You know, I think that if the former versions aren't vulnerable, they're not gonna tell you. They just can't take the risk to have people want to revert to older versions on the basis that they "work better", not when their business relies so much on people upgrading over and over...
... That the guy who managed to prove Patent Offices will approve a freaking patent on the wheel deserves a real prize? I mean, what a better proof could you find that (while patents are inherently a good thing) the way they're being handled of late is, well, kinda bad...
Bleah, maybe the guy who managed that just wanted to be funny, but I find it rather chilling myself...:p
Yeah, they do. Because there's not ONE definition of what's moral and what isn't -- it's a cultural thing. I think we'd all agree to say that, for example, fscking sheep isn't moral. And yet, in some civilisations, it was tolerated. You can call it barbaric or whatever -- it was still not immoral by their standards.
I think if people tend to want to turn morals into laws, it's probably so that they can force their moral (say, it's not moral to kill people in a video game) on everybody else.
Whether that's a good thing is left as an exercise to the reader.
Well, I think Apple discovered that Quicktime playing was an Economical Asset(tm) of Macs. From them on, they:
Made sure the Windows version of Quicktime didn't *quite* perform as well as the Mac one;
Trashed they own Quicktime player for Linux, which had been in development for some time, to keep the Mac's advantage there (geeze, I know I read that on/. but I can't find it in the archives...);
Forbade open source developpers to write a player for the Sorenson codec;
Started hosting movie trailers for free with a big big smile, so as to draw public interest to Quicktime.
Or so I hear anyway (someone knows more?)
What can we do about it? Nothing. I know it sucks. If someone has any constructive idea... (And no, modding down as 'troll' someone who's just rightfully angry doesn't count as 'constructive' in my book. Sorry.)
Nope, Chechnya is a war about oil.
Dig out a map of the Caspian Sea and the surrounding country. Chechnya is Russia's road to Azerbaijan's oil (see here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/caspian.html).
Why we don't hear about it more, is because the US is busy enough dealing with its own oil war -- Afghanistan (and Pakistan) is the US' road toward Turkmenistan's oil.
The decision to stop in Iraq may have been a political one. Didn't the US still try to kill Saddam Hussein in his bunker with a dedicated missile -- and fail? (I think they did anyway, but I have no pointer to give, so feel free to correct me about that.)
And, how do you intend to 'capture the exact GPS coordinates of caves', too? How do you intend to tell such a cave with fighters in it from, say, a similar cave sheltering a herder? Or a family hiding from the American Devils?
And it's not so simple to 'send in special people' to blend in. In case you didn't know, the CIA has been funding an agent there. His name is Osama bin Laden.
As other posters have pointed out much better than me, it is not the kind of war where technology will be the determining factor. If only it was that simple...
Unfortunately, it wouldn't work.
You want to replace their own old culture with your American ways. It's not going to work. Chances are that'd only help stir that anti-American sentiment, and make us come across as careless imperialists. Which we would indeed be.
Besides, you're leaving out a very, very important side of how people think in Afghanistan: the interethnic rivalry is extremely strong, to the point that even in freaking refugee camps, Ouzbeks won't go anywhere if there are already Pashtoons there, and vice-versa. They won't wait together for the doctor -- the doctors have to schedule a Pashtoon day, then a Tajik day, etc, no matter how serious and urgent a given person's case might be. And there are more than just two tribes in Afghanistan. You can't bring peace to Afghanistan if you fail to give them a government that will please them all. Good luck. No chance that'll happen, unless you dig out the old way they did it themselves, through tribal federalism, where each tribe has its own leaders.
Now, of course, that'd also be leaving out the US' interests in the Great Game. What the US want is, no matter how, a stable political situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Check out this map: http://www.arte-tv.com/hebdo/dessouscartes/1998080 8/image/12.JPG (taken from a French/German programme on geopolitics). The arrows are possible exportation ways for the HUGE gas and oil ressources of Turkmenistan. One is through Russia via Kazhakstan, one is through Iran, and one is through Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is useful to know that the US forbids commerce and investments in Iran. That leaves two ways out, one of which is through Russia. So the 'logical' route for the US to the oil of Turkmenistan is through Afghanistan and Pakistan. Of course, it takes a stable politic situation there, and you can bet your ass that's why the CIA funded the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.
