The data generated by this, or any other honeypot can be used to deny future access to attackers, notify service providers of attacks originating from their networks or act as an input for statistical analysis.
Great...So the new goatse link will be some overzealous honeypot. You click the link and your ISP gets an email saying you're an evil hacker.
Wouldn't it be more effective to report the websites with these vunerabilities to their hosting providers?
What really upsets me is they made their video files in something other than ogg theora. Why?
As a member of the Debconf video team, the guy that took all of the video home to finish processing, a Debian Developer and a Free Software nut, I'm probably as well qualified as anyone to answer this question.
In a nutshell it's mpeg rather than Theora because none of the people arguing now, after the fact, that it should have been done in Theora were volunteering to help when the actual work was underway. Ffmpeg is GPL, it's in Debian main, and it has no problem encoding to mpeg-1. There are enough stupid software patents to be relatively certain that both Theora and mpeg-1 infringe on some. If there is a valid freeness issue against mepg-1, file a bug against the ffmepg package.
Mpeg-1 allows anyone on any platform to view the files with minimal fuss. The results look remarkably good at the low bitrate used and AFAIK no one is running around suing over the use of mpeg-1. For a low bitrate encoding, what exactly does Theora add?
It's even more comical that some are saying we should have used Theora while others are arguing that we should make DVD images (mpeg-2, where patents are actively enforced.) You really can't please everyone.
Still, for anyone who wants the wholesome buzzword goodness of Theora, wait until we're finished processing the videos and Theora versions will be made available.
Nobodys... Opera can render IE pages just fine, but when configured to send an Opera user agent, some sites send malformed pages.
MSIE UserAgent strings are already full of extra garbage.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1;.NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;.NET CLR 1.1.4322; MSN 6.1; MSNbMSFT; MSNmen-us; MSNc00; v5m)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) via Avirt Gateway Server v4.2
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; SV1)
You tag the useragent as "Opera" without ruining the MSIE spoofing by simply adding "Opera; " or "OWB; " after the OS string.
It's a stupid issue anyway. Opera Software knows exactly how many users have current licenses and how many users are downloading banners for the adware version. Opera's userbase is simple to track without making any estimations.
I'm not sure that too much consolidation is good for the Linux market. I like the diversity available in the multitude of distros out there.
What does Mandrake really gain from this deal anyway? Competition among Linux distros is limitless, so any increase in marketshare is a temporary shift that the market will correct over time. If Lycoris users wanted Mandrake, they would be using it already. Eliminating Lycoris will just create a new niche for a Lycoris clone to enter the market.
Novell's purchases of SuSE and Ximian make more sense. SuSE users have no reason to switch since they're getting the same distro they've already grown to love and Ximian provides software and expertise, not a distro. I don't see how it's possible for a single Mandrivis distro to simultaniously meet the expectations of Mandrake, Conectiva and Lycoris users.
In fact, purchasing another distro looks like a bad idea all around. Why pay for developers on staff when you can simply take the best bits of their work for free? They don't really benefit from the Conectiva and Lycoris trademarks since they're not really using them, and if they need manpower they can cheaply hire developers from the non-commercial distros or from specific software projects. It just doesn't make sense. This isn't going to boost Mandrake's marketshare to be a real RedHat competitor, it's just pissing money away.
I don't believe that either PJ or O'Gara are paid shills and Dvorak does a good job of explaining why.
I also believe that O'Gara was merely being controversial.
True. The moderators on Groklaw hold as much responsibility for making that site a sycophanitc love-fest as PJ herself. Anyone who disagrees with PJ is immediately labelled a troll and their comments disappear. It's easy to imagine anyone with a NPOV seeing Groklaw as a worse forum for discussion than O'Gara's diatribes.
OTOH, O'Gara is making money by kicking the ant pile. Linux isn't a company. I give up time to work on Debian because I believe in the goals of Debian. When O'Gara excretes feces on everything we're working towards, it's hard not to take it personally. I find it hard to imagine she would attack the Red Cross or the United Way in the same way. Is it so hard to understand that some Linux developer and users actually drink the coolaid they're trying to sell?
Personally, I'd love to see some really balanced discussion about Linux, SCO, and so forth. Balanced discussion doesn't make the front page of Slashdot though. You need to include some "communist", "NAZI", of "Amiga crackpot" barbs to make the front page here.
