Believe me, after spending a solid week in a studio and dropping more than $7,000 on an album, you'd appreciate it if someone paid you the $5 for the CD you just pressed.
Why does it cost $7,000? That seems like an awful lot of money. You could buy a high end G5 PowerMac for that much and record it with GarageBand in your basement or garage. Then give it away for free to people to experience your art. If someone likes your music enough they will hire you on and you will become their court musician playing tunes at their estate during elaborate dinners for rich guests.
OK, maybe not that last part.. it's a little too Renaissance.
Strange, I thought free meant you didn't have to pay for it. 'Free' does not necessarily mean open source.
Not exactly. To the Free Software Foundation, "Free" has *always* been about being "open source" as you would put it. "Open source" was a relatively recent term adopted by people because people kept confusing zero cost with freedom to modify the source code and do what you want with it. RMS has been using the term "free" to describe that for decades.
Heck, give me then 3600rpm disks with transfer speeds of 20mb/s and capacity of 2Tb! I'd gladly have dozen of them to put my dvd collection on.
You can easily get a 7200 RPM 250GB (which is just around 2Tb) ATA disk drive for under $200. And 20mb/s?? My LAN transfers data faster than that. These drives will easily top out over 45MB/s. Also, I store my DVD collection quite easily on these 250GB disks in a RAID setup.
People are really blowing this out of proportion. It's really not that hard to do. You just throw a TXT record into your zone that specifies what servers are allowed to send for your domain.
Mine was pretty simple since I send and receive mail through the same hosts (the ones specified in my MX records:
blah.com IN TXT "v=spf1 mx -all"
Seriously just go to the SPF site and use the wizard to create your record.
Could you provide examples of "real operating systems designed to be secure from the ground up"? I'd like to know.
Trusted Solaris from Sun and SecureOS from Secure Computing used in their Sidewinder firewall are just two off the top of my head.
It doesn't necessarily need to be commercial either since there's TrustedBSD for instance. I guess I shouldn't say "designed from scratch" since many of them build on original BSD or System V code as a starting point, but there are certainly MAC based systems built from scratch out there.. probably custom jobs unavailable to us outside the government, but they're out there.
Again, I'm not saying OpenBSD is insecure, far from it. OpenBSD is probably the most secure operating system you'll get without introducing complicated mandatory access controls (type enforcement, RBAC, whatever you want to call it), but we shouldn't kid ourselves by saying that it's as secure as other operating systems available.
While not afraid to point out OpenBSD's shortcomings as a desktop OS, it's still a good tour of possibly the most secure OS.
Hardly. OpenBSD is a hobbiest's toy compared to some of the real secure operating system out there. OpenBSD doesn't even have mandatory access controls. How can you call something "the most secure OS" when there is still a concept of a root user that has access to the entire system?
Anyway, it is a nice general purpose operating system and is *very* secure compared to others like Linux, Windows and FreeBSD, but it's certainly not that secure compared to real operating systems designed to be secure from the ground up.
We tax OURSELVES. People who use a third-person pronoun for a democratic government are usually just whining that they got outvoted.
Actually corrupt politicians tax us. They're controlled by corporate interests who couldn't care less about the common citizen. Corporations hardly pay any taxes at all yet they have the most influence on our government. Strange.
Hmmmm.. The step to Linux 3.0. Could be a PR disaster. 2 is a sexy sequel, 3 is usually a not so sexy sequel. 4 is the beginning of something mature and steady, but 3 is just... well it's just a number!:E
They could take the Sun route and just renumber the next major version to Linux 7. Solaris 2.6 -> Solaris 7, Linux 2.6 -> Linux 7.
Maybe the FSF or someone in that league should try to trademark Open* names and reserve them for Open programs?
Or will it be OpenSource like the name hints at?
Since when has Open* meant something was open source? Ever use OpenWindows? Adding Open in front of everything trying to indicate it's free software is a relatively new manifestation. I doubt the FSF cares since they prefer to use the term free.
The answer is that you can start a protest site, just don't mention the company you're protesting ANYWHERE in the domain name. How about monopolistic-radio-sucks.com?
Barring sudden improvements on the speed of light, any geosync satellite is going to suck mud through a straw from a latency perspective. There is just no way around that 75,000 km round trip.
I can't believe nobody can figure a way around the speed of light limitation. We have some of the brightest minds of all time alive today and we're still limited to 300,000 km/s. On Star Trek they have subspace radio.. why aren't people doing more research into sending signals over subspace like in Star Trek? It's a huge untapped market. Imagine being able to communicate between Earth and Pluto in a millisecond!
Thus the village was now free from the outrageous acts of the cock, and beautiful flowers came to bloom in the garden of butterflies.
