This matches my experience with them. They seem to go out of their way to be uncontactable and unhelpful. Even something as straightforward as changing the designated administrative or technical contact for a given domain is a nuisance, requiring multiple faxes on company letterheads to be sent, signatures from all concerned parties, and all sorts of other hurdles designed to make the process as intimidating and daunting as possible. I believe they also hiked up renewal and registration charges mid-2003 by some extravagant amount, making them more expensive than essentially any other local registrar and in exchange for an arguably inferior service.
Fortunately, there are many other Australian registrar choices now that the DNS business has been revamped and restructured under auDA. As MelbourneIT becomes more irrelevant and unused with each passing day I look forward with great anticipation to toasting their eventual demise.
I would have no objections to this process if 'false positive' automated DMCA notices resulted in perjury convictions and prison sentences against staff, managers, executives and shareholders of BayTSP.
Its this kind of legal crap-flooding that the perjury clause of the DMCA is designed to prevent. Despite this measure, I'm not aware of a single successful perjury conviction against the self-appointed 'copyright enforcers' though there have been many documented cases of false or fraudulent DMCA notices.
Perhaps if they themselves are going to violate this specific provision of the DMCA while claiming the legal and moral high-ground, then there is no legal or moral basis for any party to comply with the DMCA.
I am utterly certain this will be _the_ decisive blow in the great saga of MPAA/RIAA vs P2P. The P2P companies have nothing but the utmost respect for all Intellectual Property, Copyright in particular. I'm sure they revere and respect Patents equally and will hasten to ensure that they are free of all infringement immediately.
Thats sounds like something Rumsfeld might say after hes bombed another wedding. I mean, if the guidance systems are as accurate as he indicates, does that mean the bombing/crash landing was deliberate and intentional?
Perhaps this is the chinese govts creative way of dealing with the termite problems of their citizens.
This version of windows by itself is fairly bare and useless, its not really suitable for the end-user. Its more of a kernel with a collection of drivers and resource ( memory, disk, ports, etc ) managers than a complete system
To get a complete system.. something truly worthy of the 'operating system' designation, other components need to be installed. With additional software from the GNU project installed, such as the emacs editor ( usually regarded as a complete operating system itself ) and the coreutils system utility bundle, it will then be a complete system.
This combination of the GNU system and the Windows kernel should be referred to as GNU/Windows, as GNU is the system whereas Windows is merely the kernel - an essential but small part of the whole environment.
Its pretty sad that these sorts of abuses of power are tolerated when not long ago they would have resulted in pubic outrage and calls for lynching. When American Democracy seems as broken as the electoral process in a corrupt, 3rd-world dictatorship full of racists, thugs and general scum ( and the people that suffer under their tyranny ), you have to wonder where the world is headed...
My XP2000+ clocked at 1.667 GHz is sitting at 27 degrees Celcius right now, after being running for about 50 minutes. I cant believe your CPU is running so hot, even if it isnt kernel-panic unstable now, it will be after a few months of running at that temperature, the whole silicon substrate basically degrades and its operational stability will get worse and worse.
If you are running Linux try using a power saving utility like Athcool, or LVCool if you are running Windows. The theory and downloads are here, it activates the native power saving mode of the Athlon/Chipset pair. It works great with my via KT266A board, the temp without it idles at about 39C, over a 10 degree difference. When busy compiling or encoding things heat up quickly, but no more so than it would with the power-saving mode completely disabled. Check your heatsink contact too, it does not sound like its making a good deal of contact with the die.
There are unofficial ISO complilations of OpenBSD available is you want to search around for a bit. Or you could buy the official 3 CD pack and support the project that way.
I think the easiest way to do an installation ( I ran 3.5 up on an old p-166 this evening ) is to download the arch-specific install files ( ie everything under/i386 for run of the mill x86 cpus ), and set them up on a local web or ftp server. 'dd' the boot floppy image to a spare disk ( floppy35.fs will suit 90% of cases ), boot up with this on the system, and simply follow the prompts for the ftp/http install. Or you could simply do a ftp install from a local OpenBSD mirror across the internet.
The Errata page should be checked regularly too. Unlike the 3.4 release that had a number of bugfixes that needed to be applied as soon as it was officially released, 3.5 has no need for further patching at this point in time.
Having Darls head shot off to the moon wouldnt stop him from making those wonderfully concise and factual speeches he gives from time to time. We all know he utilises an orifice other than the mouth for these oh-so helpful 'open letters' and patriotic sermons.
Let companies have the rights the constitution entitles them
So what rights would these be, pray tell? The constitution grants _no_ rights, not a damn thing to companies or coorporations. Not one teensy tiny right to speak of.
