You can no longer distribute Linux without paying a fee.
Sure you can, you can't just put "Linux" in your trademarked title without paying the fee. In another thread someone mentions that RedHat and Debian currently do this and it seems to be working out just fine for them.
My comment was about making this a mythfrontend, not a general set top box. My XBox mythfrontend can/will: -interface with a cable box (via serial or IR blaster) and use its built in DVR functionality -get the $30 add on for a wireless reciever and use my universal remote which controls all my other devices as well. -ability to play all the songs I already own and have purchased from "the #1 online music store" -ability to view pictures on the TV via mythgallery and if someone hasn't hacked in the ability to print or email, do it myself -connect to my normal TV via a normal video out. (if you've got an "advanced display" or prjector, you probably aren't worried about saving a couple of hundred bucks).
In addition it can also play all the latest/greatest Xbox games, MAME Roms and some Linux PC games (via mythgame), and all the additionally cool new things that are getting hacked into myth all the time.
My intention in my post was to provide a substantially cheaper alternative if all he wanted was a Myth frontend in a smaller form factor. The Xbox is certainly not as versatile as a full blown Mac, but for less than 1/3 the cost, it's got a bit more bang for the buck in a decent set of applications.
Uh, Bush was asked point blank in a debate to name 3 mistakes he made. He completely evaded the entire question and implied he has never made a mistake. This has nothing to do with personnel (though maybe some of the personnel he appointed were some of his biggest mistakes!)
Cheney's daughter has been openly gay for quite some time, and it shouldn't have been news to anyone who has payed any attention to the campaigns.
Hi Matt, long time, no talk!
I have to say I agree on this. An even better solution is to get your company to buy subscriptions for everyone who wants one!
My parents got the Indiana Jones trilogy for Christmas. I tried to play Raiders on my laptop DVD player with mplayer, and it froze up after about 1-2 minutes while it was displaying the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" title. I thought it was odd and tried again. Died in the same spot. Odd. Put in my parents' console DVD player and at the same spot everything went blue, sound quit and then after about 2-3 seconds it kept going. Definitely a defective disc. Couldn't convince them to take it back though, they decided they could live with that little glitch.
wireless keyboard and mouse? Why would you need that? Just use your remote and ssh in if you need anything else.
I agree that cost should not be an issue, but make sure you know what you're talking about. I spent ~400 on my myth box and I can upgrade it piecemeal as I feel necessary. I have infinitely more control over the box as well. Sure it's a little more work, but it's a project and a challange, and a nice diversion from working on the house all the time.
Can you please point me as to where it says Apache was cracked? Please? If you'd even glanced at even the summary it says "FTP server", Apache is not an FTP server. I guess this blows the "slashdotters know what they are talking about" myth. Oh wait......
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Ok, enough already. People who keep on ranting against Timothy are obviously really damn blind. Please read the top of the freakin review: " Javed Ikbal writes" Timothy DID NOT WRITE IT! He did however, post the really crappy review and should be admonished for that.
I think the not knowing the details to the case is actually an important thing here. It's possible (in fact likely)that he or a member of his group were using servers based on US soil to distribute the warez. That would make it much more clearly a violation of US laws and make extradition reasonable. If all the guy was doing was running a warez server in Australia, then no, extradition is stupid and not somthing that should be pursued.
Yup. Ultimate for me. Great Excercise. Great community. (check out rec.sport.disc sometime). http://upa.org is the Ultimate Players Association and has lots of links including info to get you hooked up with local people for pickup games, etc.
Best and most popular sport most people have never heard of.
This is way late I know. But the argument of "Blocking outgoing traffic does nothing for security" is just wrong. Think SQL Slammer. If people had been blocking outbound udp1434, it never would have spread.
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While I hate spam as much as the next guy, this is not the same thing. Spam with modified headers is like somebody calling you up and saying their in Oregon when they're really in Nevada. That's not illegal, nor should it be.
Actually if it was a business calling (which most SPAM purports to be) it might be illegal to tell you false information based on truth in advertising laws and business practice laws.
