I've got to say that this is *ridiculous*. The US government is paying (using it's own money) to rebuild Iraq and should do whatever the hell they want. It's their money. If they want to build a huge "DISNEY WORLD IRAQ", more power to them.
No, they don't have the right to do that. Even if the US pours its entire fucking budget for the next 50 years into Iraq, it has no right to enforce its own standards on Iraq. It will be the right of the Iraqi people to determine for themselves what standards they pick. It's their country, not the US's.
Jeezuz some of you take things literally. If my company (normally heavily anti-OSS and pro-proprietary software) is doing it, and lots of other companies I know are doing it, then it stands to reason that a lot of other people are thinking in the same sense.
I stand by my opinion that this is a bad move on Sun's part. People don't like subscription licensing, and their customer base is going to drop as a result.
I like Sun's hardware and software, but as an experienced sysadmin, I'd be stupid to argue that you don't get better bang-for-buck using Linux/x86 for many applications.
It'd be nice to have all the features in these editors, but the one thing that puts me off is that I like the vi keystrokes. Does anyone make an IDE (not Emacs) that also has a mode where vi keystrokes are allowed?
Perhaps you're not familiar with Australia's weather: it was hot. There's no sense in dressing up to the hilt in suit and tie when it's 37 degrees centigrade outside. Did you want attendees dropping like flies as they walked across the lawns from one conference room to another?
LCA is a technical conference, held in a relaxed country, attended by friendly, informal people whose work attire generally consists of jeans and t-shirts. We weren't there to peddle our wares to big business, and if big business wanted to be there, then they'll have to damned well accept us on our terms.
If you want suit and tie, go to a stuffy US business expo.
...and how is different from the parent comment, which said it should NEVER be done?
If I can't hear the artifacts, then presumably there's other people who can't also. If it works for them, then I say full-steam-ahead on converting mp3's to ogg.
...as a test, I converted a bunch of my MP3's (typically 128kbit/s) to ogg. It sounded fine.
The only people who complain about the sound from converting like this are uptight audiophiles, typically the same wankers who complain that CD sound isn't as "full bodied" as the sound from vinyl.
...if a normal CD player can read these CD's, that a CDROM drive can't also be made to read them. The data is there, it has to be available to be read in order to play it. Hence, there should be a way to get a computer to read it.
Now, I do understand the bit about it having corrupted indexes, etc. But can't surely there must be a way to tell the CDROM drive to ignore the index in the same way that a normal CD player obviously does, for this to work?
how can you -not- be a fan of BSD licensing? You can do anything you want with the code!
...and that's possibly the problem. If I write something and release it for the world to use, I want them to give their changes back to the world also. I want it to stay free.
The two big parties have enough funding to brainwash the masses into thinking that they are the only parties capable of winning, yet their policies differ very little.
The net effect is that by voting for either of them, you are voting for the status quo - nothing ever happens and they keep lining their pockets.
Vote for someone else. Left or right, it doesn't matter, just shake out the incumbents.
Keep in mind there are good reasons for the region coding. The games do have to be programmed differently if they are going to be run on NTSC or PAL. The European GameCube has different video out formats than the US/Japan one does.
I think I'm smart enough to read the box to decide whether or not it can run on my TV. I don't need region coding doing it for me.
Were holders of this document under an NDA prior to its escape onto the net?
And if so, does that mean it's illegal to use it for this purpose in some jurisdictions?
Or alternatively, if not... does that mean we could get insiders to sneak out documentation of any device that we don't have drivers for and then legally code drivers for them?
Although they are a step towards higher security, chroot jails are not infallible.
If there's a security hole in an application, it's still possible for an attacker to get root (but yes, they'll be confined to the chroot environment).
But then, under Linux, at least, the attacked will still be able to mount/proc, if they find a way of getting binaries into the machine, which will enable a number of possible attacks on the machine, by altering stuff under/proc/sys.
It may also be possible for the attacker to create device files (eg,/dev/hda) and write directly to the disk.
So, all in all, even if you're running in a chroot jail, it helps to make sure your apps are running as non-root, if you can. authbind is your friend.
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No, they don't have the right to do that. Even if the US pours its entire fucking budget for the next 50 years into Iraq, it has no right to enforce its own standards on Iraq. It will be the right of the Iraqi people to determine for themselves what standards they pick. It's their country, not the US's.
Money from the US is effectively a donation.
...is a completely clear notebook. :)
Jeezuz some of you take things literally. If my company (normally heavily anti-OSS and pro-proprietary software) is doing it, and lots of other companies I know are doing it, then it stands to reason that a lot of other people are thinking in the same sense.
