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Below is the top output sourted by memory usage. There is absolutely no reason why a browser with 4 tabs opened: two are to a low bandwidth bug tracking intranet website, another is a/. and fedex.ca should use 183m of virtual memory. If I leave the firefox to run for a week it's memory usage will grow even more. And because I don't like it I have to restart it every two days. It is firefox 1.0.7 that comes with debian sarge, but I can't believe it is debian issue.
And while I still prefer this over IE on windows I totaly agree with the previous post about poor quality of mozilla.
Let's say you're a business. You're reasonably sure that with $1.5 billion USD and 5 years of time you could have an AIDS vaccine. Most of the cost of these medicines is in the *research*, not the production of the actual serum. Without patent protection, once you have a serum, tens of companies around the world will analyze it and duplicate it in short time. They will undercut your price, since they don't have that $1.5B investment to pay off. As a result, businesses will not undertake such endeavors because market efficiency will make them unprofitable! Is that the world you want? Patents allow risky investments to pay off.
The other alternative is to attempt to keep all research & developments closely guarded secrets. Now, perhaps one medical company distributes the SARS vaccine, AIDS, and avian flu. Nobody else knows how the stuff works or how to produce it. Development as a whole in society slows because, if you want to make money, you can't share your scientific developments with anyone. Every company must invent the wheel over and over again, because they cannot work together. Is *that* the world you want? Patents induce monopolies to share their research.
It works for medications, it does not work for software development. There are tens of companies that are being sued because of patents that were born with one and only idea in ming: lawsuit.
Still, I'm not sure what you guys expect? They aren't going to be banned from including DRM, unless they agree to that, which they won't. It's also unlikely they'll be hit with any MASSIVE fine. Although $7.50 per CD is actually a good amount of money (not to mention if people go for iTunes downloads, and the like), if the theoretical number of people all take it (unlikely).
If I scrap your car with a nail and you sue me, you'd expect to get the amount of money that would be enough to repaint the car or at least the scraped parts of it. If my lawyer would propose you 1/2 price of the nail as a compensation, you'd sure refuse.
Honestly, more important than resolution is proper settings: sharpness, contrast, color, and the rest. My 32" 4:3 SDTV destroys most uncalibrated HDTVs in viewing quality.
Is there any kind of DVD or something that can help to calibrate the TV panel? I have an HDTV LCD panel for a few weeks not and I don't have a clue how to set it up properly.
This could be useful in figuring out which roads need expansion, and it could help with traffic routing. Imagine the effect on stoplights. They'll know which way has the biggest backup, etc. Of course, they could do most of this non-invasively.
They do it today in many big cities by using regular cameras on big intersections that often have traffic problems. They look which was has more backup and allocate more time to it. However it does not solve the general traffic problem as there are more cars than roads.
So I don't think that this GPS thing will help traffic problems.
Why linksys would be agains linux distributions? Linksys is selling hardware. Why would they care how you use it? From their point of view it doesn't matter. If you don't use their software, better for them because they get less service calls, less customer support.
So I don't see any interest for linksys to stop producing a platform that people want to buy. If they managed to port their system to vxworks and not it requires 1/2 memory and flash, it is worth to save money on hardware, but it does not mean that they should stop producing something that people want to buy.
So bottom line, it make sence to sell both old hardware and new hardware.
A 3rd party program to make Firefox work correctly? Why, exactly, do you see this as acceptable? I certainly don't.
Well, nothing is perfect in the world. You have a choice right now: IE or Firefox. I don't think that Opera is a comparable choice. Each has it's own problems. I think many people would agree with me that Firefox so far is much better than IE. If there is something that can improve your usability then I think it is good thing to have it. So as long as there are memory leaks in the Firefox it is actually very handy to be able to reload it without loosing any open tabs.
I'm not arguing with you that memory leaks should be fixed as soon as possible.
It is done in some companies. A good example is Canadian cable and internet provider Shaw. They work exactly as you described. They warn you that the waiting queue is long and provide you with option to leave your phone number and when your place in queue will become first they will call you right away to ensure that you don't wait longer.
