Looks like we'd all better be mirroring our copies of DeCSS, DVD2one, DVDXCopy, InstantCopy, SmartRipper, DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink, DVD95copy, Nero, RecordNow etc. before they get pulled off the web.
Better still, put 'em on KazaA to really piss off the MPAA;o)
The DMCA/MPAA/RIAA are getting too big for their boots - they think they're some sort of new world government that can do anything if it MAY affect their profits.
OK, so you put the domain name of the site in your hosts file as 127.0.0.1 then setup a fake site with "Timmy's done all his homework and is straight A" on it.
The US company I work for calls us programmers "Engineers" and it pissses me off - engineers building bridges!
They even call the support guys "Engineers"....
We're Programmers or Developers, not Engineers!
OK, so this isn't real open source and it isn't really free.
It's onlt 20 Bucks I hear you scream, but for someone who just wants to evaluate or simply 'play' with it (e.g. see if you can get it going under VMWare) it's too much.
If Sun says it's really open source, why can't just one of us pay the 20usd and bung the 3 ISOs on KazaA or some university FTP server (that way Sun aren't paying for any bandwidth)?
I'm glad I got Solaris 8 x86 before they started charging for it, same with Star Office.
MS can only be doing this to kill off Borland technology!
As an IDE/RAD C++Builder kicks VisualC++'s arse.
Kylix will be killed off, being for UNIX, and especially the free Linux version. So that pretty much gets rid of Delphi as a language altogether.
I guess we don't really need bcp5 as we already have gcc and intelcpp....
This is so typically M$, I'm ready to give up C++ programming on Windows if they get rid of C++Builder, might as well give up GUI-based C++ too if they get rid of Kylix - wxWindows/Qt etc. are too dificult and need commercial frontends to make them usable.
I wonder how long it'll be before we start seeing VisualStudio working like Kylix?
I'm glad about this, as actually Phoenix is the name of Acorn/Pace's web browser, that started off as 'Browse' some years ago before moving into set top boxes.
In fact I have Phoenix v2.09i2 loaded now, and it ain't on my Linux box!
I mean when was the last time you got spam and actually sent off for that free Viagra or gave your bank account details to a Ugandan businessman who can't get credit?
It isn't even targetted - bloody Koreans sending unreadable Email, or women getting "enlarge your penis" spam (if it worked on women, it'd be quite impressive though!)
All the spam that I get (that which gets through procmail) is rediculous - you'd have to be a total AOL user to believe any of it;o)
The same with popups - all that "your computer is spying on you" crap with buttons made to look like it's Windows telling you this and not a website.
So the only way I can see that spam works is by collecting Email addresses to sell to other spammers, which is the dumbest form of pyramid'ing I've ever heard of!
I'm the average/. user - I know my stuff and have never phoned "technical support" due to the fact that I know they're all morons. I do however suck down shedloads from KazaA and ISOs.
The average AOL user who is just surfing uses far less bandwidth than me, but is probably calling Support 24/7 because "the thing with the lights is flashing" or somesuch.
So, why don't they charge for support, as surely that costs more than bandwidth. It's not as if these ISPs aren't already making enough, jees AT&T used to charge the same for 8Mbps as they do for 1.5Mbps now.
I'll be the first to cancel my ATTBI account if they cap downloads, they've already capped bandwidth.
Not even a mention of the Rio Volt and the whole "when will it support Ogg Vorbis@ question?! WTF?
I don't want to know about this blokes career or Tivo, I'd go to CNN for that, I go to Slashdot for the opensource stuff!;o)
Is there a Ogg for Volt campaign I can sign up for - I'm just dying to convert my 6Gb on my hard disk and 30 CD-R's full of MP3s to.Ogg (then I could play music on RedHat 8, snigger!)
The latest Limewire (2.55) is totally broken - there's this stupid "Cannot move to library" crap with 90% of the files as the Limewire guys have screwed up the slashes in filenames code - guess they we only really coding for Windows and didn't expect people to be using UNIX which has opposite slashes....
Plus Morpheus has flooded the network, making it very hard to get files even if you can get past the CMTL bug.
The 2.5x version of Limewire prevent you from downloading bogus files.
