I just recently (a week ago) bought a Pioneer DVR-104, which is the OEM model of the DVR-A04. They are _exactly_ the same drive, but the pricing can vary from as little as $20 to as much as $100 depending on where you look. The only difference is the box and software, which if you're a Linux user isn't going to do you any good anyway.
Also, for those of you that are using devfs with this drive. If you get funky errors whenever you try to burn a DVD, sputtering about Hardware Errors, Illegal Requests, and/or Invalid whatevers. You will need to manually create the/dev/hdx device with mknod (mknod hda b 3 0 worked for me).
The reason for needing both the/dev/hdx and the/dev/srx devices at the same time is because you need to run hdparm -d 0 -r 0/dev/hdx. This will turn off Read Only and DMA. I know it seems weird that you'd want to turn off DMA, but if I don't I can't burn DVDs, CDRs burn just fine however. Of course the/dev/srx device is so the burner software can actually burn to the CD.
I might add that all of this is with the 2.4.19 kenel, so those of you still using the 2.2.x kernel might not run into this. Once I got the hdparm thing set, everything ran nicely. Hopefully these tips will save you some grief, as I spent a couple days digging through google, and was luckily given the hdparm tip from a fellow I emailed off a mailing list I found who had described the same issue.
Another small caveat, if I try to pipe mkisofs output into dvdrecord, the burn will fail. If I make the iso file first, and then call dvdrecord, the burn is successful. Once again, I don't know if this is something specific to my setup, so it's just an fyi.
After those issues were cleared up, though, the drive seems to do perform very well. I've been busy clearing off disk space all day long.
I disagree. Micorosft is in a much better market position right now than Dell is. If Dell had said "NO", they would very quickly cease to be the #1 or #2 PC supplier in the world because of the Microsoft backlash, at which point their stock price would plummet extremely fast, the stockholders would scream bloody murder, the fella that made the decision to say "NO" would be fired, somebody would have the fun job of crawling back to Microsoft, asking them to pppleeeease bring them back into good graces and a long and slow PR/Marketing healing process would begin, during which time Dell's competitors (the ones that didn't say "NO") would have taken the opportunity to make sure that Dell didn't regain the #1 or #2 PC supplier spot anytime soon.
I don't slight Dell for saying "YES" to Microsoft. They're in the business to make money, not make political statements. It also appears from the message, that they have "solved" their Microsoft/Linux problem by simply splitting Linux off to a different hardware segment. Something that seems to make much more business sense than saying "NO" to Microsoft.
And what has Moby done to take advantage of this new type of customer demand? Evidently shrugged his shoulders, and decided that the status quo is good enough.
I feel much better when I see other artists (like David Bowie) see that the way the music customer demands the music product is changing, and instead of complaining, actually charges forward and embraces the newness.
I wish there were more stories about the innovative new ways people are trying to take command of this new Internet-driven world, instead of just the "oh woe is me" stories.
I think it's pretty comical that so many people think that music and other creative works need greater copyright lifetimes than DNA.
While I don't like psychoanalyzing dead people, I really doubt Walt Disney (the man) would have felt that Mikey Mouse needed such additional protection per the Sonny Bono Law.
When the concept of copyright was first hammered out, people created for other people. I think we've gotten away from that in the "mainstream" sector. Works aren't made for people anymore, they're made for "interest groups" and "demographic sectors". I'm still hopefull that this mentality is a "flash in the pan" in the global scheme of things, but sometimes I get nervous.
"Users simply remember exactly where on the images they clicked and in what order."
How is that better simpler and more secure? 99% of the people will simply click on the middle of the picture, and boom you're through. Of course then there might be instances where you have to click a minimum of 5 places, so suddenly everyone is clicking on each corner and then once in the middle.
Personally, I'd just as soon stick to my text passwords. I don't find my passwords hard to remember, as I utilize a seqeuence of rules to generate the password. That way I can choose a word (I usually like titles of Books/Movies/Albums/Songs) and run it through my little set of rules to product a string of characters that bear little resemblance to the original word, but is still easy for me to remember, because I don't have to remember the actual password, just the methodology to get to it.
If by pictures for passwords, they had meant that you supplied (uploaded) a special image of your own personal creation, and then that image is authenticated using an algorithm that generates a key by the values of the pixels in the picture, and then matches it via a public/private ssh key authorization manner; that, I think would be pretty slick.
Well, I'll quit rambling now. I just don't see how clicking on parts of a picture is easier to remember or more secure than typing in a string of text.
