I know for a fact that the MPAA monitors eDonkey. I was caught by them a few months ago, and they told my college to yell at me. Since the RIAA seems to put even more resources than the MPAA into tracking file sharing, I'm positive they're also watching eDonkey.
I've used Win4Lin 4.0 extensively, and I believe 5.0 isn't too different.
Pros:
VERY fast. About 95% of the speed of a real Windows installation. In some cases faster, such as startup/shutdown, both of which are near-instant.
VERY easy to install. Run the graphical installer, it downloads the neccesary kernel patch (needed to make Windows think its running on top of DOS instead of Linux), installs everything. Reboot, and you're done.
VERY compatible. I've yet to find a program that runs on a normal WinME box that won't run on Win4Lin WinME.
Good networking support. You can have your Win4Lin install connect to your LAN (via a virtual NIC).
Cons:
Programs seemed to crash more often in Win4Lin than in actual Windows. This may be fixed in 5.0.
Windows doesn't get to use a lot of your hardware. Mouse, keyboard, CD-ROM, sound (thru your linux drivers), printers (thru your linux drivers) and serial ports are accessible. Almost anything else (scanners, other USB toys, etc) are not. May be improved in 5.0.
Clipboard isn't consistent between Linux and Windows. May be fixed in 5.0.
No 3D, and only limited DirectDraw. Not much can be done about this.
Yeah, so it's not perfect, but it definitely beat the hell out of VMware or any other similar programs.
Logos: The altered studio logo at the opening of the film may be highly significant. The Matrix-coded WB letters could simply be the Wachowski brothers thumbing their nose at the Warner Bros. But by altering the logo - from the Greek term "logos," for word - the film's opening does two things. First, it corrupts the Gospel of John, which begins with "In the beginning was the Word...". Second, it asserts that metaphysical meaning can be gleaned by mining deep into words, or code.
I believe that there's symbolism in the film, but come on, that's stretching it just a bit. You can find non-existant messages in anything if you look hard enough. Just like assassination predictions in Moby Dick.
Something like this needs a "Killer App" to really take off. There's lots of mention of uses in the fields of medicine, nuclear whatever, and other big important things, but I don't think that's what's going to push these things. So, what is? Simple.
Porn.
Come on, you KNOW you'd buy it if you could watch 3D porn on it!
The problem is that uploading the information to usenet is exactly what's going to happen. Corporate-types don't read usenet, but hacker-types do. What does that lead to? Some bored kid stealing all of my money, and only THEN is there a reaction from the company. I attend Cornell University, and I have to say, Blackboard is EVERYWHERE. We call it CornellCard. It controls all of the vending machines and meal plans. At least one door on each academic building and all the doors on the newer dorms are controlled by it. Not only can it be used to charge money out of our debit account (called Big Red Bucks), but it can be used to charge however much you want to your parents' bursar bill. The card isn't the only product Blackboard provides to schools. They also sell Cornell a web service called MyBlackboard. It allows teachers to set up websites for their classes. In addition to trivial stuff like assignments and lecture notes, the teachers use this interface to post test scores. Imagine all the havoc that could be brought upon this huge system simply because some exec decided it was more "cost-effective" to send out the attack lawyers than to fix their shoddy product.
Indeed, as a student, I am all too aware of the way the RIAA/MPAA usually deals with this kind of stuff. They search for certain files on various P2P networks (the only ones I know for sure are Kazaa and eDonkey, although I'm sure they watch others too), and when an IP that has that file matches their database of IPs belonging to universities they have agreements with, they send out a nice e-mail to that university's policy person, who then takes whatever action they want (over here, they disable your internet connection for a bit, and then make you do community service). In case you're curious, here's what one of those e-mails looks like:
Dear Sir or Madam:
Please be advised that Universal City Studios, Inc. and its affiliated
companies (collectively "Universal") are the exclusive owners of certain
copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights in and to the
renowned motion picture properties (the "Universal Properties"),
including, but not limited to those listed below this notice (the
"Universal Motion Pictures").
