I feel bad for whoever's TiBook this is... he didn't get the AirPort card! that means he has to actually leave the internet behind when he goes to the can!
(I just got my TiBook, and the airport range is less than spectacular anyway... sigh.)
i have their first album kicking around here someplace... i can still sing along to some of it, when i hear the music. a friend and i actually just had a "competition" to see who could recite the most DC Talk songs (Nu Thang.. i forget which song). i won. anyway, their old stuff was basically disposable, trendy, and fit the mold of the day. Jesus Freak was like nothing else, which was the point.
Steve Taylor's Liver was disappointing.
back on the original off-topic topic.
i meant in New CCM era. as far as i can see, there was a time when CCM just kind of fell apart.
and yes, i am a whippersnapper relative to you--my Other Father (i adopted a family... long story) is constantly picking on my music and talking about "back in my day, we listened to Keith Green, and you could understand the words!"
It is worth noting that those guys _were_ underground musicians, and weren't disposable popular music.
(btw, if you want a laugh, MxPx did a cover of Keith Green's "You Found Me". i can put up an mp3 of it if you'd like. MxPx also did "I Can Be Friends With You" for that Petra tribute album. Punk covers of Keith Green...)
CCM is just the same tired crap all over again, with a few exceptions.
/me remembers Back in the Day, when DC Talk came out with Jesus Freak, bringing something new and innovative. That was really cool.
Anyway, please don't assume that just because it's Xtian, it's not disposable pop music. Jaci Velasquez is still Just Another Solo Female, Audio Adrenaline is just another southern rock band, and i won't even mention Michael W Smith (as a side note, the newsboys were doing some really cool stuff at one point in time, and most things with Steve Taylor are worth checking out).
Why exactly are they having kids try to hack into this again? It seems rather redundant to me. Any system used for something like this shouldn't require testing for security, it should be _proven_ to be secure (ie: written in ADA, if it comes to that).
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm nervous that this is going to be a solution written by crappy government contractors in VB and SQL server (or PHP and MySQL, for that matter), without any of the rigor associated with Real Security.
geez, you employees that think you can just create tunnels outside of the secure zone! how can you guarantee security that all people that come in through your tunnel are passing through the proper checkpoints on the other side?!
i hope you at least bothered to encrypt the traffic over this tunnel, or have you been leaving copies of the company's sensitive objects all over Spacetime, where any competent spatial engineer or timelord can just grab them?
OK, this has inspired me to seek out the craziest, zaniest, wildest homebrew stuff made out of these. We all know about Lego Machine Guns, but how about a Homemade Ballpoint Plotter?
with that in mind, what have you folks managed with legos?
they can't, really. but they can make it terribly difficult to get the images by naming them cryptically (the md5 sum is a one-way hash of image contents... so trying to guess them is non-trivial). so you could manually visit the site, once a minute, for 24 hours, and save every image that comes up, and rename it locally.
or you could just take the pictures yourself. that would be my best option.
('while true; do wget -r -l0 http://thesite/; sleep 60; done' for 24 hours would also work, with some awk/perl goodness to rename the files, but who really cares that much?)
"Because Pavlovich knew that California is commonly known as the center of the movie industry, and knew that Silicon Valley in California is on of the top three technology "hot spots" in teh country, he knew, or should have known, that the DVD republishing and distribution activities he was illegally doing and allowing to be done through the use of his Web site, while benefiting him, were injuriously affecting the motion picture and computer industries in California." (page 10)
So, this begs the question: did Pavlovich actually republish or distribute DVDs, or just DeCSS? The court seems to think he was actively pirating movies with his buddies.
How the hell he injuriously affects the computer industry is an open question...
"Pavlovich cannot claim innocent intent... Pavlovich knew... that by posting the misappropriated information on the Internet, he was making the information available to... users... including users in California" (page 11)
Wow. This is getting a bit excessive. My understanding is that the Trade Secret information was misappropriated by someone else, which is how it got into his hands. The fact the Internet just happens to extend into California is unfortunate.
