Some of you seem to under the impression that the LZIP story is a joke.
I am the original designer of the program and would like to state that it is very very real!
LZIP works by compressing the files and, depending on the users choice of compression ratio, removing material from the lzip archive that may be considered offensive, non-PC, or suspicious in any way.
This makes it brilliant for compressing your MP3 collection down to a ner-zero byte file size, as all the nasty stuff the RIAA don't want you to have is discarded!
For anyone interested, you can download the latest version of LZIp from here:
Of course, you will notice that the filesize of the download is extremely small, due to the fact that it has been compressed with very high compression, and hence some parts have been discarded.;)
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Everybody talks about how IP protects the artist, and how we should be glad to pay and blah blah capitalist blah blah blah...
How many artists do you really hear complaining huh? - Maybe 0.000000009%?
All this anti-Napster is to protect record companies, and of them just the ones that are part of the RIAA!
They may have copied some songs. But sending the Police to their houses to arrest them is nothing other than corporations bullying individuals.
In fact, it makes you wonder who is the lowest here. The Belgian government for allowing it to happen, or the RIAA for applying the pressure?
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I'd like to propose a study into the social habits of cellphone users themselves. Maybe looking at the subconscious need to have one without real consideration for the actual need.
Mind you, I'm not by any means saying that the phones are in anyway evil. I don't have one myself, but there will come a day when I'll get one. Patricularly if I can get good PDA functions built in for a decent price (I badly need little electronic devices to think for me).
Mind you, I do hold something against them in the effect they've had on HDD prices by using up supplies of capacitors.
BYRS (Bourgeois Yuppie Resentment Syndrome) - Really? Do you still think that cellphones are a yuppie item? Because they're about as common and cheap as an imitation Rolex these days.
The thing that bothers me on both a logical and sociological level is the desire to be immediately contactable everywhere.
Here's a replay of what I heard coming from one of the stalls in a public mens toilet:
"Ring Ring"
Hello?
Yeah Greg here.
Where am I?
Well... actually I'm taking a dump in the McDonalds toilets at the moment...
*laughs*
Yeah, you can call me back. I'll let you know how it went.
Bye.
Okay... So what is it exactly that makes that situation desirable to anyone?
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
It's motion sensitive, and has it's own webserver built in, and attaches to the network instead of a PC, either that or it can dial up a modem for you!:)
And the best bit is it runs on Linux!:)
Check out the live demo too..... seems to work pretty well in poor light conditions!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Hope it's not indicative of the future of Slashdot!:
NEWSFLASH: Linus Torvalds has been killed in a fatal accident in a tunnel near Helsinki.
Rumour has it that he was being pursued by individuals on motorbikes who call themselves CmdrTaco and Hemos.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I hope this isn't the first "real" release, because it still refuses to use an authenticating proxy properly... and that doesn't look like being fixed any time soon either!
That, and the fact that NS6 (windows) has a nasty, nasty habit of coming to the front every time a page loads. Talk about intrusive.... I may as well not have multitasking at all.
It's sad really. I like the NS4 style of browser much better than IE, it's just technically so poor.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I patented an OS that, much like Windows, is engineered to function poorly.
However, it responds to swearing, and acts of violence directed at it, and then works perfectly
.... for about 10 minutes!;)
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I've always wondered how people were stupid enough to keep forwarding on all those ICQ rumours (you know, the ones about ICQ starting to charge people unless you forward the message on).
I used to make fun of people that sent them on, but now I wonder if I was being too harsh!?;)
Slashdot are going to start charging a fee of 10 cents for every 'first post', unless you forward this on to everyone in your email address book.
Ahem...;)
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
If a boss/sysadmin is going to be prepared to sit down and go through masses of text looking for that one naughty personal email, you have to ask yourself who is wasting the most time?
Or. If your company has such an epidemic of personal email use that you are forced to take such measures, maybe you should be asking yourselves why your employees care so little about the work they are supposed to be doing!
If people felt like their job was worth doing, they would be doing it!
P.S. I am posting from work. Nobody here cares, because they like to see their employees thinking, learning, and contributing to the community!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
This is not simply stupid, or careless, it's just plain WRONG!
This is just another case of people assuming that MP3's themselves are bad!
***NEWSFLASH - MP3 is just a FILE FORMAT***
Regardless of how people use it, MP3's and all their associated gadgets have done nothing wrong, they are a part of technology as much as anything else!
I say "go Creative", because it's about time that someone, or some company had the guts to take a stand!