I think what this booklet is trying to say is that the cock (North Korea/Kim Jong Il?) eventually loses in the end despite all it's attempts to puff out it's chest and appear superior in an attempt to destroy the butterfly (the western free world/America). In the end, freedom will prevail over the drowning sorrow of the dead cock, Kim Jong Il. Once the cock is defeated, the free world will rejoice in a garden of beautiful flowers (freedom). I'm amazed they allowed this booklet to be published on their official site!
Take a look at Micrsofts behaviour with MS Office, it's a complete cash cow because they can update it when they want and force people into upgrading with changed document types.
Hmm? I still install Office97 on any brand new computer I get and it works just fine. Why would I need to upgrade it? All the functionality I need to do reports is there and it's 7 year old software.
Re: the common perception of "price gouging" (not yours of course), today yet again my Gateway wintel box crapped out. 4th time in 3.5 years. Hardware failure. The Dell next to it crapped out a few months earlier. 3rd time in 1.5 years. Meanwhile my 1999 PowerMac G4 and 1995 PowerMac 7600 have chugged along without a hitch to this day.
I've had the exact opposite problem. My Dell Inspiron 4000 purchased in 1999 is still chugging along without any problems at all. The only thing I've replaced was the battery since it no longer holds a charge. On the other hand, my 800MHz G3 iBook which I purchased in November 2002 has been shipped back to Apple for major repairs twice now (first was the major logic board fiasco, second was a flaky backlight when opening the iBook lid more than 30 degrees) as well as having a power brick fail and have to be replaced.
Thank god I purchaed the 3 year Applecare warranty or I would've been shit out of luck. The logic board failed in 11 months (October 2003) and they've extended the logic board replacement program for this faulty product line, but the backlight problems didn't start until March 2004, well out of the original 1 year warranty period.
So basically my one and only foray into the world of Macintoshes has left me with a very disgusted feeling. You can say I just had bad luck and got a lemon and I'd agree.. that happens, but it makes me seriously reconsider spending another $2000 on a new Powerbook or desktop system when I know what a pain in the ass the current system has proved to be. Who knows, I will probably still buy a 12" Powerbook when the time comes to replace this box, but the IBM Thinkpads are looking nicer and nicer these days and are much more powerful and cheaper. Oh well.
Dual Layer Media is not mass-produced at the moment so it's to come accross it in the market place and when you do find it then its damn expensive. I saw someone selling Dual Layer Media for $14/disc
Is this going to allow perfect DVD rips then or is this dual layer support proprietary to computers? i.e. Can you play these dual layer discs in a normal settop DVD player without doing something odd like flipping over the disc halfway through?
He wants to try Linux on PPC? Christ, why do people have to justify their desires to a bunch of slashdotters? HE JUST WANTS TO.
Well, as people have explained, he's probably shit out of luck since the video card isn't supported fully. Stick with an old G3 B&W or something if you want to mess around with Linux on a PPC and leave your beautiful new 12" G4 Powerbook to run MacOS X. Alternatively you can give it to me and I'll send you my 800Mhz G3 iBook which should work fine with Linux.:-)
All the coolest hackers use DivX to re-encode their DVDs so they take up only 700-1400 megs so they can fit it on a couple of CDs for archival purposes.
To really make sense, they would have to create a new, regulated top level domain (.kids)
Regulated to which country's standards? In Europe they have nudity on broadcast TV. In Saudi Arabia they'd cut out your eyes if you looked at a nude woman. No, this is definitely better done on a country-by-country basis. I would assume kids.us will be based on Christian morals since the US is over 77% Christian... they may throw a little Jewish morality in there as well to satisfy them. I wouldn't expect to see naked wiccan witches worshipping satan though.
And then lazy parents will spend $59.95 on software filters that restrict home browsing to "kids.us".
I don't understand this. Why would they be lazy parents if they want to restrict their children's computer usage to a safe domain? Do you think children should be browsing porn sites and getting into instant messaging sessions with pedophiles? Or are you a quack that thinks you should be watching over your child's shoulder 24/7 like a net nazi? If you don't let them explore on their own (without a confined space) then they will be nothing but your little pawn. The only thing that breeds is more Windows users.
Ifr you wait one month, the fixes to the fixes will be out.
And if you're lucky the hackers will have patched the bug for you by then so that other hackers don't get access to their new zombie host and mess around. Hackers, auto-updating UNIX systems for admins since 1969.
On a related note, since this is an article about the matrix... WTF was up with the two sequels?? The first movie rocked but then it just went all downhill from there. I don't get the ending of Revolutions either. Did Neo's body die and "The One" lifeforce just was absorbed back into the Matrix or what? It didn't seem clear to me.
