Just noticed that ZDNet has a story on it too... here .
I haven't read the whole thing yet, but the first paragraph is intriguing:
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) proclaimed on Tuesday that long-time rival RealNetworks Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK) -- plus a handful of other vendors, including Yahoo!, Sonic Foundry, AOL Winamp and Lycos Sonique -- had agreed to license Microsoft's Windows Media format technology.
So it's not just about RealNetworks. This looks like a big victory for this format, and MS.
Does anybody know if WMF has SDMI support? I think it is, or at least there are a couple of copyright enforcement mechanisms in there. I have the vague feeling that the RIAA must be very pleased by this...
Don't believe me? In Indiana, they (almost) did...
Silly americans
Re:Corrected link to 10,000,000 digits
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Tiny! On this ftp server here they claim to have 4,200,000,000!! But only 200,000,000 for public download. BTW, they're at 6,442,450,000 PI digits now...
What I don't get is: We know it is an irrational number so this is will go on forever. Is there any practical use to knowing PI with such precision or is it just a pissing contest among mathematicians?
If you don't need those few extra fps in 3D (and you probably don't) which the NVidia gives you, you should go with the Matrox. Better 2D quality, solid 3D perf, excellent TV support, overall a "better balanced" card (all IMHO).
Of course you get a sympathy point for buying a product from a company which helps open source by publishing its cards specs fully.
...BUT, if TV & DVD are high priorities, don't forget about ATI. Their cards are nice too. (don't know about Linux drivers tough).
Re:Saw this on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Swiss national radio reported on the gaydar a couple of days ago. They probably took it from CNN, which has an article on it.
I've always used the default MTA on my Linux servers (== sendmail, RedHat). But I've been having some major configuration trouble lately, and I was wondering if there were some more lightweight MTAs for UNIX systems around (preferrably open source for political correctness;).
I've read about qmail. I'd like to try it someday. Anybody care to share his experience?
Specifically: - How easy is it to transfer an existing sendmail config? - Security? (I know sendmails reputation is bad...)
Incidentally, the german computer magazine c't has a long and very interesting article on precisely this matter in their current edition. Check out the online version here if you speak german (I dare not imagine what garbage babelfish would spit out;)
There also is an interview with the author of the article (a lawyer) and a representative of the IFPI ("Internationale Föderation der Phonographischen Industrie") on the same page.
Here's a brief interpretation of the linked article (as usual, IANAL etc.): there is no unanimous position on that matter, but traditionnaly, it has been considered legal to create any kind of copy of copyrighted work for oneself. It even seems that you are allowed to give those copies to people you have a personal relationship with (no more than 7, according to the lawyer... don't know where this comes from).
Altough they refer to german law, it corresponds well whith the situation in Switzerland (where I live), as a law student explained to me.
Now, I have no idea what it is like in the US, but judging from the previous posts it seems that either you have stricter laws on copying, or the record companies are trying to convince people that it's forbidden to do ANY kind of copying.
I suspect that what we are seeing here is an attempt to seriously limit the concept of fair use. This is very disturbing...
I have read about an agreement between Mandrake and LinuxOne to create a chinese Linux development center. Did any good come out of this? Couldn't Mandrake's otherwise excellent reputation be damaged by such relationships?
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country of West Africa. Area: 274,400 sq km (105,946 sq mi). Pop. (1996 est.): 10,615,000. Cap.: Ouagadougou.
=> Yes. But I don't know how many people are concerned with DeCSS/MPAA down there right now. I have a friend who did some humanitarian work there, and I can tell you they'd love to see some "internet stocks bubble" money get down there to improve their healthcare and education systems... going off topic, sorry.
Hey I second that. I was really disappointed by the lack of depth in the questions posed, as shown by this blurb:
the other case aims to prevent people from using DeCSS, a program that can unscramble encrypted digital video disks (DVD) and let people copy them.
Again: You don't need DeCSS to copy A DVD. DeCSS is used to either descramble the content to pass it to a non-licensed mpeg-player OR to save the content on the harddisk for further treatment in it's uncrypted state (at which point, yes, you can copy it).
On a related note, I was simply baffled by the curriculum of this guy, Valenti:
Valenti is no stranger to conflict. In World War II, he flew 51 combat missions over Italy, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross and other honors. He also worked his way through college at the University of Houston, and after getting his MBA from Harvard, Valenti handled the television advertising for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. When President Kennedy was gunned down, Valenti was six cars behind him. A few hours later, while flying back to Washington on Air Force One, President Lyndon Johnson named Valenti his first special assistant.
A little over three years later, in 1966, Valenti joined the MPAA.
This guy sure had an interesting life. I admire that, wow (except the last line of course;).
What the hell are you smoking? ASCII spam like this being posted all the time on/. The only way to moderate this is DOWN! Besides, if it's ASCII art you're looking for, there are plenty of places on the web dedicated to this, like here!
