I think Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen did a better job of explaining what they called 'lies to children' in their book, The Science of Discworld. Its a central theme and well worth reading:)
new web host (in the US, surprisingly, and ballsy too: Babu (creator) says "This [host] is well aware of the DMCA and DRM issues and is very much willing to defend us in case Apple threatens to bring down the site")
If the whois is to be trusted, this new host appears to be UnitedLayer Inc. Does anyone know anything about this host? Is one of their techies reading? Exactly how willing is United Layer to defend FOSS from crap laws? Can they stand up to the might of Apple?
Potential for profit may go down, but I'm talking innovation, not wallets.
In theory, the BBC hasn't been all that interested in profits, being a non-profit taxpayer funded organisation. I was starting to wonder what I payed a license fee for, but if they carry on like this I'll be quite happy to keep paying it.
I welcome the BBC's foray into OSS, and I hope it'll be the first of many OSS sucesses for them.
On an offtopic note, I've done a similar thing here with firefox. I used the Luna theme and the firesomething plugin to rename it to 'Microsoft Internet Explorer 7' and told everyone I was upgrading their PC.:)
For those of you that don't know. It removes the protection from a.m4p file (Downloaded with iTunes) . So basically you end up with a Vanilla AAC file.
This should be fine, unless theres a problem with the source code they provide. Commonly the problem is incomplete. I think this was the issue with the Linksys routers as well.
This problem has already been solved for another purpose. Go look at ices/icecast That will do OGG -> MP3. I'm sure you could work something out with some shells scripts and a few pipes.
Thats simply not true. Even though it might not be the IE default a lot of people know about it. Its that word of mouth advertising biting MS in the ass again.
Most already have, ever since about IE4 the homepage defaults to MSN upon installation (unless IE has been branded). Even so, most users I come across use google for searching.
Slashdot Mirror
Signal Candidate SHGb02+14a
Prior art eh?
The Borland Delphi (and thus Kylix and C++ Builder IDE) have been doing the 'TODO:' thing since the late 90's. Circa Delphi 3.
Oh, and theres this too.
I think Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen did a better job of explaining what they called 'lies to children' in their book, The Science of Discworld. Its a central theme and well worth reading :)
breathing causes cancer!
Does it fall foul of the NX bit at all?
I'd prefer to put it in GTA.
Anyone who doesn't follow the LKML should probably read this.
I bet they run exchange.
Microsoft has had trouble getting some customers to move from older versions of Windows, like Windows NT 4.0.
In the last 12 months, about 35 percent of the base has moved to Windows 2000. It's accelerating.
I wonder what % of that is forced to move due to the unpatchability of NT4 against recent worms like Sasser?
new web host (in the US, surprisingly, and ballsy too: Babu (creator) says "This [host] is well aware of the DMCA and DRM issues and is very much willing to defend us in case Apple threatens to bring down the site")
If the whois is to be trusted, this new host appears to be UnitedLayer Inc. Does anyone know anything about this host? Is one of their techies reading? Exactly how willing is United Layer to defend FOSS from crap laws? Can they stand up to the might of Apple?
Potential for profit may go down, but I'm talking innovation, not wallets.
In theory, the BBC hasn't been all that interested in profits, being a non-profit taxpayer funded organisation. I was starting to wonder what I payed a license fee for, but if they carry on like this I'll be quite happy to keep paying it.
I welcome the BBC's foray into OSS, and I hope it'll be the first of many OSS sucesses for them.
If Microsoft wants Firefox to work so great with Longhorn they can code the patches themselves. It is Opensource code after all.
you know you can run distcc under cygwin, right?
On an offtopic note, I've done a similar thing here with firefox. I used the Luna theme and the firesomething plugin to rename it to 'Microsoft Internet Explorer 7' and told everyone I was upgrading their PC. :)
For those of you that don't know. It removes the protection from a .m4p file (Downloaded with iTunes) . So basically you end up with a Vanilla AAC file.
This should be fine, unless theres a problem with the source code they provide. Commonly the problem is incomplete. I think this was the issue with the Linksys routers as well.
Well yeah, pretty worthless for all you Windows folk anyway. Roll on Eternal September.
This problem has already been solved for another purpose. Go look at ices/icecast That will do OGG -> MP3. I'm sure you could work something out with some shells scripts and a few pipes.
Movies arn't computer software so I don't see how that can apply. How do you opensource a movie anyway?
A small and ever-decreasing percentage of users compile their own binaries
Did you just nuke the Gentoo servers or something?
Would be nice if an accountant at IBM clicked that 'donate via paypal' link and dumped a few thousand dollars on PJ though.
Thats simply not true. Even though it might not be the IE default a lot of people know about it. Its that word of mouth advertising biting MS in the ass again.
Most already have, ever since about IE4 the homepage defaults to MSN upon installation (unless IE has been branded). Even so, most users I come across use google for searching.
Ironically, heres a link using google news search to the article so you can avoid the NYT signup.
The Coming Search War
If you were a spammer wouldn't it be in your best interest not to be using Windows? You can't spam very well if your getting spammed/virused to death.