sure i know it takes the surprise out of it, but i think you will be much happier in the long run. my dad asked me point blank what i wanted for christmas. i thought about it for a couple days and i told him that i wanted a neuros. he was actually happy to get me something that i wanted, and i'm pleased with what he got me. sure there was little surprise in this present, but i dont really mind.
ignoring your indignance, your assumption was flawed. why would anyone in their right mind only buy disposable batteries?
a few years ago, rechargable batteries were invented. so you pay $11 for some 2200 mA NiMH energizers' and 15 for a charger. then you've spend about $30 after taxes. after about 1.5 years, you run those down and fork out another $11. plus there is always the convenience of being able to use batteries you can pick up from any store when you dont have the opportunity to charge your device.
The NiMH batteries in the Neuros and the Lithium Ion battery in the Neuros HD are expected to last at least 1 1/2 - 2 years (depending on usage). Only our Neuros technical team can replace the battery for you and, as a result, it is not consumer-serviceable. Our battery replacement policy is as follows.
Within Warranty (90 days parts, 1 year labor) -If within first 90 days of purchase - NO CHARGE -Past 90 days, but within 1 year- $7
Outside of Warranty Neuros 128- $8 Neuros HD- $12
To have your battery replaced, please send us the Backpack portion of your Neuros in a padded envelope with your name, address, phone number, e-mail (along with a check payable to Neuros Audio) to:
Neuros Audio Attn: Battery Replacement 1941 N Hawthorne Ave Melrose Park, IL 60160
yeah, this is one of the things in mutt i really like. in case someone is wondering this is what it looks like: screen shot at least after i've configured things a bit.
actually freedb states somewhere that the prefix "the" should be eliminated, except for the band "the the", which will retain the 'the'. since i use lower case for everything, this isnt much of a problem.
the problem is more pertinatnt imo when you have things like multi disc sets is it: dis{c|k} 1, dis{c|k} 1 of 3, etc. is it '&', or 'and' etc. so yeah mb is more accurate and consistant. plus mb frequently merges the freedb into their own, with moderation of course.
Several companies are making silicon implementations (ASICs) of OR1200 using different library vendors and foundaries, process geometries from 0.35um to 0.13um. For references contact lampret@opencores.org.
Here is an example of System-On-Chip (SOC) from Flextronics Semiconductor. It is a 32-bit general-purpose microcontroller implemented on UMC 0.18um targetting embedded applications with maximum clock frequency of 160MHz. The SOC features:
The OR1200 is implemented with 8KB instruction and 8KB data caches, I/DMMU with 64 TLB entries each, power management unit, debug unit, tick timer and interrupt controller. Its 32x32 multiplier is coupled with a 64-bit MAC unit.
Test board for testing the SOC has 64MBytes of SDRAM, 32MBytes of FLASH, RS232 transceiver, Ethernet 10/100 PHY. Connectors are for RS232, Ethernet, JTAG/Debug and several Mictor logic analyzer connectors. The board has its own DC/DC regulators for 3.3V IO power supply and 1.8V core power supply. It can be used as stand alone board or as PCI standard form plugin board.
Software running on the SOC is Embedded Microcontroller Linux (uClinux) with a console on serial RS232. The console shows a network ping to a local network host - the ping shows the Ethernet 10/100 capability.
This board was the first prototype built (not fully assembled at the time) Dynamic power of the entire test board is 1.4W. Dynamic current of the SOC IO power supply is 52mA (3.3V) and dynamic current of the SOC Core power supply is 86mA (1.8V). These are nominal values measured at 100MHz system clock.
Maximum system clock frequency of the SOC is 160 MHz. System clock is used to clock not only the OR1200 processor but the entire chip (exception is memory controller which can also run at 1/2 system clock). Max system clock 160MHz was obtained at 25C ambient temperature, 3.3V IO and 1.8V core.
Test boards are available to Flextronics Semiconductor ASIC customers. For more information about the test boards, the SOC technical details and business engagement please contact Flextronics Semiconductor.
