The other point is, it's not terribly important of a feature. Most people set a resolution once and leave it there... Plus, most of the technical people weren't afraid of editting the config file. Another problem was, that KDE and Gnome couldn't add this, it is up to the X server to do.. and that means the XFree86 team, of which, Keith Packard is the only one I ever see work on new stuff... So pretty much we were waiting on this one guy. BTW, many kudos to Keith Packard for filling in some important gaps, RENDER, XRANDR, FontConfig, etc!
This is intirely incorrect... check out LD_LIBRARY_PATH sometime... you can have a ~/lib with all the libs you want to run things out of your user account... you can even override system libs with LD_PRELOAD.
While the TCPA stuff maybe be an "Open Standard", the crypto keys hidden in a chip on the motherboard are NOT open. That's what takes your control away. SSL might be an open standard, but I can still encrypt something so YOU can't see it.
Isn't it possible that Computer Manufacturers could use this so these machines would only boot Windows? Maybe AMI is saying "You can disable it", but what will a Dell machine do? Will they sell a "Developer" version of thier machines that allow you to turn it off, but cost twice as much as the standard machines? This gives them the power to do such a thing....
Imagine, RedHat could even pay to get their kernels signed so they boot on such a machine, but the regular user wouldn't be able to recompile a custom kernel and use it!
If the keys on the motherboard get out though, then it's all over... anyone could use them to sign code.
I can imagine as soon as these show up, hardware and software hackers will work to extract the keys.... Maybe that's the only thing we can hope for to save us from losing control of our own computers....
Because, in order to copy the poem one would have to "circumvent" the copy protection... in this case, the copy protection is the envelope... you have to take it out of the envelope in order to copy it.
The reason those are big in the screen shot is to show off the new SVG icon support in Gnome 2. That stands for Scalable Vector Graphics in case you are wondering, so they should be very easy to scale to any size you want:)
That is incorrect. Although you may be able to turn these protocols on, most Exchange server admins do not turn them on, but instead Exchange is accessed using MAPI using only Outlook as a client.
I think this is just a symptom of the large size of today's hard disks. Disks are getting so large, that people can store enormous amounts of data on a single drive, data that has taken them alot of time and effort to accumulate. In previous times, this data might be spread amongst many drives in a system, now it's all on one whopper of a drive. Single point of failure is what you call that. That makes people more furious when they have a failure! They've simply lost more STUFF. That's why I've been thinking of saving up until I can buy 3 large capacity drives (maybe 3 60 GB IBMs), and putting them into a software RAID 5 setup. That way if one dies, I can RMA it, and when I get the new drive back, I can recover. Does anyone know how robust this is going to be using the software RAID in the Linux Kernel? Can you bring up the RAID 5 set with only 2 of the drive active, or does it require a spare?
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So, you can't download the source code and compile it?
Anyone got Jack's home number? I'd like to get a free replacement, since digital copies "last forever" and never "wear out"
The other point is, it's not terribly important of a feature. Most people set a resolution once and leave it there... Plus, most of the technical people weren't afraid of editting the config file. Another problem was, that KDE and Gnome couldn't add this, it is up to the X server to do.. and that means the XFree86 team, of which, Keith Packard is the only one I ever see work on new stuff... So pretty much we were waiting on this one guy. BTW, many kudos to Keith Packard for filling in some important gaps, RENDER, XRANDR, FontConfig, etc!
This is intirely incorrect... check out LD_LIBRARY_PATH sometime... you can have a ~/lib with all the libs you want to run things out of your user account... you can even override system libs with LD_PRELOAD.
So, these things won't support ENCRYPTED data? Then you just boot into a non-DRM OS and copy the files right?
Come on now... There has to be a private key somewhere that you can't access if they have any hop e of actually securing the data.
Yes, where does it say that you'll have access to the endorsement keys in the TCPA Hardware?
No, the private key has to be ON the box, unless you HAVE to connect it to a network before it can authenticate.