What it does do is secure for authors the exclusive right to copy their works for limited times, to promote science and the arts, yadda yadda yadda. Most importantly, its an _obligation_ on authors as much as it is protection for them. If they arent living up to their end of the 'copyright bargain', that is, if their works are NOT entering public domain after 'a limited time', then they themselves are in violation of copyright law.
Every copy-protected CD, every encrypted DVD or ebook, every 'copyright protected' console or media player sold - all of these essentially render the copyright deal null and void concerning the specific product.
If they dont follow the law themselves, expecting to 'have their cake and eat it too' is a little bit far fetched, wouldnt you say?
Am I the only one visualising this thing gaining sentience through a errant electrical storm, and then deciding to crash through the walls of a certain Lindon, Utah compound? Its well known that all artificial creatures invariably turn to evil and decide to kill their creators, ala Frankenstein.
I'm guessing someone has already pointed this out, but Gentoo indeed has a live CD. This can be found ( using 1.4 as an example, as 2004.0 images have yet to fully propagate ) at
Gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/
at your friendly local Gentoo mirror. Among other things, these can be used to boot up a system to perform the beginning steps of a Gentoo install. It is a fully functional livecd that can be used for anything else you might care to think of as well.. network troubleshooting, rescuing files from corrupted ntfs partitions, or whatever else floats your boat.
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Obviously the smart thing to do here would be to fork the project from its most recent viable-licensed release, re-license it under the GPL ( something permitted by the BSD license, presumably the MIT-XConsortium license permits something similar ), and build from that as a starting point.
You might recall when the commercial SSH folks started to add OSS-incompatible clauses to their license, the project was forked and became OpenSSH under the strict provisions of the vanilla BSD license. Now, OpenSSH has buried the commercial SSH variant, and is shipped with many of the modern *nix variants.
There is no reason why the same cant happen with XFree86 - the project will be probably be stronger after the fork than it has ever been, going by historical precedent.
It would make a decent introduction to Gravity and the concepts of acceleration, velocity, mass, kinetic energy, and so on if said Apple IIc's were dropped from the top of the tallest building in school:)
Never underestimate the value of blowing things up in spectacular fashion to the learning process!
I find it amusing, and perhaps a bit scary that the government often resorts to the same sort of deceptive measures as criminal types. Take attaching the Patriot Act II to a harmless looking bill as an example. A more direct approach had failed miserably, so trojan-like, they tried to sneak it in via other means. The parallels between this, and virus, malware and spyware authors attaching malicious code to an otherwise harmless or useful looking tool is amazing.
You would think that if Congress were genuine in the belief that these acts were designed to help their constituents, there would be no need for this kind of cloak-and-dagger tomfoolery. The only logical conclusion is that their actions are motivated by malice, greed, corruption, treachery and general wickedness, just like the criminal types whose actions mirror their own.
Ok, heres one solitary example, out of possibly hundreds of cases of where SCO or its employees have publically broken the law.
They state the GNU General Public License is invalid ( and unconstitutional, but thats a whole 'nother kettle of fish ). Thats fine, their opinion of the GPL is not relevant or legal/illegal. The real catch is though, that they have declared they will not abide by the GPL. In most circumstances, this is also fine - Unlike the Microsoft EULAs, and virtually every other commercial Software License in existance, you do not need to abide by the GPL to use the software licensed under the GPL. What a great bunch those FSF chaps are eh?
What will be the bullet between the eyes of Darl McBride and his company though, is that they continue to distribute GPL code. This is copyright infringement, software piracy, and is a criminal offense. It also makes a mockery of Darls claim that his company respects intellectual property. The DMCA increases the penalties against SCO for this illegal act - their websites, ftpsites, and so on can be shut down by any single contributor to the GPL software they are distributing, in the same way that the MPAA/RIAA can shut down sites that distributes their copyrighted material without authorisation.
Had SCO agreed to the GPL, this would not be an offense, as the GPL explicitly permits this act. Unfortunately for SCO, this is not the case.
I am quite surprised that SCO has not yet received a raid from law enforcement authorities. If I decided to distribute Win2003 Server ISOs because I declare that the MS EULA is nonsense ( and throw in some unsubstantiated 'I own all Microsoft software' claims to boot, ala SCO with the Linux kernel ), then I would certainly be on the receiving end of a criminal sentence.
The house of cards that Darl has built up over the last few months is not going to last forever, and once the general public is aware of the magnitude of the fraud that has been perpetrated against them ( absurd press conferences and news releases designed to deceive potential investors in SCOX stock ), people _will_ be sent to jail, make no mistake.