He realised that if we made the slightest mistake under the terms of the GPL, even if it was only a perceived mistake, we'd have to spend the next 10 moonths dealing with these people. He canned the project immediately.
Hogwash. Own up to any problems, fix them and appologise. SGI's open letter is a perfect example of how to do things right. They never denied the problem, they quickly worked to verify the extent of the problem, the quickly fixed the problem, and they readily admitted that they were responsible.
Maui X-Stream had done nothing but deny and lie in the face of overwhelming evidence. They could have solved these problems months ago by either ceasing distribution or negotiating a license for the GPL code. Fools like this, who immediately discount the collective voice of free software developers, are getting what they deserve. If you steal GPL code then have the audacity to send out Cease and Desist letters, what exactly are you expecting the response to be?
To save $5000+ in gas you would need to drive so much. The only reason to really buy them now is if you are really concerned for the environment and have to own a car.
If you figure that a car with half the mileage rating would cost you $5000 less and gas costs $2.00/gallon, you'd end up driving around 100,000 miles before you made up the extra cost.
It's funny when you consider that a Daihatsu Charade has a list price of $11,490 AUD or $8900 USD (does Daihatsu sell in the US any more?) and is rated at around 45/mpg with a standard gasoline engine. Make cars lighter and hybrid technology doesn't even matter. A Diahatsu Charade weighs 1587 lbs, Toyota Prius 2890 lbs. You pay 3x as much for a hybrid vehicle to tote 1300 extra lbs around at the same fuel efficiency.
In all obviousness AIX does not contain SCO code, heck SCO is in no position to accuse that at all...
In all obviousness AIX DOES contain SCO code. The point is where AIX matches with Linux, not where AIX matches with UNIX.
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The original party line was that Debian's X team was waiting on a modularized X.Org source tree.
Debian's X team now is in a holding pattern until Sarge gets out, though I don't remember ever seeing this stated directly. For instance, in this message to dri-devel, Branden Robinson clarifies that Debian will package Xorg in the same fashion as XFree86 if the modular version isn't ready yet.
The Debian X Faq states, more or less, the same thing.
You don't see "No Xorg till Sarge releases" anywhere because none of the X team members are fortune tellers. I would imagine that NOW, with the freeze underway, they'd be happy to say it.
Can't the ID folks consider the possibility that evolution is the tool God used to create us? Evolution does not disprove the existence of God.
The real problem is that religious fundamentalism doesn't allow for the idea that any one individual has a more complete understanding of god that any other individual. In ridding themselves of the pope, clergy, philosophical reflection, and religious tradition, they have made it impossible to view the bible as anything other than a literal document. If the creation story is false then it opens the possibility that anything in the bible might be false. If anything in the bible is false, then you need clergy to guide you into a full understanding of the bible.
The insistence that creation absolutely must have happened as descibed in the bible is a fundamentalist issue, not a Christian one. The Catholic church, for example: "does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time. However, it says that, if they did develop, then they did so under the impetus and guidance of God, and their ultimate creation must be ascribed to him."
It's comical that the Wedge Strategy lists Darwin, Marx and Freud as champions of viewing people "as animals or machines who inhabited a universe ruled by purely impersonal forces"...
Why don't extend this list to its logical conclusions. If Darwin, Marx and Freud were wrong in taking this view of the world, then Adam Smith, was wrong...he applied the same logic in the same way and came to virtually the same conclusions. Darwin was obviously building on ideas that Smith made plain. We could go even further back and it looks like the reasoning behind democracy is also in question.
What unifying theory works for organizing a nation in the absense of "logical self-interest", or as they're calling it, "materialism"? It's the big F. The sooner free market conservatives realize their goals are completely at odds with Christian fundamentalist conservatives, the better.
For cards newer than the G550 (like the triple-head Parhelia), Matrox seems to have stopped supporting open-source entirely, making the Radeon 9250 the best chip with open-source 3D drivers.
Is the 9250 faster than the FireGL 8800? Without any doubt, the r200 series are the best DRI compatible cards, followed by the r100s, Voodoo 3/4/5, and Matrox G400. Intel's chips are excellent and well supported, but end up with poor performance because they use system memory.
There's still hope that the r300 project will get to the point where a Radeon 9800 is a better buy than a Radeon 7200, but the fact that any results have been achieved without support from ATI is pretty amazing in itself.