Hehe. Well: "Don't drink and drive";). What you need is a cupholder and good timing. I do that all the time. As for cellphones, it's actually forbidden to use them in the car here in Switzerland, except if you have some sort of hands-free equipment...
just as manual transmission is not the favorite way of changing gears.
Ok, this is just nitpicking and doesn't add anything to the discussion, but in most of Europe, manual gear shift is the standard and will remain so for long.
I click on the menu bar (e.g. File) and the menu won't come up! All I can do is terminate that instance and start a new one. That's really annoying...
This happens quite often on my system too. I usually have to minimize and restore the window for the menus to activate again.
After a very long period of surfing (> 5 hrs) problems arise that will make opening new instances create new windows that never really render and simply have a sand clock in them.
Ditto. I've experienced this a couple of times too. But the funniest is: When you get moderator access on/. every post gets a little dropdown-box. Of course, if the discussion is very active, there's going to be a whole bunch of these. If I open the discussion page with IE, my ressources get eaten up like crazy. If I have more than one of those/. windows open, IE usually crashes...
Still, I've stayed with Netscape for along time (ideological reasons;), but IE frankly is alot better now (IMHO). I checked out M13 also, and I was positively impressed. Way to go, guys!
c't magazine is a brilliant example of unbiased, critical high quality tech journalism.
But what if Heise (the company which produces c't) was bought up by Microsoft? Readers would be right to question their trust in the publication. One could argue the Andover/VA Linux deal is similar.
Now, personnally I trust the/. guys to do the right thing. If not, we the readers will simply leave.
Actually, I find all the guys comming here to complain quite amusing. If you really think the quality of/. has gone down, well don't come here again. You'll deprive/. of precious ad revenue and spare yourself the trouble of posting complaints;)
first, let me say that I like your features at/. alot. Your point of view is different from most readers and that is good. I hope the everpresent flames don't bother you too much;)
My question:
You used to write for Hotwired, a site I often visited in the past (it's been a long time since I've been there). Why did you leave? How do you feel the site has developed in recent times (personnaly I think it's gone down, like Wired mag... I miss the Netizen and similar columns)
Question: Is there any way to use additional (mirroring) servers for the mp3 stream? I can't connect. It either gets stuck while "reading response" or kicks me with server full.
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I haven't read the whole thing yet, but the first paragraph is intriguing:
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) proclaimed on Tuesday that long-time rival RealNetworks Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK) -- plus a handful of other vendors, including Yahoo!, Sonic Foundry, AOL Winamp and Lycos Sonique -- had agreed to license Microsoft's Windows Media format technology.
So it's not just about RealNetworks. This looks like a big victory for this format, and MS.
Does anybody know if WMF has SDMI support? I think it is, or at least there are a couple of copyright enforcement mechanisms in there. I have the vague feeling that the RIAA must be very pleased by this...
Don't believe me? In Indiana, they (almost) did...
Silly americans
Tiny! On this ftp server here they claim to have 4,200,000,000!! But only 200,000,000 for public download. BTW, they're at 6,442,450,000 PI digits now...
What I don't get is: We know it is an irrational number so this is will go on forever. Is there any practical use to knowing PI with such precision or is it just a pissing contest among mathematicians?
If you don't need those few extra fps in 3D (and you probably don't) which the NVidia gives you, you should go with the Matrox. Better 2D quality, solid 3D perf, excellent TV support, overall a "better balanced" card (all IMHO).
Of course you get a sympathy point for buying a product from a company which helps open source by publishing its cards specs fully.
...BUT, if TV & DVD are high priorities, don't forget about ATI. Their cards are nice too. (don't know about Linux drivers tough).
Swiss national radio reported on the gaydar a couple of days ago. They probably took it from CNN, which has an article on it.
Are you certain it was a pun?
Etoy.com of Toywar fame are swiss, like cheese (or whatever)...
I've always used the default MTA on my Linux servers (== sendmail, RedHat). But I've been having some major configuration trouble lately, and I was wondering if there were some more lightweight MTAs for UNIX systems around (preferrably open source for political correctness ;).
I've read about qmail. I'd like to try it someday. Anybody care to share his experience?
Specifically:
- How easy is it to transfer an existing sendmail config?
- Security? (I know sendmails reputation is bad...)
Incidentally, the german computer magazine c't has a long and very interesting article on precisely this matter in their current edition. Check out the online version here if you speak german (I dare not imagine what garbage babelfish would spit out ;)
There also is an interview with the author of the article (a lawyer) and a representative of the IFPI ("Internationale Föderation der Phonographischen Industrie") on the same page.
Here's a brief interpretation of the linked article (as usual, IANAL etc.): there is no unanimous position on that matter, but traditionnaly, it has been considered legal to create any kind of copy of copyrighted work for oneself. It even seems that you are allowed to give those copies to people you have a personal relationship with (no more than 7, according to the lawyer... don't know where this comes from).