I voted Libertarian last election, and everything I see happening on the political front does nothing but continue to solidify my belief that the Libertarian Party really has the right idea about the _real_ issues.
What I continue to find sad is when I'm with a group of people fussing about taxes, or laws, or governmental intrusion, all I have to do say "If you vote Libertarian, then all that has a chance of coming true. If you don't then you're doing nothing more than whining while at the same time contributing to the problem." All of a sudden I get looked at like I just landed from Mars.
I'm still an optimist from the standpoint that I truly believe that eventually people will see that the path that's being followed is _extremely_ hazardous to our basic freedoms, but sometimes it's hard to stay upbeat. Especially when I see big players in Industry and Government repeatedly and unabashedly squelch the freedoms and liberties granted by the Constitution.
Yes, that is a quote directly from Senator Fritz Hollings. It is portrayed in Frank Zappa's song Porn Wars which can be found on the album Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers of Prevention. For those old enough to remember, this is a harkening back to the PMRC (an attempt to force the listing of song lyrics on album jackets). The hearing is a matter of public record, and is out on the web somewhere... unfortunately I don't have a link to provide, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
The most interesting thing about the hearing IMO is when Mr. Zappa simply keeps asking "Okay, so who's going to pay for it?". I just think it's funny to see how 20 years later these guys are still trying to take away as many freedoms as possible.
For what it's worth, the only artists from the music industry that showed up to testify at the PMRC hearings were Frank Zappa and John Denver. Of course both of them are dead now.
Sometimes I wonder why whenever Microsoft farts it makes a headline in Slashdot. I realize that Microsoft is a huge corporation that touches all of us in one way or another... many slashdotters are Microsoft users/supportors I suspect. But this following of the legal proceedings seems to be taking on an OJ-esque feel.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I'm also not a fan of the Government telling private industry how they should run their business. If it were up to me I'd have this whole legal mess dropped, and quit spending millions of taxpayers money.
So what about Micorsoft's abuses? I'm a firm believer that the market will not allow for sustained monopolist abuse, given that the market is allowed to function unfettered by Governmental interference. How many people now use an operating system different from Windows because of these procedings? A scant few, I'd say.
What does this have to do with this news item? Well, does noone else have a problem with the Government ordering Microsoft to release their source code? I don't agree with their business practices, but I don't think they should be ordered to hand over their IP to a bunch of unscrupulous politicians. I don't trust Microsoft at all, but I trust politicians even less. At least Microsoft is upfront about it's base motives, they want to completely dominate the market with their product and at the same time make a massive amount of money. Show me a successful company that doesn't have that same mantra. And good luck finding a politician that is upfront about his base motives.
I just think we should all be careful about viewing the Government as our benefactors, saving us from the evil that big bad Microsoft has perpetrated upon us all. Microsoft produces a product that millions of people pay money to use, and I don't think they should be crippled because they have been so successful. Granted, I'm never going to purchase or use any of their products in situations where I'm able to choose, but that is a judgement that I should be allowed to make, it is not one that the Government should be making for me.
The music industry convinced me to stop using their product. The prices have become exhorbitant, and the quality of the artistry has become lousy. Songwriters don't put out albums anymore, marketing departments do. So I have tossed them aside and stick with the old tunes that I still love. For new stuff I follow local bands and non-music-industry-affiliated bands I find here and there on the internet. I find that these guys, while they don't always have access to the best sound equipment, are producing songs of greater interest than the latest smash pop barbie/ken doll.
The movie industry has almost convinced me to stop using their product. Movie prices keep rising, the quality of the theatres keep dropping. I find it unacceptable to go to a theatre and see 5 minutes of "black rain" when there's a bright white scene. I think that movies are also moving into the abyss, much like music, but at a much slower pace. There are still enough people making interesting movies to keep my interest alive. So if I shirk theatres that's no big deal; it's simple to make a home theatre these days. And then there's the whole DVD and HDTV mess... I'm still hoping the MPAA and FCC don't manage to do to movies what the music industry has done to music.
While I gave up on network TV a long time ago, I've found that many cable/satellite channels have quality entertainment in their lineups. Because of the sheer number of available channels, I always figured that cable/satellite TV would stay relatively unscathed by all the BS that has destroyed the music industry, and is gnawing at the movie industry. Then I read articles like this, and ones that talk about the fervent attepts to destroy the ability to record television programs. I can easily see television being the next media outlet that I throw away.
