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The Guts Of An iPod
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· Score: 5, Informative
For users wanting to play with the iPod on their Linux box, you'll need hfsplusutils, since there's no fully-working HFS+ driver in the kernel.
First, of course, you need mount the thing. The documented way to enable Firewire disk mode is through the configuration UI in iTunes, but this TIL article has instructions on how to set Firewire mode manually. Finally you'll need to get it to work with the Linux IEEE1394 drivers. Most Firewire hard drives are already supported, so it may work out of the box. Go to the Linux1394 pages for more information.
I use fink myself. It's sort of a clone of apt-get for OSX.
Minor correction -- fink is not "sort of a clone" of the Debian tools. It is actually a frontend to the dpkg/apt suite, which they ported to OS X. Fink uses the real Debian package management tools and the.deb package format.
No more security risk than usual
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GNU-Darwin Goes Beta
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· Score: 3, Insightful
The more users get used to seeing installation instructions that involve piping the output of an arbitratory web download into a root shell, the more they'll start to believe that's just the way it's done.
When's the last time you read the entire Makefile and all external files that it calls, before typing 'make install'?
This is no different from downloading a tarball with a Makefile inside. You are downloading a script from the net and running it as root. You either check the script yourself beforehand, or you rely on the fact that a reputable party is providing the script and that more paranoid users will be checking it and publicizing any trojans inside (and ruining the reputation of the author).
The situation I would really warn against is running an unexamined script that isn't provided by a known author, or even worse a compiled binary with no source available. As long as the source is public, it is no different from what Unix admins have been doing for decades every time they install software.
The difference in 0.9.4 is that you can disable popups on page-load/page-close only. This gets rid of most popup ads, while preserving less-annoying uses of popup windows (unlike 0.9.3).
That's ridiculous. Dmitry wasn't even the only Elcomsoft employee to come to Defcon. He was arrested (according to the FBI investigator) because he was the listed in the program documentation as the copyright holder, and is therefore in legal control of distribution and licensing.
It's really sad that no one seems to remember this, since the facts of the case are very widely available all over the net.
From the affadavit, written by the FBI agent handling the investigation and arrest:
"Adobe purchased the program through Elcomsoft through a U.S. based company. . . . A review of the opening screen on the Elcomsoft software purchased showed that a person named Dmitry Sklyarov is identified as being the copyright holder of the Elcomsoft program. . . . Based on the foregoing, I believe Dmitry Sklyarov, employee of Elcomsoft and the individual listed on the Elcomsoft software products as the copyright holder of the program sold and produced by Elcomsoft, known as the Advanced eBook Processor, has willfully and for financial gain imported, offered to the public, provided, and otherwise trafficked in a technology, product, service, and device that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumvention a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under Title 17. ..
Is there any evidence that there's more than one employee at this company?
Yes, it's one of the larger software companies in Russia. If you've followed this case at all you know that Dmitry wasn't even the only Elcomsoft employee at Defcon when he was arrested. All these facts are very easily available, so there shouldn't be any need to guess or make stuff up.
Elcomsoft payed Sklyarov's US$50k bail. They hired and are paying his legal representation. Dmitry's boss has been acting as a sort of spokesman since Dmitry was arrested, visiting him in jail and relaying information to the EFF and the free-sklyarov mailing lists.
Earlier this year, protesters put up some anti-FTAA posters in my Seattle neighborhood. I have a pretty good picture of one of them. It might be useful for an anti-FTAA web page or something. Feel free to use it however you want.
By the way, the article's first link to the EFF is wrong (points to eef.org instead).
Vorbis developer Nick D'Amato has a working Quicktime component that lets Quicktime Player, the Quicktime plugin, iTunes, and any other QT app play vorbis files. See this thread from vorbis-dev for details, and download the plugin to help test it out.
The vorbis specification itself is completely unrestricted, so if you write all of your own code then you don't have to comply with any licensing terms.
The basic vorbis libraries are under a BSD-like license, so that use of the basic implementation is essentially unrestricted. This allows anyone to write a player or encoder with minimal effort and very flexible license.
Most of the other code (including the reference player and encoder) is licensed under the GNU GPL.
If you create a file called user.js alongside prefs.js then you can create settings there as well. Using user.js makes it easier to migrate settings from one Mozilla installation to another, etc.
Its just deceptive that they are passing themselves on as nice-guy open-source type of people when they have no intention of giving back to the community.
