidbit for those who aren't going to listen to the real audio above: only two of these type of plants in the US. I'm sure there are some leftovers (they admit that they do pollute a little), they don't say what they are however. "Emmisions nearly as low as natural gas."
That doesn't include all of the other nasty stuff that is produced by burning coal.
Actually, Clean Coal power plants are rather impressive. The coal is ground into a powder, mixed with water, then turned into a gas. Somewhere in the process sulfer, etc. are removed and made into sulfuric acid, which is sold. The result is your powerplant is also a small chemical plant. I only caught the last few minutes of the spot on NPR, but it sounded interesting. Here is the segment from All Things Considered on Monday, May 07, 2001.
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They're big, but are they big enough to take on Microsoft?
Sure they are. They just need a license clause with their studio film: By using this film you agree not to reproduce it using any product created by Microsoft. Most motion pictures use kodak film in their camaras, and MS wan't a piece of Holywood.
But Kodak has had antitrust lawsuits agnist them, and this might not help. Then again, MS isn't making film so they aren't a competitor to Kodak (in that area anyway.)
In any case, it would be an amusing clause.
Why does everyone think it's hard to remember more than one random alpha numeric sequence?
Off the top of my head: 7 cryptic passwords
4 internet IP addresses
10 phone numbers
Not really, when I have a new cryptic password I write it down and stick it in my pocket for a few days, just incase. Change the password when I get in in the morning, and by the end of the day I've got it memorized. Once memorized, the paper with my password is subjected to digestive juices to destroy it completely. :)
That what's being said is that the modules shouldn't be spitting out this information as part of their code, as modprobe could handle that function. It could then be turned on and off as needed. Makes sense to me, why does every kernel module need to have code in it to print out information when the software loading the modules could do it, it would then only be written once, could be configurable. (verbose level = X, or modprobe -v, modprobe -vv, modprobe -vvv, etc.)
If it fails, print out a message "Module X failed to load. Noncritical error, continuing to load linux. Fix me if you dare."
I just skimmed things a bit, but somewhat suprised not to see topics like ssl and smtp-auth. I know I would have loved to see something like "your mail server is your first line of defence for Outlook Transmitted Diseases," but since it's mostly a procmail thing maybe it's mentioned. I encourage ever e-mail administrator to at least look at Email Security through Procmail. By using this, I've managed to keep my network OTD free. :)
Wow, must have been hard to write the article when you have stuff like this, In Issue 27 of the Linux Gazette even.
Other sources:
Diskless HOWTO
XDMCP HOWTO
XDM-Xterm Mini-HOWTO
Linux Terminal Server Project
I'm suprised it made it past the Linux Gazette Editors actually, considering it was in Issue 27! You've got one year of HS left, but I suggest you try harder in college or someone will call you on plagiarism. I admit however that I didn't actually read the artice, as I'm not likely to find any new information.
Oh man, forgot that cygwin has ported a x-server
MicroImages (MI/X) have a list of products that compete with MI/X.
Let's see... Besides http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/inde x.html, there's X-Win32, WinaXe, and MI/X"
If you run VNC over SSH compression I find it to be a decent soultion. I usually use the viewer with the -bgr233 (xvncviewer) or restrict pixels to 8-bot (for windows).
Someone on the rdesktop mailing list mentioned creating a RDP server for UNIX, similar to the VNC server. How well it works, if it works with MS RDP clients, and where to find more information I do not know.
Lastly, Citrix has created versions of MetaFrame for Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 on SPARC and 7 and 8 on x86, AIX 4.3.3, and HP-UX 11.0. Too bad they don't do Linux.
They could perhaps take the same approach the developers of Giants did. When shipped, blood was green and breasts were covered. Remove/rename/edit a file, and the red blood returns and the breasts are uncovered. This little feature wasn't documented, but made it into PC Gamer's review of the game, and most likely showed up on many a gaming site.
Your livid link is wrong linuxvideo.org
that is all.
Is more than just the hardware. It's the service. I love having a TiVo. Without TiVo service, it's just a VCR with a few refinements. With TiVo service, well, those not subscribed to TiVo service are missing out on a great deal of functionality.