If there are any music/movie/television industry workers reading this thread, I just want to make it clear that in your rabid pursuit to further unbalance the scales of product and profit you are at the very least going to lose this customer. And I can't help but think there are others who feel the same.
The music industry convinced me to stop using their product. The prices have become exhorbitant, and the quality of the artistry has become lousy. Songwriters don't put out albums anymore, marketing departments do. So I have tossed them aside and stick with the old tunes that I still love. For new stuff I follow local bands and non-music-industry-affiliated bands I find here and there on the internet. I find that these guys, while they don't always have access to the best sound equipment, are producing songs of greater interest than the latest smash pop barbie/ken doll.
The movie industry has almost convinced me to stop using their product. Movie prices keep rising, the quality of the theatres keep dropping. I find it unacceptable to go to a theatre and see 5 minutes of "black rain" when there's a bright white scene. I think that movies are also moving into the abyss, much like music, but at a much slower pace. There are still enough people making interesting movies to keep my interest alive. So if I shirk theatres that's no big deal; it's simple to make a home theatre these days. And then there's the whole DVD and HDTV mess... I'm still hoping the MPAA and FCC don't manage to do to movies what the music industry has done to music.
While I gave up on network TV a long time ago, I've found that many cable/satellite channels have quality entertainment in their lineups. Because of the sheer number of available channels, I always figured that cable/satellite TV would stay relatively unscathed by all the BS that has destroyed the music industry, and is gnawing at the movie industry. Then I read articles like this, and ones that talk about the fervent attepts to destroy the ability to record television programs. I can easily see television being the next media outlet that I throw away.
If there are any music/movie/television industry workers reading this thread, I just want to make it clear that in your rabid pursuit to further unbalance the scales of product and profit you are at the very least going to lose this customer. And I can't help but think there are others who feel the same.
I did the Waffle House cook thing for 2.5 years, and when they say they're open 24 hours a day 7 days a week, well they also mean 365 days a year. Three Christmases I worked. You get paid double time, so it's not totally uncompensated. Personally I was always amazed at how crazy busy Chrismas is at the Waffle House, even on the third shift.
"The guys at Google thought, 'How cool that we can offer this to our users' without thinking about security..."
Interesting that this is being pushed off onto Google. I think a more appropriate phrase would be "The guys at though, 'How cool that this website is so easy to set up' without thinking about security...."
I've been a "Slashdot regular" (interpret that how you like) for the last four years. While there have been many changes that I've not been exactly thrilled with, they've all been only minor annoyances, and I've simply shrugged them off.
If, however, Slashdot is to become nothing more than a ZDNet/CNet/TechTV style site, then I'm afraid I won't have much use for it anymore. I enjoy a site where I can see a nice mixture of "latest news" and interesting articles/opinion pieces that wouldn't be considered "newsworthy" of other newsy sites. I understand you don't intend to change the content, but, call me cynical, I don't see how it can't if the only blood that keeps the site alive is revenue.
I hope this new child manages to keep the Slashdot marriage together, but in my experience such choices rarely achieve their intended effect.
Damn it, I was about to go onto page three in the review, and then this happened:
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in/home/sites/site1/web/index.php on line 4
Could not connect to database!
So does Slashdot ever warn sites that they're going to be posting a link to them?
I run squid at home and block banner ads and counters via adzap and squid_redirect. So I don't even see ads at home, which not only make the internet look better (IMO), but helps speed it up through my modem. Anyway, I wonder if I'll be able to even get to articles now... (without bypassing the proxy, of course).
I really hope this was simply a stupid oversight. I do think that too often people simply take licenses and plagerism very lightly. Often high school papers read like a poorly chopped and pasted encyclopedia, and rarely is anyting done to curtail this.
IP is important. Copyright is important. Licensing is important. Unfortuantely defenders of all these things are often cast in a bad light because of a perceived association with other groups who misuse these tools.
If more people simply made programs that they wanted, using the most appropriate API for their program perhaps more quality software would be created and less rhetoric would be bandied about for no good purpose.
Over a year ago Mozilla was supposed to be put under a dual GPL/NPL licensing scheme. To date absolutely nothing has been done about it. I'm rather amazed that the KDE people recieved such a thorough lashing over the licensing issues with Qt, while Mozilla has been allowed to scamper along for over a year without as much as a whimper.
