I switched all our servers from redhat to slackware about three years ago. Having tried many distros I found slackware was the most stripped down yet contained all the basic stuff you need for a server environment (sendmail, IMAP, POP, apache, etc.). The main reason I switched was library conflicts. Most other distros come with too much stuff and as you install more stuff on top you inevitably run into probelms. Slackware is nice coz it's bare bones.
I've had way more problems with config programs and package managers on other distros than I've had learning to rebuild the kernel, compile software, and edit config files on slackware. Plus I've learned a hell of a lot along the way.
I also run slackware on a laptop as my sole OS.
If you're a slackware fan like me you might also want to check out
Linux from scratch
You maybe right but isn't this more like a 10% solution falling to a 0% solution after people realize the movies they want aren't listed on bittorrent.com?
Most people know to use google (movie title filetype:tor) to find torrents.
Plus bittorrent is released under an open source license so Cohen's no longer in control of the code.
Perhaps he's duping the studios -- gimme so money and I'll help you fight movie sharing, knowing full well removing links from his site won't do much in the long run but he can get some cash in the meantime.
First I find the processor I want, then I get the system board, memory, HD, DVD, case, keyboard, monitor, etc.. Having saved by building it myself, I like to splurge on a nice case, aluminium or fish tank cases are nice.
TiVo's announcement comes as it faces stiffer competition from computer companies, cell phone providers and television networks that are scrambling to beam TV shows into any handheld device with a screen capable of playing video.
This is great news and I don't mean to be a troll but isn't it a bit disturbing that companies seem more focused on systems that promote vendor-lockin by controlling content?
Television is bascially a one-way pipe to a dumb terminal. I'd much rather see companies working toward bringing greater Internet access to these devices whereby consumers can shop for competitive content in an open market.
I wish them the best of luck but unforntunately the purpose of the patent laws seems to be, not to promote the progress of science but to concentrate wealth. The drug companies, et el, have
paid millions of dollars to congress to buy a system that keeps them in power. Sadly Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru don't have the kind of money it takes to control the situation in the long term.
In the context of Doc Searls' interesting essay about communications carriers in general, this is called bundling and it's a classic example of vendor-lockin.
Sprint couldn't just give you decent Internet access and have you go out onto a competitive net and find your own music vendor. They have to try to tie you to their own over priced service. To many carriers, a free and openly competitive Internet puts puts them out of the game by reducing them to what they really are -- nothing more than carriers. Expect more of this in the future.
The purpose of copyrights and patents is to promote the progress of science and useful arts
USC Article I, Section 8, Clause 8.
It's purpose is not to make inventors rich.
When you look at the great inventions, people mostly didn't do it for the money. I talking not about
things like the light bulb but the fundamental research that went into most of the break through discoveries
in science. Take just about anything, the vacuum tube, the transistor, integrated ciruit, the Internet, etc.
and you'll find the incentive came, not from being able to get rich from it, but by the desire
to create and discover. That people can make a living from their discoveries and inventions is great but it's
not essential for progress.
I've cloned a lot of Linux boxes with plain ol' dd.
I had a script that mounted the HD, ran dd, then did a sed
search and replace on things like, username, hostname, DNS servers, etc..
You're probably cloning windows whose config files are not as simple as those in unix
but there are still a lot of tools out there that can help (e.g. openldap commands for manipulating Active Directory, adding new users, etc.).
Maybe someone will do for movies what itunes and MP3s have done for music.
From an efficiency point of view it doesn't seem to make sense to keep hauling stuff around on funny plastic discs. Perhaps in a few years from now both Blu-ray and HD-DVD will be irrelevant.
The article claims the i2Hub network has been shutdown. Yet Wiki claims i2Hub was a peer-to-peer filesharing program.
I assume the i2Hub website is the only thing that's closed and that the software is still out there. And if it's P2P it should be able to operate regardless. Right?
Even if the majority of shareholders back such human rights declarations I'm not sure this is legal. Under US law corporations have an obligation to maximize profit irrespective of anything else. Strange but true.
This doctrine was established in a landmark Supreme Court case Dodge v. Ford Motor Company which established that even minority share holders can prevent a corporation from doing anything that hinders the maximization of profits.
I could almost support this bill if it wan't that the entertainment industry
openly bribes the senators who'll vote on this legislation, example,
Orin Hatch, entertainment contributions for the 2004 cycle were $180,000+.
If you follow the trail it looks like most of this kind of legislation is bought and paid for by the very people it benefits.
According to a datataker forum post in response to a question about the DT515 Linux:
The dataTaker transmits and receives simple ASCII commands.
You can use any simple terminal program to program and recive data from a Datataker data logger.
