Abit uses standard Intel chipsets. If there is a problem with linux running on them, then this is a good idea. Windows dosn't have any problem with the mobo's, so there probably isn't anything wrong with them. Abit is only trying to make things easier for linux users.
Is this just a standard distro with a special kernel driver or somthing?
As long as there isn't any incompatiblity (and Abit put there modifications under the GPL), I don't see a problem. Abit just wants there boards to work. Abit has always been a pretty damn cool company, I guess that's there 'market nich'.
I know visual C++ comes with a command line make thing, and I think borland does to. But are they putting out just the compiler, or the whole dev invironment.
The question you should be asking is How much of the NSA does Corel own
Those canucks have been wanting a piece of our National Security Agency for a long time, since they haven't been able to build there own shadow government worth shit. Now that Corel owns a part of the NSA, they can just use ours on the weekends or something. Plenty of time to disappear 'undesirables'
Am I missing somthing here, why was this posted along with this 'MS owns a part of Corel' story?
Why not just write an essay and post it seperately, or just post a comment the next time someone bitches?
Oh, and one more thing: And we don't post any submission that contains the word Linux or Microsoft.
I had to read that like 4 times before it made any sense, you might want to change 'any' to 'all'. It looked like you would notPost a story at all if it included the words 'linux' or 'microsoft'. Witch didn't make to much sense to me...
Is this in Sorenson codec or not? I really don't want to install QuickTime (or Realplayer for that matter) On this computer. Programs like that tend to like to reassociate every possible media type with them. Its really fucking annoying
When are these people just going to start releasing stuff in MPEG format so we can all see it?
Look again at your numbers. According to you, only 60 million people (1% of 6billion) even know what a computer is. The population of The United States is 250 million, Japan has 120 million people, and Germany has 90 million.
And what do you mean by 'know how a computer works'? You mean like knowing how to use one? How to program one? How to build one out of transistors? You only need to know how to use a computer in order to use Linux. I would think that more then 6 million people know how to use a computer. I'd put that number at a several hundred million at least (The majority populations of the US, Western Europe, Japan and Taiwan. Plus large numbers in India and Eastern Europe)
Whats the problem?
The problem is in the idea that only 6 million people even know how to use a computer. By the way, if you look back at your post, you're saying that only.01% of the people in the world know how to use Linux, or only 600,000 people. About twice the population of Des Moines, Iowa.
The percentage of the population that is illiterate and lives in mud huts is probably around 90% (literate: 600million)
Of the remaining 10%, 90% dont know what a computer is. (Know what a computer is: 60million)
Of the remaining 1%, 90% dont know how a computer works. (Know how a computer works: 6million)
Of the remaining.1%, 90% dont know how linux works. (Know how linux works: 600,000)
I guess I was assuming the guy was talking about the US population, not the whole world's. I guess that was a little short sighted of me. But I'm sure that if he didn't mean the US specifically, he was only really talking about industrialized 'first world' nations, where people can afford computers
. Too many people are wasting their time trying to support Winmodems and the latest AGP 10X 3D enhance obfuscator instead of working on the core kernel.
Despite what ESR might say, the rules laid down in The Mythical Man Month Still hold true. Simply adding more people will not speed up development. You might think people are wasting there time, but people who enjoy 3d games might not, you know.
. The percentage of the population that has the skill and time to use Linux (as it currently is) is extremely small. I would guess about 0.1%.
I find this to be an odd statement, personally. Although I would certainly consider myself to be a 'technical' person, I found installing RedHat Linux 6.1 to be pretty much plug and play (Well, actually, the first time i tried it, Lilo wouldn't work, I just had to use a boot disk. The second time I didn't even bother with Lilo).
It even worked with my network and Graphics Card OK. Not perfect, but I would say that it wasn't any more difficult to install then windows 95 or 98 (Way easier, if you consider window's upgrade check)
If he's talking about setting up things like KDE or Genome manually, I could understand, but Just installing, for the most part, isn't really anymore difficult then win98/95.
If you were to consider trolling an art, then that should be moderated down. It sucked. If it's art, that's bad art. It would be like the drawing of a 2 year old. It was a lame and pathetic rehash of the clichéd. RWM (right wing maniac).