In fact, we should all take a stand, because I've had about enough of this. I like to be able to listen to all my songs without changing CD's. I also like to be able to have a backup of them all on one CD and on my HDD!
It's time we showed some support for this move and all Boycott CeBit too, and instead use the time and money to go out and buy a Nomad!
Power to the People!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
As I wrote this I could see someone with very little else to say pointing out what I thought everyone else would have understood anyway.
The MPAA are just a body made up of all the real bastards you mentioned. So the comment still stands.
Just that "their products" refers to that of their members:
Walt Disney Company.
Sony Pictures Entertainment. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
Universal Studios.
Warner Bros.
The MPAA ARE the real bastards. They are the best target for your anger because they are all the bastards in one place!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
It seems to me that the MPAA, and related bodies have got far too many lawyers with far too little to do!
One thing that has come out of the recent spate of lawsuits, and stories like this invloving the MPAA/RIAA etc. is the total disregard for the people purchasing their products.
I'd say that if you are using a BROADCAST (that's the key word here) medium you have to accept that it's going to be broadcast all around the place. You should also accept the possibility that because it's a one-to-many medium that you can't please all of the people all of the time.
Hence, you might be prepared to think that some of those 'many' may not be quite happy with what you broadcast, and when. So, maybe they'd like to be able to make some of their own arrangements!
But can they do that? No! That might require a concience, and I think we're all aware that lawyers don't have one!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
The thing is... you don't get those to yourselves. The.US domain has a place on the net now more than ever, as the.net.org.com.edu's are being used globally rather than just by the US!
You're right about the US not settling for a.US domain, but it seems that some non-US sites are also not settling!
Aah... it's been a strange life for Amiga hasn't it?
I miss my Amiga. It still comes out of the cupboard for a good old thrashing every now and again, and I run UAE, and play a few games on that too.
Everybody (except you Trolls) seems to be very positive about the return of the Amiga name if nothing else recognisable.
This maybe partly linked to the current trend of retro gaming, but it may be something else too.
I can see a definite need in the IT community to break away from the corporatisation of computers in general. Linux is part of that, because of it's non-commercial angle. I think the Amiga is another example of that need. The Amiga was a 'fun' computer. It wasn't just the fact that it was pushing back the barriers of 'Multimedia' (ironically, a word that was used only in later years referring to PCs), it was the whole vibe of the Amiga people.
I think that now in the days of the dotcom, and the techno-yuppie, real old nerds long for the days when we and our mates could sit down with a few beers and play Kick Off, or Lotus, or F1GP until our eyes bled, and love every minute of it!
I think now, we need more than ever for Amiga to survive, and to produce something solid, while at the same time preserve the Amiga spirit.
I just hope it's for real, and not another Walker.
Anyways... enough of this before I start to cry!;)
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I can see one of these manning the door of my local nightclub right now.
Even worse I can see it shooting me because I didn't have the correct ID, or because it doesn't like my shoes!;)
..."Hasta la vista, groupie!"
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
They produced a quality product for years, and the experience really showed. Then they got virtually bundled out of the market (partly at least) by a network OS virtually still in it's embryonic stage.
As one of the long line of people who are forced t o work with NT on a daily basis, and had worked with Netware previously I really can't express enough how much I hope that IBM can get Novell, and help reclaim some of the server market from NT/2k (a NOS that thinks it's a workstation).
I just hope it's not too late.
Someone pass IBM the defibrillator.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
AMD have spend many years following Intel. They've made a living, by making Intel compatible architecture.
Even though the apprentice may have now grown up to challenge the master, AMD still feel it's not yet time to go out on a limb.
X86 is old, and it is time for it to die the death it should've died long ago. However, what AMD are offering, as far as I can see, is a chance to go to 64bit architecture sooner, without having to create a whole new processor. Even given the increased support for AMD these days, I don't think many would be prepared to follow them that far.
So, what we've got is a happy medium from AMD, while they and we wait for Intel to define the new standard.
AMD may well be playing catch-up again in a million years time when Itanium actually becomes a reality. But on the other hand, if support for Sledgehammer is good, we might see some new architecture from AMD soon!
You'll all notice that there is now an "sea" dir on the FTP, which seems to hold a huge setup file, which should save everybody downloading the damn thing X times.
This story has me so annoyed. As does most of the whole Napster thing. But I will try and contain my disgust long enough to write this.
There are several aspects of this that are just plain wrong. The whole thing just seems to be one misunderstanding after another.
We've all aready been over the fact that Napster does little more than provide an infrastructure for trading of MP3 files, much like any file-oriented protocol, FTP for example. But this doesn't seem to have sunk in.
