Adaptec is very cooperative. You can find their page here. I think the aic7xxx driver in the 2.4 kernel tree was sponsored by Adaptec (i.e. they paid a guy to write it). It works very well. Here is the official page for the aic7xxx driver.
Right now, it is a small group of people devoting a limited amout of resources to fighting the DMCA. As the Felten case showed, it is possible to use the threat of lawsuit to prevent publication, no matter how constitutionally unsound (remember, when it looked like it was headed for the Supreme Court, the plaintiff backed down). This announcement by IEEE should send shockwaves around the world. With "more than 377,000 individual members in 150 countries" and as the producer of "30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical engineering", this will make more than a little noise.
IEEE has clout and reputation, it is doubtful that something like this is going to kill their journals. I am an optimist; I like to think that they are stepping up to the plate rather than backing down.
It most certainly was not. You see, when hard times hit, people first give up food, then housing, new clothing, and finally, as a last resort, entertainment. Wait, do I have that backward?
My biggest complaint about this product is the lack of a grammar check. This is the one thing that distinguishes MS Office from most other software. From what I have seen, only WordPerfect has a grammar checking routine.
Why is this important? My wife depends upon a grammar checking program. On average, it brings up her score on term papers by a letter grade. The only product with a grammar checker for Linux is WordPerfect. I purchased a copy of Corel Office 2000 and installed it under Mandrake 8.1, but it is extremely unstable (sometimes it silently crashes, allowing her to enter text but saving only empty files). Since Corel sold their Linux OS division, they also nuked their online Linux help for Corel Office (which seems to be a violation of their EULA, since they still own the Office for Linux division, but that's another story). The only place this help exists is in Google's cached pages. I would purchase Star Office if it had a grammar checking program.
Has anybody heard a rumor about plans for a grammar checking program in the next version of Star Office? Does anybody have any hints on making WordPerfect 9 more stable under Mandrake 8.x? Is it worth the money to upgrade to WordPerfect 10? Does anybody know of a stable word processor with a grammar checker for Linux?
Does anybody know how I can get access to Newsblaster so I can read a synopsis of the article to determine whether Newsblaster is something that would interest me?
I read an article about a guy who used some remote administration package to recover his sister's stolen Macintosh. I can accomplish similar things with a remote login (ssh, of course) on my Linux box, but only if I have the IP address.
This gave me an idea for protecting my wife's laptop.
I edited the ifup script to e-mail the IP address to me. I want the thief to use the computer for a long period of time, and use it repeatedly, so I can track them. There is an autologin feature available for gdm and kdm, so I enabled it (I didn't know it could be used as a security feature). I also put some familiar looking icons on the desktop so the thief will feel at home and use the machine frequently, and hopefully they will click the big "connect to internet" icon.
Of course, I usually just use this to eject the CD-ROM when my wife is using the computer. I think it's funny, but I think she rolls her eyes. I can't be sure. Maybe a webcam...
You drove in that shit last night? You, my friend, are also a crazy S.O.B. I was south of Oklahoma City last night, and only saw the weak tail of the storm. I was still afraid it would rip the carport to shreds. It did manage to rip loose some siding.
As far as knocking over a tank, I could believe it (despite what the retired military men might say). Look at photos of the damage done by a storm, a 65-ton tank is just more grist for the mill.
These storm chasers are not just endangering their own lives. They are forcing local police and rescue to overextend themselves at an already busy time. They are also in the way of the real storm chasers, the ones from NSSL and CAPS, driving trucks (with doppler radar dishes on the back). (Check these trucks out. They are really cool.) I have heard that people tend to stop in the middle of the road to get some footage, making it difficult for researchers and rescue crew to pass.
I have a message to all would-be storm chasers: If you want a thrill, do something safe, like sky diving. At least there you have a backup plan (the reserve chute). What are you going to do when a piece of wood comes flying at you at speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour?
I don't remember exactly when it was released, but a search on pricewatch for "Itanium" brings up a lot of vendors. It's out there.
As far as Windows for the Itanium, who cares? No, seriously, I don't know. I don't follow new Microsoft product releases unless something funny or terrible happens (Bill's demo crashes, or spyware). I am under the impression that there is a 64-bit Itanium Windows out there, but maybe I am wrong. That would be one hell of a lag.
You will recall that when AMD demoed hammer recently, they showed a 32-bit Windows system and a 64-bit Linux system. People were commenting on AMD preferring Linux over Windows, therefore showing a more powerful Linux demo than a Windows demo.
The truth is that there is not a 64-bit version of Windows for the Hammer. AMD was able to modify the existing Linux code to create their own 64-bit version of Linux. This is the best example of the freedom granted by the GPL that I have seen in months. AMD is releasing a new product at the end of the year, and they are able to create a demand for it NOW by having software for it NOW.
