A firewall either works or it doesn't. That leaves little room for evolution to work with. You'll need an outside intelligence to design the firewall. Too bad one doesn't appear to exist.
If the GM CEO said "we don't need to make safe cars, just safer drivers and roads" not only would it be newsworthy, but the sales and sock would be hurt, and it might be a breach of fiduciary duty to the corporation.
You ever hear of a guy by the name of "Ralph Nader" I think you should go read some of his stuff.
Here:
["Unsafe at any Speed" by Nader] was filled with damning evidence against the GM Motor company and their "Corvair" model car which had a tendency to flip over. Nader claimed that the drivers were taking the blame for these crashes was that they couldn't get adequate information about the automobile's engineering to do anything about it.
Spooky. Sound familiar? History shows us that crazy activists really do make significant contributions to society. They can make the world better... the do win sometimes... and sometimes its a good thing. At one point in history car accidents were viewed as "Acts of God" and outside the realm of anyone's liability. Cars had hard wood dashboards, no seat belts, and regular old glass that could shatter and dice flesh.
The crazy wackos like Nader changed that. The crazy wackos of Open Source, Linux, GNU, and FSF might just do the same kind of thing. Well, it's not saving people's lives but... it might save someone's national security.
That means calculations, such as working out the factors of prime numbers, which present problems for even the fastest supercomputers could be trivialized by a quantum computer. As an example Tsai estimated that using the Shor Algorithm to factor a 256-bit binary number, a task that would take 10 million years using something like IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene supercomputer, could be accomplished by a quantum computer in about 10 seconds.
I don't even need a computer to factor prime numbers! Give me any prime number and I'll factor it right now. Any prime number's factors are one and itself! Ha! These researchers must be so stupid to have to build computers and write programs to do things like that!
What I'd really like to see is a computer than can quickly find the prime factors of extremely large numbers... like ones on the order of 256-bits or something. Now that would be nifty. I don't understand why people think it's so hard to factor prime numbers no matter how big a prime number is it's still prime.
I couldn't find Trade Wars 2002. That defined what online gaming was for me... I remember dialing in to the BBS once a day (on my 2400 baud modem) after school to spend my turns, build up my empire, and fight other players.
Those were the days... then I'd fire up my copy of "Star Flight" and look for the crystal planet. I wonder why neither of those games are in either canon?
Yeah, yeah... I'm too old-school for the old-school section... I know, I know. Video Games are too young an art form to get a canon just yet. Wait for a few more Video Game authors to die first before you start rubbing your hands over their funeral pires... yeesh.
The correct softare answer depends on why you want to use two cameras. One solution is to write a "user space driver" that stitches the two image sources into a single picture and creates either a service stream or a virtual device that negotiates the incompatabilities between the cameras. The simplest solution is just to enable your software to use two cameras and two images that are then displayed in two windows or in one data stream or are used to perform stereoscopic vision... or... ah... two angles of the same scene? What do you want to do? Why do you want to do it? What is the application? What software do you already have?
Requirements drive design. I've never seen a situation where design drove requirements. I wouldn't even know how to proceed.
I can imagine an engineer playing around with the idea of an underwater grill just to prove he can do it. Who would use it? Why would you need an underwater grill?
Is it just Eliza on steroids, or a thinking, self aware, intelligent being that has rights?
If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and flies like a duck... then maybe it's a duck.
Same goes for intelligence. Personally, I haven't seen enough evidence to make me believe that some people are intelligent. If the computer can give me more evidence than some people can about their intelligence maybe it really is.
My reference to graphical is in the DESIGN stage. Having a pretty little window where you can drag and drop various label objects. It's not a requirement, but it's nice when you want to pass the design work the the users and free up your programmers for real programming.
You think I designed the labels? Nah. Some user did that. My job was to integrate the label designs into the existing system which couldn't make use of ActiveX controls. So my reference to graphical was in the DESIGN stage. It was a requirement. To get the IPL to spit out of the custom BAAN interfaces you did indeed need to write some drivers... using the term driver very loosely... I do remember looking at the IPL and saying to myself, well, lookee there it's sort of like a custom Postscript language. Too bad I only have a few days to pull this off and I can't be bothered to actually learn it!
