Perhaps it's illegal, sort of like wearing pants on sunday in montana is illegal (or whatever...)
But let the cops come to take me away for playing a DVD I purchased on a DVD-ROM drive that I purchased. Let the judge throw me in jail with a straight face.
Ok, maybe not quite so vaporous, but the first thing that came to mind was the TCAP:
American Computer Company readying a new kind of semiconducting device which
rivals the Transistor --the Transcapacitor: a 12-Teraherz Clock Speed Microprocessor
& Storage "Building Block" Component which could Revolutionize Consumer Electronics
and all forms of Computing and communications, by making low cost CPUs and Disk Drives run
as much as 10,000 times faster, consume minute quantities of power and occupy 50 times less space.
All that, and they packaged it in a Pentium II case!:)
from http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/help.html
It is Google's policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in an appropriate manner under such Act and other applicable intellectual property laws, including the removal or disabling of access to material claimed to be the subject of infringing activity. For more information, see our Terms of Service.
Don't get too freaked out by the size of the patches in the past couple of XFS releases. The patches are essentially designed to seed a CVS tree, and have all of the userspace code, and even RPM building bits (patches, etc.) included. As such, the patches look HUGE...
A kernel-only patch is about 4 megs - granted, not small, but much smaller than the distributed patch.
Thanks to the extensive interest and contributions from the community, the XFS filesystem for Linux has made significant progress since its Beta release in September 2000. Although there are still some features to be finalized, the Beta code is currently stable in a majority of normal environments. We welcome and encourage interested users to try out the code aggressively in your test environments so that we can work through the final stage of the development and bug fixes to meet your production needs.
I'm running it exclusively on my home workstation at this point, FWIW.
This could help people seeking to hold patents, as well.
If you can get decisive information that the patent you were going to apply for has prior art, it could save you a lot more than the $10k bounty.
If Mr. Bezos puts up $10k for some seemingly simple, obvious patent, and nobody can refute it or come up w/ prior art, he can feel pretty secure about going ahead with it, and saving court costs down the line...
I've never looked at TeX code, but I have this warm fuzzy thinking about how it must look. I actually haven't used TeX for quite some time, but I just always had this sense that it was done right.
When I was using TeX, I was using xdvi as well - and that also really impressed me. Simple interface, SUPER snappy response on the gui - no animations, alpha blending, or themes...
Click on that magnify button and zoom the window around... ahh..... does anybody write code like TeX any more?
(I have not tried it - all I know is from what's on the website.)
SGI's Linux FailSafe is the premiere next generation High-Availability (HA) solution for business critical applications. It provides a simple way to make your applications HA without having to resort to rewriting or recompiling or the need to invest in expensive hardware solutions. Linux FailSafe provides a robust clustering environment with resilience from any single point of failure.
Linux FailSafe is architected to scale up to 16 nodes in a cluster with the cluster members sharing storage. Linux FailSafe and shared storage allows multiple servers to assume control of data in the event of a failure. At the point of failure, applications are resumed on the remaining system{s} and filesystems are automatically made available to their applications.
1. Disconnect from any network.
2. Start the install, but don't use dynamic update (which wants to connect, right?)
3. After installation and on first boot, don't set up your Internet connection when it asks. Click next or skip - the wizard will crash when you click next.;)
4. Click Start/Run and type:
regsrv32.exe -u regwizc.dll Close the confirmation window that appears.
5. Start/run: regedit 6. Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion change RegDone value to 1
7. Open up Internet Explorer. Open the Tools/Internet Properties and change your home page to something that isn't Microsoft or MSN.
8. Reboot and before windows starts up, plug your network connection back in.
Gosh, you're right. I retract everything I've said.
I've also drafted a letter to Ralph Nader, explaining to him that he really was wasting his time crusading against the Corvair - I mean, they worked so poorly, why on earth did he get so worked up about them?
Unfortunately, I think the best way to fight this is to point out how POORLY the filtering works. Paint it as a huge waste of money.