Do you remember the lag between the introduction of Intel's Itanium and a Windows version for Itanium? It was not well coordinated. AMD has done the opposite, they created a demand and a use several months before the release, and it's working. We are all drooling over a 64-bit architecture, and we will have 6-8 months to think about (and save up for) the purchase of a Hammer.
This is the freedom to innovate that is granted by the GPL and denied by the MS EULA. GPLed software is going to make AMD some money.
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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Don't forget digital watches. Setting your watch is an interactive process, involving a user interface (blinking digits), feedback (changing digits), and input (the buttons).
I guess they don't want you to steal the date and time from Jack Valenti's watch.
You could legally build insecure digital watches in the UK, but you might be thrown in jail if you come to the U.S. to tell people how to build such watches.
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Listen, I know many of us are cynical, and we believe that most people in Washington are owned by corporate dollars. However, I still have a glimmer of hope for our country. Visit the U.S. House of Representatives website and the U.S. Senate website, find your representatives' e-mail addresses, and give them your opinion. Voice your concerns! If you sit idly by, and these laws get passed, then you have only yourself to blame. We sent 15,000 letters to the DOJ regarding the Microsoft antitrust settlement, and people noticed. Numbers speak to these people.
Instead of posting to slashdot, write to your representatives. We can make a difference if we all do it this weekend. You have nothing better to do.
When the DMCA was proposed, the RIAA and the MPAA argued that the proposed protections would allow them to distribute content in new ways. They promised benefits to the consumer, benefits to the economy, and hinted at things like broadband.
Recently, Representative Rick Boucher led a charge against the DMCA with the battle cry, "Where are the new technologies?" The DMCA was a scam.
The SSSCA, too, is a scam. It is the same scam, sold with the same line. The astounding thing is that people are falling for it again. What is wrong with these people?
It's like watching somebody play three card monty over and over, convinced that they can find the queen. The question is, who is the sucker, the congressman or the voter?
The real victory here is Judge Kollar-Kotelly's attitude. She has been an unknown for many months, and we are now starting to see her attitude. I like it. She is not going to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, but she is not going to appear partial to the states. She is going to be fair, and she is not going to be easily fooled. The outcome might not be my pipe dream ("Bill, fetch me another mocha."), but I have faith in the judge.
As for the debate ensuing here, I have my answers:
Is the code in the public domain?
No.
If it were, would it be ethical or legal to use it to make our open source projects better?
No (we do not want to make Microsoft a victim in any way).
Are there faked nude celebrity photos of the judge on the internet?
Give it time, young grassshopper.
You quote a cost of $20 to $50 per page for typesetting. In my experience (physics journals), there is a required electronic format (usually TeX), and the journal provides templates. I can see the article exactly as it will appear in the journal before I send it to the journal. The writer does the typesetting. I have heard the claim of typesetting costs before, but it sounds false to me. Is this the case in other disciplines?
Look inside the front cover of a journal to see the cost of a subscription. Where does the money go? It's not to the writers, the editors, or the reviewers. I claim that it is not to the typesetters. Furthermore, the page costs (paid by the writer, and often between $50 and $100 per page) are supposed to cover the typesetting costs. Why do they cost so much money?
While it shouldn't be inherently illegal to decode and copy discs for legitimate purposes, that's not how DeCSS is being used, the majority of the time.
Do you have some evidence of this? Some data? I could claim that Americans use guns to protect their homes, but most often guns are used to kill people. Is this because we always hear about it when somebody is murdered, but rarely hear about it when somebody repels a burgler by threatening with a gun?
I can tell you that 100% of the people I know who use LINUX and own a DVD drive do not copy DVDs.
The point is that you should not make these unproven claims. It strengthens the case of those who want to steal our fair use rights.
I did a quick search on Google, and found this site that explains how you might get the symbol to appear. It's not ASCII, but it is part of unicode 2.1.
The page claims that if you are using LaTeX 2e, \usepackage{textcomp} gets the right character set, and \texteuro gets the symbol. I tried it, and it works.
Now, does anybody know how to get the American symbol for cents?
Compression. Apparently it gives some nice balance between compression and performance. I wouldn't know. I'm just a poor Linux user looking at file sizes on ftp servers.
Anyway, with the Crossover plugin (or just use wine), you can look at Quicktime.
I just don't understand why Apple won't release a viewer for Linux.
When programming is considered an art rather than a "skilled labor position", will we talk about "starving programmers" and "suffering for your code"? Maybe, in our current economy.
You know that Beethoven was the first musician be considered an artist. Before that, they were considered skilled laborers. Mozart was very skilled at cranking out beautiful music in short order. Now, we consider music to be art. Photography and motion pictures went through the same transition. What happened? Debates like this. So, thank you for calling programming a "skilled labor position." It gives this debate a certain legitimacy.
