You've clearly been reading up on this because that is essentially the opposite of what was concluded on the thread referenced in the initial posting. The only public strip down from iFixit shows ample thermal paste being used (they think it's too much). I've been working with this for the last week and my vote goes to a driver or firmware issue.
Not so according to this blurb from tech web "If you think Apple Computer's Steve Jobs invented the technology behind the Apple iPod, don't bet your 60GB, 15,000-song model on it. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent applications that cover much of the technology associated with the iPod were submitted by Microsoft."
Which would have become:
nate.oo writes " Not so according to this blurb from tech web "If you think Apple Computer's Steve Jobs invented the technology behind the Apple iPod, don't bet your 60GB, 15,000-song model on it. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent applications that cover much of the technology associated with the iPod were submitted by Microsoft.""
One of my favorite things about xfig is the ability to embed LaTeX commands in the figure and have them rendered by LaTeX. This is nice because it gives font consistancy between the document text and the fonts in the figure. With the figtex2eps script, one can process their.fig files by latex and have a.eps file for direct inclusion into the document.
"my wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity."
One interpretation of this statement is that on the day Bob Novak blew her identity, she was a clandestine officer. His blowing of her identity ment that she was no longer considered clandestine.
clandestine adj : conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
You read the article, right? She mentions two cases which the eff won:
MP: So give us a little history of the EFF. Who were those Internet pioneers who started the EFF?
SS: Back in 1989, the United States Secret Service decided that it was going to go after some individuals who were passing around a very important document that had been copied from a Bell South computer that described the emergency 911 system. This document was being passed around on electronic bulletin board systems throughout the country, and probably throughout the world. They were tracking this document, and it ended up being published in an on-line news journal at the time, an e-zine called Phrack. One of the recipients of Phrack was a small games company out of Austin, Texas, called Steve Jackson games. They made fantasy games books, they weren't even doing electronic games at the time. They sold things like "Dungeons and Dragons" type books.
The Secret Service, in its infinite wisdom, decided to just go into Steve Jackson Games and remove all of its computers. They removed disks, removed its printers, removed its modems, and pretty much everything electronic. The Secret Service didn't know what it was doing back then with these kinds of electronics. They didn't have guidelines, and so they didn't know what was going on. Steve Jackson Games was a book publisher, so by removing all of the company's disks and computers, the Secret Service prevented Steve Jackson's pending publications from being released on time.
Steve Jackson had to lay off a bunch of his work force. It really interfered with his business. Ironically, as it turns out, Steve Jackson never received the Phrack newsletter, and it wasn't on their computers, but in the course of looking through all of the computers, the Secret Service found electronic mail from bulletin board of Steve Jackson Games' users, and the Service proceeded to read and delete every single message stored on that bulletin board.
In response to this action by the Secret Service, those Internet pioneers I was talking about started to formulate a plan. Actually, at the time the Internet was not really the Internet as we know it today. It was bulletin board systems, where people were dialing into computers that other people were running, and folks on those bulletin boards, such as the WELL, the Whole Earth Lectronic Link, were talking about what should be done. Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, Steve Wozniak, and a bunch of other Internet pioneers thought that it was ridiculous that the electronic mail that these people passing back and forth were seized and read and deleted as part of a witch hunt that the Secret Service was going on.
So that group of pioneers went to the ACLU and other organizations to try to find an organization that was going to litigate this attack on Steve Jackson Games. They found none, and so they formed an organization and called it the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
From the day that they announced the formation of the EFF, July 10, 1990, they also announced that they were suing the US Secret Service on behalf of Steve Jackson Games. That was our very first lawsuit, and we won big time. Now, the US Secret Service, and all other governmental agencies, needs to get a warrant that particularly describes the email files that they're interested in reading before they can read any emails that they take off of computers. The Secret Service has also since learned that you don't need to seize modems and printers and all sorts of other things. They're very careful about what they seize when they go in and seize things.
MP: Tell us about the Bernstein case and the First Amendment.
SS: In that case, a mathematician cryptographer came up with a little piece of code that he wanted to put out on the Internet for fellow cryptographers to critique, in peer review fashion. It turns out that his posting the encryption code was considered an export of munitions by the US government! He was told that he needed t
While the majority of people involved in Indymedia are on the left (some/many? on the extreme left), it is a fairly open organization. Anyone can publish whatever they want and get involved in shaping the organization. I believe this would be difficult since there is a lot of momentum going to the left. However, this is something that isn't even possible with Fox News.