Sure, you can argue all day long about infringing rights, etc, and a lot of people will just figure you want to see porn.
But show Joe Sixpack that he can't get any information on Superbowl XXX at his local library when this goes into effect, and you might get some grass roots support.
The evening news might pick stuff like that up - they won't give a rat's ass about cyber-rights.
Slashdot Mirror
Try this link to go right to it. (This is the 220Kbps realplayer stream)
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Index: nsAppRunner.cpp
RCS file:
retrieving revision 1.263
diff -u -r1.263 nsAppRunner.cpp
--- nsAppRunner.cpp 2001/02/12 21:16:02 1.263
+++ nsAppRunner.cpp 2001/02/16 00:11:44
@@ -1195,6 +1195,7 @@
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
+ NS_ASSERTION(bSlashdotRunning,"Can't start without SlashDot");
#if defined(XP_UNIX)
InstallUnixSignalHandlers(argv[0]);
#endif
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But let the cops come to take me away for playing a DVD I purchased on a DVD-ROM drive that I purchased. Let the judge throw me in jail with a straight face.
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I have a DVD in my server box, a little Pentium 200 - the DVD is there because there's no room in my workstation for another drive.
Does the "Lan" part of "VideoLan" allow me to run the decoder on my workstation, while the DVD is in a drive on my server?
AFAIK you need direct access to the device to negotiate keys - i.e. you can't decrypt an NFS mounted DVD - can you?
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All that, and they packaged it in a Pentium II case!
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usbdrive.com
Q-drive
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A kernel-only patch is about 4 megs - granted, not small, but much smaller than the distributed patch.
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I'm running it exclusively on my home workstation at this point, FWIW.
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No, not DIVX, it's Divx
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If you can get decisive information that the patent you were going to apply for has prior art, it could save you a lot more than the $10k bounty.
If Mr. Bezos puts up $10k for some seemingly simple, obvious patent, and nobody can refute it or come up w/ prior art, he can feel pretty secure about going ahead with it, and saving court costs down the line...
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When I was using TeX, I was using xdvi as well - and that also really impressed me. Simple interface, SUPER snappy response on the gui - no animations, alpha blending, or themes...
Click on that magnify button and zoom the window around... ahh..... does anybody write code like TeX any more?
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Try SGI's GPL'd FailSafe:
(I have not tried it - all I know is from what's on the website.)
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1. Disconnect from any network.
2. Start the install, but don't use dynamic update (which wants to connect, right?)
3. After installation and on first boot, don't set up your Internet connection when it asks. Click next or skip - the wizard will crash when you click next.
4. Click Start/Run and type:
regsrv32.exe -u regwizc.dll
Close the confirmation window that appears.
5. Start/run: regedit
6. Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\C
7. Open up Internet Explorer. Open the Tools/Internet Properties and change your home page to something that isn't Microsoft or MSN.
8. Reboot and before windows starts up, plug your network connection back in.
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I've also drafted a letter to Ralph Nader, explaining to him that he really was wasting his time crusading against the Corvair - I mean, they worked so poorly, why on earth did he get so worked up about them?
Thanks for pointing out the flaw in my logic.
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If you talk about wasting taxpayers' money, some of the conservative folks who came up with this idea just might listen to you.
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Sure, you can argue all day long about infringing rights, etc, and a lot of people will just figure you want to see porn.
But show Joe Sixpack that he can't get any information on Superbowl XXX at his local library when this goes into effect, and you might get some grass roots support.
The evening news might pick stuff like that up - they won't give a rat's ass about cyber-rights.
Sad, but true, I think.
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I usually put that much effort into something if others will benefit from it as well. If it's just for me... well, it's too much work.
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It was silly for him to try, because there IS NO DRIVER For it.
That's because Logitech thinks that the bits that talk to the camera, perhaps more so than the camera itself, constitute their key to market share.
They WILL NOT release specs for the camera, so Linux folks cannot write a driver for it.
I wouldn't blame that on Linux.
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http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/
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