I'm often amazed when I hear people talking about Mozilla and it's GPL nature. Mozilla is not GPL at all. If it were, Galeon could include the Gecko rendering engine without having to carry along the whole freaking Mozilla project.
I like Mozilla; I think it's a valiant effort, but if the reason you're chosing to use it is because it's "Free"... well, I think you might be in for a rude awakening.
There's noway this is possible. The AC-3 Specification is an Open Standard! And the ac3dec Software is "A free (GPL) AC-3 stream decoder". If Dolby wishes to dispute that the code within the decoder has been stolen from them, then that's a matter they need to take up with the software writers.
I just don't see what possible infrigement there could be, especially on the part of Dolby.
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I just recently (a week ago) bought a Pioneer DVR-104, which is the OEM model of the DVR-A04. They are _exactly_ the same drive, but the pricing can vary from as little as $20 to as much as $100 depending on where you look. The only difference is the box and software, which if you're a Linux user isn't going to do you any good anyway.
/dev/hdx device with mknod (mknod hda b 3 0 worked for me).
/dev/hdx and the /dev/srx devices at the same time is because you need to run hdparm -d 0 -r 0 /dev/hdx. This will turn off Read Only and DMA. I know it seems weird that you'd want to turn off DMA, but if I don't I can't burn DVDs, CDRs burn just fine however. Of course the /dev/srx device is so the burner software can actually burn to the CD.
Also, for those of you that are using devfs with this drive. If you get funky errors whenever you try to burn a DVD, sputtering about Hardware Errors, Illegal Requests, and/or Invalid whatevers. You will need to manually create the
The reason for needing both the
I might add that all of this is with the 2.4.19 kenel, so those of you still using the 2.2.x kernel might not run into this. Once I got the hdparm thing set, everything ran nicely. Hopefully these tips will save you some grief, as I spent a couple days digging through google, and was luckily given the hdparm tip from a fellow I emailed off a mailing list I found who had described the same issue.
Another small caveat, if I try to pipe mkisofs output into dvdrecord, the burn will fail. If I make the iso file first, and then call dvdrecord, the burn is successful. Once again, I don't know if this is something specific to my setup, so it's just an fyi.
After those issues were cleared up, though, the drive seems to do perform very well. I've been busy clearing off disk space all day long.
I disagree. Micorosft is in a much better market position right now than Dell is. If Dell had said "NO", they would very quickly cease to be the #1 or #2 PC supplier in the world because of the Microsoft backlash, at which point their stock price would plummet extremely fast, the stockholders would scream bloody murder, the fella that made the decision to say "NO" would be fired, somebody would have the fun job of crawling back to Microsoft, asking them to pppleeeease bring them back into good graces and a long and slow PR/Marketing healing process would begin, during which time Dell's competitors (the ones that didn't say "NO") would have taken the opportunity to make sure that Dell didn't regain the #1 or #2 PC supplier spot anytime soon.
I don't slight Dell for saying "YES" to Microsoft. They're in the business to make money, not make political statements. It also appears from the message, that they have "solved" their Microsoft/Linux problem by simply splitting Linux off to a different hardware segment. Something that seems to make much more business sense than saying "NO" to Microsoft.
Just my 2c.
And what has Moby done to take advantage of this new type of customer demand? Evidently shrugged his shoulders, and decided that the status quo is good enough.
I feel much better when I see other artists (like David Bowie) see that the way the music customer demands the music product is changing, and instead of complaining, actually charges forward and embraces the newness.
I wish there were more stories about the innovative new ways people are trying to take command of this new Internet-driven world, instead of just the "oh woe is me" stories.
Wonder if the group Pink Martini could be commissioned to whip out a quick and dirty GNOME2 Beta3 theme song. The title seems right up their alley.
I think it's pretty comical that so many people think that music and other creative works need greater copyright lifetimes than DNA.
While I don't like psychoanalyzing dead people, I really doubt Walt Disney (the man) would have felt that Mikey Mouse needed such additional protection per the Sonny Bono Law.
When the concept of copyright was first hammered out, people created for other people. I think we've gotten away from that in the "mainstream" sector. Works aren't made for people anymore, they're made for "interest groups" and "demographic sectors". I'm still hopefull that this mentality is a "flash in the pan" in the global scheme of things, but sometimes I get nervous.
"Users simply remember exactly where on the images they clicked and in what order."
How is that better simpler and more secure? 99% of the people will simply click on the middle of the picture, and boom you're through. Of course then there might be instances where you have to click a minimum of 5 places, so suddenly everyone is clicking on each corner and then once in the middle.