But you don't want to pay for information that is free over the internet? It's not free in the first place. Most sites offering TV listings want some personal information and you have to deal with advertising. You pay for the listings in your paper when you buy the paper. The listings in the paper contain advertisments. For what, $10 a month TiVo delivers full listings to your TiVo unit, no adds, all sorted according to the TV service in your area.
When it's just one area, it's still alot of information. How many shows does just one TV station run in a week? Well, there are 336 30 minute time slots in a 7 day period. With 10 brodcast channels that's 3360 30 minutes time slots. With cable, well...that's a hell of a lot of information, and it all has to be localized, put into a format so that your TiVo canuse it, delivered via dialup...
It's a service. If you want it to be free, go set it up yourself. When you're finished, you see if you want to offer it for free.
If you're using a TiVo without a subscription, relize that your are not TiVo's primiary consern because you are not generating any revenue for them. TiVo already profited from your unit before your bought it. TiVo is being rather generous letting you upgrade at no cost, IMHO.
Exciting as this is, if you dig a little deeper, it isn't all that exciting. Exciting would be GIMP running as an Aqua application. As it is, you still need to run an Xserver on your OSX box, which means you either have to shutdown AQUA and start up the Xserver, or use a rootless Xserver.
Shutting down AQUA doesn't sound appealing at all. Running a rootless Xserver is better, but you still have to run a seperate window manager to manage the Xapps. Aqua won't do it.
And face it, most Mac users will give you strange strange looks when you mention needing an Xserver. Unless their installed covers instalation of the Xserver and GIMP, GIMP on Mac won't replace Photoshop. And everyone who "thinks different" will mostly ignore the GIMP port.
Most Mac users are going to want Aqua applications, not Xapplications. Xtools from Tenon Intersystems or eXodus from PowerLan might make the idea of using an Xapplication on your OSX box more apealing due to tighter AQUA intigration, but will be turned off by having to purchase the product.
Yes it's cool, but it's not terribly exciting.
Something just hit me with all this talk of IP...MS and free software are fighting the same IP battle it two totally different ways. Stick with me here for a second...
Say I create a nifty library. Something everybody needs. Something everybody wants. But I worked very hard on it, and I want compensation for my hard work. The compensation I'm asking for: the source to any software using my library must be made available in the same fashion my source code is available. If that's asking too much, write your own library. You don't have to compinsate me until you finish the project.
Now say Microsoft creates a nifty librars. Something everybody wants. Something everybody needs. But some of their staff worked very hard on it, and the company wants compensations. So they wrap it into developer kits, MFC's, etc. Now that they've been compinsated, you can start work on your project.
Linux isn't the cancer. No no, it's the users who don't really understand what Linux, the GPL, FSF, monoplies, profits, IP, etc. are.
It targeted a specific type of game. Arcade coin-ops that use replica weapons as input devices with simulated Human targets. So Area 51 is ok (despite it's M rating) and Police Squad (or whatever.) isn't. There are perhaps legitimate conserns with games like Silent Scope (If that's the right name, can't remember. The big sniper rifle is the only interface.).
From the sound of it, those are the type of games this law targeted. One good point doesn't make up for a bad law however.
Apperently they don't get golf ball, baseball, and softball sized hail in Redmond. Here in Minnesota we duck and cover when we hear hailstorm.
Well, at least I'm bad at karma whoring. :)
The direct link to the translation is here
For the attentive, the first link required you to click on the link to the german version to get the german to english translation. Whoops, my bad.
Mandatory karma whoring using Bablefish
Translated German Version
There are different licenses. For what they're doing, Launch probally signed the wrong license and got basic webcaster license. So they can loop a playlist that goes for 3 hours (minimum) without repeating, can't take requests, etc. I'm not well informed myself, but the RIAA's Licensing and Royalties page is a good place to start.
So why don't you figure out what kind of license Launch has, compare what the license covers to what their doing, then flame away. Just a thought...
Ok everyone, calm down. Fnord isn't written by MS. The researchers probally choose it because they needed some kind of server application to test out on their IPv6 machine, and adding IPv6 support to IIS isn't pratical for their research and testing. So they found this small open source webserver that they could hack at and get running on IPv6 in a few hours. As required by the GPL, they've released their modifications to the public. Personally, I think it would have been fun if they forced you to download the code via IPv6. Would have given the /. community a reason to setup IPv6.
