There are tracks of data inside of "track 0" on a CD. They are just outside the hub, and on the CDs I've looked at, usually contain a bar code and/or a human readable serial number. The CD-Rs I've looked at also have serial numbers in this area. The dye coverage of this area was inconsistent as well. Some have it, some don't. So, it seems reasonable to me that these "negative tracks" are unburnable.
As far as the hardware is concerned, how do you know that "normal" hardware doesn't have circuitry/programming in it that prevents writing to particular tracks on the CD? Drive hardware/software is not open source. Anything could be in there.
It can be burned if the disk has burnable surface in that location, and if the drive has no built in "can't write to that part of the disk" coding in it, is what I think you mean.
Wow! I am impressed. I had no idea that linux had that command. Is there a website somewhere that has all of these nifty tools listed? Some sort of tips and tricks page?
What is needed is a "drop in" replacement for the Exchange Server. If you can switch to a linux based server solution without having to touch any of the clients.
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Oh that's only because Microsoft gets so much more practice than RedHat.
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Yes it is much slower than conventional typing. However, for those among us with disabilities, it might be a lot faster than using a mouth stick.
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Although the parent post was meant to be humourous, the point may be valid. In areas where power is unreliable, and equipment is expensive, something like this might be (if you'll pardon the expression) just what the doctor ordered.
Even if you have the equipment, you have to figure out which fiber out of 288 or more is the one you need, and the documentation is usually kept locked up tight.
Which is just security through exclusivity/obscurity, right?
They built the robot, gave it wings, yes. That, of course, had nothing to do with evolution. But, if you read the description of its learning process, it sounds like they gave it a genetic algorithm to learn how to use the wings. The robot evolved its motion control sequences to achieve "flight".
Do you have any idea how much time and effort and money goes into building a software application, or writing a book? If only one copy can be sold, because copies will be made and nothing can stop that, then each copy will have to be sold for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.
And since nobody would buy it, there is no market. Without a market, it won't get made.
Well, I guess all this open source software is a figment of my imagination, then.:-)
An programmer can put in a hard days work, and will get paid for it over and over and over again. A bricklayer can put in a hard days work and he will only get paid for it once. Why? Because the bricklayer is producing a physical product, "media" if you will, whereas the programmer (or actor, or musician) is producing content. Content can be copied, media can't.
Until recently, the technology to produce copies of content were prohibitively expensive, so content producers could get away with charging whatever they wished: $29.95 for a CD? OK. But nowadays, the ability to copy content is cheap. You can buy blank CDs for a dollar a disk, and burn downloaded songs on them. So the choice becomes pay $30 or pay $1. What then is the true market value of the content?
We have several industries that are unfair: Those industries built on selling information. Authors, entertainors, software producers, musicians, etc. have been raking in the dough by dealing in information. They have a create once, sell many times scam going. All other industries are create once, sell once. An automobile manufacturer cannot build a car and sell it many times. A bricklayer cannot lay one brick and complete a subdivision.
In the past these information sellers were protected by three things: the expense of producing a copy of their information, the fact that the information was not easily transferrable from one media to another, and by (to use a term from Star Trek) replicative fading (A copy is never as good as the master). Sure, people could photocopy books, but that is more expensive than buying the book in the first place. Sure, people can plug the output of their turntable into the input of their tape deck and record songs off of an LP, but the quality will drop. And if you copy that copy, the quality drops even more.
Enter the digital age. The media is unimportant. Audio, video, software, text are all just bits of information. They can be burned onto a CD. They can be sent over the internet. They can even be written to floppy disks. It no longer expensive to copy something. There is no longer any degradation. A seventeenth generation copy is as crisp and clear as the master. The three pillars holding up this scam are gone.
The software industry has tried various things to stem the flood. Activation codes, dongles, special floppy formats, read only distribution media. All have failed, and for the most part software companies have given up trying to copy protect stuff. They have decided to sell their software for a fair price, trusting that enough people will be honest and buy their product rather than obtaining a copy from somewhere else. Open source software vendors have realized that the write once sell many model is dead. They don't sell the software. They sell ready to use installation media. They sell professionally printed manuals. They sell help desk service and support. In short, they sell convenience.