I work with Indymedia here in Pittsburgh --- more so in the past--- and we do not log IP addresses for this very reason. We log pages served for generateing statsistics, though we cannot determine things like the number of unique page views.
If they ever kept logs in the UK, I would be surprised if they still do given the past seizures of servers in that country.
Actually, the grandparent post mentions an exepmtion that was given specifically to the Debian project. I don't know why thy dont just call it firefox-patched.
... but I know for a fact that I would buy an Intel Mac because I could put Windows AND my favorite Linux AND Mac all on the same dual-booting machine
I don't know how well Windows will run on an Intel based Mac. While I don't see Apple bending over backwards to prevent Windows from running on their hardware, I don't see them trying to help Microsoft out. Say for example Apple uses their openfirmware instead of a normal bios. I think you might have a heck of a time getting windows installed. If Apple uses a proprietary chipset or any other proprietary hardware I think you might have a hard time getting windows installed. Microsoft had no real motivation for getting Windows to work on Apple hardware. It's just not worth the money to Microsoft for the fraction of people who would want to run Windows on their Mac --- a small fraction of a small fraction (the number of people using macs).
Consider the literature involved here. These are scientific works which are probably used more or less as reference material. This isn't a Tom Clancy novel which you sit down and read for hours. This is: "What is a good numerical technique to solve this stiff set of odes?" From an end user perspective, having these books in digital formate is ideal.
However, you'll notice that anyone can fix this problem and submit the solution. If there is a company who relies heavily on Linux and thinks this is the worst security since Windows XP, they can hire someone to fix the problem and send a patch to Linus. Linus can then consider the patch and implement it. I'd say this is pretty scalable. I also believe that there are a couple other people who can commit changes to the kernel.
Linus can only personally care for so many things. Nothing is preventing someone else from saying: Hey this is a problem. I'll fix it and send a patch to Linux. I doubt that Linus would ignore such a patch. My understanding is that this is a theoretical problem and noone has even provided an example which demonstrates this exploit. There are many things that need to be worked on, and Linus has to prioritize them some how.
To beat Word... you have to create something better than Word... not just a mimmickry.
I believe you might be missing the point. To create something better than word, you will have to support the legacy of word. In other words, the thing you create to replace word will have to be able to open word documents. Since these standards are proprietary, you have two options:
1. Wait for microsoft, who controls the standards, to create something better than word.
2. Open up the proprietary standards to have true competition.
dont you loose steering on new cars when the power is off? i know the steering wheel on my car locks up. simply let the engine 'bounce' off the rev limiter when in neutral.
You can normally turn the ignition partially and the engine will stop. The steering wheel doesn't lock until the ignition has been turned completely off. You may loose power steering, but you should still be able to steer. You will just have to push the steering wheel a little harder.
What does "GPL" stand for?
"GPL" stands for "General Public License". The most widespread such license is the GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL for short. This can be further shortened to "GPL", when it is understood that the GNU GPL is the one intended.
So GPL can stand for "General Public License" _or_ GNU General Public License. Neither of these include the "GNU Public License".
I wouldn't be surprised if people like Mossberg forked over the $500 or so to be a "developer". Sure you still have to sign NDA's but you get a couple months or so to see how things are panning out. By a week before the final release you have a good idea of what outstanding bugs and issues were present. You can also read a little and figure out which have been fixed and which are still present. I would imagine this is how many of the people who review these products are able to write good reviews.
I think a better analogy would be web sites. By looking at slashdot I'm poking around on a server I do not own (e.g. telnet slashdot.org 80, get index). If you have a BitKeeper server with kernel source on the net and you make it publically available (e.g. no passwords), I don't see how anyone who connects to it and access the data you made publically available should get in trouble. This does presume that the data isn't copyrighted such that distributing it would be illegal. In the case of the kernel,
They sent us ram wich didnt work too well, it was for revision 1 of our motherboard and we had revision 2. I called them up and told them that memtest86 said their ram was bad. They didn't treat me like a moron: reseat the ram, we dont support linux, etc. The guy asked me the model number for my motherboard. He said that there were two different revisions and that the ram sent to me was for the other revision. They overnighted the correct ram and paid for return shipping. I understand things like this happen and they delt with it quickly and effectively. It may be more expensive, but it's worth it to me.
I agree with your sentiments about the need for good government and the elimination of corruption. There was an article in the World Policy Journal last summer which discussed the relative effects of tarrifs and subsidies on African nations. This is the text of ther article for those interested:
Africa and the Battle over Agricultural Protectionism Todd Moss and Alicia Bannon*
In recent years, as African governments and development advocates have stepped up their campaign to reform the trade policies of rich countries, the issue of agricultural protectionism has come to the forefront. This is a highly divisive issue, with rich countries resisting poor countries' demands for major changes. In fact, the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations, the September 2003 Cancun meeting, failed largely because of the impasse over agriculture.