So, while I really, really like the way your idea is generous, it will simply not happen. Too many conflict vectors (ethnics, religion, geopolitics) are pointed toward Afghanistan, and I can't see how it couldn't be very ugly there before long. But you can still, and should, pray for them. They're gonna need it.
Sure, we were soooo great during the Gulf War. That's probably why Saddam Hussein is still alive and governing Iraq.
Besides, as the name indicates, Desert Storm took place in a desert. Flat land, few landscape features. Afghanistan is a country of freaking mountains. The natives know the landscape, and we don't. A little troop of snipers can hold a valley against a company. They can hide in caves you don't know of. They can take those mountain paths you don't know of.
Before you go all "we're great and strong and we're gonna kick their ass", just ponder this: Switzerland was never invaded, and even the Taliban didn't make it into the most mountainous parts of Afghanistan.
Sorry for being harsh, but it's really not the right time to brag about how great we are. It's not FUD. It's war. War is about not underestimating what we're undertaking. Not about bragging around.
Mind giving details, please?
It's apparently not possible to download the Windows Media movie at all (it's a streamed thing, apparently), and the codecs in the Quicktime one (Sorenson, pile of crap...) aren't recognized by xanim, which my version of the KDE 2.1.1 multimedia player uses for Quicktime movies.
If you succeeded in playing the movies under Linux, please tell us how you did it? Thanks in advance.
Yes, it's truly, truly fascinating, because it's very interesting from a theorical point of view, and yet so characteristic of the somewhat unrealistic way Microsoft seems to think when they design things.
- They seem to completely overlook practical problems such driver issues, concentrating on application development. While driver issues are a good chunk of what made NT (and other Windows flavours) so crashy.
- They also completely overlook interoperability problems. The article is placed in an imaginary world where every computer on the Net runs MS Millenium. That's just so, so typical. And the worst is, I'm about certain those guys didn't think wrong when writing that. It's just the way they seem to think (we get to do whatever we see fit, and fsck the competitors).
- More interestingly, they also overlook the problem of revenue sources. I mean, if the OS is 'everywhere', how does MS earns money off it? The underlying assumption that computer users owe money to Microsoft no matter how, kind of disturbs me. Though I admit it could be me overreacting, too, with them being the Microsoft we all know and love and everything.
- And, of course, they once again assume that there are exactly two types of developpers and nothing else: Microsoft developpers, who get to write system-level things, and the rest of the world, who get to write applications using the tools provided by MS (note how the 'high-level' languages they mention are all available as MS products -- completely overlooking such wonderful abstraction tools as the Python programming language, among others).
Yes, this is truly fascinating, because, on a theorical point of view, they got it right, and yet their vision is certainly not something anyone is their right mind would like to see becoming real. Thanks for posting that article,/. editors, it's really thought-provoking.
Hey Reyacta,
That's a good article you've written here. I'm still wondering about one point: you actually gave Microsoft money, oh my, for a product you disagree with.
I think that the EULA authorises you to get a refund if you can't or don't want to comply with it. Did you use that opportunity to test how respectful of their own license they are? I believe that if they don't refund you, then they break their own license and then you're pretty much free to use the product according to your local laws and not the license. Did you actually give it a try?
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Then try this: start Konqueror as a file manager, and select 'Open a terminal' from the 'Window' menu. And there, you have the best of both worlds. Of course, you can drag'n'drop files and directories from the FM subwindow to the terminal one. I still find it a bit rough (as of KDE 2.1 anyway), but it's a nifty feature that certainly has a brilliant future ahead of it!:)
Geeze, I was wondering when someone would say something like that. And I DO say this as someone from a country that has supported bombings in Serbia, among others, something for which I feel deeply ashamed of my country.
The motherfsckers behind the WTC attack *MUST* be found, prosecuted, executed. Not because we hate them, but because they're dangerous, because crime calls for justice. Because we can't let this go unpunished. Because we have to set an example. And we need that example to be one of justice, not vengeance.
As much as gut reaction makes me want to torture them with my bare hands. I have very dear friends in NYC.
If we go after the civilian populations as well, we'll only prove them they're right to think of us as oppressors who don't care for their lives. And then, we won't be worth a dime more than the WTC attackers.
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I don't have time to dig up the link, but check out MPlayer. It comes with extensive documentation and pointers to libraries, including an open-source DiVX;-) library in the works -- so that you no longer need the Windows DLL, for example. I've tested it, it works very well.
