First of all, I am a licensed Ham..but for the sake of the argument I am taking off my ham hat. While a majority of hams think that we have a signifigant say in what goes on...we really don't. Anyways...moving right along...
I am still in shock that the FCC has allowed BPL to prevail. Especially with the number of entities opposing it...Comercial Broadcasters (TV, FM radio, AM Radio and shortwave), The military (they still use HF), The coast guard (all vessels over a certain length are required to have a HF radio), the Airline industry, FEMA, and local public safety (yes some Police, Fire and EMS crews use VHF low-band still), oh an yeah us hams.
Just goes to show you how much powrer lobby groups have (but thats an issue for another article).
Not exactly a peripheral BUT...
Spend the extra cash and buy the extended warranty for the unit. Most retailers offer an option that inclues accidential dammage. It's saved me on more then one one occassion with a broken LCD that would have cost me a fortune to replace otherwise and more recently with a CD-ROM drive that went south on me.
I always found this to be a great investment especially if purchasing a higher end model.
I'm really straddling the fence on this issue.
Sure, I see the merits for having legimit information in a whois database. I've used it many times when conducting business on the net with smaller entities to "verifiy" their identity. Also used it numerous times to research companies while responding to employment ads.
On the other hand, its a spammers dream come true. Look at all the e-mail addresses you can collect in one spot. Granted some registrars are taking up some counter measures against harvesting, I sincerly applaud their efforts.
I think a compromise needs to take place here. REQUIRE people to submit truthful data. In this day and age how many registrars will accept blatently bogus information, especially if there are credit cards involved. However registrars should need to give their customers the option to display their information publicly. I know of no other industry that would publicize their customers personal data on the internet. Sure some of the info should stay public (nameserver records, technical contact) but does the average person need to know who owns and pays invoices for the domain? I think not.
I don't know why everybody is making such a big deal over this. If you want to see the infringing code get it from sco. They will make it available (provided you sign a NDA).
15. Is SCO willing to show any examples of source-code violations to Linux users? SCO has been showing examples of direct line-by-line copying of UNIX code into Linux to hundreds of industry analysts, reporters, customers, partners, and industry influencers since June of this year. To view this code, interested parties have had to sign a non-disclosure agreement verifying that they would keep this code in confidence. SCO continues to identify and show this code to parties willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
There you go, talk with SCO, sign the NDA and start grep'ing the source tree, then lets really see if SCO has anything.
Its very easy to set tcpdump and ethereal to capture packets for any of the IM clients. I suppose a secure server capturing IM traffic into and out of the network could be set up. Sessions could then be reconstructed when needed.
Wow, what timing. I spend a good chunk of the weekend working on this exact problem. Using normal CATV splitter I took the coax from the back of my digital cable box and brought it to the TV and my tuner card.
The IR is where i got stumped. I considered just buying a simple IR repeater and a universal remote so i could control the digital box from my computer room. However along the way I stumbled across the LIRC project. A simple homebrew reciever (basically a IR detector, power regulator, capicator and a restistor,connected to the serial port) and an even more trivial transmitter (an IR led and a current limiting resistor) couples with the LIRC package let me do some of the control remotly. Its not a perfect solution but I'm still working on it
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Ok so who's gonna be the first person to write an IE look alike theme ;-)
First of all, I am a licensed Ham..but for the sake of the argument I am taking off my ham hat. While a majority of hams think that we have a signifigant say in what goes on...we really don't. Anyways...moving right along... I am still in shock that the FCC has allowed BPL to prevail. Especially with the number of entities opposing it...Comercial Broadcasters (TV, FM radio, AM Radio and shortwave), The military (they still use HF), The coast guard (all vessels over a certain length are required to have a HF radio), the Airline industry, FEMA, and local public safety (yes some Police, Fire and EMS crews use VHF low-band still), oh an yeah us hams. Just goes to show you how much powrer lobby groups have (but thats an issue for another article).
Not exactly a peripheral BUT... Spend the extra cash and buy the extended warranty for the unit. Most retailers offer an option that inclues accidential dammage. It's saved me on more then one one occassion with a broken LCD that would have cost me a fortune to replace otherwise and more recently with a CD-ROM drive that went south on me. I always found this to be a great investment especially if purchasing a higher end model.
Pigeons...lots of pigeons...
I'm really straddling the fence on this issue. Sure, I see the merits for having legimit information in a whois database. I've used it many times when conducting business on the net with smaller entities to "verifiy" their identity. Also used it numerous times to research companies while responding to employment ads. On the other hand, its a spammers dream come true. Look at all the e-mail addresses you can collect in one spot. Granted some registrars are taking up some counter measures against harvesting, I sincerly applaud their efforts. I think a compromise needs to take place here. REQUIRE people to submit truthful data. In this day and age how many registrars will accept blatently bogus information, especially if there are credit cards involved. However registrars should need to give their customers the option to display their information publicly. I know of no other industry that would publicize their customers personal data on the internet. Sure some of the info should stay public (nameserver records, technical contact) but does the average person need to know who owns and pays invoices for the domain? I think not.
I don't know why everybody is making such a big deal over this. If you want to see the infringing code get it from sco. They will make it available (provided you sign a NDA).
Taken directly from the SCO Linux IP License FAQ.
15. Is SCO willing to show any examples of source-code violations to Linux users?
SCO has been showing examples of direct line-by-line copying of UNIX code into Linux to hundreds of industry analysts, reporters, customers, partners, and industry influencers since June of this year. To view this code, interested parties have had to sign a non-disclosure agreement verifying that they would keep this code in confidence. SCO continues to identify and show this code to parties willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
There you go, talk with SCO, sign the NDA and start grep'ing the source tree, then lets really see if SCO has anything.
Its very easy to set tcpdump and ethereal to capture packets for any of the IM clients. I suppose a secure server capturing IM traffic into and out of the network could be set up. Sessions could then be reconstructed when needed.
Wow, what timing. I spend a good chunk of the weekend working on this exact problem. Using normal CATV splitter I took the coax from the back of my digital cable box and brought it to the TV and my tuner card. The IR is where i got stumped. I considered just buying a simple IR repeater and a universal remote so i could control the digital box from my computer room. However along the way I stumbled across the LIRC project. A simple homebrew reciever (basically a IR detector, power regulator, capicator and a restistor,connected to the serial port) and an even more trivial transmitter (an IR led and a current limiting resistor) couples with the LIRC package let me do some of the control remotly. Its not a perfect solution but I'm still working on it