i didnt RTFA, but do they consider it illegal to download episodes of a show (like episodes i missed or earlier seasons)? I know its just about the movie industry now, but tv channel companies might pipe in later.
The MPAA actually "protects" tv programs too, from their website: "The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)... serve as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries".
However, they're not being too specific about who they're suing. But, yes, it is illegal to download television shows. Remember: everything that feels good is bad.
These results are a bit bogus. First of all, it's all about how many computers they have, not really about how connected they are. It doesn't go into statistics of dorms being connected (or are they all these days?), classrooms being connected, campus WiFi, etc. It's lab computers per student.
Also, the numbers are off. I know there's more computers on one floor of the Science Building of Harvard UNIVERSITY than they listed as having overall.
Not sure the magazine was pulling my leg, but I heard a long, long time ago (1990?) that they were making Spaceballs 3. The title? "Spaceballs 3: In Search of Spaceballs 2".
Aha. I'm looking at the dead 30G IBM drive in front of me. It reads:
5V 300mA, 12V 500mA
Which leads to another question. How do amps relate to watts? And do you add the two resistances together to get the usage of the unit?
I know everything else in the system is also a drain, I just didn't want to get too far off topic. But I have read about the drainage of CPUs, GPUs, etc.. But this is important to know when building your own system... to make sure you don't blow a fuse or kill your power supply.... I'm no troll, mods!
Okay, I have one question for people who know more about electricity than I: How do you know how big of a power supply to use when you have 2, 4, 8, or 12 hard drives. How do you know the wattage you need to supply with 5400, 7200, and 10k? Anyone?
I never got to try ekkoBSD, but I liked the idea of what they were doing.. trying to make BSD a bit more user friendly. It does seem to be a bit of a drive to get free hardware and donations, and when that didn't turn out they gave up, but I have no idea.
I did find this on one of the developer's, Dave Steinberg, website:
I was involved in the ekkoBSD project, which has ceased to exist. There I did a bit of coding, cvs management, and a lot of planning. Ultimately we suffered from a lack of real developer resources (I'm not quite strong enough to lead a project like that yet), and time difficulties.
The mistake you're making is to think that the language is going to magically fix all sorts of problems, and without this magic you're up shit's creek.
JavaBeans are great in that they're an architecture to communicate through multiple levels and allow for separate tiers. But to think that the same thing can't be done in PHP is foolish. PHP is about keeping the language simple only giving the developer the tools he needs to get work done; making easy things easy, and hard things easier.
I've written a system (propreitary, sorry) that has a complete separation among the 3 (or more) tiers, that allows retrieval of remote objects and combining that with local objects. It allows a user's session to be shared amongst a round-robin server farm, abstracted data access, and my very own templating system.
The language is the lesser issues: it's the developers working on a piece of software and the design of the system that's important.
Zef
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I've looked into the problem on nVidia's website, and it's apparently a known problem and something that's fixed in Linux's drivers, but they haven't released a new version of the drivers in a while.
I'm using a ti4600, what about you? Installing from ports, and I applied the patches to my kernel. Same?
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I've been using FreeBSD as a server since 1999, and as a desktop for only 6 months or so. I would have to agree that FreeBSD is not as good a desktop system as it is a server. But there are a couple reasons for that.
"Linux" Application - KDE, MPlayer, Mozilla, XMMS, etc etc are more geared towards running on Linux. The developers are on Linux as are most of the userbase. When one of the Linux geared projects is ported to FreeBSD, there are usually many patches that need to be applied to make it run better. However, Samba (last I tried it), Apache, MySQL, PHP... all compile without a hitch.
Driver support. I can't use either of my web cams with FreeBSD, because there are just no drivers available. The people developing FreeBSD don't have the time to keep up with the latest wacky devices. If something is standard compliant (like my Nikon 995), it will just WORK. My nVidia (mostly because I use nVidia's binary drivers) crashes once a week, and I can't get out of X without locking my system up. However, I can use just about any RAID card in my server.
