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Per this c|net story, pretty much all of the major distro's are gearing up for beta releases of new versions so they will be ready when the 2.4 kernel goes final.
Caldera will even be selling their beta as a $20 'Linux 2.4 Technology Developer Release Preview'. If find this humorous, in that not only would you be paying to run beta software, you'd be paying to run beta open source software. But they will rebate the purchase price back to you, so your really just paying shipping. (or you can just download it).
Actually, a more approriate display technology to take advantage of these would be projection video. If set up a 1600 x 1200 array these behind a projecting lense, you should be able to create virtually any size 1600x1200 monitor just by projecting it onto a white surface.
You could use this for computing or hi-res TV, or perhaps even for projecting digital movies at theatres (an even higher resolution may be required for that).
Irridium Satellites to be 'Deorbited' after all
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AP is reporting that Castle Harlan has determined that even at the 99% off price of $50M, the Iridium system is just not economical. They have therefore withdrawn their purchase offer. Motorola plans to petition the bankruptcy court next week to begin 'deorbiting' the 66+ communications satellites that make up the Iridium network.
Looks like we will be getting some late fireworks this year, I recommend they plan the deorbiting to coincide with the beginning of the millenium.
It seems a lot of the questions so far could be answered by reading a 1996 PBS interview with Cringely on the PBS website.
For example, there are several people who want to know what the X stands for. His answer from the 1996 interview was: "X stands for Xavier, my mother's maiden name."
They believe that the people who have just boycotted them were pirating all their music anyway.
In fact, the boycott itself may provide just the sort of evidence the RIAA wants to use in court. They were already citing a drop in CD sales in College areas, this will just increase that effect.
Maybe a solution is to only buy used CDs. This will demonstrate that there is a market for CD's but that we have no interest in giving RIAA any additional money. Of course, they may attribute the spike in used CD sales to people selling the CD's they have already ripped.
In a related note, Cisco has just announced they have bought a small optical networking start-up in Boston, MA area for $3.1415926M. . . .
But seriously, is anyone else concerned that Cisco seems to be buying up any company with any relation at all to networking? I think within a very short time the Justice Department is going to have to step in to ensure they don't become the MS of the network hardware world.
I don't really believe in spamming for charity, but since this IS the THIRD SETI posting in a just a couple days, I thought it would be appropriate to post this. (so please don't moderate this down)
There is a banner supported charity site that includes SETI@Home as one of its charities. They make a small donation for viewing ads, and a larger donation for clicking on them.
Click HERE to donate. SETI has already made at least $200 through this program.
Also, anyone interested in joining a SETI team, please see my user profile.
Yeah, I noticed this too. But that seems to be their regular policy and not due to some fear of an injunction against linking to site that in turn links to DeCSS.
See this article on Microsoft's latest appeal in their antitrust case for an example. The URL for MS' actual press release hasn't been made a link either, however, there are links provided to more information on the NYTimes site itself. I think it is more an IP issue in that they don't want to link to sites without first obtaining permission from the site's owners.
Cases are always heard by the court that has juridiction, so if it is a Federal case, it is heard in Federal court.
The Apellate courts aren't 'higher' per se, they serve a different role. They ensure the proper operation of the trial courts by ruling on whether or not proper court procedures were followed during the trial.
A quick example of this is the MS antitrust trial. Though it will definately go to either the Circuit Court of Appeals and/or the US Supreme Court, those courts will not re-try the case. They will review the testimony and evidence from the original trial and make a determination as to whether the law was properly applied given those facts.
If you had read the Variety article you would have seen that FOX has committed to a January 2001 launch for TLG. The article mentions that Carter is thinking of moving TLG into X's slot Sundays at 9, but FOX wants to put it on Thursdays to start.
At least the one they planned to use. Instead they are going back to the drawing board to come up with a watermarking technique that really is 'transparent' to someone listening to an authentic DVD-Audio disc.
