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And i makes up for what people might be lacking in size in other departments. A reasonable substitute, I'd say.:-)
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Forgent may be the most striking local example of tech companies looking to exploit their portfolio of patents.
"... mining of patents... for rockect boosters"
Just how many deals? Forgent's chief technical officer, Ken Kalinoski, shows off a two-page list of companies that Forgent thinks have used the technology that yielded the first two deals. Of the many possible uses for the technology, this list is only of digital camera makers. "And," he says, smiling, "it's in fairly small type." Forgent plans to contact every one.
"Basically, the team entered the mine looking for coal," Kalinoski says. "After some picking at the top layers of rock, we found a small diamond. Upon this find, we retrenched and changed our strategy to no longer look for coal, but rather look for large chunks of diamond".
All these are news paper cut-outs you can find on their site. I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you want to file a patent and make money of licensing, that's fine. But when you file a patent and grant royalty-free use, wait for people to adopt your technology, and then suddenly decide to charge people for using the technology, then that's wrong. You have to second guess their motives?
What I find most appalling about this is the fact that Forgent is quite proud of what they've done. I remember the previous/. articles about this case, and the links to the 'success stories' on Forgent's site, explaining how ingenious they were for buying companies (Compression Labs in this case) to increase their patent portfolio, only to extort everybody for money.
Sure Sony has a lot of cash in the bank, but think this, most companies will settle before going to court - easy money: pay, or else!
Ingeious maybe, but immoral in my book. Even amoral in Forgents case.
You should be able to get a secure connection via SSH tunneling, and that connection can be compressed if necessary -- there is copious documentation for all this, so I won't repeat how to set it up here, but it's very commonly done.
I'll help here:
Server side:
Uncomment line in sshd_config, enabling: X11Forwarding yes
Client side (Unix, GNU/Linux):
% ssh -2CX host (2 = SSH2, C = enable compression, X = enable X11 forwarding) % startx
Client side (Windows):
Get Cygwin/XFree86. It has an easy installer wizard featuring on-the-fly download of packages: just select XFree86-base among the available packages, and the SSH client too if it's not already selected. Easy as cake!
Fire up your X server - there are a number of ways to do this, try peeking into the startx.bat file. Anyway, use the -rootless switch to make the X server window run minimized, and have each program start in a separate window in the Windows environment. If you want native Windows decorations, try -multiwindow.
After that you have access to a nice bash shell, where you can run the same commands as above for Unix, GNU/Linux.
If you prefer a native win32 SSH client, get PuTTY and enable 'X11 forwaring' in it's preferences window for each host.
The question is, is the REQUIREMENT that all systems contain Free [...] software good or not.
Assuming this is Free, as in speech, I don't think this as a REQUIREMENT is such a good idea. I believe Bruce Perens' Sincere Choice principle of 'Competition by merit' is a better (more fair) way for countries/organisations/etc. to adopt FOSS. That is, providing a level playing field by observing:
The customer should be able to choose between a number of software products, solely upon their merits. Where Open Source / Free Software are adequate or better, they will win that customer. Where proprietary products convey sufficient added value, they will get the sale.
Of course, there are usually more issues involved, e.g. FOSS would almost always be the right choice for really poor countries (price), and for government institutions (ensuring constitutional rights of citizens), but this is another subject - essentially the point above makes sense, and by following it we'll be taken more seriously in the long run, in my opinion.
I do acknowledge the point raised by the honorable gentleman elsewhere in this thread, about closed source vendors being able to create open source software. However, I don't think this is going to happen in MS's case with it's current business models and priorities, and such.
First of all, it's a Bad Thing. This particular cracker did it to give other crackers a head start of the sysadmins. Even if he did it in the cyberpunk 'information wants to be free' style, it would still be a Bad Thing.
but if there is no quick fix then perhpas its a thing for a "need to know" basis
Even if there's no quick fix you can always pull the plug on your servers - if you know there's an exploit, of course.
