They should do. The ones I've seen are cardbus USB bridges hardwired to a USB serial device that talks AT commands. I guess they've gone from PCMCIA serial to cardbus usb serial because they need it for the bitrate and want to keep AT interfaces.
Firstly the LSB covers several platforms nowdays, secondly its goal is to create common packages. That means getting the same package running on Red Hat and SuSE regardless of whether its proprietary or free software.
Sharedware were doing this back in the days of Windows 95. They've since gone under and been bought out but they were also much smarter in another way - they did add in cards for generic PCs that had keyboard/mouse/video/sound on them. Unfortunately I've never been able to get anyone involved to liberate the docs to drive it in Linux
Those kind of popups are easy to trace,easy to remove and easy to test the crack. I have seen more subtle things done which worked far better. One game I was side involved in needed information from the manual - about two thirds of the way through.
Deleting users files will just get the author sued if not facing criminal charges depending on the country (if that code bomb went off in the UK for example it would be computer misuse - as are a lot of the spyware apps if only our legal system would take the problem seriously)
My mum knows who Linus Torvalds is. OTOH she and a lot of open source people don't know much about Ulrich Drepper without whose tireless work we'd not have all the C library support and standards compliance we do
But there are zillions of open source people who really matter, often in non-obvious ways. People like Bill Hanneman whose code few people use and everyone else hopes never to need to use, but whose code gets us into goverment and helps its users in important ways. The answer to that riddle btw is that he writes accessibility software so the disabled can use the Linux desktops.
A free software role call would be a truely gigantic document and its precisely this that makes it work. Not just the big names but the tens of thousands of people who contributed an hour once to report and fix a bug.
RPM can support this. You need to package the rpm with rsync friendly gzip then on the target box assemble the bits you have on disk from the original and rsync the two. Thats cpu costly for the server end unfortunately.
Rusty did a talk on the same things with dpkg a few years ago using rsync friendly dpkg formats to cut down international costs for Debian mirrors in AU
Nobody can fork the standard. The patent "grant" is for compliant implementations only. So its microsofts document, microsoft controlled and thats the end of it.
SPF also has another deeply fundamental flaw - it requires the ISP to be vaguely competent. That alone is fatal for many of ISPs.
There are lots of legitimate businesses and parties who need strong crypto, offsite data for protection against raids etc - journalists in many countries, unpopular but legal organisations who will be raided just to put them out of business by the powers that be (or by the powers that be on behalf of their paying customers like the IPR businesses)
One of the cutest I've seen was RAID5 over network block device (encrypted) with the disks all in different legal jurisdictions.
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Its a simple CD upgrade or you can do it with yum live. You can go back to about Red Hat 3.0.3 and update to Fedora Core without a reinstall providing you do it in several steps, or certainly 7.*->Fedora directly.
Within two years you'll want to upgrade anyway because the applications you are using will feel positively prehistoric and a lot of the newer stuff coming down the pipeline won't be there.
It's not like an upgrade is a big deal, its just "insert CD", wait, repeat, done (or you can do it live with yum which is how I do them usually). In fact I've got boxes that have been live upgraded each time from RH 7.x to FC2.
You are forgetting the advantage of the US setup - if you don't like the Olympics you don't have to pay for them. The BBC is providing me with the olympics whether I want it or not.
I'd much rather it spent the money on say the cricket 8)
Yes but if you instead get 40 little epia boxes with no disk just a CF card, and a server its much cheaper. If you recycle old PC's as thin clients it gets very cheap indeed
All you need is a dialin modem (eg an old pay as you go mobile 8)) and a Linux box running kannel - now your normal call rate/sminutes apply. GPRS also helps a lot since its then traffic by usage. Certainly thats the big reason I now use the mobile phone stuff a lot more.
GPRS is actually a lot better for things like irc, which being such low traffic volumes means you can irc on long train journeys with your phone plugged into the sockets virgin trains now supply, and at a low typical cost.
WAP seems to be on the increase. I've had more mails in the past 3 months about the wapirc gateway I wrote for my old 7110 than in the 2 years before.
I think the big difference in the debate is that up until now the core Gnome apps haven't had such policies and people are worried about them getting everywhere.