OTOH, that there is a totally open-source codec is *VERY* good news. Hopefully it'll end up being like Ogg, an excellent alternative because of its better overall quality? We can always dream anyway.
(1) dancing games like Dance Dance Revolution (jump around on a big grid of buttons) and Para Para Paradise (wave your arms in the air).
Oh, I actually played DDR on a Playstation + floor button grid + big screen system at a party. It was a lot of fun, mostly because 1) I played for long without paying much, 2) I was kinda drunk.:)
(2) Distance motion-capture games like Mocap Boxing and that Police Trainer game where you duck to avoid being shot. (3) Music games like Guitar Freak and Drum Freak where you play simplified instrumentals to impress your friends.
Never seen those over here so far (I live in the Old World, mind you:)). I'll be sure to check them out when they import them.
(4) simulations of sports such as skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, and beach volleyball.
Oh, I counted the first three as 3D racing games. I've never seen the fourth kind.
Anyway, thanks for the interesting answer.:) Those are still expensive and time-limited games, though, or so I'll assume anyway, so my general point (that other Slashdotters have expressed better, too) still sticks, I think. But thanks for the precisions -- I'll be sure to watch for the kinds of games you mention.:)
That'd bring a whole new meaning to the words 'free beer', indeed.:)
Still, that's *not* going to happen. Too much of our economy relies on scarcity of products (to the point that corps try to artificially reproduce a scarcity-based model in the digital world, as everybody here will already have noticed). The implications of a replicator that could duplicate anything, independantly of the material, are mind-boggling (richness for everybody and complete economy crash at the same time!). Material for a great sci-fi novel at any rate...
First of all I don't accept the premise that consumer games have hurt the arcades. The arcades have hurt themselves. The games in the arcades have not kept pace in a lot of the things, and they have gotten too complex for a lot of casual players and casual interaction.
No, they've not just become too complex. They've become sh*t. Last time I've been to the arcades, all there was fit into three categories: 1) 3D fighting games, 2) 3D racing games, 3) 3D shooting games. All very nice-looking, but designed so that a game lasts a very short time, for the local equivalent of more than $1.
If they had kept the trend where games were actually GOOD, with a rich and enjoyable gameplay, and where you could spend hours playing without spending too much money (anyone else remember Toki, Hammerin' Harry, Legend Of Hero Tonma? I loved them!), there would be no freaking decline of the arcade. 'Nuff said.:)
Yes, you have a point. Judge Jackson possibly decided the break because this:
no access to OS source code that isn't available to competitors
... would be basically unenforceable within the same company. I can't see how it could, anyway. But admittedly, I'm neither a lawyer nor a Microsoftie, so I can't really tell.:)
Hm, maybe we need a user-created discussion about our downtime so there's someplace it won't be offtopic...
Excellent idea. I've created one here:
http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=display&uid=&id= 1212
Mind posting some details there, Jamie, or in the journal of the first guy to make the move if I'm not the first one? That'd get the discussion started, hopefully...
I fail to see how breaking Microsoft up helps consumers, or more / less importantly, how it will help our falling economy.
Oh, very simple, actually. Go re-read the remedy suggested by Judge Jackson. The break-up was only part of it. The most important part, wildly underlooked, was that all technical communications between the different parts of Microsoft would be made public. In short, there would be a Microsoft-OS part that would make the core OS, and the rest of Microsoft, that does IE and the Media Player and everything, couldn't commingle its proprietary apps into the OS without the very way they are commingled becoming public.
It was a smart ruling. Judge Jackson did an immensely good job of understanding the problems at stake.
I'm not sure I understand the DOJ announcement, but doesn't it say it wants to take action immediately? If I understand it right, it claims a break-up would take too long.
In short, they want to punish Microsoft effectively before XP hits the shelves.
Oh, geeze, I really hope I read that right... It might actually be a good thing, you know...
Alright, so the site is slashdotted. I've found a short LinuxHardware article about LinDVD on ThinkPad in Google's cache. Here are the specs of that T22 beast on IBM's site.
... You know, I realize we'd need a Karma Whore moderation for certain posts, that mods the post up without giving the poster karma. Just an idea...
The DMCA forbids you to circumvent IP protection schemes. While in a MS Word doc you've written, the content belongs to YOU. No way the DMCA could be applied here.