Apple has contributed a complete microkernel-based Unix operating system, with source. Their paid engineers donated bug fixes to the NetBSD code base. They gave support to inter-BSD groups working on cooperative development. While he worked at Apple as chief Darwin engineer, Wilfredo Sanchez was also a member of the core development groups of Apache, FreeBSD and NetBSD, as well as contributing to countless other projects (MIT Kerberos 5, Perl, Sendmail...). Though he's changed companies, Sanchez is still active in Darwin development as well as other community projects.
Darwin is a pretty big deal for some of us. I have powermac hardware that is currently running Linux, but Darwin adds another option and sometimes supports devices that Linux doesn't. It is also among the only modern microkernel operating systems available to the Open Source community. But lest you think a complete Unix OS is too little to "give back to the community," Apple has also released an Open Source (admittedly not Free) streaming media server (!), network game development library, and some development tools.
Only a handful of profitable companies have done more for the community. I think your criticism was misplaced.
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose Karma!
As a good poster, you earned a bonus: you are allowed to speak slightly "louder" then other people. In most cases, this is because you've earned it. But with that right comes a responsibility - you have to justify that bonus score. The louder you speak, the more likely you are to be moderated down, unless you're sufficiently interesting to prompt the moderators to let you keep your bonus score. This is how the system is designed to work: you can't just rack up big karma scores, and then post nonsense.
I told the sad news to my Info/Comm engineering prof this morning. He's been working in communications for about three decades now himself, and was saddened to hear it.
He said that Shannon had showed up at a conference a just a few years ago. Word quickly spread around the conference floor that Shannon was there. Finally someone was brave enough to break the ice and talk to him, and instantly a whole crowd was surrounding Dr. Shannon, just to meet him or say hi. "Like a rock star," my professor said.
Claude Shannon may well be the most influential mathematician no one has heard of.
I'm not against the Japanese dub being included...
No one even considers using big Hollywood stars to dub over foreign movies like Il Postino when they're released in the US. Why are animated films so much different?
For anyone who didn't know this already: dialogue isn't normally "dubbed into" an animated movie. The original voice track is recorded before the cels are drawn. The animators then fit their work to the actors' voices. Because of this, the voice cast plays a big role in defining the characters and the feel of the movie.
In dubbed translations, this is no longer the case. The writers have to compromise between accurate translation and good lip-synch. The actors can't just act naturally; they also have to pay attention to the exact motions of their already-animated characters. And even if they compromise everything to make the new dialogue fit the original animation, the lip-synch still won't be as good.
Reversing the favored animation process makes a big difference in the finished product, especially in a movie like Mononoke Hime, in which the original writing and acting was truly top-notch.
From watching the quicktime trailer, the visuals are awesome but the dialogue is horrible. "You are desert power. And nothing can stop you."
Who wrote this? In the entire trailer, I only recognize about two lines from the novel. Come on, Herbert's Dune had pretty good dialogue -- better than this, anyway.
I'm sad that some hack screenwriter thought he could improve a masterpiece. From the little I've seen, it seems to have changed the characters and the feel of the story for the worse.
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First, of course, you need mount the thing. The documented way to enable Firewire disk mode is through the configuration UI in iTunes, but this TIL article has instructions on how to set Firewire mode manually. Finally you'll need to get it to work with the Linux IEEE1394 drivers. Most Firewire hard drives are already supported, so it may work out of the box. Go to the Linux1394 pages for more information.
I use fink myself. It's sort of a clone of apt-get for OSX. Minor correction -- fink is not "sort of a clone" of the Debian tools. It is actually a frontend to the dpkg/apt suite, which they ported to OS X. Fink uses the real Debian package management tools and the .deb package format.
When's the last time you read the entire Makefile and all external files that it calls, before typing 'make install'?
This is no different from downloading a tarball with a Makefile inside. You are downloading a script from the net and running it as root. You either check the script yourself beforehand, or you rely on the fact that a reputable party is providing the script and that more paranoid users will be checking it and publicizing any trojans inside (and ruining the reputation of the author).
The situation I would really warn against is running an unexamined script that isn't provided by a known author, or even worse a compiled binary with no source available. As long as the source is public, it is no different from what Unix admins have been doing for decades every time they install software.
See this newsgroup post for details.
Let's read this sentence very closely and see if we can find the irony...
It's really sad that no one seems to remember this, since the facts of the case are very widely available all over the net.
