That record of the email wouldn't be admissible in court. The chain of custody would be broken, and there's no telling what the offline, backed up computer did to it before saving it. I could just make up a bunch of emails I got from you that were "deleted everywhere else".
What's the difference between that record being on and endpoint or and intermediate server? Unless the email was signed there's no way to prove that someone didn't just make it up at any point along the chain.
Disclaimer: I'm sure a Linux user will soon point out why this Windows paradigm is such a pain.;)
I'll just point out that that isn't really the Windows paradigm. The Windows paradigm puts a bunch of keys in the regsitry for configuring the app, seemingly half of which are inaccessible to configure from within the app, and 90% of which aren't removed when the app is uninstalled. If everything was truly self contained "c:\program files\app" and your personal prefs in "c:\documents and settings\pyros\application data\app" then that would be very straight forward.
You'd still have software publishers including their own favorite version of a common DLL. Such that even if the system copy gets updated to fix a security vulnerability, the app will still be vulnerable without its own update.
Hopefully you'll notice that my response has nothing whatsoever to do with how anything is done in Linux, and looks purely at the merits of how things are done on Windows.
I freakin hate verizon. switched to tmobile in december. Even if all the little extras end up costing the same, and even though the network is noticeably less reliable, I don't have to deal with crippled phones locked to a single network.
They've also updated the iTunes and Frontrow capabilities; now you can stream any movies or music from any computer running iTunes, and it interfaces with the Frontrow software that is included (with a nice little remote).
I think that means I should be able to stream my rhythmbox 0.9.3.1 library on Ubuntu 6.04 to Front Row!
Sure, you may see the caller ID isn't somebody you recognize, but often you have to answer it anyways.
No you don't. Only if someone else is paying for it under the condition that you always answer it would you be obligated to answer. And that's still your choice to enter such a situation, and you aren't even paying for it in that case, the other person is paying to be able to reach you.
maybe not when he opened the account, but they do now, unless you have a monthly service add-on for unlimited texts, which I didn't immediately see a link for but I'm sure they offer.
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And as a result xine can't legally be distributed in the United States with the ability to play a CSS encrypted DVD. Gstreamer was written with the licensing and framework to avoid that problem.
What problem ? Simply distribute Xine from a webserver located outside the US. The US citizens can then download Xine directly or, if it gets censored, use similar methods that the chinese use to get around their Great Firewall.
The problem is that no US (I prefer to support the domestic economy) Linux distributor can ship with the capability to play a format such as MP3 or CSS encrypted DVD. The problem for Xine in this case is that the codec needs to be GPL, which is incompatible with formats covered by patents. Gstreamer fixes this by using LGPL, so that you can have close source (and thereby properly licensed, and legally distributable) plugins. So Linux distributors can license such a plugin to be pre-installed with their distribution to support these formats.
I doubt very much that any program is currently legal in the US - with the amount of software patents granted, it is pretty much a certainty that any program anyone might write will infringe on some of them.
In this particular case of content formats, gstreamer is legal due to it's use of a license such as LGPL which allows for the used of closed source plugins which were developped with a license to use the patented technologies.
Add the fact that, strictly speaking, disabling Windows autoplay to prevent CD's from trojaning your computer is illegal, and I really don't think that you can possibly avoid breaking laws in the US. So why care about whether your DVD playing software breaks them or not ?
Please site a source for the illegality of disabling the autoplay feature of Windows. I care not for my own personal use, but for the ability of US distributors to ship a functional product without fear of litigation. This sort of thing is critical to wider acceptance of desktop Linux.
Compiz requires a particular OpenGL extension that no hardware driver yet supports, so it is emulated in software by Xglx itself.
ah, that explains it.
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Wrong, GStreamer is LGPL only.
My mistake.
We require that all code going into our core package is LGPL. For the plugin code, we require the use of the LGPL for all plugins written from scratch or linking to external libraries.