Here is the headline: "Injunction bars service from trading music online pending federal trial"
Napster doesn't trade music. Period. People are trading the music. Why not go after the users you ask? Well, because that makes you look evil. It's better to go after a company, with no real identity than be seen as a company going after helpless users.
The second thing about thise whole trial, that offends me personally, and must offend other people who have MP3s is the assumption that seems to have been made that "MP3's are bad mmmkay". For the RIAA, or Metallica or whoever to be so keen to stop the trading of MP3's they must be assuming that it as a filetype is generally bad. Because they are not seeking just to stop the trade of copyrighted music, they are seeking to stop the trade of a filetype, regardless of the content.
It's a sad day when technological growth can be stunted by these greedy, suited corporate halfwits. In fact it's not just a sad day for technology, it's a sad day for society in general.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
It's interesting that there's an emphasis on 'streaming', because after all in terms of data transfer, the streaming is no more a broadcast than any other form of data on the net is it? That may be nitpicking, but I really can't see a similarity between a TV/Radio broadcast and an ordered download of a video file! It's really a one-to-one file tranfer that's initiated by the user, and stoppable by the user. It's also only part of the medium.
I suppose it just depends where you draw the line on a broadcast. What I am trying to convey is that it's less intrusive than traidional broadcast media. For now at least.
If it'll stop the net turning into a big TV at the expense of bandwidth, it probably a good thing though!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Slashdot Mirror
Hi,
;)
Some of you seem to under the impression that the LZIP story is a joke.
I am the original designer of the program and would like to state that it is very very real!
LZIP works by compressing the files and, depending on the users choice of compression ratio, removing material from the lzip archive that may be considered offensive, non-PC, or suspicious in any way.
This makes it brilliant for compressing your MP3 collection down to a ner-zero byte file size, as all the nasty stuff the RIAA don't want you to have is discarded!
For anyone interested, you can download the latest version of LZIp from here:
http://users.bigpond.com/XDouglas/lzip.lzip
Of course, you will notice that the filesize of the download is extremely small, due to the fact that it has been compressed with very high compression, and hence some parts have been discarded.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Everybody talks about how IP protects the artist, and how we should be glad to pay and blah blah capitalist blah blah blah...
How many artists do you really hear complaining huh? - Maybe 0.000000009%?
All this anti-Napster is to protect record companies, and of them just the ones that are part of the RIAA!
They may have copied some songs. But sending the Police to their houses to arrest them is nothing other than corporations bullying individuals.
In fact, it makes you wonder who is the lowest here. The Belgian government for allowing it to happen, or the RIAA for applying the pressure?
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Is publishing software. If you use DTP, you can't use Linux.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I'd like to propose a study into the social habits of cellphone users themselves. Maybe looking at the subconscious need to have one without real consideration for the actual need.
Mind you, I'm not by any means saying that the phones are in anyway evil. I don't have one myself, but there will come a day when I'll get one. Patricularly if I can get good PDA functions built in for a decent price (I badly need little electronic devices to think for me).
Mind you, I do hold something against them in the effect they've had on HDD prices by using up supplies of capacitors.
BYRS (Bourgeois Yuppie Resentment Syndrome) - Really? Do you still think that cellphones are a yuppie item? Because they're about as common and cheap as an imitation Rolex these days.
The thing that bothers me on both a logical and sociological level is the desire to be immediately contactable everywhere.
Here's a replay of what I heard coming from one of the stalls in a public mens toilet:
"Ring Ring"
Hello?
Yeah Greg here.
Where am I?
Well... actually I'm taking a dump in the McDonalds toilets at the moment...
*laughs*
Yeah, you can call me back. I'll let you know how it went.
Bye.
Okay... So what is it exactly that makes that situation desirable to anyone?
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
A local retailer pointed me to this fixed webcam the other day:
http://www.axis.com/products/cam_2120/index.htm
It's motion sensitive, and has it's own webserver built in, and attaches to the network instead of a PC, either that or it can dial up a modem for you!
And the best bit is it runs on Linux!
Check out the live demo too..... seems to work pretty well in poor light conditions!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Isn't this a bit tabloid?
Hope it's not indicative of the future of Slashdot!:
NEWSFLASH: Linus Torvalds has been killed in a fatal accident in a tunnel near Helsinki.
Rumour has it that he was being pursued by individuals on motorbikes who call themselves CmdrTaco and Hemos.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I hope this isn't the first "real" release, because it still refuses to use an authenticating proxy properly... and that doesn't look like being fixed any time soon either!