I can't wait for judges in the bible belt to start shutting down porn sites based on the fact that "making these sinful images is illegal, and by doing it via the Internet, those images are made available to users in "
sigh. this is getting more and more saddening as i read it.
What this attorney is saying, both here and by representing the DVD CCA in this case, is that it's okay for a man who committed a "crime" outside of California to be tried in California, because it's against California's laws.
This is the real crux of the issue. The court is rather illegally overextending its jurisdiction. I have every confidence that the Supreme Court is going to lay the proverbial smack down on this decision, as judges really aren't stupid, there are just some that are exceedingly ignorant or biased (welcome to America, where our system is _designed_ to allow an individual representative of government to what he feels is right, even if it goes against everybody else... it's a feature, not a bug)
The absolute best case scenario is going to be knocking down the trial in California and having someone bring up the charges in Indiana. This is highly inconvenient for Pavlovich, as he lives in Texas now, but would be required to show for trial in ?Chicago? (not familiar where the court for my area is).
From the ruling, the problematic section of text: "The question in this case is whether California's long-arm statute reaches owners, publishers of those Web sites when, in violation of California law, they make available for copy or distribution trade secrets or copyrighted material of California companies. We hold it does." (Page 4). The whole ruling reads as a fan-boy decision in favor of California's Great Movie and Computer Industries. It also lists off some rather, uh, disparate, "related" cases.
Anyway, I said it before, and I'll say it again: I have every confidence that the Supreme Court will tell the California court they can't do this. This is America, where our system is _designed_ to allow an individual representative of government to what he feels is right, even if it goes against everybody else... it's a feature, not a bug!
ok, what is it with chicks and hand sanitizer? i wouldn't be asking on slashdot, except that it's 0030 on a work night =)
is it just a "females have a sense of hygiene" thing, or something else? i have yet to meet a male that carries the stuff, but upon thinking about it, lots and lots of women carry it.
down south in the midwest(Iowa here, i'm originally a St Louis boy), we get a lot more ice than you do up north. it's warm enough to melt some of the snow, which then freezes on the road. and even as far north as iowa it's not as bad as down by st louis (where they get freezing rain at least once a year). part of the reason i can put up with the "cold" iowa winters. (i lived in idaho for a bit too... -40degF, -80 with wind).
anyway, driving in a snowstorm at 55 or 60 is trivial, until the road is icy. once there's ice, the very concept of control is a joke.
there is little more fun than snowpacked parking lots... *nostalgic sigh*
. o O (this sign says "DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS", but they look so hungry...)
haha, quoting linuxgruven stats as being key to linux is like saying that the little VAR down the way is key to Microsoft's success.
Linuxgruven is/was/will always be a bunch of idiots, in what is common
ly believed to be a training scam:
(slashdot-only links, since they're pretty comprehensive of all previous allegations)
i picked mine up from ubid, 89$ plus shipping. and none of that annoying MSN contract stuff. it was a refurb unit, though, and i think it has to do with the power connector (it seems exceptionally loose)
doo doo... waits for the 2 minute limit... which apparently includes attempted posts that fell within the 2 minute limitation.
how did you change the bootlogo, and/or which bootlogo did you change? i know there's software to do it, but i haven't actually done it on any other machine yet (i've never been "blessed" with a machine that has this "feature").
anyway, i'm still fighting with getting jailbait onto the damned machine... admittedly, i've been "at work" and watching movies during the 3 or 4 hours i've been playing with it.
in 20 years, those.doc,.xls, and.ppt docs will be pretty near worthless (you can 'strings' for the data from them!), except amongst some wireheads that run those wacky 32 bit processor machine emulators to play the "good old games."
though the format might be popular enough that there will be companies specializing in data migration from those old file formats they reverse engineered to newer ones (btdt... pays really damned well).
TCP/IP has been around for nearly (if not more than) 20 years now. TCP Illustrated Volume 1 is still very relevant today, as it was when WRS wrote it 8 years ago. Things have changed, yes, but nearly everything in the book is still applicable.