There's also some hope that the old Utah-GLX driver for Nvidia cards will be ported to DRI, that someone will produce an AGP card with an Intel video chip, that Mesa performance will improve to the point where a dual-cpu system doesn't need a high-speed GPU, or even that one of the minor players will realize that ATI and Nvidia know how to use a disassembler.
Well, the reigning champ of DRI compatible video cards is the Radeon FireGL 8800 which is a slightly faster version of the Radeon 8500. Some of the benchmarks of the Volari cards indicate that their performance is comparable to budget Nvidia and ATI cards. If their X drivers are as good as their Windows drivers, it's possible that top-end Volari cards are faster than the top end ATI cards when using the free software drivers. I look forward to trying one of these puppies.
As far as the VIA drivers go...I'm not sure what they released. Most of the VIA chips already work with DRI. It's great if they're releasing more code, but I'd be interested in hearing what new VIA chips or features will be supported as a result. As far as integrated video chipsets go, Intel tends to be the best with DRI.
Users that don't pay for the product, and thus, don't help support the development of that product. In my opinion, that means BitKeeper doesn't owe those users anything. I wouldn't owe you a free lunch tomorrow, just because I supplied you with a free lunch today.
The Bitkeeper website mentions Linux kernel development prominently and quotes Linus on their front page. Any charity involved in helping kernel development has been more than made up for by the free advertising Bitkeep has recieved.
How many people would even know about this tool if it hadn't been used in Linux kernel development? Advertising is a form of payment.
I have been acquainted with Mark Shuttleworth since the early days of Debian and fully support Ubuntu. UL will borrow from Ubuntu where appropriate. But UL seeks to do all development directly within the Debian organization, in order to achieve maximum transparency and public participation (a better explanation is in the UserLinux white paper). So, where UL borrows from Ubuntu, the result will be checked into Debian.
This is a good point. Mention of Ubuntu on a Debian mailing list often results in accusations that Canonical Ltd has bought control of Debian by hiring key Debian Developers. Everyone has a right to make a living, but if people are being hired because they are a Debian FTP-master or member of the Debian technical committee....there is a conflict of interests.
If you want to involve large numbers of Debian Developers in a project or company outside of Debian, keep things completely transparent. Conspiracy theories are impossible to disprove once they have been started.
Imagine if Congressman Corpmonkey could do his masters bidding by simply avoiding work on a particular day. Rather than explaining why he voted in favor of drilling in the protected areas of Alaska he can simply avoid voting by claiming he didn't know about the issue, had a family emergency, wanted to speak at an AIDS awareness rally, needed to feed orphans, felt it was more important to visit the troops, etc.
The president of the US has the same type of passive approval in his arsenal. If he wants a bill to pass but is afraid that the people will be upset if he approves a bill, he can simply do nothing and the bill becomes law on its own. Here's a wacky example of such logic at the state level.
For me the line was crossed when I ran into a talking flash ad on Slashdot. Since then I've been using Flashblock which blocks everything by default and lets you play individual flash pieces.
Another example of the far more sensible approach our friends across the pond take to things.
If you mean sensible because they because they rejected software patents....sure.
But dear lord, look at how much trouble it is to kill this one stupid bill in the EU. How many times does a bill have to be rejected before it really dies over there?
The biggest disappointment is that sound doesn't work yet. In the Ubuntu forums there are some comments on forcing the snd-powermac driver to work with the Mini, but I haven't had any luck with it using Debian's 2.6.9 powerpc kernel.
So "Reduced Media Edition" is a stripped down version of XP Pro, meaning they are going to charge more for RME than XP Home, right?
Why don't the antitrust folks just give up on this sort of BS. There is no way anyone is going to force Microsoft to compete fairly short of (a) splitting the company up into a dozen different ones which each control one piece of software, or (b) forcing Microsoft to sell the rights to older versions of their applications and OS to the highest bidder.
No one is going to buy RME because Microsoft will price it so that it never sells. I would buy a $25 or $50 copy of Windows 98 SE if some other company was selling and supporting it though.
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The data generated by this, or any other honeypot can be used to deny future access to attackers, notify service providers of attacks originating from their networks or act as an input for statistical analysis.
Great...So the new goatse link will be some overzealous honeypot. You click the link and your ISP gets an email saying you're an evil hacker.