From day one mysql and open office have had clear policies about how they work. Their communities are built of people who accepted that when they joined while the people who didnt went elsewhere
In the Gnome case it is making a change later on than the beginning, which makes it more divisive although the thread is probsbly larger and more acrimonious than its importance in the big picture actually is 8)
I don't think Piracy is the real concern here. It's all these irritating people who are avoiding the goal of the media oligarchs to control *all* media, all content, all music.
Once only the RIAA can manufacture music that can be played they can finally crush all those troublesome musicians, artists, actors and film directors because there will be nowhere else to go, there will be no alternative music available in the USA.
It is the same play that was made by threatening CD manufacturers with lawsuits for aiding and abetting that was used to make it harder for small businesses to get CD music manufactured, and which backfired only because the CD writer became cheap.
The media companies wish the printing press to be a monopoly granted by government (to them of course). It worked in the USSR why shouldn't it work in the USSA
Sure it does. The US violates those rules by allowing software patents.
WIPO provides that software is a literary work. The copyright convention provides that the author of a literary work shall have sole rights...
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Michael Moorcock sort of covered the latter in "Breakfast in the ruins" where in one story Jesus gets hanged because the entire crowd is in fact time travel tourists who have been told what they must shout for by historians not wishing to change the past
The cheapest way I know is still a large PC tower case, a 3ware SATA raid controller a big PSU and a couple of large fans withs attitude. On the PCI side you don't need much unless you want to do gigabit (or of course just shove your server in the same case and dont do the I/O networked)
Academics can be as dangerously biased as anyone else. A trawl through academic history in the 1930's and the whole sorry "arian race" saga shows just how easily 'academia' is corrupted.
Academia also has its "religions" that come and go and shut out opposing views. Microkernel people spent years being nearly as good as existing technology in part because if it wasn't Microkernel work you didn't get funding.
Similarly references in academic journals merely indicate that someone somewhere once probably said something vaguely like the authors claims. If a fundamental assumption is later found wrong people will continue to build upon and reference the invalid data. Journal referencing because it is not entirely represented in a mappable electronic space doesn't have an effective "revoke" mechanism, nor a way to look for which subtrees of data in use have been invalidated by other research.
Finally academic journals are reviewed by experts in the field - which means there is a tendancy to exclude papers that disagree with the current experts beliefs.
Wikipedia has a large and very different set of problems, but I don't think holding up current practice as perfection is wise. Those ivory towers are built on the blood of grad students, corporate research money, political favours and academic backstabbing.
It seems odd to me that the same people who can follow that the DMCA is problematic because it bans the tools not the abuses of the tools can't make the connection when its non-computing related.
Peering through neighbours walls (with this technology or drilling peepholes) is the offence. Would you argue that drills should be regulated because they could be used this way ?
If anything the main reason to regulate it is likely to be because long exposures to low levels of radio frequency radiation seems to do bad things to human beings so operating one might require training, care and exposure limits.
I'd also disagree its just a military tool. It has clear civilian usages including earthquake searches (because it can visualise spaces not just people so gives more info) and even boring stuff like inspecting buildings. Having had a large hole hacked in my house to see if a crack was structural I can certainly appreciate the civilian value of having tools to inspect it effectively without the mess, and the dust, and the redecorating.
Orkut is "affiliated with" Google. A lot would depend upon how close the connection actually is (and whether the suit is real or Affinity Engines is another funded by Baystar special or a real business).
If your father was a company X plumber and on his weekends sold flower arrangements then company X would be very unlikely to have any liability if someone was killed by a flower arrangement.
Now if he sells flower arrangements under the company brand on the company premises it all gets rather murkier.
To argue Orkut is acting as an agent of Google in running Orkut.com does not seem to be clear cut at all.
Orkut claims to be "affiliated with" not run by Google. If it is a non Google project then how would you argue he is acting as their agent with actual authority in running it. The "affiliated by" also seems to argue that there is no apparent authority.
(Of course the cynics might begin to wonder if Orkut is associated with not run by because of a desire to separate an existing legal uncertainty..)
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They should do. The ones I've seen are cardbus USB bridges hardwired to a USB serial device that talks AT commands. I guess they've gone from PCMCIA serial to cardbus usb serial because they need it for the bitrate and want to keep AT interfaces.
Because people pay to claim compliance ?