As mentioned by earlier posts in this thread, the packet-writing feature in the kernel package seems to be the culprit.
Looking at the listed errata for Mandrake Linux 9.2 here, there does not seem to be a specific fix for this issue. However the Bug Advisory:
MDKA-2003:020 - Updated packages fix various bugs in Mandrake Linux 9.2
found here lists a kernel update, the new package name and version is kernel-2.4.22.18mdk-1-1mdk. Presumably this corrects the bug or disables the specific kernel patch that is suspected of causing the problem. Unfortunately, the descripion of the fixes within the kernel update does not refer specifically to the LG issue, or any general cdrom issue for that matter, perhaps a fix for this is still pending.
Its the oddest thing.. if any individual put up a website that supposedly sells Windows or Adobe software licenses ( or licenses to any other software that they dont own the copyright to, just as SCO are doing with Linux ), and if that person sent threatening letters to not just companies, but Microsoft/Adobe employees, then said individual would be arrested fairly promptly.
Now that SCO have trumpeted their fraud to the world at large in a very public and high profile way, I think this harms rather than helps their cause. Profiting from copyright infringement is a far more serious offense than merely distributing material free of charge or obligation. I think Darl is digging himself and SCO into one hell of a deep dark hole, how long can he maintain the charade of legitimacy? You can be damn sure that IBM have taken careful note of the half-baked drivel that he has been spewing recently, those statements will came back to haunt him with a vengence during the trial.
I'm sure someone has probably mentioned this already somewhere, but the Sony PS2 uses MIPS processors, a pair of them IIRC. One to drive the graphics subsystem exclusively (R4000?), and one as the general purpose system processor (R10000?). I'd consider the PS2 to be a fairly widespread device, and as Linux kits are selling out as fast as they hit the shelves, I wouldnt consider Linux/MIPS, nor MIPS as a platform to be considered dead:>
Also, I believe the R14000 and R16000 series MIPS cpus are still in development, handy when MIPS Inc. is just an IP company and doesnt need to kit out expensive fab plants to do their particular magic..
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This matches my experience with them. They seem to go out of their way to be uncontactable and unhelpful. Even something as straightforward as changing the designated administrative or technical contact for a given domain is a nuisance, requiring multiple faxes on company letterheads to be sent, signatures from all concerned parties, and all sorts of other hurdles designed to make the process as intimidating and daunting as possible. I believe they also hiked up renewal and registration charges mid-2003 by some extravagant amount, making them more expensive than essentially any other local registrar and in exchange for an arguably inferior service.
Fortunately, there are many other Australian registrar choices now that the DNS business has been revamped and restructured under auDA. As MelbourneIT becomes more irrelevant and unused with each passing day I look forward with great anticipation to toasting their eventual demise.
I would have no objections to this process if 'false positive' automated DMCA notices resulted in perjury convictions and prison sentences against staff, managers, executives and shareholders of BayTSP.
Its this kind of legal crap-flooding that the perjury clause of the DMCA is designed to prevent. Despite this measure, I'm not aware of a single successful perjury conviction against the self-appointed 'copyright enforcers' though there have been many documented cases of false or fraudulent DMCA notices.
Perhaps if they themselves are going to violate this specific provision of the DMCA while claiming the legal and moral high-ground, then there is no legal or moral basis for any party to comply with the DMCA.
I am utterly certain this will be _the_ decisive blow in the great saga of MPAA/RIAA vs P2P. The P2P companies have nothing but the utmost respect for all Intellectual Property, Copyright in particular. I'm sure they revere and respect Patents equally and will hasten to ensure that they are free of all infringement immediately.
Thats sounds like something Rumsfeld might say after hes bombed another wedding. I mean, if the guidance systems are as accurate as he indicates, does that mean the bombing/crash landing was deliberate and intentional?
Perhaps this is the chinese govts creative way of dealing with the termite problems of their citizens.
This version of windows by itself is fairly bare and useless, its not really suitable for the end-user. Its more of a kernel with a collection of drivers and resource ( memory, disk, ports, etc ) managers than a complete system
To get a complete system.. something truly worthy of the 'operating system' designation, other components need to be installed. With additional software from the GNU project installed, such as the emacs editor ( usually regarded as a complete operating system itself ) and the coreutils system utility bundle, it will then be a complete system.
This combination of the GNU system and the Windows kernel should be referred to as GNU/Windows, as GNU is the system whereas Windows is merely the kernel - an essential but small part of the whole environment.
