Microsoft kind of does oppose software patents. When have you seen them going after other companies if they don't provoke the legal fight first? They have also freed their patents to open and free-to-use patents organizations. The only cases where Microsoft has used their patents portfolio to fight against patent trolls is, well, when the patent troll has started going after MS first.
Ultimately, the whole software patent system is faulty. But currently, companies have to go by it and that means Microsoft has to register their patents too. Blame the system.
For a trademark to be valid, you have to declare that its a trademark. You generally do this by placing the letters "TM" after the mark or R in a circle if you've registered the mark. If you just use the name and don't include that notification then it's not a trademark and you have no protection under trademark law.
Where did you get that information? It seems to contradict my small google research and certainly it's news to me.
No. GPL code is forward compatible if you have the and later but not backwards (see section 6). You cannot combine GPLv2 only (which a lot of kernel code is) and GPLv3. Any code that's added to the kernel has to be v2 compatible and distributed as such until all the v2 only is gone and AFAIK all of Linus code is v2 only.
I'd like to see the television archived (including ads). As tapes have gone out of fashion and is now just taking up valuable storage space I see no one looking out for the old stuff. Sure some TV stations do but afaik no central archive.
However, be that as it may, this technique is still vulnerable to several man-in-the-middle style attacks, such as installing a trojan in the initrd, something that cannot be done with a trusted computing platform encryption. Further, the use of hashes creates a collision attack vector. One need only generate a passphrase that creates the same hash, which depending on the hashing used may be easier than others. Obviously, the original hash has to be unencrypted, so you know what the has value is, which is half (if not more) of the battle.
The hash is generated by random not calculated from the passfrase. The passfrase + hash generates the key. To install a trojan on the initrd you need physical access to the drive then return it without the person being attacked noting it. This could be worked around by booting from an usb stick carried with you at all times. I don't see how tpc adds security in this scenario.
Encrypted filesystems are not the same thing as full disk encryption. FDE also encrypts partition tables, boot sectors, etc... everything, and typically requires some kind of hardware assistance like a TPM chip. There is also "mostly" full disk encryption which has an unecrypted boot record but has everything else encrypted.
The point of a FDE is that your encryption keys are locked in a TPM chip of some sort, and you can't retrieve them with software. Encrypted filesystems require your boot partition have the encryption keys unencrypted so that they can be read, which sort of mitigates the whole point.
The technique the parent is refering to (luks+dm-crypt) boots from an unencrypted partition holding the initrd then promts you for a passfrase which combined with a stored hash calculates the key (only stored in ram). The upside of this is that you can use any bootloader, non-patched linux kernel and you're not locked to a particular filesystem (the encryption works on the block device level), the luks header also facilitates the management and use of several passfrases without re-encrypting the whole partition and is stored on the encrypted partition so it can be copied and opened from any luks supported system (including win32).
It would seem that Debian recognizes that the use of trademarks is important to protecting the reputation of a project, and may even require approval in some cases. So why should they expect FireFox to be any different?
They don't expect the mozilla founadation to be any diffrent! Notice how debian has two logos, one: the swirl with the liberal licence (as seen on slashdot) and two: the "bottle" and swirl with a much stricter licence (mainly used for "official" cd/dvds). Debian has repetedly asked for a similar deal with the mozilla foundation: give us a name and a logo that we and others who distribute modified versions of firefox can use. The whole idea of a official/unofficial combo (kind of like staroffice/openoffice.org) is being fought against tooth and nail by the mozilla foundation (and as this is slashdot); How many recognice the official debian logo http://www.debian.org/logos/officiallogo-100.jpg/ Add some marketing people to the mix and it all falls into place pretty well.
Imagine what would have happened if the hard drive of your iPod was actually spinning at a couple thousand RPM when you chucked it off the balcony.
How about nothing, the hd can take 400G operating according to specs.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/3k8/3k8.htm/
I agree that you cannot support old hardware indefinately. At some point you've got to say that this new version of the kernal just isn't going to run on a 486 or a pentium 1 computer.
BUT
That should be a decision that is made not just the result of accumulated bugs. That way when the decision is made code specific to the old hardware can be scrapped. Also people will know that kernal fu.bar.fu must have this minimum hardware to run, instead of learning by installing it and running into endless instabilities.