That isn't to say that a lot of other people arent shipping distributions that pass the compliance test or come extremely close 8)
Firstly the LSB covers several platforms nowdays, secondly its goal is to create common packages. That means getting the same package running on Red Hat and SuSE regardless of whether its proprietary or free software.
Sharedware were doing this back in the days of Windows 95. They've since gone under and been bought out but they were also much smarter in another way - they did add in cards for generic PCs that had keyboard/mouse/video/sound on them. Unfortunately I've never been able to get anyone involved to liberate the docs to drive it in Linux
Those kind of popups are easy to trace,easy to remove and easy to test the crack. I have seen more subtle things done which worked far better. One game I was side involved in needed information from the manual - about two thirds of the way through.
Deleting users files will just get the author sued if not facing criminal charges depending on the country (if that code bomb went off in the UK for example it would be computer misuse - as are a lot of the spyware apps if only our legal system would take the problem seriously)
My mum knows who Linus Torvalds is. OTOH she and a lot of open source people don't know much about Ulrich Drepper without whose tireless work we'd not have all the C library support and standards compliance we do
But there are zillions of open source people who really matter, often in non-obvious ways. People like Bill Hanneman whose code few people use and everyone else hopes never to need to use, but whose code gets us into goverment and helps its users in important ways. The answer to that riddle btw is that he writes accessibility software so the disabled can use the Linux desktops.
A free software role call would be a truely gigantic document and its precisely this that makes it work. Not just the big names but the tens of thousands of people who contributed an hour once to report and fix a bug.
RPM can support this. You need to package the rpm with rsync friendly gzip then on the target box assemble the bits you have on disk from the original and rsync the two. Thats cpu costly for the server end unfortunately.
Rusty did a talk on the same things with dpkg a few years ago using rsync friendly dpkg formats to cut down international costs for Debian mirrors in AU
Nobody can fork the standard. The patent "grant" is for compliant implementations only. So its microsofts document, microsoft controlled and thats the end of it.
SPF also has another deeply fundamental flaw - it requires the ISP to be vaguely competent. That alone is fatal for many of ISPs.
There are lots of legitimate businesses and parties who need strong crypto, offsite data for protection against raids etc - journalists in many countries, unpopular but legal organisations who will be raided just to put them out of business by the powers that be (or by the powers that be on behalf of their paying customers like the IPR businesses)
One of the cutest I've seen was RAID5 over network block device (encrypted) with the disks all in different legal jurisdictions.
Its a simple CD upgrade or you can do it with yum live. You can go back to about Red Hat 3.0.3 and update to Fedora Core without a reinstall providing you do it in several steps, or certainly 7.*->Fedora directly.
Alan
Within two years you'll want to upgrade anyway because the applications you are using will feel positively prehistoric and a lot of the newer stuff coming down the pipeline won't be there.
It's not like an upgrade is a big deal, its just "insert CD", wait, repeat, done (or you can do it live with yum which is how I do them usually). In fact I've got boxes that have been live upgraded each time from RH 7.x to FC2.
Alan
You are forgetting the advantage of the US setup - if you don't like the Olympics you don't have to pay for them. The BBC is providing me with the olympics whether I want it or not.
I'd much rather it spent the money on say the cricket 8)
and its not open in some countries in the "free to use" sense. You collide with the various mpeg related patents
Yes but if you instead get 40 little epia boxes with no disk just a CF card, and a server its much cheaper. If you recycle old PC's as thin clients it gets very cheap indeed
All you need is a dialin modem (eg an old pay as you go mobile 8)) and a Linux box running kannel - now your normal call rate/sminutes apply. GPRS also helps a lot since its then traffic by usage. Certainly thats the big reason I now use the mobile phone stuff a lot more.
GPRS is actually a lot better for things like irc, which being such low traffic volumes means you can irc on long train journeys with your phone plugged into the sockets virgin trains now supply, and at a low typical cost.
WAP seems to be on the increase. I've had more mails in the past 3 months about the wapirc gateway I wrote for my old 7110 than in the 2 years before.
I think the big difference in the debate is that up until now the core Gnome apps haven't had such policies and people are worried about them getting everywhere.