Notwithstanding this, it has come to our attention that the Internet
site(s) located below, for which Cornell University is a service provider,
is offering unauthorized copies of the Universal Motion
Pictures. Universal diligently enforces its rights to the Universal
Properties in all forms of media. As you may be aware, Internet Service
Providers can be held liable if they do not respond to claims of
infringement pursuant to the requirements of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (the "DMCA"). In accordance with the DMCA, we are notifying
you of infringements on an Internet site for which you act as an Internet
Service Provider.
We hereby request your assistance in ceasing the distribution, sale,
and/or offering for sale of the infringing VCDs, and any other
unauthorized copies of Universal Properties, on this Internet site and any
other sites for which you act as an Internet Service Provider. Please
contact me regarding this matter at your earliest convenience.
Under the penalty of perjury, the undersigned is authorized to act on
behalf of Universal with respect to this matter and the information
contained in this transmission is accurate. Please contact me regarding
this matter at your earliest convenience.
Finally, please be advised that this letter is not intended as a complete
statement of the facts or law as they pertain to this matter, and that
Universal reserves all rights and remedies.
Very truly yours,
Aaron Markham
Manager of Internet Anti-Piracy,
Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, INC.
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608
tel. (818) 777-3111
fax (818) 866-6339
antipiracy@unistudios.com
Notice ID: [removed]
Title: Head of State
Infringement Source: eDonkey
Infringement Timestamp: 4/3/2003 11:08:14 AM PST (GMT-8:00)
Infringer Username: None
Infringing Filename: Head of State.avi
Infringing Filesize: 445821648
Infringers IP Address: [removed]
Infringers DNS Name:
Infringing URL: [removed]
I'm a freshman at Cornell. I run perfectly legal web/ftp servers from my box. According to my logs, since september i've uploaded 560 gigs (this is ignoring everything else i do online). Do the math yourselves, but as you can see, i'm way over the limit.
I wouldn't complain, but unlike most schools, Cornell charges us for our connections. It's an additional fee from housing. $50 a month for internet usage. I'd think that since they're already charging us, we'd get to use that bandwidth however we like.
Oh well. Thank god I'm moving off campus next year.
I agree. A little while ago I found a diary I had kept for 2 yeard during high school. It detailed what was going on in my life, the relationships I went through, etc. And I was extremely surprised by it, because many many things were not the way I had remembered them. One thing especially was the feelings I had for my girlfriend at the time. We went through a nasty breakup (typical high school stuff), and as a result when I think back I don't remember the relationship ever being that great. But when I read what I wrote about the relationship at the time, I realized that I had changed my memory of those events. Memory is a very subjective thing. That's why everyone should keep a diary, and NEVER change anything you wrote in it (even the next day). Many years down the road, you'll be glad you kept it.
Re:hmm... I wonder if it will be kosher...
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The bible doesn't say you can't eat meat unless it passes the split-hooves/chews cud requirement. It says something along the lines of "You can only eat animals with split-hooves/chews cud." But of course, this is not an animal, and never was one, so it would be 100% kosher. Jews could even have it in a cheeseburger, or make some tasty lab-grown bacon. I'm sure some rabbis will disagree with this interpretation, but rabbis tend to disagree about everything.
The original post wasn't so clear about this. It's one character PER SERVER. There are 10 servers, so you can make 10 characters. Want to try out a totally different race, class, or whatever? Just make a new character on a different server. Don't like it? Use your other character on your other server. The only people this hurts are those who use mules, and I see that as a very good thing.
People keep saying the quality isn't up to par with DivXes. I rented Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone from MovieLink. The file size was 700-something megs, and only took about a half hour to download. I was extremely impressed by the quality. It was better than just about every DivX (even much larger ones) that I've watched, and was just about DVD quality. And for the cheap price, it was quite worth it. I would (and will) definitely use their service again. My only complaint is that for some reason Windows Media Player wouldn't let me full-screen the movie (I've never had that problem before), which I figure has something to do with the DRM. Even that didn't bother me so much, as I could just stretch the video window to take up the whole screen, and isn't a big enough problem to stop me from renting again. It's not quite a kazaa-killer, but it's getting there.
Over here at Cornell, we have this lovely thing called Course Reserve. In my writing class (all engineers are forced to take 2 writing classes), we have to read long chapters from many different books. However, rather than making us buy all of them, the professor simply told the librarians what pages of what books we're using and said to put them on course reserve. The librarians then scanned those pages, made some nice PDFs, and put it all together on a course website. The site is password protected, so no one but us will ever know about all this copyright infringement. Oh, the irony that they make us do community service for downloading MP3s...