Wouldn't it be more effective to report the websites with these vunerabilities to their hosting providers?
What really upsets me is they made their video files in something other than ogg theora. Why?
As a member of the Debconf video team, the guy that took all of the video home to finish processing, a Debian Developer and a Free Software nut, I'm probably as well qualified as anyone to answer this question.
In a nutshell it's mpeg rather than Theora because none of the people arguing now, after the fact, that it should have been done in Theora were volunteering to help when the actual work was underway. Ffmpeg is GPL, it's in Debian main, and it has no problem encoding to mpeg-1. There are enough stupid software patents to be relatively certain that both Theora and mpeg-1 infringe on some. If there is a valid freeness issue against mepg-1, file a bug against the ffmepg package.
Mpeg-1 allows anyone on any platform to view the files with minimal fuss. The results look remarkably good at the low bitrate used and AFAIK no one is running around suing over the use of mpeg-1. For a low bitrate encoding, what exactly does Theora add?
It's even more comical that some are saying we should have used Theora while others are arguing that we should make DVD images (mpeg-2, where patents are actively enforced.) You really can't please everyone.
Still, for anyone who wants the wholesome buzzword goodness of Theora, wait until we're finished processing the videos and Theora versions will be made available.
Nobodys... Opera can render IE pages just fine, but when configured to send an Opera user agent, some sites send malformed pages.
.NET CLR 1.1.4322) .NET CLR 1.1.4322; MSN 6.1; MSNbMSFT; MSNmen-us; MSNc00; v5m)
MSIE UserAgent strings are already full of extra garbage.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1;
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) via Avirt Gateway Server v4.2
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; SV1)
You tag the useragent as "Opera" without ruining the MSIE spoofing by simply adding "Opera; " or "OWB; " after the OS string.
It's a stupid issue anyway. Opera Software knows exactly how many users have current licenses and how many users are downloading banners for the adware version. Opera's userbase is simple to track without making any estimations.
I'm not sure that too much consolidation is good for the Linux market. I like the diversity available in the multitude of distros out there.
What does Mandrake really gain from this deal anyway? Competition among Linux distros is limitless, so any increase in marketshare is a temporary shift that the market will correct over time. If Lycoris users wanted Mandrake, they would be using it already. Eliminating Lycoris will just create a new niche for a Lycoris clone to enter the market.
Novell's purchases of SuSE and Ximian make more sense. SuSE users have no reason to switch since they're getting the same distro they've already grown to love and Ximian provides software and expertise, not a distro. I don't see how it's possible for a single Mandrivis distro to simultaniously meet the expectations of Mandrake, Conectiva and Lycoris users.
In fact, purchasing another distro looks like a bad idea all around. Why pay for developers on staff when you can simply take the best bits of their work for free? They don't really benefit from the Conectiva and Lycoris trademarks since they're not really using them, and if they need manpower they can cheaply hire developers from the non-commercial distros or from specific software projects. It just doesn't make sense. This isn't going to boost Mandrake's marketshare to be a real RedHat competitor, it's just pissing money away.
I don't believe that either PJ or O'Gara are paid shills and Dvorak does a good job of explaining why.
I also believe that O'Gara was merely being controversial.
True. The moderators on Groklaw hold as much responsibility for making that site a sycophanitc love-fest as PJ herself. Anyone who disagrees with PJ is immediately labelled a troll and their comments disappear. It's easy to imagine anyone with a NPOV seeing Groklaw as a worse forum for discussion than O'Gara's diatribes.
OTOH, O'Gara is making money by kicking the ant pile. Linux isn't a company. I give up time to work on Debian because I believe in the goals of Debian. When O'Gara excretes feces on everything we're working towards, it's hard not to take it personally. I find it hard to imagine she would attack the Red Cross or the United Way in the same way. Is it so hard to understand that some Linux developer and users actually drink the coolaid they're trying to sell?
Personally, I'd love to see some really balanced discussion about Linux, SCO, and so forth. Balanced discussion doesn't make the front page of Slashdot though. You need to include some "communist", "NAZI", of "Amiga crackpot" barbs to make the front page here.
And what if they had investigated and found no violations?
This is simple enough to prove. Allow members of the free software projects in question to review the source under a reasonable NDA.
I have seen no evidence that Maui X-Stream is being distributed without source.
That's not even the point. GPL code can't be included in a !GPL binary, regardless of whether or not source is made available.
