Fortunately I'm lucky enough to work for a Co. that rewards almost everything I do without (AND within) company time. I'm heavily incentivised and all incentives are paid on the dot every time. As a result I know the stress I take is gonna be rewarded.
Anyone else lucky enough to have a decent staff-make-profits-so-lets-look-after-them employer might like to pipe up so others know that their shit job might have a light at the end of the tunnel when they move to something else:o)
I do perl/database server application programming and web frontend stuff for the clients who use the system, working within the mobile entertainment industry for those of you wondering which IT sector I was in.
PS anyone reading this from work.. it's not me just someone you might think is me which it isn't...honest.
Presumably M$ will want to pay whatever fine it is in 'tokens' for free software.
When you eventually got your 'free' software could you not then return it unopened for a refund in real money?... just a thought
Never mind that I can just reroute the digital audio streams directly in DSP on my soundcard via the 'drag n drop wiring' UI and copy the raw audio data back to another virtual audio port which has WaveLab hanging on it in record mode...
Hmm maybe there's a watermark in that verbatim data.. oggenc will likely mend that...
DRM is just pointless with audio (so far...)
Mind you.. shouldn't someone be suing the RIAA as a monopoly or something related?
The BPI here in UK are watching RIAA carefully and starting to test the water for getting a name for performing their own stupid copycat stunts..
I use SONY (formerly Sonic Foundry) DVD architect in WinXP as there's no Linux solution I've found yet. A good app that seems to give you pretty much total control over what you need with menu's and everything. Various places to get (..errr PURCHASE - Ed) it I suppose including Bit Torrent *cough*...
It doesnt seem to do AC3 though... maybe it needs a plugin for that.. anyone??
For 'FAIR USE' backups DVDShrink (latest ver will burn using NERO if you have it installed) seems good though 'I have heard' that it won't do The Italian Job (that new-fangled one, not the proper Michael Caine one)
They are always clueless and get it wrong expect for the most basic general stuff like 'Beagle2 can't be contacted'... *sigh*
Sent to the BBC:
Next time you need a speculative technology piece which admits it doesnt know the actual facts please consider asking me to write it. I'm sure I'm cheaper than that Stephen Evans bloke and probably have more insight into the technology arena that he does to boot, plus I could do with the money.
Now of course to Stephen it's OBVIOUS that someone who's a windows programmer is a zealous Open Source Software 'freak', something akin to an Animal Rights activist having a penchant for fur coats. The zealots would not even have a windows machine in their house. Yes, yes we all know you can get windows virus toolkits to 'roll your own virus' (taking note stephen? this is probably news to you...) so you could fairly easily base your own virus on slammer, blaster, etc with a timebomb date set in it with a preselected target (ie SCO.COM, MICROSOFT.COM). Oh but THAT means almost anyone could have written it.. even Stephen if he knew enough about technology... Indeed given the nature of the (minority) Open Source zealotry, stooping to write a 'doze virus' would be anathema - may as well ask that Activist to catch the fox, run a few experiments on it and then skin it for a nice fashion accessory.
The other thing that Stephen 'overlooked' (benefit of the doubt with that word) is that anyone following the current dolly-out-of-the-pram shenannigans by SCO vs IBM, Linux et al is that no-one in the Open Source Community even believes SCO has a case. Linus Torvalds (the creator of the Linux kernel) has said himself on numerous occasions that he can prove that code SCO claims is theirs he wrote himself. In the eyes of the Open Source Community all that needs to be done is keep paying out the rope to SCO so the final jerk will be all the more spectacular when they run out of the stuff.
Finally on a slightly different note, why do the BBC (and ITV for that matter) NEVER say 'Apple Mac and Linux users have nothing to fear from this virus as it only affects Microsoft Windows' whenever they report about something like this? Wouldnt it be part of 'responsible journalism' to allay fears of other types of operating system users? How many Mac users were given unnecesary concern over the safety of their machines as a result of this...
Maybe they just opened the lid and it unsuspended?
Not much mystery there now, is there?
I have my laptop just resume from where it left off when running XP - that 'click to resume your session' crap was way too annoying to leave in place.
Then.. my laptop's never left unattended in any place except my own home...
What beggars belief more is that a corp with the near-infinite resources of Microsoft still gives people a near-perfect vector for virus distribution. I'm sure if any one of us had 40Bn cash and 8 years (is that how old LookOut Express is now?) we could either code or hire programmers to code an email client that wasnt broken.
Of course.. if they ever mended LookOut the AV guys would go out of business overnight but that's a whole new consipracy theory involving large cash backhanders and deliberately broken coding there...:o)
But you don't have to give your money to those-who-need-no-more if you don't want to.
Just buy your stuff 2nd hand - there's stacks of shops about (here in the sticks anyway so there must be in larger towns, etc) which sell stuff in perfectly good condition second hand.
No reason why you shouldnt have the original video/dvd/album/etc that you want (unless you one of those that HAS to buy stuff on the release date then that's your problem).
You get the item, someone else has already paid for it (and they would have anyway) and then discarded it.
Can't remember the last time we put money into a megacorp's pocket but we usually get a new flic or CD every week of something or other.
I like owning the orig stuff but I really object to emptying my pocket into theirs for the privilege. On the other hand if the artist were to sell direct I'd pay them happily knowing the cash all went to their organisation and they had control of how they distributed it it to themselves and their staff.
