People owning anything that works with RF radio signals are watching and praying that it fails horribly.
Tests in Germany, Holland and other European countries have demonstrated that the RF interference makes entire frequency bands unusable and field strengths are waaay beyond any of the immunity guidelines that exist for RF fields.
The sad thing is that, as usual, those in power (...) don't give a damn, now that they see extra income on the horizon.
Guess what... You're right about Internet being the society. And just like in any other society there are rules to live by
. Dunno where you come form, but here in The Netherlands (coincidentally where XS4All resides), it is not considered decent social behavior to take a high-power PA installation and yell ads through a microphone in the middle of a city. If you do, you first get warned, then your PA gets confiscated. If you persist, you end up with fines, and finally end up in jail.
Don't bet on ASCII to *always work*. For a long time EBCDIC was the standard, and it's slowly fading away now...
People in the late 60's and early 70's thought they could always get their data back when they stored stuff on 7-track tape. Guess where that's gone.. I think a while ago/. had an article about the first Marriner deep space missions from which telemetry was stored on 7-track reel tape. Scientists are still analyzing the information it returned, but find they can't get to much of it anymore simply because the magnetic media has deteriorated.
There's not any real fix as of yet, and some of the digital information we create today will simply not survive time. An ASCII line with "This is a picture of DNA" has no meaning without the actual picture. The picture might be stored in an ASCII string format, but it will need to be encoded. So you're back to the "Word 1.0" issue, as no-one might remember how to decode and reproduce that picture 20 years from now.
We'll need to find a storage medium that can be decoded by the one engine that will not fade for a long time; The Human Brain.
WPA isn't about security. It's a dry run for the.NET services system. MS now has a vehicle to remotely enable or disable the use of (parts of) their operating system.
The next step will be to allow this enabling/disabling a lot more frequently. Be prepared for the "Click YES to extend your use of MS Office by 1 hour, your MS-Money account will be charged $0.99" message box soon.
The step beyond that might be even more scary... "Click YES to extend your Third-Party Software Support layer by one hour..". In other words, they will be able to charge you by the minute for use of not only their own, but also any *other, non-MS* software...
It's truely a matter of how much you value your data. If all you want is a copy just in case your computer blows up, then a second harddrive is an option. The danger is that it's all too easy to leave the harddisk in your system. If the system goes *BANG* (hardware, virus, user scr*w-up), you might have two empty or damaged disks in stead of one. For MP3's that's no problem, as you can always download or rip them again.
If you value your data, then a tape backup strategy is important. Use a mix of weekly full and daily incremental/differential backups. That way you can go several generations back and recover from corruption or a virus that slipped in a while ago. Take your tapes off-site, and you'll always be safe.
My itty-bitty biassed preference for SOHO tape backup is VXA from Ecrix, now merged with Exabyte. Great reliable drive and very good restore results...
Possibly a bigger concern yet... If you decide you like this new license, and you buy them for three systems, what will happen when the *next* Windows upgrade comes along?!? Will you be able to upgrade all three at upgrade rates, or will you be forced to buy another three "retail and 10% off" licenses?? Food for thought..
It's not all that hard, really. You do need some real hardware to cope with the bandwidth, but from a storage perspective it can be done.
1. Get 3x the amount of disk space required (so 3 buckets of 8TB).
2. Record to one section of 8TB for a day.
3. Switch the data streams over to the next section of 8TB when day 2 starts.
4. Use any standard backup tool to backup day 1 to a library with a bunch of fast tape drives (Several LTO, Exabyte M2, STK 9940, Ampex or Sony DST's).
5. Swap the two volumes after day 2 and start backing up the second day.
You need the 3rd disk set to restore segments to. It can be smaller than 8TB, depending on how much is restored. A SAN comes in handy to allow quick switching of volumes, and to allow multiple systems access to the same disk space.
Even 8TB of disk is relatively cheap (look at Eurologic for instance), the big killer is tape media...
Hang on.. Similar reasoning would go for Wine, or any other product using reverse engineering or re-implementation of an API.
Wine offers the same Windows API as Windows itself. So if someone buys a piece of software designed for Windows, and runs it under Wine, in your view should Microsoft should be able to sue that customer?
I for one don't believe large companies benefit from this. Just think of it. Large company gets the first wave of rent-a-soft Office. Pays nice steady stream of money. So far so good.
After two years, many new PC's have been carried in, all receiving their installation of software. The money stream grows a bit, but that's OK, as it can be anticipated.
After three years, the initial software expires! In stead of chosing to hold off on an upgrade, the corporation is *forced* into an upgrade! From that moment on, they'll be in a constant upgrade threadmill while software packages expire on them, left right and centre... Now they have three money streams to deal with:
1. The rental stream, nice and steady
2. The upgrade support cost, ever growing...
3. The IT staff recruitment cost, as IT folkes doing nothing but forced upgrades will run away so quickly, there's no way to get them in fast enough
This is the scenario for just the Office suite being rental-based. Add your own selection of other tools, and picture the nightmare...