If you really want to do graphical label design to create templates for your applications, there is a Windows package from Loftware. You can create the labels in their LLM software, set up the print server, and then use their ActiveX control to read the LBL template.
*Ahem* The customer didn't want a plain text label. They also couldn't have the ActiveX control. Rather than say screw you, you get text 'cuz I'm lazy... I figured out how to give them *both* graphics, flexability, AND integration with their exisiting system.
Sure, telling of the customer and telling them to stick their lofty requirements where the sun don't shine is fun but it doesn't get you any pay raises.
Intermec printers are a breed of printers that talk IPL or Intermec Printing Language. There are large manuals on IPL and a programmer is certainly welcome to use them to develop Intermec printer drivers. Therefore I assume that Intermec isn't terribly upset with people developing their own software to run on their printers.
It is possible therefore for a programmer to work just like they would with postscript. You could create a converter for some other format such as HTML and dump that to IPL. That's a lot of work but it's the most versitile way... But you can create a custom "driver" again using the term driver very loosely.
The quick and dirty hack I used relies on the fact that the Intermec thermal printers were used to print only a half dozen different types of documents. Each of these prints worked off of a third party "template" in a third party "template" language. The template could be created in the third party application and printed to an intermec printer... only the data in the IPL changes over time.
The problem is that as far as I know there is no such thing as an IPL template program. I needed the template in IPL not some other template language. Someone could write one I suppose. I wasn't about to. So I used the Windows application (it had some amazing copy protection software on it but was horribly inflexible for the user) and printed out one of each type of document. I then set up a Linux box in the development area with a port listener and set up the windows box to print to the Linux box instead of the Intermec printer.
I captured the print data transmitted for each document and looked the output looking for the data that had to change with each print. Fortunately I was lucky and didn't have to change much of the IPL... the fields were in plain text. So I set the values in the fields to "**date**" or "**UPCBarCode**" and such things.
I saved each IPL print to a file and wrote a PERL program to wash this data each time a print request was made from another application and dump it out to the Intermec printer emulating the way that the Windows application talked to the printer. The result ended up evolving into a custom print application... and one that didn't use the Unix print facilities and so we get to call it a "print driver" to make is sound more important.
This doesn't address the original post directly but I guess but it should illustrate the idea of how to hack around with a linux box to masquerade as another network device and how to get what you want out of it.
I just went back and re-read the original post. His problem has little to do with IPL or Intermec printers in general... he should simply put the Intermec on a slower network connection. The "right" answer is to use a spiffy switch like a Cisco something-or-another that has 10Meg ports on it the result is to create a deliberate bandwidth bottle neck in one area of the network. This will force the communications to be slower and won't require changing software. This imples hacking around with IOS or the routers to set ports to slower settings and possibly tweaking buffer memory allocations...
Barring the right answer due to lack of know how, permission, equipment, or money... the hack could be to do something like what I did and put a bunch of sleeps in the code sending chunks of IPL at a slowed down rate... and that is evil... but it would work.
A client of mine has an Intermec label printer, with an internal processor too slow to accept data directly from the network without being buffered.
I ended up writing a bunch o' custom Intermec Printer Drivers for linux and using one of their prolific Linux boxen to act as a spooling server. Wasn't that bad to work out. The hardest bit was writing the Intermec drivers... I had to reverse engineer those. Fortunately it was a custom app and only printed a half dozen types of documents.
If you're interested I could share the "reverse engineering" technique... more of a quick hack actually. Heck, the whole thing was a clever hack... I hate clever.
Well, duh. In related news Scientists claim that all the animals living in an area comprise one vast system called an Ecosystem and exist in inter-related "food-chains"... Is there a nobel prize for overtly obvious observations and reports? I propose we call it the "Captain Obvious" award.