Its pretty sad that these sorts of abuses of power are tolerated when not long ago they would have resulted in pubic outrage and calls for lynching. When American Democracy seems as broken
as the electoral process in a corrupt, 3rd-world dictatorship full of racists, thugs and general scum ( and the people that suffer under their tyranny ), you have to wonder where the world is headed...
My XP2000+ clocked at 1.667 GHz is sitting at 27 degrees Celcius right now, after being running for about 50 minutes. I cant believe your CPU is running so hot, even if it isnt kernel-panic unstable now, it will be after a few months of running at that temperature, the whole silicon substrate basically degrades and its operational stability will get worse and worse.
If you are running Linux try using a power saving utility like Athcool, or LVCool if you are running Windows. The theory and downloads are here, it activates the native power saving mode of the Athlon/Chipset pair. It works great with my via KT266A board, the temp without it idles at about 39C, over a 10 degree difference. When busy compiling or encoding things heat up quickly, but no more so than it would with the power-saving mode completely disabled. Check your heatsink contact too, it does not sound like its making a good deal of contact with the die.
There are unofficial ISO complilations of OpenBSD available is you want to search around for a bit. Or you could buy the official 3 CD pack and support the project that way.
/i386 for run of the mill x86 cpus ), and set them up on a local web or ftp server. 'dd' the boot floppy image to a spare disk ( floppy35.fs will suit 90% of cases ), boot up with this on the system, and simply follow the prompts for the ftp/http install. Or you could simply do a ftp install from a local OpenBSD mirror across the internet.
I think the easiest way to do an installation ( I ran 3.5 up on an old p-166 this evening ) is to download the arch-specific install files ( ie everything under
For detailed info on the install, see the FAQ.
The Errata page should be checked regularly too. Unlike the 3.4 release that had a number of bugfixes that needed to be applied as soon as it was officially released, 3.5 has no need for further patching at this point in time.
Having Darls head shot off to the moon wouldnt stop him from making those wonderfully concise and factual speeches he gives from time to time. We all know he utilises an orifice other than the mouth for these oh-so helpful 'open letters' and patriotic sermons.
Let companies have the rights the constitution entitles them
So what rights would these be, pray tell? The constitution grants _no_ rights, not a damn thing to companies or coorporations. Not one teensy tiny right to speak of.
What it does do is secure for authors the exclusive right to copy their works for limited times, to promote science and the arts, yadda yadda yadda. Most importantly, its an _obligation_ on authors as much as it is protection for them. If they arent living up to their end of the 'copyright bargain', that is, if their works are NOT entering public domain after 'a limited time', then they themselves are in violation of copyright law.
Every copy-protected CD, every encrypted DVD or ebook, every 'copyright protected' console or media player sold - all of these essentially render the copyright deal null and void concerning the specific product.
If they dont follow the law themselves, expecting to 'have their cake and eat it too' is a little bit far fetched, wouldnt you say?
Having people all over the world running software that put millions of dollars in my bank account?
I can honestly say that I would heartily welcome such a delightful scenario.
Am I the only one visualising this thing gaining sentience through a errant electrical storm, and then deciding to crash through the walls of a certain Lindon, Utah compound? Its well known that all artificial creatures invariably turn to evil and decide to kill their creators, ala Frankenstein.
Pleasant dreams Darl!
I'm guessing someone has already pointed this out, but Gentoo indeed has a live CD. This can be found ( using 1.4 as an example, as 2004.0 images have yet to fully propagate ) at
Gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/
at your friendly local Gentoo mirror. Among other things, these can be used to boot up a system to perform the beginning steps of a Gentoo install. It is a fully functional livecd that can be used for anything else you might care to think of as well.. network troubleshooting, rescuing files from corrupted ntfs partitions, or whatever else floats your boat.
Obviously the smart thing to do here would be to fork the project from its most recent viable-licensed release, re-license it under the GPL ( something permitted by the BSD license, presumably the MIT-XConsortium license permits something similar ), and build from that as a starting point.
You might recall when the commercial SSH folks started to add OSS-incompatible clauses to their license, the project was forked and became OpenSSH under the strict provisions of the vanilla BSD license. Now, OpenSSH has buried the commercial SSH variant, and is shipped with many of the modern *nix variants.
There is no reason why the same cant happen with XFree86 - the project will be probably be stronger after the fork than it has ever been, going by historical precedent.
It would make a decent introduction to Gravity and the concepts of acceleration, velocity, mass, kinetic energy, and so on if said Apple IIc's were dropped from the top of the tallest building in school :)
Never underestimate the value of blowing things up in spectacular fashion to the learning process!
