Sco will find a way to use this history to further 'prove' that source code was acquired from commercial software at specific times from specific companies, using nothing more than the fact that some feature was added to linux on a specific date. This aids insane companies like SCO who want to find relationships and infringement where there really was none... go back far enough, and no one from the time/company/developer will be able to defend their IP...
Sorry, but that was as misinformed as it can get... The satellite provider will never activate an account if you use one of these PCI sat cards. What you can do is if you already have an account with these guys, then you can take your CAM (smartcard from your receiver), plug it into a CAM reader attached to your PC (or DVB card if you buy the more expensive version), then the software will decode the signal using your CAM as authorization.
The sat compaines (Bell and Dish) do not support this at all. This is strictly a do it at your own risk kind of deal.
If you want to do this without buying the sat providers hardware, you can't activate a CAM, thus the only option would be to pirate the signal (which these devices can be used to do with the correct software).
Use a DVB tuner card... ala Nexus-s or the Twinhan cards... I currently have Dishnetwork PVR functionality on my PC thanks to those cards... The cards work for any DVB standard transmission including Bell Express-vu, DishNetwork, and almost all the FTA satellites in North America. DTV uses some crazy assed scheme call DSS, which is incompatable...
Nothing of the sort. The ease of upgrading is because you can upload a new version of the code, shut down the old process and start the new one without a reboot/reset. Typical Unix like stuff.
You are probably more correct than I, as that is a method of doing a patch that always works. I have worked on a system that was upgraded at runtime without killing any processes, we simply augmented our flash while everything was running, then when that succeeded, we changed a table in RAM to replace our interrupt handling code to point to the new flash region. This happend with no downtime... I guess it's a specific case, but it is doable that way... And memory protection would have made it impossible without stopping a task and respawning it.
AH dude... Microsoft is totally different... VxWorks is based on the fact that all memory is linearly accessable.. there is no memory protection... that works great when all your apps are written in-house, and you know the timer ain't gonna trash the motor controller...
But try that on an OS for a desktop system, and your email program just may blow up your paint program... (remember Windows 3.1's stability? Make that 10x worse)... You can't use VxWorks for the desktop as Windows is used today... it needs a lot of protection... The ease of upgrading is due to the lack of protection...
Seriously, it's getting to the point where I wouldn't put it past microsoft to actually require a name change for guys like Mike in the next ten years... How blatantly wrong could they be? I'm surprised they didn't go after any website that had "Bob" in the name... cuz after all, that's a lot like their MS Bob...
On the flipside though, how long before people start changing their names just so they can get domain names? I'm eyeing Natalie H. Gritts myself... sure I'm a guy... but the domain name, and the right to keep it would be priceless, and worth the ackwardness...:)
Now when I see somene looks at me and his jaw is moving, I have to remove the earphones with "whaddidyasay?". Would be nicer (or at least geekier) just to push a button or something
Well, I guess those fancy iPods aren't so great after all... I mean, on my Rio 300, I simply press the stop button... then I can hear people talking to me just fine... Oh well...;)
I'll have you know, Hungarians are too busy making porno movies to actually be hacking... seriously... I'd provide a link to back it up, but I'm at work...
Okay, come on... there is value to other OS projects, yes, linux is the big thing, and everyone should concentrate on it, yadda, yadda...
But, if people don't do other small OS's, or even dead end crazy projects, then a lot of stuff could be missed. For example if I'm going to write an OS, then I'd have to worry about a bootloader... Now let's say I write one from scratch... Great, a total waste, as me and maybe 4 other people on the planet will ever use it... But if LILO (or whatever the latest bootloader for Linux is), would have a problem, it's quite possible that my bootloader may have a fix for it, and then the experience gained from writing my own useless OS, would pay off by being used to fix the current popular OS.
And posting about these projects on slashdot may be what is required to get enough attention that someone examines it's functionality, and discovers that the useless project has something working, that their project does not...
With the way things are going in hollywood, you'd think that (a) someone from paramount would fly up from LA to TO, and slap him with an copyright infringment lawsuit... He's trying to be Borg!
I was building one of these simulators in my garage... I was actually aiming to simulate the g-forces of a race car, not a flight sim... but still... I knew I should have patented my prototype... damn it..
I must say, the whole Online music store thing... that's a huge flop... DRM'd to hell, harder to use than going online and downloading a 'free' version off one of the many networks... Too little too late... Maybe if they did this when Napster first came out, they could have had a larger crowd, but the 'free' networks have better user interfaces, more selection, and (RIAA crap flooding aside) has better quality than what I can get from the 'online music stores'...
You know what this means right? We've backed Microsoft into a corner, so now it's going to pull every dirty trick in the book to get it's profits back...