With all the "Cannot move to library" errors and busy signals and never being able to connect as Morpheus ultrapeers have fsck'ed the network, you can't download anything, bogus or not,
Get rid of Morpheus on the network, fix Limewire's slashes in filenames bug and we'll be back to the 2+ Tb of files we used to have only months ago....
Yeah, I used to be a SCSI CDR only person, now I still have a Yamaha 6416S in the Linux box, but SCSI has got so far behind in terms of CD-RW's, I think the fastest is 24x.
I have a CyberDrive 36x1248 IDE in my Windows box and it burns a CD in aa couple of minutes and is burn proof, so I don't need to worry about the IDE bus anyway.
FireWire is the way to go next I think, SCSI is dying off.
So what else do we use? Borland is dead, VCC is MS crap, do we pay for Sun's CC or something?
Really, I am interested having just got back into C/C++ I'm using gcc on 4 platforms for its portability and after being disgusted at how huge VCC code is and how old Borland is.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah no shit, I think the MPAA are far from a charity, although maybe they're trying to say they're "non-profit" due to filesharing! ;o)
Do these jokers really believe their website will ever be up?
This has got to be the #1 site for script kiddies to target!
It's either been Slashdotted or someone has beaten me to the idea already.....
Head of RIAA, job requirements:
1. Be prepared to be the most hated guy in the world (after Osama and Bill).
2. Have no clue what consumers want and believe anything Hollywood tells you about the evil technology.
3. Like Madonna, Limp Biskit and Tommy Lee.
4. Have no scruples, morals or problems with putting grandads and poor students in jail.
5. Be prepared to spend the next couple of mellennia sueing filesharers.
C'mon, mod me up for humour!
Looks like we'd all better be mirroring our copies of DeCSS, DVD2one, DVDXCopy, InstantCopy, SmartRipper, DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink, DVD95copy, Nero, RecordNow etc. before they get pulled off the web.
;o)
Better still, put 'em on KazaA to really piss off the MPAA
The DMCA/MPAA/RIAA are getting too big for their boots - they think they're some sort of new world government that can do anything if it MAY affect their profits.
OK, so you put the domain name of the site in your hosts file as 127.0.0.1 then setup a fake site with "Timmy's done all his homework and is straight A" on it.
The US company I work for calls us programmers "Engineers" and it pissses me off - engineers building bridges! They even call the support guys "Engineers".... We're Programmers or Developers, not Engineers!
OK, so this isn't real open source and it isn't really free.
It's onlt 20 Bucks I hear you scream, but for someone who just wants to evaluate or simply 'play' with it (e.g. see if you can get it going under VMWare) it's too much.
If Sun says it's really open source, why can't just one of us pay the 20usd and bung the 3 ISOs on KazaA or some university FTP server (that way Sun aren't paying for any bandwidth)?
I'm glad I got Solaris 8 x86 before they started charging for it, same with Star Office.
A Linksys switch with built in hub? I hope you meant a Linksys router with built in hub! ;o)
I used to use SBC PacBell, just linked the *ethernet* modem to my Linux box and away I went using RP PPPOE, which SBC Support actually recommend!
I've since moved to AT&T cable and now get consistent 1.4Mbps/240Kbps instead of the maximum 1.2Mbps/100Kbp with PacBell.
When the Cable Guy came with his software I made sure I had a Windows box ready and formatted the drive back to Linux as soon as he went out the door!
MS can only be doing this to kill off Borland technology!
As an IDE/RAD C++Builder kicks VisualC++'s arse.
Kylix will be killed off, being for UNIX, and especially the free Linux version. So that pretty much gets rid of Delphi as a language altogether.
I guess we don't really need bcp5 as we already have gcc and intelcpp....
This is so typically M$, I'm ready to give up C++ programming on Windows if they get rid of C++Builder, might as well give up GUI-based C++ too if they get rid of Kylix - wxWindows/Qt etc. are too dificult and need commercial frontends to make them usable.
I wonder how long it'll be before we start seeing VisualStudio working like Kylix?
I'm glad about this, as actually Phoenix is the name of Acorn/Pace's web browser, that started off as 'Browse' some years ago before moving into set top boxes.