IMPORTANT NOTE: For a live demonstration of the SOC in Silicon Valley, California during Dec 8th 2003 and Dec 15th please contact Damjan Lampret.
i've seen people saying that the neuros is going down, but most people are overreacting to a company that actually communicates directley with their customers.
i lurked around on the neuros site for a while before i got mine last week. the form factor is a little large, but i dont think it's that intrusive. the backpack gives the user something that most other portables dont consider: expandability. the myfi ability to broadcast fm is pretty nifty. and for the price i really couldnt beat it.
since i dont own a computer with windows, the fact that they dont turn your back on you when you ask linux related questions is a really good selling point for me. some other people mentioned upgrading firmware. it's pretty easy with the neuros under any os.
digital innovations is a good company that is deadicated to their customers. very few companies can make that claim these days.
i have a neuros with one of those 20gig backpacks. i mount it using vfat and it uses long file names. i suppose thats my fault since i made the file names in the first place. really though, just because your camera doesnt use long file names, it doesnt mean that nothing out there does. i'll be just as happy if everyone starts using ext2 or some such.
i just tried to up date some sources on a project of mine and i noticed cvs hung for a while. i went to savannah and i saw the "statement". it mentions "minimal services back up by Friday". does anyone know if minimal will include cvs? i'm not trying to hurry them, i'm just curious.
if there are any savannah folks out there reading this, let me say you do a wonderful job keeping everything up and running.
i'm a big fan of apt too. is there a way to make a local up2date repository. that way i can download everything to one machine and update the rest? thats what i do with atp and it's much more efficient than downloading updates for 20 computers 20 times. since the up2date in fedora supports apt and yum repositories, i think it might be better in the long run.
i would also suggest against automatically updating stuff on important machines and such. although i believe up2date wont automatically update kernels unless you tell it to do so. by default i believe it excludes certain packages.
i'm in a similar situation over here. we have two servers, 10 workstations, and some rack systems. all i really want is access to the updates. i dont want support, and i dont want to pay to install redhat on each computer. i'm ok with paying them for access to the software (os and updates), i just dont want to pay for each computer i want to install the os on. that is unless, of course, i'm going to update each computer from their server, but this isnt necessary for us.
does anyone know if there is something like this for linux? i saw a reference to a stitching plugin for the gimp. is there anything else like this which works well in linux?
And if it isn't in a certain folder in the Windows base directory, Windows can't find it anyway. So it's just a matter of finding the base directory, and grabbing it from there.
so knoppix can probably find out where windows is installed by examining the bootloader for windows. i believe it points to the windows installation directory (which device, directory, etc.).
i do this with my digital camera. i use the camera till the batteries die, then i pop in the second set. while using the second set i put the first on the charger. nimh would work fine. sure you're not using them in the same way, but it's not that big of a deal.
while i've never changed that many things at once, i've changed video cards, nic's, etc. and kudzu (under redhat 8 & 9) detects that the old hardware has been removed and the new stuff is there. it will then ask me questions like "do you want to configure the 3c509 blah?". i can tell it yes and to use dhcp and everything is dandy.
problems can exsist, i'm not denying that, but changing the hardware is something that should be possible without reinstalling.
yeah and while dd does copy the entire partition, there is nothing stopping you from pipeing the output into bzip2 to compress the disk image down a bit. you could probably pipe the output of bzip2 to split to split the image file into managable chunks.
just some thoughts...
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Why do all the microsoft bashers here know so little about any of it's products? Or linux for that matter, there is no one "Unix shell".
after looking at the web page, i think they are bashing it because ms is charging $100 for what most modern operating systems come with by default. when they say ms has no unix shell. they mean that ms lacks a utility they should have by default, and by not including this by default they do their users a disservice.
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yep - run Samba on the linux server.
now, how would you get your linux box to talk to your xp server for username/password validation?
i'm not quite sure how this makes windows xp talk to my nis server.
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Unix services for windows has korn shell and c shell, NFS, all kinds of goodies.
great, can you tell me how to get my windows xp box to talk to our (linux) nis server for username/password validation?
why not just ship perl with windows. then ms could just make perl modules for ms specific stuff. then there's no need to learn a 4th or 5th language. since i dont use windows, i probably dont really understand the benefits of things like intellisense (wtf is this?).
it's kind of long and i dont know if it requires a password to read, so here is the text:
Saddam Hussein's regime "is busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents," Vice President Dick Cheney told the Veterans of Foreign Wars in August, adding, "These are not weapons designed for the purpose of defending Iraq. These are offensive weapons for the purpose of inflicting death on a massive scale." Billed by the White House as laying out the case for military action against Iraq, the speech employed the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" eight times. George W. Bush also regularly uses "weapons of mass destruction" as a collective term for chemical, biological, and atomic arms. In his 2002 State of the Union address, for example, the president stated that the United States would not "permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most dangerous weapons," citing chemical, biological, and atomic arms as equal concerns.
