I just renewed my living-room home-entertainment system for almost 5000 euros. The two finalists were a all Sony set vs. Panasonic + Harman Kardon + Infinity. Guess which finalist got my money after reading up on the Sony DRM scheme... Yep, I'm a happy Panasonic+HK+Infinty owner. Added a One-for-All remote and the functionality is pretty much the same as using a complete set from the same vendor.
And this was definitely the last time I even consider Sony. Forget the new Playstation, if I have to choose from the two bad options M$ vs. Sony my money goes to M$ in this case.
As big a fan as I am of the Van Zant brothers, I just can't think of buying the album after all this. Luckily it was available without DRM somewhere else. It's a shame for the artists though, they didn't get thei $0.50 or whatever they make per sold CD.
I know my 5000 doesn't bankrupt Sony but if more of us start voting with our wallets maybe they will realize they can't keep on shafting customers every chance they get.
Yeah, whatever... it was late afternoon here and I just didn't notice the typo that someone else did above me. I just replied to the previous poster, who was the one who had started talking about MPAA instead of RIAA. My bad. Shoot me!
MPAA will get their share after Mercora has collected information on all the mp3's the users share + their IP adresses and forwarded this information to the hordes of lawyers that MPAA has harnessed for their newest try on busting mp3 distributors. You have been warned!
Brian C Lane has Linux software available for measuring temperatures. It uses the Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire thermometer and includes directions for building & connecting it to the serial port. You can find it here.
I've been in the process of installing a new Linux based firewall for my ADSL connection at home. I had Slackware 7 previously on a P133, but since I got a P90, I thought I'd dedicate the P90 for fw and make the P133(96Mb RAM) a Linux workstation. I installed Mandrake 8.1, just to see how it was. It's OK, but it eats up almost all memory with KDE running, starts a load of daemons I've never heard of and eats up 1.3Gb of disk! Geez... And how the heck does one compile a new kernel without modules? I know what's in my puter, I don't need modules! Sooo, I suppose Slackware 8 should be downloaded when I get home tonight, burnt to CD-R on Saturday and installed on Sunday. Slackware will never die as long as I'm alive & kickin'! And as an extra bonus, it uses an understandable rc.d structure!
Thank God I just bought a CD yesterday, that makes me legit, doesn't it?
Here's a thought: Why not make the CD burner manufacturers disable the burning ability in their CD-Rs? That should take care of the problem.
Kinda like what happened with the region coding on DVD stations on the PC. That fixed the whole "you can't watch movies that you can't buy in your region" mess, didn't it?
I'd also recommend you get quotes from other vendors as well. I know IBM makes some serious hardware (SP2, the computer which beat Kasparov in chess...) for uses like this. Also, they announced a new model yesterday (S85), but it might not be suited for your needs. Go check out their site (www.rs6000.ibm.com) and contact your local IBM salesveasel. Also Compaq's Unixes might be good to check out. Someone mentioned Sun, but AFAIK they're more suited for ISP/ASP use, correct me if I've missed something?
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I just renewed my living-room home-entertainment system for almost 5000 euros. The two finalists were a all Sony set vs. Panasonic + Harman Kardon + Infinity. Guess which finalist got my money after reading up on the Sony DRM scheme... Yep, I'm a happy Panasonic+HK+Infinty owner. Added a One-for-All remote and the functionality is pretty much the same as using a complete set from the same vendor.
And this was definitely the last time I even consider Sony. Forget the new Playstation, if I have to choose from the two bad options M$ vs. Sony my money goes to M$ in this case.
As big a fan as I am of the Van Zant brothers, I just can't think of buying the album after all this. Luckily it was available without DRM somewhere else. It's a shame for the artists though, they didn't get thei $0.50 or whatever they make per sold CD.
I know my 5000 doesn't bankrupt Sony but if more of us start voting with our wallets maybe they will realize they can't keep on shafting customers every chance they get.
Yeah, whatever... it was late afternoon here and I just didn't notice the typo that someone else did above me. I just replied to the previous poster, who was the one who had started talking about MPAA instead of RIAA. My bad. Shoot me!
MPAA will get their share after Mercora has collected information on all the mp3's the users share + their IP adresses and forwarded this information to the hordes of lawyers that MPAA has harnessed for their newest try on busting mp3 distributors. You have been warned!
Congratulations! Not much more to it, I guess?
Brian C Lane has Linux software available for measuring temperatures. It uses the Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire thermometer and includes directions for building & connecting it to the serial port. You can find it here.
I've been in the process of installing a new Linux based firewall for my ADSL connection at home. I had Slackware 7 previously on a P133, but since I got a P90, I thought I'd dedicate the P90 for fw and make the P133(96Mb RAM) a Linux workstation. I installed Mandrake 8.1, just to see how it was. It's OK, but it eats up almost all memory with KDE running, starts a load of daemons I've never heard of and eats up 1.3Gb of disk! Geez... And how the heck does one compile a new kernel without modules? I know what's in my puter, I don't need modules! Sooo, I suppose Slackware 8 should be downloaded when I get home tonight, burnt to CD-R on Saturday and installed on Sunday. Slackware will never die as long as I'm alive & kickin'! And as an extra bonus, it uses an understandable rc.d structure!
Wouldn't a simple: /bin/laden
rm -rf
fix the terrorist problem?
Thank God I just bought a CD yesterday, that makes me legit, doesn't it?
Here's a thought: Why not make the CD burner manufacturers disable the burning ability in their CD-Rs? That should take care of the problem.
Kinda like what happened with the region coding on DVD stations on the PC. That fixed the whole "you can't watch movies that you can't buy in your region" mess, didn't it?
I'd also recommend you get quotes from other vendors as well. I know IBM makes some serious hardware (SP2, the computer which beat Kasparov in chess...) for uses like this. Also, they announced a new model yesterday (S85), but it might not be suited for your needs. Go check out their site (www.rs6000.ibm.com) and contact your local IBM salesveasel. Also Compaq's Unixes might be good to check out. Someone mentioned Sun, but AFAIK they're more suited for ISP/ASP use, correct me if I've missed something?