Denmark had a tax on blank CD's and DVS's following the same system and for the same reason for a long time. I discussed this with a friend not too long ago and the interesting part is that even if you fill up CD's with pirated material downloaded from the net, you could argue that you already paid for the right to do so through these taxes. I mean - since the tax go directly to the copyright owners, they have - by accepting the money - accepted that the copies are put on these CD's.
To my knowledge it's never been tried in court but I would love to see the result.
Seriously speaking, currently a lot of new WIFI enabled VoIP phones are coming to market. I've been using one for the past few month and while they are still a little pricey, the technology do work.
Well - I guess the problem is that this changes from model to model even from the same vendor. Personally I have owned IBM Thinkpads, Fujitsu, Sony Vaio, Twinhead, and a bunch of Dell Latitude and Inspiron laptops. Of these in general the Dell Latitude performed best when it came to battery life. A Latitude with one spare battery running Linux with carefully configured APM features could run me through most of a long haul flights without problems - in other words I usually squeezed something like 4-5 hours out of each battery. Oh - and the opposite was the Fujitsu - nice looking, nice performance but impossible to get it to run more than 1 1/2 hour.
But again - I doubt these views are very valuable since I am sure the latest models from all vendors are completely different.
Don't see the problem really. Why would anybody give read access to device nodes for regular users? You wouldn't let them read/proc/kcore either would you?:)
Guess maybe I should consider myself lucky that they refused to provide me with a charger if the AC cable is extra. I'm sure they would have charged me a bomb for it.
By the way - while we're at the Vaio bashing:) I think I've had probably 10-14 laptops through various jobs and private of various brands - Dell, Fujitsu, IBM, Twinhead etc. I smoke and well - it's amazing what can end up in a keyboard. Of all the laptop's I've had, the Vaio is the only one that did NOT survive this treatment. I've had to replace the keyboard twice in 3 years (no cleaning, blowing whatever helped) and it was around USD 150 each time:(
Never mind - history now - and so is Sony Laptops on my desk no matter how cool they look.
Interesting how this debate turned around Sony. I kind liked their products back in the "old days". About 3 years ago I sort of fell in love with the bleeding edge top-of-the-line Vaio laptop. That is to this date the worst purchase I have EVER made. I travel quite a lot - in Europe and in the far east. I did in fact buy the laptop in a South-East Asian country - with INTERNATIONAL warrenty and service. Six month later I find myself in Europe - with my Vaio - minus the charger. Called Sony to get a new one only to hear: "Sorry - we don't support that model in Europe at all - you'll have to order a replacement from the country where you bought the laptop".
I simply don't understand any company can survive with that kind of service. Needless to say I will never repeat the mistake of buying a Vaio - EVER.
I just wonder what will happen when the guys at Oracle hear about this. I've seen some weird licensing schemes from those guys - but I can't wait to see $100/horsepower or something like that.
This is completely rediculous. I've been using Wireless IEEE 802.11b handsets for months and it works just as well as my LAN IP phones with quality significantly better than a typical GSM phone.
Aren't you missing one important fact here? That most of the spam are promoting american products? This is a big like fighting drugs by throwing the addicts to jail and hitting small time street pushers. The only way to deal with this is to his the ones that profit big time - which are the ones trying to sell their products using these questionable means.
Fact is if I look at my inbox - something like 95 % of all Spam promote questionable american products, 2-3 % is in russian so I don't even know what it promotes - and I have yet to see ONE spam mail that actually try to sell a Chinese product.
But while we're at it. Someone should investigate why - some beers are bad - even within the same brand. I mean - you drink 9 and they are perfectly ok - and then all of a sudden no. 10 makes you sick. One would think in these hightech times they would have better quality control.
Damn - I wish I had never seen this article. I've always used that observation as a definite measure when to stop drinking beer. Now I won't know when to stop. I'm sure this article has been sponsored by the breweries.
This can actually be achieved with ffmpeg/ffserver combo. It does live streaming but includes a buffer to you can start the stream at an earlier point. I've done a solution based on this about a year ago and - well - since the customer hasn't complained I'll assume it's still working flawlessly:)
Somehow the first thing I thought when I read this posting was that it would be a hell of a lot more interesting if you could remove the clothe entirely.
I'm not sure what you mean by "My only complaint is that there needs to be kernel-image packages that have ACPI compiled in."? The 2.6 kernel images that are currently in testing and unstable has got ACPI compiled in. This by the way made my laptop hang, so I needed to include
append="acpi=off"
in my lilo.conf.
