I own and have read Bill Ball's Learn Linux in 24 hours re: Redhat 5.x. I also own and have read his Linux unleashed for Redhat 6.2 or so...
I must say that even for a guy who's been using Linux for more than 5 years, these books are not a very good read. Not due to the subject matter, but due to Author style.
Learn Linux in 24 is obviously Linux Unleashed in a very very pared down format. If this book were a driving instructor, the teacher would give you the keys and then say "Put this in the ignition and turn, when you fill your tank, don't light any matches, and turn your wipers on when it rains."
Linux Unleashed was the same, except there really isn't much middle ground. The aformentioned driving instructor would then pop the hood, point out the timing belt, and tell you how to adjust the carbeurator for maximum fuel efficiency.
Example, the C programming chapter as I remember starts talking about overloading operators within a few pages of finishing "Hello, world." The fact that there is a C programming chapter in Linux unleashed seems a little strange to me, period.
I found Bill's writing to be the most confusing hair raising epic for learning linux. Fear instilled by the writing prevented me from compiling my own kernel for a very long time. My recommendation for Learning Linux in a straightforward manner is the LPI certification in a nutshell book. Every chapter is laid out very neatly with command descriptions. Not only that, it is written in a generic format which applies to most sane distros. Great reference material, period.
It's obvious Bill knows what he's talking about. If the new Unleashed reads at all like the old ones, I think his editors could use some help with technical materials.
Always try O'Reilly first. Just my 2 pennies.
-non sig- Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day long.
This guy has obviously mastered the art of the similie.
As for Disney and Dali, the urge to see this almost overwhelms my 'Boycott Disney Because They Are Sellouts' reflex. I hope not to watch/buy Disney crap anytime soon. I know that ABC/ESPN/and probably everything else not Time/Warner is owned by them so it's virtually impossible.
I do have better places to give my money that some giant megacorp with major interests in the MPAA, RIAA, stomping out the little guy, and generally making America the bland place it's becoming.
-begin non sig- This is not a troll...I repeat...This is not a troll.
(Possibly offtopic) Of all flash sites. I'm sorry, but I must say that in terms of humor, Homestarrunner just doesn't tickle my funnybone. For real flash humor with a lot more creativity check out the romp. The hat trick episode of booty call is great.
The humor is a tad more colorful, and the choose your own adventure style makes it "money".
non sig -Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.
Jeez, when I compiled something on my former Redhat or Mandrake boxes, I got these advertisements saying I needed this or that by some company called RPM? Now I get all these crazy micro advertisements when I try and install stuff on my Slackware box...some products called gcc automake and "checking for"? I have to go out and buy this stuff.
Granted it's better than the zip company ads or buy this MS product commercials I saw back when I was installing Windows software.
Now back to the reality ans seriousness. Advertisements are all right. I think it's not necessarily in following with the spirit of the Linux community. But it is a valid business practice. I mean, we all had the choice not to use windows, we have the choice not to use Mandrake too. Just like Kazaa vs. Kazaalite.
non sig o' the day - Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.
The IBM trackpoint (eraser head) mouse is by far the best thing I've ever used. Especially for data entry or having to move between interfaces and continue typing. I never have to take my hands off the keyboard. To all those trackball users who say they avoid carpal tunnel and save their arms, I say, try the trackpoint.
Typing is a breeze. The only problem I have is that I keep going home where I don't have the keyboard and am eternally confused as to where my mouse is.
I don't know how the performance would be in gaming. I think fps gaming might be tricky to master.
Extremetech did an ok series on keyboards and mice a while ago too.
I work in Tech support for a telecommunications company and I get at least three calls per day regarding a message from Norton Antivirus. The message falsely states that they were a sender of the sobig.f virus. Of course, our users are completely up to date with their virus software and our e-mail servers catch the sobig virus. A big shame on you to Norton for having an e-mail enabled warning like that. It preys on the stupidity of end users.
Granted, if nobody talked about AIDS, the infection rate would probably skyrocket too. So is it better that there be a symptom of the virus such as increased network traffic. Or is it better to not inform external users and try to repair in house?
I'm not so sure I care about public webcams.