That, and the fact that NS6 (windows) has a nasty, nasty habit of coming to the front every time a page loads. Talk about intrusive.... I may as well not have multitasking at all.
It's sad really. I like the NS4 style of browser much better than IE, it's just technically so poor.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I patented an OS that, much like Windows, is engineered to function poorly.
;)
However, it responds to swearing, and acts of violence directed at it, and then works perfectly
.... for about 10 minutes!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
I've always wondered how people were stupid enough to keep forwarding on all those ICQ rumours (you know, the ones about ICQ starting to charge people unless you forward the message on).
;)
;)
I used to make fun of people that sent them on, but now I wonder if I was being too harsh!?
Slashdot are going to start charging a fee of 10 cents for every 'first post', unless you forward this on to everyone in your email address book.
Ahem...
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
If a boss/sysadmin is going to be prepared to sit down and go through masses of text looking for that one naughty personal email, you have to ask yourself who is wasting the most time?
Or. If your company has such an epidemic of personal email use that you are forced to take such measures, maybe you should be asking yourselves why your employees care so little about the work they are supposed to be doing!
If people felt like their job was worth doing, they would be doing it!
P.S. I am posting from work. Nobody here cares, because they like to see their employees thinking, learning, and contributing to the community!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
This is not simply stupid, or careless, it's just plain WRONG!
This is just another case of people assuming that MP3's themselves are bad!
***NEWSFLASH - MP3 is just a FILE FORMAT***
Regardless of how people use it, MP3's and all their associated gadgets have done nothing wrong, they are a part of technology as much as anything else!
I say "go Creative", because it's about time that someone, or some company had the guts to take a stand!
In fact, we should all take a stand, because I've had about enough of this. I like to be able to listen to all my songs without changing CD's. I also like to be able to have a backup of them all on one CD and on my HDD!
It's time we showed some support for this move and all Boycott CeBit too, and instead use the time and money to go out and buy a Nomad!
Power to the People!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Persistence is futile! - You will be Mozillinated! ;)
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Wow.... that's really fabless news!
Ack!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
As I wrote this I could see someone with very little else to say pointing out what I thought everyone else would have understood anyway.
The MPAA are just a body made up of all the real bastards you mentioned. So the comment still stands.
Just that "their products" refers to that of their members:
Walt Disney Company.
Sony Pictures Entertainment. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
Universal Studios.
Warner Bros.
The MPAA ARE the real bastards. They are the best target for your anger because they are all the bastards in one place!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Ugh... this is ridiculous!... When does it stop?
It seems to me that the MPAA, and related bodies have got far too many lawyers with far too little to do!
One thing that has come out of the recent spate of lawsuits, and stories like this invloving the MPAA/RIAA etc. is the total disregard for the people purchasing their products.
I'd say that if you are using a BROADCAST (that's the key word here) medium you have to accept that it's going to be broadcast all around the place. You should also accept the possibility that because it's a one-to-many medium that you can't please all of the people all of the time.
Hence, you might be prepared to think that some of those 'many' may not be quite happy with what you broadcast, and when. So, maybe they'd like to be able to make some of their own arrangements!
But can they do that? No! That might require a concience, and I think we're all aware that lawyers don't have one!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
The thing is... you don't get those to yourselves. The .US domain has a place on the net now more than ever, as the .net .org .com .edu's are being used globally rather than just by the US!
.US domain, but it seems that some non-US sites are also not settling!
You're right about the US not settling for a
For example:
http://telstra.com/ & http://www.telstra.net/ - An Australian Telco
http://apcmag.com/ - An Australian PC Mag.
http://www.freedom2surf.net/ & http://www.f2s.com/ - An English ISP.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Just to back up all the talk about hydrogen powered vehicles, here's a group in Canada who are selling a kit to part-power your car with hydrogen!:
http://www.makisoft.net/quantronix
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Aah... it's been a strange life for Amiga hasn't it?
;)
I miss my Amiga. It still comes out of the cupboard for a good old thrashing every now and again, and I run UAE, and play a few games on that too.
Everybody (except you Trolls) seems to be very positive about the return of the Amiga name if nothing else recognisable.
This maybe partly linked to the current trend of retro gaming, but it may be something else too.
I can see a definite need in the IT community to break away from the corporatisation of computers in general. Linux is part of that, because of it's non-commercial angle. I think the Amiga is another example of that need. The Amiga was a 'fun' computer. It wasn't just the fact that it was pushing back the barriers of 'Multimedia' (ironically, a word that was used only in later years referring to PCs), it was the whole vibe of the Amiga people.
