Ok, slighty off topic, but now knowing that there is software to rp out Apples DRM, has anyone gotten the windows port of iTunes to run under WINE? Guess I could just run iTUnes and Hymn on my PowerBook, and transfer teh files over to my Linux Box once the DRM is ripped out.;-)
Yet another reason I LOVE Steve Jobs and HATE Bill Gates. Got to love a guy who built his companies first computers in his garage. Steve Jobs knows whats up, Billy just knows buisness.
His only BIG buiness mistake was closing down the hardware and making it propitary. If only Apple would A) port OS X to x86's or B) let the OSS community do it for them, I would most likly be running OS X rather than Gentoo Linux. (I know thats blasphamy:-P)
and also, dosen't the kernel naming scheme go by year, even odd? Even are considered 'stable' kernel versions, odd, 'unstable' or developmental?
Thats atleat how I understand the whole nomenclature of Linux Kernel changes. If that is the case, 2005 would be 2.7, 2006 2.8, 2007 2.9, and 2008 as 3.0
in the Article, (YES, I actually READ it). it mentioned that you can only send 10 MB attachments per email.
Though, you could have people breaking down there files into 10 MB segments, (kinda like whats done with large files on USENET).
New technology allows it to dynamically open and close ports on demand. For example, when an approved online gaming application is given permission to send or receive data over the Net, the port is opened for it, and when the application shuts down, the port is closed.
Damn it Microsoft, how long until hackers utilize this to just open up those ports you automaticly close???
of course its just me and the/. community, but I feel its safe to say if I had a duel provessor 6GHZ/2GB/1TB system, there would be NO WAY IN HELL, I would put Windows on that. I can only image (and drool) about the preformance Linux would make on such a machine! I can see it now, compiing OOo or KDE in under an hour!:-)
That being said, teh 6GHZ/2GB/1TB specs HAS to be a JOKE. The only way Microsoft would make money off the machine is new comptuers, seeing that older computers coundn't run it, and most people would just be satisfied with there 98.ME(UCK),2000,XP systems. Of course that is untill Microsoft shuts down support for those systems. Which, would be great for Linux, cause by that time, (and I would argue Linux is ready for this today), your parents and grandmother could run Linux, and would make the tranition a lot easier.
and your make the all to common mistake that GNU/Linux is Free as in GRATIS (money). Sure, it just happens that a lot of Linux Distrobutions and aofware are also free as in GRATIS, but the main thurst of the GPL is "Free" as in Freedom, NOT Free as in "free beer".
Sure you may find a lot of freeware aps out there, even shareware, (which technically isn't "Free" you still should pay for it), but how many of those given software projects append the rights of the GPL to the program, IE, make the source code readly available, allow you to modify and change it to your hearts content and then repackage it and distribute it as you own, (as long as you allow anyone else the same ability).
I might remind you that up until recently AMD was CONSTENLY coping Intel, and using the design archtechture. That is up until AMD came out with AMD64. Microsoft has such a strangle hold on the OS market, Linux and other "Free" software projects are going to be catching up for a while. Eventually Linux/GNU will catch up and over take Microsoft, but don't expect that do be any time soon.
Damn, was a ll set to moderate, but just had to comment.
This is even more of a reason to support community owned infrastructures such as UTOPIA in Utah, and the iProvo network in Provo. Utah can and is wrong on so many social issues, but this one they actually got right. So much so that Comcast and Qwest are lobbying HEAVLY to prevent such a network from going into place. They (Comcast and Qwest) have succeeded in scaring away Salt Lake City from the initative, an I suspect many more.
>br>
I may dispise with a fiery passion the local Univiersity that makes Provo its home, but iProvo has already been given approval and should be city wide in 2 years. A very BIG incentive for me to stay here in Utah and live in Provo.
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NO, its what corporations think is what drives public policy. Voting is a SHAME, used by the goverment, political parties, PAC's and lobbying gruops to certify their power much like Saddam Hussain can claim that he is the rightful ruler of Iraq because he got 100% of the popular vote.
Americans no longer live in a republic, we live in an oligarchy, and get use to it, because the mindles, brain dead people who are about 99% of the population of the US GIVE A DAMN about real FREEDOM and LIBERTY, as long as their screwing and eating, they dont give a damn about being FREE.
Theres no hope left for another revolution like we had back in 1776.
They at all times exist at the whim of the citizens, at least in the United States.