That kind of staying power is what i consider "success." What the MS file formats have achieved is "ubiquity." Not everyone runs TCP/IP (though almost everyone does), but all correct TCP/IP implementations can and will work together.
the point? just because something is everywhere doesn't mean it's a "successful standard" in many peoples' books
The mods you list are all pre-packaged, fairly non-customizable units. I highly doubt that you're going to be burning a new ROM to chip your engine. Nor are you going to be dropping in a new transmission in your home garage (Admittedly difficult to do Back In The Day, from what i know, but still much more doable than it is today). You can't just take your car apart and rebuild it from the Chiltons anymore (for most newer cars, at least. with significant know-how you could, but that requires manufacturer training). With an old car, you can change your peformance by fiddling with the carb. You have access to the screws to change your automatic (or you have a manual). You can tweak things the way you want them to be. With a new car, you take what you get, or you spend a whole lot of time studying.
With new computers, it's much the same way. Have you tried replacing the video card on an all-in-one motherboard? For example, systems with an AGP on-chip video card? More often than not, there's no AGP slot! You have to use a PCI video card if you want something decent, so that AGP interface, with all its benefits, does you no good.
Or perhaps a better way to argue the point is by examining laptops. Laptops today are pretty much an all-or-nothing deal. If your laptop works for you, it works. If it doesn't, you drop in more memory or a new hard drive, or replace it. That's about all that's easily changeable. Imagine if every computer in the world was as versatile and expandable as a laptop.
Though, even this wouldn't be as much of a problem if it weren't for two potential issues:
- Proprietary standards
- Custom homebrew hardware
Companys like to make money. A good way to make money is lock-in. So if i make a laptop that uses non-standard DIMM pinouts, you have to order memory from me when you want to upgrade. Do you need a new modem? You have to buy FOOBAR's amazing new modem daughtercard to get it. If there was a standard interface for these things, it would be almost acceptable from a customizer's point of view.
I'm a bit of a hardware hacker (or at least, i pretend to be). I like the way computers are today because i can throw some ICs on an ISA board and slap that into my box, and it does something. Or i can dangle things off the parallel port or the serial port. Have you seen what it takes to interface to USB? USB is a big ugly beast, not something that's acceptable for the weekend relay-switcher like myself. Legacy-free PCs only have AGP, PCI, and USB for the most part (i don't recall the exact spec offhand). PCI is also very annoying to interface with for homebrew equipment. So we're basically being forced out of homebrew hardware development.
All in all, i agree with the author of the original article, and i feel it's a road we don't want to go down. I also realize i'm in the minority, since i'm actively poking and prodding my systems.
Manufacturers will subvert this to their own uses, since they have profit motive to--don't expect to run anything but the original software on boxes like these.
Perhaps i'm just paranoid and delusional, but i think this is probably the future, and i'm not looking forward to it.
my name is josh and my domain is "joshisanerd.com". i'll let you figure out the address from there;^)
i'd just try the plain-jane VGA fb. 16 colors at 640x480 and slow, but if it works, it works.
as far as the reversed colors thing, i don't remember what causes that. fb is something i tinkered with for a bit, but i really didn't care about (voodoo3 runs fairly well in X).
anyway, best of luck. bother some people about it, someone is bound to have figured it out!
does the fb x server not work for you? i know it's kind of cheating, but it would serve your purpose.
and the only way i look at my bank info from work is over an encrypted ssh tunnel, from _my_ laptop to _my_ workstation at home (my company doesn't own any of my hardware, i just borrow a port on their switch when i'm in the office). my bank is (cool|brain-dead) enough to allow use of lynx-ssl for account checking, once you discern the actual URL it redirects you to via js.
-jbm, just trying to help, please don't mod up (i suppose -1, Offtopic is in order though =)
aww... all you have to do is fork some children processes off and manage some domain sockets or pipes, and voila, you've got more than 2GB addressable on ia32! speed? who needs speed with datasets that large? it's not like you're going to be doing anything more than playing large mpegs, right? i mean, why else would you need more memory?
of course, having more than 2GB of memory on x86 can only be bad news... software is already too bloated as it is.
/me pants anxiously at the prospect of buying a Real Computer someday... too bad x86 will probably always be faster.