Personally, I'd just as soon stick to my text passwords. I don't find my passwords hard to remember, as I utilize a seqeuence of rules to generate the password. That way I can choose a word (I usually like titles of Books/Movies/Albums/Songs) and run it through my little set of rules to product a string of characters that bear little resemblance to the original word, but is still easy for me to remember, because I don't have to remember the actual password, just the methodology to get to it.
If by pictures for passwords, they had meant that you supplied (uploaded) a special image of your own personal creation, and then that image is authenticated using an algorithm that generates a key by the values of the pixels in the picture, and then matches it via a public/private ssh key authorization manner; that, I think would be pretty slick.
Well, I'll quit rambling now. I just don't see how clicking on parts of a picture is easier to remember or more secure than typing in a string of text.
Hear Hear!
I voted Libertarian last election, and everything I see happening on the political front does nothing but continue to solidify my belief that the Libertarian Party really has the right idea about the _real_ issues.
What I continue to find sad is when I'm with a group of people fussing about taxes, or laws, or governmental intrusion, all I have to do say "If you vote Libertarian, then all that has a chance of coming true. If you don't then you're doing nothing more than whining while at the same time contributing to the problem." All of a sudden I get looked at like I just landed from Mars.
I'm still an optimist from the standpoint that I truly believe that eventually people will see that the path that's being followed is _extremely_ hazardous to our basic freedoms, but sometimes it's hard to stay upbeat. Especially when I see big players in Industry and Government repeatedly and unabashedly squelch the freedoms and liberties granted by the Constitution.
Yes, that is a quote directly from Senator Fritz Hollings. It is portrayed in Frank Zappa's song Porn Wars which can be found on the album Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers of Prevention. For those old enough to remember, this is a harkening back to the PMRC (an attempt to force the listing of song lyrics on album jackets). The hearing is a matter of public record, and is out on the web somewhere ... unfortunately I don't have a link to provide, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
The most interesting thing about the hearing IMO is when Mr. Zappa simply keeps asking "Okay, so who's going to pay for it?". I just think it's funny to see how 20 years later these guys are still trying to take away as many freedoms as possible.
For what it's worth, the only artists from the music industry that showed up to testify at the PMRC hearings were Frank Zappa and John Denver. Of course both of them are dead now.
Sometimes I wonder why whenever Microsoft farts it makes a headline in Slashdot. I realize that Microsoft is a huge corporation that touches all of us in one way or another ... many slashdotters are Microsoft users/supportors I suspect. But this following of the legal proceedings seems to be taking on an OJ-esque feel.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I'm also not a fan of the Government telling private industry how they should run their business. If it were up to me I'd have this whole legal mess dropped, and quit spending millions of taxpayers money.
So what about Micorsoft's abuses? I'm a firm believer that the market will not allow for sustained monopolist abuse, given that the market is allowed to function unfettered by Governmental interference. How many people now use an operating system different from Windows because of these procedings? A scant few, I'd say.
What does this have to do with this news item? Well, does noone else have a problem with the Government ordering Microsoft to release their source code? I don't agree with their business practices, but I don't think they should be ordered to hand over their IP to a bunch of unscrupulous politicians. I don't trust Microsoft at all, but I trust politicians even less. At least Microsoft is upfront about it's base motives, they want to completely dominate the market with their product and at the same time make a massive amount of money. Show me a successful company that doesn't have that same mantra. And good luck finding a politician that is upfront about his base motives.
I just think we should all be careful about viewing the Government as our benefactors, saving us from the evil that big bad Microsoft has perpetrated upon us all. Microsoft produces a product that millions of people pay money to use, and I don't think they should be crippled because they have been so successful. Granted, I'm never going to purchase or use any of their products in situations where I'm able to choose, but that is a judgement that I should be allowed to make, it is not one that the Government should be making for me.
Have many happy years!
The music industry convinced me to stop using their product. The prices have become exhorbitant, and the quality of the artistry has become lousy. Songwriters don't put out albums anymore, marketing departments do. So I have tossed them aside and stick with the old tunes that I still love. For new stuff I follow local bands and non-music-industry-affiliated bands I find here and there on the internet. I find that these guys, while they don't always have access to the best sound equipment, are producing songs of greater interest than the latest smash pop barbie/ken doll. ... I'm still hoping the MPAA and FCC don't manage to do to movies what the music industry has done to music.