Ok thats the biggest laugh I've had in a while! That may have been the ORIGINAL reason, but corporations have gained TOO MUCH power. Corporations serve only the shareholders, and give a DAMN about citizens, ESPECIALLY in the US, where they they pay off legelastures, executives, and judges. WE no longer live in a democracy but an Ogliarchy, ruled by Corporations. Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court are all facades, and the ONLY way to get back to a democracy is through VIOLENT revolution.
Simple, a lot of SPAM and DDOS attacks come from WinDoze boxes that aren't probably secured/patched. As the preface to the article mentions, unsecured pirated boxes effect there legal counterparts.
If this is true, the outragous specs, andif nothing is interopable with previous Windows version, I HOPE coorperate America wakes up to this obvious "Fleecing of America". Already some companys, and schools are prefering "Free" Software liscensing, because it protects them from certian clauses with in the DMCA. (God DAMN that piece of legelastion, please?:-P)
Billy isn't going with out a fight, if his new cronies in Lindon don't succeed (they won't) he will just continue with his old shannanigiens.
Windows will require beefier hardware, and so will Linux. This sort of behavior is not limited strictly to Windows.
Sure, Red Hat may require beefer hardware to run, but Linux as a basis will run on a 386, (not recommend), and can be useful as a router on a 486 machine. Try running Windows 2003 server on a 486 (you can't).
Linux, as in GNU/Linux, will always be lean and mean compared to its propitary counterpart. Many eyes constely looking over, improving and tweaking code will always turn out a better product than an elite few.
OK, laugh all you want, but when I came into a Mission Office, while I was serving a mission (run by old guys) ~50% of the computers had the password 12345, and even after we told the old guys to change the password, they still reverted back to 12345.:-P
I dunno, I am in the same boat with the parent, and when I try and boot up OO on my Linux box (2500+ Athlon 512 MB), it take an awefuly long time, more so than other apps that I pull up on a regualr basis. I'll have to try Koffice, see if it loads quicker, though it takes freakn 8+ hours to compile OO on my Gentoo box, so I'd have to do it over two nights.:-P
Ok, it would NEVER happen, seeing that the **AA's have the Legelastive, and Executive, branches on their pay roll, (yeah for so-called Democracy!), but in a world where polticians couldn't be bought, there should be a law stated that ISP's should NEVER under any circumstances be forced to shell out there databases of IP leases, not even when the person in QUESTION is violating a ANY law, (not jsut copyright).
I'd be damned if I will stop downloading music that the **AA's put out, sue me if you can, I WILL NOT PAY. Ruine my creidit rating, even throw me in JAIL, but what they are doing is WRONG. Copyright is BROKEN, and will only be fixed if enough peole deminstrate true CIVIL DISOBIDENCE, which means you must be willing to SACRAFICE everything to get your point accross.
OK that was a bit more off topic than I wanted, so Moderates please be kind!:-)
Of course in the short term, its cheaper to acquire tech from other countries than build it yourself, atleat that is the prevailing theory in not only Corperate board rooms across America, but the WHite House and Capital Hill.
If Bush isn't voted out of office in Novemeber I goingto learn Indian, and move to India:-P
Ever sense I made an attempt to install Gentoo a year ago, (that time I just didn't have the time to learn it, so I gave up on installing it, though, I am now writing on a computer that is 100% Gentoo;-) ). I have pondered and wanted to start a project that would write a GUI installer from scratch. I love doing an install from the command line, its taught me a hellva a lot (more than ANY other Linux distro) the thing is, even though I could possably do another Gentoo install from the command line in my sleep, I've done it that many times, something as easy as a GUI installer would be nice.
That being said, I would almost prefer said installer came from outside the core Gentoo Developers, (the guys at gentoo.org). If a group where to focus SOLY on an INSTALLER, then that group could tweak it, and make it better, better than it could have been if it was combined with a true distro project.
Perhaps in future of said, hypothetical installer, it could be ported to not just install Gentoo, but Debian, slackware, or even LFS.
Is that really the point of Gentoo though? Gentoo is a META distro, NOT a full distro. If you read the handbook, there is a lot of emphesis on making Linux YOUR way. What's to stop an IT department from taking Gentoo as a basis, and implimenting it to the demands you specify? Gentoo already has a way to lighten the compile burden through distributed compiling, you can already set up your own portage system in a corperate style intranet for easy, fast access to packages, that, surprise surprise, can be hand picked by the head IT guy.