From day one mysql and open office have had clear policies about how they work. Their communities are built of people who accepted that when they joined while the people who didnt went elsewhere
In the Gnome case it is making a change later on than the beginning, which makes it more divisive although the thread is probsbly larger and more acrimonious than its importance in the big picture actually is 8)
I don't think Piracy is the real concern here. It's all these irritating people who are avoiding the goal of the media oligarchs to control *all* media, all content, all music.
Once only the RIAA can manufacture music that can be played they can finally crush all those troublesome musicians, artists, actors and film directors because there will be nowhere else to go, there will be no alternative music available in the USA.
It is the same play that was made by threatening CD manufacturers with lawsuits for aiding and abetting that was used to make it harder for small businesses to get CD music manufactured, and which backfired only because the CD writer became cheap.
The media companies wish the printing press to be a monopoly granted by government (to them of course). It worked in the USSR why shouldn't it work in the USSA
Sure it does. The US violates those rules by allowing software patents.
WIPO provides that software is a literary work. The copyright convention provides that the author of a literary work shall have sole rights...
Michael Moorcock sort of covered the latter in "Breakfast in the ruins" where in one story Jesus gets hanged because the entire crowd is in fact time travel tourists who have been told what they must shout for by historians not wishing to change the past
After the first detailed analysis of the large perl leak onto the net experts reckon CPAN could cost $677M to clean up 8)
If its the cost of writing the code then it should be a good approximation of the cost of writing it when perl 6 comes out
The cheapest way I know is still a large PC tower case, a 3ware SATA raid controller a big PSU and a couple of large fans withs attitude. On the PCI side you don't need much unless you want to do gigabit (or of course just shove your server in the same case and dont do the I/O networked)
Academics can be as dangerously biased as anyone else. A trawl through academic history in the 1930's and the whole sorry "arian race" saga shows just how easily 'academia' is corrupted.
Academia also has its "religions" that come and go and shut out opposing views. Microkernel people spent years being nearly as good as existing technology in part because if it wasn't Microkernel work you didn't get funding.
Similarly references in academic journals merely indicate that someone somewhere once probably said something vaguely like the authors claims. If a fundamental assumption is later found wrong people will continue to build upon and reference the invalid data. Journal referencing because it is not entirely represented in a mappable electronic space doesn't have an effective "revoke" mechanism, nor a way to look for which subtrees of data in use have been invalidated by other research.
Finally academic journals are reviewed by experts in the field - which means there is a tendancy to exclude papers that disagree with the current experts beliefs.
Wikipedia has a large and very different set of problems, but I don't think holding up current practice as perfection is wise. Those ivory towers are built on the blood of grad students, corporate research money, political favours and academic backstabbing.
It seems odd to me that the same people who can follow that the DMCA is problematic because it bans the tools not the abuses of the tools can't make the connection when its non-computing related.
Peering through neighbours walls (with this technology or drilling peepholes) is the offence. Would you argue that drills should be regulated because they could be used this way ?
If anything the main reason to regulate it is likely to be because long exposures to low levels of radio frequency radiation seems to do bad things to human beings so operating one might require training, care and exposure limits.
I'd also disagree its just a military tool. It has clear civilian usages including earthquake searches (because it can visualise spaces not just people so gives more info) and even boring stuff like inspecting buildings. Having had a large hole hacked in my house to see if a crack was structural I can certainly appreciate the civilian value of having tools to inspect it effectively without the mess, and the dust, and the redecorating.
Why bother - they can have x86 platforms. They can just buy AMD processors from Europe, or VIA processors from Taiwan.
Rumour has always been that Dresden was chosen in part because AMD was worried about and wanted to cover the US government going loopy again
Orkut is "affiliated with" Google. A lot would depend upon how close the connection actually is (and whether the suit is real or Affinity Engines is another funded by Baystar special or a real business).
If your father was a company X plumber and on his weekends sold flower arrangements then company X would be very unlikely to have any liability if someone was killed by a flower arrangement.
Now if he sells flower arrangements under the company brand on the company premises it all gets rather murkier.
To argue Orkut is acting as an agent of Google in running Orkut.com does not seem to be clear cut at all.
Orkut claims to be "affiliated with" not run by Google. If it is a non Google project then how would you argue he is acting as their agent with actual authority in running it. The "affiliated by" also seems to argue that there is no apparent authority.
(Of course the cynics might begin to wonder if Orkut is associated with not run by because of a desire to separate an existing legal uncertainty..)