Yes, but the whole specific watermark thing would cut deeply into their profits.
It's quite simple. At the moment, they fire up their CD pressing plant and run off $BIGNUM CDs. If they're going to give each a different watermark, they'll need to run off $BIGNUM different CDs. This will cost a lot more; CD pressing for runs of 1 CD is not economical.
So what are they supposed to do? Burn the CD in the store when you go to buy it? Just think, you could get (almost) the same thing, minus the cover art, by downloading all the tracks from Napster and burning the CD yourself. Hmmm.
Of course, they could just put in the HARDWARE (Rio, etc) players something that says "Oh! It's watermarked! Must've been ripped from CD! Bad monkey! No music for you!" except this is likely to seriously inconvenience consumers, and cause them to buy non-SDMI hardware (I'm guessing they'll just keep buying CDs rather than RIAA-sanctioned downloads) in the same way that in non-region one countries, they buy de-regionable DVD players.
Um, someone should do something nasty to whoever thought up the "broadcast this message to everyone in my contact list" command. Grumble.
The last one I saw had the whole "they can't do this if we forward this to $BIGNUM people"; I wonder why - perhaps their servers couldn't take the load?
Hmmm.
The government is going to start charging a fee of $2 every time you open your mouth unless you tell everyone you pass in the street about this.
Yes. Hmmm. It'd make a change from cellphones going off during math lectures:)
It might have "Better Internet Support" or something? But no, that would be their "internet kit".
It might have Colour support! Yes, it does! A new feature! Oh wait, the hardware that can cope with that ships with 3.5 already anyway.
It might update the desktop hotsync software so it can at last work with IMAP! Unlikely (and the number of win32 mail clients I went through trying to make THAT work...).
It might... well, you get the picture. I'm still not even sure what 3.3 does over whatever it was I had previously. This is beginning to remind me of all the WinMe articles along the lines of "Download these packages for FREE! And you won't have a reason to upgrade to Windows ME!"
Just wondering: I have an IBM Workpad c3 [it's a rebranded Palm V, basically.] IBM previously provided their own update to Palm OS 3.3, even though according to Palm's site, the ordinary one should work.
What's the change that IBM would release their own Palm OS 3.5 upgrade and not charge for it? (and would it work on any non-IBM device, if they did?)
AARGH! I was looking for pages about a band (can't remember which), and my google results kept coming up with lots of results like "foo-listen.com", which when you clicked on them all redirected to listen.com.
Not really a faq, but httptunnel [it's on nocrew.org somewhere] does wonders through my university's CS labs proxy. Our web access is restricted [no non-.nz sites], and as I've got a cable modem with static IP at home, more recently I've been reading slashdot from there via HTTP over SSH over HTTP:)
Note that you really do need that SSH in there to do port forwarding, because httptunnel will only allow one connection at a time.
Having done something similar for a while, I can tell you the one (ok, ok, so there are several) major problem with this: logs.
Apache with ProxyPass is not doing NAT, it is proxying. Therefore all HTTP requests to the rackmounted servers with their RFC1918 IP addresses appear to come from your proxy. I suspect your customers wouldn't be pleased. That, and running Zeus behind Apache seems kind of pointless.
Now if you could patch thttpd to do that sort of proxying, and fix the log problem [which really needs real NAT], you'd be fine. Unfortunately SOMETHING has to accept the TCP connection before you can read the host: header, so NAT is not going to cut it.
If Business B could steal a phone number of Business A, by writing to the telco pretending to be business A and saying they'd like their number transferred to business B, (aren't we glad most telcos are better than NSI?), then they would get lots of business intended for business A.
This sounds like a bad thing to me; why is it NOT illegal, as this case would seem to suggest?
The New Zealand Herald site, IIRC, runs with ColdFusion on some sort of UNIX.
From what I've heard, ColdFusion on UNIX doesn't cope terribly well with high loads; the NZ herald site has had problems with this before, even without being slashdotted.
Well, yes... and this is where things get interesting, because the Windows port of QT is not free. Just like QT is for all non-free software developers on any platform.
Remember, Troll Tech can sell QT to commercial developers with your patches in it.
And remember: you don't have to use pixmapped themes. Really. I know they're tempting and all, but there's nobody with a big stick standing there saying "You must use pixmapped themes".
Still, at least our cable company is smart enough to get a real ISP to do the internet stuff for them, and if you're a business you get to choose ISPs.