If you want art, just look in trolltalk (although I'm not sure if it's still being updated) for the posts by 80md, 70% or ell7. Or the funny stuff by OSM or that 'g'whatever guy.
This was just sad. No one was fooled by that, no one
Does anyone know if NSI can delete, remove domains if you register them with other registars? It seems like they still own the main boxes, can the still arbitraraly delete domains if someone else sets them up?
Forget DeCSS. I would like to see someone create a device driver for Windows that fool software into thinking the encrypted.vob files (and whatever else off the DVD disk) sitting on your hard-drive is actually a physical DVD disk. That way you can use real, licensed, DVD player software to decrypt and play pirated movies you downloaded off the net.
Um, you can't actually do that. Windows players can't play a an encrypted.VOB file without the decryption keys. When you copy a.VOB file of a DVD disk, you don't copy the keys (indeed, it's physically impossible to do so with an unmodified DVD-ROM drive). Therefore, a windows player will have nothing from witch to decrypt the data.
Of course, you could just decrypt the data by brute force, since it's so weak. In fact, there is a program that does just that. It's called DeCSS. (Well, actually, I'm not even sure if DeCSS, or anything else, can do this)
You can't decrypt something with out the proper keys, that's the whole point of encryption.
Therefore, you can't play back an encrypted DVD without the data on the key tracks. That data cannot be copied. That's the whole point of CSS.
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DVD's are copyable (bit-for-bit) with or without DeCSS
No, they are not. You'd need to hack the DVD-ROM drive itself in order to copy the encryption keys. Just beacuse everyone belives somthing dosn't make it true. Copying a bunch of encrypted data get's you nothing at all.
What is up with this reality twisting?
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From the page: The MPAA has got a bee in their bonnet about this DeCSS. They think it's good for COPYING DVDs, which, in fact, it's totally useless for.
WTF?!?!
How is DeCSS useless for copying DVDs? In fact, DeCSS is really the only way to get a perfect, unencrypted copy of a DVD without hacking the hardware. Other methods (frame grabbing from video memory, analog sampling from an input card), will let you copy the movie, but not the 'extras', such as audio tracks, other angles, whatever.
Don't you people know that a standard DVD player can't copy the decryption keys from the disk in normal operation! You can't just CP the encrypted VOB files and expect them to work anywhere (they won't work on windows players, because without the keys, the Software will have nothing to decrypt them with. In order to view them, you need something to decrypt them. Namely DeCSS).
First it was just that you didn't really need DeCSS to copy, you could get a DVD pressing plant, Then it was you can copy the files to the hard drive with CP. Now your saying that DeCSS is useless For copying??!?! That's all it does!! (Have you ever even run the software??)
Ok, I'm sure I'm going to be flamed for saying this, accused of being bought by the MPAA (wtf is that?), or marked as troll. But whatever. The amount of doublethink here on slashdot about this is just insane. Is there one person here who's actually just copied the VOB files from an encrypted disk and then been able to watch the video on another computer?
This has to do with the cable to your monitor. Not the monitor itself. "Van Eck Phreaking" uses the radiation emitted by the glass tube (or LCD screen), not the cable. Also, you can already buy monitors that subtly mess up the picture so that they can't there images can't be resolved remotely.
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and why nothing anyone does is going to stop fundamentalists from bringing issues like this to America's ballots.
I know it's terrible. These poeple are exsercising there rights as american citisens.
In fact, they seem to be supporting somthing that a majority of people (in certan places) agree with.
When are these irrational fundys going to learn? democracy is only for people who agree with us.
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Abit uses standard Intel chipsets. If there is a problem with linux running on them, then this is a good idea. Windows dosn't have any problem with the mobo's, so there probably isn't anything wrong with them. Abit is only trying to make things easier for linux users.
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Is this just a standard distro with a special kernel driver or somthing?
As long as there isn't any incompatiblity (and Abit put there modifications under the GPL), I don't see a problem. Abit just wants there boards to work. Abit has always been a pretty damn cool company, I guess that's there 'market nich'.