He realised that if we made the slightest mistake under the terms of the GPL, even if it was only a perceived mistake, we'd have to spend the next 10 moonths dealing with these people. He canned the project immediately.
Hogwash. Own up to any problems, fix them and appologise. SGI's open letter is a perfect example of how to do things right. They never denied the problem, they quickly worked to verify the extent of the problem, the quickly fixed the problem, and they readily admitted that they were responsible.
Maui X-Stream had done nothing but deny and lie in the face of overwhelming evidence. They could have solved these problems months ago by either ceasing distribution or negotiating a license for the GPL code. Fools like this, who immediately discount the collective voice of free software developers, are getting what they deserve. If you steal GPL code then have the audacity to send out Cease and Desist letters, what exactly are you expecting the response to be?
To save $5000+ in gas you would need to drive so much. The only reason to really buy them now is if you are really concerned for the environment and have to own a car.
If you figure that a car with half the mileage rating would cost you $5000 less and gas costs $2.00/gallon, you'd end up driving around 100,000 miles before you made up the extra cost.
It's funny when you consider that a Daihatsu Charade has a list price of $11,490 AUD or $8900 USD (does Daihatsu sell in the US any more?) and is rated at around 45/mpg with a standard gasoline engine. Make cars lighter and hybrid technology doesn't even matter. A Diahatsu Charade weighs 1587 lbs, Toyota Prius 2890 lbs. You pay 3x as much for a hybrid vehicle to tote 1300 extra lbs around at the same fuel efficiency.
In all obviousness AIX does not contain SCO code, heck SCO is in no position to accuse that at all...
In all obviousness AIX DOES contain SCO code. The point is where AIX matches with Linux, not where AIX matches with UNIX.
The original party line was that Debian's X team was waiting on a modularized X.Org source tree.
Debian's X team now is in a holding pattern until Sarge gets out, though I don't remember ever seeing this stated directly. For instance, in this message to dri-devel, Branden Robinson clarifies that Debian will package Xorg in the same fashion as XFree86 if the modular version isn't ready yet.
The Debian X Faq states, more or less, the same thing.
You don't see "No Xorg till Sarge releases" anywhere because none of the X team members are fortune tellers. I would imagine that NOW, with the freeze underway, they'd be happy to say it.
Can't the ID folks consider the possibility that evolution is the tool God used to create us? Evolution does not disprove the existence of God.
The real problem is that religious fundamentalism doesn't allow for the idea that any one individual has a more complete understanding of god that any other individual. In ridding themselves of the pope, clergy, philosophical reflection, and religious tradition, they have made it impossible to view the bible as anything other than a literal document. If the creation story is false then it opens the possibility that anything in the bible might be false. If anything in the bible is false, then you need clergy to guide you into a full understanding of the bible.
The insistence that creation absolutely must have happened as descibed in the bible is a fundamentalist issue, not a Christian one. The Catholic church, for example: "does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time. However, it says that, if they did develop, then they did so under the impetus and guidance of God, and their ultimate creation must be ascribed to him."
It's comical that the Wedge Strategy lists Darwin, Marx and Freud as champions of viewing people "as animals or machines who inhabited a universe ruled by purely impersonal forces"...
Why don't extend this list to its logical conclusions. If Darwin, Marx and Freud were wrong in taking this view of the world, then Adam Smith, was wrong...he applied the same logic in the same way and came to virtually the same conclusions. Darwin was obviously building on ideas that Smith made plain. We could go even further back and it looks like the reasoning behind democracy is also in question.
What unifying theory works for organizing a nation in the absense of "logical self-interest", or as they're calling it, "materialism"? It's the big F. The sooner free market conservatives realize their goals are completely at odds with Christian fundamentalist conservatives, the better.
For cards newer than the G550 (like the triple-head Parhelia), Matrox seems to have stopped supporting open-source entirely, making the Radeon 9250 the best chip with open-source 3D drivers.
Is the 9250 faster than the FireGL 8800? Without any doubt, the r200 series are the best DRI compatible cards, followed by the r100s, Voodoo 3/4/5, and Matrox G400. Intel's chips are excellent and well supported, but end up with poor performance because they use system memory.
There's still hope that the r300 project will get to the point where a Radeon 9800 is a better buy than a Radeon 7200, but the fact that any results have been achieved without support from ATI is pretty amazing in itself.