Ummmm... Isn't this the same government *YOU* voted for?!? The same government who now decides that a third car is the American Way, and should outweight all environmental agreements?!? Who under no circumstance wil allow gun control, as they were paid by that industry to get in office? Who has done everything in it's power to restart the Cold War, and undo all peace progress of the past 12 years in less than 4 months?? Sure, go sue them
Next time you get to vote, THINK before you press a button...
So, how do you determine where the buyer or seller are?
The selling company could be incorporated in the USA, but the web site taking the order could run in Europe.
The buyer could dial in to an ISP in China, live in Russia, and have the goods delivered in Finland
This is a global economy, the world is your home town... Governments will have to come up with global rules on this, and a way to globally enforce this. Until then, internet taxes are impossible to enforce.
This number, $14,323,000,000 is simply mind-numbing.. Anyone care to figure out how much actually goes to the artists? I'm sure that would show exactly how greedy they are?
What's the problem with drivers for FC HBA's in Linux?!?
I'm using a Qlogic QLA2100 without any problem to talk to a fibre RAID box (Raidtec), a Storagetek L20 library through a Crossroads and (in kind of a reverse way) have two SCSI systems hooked up to the SAN as well (Through another Crossroads in target mode). All this runs with kernel 2.2.18 or 2.4.1 and all is fine.
I used to work for a company which had some tools they gave to customers to diagnose their equipment. When maintenance of the tools became too hard, they dropped all support although customers begged for new versions.
I took two weeks of vacation and created a 'new and improved' version of those tools, at home and without having had any access to the source code of the originals. All I had were the reference guides which were publicly available. After those two weeks I had a fully working set of software.
After half a year the company accepted my tools as the standard and they replaced the original ones with mine. I have maintained the software for another three years, mainly during normal working hours. I no longer work for that company, but I'm wondering if I have any rights to that software, or maybe if I can use the source code of everything I created in the first two weeks... Any comment?!?
Maybe because the size of a credit card is pretty much the same in the entire world.... Them darn $$$'s are ugly, and depending on whose falsification you have, differ in size.
Read the guy's message. Read it again. He has a point when he mentions he will release the source to all modified portions in a library or DLL, separate from all other code he wrote. That seems valid to me.
If it isn't, then there is no way anyone can write a closed-source program that runs on Linux.
Where's do you draw the line? There are some portions of code that are so obvious that it will be present in much the same form, both in open as well as closed source. There are only so many ways to fill a structure or array. There are only so many ways to print debug information. If any of these ways are used in GPL'ed code, does this mean everyone having the same routine in it will have to open up their code?
Before you say 'Yes', remember there's two sides of the coin. If some version of True64 Unix or AIX happens to build an IP header very similar to what happens in Linux, and you start shouting 'Open up!', they might turn around and say 'It is our copyrighted material, remove it from Linux'...
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... the definition of breaking someone's password or encryption...
People owning anything that works with RF radio signals are watching and praying that it fails horribly.
Tests in Germany, Holland and other European countries have demonstrated that the RF interference makes entire frequency bands unusable and field strengths are waaay beyond any of the immunity guidelines that exist for RF fields.
The sad thing is that, as usual, those in power (...) don't give a damn, now that they see extra income on the horizon.
If that same attitude goes with Palladium, then I can probably buy a PC mod-chip that also works on the X-box...
At least with Linux there's a pretty good chance of getting things fixed, where in 'some other OSes' they wouldn't even get to see the source code...
..then my wife will never allow me to pick up Java ;-)
. Dunno where you come form, but here in The Netherlands (coincidentally where XS4All resides), it is not considered decent social behavior to take a high-power PA installation and yell ads through a microphone in the middle of a city. If you do, you first get warned, then your PA gets confiscated. If you persist, you end up with fines, and finally end up in jail.
That's how we DEAL with it...
People in the late 60's and early 70's thought they could always get their data back when they stored stuff on 7-track tape. Guess where that's gone.. I think a while ago /. had an article about the first Marriner deep space missions from which telemetry was stored on 7-track reel tape. Scientists are still analyzing the information it returned, but find they can't get to much of it anymore simply because the magnetic media has deteriorated.
There's not any real fix as of yet, and some of the digital information we create today will simply not survive time. An ASCII line with "This is a picture of DNA" has no meaning without the actual picture. The picture might be stored in an ASCII string format, but it will need to be encoded. So you're back to the "Word 1.0" issue, as no-one might remember how to decode and reproduce that picture 20 years from now.
We'll need to find a storage medium that can be decoded by the one engine that will not fade for a long time; The Human Brain.