Funny.:) And good point, too. If Windows is still widely used, there IS a reason (we may or may not like it -- as I pointed out, my fav MTA is Postfix, not Sendmail). Try having your grand'ma understand BSD, Linux or Solaris.:)
Bottom line: Sendmail works for a lot of people -- and some of them even know what they are doing.:) Since all MTAs are interoperable, as opposed to OSes, it is not a problem for you if other people prefer other MTAs, so let's just all be happy that we have a good choice of them.
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You know, I think that if the former versions aren't vulnerable, they're not gonna tell you. They just can't take the risk to have people want to revert to older versions on the basis that they "work better", not when their business relies so much on people upgrading over and over...
... That the guy who managed to prove Patent Offices will approve a freaking patent on the wheel deserves a real prize? I mean, what a better proof could you find that (while patents are inherently a good thing) the way they're being handled of late is, well, kinda bad...
:p
Bleah, maybe the guy who managed that just wanted to be funny, but I find it rather chilling myself...
Yeah, they do. Because there's not ONE definition of what's moral and what isn't -- it's a cultural thing. I think we'd all agree to say that, for example, fscking sheep isn't moral. And yet, in some civilisations, it was tolerated. You can call it barbaric or whatever -- it was still not immoral by their standards.
I think if people tend to want to turn morals into laws, it's probably so that they can force their moral (say, it's not moral to kill people in a video game) on everybody else.
Whether that's a good thing is left as an exercise to the reader.
Or so I hear anyway (someone knows more?)
What can we do about it? Nothing. I know it sucks. If someone has any constructive idea... (And no, modding down as 'troll' someone who's just rightfully angry doesn't count as 'constructive' in my book. Sorry.)
Nope, Chechnya is a war about oil.
Dig out a map of the Caspian Sea and the surrounding country. Chechnya is Russia's road to Azerbaijan's oil (see here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/caspian.html).
Why we don't hear about it more, is because the US is busy enough dealing with its own oil war -- Afghanistan (and Pakistan) is the US' road toward Turkmenistan's oil.
To reply both your comments...
The decision to stop in Iraq may have been a political one. Didn't the US still try to kill Saddam Hussein in his bunker with a dedicated missile -- and fail? (I think they did anyway, but I have no pointer to give, so feel free to correct me about that.)
And, how do you intend to 'capture the exact GPS coordinates of caves', too? How do you intend to tell such a cave with fighters in it from, say, a similar cave sheltering a herder? Or a family hiding from the American Devils?
And it's not so simple to 'send in special people' to blend in. In case you didn't know, the CIA has been funding an agent there. His name is Osama bin Laden.
As other posters have pointed out much better than me, it is not the kind of war where technology will be the determining factor. If only it was that simple...
Ah, the utopia.
0 8/image/12.JPG (taken from a French/German programme on geopolitics). The arrows are possible exportation ways for the HUGE gas and oil ressources of Turkmenistan. One is through Russia via Kazhakstan, one is through Iran, and one is through Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is useful to know that the US forbids commerce and investments in Iran. That leaves two ways out, one of which is through Russia. So the 'logical' route for the US to the oil of Turkmenistan is through Afghanistan and Pakistan. Of course, it takes a stable politic situation there, and you can bet your ass that's why the CIA funded the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't work. You want to replace their own old culture with your American ways. It's not going to work. Chances are that'd only help stir that anti-American sentiment, and make us come across as careless imperialists. Which we would indeed be.
Besides, you're leaving out a very, very important side of how people think in Afghanistan: the interethnic rivalry is extremely strong, to the point that even in freaking refugee camps, Ouzbeks won't go anywhere if there are already Pashtoons there, and vice-versa. They won't wait together for the doctor -- the doctors have to schedule a Pashtoon day, then a Tajik day, etc, no matter how serious and urgent a given person's case might be. And there are more than just two tribes in Afghanistan. You can't bring peace to Afghanistan if you fail to give them a government that will please them all. Good luck. No chance that'll happen, unless you dig out the old way they did it themselves, through tribal federalism, where each tribe has its own leaders.