But I think it is not popular because some people will give up waiting, hang up and either do it online or call back some other time. So this efectively lowers the load on the operators.
When you have more calls then you can handle in a hour, you can't call back to everyone because your queue will grow. I think that they understand this and simple can't promiss you to call back because eventually the queue will overflow.
The thing is that from their point of view it does not have to work in 100% cases, because in any way as long as plain stereo tracks are placed on the CD it can be copied in linux. Same thing happens with web rating services that are installed on the corporate firewalls to prevent employees to browse content that company does not want them to. One can easily install a proxy on their home computer, set up an encrypted tunnel from their office PC to the home computer and use that proxy. Very few people can do it, so many companies pay for the rating service big money, while it can't gurantee 100% success. I find these example very similar.
I think their point is that regular dumb user should not be able to copy the CD. If they can block 99% of copying, they will feel good about it.
As for the law side of it, I think they'll fire many people in their IT department and this kind of fiasco will not happend any time soon to any of them.
It is still very amusing that they did not think about hiring some kind of security specialist to both verify that the solution works fine and that it is safe. You would expect that from someone who is big as sony is.
By the way, their uninstall utility was even more security problem than the original rootkit. So they probably still have not hired a good security expert.
I think Sony lawyers did not know. I think that person who decided to buy this "product" did not explain to the top managers how does it work. I bet he by himself had no idea what does it do. Possible he does not know that is root kit by himself.
Unfortunately that's how business works today. Your manager comes to you and tells you: listen, we decided to use this software, incorporate it. You are trying to explain that this is bad, but no-one listens.
So, bottom line, I'm not surprised very much. I'm actually surprised that for so long time nothing like that happened.
You see cars, airplanes, hospital equpment running on Windows. We all know that it is very unreliable, but people decide to port their products to windows. Do you think their engineers happy with that decision? No, they don't. Same thing.
They are loosing market because governments want open document format. So they'll document 90% of the standards, "forget" about the 10% most important, pretend that it is open and keep changing it and making "mistakes" in the document.
When will we finally stop to believing in good will of M$?
Picture quality is much better in digital tv. HD TV is much better than a regular digital TV.
You can get more added services along with your TV as integrated channel listing because digital TV received is a computer.
I was not a big fan of HD TV myself up until I bought a HDTV television and digital HDTV box. I did not expect that the difference is that big. You can't compare the image quality. Unfortunately there is no much HD content so far in my cable provider (Shaw in Canada). I hope it will improve soon.
You are right, polygraph can be passed. You need to take long training to be able to do it. And not everyone can learn to cheat polygraph.
It will significantly decrease number of people who could be a potential terrorist. You don't have to take only one measure to solve the problem, you need to do enough things in a raw to prevent it or at least to minimize the risk.
Firefox becomes popular. It is used by more and more people all around the world. It makes sense to support it. They probably understood (it took them a while) that they have to live with open source competitors and they can't just ignore them anymore.
It makes my wonder when (if ever) they will be forced to add a support for Open Document Format to their Office.
I'm not sure about VoIP software, but any software that can do direct IP to IP VoIP or video will work for you as there is absolutely no difference between regular IP network and hamachi network. It is like having several computers connected to the same LAN.
GnomeMeeting is the first one of the possible options that comes to my mind.
While I totally agree that what Sony did is completely wrong, I think that your example is not good. If you resell soda and you don't know that it is poisoned, then I think it is not your fault.
However, I think that Sony should have made sure that the DRM package that it sells is 100% safe and secure and I think they did not even try to do it. Otherwise I can't understand how the hell could they sell something like this. I mean, the bad publicity that they got from it will bring them much more damage than loses from downloaded music that is "guarded" by this technology.
As more SCO money you burn, they will survive less. Thus selling something to SCO is a good idea. And as more you charge from them, better the result.:)
Just use better linux distribution. I use debian on my servers and I use it on my primary desktop at work and home. I rarery have any problem with dependencies.