You should note that "assembly work" (by which I assume you mean "assembly line work") is not considered to be skilled labor. Also, I was not aware that "code" is a position. Maybe you, too, should think before you post.
Maybe it was the switch to Linux. Here is one possible scenario:
The defensive coach's wife might have washed his lucky socks. He was busy learning how to use the new software, so he didn't know it was happening. Next thing you know, it's game day, and the socks have lost their magic. It's a tragedy.
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Adaptec is very cooperative. You can find their page here. I think the aic7xxx driver in the 2.4 kernel tree was sponsored by Adaptec (i.e. they paid a guy to write it). It works very well. Here is the official page for the aic7xxx driver.
Right now, it is a small group of people devoting a limited amout of resources to fighting the DMCA. As the Felten case showed, it is possible to use the threat of lawsuit to prevent publication, no matter how constitutionally unsound (remember, when it looked like it was headed for the Supreme Court, the plaintiff backed down). This announcement by IEEE should send shockwaves around the world. With "more than 377,000 individual members in 150 countries" and as the producer of "30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical engineering", this will make more than a little noise.
IEEE has clout and reputation, it is doubtful that something like this is going to kill their journals. I am an optimist; I like to think that they are stepping up to the plate rather than backing down.
It most certainly was not. You see, when hard times hit, people first give up food, then housing, new clothing, and finally, as a last resort, entertainment. Wait, do I have that backward?
Why is this important? My wife depends upon a grammar checking program. On average, it brings up her score on term papers by a letter grade. The only product with a grammar checker for Linux is WordPerfect. I purchased a copy of Corel Office 2000 and installed it under Mandrake 8.1, but it is extremely unstable (sometimes it silently crashes, allowing her to enter text but saving only empty files). Since Corel sold their Linux OS division, they also nuked their online Linux help for Corel Office (which seems to be a violation of their EULA, since they still own the Office for Linux division, but that's another story). The only place this help exists is in Google's cached pages. I would purchase Star Office if it had a grammar checking program.
Has anybody heard a rumor about plans for a grammar checking program in the next version of Star Office? Does anybody have any hints on making WordPerfect 9 more stable under Mandrake 8.x? Is it worth the money to upgrade to WordPerfect 10? Does anybody know of a stable word processor with a grammar checker for Linux?
That is why I enabled the the auto-login, fancy windowmanager and desktop, and big, friendly icons.
Does anybody know how I can get access to Newsblaster so I can read a synopsis of the article to determine whether Newsblaster is something that would interest me?
This gave me an idea for protecting my wife's laptop.
I edited the ifup script to e-mail the IP address to me. I want the thief to use the computer for a long period of time, and use it repeatedly, so I can track them. There is an autologin feature available for gdm and kdm, so I enabled it (I didn't know it could be used as a security feature). I also put some familiar looking icons on the desktop so the thief will feel at home and use the machine frequently, and hopefully they will click the big "connect to internet" icon.
Of course, I usually just use this to eject the CD-ROM when my wife is using the computer. I think it's funny, but I think she rolls her eyes. I can't be sure. Maybe a webcam...
As far as knocking over a tank, I could believe it (despite what the retired military men might say). Look at photos of the damage done by a storm, a 65-ton tank is just more grist for the mill.
These storm chasers are not just endangering their own lives. They are forcing local police and rescue to overextend themselves at an already busy time. They are also in the way of the real storm chasers, the ones from NSSL and CAPS, driving trucks (with doppler radar dishes on the back). (Check these trucks out. They are really cool.) I have heard that people tend to stop in the middle of the road to get some footage, making it difficult for researchers and rescue crew to pass.
I have a message to all would-be storm chasers: If you want a thrill, do something safe, like sky diving. At least there you have a backup plan (the reserve chute). What are you going to do when a piece of wood comes flying at you at speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour?
As far as Windows for the Itanium, who cares? No, seriously, I don't know. I don't follow new Microsoft product releases unless something funny or terrible happens (Bill's demo crashes, or spyware). I am under the impression that there is a 64-bit Itanium Windows out there, but maybe I am wrong. That would be one hell of a lag.
You will recall that when AMD demoed hammer recently, they showed a 32-bit Windows system and a 64-bit Linux system. People were commenting on AMD preferring Linux over Windows, therefore showing a more powerful Linux demo than a Windows demo.
The truth is that there is not a 64-bit version of Windows for the Hammer. AMD was able to modify the existing Linux code to create their own 64-bit version of Linux. This is the best example of the freedom granted by the GPL that I have seen in months. AMD is releasing a new product at the end of the year, and they are able to create a demand for it NOW by having software for it NOW.