Probably what is happening here is that the firewall allows the UDP port 53 request to go out, but the return packet gets denied. The blocking is happening on an IP level rather than application level.
the other thing to remember in all of this is fire codes. You have to have a failsafe built in so that if the smoke detector goes off, or whatever, it automagically unlocks the door. What a tragedy it would be to have this thing so secure that people can't get out in case of an emergency, including the autistic child.
The problem isn't the occasional 40 MB email. It's the occasional 40MB email to all 200 people in the company or whatever. Unless you have an email server that uses single message store, you just chewed up 8 gigs of disk space. Server storage ain't THAT cheap (large RAID arrays of fast SCSI disks are a whole lot more expensive than single IDE drives). Single message store reduces a lot of this kind of worry, but not all email servers support that.
The problem gets worse if you're running a mail server for several thousand people (like I used to at a small college). It's absolutely critical that file size limits are enforced or else the next Star Wars trailer that gets passed around to all the students via email swamps the server in a hurry.
I have the same notebook. It's about 3 years old now, and it runs great. It's not incredibly fast, but it runs Win9x/2K/Linux just fine. And yes I run GNOME 2.0 on it. His issue is almost certainly a configuration issue. That hardware is plenty acceptible to run RedHat (some more RAM wouldn't hurt of course).
This hardware is not "vastly outdated". It's not top of the line but it works great for a large portion of users including me. For web browsing, email, docuement composing, mp3 listening, it works great. Heck, I even webcast a wedding with it this last summer and it worked great. Don't get all high and mighty because you happen to have the $$$ to do constant upgrades. 3-4 years is the accepted lifetime of a PC, laptops tend to go longer because it's less easy to hack in a quick upgrade. Sure it may be time for him to start looking for new hardware, but this OS should (and does) certainly run acceptably on this hardware.
(By the way, the Celeron400a is quite obviously a 400 MHZ CPU).
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You can no longer distribute Linux without paying a fee.
Sure you can, you can't just put "Linux" in your trademarked title without paying the fee. In another thread someone mentions that RedHat and Debian currently do this and it seems to be working out just fine for them.
Decoding isn't where the benefit of hardware comes in, it's encoding that requires more processing.
good for you. happens to me probably 1 out of every 3 articles. it's only a little annoying and easy to fix, so doesn't bother me too much.
My comment was about making this a mythfrontend, not a general set top box. My XBox mythfrontend can/will:
-interface with a cable box (via serial or IR blaster) and use its built in DVR functionality
-get the $30 add on for a wireless reciever and use my universal remote which controls all my other devices as well.
-ability to play all the songs I already own and have purchased from "the #1 online music store"
-ability to view pictures on the TV via mythgallery and if someone hasn't hacked in the ability to print or email, do it myself
-connect to my normal TV via a normal video out.
(if you've got an "advanced display" or prjector, you probably aren't worried about saving a couple of hundred bucks).
In addition it can also play all the latest/greatest Xbox games, MAME Roms and some Linux PC games (via mythgame), and all the additionally cool new things that are getting hacked into myth all the time.
My intention in my post was to provide a substantially cheaper alternative if all he wanted was a Myth frontend in a smaller form factor. The Xbox is certainly not as versatile as a full blown Mac, but for less than 1/3 the cost, it's got a bit more bang for the buck in a decent set of applications.
why not just get a $150 Xbox. That's what I'm going to do, it runs mythfrontend just fine.
Uh, Bush was asked point blank in a debate to name 3 mistakes he made. He completely evaded the entire question and implied he has never made a mistake. This has nothing to do with personnel (though maybe some of the personnel he appointed were some of his biggest mistakes!)
Cheney's daughter has been openly gay for quite some time, and it shouldn't have been news to anyone who has payed any attention to the campaigns.
Was the "Yugo" a translation error? ;)
Hi Matt, long time, no talk! I have to say I agree on this. An even better solution is to get your company to buy subscriptions for everyone who wants one!
Please visit http://linux-ip.net and more specifically for your problem: http://linux-ip.net/html/ch-advanced-routing.html
That should get you started. It's be no means simple, but my understanding is that once you get it up, it works.
My wife just bought some new glasses. Lenses were about $380 for the pair, the frame I think was $60.
