The TV supports the DRM scheme used. It's going to be *that much harder* to put some box in between the TV and the servers in order to capture, rip, and copy the movie.
That's why this is important. Before, TVs were just dumb display devices. Now that most have firmware instead of just solid state circuits (hell my parents TV has a bootup sound) this sort of thing is possible.
The push to having every little device do everything is that these days devices start out obeying their creators instead of their owners. Eventually many devices end up being Freed or at least placed more under consumer control, but it'll be a harder effort for consumers to hack everything all at once.
In the Ecofont the following regulation is enclosed: Copyright (C) 2008 SPRANQ creative communications, Utrecht, The Netherlands. All right reserved. Ecofont is a trademark of SPRANQ creative communications. The inventive designing method of the Ecofont - ommitting spaces in each letter to decrease the black surface of the letter and thus save ink by printing - is intellectual property of SPRANQ creative communications. Imitation of this technique is prohibited. The Ecofont is distributed under GPL and based upon Bitstream Vera. The following licence paragraph applies...
And then after the Bitstream Vera requirements...
To protect the purity of the Ecofont and its communication, the further development of the Ecofont and the use of its technique - which includes omitting different shapes in the letters or the use in other font types - is only allowed if permission is granted by SPRANQ. A signed licence agreement can only be obtained by contacting SPRANQ (www.spranq.eu). SPRANQ is not obliged to grant permission. Selling the Ecofont or a variation of it to make a profit is strictly prohibited.
I do not believe these people understand the GPL. Don't use this font, it's incorrectly licensed.
Really, this is a non-story. RealTek makes GPL drivers for *nix, so I'm sure at some point it wasn't going to be really hard to make a driver for Darwin.
I'm also certain that RealTek makes chips that can be used in USB dongles (RaLink certainly does) so therefore it's a cheap way to provide connectivity to an older Mac which has USB but no wireless (I'm sure there are a few models still in production; I'm not a mac head).
Which Way Is Up? (wwisup) - 2D platformer with a "twist" Pathological - pattern matching madness gPlanarity - Untangle planar graphs Fish Fillets NG (fillets-ng) - box pushing with hilariously witty fish
There are instructions floating around to do it. Honestly I could never bring myself to sac SD card reader...although I have a few SD-micro adapters that I could probably consider doing that to.
Plus with the SD-micro card removed if I fry the adapter I'm not out of a card.
I'd wait until the dust settles, to be honest--but if you want a recommendation for the interim, here's one:
Don't buy out-of-compliance devices. Boycott Cisco until they fix this problem, either by settling the case and releasing code...or until the trial is complete.
I'm sorta slowly pursuing these. I think my favorite concept is that LPI does offer an Ubuntu-specific exam on top of the regular certifications you can get.
Why should spammers be treated differently? You know justice is supposed to be blind, if they prosecute all spammers who perjure in court then they must prosecute EVERYONE who perjures in court. That means if little ol' grandma is getting sued by the RIAA and she says "I never downloaded any music!" but the RIAA produces some log from an ISP showing that her niece e-mailed her some Britney Spears song, well we'd have to persecute grandma for perjury.
Why? The grandma never downloaded any music. The niece did.
So Microsoft is using the fact that the Linux/Sugar combination doesn't support a competitor's product (which they're trying to kill with their own product) to convince governments to use Windows machines?
That's some crazy marketing sauce, but whatever works I guess.
Personally my XO will be running gNewSense shortly.
You pretty much have understood it. Debian is what the FSF was using, but they wanted to sponsor a distribution that would use their definition of Free. Once that happened they switched internally to gNewSense.
Minor disagreements over the licenses + the fact that non-free/contrib is even offered at all is most of that right there...plus the gNS team wanted the improvements Ubuntu made to the system.
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And you're right--I really need to stop doing it.
Changed the password already.
(Posting to remove moderation.)
You know of my parents and I, then.
They switched to Ubuntu and I to gNewSense as a result.
The TV supports the DRM scheme used. It's going to be *that much harder* to put some box in between the TV and the servers in order to capture, rip, and copy the movie.
That's why this is important. Before, TVs were just dumb display devices. Now that most have firmware instead of just solid state circuits (hell my parents TV has a bootup sound) this sort of thing is possible.
The push to having every little device do everything is that these days devices start out obeying their creators instead of their owners. Eventually many devices end up being Freed or at least placed more under consumer control, but it'll be a harder effort for consumers to hack everything all at once.
Glad she likes it; I have no affiliation with the project.
FYI it is freed Commercial-ware, hence the high production value.
So didn't anyone read the license?
That's the best part:
In the Ecofont the following regulation is enclosed:
Copyright (C) 2008 SPRANQ creative communications, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
All right reserved. Ecofont is a trademark of SPRANQ creative communications.