Their are violent, but in the Voyager episode where they go to the model Federation base setup by 8472 to train infiltrators (ala the Soviet's 'America Towns' used to train sleepers) Janeway came to an agreement with the 8472 leader that as long as the Federation made no attempt to enter 8472's realm, there would be a truce between the species. The fact that they were defending themselves against the Borg, hardly makes 8472 evil.
Back in April, MandrakeSoft issued a press release saying that they had the most downloaded ISO distribution from TUCOWS. They referenced what was aparently a regular download stats page on TUCOWS http://linux.tucows.com/hotlist.html that the reader would assume is updated on a monthly basis. However, TUCOWS has never updated this page. To me that indicates they created the page at Mandrake's request, or perhaps to court ad revenue from Mandrake.
If TUCOWS is truly unbiased, then they should either archive this page, and/or update it with the most current download statistics.
Also (and I apoligize if this was already addressed in one of the other SlashDot threads on this topic, this is the first I've read) Mandrake is distributed by MacMillan, and this may be a much more common practice in the book publishing industry. There are so many books published each year, that it is unusual to find reviews indicating a particular book is flawed. Except for works by authors who have previously had top ten bestsellers, it seems flawed books typically don't get reviewed. MacMillan may have assumed that if a review was going to be published it would be primarily complementary.
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The real solution is the reponsibility of the web browser designers--pages that have refresh meta tags should not be part of the browser's history, unless user-enabled.
The GO family of sites appear to be implement this properly. Try www.disney.com for example.
Philips is currently beta testing its new Expanium portable CD player that plays regular audio CDs in adition to CDRs and CD-RWs of MP3 files.
(I'm going to regret saying this here since it will decrease my chances of being selected, but...) Until July 17th, you can sign up to be one of 50 members of the general public to get a beta version of the player by going to their website.
Could this mean that you could void the GPL after the initial sale in Germany?
If I've gotten a CD (say in the back of O'Reilly's Apache book) can I now sell that CD for more than the cost of the media? Isn't that just another form of unbundling?
I didn't realize that the pits in the CDs were that deep. I had assumed it would be possible since they do make double sided DVDs, but of course that is a different spec.
Like many others I think this new disk is irrelevant. For 1.3G they could just produce a double sided CD which would be backward compatible with every current device, provided you are will to flip the disk over. Also, I think the failure of 2 and 3 disk CD-ROM drives has shown that merely doubling the capacity isn't sufficient to get people to scrap their old hardware.
Regarding firmware upgrades, I know a lot of people that bought cheap Smart & Friendly CD-RW drives. Since Smart & Friendly is now out of business, I assume I will be out of luck when it comes to firmware upgrades.
Regarding alternative products, I thnk for recordable media, the recordable DVD formats have a significant headstart, so I think one of these (or a hybrid standard) will eventually win out.
As for pre-recorded media, in addition to DVD, there is a lot of work going on with flourescent disk layering (FMD), including Constellation 3D's 50G disks which are supposed to be available (at least for high-end uses) by the end of the year.
Actually, per N etcraft they're running just about every OS you can name on at least one of their 456 publicly accessible webservers. A quick check of a few of them showed NT, Solaris, IRIX, and Linux.
When you put the sheer number of webservers they are running in perspective with 500k cyberattacks in a year, it means they are only getting about 3 attacks per day per webserver.
With all the possible points of entry, and inconsistent OS usage, I don't think it's surprising that a few backdoors were found.
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Per this c|net story, pretty much all of the major distro's are gearing up for beta releases of new versions so they will be ready when the 2.4 kernel goes final.
Caldera will even be selling their beta as a $20 'Linux 2.4 Technology Developer Release Preview'. If find this humorous, in that not only would you be paying to run beta software, you'd be paying to run beta open source software. But they will rebate the purchase price back to you, so your really just paying shipping. (or you can just download it).
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Actually, a more approriate display technology to take advantage of these would be projection video. If set up a 1600 x 1200 array these behind a projecting lense, you should be able to create virtually any size 1600x1200 monitor just by projecting it onto a white surface.
You could use this for computing or hi-res TV, or perhaps even for projecting digital movies at theatres (an even higher resolution may be required for that).