I'm sure you don't have to connect the XBox to LAN in order to boot it.
Therefore the private key the bootloader was signed with is IN the hardware somewhere.
When someone encrypts something to me using my PGP public key, I must have my private key to decrypt it.
I don't see how it can't have the private key not stored in the hardware somewhere.
While the TCPA stuff maybe be an "Open Standard", the crypto keys hidden in a chip on the motherboard are NOT open. That's what takes your control away.
SSL might be an open standard, but I can still encrypt something so YOU can't see it.
Isn't it possible that Computer Manufacturers could use this so these machines would only boot Windows? Maybe AMI is saying "You can disable it", but what will a Dell machine do? Will they sell a "Developer" version of thier machines that allow you to turn it off, but cost twice as much as the standard machines? This gives them the power to do such a thing....
Imagine, RedHat could even pay to get their kernels signed so they boot on such a machine, but the regular user wouldn't be able to recompile a custom kernel and use it!
If the keys on the motherboard get out though, then it's all over... anyone could use them to sign code.
I can imagine as soon as these show up, hardware and software hackers will work to extract the keys.... Maybe that's the only thing we can hope for to save us from losing control of our own computers....
Well, that certainly doesn't sound like it works, unless you are a network coding guru and write the missing pieces.
Next time read what you get from a google search. This is for the one way DirectPC system, not the 2 way DirectWay system.
I hate to do this, but he says "free software"
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
He probably shouldn't have used that term if what he really meant was "freeware"
the CSS encryption system is NOT under a patent, it is a TRADE SECRET.
Once a trade secret is discovered, you have no legal recourse, oh, except of course for the DMCA in the US.
"...some of whom have just opened factories for the first generation of monochrome OLED displays used in cellphones and razors."
Razors?
Umm.. did I miss something?
Debian stable is at openssl 0.9.6c-2.woody
I hope it's got the patch backported!
Goes to check changes.log....
You know why you can record something on your VCR while you watch something else on your TV? Because your VCR has it's own TUNER.
Go buy a DirectTV/Tivo box with dual tuners and shut up about it.
Did they remove the video? I can't find it...
Because, in order to copy the poem one would have to "circumvent" the copy protection... in this case, the copy protection is the envelope... you have to take it out of the envelope in order to copy it.
The reason those are big in the screen shot is to show off the new SVG icon support in Gnome 2. That stands for Scalable Vector Graphics in case you are wondering, so they should be very easy to scale to any size you want :)
The problem with zseries mainframes is that they are VERY low powered CPU wise to start with. It's not really Linux's fault.
That is incorrect. Although you may be able to turn these protocols on, most Exchange server admins do not turn them on, but instead Exchange is accessed using MAPI using only Outlook as a client.
THat's why you put etherboot on the floppy and have it get everything else from the network.
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apt-get install hwtools and add it into the /etc/init.d/hwtools script where it shows.
My guess is you don't have DMA turned on on your DVD-ROM drive.
/dev/hdc (or whatever your drive is)
use hdparm to turn it on
hdparm -d 1
makes the difference when playing DVDs.
I think this is just a symptom of the large size of today's hard disks. Disks are getting so large, that people can store enormous amounts of data on a single drive, data that has taken them alot of time and effort to accumulate. In previous times, this data might be spread amongst many drives in a system, now it's all on one whopper of a drive. Single point of failure is what you call that. That makes people more furious when they have a failure! They've simply lost more STUFF. That's why I've been thinking of saving up until I can buy 3 large capacity drives (maybe 3 60 GB IBMs), and putting them into a software RAID 5 setup. That way if one dies, I can RMA it, and when I get the new drive back, I can recover. Does anyone know how robust this is going to be using the software RAID in the Linux Kernel? Can you bring up the RAID 5 set with only 2 of the drive active, or does it require a spare?
3:2 pulldown can be autodetected.
Check out http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net