And how would this be accomplished, who would do the work and why? Linus can't do much more than holding the kernel hostage (which pretty much is what a freeze is). If the happiness of some guy with obscure hardware is all you have to trade with, you're not going to get much of a deal. Infact I'm quite amazed the kernel is as good as it is.
Is this with tv-out and non-mpeg2 sources (ie not dvd, nor from tv-in, but.divx etc)? If yes, you don't happend to know how this is done? Last time I checked people were trying to patch mplayer without much success.
Have the dma issues under linux been settled (crashes during heavy data tranfer hd/eth, as noted for ex: http://epialinux.org/drivers.html albeit a bit old)?
I can't find a license under that link but I do know that the licence for GLX "SGI FREE SOFTWARE LICENCE B" has ben deemed non-free by debian http://bugs.debian.org/211765
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John Cage - 4'33. Should be pretty safe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3
Movie: Hardware. Also Iggy and Lemmy.
Microsoft kind of does oppose software patents. When have you seen them going after other companies if they don't provoke the legal fight first? They have also freed their patents to open and free-to-use patents organizations. The only cases where Microsoft has used their patents portfolio to fight against patent trolls is, well, when the patent troll has started going after MS first. Ultimately, the whole software patent system is faulty. But currently, companies have to go by it and that means Microsoft has to register their patents too. Blame the system.
NO: http://eupat.ffii.org/gasnu/microsoft/index.en.html
Is this a troll? Click the link and scroll up "END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS", what do you think that means in context?
$ apt-get moo
No. GPL code is forward compatible if you have the and later but not backwards (see section 6). You cannot combine GPLv2 only (which a lot of kernel code is) and GPLv3. Any code that's added to the kernel has to be v2 compatible and distributed as such until all the v2 only is gone and AFAIK all of Linus code is v2 only.
zgrep -aC2 @microsoft.com ./linux-2.6.20.tar.gz
N: Raymond Chen
E: raymondc@microsoft.com
D: Author of Configure script
S: 14509 NE 39th Street #1096
Greenland was named as such by Eric the Red to attract settlers and refers truthfully to the southernmost part of Greenland.
I'd like to see the television archived (including ads). As tapes have gone out of fashion and is now just taking up valuable storage space I see no one looking out for the old stuff. Sure some TV stations do but afaik no central archive.
They don't expect the mozilla founadation to be any diffrent!
Notice how debian has two logos, one: the swirl with the liberal licence (as seen on slashdot) and two: the "bottle" and swirl with a much stricter licence (mainly used for "official" cd/dvds). Debian has repetedly asked for a similar deal with the mozilla foundation: give us a name and a logo that we and others who distribute modified versions of firefox can use.
The whole idea of a official/unofficial combo (kind of like staroffice/openoffice.org) is being fought against tooth and nail by the mozilla foundation (and as this is slashdot);
How many recognice the official debian logo http://www.debian.org/logos/officiallogo-100.jpg/
Add some marketing people to the mix and it all falls into place pretty well.
Fairly liberal I'd say, and if you care to contrast with Mozilla's trademark policy it makes a world of difference.
http://wiki.debian.org/multiarch
http://www.aigarius.com/2006/03/10/interview-with- ted.html So the people "running debian" are "lunatics" and Ted, Jonathan or whatever-his-name-is Walters, is what? I don't really see how you can spin this.
Do you have any publicly available info to back that up, I've only seen refrences to an unnamed personal tragedy as to the reason of Brandens demise.
I've never used this service but a book like Mitchell's "Machine Learning" would be $18 in India so the thought has crossed my mind.
o kinfo.asp?txtSearch=946776
http://www.firstandsecond.com/store/books/info/bo
Anecdotal evidence from a friend that used to live in India says the bindings are terrible and they fall apart, but that wouldn't really bother me.
All this insight derived from the seemingly mere fact that cdrecord worked with a kernel released in 2002.
Debian includes mp3 players but not encoders, plays dvds but not the encrypted ones (refering to what's distributed in Debian/main).
Is this with tv-out and non-mpeg2 sources (ie not dvd, nor from tv-in, but .divx etc)? If yes, you don't happend to know how this is done? Last time I checked people were trying to patch mplayer without much success.
Have the dma issues under linux been settled (crashes during heavy data tranfer hd/eth, as noted for ex: http://epialinux.org/drivers.html albeit a bit old)?
I can't find a license under that link but I do know that the licence for GLX "SGI FREE SOFTWARE LICENCE B" has ben deemed non-free by debian http://bugs.debian.org/211765