I mostly use FreeBSD as a desktop because it's the same system that my servers run. I keep my CVS repository on this machine, and I keep FreeBSD's source tree on this box, NFS from the servers and update when they need it. It makes my life easier from an administrative point of view, but it's definitely not geared towards being a Windows 9?xp? killer.
Well, (to cover my ass against moderation) this is a bit off topic. But, then again, due to what Shiney McShine (or whatever Mr Napster's name is) represents, it's not terribly off topic to talk about the industry in general. That said:
The record industry and broadcast radio are obsolete for 2 reasons:
1. With this new fangled "Intarweb" thingy, anyone can distribute their own content, whether it be music, text, or software, via subscription or free.
2. Most people these days can decide for themselves what they like from the thousands, if not millions of choices given to them on the Web, with or without the RIAA's blessing.
It's not offtopic either, I'm merely stating facts.
Actually, that's your opinion. I think it's naieve to say that people will just go to the Internet to find their music. Most people listen to the radio, no matter how much CC has made it suck. Most people need to hear of "good" music through word of mouth, or at least inundation and market saturation. It's also not the RIAA's blessing that's needing, it's the record company devoting the time and money to an artist that they think is good enough. The RIAA is there to deal with the whole of the recording industries legal troubles.
let the vultur^H^H^H^H^H^Hproducers get a real job and earn their money instead of pretending to provide some useful service.
Producers do earn their money. What would the Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana be without Butch Vig? Why would Butch Vig make them sound good if they couldn't pay him to produce their albums?
You're also not thinking about how these up and comers (who are now without an industry to support them, and competing with many, many more artists) distribute and publicize their albums, when they're not even able to pay for a producer? How are they going to make their CD's, much less ship it across the country AND the world, provide for demand, and get the money to go on tour where their CDs are selling?
I would have no problem with the record industry if they were interested in distributing good music, but they're not.
That I totally agree with. The whole way the arts are done needs to change. But I do not believe anarchy is the way to do it. I have no idea what the solution is, but I know artists on their own against the world is not the way. Artists tend to be poor, they need financial support to become better artists.
I think we need more of what existed in the 60s. We need to organize and make private internet radio stations with good music, and somehow try to invade each and every person's home town. We need more smaller labels that all communicate and coordinate together.
However, we're still faced with the problems of venue (playing a show, where artists really make the money) and radio (where corporations have taken hold). And I just don't know...
I hate to feed a troll and be off topic, but it annoys me that people see no reason for record companies. The music industry goes through piles and piles of utter crap to pick one crappy band that might make it to radio. They're an amazing shit filter, the public does NOT want to be inundated with unfiltered bands.
A recording company will help the artists develop their style. I don't mean make overs, they'll hook them up with a producer who will make the band sound like they know how to play so they can have a decent album. The record company will also split the bill for (a) hiring the producer who will make them sound decent, (b) hiring the engineers and renting the space for them to record (usually $50/hr for the room itself, and it takes months to record), (c) produce the actual CDs, market said CDs, make posters, buy ad space in magazines, try to get interviews with the band.
A recording company will also help get the band into venues, which are usually all run by one person in an area and are really hard to get into (the bigger venues, smallers clubs are run independently, sometimes).
Like I said, the whole music industry is a tremendous crap filter. Before a band gets on the radio it has to jump through so many flaming hoops that most don't make it, thankfully. I speak from experience, having been in bands and done much label work. Do I think things should stay this way? No f-ing way, there must be a better way to do it... and I'm out there trying things.
I don't know where to begin with this. He installed on an AMD64 and complains that Linux binary support didn't work. However, there's trouble finding ANY binaries for AMD64. Java doesn't work? That's binaries. If he did Java from source, I bet that'd work.
He complains about the license. I am so sick of people crapping on anything that isn't GPL. "in fact Microsoft at one point took a great deal of BSD code relating to networking to include in early versions of Windows NT." - alot of people got the stack from BSD. Why? It's good code.
Lastly, if he had read the main FreeBSD page, he would see that 5.x isn't production quality. Why did he use this version? He doesn't even mention that it's the "New Technology" release and doesn't highlight the fact that he's using a new CPU type.
After the hack job done on FreeBSD and on Sun's Blade 1500, I wish/. would realize these people have no idea what they're talking about and stop linking the stories.