No, really, I wouldn't put it past them... Wonder what technology area they're going to monopolize next? Tivo looks prime for the picking...;)
This is not a solution... as *I* still have to check for something on my end, and then discard if that condition is not met... my bandwidth and time are still wasted.
And having those features enabled is what causes your battery life to be crap (even when you aren't using the iPod and you think it's off)... don't take my word for it... ask an Apple engineer about a little part they left out of the iPod... namely an RTC... Without which, any PIM app (such as a calendar, alarm, etc), requires the CPU to fully power on once a second to update itself...
Apple engineers are idiots... if they want to add support for PIM functionality, they should ensure the hardware has the functionality they need... No wonder everyone is bitching about battery life... Even if you don't use the iPod to play music, you constantly have to recharge it... probably once every day or two... 3 years of typical usage my ass!
Well, let me tell you, I recently replaced my $75 video card with a $400 video card... And it didn't help game performance at all!
I guess the better upgrade for new games is a faster CPU, not a faster GPU... Who would have thunk it... seriously, for the last 3 years, it has always been the GPU that maxxed out performance on my P4 1.4Ghz... damn...
An Apple computer (or product) may be damned expensive, but it is relatively unique, and would take quite a bit of effort to build an equal product cheaper. But I'm talking about an adapter cable. There is nothing unique about this cable, except its price. The apple cable and another brand perform exactly the same... for 1/10th the price...
Seriously upsetting is the fact that the people on the sales floor at your local electronics superstore can only give 'Apple's Engineering' as the reason for the rediculous mark-ups on accessories.
There is a white colored rca (2 plug for use in all home audio) to iPod (aka 3.5 mm stereo plug) for sale... only $69.99 (Canadian, but still)... while one isle over, there is the same damned thing for $5.99 (still a huge rip off, but at least reasonable). Hell, even the monster cable version of that cable is only $19.95. WTF makes it worth that much money? White plastic that hard to make???
Think that hackers could crack RSA256 once a day just to cause havoc?
Based on the rollout being up to 10 years... I say that whatever encryption is used, it will be cracked, and cracked easily by the time it's in use. So, the answer to your question is yes!
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Sco will find a way to use this history to further 'prove' that source code was acquired from commercial software at specific times from specific companies, using nothing more than the fact that some feature was added to linux on a specific date. This aids insane companies like SCO who want to find relationships and infringement where there really was none... go back far enough, and no one from the time/company/developer will be able to defend their IP...
Good god no! :P
Sorry, but that was as misinformed as it can get... The satellite provider will never activate an account if you use one of these PCI sat cards. What you can do is if you already have an account with these guys, then you can take your CAM (smartcard from your receiver), plug it into a CAM reader attached to your PC (or DVB card if you buy the more expensive version), then the software will decode the signal using your CAM as authorization.
The sat compaines (Bell and Dish) do not support this at all. This is strictly a do it at your own risk kind of deal.
If you want to do this without buying the sat providers hardware, you can't activate a CAM, thus the only option would be to pirate the signal (which these devices can be used to do with the correct software).
No, Star Choice uses encryption that is not an open standard, so thus it cannot be used (unless someone has software for it.)
Use a DVB tuner card... ala Nexus-s or the Twinhan cards... I currently have Dishnetwork PVR functionality on my PC thanks to those cards... The cards work for any DVB standard transmission including Bell Express-vu, DishNetwork, and almost all the FTA satellites in North America. DTV uses some crazy assed scheme call DSS, which is incompatable...
Clearly CNN is european, and thus Labour Day is on May 1st... not that far away... possibly in time for spring... ;)
Nothing of the sort. The ease of upgrading is because you can upload a new version of the code, shut down the old process and start the new one without a reboot/reset. Typical Unix like stuff.
You are probably more correct than I, as that is a method of doing a patch that always works. I have worked on a system that was upgraded at runtime without killing any processes, we simply augmented our flash while everything was running, then when that succeeded, we changed a table in RAM to replace our interrupt handling code to point to the new flash region. This happend with no downtime... I guess it's a specific case, but it is doable that way... And memory protection would have made it impossible without stopping a task and respawning it.
AH dude... Microsoft is totally different... VxWorks is based on the fact that all memory is linearly accessable.. there is no memory protection... that works great when all your apps are written in-house, and you know the timer ain't gonna trash the motor controller...
But try that on an OS for a desktop system, and your email program just may blow up your paint program... (remember Windows 3.1's stability? Make that 10x worse)... You can't use VxWorks for the desktop as Windows is used today... it needs a lot of protection... The ease of upgrading is due to the lack of protection...
Mike Rowe gets to live? Yeah!!! :)
:)
Seriously, it's getting to the point where I wouldn't put it past microsoft to actually require a name change for guys like Mike in the next ten years... How blatantly wrong could they be? I'm surprised they didn't go after any website that had "Bob" in the name... cuz after all, that's a lot like their MS Bob...