The bottom line is Gentoo is about CHOICE, thats why the things so damned hard to install for newbies, (even with the wonderful Gentoo Handbook).
For myself, I've tried other Linux distro's and have run into a lot of frustration when those distro's don't follow a regulated norm, (IE they liked to make up directories not specified in a program original make file, or other stupid things like that.) Gentoo is the closet you can come to a LFS (Linux From Scratch) system, except with Gentoo you have a way to deal with installed packages in a semi-organized fashion, (instead of having to remember every little tid bit about where every single file, etc is stored, so you can hunt it down to delete it so you can do that upgrade you want).
I know where talking about polticians here, so this most likly would not apply to them, but you can encrypt everything you send wirelessly. A good simple PGP key would do the trick.
Sadly our polticians are so inept they wouldn't even think to do this, and if they did, it would be the most inefficient and easiest to hack encryption on the planet!;-)
How is someone who has been so consistantly wrong with each new technology still able to convince our congresscritters that he knows what he is talking about? I suspect its not Mr. Valenti's silver tongue and gift for pursuasion, but more likely the bags of money sitting behind him that is the key to his "success".
You hit it right on the head, and it is those money bags that he uses to "buy" laws, such as the DMCA.
I've said it before, I'll say it agian, armed revolution is going to be THE ONLY WAY to return America to the way it should be!
Perhaps we need a radical period where we drag out every poltician, CEO, and board of trustee, and publicly execuate them. We need to bring back the guilotine, (well technically we never utilized it in the first place). Then instead of basterds like Jack Valenti, who say, "Let them eat cake!", we can cut the basterds head off, and make the world a better place.
Perhaps not, but I still say we need to stand up in opposition, enact revolution, etc. Only through Revolution will we maintian our rights as individuals.
One has to look no further than our own Decleraion of Indepence to see that we are granted, "Ceritan unalienable rights...". Just because these rights are not set out in stone, does not mean they do not exsist, infact, I would prefer they where not spelled out in stone, least some over zealous prosoctor would attempt to charge me with crime on am over drawn technicality.
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Ok, slighty off topic, but now knowing that there is software to rp out Apples DRM, has anyone gotten the windows port of iTunes to run under WINE? Guess I could just run iTUnes and Hymn on my PowerBook, and transfer teh files over to my Linux Box once the DRM is ripped out. ;-)
Yet another reason I LOVE Steve Jobs and HATE Bill Gates. Got to love a guy who built his companies first computers in his garage. Steve Jobs knows whats up, Billy just knows buisness.
:-P)
His only BIG buiness mistake was closing down the hardware and making it propitary. If only Apple would A) port OS X to x86's or B) let the OSS community do it for them, I would most likly be running OS X rather than Gentoo Linux. (I know thats blasphamy
and also, dosen't the kernel naming scheme go by year, even odd? Even are considered 'stable' kernel versions, odd, 'unstable' or developmental?
:-P
Thats atleat how I understand the whole nomenclature of Linux Kernel changes. If that is the case, 2005 would be 2.7, 2006 2.8, 2007 2.9, and 2008 as 3.0
though I am probably wrong with that.
in the Article, (YES, I actually READ it). it mentioned that you can only send 10 MB attachments per email.
Though, you could have people breaking down there files into 10 MB segments, (kinda like whats done with large files on USENET).
New technology allows it to dynamically open and close ports on demand. For example, when an approved online gaming application is given permission to send or receive data over the Net, the port is opened for it, and when the application shuts down, the port is closed.
Damn it Microsoft, how long until hackers utilize this to just open up those ports you automaticly close???
of course its just me and the /. community, but I feel its safe to say if I had a duel provessor 6GHZ/2GB/1TB system, there would be NO WAY IN HELL, I would put Windows on that. I can only image (and drool) about the preformance Linux would make on such a machine! I can see it now, compiing OOo or KDE in under an hour! :-)
That being said, teh 6GHZ/2GB/1TB specs HAS to be a JOKE. The only way Microsoft would make money off the machine is new comptuers, seeing that older computers coundn't run it, and most people would just be satisfied with there 98.ME(UCK),2000,XP systems. Of course that is untill Microsoft shuts down support for those systems. Which, would be great for Linux, cause by that time, (and I would argue Linux is ready for this today), your parents and grandmother could run Linux, and would make the tranition a lot easier.
and your make the all to common mistake that GNU/Linux is Free as in GRATIS (money). Sure, it just happens that a lot of Linux Distrobutions and aofware are also free as in GRATIS, but the main thurst of the GPL is "Free" as in Freedom, NOT Free as in "free beer".
