Seems like the TCPA guys are right - there are some poeple to stupid to be root on their own machine.
(Not that I would prefer Disney/M to be root on any)
Maybe there should be some kind of secure OS for lusers. But who will administrate such systems? Preferably a knowledgable friend or relation. Which leaves the problem of those to pigheaded to ackknowledge this.
Maybe we will fare better with a Palladium like system for the great unwashed. (providing it is done properly) and a obscure, hard to use but powerful (read: like early linux) for the savant.
Doesnt`t sound perfect, anyone got a better idea? TCPA by the FSF?
Mplayer for linux of course comes with all the codecs but windows users gotta install the fucking players with all their spyware and bloat.
Actually, mplayer works fine under windows. You can compile and run it with cygwin or use the new MingW binary (no stdin/stdout piping, but no extra dlls either)
We have been using it on a project - even patched it and it worked well.
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Seems like the TCPA guys are right - there are some poeple to stupid to be root on their own machine. (Not that I would prefer Disney/M to be root on any) Maybe there should be some kind of secure OS for lusers. But who will administrate such systems? Preferably a knowledgable friend or relation. Which leaves the problem of those to pigheaded to ackknowledge this. Maybe we will fare better with a Palladium like system for the great unwashed. (providing it is done properly) and a obscure, hard to use but powerful (read: like early linux) for the savant. Doesnt`t sound perfect, anyone got a better idea? TCPA by the FSF?
Mplayer for linux of course comes with all the codecs but windows users gotta install the fucking players with all their spyware and bloat. Actually, mplayer works fine under windows. You can compile and run it with cygwin or use the new MingW binary (no stdin/stdout piping, but no extra dlls either) We have been using it on a project - even patched it and it worked well. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html