My parents got the Indiana Jones trilogy for Christmas. I tried to play Raiders on my laptop DVD player with mplayer, and it froze up after about 1-2 minutes while it was displaying the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" title. I thought it was odd and tried again. Died in the same spot. Odd. Put in my parents' console DVD player and at the same spot everything went blue, sound quit and then after about 2-3 seconds it kept going. Definitely a defective disc. Couldn't convince them to take it back though, they decided they could live with that little glitch.
wireless keyboard and mouse? Why would you need that? Just use your remote and ssh in if you need anything else.
I agree that cost should not be an issue, but make sure you know what you're talking about. I spent ~400 on my myth box and I can upgrade it piecemeal as I feel necessary. I have infinitely more control over the box as well. Sure it's a little more work, but it's a project and a challange, and a nice diversion from working on the house all the time.
Can you please point me as to where it says Apache was cracked? Please? If you'd even glanced at even the summary it says "FTP server", Apache is not an FTP server.
I guess this blows the "slashdotters know what they are talking about" myth. Oh wait......
Ok, enough already. People who keep on ranting against Timothy are obviously really damn blind. Please read the top of the freakin review: " Javed Ikbal writes" Timothy DID NOT WRITE IT! He did however, post the really crappy review and should be admonished for that.
I think the not knowing the details to the case is actually an important thing here. It's possible (in fact likely)that he or a member of his group were using servers based on US soil to distribute the warez. That would make it much more clearly a violation of US laws and make extradition reasonable. If all the guy was doing was running a warez server in Australia, then no, extradition is stupid and not somthing that should be pursued.
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"...they can do the same with cross-shredded paper..."
Yup. Ultimate for me. Great Excercise. Great community. (check out rec.sport.disc sometime). http://upa.org is the Ultimate Players Association and has lots of links including info to get you hooked up with local people for pickup games, etc.
Best and most popular sport most people have never heard of.
This is way late I know. But the argument of "Blocking outgoing traffic does nothing for security" is just wrong. Think SQL Slammer. If people had been blocking outbound udp1434, it never would have spread.
Actually if it was a business calling (which most SPAM purports to be) it might be illegal to tell you false information based on truth in advertising laws and business practice laws.
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You can make a pretty good rap out of that
Probably what is happening here is that the firewall allows the UDP port 53 request to go out, but the return packet gets denied. The blocking is happening on an IP level rather than application level.
wouldn't you expect to get the stolen thing back though?
the other thing to remember in all of this is fire codes. You have to have a failsafe built in so that if the smoke detector goes off, or whatever, it automagically unlocks the door. What a tragedy it would be to have this thing so secure that people can't get out in case of an emergency, including the autistic child.
The problem isn't the occasional 40 MB email. It's the occasional 40MB email to all 200 people in the company or whatever. Unless you have an email server that uses single message store, you just chewed up 8 gigs of disk space. Server storage ain't THAT cheap (large RAID arrays of fast SCSI disks are a whole lot more expensive than single IDE drives). Single message store reduces a lot of this kind of worry, but not all email servers support that.
The problem gets worse if you're running a mail server for several thousand people (like I used to at a small college). It's absolutely critical that file size limits are enforced or else the next Star Wars trailer that gets passed around to all the students via email swamps the server in a hurry.
I have the same notebook. It's about 3 years old now, and it runs great. It's not incredibly fast, but it runs Win9x/2K/Linux just fine. And yes I run GNOME 2.0 on it. His issue is almost certainly a configuration issue. That hardware is plenty acceptible to run RedHat (some more RAM wouldn't hurt of course).
This hardware is not "vastly outdated". It's not top of the line but it works great for a large portion of users including me. For web browsing, email, docuement composing, mp3 listening, it works great. Heck, I even webcast a wedding with it this last summer and it worked great. Don't get all high and mighty because you happen to have the $$$ to do constant upgrades. 3-4 years is the accepted lifetime of a PC, laptops tend to go longer because it's less easy to hack in a quick upgrade. Sure it may be time for him to start looking for new hardware, but this OS should (and does) certainly run acceptably on this hardware.
(By the way, the Celeron400a is quite obviously a 400 MHZ CPU).