I've used the analogy of locks on a house before and I find it very fitting here. If SunnComm sold locks for you house, you would find that if the person at the door just pushed a button on the door knob they could open the door.
If SunnComm's system was a home security system, the the thieves would be asked to wear electro-shock collars to help the system to work. Those darn thieves keep taking off thier electro-shock collars! How dare they! That's criminal behavior!
If SunnComm's system was a car lock... then when you walked up to the car you could open it by depressing the lock. Next, you'd find you could start the car by pressing the gas while turning the ignition without needing a key.
If these were physical objects no one would be fooled by the utter stupidity of the system and how its basic functionality requires cooperation from the thief. If the idea behind DRM is some kind of security mechanism... then this system is only as good as a string tied around your luggage.
A string tied around you luggage will "keep the honest man honest" but it won't discourage the dishonest man. SunnComm is selling special green colored string. Artists should just put a sticker on their album that says "Please Don't Copy my Album"... if people would obey the sticker they would obey the "Please Don't hold down the Shift key" that the software implies.
Does SunnComm market this product as "string" or as a pad lock? It sounds like SunnComm thinks they have a pad lock. A pad lock with a button that says "unlock" on the side.
I was getting very frustrated at new things being included while existing bugs (like usb-storage and datafab CF card readers) were not being addressed.
Let's hope that the kernel ships with nothing broken.
In a NASA interview with the asteroid, it appears that the NEO left Earth Orbit because it was feeling "put upon" by people teasing it over its size.
"They would tease me, saying 'when you sit around the house you must really sit around the house!" Said the dejected interplanetary object.
Other insults hurled at the asteroid included comments disparaging it's pock-marked face and it's less than wholesome physique. The asteroid is reported to be on its way back to the asteroid belt to be amongst its own kind.
"Look, I don't have to take that!" retorted the object, "If those nasty little Earth-scum won't play nice I'll just go home!"
The anti-asteroid hazing tactic is a newly developed technology from the JPL that promises to protect the Earth from Asteroid impacts. Expert Sven Goddard warns that such hazing tactics may not work on larger asteroids. "Larger Asteroids may not be intimidated by the Earth's insults and may strike the Earth harder for them," said Dr. Goddard, "This sets a dangerous precedent for the Earth's relationship with its celestial classmates."
Dr. Goddard would like to see the Earth "play nice" with all the other celestial bodies, but admits that, "the Earth has a rep to protect" and that it may not always be possible to be "nice" to visiting Asteroids also known as the "Geeks of the Solar System."
Did you try the script in my journal at all? You should look at the "hotplug" stuff online... if you don't want to just trust me... You'll need to edit the file/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap and add the line: "usbstorage 0x0030 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x08 0x00 0x00 0x00000000"... the 0x08 matches on the usbstorage device... you can map this on to a specific device or whatever.
Next you'll want to copy the script from here:
http://slashdot.org/~Zarf/journal/44708
into the file:/etc/hotplug/usb/usbstorage and a-way-she goes! Once you're done you should beable to stab the drive into a USB socket and go. I've noticed that you occasionally need to stab the drive in twice because of the whole "insmod" business not working cleanly.
This should work in theory on any Linux with USB support and hotplug. Eventually I'll mess around with getting with the hotplug people and finding out what the right way to do this is.
As it stands I'm not completely satisfied with the way things are working... and it really is starting to tick me off. I've noticed problems with the whole USB subsystem locking up and crashing in the last few weeks on both my linux machines with uptimes only around a few weeks... what gives? Once again I'm going to have to dig deeper to get a solution I'm happy with from the user's stand point.
If this doesn't work for you... we'll have to "get serious"... contact me in my user's journal under the Entry I posted the code in if it isn't archived yet.
Why not set up a business where the lab work gets done in a place where IP isn't enforced and use the cheaper methods and such that you can't in the US to do the lab work. Then you send the data back stateside over the 'net. Viola, you've got a cheaper lab! Does someone run a business like this? Why not? Can you use these primative techniques to get results as good as the fancier techniques?