What the author meant was that in the BSD world, changes to the tree are thought out and brought to a consensus (more or less) before any major changes are made. Also, every change is scrutinized by the developers.
In Linux (which I am less familiar with, as I stopped using it circa 1999), people are able to make changes at will.. and parts of the kernel will take on different aproaches and there is less scrutiny. Changes aren't first verified as stable before being put into production.
An example of this is FreeBSD's new VM management, which first appeared in current around 6 months ago (IIRC), but just appeared in FreeBSD 4.9 recently. The FreeBSD team made sure all the bugs were ironed out, so 4.9 would be rock solid.
That list is lagging a bit behind the actual development. IIRC, the Giant locking has been finished for 3 months at least on i386, yet this doc lists it as not started. I think they're much farther along than this implies.
Ports isn't really part of the operating system, it's just the package installation utility.
What Mac OS X did get from FreeBSD were basic utilities (ps, ls, etc but don't quote me), the TCP/IP stack, domain sockets, and the low level UNIX workings. They pulled this from the 5.1 tree.
I run a few servers on FreeBSD, and I have mixed feelings about ports. It's great to be able to run a script nightly to pull the latest source files for -STABLE and the ports tree and rebuild the applications that have been updated. The one thing that irks me about ports is that it's all or nothing. If you install MySQL from source, but want to install MySQL CC from ports; ports will try to install MySQL for you. Also, I don't find the configure options terribly well laid out. I'm never sure what to use (or if they'll stick on an upgrade). To illustrate, you'd go into/usr/ports/lang/php to build php and type something like this for building in OpenSSL support:
make -DWITH_OPENSSL
On my desktop FreeBSD system, I install almost everything from ports.. I don't want to be bothered configuring KDE. But, my servers I do libraries in ports applications/daemons in source.
Sheeeez. Just for those who don't know, it's important in freebsd to not just look at the version numbers, but also look at what the branch is -RELEASE, -CURRENT or -STABLE. Right now, only the 4.x branch is -STABLE. Just because the version number is higher does not mean you should upgrade. Stick with -STABLE, unless you know what you're doing
Actually, that is not true. It comes out of the unfortunate naming of the CVS repositories. If you're concerned about stability, stick with RELEASE. STABLE is still a development branch, more stable than CURRENT, but bound to have some problems.
That said, I believe 5.1CURRENT to be better than 4.8RELEASE. They've done alot of work with memory management and the like, which first appeared in the 5.x branch, I believe, and will be released in the 4.9 release. If you run STABLE, you've probably seen the improvements. I'd be interested in seeing the tests run with 4.9 release, when available.
I think you're missing the point of PHP, and it's usefulness depends on what you mean by a real-world application. I must assume that you mean a standalone application, to which I must say you're insane if you try to use PHP.
PHP is a web-based programming language. It has been extended to do other things (which I haven't tried yet, so I can attest to their usefulness), but it is primarily developed to be used in web applications... not stand alone applications.
Perhaps this is the primary reason for the division between Java and PHP coders. While Java is a general purpose language, PHP is specialized; as it has been said before. I write large web applications in PHP, but I would not think of writing any kind of application that wasn't web based in PHP. I think you should be aware of a language's strong points, and then decide what to use based on the project's requirements. The Java thought process seems to be that Java should be used everywhere, because it can... that's something I fundamentally don't believe in.
As an aside in reply to other threads, it's been said that PHP is unmanageable and lacks session variables. PHP is just as unmanageable as Java, I'll say that I've seen horrible nightmares in PHP, due more to poor code design and overuse of the embedability of PHP. If written properly, it's as straightforward as any language. And, as anyone who knows PHP knows, PHP does have session variables. What it lacks is state variables shared amongst a cluster, and to this I refer back to the purpose of PHP. PHP isn't about re-inventing the horse. There are many other ways to share data amongst servers, and it would be pointless to include just one way within PHP itself. It's something better left to the system administrators and developers to decide the best mechanism between themselves.
Anyone else having problems downloading the strong encryption version? Seems like they're not only have problems with the stability of the browser, but with basic server adminstration. The redirect script that figures out where you're coming from... isn't there. Fun.