'ssh -X grace xmms' is what i use to run xmms on the workstation tucked away in the corner, wired into my home stereo.
it's just like running any other remote command from the ssh command-line.
read the man page. it's big and scary, but damn is it worth it. ssh is killer at this stuff (port redirection, or, how i poked a big ole hole through the firewall)
Having worked in small- to medium-sized companies, I've been a bit spoiled with regards to interpersonal communication. But occasionally it's hard to find out who on the team has written a spec, or who has the source code to a component (CVS, i know... don't ask), etc. This would be great for that -- you don't have to go desk-hopping or send a broadcast email to find out who has what, you can just search for it.
As far as privacy concerns, well, don't store private things on your work machine. The software theoretically allows you to set certain areas as unindexed, but i wouldn't trust it at all. Look at it this way: would you leave private things in your (unlockable) desk before going home at night? Your computer is just like that in this system--it's a desk you can't lock.
I carry a backpack around with me when i go to the office; it contains random personal things, they don't go in my desk. Personal data should be in a data backpack of some sort, if you bring it at all.
All in all, i think this has more positive potential than it does negative. When it comes to productivity vs privacy at the office, i'll take productivity at the office, so i can get to my privcay at home.
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In short, if I give a copy of GNU tar to Roger, the FSF can't go after Roger for money, especially if I made certain modifications to GNU tar that I didn't hand back to the FSF, but I did make available under the terms of the GPL should the FSF care enough to incorporate them on their own. Once again, the concept behind the GPL is to promote and enforce the availability of the code to users, forever.
Also, keep in mind that you don't have to give the code to the FSF under the GPL, only to Roger. What Roger then does with it is nobody's business but Roger's under the GPL. You are required to give the code to _users_(licensees, actually), but not to the world at large. You must also give your users the freedom to do what they will with it, including releasing it to the world.
-jbm, who has spent far too much time staring at the GPL for a layman.
no, the Aimee story was another plausible explanation, i've heard it once. apparently they ran a search for "aimster" on several search engines to see where they were getting mentioned, and found girls named Aimee who used the nickname "aimster". the one i put above is the one i had explained to me when i asked "uh, aren't we infringing their trademark?". being a good employee, i simply swallowed management's explanation and went on my happy way, doing the RE work(if you don't know OSCAR, that'll mean nothing to you) and occasionally adding a feature to the proxy.
who'd they send to the conference? it was probably johnny, who doesn't even know anyone named amy (or any of the variant spellings).
i really doubt he could con anyone else in the office into doing a presentation like that... perhaps rik, but it doesn't sound like something he'd do.
as a side note, you'll notice that one thing that aimster is definitely lacking is consistency. the whole dev team has probably dropped several times as much code as gets used.
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I feel bad for whoever's TiBook this is... he didn't get the AirPort card! that means he has to actually leave the internet behind when he goes to the can!
(I just got my TiBook, and the airport range is less than spectacular anyway... sigh.)
Steve Taylor's Liver was disappointing.
back on the original off-topic topic.
i meant in New CCM era. as far as i can see, there was a time when CCM just kind of fell apart.
and yes, i am a whippersnapper relative to you--my Other Father (i adopted a family... long story) is constantly picking on my music and talking about "back in my day, we listened to Keith Green, and you could understand the words!"
It is worth noting that those guys _were_ underground musicians, and weren't disposable popular music.
(btw, if you want a laugh, MxPx did a cover of Keith Green's "You Found Me". i can put up an mp3 of it if you'd like. MxPx also did "I Can Be Friends With You" for that Petra tribute album. Punk covers of Keith Green...)
-jbm, put in his place by the Old Fart ;^)
Anyway, please don't assume that just because it's Xtian, it's not disposable pop music. Jaci Velasquez is still Just Another Solo Female, Audio Adrenaline is just another southern rock band, and i won't even mention Michael W Smith (as a side note, the newsboys were doing some really cool stuff at one point in time, and most things with Steve Taylor are worth checking out).