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I know visual C++ comes with a command line make thing, and I think borland does to. But are they putting out just the compiler, or the whole dev invironment.
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why isn't this attached to the artical that it spawned from? I noticed this on a few other posts as well. The thread has been torn asunder!
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What's up with all these wimpy sciantific theorys these days?
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The question you should be asking is How much of the NSA does Corel own
Those canucks have been wanting a piece of our National Security Agency for a long time, since they haven't been able to build there own shadow government worth shit. Now that Corel owns a part of the NSA, they can just use ours on the weekends or something. Plenty of time to disappear 'undesirables'
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Am I missing somthing here, why was this posted along with this 'MS owns a part of Corel' story?
Why not just write an essay and post it seperately, or just post a comment the next time someone bitches?
Oh, and one more thing:
And we don't post any submission that contains the word Linux or Microsoft.
I had to read that like 4 times before it made any sense, you might want to change 'any' to 'all'. It looked like you would notPost a story at all if it included the words 'linux' or 'microsoft'. Witch didn't make to much sense to me...
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I know some users of Linux who do not even know how to program in assembly language,
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You mean, they don't even know assembly programing!? what are they doing in front of a computer to begin with!??
Ok, that was sarcasm, but I just found the idea of you even needing to say that kind of funny
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Is this in Sorenson codec or not? I really don't want to install QuickTime (or Realplayer for that matter) On this computer. Programs like that tend to like to reassociate every possible media type with them. Its really fucking annoying
When are these people just going to start releasing stuff in MPEG format so we can all see it?
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Look again at your numbers. According to you, only 60 million people (1% of 6billion) even know what a computer is. The population of The United States is 250 million, Japan has 120 million people, and Germany has 90 million.
.01% of the people in the world know how to use Linux, or only 600,000 people. About twice the population of Des Moines, Iowa.
.1%, 90% dont know how linux works.
And what do you mean by 'know how a computer works'? You mean like knowing how to use one? How to program one? How to build one out of transistors? You only need to know how to use a computer in order to use Linux. I would think that more then 6 million people know how to use a computer. I'd put that number at a several hundred million at least (The majority populations of the US, Western Europe, Japan and Taiwan. Plus large numbers in India and Eastern Europe)
Whats the problem?
The problem is in the idea that only 6 million people even know how to use a computer. By the way, if you look back at your post, you're saying that only
The percentage of the population that is illiterate and lives in mud huts is probably around 90%
(literate: 600million)
Of the remaining 10%, 90% dont know what a computer is.
(Know what a computer is: 60million)
Of the remaining 1%, 90% dont know how a computer works.
(Know how a computer works: 6million)
Of the remaining
(Know how linux works: 600,000)
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I guess I was assuming the guy was talking about the US population, not the whole world's. I guess that was a little short sighted of me. But I'm sure that if he didn't mean the US specifically, he was only really talking about industrialized 'first world' nations, where people can afford computers
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. Too many people are wasting their time trying to support Winmodems and the latest AGP 10X 3D enhance obfuscator instead of working on the core kernel.
Despite what ESR might say, the rules laid down in The Mythical Man Month Still hold true. Simply adding more people will not speed up development. You might think people are wasting there time, but people who enjoy 3d games might not, you know.
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Most serious Linux users don't give a rats arse whether Linux competes with Windoze on the desktop.
Yeh, right. That would mean that 'serious' Linux users don't post on slashdot ether.
Once the community recognizes this, we can move forward with MEANINGFUL work instead of trying to create a windoze workalike.
Maybe you should just let people program the stuff they like. I personally find interface design pretty interesting stuff.
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. The percentage of the population that has the skill and time to use Linux (as it currently is) is extremely small. I would guess about 0.1%.
I find this to be an odd statement, personally. Although I would certainly consider myself to be a 'technical' person, I found installing RedHat Linux 6.1 to be pretty much plug and play (Well, actually, the first time i tried it, Lilo wouldn't work, I just had to use a boot disk. The second time I didn't even bother with Lilo).
It even worked with my network and Graphics Card OK. Not perfect, but I would say that it wasn't any more difficult to install then windows 95 or 98 (Way easier, if you consider window's upgrade check)
If he's talking about setting up things like KDE or Genome manually, I could understand, but Just installing, for the most part, isn't really anymore difficult then win98/95.
