Re:instructor doesn't get it
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Why PHBs Fear Linux
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I think that the comments are referring to the fact that the instructor doesn't understand that the authors of Linux code DO retain copyright - just that the authors wave some of the associated rights.
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"Why was it released into the public domain rather than copyrighted?"
The record execs are worried about this for a pretty clear reason. When CD's were introduced they saw huge boosts in the sale of old catalogue as people began replacing much of their vinyl collection.
They want the same to happen when people want a copy of their favourite hits on their iPod or memory stick.
Trust me, I heard the local head of one of the big 5 record companies say this himself.
Each country has its own laws and music publishing companies (as opposed to record companies) which complicates things.
Apple (or whoever wants to start this sort of service) needs to make separate deals with the music publishing companies in each country they want to roll out their service to.
Trust me - the record companies and Apple would roll it out internationally if they could - but they can't until the legal complications are sorted out in each country.
Expect to see new countries coming online as these deals get made.
Wouldn't adverts be selected based on search terms
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Google v. Microsoft
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Wouldn't adverts be selected based on search terms rather then on web-page content?
If so, googles spider data doesn't really help them out much.
No, this is the premier for the stars... the rest of us New Zealanders will still have to wait a couple more weeks before it is released to the public.
Exploiting this vulnerability requires that you set up a rogue DHCP server/LDAP server on someone's sub-net.
From what I can gather, a well administered network will block unauthorised DHCP traffic at the switch - and the author of the post you are replying to seems to be claiming that they do have their sub-net under control.
Obviously many people connect to unsecured sub-nets (e.g. WiFi) so this is a real concern for some users - but not for this person.
Well I am happy that it didn't have the usual Hollywood mindless happy ending.
However, if it is not going to answer the big questions set up by the incoherent second movie, it has to offer something else in exchange.
This movie had no content - The fight scenes were tired, the battle scenes were a cheep arcade computer game I have played too many times before, and the death of Neo and Trinity's 2D characters failed to create any sympathy or emotion in me at all.
You replaced the fan with one that was not powerful enough, and as a result, fried your CPU... why should they replace/fix your machine for free?
Sure, the fan had what sounds like a well documented noise problem...apple wereoffering an exchange program for the faulty components. Not sure what the deal is now.
Just auto respond to everyone who is not in your email white-list with a challenge/response.
If someone I don't know wants to contact me they can take the five seconds it will take to respond. Spammers wont have time to make this work on bulk.
Trying to convince / educate all of your friends, and them to convince / educate all of their friends, and them theirs is not practical in the short term.
Most people don't understand, and won't care even if you explain it to them.
Any idea how to find what version of sshd is running?
Looking at the man pages on OS X, and all the advisories offers no info on how to simply get the version number out of the binary... Usually a simple sshd --version would work with most things
I did manage to find something that is probably the version number on my machine by running strings "/usr/sbin/sshd" and sifting through the output, but it is not ideal...
The encryption in the DRM will ensure that no untrusted application (or OS) will be able to decode the media file. That way they can easily enforce the constraints on the media (until a bug is found in the DRM code)
This show is pretty good. It consists mostly of videos describing how various special effects were made, and various props on display.
However, the only "high tech toy" that you can explore of any memorability was the altered perspective wagon chair that lets you see yourself twice the size of the friend sitting next to you.
If you want good music library management, you could try Yammi
It uses xmms to play the MP3's, but provides you with some of the library management stuff that XMMS fails at. i.e. If you have your whole music collection on your machine, you want a good way to browse it.
Check out Freesco windowing system
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Qt On DirectFB
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Check out the Freesco windowing system. It does exactly this, plus more.
While the Corel guy is using an XML GUI language, this is the Scripting approach that the he has chosen not to use. With the code on the KevLinDev site you can create various SVG widgets, with a call to a javascript function.
I think I'd prefer to do it this way, rather then use XML if I was doing it by hand, as it is closer to normal GUI API's then some verbose XML language. I guess the XML approach would probably be great for the back-end standard for various IDE's
The most interesting thing about the KevLinDev stuff is how some of these javascript calls allow you to provide what the guy calls pSVG, (parametric SVG). pSVG is really just a hack to try and address some of the deficiencies of SVG - hopefully some of these ideas get into the official SVG spec at some stage so you don't have to hack around it like this.
This is pretty interesting... It looks like they are making a sort of "Common Language Runtime" out of Parrot, and letting it run various languages on top of it.
I found it interesting that Larry didn't mention how this is positioned (philosophically, or technically) in relation to.Net which is offering a similar sort of framework.
I guess one big difference here will be that you probably wont have to compile your programs, even down to byte-code - it will just do it on the fly. (At least it seems that it will be that way, given the current nature of perl)
What could be cool though would be being able to call code from python, perl, php, java, and whatever from within your app (which could be in any of these languages too). But I guess that is just the whole.Net buzz anyway - Theoretically at least.
While your point about the artificial length of albums is interesting, I think you may not have a full appreciation of the song and album writing process.
While you may feel that most of the tracks on an album are "filler", I assure you that this is not how the artist (in most cases) feel.
While only some tracks may grab _you_, each track was carefully crafted by the musicians and may be more enjoyable to different people, and after different numbers of listens.
Also, while the length of albums may be artificial, the ordering and selection of tracks for albums is certainly not arbitrary. These factors are (usually) carefully taken into consideration in composing an album to create an entire and complete work of art.
As the opinions of others in this thread have shown, your "Hit" track mentality is not shared by all.
There seems to be no mention of it on there website, so I'm pretty sure it wont.