-jbm, a reformed Xtian fanboy, turned atheist, turned follower-of-the-Christ (reconstructionalist, baby)
Why exactly are they having kids try to hack into this again? It seems rather redundant to me. Any system used for something like this shouldn't require testing for security, it should be _proven_ to be secure (ie: written in ADA, if it comes to that).
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm nervous that this is going to be a solution written by crappy government contractors in VB and SQL server (or PHP and MySQL, for that matter), without any of the rigor associated with Real Security.
geez, you employees that think you can just create tunnels outside of the secure zone! how can you guarantee security that all people that come in through your tunnel are passing through the proper checkpoints on the other side?!
i hope you at least bothered to encrypt the traffic over this tunnel, or have you been leaving copies of the company's sensitive objects all over Spacetime, where any competent spatial engineer or timelord can just grab them?
with that in mind, what have you folks managed with legos?
they can't, really. but they can make it terribly difficult to get the images by naming them cryptically (the md5 sum is a one-way hash of image contents... so trying to guess them is non-trivial). so you could manually visit the site, once a minute, for 24 hours, and save every image that comes up, and rename it locally.
or you could just take the pictures yourself. that would be my best option.
('while true; do wget -r -l0 http://thesite/; sleep 60; done' for 24 hours would also work, with some awk/perl goodness to rename the files, but who really cares that much?)
Smart had nothing to do with it--there were just an infinite number of them with teletypes. duh.
So, this begs the question: did Pavlovich actually republish or distribute DVDs, or just DeCSS? The court seems to think he was actively pirating movies with his buddies.
How the hell he injuriously affects the computer industry is an open question...
"Pavlovich cannot claim innocent intent ... Pavlovich knew ... that by posting the misappropriated information on the Internet, he was making the information available to ... users ... including users in California" (page 11)
Wow. This is getting a bit excessive. My understanding is that the Trade Secret information was misappropriated by someone else, which is how it got into his hands. The fact the Internet just happens to extend into California is unfortunate.
I can't wait for judges in the bible belt to start shutting down porn sites based on the fact that "making these sinful images is illegal, and by doing it via the Internet, those images are made available to users in "
sigh. this is getting more and more saddening as i read it.
This is the real crux of the issue. The court is rather illegally overextending its jurisdiction. I have every confidence that the Supreme Court is going to lay the proverbial smack down on this decision, as judges really aren't stupid, there are just some that are exceedingly ignorant or biased (welcome to America, where our system is _designed_ to allow an individual representative of government to what he feels is right, even if it goes against everybody else... it's a feature, not a bug)
The absolute best case scenario is going to be knocking down the trial in California and having someone bring up the charges in Indiana. This is highly inconvenient for Pavlovich, as he lives in Texas now, but would be required to show for trial in ?Chicago? (not familiar where the court for my area is).
From the ruling, the problematic section of text: "The question in this case is whether California's long-arm statute reaches owners, publishers of those Web sites when, in violation of California law, they make available for copy or distribution trade secrets or copyrighted material of California companies. We hold it does." (Page 4). The whole ruling reads as a fan-boy decision in favor of California's Great Movie and Computer Industries. It also lists off some rather, uh, disparate, "related" cases.
Anyway, I said it before, and I'll say it again: I have every confidence that the Supreme Court will tell the California court they can't do this. This is America, where our system is _designed_ to allow an individual representative of government to what he feels is right, even if it goes against everybody else... it's a feature, not a bug!
ok, what is it with chicks and hand sanitizer? i wouldn't be asking on slashdot, except that it's 0030 on a work night =)
is it just a "females have a sense of hygiene" thing, or something else? i have yet to meet a male that carries the stuff, but upon thinking about it, lots and lots of women carry it.
"Information wants to be pi"
-josh, who needs to do something better with his time
down south in the midwest(Iowa here, i'm originally a St Louis boy), we get a lot more ice than you do up north. it's warm enough to melt some of the snow, which then freezes on the road. and even as far north as iowa it's not as bad as down by st louis (where they get freezing rain at least once a year). part of the reason i can put up with the "cold" iowa winters. (i lived in idaho for a bit too... -40degF, -80 with wind).
anyway, driving in a snowstorm at 55 or 60 is trivial, until the road is icy. once there's ice, the very concept of control is a joke.
there is little more fun than snowpacked parking lots... *nostalgic sigh*
haha, quoting linuxgruven stats as being key to linux is like saying that the little VAR down the way is key to Microsoft's success.