Well, at work I use Arcserve to backup files from some Red Hat servers via the Unix agent. While I'm not jumping up and down and waving my hands, this solution works, it's easy to setup and it's not that expensive, actually.
Another note. Arcserve used to crash my NetWare servers time and again, but so far the Unix agent has been running without problems on Red Hat 7.3 - at least for me.:-)
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." -- JFK
I turn everything on in 'Tabbed browsing' preferences. In addition to 'open in background' enable:
- Ctrl+click and middle-click (opens in new tab)
- Ctrl+Enter (from URL field, opens in new tab)
This should be the default setup, really. Works wonder for downloading pr0n: press and hold down control key, click every thumbnail in sight, and the links will open in separate tabs in the background.
Perhaps some of this is unneeded crap included by the packager
This is exactly the case! I think it would be best if the packagers just shipped a basic setup with the most common applications, and maybe some helper install tool to go along with it all, if you need more applications.
I've always been irritated by the crowded program panels provided by your basic ditro's default setup - I even bet new users are easily overwhelmed by this problem! Sure, I know, maybe you can't expect the users to figure out how to install more applications if they need them? A trade-off perhaps?
Anyway, I've seen clean setups provided by using the Ximian Installer which provides different package categories (including a VERY basic one). Also, I believe if you use Debian, you could skip the 'GNOME desktop' option during tasksel and instead apt-get some fundamental gnome package (dunno which one), which will resolve the rest of the dependencies nicely and leave you with a basic setup.
Ah, I've been a customer of Laserdisken's for years, since the good old LaserDisc days. Jan, where are you!?:-)
It's true, they're going on to function as a intermediary between the Danes and the offshore distributers. Same goes for Axel Music by the way! However, what has always kept me from importing my own titles - which is even cheaper - is that with a local shop such as Laserdisken, you have the service. It's less troublesome to get a new copy of a defective disc from your local shop than it is with a shop that works overseas. Axel Music, for one, has stated that they can offer you telephone service and such, but they can't actually accept your offshore bought discs and return them for you if they are defective. This is unfortunate.
Some offshore shops provide courier services, with 2-3 day delivery time. Now, none of us know yet what Laserdisken can bring us, even if they manage to keep the store in Copenhagen alive - but I fear they can't provide the same great service as before, compared to what you can get if you just import the discs yourself.
I believe our Minister Of Culture has also stated that he will now work within the EU to drop the import clause, but I fear he doesn't have the time. If what you say is true about him, then I don't understand why his party voted for the EUCD - in it's current form - in the first place.
By the way, I have already signed up with Digital Forbruger, and I encourage every Dane who is concerned with their rights in the digital age to do the same. I also do my part to get these issues heard by the people in our goverment through other means - you know, there really is such a thing as six degrees of separation!:-)
You say:
"you are always allowed to circumvent the copy-prevention if you do it to exersise your fair use rights"
and also:
"The only impact on fair use is that you are not allowed to break the copy-prevention to make a copy"
I fear the line beteeen *circumventing* and *breaking* is a little vague. It's like coding around a patent without violating it (impossible), not that I wish to mix these matters.:-)
Ok that's it, now I *am* getting the new Alien Quadrilogy box this year.
Anyway, if this is true, then I guess we'll have to watch out for our Columbia/Tristar releases - they had a some track record with laser rot on the LaserDisc format.
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Heh, and I can image the geek saying to the girl: "Hey baby, wanna se my unit?".
Ripped off from Butthead - shameless, I know. :-)
z[geek babble filter off] :-)
zAnd i makes up for what people might be lacking in size in other departments. A reasonable substitute, I'd say.
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Come on, geeez!!! :-)
On a more interesting note, Frontier Labs recently released their new MP3 player, the NEX IA. From the site:
Supports multiple formats (MP3 and WMATM) and emerging formats such as Ogg Vorbis through firmware upgrades.It's almost official then, go OGG! Can't wait!
z... that's Chief Lizard Wrangler to you, dude! :-)
Jokes aside, this situation is quite unfortunate and I hope it gets sorted out soon. Less fighting, more coding - can't we all just get along?
zWell excuse the hell out of me!
