I know it's supposed to be exempt. The fact remains, however, that DeCSS was written to watch DVDs on Linux so it should have been exempt too. But it was ruled to be illegal in several U.S. courts. Many web sites and individuals were sued for either listing the text of the source code or hyperlinks to sites listing the source code. There's also the whole snafu will Sklyarov and Elcomsoft for writing a rot-13 'decrypter' to backup your Adobe e-books. Dmitry Sklyarov was briefly imprisoned under the DMCA.
Every here knows that this law and the enforcement of it are completely over the line, but the fact remains that legal precedent has already been set, and it will likely take much civil disobedience (people going to jail and creating a media storm) to get it fixed.
Here is my mirror of the source code. There are no binaries, no DMCA violations:
You're fooling yourself if you think that you must distribute binaries of a copy-protection circumvention application. The 2600 guys were successfully prevented from hyperlinking to sites with the source code. That's right. There is precedent for/. to be sued for leaving your comment in this discussion, based on the DMCA.
You could just standardise on GNOME or KDE and you would pretty much be there. You have a point saying that best-of-breed applications often use different toolkits, but there are usually decent offerings for most things in KDE and GNOME worlds.
Consumer desktop oriented distros already standardised on KDE. Suse, Mandrake, Xandros, Linspire, Lycoris, and Libranet all default to KDE, and not all of them even have GNOME packaged. There's also Arklinux and Knoppix, but those aren't packaged as consumer retail-box editions.
Red Hat is the only retail packaged distro I know of which defaults to GNOME. But Red Hat has never packaged a distro they intended for consumer desktop use, they've always been targeting corporate desktop and server. They default to GNOME and package KDE to very closely resemble their default GNOME desktop. Well, I suppose there is Sun's Java Desktop system, which is basically Suse with GNOME in the same way that Mandrake was Red Hat with KDE. But other than Walmart carrying computers with JDS preinstalled, I hadn't considered JDS to be targeting the consumer desktop market either.
Novell owning both Suse and Ximian certainly promises to bring interesting side effects regarding desktop standardisation, especially with them announcing the selection of Qt (but not specifically Kparts/KDevelop) for their Linux development.
Anyway, I think that when it comes to distributions designed and retail packaged for consumer desktops, KDE is the only default desktop you'll find.
the market doesn't exist yet, and someone needs to create it, and whoever will take the plunge stands a fair chance to reap huge benefits from it.
Dell temporarily sold their home desktop line with Red Hat 6.x preloaded. IBM Also sold Thinkpads with Red Hat 6.x preloaded. Both got canceled due to poor sales. Both companies still offer Linux preloaded on servers. And current offerings make a far more viable home desktop than Red Hat 6.x did, but the geek crowd alone could not make that particular market an economically viable one.
Yes, that is true. A lot of people like to be as lazy as possible and avoid new experiences. You should not encourage that. The Personal Computer is more than a web surfing machine to check the latest status of "American Idol". To waste one on that is just wrong.
Tell me something, when you buy a car, do you replace half the interior with aftermarket accessories (like a different steering wheel, custom dashboard, everything you can see and interact with basically)? Perhaps you put stronger motors in your blender, or overclock your toaster to make it toast bread faster. Do you crack open your TV and add extra tuners so you can feed it all the various flavors of PAL and NTSC? Or maybe add a hard drive and a mini computer which displays a GUI on the Picture-In-Picture signal and use that as a PVR.
The point is that you personally enjoy knowing about everything in your computer, but the vast majority couldn't care less, and will become offended when people push your attitude on them that if they want to have a computer, they must treat it just like you do.
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Red Hat and Suse, and I'm pretty Sure Mandrake have all installed an autoupdate tool for the last few major versions, complete with a panel applet that is just as point-and-click friendly as Microsoft's WindowsUpdate systray program. And yes, they even handle kernel upgrades.
Pure debian doesn't have one, but I'd be more inclined to call debian a distribution framework than and actual distribution. I'd have to assume that Xandros, Linspire, Libranet, Lycoris, and all the other debian-based consumer desktop distributions do include such a tool.
tard, it's called fair use. The restrictions of someone having to have the physical media to rip and the costs of transporting the media are what afford us this right to 'infringe.' It's when you add the free global distribution with no media involved that it gets tricky
Someone else already posted a single source to get everything you need for VLC on Suse, so I won't talk about that. Regarding your mouse, is it the only USB device you have? I didn't seem any other listed. I have to suspect that you either have bad USB hardware on the motherboard, or a bad mouse. I have an MS IntelliMouse Explorer (wireless, no less) and it has worked quite flawlessly in Red Hat 8/9, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2 test2. Debian unstable, and Suse 9.0. I forget if I had to do anything to get the mouse working post-install on Suse, I think I just made sure to pick the right one in the installer. Every instance of Red Hat and Fedora has had it working, with the mouse every time. Debian has never set up little things like this for me out of the box (even with the beta3 debian-installer images).
The tricky thing with laptops is actually more about CPU/fan/disk throttling to reduce power consumption and temperature. Although the WiFi is definitely, in my opinion, the second thing on the list for full support.