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If you were to consider trolling an art, then that should be moderated down. It sucked. If it's art, that's bad art. It would be like the drawing of a 2 year old. It was a lame and pathetic rehash of the clichéd. RWM (right wing maniac).
If you want art, just look in trolltalk (although I'm not sure if it's still being updated) for the posts by 80md, 70% or ell7. Or the funny stuff by OSM or that 'g'whatever guy.
This was just sad. No one was fooled by that, no one
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Does anyone know if NSI can delete, remove domains if you register them with other registars? It seems like they still own the main boxes, can the still arbitraraly delete domains if someone else sets them up?
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Forget DeCSS. I would like to see someone create a device driver for Windows that fool software into thinking the encrypted .vob files (and whatever else off the DVD disk) sitting on your hard-drive is actually a physical DVD disk. That way you can use real, licensed, DVD player software to decrypt and play pirated movies you downloaded off the net.
.VOB file without the decryption keys. When you copy a .VOB file of a DVD disk, you don't copy the keys (indeed, it's physically impossible to do so with an unmodified DVD-ROM drive). Therefore, a windows player will have nothing from witch to decrypt the data.
Um, you can't actually do that. Windows players can't play a an encrypted
Of course, you could just decrypt the data by brute force, since it's so weak. In fact, there is a program that does just that. It's called DeCSS. (Well, actually, I'm not even sure if DeCSS, or anything else, can do this)
You can't decrypt something with out the proper keys, that's the whole point of encryption.
Therefore, you can't play back an encrypted DVD without the data on the key tracks. That data cannot be copied. That's the whole point of CSS.
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DVD's are copyable (bit-for-bit) with or without DeCSS
No, they are not. You'd need to hack the DVD-ROM drive itself in order to copy the encryption keys. Just beacuse everyone belives somthing dosn't make it true. Copying a bunch of encrypted data get's you nothing at all.
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grab a copy now!
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Um, actually you could market a chocolate bar under the name "Marijuana" it just wouldn't sell.
You know damn well it would sell. Like hot cakes, it would.
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You make your choices, and we'll make ours.
My mirror is right here.
Some people belive that risks need to be taken to protect our freedoms.
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From the page: The MPAA has got a bee in their bonnet about this DeCSS. They think it's good for COPYING DVDs, which, in fact, it's totally useless for.
WTF?!?!
How is DeCSS useless for copying DVDs? In fact, DeCSS is really the only way to get a perfect, unencrypted copy of a DVD without hacking the hardware. Other methods (frame grabbing from video memory, analog sampling from an input card), will let you copy the movie, but not the 'extras', such as audio tracks, other angles, whatever.
Don't you people know that a standard DVD player can't copy the decryption keys from the disk in normal operation! You can't just CP the encrypted VOB files and expect them to work anywhere (they won't work on windows players, because without the keys, the Software will have nothing to decrypt them with. In order to view them, you need something to decrypt them. Namely DeCSS).
First it was just that you didn't really need DeCSS to copy, you could get a DVD pressing plant, Then it was you can copy the files to the hard drive with CP. Now your saying that DeCSS is useless For copying??!?! That's all it does!! (Have you ever even run the software??)
Ok, I'm sure I'm going to be flamed for saying this, accused of being bought by the MPAA (wtf is that?), or marked as troll. But whatever. The amount of doublethink here on slashdot about this is just insane. Is there one person here who's actually just copied the VOB files from an encrypted disk and then been able to watch the video on another computer?
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This has to do with the cable to your monitor. Not the monitor itself. "Van Eck Phreaking" uses the radiation emitted by the glass tube (or LCD screen), not the cable. Also, you can already buy monitors that subtly mess up the picture so that they can't there images can't be resolved remotely.
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Many people seemed to have missed that Cryptonomicon was fiction
Many people seemed to have missed the fact that Proccessors, and all computer equipment give of EM waves based on what there doing. Well, you at least
Monitors, especialy, give of there signal very strongly. it is posible to see what's up on them.
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