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Looks like we will be getting some late fireworks this year, I recommend they plan the deorbiting to coincide with the beginning of the millenium.
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It seems a lot of the questions so far could be answered by reading a 1996 PBS interview with Cringely on the PBS website.
For example, there are several people who want to know what the X stands for. His answer from the 1996 interview was: "X stands for Xavier, my mother's maiden name."
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to whom does the NSA answer?
The NSA, like every agency in the Executive Branch, answers to the President, and to one or more oversight committees in Congress.
In this case, the NSA's oversight committees are The Senate Select Committee On Intelligence and the House Committee on National Security.
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They believe that the people who have just boycotted them were pirating all their music anyway.
In fact, the boycott itself may provide just the sort of evidence the RIAA wants to use in court. They were already citing a drop in CD sales in College areas, this will just increase that effect.
Maybe a solution is to only buy used CDs. This will demonstrate that there is a market for CD's but that we have no interest in giving RIAA any additional money. Of course, they may attribute the spike in used CD sales to people selling the CD's they have already ripped.
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In a related note, Cisco has just announced they have bought a small optical networking start-up in Boston, MA area for $3.1415926M. . . .
But seriously, is anyone else concerned that Cisco seems to be buying up any company with any relation at all to networking? I think within a very short time the Justice Department is going to have to step in to ensure they don't become the MS of the network hardware world.
I don't really believe in spamming for charity, but since this IS the THIRD SETI posting in a just a couple days, I thought it would be appropriate to post this. (so please don't moderate this down)
There is a banner supported charity site that includes SETI@Home as one of its charities. They make a small donation for viewing ads, and a larger donation for clicking on them.
Click HERE to donate. SETI has already made at least $200 through this program.
Also, anyone interested in joining a SETI team, please see my user profile.
Yeah, I noticed this too. But that seems to be their regular policy and not due to some fear of an injunction against linking to site that in turn links to DeCSS.
See this article on Microsoft's latest appeal in their antitrust case for an example. The URL for MS' actual press release hasn't been made a link either, however, there are links provided to more information on the NYTimes site itself. I think it is more an IP issue in that they don't want to link to sites without first obtaining permission from the site's owners.
These machines are used by anyone who has a whole lot of budget and some serious number crunching to do
Big entertainment companies seem to be at the front of the line for the new systems. Here are some SGI press releases:
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) Selects SGI Origin 3000 Series As Broadband Server for Next Generation Entertainment Demonstration
SGI Is Preferred Provider of Content Creation Workstations and Servers For Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)
Pixar Selects Silicon Graphics Octane2 High-Performance Visual Workstations As Production Platform
So you can expect Star Wars Episode 2, and Toy Story 3, to harness the power of these babies.
I watch their sitcoms all of the time on my TV
Yeah, I watch their sitcoms all the time too:
3rd Rock from the Sun
Mork & Mindy
Futurama
My Favorite Martian
ALF
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Not to mention dramas:
Roswell
X-Files
STTOS/STNG/STDS9/STV
Earth: Final Conflict
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IANAL But...
Cases are always heard by the court that has juridiction, so if it is a Federal case, it is heard in Federal court.
The Apellate courts aren't 'higher' per se, they serve a different role. They ensure the proper operation of the trial courts by ruling on whether or not proper court procedures were followed during the trial.
A quick example of this is the MS antitrust trial. Though it will definately go to either the Circuit Court of Appeals and/or the US Supreme Court, those courts will not re-try the case. They will review the testimony and evidence from the original trial and make a determination as to whether the law was properly applied given those facts.
VERY FUNNY!
However, I don't get the reference to PPC. Are you refering to MacOS X, or to X-Window, or both?
Also, you lost me on the bloatware reference, I don't see this applying to either MacOS X or X-Window.
If you had read the Variety article you would have seen that FOX has committed to a January 2001 launch for TLG. The article mentions that Carter is thinking of moving TLG into X's slot Sundays at 9, but FOX wants to put it on Thursdays to start.