I'd like to see webcams focused on our public sector. Services like Police, Fire, City, State, and Fed. employees should be monitored at random. Screw letting the government watch us, let's watch them!
If the govt. is so ancy to be watchdogs of the private citizens in our world, we should have the opportunity to be watchdogs for these organizations at our whim.
I think that civil rights violations would go down. Police are crooked wannabe thugs anyway. Tax money would be spent more efficiently. Govt. employees are lazy.
The unfortunate downside of this is that we have CSPAN in the US and our politicians are still crooked punks trying to sneak crappy laws by us everyday.
I wish my sig link were broken so I had an excuse to manually craft a sig everytime...
I swear man, the Chinese government is like the Borg. I would not be surprised if conflict goes up to and beyond full scale thermonuclear war between the US and China in the next hundred years or so.
As far as I'm concerned, they are actively trying to destroy democracy and acting in hostile manners to all sorts of countries, peoples, and policies. The human rights issues are heinous. Opression of their peoples and information. Remembering back to the American plane that was buzzed by a Chinese fighter jet, that incident was not too cool either.
Let alone all the spam they send the US.
They're not a very far step above Saddam during his occupation of Kuwait. I recognize that the government is NOT the people of China. There will be a revolution, or a war. Mark my words.
To reiterate: "Frickin' Commie Pinko Bastards!"
I'm not trying to troll here but come on fishy fishy fishy...
72 hours seems way too long to be out of business. That's 3 days of money that the ISP is not pulling in dough. Unless the whole internet is crippled, I'd ditch an ISP that was out for three days. One of the main selling points for ISP is connectivity rain, snow, shine, OR rabid squirrels...
The company (ISP/consulting/services hosting) I used to work for had a DR plan to be executed in 24 hours with 75% functionality. Offsite servers and backups of course...
More impressive to me is the World Trade Center folks like American Express and other companies that had DR plans situated across the river. A lot of datacenters and information services were functional again within 18-24 hours. That's PPP PPP (prior planning prevents piss-poor performance).
I write good sigs on my bathroom wall...but this is not a real sig.
How do I make SURE that my Intel Processor ID is turned off via Linux (or is it a motherboard BIOS issue). I think when I compiled my kernel I made sure that all the processor stuff was set to pIII but what options exactly do I need to set in order to make sure my pIII has no ID crap running in it? Any BIOS options?
Holy crap I knew the story was old. Slow news day? This verges on antiquity with a 2001 story date. Maybe the slashdot editors could rename the tagline - "No Gnus is nerd Gnus"
My mom got a Dell Laptop, and a new Dell Printer/Scanner thingy. The AC adapter for the printer was not in the box...
To make an extraordinarily long story short. After speaking to three non-native english speakers, two hours, and two disconnected calls...My new USB cable arrived!
Much to my dismay, I had to call back and keep transferring around Dell's voicehell until I got an english speaking Texan whom I needed to explain for 20 minutes what cable I needed. "It's simple really, I only need the link from the wall to my printer." the reply would invariably come that she'd get me a printer cable. It turned out that I needed to describe a US AC power outlet to get the beginning of the chain and a few more description of the parts between, to get to the printer.
I work in a support environment and it gave me hemmhoroids just trying to deal with Dell suppport. I worry about my job moving overseas too. It's especially horrible that I had to speak to non-native english speakers. It's like they don't even give the people classes in english, let alone the technology they're supporting.
I wonder if the extra time people spend miscommunicating because of this costs more than the savings of exporting our jobs. Hell, I agree that Americans (myself included) are a dumb lot and other people might know their tech better. I think that the time saved in calls and describing stuff and shipping of wrong items would far outweigh the job financial savings for giant mega corp though.
I like the challenge of creating a new non-sig everytime, so there!
1) Is it open source, I didn't RtFA?
2) Why isn't it open source?
3) Will they release it for Linux on the ppc?
4) What does this have to do with SCO?
5) Apple is dead and these are flawed stats flamewar.
I'm too lazy to come up with a sig that is good enough to be the same everytime, so you can just read this instead. You can try and rid your braincells of this text, but it's pretty much stuck there now.
This is a duplicate storyfrom a looonnnng time ago. May 31 as a matter of fact. This means something considering the amount brain cells I kill with liquor everyday.