Linuxgruven is/was/will always be a bunch of idiots, in what is common ly believed to be a training scam:
(slashdot-only links, since they're pretty comprehensive of all previous allegations)
- Linuxgruven, Sair, and Employment Practices
- the relavent slashdot search
I could continue, but i'll let you look it up. so strike the linuxgruven story off your FUD list, it's bad form.i suppose this is what i get for reading at threshold 0, eh?
i picked mine up from ubid, 89$ plus shipping. and none of that annoying MSN contract stuff. it was a refurb unit, though, and i think it has to do with the power connector (it seems exceptionally loose)
doo doo... waits for the 2 minute limit... which apparently includes attempted posts that fell within the 2 minute limitation.
how did you change the bootlogo, and/or which bootlogo did you change? i know there's software to do it, but i haven't actually done it on any other machine yet (i've never been "blessed" with a machine that has this "feature").
anyway, i'm still fighting with getting jailbait onto the damned machine... admittedly, i've been "at work" and watching movies during the 3 or 4 hours i've been playing with it.
"success" is a wonderfully fuzzy word.
.doc, .xls, and .ppt docs will be pretty near worthless (you can 'strings' for the data from them!), except amongst some wireheads that run those wacky 32 bit processor machine emulators to play the "good old games."
in 20 years, those
though the format might be popular enough that there will be companies specializing in data migration from those old file formats they reverse engineered to newer ones (btdt... pays really damned well).
TCP/IP has been around for nearly (if not more than) 20 years now. TCP Illustrated Volume 1 is still very relevant today, as it was when WRS wrote it 8 years ago. Things have changed, yes, but nearly everything in the book is still applicable.
That kind of staying power is what i consider "success." What the MS file formats have achieved is "ubiquity." Not everyone runs TCP/IP (though almost everyone does), but all correct TCP/IP implementations can and will work together.
the point? just because something is everywhere doesn't mean it's a "successful standard" in many peoples' books
The mods you list are all pre-packaged, fairly non-customizable units. I highly doubt that you're going to be burning a new ROM to chip your engine. Nor are you going to be dropping in a new transmission in your home garage (Admittedly difficult to do Back In The Day, from what i know, but still much more doable than it is today). You can't just take your car apart and rebuild it from the Chiltons anymore (for most newer cars, at least. with significant know-how you could, but that requires manufacturer training). With an old car, you can change your peformance by fiddling with the carb. You have access to the screws to change your automatic (or you have a manual). You can tweak things the way you want them to be. With a new car, you take what you get, or you spend a whole lot of time studying.
With new computers, it's much the same way. Have you tried replacing the video card on an all-in-one motherboard? For example, systems with an AGP on-chip video card? More often than not, there's no AGP slot! You have to use a PCI video card if you want something decent, so that AGP interface, with all its benefits, does you no good.
Or perhaps a better way to argue the point is by examining laptops. Laptops today are pretty much an all-or-nothing deal. If your laptop works for you, it works. If it doesn't, you drop in more memory or a new hard drive, or replace it. That's about all that's easily changeable. Imagine if every computer in the world was as versatile and expandable as a laptop.
Though, even this wouldn't be as much of a problem if it weren't for two potential issues:
- Proprietary standards
- Custom homebrew hardware
Companys like to make money. A good way to make money is lock-in. So if i make a laptop that uses non-standard DIMM pinouts, you have to order memory from me when you want to upgrade. Do you need a new modem? You have to buy FOOBAR's amazing new modem daughtercard to get it. If there was a standard interface for these things, it would be almost acceptable from a customizer's point of view.