At least the one they planned to use. Instead they are going back to the drawing board to come up with a watermarking technique that really is 'transparent' to someone listening to an authentic DVD-Audio disc.
Read about it in New Scientist
Their are violent, but in the Voyager episode where they go to the model Federation base setup by 8472 to train infiltrators (ala the Soviet's 'America Towns' used to train sleepers) Janeway came to an agreement with the 8472 leader that as long as the Federation made no attempt to enter 8472's realm, there would be a truce between the species. The fact that they were defending themselves against the Borg, hardly makes 8472 evil.
Back in April, MandrakeSoft issued a press release saying that they had the most downloaded ISO distribution from TUCOWS. They referenced what was aparently a regular download stats page on TUCOWS http://linux.tucows.com/hotlist.html that the reader would assume is updated on a monthly basis. However, TUCOWS has never updated this page. To me that indicates they created the page at Mandrake's request, or perhaps to court ad revenue from Mandrake.
If TUCOWS is truly unbiased, then they should either archive this page, and/or update it with the most current download statistics.
Also (and I apoligize if this was already addressed in one of the other SlashDot threads on this topic, this is the first I've read) Mandrake is distributed by MacMillan, and this may be a much more common practice in the book publishing industry. There are so many books published each year, that it is unusual to find reviews indicating a particular book is flawed. Except for works by authors who have previously had top ten bestsellers, it seems flawed books typically don't get reviewed. MacMillan may have assumed that if a review was going to be published it would be primarily complementary.
The real solution is the reponsibility of the web browser designers--pages that have refresh meta tags should not be part of the browser's history, unless user-enabled.
The GO family of sites appear to be implement this properly. Try www.disney.com for example.
Philips is currently beta testing its new Expanium portable CD player that plays regular audio CDs in adition to CDRs and CD-RWs of MP3 files.
(I'm going to regret saying this here since it will decrease my chances of being selected, but...)
Until July 17th, you can sign up to be one of 50 members of the general public to get a beta version of the player by going to their website.
IANAGL
Could this mean that you could void the GPL after the initial sale in Germany?
If I've gotten a CD (say in the back of O'Reilly's Apache book) can I now sell that CD for more than the cost of the media? Isn't that just another form of unbundling?
Thanks for the info.
I didn't realize that the pits in the CDs were that deep. I had assumed it would be possible since they do make double sided DVDs, but of course that is a different spec.
Wow, lots of points.
Like many others I think this new disk is irrelevant. For 1.3G they could just produce a double sided CD which would be backward compatible with every current device, provided you are will to flip the disk over. Also, I think the failure of 2 and 3 disk CD-ROM drives has shown that merely doubling the capacity isn't sufficient to get people to scrap their old hardware.
Regarding firmware upgrades, I know a lot of people that bought cheap Smart & Friendly CD-RW drives. Since Smart & Friendly is now out of business, I assume I will be out of luck when it comes to firmware upgrades.
Regarding alternative products, I thnk for recordable media, the recordable DVD formats have a significant headstart, so I think one of these (or a hybrid standard) will eventually win out.
As for pre-recorded media, in addition to DVD, there is a lot of work going on with flourescent disk layering (FMD), including Constellation 3D's 50G disks which are supposed to be available (at least for high-end uses) by the end of the year.
Take a look at the satellite track. Pamela (the yellow track) has aparently gotten lost.
Are they going to send out search planes?
Whose idea was it to drop off htess penguins 800 kms from home anyway?
Why wasn't there an appeal for those really cute baby penguin sweaters, like they had for the Australian penguins caught in an oil spill?
good. thing they aren't using NT...
Actually, per N etcraft they're running just about every OS you can name on at least one of their 456 publicly accessible webservers. A quick check of a few of them showed NT, Solaris, IRIX, and Linux.
When you put the sheer number of webservers they are running in perspective with 500k cyberattacks in a year, it means they are only getting about 3 attacks per day per webserver.
With all the possible points of entry, and inconsistent OS usage, I don't think it's surprising that a few backdoors were found.