Now you know the real reason that Sony was selling Linux kits for the PS2. If what was at stake was enough money for them to mess with this bickering match... then who cares about a few Linux hackers? If someone can convince the XBox people at MicroSoft that such a case is winnable you'll see an XBox distro of Linux or some other OS for the XBox too to prove the point.
In the short run we will always be ahead but oh in 2 or 3 hundred years China will either have control of the high orbitals or there will be a Taiwan in space that everone will have to deal with.:)
I guess I'd better learn Chinese next. By that line of logic everything will end up Chinese in a few hundred years... give your descendants a hand-up now! Move to China!
No, I meant just you... You there... you go and move to China! Go tell all your friends too! Whee more for me!:-P
I thought that the US Government didn't get to inspect the code. Why does MicroSoft allow China to inspect that which the US can't? Isn't this essentially giving the Chinese goverment insight into Windows that even the NSA doesn't have? Doesn't that essentially give them an advantage for dealing with windows? Has Apple computer signed a simmilar agreement? Why doesn't China just switch to OSX?
In theory, you'd get a sense of "how it's done" from the code. Then you'd go write a better Wine or Samba... meaning better "GNU/Linux" not better Linux as in the Kernel... I guess... This technique of coding is called a "rip off" I believe. It can't be "Reverse Engineering" because you have the source, it's not a "Virgin" creation because you've already seen the source.
So you can't look at the code for something then code another thing just like it and not call it a "rip off" I'm afraid... now, a code-fork is another thing entirely.
The driver is for all pen-drives. It's a "user space driver" not a binary driver. All it does is create fstab entries and clean up mountpoints for you.
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So are we going to make this kind of thing a yearly event? Sort of a ... Halloween is Microsoft day or something?
A firewall either works or it doesn't. That leaves little room for evolution to work with. You'll need an outside intelligence to design the firewall. Too bad one doesn't appear to exist.
If the GM CEO said "we don't need to make safe cars, just safer drivers and roads" not only would it be newsworthy, but the sales and sock would be hurt, and it might be a breach of fiduciary duty to the corporation.
You ever hear of a guy by the name of "Ralph Nader" I think you should go read some of his stuff. Here:
["Unsafe at any Speed" by Nader] was filled with damning evidence against the GM Motor company and their "Corvair" model car which had a tendency to flip over. Nader claimed that the drivers were taking the blame for these crashes was that they couldn't get adequate information about the automobile's engineering to do anything about it.
Spooky. Sound familiar? History shows us that crazy activists really do make significant contributions to society. They can make the world better... the do win sometimes... and sometimes its a good thing. At one point in history car accidents were viewed as "Acts of God" and outside the realm of anyone's liability. Cars had hard wood dashboards, no seat belts, and regular old glass that could shatter and dice flesh.
The crazy wackos like Nader changed that. The crazy wackos of Open Source, Linux, GNU, and FSF might just do the same kind of thing. Well, it's not saving people's lives but... it might save someone's national security.
That means calculations, such as working out the factors of prime numbers, which present problems for even the fastest supercomputers could be trivialized by a quantum computer. As an example Tsai estimated that using the Shor Algorithm to factor a 256-bit binary number, a task that would take 10 million years using something like IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene supercomputer, could be accomplished by a quantum computer in about 10 seconds.
I don't even need a computer to factor prime numbers! Give me any prime number and I'll factor it right now. Any prime number's factors are one and itself! Ha! These researchers must be so stupid to have to build computers and write programs to do things like that!
What I'd really like to see is a computer than can quickly find the prime factors of extremely large numbers... like ones on the order of 256-bits or something. Now that would be nifty. I don't understand why people think it's so hard to factor prime numbers no matter how big a prime number is it's still prime.
I couldn't find Trade Wars 2002. That defined what online gaming was for me... I remember dialing in to the BBS once a day (on my 2400 baud modem) after school to spend my turns, build up my empire, and fight other players.