Well, at least MEEPT!!!!! is back. I can rest easy. But, seriously, someone needs to compete in the browser market.. IE is becoming a much better product. What other browsers are there? The only one I can thing of is Opera, but it's lacking in too much functionality. I haven't played around with Mozilla yet.
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The MPAA actually "protects" tv programs too, from their website: "The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
However, they're not being too specific about who they're suing. But, yes, it is illegal to download television shows. Remember: everything that feels good is bad.
Zef
These results are a bit bogus. First of all, it's all about how many computers they have, not really about how connected they are. It doesn't go into statistics of dorms being connected (or are they all these days?), classrooms being connected, campus WiFi, etc. It's lab computers per student.
Also, the numbers are off. I know there's more computers on one floor of the Science Building of Harvard UNIVERSITY than they listed as having overall.
Zef
Not sure the magazine was pulling my leg, but I heard a long, long time ago (1990?) that they were making Spaceballs 3. The title? "Spaceballs 3: In Search of Spaceballs 2".
Brilliant.
Aha. I'm looking at the dead 30G IBM drive in front of me. It reads:
5V 300mA, 12V 500mA
Which leads to another question. How do amps relate to watts? And do you add the two resistances together to get the usage of the unit?
I know everything else in the system is also a drain, I just didn't want to get too far off topic. But I have read about the drainage of CPUs, GPUs, etc.. But this is important to know when building your own system... to make sure you don't blow a fuse or kill your power supply.... I'm no troll, mods!
Realizing he knows shyte about electronics.
Zef
Okay, I have one question for people who know more about electricity than I: How do you know how big of a power supply to use when you have 2, 4, 8, or 12 hard drives. How do you know the wattage you need to supply with 5400, 7200, and 10k? Anyone?
Zef
I did find this on one of the developer's, Dave Steinberg, website:
Zef
The mistake you're making is to think that the language is going to magically fix all sorts of problems, and without this magic you're up shit's creek.
JavaBeans are great in that they're an architecture to communicate through multiple levels and allow for separate tiers. But to think that the same thing can't be done in PHP is foolish. PHP is about keeping the language simple only giving the developer the tools he needs to get work done; making easy things easy, and hard things easier.
I've written a system (propreitary, sorry) that has a complete separation among the 3 (or more) tiers, that allows retrieval of remote objects and combining that with local objects. It allows a user's session to be shared amongst a round-robin server farm, abstracted data access, and my very own templating system.
The language is the lesser issues: it's the developers working on a piece of software and the design of the system that's important.
Zef
I've looked into the problem on nVidia's website, and it's apparently a known problem and something that's fixed in Linux's drivers, but they haven't released a new version of the drivers in a while.
I'm using a ti4600, what about you? Installing from ports, and I applied the patches to my kernel. Same?
I've been using FreeBSD as a server since 1999, and as a desktop for only 6 months or so. I would have to agree that FreeBSD is not as good a desktop system as it is a server. But there are a couple reasons for that.
"Linux" Application - KDE, MPlayer, Mozilla, XMMS, etc etc are more geared towards running on Linux. The developers are on Linux as are most of the userbase. When one of the Linux geared projects is ported to FreeBSD, there are usually many patches that need to be applied to make it run better. However, Samba (last I tried it), Apache, MySQL, PHP... all compile without a hitch.
Driver support. I can't use either of my web cams with FreeBSD, because there are just no drivers available. The people developing FreeBSD don't have the time to keep up with the latest wacky devices. If something is standard compliant (like my Nikon 995), it will just WORK. My nVidia (mostly because I use nVidia's binary drivers) crashes once a week, and I can't get out of X without locking my system up. However, I can use just about any RAID card in my server.
I mostly use FreeBSD as a desktop because it's the same system that my servers run. I keep my CVS repository on this machine, and I keep FreeBSD's source tree on this box, NFS from the servers and update when they need it. It makes my life easier from an administrative point of view, but it's definitely not geared towards being a Windows 9?xp? killer.