Seems to me that this is moronic. A window manager to me is like the style settings in windows. You can choose single or double click, the style of windows borders, the format of text.
What should be standardized is the interface between window managers and the X servers.
What I'm worried about is all the backdoor forx of X, directfb, and xouvair (or whatever it's called).
People should have the choice of lots of different window managers. It's the reason I moved to Linux years ago. I don't see a reason to change that. I do see a reason to make sure that the X servers are:
a) Not forked
b) Guaranteed compatible with window managers
I personally think all window managers should be created without toolkits/bloatware libraries. eg. -gtk, or qt. I like simple window managers that can be compiled without downloading and compiling crap bloatware.
My personal favorite window manager is fvwm. If people want a choice of WM's, give them the choice. If people want to standardize, let them use RedHat Bluecurve GUI or Lindows I guess. Anything other than Win2k is a better choice for me.
It gets harder and harder to create a custom sig without using the sig field everytime.
I have decided to move to the not so popular.ogg format. Will this throw off the RIAA? I'm curious just how tech savvy these chumps are.
First, if the files are different in any way at all, wouldn't it give a completely different hash? Let alone a different format. What about encoding at a different bit rate?
Second, does the RIAA know about the ogg format? If everyone moves over, how long will it take before they notice?
Third, wouldn't it be better to use an audio fingerprinting scheme like musicbrainz uses to tag your files? It's similar to hashing but uses the actual audio qualities in the file.
Seems the RIAA is not only about 20 years behind in their business model, but they are about 20 years behind in technology.
My issue with the RIAA is, why can't they just say to the courts "This guy is downloading music confiscate his computer." There are no watchdog groups to make sure these guys are actually verifying that someone has the copyrighted information.
Can you imagine the bandwith costs the RIAA have just to download the number of files they do. Just so they can check the hashes on each file? Verifying the legality of files must be extraordinarily costly. Wouldn't it be great to start flooding their network with their own fake files just to WASTE (link pun intended) the RIAA's bandwith and time downloading the junk they disseminate?
Sorry, the sig field is temporarily out of order, you will have to read whatever I write here.
Now I'm praying for mecha-Jurassic park. Maybe the robots will go crazy, and eat a lawyer. Just like the movie yeah! Ohhh, and they could go crazy and kill lots more people and Disney-World/Land would get nuked.
Maybe then lawyers will band together and shutdown that poor excuse for entertainment. I mean come on, what has Disney done lately? Other than appeal to the widest deomgraphic with crap entertainment to get your money. Just so they can lobby congress to extend their copyrights on what was once good media and is now only exploited for more money...
Another useless rant by some guy who obviously never got to go to Disney theme parks because his parents didn't want to be 'bilked' of their savings.
I'm too lazy to use a sig field so you'll have to read this I guess.
Now now, I'm not an idiot American. I know that the last letter in RIAA seems to stand for America, the last A in MPAA stands for America as well, and the DMCA is American law.
As for forgiveness, you may as well be forgiven for forgetting about Dmitry Sklyarov (Russian Programmer arrested for DMCA violations). You may also be forgiven for forgetting about the arrest of the DECSS creator in Norway. These arrests were certainly done because of pressure from Americans.
The US and Brits are probably very close in the legal bedroom. Closer than Norway and Russia, at least. I can easily see the RIAA system trying to twist the arm of the justice system to crack down on a company that does a lot of Business in the US, and has a center of North American operations.
Here's a quote about just the BBCtechnology division.
"The company employs around 1400 people at locations in London and Maidenhead in the UK and San Francisco, New York, and Atlanta in the US."
So though the Performaing Rights Society might specialiZe in spearheading British Copyright issues. What the RIAA thinks is most definitely relevant.
Stupid rant, time to create another sig outside of the sig field so you must read it in all its horrible glory...BWAhahahahaha!
This sounds like it opens the door for e-pass to sue Apple for the Newton. The Newton was obviously a precursor/prior art for the Palm. Granted, if it says any storage medium that's larger than a credit card, maybe they could sue laptop makers.
They could be like the company in the Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy that sends the guide back in time to win a copyright infringement suit off the prior art/info they copied to create the guide.