Those were the days... then I'd fire up my copy of "Star Flight" and look for the crystal planet. I wonder why neither of those games are in either canon?
Yeah, yeah... I'm too old-school for the old-school section... I know, I know. Video Games are too young an art form to get a canon just yet. Wait for a few more Video Game authors to die first before you start rubbing your hands over their funeral pires... yeesh.
The correct softare answer depends on why you want to use two cameras. One solution is to write a "user space driver" that stitches the two image sources into a single picture and creates either a service stream or a virtual device that negotiates the incompatabilities between the cameras. The simplest solution is just to enable your software to use two cameras and two images that are then displayed in two windows or in one data stream or are used to perform stereoscopic vision... or... ah... two angles of the same scene? What do you want to do? Why do you want to do it? What is the application? What software do you already have?
Requirements drive design. I've never seen a situation where design drove requirements. I wouldn't even know how to proceed.
I can imagine an engineer playing around with the idea of an underwater grill just to prove he can do it. Who would use it? Why would you need an underwater grill?
Is it just Eliza on steroids, or a thinking, self aware, intelligent being that has rights?
If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and flies like a duck... then maybe it's a duck.
Same goes for intelligence. Personally, I haven't seen enough evidence to make me believe that some people are intelligent. If the computer can give me more evidence than some people can about their intelligence maybe it really is.
My reference to graphical is in the DESIGN stage. Having a pretty little window where you can drag and drop various label objects. It's not a requirement, but it's nice when you want to pass the design work the the users and free up your programmers for real programming.
You think I designed the labels? Nah. Some user did that. My job was to integrate the label designs into the existing system which couldn't make use of ActiveX controls. So my reference to graphical was in the DESIGN stage. It was a requirement. To get the IPL to spit out of the custom BAAN interfaces you did indeed need to write some drivers... using the term driver very loosely... I do remember looking at the IPL and saying to myself, well, lookee there it's sort of like a custom Postscript language. Too bad I only have a few days to pull this off and I can't be bothered to actually learn it!
Yeah, but you still have to *learn* it. Doing it my way means that you don't have to *learn* IPL.
If you really want to do graphical label design to create templates for your applications, there is a Windows package from Loftware. You can create the labels in their LLM software, set up the print server, and then use their ActiveX control to read the LBL template.
*Ahem* The customer didn't want a plain text label. They also couldn't have the ActiveX control. Rather than say screw you, you get text 'cuz I'm lazy... I figured out how to give them *both* graphics, flexability, AND integration with their exisiting system.
Sure, telling of the customer and telling them to stick their lofty requirements where the sun don't shine is fun but it doesn't get you any pay raises.
I guess there's lazy and then there's lazy.
Intermec printers are a breed of printers that talk IPL or Intermec Printing Language. There are large manuals on IPL and a programmer is certainly welcome to use them to develop Intermec printer drivers. Therefore I assume that Intermec isn't terribly upset with people developing their own software to run on their printers.
... the fields were in plain text. So I set the values in the fields to "**date**" or "**UPCBarCode**" and such things.
It is possible therefore for a programmer to work just like they would with postscript. You could create a converter for some other format such as HTML and dump that to IPL. That's a lot of work but it's the most versitile way... But you can create a custom "driver" again using the term driver very loosely.
The quick and dirty hack I used relies on the fact that the Intermec thermal printers were used to print only a half dozen different types of documents. Each of these prints worked off of a third party "template" in a third party "template" language. The template could be created in the third party application and printed to an intermec printer... only the data in the IPL changes over time.
The problem is that as far as I know there is no such thing as an IPL template program. I needed the template in IPL not some other template language. Someone could write one I suppose. I wasn't about to. So I used the Windows application (it had some amazing copy protection software on it but was horribly inflexible for the user) and printed out one of each type of document. I then set up a Linux box in the development area with a port listener and set up the windows box to print to the Linux box instead of the Intermec printer.