The next step will be to allow this enabling/disabling a lot more frequently. Be prepared for the "Click YES to extend your use of MS Office by 1 hour, your MS-Money account will be charged $0.99" message box soon.
The step beyond that might be even more scary... "Click YES to extend your Third-Party Software Support layer by one hour..". In other words, they will be able to charge you by the minute for use of not only their own, but also any *other, non-MS* software...
grep "#define BUNDLE_IE" c:\windows\source\Build2600\*.h
If you value your data, then a tape backup strategy is important. Use a mix of weekly full and daily incremental/differential backups. That way you can go several generations back and recover from corruption or a virus that slipped in a while ago. Take your tapes off-site, and you'll always be safe.
My itty-bitty biassed preference for SOHO tape backup is VXA from Ecrix, now merged with Exabyte. Great reliable drive and very good restore results...
Well, looking at his picture, one might wonder if he is allowed to know the true meaning of "Free Beer"...
Possibly a bigger concern yet... If you decide you like this new license, and you buy them for three systems, what will happen when the *next* Windows upgrade comes along?!? Will you be able to upgrade all three at upgrade rates, or will you be forced to buy another three "retail and 10% off" licenses?? Food for thought..
1. Get 3x the amount of disk space required (so 3 buckets of 8TB).
2. Record to one section of 8TB for a day.
3. Switch the data streams over to the next section of 8TB when day 2 starts.
4. Use any standard backup tool to backup day 1 to a library with a bunch of fast tape drives (Several LTO, Exabyte M2, STK 9940, Ampex or Sony DST's).
5. Swap the two volumes after day 2 and start backing up the second day.
You need the 3rd disk set to restore segments to. It can be smaller than 8TB, depending on how much is restored. A SAN comes in handy to allow quick switching of volumes, and to allow multiple systems access to the same disk space.
Even 8TB of disk is relatively cheap (look at Eurologic for instance), the big killer is tape media...
Rob
With OLED displays, the display *is* the light source.
Wine offers the same Windows API as Windows itself. So if someone buys a piece of software designed for Windows, and runs it under Wine, in your view should Microsoft should be able to sue that customer?
Sssshtt... Redmond might be listening in...
After two years, many new PC's have been carried in, all receiving their installation of software. The money stream grows a bit, but that's OK, as it can be anticipated.
After three years, the initial software expires! In stead of chosing to hold off on an upgrade, the corporation is *forced* into an upgrade! From that moment on, they'll be in a constant upgrade threadmill while software packages expire on them, left right and centre... Now they have three money streams to deal with:
1. The rental stream, nice and steady
2. The upgrade support cost, ever growing...
3. The IT staff recruitment cost, as IT folkes doing nothing but forced upgrades will run away so quickly, there's no way to get them in fast enough
This is the scenario for just the Office suite being rental-based. Add your own selection of other tools, and picture the nightmare...
Next time you get to vote, THINK before you press a button...
The selling company could be incorporated in the USA, but the web site taking the order could run in Europe.
The buyer could dial in to an ISP in China, live in Russia, and have the goods delivered in Finland
This is a global economy, the world is your home town... Governments will have to come up with global rules on this, and a way to globally enforce this. Until then, internet taxes are impossible to enforce.
This number, $14,323,000,000 is simply mind-numbing.. Anyone care to figure out how much actually goes to the artists? I'm sure that would show exactly how greedy they are?
I'm using a Qlogic QLA2100 without any problem to talk to a fibre RAID box (Raidtec), a Storagetek L20 library through a Crossroads and (in kind of a reverse way) have two SCSI systems hooked up to the SAN as well (Through another Crossroads in target mode). All this runs with kernel 2.2.18 or 2.4.1 and all is fine.
Next step is to get GFS working on this...
I took two weeks of vacation and created a 'new and improved' version of those tools, at home and without having had any access to the source code of the originals. All I had were the reference guides which were publicly available. After those two weeks I had a fully working set of software.
After half a year the company accepted my tools as the standard and they replaced the original ones with mine. I have maintained the software for another three years, mainly during normal working hours. I no longer work for that company, but I'm wondering if I have any rights to that software, or maybe if I can use the source code of everything I created in the first two weeks... Any comment?!?
Simply use rubber bands to pull the astronout toward the device while he/she is asleep...
If it isn't, then there is no way anyone can write a closed-source program that runs on Linux.
Where's do you draw the line? There are some portions of code that are so obvious that it will be present in much the same form, both in open as well as closed source. There are only so many ways to fill a structure or array. There are only so many ways to print debug information. If any of these ways are used in GPL'ed code, does this mean everyone having the same routine in it will have to open up their code?
Before you say 'Yes', remember there's two sides of the coin. If some version of True64 Unix or AIX happens to build an IP header very similar to what happens in Linux, and you start shouting 'Open up!', they might turn around and say 'It is our copyrighted material, remove it from Linux'...