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  1. Intel DPDK on BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations BBC, you managed to re-invent DPDK at the license payers expense.

  2. Re:Sony is not a neutral party to this case on Judge Lets Sony Access GeoHot's PayPal Account · · Score: 2
    Sony should also be required to show that any PayPal payments received from California residents were for the purposes of the PS3 circumvention.
    i.e. not any other payments to GeoHot, for example relating to other perfectly legal* activities such as iPhone jailbreaks.

    * as defined in sections 2,3 of http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-1201-Statement.html

  3. Re:Not necessiarly on Interop Returns 16 Million IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1
    ARIN charges $100 per year, but the fee can be waived if you return old unused blocks:

    " ARIN charges a $100 USD annual fee for coverage of legacy resources under the terms of the Legacy Registration Services Agreement (Legacy RSA). Org IDs already paying annual ISP or end user fees do not pay an additional fee to receive Legacy RSA coverage. There is no initial registration fee for legacy applicants, unless a transfer is required. The annual fee will be $100 USD until 2013, at which time ARIN's Board of Trustees may choose to raise the fee. This fee will be waived until 2013 if the legacy applicant returns at least one-fourth of the number resources covered by the Legacy RSA. ARIN will accept the return of any IPv4 address block /24 or larger. ARIN will send an invoice for the annual fee approximately 60 days before the fee is due."

    So if Nortel etc. stops paying their bill, will their class-A be returned to the free pool automatically?

  4. Re:Let's hope they used the same key as HDCP on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    "Imagine if you were sold a factory automobile, perfectly capable of 100 mpg with no loss of performance, but which had to be "tuned" with special software to do so, at a cost of an extra $1000. It would piss a lot of people off!" No need to imagine... http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/so-long-guvnor-mercedes-will-unlock-top-speed-on-amg-models-in-the-us-for-a-price-154226.php

  5. Two word summary: on Lost Ends · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jacobs Ladder

  6. AMI MegaRAC or similar PCI card on Running Old Desktops Headless? · · Score: 1

    Get an AMI MegaRAC, Dell DRAC or similar. They plug into the PCI bus and provide a java console over separate ethernet. Also have hooks to power/reset the system remotely. Servers use IPMI for similar, but these PCI cards are as close as you'll get for a desktop.

  7. NOT the lost tapes, just a cleanup of existing VT on NASA Has the Lost Tapes · · Score: 1

    ITEM 1 - NASA RELEASES PRELIMINARY RESTORED APOLLO 11 VIDEO â" GSFC (NEW) To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA released partially restored video of a series of 15 memorable moments from the July 20 moonwalk. The source material for the restoration project is the best of the available broadcast-format video. Lowry Digital, Burbank, Calif., is significantly enhancing the video using the companyâ(TM)s proprietary software technology and other restoration techniques. The video is part of a larger restoration project that will be completed in September and provide a newly restored high definition video of the entire Apollo 11 moonwalk. The completed restoration will provide the public with the highest quality video of this historic event. (Video shows the partially restored footage of the Apollo 11 astronauts taking their first steps on the moon and other scenes of significance. NASA plans to release the fully restored Apollo 11 video later this fall. ) TRT: 22:00 Super: NASA Center Contact: Rani Gran, 301.286.8955 HQ Contact: John Yembrick, 202-358-0602 For more info: www.nasa.gov/apollo40th

  8. A-stable multivibrator on Low-Budget Electronics Projects For High School? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Astable multivibrator is a simple circuit, useful (flash lights at high RC values, make sounds at higher values), and teaches the basics of transistor, capacitor and resistor in a practical manner

  9. Depends on usage on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Depends if you are just using it for windows domain services, or if you need to support things like management, federation etc.

  10. Fruh on Computer Analysis Sets NASA History Straight · · Score: 1

    Listen to the tape. OK, so clearly he doesn't say 'for a man' But if you isolate that syllable, it does sound like he says 'fruh' I'd take that as a valid contraction of "for a". So the complete quote is: "That's one small step fruh man"....."One,..giant leap, fur mankind"

  11. Re:WARNING! iTunes v7.0.0.70 vs. Win2K pro on Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    I had the same problem, but only when connecting remotely to the PC using desktop sharing.

    May be related to audio/video driver capabilities.

  12. Finally - reverse sync and roaming sync on Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    Finally, you can sync from ipod to PC/MAc and roam one ipod syncing to multiple (itunes authorized) machines.