The inventive designing method of the Ecofont - ommitting spaces in each letter to decrease the
black surface of the letter and thus save ink by printing - is intellectual property of SPRANQ creative
communications. Imitation of this technique is prohibited.
The Ecofont is distributed under GPL and based upon Bitstream Vera. The following licence
paragraph applies...
And then after the Bitstream Vera requirements...
To protect the purity of the Ecofont and its communication, the further development of the Ecofont
and the use of its technique - which includes omitting different shapes in the letters or the use in
other font types - is only allowed if permission is granted by SPRANQ. A signed licence agreement
can only be obtained by contacting SPRANQ (www.spranq.eu). SPRANQ is not obliged to grant
permission. Selling the Ecofont or a variation of it to make a profit is strictly prohibited.
I do not believe these people understand the GPL. Don't use this font, it's incorrectly licensed.
and it's a GPL violation.
Really, this is a non-story. RealTek makes GPL drivers for *nix, so I'm sure at some point it wasn't going to be really hard to make a driver for Darwin.
I'm also certain that RealTek makes chips that can be used in USB dongles (RaLink certainly does) so therefore it's a cheap way to provide connectivity to an older Mac which has USB but no wireless (I'm sure there are a few models still in production; I'm not a mac head).
Found entirely in Ubuntu/gNewSense package repos:
Which Way Is Up? (wwisup) - 2D platformer with a "twist"
Pathological - pattern matching madness
gPlanarity - Untangle planar graphs
Fish Fillets NG (fillets-ng) - box pushing with hilariously witty fish
I stand corrected--I had read that IPv6 wasn't coming to 2.4.
At any rate, still blobtastic...
You can always hack an SD card in. :)
There are instructions floating around to do it. Honestly I could never bring myself to sac SD card reader...although I have a few SD-micro adapters that I could probably consider doing that to.
Plus with the SD-micro card removed if I fry the adapter I'm not out of a card.
WRT54GL boxes use broadcom ('blobcom') chipsets with non-Free binary only drivers for the 2.4 kernels. No 2.6 / ipv6 for me. :(
I love my WRT54GL--but I'm ready for something better supported.
I'd wait until the dust settles, to be honest--but if you want a recommendation for the interim, here's one:
Don't buy out-of-compliance devices. Boycott Cisco until they fix this problem, either by settling the case and releasing code...or until the trial is complete.
It is a very well written troll.
FTFY.
Visit jerryleecooper .com (link busted on purpose) for more trolls in the same vein. Looks like astroturf.
Try PhotoRec. It's Free Software, not just free download.
Sun Java 1.6 was released under the GPL. GP is not talking about GNU Java.
I might have to pick up one of those if it's the emu10k1 driver. That driver works really, really well.
(Although I keep hearing Creative's sound cards aren't good if you actually care a ton about sound quality--and I write music once in a while.)
And yet sometimes it is a distro thing. gNewSense doesn't ship any binary-only firmware to be uploaded to devices (think Ubuntu restricted drivers).
--BK
There is, actually but it's not as well-known:
http://www.lpi.org/
I'm sorta slowly pursuing these. I think my favorite concept is that LPI does offer an Ubuntu-specific exam on top of the regular certifications you can get.
I make my resume in OO.o and save it to .ODF.
I then take screenshots of it (or print to postscript), then paste the cropped screenshots into OO.o and save that result as a .DOC file.
And hey, it keeps formatting exactly as you want it! :)
Why should spammers be treated differently? You know justice is supposed to be blind, if they prosecute all spammers who perjure in court then they must prosecute EVERYONE who perjures in court. That means if little ol' grandma is getting sued by the RIAA and she says "I never downloaded any music!" but the RIAA produces some log from an ISP showing that her niece e-mailed her some Britney Spears song, well we'd have to persecute grandma for perjury.
Why? The grandma never downloaded any music. The niece did.
I basically made a facebook account so I could remove tags.
I have no applications installed. Installing ONE removes your opt-out.
7zip has a good UI *if* you mainly use the shell integration features (enabled by default.)
7zip is also FSF-Free minus unrar.dll, whereas WinRAR has very restrictive licensing terms.
Flash Support?
Now that's low.
So Microsoft is using the fact that the Linux/Sugar combination doesn't support a competitor's product (which they're trying to kill with their own product) to convince governments to use Windows machines?
That's some crazy marketing sauce, but whatever works I guess.
Personally my XO will be running gNewSense shortly.
You pretty much have understood it. Debian is what the FSF was using, but they wanted to sponsor a distribution that would use their definition of Free. Once that happened they switched internally to gNewSense.
Minor disagreements over the licenses + the fact that non-free/contrib is even offered at all is most of that right there...plus the gNS team wanted the improvements Ubuntu made to the system.