Well, with a name like e-pass(e). Could you expect the patent office to not award them this crap patent. They hopefully will become passe.
Enough ranting, time to manually craft a new sig outside of the sig field so you all have to read it...BWAhahahahaA!
If the BBC releases their Radio Archive, they might be distributing great artist live performances like Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. I know that theses performances have been released on CD by major record labels.
Will the RIAA go after the BBC for distributing their own recordings of someone else's material? Will they have to get permission from every artist they want to feature in their archive?
If an artist knows I am recording their performance and chooses to perform anyway, do they own the rights to distribution or do I?
I know they are dumb questions, but the mechanics of the ownership seem really confusing to me in an archive or library format.
Have they reconstructed Otzi the warrior's face yet. Any pictures?
Cool technology though. I wonder if they could extrapolate to the skeleton maybe by scraping the bones or looking at dna to get a body fat percentage and then get a full body view.
I wonder DNA analysis could yield body hair, musculature, and other specifics to find a full body picture. Imagine, we might get to see computer generated pr0n of our ancient ancestors. How hot would that be?
No offense, and not to bag on the Samba guys but...
Doesn't the creation of Linux tools for interfacing with Windows just further validate a needlessly Microsoftian System?
I've already gone 100% Linux on any networks I can. Isn't NFS good enough? If a Windows user wants access to my network, I'll gladly help them install Linux. If a Linux user wants access to a Windows share, they can install a samba client for themselves. I should have nothing to do with Active Directory, because I hate it.
Congrats to the Samba guys, for a great achievement though...
-Everybody knows Custer died at Little Big Horn, what this book presupposes is...maybe he didn't -Eli (The Royal Tenenbaums)
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I own and have read Bill Ball's Learn Linux in 24 hours re: Redhat 5.x. I also own and have read his Linux unleashed for Redhat 6.2 or so...
I must say that even for a guy who's been using Linux for more than 5 years, these books are not a very good read. Not due to the subject matter, but due to Author style.
Learn Linux in 24 is obviously Linux Unleashed in a very very pared down format. If this book were a driving instructor, the teacher would give you the keys and then say "Put this in the ignition and turn, when you fill your tank, don't light any matches, and turn your wipers on when it rains."
Linux Unleashed was the same, except there really isn't much middle ground. The aformentioned driving instructor would then pop the hood, point out the timing belt, and tell you how to adjust the carbeurator for maximum fuel efficiency.
Example, the C programming chapter as I remember starts talking about overloading operators within a few pages of finishing "Hello, world." The fact that there is a C programming chapter in Linux unleashed seems a little strange to me, period.
I found Bill's writing to be the most confusing hair raising epic for learning linux. Fear instilled by the writing prevented me from compiling my own kernel for a very long time. My recommendation for Learning Linux in a straightforward manner is the LPI certification in a nutshell book. Every chapter is laid out very neatly with command descriptions. Not only that, it is written in a generic format which applies to most sane distros. Great reference material, period.
It's obvious Bill knows what he's talking about. If the new Unleashed reads at all like the old ones, I think his editors could use some help with technical materials.
Always try O'Reilly first. Just my 2 pennies.
-non sig- Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day long.
This guy has obviously mastered the art of the similie.
As for Disney and Dali, the urge to see this almost overwhelms my 'Boycott Disney Because They Are Sellouts' reflex. I hope not to watch/buy Disney crap anytime soon. I know that ABC/ESPN/and probably everything else not Time/Warner is owned by them so it's virtually impossible.
I do have better places to give my money that some giant megacorp with major interests in the MPAA, RIAA, stomping out the little guy, and generally making America the bland place it's becoming.
-begin non sig- This is not a troll...I repeat...This is not a troll.
(Possibly offtopic) Of all flash sites. I'm sorry, but I must say that in terms of humor, Homestarrunner just doesn't tickle my funnybone. For real flash humor with a lot more creativity check out the romp. The hat trick episode of booty call is great.
The humor is a tad more colorful, and the choose your own adventure style makes it "money".
non sig -Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.
Jeez, when I compiled something on my former Redhat or Mandrake boxes, I got these advertisements saying I needed this or that by some company called RPM? Now I get all these crazy micro advertisements when I try and install stuff on my Slackware box...some products called gcc automake and "checking for"? I have to go out and buy this stuff.