  13. Full defails on The Benefits of Hybrid Drives · · Score: 1
  14. Also bans use of RPC abstractions such as CORBA ? on First Draft of GPL Version 3 Released · · Score: 1

    It appears to me that communication between a wide subset of software would be outlawed by the "intimate data communication or control flow" clause.

    This is a much broader definition of "derived work" than was traditionally supported by the filtration/abstraction/comparison tests used by copyright legislation.

    Basically, CORBA and other RPC schemes cannot be used between GPL V3 and other software?

    Where is the definition of "intimate data communication" and "flow control".

    For example, are Win32 API messages included? How about RPC across the internet? Or HTTP messaging between a webserver and a browser?

    It seems to be just as vague and open to interpretation as the previous definitions of program linkage.

  15. Re:Finally! on First Round of AMD Athlon 64 Reviews In · · Score: 2, Informative

    None of the above. It was Digital, with the Alpha AXP chips. It runs native 64bit Unix/VMS and 32bit Windows. Also x86 emulation via the !FX emulator.

  16. Nortel Re:Does LA county even need a public /16? on Confronting Address Space Hijackers · · Score: 1

    Nortel have 47.0.0.0/8

    They now have less than 40,000 employees.

    And only about ~0.001% of that class A IP space is publicly accessible.

    The rest is buried behind NAT/firewalls.

  17. Re:MTV on MTV Movie Awards - Gollum's Acceptance Clip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Best Simpsons opening blackboard line ever:
    "I no longer want my MTV"

  18. Re:Pi on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    A movie that screws with your head...

  19. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    (across the eighth dimension) Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum et-al.

  20. Re:And the source code for it? on Linux to Power Most Motorola Phones · · Score: 1
    Loadable binary modules can only be held closed-source IF they use only the correct set of import symbols.

    A binary module which relies on any of the symbols marked as GPL license exported, MUST BE released as source under the GPL terms.

    A lot of more recent Linux modules are starting to use the GPL export, hence it will become more and more difficult for companies to avoid opening their codebase.

  21. GPL and copyright assigning (to the FSF) - Linux on Ask FSF General Counsel Eben Moglen · · Score: 1

    Do you think it would be advantagous for the major Linux contributors to assign their copyright to the FSF. It appears that a substantial number of GPL violations are based around the increasing prevalence of Linux code. Would FSF sponsorchip of the Linux codebase be a useful method for GPL enforcement (and also perhaps allow RMS to benefit on this GNU/Linux crusade?)

  22. GPL us within embedded systems on Ask FSF General Counsel Eben Moglen · · Score: 1

    Question: What do you view as the enforceable boundary between GPL and non-GPL software on an embedded system. For example, Linux on an embedded system may have non-GPL licensed software within the same runtime image (the new Motorola phones for example). There is no distinction to the end user between the GPL and non-GPL portions. Is that 'mere aggregation' in that the non-GPL application is being distributed, ambeit deeply embedded on an EEPROM along with the GPL software and hence unaccessible to the user, or is that derivation or incorporation of teh GPL'd work? Will the GPL v3 address embedded system boundary?

  23. Festival bootlegging on Instant Concert CDs? · · Score: 1

    The bootleggers at weekend music festivals are usually pretty fast off the mark. I've seen 'previous day' tapes available at Glastonbury, so presumably the dupes are done in a truck or similar. I would think a professional outfit can stream to disk pretty easily these days, and burning a CDR takes only a few minutes longer.

  24. Re:Backwards compatibility on Intel's Itanium 2: Succeed or Fail? · · Score: 1

    The K7 core isn't based on Alpha. Only the bus interface is derived from Alpha architecture.

  25. Intended for embedded systems? on Windows Media Player 9 · · Score: 1

    My guess is that this announcement isn't aimed at all for Linux general desktop users, but is intended for manufacturers who are using Linux on an embedded system. If I were Microsoft, I would be looking to release a proprietary licensed, user-mode library containing core WM9 functionality. Vendors can then link that library, under Microsoft licensing terms, to their own applications and bundle DRM enabled applications 'TiVo etc' into their Linux embedded systems. That doesn't violate any GPL/LGPL licensing so long as the vendor is careful about what other code they link against when producing their binaries for distribution. GPL base code already present on the Linux OS, and LGPL only are acceptable per terms of the GNU licenses. Linking any such WM9 DRM library with for example MPlayer would not be within the GPL license.