There's also some hope that the old Utah-GLX driver for Nvidia cards will be ported to DRI, that someone will produce an AGP card with an Intel video chip, that Mesa performance will improve to the point where a dual-cpu system doesn't need a high-speed GPU, or even that one of the minor players will realize that ATI and Nvidia know how to use a disassembler.
Well, the reigning champ of DRI compatible video cards is the Radeon FireGL 8800 which is a slightly faster version of the Radeon 8500. Some of the benchmarks of the Volari cards indicate that their performance is comparable to budget Nvidia and ATI cards. If their X drivers are as good as their Windows drivers, it's possible that top-end Volari cards are faster than the top end ATI cards when using the free software drivers. I look forward to trying one of these puppies.
As far as the VIA drivers go...I'm not sure what they released. Most of the VIA chips already work with DRI. It's great if they're releasing more code, but I'd be interested in hearing what new VIA chips or features will be supported as a result. As far as integrated video chipsets go, Intel tends to be the best with DRI.
Users that don't pay for the product, and thus, don't help support the development of that product. In my opinion, that means BitKeeper doesn't owe those users anything. I wouldn't owe you a free lunch tomorrow, just because I supplied you with a free lunch today.
The Bitkeeper website mentions Linux kernel development prominently and quotes Linus on their front page. Any charity involved in helping kernel development has been more than made up for by the free advertising Bitkeep has recieved.
How many people would even know about this tool if it hadn't been used in Linux kernel development? Advertising is a form of payment.
I have been acquainted with Mark Shuttleworth since the early days of Debian and fully support Ubuntu. UL will borrow from Ubuntu where appropriate. But UL seeks to do all development directly within the Debian organization, in order to achieve maximum transparency and public participation (a better explanation is in the UserLinux white paper). So, where UL borrows from Ubuntu, the result will be checked into Debian.
This is a good point. Mention of Ubuntu on a Debian mailing list often results in accusations that Canonical Ltd has bought control of Debian by hiring key Debian Developers. Everyone has a right to make a living, but if people are being hired because they are a Debian FTP-master or member of the Debian technical committee....there is a conflict of interests.
If you want to involve large numbers of Debian Developers in a project or company outside of Debian, keep things completely transparent. Conspiracy theories are impossible to disprove once they have been started.
There is some prior art.
The problem is that it's set to pass by default.
Imagine if Congressman Corpmonkey could do his masters bidding by simply avoiding work on a particular day. Rather than explaining why he voted in favor of drilling in the protected areas of Alaska he can simply avoid voting by claiming he didn't know about the issue, had a family emergency, wanted to speak at an AIDS awareness rally, needed to feed orphans, felt it was more important to visit the troops, etc.
The president of the US has the same type of passive approval in his arsenal. If he wants a bill to pass but is afraid that the people will be upset if he approves a bill, he can simply do nothing and the bill becomes law on its own. Here's a wacky example of such logic at the state level.
For me the line was crossed when I ran into a talking flash ad on Slashdot. Since then I've been using Flashblock which blocks everything by default and lets you play individual flash pieces.
And, of those that left, how many of you are willing to embrace the return of the prodigal son?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Another example of the far more sensible approach our friends across the pond take to things.
If you mean sensible because they because they rejected software patents....sure.
But dear lord, look at how much trouble it is to kill this one stupid bill in the EU. How many times does a bill have to be rejected before it really dies over there?
Until 2008 there is nothing dangerous about this for Microsoft.
The biggest disappointment is that sound doesn't work yet. In the Ubuntu forums there are some comments on forcing the snd-powermac driver to work with the Mini, but I haven't had any luck with it using Debian's 2.6.9 powerpc kernel.
So "Reduced Media Edition" is a stripped down version of XP Pro, meaning they are going to charge more for RME than XP Home, right?
Why don't the antitrust folks just give up on this sort of BS. There is no way anyone is going to force Microsoft to compete fairly short of (a) splitting the company up into a dozen different ones which each control one piece of software, or (b) forcing Microsoft to sell the rights to older versions of their applications and OS to the highest bidder.
No one is going to buy RME because Microsoft will price it so that it never sells. I would buy a $25 or $50 copy of Windows 98 SE if some other company was selling and supporting it though.
Has anyone managed to get the sound on a Mac Mini working under Linux?