Now, of course, that'd also be leaving out the US' interests in the Great Game. What the US want is, no matter how, a stable political situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Check out this map: http://www.arte-tv.com/hebdo/dessouscartes/199808
So, while I really, really like the way your idea is generous, it will simply not happen. Too many conflict vectors (ethnics, religion, geopolitics) are pointed toward Afghanistan, and I can't see how it couldn't be very ugly there before long. But you can still, and should, pray for them. They're gonna need it.
Sure, we were soooo great during the Gulf War. That's probably why Saddam Hussein is still alive and governing Iraq.
Besides, as the name indicates, Desert Storm took place in a desert. Flat land, few landscape features. Afghanistan is a country of freaking mountains. The natives know the landscape, and we don't. A little troop of snipers can hold a valley against a company. They can hide in caves you don't know of. They can take those mountain paths you don't know of.
Before you go all "we're great and strong and we're gonna kick their ass", just ponder this: Switzerland was never invaded, and even the Taliban didn't make it into the most mountainous parts of Afghanistan.
Sorry for being harsh, but it's really not the right time to brag about how great we are. It's not FUD. It's war. War is about not underestimating what we're undertaking. Not about bragging around.
Mind giving details, please?
It's apparently not possible to download the Windows Media movie at all (it's a streamed thing, apparently), and the codecs in the Quicktime one (Sorenson, pile of crap...) aren't recognized by xanim, which my version of the KDE 2.1.1 multimedia player uses for Quicktime movies.
If you succeeded in playing the movies under Linux, please tell us how you did it? Thanks in advance.
Yes, it's truly, truly fascinating, because it's very interesting from a theorical point of view, and yet so characteristic of the somewhat unrealistic way Microsoft seems to think when they design things.
/. editors, it's really thought-provoking.
- They seem to completely overlook practical problems such driver issues, concentrating on application development. While driver issues are a good chunk of what made NT (and other Windows flavours) so crashy.
- They also completely overlook interoperability problems. The article is placed in an imaginary world where every computer on the Net runs MS Millenium. That's just so, so typical. And the worst is, I'm about certain those guys didn't think wrong when writing that. It's just the way they seem to think (we get to do whatever we see fit, and fsck the competitors).
- More interestingly, they also overlook the problem of revenue sources. I mean, if the OS is 'everywhere', how does MS earns money off it? The underlying assumption that computer users owe money to Microsoft no matter how, kind of disturbs me. Though I admit it could be me overreacting, too, with them being the Microsoft we all know and love and everything.
- And, of course, they once again assume that there are exactly two types of developpers and nothing else: Microsoft developpers, who get to write system-level things, and the rest of the world, who get to write applications using the tools provided by MS (note how the 'high-level' languages they mention are all available as MS products -- completely overlooking such wonderful abstraction tools as the Python programming language, among others).
Yes, this is truly fascinating, because, on a theorical point of view, they got it right, and yet their vision is certainly not something anyone is their right mind would like to see becoming real. Thanks for posting that article,
Hey Reyacta,
That's a good article you've written here. I'm still wondering about one point: you actually gave Microsoft money, oh my, for a product you disagree with.
I think that the EULA authorises you to get a refund if you can't or don't want to comply with it. Did you use that opportunity to test how respectful of their own license they are? I believe that if they don't refund you, then they break their own license and then you're pretty much free to use the product according to your local laws and not the license. Did you actually give it a try?
Then try this: start Konqueror as a file manager, and select 'Open a terminal' from the 'Window' menu. And there, you have the best of both worlds. Of course, you can drag'n'drop files and directories from the FM subwindow to the terminal one. I still find it a bit rough (as of KDE 2.1 anyway), but it's a nifty feature that certainly has a brilliant future ahead of it!
Geeze, I was wondering when someone would say something like that. And I DO say this as someone from a country that has supported bombings in Serbia, among others, something for which I feel deeply ashamed of my country.
The motherfsckers behind the WTC attack *MUST* be found, prosecuted, executed. Not because we hate them, but because they're dangerous, because crime calls for justice. Because we can't let this go unpunished. Because we have to set an example. And we need that example to be one of justice, not vengeance.
As much as gut reaction makes me want to torture them with my bare hands. I have very dear friends in NYC.
If we go after the civilian populations as well, we'll only prove them they're right to think of us as oppressors who don't care for their lives. And then, we won't be worth a dime more than the WTC attackers.
I don't have time to dig up the link, but check out MPlayer. It comes with extensive documentation and pointers to libraries, including an open-source DiVX;-) library in the works -- so that you no longer need the Windows DLL, for example. I've tested it, it works very well.