Speaking of 2.6 kernel I just went through the upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 on three machines - two test servers and one laptop, and I came across 3 minor details:
1. Had to disable ACPI (see above)
2. Had to upgrade to lvm2 instead of lvm10
3. Had to load different modules to get my touchpad to work on my laptop
Well - I never really got this one. I actually like Debian's strict policy on software licenses even if it now and then causes some inconvenience. As for Java - well - it didn't take me long to realize that I needed the original - and that Blackdown have a ready made Debian package that can be included in apt's sources.list. That's all - one line in a configuration file and you've got perfectly working Java in Debian.
And here's the line:
deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ testing non-free main
By the way - I would assume this problem to be exactly the same on all other Linux distro's due to SUN's licensing. Isn't that so?
I've always been using one of Dell's leather bags. They used to include them for free when you bought a laptop, and my current one have survived 5 different (non Dell) laptops on enough flights to earn gold cards in 3 different airlines (I lost count but that is a lot of air miles). It doesn't exactly look "new" anymore, but it is still not broken and none of my laptops has ever broken either.
What's this - beer, supermodels, semilegal canabis - you forgot the obvious: PORN:) Denmark was the first country in the world to legalize pornography and back in the early 70's that was major business for Denmark. A good thing the Internet didn't really exist back then. Would have been impossible to get any bandwidth in and out of the country.
What I fail to understand is how they imagine to enforce this kind of law unless the US efficiently filter out all Internet traffic in and out of the country.
I am Danish and I am absolutely positive I can put all the porn (using models aged 18 and above)on my web-site that I like (which means zero - but that's besides the point) and I am equally positive that every online person in the US can access that page. Now - this is perfectly legal and acceptable in the country where my web-server is located, so I absolutely fail to understand the relevance of these laws.
Seems like an incredible waste of resources and energy implementing something that won't provide any child protection at all.
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Denmark had a tax on blank CD's and DVS's following the same system and for the same reason for a long time. I discussed this with a friend not too long ago and the interesting part is that even if you fill up CD's with pirated material downloaded from the net, you could argue that you already paid for the right to do so through these taxes. I mean - since the tax go directly to the copyright owners, they have - by accepting the money - accepted that the copies are put on these CD's.
To my knowledge it's never been tried in court but I would love to see the result.
You forgot: Debian Sarge will be released this year
Silence of the Lambs came very close
Not a day go by without me missing the pip application. And people call Linux complicated! HA!
Ha - seems the site is incompatible with itself since right now it's reporting some kind of SQL error :)
They are fairly WIFI friendly :)
Seriously speaking, currently a lot of new WIFI enabled VoIP phones are coming to market. I've been using one for the past few month and while they are still a little pricey, the technology do work.
Well - I guess the problem is that this changes from model to model even from the same vendor. Personally I have owned IBM Thinkpads, Fujitsu, Sony Vaio, Twinhead, and a bunch of Dell Latitude and Inspiron laptops. Of these in general the Dell Latitude performed best when it came to battery life. A Latitude with one spare battery running Linux with carefully configured APM features could run me through most of a long haul flights without problems - in other words I usually squeezed something like 4-5 hours out of each battery. Oh - and the opposite was the Fujitsu - nice looking, nice performance but impossible to get it to run more than 1 1/2 hour.
But again - I doubt these views are very valuable since I am sure the latest models from all vendors are completely different.
Ahem - :
/dev/hda4: Permission denied
/proc/kcore either would you? :)
cat:
Don't see the problem really. Why would anybody give read access to device nodes for regular users? You wouldn't let them read
Guess maybe I should consider myself lucky that they refused to provide me with a charger if the AC cable is extra. I'm sure they would have charged me a bomb for it.
:) I think I've had probably 10-14 laptops through various jobs and private of various brands - Dell, Fujitsu, IBM, Twinhead etc. I smoke and well - it's amazing what can end up in a keyboard. Of all the laptop's I've had, the Vaio is the only one that did NOT survive this treatment. I've had to replace the keyboard twice in 3 years (no cleaning, blowing whatever helped) and it was around USD 150 each time :(
By the way - while we're at the Vaio bashing
Never mind - history now - and so is Sony Laptops on my desk no matter how cool they look.
Interesting how this debate turned around Sony. I kind liked their products back in the "old days". About 3 years ago I sort of fell in love with the bleeding edge top-of-the-line Vaio laptop. That is to this date the worst purchase I have EVER made. I travel quite a lot - in Europe and in the far east. I did in fact buy the laptop in a South-East Asian country - with INTERNATIONAL warrenty and service. Six month later I find myself in Europe - with my Vaio - minus the charger. Called Sony to get a new one only to hear: "Sorry - we don't support that model in Europe at all - you'll have to order a replacement from the country where you bought the laptop".