Well, (to cover my ass against moderation) this is a bit off topic. But, then again, due to what Shiney McShine (or whatever Mr Napster's name is) represents, it's not terribly off topic to talk about the industry in general. That said:
The record industry and broadcast radio are obsolete for 2 reasons:
1. With this new fangled "Intarweb" thingy, anyone can distribute their own content, whether it be music, text, or software, via subscription or free.
2. Most people these days can decide for themselves what they like from the thousands, if not millions of choices given to them on the Web, with or without the RIAA's blessing.
It's not offtopic either, I'm merely stating facts.
Actually, that's your opinion. I think it's naieve to say that people will just go to the Internet to find their music. Most people listen to the radio, no matter how much CC has made it suck. Most people need to hear of "good" music through word of mouth, or at least inundation and market saturation. It's also not the RIAA's blessing that's needing, it's the record company devoting the time and money to an artist that they think is good enough. The RIAA is there to deal with the whole of the recording industries legal troubles.
let the vultur^H^H^H^H^H^Hproducers get a real job and earn their money instead of pretending to provide some useful service.
Producers do earn their money. What would the Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana be without Butch Vig? Why would Butch Vig make them sound good if they couldn't pay him to produce their albums?
You're also not thinking about how these up and comers (who are now without an industry to support them, and competing with many, many more artists) distribute and publicize their albums, when they're not even able to pay for a producer? How are they going to make their CD's, much less ship it across the country AND the world, provide for demand, and get the money to go on tour where their CDs are selling?
I would have no problem with the record industry if they were interested in distributing good music, but they're not.
That I totally agree with. The whole way the arts are done needs to change. But I do not believe anarchy is the way to do it. I have no idea what the solution is, but I know artists on their own against the world is not the way. Artists tend to be poor, they need financial support to become better artists.
I think we need more of what existed in the 60s. We need to organize and make private internet radio stations with good music, and somehow try to invade each and every person's home town. We need more smaller labels that all communicate and coordinate together.
However, we're still faced with the problems of venue (playing a show, where artists really make the money) and radio (where corporations have taken hold). And I just don't know...
I hate to feed a troll and be off topic, but it annoys me that people see no reason for record companies. The music industry goes through piles and piles of utter crap to pick one crappy band that might make it to radio. They're an amazing shit filter, the public does NOT want to be inundated with unfiltered bands.
A recording company will help the artists develop their style. I don't mean make overs, they'll hook them up with a producer who will make the band sound like they know how to play so they can have a decent album. The record company will also split the bill for (a) hiring the producer who will make them sound decent, (b) hiring the engineers and renting the space for them to record (usually $50/hr for the room itself, and it takes months to record), (c) produce the actual CDs, market said CDs, make posters, buy ad space in magazines, try to get interviews with the band.
A recording company will also help get the band into venues, which are usually all run by one person in an area and are really hard to get into (the bigger venues, smallers clubs are run independently, sometimes).
Like I said, the whole music industry is a tremendous crap filter. Before a band gets on the radio it has to jump through so many flaming hoops that most don't make it, thankfully. I speak from experience, having been in bands and done much label work. Do I think things should stay this way? No f-ing way, there must be a better way to do it... and I'm out there trying things.
I don't know where to begin with this. He installed on an AMD64 and complains that Linux binary support didn't work. However, there's trouble finding ANY binaries for AMD64. Java doesn't work? That's binaries. If he did Java from source, I bet that'd work.
/. would realize these people have no idea what they're talking about and stop linking the stories.
He complains about the license. I am so sick of people crapping on anything that isn't GPL. "in fact Microsoft at one point took a great deal of BSD code relating to networking to include in early versions of Windows NT." - alot of people got the stack from BSD. Why? It's good code.
Lastly, if he had read the main FreeBSD page, he would see that 5.x isn't production quality. Why did he use this version? He doesn't even mention that it's the "New Technology" release and doesn't highlight the fact that he's using a new CPU type.
After the hack job done on FreeBSD and on Sun's Blade 1500, I wish
What the author meant was that in the BSD world, changes to the tree are thought out and brought to a consensus (more or less) before any major changes are made. Also, every change is scrutinized by the developers.