5 -25-005-20-OS-MS ) and automatically reject the story (since you're motivation for posting this story was "stop fscking submitting it!")
In the grand scheme of things, there really isn't much to see here. It's a Microsoft research/test server running something besides IIS, on IPv6. The webserver is a small, GPLed little server that they made a few patches to. I'm still trying to figure out how the hell this is newsworthy. Did everyone download the fnord code and check them for GPL complience? Don't bother. It's there. The author of the Linux today article obviously has no idea about the orgin of fnord, or the nature of research. Why the hell would IPv6 support get into IIS before their IPv6 stack was ready? Why would a small research team modify IIS to support IPv6? They wouldn't. That's what MS pays the IIS developers to do. Please, use you're grey matter just a little bit.
Why not add a feature to slash that will look for a URL ( in this case http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/fnord.htm and http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-0
Ok, I think I'm done now.
Microsoft's Ultimate TV product can only record two shows at once when it's hooked into a Direct TV system, I think it's even limited to Direct TV only. You don't have Direct TV, you can't use Ultimate TV.
The Ultimate TV also has WebTV like stuff added (surfing, chat, e-mail). It is not a joint MS/TiVo effort. (Unless I totally missed something.)
On a slight tangent: Funny TiVo story of the week. I have a Sony TiVo. The remote started going through batteries in a week. I called waranty service, and they told me I would have to send my remote in before they would send me a new one. Considering TiVo's have no controls on the box, they are totally useless without the remote. Stupid, stupid, stupid...
China will have an increases presence in space, which will most likely trigger more spending in the US, cause you know, the last thing US polititans want is the Chinese showing them how mindlessly stupid they are. They don't need any help doing that.
Personally I can't wait until the first manned Aussie space flight is handed over to Dallas, and the Dallas controllers all look at eachother with blank stares commenting "Was that english?" You think slang in America is interesting? "I just got rooted" has a whole different meaning down under...
While open hardware will keep prices low, you also get into the infinite hardware configurations situation. While the issues related to this have declined recently, it still is the bane of tech support everywhere.
Thankfully the PC has aged long enough to the point where this is a minor issue, and tied mostly to bargin PC's and hardware. Will new comers remember history or throw it out the window only to learn if all over again? Time will tell.
Perhaps nokia will do something similar to TiVo. You can get the hardware from Sony or Phillips, but it is pretty much the same hardware.
Too bad people (USians in particular) have such an irrational fear of anything nuclear...
/. isn't about discussion anymore. It's about getting the +5. Ah well. Everyone has an agenda. What's yours?
Given the design of some nuculear reactors the fear isn't unjustified. Outside the US, there are reactors whos fule could be converted into nuclear weapons.
Really though, it's an understanding issue. The media blows anything nuclear far out of proportion (not that it isn't a big deal, it's just not as bad as they make it seem. Same goes for any disaster.)
Finite supply goes for nucluear fule as well. It just last a hell of alot longer. (And some varities can be produced synthetically.)
It's mostly an education issues. Most people only know about nucluear power from headlines and weapons, and thus have a negitive impression.
I have the benifit of "education" from a nucluear engineer (former navy, now at a power plant) and just general curisoty. (The ability to recongize bias and form my own opinions helps.) Personally, I'd rather have a nucluear power plant in my back yard than a fossil fule based plant. Thing is, my back yard is far from ideal for either!
Power sources aren't good or bad. We have short term (ok, now damnit!) and long term power problems.
My intent with the posting was to provide a different insite to the one given. I thought it was interesting and the discussion could benifit from listening to it. Oh yeah, I forgot,
Oh yeah, forgot a tidbit for those who aren't going to listen to the real audio above: only two of these type of plants in the US. I'm sure there are some leftovers (they admit that they do pollute a little), they don't say what they are however. "Emmisions nearly as low as natural gas."
That doesn't include all of the other nasty stuff that is produced by burning coal.
Actually, Clean Coal power plants are rather impressive. The coal is ground into a powder, mixed with water, then turned into a gas. Somewhere in the process sulfer, etc. are removed and made into sulfuric acid, which is sold. The result is your powerplant is also a small chemical plant. I only caught the last few minutes of the spot on NPR, but it sounded interesting. Here is the segment from All Things Considered on Monday, May 07, 2001.