Good job selectively quoting the site. What they're saying on their licensing page is that in order for a plugin to be part of gstreamer.org's distribution the plugin must be LGPL. The answer is simple, don't write a plugin for gstreamer.org to distribute. Write GPL licensed plugins for the Linux distribution maintainers to distribute. From the licensing page you linked to:To keep this policy viable, the GStreamer community has made a few licensing rules for code to be included in GStreamer's core or GStreamer's official modules, like our plugin packages
Fluendo, the company that controls GStreamer, wants to link their DRM plugins to LGPL code contributed by the naive independent developers,
As is their right under the licensing agreement. But we don't have to use those versions of the plugins if we don't want to. We can compile the non-DRM enabled LGPL code. That is also our right under the licensing agreement.
Xine on the other hand is GPL, and any code that links to Xine must also be GPL
And as a result xine can't legally be distributed in the United States with the ability to play a CSS encrypted DVD. Gstreamer was written with the licensing and framework to avoid that problem. Personally, I would like to see software that plays DVDs on desktop Linux and is legally distributable in the United States. To be honest I'd rather see the legallity not be an issue, but that is harder to get changed.
There are Nvidia and Ati specific HOWTOs in the Dapper Development section of ubuntuforums.org. One key item that the wiki howto misses is that it's apparently important to run on display 1 for Ati, rather than display 0.
Outside of "both have tabs" and "both configure network hardware", I really don't see that much of a similarity.
That's not Network Manager, that's network-admin. This is Network Manager. The main-page screenshot doesn't show it, but you can right click on the notification area icon and select "Connection information" to get all the TCP/IP config (the old network monitor applet had like 4 steps to get this info and was a major complaint for it's UI).
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will include DRM plugins developed by a company called Fluendo, which hopes to make money by restricting the users' rights and turning GNOME/Linux/"the Free Desktop System" into a Vista-like nightmare controlled by the entertainment cartel
How about you just not load the plugin. You could instead install the inevitable unlicensed plugin that handles the encrypted content but isn't legally distributable in some jurisdictions.
I hope KDE is smart enough to avoid DRM by choosing a multimedia backend that is GPL.
Gstreamer is GPL...
Xine would be an excellent choice for a multimedia backend,
At least totem, and probably more, can already be run with either xine or gstreamer, just like kaffeine and amarok. Just install totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer.
Why do the Linux GUIs always have the menu bar as part of the windows and the top 3 buttons on the right? Surely it makes more sense to only have one menu bar taking up space at a time, and the buttons near the menus where your mouse is.
KDE can be configured with one global menubar. Both KDE and Gnome can have the buttons on the left, you just have to find a window manager theme that puts them there.
AFAIK it will be in the universe repo (at least that's where it is now), and you will also need compiz and either compiz-gnome or compiz-kde (obviously to match which DE you're running).
I also really don't understand what you mean about knocking off OSX. Please provide examples!
Network Manager has an interface pretty much exactly like the wifi config app in OS X.
using 2.9.13.9x for a week in Ubuntu 6.10 betas
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There are some nice improvements. Gnome-power-manager adds a slick interface to configuring stuff like hibernate on critically low battery, what actions are taken for closing your laptop lid, sleep/power buttons, and stuff like that.
NetworkManager is much improved, too. At least in Ubuntu 6.10 betas, you don't need bind do use it! Instead it finally uses the existing functionaly of the DHCP client to write/etc/resolv.conf. I don't think the VPN stuff from CVS is going to make it in though.
Rhythmbox 0.9.3.1 is pretty nice. It has [iTunes] playlist sharing built in (reportedly, don't anything to share with). I don't have an iPod but I think that should be supported practically out-of-box too. So you might wonder what improvements I actually do notice. You can finally specify a watch folder to sync your library with, import an audio cd, scan removable media, and queue songs from your current playlist. The queue is viewable as a sidebar pane like the cover art display in iTunes. No support for displaying the cover art yet, though.
Gstreamer 0.10 has cleaned up the plugin code, and reorganized their plugin classifications. Good plugins are open source and highly functional. Ugly plugins are legally questionable in some jurisdictions but are highly functional. Bad plugins are ones that may have bad implementations and I guess are more likely to not work. Unfortunately the faad/faac plugins are in the bad package, which currently has to built from source on Ubuntu 6.10. Hopefully that will be added to universe or multiverse by release. Everyone post from someone who has built it reports that AAC files play just fine (including me).