Sure you may find a lot of freeware aps out there, even shareware, (which technically isn't "Free" you still should pay for it), but how many of those given software projects append the rights of the GPL to the program, IE, make the source code readly available, allow you to modify and change it to your hearts content and then repackage it and distribute it as you own, (as long as you allow anyone else the same ability).
I might remind you that up until recently AMD was CONSTENLY coping Intel, and using the design archtechture. That is up until AMD came out with AMD64. Microsoft has such a strangle hold on the OS market, Linux and other "Free" software projects are going to be catching up for a while. Eventually Linux/GNU will catch up and over take Microsoft, but don't expect that do be any time soon.
Like this patent will hold up. the **AA's have been doing this for years. Just one more example of how our IP laws our SEVERLY broken.
Damn, was a ll set to moderate, but just had to comment.
This is even more of a reason to support community owned infrastructures such as UTOPIA in Utah, and the iProvo network in Provo. Utah can and is wrong on so many social issues, but this one they actually got right. So much so that Comcast and Qwest are lobbying HEAVLY to prevent such a network from going into place. They (Comcast and Qwest) have succeeded in scaring away Salt Lake City from the initative, an I suspect many more. >br>
I may dispise with a fiery passion the local Univiersity that makes Provo its home, but iProvo has already been given approval and should be city wide in 2 years. A very BIG incentive for me to stay here in Utah and live in Provo.
NO, its what corporations think is what drives public policy. Voting is a SHAME, used by the goverment, political parties, PAC's and lobbying gruops to certify their power much like Saddam Hussain can claim that he is the rightful ruler of Iraq because he got 100% of the popular vote.
Americans no longer live in a republic, we live in an oligarchy, and get use to it, because the mindles, brain dead people who are about 99% of the population of the US GIVE A DAMN about real FREEDOM and LIBERTY, as long as their screwing and eating, they dont give a damn about being FREE.
Theres no hope left for another revolution like we had back in 1776.
They at all times exist at the whim of the citizens, at least in the United States.
Ok thats the biggest laugh I've had in a while! That may have been the ORIGINAL reason, but corporations have gained TOO MUCH power. Corporations serve only the shareholders, and give a DAMN about citizens, ESPECIALLY in the US, where they they pay off legelastures, executives, and judges. WE no longer live in a democracy but an Ogliarchy, ruled by Corporations. Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court are all facades, and the ONLY way to get back to a democracy is through VIOLENT revolution.
What when those computers are used as zombies for DDoS attacks, and open relays for SPAM, etc. making the internet, slower and unresponzive.
Yeah, they may of stole something, but the end result of unpatched, hackable systems is a social threat tp everyone on the Internet.
Simple, a lot of SPAM and DDOS attacks come from WinDoze boxes that aren't probably secured/patched. As the preface to the article mentions, unsecured pirated boxes effect there legal counterparts.
If this is true, the outragous specs, andif nothing is interopable with previous Windows version, I HOPE coorperate America wakes up to this obvious "Fleecing of America". Already some companys, and schools are prefering "Free" Software liscensing, because it protects them from certian clauses with in the DMCA. (God DAMN that piece of legelastion, please? :-P)
Billy isn't going with out a fight, if his new cronies in Lindon don't succeed (they won't) he will just continue with his old shannanigiens.
Windows will require beefier hardware, and so will Linux. This sort of behavior is not limited strictly to Windows.
Sure, Red Hat may require beefer hardware to run, but Linux as a basis will run on a 386, (not recommend), and can be useful as a router on a 486 machine. Try running Windows 2003 server on a 486 (you can't).
Linux, as in GNU/Linux, will always be lean and mean compared to its propitary counterpart. Many eyes constely looking over, improving and tweaking code will always turn out a better product than an elite few.
OK, laugh all you want, but when I came into a Mission Office, while I was serving a mission (run by old guys) ~50% of the computers had the password 12345, and even after we told the old guys to change the password, they still reverted back to 12345. :-P
I dunno, I am in the same boat with the parent, and when I try and boot up OO on my Linux box (2500+ Athlon 512 MB), it take an awefuly long time, more so than other apps that I pull up on a regualr basis. I'll have to try Koffice, see if it loads quicker, though it takes freakn 8+ hours to compile OO on my Gentoo box, so I'd have to do it over two nights. :-P
Ok, it would NEVER happen, seeing that the **AA's have the Legelastive, and Executive, branches on their pay roll, (yeah for so-called Democracy!), but in a world where polticians couldn't be bought, there should be a law stated that ISP's should NEVER under any circumstances be forced to shell out there databases of IP leases, not even when the person in QUESTION is violating a ANY law, (not jsut copyright).