Oh come on now, let's not concern ourselves with trivialities. Sure, there's only 250 million legitimately shipped versions of Windows and 600 million users, but hey, did we mention we have 600 million users!?;-)
Remember they dont have to support unregistered customers if they dont want too....
What I'd like to see is Windows switch to a more corporate model of paying a smaller price for the software and then forcing people to purchase an annual support contract if they want updates and support. In order for corporate and home customers to receive any updates you would need to have a valid support license agreement in order to login to a protected site to download patches (either automatically or in bundles for offline installation, etc.). These patches would be signed to your unique identifying key to prevent redistribution. This would allow Microsoft to generate additional revenue without forcing people into updating if they choose to run insecure pirated copies of Windows. It's a win-win situation for everyone except software pirates and your average home user and educational sites.. actually it's a win-win situation for Microsoft and open source software, but let's forget about the little people for a moment to think about my fantasy world.
The same seems to be true with making DNS changes (new IP address, etc). However, doesn't that mean they will have to adjust the TTL value of the domains all the way down to 5 minutes, which will raise the number of queries skyhigh compared to what they are at now?
No. Just because the.com and.net TLDs have a lower TTL should have nothing to do with the TTL on subdomains of that. You'd continue to cache a second level domain per the definition of whatever the administrators set in their zones.
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Why does it cost $7,000? That seems like an awful lot of money. You could buy a high end G5 PowerMac for that much and record it with GarageBand in your basement or garage. Then give it away for free to people to experience your art. If someone likes your music enough they will hire you on and you will become their court musician playing tunes at their estate during elaborate dinners for rich guests.
OK, maybe not that last part.. it's a little too Renaissance.
Not exactly. To the Free Software Foundation, "Free" has *always* been about being "open source" as you would put it. "Open source" was a relatively recent term adopted by people because people kept confusing zero cost with freedom to modify the source code and do what you want with it. RMS has been using the term "free" to describe that for decades.
You can easily get a 7200 RPM 250GB (which is just around 2Tb) ATA disk drive for under $200. And 20mb/s?? My LAN transfers data faster than that. These drives will easily top out over 45MB/s. Also, I store my DVD collection quite easily on these 250GB disks in a RAID setup.
Mine was pretty simple since I send and receive mail through the same hosts (the ones specified in my MX records:
blah.com IN TXT "v=spf1 mx -all"
Seriously just go to the SPF site and use the wizard to create your record.
Trusted Solaris from Sun and SecureOS from Secure Computing used in their Sidewinder firewall are just two off the top of my head.
It doesn't necessarily need to be commercial either since there's TrustedBSD for instance. I guess I shouldn't say "designed from scratch" since many of them build on original BSD or System V code as a starting point, but there are certainly MAC based systems built from scratch out there.. probably custom jobs unavailable to us outside the government, but they're out there.
Again, I'm not saying OpenBSD is insecure, far from it. OpenBSD is probably the most secure operating system you'll get without introducing complicated mandatory access controls (type enforcement, RBAC, whatever you want to call it), but we shouldn't kid ourselves by saying that it's as secure as other operating systems available.
Hardly. OpenBSD is a hobbiest's toy compared to some of the real secure operating system out there. OpenBSD doesn't even have mandatory access controls. How can you call something "the most secure OS" when there is still a concept of a root user that has access to the entire system?
Anyway, it is a nice general purpose operating system and is *very* secure compared to others like Linux, Windows and FreeBSD, but it's certainly not that secure compared to real operating systems designed to be secure from the ground up.
Actually corrupt politicians tax us. They're controlled by corporate interests who couldn't care less about the common citizen. Corporations hardly pay any taxes at all yet they have the most influence on our government. Strange.
They could take the Sun route and just renumber the next major version to Linux 7. Solaris 2.6 -> Solaris 7, Linux 2.6 -> Linux 7.
Since when has Open* meant something was open source? Ever use OpenWindows? Adding Open in front of everything trying to indicate it's free software is a relatively new manifestation. I doubt the FSF cares since they prefer to use the term free.
The answer is that you can start a protest site, just don't mention the company you're protesting ANYWHERE in the domain name. How about monopolistic-radio-sucks.com?
I can't believe nobody can figure a way around the speed of light limitation. We have some of the brightest minds of all time alive today and we're still limited to 300,000 km/s. On Star Trek they have subspace radio.. why aren't people doing more research into sending signals over subspace like in Star Trek? It's a huge untapped market. Imagine being able to communicate between Earth and Pluto in a millisecond!