I captured the print data transmitted for each document and looked the output looking for the data that had to change with each print. Fortunately I was lucky and didn't have to change much of the IPL
I saved each IPL print to a file and wrote a PERL program to wash this data each time a print request was made from another application and dump it out to the Intermec printer emulating the way that the Windows application talked to the printer. The result ended up evolving into a custom print application... and one that didn't use the Unix print facilities and so we get to call it a "print driver" to make is sound more important.
This doesn't address the original post directly but I guess but it should illustrate the idea of how to hack around with a linux box to masquerade as another network device and how to get what you want out of it.
I just went back and re-read the original post. His problem has little to do with IPL or Intermec printers in general... he should simply put the Intermec on a slower network connection. The "right" answer is to use a spiffy switch like a Cisco something-or-another that has 10Meg ports on it the result is to create a deliberate bandwidth bottle neck in one area of the network. This will force the communications to be slower and won't require changing software. This imples hacking around with IOS or the routers to set ports to slower settings and possibly tweaking buffer memory allocations...
Barring the right answer due to lack of know how, permission, equipment, or money... the hack could be to do something like what I did and put a bunch of sleeps in the code sending chunks of IPL at a slowed down rate... and that is evil... but it would work.
(Given that the printer supports postscript or has opensource(ish) drivers)
It's an intermec, unless he can hack code he's screwed for that kind of solution.
A client of mine has an Intermec label printer, with an internal processor too slow to accept data directly from the network without being buffered.
I ended up writing a bunch o' custom Intermec Printer Drivers for linux and using one of their prolific Linux boxen to act as a spooling server. Wasn't that bad to work out. The hardest bit was writing the Intermec drivers... I had to reverse engineer those. Fortunately it was a custom app and only printed a half dozen types of documents.
If you're interested I could share the "reverse engineering" technique... more of a quick hack actually. Heck, the whole thing was a clever hack... I hate clever.
Well, duh. In related news Scientists claim that all the animals living in an area comprise one vast system called an Ecosystem and exist in inter-related "food-chains" ... Is there a nobel prize for overtly obvious observations and reports? I propose we call it the "Captain Obvious" award.
I've used the analogy of locks on a house before and I find it very fitting here. If SunnComm sold locks for you house, you would find that if the person at the door just pushed a button on the door knob they could open the door.
... if people would obey the sticker they would obey the "Please Don't hold down the Shift key" that the software implies.
If SunnComm's system was a home security system, the the thieves would be asked to wear electro-shock collars to help the system to work. Those darn thieves keep taking off thier electro-shock collars! How dare they! That's criminal behavior!
If SunnComm's system was a car lock... then when you walked up to the car you could open it by depressing the lock. Next, you'd find you could start the car by pressing the gas while turning the ignition without needing a key.
If these were physical objects no one would be fooled by the utter stupidity of the system and how its basic functionality requires cooperation from the thief. If the idea behind DRM is some kind of security mechanism... then this system is only as good as a string tied around your luggage.
A string tied around you luggage will "keep the honest man honest" but it won't discourage the dishonest man. SunnComm is selling special green colored string. Artists should just put a sticker on their album that says "Please Don't Copy my Album"
Does SunnComm market this product as "string" or as a pad lock? It sounds like SunnComm thinks they have a pad lock. A pad lock with a button that says "unlock" on the side.
I was getting very frustrated at new things being included while existing bugs (like usb-storage and datafab CF card readers) were not being addressed. Let's hope that the kernel ships with nothing broken.
You and me both brudda.
I think I've found my next crusade.
In a NASA interview with the asteroid, it appears that the NEO left Earth Orbit because it was feeling "put upon" by people teasing it over its size.
"They would tease me, saying 'when you sit around the house you must really sit around the house!" Said the dejected interplanetary object.
Other insults hurled at the asteroid included comments disparaging it's pock-marked face and it's less than wholesome physique. The asteroid is reported to be on its way back to the asteroid belt to be amongst its own kind.