Critics highlight the hypocrisy of rich countries giving lip service to free trade while maintaining tariff barriers and paying subsidies to their farmers. Their argument that agricultural protectionism places an unfair burden on Africa is becoming a mainstream view. The New York Times, for example, argues that African farmers are "rightfully outraged that a nation [the United States] that enjoys all the benefits of open markets for its industrial products keeps putting up walls around its farmers."1 The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have also come out strongly against current agricultural trade practices and advocate a major overhaul in order to benefit low-income countries.2
Several African countries have also become assertive on agricultural issues in international trade debates. South Africa played a lead role in the recent WTO negotiations, with Uganda, Botswana, and Kenya also becoming vocal players. Four West African countries--Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, and Benin--have called on the United States to cut the $1-3 billion it spends each year subsidizing American cotton growers. More broadly, African politicians have used their bully pulpits to criticize unfair trade policies and their impact on Africa's long-term development. "The rich countries have a choice," says Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, "either let Africa have real access to your markets for products, especially agriculture, or acknowledge that you prefer to keep us dependent on your handouts."3
Recently, development advocates and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have joined the campaign for reform of global agricultural markets. Oxfam and the World Council of Churches, among other organizations, are taking an active role in lobbying trade negotiators on this issue.4 In short, fairness in agricultural trade policy has become for this decade what debt relief was for the 1990s--central to the critique of U.S. and European policies toward the poor and a focal point for development advocacy.
The protectionist policies of rich countries are indeed a serious issue for Africa, where farming accounts for about 70 percent of total employment and is the main source of income for the vast majority of those living in or near poverty. The 30 member countries of the OECD spend a combined $235 billion per year to support their agricultural producers, but only about $60 billion on foreign aid (about one-fifth of which goes to Africa). Subsidies, tariffs, and nontariff barriers distort global prices and restrict access to rich-country markets. The global trading system discriminates against the world's poorest nations, making their products less competitive and undermining opportunities for growth, employment, and, ultimately, economic and social development. Additionally, intransigence on the part of rich countries over agricultural reform also indirectly harms poor countries due to its effects on broader trade negotiations. According to one estimate, unimpeded global trade would boost developing country income by
Sure, this may be the same thing that happened with Samba but linus never made any claims about the legality.
Of couse not. Linus isn't a lawyer. Though reverse engineering has been tested in court and Tridge has a bit of experience in this area.
In the case of microsoft we had a widely deployed piece of software that the open source community needed to interact with for compatibility reasons. Nothing of the kind is true with BitKeeper.
This is a very subjective statement, and I think there are those that would argue quite the opposite. If you want to use a different tool to do kernel development, the first step to accomplish this would be to reverse engineer compatability with the tool being used by Linus. I personally don't think there is a minimum number of people who need to be using a piece of software before reverse engineering of protocols can be considered justified.
Secondly, while it's possible I very much doubt that the BitKeeper protocol was being reverse engineered from the expensive pro version. Most likely it being reverse enginered from the free versions (or at least comped versions). Unlike microsoft which needs to keep Samba out there in every windows box BitMover was just allowing this free usage as a donation/PR move and could easily revoke it without comprimising their buisness model.
If you had been following this at all, or even read the article for that matter, you would know that Tridge used neither the Professional nor the free versions. From the article:
" he [tridge] reverse engineered the over the wire protocol."
"He never laid hands on the Bitkeeper software. He did not look inside the software to do this."
Tridge has stated elsewhere that he never used the Bitkeeper software. As a result, he has never agreed to their license and consequently has never agreed to _not_ reverse engineer their protocols.
There are many positive and negative things which can come from this --- especially when considering the different viewpoints of those involved in kernel development. I think it's too early to make definitive statements as wether this is a good or bad move politically.
Slashdot Mirror
You've clearly been reading up on this because that is essentially the opposite of what was concluded on the thread referenced in the initial posting. The only public strip down from iFixit shows ample thermal paste being used (they think it's too much). I've been working with this for the last week and my vote goes to a driver or firmware issue.
Which would have become:
One of my favorite things about xfig is the ability to embed LaTeX commands in the figure and have them rendered by LaTeX. This is nice because it gives font consistancy between the document text and the fonts in the figure. With the figtex2eps script, one can process their .fig files by latex and have a .eps file for direct inclusion into the document.
"my wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity."
