A Linux-based open-source program called Evolution looks pretty much like a standard Windows desktop"
Not much farther after that I almost died:
Linux partisans point to some small victories: WalMart recently began selling a house brand PC at rock bottom prices -- available with Linux for the thriftiest PC buyers.
partisan1 Pronunciation Key (pärt-zn) n. A fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. A member of an organized body of fighters who attack or harass an enemy, especially within occupied territory; a guerrilla.
If you ask me, the writer of this article is a partisan for MS, who does not properly research his topic given all the inaccurate info (ie- the Evolution comment, Lindows/Walmart, etc).
My take on this is that it's most likely just a misunderstanding on the behalf of LEC Legal. These people probably have to deal with "abandonware" sites on a daily basis, and reading their mail it seems that they believe that we are distributing the LucasArts SPU implementation under the (false) assumption that it is abandonware.
Actually, from the legal perspective it seems a lot easier to just send out a lot of letters to all those that thinks they are infringing on proprietary art. What this does, is makes it easier for the legal team. This is because it shifts the burden of proof on the accused (in this case the ScummVM team) rather than on the company itself (in this case Lucasarts) to prove what they are doing is not illegal.
Think of it this way. If you were paying lawyers to protect your intellectual property, would you rather them save money and not "deeply investigate" all claims when the same results could be accomplished by a cursory examination. If you are the big company of course you are going to take the cost effective route.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that the ScummVM has legally reverse engineered the original SPU engine. And I'm very glad, I love playing old Lucasarts game's that I have, like Monkey Island [floppy disk version] under BSD.
I would regret seeing such an interesting project shut down because of a misunderstanding.
If you are buying the car tonight/tomorrow be careful about Sirius. If you aren't in one of these states you won't get service just yet:
We are currently supporting service in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, upstate New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Don't worry to much though, because -as of July- Sirius will be national. And they do have a nice introductory offer.
At the moment there seems to be only a one-page PDF document at the original site explaining that the original paper has been recalled for some unspecified rework. Info regarding the sudden change of position can be found at linuxtoday.
The most interesting point was that when they contacted ADTI, a representative informed them that he was not sure why the paper was off-line, but he believed "they had to make a couple of revisions to the paper." The representative was not sure when the paper would be back online. The paper's author, Kenneth Brown, was unavailable for comment.
The article mentions forthcoming price cuts by Intel. Here is some info on that, describing dollar values as well as the justification for it - the demo of the Pentium IV 2GHz.
Anyone remember all the traffic concerning SGI and Final Fantasy the movie. Well from yet another Yahoo blurb one finds that many of the machines used in rendering were running Linux.
Four SGI(TM) 2000 series high-performance servers, four Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® visualization systems, 167 Silicon Graphics® Octane® visual workstations and other SGI systems were used to create the film. Alias|Wavefront(TM) Maya® software was used for animation authoring on the SGI machines, and Pixar RenderMan® software was run on Linux® OS-based systems.
SGI is a strong proponent of Linux, I would think that it's more the prospect of IBM selling the machines that scares them.
I was doing my daily tech reading at work today and came across this tech article about the fight over the "last mile" in California.
In a synopsis, this article basically describes the fight that the ILEC's are facing against the Baby Bell's everywhere. To the point where this group of ISP's has filed a complaint with the California Public Utilities Commission on July 26 that charges SBC's Pacific Bell with favoring its own broadband service over competitors' services and trying to make ISPs sign an unfair contract that limits their rights to phone lines they lease.
And if this doesn't solve the problem - to pursue further court litigation.
Will I be able to install the cable modem and software myself?
This level of service is not currently available. However, in the near future we will be initiating a "do it yourself" program, which will allow those subscribers who are technically inclined to install their own modem and software.
However, in the past when I was debating cable vs. dsl I am very positive that I saw that you could get a significant savings if you self installed. I managed to get this info by further digging. Before you purchase and install a cable modem yourself, be sure to contact Time Warner Cable Customer Care to ensure that the cable modem is compatible with Road Runner systems.
Click here for information about retail installation. Which will essentially tell you that you just need a DOCSIS compliant model. An example of this is the Motorola Surfboard modem - this is an external model - and in most cases is the one that RR uses themselves.
Unfortunately, after recently making a phone call about getting cable [my DSL provider is going up the creek (this is the 2nd time now)] I found that they no longer offer discounts on the monthly charge for those who provide their own modems.