The entertainment industry is slowly realizing that their create once, sell many business model is mortally wounded. They are trying to keep it alive with the DMCA, with various broadcast bits, etc. They will try with encryption, and other copy-proofing systems. They are even trying to control everything digital. Eventually, they will realize that it is too expensive, and too much of a hassle. People will crack any technology they try to implement. They need to reach the same solution that the software vendors reached: Either they sell the entertainment at its true market value, or they will go under. Either sell convenience, or sell nothing. The cash cow is dead.
I thought that one of the factors of RSIs was that the hands are left in the same position for long periods of time. Wouldn't a device like this contribute to rather than detract from RSIs?
It's just one lousy entry in the DNS table, right?
Wrong.
Back in the olden days, IP addresses were handed out in different classes: A, B, and C. You bought the rights to an ip address range. It didn't take long for the Class A and Class B addresses to be all sold out. Nowadays, it is becoming difficult to get a full class C.
In order for you to get your static IP, your ISP would have to have had the foresight to get a block of addresses that it could statically dish out.
Your ISP has to rent its IP address space. They are similar to a parking garage. They have a fixed number of spaces that they dish out to people as they connect. Some people will stay connected for long periods of time. Some will turn their machines off every night. Those that turn their machines off abandon their number, just like someone leaving a parking garage abandons their space. The next user coming in gets it. Just as a parking garage may tow cars away that have been left overnight, your ISP may kick people off that have been connected for a long time. Policies vary.
Some ISPs have a block of IP addresses that they give out on a permanent lease, similar to a parking garage having a section for reserved parking. In order to do this, though, the ISP must designate a block of IP addresses, and design their routing appropriately. Cable ISPs are after the casual, home user. These users don't care whether their IP address is static or dynamic. Half the time* these people don't even have their machines turned on. The cable ISP with 10000 users* may have only 8000 IP addresses*.
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I'm just presenting some possibilities here:
There are tracks of data inside of "track 0" on a CD. They are just outside the hub, and on the CDs I've looked at, usually contain a bar code and/or a human readable serial number. The CD-Rs I've looked at also have serial numbers in this area. The dye coverage of this area was inconsistent as well. Some have it, some don't. So, it seems reasonable to me that these "negative tracks" are unburnable.
As far as the hardware is concerned, how do you know that "normal" hardware doesn't have circuitry/programming in it that prevents writing to particular tracks on the CD? Drive hardware/software is not open source. Anything could be in there.
It can be burned if the disk has burnable surface in that location, and if the drive has no built in "can't write to that part of the disk" coding in it, is what I think you mean.
The keys can be on a portion of the CD that is not in the burnable area: Like maybe the center ring where the barcode is on some cds.
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Wow! I am impressed. I had no idea that linux had that command. Is there a website somewhere that has all of these nifty tools listed? Some sort of tips and tricks page?
Geographic location is not an indicator of morality.
What is needed is a "drop in" replacement for the Exchange Server. If you can switch to a linux based server solution without having to touch any of the clients.
Maybe because you are posting as an Anonymous Coward. AC posts (-1) fall below the readability threshold (0) of the standard Slashdot settings. Sign up for a Login name and join the party.
Oh that's only because Microsoft gets so much more practice than RedHat.
Yes it is much slower than conventional typing. However, for those among us with disabilities, it might be a lot faster than using a mouth stick.
Although the parent post was meant to be humourous, the point may be valid. In areas where power is unreliable, and equipment is expensive, something like this might be (if you'll pardon the expression) just what the doctor ordered.
I did not know that. I'm somewhat new to Galeon.
The thing I like about tabbed browsing is that those annoying pop-up/pop-under ads merely open up a new tab. You never see them.
I don't know what's worse:
Yoda writing haiku, or
commenting on it.
Yoda writes Haiku?
Even if you have the equipment, you have to figure out which fiber out of 288 or more is the one you need, and the documentation is usually kept locked up tight.
Which is just security through exclusivity/obscurity, right?
They removed a head-butt? Why?
They built the robot, gave it wings, yes. That, of course, had nothing to do with evolution. But, if you read the description of its learning process, it sounds like they gave it a genetic algorithm to learn how to use the wings. The robot evolved its motion control sequences to achieve "flight".