I want to know what application took 299 other RPMs, none of which are available in any Yast sources (not sure if Yast works like Apt, Yum, and URPMI in this respect, but I would hope so).
hm, guess i've never played anything other than.mov in quicktime or real (don't know what that extension is) media in real player. is that actually part of a video codec to embed stuff in them? i've never seen it happen with any of the related files under linux players.
I just use Linux + apollon + totem. I get to download pr0n from the fasttrack network without worrying about spyware or embedded links to popup-entrapping websites.;)
Then you can't have all incoming ports firewalled off
All decent firewalls do connections tracking and allow RELATED and ESTABLISHED connection requests, but block SYN connection requests. Effectively meaning if you have an internal application start a session with an outside endpoint, that outside endpoint can get back in for that session, but outside traffic for a new session, including from the previously mentioned endpoint, will be blocked.
Anyone know what the cool features of winFS were supposed to be?
A database service of metadata on files, so you could filter a directory to list all the song files by a particular artist, without resorting to a self-imposed naming convention.
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Why do you recommend not downloading music and videos for security reasons? Seems unnecessary to me...
Windows Media Player seems to have the startling ability to launch IE to view websites which are somehow embedded in (at least) video files. An ambitious coder could embed a link in a video file to a site which exploits a vulnerability and run arbitrary code.
sure they could. As the enter they overhear someone talking about those asshats (whom they did not vote for), and thus put the hats on their ass. So then we end up with crappy officials. Imagine what that would be like... oh, wait
This reminds me of 2600.com vs Verizon when they registered verizonsucks.com. The got mad and registered something like Verizon-should-spend-more-money-fixing-their-netwo rk-and-less-money-on-layers.com
Stupid ogres at Verizon taking money from the network!
The Fedora Core development stream is already switched over to the x.org release. The test2 release of Fedora Core 2 uses it. So Fedora Core two will have kernel 2.6, X.org, Gnome 2.6, KDE 3.2.1, and SELinux (which totally sucks ass integration wise right now, and will hopefully be disabled by default when Fedora Core 2 is actually release, or I'll probably switch to Debian until SELinux actually works as shipped).
Like that guy on Daily Show last week, who said he was a "high volume email distributor" and not a spammer. Saying that the local government proposing a bill that would hurt his 'business' was hiding in the shadows. johnrichter422@yahoo.com
I agree. I used to use Netflix to get a bunch of anime series. Problem was they would routinely not have a particular volume, and I couldn't enforce a praticular shipping order, so I'd have to keep my wish list trimmed down to just the amount of movies I was allowed to have out, or risk getting them out of order and sending them back to put them back on my list to get later. I was just pointing out that my personal experience painted a different picture of what people liked and disliked about DIVX than what the post I was replying to stated.
sweet. i'll have to give it another look then. i actually got rid of it when the development tree versions prevented using sudo on the command line or any of the system-config-* tools which needed the root password in gnome. Never tried them as non-root on command shell.
recording a song non-digitally (analoge) isn't really good for the song's quality.
Right. Because taking discrete samples of an analog wave and interpolating that data to approximate the missing data is always as good as the raw analog data. I'm not saying analog is flat-out superior, but I think it's a mistake to make the blanket statement that digital is better too.
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Every here knows that this law and the enforcement of it are completely over the line, but the fact remains that legal precedent has already been set, and it will likely take much civil disobedience (people going to jail and creating a media storm) to get it fixed.
You're fooling yourself if you think that you must distribute binaries of a copy-protection circumvention application. The 2600 guys were successfully prevented from hyperlinking to sites with the source code. That's right. There is precedent for /. to be sued for leaving your comment in this discussion, based on the DMCA.
Consumer desktop oriented distros already standardised on KDE. Suse, Mandrake, Xandros, Linspire, Lycoris, and Libranet all default to KDE, and not all of them even have GNOME packaged. There's also Arklinux and Knoppix, but those aren't packaged as consumer retail-box editions.
Red Hat is the only retail packaged distro I know of which defaults to GNOME. But Red Hat has never packaged a distro they intended for consumer desktop use, they've always been targeting corporate desktop and server. They default to GNOME and package KDE to very closely resemble their default GNOME desktop. Well, I suppose there is Sun's Java Desktop system, which is basically Suse with GNOME in the same way that Mandrake was Red Hat with KDE. But other than Walmart carrying computers with JDS preinstalled, I hadn't considered JDS to be targeting the consumer desktop market either.
Novell owning both Suse and Ximian certainly promises to bring interesting side effects regarding desktop standardisation, especially with them announcing the selection of Qt (but not specifically Kparts/KDevelop) for their Linux development.
Anyway, I think that when it comes to distributions designed and retail packaged for consumer desktops, KDE is the only default desktop you'll find.
I'm pretty sure there were lots of links to articles covering at least '99 and '00 in yesterday's Gnome for Grandma discussion.
Dell temporarily sold their home desktop line with Red Hat 6.x preloaded. IBM Also sold Thinkpads with Red Hat 6.x preloaded. Both got canceled due to poor sales. Both companies still offer Linux preloaded on servers. And current offerings make a far more viable home desktop than Red Hat 6.x did, but the geek crowd alone could not make that particular market an economically viable one.