Altough they refer to german law, it corresponds well whith the situation in Switzerland (where I live), as a law student explained to me.
Now, I have no idea what it is like in the US, but judging from the previous posts it seems that either you have stricter laws on copying, or the record companies are trying to convince people that it's forbidden to do ANY kind of copying.
I suspect that what we are seeing here is an attempt to seriously limit the concept of fair use. This is very disturbing...
I have read about an agreement between Mandrake and LinuxOne to create a chinese Linux development center. Did any good come out of this? Couldn't Mandrake's otherwise excellent reputation be damaged by such relationships?
(is burkino faso a nation?)
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country of West Africa. Area: 274,400 sq km (105,946 sq mi). Pop. (1996 est.): 10,615,000. Cap.: Ouagadougou.
=> Yes. But I don't know how many people are concerned with DeCSS/MPAA down there right now. I have a friend who did some humanitarian work there, and I can tell you they'd love to see some "internet stocks bubble" money get down there to improve their healthcare and education systems... going off topic, sorry.
need some sleep... That would have been:
Sorry for the <b> tags btw. Should have used <tt> to diferentiate the two quotes...
Sorry for the tags btw. Should have used to diferentiate the two quotes...
I think Mr. Valenti would be a great /. interview.
;).
Hey I second that. I was really disappointed by the lack of depth in the questions posed, as shown by this blurb:
the other case aims to prevent people from using DeCSS, a program that can unscramble encrypted digital video disks (DVD) and let people copy them.
Again: You don't need DeCSS to copy A DVD. DeCSS is used to either descramble the content to pass it to a non-licensed mpeg-player OR to save the content on the harddisk for further treatment in it's uncrypted state (at which point, yes, you can copy it).
On a related note, I was simply baffled by the curriculum of this guy, Valenti:
Valenti is no stranger to conflict. In World War II, he flew 51 combat missions over Italy, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross and other honors. He also worked his way through college at the University of Houston, and after getting his MBA from Harvard, Valenti handled the television advertising for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. When President Kennedy was gunned down, Valenti was six cars behind him. A few hours later, while flying back to Washington on Air Force One, President Lyndon Johnson named Valenti his first special assistant.
A little over three years later, in 1966, Valenti joined the MPAA.
This guy sure had an interesting life. I admire that, wow (except the last line of course
What the hell are you smoking? ASCII spam like this being posted all the time on
Spread the meme indeed! Very interesting... and scary.
Thanks for the link.
So true, so true. Amen to that.
Hehe. Well: "Don't drink and drive" ;). What you need is a cupholder and good timing. I do that all the time. As for cellphones, it's actually forbidden to use them in the car here in Switzerland, except if you have some sort of hands-free equipment...
Ok, this is just nitpicking and doesn't add anything to the discussion, but in most of Europe, manual gear shift is the standard and will remain so for long.
This happens quite often on my system too. I usually have to minimize and restore the window for the menus to activate again.
After a very long period of surfing (> 5 hrs) problems arise that will make opening new instances create new windows that never really render and simply have a sand clock in them.
Ditto. I've experienced this a couple of times too. But the funniest is: When you get moderator access on /. every post gets a little dropdown-box. Of course, if the discussion is very active, there's going to be a whole bunch of these. If I open the discussion page with IE, my ressources get eaten up like crazy. If I have more than one of those /. windows open, IE usually crashes...
Still, I've stayed with Netscape for along time (ideological reasons ;), but IE frankly is alot better now (IMHO). I checked out M13 also, and I was positively impressed. Way to go, guys!
c't magazine is a brilliant example of unbiased, critical high quality tech journalism.
/. guys to do the right thing. If not, we the readers will simply leave.
/. has gone down, well don't come here again. You'll deprive /. of precious ad revenue and spare yourself the trouble of posting complaints ;)
But what if Heise (the company which produces c't) was bought up by Microsoft? Readers would be right to question their trust in the publication. One could argue the Andover/VA Linux deal is similar.
Now, personnally I trust the
Actually, I find all the guys comming here to complain quite amusing. If you really think the quality of
Hi,
/. alot. Your point of view is different from most readers and that is good. I hope the everpresent flames don't bother you too much ;)
first, let me say that I like your features at
My question:
You used to write for Hotwired, a site I often visited in the past (it's been a long time since I've been there). Why did you leave? How do you feel the site has developed in recent times (personnaly I think it's gone down, like Wired mag... I miss the Netizen and similar columns)
They fixed it (corrected the regexps and stripped all img from the comments).
Damn... must... preview.
"Hello #Slashdot"
...Which you are cordially invited to join. Some of the guys on the cam are on irc, fun.
Hey, I saw you on the webcam ;)
Question: Is there any way to use additional (mirroring) servers for the mp3 stream? I can't connect. It either gets stuck while "reading response" or kicks me with server full.
I really REALLY REALLY want to connect...