Go ahead, read the previously linked articles on Forgent's own site.
Forgent may be the most striking local example of tech companies looking to exploit their portfolio of patents.
"... mining of patents ... for rockect boosters"
Just how many deals? Forgent's chief technical officer, Ken Kalinoski, shows off a two-page list of companies that Forgent thinks have used the technology that yielded the first two deals. Of the many possible uses for the technology, this list is only of digital camera makers. "And," he says, smiling, "it's in fairly small type." Forgent plans to contact every one.
"Basically, the team entered the mine looking for coal," Kalinoski says. "After some picking at the top layers of rock, we found a small diamond. Upon this find, we retrenched and changed our strategy to no longer look for coal, but rather look for large chunks of diamond".
All these are news paper cut-outs you can find on their site. I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you want to file a patent and make money of licensing, that's fine. But when you file a patent and grant royalty-free use, wait for people to adopt your technology, and then suddenly decide to charge people for using the technology, then that's wrong. You have to second guess their motives?
zWhat I find most appalling about this is the fact that Forgent is quite proud of what they've done. I remember the previous /. articles about this case, and the links to the 'success stories' on Forgent's site, explaining how ingenious they were for buying companies (Compression Labs in this case) to increase their patent portfolio, only to extort everybody for money.
Sure Sony has a lot of cash in the bank, but think this, most companies will settle before going to court - easy money: pay, or else!
Ingeious maybe, but immoral in my book. Even amoral in Forgents case.
z"... two-four".
Geez!
zDon't forget the subliminal "Embrace, extend and extinguish" part. :-)
zIt's only once a year, dude. Give the guys a break. :-)
zI'll help here:
Server side:
Uncomment line in sshd_config, enabling:
X11Forwarding yes
Client side (Unix, GNU/Linux):
% ssh -2CX host (2 = SSH2, C = enable compression, X = enable X11 forwarding)% startx
Client side (Windows):
Get Cygwin/XFree86. It has an easy installer wizard featuring on-the-fly download of packages: just select XFree86-base among the available packages, and the SSH client too if it's not already selected. Easy as cake!
Fire up your X server - there are a number of ways to do this, try peeking into the startx.bat file. Anyway, use the -rootless switch to make the X server window run minimized, and have each program start in a separate window in the Windows environment. If you want native Windows decorations, try -multiwindow.
After that you have access to a nice bash shell, where you can run the same commands as above for Unix, GNU/Linux.
If you prefer a native win32 SSH client, get PuTTY and enable 'X11 forwaring' in it's preferences window for each host.
zAssuming this is Free, as in speech, I don't think this as a REQUIREMENT is such a good idea. I believe Bruce Perens' Sincere Choice principle of 'Competition by merit' is a better (more fair) way for countries/organisations/etc. to adopt FOSS. That is, providing a level playing field by observing:
Of course, there are usually more issues involved, e.g. FOSS would almost always be the right choice for really poor countries (price), and for government institutions (ensuring constitutional rights of citizens), but this is another subject - essentially the point above makes sense, and by following it we'll be taken more seriously in the long run, in my opinion.
I do acknowledge the point raised by the honorable gentleman elsewhere in this thread, about closed source vendors being able to create open source software. However, I don't think this is going to happen in MS's case with it's current business models and priorities, and such.
Just my two cents.
zFirst of all, it's a Bad Thing. This particular cracker did it to give other crackers a head start of the sysadmins. Even if he did it in the cyberpunk 'information wants to be free' style, it would still be a Bad Thing.
but if there is no quick fix then perhpas its a thing for a "need to know" basisEven if there's no quick fix you can always pull the plug on your servers - if you know there's an exploit, of course.
zSlightly off-topic but, I'm wondering. How do you _really_ meet this criteria, for your app?