I am having some trouble with dbus/hald not showing desktop icons for hard drive partitions mounted under/media. I set the gconf key for volumes_visible, and that works for CDs and such. But I have to restart dbus/hald after logging in to get partitions to show a desktop icon.
Lastly, I haven't yet got xgl+compiz working yet. But compiz seems hard coded to use Mesa so far, so some people are reporting it's actually slower than plain old xorg with the Ati/Nvidia binary drivers.
What if you are writing a program and, while coding the "obvious" way, end up writing something that's been patented? Am I supposed to make sure there isn't a patent on doubly-linked lists before implementing one?
If it's obvious (to someone with knowledge in that field) then it isn't supposed to qualify for a patent (under current patent law).
You could always use Trade Secret instead of patents. The whole point of patents, as spelled out in the constitution, is to contribute works to the public domain for others to build off of. Recouping the development costs is, in my opinion, exactly the spirit establishing patents in the constitution to begin with.
I think the RIAA's business model is basically indentured servitude and has no place in a free market. It discourages competition and doesn't promote creative works.
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What's the difference between that record being on and endpoint or and intermediate server? Unless the email was signed there's no way to prove that someone didn't just make it up at any point along the chain.
And that's the fault of Windows how?
Where did I blame Windows for it? All I did was observe how it's typically done and what I dislike about it.
I'll just point out that that isn't really the Windows paradigm. The Windows paradigm puts a bunch of keys in the regsitry for configuring the app, seemingly half of which are inaccessible to configure from within the app, and 90% of which aren't removed when the app is uninstalled. If everything was truly self contained "c:\program files\app" and your personal prefs in "c:\documents and settings\pyros\application data\app" then that would be very straight forward.
You'd still have software publishers including their own favorite version of a common DLL. Such that even if the system copy gets updated to fix a security vulnerability, the app will still be vulnerable without its own update.
Hopefully you'll notice that my response has nothing whatsoever to do with how anything is done in Linux, and looks purely at the merits of how things are done on Windows.
that sucks. Seems like an ideal candidate for a class action law suit.
I freakin hate verizon. switched to tmobile in december. Even if all the little extras end up costing the same, and even though the network is noticeably less reliable, I don't have to deal with crippled phones locked to a single network.
On the phones I've had the message is downloaded when I open it.
It's paired, two 1 GB sticks for $270.
I think that means I should be able to stream my rhythmbox 0.9.3.1 library on Ubuntu 6.04 to Front Row!
No you don't. Only if someone else is paying for it under the condition that you always answer it would you be obligated to answer. And that's still your choice to enter such a situation, and you aren't even paying for it in that case, the other person is paying to be able to reach you.
I don't think you are charged if you don't read it.
maybe not when he opened the account, but they do now, unless you have a monthly service add-on for unlimited texts, which I didn't immediately see a link for but I'm sure they offer.
The problem is that no US (I prefer to support the domestic economy) Linux distributor can ship with the capability to play a format such as MP3 or CSS encrypted DVD. The problem for Xine in this case is that the codec needs to be GPL, which is incompatible with formats covered by patents. Gstreamer fixes this by using LGPL, so that you can have close source (and thereby properly licensed, and legally distributable) plugins. So Linux distributors can license such a plugin to be pre-installed with their distribution to support these formats.
In this particular case of content formats, gstreamer is legal due to it's use of a license such as LGPL which allows for the used of closed source plugins which were developped with a license to use the patented technologies.
Please site a source for the illegality of disabling the autoplay feature of Windows. I care not for my own personal use, but for the ability of US distributors to ship a functional product without fear of litigation. This sort of thing is critical to wider acceptance of desktop Linux.
ah, that explains it.
My mistake.
We require that all code going into our core package is LGPL. For the plugin code, we require the use of the LGPL for all plugins written from scratch or linking to external libraries.
