he may have those rights, he may deserve those rights as a matter of basic human rights, but he doesn't get them as a result of the US constitution and it's first 10 amendments, which is all I said (*).
I agree with you that if the other laws should apply, then the bill of rights should too.
I don't have those rights, to the best of my knowledge. I certainly don't get them granted to me by the US Constitution.
(*) I just had a quick look, and the bill of rights doesn't actually mention citizens, just 'the people'. Presumably that is taken to mean 'US Citizens' rather than just residents or vistors.
Yes, I agree, there are people who have had their rights violated, lest we forget about Dmitry Sklyarov [freesklyarov.org], but that is not the point of the case.
umm, unless I am misremembering, Dmitry Skylarov is a russian citizen, so he doesn't have first amendment protection. Although since he shouldn't be prosecuted under the laws of a foreign country for a 'crime' committed outside that country either, maybe he can get the protection of their constitution too, after all...
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It's silent. You can have your player device with your hi-fi, and not have to put up with the noise of the PC that is elsewhere on your network.
I suppose it really depends how far apart your stereo and PC are, and if the PC you sit in front of is the one with the data - I have my MP3s in a server on a few big HDDs. Also on if you already have a LAN in the house. I already have CAT5 behind my stereo.
Depending on how many free drive bays you have, there are certainly drive bay mounting panels to present most of the common things you'd want to plug and unplug regularly - audio, USB, 1394 and serial.
An external one (intended for laptops, but what the heck) is made by Mobility Electronics. There was an internal one featured on Scan's Today Only page the other day, with temperature monitoring and all sorts - I'm pretty sure it was made by ASUS, although I can't find it on their site.
I've seen several cases with front panels like this, too. Even my gf's cruddy e-machines PC does that. Coolmaster case with front USB (and optional 1394 IIRC).
:) I don't want to upgrade my OS to get this functionality. I have 1998 apps that certainly do deal with CDDB correctly, and don't need a new OS either.
My point was that the CD Player that I have seen from MS, before they gave up on it altogether was the most broken lookup thing I've ever seen, written at a time when dozens of other apps were doing it right. I've avoided newer versions of media player for their huge size (screenwise) and rights-management [I expect I can turn it off - rah rah. I don't care, I don't use it].
What makes you think it will ever have CDDB support? Windows 9x 'Deluxe CD player' already has an option to download from 'the internet' which I have yet to see find a single CD I put in it. They use a couple of commercial databases that seem to be pretty much useless.
Chances are, any X-Box track-download option would use the same databases.
This is exactly the situation I am in the UK. I live a half-mile from two major roads (A4/M4) between two decent sized towns, both which have cable coverage. The cable company isn't interested in our road which has perhaps 50 homes in total on it, and BT are unable to provide DSL (for no apparent reason, actually, but they can't). I'm taking delivery of a 512/128 'wireless DSL' connection this weekend as the only option I can get that's faster than ISDN...
My 1985 IBM XT has a disk controller (presumably ESDI?) with a Z80 to run it, in the same way that 68000-series chips show up on RAID cards nowadays. (our mailserver at work has a disk controller more powerful than an Atari TT:) )
[+] actually this was a marketing lie. It had 32K RAM and 16K ROM with a unified address space. I think the 16K version had the same ROM, so it would be fairer to call that a 32K, if you want to include the total...
Nope - it was 16K + 48K in a 64k address space. What you might be thinking of is the following though: at least one issue of the spectrum PCB was designed to use 'broken' hitachi 32k chips, in which the top half was dead, since sinclair had gotten a batch of them cheap. Considering his first business in the 60s as a teenager was buying 'dead' transistors from Mullard and re-testing and re-labeling them to their true spec for sale to impoverished hobbyists, this story holds water to some degree.
Wasn't the faster 1571 released at the same time as the C128, at least in part to make CP/M support better (including being able to read some standard format or other)?
I seem to recall that's how it happened in the UK... for some reason not many people bought disk drives here, which is really annoying now, when trying to get spares for that and an 8-bit atari (same situation).
[anyone have a spare Atari SIO cable in the UK?]
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let's say he only wanted certain processes starting or stopping at particular times?
As long as the process is a linux process and not a windows one.
let's see you hack a unsupported touchscreen display into windows, hahaha.
since when does anyone release a device without windows drivers? The only people who have those sorts of problems are non-windows users (and XP users currently I guess), or those that built their own gear.
Besides, generating appropriate mouseup and mousedown events using SendMessage isn't too hard if you really wanted to do it.
the other cool part is that the.beat thing is also a timezone-less time. @500 is 1200 GMT, @999 is 2359 GMT.