Do you remember the lag between the introduction of Intel's Itanium and a Windows version for Itanium? It was not well coordinated. AMD has done the opposite, they created a demand and a use several months before the release, and it's working. We are all drooling over a 64-bit architecture, and we will have 6-8 months to think about (and save up for) the purchase of a Hammer.
This is the freedom to innovate that is granted by the GPL and denied by the MS EULA. GPLed software is going to make AMD some money.
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Don't forget digital watches. Setting your watch is an interactive process, involving a user interface (blinking digits), feedback (changing digits), and input (the buttons).
I guess they don't want you to steal the date and time from Jack Valenti's watch.
You could legally build insecure digital watches in the UK, but you might be thrown in jail if you come to the U.S. to tell people how to build such watches.
Listen, I know many of us are cynical, and we believe that most people in Washington are owned by corporate dollars. However, I still have a glimmer of hope for our country. Visit the U.S. House of Representatives website and the U.S. Senate website, find your representatives' e-mail addresses, and give them your opinion. Voice your concerns! If you sit idly by, and these laws get passed, then you have only yourself to blame. We sent 15,000 letters to the DOJ regarding the Microsoft antitrust settlement, and people noticed. Numbers speak to these people.
Instead of posting to slashdot, write to your representatives. We can make a difference if we all do it this weekend. You have nothing better to do.
The SSSCA, too, is a scam. It is the same scam, sold with the same line. The astounding thing is that people are falling for it again. What is wrong with these people?
It's like watching somebody play three card monty over and over, convinced that they can find the queen. The question is, who is the sucker, the congressman or the voter?
This makes me ill.
The real victory here is Judge Kollar-Kotelly's attitude. She has been an unknown for many months, and we are now starting to see her attitude. I like it. She is not going to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, but she is not going to appear partial to the states. She is going to be fair, and she is not going to be easily fooled. The outcome might not be my pipe dream ("Bill, fetch me another mocha."), but I have faith in the judge.
As for the debate ensuing here, I have my answers:
Is the code in the public domain?
No.
If it were, would it be ethical or legal to use it to make our open source projects better?
No (we do not want to make Microsoft a victim in any way).
Are there faked nude celebrity photos of the judge on the internet?
Give it time, young grassshopper.
You quote a cost of $20 to $50 per page for typesetting. In my experience (physics journals), there is a required electronic format (usually TeX), and the journal provides templates. I can see the article exactly as it will appear in the journal before I send it to the journal. The writer does the typesetting. I have heard the claim of typesetting costs before, but it sounds false to me. Is this the case in other disciplines?
Look inside the front cover of a journal to see the cost of a subscription. Where does the money go? It's not to the writers, the editors, or the reviewers. I claim that it is not to the typesetters. Furthermore, the page costs (paid by the writer, and often between $50 and $100 per page) are supposed to cover the typesetting costs. Why do they cost so much money?
Free access to information is long overdue.
Do you have some evidence of this? Some data? I could claim that Americans use guns to protect their homes, but most often guns are used to kill people. Is this because we always hear about it when somebody is murdered, but rarely hear about it when somebody repels a burgler by threatening with a gun?
I can tell you that 100% of the people I know who use LINUX and own a DVD drive do not copy DVDs.
The point is that you should not make these unproven claims. It strengthens the case of those who want to steal our fair use rights.
Sorry, I meant sign in LaTeX, not HTML.
The page claims that if you are using LaTeX 2e, \usepackage{textcomp} gets the right character set, and \texteuro gets the symbol. I tried it, and it works.
Now, does anybody know how to get the American symbol for cents?
Anyway, with the Crossover plugin (or just use wine), you can look at Quicktime.
I just don't understand why Apple won't release a viewer for Linux.
No, it wasn't even royalty. It was Rousseau, from Confessions. You can read more about it here.
Now, if you really want to trace your Microprocessor lineage, start with William Oughtred.
When programming is considered an art rather than a "skilled labor position", will we talk about "starving programmers" and "suffering for your code"? Maybe, in our current economy.
You know that Beethoven was the first musician be considered an artist. Before that, they were considered skilled laborers. Mozart was very skilled at cranking out beautiful music in short order. Now, we consider music to be art. Photography and motion pictures went through the same transition. What happened? Debates like this. So, thank you for calling programming a "skilled labor position." It gives this debate a certain legitimacy.
You should note that "assembly work" (by which I assume you mean "assembly line work") is not considered to be skilled labor. Also, I was not aware that "code" is a position. Maybe you, too, should think before you post.
No, I live nowhere near Idaho. I'll give you a hint: it's to the South and East of Idaho.
Maybe it was the switch to Linux. Here is one possible scenario:
The defensive coach's wife might have washed his lucky socks. He was busy learning how to use the new software, so he didn't know it was happening. Next thing you know, it's game day, and the socks have lost their magic. It's a tragedy.