Tell me something, when you buy a car, do you replace half the interior with aftermarket accessories (like a different steering wheel, custom dashboard, everything you can see and interact with basically)? Perhaps you put stronger motors in your blender, or overclock your toaster to make it toast bread faster. Do you crack open your TV and add extra tuners so you can feed it all the various flavors of PAL and NTSC? Or maybe add a hard drive and a mini computer which displays a GUI on the Picture-In-Picture signal and use that as a PVR.
The point is that you personally enjoy knowing about everything in your computer, but the vast majority couldn't care less, and will become offended when people push your attitude on them that if they want to have a computer, they must treat it just like you do.
Red Hat and Suse, and I'm pretty Sure Mandrake have all installed an autoupdate tool for the last few major versions, complete with a panel applet that is just as point-and-click friendly as Microsoft's WindowsUpdate systray program. And yes, they even handle kernel upgrades.
Pure debian doesn't have one, but I'd be more inclined to call debian a distribution framework than and actual distribution. I'd have to assume that Xandros, Linspire, Libranet, Lycoris, and all the other debian-based consumer desktop distributions do include such a tool.
tard, it's called fair use. The restrictions of someone having to have the physical media to rip and the costs of transporting the media are what afford us this right to 'infringe.' It's when you add the free global distribution with no media involved that it gets tricky
Someone else already posted a single source to get everything you need for VLC on Suse, so I won't talk about that. Regarding your mouse, is it the only USB device you have? I didn't seem any other listed. I have to suspect that you either have bad USB hardware on the motherboard, or a bad mouse. I have an MS IntelliMouse Explorer (wireless, no less) and it has worked quite flawlessly in Red Hat 8/9, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2 test2. Debian unstable, and Suse 9.0. I forget if I had to do anything to get the mouse working post-install on Suse, I think I just made sure to pick the right one in the installer. Every instance of Red Hat and Fedora has had it working, with the mouse every time. Debian has never set up little things like this for me out of the box (even with the beta3 debian-installer images).
The tricky thing with laptops is actually more about CPU/fan/disk throttling to reduce power consumption and temperature. Although the WiFi is definitely, in my opinion, the second thing on the list for full support.
I want to know what application took 299 other RPMs, none of which are available in any Yast sources (not sure if Yast works like Apt, Yum, and URPMI in this respect, but I would hope so).
hm, guess i've never played anything other than .mov in quicktime or real (don't know what that extension is) media in real player. is that actually part of a video codec to embed stuff in them? i've never seen it happen with any of the related files under linux players.
I just use Linux + apollon + totem. I get to download pr0n from the fasttrack network without worrying about spyware or embedded links to popup-entrapping websites. ;)
All decent firewalls do connections tracking and allow RELATED and ESTABLISHED connection requests, but block SYN connection requests. Effectively meaning if you have an internal application start a session with an outside endpoint, that outside endpoint can get back in for that session, but outside traffic for a new session, including from the previously mentioned endpoint, will be blocked.
A database service of metadata on files, so you could filter a directory to list all the song files by a particular artist, without resorting to a self-imposed naming convention.
Windows Media Player seems to have the startling ability to launch IE to view websites which are somehow embedded in (at least) video files. An ambitious coder could embed a link in a video file to a site which exploits a vulnerability and run arbitrary code.
sure they could. As the enter they overhear someone talking about those asshats (whom they did not vote for), and thus put the hats on their ass. So then we end up with crappy officials. Imagine what that would be like ... oh, wait
the spammer's, you'll notice that it's also on the banner behind the shuttle in today's userfriendly.
Stupid ogres at Verizon taking money from the network!
The Fedora Core development stream is already switched over to the x.org release. The test2 release of Fedora Core 2 uses it. So Fedora Core two will have kernel 2.6, X.org, Gnome 2.6, KDE 3.2.1, and SELinux (which totally sucks ass integration wise right now, and will hopefully be disabled by default when Fedora Core 2 is actually release, or I'll probably switch to Debian until SELinux actually works as shipped).
Like that guy on Daily Show last week, who said he was a "high volume email distributor" and not a spammer. Saying that the local government proposing a bill that would hurt his 'business' was hiding in the shadows. johnrichter422@yahoo.com
I agree. I used to use Netflix to get a bunch of anime series. Problem was they would routinely not have a particular volume, and I couldn't enforce a praticular shipping order, so I'd have to keep my wish list trimmed down to just the amount of movies I was allowed to have out, or risk getting them out of order and sending them back to put them back on my list to get later. I was just pointing out that my personal experience painted a different picture of what people liked and disliked about DIVX than what the post I was replying to stated.
i guess i just read the statement i quoted too literally.
sweet. i'll have to give it another look then. i actually got rid of it when the development tree versions prevented using sudo on the command line or any of the system-config-* tools which needed the root password in gnome. Never tried them as non-root on command shell.
Right. Because taking discrete samples of an analog wave and interpolating that data to approximate the missing data is always as good as the raw analog data. I'm not saying analog is flat-out superior, but I think it's a mistake to make the blanket statement that digital is better too.