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Below is the top output sourted by memory usage. There is absolutely no reason why a browser with 4 tabs opened: two are to a low bandwidth bug tracking intranet website, another is a /. and fedex.ca should use 183m of virtual memory. If I leave the firefox to run for a week it's memory usage will grow even more. And because I don't like it I have to restart it every two days. It is firefox 1.0.7 that comes with debian sarge, but I can't believe it is debian issue.
And while I still prefer this over IE on windows I totaly agree with the previous post about poor quality of mozilla.
top - 15:20:43 up 26 days, 5:37, 16 users, load average: 0.62, 0.50, 0.32
Tasks: 146 total, 1 running, 145 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 15.3% us, 2.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 82.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 483808k total, 474244k used, 9564k free, 13984k buffers
Swap: 1060248k total, 255488k used, 804760k free, 137576k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17961 root 15 0 183m 83m 21m S 18.9 17.7 15:24.24 firefox-bin
12456 root 15 0 175m 72m 43m S 0.0 15.3 0:37.42 soffice.bin
12877 root 15 0 191m 66m 20m S 0.0 14.1 5:20.07 mozilla-thunder
5407 root 4 -11 103m 45m 6992 S 13.6 9.6 437:50.30 XFree86
21328 root 15 0 70488 20m 6980 S 0.0 4.3 61:56.81 skype
5513 root 15 0 22708 15m 5600 S 0.0 3.2 28:22.61 metacity
28827 root 15 0 28432 14m 10m S 0.0 3.1 2:44.60 gaim
5535 root 15 0 24360 12m 6048 S 0.0 2.7 11:59.13 wnck-applet
5517 root 15 0 31704 12m 7284 S 0.0 2.6 2:17.64 gnome-panel
5548 root 15 0 19380 8940 6912 S 0.3 1.8 0:24.97 gweather-applet
22597 www-data 16 0 23744 7820 2952 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.04 apache2
12331 root 15 0 55120 7148 3852 S 0.0 1.5 0:12.30 xmms
5519 root 15 0 24668 6780 5764 S 0.0 1.4 0:54.68 nautilus
5558 root 15 0 19328 6740 5656 S 1.0 1.4 75:11.36 gtik2_applet2
1242 root 15 0 82160 6592 5696 S 0.0 1.4 0:03.24 artsd
17018 root 16 0 9032 6276 2256 S 0.0 1.3 0:00.22 xterm
It works for medications, it does not work for software development. There are tens of companies that are being sued because of patents that were born with one and only idea in ming: lawsuit.
Still, I'm not sure what you guys expect? They aren't going to be banned from including DRM, unless they agree to that, which they won't. It's also unlikely they'll be hit with any MASSIVE fine. Although $7.50 per CD is actually a good amount of money (not to mention if people go for iTunes downloads, and the like), if the theoretical number of people all take it (unlikely).
If I scrap your car with a nail and you sue me, you'd expect to get the amount of money that would be enough to repaint the car or at least the scraped parts of it. If my lawyer would propose you 1/2 price of the nail as a compensation, you'd sure refuse.
What is the difference?
Is there any kind of DVD or something that can help to calibrate the TV panel? I have an HDTV LCD panel for a few weeks not and I don't have a clue how to set it up properly.
Open a new tab in browser and you got yourself second window to access your emails :)
They do it today in many big cities by using regular cameras on big intersections that often have traffic problems. They look which was has more backup and allocate more time to it. However it does not solve the general traffic problem as there are more cars than roads.
So I don't think that this GPS thing will help traffic problems.
Why linksys would be agains linux distributions? Linksys is selling hardware. Why would they care how you use it? From their point of view it doesn't matter. If you don't use their software, better for them because they get less service calls, less customer support.
So I don't see any interest for linksys to stop producing a platform that people want to buy. If they managed to port their system to vxworks and not it requires 1/2 memory and flash, it is worth to save money on hardware, but it does not mean that they should stop producing something that people want to buy.