One interpretation of this statement is that on the day Bob Novak blew her identity, she was a clandestine officer. His blowing of her identity ment that she was no longer considered clandestine.
clandestine adj : conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
Once outed, you can no longer be clandestine.
You could also read more of their lies here http://www.eff.org/legal/victories/
While the majority of people involved in Indymedia are on the left (some/many? on the extreme left), it is a fairly open organization. Anyone can publish whatever they want and get involved in shaping the organization. I believe this would be difficult since there is a lot of momentum going to the left. However, this is something that isn't even possible with Fox News.
I work with Indymedia here in Pittsburgh --- more so in the past--- and we do not log IP addresses for this very reason. We log pages served for generateing statsistics, though we cannot determine things like the number of unique page views.
If they ever kept logs in the UK, I would be surprised if they still do given the past seizures of servers in that country.
Actually, the grandparent post mentions an exepmtion that was given specifically to the Debian project. I don't know why thy dont just call it firefox-patched.
Remind is a powerful open source program available on several platforms.
I don't know how well Windows will run on an Intel based Mac. While I don't see Apple bending over backwards to prevent Windows from running on their hardware, I don't see them trying to help Microsoft out. Say for example Apple uses their openfirmware instead of a normal bios. I think you might have a heck of a time getting windows installed. If Apple uses a proprietary chipset or any other proprietary hardware I think you might have a hard time getting windows installed. Microsoft had no real motivation for getting Windows to work on Apple hardware. It's just not worth the money to Microsoft for the fraction of people who would want to run Windows on their Mac --- a small fraction of a small fraction (the number of people using macs).
Consider the literature involved here. These are scientific works which are probably used more or less as reference material. This isn't a Tom Clancy novel which you sit down and read for hours. This is: "What is a good numerical technique to solve this stiff set of odes?" From an end user perspective, having these books in digital formate is ideal.
Does this remind anyone of Gracenote and CDDB?
Don't get me wrong. This service actually sounds pretty neat.
However, you'll notice that anyone can fix this problem and submit the solution. If there is a company who relies heavily on Linux and thinks this is the worst security since Windows XP, they can hire someone to fix the problem and send a patch to Linus. Linus can then consider the patch and implement it. I'd say this is pretty scalable. I also believe that there are a couple other people who can commit changes to the kernel.
Linus can only personally care for so many things. Nothing is preventing someone else from saying: Hey this is a problem. I'll fix it and send a patch to Linux. I doubt that Linus would ignore such a patch. My understanding is that this is a theoretical problem and noone has even provided an example which demonstrates this exploit. There are many things that need to be worked on, and Linus has to prioritize them some how.
To beat Word... you have to create something better than Word... not just a mimmickry.
I believe you might be missing the point. To create something better than word, you will have to support the legacy of word. In other words, the thing you create to replace word will have to be able to open word documents. Since these standards are proprietary, you have two options:
1. Wait for microsoft, who controls the standards, to create something better than word.
2. Open up the proprietary standards to have true competition.
What
dont you loose steering on new cars when the power is off? i know the steering wheel on my car locks up. simply let the engine 'bounce' off the rev limiter when in neutral.
You can normally turn the ignition partially and the engine will stop. The steering wheel doesn't lock until the ignition has been turned completely off. You may loose power steering, but you should still be able to steer. You will just have to push the steering wheel a little harder.
So GPL can stand for "General Public License" _or_ GNU General Public License. Neither of these include the "GNU Public License".
Actually, GPL is the General Public License.
Not to be argumentative, but aren't murals normally located on walls?
mural
adj : of or relating to walls; "mural painting"
n : a painting that is applied to a wall surface [syn: {wall painting}]
Don't get me wrong, this is neat. However, it would have been more impressive if they had done it on a wall.
And anyone can become a developer.
I wouldn't be surprised if people like Mossberg forked over the $500 or so to be a "developer". Sure you still have to sign NDA's but you get a couple months or so to see how things are panning out. By a week before the final release you have a good idea of what outstanding bugs and issues were present. You can also read a little and figure out which have been fixed and which are still present. I would imagine this is how many of the people who review these products are able to write good reviews.
I think a better analogy would be web sites. By looking at slashdot I'm poking around on a server I do not own (e.g. telnet slashdot.org 80, get index). If you have a BitKeeper server with kernel source on the net and you make it publically available (e.g. no passwords), I don't see how anyone who connects to it and access the data you made publically available should get in trouble. This does presume that the data isn't copyrighted such that distributing it would be illegal. In the case of the kernel,
They sent us ram wich didnt work too well, it was for revision 1 of our motherboard and we had revision 2. I called them up and told them that memtest86 said their ram was bad. They didn't treat me like a moron: reseat the ram, we dont support linux, etc. The guy asked me the model number for my motherboard. He said that there were two different revisions and that the ram sent to me was for the other revision. They overnighted the correct ram and paid for return shipping. I understand things like this happen and they delt with it quickly and effectively. It may be more expensive, but it's worth it to me.
