catalog your books or CDs, or keep track of stuff in your kitchen (before you throw the empty, scan it, and voila, a new shopping list... if you eat the same things every week.)
I always thought that institutions like this (and schools, and maybe airports... you know, public facilities) would be a great place to have open source development going on, because the software doesn't give the facility an advantage, per se. (For example, high schools don't compete with each other based on the quality of their administrative software). So, they should be willing to share their knowledge and experience with software, and even the software itself, if they could.
Instead of state/local/federal governments spending money so that specific schools or libraries (etc.) can purchase proprietary software, why not just roll it all together, total up all the amount, and then spend maybe 50% of that on funding some open source development?
From there on, each school can spend a small amount of money paying someone to customize it to their needs, but we could have interoperable, open, inexpensive software where it's really needed.
If DVD gets popular, you can't distribute communication by any other carrier, so in principle, it puts DVD-CCA (?) in the position that they can deny someone to produce a movie that is critical towards e.g. MPAA
I agree with most of your post, but I think this is a bit off. You don't _have_ to use CSS, or region encoding, to create a DVD. Players will read non-encrypted, non-region-encoded DVDs just fine. At least for now....
Remember, this is Emmanuel Goldstein from 2600 here... read the mag... you could certainly get the impression that they believe information should be available to whomever is clever enough to find it...
This month's issue had all the info on a Dept. of Justice computer system from some state or other, including a helpdesk number to call to do some "social engineering" of the system...
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of 2600, but don't be surprised if the judge isn't!
I know that Red Hat does sign each package, and you can use RPM to verify the MD5 checksum of each file that was installed via RPM... if you're worried about it, do a cron job to mail out every time an MD5 sum changes, and who was logged in at the time...
If I recall, the "official" Linux version came out after the Win32 version. The way the Id games work, you could just buy the w32 version, and download the Linux binary to work with the maps you have on your W32 CD.
Works great, except the bean-counters think that nobody is using Linux for gaming.
If you want to compare sales, you have to make sure the W32 and Linux boxes are on the same shelf, at the same time, no?
This AOL-on-Linux thing is not for the k-rad l33t gamer part-time sysadmin kernel-hacker types. I'm fairly certain that they're not releasing it with the intention of it being added to existing Linux setups (although it could have some uses, I suppose...)
This is almost certainly for the AOL/Transmeta/Gateway "web pad" devices that have been mentioned before, more or less like the I-Opener. The users won't have to deal with "Linux," they'll just click the pretty buttons. Plug it in, turn it on... and you're ready to go.
Regarding the issues that people have brought up about more and more people using Linux, though... it does concern me a bit. The traditional "ask a question on Usenet" model may fall apart when 100 questions a day ask how to set up XFree, or Linux-Kernel is flooded with "what's an 'fdisk?'"
I mean, come on... producing binaries for the other architectures should NOT be that hard.
But you know... I almost hate to see this. AIM/ICQ etc always sort of gave me the willies - who knows what's going on when I run them? I feel a LOT better running GAIM/GnomeICU etc.
What would it take for an ISP to give their users a choice? 2 different incoming mail hosts? Or could it all be handled on the same host? I don't know the details of how a MAPS subscription works...
You're assuming that the embedded Linux only tells time. That would be silly, I'll grant you that. But surely it does more than that - it opens up possibilities...
What's next, a Linux powered hearing aid?
Sure - only it's one with voice recognition, speach synthesis, and a wireless link to babelfish...! You laugh... give it 20 years, max.
I'm not offended by Rob's comment. Full disclosure here - it's partly because I agree with it. HOWEVER - all of the comparisons to CNN or ABC picking a candidate are way off the mark. This site is not about presidential politics, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's primarily News for Nerds, covering technology and the occasional geek obsession such as Anime or Star Wars.
So, when Rob says "GWB is a dork" I don't find that any more out of place than if he were to say "I really hate Dairy Queen burgers." It's irrelevant to the site. Saying "Corel Linux sucks, I'll never use it on my machine" would be a greater abuse of his editorial position, IMHO.
I see windows more and more in public embedded systems (3 guesses how I know it's windows...)
Our airport (Austin) is new, and they have a bunch of multi-headed boxes showing departures and arrivals. I've seen 'em with windows error messages several times... wasn't there a web site of "sightings" like this somewhere?
Hmm... while I agree that Napster is technically not engaging in copyright infringement ("Napster...Nothing copyrighted EVER touches their servers"), it's pretty clear that they are set up for, and promote themselves as, a service to facilitate trading of copyrighted material. Where the law is on this, I don't know, but there's a big difference between a service like FTP ("Move files around the 'net") and Napster ("Move MP3 files between you and your friends, leaving no trace").
But yeah - there are copyright laws in place. There are remedies when copyright is infringed. Go after the infringers, and make BIG examples of them.