The movie industry has almost convinced me to stop using their product. Movie prices keep rising, the quality of the theatres keep dropping. I find it unacceptable to go to a theatre and see 5 minutes of "black rain" when there's a bright white scene. I think that movies are also moving into the abyss, much like music, but at a much slower pace. There are still enough people making interesting movies to keep my interest alive. So if I shirk theatres that's no big deal; it's simple to make a home theatre these days. And then there's the whole DVD and HDTV mess
While I gave up on network TV a long time ago, I've found that many cable/satellite channels have quality entertainment in their lineups. Because of the sheer number of available channels, I always figured that cable/satellite TV would stay relatively unscathed by all the BS that has destroyed the music industry, and is gnawing at the movie industry. Then I read articles like this, and ones that talk about the fervent attepts to destroy the ability to record television programs. I can easily see television being the next media outlet that I throw away.
If there are any music/movie/television industry workers reading this thread, I just want to make it clear that in your rabid pursuit to further unbalance the scales of product and profit you are at the very least going to lose this customer. And I can't help but think there are others who feel the same.
I guess I'm done ranting for now.
The movie industry has almost convinced me to stop using their product. Movie prices keep rising, the quality of the theatres keep dropping. I find it unacceptable to go to a theatre and see 5 minutes of "black rain" when there's a bright white scene. I think that movies are also moving into the abyss, much like music, but at a much slower pace. There are still enough people making interesting movies to keep my interest alive. So if I shirk theatres that's no big deal; it's simple to make a home theatre these days. And then there's the whole DVD and HDTV mess ... I'm still hoping the MPAA and FCC don't manage to do to movies what the music industry has done to music.
While I gave up on network TV a long time ago, I've found that many cable/satellite channels have quality entertainment in their lineups. Because of the sheer number of available channels, I always figured that cable/satellite TV would stay relatively unscathed by all the BS that has destroyed the music industry, and is gnawing at the movie industry. Then I read articles like this, and ones that talk about the fervent attepts to destroy the ability to record television programs. I can easily see television being the next media outlet that I throw away.
If there are any music/movie/television industry workers reading this thread, I just want to make it clear that in your rabid pursuit to further unbalance the scales of product and profit you are at the very least going to lose this customer. And I can't help but think there are others who feel the same.
I guess I'm done ranting for now.
I did the Waffle House cook thing for 2.5 years, and when they say they're open 24 hours a day 7 days a week, well they also mean 365 days a year. Three Christmases I worked. You get paid double time, so it's not totally uncompensated. Personally I was always amazed at how crazy busy Chrismas is at the Waffle House, even on the third shift.
"The guys at Google thought, 'How cool that we can offer this to our users' without thinking about security..."
Interesting that this is being pushed off onto Google. I think a more appropriate phrase would be "The guys at though, 'How cool that this website is so easy to set up' without thinking about security...."
If, however, Slashdot is to become nothing more than a ZDNet/CNet/TechTV style site, then I'm afraid I won't have much use for it anymore. I enjoy a site where I can see a nice mixture of "latest news" and interesting articles/opinion pieces that wouldn't be considered "newsworthy" of other newsy sites. I understand you don't intend to change the content, but, call me cynical, I don't see how it can't if the only blood that keeps the site alive is revenue.
I hope this new child manages to keep the Slashdot marriage together, but in my experience such choices rarely achieve their intended effect.
Damn it, I was about to go onto page three in the review, and then this happened: /home/sites/site1/web/index.php on line 4
Could not connect to database!
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in
So does Slashdot ever warn sites that they're going to be posting a link to them?
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/spencergifts/612275.ht ml
Has anyone tried this yet?
IP is important. Copyright is important. Licensing is important. Unfortuantely defenders of all these things are often cast in a bad light because of a perceived association with other groups who misuse these tools.
Just my 2c
(sorry for the double post ... killed by the tab button)
Seems like I remember a short lived comic book series from long ago whose mantra was ...
Seems that this tactic has already proven it's ineffectiveness with Cyrix's PR ratings.
Just a thought.
I'm often amazed when I hear people talking about Mozilla and it's GPL nature. Mozilla is not GPL at all. If it were, Galeon could include the Gecko rendering engine without having to carry along the whole freaking Mozilla project.
I like Mozilla; I think it's a valiant effort, but if the reason you're chosing to use it is because it's "Free" ... well, I think you might be in for a rude awakening.
I just don't see what possible infrigement there could be, especially on the part of Dolby.