I simply don't understand any company can survive with that kind of service. Needless to say I will never repeat the mistake of buying a Vaio - EVER.
Technically Solaris has Linux? Huh - how did that happen :) Are you sure you don't mean that technically SUN has got a Linux?
Of course Solaris is not really Open Source, so it could be based on Linux. But then SCO would have been all over SUN.
I just wonder what will happen when the guys at Oracle hear about this. I've seen some weird licensing schemes from those guys - but I can't wait to see $100/horsepower or something like that.
This is completely rediculous. I've been using Wireless IEEE 802.11b handsets for months and it works just as well as my LAN IP phones with quality significantly better than a typical GSM phone.
Aren't you missing one important fact here? That most of the spam are promoting american products? This is a big like fighting drugs by throwing the addicts to jail and hitting small time street pushers. The only way to deal with this is to his the ones that profit big time - which are the ones trying to sell their products using these questionable means.
Fact is if I look at my inbox - something like 95 % of all Spam promote questionable american products, 2-3 % is in russian so I don't even know what it promotes - and I have yet to see ONE spam mail that actually try to sell a Chinese product.
But while we're at it. Someone should investigate why - some beers are bad - even within the same brand. I mean - you drink 9 and they are perfectly ok - and then all of a sudden no. 10 makes you sick. One would think in these hightech times they would have better quality control.
Well - we all got our vices. And life would be pretty boring without them.
Damn - I wish I had never seen this article. I've always used that observation as a definite measure when to stop drinking beer. Now I won't know when to stop. I'm sure this article has been sponsored by the breweries.
This can actually be achieved with ffmpeg/ffserver combo. It does live streaming but includes a buffer to you can start the stream at an earlier point. I've done a solution based on this about a year ago and - well - since the customer hasn't complained I'll assume it's still working flawlessly :)
Somehow the first thing I thought when I read this posting was that it would be a hell of a lot more interesting if you could remove the clothe entirely.
Ha, ha - at least Microsoft tried to patent ctrl-alt-del. Why not I wonder? Already SCO IP?
I'm not sure what you mean by "My only complaint is that there needs to be kernel-image packages that have ACPI compiled in."? The 2.6 kernel images that are currently in testing and unstable has got ACPI compiled in. This by the way made my laptop hang, so I needed to include
append="acpi=off"
in my lilo.conf.
Speaking of 2.6 kernel I just went through the upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 on three machines - two test servers and one laptop, and I came across 3 minor details:
1. Had to disable ACPI (see above)
2. Had to upgrade to lvm2 instead of lvm10
3. Had to load different modules to get my touchpad to work on my laptop
That's about it. Everything else went smooth.
Well - I never really got this one. I actually like Debian's strict policy on software licenses even if it now and then causes some inconvenience. As for Java - well - it didn't take me long to realize that I needed the original - and that Blackdown have a ready made Debian package that can be included in apt's sources.list. That's all - one line in a configuration file and you've got perfectly working Java in Debian.
And here's the line:
deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ testing non-free main
By the way - I would assume this problem to be exactly the same on all other Linux distro's due to SUN's licensing. Isn't that so?
I've always been using one of Dell's leather bags. They used to include them for free when you bought a laptop, and my current one have survived 5 different (non Dell) laptops on enough flights to earn gold cards in 3 different airlines (I lost count but that is a lot of air miles). It doesn't exactly look "new" anymore, but it is still not broken and none of my laptops has ever broken either.
I will be kinda sad the day it finally gives up :)
What's this - beer, supermodels, semilegal canabis - you forgot the obvious: PORN :) Denmark was the first country in the world to legalize pornography and back in the early 70's that was major business for Denmark. A good thing the Internet didn't really exist back then. Would have been impossible to get any bandwidth in and out of the country.
What I fail to understand is how they imagine to enforce this kind of law unless the US efficiently filter out all Internet traffic in and out of the country.
I am Danish and I am absolutely positive I can put all the porn (using models aged 18 and above)on my web-site that I like (which means zero - but that's besides the point) and I am equally positive that every online person in the US can access that page. Now - this is perfectly legal and acceptable in the country where my web-server is located, so I absolutely fail to understand the relevance of these laws.
Seems like an incredible waste of resources and energy implementing something that won't provide any child protection at all.