On the install issue- this is what I came up with:
Installation if Road Runner does not supply NIC or USB adaptor $79.95
Installation if Road Runner supplies NIC or USB adaptor $99.95
It seems as though they no longer give a discount even for your own self install [ie- I plug the modem into a RG-58 coax jack] This used to drop the install to like 29.95.
The one plus I did find was However, even prior to termination of cable service, we allow our customers to remove, replace, rearrange, repair or maintain any cable wiring located within the interior space of the customer's dwelling unit so long as such actions do not interfere with our ability to meet FCC technical standards or to provide services to you or your neighbors at time warner's site.
Chess- how much physical activity is that? You'd think that something a little more interesting like Paintball would be considered. With Paintball being played everywhere, even the Toronto Skydome why not introduce paintball as an olympic sport before chess. Maybe the steroids testing might actually be useful for something that requires some sort of strenous effort?
Episode I he mentioned that he no longer wants to continue the series after finishing the two remaining prequels. Of course, his mind my have changed by now...
Never underestimate the power of greed!!! [greenbacks]
I know this will get modded down as Off-Topic:
But to quote Nicholas Cage in the Rock:
Ishiwood: Why the hell would you spend 300 dollars on an LP?
Cage: Because these [holds up an LP of the Beatles] sound better!
Being an employee of Motorola, I can definitively say that the interfaces for the StarTac 7867, the new U.S. versions of the Talkabout, and Timeport are all based on the same specs. So any software, hardware that is used for one will work with the other two.
Authorities are in the process of finding a permanent home for the monolith.
At least they're not just going to impound, destroy, or fine those who are responsible for making it. (However, for some stupid reason or other they may still get fined - unfortunately that's the way society is)...
Some scenes were from previous Star Wars episodes, the blowing up of the "adobe-looking" wall was from Dune. You can check that out at sci-fi.com. The lightsaber scene was from Braveheart. I must admit they did a good job.
As a matter of fact at starwars.com they are actively requesting people to submit trailers. Just recently there was some legal dispute over this, which resulted in this.
How resistant is this to temperature changes? Up in the Northern US and Canada, it gets well below zero. How well will the internal hard drive function when the temp. is below zero?
I bet you probably snitch on your co-workers if they are playing games or reading email jokes, just to boost that 0.0000013 % improvement in the economy.
Actually those blue painted guys are the Blue Man Group and they do comedy improv type stuff to music, etc. They're pretty funny actually. Going to see them again very shortly...
Actually, there have been quite a few, especially with Win95. One time, on a machine I was scrapping I decided to go into the registry and delete every reference I found to one of the particular icons. What ended up happening was having a "folder icon" with no properties, unmovable on the desktop, and with no name.
I'm sure some of you have heard about the over 3 million people in California who filed for absentee ballots. They say that many of the state's critical races will have to wait to be decided until all (at least the majority) of these are turned in.
Yet, California's Internet Voting Task Forcestrongly discourages any consideration of an all-electronic Internet voter registration system. And further, not a replacement either for absentee balloting or balloting at the polls. Yet they go on to say that Internet voting systems should be modeled on the absentee ballot system.
What is going on here? I myself got screwed this election because of people like this. I work for Motorola (my views do not represent those... blah blah blah), but I am temporarily at work in a different corporate location, statewise, than I normally live in and was informed too late to get an absentee ballot. And I know I'm not the only one, so now I can't vote in this election. If you ask me, Internet voting would be a great way to solve these problems.
BIOS Update
In technical terms, "BIOS Update" is a hidden (i.e. barely documented at all outside of Intel) feature, that can fix bugs by patching the microcode inside the microprocessor. The patches, which are provided by Intel, are loaded by the BIOS when the processor boots up and are contained in a 2,048-byte-long BIOS Update data block.
This is what allows Intel to provide for those mysterious things called "steppings" when you look in your dmesg's or if you (heaven forbid) use NT, by looking in the system properties.
"In part because of the ingenuity of lawyers and the ingenuity of [computer criminals] to get around the laws we've got, the laws we've got aren't sufficient," Hyde said.
What a guy- Stuart Hyde, chief superintendent of police in West Yorkshire and a British cybercrime expert,
For being so educated he could at least use proper English, AND he's from Great Britain no less.
Gahhhh, what are you thinking..... I can easily get FreeBSD 3.5-Stable loaded and setup to do NAT & Firewall with about 200mb of diskspace on a 486/25.
But what's really interesting is the picoBSD project which can do all this AND fit on a single floppy. So you can keep your MFM disk to pull apart and make frisbees/rearview mirror decorations/ or whatever else fancies your imagination. And it will run on a 386...