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I have checked over the protocols and everything and found the problem and the solution to it. Filing my patent now... (every fiasco end with SCO)
R-Type: Hold down the fire button to charge your laser cannon to a different blast effectiveness or type depending on how long you hold it down for.
Fortunately I'm lucky enough to work for a Co. that rewards almost everything I do without (AND within) company time. I'm heavily incentivised and all incentives are paid on the dot every time. As a result I know the stress I take is gonna be rewarded. Anyone else lucky enough to have a decent staff-make-profits-so-lets-look-after-them employer might like to pipe up so others know that their shit job might have a light at the end of the tunnel when they move to something else :o)
I do perl/database server application programming and web frontend stuff for the clients who use the system, working within the mobile entertainment industry for those of you wondering which IT sector I was in.
PS anyone reading this from work.. it's not me just someone you might think is me which it isn't...honest.
Presumably M$ will want to pay whatever fine it is in 'tokens' for free software. When you eventually got your 'free' software could you not then return it unopened for a refund in real money? ... just a thought
Never mind that I can just reroute the digital audio streams directly in DSP on my soundcard via the 'drag n drop wiring' UI and copy the raw audio data back to another virtual audio port which has WaveLab hanging on it in record mode...
Hmm maybe there's a watermark in that verbatim data.. oggenc will likely mend that...
DRM is just pointless with audio (so far...)
Mind you.. shouldn't someone be suing the RIAA as a monopoly or something related?
The BPI here in UK are watching RIAA carefully and starting to test the water for getting a name for performing their own stupid copycat stunts..
I use SONY (formerly Sonic Foundry) DVD architect in WinXP as there's no Linux solution I've found yet. A good app that seems to give you pretty much total control over what you need with menu's and everything. Various places to get (..errr PURCHASE - Ed) it I suppose including Bit Torrent *cough*...
It doesnt seem to do AC3 though... maybe it needs a plugin for that.. anyone??
For 'FAIR USE' backups DVDShrink (latest ver will burn using NERO if you have it installed) seems good though 'I have heard' that it won't do The Italian Job (that new-fangled one, not the proper Michael Caine one)
They are always clueless and get it wrong expect for the most basic general stuff like 'Beagle2 can't be contacted'... *sigh* Sent to the BBC: Next time you need a speculative technology piece which admits it doesnt know the actual facts please consider asking me to write it. I'm sure I'm cheaper than that Stephen Evans bloke and probably have more insight into the technology arena that he does to boot, plus I could do with the money. Now of course to Stephen it's OBVIOUS that someone who's a windows programmer is a zealous Open Source Software 'freak', something akin to an Animal Rights activist having a penchant for fur coats. The zealots would not even have a windows machine in their house. Yes, yes we all know you can get windows virus toolkits to 'roll your own virus' (taking note stephen? this is probably news to you...) so you could fairly easily base your own virus on slammer, blaster, etc with a timebomb date set in it with a preselected target (ie SCO.COM, MICROSOFT.COM). Oh but THAT means almost anyone could have written it.. even Stephen if he knew enough about technology... Indeed given the nature of the (minority) Open Source zealotry, stooping to write a 'doze virus' would be anathema - may as well ask that Activist to catch the fox, run a few experiments on it and then skin it for a nice fashion accessory. The other thing that Stephen 'overlooked' (benefit of the doubt with that word) is that anyone following the current dolly-out-of-the-pram shenannigans by SCO vs IBM, Linux et al is that no-one in the Open Source Community even believes SCO has a case. Linus Torvalds (the creator of the Linux kernel) has said himself on numerous occasions that he can prove that code SCO claims is theirs he wrote himself. In the eyes of the Open Source Community all that needs to be done is keep paying out the rope to SCO so the final jerk will be all the more spectacular when they run out of the stuff. Finally on a slightly different note, why do the BBC (and ITV for that matter) NEVER say 'Apple Mac and Linux users have nothing to fear from this virus as it only affects Microsoft Windows' whenever they report about something like this? Wouldnt it be part of 'responsible journalism' to allay fears of other types of operating system users? How many Mac users were given unnecesary concern over the safety of their machines as a result of this...
Maybe they just opened the lid and it unsuspended? Not much mystery there now, is there? I have my laptop just resume from where it left off when running XP - that 'click to resume your session' crap was way too annoying to leave in place. Then.. my laptop's never left unattended in any place except my own home...
What beggars belief more is that a corp with the near-infinite resources of Microsoft still gives people a near-perfect vector for virus distribution. I'm sure if any one of us had 40Bn cash and 8 years (is that how old LookOut Express is now?) we could either code or hire programmers to code an email client that wasnt broken.
:o)
Of course.. if they ever mended LookOut the AV guys would go out of business overnight but that's a whole new consipracy theory involving large cash backhanders and deliberately broken coding there...
But you don't have to give your money to those-who-need-no-more if you don't want to. Just buy your stuff 2nd hand - there's stacks of shops about (here in the sticks anyway so there must be in larger towns, etc) which sell stuff in perfectly good condition second hand. No reason why you shouldnt have the original video/dvd/album/etc that you want (unless you one of those that HAS to buy stuff on the release date then that's your problem). You get the item, someone else has already paid for it (and they would have anyway) and then discarded it. Can't remember the last time we put money into a megacorp's pocket but we usually get a new flic or CD every week of something or other. I like owning the orig stuff but I really object to emptying my pocket into theirs for the privilege. On the other hand if the artist were to sell direct I'd pay them happily knowing the cash all went to their organisation and they had control of how they distributed it it to themselves and their staff.