:-)
I'd be damned if I will stop downloading music that the **AA's put out, sue me if you can, I WILL NOT PAY. Ruine my creidit rating, even throw me in JAIL, but what they are doing is WRONG. Copyright is BROKEN, and will only be fixed if enough peole deminstrate true CIVIL DISOBIDENCE, which means you must be willing to SACRAFICE everything to get your point accross.
OK that was a bit more off topic than I wanted, so Moderates please be kind!
Of course in the short term, its cheaper to acquire tech from other countries than build it yourself, atleat that is the prevailing theory in not only Corperate board rooms across America, but the WHite House and Capital Hill.
:-P
If Bush isn't voted out of office in Novemeber I goingto learn Indian, and move to India
Ever sense I made an attempt to install Gentoo a year ago, (that time I just didn't have the time to learn it, so I gave up on installing it, though, I am now writing on a computer that is 100% Gentoo ;-) ). I have pondered and wanted to start a project that would write a GUI installer from scratch. I love doing an install from the command line, its taught me a hellva a lot (more than ANY other Linux distro) the thing is, even though I could possably do another Gentoo install from the command line in my sleep, I've done it that many times, something as easy as a GUI installer would be nice.
That being said, I would almost prefer said installer came from outside the core Gentoo Developers, (the guys at gentoo.org). If a group where to focus SOLY on an INSTALLER, then that group could tweak it, and make it better, better than it could have been if it was combined with a true distro project.
Perhaps in future of said, hypothetical installer, it could be ported to not just install Gentoo, but Debian, slackware, or even LFS.
Is that really the point of Gentoo though? Gentoo is a META distro, NOT a full distro. If you read the handbook, there is a lot of emphesis on making Linux YOUR way. What's to stop an IT department from taking Gentoo as a basis, and implimenting it to the demands you specify? Gentoo already has a way to lighten the compile burden through distributed compiling, you can already set up your own portage system in a corperate style intranet for easy, fast access to packages, that, surprise surprise, can be hand picked by the head IT guy.
The bottom line is Gentoo is about CHOICE, thats why the things so damned hard to install for newbies, (even with the wonderful Gentoo Handbook).
For myself, I've tried other Linux distro's and have run into a lot of frustration when those distro's don't follow a regulated norm, (IE they liked to make up directories not specified in a program original make file, or other stupid things like that.) Gentoo is the closet you can come to a LFS (Linux From Scratch) system, except with Gentoo you have a way to deal with installed packages in a semi-organized fashion, (instead of having to remember every little tid bit about where every single file, etc is stored, so you can hunt it down to delete it so you can do that upgrade you want).
I know where talking about polticians here, so this most likly would not apply to them, but you can encrypt everything you send wirelessly. A good simple PGP key would do the trick.
;-)
Sadly our polticians are so inept they wouldn't even think to do this, and if they did, it would be the most inefficient and easiest to hack encryption on the planet!
How is someone who has been so consistantly wrong with each new technology still able to convince our congresscritters that he knows what he is talking about? I suspect its not Mr. Valenti's silver tongue and gift for pursuasion, but more likely the bags of money sitting behind him that is the key to his "success".
You hit it right on the head, and it is those money bags that he uses to "buy" laws, such as the DMCA.
I've said it before, I'll say it agian, armed revolution is going to be THE ONLY WAY to return America to the way it should be!
Perhaps we need a radical period where we drag out every poltician, CEO, and board of trustee, and publicly execuate them. We need to bring back the guilotine, (well technically we never utilized it in the first place). Then instead of basterds like Jack Valenti, who say, "Let them eat cake!", we can cut the basterds head off, and make the world a better place.
Perhaps not, but I still say we need to stand up in opposition, enact revolution, etc. Only through Revolution will we maintian our rights as individuals.
Excellent point. ;-)
One has to look no further than our own Decleraion of Indepence to see that we are granted, "Ceritan unalienable rights...". Just because these rights are not set out in stone, does not mean they do not exsist, infact, I would prefer they where not spelled out in stone, least some over zealous prosoctor would attempt to charge me with crime on am over drawn technicality.