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I know for a fact that the MPAA monitors eDonkey. I was caught by them a few months ago, and they told my college to yell at me. Since the RIAA seems to put even more resources than the MPAA into tracking file sharing, I'm positive they're also watching eDonkey.
Pros:
VERY fast. About 95% of the speed of a real Windows installation. In some cases faster, such as startup/shutdown, both of which are near-instant.
VERY easy to install. Run the graphical installer, it downloads the neccesary kernel patch (needed to make Windows think its running on top of DOS instead of Linux), installs everything. Reboot, and you're done.
VERY compatible. I've yet to find a program that runs on a normal WinME box that won't run on Win4Lin WinME.
Good networking support. You can have your Win4Lin install connect to your LAN (via a virtual NIC).
Cons:
Programs seemed to crash more often in Win4Lin than in actual Windows. This may be fixed in 5.0.
Windows doesn't get to use a lot of your hardware. Mouse, keyboard, CD-ROM, sound (thru your linux drivers), printers (thru your linux drivers) and serial ports are accessible. Almost anything else (scanners, other USB toys, etc) are not. May be improved in 5.0.
Clipboard isn't consistent between Linux and Windows. May be fixed in 5.0.
No 3D, and only limited DirectDraw. Not much can be done about this.
Yeah, so it's not perfect, but it definitely beat the hell out of VMware or any other similar programs.
I believe that there's symbolism in the film, but come on, that's stretching it just a bit. You can find non-existant messages in anything if you look hard enough. Just like assassination predictions in Moby Dick.
You can download ISOs of all 5 discs (Pro version) via BitTorrent. The link is:
S O_set.torrent
http://10mbit.com/suprnova/SuSE_Linux_8.2_Pro_5_I
God, I love BitTorrent.
Something like this needs a "Killer App" to really take off. There's lots of mention of uses in the fields of medicine, nuclear whatever, and other big important things, but I don't think that's what's going to push these things. So, what is? Simple. Porn. Come on, you KNOW you'd buy it if you could watch 3D porn on it!
The problem is that uploading the information to usenet is exactly what's going to happen. Corporate-types don't read usenet, but hacker-types do. What does that lead to? Some bored kid stealing all of my money, and only THEN is there a reaction from the company. I attend Cornell University, and I have to say, Blackboard is EVERYWHERE. We call it CornellCard. It controls all of the vending machines and meal plans. At least one door on each academic building and all the doors on the newer dorms are controlled by it. Not only can it be used to charge money out of our debit account (called Big Red Bucks), but it can be used to charge however much you want to your parents' bursar bill. The card isn't the only product Blackboard provides to schools. They also sell Cornell a web service called MyBlackboard. It allows teachers to set up websites for their classes. In addition to trivial stuff like assignments and lecture notes, the teachers use this interface to post test scores. Imagine all the havoc that could be brought upon this huge system simply because some exec decided it was more "cost-effective" to send out the attack lawyers than to fix their shoddy product.