Slashdot Mirror
Not much farther after that I almost died:
Linux partisans point to some small victories: WalMart recently began selling a house brand PC at rock bottom prices -- available with Linux for the thriftiest PC buyers.
Excuse me! since when is Lindows = Linux?
From dictionary.com
If you ask me, the writer of this article is a partisan for MS, who does not properly research his topic given all the inaccurate info (ie- the Evolution comment, Lindows/Walmart, etc).
My take on this is that it's most likely just a misunderstanding on the behalf of LEC Legal. These people probably have to deal with "abandonware" sites on a daily basis, and reading their mail it seems that they believe that we are distributing the LucasArts SPU implementation under the (false) assumption that it is abandonware.
Actually, from the legal perspective it seems a lot easier to just send out a lot of letters to all those that thinks they are infringing on proprietary art. What this does, is makes it easier for the legal team. This is because it shifts the burden of proof on the accused (in this case the ScummVM team) rather than on the company itself (in this case Lucasarts) to prove what they are doing is not illegal.
Think of it this way. If you were paying lawyers to protect your intellectual property, would you rather them save money and not "deeply investigate" all claims when the same results could be accomplished by a cursory examination. If you are the big company of course you are going to take the cost effective route.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that the ScummVM has legally reverse engineered the original SPU engine. And I'm very glad, I love playing old Lucasarts game's that I have, like Monkey Island [floppy disk version] under BSD.
I would regret seeing such an interesting project shut down because of a misunderstanding.
If you are buying the car tonight/tomorrow be careful about Sirius. If you aren't in one of these states you won't get service just yet:
We are currently supporting service in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, upstate New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Don't worry to much though, because -as of July- Sirius will be national. And they do have a nice introductory offer.
At the moment there seems to be only a one-page PDF document at the original site explaining that the original paper has been recalled for some unspecified rework. Info regarding the sudden change of position can be found at linuxtoday.
The most interesting point was that when they contacted ADTI, a representative informed them that he was not sure why the paper was off-line, but he believed "they had to make a couple of revisions to the paper." The representative was not sure when the paper would be back online. The paper's author, Kenneth Brown, was
unavailable for comment.
Actually Risk and Axis & Allies have already been made into computer games that are relatively good adaptations of the board game versions.
The article mentions forthcoming price cuts by Intel. Here is some info on that, describing dollar values as well as the justification for it - the demo of the Pentium IV 2GHz.
Anyone remember all the traffic concerning SGI and Final Fantasy the movie. Well from yet another Yahoo blurb one finds that many of the machines used in rendering were running Linux.
Four SGI(TM) 2000 series high-performance servers, four Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® visualization systems, 167 Silicon Graphics® Octane® visual workstations and other SGI systems were used to create the film. Alias|Wavefront(TM) Maya® software was used for animation authoring on the SGI machines, and Pixar RenderMan® software was run on Linux® OS-based systems.
SGI is a strong proponent of Linux, I would think that it's more the prospect of IBM selling the machines that scares them.
I was doing my daily tech reading at work today and came across this tech article about the fight over the "last mile" in California.
In a synopsis, this article basically describes the fight that the ILEC's are facing against the Baby Bell's everywhere. To the point where this group of ISP's has filed a complaint with the California Public Utilities Commission on July 26 that charges SBC's Pacific Bell with favoring its own broadband service over competitors' services and trying to make ISPs sign an unfair contract that limits their rights to phone lines they lease.
And if this doesn't solve the problem - to pursue further court litigation.
Will I be able to install the cable modem and software myself? This level of service is not currently available. However, in the near future we will be initiating a "do it yourself" program, which will allow those subscribers who are technically inclined to install their own modem and software.
However, in the past when I was debating cable vs. dsl I am very positive that I saw that you could get a significant savings if you self installed. I managed to get this info by further digging. Before you purchase and install a cable modem yourself, be sure to contact Time Warner Cable Customer Care to ensure that the cable modem is compatible with Road Runner systems. Click here for information about retail installation. Which will essentially tell you that you just need a DOCSIS compliant model. An example of this is the Motorola Surfboard modem - this is an external model - and in most cases is the one that RR uses themselves.
Unfortunately, after recently making a phone call about getting cable [my DSL provider is going up the creek (this is the 2nd time now)] I found that they no longer offer discounts on the monthly charge for those who provide their own modems.