In fact I have Phoenix v2.09i2 loaded now, and it ain't on my Linux box!
mwahahahaha
I mean when was the last time you got spam and actually sent off for that free Viagra or gave your bank account details to a Ugandan businessman who can't get credit?
;o)
It isn't even targetted - bloody Koreans sending unreadable Email, or women getting "enlarge your penis" spam (if it worked on women, it'd be quite impressive though!)
All the spam that I get (that which gets through procmail) is rediculous - you'd have to be a total AOL user to believe any of it
The same with popups - all that "your computer is spying on you" crap with buttons made to look like it's Windows telling you this and not a website.
So the only way I can see that spam works is by collecting Email addresses to sell to other spammers, which is the dumbest form of pyramid'ing I've ever heard of!
I'm fed up with nothing being done about spammers (OK there's been about 3 prosecutions this year) so was considering getting some people's attention:
What do you think the legal position would be if I forwarded all my spam to my MP (UK) or Governor (US)?
I wonder if this would piss them off enough to do something about it (hopefully prosecute the spammers and not me!) Maybe if we all did it....
I'm the average /. user - I know my stuff and have never phoned "technical support" due to the fact that I know they're all morons. I do however suck down shedloads from KazaA and ISOs.
The average AOL user who is just surfing uses far less bandwidth than me, but is probably calling Support 24/7 because "the thing with the lights is flashing" or somesuch.
So, why don't they charge for support, as surely that costs more than bandwidth. It's not as if these ISPs aren't already making enough, jees AT&T used to charge the same for 8Mbps as they do for 1.5Mbps now.
I'll be the first to cancel my ATTBI account if they cap downloads, they've already capped bandwidth.
Well I'm coming from California to London/Paris next month. Paypal to..... ;o)
Not even a mention of the Rio Volt and the whole "when will it support Ogg Vorbis@ question?! WTF?
.Ogg (then I could play music on RedHat 8, snigger!)
I don't want to know about this blokes career or Tivo, I'd go to CNN for that, I go to Slashdot for the opensource stuff!;o)
Is there a Ogg for Volt campaign I can sign up for - I'm just dying to convert my 6Gb on my hard disk and 30 CD-R's full of MP3s to
Badly packed keebab
Yeah that's true - my first SA110 was a Digital rev K, my latest one is Intel Rev. T :-(
Erm, I think the main selling points for the StrongARM are:
designed by ARM Ltd - NOT Intel (Intel now *sell* it)
very low power consumption
very easy to program
later models (SA1100 etc.) have a lot of built-in "computer on a chip" stuff like support for MPEG, I/O, graphics, sound, ethernet built in.
I Emailed them using your link, included the link to the xiph.org page too, this would be absolutely great if they would do it.
I added the marketing point that they may like about getting into open source ahead of the Archos and supporting more formats than the iPod.
The latest Limewire (2.55) is totally broken - there's this stupid "Cannot move to library" crap with 90% of the files as the Limewire guys have screwed up the slashes in filenames code - guess they we only really coding for Windows and didn't expect people to be using UNIX which has opposite slashes.... Plus Morpheus has flooded the network, making it very hard to get files even if you can get past the CMTL bug.
The 2.5x version of Limewire prevent you from downloading bogus files.
With all the "Cannot move to library" errors and busy signals and never being able to connect as Morpheus ultrapeers have fsck'ed the network, you can't download anything, bogus or not,
Get rid of Morpheus on the network, fix Limewire's slashes in filenames bug and we'll be back to the 2+ Tb of files we used to have only months ago....
Yeah, I used to be a SCSI CDR only person, now I still have a Yamaha 6416S in the Linux box, but SCSI has got so far behind in terms of CD-RW's, I think the fastest is 24x. I have a CyberDrive 36x1248 IDE in my Windows box and it burns a CD in aa couple of minutes and is burn proof, so I don't need to worry about the IDE bus anyway. FireWire is the way to go next I think, SCSI is dying off.
So what else do we use? Borland is dead, VCC is MS crap, do we pay for Sun's CC or something? Really, I am interested having just got back into C/C++ I'm using gcc on 4 platforms for its portability and after being disgusted at how huge VCC code is and how old Borland is.
I think I'd kinda like it - you could redirect the Email to your spam address to /dev/null and never have to worry about paper junkmail again!