Indeed, during the last year, politicians, pundits, and the media (including The New Republic) have used the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" as a constant shorthand for chemical, biological, and atomic arms. As of this writing, the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" had appeared in The New York Times in some 250 articles over the past month alone. And while I do not claim to have examined all of these citations, it is a safe bet that most referred collectively to chemical, biological, and atomic arms, implying equivalent power to inflict "death on a massive scale."
Yet their lethal potential is emphatically not equivalent. Chemical weapons are dangerous, to be sure, but not "weapons of mass destruction" in any meaningful sense. In actual use, chemical arms have proven less deadly than regular bombs, bullets, and artillery shells. Since the gassing of the trenches in World War I and the Holocaust a generation later, people have been terrified by the thought of death by gas--partly because chemical agents are invisible, partly because we visualize ghastly, helpless choking rather than vanishing in the flash of an explosion. But pound for pound, chemical weapons are less lethal than conventional explosives and more difficult for an attacker or terrorist to use. It's also hard to see what the moral distinction is between being killed by gas and being blown up. Modern artillery shells create horrific scenes of carnage, and yet we don't view them as weapons of "mass destruction," though firing them into an unsuspecting city could readily produce more deaths than gas. advertisement
Similarly, biological weapons are widely viewed with dread, though in actual use they have rarely done great harm. The most successful biological warfare to date took place nearly 250 years ago, when the British gave smallpox-laden blankets to French-affiliated Native Americans during the Seven Years' War. Japanese attempts to use biological weapons against China during World War II were of limited success. More recently there have been accidental releases of smallpox and anthrax in the Soviet Union and Ebola exposure in the United States; all did far less harm than would have been caused by the detonation of a single conventional bomb.
Biological agents are surely dangerous: Being alive, they can propagate, in theory "manufacturing" more of themselves from tiny initial amounts. But the biological weapon that creates a runaway effect, killing huge numbers rapidly, so far exists only in science fiction and preposterous Hollywood thrillers such as Outbreak. Illustration by Alex NabaumThe living things of Earth have spent millions of years evolving defenses against runaway pathogens, and these defenses have grown stronger during the postwar era as public health has improved spectacularly in most nations. Deliberate, systematic distribution of weapons-grade anthrax in the United
While I think SCO are a bunch of weasels who have probably not been specific as to lines of code. I do think that this particular objection to IBM discovery requests is quite reasonable and understandable. SCO isn't saying that IBM has to tell them what code was contributed just who did it how and when.
in theory, sco should be able to tell ibm who did it. all they have to do is check out the copyright notices in the code. for example in:
arch/s390/lib/memset.c
we have:
/* * arch/s390/lib/memset.S * S390 fast memset routine * * S390 version * Copyright (C) 1999 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, IBM Corporation * Author(s): Martin Schwidefsky (schwidefsky@de.ibm.com), */
so sco really just needs to identify which sections of code they think ibm help create with sco's "technology" and use the info in the copyright notices to inform ibm which employee has been bad. seriously just do the following:
To the despair of the textbook publishers who are still trying to block such sales, the reimporting of American texts from overseas has become far easier in recent years, thanks both to Internet sites that offer instant access to foreign book prices, and to a 1998 Supreme Court ruling that federal copyright law does not protect American manufacturers from having the products they arranged to sell overseas at a discount shipped back for sale in the United States.
i've read the notice on the back of the books also. i dont know if that can be enforced. i.e. i dont know if purchasing the book makes you bound to a contract. kind of like a eula for a book.
plus, my books were purchased in india and simply delivered to me here.
really though, this could seriously hurt the folks back in asia. if the publishers find they can make more money by selling really expensive books here and not providing the cheaper ones in asia, they may stop making the cheaper editions available in india. though a decision like this is not likely to hinder many of my friends from india. the will simply buy one copy of a book and photocopy it 1000 times:).