On the install issue- this is what I came up with:
- Installation if Road Runner does not supply NIC or USB adaptor $79.95
- Installation if Road Runner supplies NIC or USB adaptor $99.95
It seems as though they no longer give a discount even for your own self install [ie- I plug the modem into a RG-58 coax jack] This used to drop the install to like 29.95. The one plus I did find was However, even prior to termination of cable service, we allow our customers to remove, replace, rearrange, repair or maintain any cable wiring located within the interior space of the customer's dwelling unit so long as such actions do not interfere with our ability to meet FCC technical standards or to provide services to you or your neighbors at time warner's site.Chess- how much physical activity is that? You'd think that something a little more interesting like Paintball would be considered. With Paintball being played everywhere, even the Toronto Skydome why not introduce paintball as an olympic sport before chess. Maybe the steroids testing might actually be useful for something that requires some sort of strenous effort?
Episode I he mentioned that he no longer wants to continue the series after finishing the two remaining prequels. Of course, his mind my have changed by now...
Never underestimate the power of greed!!! [greenbacks]
I know this will get modded down as Off-Topic: But to quote Nicholas Cage in the Rock: Ishiwood: Why the hell would you spend 300 dollars on an LP? Cage: Because these [holds up an LP of the Beatles] sound better!
Being an employee of Motorola, I can definitively say that the interfaces for the StarTac 7867, the new U.S. versions of the Talkabout, and Timeport are all based on the same specs. So any software, hardware that is used for one will work with the other two.
Authorities are in the process of finding a permanent home for the monolith.
At least they're not just going to impound, destroy, or fine those who are responsible for making it. (However, for some stupid reason or other they may still get fined - unfortunately that's the way society is)...
But really, people should appreciate art.
Some scenes were from previous Star Wars episodes, the blowing up of the "adobe-looking" wall was from Dune. You can check that out at sci-fi.com. The lightsaber scene was from Braveheart. I must admit they did a good job.
As a matter of fact at starwars.com they are actively requesting people to submit trailers. Just recently there was some legal dispute over this, which resulted in this.
A question on this...
How resistant is this to temperature changes? Up in the Northern US and Canada, it gets well below zero. How well will the internal hard drive function when the temp. is below zero?
I bet you probably snitch on your co-workers if they are playing games or reading email jokes, just to boost that 0.0000013 % improvement in the economy.
Or read Slashdot?
Actually those blue painted guys are the Blue Man Group and they do comedy improv type stuff to music, etc. They're pretty funny actually. Going to see them again very shortly...
Actually, there have been quite a few, especially with Win95. One time, on a machine I was scrapping I decided to go into the registry and delete every reference I found to one of the particular icons. What ended up happening was having a "folder icon" with no properties, unmovable on the desktop, and with no name.
Really wierd...
I'm sure some of you have heard about the over 3 million people in California who filed for absentee ballots. They say that many of the state's critical races will have to wait to be decided until all (at least the majority) of these are turned in.
Yet, California's Internet Voting Task Force strongly discourages any consideration of an all-electronic Internet voter registration system. And further, not a replacement either for absentee balloting or balloting at the polls. Yet they go on to say that Internet voting systems should be modeled on the absentee ballot system.
What is going on here? I myself got screwed this election because of people like this. I work for Motorola (my views do not represent those... blah blah blah), but I am temporarily at work in a different corporate location, statewise, than I normally live in and was informed too late to get an absentee ballot. And I know I'm not the only one, so now I can't vote in this election. If you ask me, Internet voting would be a great way to solve these problems.
Of all the freaking things... Guinness' site is down. But I think by definition that Harp is actually a Lager...
Granted it's not quite the same, but Mississippi Mud does have the same consistency and some other similar .... blah blah blah etc ....
BIOS Update In technical terms, "BIOS Update" is a hidden (i.e. barely documented at all outside of Intel) feature, that can fix bugs by patching the microcode inside the microprocessor. The patches, which are provided by Intel, are loaded by the BIOS when the processor boots up and are contained in a 2,048-byte-long BIOS Update data block.
This is what allows Intel to provide for those mysterious things called "steppings" when you look in your dmesg's or if you (heaven forbid) use NT, by looking in the system properties.
What a guy- Stuart Hyde, chief superintendent of police in West Yorkshire and a British cybercrime expert,
For being so educated he could at least use proper English, AND he's from Great Britain no less.
Gahhhh, what are you thinking..... I can easily get FreeBSD 3.5-Stable loaded and setup to do NAT & Firewall with about 200mb of diskspace on a 486/25.
But what's really interesting is the picoBSD project which can do all this AND fit on a single floppy. So you can keep your MFM disk to pull apart and make frisbees/rearview mirror decorations/ or whatever else fancies your imagination. And it will run on a 386...