I agree with your sentiments about the need for good government and the elimination of corruption. There was an article in the World Policy Journal last summer which discussed the relative effects of tarrifs and subsidies on African nations. This is the text of ther article for those interested:
Africa and the Battle over Agricultural Protectionism
Todd Moss and Alicia Bannon*
In recent years, as African governments and development advocates have stepped up their campaign to reform the trade policies of rich countries, the issue of agricultural protectionism has come to the forefront. This is a highly divisive issue, with rich countries resisting poor countries' demands for major changes. In fact, the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations, the September 2003 Cancun meeting, failed largely because of the impasse over agriculture.
Critics highlight the hypocrisy of rich countries giving lip service to free trade while maintaining tariff barriers and paying subsidies to their farmers. Their argument that agricultural protectionism places an unfair burden on Africa is becoming a mainstream view. The New York Times, for example, argues that African farmers are "rightfully outraged that a nation [the United States] that enjoys all the benefits of open markets for its industrial products keeps putting up walls around its farmers."1 The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have also come out strongly against current agricultural trade practices and advocate a major overhaul in order to benefit low-income countries.2
Several African countries have also become assertive on agricultural issues in international trade debates. South Africa played a lead role in the recent WTO negotiations, with Uganda, Botswana, and Kenya also becoming vocal players. Four West African countries--Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, and Benin--have called on the United States to cut the $1-3 billion it spends each year subsidizing American cotton growers. More broadly, African politicians have used their bully pulpits to criticize unfair trade policies and their impact on Africa's long-term development. "The rich countries have a choice," says Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, "either let Africa have real access to your markets for products, especially agriculture, or acknowledge that you prefer to keep us dependent on your handouts."3
Recently, development advocates and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have joined the campaign for reform of global agricultural markets. Oxfam and the World Council of Churches, among other organizations, are taking an active role in lobbying trade negotiators on this issue.4 In short, fairness in agricultural trade policy has become for this decade what debt relief was for the 1990s--central to the critique of U.S. and European policies toward the poor and a focal point for development advocacy.
The protectionist policies of rich countries are indeed a serious issue for Africa, where farming accounts for about 70 percent of total employment and is the main source of income for the vast majority of those living in or near poverty. The 30 member countries of the OECD spend a combined $235 billion per year to support their agricultural producers, but only about $60 billion on foreign aid (about one-fifth of which goes to Africa). Subsidies, tariffs, and nontariff barriers distort global prices and restrict access to rich-country markets. The global trading system discriminates against the world's poorest nations, making their products less competitive and undermining opportunities for growth, employment, and, ultimately, economic and social development. Additionally, intransigence on the part of rich countries over agricultural reform also indirectly harms poor countries due to its effects on broader trade negotiations. According to one estimate, unimpeded global trade would boost developing country income by
Of couse not. Linus isn't a lawyer. Though reverse engineering has been tested in court and Tridge has a bit of experience in this area.
In the case of microsoft we had a widely deployed piece of software that the open source community needed to interact with for compatibility reasons. Nothing of the kind is true with BitKeeper.
This is a very subjective statement, and I think there are those that would argue quite the opposite. If you want to use a different tool to do kernel development, the first step to accomplish this would be to reverse engineer compatability with the tool being used by Linus. I personally don't think there is a minimum number of people who need to be using a piece of software before reverse engineering of protocols can be considered justified.
Secondly, while it's possible I very much doubt that the BitKeeper protocol was being reverse engineered from the expensive pro version. Most likely it being reverse enginered from the free versions (or at least comped versions). Unlike microsoft which needs to keep Samba out there in every windows box BitMover was just allowing this free usage as a donation/PR move and could easily revoke it without comprimising their buisness model.
If you had been following this at all, or even read the article for that matter, you would know that Tridge used neither the Professional nor the free versions. From the article:
Tridge has stated elsewhere that he never used the Bitkeeper software. As a result, he has never agreed to their license and consequently has never agreed to _not_ reverse engineer their protocols.
There are many positive and negative things which can come from this --- especially when considering the different viewpoints of those involved in kernel development. I think it's too early to make definitive statements as wether this is a good or bad move politically.