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sure i know it takes the surprise out of it, but i think you will be much happier in the long run. my dad asked me point blank what i wanted for christmas. i thought about it for a couple days and i told him that i wanted a neuros. he was actually happy to get me something that i wanted, and i'm pleased with what he got me. sure there was little surprise in this present, but i dont really mind.
ignoring your indignance, your assumption was flawed. why would anyone in their right mind only buy disposable batteries?
a few years ago, rechargable batteries were invented. so you pay $11 for some 2200 mA NiMH energizers' and 15 for a charger. then you've spend about $30 after taxes. after about 1.5 years, you run those down and fork out another $11. plus there is always the convenience of being able to use batteries you can pick up from any store when you dont have the opportunity to charge your device.
the neuros does pretty cheap too my emph' added:
The NiMH batteries in the Neuros and the Lithium Ion battery in the Neuros HD are expected to last at least 1 1/2 - 2 years (depending on usage). Only our Neuros technical team can replace the battery for you and, as a result, it is not consumer-serviceable. Our battery replacement policy is as follows.
Within Warranty (90 days parts, 1 year labor)
-If within first 90 days of purchase - NO CHARGE
-Past 90 days, but within 1 year- $7
Outside of Warranty
Neuros 128- $8
Neuros HD- $12
To have your battery replaced, please send us the Backpack portion of your Neuros in a padded envelope with your name, address, phone number, e-mail (along with a check payable to Neuros Audio) to:
Neuros Audio
Attn: Battery Replacement
1941 N Hawthorne Ave
Melrose Park, IL 60160
really? i didn't think so either.
you're a pretty comprehensive thinker.
yeah, this is one of the things in mutt i really like. in case someone is wondering this is what it looks like:
screen shot
at least after i've configured things a bit.
actually freedb states somewhere that the prefix "the" should be eliminated, except for the band "the the", which will retain the 'the'. since i use lower case for everything, this isnt much of a problem.
the problem is more pertinatnt imo when you have things like multi disc sets is it: dis{c|k} 1, dis{c|k} 1 of 3, etc. is it '&', or 'and' etc. so yeah mb is more accurate and consistant. plus mb frequently merges the freedb into their own, with moderation of course.
Project: OpenRISC 1000
Silicon Implementations
Several companies are making silicon implementations (ASICs) of OR1200 using different library vendors and foundaries, process geometries from 0.35um to 0.13um. For references contact lampret@opencores.org.
Here is an example of System-On-Chip (SOC) from Flextronics Semiconductor. It is a 32-bit general-purpose microcontroller implemented on UMC 0.18um targetting embedded applications with maximum clock frequency of 160MHz. The SOC features:
* OR1200 processor
* Memory Controller (FLASH, SDRAM, SRAM, DPRAM)
* PCI 2.2 32-bit interface 33/66MHz
* Ethernet MAC 10/100
* UART16550
* GPIO
* JTAG/Debug Interface
The OR1200 is implemented with 8KB instruction and 8KB data caches, I/DMMU with 64 TLB entries each, power management unit, debug unit, tick timer and interrupt controller. Its 32x32 multiplier is coupled with a 64-bit MAC unit.
Test board for testing the SOC has 64MBytes of SDRAM, 32MBytes of FLASH, RS232 transceiver, Ethernet 10/100 PHY. Connectors are for RS232, Ethernet, JTAG/Debug and several Mictor logic analyzer connectors. The board has its own DC/DC regulators for 3.3V IO power supply and 1.8V core power supply. It can be used as stand alone board or as PCI standard form plugin board.
Software running on the SOC is Embedded Microcontroller Linux (uClinux) with a console on serial RS232. The console shows a network ping to a local network host - the ping shows the Ethernet 10/100 capability.
This board was the first prototype built (not fully assembled at the time)
Dynamic power of the entire test board is 1.4W. Dynamic current of the SOC IO power supply is 52mA (3.3V) and dynamic current of the SOC Core power supply is 86mA (1.8V). These are nominal values measured at 100MHz system clock.
Maximum system clock frequency of the SOC is 160 MHz. System clock is used to clock not only the OR1200 processor but the entire chip (exception is memory controller which can also run at 1/2 system clock). Max system clock 160MHz was obtained at 25C ambient temperature, 3.3V IO and 1.8V core.
Test boards are available to Flextronics Semiconductor ASIC customers. For more information about the test boards, the SOC technical details and business engagement please contact Flextronics Semiconductor.