Why is that cool? When I say something happens at @500, you then need to translate that to, lets see, maybe 4 am your time to figure out if it was light or dark. I suppose if it really was universal, so you knew what time dawn, dusk, lunch and midnight are where you are, it might be OK, but otherwise it's annoying.
I guess these are the same sorts of arguments people have against metric weights and measures, to some degree.
I've been keeping an eye on these guys for a while, after searching for a spec for the Sony changer protocol, for similar reasons.
They currently have a changer box that will talk to Kenwood head units, and takes hard-disk cartridges. They claim to have have compatibility for other brands (Sony, Alpine etc) in the works.
The ST didn't (generally) run CP/M-68k though. The GEM in ROM ran over TOS.
So (as my chemistry exam questions used to say): A is true and B is true but A does not imply B.
Or was TOS based on CP/M? I know the file-access TRAP #1 stuff in TOS/GEMDOS used the same function numbers as Int 21h in DOS for a lot of things (findfirst, findnext, open,close, read,write, etc), and that DOS in turn used some of those from CP/M - is that an incorrect lineage? Did TOS descend directly from CP/M?
From a quick bit of research, I believe you are right, and ViewMax is based on GEM 3. However DRDOS != CP/M, and since CP/M dates back to 1976 or so and ran on 8080 systems initially, it definitely doesn't have a GUI:)
hey!! that would be a cool project..put a GUI on CP/M!!!
Do the whole thing with DR products - I believe GEM was open-sourced some time ago. I wouldn't be surprised if GEM was already ported to at least CP/M-86 and CP/M-68k...
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Assuming you live where your whois records say, you aren't qualified to comment on other nation's beer output, I'm afraid ;-)
duh, they do Windows and Macintosh, and anything else you care to mention (Psion5 Perl?)
*you* may not do windows, but why would such a prolific programming language cut off a huge chunk of potential audience.
Oh sorry, you implied microsoft was bad, so I should laugh. nyuk nyuk.
he may have those rights, he may deserve those rights as a matter of basic human rights, but he doesn't get them as a result of the US constitution and it's first 10 amendments, which is all I said (*).
I agree with you that if the other laws should apply, then the bill of rights should too.
I don't have those rights, to the best of my knowledge. I certainly don't get them granted to me by the US Constitution.
(*) I just had a quick look, and the bill of rights doesn't actually mention citizens, just 'the people'. Presumably that is taken to mean 'US Citizens' rather than just residents or vistors.
Indeed - I get the nocd crack for most games I buy.
Especially obnoxious things like Diablo II which copy the contents of 2 CDs to your hard disk and still require a CD present.
Yes, I agree, there are people who have had their rights violated, lest we forget about Dmitry Sklyarov [freesklyarov.org], but that is not the point of the case.
umm, unless I am misremembering, Dmitry Skylarov is a russian citizen, so he doesn't have first amendment protection. Although since he shouldn't be prosecuted under the laws of a foreign country for a 'crime' committed outside that country either, maybe he can get the protection of their constitution too, after all...
It's silent. You can have your player device with your hi-fi, and not have to put up with the noise of the PC that is elsewhere on your network.
I suppose it really depends how far apart your stereo and PC are, and if the PC you sit in front of is the one with the data - I have my MP3s in a server on a few big HDDs. Also on if you already have a LAN in the house. I already have CAT5 behind my stereo.
But uuencode still is used for a lot of the pr0n/binaries groups, or so I am told.
Depending on how many free drive bays you have, there are certainly drive bay mounting panels to present most of the common things you'd want to plug and unplug regularly - audio, USB, 1394 and serial.
An external one (intended for laptops, but what the heck) is made by Mobility Electronics. There was an internal one featured on Scan's Today Only page the other day, with temperature monitoring and all sorts - I'm pretty sure it was made by ASUS, although I can't find it on their site.
I've seen several cases with front panels like this, too. Even my gf's cruddy e-machines PC does that. Coolmaster case with front USB (and optional 1394 IIRC).
:) I don't want to upgrade my OS to get this functionality. I have 1998 apps that certainly do deal with CDDB correctly, and don't need a new OS either.
My point was that the CD Player that I have seen from MS, before they gave up on it altogether was the most broken lookup thing I've ever seen, written at a time when dozens of other apps were doing it right. I've avoided newer versions of media player for their huge size (screenwise) and rights-management [I expect I can turn it off - rah rah. I don't care, I don't use it].
What makes you think it will ever have CDDB support? Windows 9x 'Deluxe CD player' already has an option to download from 'the internet' which I have yet to see find a single CD I put in it. They use a couple of commercial databases that seem to be pretty much useless.
Chances are, any X-Box track-download option would use the same databases.
