It seems to me that there is a degree of confusion over *what* DRM is, probably because of the big fuzz about protected music files.
Digital Rights Management is a bit more than that, and in my opinion it's *still* a security holy grail: being able to extend the security controls to *what is done* with the file, not just control who can read it. This would include being able to print or copy a sensitive document as opposed to only be able to view it on the screen.
It might seem as a BigCorpBadThing(tm) but it's really no more evil than encryption or ACLs, it's about who can access my data AND what they can do with it.
Slapping such protections on a music file is draconian, stopping a contractor walking out of the front door with soft or hard copies of sensitive, business critical documentation is just sensible.
At any rate, for all that to be possible, the system must be trusted and validated in its entirety (Trusted Computing anyone?).
So, given that most hardware around is nowhere near "military grade", how come these DRM'd mp3s have not been hosed across the board already?;)
Isn't anyone else tired of this continuous political manouvering that has FUCK ALL to do with software or computers?
PD software was a great thing and has been around longer than the FSF. Open Source per se amounts to pretty much the same thing. GPL has been useful, but my reservations are growing together with the version number.
And I really don't like the borg mentality. No, I'm not talking about M$Borg this time.
At the end of the day, aside all the usual pubilicised reasons such as protecting the developer's rights, the GPL IS designed to force people into it.
My standard response to people pushing me is "fuck you". That is if I we're not talking physically.
Good ol' Stallman should maybe take a few months holiday in Russia or China and chill out a bit.
OK so NTFS gets symbolic links... it also has had hard links and multiple data streams for ages, unfortunately with the need for backwards compatibility, the vast number of FAT/FAT32 installs and the average user IQ, I have not yet seen any Windows software that actually uses these features, and it's not easy to see them in action even from the command line, unless you know what obscure Resource Kit tool does the job or what specific shell syntax supports the required feature...
I was quite impressed with ZoneMinder, although I must admit I only played about with it a bit and did not put it service for real. It's written in perl, I've tried it on Linux - not sure whether the guy has made a Windows (compatible) version or not.
In my experience this happens particularly often if, when changing DNS records and TTLs, one forgets to increase the serial number - which tells the querying server that something *has* changed. I'd expect a caching server to disregard a short TTL as it would defy the purpose.
Parent post's author and those who replied seem to be informed on the UK digital cable issues....
Could you please expand and/or provide links to technical sites?
I've been forced a couple of years ago to 'upgrade' from analogue to digital when C&W got taken over by NTL, with promises of interactive services and broadband.
Now, I'm paying more, get an awful service,and have neither of the above.
The onscreen menu is slow and clunky and often titles are not displayed while updating.
The volume on their remote does not work: comes up with a full screen message that it will be available soon, and I have to use 2 remotes, the TV's just for volume.
At a previous home, the (analogue) box would even spit out the main channels on the normal broadcast frequencies, so that you could feed it around the house and tune your TV directly.
I fail to see how this is an improvement.
The picture is crispier and noise free, but you can still see compression artefacts in the colour and fast motion can get jerky...
...shit...gastritis, now that I've checked out the prices at the manufacturer's site... the BV series is available to OEMs at *cough* $8000 *cough* each. No difference between binocular/monoculars, different colour depths, ASCII/graphical...
Having worked for many years with telco sector companies, I know too well how most traditional PBXs and equipment have virtually no security: countless cases of hard-coded passwords, clear text access protocols, plain telnet remote administration, not to mention the enormous security holes of the more common variety whenever a computer is integrated into the system. Now many of these manufacturers are moving into VoIP by hybridizing their proprietary 'protocols' with RTP. What can you expect?
I can see a not too distant future when only the large, IT-conscious companies will survive while smaller or more antiquated will have to bridge the technological - and psychological - gap or perish. This might seem obvious to most/. readers but within the sector people I talked to still fail to recognize the impact of ubiquitous broadband internet access, wireless networking and the almost indistinguishable PDAs and mobile phones. Many think VoIP is just another technology to include in their obsolete business model, rather than being "Voice over IP" as opposed to Voice over PSTN.
BTW: has anybody thought about the data rate SMS is charged at??? 160 characters at 10p a shot (UK Vodafone) equates to about 655 GBP/Mb (that's more than 1000 USD).
That also means that whenever even one of the machines is down ('hw maintenance', new kernel boot, system crash, unplugged...) all the others will lose access to the data too. I suppose it could work well in a server room, but if your home setup is anything like mine - open cases and cat5 crisscrossing the house - or you have a screwdriver on your desk, you might experience a lot of downtime... My wife would have me by the curlies.
... but, really, is it gimp with a soft g as in gin or a hard one as in git? Anyone?
Note: there seems to be no agreement here, but I'd assume the users' community (or better the project's developers) would have it right - I'm not trying to start a war.
...not to mention that MOST users are NOT using any SCO code anyway...
Now when M$ gets caught out 'borrowing' bits of code I never heard of anyone even suggesting going after the end user...
Or maybe they're just saying they're not going to charge themselves (Caldera)?
Oh I wish someone would rm -rf SCO - not for hiding evidence* mind you, just to keep them out of the news for a while...
* that stuff wouldn't cook in most parts of the world, but given what goes on in the Land of the Free (as in beer?) sometimes I get funny shivers down my back.