Compare this to our monopoly telco (except in Wellington where our cable company has actually laid real copper... no VoIP for us consumers) who charge more.
But us cable people get STATIC IPs! much better than the poor ADSL people on DHCP with NATting ADSL modems.
And this same cable company reduces prices if you sign up for more services:) now if only they had better Cable TV.
I have a genuine Compaq Aero 4/33C, fully expanded with a 240MB HDD and 12MB of RAM. A colour screen, too. It runs 2.2.2 with ext2fs-compr fine.
Now if it wasn't for the fact that the serial number starts with 1992, and the thing's so old that @#!% Compaq has even recycled the name, you would have no problems.
That, and X-windows over a 115.2Kbit null modem cable is slow.
Back around the start of 1998 (or was it earlier) New Zealand had a 12-hour delayed broadcast (free-to-air) of MTV UK (which TVNZ killed off about 6 months later).
Now there were 3 "top 20" shows: the UK one, the european one, and the US one. Guess which one was utter crap? The US one, of course.
Have you considered using MARS_NWE (netware emulator for Linux) and netware clients?
That works very well with DOS (although the LFN support is not so hot - but you can use SAMBA to share the same resources to Win9x/NT clients - if you need to at all).
He may not've, but his OSes were guilty of running far too much in real mode when the '286 came out. And wasn't he the one who said "640k should be enough for anyone"?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but the whole specific watermark thing would cut deeply into their profits.
It's quite simple. At the moment, they fire up their CD pressing plant and run off $BIGNUM CDs. If they're going to give each a different watermark, they'll need to run off $BIGNUM different CDs. This will cost a lot more; CD pressing for runs of 1 CD is not economical.
So what are they supposed to do? Burn the CD in the store when you go to buy it? Just think, you could get (almost) the same thing, minus the cover art, by downloading all the tracks from Napster and burning the CD yourself. Hmmm.
Of course, they could just put in the HARDWARE (Rio, etc) players something that says "Oh! It's watermarked! Must've been ripped from CD! Bad monkey! No music for you!" except this is likely to seriously inconvenience consumers, and cause them to buy non-SDMI hardware (I'm guessing they'll just keep buying CDs rather than RIAA-sanctioned downloads) in the same way that in non-region one countries, they buy de-regionable DVD players.
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IIRC The Soul of New Machine was about Data General, not Honeywell.
I would look this up, but my copy seems to have decided that being spineless is rather interesting, if you're a book.
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MY SOUND CARD HEARD THAT.
/dev/random>/dev/audio
/dev/audio>/dev/fb0 - "ooh, pretty colours!")
cat
(said by the person who, upon installing kernel framebuffer support, promptly tried cat
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Um, someone should do something nasty to whoever thought up the "broadcast this message to everyone in my contact list" command. Grumble.
:)
The last one I saw had the whole "they can't do this if we forward this to $BIGNUM people"; I wonder why - perhaps their servers couldn't take the load?
Hmmm.
The government is going to start charging a fee of $2 every time you open your mouth unless you tell everyone you pass in the street about this.
Yes. Hmmm. It'd make a change from cellphones going off during math lectures
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It might have "Better Internet Support" or something? But no, that would be their "internet kit".
It might have Colour support! Yes, it does! A new feature! Oh wait, the hardware that can cope with that ships with 3.5 already anyway.
It might update the desktop hotsync software so it can at last work with IMAP! Unlikely (and the number of win32 mail clients I went through trying to make THAT work...).
It might... well, you get the picture. I'm still not even sure what 3.3 does over whatever it was I had previously. This is beginning to remind me of all the WinMe articles along the lines of "Download these packages for FREE! And you won't have a reason to upgrade to Windows ME!"
Bah. Humbug.
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Just wondering: I have an IBM Workpad c3 [it's a rebranded Palm V, basically.] IBM previously provided their own update to Palm OS 3.3, even though according to Palm's site, the ordinary one should work.
What's the change that IBM would release their own Palm OS 3.5 upgrade and not charge for it? (and would it work on any non-IBM device, if they did?)
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What about listen.com?
AARGH! I was looking for pages about a band (can't remember which), and my google results kept coming up with lots of results like "foo-listen.com", which when you clicked on them all redirected to listen.com.
Grumble.