Would they ask to look at your code? :-)
zWell, at work I use Arcserve to backup files from some Red Hat servers via the Unix agent. While I'm not jumping up and down and waving my hands, this solution works, it's easy to setup and it's not that expensive, actually.
Another note. Arcserve used to crash my NetWare servers time and again, but so far the Unix agent has been running without problems on Red Hat 7.3 - at least for me. :-)
zHell, the original title would still do: '... in the Land of the Lounge Lizards'. :-)
zSo first we have a 'Special Edition', then a 'Super Collectors Special Edition'.
Is it me, or is this beginning to sound like those soap and vacuum cleaner commercials on TV?
I'll have the 3-in-1 Matrix Super Special Collector's Limited Edition, then! ;-)
zMakes me wonder ...
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
-- JFK
RIP.
Imagine it ...
zI turn everything on in 'Tabbed browsing' preferences. In addition to 'open in background' enable:
- Ctrl+click and middle-click (opens in new tab)
- Ctrl+Enter (from URL field, opens in new tab)
This should be the default setup, really. Works wonder for downloading pr0n: press and hold down control key, click every thumbnail in sight, and the links will open in separate tabs in the background.
I was referring to a recent story here on /. - not OTP. :-)
zHave you heard about the one with the company that created an unbreakeble encryption scheme with a one million bit key? :-)
z
This is exactly the case! I think it would be best if the packagers just shipped a basic setup with the most common applications, and maybe some helper install tool to go along with it all, if you need more applications.
I've always been irritated by the crowded program panels provided by your basic ditro's default setup - I even bet new users are easily overwhelmed by this problem! Sure, I know, maybe you can't expect the users to figure out how to install more applications if they need them? A trade-off perhaps?
Anyway, I've seen clean setups provided by using the Ximian Installer which provides different package categories (including a VERY basic one). Also, I believe if you use Debian, you could skip the 'GNOME desktop' option during tasksel and instead apt-get some fundamental gnome package (dunno which one), which will resolve the rest of the dependencies nicely and leave you with a basic setup.
z
Remember?
zFrom 'Back To The Future' movies - it's Doc's line. :-)
Anyway, nice work GNOME team - now, to the future!
zAh, I've been a customer of Laserdisken's for years, since the good old LaserDisc days. Jan, where are you!? :-)
It's true, they're going on to function as a intermediary between the Danes and the offshore distributers. Same goes for Axel Music by the way! However, what has always kept me from importing my own titles - which is even cheaper - is that with a local shop such as Laserdisken, you have the service. It's less troublesome to get a new copy of a defective disc from your local shop than it is with a shop that works overseas. Axel Music, for one, has stated that they can offer you telephone service and such, but they can't actually accept your offshore bought discs and return them for you if they are defective. This is unfortunate.Some offshore shops provide courier services, with 2-3 day delivery time. Now, none of us know yet what Laserdisken can bring us, even if they manage to keep the store in Copenhagen alive - but I fear they can't provide the same great service as before, compared to what you can get if you just import the discs yourself.
I believe our Minister Of Culture has also stated that he will now work within the EU to drop the import clause, but I fear he doesn't have the time. If what you say is true about him, then I don't understand why his party voted for the EUCD - in it's current form - in the first place.
By the way, I have already signed up with Digital Forbruger, and I encourage every Dane who is concerned with their rights in the digital age to do the same. I also do my part to get these issues heard by the people in our goverment through other means - you know, there really is such a thing as six degrees of separation! :-)
You say:
"you are always allowed to circumvent the copy-prevention if you do it to exersise your fair use rights"
and also:
"The only impact on fair use is that you are not allowed to break the copy-prevention to make a copy"
I fear the line beteeen *circumventing* and *breaking* is a little vague. It's like coding around a patent without violating it (impossible), not that I wish to mix these matters. :-)
zOk that's it, now I *am* getting the new Alien Quadrilogy box this year.
Anyway, if this is true, then I guess we'll have to watch out for our Columbia/Tristar releases - they had a some track record with laser rot on the LaserDisc format.
z