Granted it's better than the zip company ads or buy this MS product commercials I saw back when I was installing Windows software.
Now back to the reality ans seriousness. Advertisements are all right. I think it's not necessarily in following with the spirit of the Linux community. But it is a valid business practice. I mean, we all had the choice not to use windows, we have the choice not to use Mandrake too. Just like Kazaa vs. Kazaalite.
non sig o' the day - Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.
The IBM trackpoint (eraser head) mouse is by far the best thing I've ever used. Especially for data entry or having to move between interfaces and continue typing. I never have to take my hands off the keyboard. To all those trackball users who say they avoid carpal tunnel and save their arms, I say, try the trackpoint.
Typing is a breeze. The only problem I have is that I keep going home where I don't have the keyboard and am eternally confused as to where my mouse is.
I don't know how the performance would be in gaming. I think fps gaming might be tricky to master.
Extremetech did an ok series on keyboards and mice a while ago too.
I work in Tech support for a telecommunications company and I get at least three calls per day regarding a message from Norton Antivirus. The message falsely states that they were a sender of the sobig.f virus. Of course, our users are completely up to date with their virus software and our e-mail servers catch the sobig virus. A big shame on you to Norton for having an e-mail enabled warning like that. It preys on the stupidity of end users.
Granted, if nobody talked about AIDS, the infection rate would probably skyrocket too. So is it better that there be a symptom of the virus such as increased network traffic. Or is it better to not inform external users and try to repair in house?
Maybe it offers a little job security too though.
I'm not so sure I care about public webcams. I'd like to see webcams focused on our public sector. Services like Police, Fire, City, State, and Fed. employees should be monitored at random. Screw letting the government watch us, let's watch them!
If the govt. is so ancy to be watchdogs of the private citizens in our world, we should have the opportunity to be watchdogs for these organizations at our whim.
I think that civil rights violations would go down. Police are crooked wannabe thugs anyway. Tax money would be spent more efficiently. Govt. employees are lazy.
The unfortunate downside of this is that we have CSPAN in the US and our politicians are still crooked punks trying to sneak crappy laws by us everyday.
I wish my sig link were broken so I had an excuse to manually craft a sig everytime...
I swear man, the Chinese government is like the Borg. I would not be surprised if conflict goes up to and beyond full scale thermonuclear war between the US and China in the next hundred years or so.
As far as I'm concerned, they are actively trying to destroy democracy and acting in hostile manners to all sorts of countries, peoples, and policies. The human rights issues are heinous. Opression of their peoples and information. Remembering back to the American plane that was buzzed by a Chinese fighter jet, that incident was not too cool either. Let alone all the spam they send the US.
They're not a very far step above Saddam during his occupation of Kuwait. I recognize that the government is NOT the people of China. There will be a revolution, or a war. Mark my words.
To reiterate: "Frickin' Commie Pinko Bastards!"
I'm not trying to troll here but come on fishy fishy fishy...
72 hours seems way too long to be out of business. That's 3 days of money that the ISP is not pulling in dough. Unless the whole internet is crippled, I'd ditch an ISP that was out for three days. One of the main selling points for ISP is connectivity rain, snow, shine, OR rabid squirrels...
The company (ISP/consulting/services hosting) I used to work for had a DR plan to be executed in 24 hours with 75% functionality. Offsite servers and backups of course...
More impressive to me is the World Trade Center folks like American Express and other companies that had DR plans situated across the river. A lot of datacenters and information services were functional again within 18-24 hours. That's PPP PPP (prior planning prevents piss-poor performance).
I write good sigs on my bathroom wall...but this is not a real sig.
How do I make SURE that my Intel Processor ID is turned off via Linux (or is it a motherboard BIOS issue). I think when I compiled my kernel I made sure that all the processor stuff was set to pIII but what options exactly do I need to set in order to make sure my pIII has no ID crap running in it? Any BIOS options?
Holy crap I knew the story was old. Slow news day? This verges on antiquity with a 2001 story date. Maybe the slashdot editors could rename the tagline - "No Gnus is nerd Gnus"
Here is the original slashdot story.