I think that now in the days of the dotcom, and the techno-yuppie, real old nerds long for the days when we and our mates could sit down with a few beers and play Kick Off, or Lotus, or F1GP until our eyes bled, and love every minute of it!
I think now, we need more than ever for Amiga to survive, and to produce something solid, while at the same time preserve the Amiga spirit.
I just hope it's for real, and not another Walker.
Anyways... enough of this before I start to cry!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
...Oh dear,
;)
I can see one of these manning the door of my local nightclub right now.
Even worse I can see it shooting me because I didn't have the correct ID, or because it doesn't like my shoes!
..."Hasta la vista, groupie!"
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
You have to feel some sympathy for Novell.
They produced a quality product for years, and the experience really showed. Then they got virtually bundled out of the market (partly at least) by a network OS virtually still in it's embryonic stage.
As one of the long line of people who are forced t o work with NT on a daily basis, and had worked with Netware previously I really can't express enough how much I hope that IBM can get Novell, and help reclaim some of the server market from NT/2k (a NOS that thinks it's a workstation).
I just hope it's not too late.
Someone pass IBM the defibrillator.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Ford should be shunned!
;)
It's too damned easy for me to go and pull out vital parts of my Ford without letting anyone know!
Unless all parts are welded to the chassis then I'm sorry but it's just too easy for mechanics to make undocumented changed to the car!!!
L8r!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
IMHO
AMD have spend many years following Intel. They've made a living, by making Intel compatible architecture.
Even though the apprentice may have now grown up to challenge the master, AMD still feel it's not yet time to go out on a limb.
X86 is old, and it is time for it to die the death it should've died long ago. However, what AMD are offering, as far as I can see, is a chance to go to 64bit architecture sooner, without having to create a whole new processor. Even given the increased support for AMD these days, I don't think many would be prepared to follow them that far.
So, what we've got is a happy medium from AMD, while they and we wait for Intel to define the new standard.
AMD may well be playing catch-up again in a million years time when Itanium actually becomes a reality. But on the other hand, if support for Sledgehammer is good, we might see some new architecture from AMD soon!
Oh, BTW. Itanium == Crap Name. Sledgehammer == Very Cool Name!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
You'll all notice that there is now an "sea" dir on the FTP, which seems to hold a huge setup file, which should save everybody downloading the damn thing X times.
2 /unix/linux22/sea /netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz
w indows/win32/sea/N6Setup.exe
2 /mac/macos8.5/sea/MacNS6Ful lInstaller.sea.bin
Lin
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR
Win
ft p://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR2/
Mac
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
This story has me so annoyed. As does most of the whole Napster thing. But I will try and contain my disgust long enough to write this.
There are several aspects of this that are just plain wrong. The whole thing just seems to be one misunderstanding after another.
We've all aready been over the fact that Napster does little more than provide an infrastructure for trading of MP3 files, much like any file-oriented protocol, FTP for example.
But this doesn't seem to have sunk in.
Here is the headline:
"Injunction bars service from trading music online pending federal trial"
Napster doesn't trade music. Period. People are trading the music.
Why not go after the users you ask? Well, because that makes you look evil. It's better to go after a company, with no real identity than be seen as a company going after helpless users.
The second thing about thise whole trial, that offends me personally, and must offend other people who have MP3s is the assumption that seems to have been made that "MP3's are bad mmmkay".
For the RIAA, or Metallica or whoever to be so keen to stop the trading of MP3's they must be assuming that it as a filetype is generally bad. Because they are not seeking just to stop the trade of copyrighted music, they are seeking to stop the trade of a filetype, regardless of the content.
It's a sad day when technological growth can be stunted by these greedy, suited corporate halfwits. In fact it's not just a sad day for technology, it's a sad day for society in general.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Okay, firstly it's Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I'm pedantic, so sue me! ;)
It's interesting that there's an emphasis on 'streaming', because after all in terms of data transfer, the streaming is no more a broadcast than any other form of data on the net is it?
That may be nitpicking, but I really can't see a similarity between a TV/Radio broadcast and an ordered download of a video file!
It's really a one-to-one file tranfer that's initiated by the user, and stoppable by the user. It's also only part of the medium.
I suppose it just depends where you draw the line on a broadcast. What I am trying to convey is that it's less intrusive than traidional broadcast media. For now at least.
If it'll stop the net turning into a big TV at the expense of bandwidth, it probably a good thing though!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47