IMPORTANT NOTE: For a live demonstration of the SOC in Silicon Valley, California during Dec 8th 2003 and Dec 15th please contact Damjan Lampret.
i've seen people saying that the neuros is going down, but most people are overreacting to a company that actually communicates directley with their customers.
i lurked around on the neuros site for a while before i got mine last week. the form factor is a little large, but i dont think it's that intrusive. the backpack gives the user something that most other portables dont consider: expandability. the myfi ability to broadcast fm is pretty nifty. and for the price i really couldnt beat it.
since i dont own a computer with windows, the fact that they dont turn your back on you when you ask linux related questions is a really good selling point for me. some other people mentioned upgrading firmware. it's pretty easy with the neuros under any os.
digital innovations is a good company that is deadicated to their customers. very few companies can make that claim these days.
i have a neuros with one of those 20gig backpacks. i mount it using vfat and it uses long file names. i suppose thats my fault since i made the file names in the first place. really though, just because your camera doesnt use long file names, it doesnt mean that nothing out there does. i'll be just as happy if everyone starts using ext2 or some such.
i just tried to up date some sources on a project of mine and i noticed cvs hung for a while. i went to savannah and i saw the "statement". it mentions "minimal services back up by Friday". does anyone know if minimal will include cvs? i'm not trying to hurry them, i'm just curious.
if there are any savannah folks out there reading this, let me say you do a wonderful job keeping everything up and running.
thanks.
beside apt-get works better, and is free
i'm a big fan of apt too. is there a way to make a local up2date repository. that way i can download everything to one machine and update the rest? thats what i do with atp and it's much more efficient than downloading updates for 20 computers 20 times. since the up2date in fedora supports apt and yum repositories, i think it might be better in the long run.
i would also suggest against automatically updating stuff on important machines and such. although i believe up2date wont automatically update kernels unless you tell it to do so. by default i believe it excludes certain packages.
i'm in a similar situation over here. we have two servers, 10 workstations, and some rack systems. all i really want is access to the updates. i dont want support, and i dont want to pay to install redhat on each computer. i'm ok with paying them for access to the software (os and updates), i just dont want to pay for each computer i want to install the os on. that is unless, of course, i'm going to update each computer from their server, but this isnt necessary for us.
does anyone know if there is something like this for linux? i saw a reference to a stitching plugin for the gimp. is there anything else like this which works well in linux?
And if it isn't in a certain folder in the Windows base directory, Windows can't find it anyway. So it's just a matter of finding the base directory, and grabbing it from there.
so knoppix can probably find out where windows is installed by examining the bootloader for windows. i believe it points to the windows installation directory (which device, directory, etc.).
i do this with my digital camera. i use the camera till the batteries die, then i pop in the second set. while using the second set i put the first on the charger. nimh would work fine. sure you're not using them in the same way, but it's not that big of a deal.
according to the latest firmware release, you can get bowth ogg and mp3 support:
http://www.xiph.org/neurosetta/
i've also read this on the web forums.
not to mention the first sentence of the article:
Microsoft has a soft spot for Linux, but it believes that recent developments in the open-source community have killed the free software model
normally once something has been killed, it is considered dead.
while i've never changed that many things at once, i've changed video cards, nic's, etc. and kudzu (under redhat 8 & 9) detects that the old hardware has been removed and the new stuff is there. it will then ask me questions like "do you want to configure the 3c509 blah?". i can tell it yes and to use dhcp and everything is dandy.
problems can exsist, i'm not denying that, but changing the hardware is something that should be possible without reinstalling.
yeah and while dd does copy the entire partition, there is nothing stopping you from pipeing the output into bzip2 to compress the disk image down a bit. you could probably pipe the output of bzip2 to split to split the image file into managable chunks.
just some thoughts...
Why do all the microsoft bashers here know so little about any of it's products? Or linux for that matter, there is no one "Unix shell".
after looking at the web page, i think they are bashing it because ms is charging $100 for what most modern operating systems come with by default. when they say ms has no unix shell. they mean that ms lacks a utility they should have by default, and by not including this by default they do their users a disservice.
yep - run Samba on the linux server.
now, how would you get your linux box to talk to your xp server for username/password validation?
i'm not quite sure how this makes windows xp talk to my nis server.