This is exactly the situation I am in the UK. I live a half-mile from two major roads (A4/M4) between two decent sized towns, both which have cable coverage. The cable company isn't interested in our road which has perhaps 50 homes in total on it, and BT are unable to provide DSL (for no apparent reason, actually, but they can't). I'm taking delivery of a 512/128 'wireless DSL' connection this weekend as the only option I can get that's faster than ISDN...
If you have your own mail server running postfix, qmail or exim, then TMDA will perform this service for you (the reply-to-mail-through policy).
For everyone else, SpamCop does a similar job.
"The worst an Outlook virus could do on Linux is take out the account of the user who clicked on the attachment."
Sure, because there have never been privilege elevation flaws in common unix software, have there?
My 1985 IBM XT has a disk controller (presumably ESDI?) with a Z80 to run it, in the same way that 68000-series chips show up on RAID cards nowadays. (our mailserver at work has a disk controller more powerful than an Atari TT :) )
[+] actually this was a marketing lie. It had 32K RAM and 16K ROM with a unified address space. I think the 16K version had the same ROM, so it would be fairer to call that a 32K, if you want to include the total...
Nope - it was 16K + 48K in a 64k address space. What you might be thinking of is the following though: at least one issue of the spectrum PCB was designed to use 'broken' hitachi 32k chips, in which the top half was dead, since sinclair had gotten a batch of them cheap. Considering his first business in the 60s as a teenager was buying 'dead' transistors from Mullard and re-testing and re-labeling them to their true spec for sale to impoverished hobbyists, this story holds water to some degree.
Wasn't the faster 1571 released at the same time as the C128, at least in part to make CP/M support better (including being able to read some standard format or other)?
I seem to recall that's how it happened in the UK... for some reason not many people bought disk drives here, which is really annoying now, when trying to get spares for that and an 8-bit atari (same situation).
[anyone have a spare Atari SIO cable in the UK?]
let's say he only wanted certain processes starting or stopping at particular times?
As long as the process is a linux process and not a windows one.
let's see you hack a unsupported touchscreen display into windows, hahaha.
since when does anyone release a device without windows drivers? The only people who have those sorts of problems are non-windows users (and XP users currently I guess), or those that built their own gear.
Besides, generating appropriate mouseup and mousedown events using SendMessage isn't too hard if you really wanted to do it.
the other cool part is that the .beat thing is also a timezone-less time. @500 is 1200 GMT, @999 is 2359 GMT.
Why is that cool? When I say something happens at @500, you then need to translate that to, lets see, maybe 4 am your time to figure out if it was light or dark. I suppose if it really was universal, so you knew what time dawn, dusk, lunch and midnight are where you are, it might be OK, but otherwise it's annoying.
I guess these are the same sorts of arguments people have against metric weights and measures, to some degree.
I've been keeping an eye on these guys for a while, after searching for a spec for the Sony changer protocol, for similar reasons.
They currently have a changer box that will talk to Kenwood head units, and takes hard-disk cartridges. They claim to have have compatibility for other brands (Sony, Alpine etc) in the works.
Nice looking kit, too.
... and get the bugs out of the latest kernel."
Why not use an OS that doesn't have a buggy kernel?
OpenBSD is a popular choice for firewall machines. As the perl folks say, there is more than one way to do it.
"All this is assuming everyone even has the right idea about what IT is. My guess..."
There's no need no guess. The article describes the stupid thing, in some detail, with pictures.
Thanks for that link - it confirmed that another random show I saw a few years ago was indeed Mark Thomas too (Tax-Exempt Artworks).
For more similar stuff in the US, with an anti-Corporate bent, try Michael Moore, purveyor of the excellent TV Nation.
The ST didn't (generally) run CP/M-68k though. The GEM in ROM ran over TOS.
So (as my chemistry exam questions used to say): A is true and B is true but A does not imply B.
Or was TOS based on CP/M? I know the file-access TRAP #1 stuff in TOS/GEMDOS used the same function numbers as Int 21h in DOS for a lot of things (findfirst, findnext, open,close, read,write, etc), and that DOS in turn used some of those from CP/M - is that an incorrect lineage? Did TOS descend directly from CP/M?
From a quick bit of research, I believe you are right, and ViewMax is based on GEM 3. However DRDOS != CP/M, and since CP/M dates back to 1976 or so and ran on 8080 systems initially, it definitely doesn't have a GUI :)
hey!! that would be a cool project..put a GUI on CP/M!!!
Do the whole thing with DR products - I believe GEM was open-sourced some time ago. I wouldn't be surprised if GEM was already ported to at least CP/M-86 and CP/M-68k...