On the flipside though, how long before people start changing their names just so they can get domain names? I'm eyeing Natalie H. Gritts myself... sure I'm a guy... but the domain name, and the right to keep it would be priceless, and worth the ackwardness...
Now when I see somene looks at me and his jaw is moving, I have to remove the earphones with "whaddidyasay?". Would be nicer (or at least geekier) just to push a button or something
;)
Well, I guess those fancy iPods aren't so great after all... I mean, on my Rio 300, I simply press the stop button... then I can hear people talking to me just fine... Oh well...
I'll have you know, Hungarians are too busy making porno movies to actually be hacking... seriously... I'd provide a link to back it up, but I'm at work...
So now I can ask someone if they have the time beside a drivethru at mcdonalds, and have them pay for my meal! Sweet!
Okay, come on... there is value to other OS projects, yes, linux is the big thing, and everyone should concentrate on it, yadda, yadda...
But, if people don't do other small OS's, or even dead end crazy projects, then a lot of stuff could be missed. For example if I'm going to write an OS, then I'd have to worry about a bootloader... Now let's say I write one from scratch... Great, a total waste, as me and maybe 4 other people on the planet will ever use it... But if LILO (or whatever the latest bootloader for Linux is), would have a problem, it's quite possible that my bootloader may have a fix for it, and then the experience gained from writing my own useless OS, would pay off by being used to fix the current popular OS.
And posting about these projects on slashdot may be what is required to get enough attention that someone examines it's functionality, and discovers that the useless project has something working, that their project does not...
Please tell me that that IP stack on this thing is not called SkyNET.
No, it's called the 'IP stack'... Thanks for playing...
With the way things are going in hollywood, you'd think that (a) someone from paramount would fly up from LA to TO, and slap him with an copyright infringment lawsuit... He's trying to be Borg!
But the real question is, did you go to Star Trek the Experience at the Hilton? Cuz if not, your review ain't worth shit, as you're not a true geek...
:)
Anxiously awaiting reply before taking article seriously...
I was building one of these simulators in my garage... I was actually aiming to simulate the g-forces of a race car, not a flight sim... but still... I knew I should have patented my prototype... damn it..
I like free beer better... ;)
I must say, the whole Online music store thing... that's a huge flop... DRM'd to hell, harder to use than going online and downloading a 'free' version off one of the many networks... Too little too late... Maybe if they did this when Napster first came out, they could have had a larger crowd, but the 'free' networks have better user interfaces, more selection, and (RIAA crap flooding aside) has better quality than what I can get from the 'online music stores'...
You know what this means right? We've backed Microsoft into a corner, so now it's going to pull every dirty trick in the book to get it's profits back...
;)
No, really, I wouldn't put it past them... Wonder what technology area they're going to monopolize next? Tivo looks prime for the picking...
This is not a solution... as *I* still have to check for something on my end, and then discard if that condition is not met... my bandwidth and time are still wasted.
And having those features enabled is what causes your battery life to be crap (even when you aren't using the iPod and you think it's off)... don't take my word for it... ask an Apple engineer about a little part they left out of the iPod... namely an RTC... Without which, any PIM app (such as a calendar, alarm, etc), requires the CPU to fully power on once a second to update itself...
Apple engineers are idiots... if they want to add support for PIM functionality, they should ensure the hardware has the functionality they need... No wonder everyone is bitching about battery life... Even if you don't use the iPod to play music, you constantly have to recharge it... probably once every day or two... 3 years of typical usage my ass!
Well, let me tell you, I recently replaced my $75 video card with a $400 video card... And it didn't help game performance at all!
I guess the better upgrade for new games is a faster CPU, not a faster GPU... Who would have thunk it... seriously, for the last 3 years, it has always been the GPU that maxxed out performance on my P4 1.4Ghz... damn...
An Apple computer (or product) may be damned expensive, but it is relatively unique, and would take quite a bit of effort to build an equal product cheaper. But I'm talking about an adapter cable. There is nothing unique about this cable, except its price. The apple cable and another brand perform exactly the same... for 1/10th the price...
Seriously upsetting is the fact that the people on the sales floor at your local electronics superstore can only give 'Apple's Engineering' as the reason for the rediculous mark-ups on accessories.
There is a white colored rca (2 plug for use in all home audio) to iPod (aka 3.5 mm stereo plug) for sale... only $69.99 (Canadian, but still)... while one isle over, there is the same damned thing for $5.99 (still a huge rip off, but at least reasonable). Hell, even the monster cable version of that cable is only $19.95. WTF makes it worth that much money? White plastic that hard to make???
Think that hackers could crack RSA256 once a day just to cause havoc?
Based on the rollout being up to 10 years... I say that whatever encryption is used, it will be cracked, and cracked easily by the time it's in use. So, the answer to your question is yes!