Here is a link to the ornithopter website.
My mom got a Dell Laptop, and a new Dell Printer/Scanner thingy. The AC adapter for the printer was not in the box...
To make an extraordinarily long story short. After speaking to three non-native english speakers, two hours, and two disconnected calls...My new USB cable arrived!
Much to my dismay, I had to call back and keep transferring around Dell's voicehell until I got an english speaking Texan whom I needed to explain for 20 minutes what cable I needed. "It's simple really, I only need the link from the wall to my printer." the reply would invariably come that she'd get me a printer cable. It turned out that I needed to describe a US AC power outlet to get the beginning of the chain and a few more description of the parts between, to get to the printer.
I work in a support environment and it gave me hemmhoroids just trying to deal with Dell suppport. I worry about my job moving overseas too. It's especially horrible that I had to speak to non-native english speakers. It's like they don't even give the people classes in english, let alone the technology they're supporting.
I wonder if the extra time people spend miscommunicating because of this costs more than the savings of exporting our jobs. Hell, I agree that Americans (myself included) are a dumb lot and other people might know their tech better. I think that the time saved in calls and describing stuff and shipping of wrong items would far outweigh the job financial savings for giant mega corp though.
I like the challenge of creating a new non-sig everytime, so there!
OK, I'll bite at this. Even though it's obviously a troll.
It's funny/ironic that you're bitching about noise on slashdot in a post like the one you just made.
Maybe I should've put in a 6th category for my post...
6) All the tools who bitch about slashdot's irrelevance and the incessant bitching about poor moderation.
If you care about your karma enough to be reading this far into my non-sig just so you can repl-..
Oh well.
The top 5 questions/posts from slashdotters:
1) Is it open source, I didn't RtFA?
2) Why isn't it open source?
3) Will they release it for Linux on the ppc?
4) What does this have to do with SCO?
5) Apple is dead and these are flawed stats flamewar.
I'm too lazy to come up with a sig that is good enough to be the same everytime, so you can just read this instead. You can try and rid your braincells of this text, but it's pretty much stuck there now.
That's like asking "Who would bother strapping their company into an operating system/development envronment that cost nothing to develop?"
Seems those people are smart according to slashdotters.
Stoopid non-sigs, gotta read 'em!
This is a duplicate storyfrom a looonnnng time ago. May 31 as a matter of fact. This means something considering the amount brain cells I kill with liquor everyday.
Seems to me that this is moronic. A window manager to me is like the style settings in windows. You can choose single or double click, the style of windows borders, the format of text.
What should be standardized is the interface between window managers and the X servers.
What I'm worried about is all the backdoor forx of X, directfb, and xouvair (or whatever it's called).
People should have the choice of lots of different window managers. It's the reason I moved to Linux years ago. I don't see a reason to change that. I do see a reason to make sure that the X servers are:
a) Not forked
b) Guaranteed compatible with window managers
I personally think all window managers should be created without toolkits/bloatware libraries. eg. -gtk, or qt. I like simple window managers that can be compiled without downloading and compiling crap bloatware.
My personal favorite window manager is fvwm. If people want a choice of WM's, give them the choice. If people want to standardize, let them use RedHat Bluecurve GUI or Lindows I guess. Anything other than Win2k is a better choice for me.
It gets harder and harder to create a custom sig without using the sig field everytime.
I have decided to move to the not so popular .ogg format. Will this throw off the RIAA? I'm curious just how tech savvy these chumps are.
First, if the files are different in any way at all, wouldn't it give a completely different hash? Let alone a different format. What about encoding at a different bit rate?
Second, does the RIAA know about the ogg format? If everyone moves over, how long will it take before they notice?
Third, wouldn't it be better to use an audio fingerprinting scheme like musicbrainz uses to tag your files? It's similar to hashing but uses the actual audio qualities in the file.
Seems the RIAA is not only about 20 years behind in their business model, but they are about 20 years behind in technology.
My issue with the RIAA is, why can't they just say to the courts "This guy is downloading music confiscate his computer." There are no watchdog groups to make sure these guys are actually verifying that someone has the copyrighted information.