"Look, I don't have to take that!" retorted the object, "If those nasty little Earth-scum won't play nice I'll just go home!"
The anti-asteroid hazing tactic is a newly developed technology from the JPL that promises to protect the Earth from Asteroid impacts. Expert Sven Goddard warns that such hazing tactics may not work on larger asteroids. "Larger Asteroids may not be intimidated by the Earth's insults and may strike the Earth harder for them," said Dr. Goddard, "This sets a dangerous precedent for the Earth's relationship with its celestial classmates."
Dr. Goddard would like to see the Earth "play nice" with all the other celestial bodies, but admits that, "the Earth has a rep to protect" and that it may not always be possible to be "nice" to visiting Asteroids also known as the "Geeks of the Solar System."
Okee dokee...
/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap and add the line: "usbstorage 0x0030 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x08 0x00 0x00 0x00000000" ... the 0x08 matches on the usbstorage device... you can map this on to a specific device or whatever.
/etc/hotplug/usb/usbstorage and a-way-she goes! Once you're done you should beable to stab the drive into a USB socket and go. I've noticed that you occasionally need to stab the drive in twice because of the whole "insmod" business not working cleanly.
... contact me in my user's journal under the Entry I posted the code in if it isn't archived yet.
Did you try the script in my journal at all? You should look at the "hotplug" stuff online... if you don't want to just trust me... You'll need to edit the file
Next you'll want to copy the script from here:
http://slashdot.org/~Zarf/journal/44708
into the file:
This should work in theory on any Linux with USB support and hotplug. Eventually I'll mess around with getting with the hotplug people and finding out what the right way to do this is.
As it stands I'm not completely satisfied with the way things are working... and it really is starting to tick me off. I've noticed problems with the whole USB subsystem locking up and crashing in the last few weeks on both my linux machines with uptimes only around a few weeks... what gives? Once again I'm going to have to dig deeper to get a solution I'm happy with from the user's stand point.
If this doesn't work for you... we'll have to "get serious"
Why not set up a business where the lab work gets done in a place where IP isn't enforced and use the cheaper methods and such that you can't in the US to do the lab work. Then you send the data back stateside over the 'net. Viola, you've got a cheaper lab! Does someone run a business like this? Why not? Can you use these primative techniques to get results as good as the fancier techniques?
Now you know the real reason that Sony was selling Linux kits for the PS2. If what was at stake was enough money for them to mess with this bickering match ... then who cares about a few Linux hackers? If someone can convince the XBox people at MicroSoft that such a case is winnable you'll see an XBox distro of Linux or some other OS for the XBox too to prove the point.
In the short run we will always be ahead but oh in 2 or 3 hundred years China will either have control of the high orbitals or there will be a Taiwan in space that everone will have to deal with. :)
:-P
I guess I'd better learn Chinese next. By that line of logic everything will end up Chinese in a few hundred years... give your descendants a hand-up now! Move to China!
No, I meant just you... You there... you go and move to China! Go tell all your friends too! Whee more for me!
How stupid can a show get? Transporting cows in a spaceship... Come on...
How else would you get cows into space?
I thought that the US Government didn't get to inspect the code. Why does MicroSoft allow China to inspect that which the US can't? Isn't this essentially giving the Chinese goverment insight into Windows that even the NSA doesn't have? Doesn't that essentially give them an advantage for dealing with windows? Has Apple computer signed a simmilar agreement? Why doesn't China just switch to OSX?
In theory, you'd get a sense of "how it's done" from the code. Then you'd go write a better Wine or Samba... meaning better "GNU/Linux" not better Linux as in the Kernel ... I guess ... This technique of coding is called a "rip off" I believe. It can't be "Reverse Engineering" because you have the source, it's not a "Virgin" creation because you've already seen the source.
So you can't look at the code for something then code another thing just like it and not call it a "rip off" I'm afraid... now, a code-fork is another thing entirely.
The driver is for all pen-drives. It's a "user space driver" not a binary driver. All it does is create fstab entries and clean up mountpoints for you.