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It seems to me that there is a degree of confusion over *what* DRM is, probably because of the big fuzz about protected music files. Digital Rights Management is a bit more than that, and in my opinion it's *still* a security holy grail: being able to extend the security controls to *what is done* with the file, not just control who can read it. This would include being able to print or copy a sensitive document as opposed to only be able to view it on the screen. It might seem as a BigCorpBadThing(tm) but it's really no more evil than encryption or ACLs, it's about who can access my data AND what they can do with it. Slapping such protections on a music file is draconian, stopping a contractor walking out of the front door with soft or hard copies of sensitive, business critical documentation is just sensible. At any rate, for all that to be possible, the system must be trusted and validated in its entirety (Trusted Computing anyone?). So, given that most hardware around is nowhere near "military grade", how come these DRM'd mp3s have not been hosed across the board already? ;)
Isn't anyone else tired of this continuous political manouvering that has FUCK ALL to do with software or computers? PD software was a great thing and has been around longer than the FSF. Open Source per se amounts to pretty much the same thing. GPL has been useful, but my reservations are growing together with the version number. And I really don't like the borg mentality. No, I'm not talking about M$Borg this time. At the end of the day, aside all the usual pubilicised reasons such as protecting the developer's rights, the GPL IS designed to force people into it. My standard response to people pushing me is "fuck you". That is if I we're not talking physically. Good ol' Stallman should maybe take a few months holiday in Russia or China and chill out a bit.
http://www.yourserver.com/database.conf
OK so NTFS gets symbolic links... it also has had hard links and multiple data streams for ages, unfortunately with the need for backwards compatibility, the vast number of FAT/FAT32 installs and the average user IQ, I have not yet seen any Windows software that actually uses these features, and it's not easy to see them in action even from the command line, unless you know what obscure Resource Kit tool does the job or what specific shell syntax supports the required feature...
I was quite impressed with ZoneMinder, although I must admit I only played about with it a bit and did not put it service for real.
It's written in perl, I've tried it on Linux - not sure whether the guy has made a Windows (compatible) version or not.
And no, I'm NOT the author.
In my experience this happens particularly often if, when changing DNS records and TTLs, one forgets to increase the serial number - which tells the querying server that something *has* changed.
I'd expect a caching server to disregard a short TTL as it would defy the purpose.
If it wasn't open source how did you get the code?
Parent post's author and those who replied seem to be informed on the UK digital cable issues....
Could you please expand and/or provide links to technical sites?
I've been forced a couple of years ago to 'upgrade' from analogue to digital when C&W got taken over by NTL, with promises of interactive services and broadband.
Now, I'm paying more, get an awful service,and have neither of the above.
The onscreen menu is slow and clunky and often titles are not displayed while updating.
The volume on their remote does not work: comes up with a full screen message that it will be available soon, and I have to use 2 remotes, the TV's just for volume.
At a previous home, the (analogue) box would even spit out the main channels on the normal broadcast frequencies, so that you could feed it around the house and tune your TV directly.
I fail to see how this is an improvement.
The picture is crispier and noise free, but you can still see compression artefacts in the colour and fast motion can get jerky...
NTL stinks, that's for sure.
Now, now - the person who modded the parent as flamebait obviously can't stand the truth. Get a life.
What is it today? The whole front page of Slashdot is taken from *yesterday's* Register front page. Pathetic.
...shit...gastritis, now that I've checked out the prices at the manufacturer's site... the BV series is available to OEMs at *cough* $8000 *cough* each. No difference between binocular/monoculars, different colour depths, ASCII/graphical...
...I know what you *really* want to look at... http://www.inition.co.uk/inition/product_hmd_micro optical_products.htm ...hmmm...
Too true. Mod parent up.
/. readers but within the sector people I talked to still fail to recognize the impact of ubiquitous broadband internet access, wireless networking and the almost indistinguishable PDAs and mobile phones.
Having worked for many years with telco sector companies, I know too well how most traditional PBXs and equipment have virtually no security: countless cases of hard-coded passwords, clear text access protocols, plain telnet remote administration, not to mention the enormous security holes of the more common variety whenever a computer is integrated into the system.
Now many of these manufacturers are moving into VoIP by hybridizing their proprietary 'protocols' with RTP. What can you expect?
I can see a not too distant future when only the large, IT-conscious companies will survive while smaller or more antiquated will have to bridge the technological - and psychological - gap or perish.
This might seem obvious to most
Many think VoIP is just another technology to include in their obsolete business model, rather than being "Voice over IP" as opposed to Voice over PSTN.
BTW: has anybody thought about the data rate SMS is charged at??? 160 characters at 10p a shot (UK Vodafone) equates to about 655 GBP/Mb (that's more than 1000 USD).
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That also means that whenever even one of the machines is down ('hw maintenance', new kernel boot, system crash, unplugged...) all the others will lose access to the data too.
I suppose it could work well in a server room, but if your home setup is anything like mine - open cases and cat5 crisscrossing the house - or you have a screwdriver on your desk, you might experience a lot of downtime...
My wife would have me by the curlies.
yes, I'm a soldering iron wielding programmer
... but, really, is it gimp with a soft g as in gin or a hard one as in git?
Anyone?
Note: there seems to be no agreement here, but I'd assume the users' community (or better the project's developers) would have it right - I'm not trying to start a war.
...not to mention that MOST users are NOT using any SCO code anyway... Now when M$ gets caught out 'borrowing' bits of code I never heard of anyone even suggesting going after the end user... Or maybe they're just saying they're not going to charge themselves (Caldera)? Oh I wish someone would rm -rf SCO - not for hiding evidence* mind you, just to keep them out of the news for a while... * that stuff wouldn't cook in most parts of the world, but given what goes on in the Land of the Free (as in beer?) sometimes I get funny shivers down my back.