OTOH, that there is a totally open-source codec is *VERY* good news. Hopefully it'll end up being like Ogg, an excellent alternative because of its better overall quality? We can always dream anyway.
(1) dancing games like Dance Dance Revolution (jump around on a big grid of buttons) and Para Para Paradise (wave your arms in the air).
:)
:)). I'll be sure to check them out when they import them.
:) Those are still expensive and time-limited games, though, or so I'll assume anyway, so my general point (that other Slashdotters have expressed better, too) still sticks, I think. But thanks for the precisions -- I'll be sure to watch for the kinds of games you mention. :)
Oh, I actually played DDR on a Playstation + floor button grid + big screen system at a party. It was a lot of fun, mostly because 1) I played for long without paying much, 2) I was kinda drunk.
(2) Distance motion-capture games like Mocap Boxing and that Police Trainer game where you duck to avoid being shot. (3) Music games like Guitar Freak and Drum Freak where you play simplified instrumentals to impress your friends.
Never seen those over here so far (I live in the Old World, mind you
(4) simulations of sports such as skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, and beach volleyball.
Oh, I counted the first three as 3D racing games. I've never seen the fourth kind.
Anyway, thanks for the interesting answer.
That'd bring a whole new meaning to the words 'free beer', indeed. :)
Still, that's *not* going to happen. Too much of our economy relies on scarcity of products (to the point that corps try to artificially reproduce a scarcity-based model in the digital world, as everybody here will already have noticed). The implications of a replicator that could duplicate anything, independantly of the material, are mind-boggling (richness for everybody and complete economy crash at the same time!). Material for a great sci-fi novel at any rate...
No, they've not just become too complex. They've become sh*t. Last time I've been to the arcades, all there was fit into three categories: 1) 3D fighting games, 2) 3D racing games, 3) 3D shooting games. All very nice-looking, but designed so that a game lasts a very short time, for the local equivalent of more than $1.
If they had kept the trend where games were actually GOOD, with a rich and enjoyable gameplay, and where you could spend hours playing without spending too much money (anyone else remember Toki, Hammerin' Harry, Legend Of Hero Tonma? I loved them!), there would be no freaking decline of the arcade. 'Nuff said.
You'll find it here: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-ke yc.html
Hope it will help, it's informative and well-written.
Excellent idea. I've created one here: http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=display&uid=&id
Mind posting some details there, Jamie, or in the journal of the first guy to make the move if I'm not the first one? That'd get the discussion started, hopefully...
Oh, very simple, actually. Go re-read the remedy suggested by Judge Jackson. The break-up was only part of it. The most important part, wildly underlooked, was that all technical communications between the different parts of Microsoft would be made public. In short, there would be a Microsoft-OS part that would make the core OS, and the rest of Microsoft, that does IE and the Media Player and everything, couldn't commingle its proprietary apps into the OS without the very way they are commingled becoming public.
It was a smart ruling. Judge Jackson did an immensely good job of understanding the problems at stake.
It might be more complicated than it looks.
I'm not sure I understand the DOJ announcement, but doesn't it say it wants to take action immediately? If I understand it right, it claims a break-up would take too long.
In short, they want to punish Microsoft effectively before XP hits the shelves.
Oh, geeze, I really hope I read that right... It might actually be a good thing, you know...
Alright, so the site is slashdotted. I've found a short LinuxHardware article about LinDVD on ThinkPad in Google's cache. Here are the specs of that T22 beast on IBM's site.
... You know, I realize we'd need a Karma Whore moderation for certain posts, that mods the post up without giving the poster karma. Just an idea...
Please. That's BS, you know. :)
The DMCA forbids you to circumvent IP protection schemes. While in a MS Word doc you've written, the content belongs to YOU. No way the DMCA could be applied here.
Funny. :) And good point, too. If Windows is still widely used, there IS a reason (we may or may not like it -- as I pointed out, my fav MTA is Postfix, not Sendmail). Try having your grand'ma understand BSD, Linux or Solaris. :)
:) Since all MTAs are interoperable, as opposed to OSes, it is not a problem for you if other people prefer other MTAs, so let's just all be happy that we have a good choice of them.
Bottom line: Sendmail works for a lot of people -- and some of them even know what they are doing.