I'm a bit of a hardware hacker (or at least, i pretend to be). I like the way computers are today because i can throw some ICs on an ISA board and slap that into my box, and it does something. Or i can dangle things off the parallel port or the serial port. Have you seen what it takes to interface to USB? USB is a big ugly beast, not something that's acceptable for the weekend relay-switcher like myself. Legacy-free PCs only have AGP, PCI, and USB for the most part (i don't recall the exact spec offhand). PCI is also very annoying to interface with for homebrew equipment. So we're basically being forced out of homebrew hardware development.
All in all, i agree with the author of the original article, and i feel it's a road we don't want to go down. I also realize i'm in the minority, since i'm actively poking and prodding my systems.
Manufacturers will subvert this to their own uses, since they have profit motive to--don't expect to run anything but the original software on boxes like these.
Perhaps i'm just paranoid and delusional, but i think this is probably the future, and i'm not looking forward to it.
my name is josh and my domain is "joshisanerd.com". i'll let you figure out the address from there ;^)
i'd just try the plain-jane VGA fb. 16 colors at 640x480 and slow, but if it works, it works.
as far as the reversed colors thing, i don't remember what causes that. fb is something i tinkered with for a bit, but i really didn't care about (voodoo3 runs fairly well in X).
anyway, best of luck. bother some people about it, someone is bound to have figured it out!
does the fb x server not work for you? i know it's kind of cheating, but it would serve your purpose.
and the only way i look at my bank info from work is over an encrypted ssh tunnel, from _my_ laptop to _my_ workstation at home (my company doesn't own any of my hardware, i just borrow a port on their switch when i'm in the office). my bank is (cool|brain-dead) enough to allow use of lynx-ssl for account checking, once you discern the actual URL it redirects you to via js.
-jbm, just trying to help, please don't mod up (i suppose -1, Offtopic is in order though =)
aww... all you have to do is fork some children processes off and manage some domain sockets or pipes, and voila, you've got more than 2GB addressable on ia32! speed? who needs speed with datasets that large? it's not like you're going to be doing anything more than playing large mpegs, right? i mean, why else would you need more memory?
of course, having more than 2GB of memory on x86 can only be bad news... software is already too bloated as it is.
/me pants anxiously at the prospect of buying a Real Computer someday... too bad x86 will probably always be faster.
um. 'man ssh' is your friend.
'ssh -X grace xmms' is what i use to run xmms on the workstation tucked away in the corner, wired into my home stereo.
it's just like running any other remote command from the ssh command-line.
read the man page. it's big and scary, but damn is it worth it. ssh is killer at this stuff (port redirection, or, how i poked a big ole hole through the firewall)
Having worked in small- to medium-sized companies, I've been a bit spoiled with regards to interpersonal communication. But occasionally it's hard to find out who on the team has written a spec, or who has the source code to a component (CVS, i know... don't ask), etc. This would be great for that -- you don't have to go desk-hopping or send a broadcast email to find out who has what, you can just search for it.
As far as privacy concerns, well, don't store private things on your work machine. The software theoretically allows you to set certain areas as unindexed, but i wouldn't trust it at all. Look at it this way: would you leave private things in your (unlockable) desk before going home at night? Your computer is just like that in this system--it's a desk you can't lock.
I carry a backpack around with me when i go to the office; it contains random personal things, they don't go in my desk. Personal data should be in a data backpack of some sort, if you bring it at all.
All in all, i think this has more positive potential than it does negative. When it comes to productivity vs privacy at the office, i'll take productivity at the office, so i can get to my privcay at home.
Also, keep in mind that you don't have to give the code to the FSF under the GPL, only to Roger. What Roger then does with it is nobody's business but Roger's under the GPL. You are required to give the code to _users_(licensees, actually), but not to the world at large. You must also give your users the freedom to do what they will with it, including releasing it to the world.
-jbm, who has spent far too much time staring at the GPL for a layman.
who'd they send to the conference? it was probably johnny, who doesn't even know anyone named amy (or any of the variant spellings).
i really doubt he could con anyone else in the office into doing a presentation like that... perhaps rik, but it doesn't sound like something he'd do.
as a side note, you'll notice that one thing that aimster is definitely lacking is consistency. the whole dev team has probably dropped several times as much code as gets used.