Good job selectively quoting the site. What they're saying on their licensing page is that in order for a plugin to be part of gstreamer.org's distribution the plugin must be LGPL. The answer is simple, don't write a plugin for gstreamer.org to distribute. Write GPL licensed plugins for the Linux distribution maintainers to distribute. From the licensing page you linked to:To keep this policy viable, the GStreamer community has made a few licensing rules for code to be included in GStreamer's core or GStreamer's official modules, like our plugin packages
Fluendo, the company that controls GStreamer, wants to link their DRM plugins to LGPL code contributed by the naive independent developers,
As is their right under the licensing agreement. But we don't have to use those versions of the plugins if we don't want to. We can compile the non-DRM enabled LGPL code. That is also our right under the licensing agreement.
Xine on the other hand is GPL, and any code that links to Xine must also be GPL
And as a result xine can't legally be distributed in the United States with the ability to play a CSS encrypted DVD. Gstreamer was written with the licensing and framework to avoid that problem. Personally, I would like to see software that plays DVDs on desktop Linux and is legally distributable in the United States. To be honest I'd rather see the legallity not be an issue, but that is harder to get changed.
There are Nvidia and Ati specific HOWTOs in the Dapper Development section of ubuntuforums.org. One key item that the wiki howto misses is that it's apparently important to run on display 1 for Ati, rather than display 0.
That's not Network Manager, that's network-admin. This is Network Manager. The main-page screenshot doesn't show it, but you can right click on the notification area icon and select "Connection information" to get all the TCP/IP config (the old network monitor applet had like 4 steps to get this info and was a major complaint for it's UI).
How about you just not load the plugin. You could instead install the inevitable unlicensed plugin that handles the encrypted content but isn't legally distributable in some jurisdictions.
I hope KDE is smart enough to avoid DRM by choosing a multimedia backend that is GPL.
Gstreamer is GPL ...
Xine would be an excellent choice for a multimedia backend,
At least totem, and probably more, can already be run with either xine or gstreamer, just like kaffeine and amarok. Just install totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer.
KDE can be configured with one global menubar. Both KDE and Gnome can have the buttons on the left, you just have to find a window manager theme that puts them there.
AFAIK it will be in the universe repo (at least that's where it is now), and you will also need compiz and either compiz-gnome or compiz-kde (obviously to match which DE you're running).
Network Manager has an interface pretty much exactly like the wifi config app in OS X.
NetworkManager is much improved, too. At least in Ubuntu 6.10 betas, you don't need bind do use it! Instead it finally uses the existing functionaly of the DHCP client to write /etc/resolv.conf. I don't think the VPN stuff from CVS is going to make it in though.
Rhythmbox 0.9.3.1 is pretty nice. It has [iTunes] playlist sharing built in (reportedly, don't anything to share with). I don't have an iPod but I think that should be supported practically out-of-box too. So you might wonder what improvements I actually do notice. You can finally specify a watch folder to sync your library with, import an audio cd, scan removable media, and queue songs from your current playlist. The queue is viewable as a sidebar pane like the cover art display in iTunes. No support for displaying the cover art yet, though.
Gstreamer 0.10 has cleaned up the plugin code, and reorganized their plugin classifications. Good plugins are open source and highly functional. Ugly plugins are legally questionable in some jurisdictions but are highly functional. Bad plugins are ones that may have bad implementations and I guess are more likely to not work. Unfortunately the faad/faac plugins are in the bad package, which currently has to built from source on Ubuntu 6.10. Hopefully that will be added to universe or multiverse by release. Everyone post from someone who has built it reports that AAC files play just fine (including me).
I am having some trouble with dbus/hald not showing desktop icons for hard drive partitions mounted under /media. I set the gconf key for volumes_visible, and that works for CDs and such. But I have to restart dbus/hald after logging in to get partitions to show a desktop icon.
Lastly, I haven't yet got xgl+compiz working yet. But compiz seems hard coded to use Mesa so far, so some people are reporting it's actually slower than plain old xorg with the Ati/Nvidia binary drivers.
What do you think "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times" means?
If it's obvious (to someone with knowledge in that field) then it isn't supposed to qualify for a patent (under current patent law).
You could always use Trade Secret instead of patents. The whole point of patents, as spelled out in the constitution, is to contribute works to the public domain for others to build off of. Recouping the development costs is, in my opinion, exactly the spirit establishing patents in the constitution to begin with.
I think the RIAA's business model is basically indentured servitude and has no place in a free market. It discourages competition and doesn't promote creative works.