I think what this booklet is trying to say is that the cock (North Korea/Kim Jong Il?) eventually loses in the end despite all it's attempts to puff out it's chest and appear superior in an attempt to destroy the butterfly (the western free world/America). In the end, freedom will prevail over the drowning sorrow of the dead cock, Kim Jong Il. Once the cock is defeated, the free world will rejoice in a garden of beautiful flowers (freedom). I'm amazed they allowed this booklet to be published on their official site!
Who are the politicians likely to listen to?
Well, I would think the voters. All the lobbyist money in the world isn't worth shit if nobody votes to reelect you.
Hmm? I still install Office97 on any brand new computer I get and it works just fine. Why would I need to upgrade it? All the functionality I need to do reports is there and it's 7 year old software.
I've had the exact opposite problem. My Dell Inspiron 4000 purchased in 1999 is still chugging along without any problems at all. The only thing I've replaced was the battery since it no longer holds a charge. On the other hand, my 800MHz G3 iBook which I purchased in November 2002 has been shipped back to Apple for major repairs twice now (first was the major logic board fiasco, second was a flaky backlight when opening the iBook lid more than 30 degrees) as well as having a power brick fail and have to be replaced. Thank god I purchaed the 3 year Applecare warranty or I would've been shit out of luck. The logic board failed in 11 months (October 2003) and they've extended the logic board replacement program for this faulty product line, but the backlight problems didn't start until March 2004, well out of the original 1 year warranty period. So basically my one and only foray into the world of Macintoshes has left me with a very disgusted feeling. You can say I just had bad luck and got a lemon and I'd agree.. that happens, but it makes me seriously reconsider spending another $2000 on a new Powerbook or desktop system when I know what a pain in the ass the current system has proved to be. Who knows, I will probably still buy a 12" Powerbook when the time comes to replace this box, but the IBM Thinkpads are looking nicer and nicer these days and are much more powerful and cheaper. Oh well.
Is this going to allow perfect DVD rips then or is this dual layer support proprietary to computers? i.e. Can you play these dual layer discs in a normal settop DVD player without doing something odd like flipping over the disc halfway through?
Well, as people have explained, he's probably shit out of luck since the video card isn't supported fully. Stick with an old G3 B&W or something if you want to mess around with Linux on a PPC and leave your beautiful new 12" G4 Powerbook to run MacOS X. Alternatively you can give it to me and I'll send you my 800Mhz G3 iBook which should work fine with Linux. :-)
All the coolest hackers use DivX to re-encode their DVDs so they take up only 700-1400 megs so they can fit it on a couple of CDs for archival purposes.
Regulated to which country's standards? In Europe they have nudity on broadcast TV. In Saudi Arabia they'd cut out your eyes if you looked at a nude woman. No, this is definitely better done on a country-by-country basis. I would assume kids.us will be based on Christian morals since the US is over 77% Christian... they may throw a little Jewish morality in there as well to satisfy them. I wouldn't expect to see naked wiccan witches worshipping satan though.
I don't understand this. Why would they be lazy parents if they want to restrict their children's computer usage to a safe domain? Do you think children should be browsing porn sites and getting into instant messaging sessions with pedophiles? Or are you a quack that thinks you should be watching over your child's shoulder 24/7 like a net nazi? If you don't let them explore on their own (without a confined space) then they will be nothing but your little pawn. The only thing that breeds is more Windows users.
And if you're lucky the hackers will have patched the bug for you by then so that other hackers don't get access to their new zombie host and mess around. Hackers, auto-updating UNIX systems for admins since 1969.
On a related note, since this is an article about the matrix... WTF was up with the two sequels?? The first movie rocked but then it just went all downhill from there. I don't get the ending of Revolutions either. Did Neo's body die and "The One" lifeforce just was absorbed back into the Matrix or what? It didn't seem clear to me.
Oh come on now, let's not concern ourselves with trivialities. Sure, there's only 250 million legitimately shipped versions of Windows and 600 million users, but hey, did we mention we have 600 million users!? ;-)
What I'd like to see is Windows switch to a more corporate model of paying a smaller price for the software and then forcing people to purchase an annual support contract if they want updates and support. In order for corporate and home customers to receive any updates you would need to have a valid support license agreement in order to login to a protected site to download patches (either automatically or in bundles for offline installation, etc.). These patches would be signed to your unique identifying key to prevent redistribution. This would allow Microsoft to generate additional revenue without forcing people into updating if they choose to run insecure pirated copies of Windows. It's a win-win situation for everyone except software pirates and your average home user and educational sites.. actually it's a win-win situation for Microsoft and open source software, but let's forget about the little people for a moment to think about my fantasy world.
No. Just because the .com and .net TLDs have a lower TTL should have nothing to do with the TTL on subdomains of that. You'd continue to cache a second level domain per the definition of whatever the administrators set in their zones.