I find it amusing, and perhaps a bit scary that the government often resorts to the same sort of deceptive measures as criminal types. Take attaching the Patriot Act II to a harmless looking bill as an example. A more direct approach had failed miserably, so trojan-like, they tried to sneak it in via other means. The parallels between this, and virus, malware and spyware authors attaching malicious code to an otherwise harmless or useful looking tool is amazing.
You would think that if Congress were genuine in the belief that these acts were designed to help their constituents, there would be no need for this kind of cloak-and-dagger tomfoolery. The only logical conclusion is that their actions are motivated by malice, greed, corruption, treachery and general wickedness, just like the criminal types whose actions mirror their own.
Ok, heres one solitary example, out of possibly hundreds of cases of where SCO or its employees have publically broken the law.
They state the GNU General Public License is invalid ( and unconstitutional, but thats a whole 'nother kettle of fish ). Thats fine, their opinion of the GPL is not relevant or legal/illegal. The real catch is though, that they have declared they will not abide by the GPL. In most circumstances, this is also fine - Unlike the Microsoft EULAs, and virtually every other commercial Software License in existance, you do not need to abide by the GPL to use the software licensed under the GPL. What a great bunch those FSF chaps are eh?
What will be the bullet between the eyes of Darl McBride and his company though, is that they continue to distribute GPL code. This is copyright infringement, software piracy, and is a criminal offense. It also makes a mockery of Darls claim that his company respects intellectual property. The DMCA increases the penalties against SCO for this illegal act - their websites, ftpsites, and so on can be shut down by any single contributor to the GPL software they are distributing, in the same way that the MPAA/RIAA can shut down sites that distributes their copyrighted material without authorisation.
Had SCO agreed to the GPL, this would not be an offense, as the GPL explicitly permits this act. Unfortunately for SCO, this is not the case.
I am quite surprised that SCO has not yet received a raid from law enforcement authorities. If I decided to distribute Win2003 Server ISOs because I declare that the MS EULA is nonsense ( and throw in some unsubstantiated 'I own all Microsoft software' claims to boot, ala SCO with the Linux kernel ), then I would certainly be on the receiving end of a criminal sentence.
The house of cards that Darl has built up over the last few months is not going to last forever, and once the general public is aware of the magnitude of the fraud that has been perpetrated against them ( absurd press conferences and news releases designed to deceive potential investors in SCOX stock ), people _will_ be sent to jail, make no mistake.
As mentioned by earlier posts in this thread, the packet-writing feature in the kernel package seems to be the culprit.
Looking at the listed errata for Mandrake Linux 9.2 here, there does not seem to be a specific fix for this issue. However the Bug Advisory:
MDKA-2003:020 - Updated packages fix various bugs in Mandrake Linux 9.2
found here lists a kernel update, the new package name and version is kernel-2.4.22.18mdk-1-1mdk. Presumably this corrects the bug or disables the specific kernel patch that is suspected of causing the problem. Unfortunately, the descripion of the fixes within the kernel update does not refer specifically to the LG issue, or any general cdrom issue for that matter, perhaps a fix for this is still pending.
Its the oddest thing.. if any individual put up a website that supposedly sells Windows or Adobe software licenses ( or licenses to any other software that they dont own the copyright to, just as SCO are doing with Linux ), and if that person sent threatening letters to not just companies, but Microsoft/Adobe employees, then said individual would be arrested fairly promptly.
Now that SCO have trumpeted their fraud to the world at large in a very public and high profile way, I think this harms rather than helps their cause. Profiting from copyright infringement is a far more serious offense than merely distributing material free of charge or obligation. I think Darl is digging himself and SCO into one hell of a deep dark hole, how long can he maintain the charade of legitimacy? You can be damn sure that IBM have taken careful note of the half-baked drivel that he has been spewing recently, those statements will came back to haunt him with a vengence during the trial.
Thats odd, I could have sworn you just said 'respected corporate law firms'.
I guess it must be a glitch in the Matrix.
I'm sure someone has probably mentioned this already somewhere, but the Sony PS2 uses MIPS processors, a pair of them IIRC. One to drive the graphics subsystem exclusively (R4000?), and one as the general purpose system processor (R10000?). I'd consider the PS2 to be a fairly widespread device, and as Linux kits are selling out as fast as they hit the shelves, I wouldnt consider Linux/MIPS, nor MIPS as a platform to be considered dead :>
Also, I believe the R14000 and R16000 series MIPS cpus are still in development, handy when MIPS Inc. is just an IP company and doesnt need to kit out expensive fab plants to do their particular magic..