I stand by my opinion that this is a bad move on Sun's part. People don't like subscription licensing, and their customer base is going to drop as a result.
I like Sun's hardware and software, but as an experienced sysadmin, I'd be stupid to argue that you don't get better bang-for-buck using Linux/x86 for many applications.
...Sun won't be around much longer.
We're moving our servers to Linux as it is, so a move like this is hardly going to make us think twice about it.
It'd be nice to have all the features in these editors, but the one thing that puts me off is that I like the vi keystrokes. Does anyone make an IDE (not Emacs) that also has a mode where vi keystrokes are allowed?
Windows ... makes a hell of a good client
disgruntled Microsoft wannabes have poured huge quantities of often inferior ... open source software
We don't want to be Microsoft. We want software that works. And our software works. Yours didn't.
...but will I ever be able to access my Commodore 64's tape drive over TCP/IP?
Perhaps you're not familiar with Australia's weather: it was hot. There's no sense in dressing up to the hilt in suit and tie when it's 37 degrees centigrade outside. Did you want attendees dropping like flies as they walked across the lawns from one conference room to another?
LCA is a technical conference, held in a relaxed country, attended by friendly, informal people whose work attire generally consists of jeans and t-shirts. We weren't there to peddle our wares to big business, and if big business wanted to be there, then they'll have to damned well accept us on our terms.
If you want suit and tie, go to a stuffy US business expo.
...and how is different from the parent comment, which said it should NEVER be done?
If I can't hear the artifacts, then presumably there's other people who can't also. If it works for them, then I say full-steam-ahead on converting mp3's to ogg.
What's with all these question marks replacing apostrophes?
...as a test, I converted a bunch of my MP3's (typically 128kbit/s) to ogg. It sounded fine.
The only people who complain about the sound from converting like this are uptight audiophiles, typically the same wankers who complain that CD sound isn't as "full bodied" as the sound from vinyl.
...for proportional representation, with compulsory voting. It's the only fair way to conduct a democracy.
I hope I can get a firmware upgrade for my compass, when this happens.
Bring on the open-hardware compasses!
...if a normal CD player can read these CD's, that a CDROM drive can't also be made to read them. The data is there, it has to be available to be read in order to play it. Hence, there should be a way to get a computer to read it.
Now, I do understand the bit about it having corrupted indexes, etc. But can't surely there must be a way to tell the CDROM drive to ignore the index in the same way that a normal CD player obviously does, for this to work?
If this is any indication how how we're going to be treated when seeing films in the future, then count me out.
Metal detectors in airports I can understand. It's going too far in cinemas.
I have a pressing need to run Iplanet software on a laptop all the time ;)
...and that's possibly the problem. If I write something and release it for the world to use, I want them to give their changes back to the world also. I want it to stay free.
Suing is pointless now. It's out of the box and nothing they can do will put it back in there.
yeah, I know. avifile works well, too.
But I want an open source codec.
And besides, surely the windows binary codecs will only work on x86 machines?
...they reverse engineer the format of Windows Media itself, and make an open-source codec for it.
I wanna play WMA streams on my Unix box, without having to use M$ binary only windoze codecs.
...is designed to favour the incumbents.
The two big parties have enough funding to brainwash the masses into thinking that they are the only parties capable of winning, yet their policies differ very little.
The net effect is that by voting for either of them, you are voting for the status quo - nothing ever happens and they keep lining their pockets.
Vote for someone else. Left or right, it doesn't matter, just shake out the incumbents.
I think I'm smart enough to read the box to decide whether or not it can run on my TV. I don't need region coding doing it for me.
Competent, or just wealthy?
It's very easy to win legal cases by either buying the enemy, buying the lawyers, buying the judges or just by buying the government.
Were holders of this document under an NDA prior to its escape onto the net?
And if so, does that mean it's illegal to use it for this purpose in some jurisdictions?
Or alternatively, if not ... does that mean we could get insiders to sneak out documentation of any device that we don't have drivers for and then legally code drivers for them?
Although they are a step towards higher security, chroot jails are not infallible.
If there's a security hole in an application, it's still possible for an attacker to get root (but yes, they'll be confined to the chroot environment).
But then, under Linux, at least, the attacked will still be able to mount /proc, if they find a way of getting binaries into the machine, which will enable a number of possible attacks on the machine, by altering stuff under /proc/sys.
It may also be possible for the attacker to create device files (eg, /dev/hda) and write directly to the disk.
So, all in all, even if you're running in a chroot jail, it helps to make sure your apps are running as non-root, if you can. authbind is your friend.