So bottom line, it make sence to sell both old hardware and new hardware.
Well, nothing is perfect in the world. You have a choice right now: IE or Firefox. I don't think that Opera is a comparable choice. Each has it's own problems. I think many people would agree with me that Firefox so far is much better than IE. If there is something that can improve your usability then I think it is good thing to have it. So as long as there are memory leaks in the Firefox it is actually very handy to be able to reload it without loosing any open tabs.
I'm not arguing with you that memory leaks should be fixed as soon as possible.
It is done in some companies. A good example is Canadian cable and internet provider Shaw. They work exactly as you described. They warn you that the waiting queue is long and provide you with option to leave your phone number and when your place in queue will become first they will call you right away to ensure that you don't wait longer.
But I think it is not popular because some people will give up waiting, hang up and either do it online or call back some other time. So this efectively lowers the load on the operators.
When you have more calls then you can handle in a hour, you can't call back to everyone because your queue will grow. I think that they understand this and simple can't promiss you to call back because eventually the queue will overflow.
SSLv2 is disabled by default in Firefox.
:)
You don't need to have a major release of your broweser in order to change just one setting.
I think their point is that regular dumb user should not be able to copy the CD. If they can block 99% of copying, they will feel good about it.
As for the law side of it, I think they'll fire many people in their IT department and this kind of fiasco will not happend any time soon to any of them.
It is still very amusing that they did not think about hiring some kind of security specialist to both verify that the solution works fine and that it is safe. You would expect that from someone who is big as sony is.
By the way, their uninstall utility was even more security problem than the original rootkit. So they probably still have not hired a good security expert.
I think Sony lawyers did not know. I think that person who decided to buy this "product" did not explain to the top managers how does it work. I bet he by himself had no idea what does it do. Possible he does not know that is root kit by himself. Unfortunately that's how business works today. Your manager comes to you and tells you: listen, we decided to use this software, incorporate it. You are trying to explain that this is bad, but no-one listens. So, bottom line, I'm not surprised very much. I'm actually surprised that for so long time nothing like that happened. You see cars, airplanes, hospital equpment running on Windows. We all know that it is very unreliable, but people decide to port their products to windows. Do you think their engineers happy with that decision? No, they don't. Same thing.
They are loosing market because governments want open document format. So they'll document 90% of the standards, "forget" about the 10% most important, pretend that it is open and keep changing it and making "mistakes" in the document.
When will we finally stop to believing in good will of M$?
Picture quality is much better in digital tv. HD TV is much better than a regular digital TV.
You can get more added services along with your TV as integrated channel listing because digital TV received is a computer.
I was not a big fan of HD TV myself up until I bought a HDTV television and digital HDTV box. I did not expect that the difference is that big. You can't compare the image quality. Unfortunately there is no much HD content so far in my cable provider (Shaw in Canada). I hope it will improve soon.
It will significantly decrease number of people who could be a potential terrorist. You don't have to take only one measure to solve the problem, you need to do enough things in a raw to prevent it or at least to minimize the risk.
It makes my wonder when (if ever) they will be forced to add a support for Open Document Format to their Office.
I'm not sure about VoIP software, but any software that can do direct IP to IP VoIP or video will work for you as there is absolutely no difference between regular IP network and hamachi network. It is like having several computers connected to the same LAN. GnomeMeeting is the first one of the possible options that comes to my mind.
Use hamachi and run VoIP over it.
However, I think that Sony should have made sure that the DRM package that it sells is 100% safe and secure and I think they did not even try to do it. Otherwise I can't understand how the hell could they sell something like this. I mean, the bad publicity that they got from it will bring them much more damage than loses from downloaded music that is "guarded" by this technology.
As more SCO money you burn, they will survive less. Thus selling something to SCO is a good idea. And as more you charge from them, better the result. :)
Just use better linux distribution. I use debian on my servers and I use it on my primary desktop at work and home. I rarery have any problem with dependencies.
People writing computer related articles are so stupid!
Then why do you read /.
Don't tell me that this is impossible in java.