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Not really a faq, but httptunnel [it's on nocrew.org somewhere] does wonders through my university's CS labs proxy. Our web access is restricted [no non-.nz sites], and as I've got a cable modem with static IP at home, more recently I've been reading slashdot from there via HTTP over SSH over HTTP :)
Note that you really do need that SSH in there to do port forwarding, because httptunnel will only allow one connection at a time.
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...but did you encode that GIF with a Unisys-licensed encoder?
tree, n: lump of wood with green things
Now if only it was easy to do this to Palm Vs...
grumble grumble glued shut grumble grumble
Anyone know how? My Workpad c3 [ibm rebranded palm V] is almost full.
tree, n: lump of wood with green things
Having done something similar for a while, I can tell you the one (ok, ok, so there are several) major problem with this: logs.
Apache with ProxyPass is not doing NAT, it is proxying. Therefore all HTTP requests to the rackmounted servers with their RFC1918 IP addresses appear to come from your proxy. I suspect your customers wouldn't be pleased. That, and running Zeus behind Apache seems kind of pointless.
Now if you could patch thttpd to do that sort of proxying, and fix the log problem [which really needs real NAT], you'd be fine. Unfortunately SOMETHING has to accept the TCP connection before you can read the host: header, so NAT is not going to cut it.
tree, n: lump of wood with green things
If Business B could steal a phone number of Business A, by writing to the telco pretending to be business A and saying they'd like their number transferred to business B, (aren't we glad most telcos are better than NSI?), then they would get lots of business intended for business A.
This sounds like a bad thing to me; why is it NOT illegal, as this case would seem to suggest?
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Probably the reporter, although the Herald doesn't seem to 'dumb-down' things too much. Not that I read it that much :)
/dev/largeprinter story :)
Either that or it's a cat press-release | ~/bin/reporter >
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The New Zealand Herald site, IIRC, runs with ColdFusion on some sort of UNIX.
From what I've heard, ColdFusion on UNIX doesn't cope terribly well with high loads; the NZ herald site has had problems with this before, even without being slashdotted.
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> Did you know that it also runs on Windows?
Well, yes... and this is where things get interesting, because the Windows port of QT is not free. Just like QT is for all non-free software developers on any platform.
Remember, Troll Tech can sell QT to commercial developers with your patches in it.
And remember: you don't have to use pixmapped themes. Really. I know they're tempting and all, but there's nobody with a big stick standing there saying "You must use pixmapped themes".
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Tarantella
Tarantula
Hmm, one less l, swap an e for a u, and...
Somehow I don't think that's the corporate image they were after.
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... and found this:
:)
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/
It looked quite useful
You mean an audio version of tpc.int? It does what you want, for faxes. (with an e-mail interface, too!)
Hmmm...
GTK _has_ been ported to Win32. The free version of Qt hasn't.
...like all highspeed access is in New Zealand. :(
... no VoIP for us consumers) who charge more.
:) now if only they had better Cable TV.
Still, at least our cable company is smart enough to get a real ISP to do the internet stuff for them, and if you're a business you get to choose ISPs.
Compare this to our monopoly telco (except in Wellington where our cable company has actually laid real copper
But us cable people get STATIC IPs! much better than the poor ADSL people on DHCP with NATting ADSL modems.
And this same cable company reduces prices if you sign up for more services
Don
I have a genuine Compaq Aero 4/33C, fully expanded with a 240MB HDD and 12MB of RAM. A colour screen, too. It runs 2.2.2 with ext2fs-compr fine.
Now if it wasn't for the fact that the serial number starts with 1992, and the thing's so old that @#!% Compaq has even recycled the name, you would have no problems.
That, and X-windows over a 115.2Kbit null modem cable is slow.
Anyone remember the time MTV "hacked themselves"?
Hmm. Methinks that they're still clueless.
Back around the start of 1998 (or was it earlier) New Zealand had a 12-hour delayed broadcast (free-to-air) of MTV UK (which TVNZ killed off about 6 months later).
Now there were 3 "top 20" shows: the UK one, the european one, and the US one. Guess which one was utter crap? The US one, of course.
Have you considered using MARS_NWE (netware emulator for Linux) and netware clients?
That works very well with DOS (although the LFN support is not so hot - but you can use SAMBA to share the same resources to Win9x/NT clients - if you need to at all).
He may not've, but his OSes were guilty of running far too much in real mode when the '286 came out. And wasn't he the one who said "640k should be enough for anyone"?