Nevertheless, my question stands: What is WSTDNS? And for that matter, what is STS?
It is generally accepted that when one defines an acronym, the long form is presented:
I.e. ACRONYM: Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning.
What is WSTDNS? And for that matter, what is STS?
Well, I guess all this open source software is a figment of my imagination, then. :-)
An programmer can put in a hard days work, and will get paid for it over and over and over again. A bricklayer can put in a hard days work and he will only get paid for it once. Why? Because the bricklayer is producing a physical product, "media" if you will, whereas the programmer (or actor, or musician) is producing content. Content can be copied, media can't.
Until recently, the technology to produce copies of content were prohibitively expensive, so content producers could get away with charging whatever they wished: $29.95 for a CD? OK. But nowadays, the ability to copy content is cheap. You can buy blank CDs for a dollar a disk, and burn downloaded songs on them. So the choice becomes pay $30 or pay $1. What then is the true market value of the content?
In the past these information sellers were protected by three things: the expense of producing a copy of their information, the fact that the information was not easily transferrable from one media to another, and by (to use a term from Star Trek) replicative fading (A copy is never as good as the master). Sure, people could photocopy books, but that is more expensive than buying the book in the first place. Sure, people can plug the output of their turntable into the input of their tape deck and record songs off of an LP, but the quality will drop. And if you copy that copy, the quality drops even more.
Enter the digital age. The media is unimportant. Audio, video, software, text are all just bits of information. They can be burned onto a CD. They can be sent over the internet. They can even be written to floppy disks. It no longer expensive to copy something. There is no longer any degradation. A seventeenth generation copy is as crisp and clear as the master. The three pillars holding up this scam are gone.
The software industry has tried various things to stem the flood. Activation codes, dongles, special floppy formats, read only distribution media. All have failed, and for the most part software companies have given up trying to copy protect stuff. They have decided to sell their software for a fair price, trusting that enough people will be honest and buy their product rather than obtaining a copy from somewhere else. Open source software vendors have realized that the write once sell many model is dead. They don't sell the software. They sell ready to use installation media. They sell professionally printed manuals. They sell help desk service and support. In short, they sell convenience.
The entertainment industry is slowly realizing that their create once, sell many business model is mortally wounded. They are trying to keep it alive with the DMCA, with various broadcast bits, etc. They will try with encryption, and other copy-proofing systems. They are even trying to control everything digital. Eventually, they will realize that it is too expensive, and too much of a hassle. People will crack any technology they try to implement. They need to reach the same solution that the software vendors reached: Either they sell the entertainment at its true market value, or they will go under. Either sell convenience, or sell nothing. The cash cow is dead.
I thought that one of the factors of RSIs was that the hands are left in the same position for long periods of time. Wouldn't a device like this contribute to rather than detract from RSIs?
A more hideous fate, I cannot imagine.
It's just one lousy entry in the DNS table, right?
Wrong.
Back in the olden days, IP addresses were handed out in different classes: A, B, and C. You bought the rights to an ip address range. It didn't take long for the Class A and Class B addresses to be all sold out. Nowadays, it is becoming difficult to get a full class C.
In order for you to get your static IP, your ISP would have to have had the foresight to get a block of addresses that it could statically dish out.
Your ISP has to rent its IP address space. They are similar to a parking garage. They have a fixed number of spaces that they dish out to people as they connect. Some people will stay connected for long periods of time. Some will turn their machines off every night. Those that turn their machines off abandon their number, just like someone leaving a parking garage abandons their space. The next user coming in gets it. Just as a parking garage may tow cars away that have been left overnight, your ISP may kick people off that have been connected for a long time. Policies vary.
Some ISPs have a block of IP addresses that they give out on a permanent lease, similar to a parking garage having a section for reserved parking. In order to do this, though, the ISP must designate a block of IP addresses, and design their routing appropriately. Cable ISPs are after the casual, home user. These users don't care whether their IP address is static or dynamic. Half the time* these people don't even have their machines turned on. The cable ISP with 10000 users* may have only 8000 IP addresses*.
* These numbers are entirely made up.