I do wonder if this is going to turn into the War on Drugs of the 21st century, though....
Hrm... but are entities listed in the government manual allowed to make whatever domains they want under the.gov TLD? I mean, if Armey is the Majority Leader, then make majorityleader.gov, or something.
If Mr. Armey happens to like naked clowns, is he allowed to register "nakedclowns.gov" just because he happens to be majority leader, and "majority leader" is an entity listed in the government manual?
Hey... the Postal Inspectors are the guys who bust you for sending around chain letters (get-rich-quick stuff & pyramid schemes) - perhaps their jurisdiction will expand to email, as well, when they see their servers clog up with that crap...
"Excuse me, sir? Did you send this spam? Please come with us..."
I see Mozilla as the AOL-driven IRC-chatting instant-messaging HTML-mailing webpage-editing arcade-game-playing GUI-on-the-fly-designing monstrosity.
They also have a really great rendering engine, Gecko.
If Galeon takes Gecko and puts a nice clean GUI on it, and 90% of people prefer it to "Mozilla" and use it instead, I'd say that Galeon essentially bit Mozilla in the ass....
Which would be more like saying "Mandrake is going to rise up and bite Red Hat in the ass, if they're not careful."
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http://www.new-sharon.me.us/upc.html
http://docwhat.gerf.org/software/per l/catscan/
Other ideas... tie it into CDDB and/or Amazon to catalog all your CDs and books based on UPC/ISBN numbers?
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Instead of state/local/federal governments spending money so that specific schools or libraries (etc.) can purchase proprietary software, why not just roll it all together, total up all the amount, and then spend maybe 50% of that on funding some open source development?
From there on, each school can spend a small amount of money paying someone to customize it to their needs, but we could have interoperable, open, inexpensive software where it's really needed.
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I agree with most of your post, but I think this is a bit off. You don't _have_ to use CSS, or region encoding, to create a DVD. Players will read non-encrypted, non-region-encoded DVDs just fine. At least for now....
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You can do it here.
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This month's issue had all the info on a Dept. of Justice computer system from some state or other, including a helpdesk number to call to do some "social engineering" of the system...
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of 2600, but don't be surprised if the judge isn't!
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Works great, except the bean-counters think that nobody is using Linux for gaming.
If you want to compare sales, you have to make sure the W32 and Linux boxes are on the same shelf, at the same time, no?
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This is almost certainly for the AOL/Transmeta/Gateway "web pad" devices that have been mentioned before, more or less like the I-Opener. The users won't have to deal with "Linux," they'll just click the pretty buttons. Plug it in, turn it on... and you're ready to go.
Regarding the issues that people have brought up about more and more people using Linux, though... it does concern me a bit. The traditional "ask a question on Usenet" model may fall apart when 100 questions a day ask how to set up XFree, or Linux-Kernel is flooded with "what's an 'fdisk?'"
I'm sure we'll find a way to deal with it...
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But you know... I almost hate to see this. AIM/ICQ etc always sort of gave me the willies - who knows what's going on when I run them? I feel a LOT better running GAIM/GnomeICU etc.
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What's next, a Linux powered hearing aid?
Sure - only it's one with voice recognition, speach synthesis, and a wireless link to babelfish...! You laugh... give it 20 years, max.
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So, when Rob says "GWB is a dork" I don't find that any more out of place than if he were to say "I really hate Dairy Queen burgers." It's irrelevant to the site. Saying "Corel Linux sucks, I'll never use it on my machine" would be a greater abuse of his editorial position, IMHO.
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Try rpmfind.net. You can browse it online, or use the rpmfind tool. Not quite as pointy-clicky as helix-update, but a great resource nonetheless...
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Our airport (Austin) is new, and they have a bunch of multi-headed boxes showing departures and arrivals. I've seen 'em with windows error messages several times... wasn't there a web site of "sightings" like this somewhere?
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But yeah - there are copyright laws in place. There are remedies when copyright is infringed. Go after the infringers, and make BIG examples of them.
I do wonder if this is going to turn into the War on Drugs of the 21st century, though....
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Hrm... but are entities listed in the government manual allowed to make whatever domains they want under the .gov TLD? I mean, if Armey is the Majority Leader, then make majorityleader.gov, or something.
If Mr. Armey happens to like naked clowns, is he allowed to register "nakedclowns.gov" just because he happens to be majority leader, and "majority leader" is an entity listed in the government manual?
"Excuse me, sir? Did you send this spam? Please come with us..."
That would make me happy.
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A few other lists are up, too - see https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo
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They also have a really great rendering engine, Gecko.
If Galeon takes Gecko and puts a nice clean GUI on it, and 90% of people prefer it to "Mozilla" and use it instead, I'd say that Galeon essentially bit Mozilla in the ass....
Which would be more like saying "Mandrake is going to rise up and bite Red Hat in the ass, if they're not careful."
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