In Linux (which I am less familiar with, as I stopped using it circa 1999), people are able to make changes at will.. and parts of the kernel will take on different aproaches and there is less scrutiny. Changes aren't first verified as stable before being put into production.
An example of this is FreeBSD's new VM management, which first appeared in current around 6 months ago (IIRC), but just appeared in FreeBSD 4.9 recently. The FreeBSD team made sure all the bugs were ironed out, so 4.9 would be rock solid.
There's always the libraries. Installed via ports or src, the libraries are the same.
:-D
Is that asking too much from a package management system? Yes. But I'm a picky prick.
That list is lagging a bit behind the actual development. IIRC, the Giant locking has been finished for 3 months at least on i386, yet this doc lists it as not started. I think they're much farther along than this implies.
Ports isn't really part of the operating system, it's just the package installation utility.
/usr/ports/lang/php to build php and type something like this for building in OpenSSL support:
What Mac OS X did get from FreeBSD were basic utilities (ps, ls, etc but don't quote me), the TCP/IP stack, domain sockets, and the low level UNIX workings. They pulled this from the 5.1 tree.
I run a few servers on FreeBSD, and I have mixed feelings about ports. It's great to be able to run a script nightly to pull the latest source files for -STABLE and the ports tree and rebuild the applications that have been updated. The one thing that irks me about ports is that it's all or nothing. If you install MySQL from source, but want to install MySQL CC from ports; ports will try to install MySQL for you. Also, I don't find the configure options terribly well laid out. I'm never sure what to use (or if they'll stick on an upgrade). To illustrate, you'd go into
make -DWITH_OPENSSL
On my desktop FreeBSD system, I install almost everything from ports.. I don't want to be bothered configuring KDE. But, my servers I do libraries in ports applications/daemons in source.
It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination.
Actually, that is not true. It comes out of the unfortunate naming of the CVS repositories. If you're concerned about stability, stick with RELEASE. STABLE is still a development branch, more stable than CURRENT, but bound to have some problems.
That said, I believe 5.1CURRENT to be better than 4.8RELEASE. They've done alot of work with memory management and the like, which first appeared in the 5.x branch, I believe, and will be released in the 4.9 release. If you run STABLE, you've probably seen the improvements. I'd be interested in seeing the tests run with 4.9 release, when available.
John
I think you're missing the point of PHP, and it's usefulness depends on what you mean by a real-world application. I must assume that you mean a standalone application, to which I must say you're insane if you try to use PHP.
PHP is a web-based programming language. It has been extended to do other things (which I haven't tried yet, so I can attest to their usefulness), but it is primarily developed to be used in web applications... not stand alone applications.
Perhaps this is the primary reason for the division between Java and PHP coders. While Java is a general purpose language, PHP is specialized; as it has been said before. I write large web applications in PHP, but I would not think of writing any kind of application that wasn't web based in PHP. I think you should be aware of a language's strong points, and then decide what to use based on the project's requirements. The Java thought process seems to be that Java should be used everywhere, because it can... that's something I fundamentally don't believe in.
As an aside in reply to other threads, it's been said that PHP is unmanageable and lacks session variables. PHP is just as unmanageable as Java, I'll say that I've seen horrible nightmares in PHP, due more to poor code design and overuse of the embedability of PHP. If written properly, it's as straightforward as any language. And, as anyone who knows PHP knows, PHP does have session variables. What it lacks is state variables shared amongst a cluster, and to this I refer back to the purpose of PHP. PHP isn't about re-inventing the horse. There are many other ways to share data amongst servers, and it would be pointless to include just one way within PHP itself. It's something better left to the system administrators and developers to decide the best mechanism between themselves.
John
Anyone else having problems downloading the strong encryption version? Seems like they're not only have problems with the stability of the browser, but with basic server adminstration. The redirect script that figures out where you're coming from... isn't there. Fun.
Well, at least MEEPT!!!!! is back. I can rest easy. But, seriously, someone needs to compete in the browser market.. IE is becoming a much better product. What other browsers are there? The only one I can thing of is Opera, but it's lacking in too much functionality. I haven't played around with Mozilla yet.