Unix services for windows has korn shell and c shell, NFS, all kinds of goodies.
great, can you tell me how to get my windows xp box to talk to our (linux) nis server for username/password validation?
i was thinking along the same lines..
why not just ship perl with windows. then ms could just make perl modules for ms specific stuff. then there's no need to learn a 4th or 5th language. since i dont use windows, i probably dont really understand the benefits of things like intellisense (wtf is this?).
this article describes the potential threat of nbc weapons:
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021007&s=easter br ook100702
it's kind of long and i dont know if it requires a password to read, so here is the text:
Saddam Hussein's regime "is busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents," Vice President Dick Cheney told the Veterans of Foreign Wars in August, adding, "These are not weapons designed for the purpose of defending Iraq. These are offensive weapons for the purpose of inflicting death on a massive scale." Billed by the White House as laying out the case for military action against Iraq, the speech employed the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" eight times. George W. Bush also regularly uses "weapons of mass destruction" as a collective term for chemical, biological, and atomic arms. In his 2002 State of the Union address, for example, the president stated that the United States would not "permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most dangerous weapons," citing chemical, biological, and atomic arms as equal concerns.
Indeed, during the last year, politicians, pundits, and the media (including The New Republic) have used the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" as a constant shorthand for chemical, biological, and atomic arms. As of this writing, the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" had appeared in The New York Times in some 250 articles over the past month alone. And while I do not claim to have examined all of these citations, it is a safe bet that most referred collectively to chemical, biological, and atomic arms, implying equivalent power to inflict "death on a massive scale."
Yet their lethal potential is emphatically not equivalent. Chemical weapons are dangerous, to be sure, but not "weapons of mass destruction" in any meaningful sense. In actual use, chemical arms have proven less deadly than regular bombs, bullets, and artillery shells. Since the gassing of the trenches in World War I and the Holocaust a generation later, people have been terrified by the thought of death by gas--partly because chemical agents are invisible, partly because we visualize ghastly, helpless choking rather than vanishing in the flash of an explosion. But pound for pound, chemical weapons are less lethal than conventional explosives and more difficult for an attacker or terrorist to use. It's also hard to see what the moral distinction is between being killed by gas and being blown up. Modern artillery shells create horrific scenes of carnage, and yet we don't view them as weapons of "mass destruction," though firing them into an unsuspecting city could readily produce more deaths than gas.
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Similarly, biological weapons are widely viewed with dread, though in actual use they have rarely done great harm. The most successful biological warfare to date took place nearly 250 years ago, when the British gave smallpox-laden blankets to French-affiliated Native Americans during the Seven Years' War. Japanese attempts to use biological weapons against China during World War II were of limited success. More recently there have been accidental releases of smallpox and anthrax in the Soviet Union and Ebola exposure in the United States; all did far less harm than would have been caused by the detonation of a single conventional bomb.
Biological agents are surely dangerous: Being alive, they can propagate, in theory "manufacturing" more of themselves from tiny initial amounts. But the biological weapon that creates a runaway effect, killing huge numbers rapidly, so far exists only in science fiction and preposterous Hollywood thrillers such as Outbreak. Illustration by Alex NabaumThe living things of Earth have spent millions of years evolving defenses against runaway pathogens, and these defenses have grown stronger during the postwar era as public health has improved spectacularly in most nations. Deliberate, systematic distribution of weapons-grade anthrax in the United
in theory, sco should be able to tell ibm who did it. all they have to do is check out the copyright notices in the code. for example in: we have:so sco really just needs to identify which sections of code they think ibm help create with sco's "technology" and use the info in the copyright notices to inform ibm which employee has been bad. seriously just do the following:
grep -ir ibm.com
this is from the article:
:).
To the despair of the textbook publishers who are still trying to block such sales, the reimporting of American texts from overseas has become far easier in recent years, thanks both to Internet sites that offer instant access to foreign book prices, and to a 1998 Supreme Court ruling that federal copyright law does not protect American manufacturers from having the products they arranged to sell overseas at a discount shipped back for sale in the United States.
i've read the notice on the back of the books also. i dont know if that can be enforced. i.e. i dont know if purchasing the book makes you bound to a contract. kind of like a eula for a book.
plus, my books were purchased in india and simply delivered to me here.
really though, this could seriously hurt the folks back in asia. if the publishers find they can make more money by selling really expensive books here and not providing the cheaper ones in asia, they may stop making the cheaper editions available in india. though a decision like this is not likely to hinder many of my friends from india. the will simply buy one copy of a book and photocopy it 1000 times