Agreed, pretty useless without this feature. (Well maybe not useless, but seriously flawed anyway)
Slashdot Mirror
e.g.
...based on liberal open source licences
The record execs are worried about this for a pretty clear reason. When CD's were introduced they saw huge boosts in the sale of old catalogue as people began replacing much of their vinyl collection.
They want the same to happen when people want a copy of their favourite hits on their iPod or memory stick.
Trust me, I heard the local head of one of the big 5 record companies say this himself.
Each country has its own laws and music publishing companies (as opposed to record companies) which complicates things.
Apple (or whoever wants to start this sort of service) needs to make separate deals with the music publishing companies in each country they want to roll out their service to.
Trust me - the record companies and Apple would roll it out internationally if they could - but they can't until the legal complications are sorted out in each country.
Expect to see new countries coming online as these deals get made.
If so, googles spider data doesn't really help them out much.
Probably not as impregnable as we can hope to see in this life...
No, this is the premier for the stars... the rest of us New Zealanders will still have to wait a couple more weeks before it is released to the public.
Exploiting this vulnerability requires that you set up a rogue DHCP server/LDAP server on someone's sub-net. From what I can gather, a well administered network will block unauthorised DHCP traffic at the switch - and the author of the post you are replying to seems to be claiming that they do have their sub-net under control. Obviously many people connect to unsecured sub-nets (e.g. WiFi) so this is a real concern for some users - but not for this person.
Suspect?? I would say that very few serious hackers attack their primary target without tunnelling through a few other covering machines first.
Check out Takedown, the book about how Kevin Mitnick was caught for an example.
[Warning, spoilers]
Well I am happy that it didn't have the usual Hollywood mindless happy ending.
However, if it is not going to answer the big questions set up by the incoherent second movie, it has to offer something else in exchange.
This movie had no content - The fight scenes were tired, the battle scenes were a cheep arcade computer game I have played too many times before, and the death of Neo and Trinity's 2D characters failed to create any sympathy or emotion in me at all.
What redeems this movie?
You replaced the fan with one that was not powerful enough, and as a result, fried your CPU... why should they replace/fix your machine for free?
Sure, the fan had what sounds like a well documented noise problem...apple were offering an exchange program for the faulty components. Not sure what the deal is now.
Just auto respond to everyone who is not in your email white-list with a challenge/response. If someone I don't know wants to contact me they can take the five seconds it will take to respond. Spammers wont have time to make this work on bulk.
Safari silently gunzips it and saves it to the desktop.
who aren't computer geeks?
Trying to convince / educate all of your friends, and them to convince / educate all of their friends, and them theirs is not practical in the short term.
Most people don't understand, and won't care even if you explain it to them.
respond to the eject button. It will depend on your make and model.
Any idea how to find what version of sshd is running? Looking at the man pages on OS X, and all the advisories offers no info on how to simply get the version number out of the binary... Usually a simple sshd --version would work with most things I did manage to find something that is probably the version number on my machine by running strings "/usr/sbin/sshd" and sifting through the output, but it is not ideal...
The encryption in the DRM will ensure that no untrusted application (or OS) will be able to decode the media file. That way they can easily enforce the constraints on the media (until a bug is found in the DRM code)
This show is pretty good. It consists mostly of videos describing how various special effects were made, and various props on display.
However, the only "high tech toy" that you can explore of any memorability was the altered perspective wagon chair that lets you see yourself twice the size of the friend sitting next to you.
It uses xmms to play the MP3's, but provides you with some of the library management stuff that XMMS fails at. i.e. If you have your whole music collection on your machine, you want a good way to browse it.
Check out the Freesco windowing system. It does exactly this, plus more.
While the Corel guy is using an XML GUI language, this is the Scripting approach that the he has chosen not to use. With the code on the KevLinDev site you can create various SVG widgets, with a call to a javascript function.
I think I'd prefer to do it this way, rather then use XML if I was doing it by hand, as it is closer to normal GUI API's then some verbose XML language. I guess the XML approach would probably be great for the back-end standard for various IDE's
The most interesting thing about the KevLinDev stuff is how some of these javascript calls allow you to provide what the guy calls pSVG, (parametric SVG). pSVG is really just a hack to try and address some of the deficiencies of SVG - hopefully some of these ideas get into the official SVG spec at some stage so you don't have to hack around it like this.
I found it interesting that Larry didn't mention how this is positioned (philosophically, or technically) in relation to .Net which is offering a similar sort of framework.
I guess one big difference here will be that you probably wont have to compile your programs, even down to byte-code - it will just do it on the fly. (At least it seems that it will be that way, given the current nature of perl)
What could be cool though would be being able to call code from python, perl, php, java, and whatever from within your app (which could be in any of these languages too). But I guess that is just the whole .Net buzz anyway - Theoretically at least.
While your point about the artificial length of albums is interesting, I think you may not have a full appreciation of the song and album writing process. While you may feel that most of the tracks on an album are "filler", I assure you that this is not how the artist (in most cases) feel. While only some tracks may grab _you_, each track was carefully crafted by the musicians and may be more enjoyable to different people, and after different numbers of listens. Also, while the length of albums may be artificial, the ordering and selection of tracks for albums is certainly not arbitrary. These factors are (usually) carefully taken into consideration in composing an album to create an entire and complete work of art. As the opinions of others in this thread have shown, your "Hit" track mentality is not shared by all.
There seems to be no mention of it on there website, so I'm pretty sure it wont. Agreed, pretty useless without this feature. (Well maybe not useless, but seriously flawed anyway)
Maybe I'm missing something but isn't ext3 the most popular "desktop" file system?