From the affadavit, written by the FBI agent handling the investigation and arrest:
Yes, it's one of the larger software companies in Russia. If you've followed this case at all you know that Dmitry wasn't even the only Elcomsoft employee at Defcon when he was arrested. All these facts are very easily available, so there shouldn't be any need to guess or make stuff up.Elcomsoft payed Sklyarov's US$50k bail. They hired and are paying his legal representation. Dmitry's boss has been acting as a sort of spokesman since Dmitry was arrested, visiting him in jail and relaying information to the EFF and the free-sklyarov mailing lists.
CmdrTaco calls someone else's color scheme "a little disturbing"?
By the way, the article's first link to the EFF is wrong (points to eef.org instead).
Vorbis developer Nick D'Amato has a working Quicktime component that lets Quicktime Player, the Quicktime plugin, iTunes, and any other QT app play vorbis files. See this thread from vorbis-dev for details, and download the plugin to help test it out.
The vorbis specification itself is completely unrestricted, so if you write all of your own code then you don't have to comply with any licensing terms.
The basic vorbis libraries are under a BSD-like license, so that use of the basic implementation is essentially unrestricted. This allows anyone to write a player or encoder with minimal effort and very flexible license.
Most of the other code (including the reference player and encoder) is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Yes.
If you create a file called user.js alongside prefs.js then you can create settings there as well. Using user.js makes it easier to migrate settings from one Mozilla installation to another, etc.
I wrote this Kuro5hin story on the new publication requirements two months ago, when they were first implemented.
Apple has contributed a complete microkernel-based Unix operating system, with source. Their paid engineers donated bug fixes to the NetBSD code base. They gave support to inter-BSD groups working on cooperative development. While he worked at Apple as chief Darwin engineer, Wilfredo Sanchez was also a member of the core development groups of Apache, FreeBSD and NetBSD, as well as contributing to countless other projects (MIT Kerberos 5, Perl, Sendmail...). Though he's changed companies, Sanchez is still active in Darwin development as well as other community projects.
Darwin is a pretty big deal for some of us. I have powermac hardware that is currently running Linux, but Darwin adds another option and sometimes supports devices that Linux doesn't. It is also among the only modern microkernel operating systems available to the Open Source community. But lest you think a complete Unix OS is too little to "give back to the community," Apple has also released an Open Source (admittedly not Free) streaming media server (!), network game development library, and some development tools.
Only a handful of profitable companies have done more for the community. I think your criticism was misplaced.
MOL relies on runtime patching of the linux kernel. This will take more than a binary compatability layer to port to another kernel.
He said that Shannon had showed up at a conference a just a few years ago. Word quickly spread around the conference floor that Shannon was there. Finally someone was brave enough to break the ice and talk to him, and instantly a whole crowd was surrounding Dr. Shannon, just to meet him or say hi. "Like a rock star," my professor said.
Claude Shannon may well be the most influential mathematician no one has heard of.
462 mm^2 == (21.5 mm)^2, or about (.85 in)^2.
No one even considers using big Hollywood stars to dub over foreign movies like Il Postino when they're released in the US. Why are animated films so much different?
For anyone who didn't know this already: dialogue isn't normally "dubbed into" an animated movie. The original voice track is recorded before the cels are drawn. The animators then fit their work to the actors' voices. Because of this, the voice cast plays a big role in defining the characters and the feel of the movie.
In dubbed translations, this is no longer the case. The writers have to compromise between accurate translation and good lip-synch. The actors can't just act naturally; they also have to pay attention to the exact motions of their already-animated characters. And even if they compromise everything to make the new dialogue fit the original animation, the lip-synch still won't be as good.
Reversing the favored animation process makes a big difference in the finished product, especially in a movie like Mononoke Hime, in which the original writing and acting was truly top-notch.
Excuse me. Fair use does apply to trademarks, but it has a different meaning than in copyright law. It certainly doesn't apply to this case.
This may seem anal-retentive, but it's important to have a good understanding of the law before you applying it to yourself or others.
Who wrote this? In the entire trailer, I only recognize about two lines from the novel. Come on, Herbert's Dune had pretty good dialogue -- better than this, anyway.
I'm sad that some hack screenwriter thought he could improve a masterpiece. From the little I've seen, it seems to have changed the characters and the feel of the story for the worse.
Kenny MacDonald posted some precompiled packages for potato/i386. They are apt-able from this address.