Can you imagine the bandwith costs the RIAA have just to download the number of files they do. Just so they can check the hashes on each file? Verifying the legality of files must be extraordinarily costly. Wouldn't it be great to start flooding their network with their own fake files just to WASTE (link pun intended) the RIAA's bandwith and time downloading the junk they disseminate?
Sorry, the sig field is temporarily out of order, you will have to read whatever I write here.
Now I'm praying for mecha-Jurassic park. Maybe the robots will go crazy, and eat a lawyer. Just like the movie yeah! Ohhh, and they could go crazy and kill lots more people and Disney-World/Land would get nuked.
Maybe then lawyers will band together and shutdown that poor excuse for entertainment. I mean come on, what has Disney done lately? Other than appeal to the widest deomgraphic with crap entertainment to get your money. Just so they can lobby congress to extend their copyrights on what was once good media and is now only exploited for more money...
Another useless rant by some guy who obviously never got to go to Disney theme parks because his parents didn't want to be 'bilked' of their savings.
I'm too lazy to use a sig field so you'll have to read this I guess.
I posted this as a news story yesterday. It was rejected.
Anyway,
Here's a nice article about SIRTF that I found to be pretty cool.
Now now, I'm not an idiot American. I know that the last letter in RIAA seems to stand for America, the last A in MPAA stands for America as well, and the DMCA is American law.
As for forgiveness, you may as well be forgiven for forgetting about Dmitry Sklyarov (Russian Programmer arrested for DMCA violations). You may also be forgiven for forgetting about the arrest of the DECSS creator in Norway. These arrests were certainly done because of pressure from Americans.
The US and Brits are probably very close in the legal bedroom. Closer than Norway and Russia, at least. I can easily see the RIAA system trying to twist the arm of the justice system to crack down on a company that does a lot of Business in the US, and has a center of North American operations.
Here's a quote about just the BBCtechnology division.
"The company employs around 1400 people at locations in London and Maidenhead in the UK and San Francisco, New York, and Atlanta in the US."
So though the Performaing Rights Society might specialiZe in spearheading British Copyright issues. What the RIAA thinks is most definitely relevant.
Stupid rant, time to create another sig outside of the sig field so you must read it in all its horrible glory...BWAhahahahaha!
This sounds like it opens the door for e-pass to sue Apple for the Newton. The Newton was obviously a precursor/prior art for the Palm. Granted, if it says any storage medium that's larger than a credit card, maybe they could sue laptop makers.
They could be like the company in the Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy that sends the guide back in time to win a copyright infringement suit off the prior art/info they copied to create the guide.
Well, with a name like e-pass(e). Could you expect the patent office to not award them this crap patent. They hopefully will become passe.
Enough ranting, time to manually craft a new sig outside of the sig field so you all have to read it...BWAhahahahaA!
If the BBC releases their Radio Archive, they might be distributing great artist live performances like Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. I know that theses performances have been released on CD by major record labels.
Will the RIAA go after the BBC for distributing their own recordings of someone else's material? Will they have to get permission from every artist they want to feature in their archive?
If an artist knows I am recording their performance and chooses to perform anyway, do they own the rights to distribution or do I?
I know they are dumb questions, but the mechanics of the ownership seem really confusing to me in an archive or library format.
Have they reconstructed Otzi the warrior's face yet. Any pictures?
Cool technology though. I wonder if they could extrapolate to the skeleton maybe by scraping the bones or looking at dna to get a body fat percentage and then get a full body view.
I wonder DNA analysis could yield body hair, musculature, and other specifics to find a full body picture. Imagine, we might get to see computer generated pr0n of our ancient ancestors. How hot would that be?
No offense, and not to bag on the Samba guys but...
Doesn't the creation of Linux tools for interfacing with Windows just further validate a needlessly Microsoftian System?
I've already gone 100% Linux on any networks I can. Isn't NFS good enough? If a Windows user wants access to my network, I'll gladly help them install Linux. If a Linux user wants access to a Windows share, they can install a samba client for themselves. I should have nothing to do with Active Directory, because I hate it.
Congrats to the Samba guys, for a great achievement though...
-Everybody knows Custer died at Little Big Horn, what this book presupposes is...maybe he didn't -Eli (The Royal Tenenbaums)