Indeed, as a student, I am all too aware of the way the RIAA/MPAA usually deals with this kind of stuff. They search for certain files on various P2P networks (the only ones I know for sure are Kazaa and eDonkey, although I'm sure they watch others too), and when an IP that has that file matches their database of IPs belonging to universities they have agreements with, they send out a nice e-mail to that university's policy person, who then takes whatever action they want (over here, they disable your internet connection for a bit, and then make you do community service). In case you're curious, here's what one of those e-mails looks like: Dear Sir or Madam: Please be advised that Universal City Studios, Inc. and its affiliated companies (collectively "Universal") are the exclusive owners of certain copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights in and to the renowned motion picture properties (the "Universal Properties"), including, but not limited to those listed below this notice (the "Universal Motion Pictures"). Notwithstanding this, it has come to our attention that the Internet site(s) located below, for which Cornell University is a service provider, is offering unauthorized copies of the Universal Motion Pictures. Universal diligently enforces its rights to the Universal Properties in all forms of media. As you may be aware, Internet Service Providers can be held liable if they do not respond to claims of infringement pursuant to the requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"). In accordance with the DMCA, we are notifying you of infringements on an Internet site for which you act as an Internet Service Provider. We hereby request your assistance in ceasing the distribution, sale, and/or offering for sale of the infringing VCDs, and any other unauthorized copies of Universal Properties, on this Internet site and any other sites for which you act as an Internet Service Provider. Please contact me regarding this matter at your earliest convenience. Under the penalty of perjury, the undersigned is authorized to act on behalf of Universal with respect to this matter and the information contained in this transmission is accurate. Please contact me regarding this matter at your earliest convenience. Finally, please be advised that this letter is not intended as a complete statement of the facts or law as they pertain to this matter, and that Universal reserves all rights and remedies. Very truly yours, Aaron Markham Manager of Internet Anti-Piracy, Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, INC. 100 Universal City Plaza Universal City, CA 91608 tel. (818) 777-3111 fax (818) 866-6339 antipiracy@unistudios.com Notice ID: [removed] Title: Head of State Infringement Source: eDonkey Infringement Timestamp: 4/3/2003 11:08:14 AM PST (GMT-8:00) Infringer Username: None Infringing Filename: Head of State.avi Infringing Filesize: 445821648 Infringers IP Address: [removed] Infringers DNS Name: Infringing URL: [removed]
I'm a freshman at Cornell. I run perfectly legal web/ftp servers from my box. According to my logs, since september i've uploaded 560 gigs (this is ignoring everything else i do online). Do the math yourselves, but as you can see, i'm way over the limit. I wouldn't complain, but unlike most schools, Cornell charges us for our connections. It's an additional fee from housing. $50 a month for internet usage. I'd think that since they're already charging us, we'd get to use that bandwidth however we like. Oh well. Thank god I'm moving off campus next year.
I agree. A little while ago I found a diary I had kept for 2 yeard during high school. It detailed what was going on in my life, the relationships I went through, etc. And I was extremely surprised by it, because many many things were not the way I had remembered them. One thing especially was the feelings I had for my girlfriend at the time. We went through a nasty breakup (typical high school stuff), and as a result when I think back I don't remember the relationship ever being that great. But when I read what I wrote about the relationship at the time, I realized that I had changed my memory of those events. Memory is a very subjective thing. That's why everyone should keep a diary, and NEVER change anything you wrote in it (even the next day). Many years down the road, you'll be glad you kept it.
The bible doesn't say you can't eat meat unless it passes the split-hooves/chews cud requirement. It says something along the lines of "You can only eat animals with split-hooves/chews cud." But of course, this is not an animal, and never was one, so it would be 100% kosher. Jews could even have it in a cheeseburger, or make some tasty lab-grown bacon. I'm sure some rabbis will disagree with this interpretation, but rabbis tend to disagree about everything.
The original post wasn't so clear about this. It's one character PER SERVER. There are 10 servers, so you can make 10 characters. Want to try out a totally different race, class, or whatever? Just make a new character on a different server. Don't like it? Use your other character on your other server. The only people this hurts are those who use mules, and I see that as a very good thing.
People keep saying the quality isn't up to par with DivXes. I rented Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone from MovieLink. The file size was 700-something megs, and only took about a half hour to download. I was extremely impressed by the quality. It was better than just about every DivX (even much larger ones) that I've watched, and was just about DVD quality. And for the cheap price, it was quite worth it. I would (and will) definitely use their service again. My only complaint is that for some reason Windows Media Player wouldn't let me full-screen the movie (I've never had that problem before), which I figure has something to do with the DRM. Even that didn't bother me so much, as I could just stretch the video window to take up the whole screen, and isn't a big enough problem to stop me from renting again. It's not quite a kazaa-killer, but it's getting there.
Over here at Cornell, we have this lovely thing called Course Reserve. In my writing class (all engineers are forced to take 2 writing classes), we have to read long chapters from many different books. However, rather than making us buy all of them, the professor simply told the librarians what pages of what books we're using and said to put them on course reserve. The librarians then scanned those pages, made some nice PDFs, and put it all together on a course website. The site is password protected, so no one but us will ever know about all this copyright infringement. Oh, the irony that they make us do community service for downloading MP3s...
Hey, if people can still abbreviate Microsoft as M$, then I can make a simple Itanic joke.