Wonder if this would work for the DT80. If you connect using a serial cable you can use the Linux cu command (something like "cu --parity=none -s 115200 -l/dev/ttyS0") to capture the ASCII data.
I have a feeling they're predicting success more from weblogs than anything else.
The problem with prediciting new hits by analyzing past data is that new music comes from a distinctly human creativity process that's not readily quantifiable.
If you fed all the music of the 1940s into such a program and then asked it to predict the success-ability of a 1950s rock and roll song you'd probably get does-not-compute. Similarly you couldn't predict 60s pop from 50s rock and roll, or 70s punk from 60s pop. And where would something like rap fit in? Every new successful song has something uniquely undefinable that spurs it's popularity.
When I was in college I took a music class where we tried to quantify every aspect of certain pieces of music. The result -- can't be done. What makes even a simple one line melody with no accompaniment "likeable" or "great" comes from a multiplicity of undefinable variables. And for each layer of accompaniment that gets added the music's complexity increases exponetially.
San Francisco has had free Wi-Fi for quite some time. I had the pleasure of meeting Ralf Muehlen, one of the primary contributors, when I donated equipment to the project last year.
What's interesting is that there's no reason why a lot of Internet access shouldn't be free. We don't pay a service charge for broadcast radio and television. There's an argument that Wi-Fi should be more like HAM radio -- you buy your equipment and your're online. Developments in mesh networking, especially where it's possible to relay through multiple nodes could help make this a reality. Of course we'd still need the wired backbone.
Of course there are a lot of special interests working against this. Not least, the FCC (backed by the current fee based providers) who are adamant about keeping power limititation extremely low for the ISM unlicensed spectrum. Of course the cell phone compainies have no problem blasting at thousands of times more power than we can. But that's life in politics I guess.
Be interesting to see how this plays out in the next few years, especially with the advent on 802.16.
Please get in touch with someone from sflan if you can contribute bandwidth, equipment, or technical expertise. It's a really good cause.
I don't believe there has been any indication of systems compromised and hacked into by Sony...
Not hacked by Sony but others are beginning to take advantage as a result of Sony making it easy for them. Sony Rootkit Trojans Emerge. So far, trojans Backdoor.IRC.Synd.a and its variant Backdoor.IRC.Synd.B have been detected.
Among other things, Sony is specifically accused of fraud, false advertising, trespass and violation of state and federal statues prohibiting malware, and unauthorized computer tampering,
It's more likey that violence in video games is a symptom not a cause. Right or wrong, America was founded on violence and violence is inherent within its culture and language.
It's too dificult for politicians to examine and change the root causes of violence. Much easier to go after the symtoms.
If Newton or Leibniz had invented calculus today they would have incorporated it into a computer program and filed a patent under a method for finding rates of change.
Aren't audio CDs an inefficient use of space? How much music can get on an audio CD? If you figure on mp3s you can get about 600M on a CD which works out roughly to 1M/minute or about 10 hours on one CD.
They claim rates of 744Kbit/s but my 802.11b cards get twice that. I know that 802.16 has the advantage of greater range but it also operates in the 10GHz+ so if data rates are proportional to signal baud then data rates should be much higher, right?
Also, in physics there's measurement called "skin depth" which is the distance
a wave travels in a non conducting medium before it's power level drops by 1/e or about 1/3 and for which the formula is (wavelength/2*pi). The higher the freq the greater the drop off.
I'm not doubting the 20km+ claims of 802.16 but given the FCC power limits of about 10mW per channel I can't figure out how they're getting a greater range than the lower freq 802.11.
Bottom line: Facebook, Pope John XIII, and other online student speech cases are popping up all over the place yet no case defining the amount of control a school has over a student based on that student's web speech has come before the Supreme Court. When will this happen? Moreover, what will be the result when it finally does?"
Any court, let alone the Supreme Court is unlikely to want to hear such a case. Isn't this is a matter of non government private contracts? When you enroll with the school you agree to abide by their rules, no matter how absurd. What could the court do? These kind of contracts have existed forever for all kinds of clubs, organizations, societies, etc.. As long as the contract doesn't violate the law itself (e.g. discriminate on the basis of race or sex) there's really nothing you can do short of telling them to fuck off and finding another school that's more sympathetic to your blogging activities.
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I switched all our servers from redhat to slackware about three years ago. Having tried many distros I found slackware was the most stripped down yet contained all the basic stuff you need for a server environment (sendmail, IMAP, POP, apache, etc.). The main reason I switched was library conflicts. Most other distros come with too much stuff and as you install more stuff on top you inevitably run into probelms. Slackware is nice coz it's bare bones.
I've had way more problems with config programs and package managers on other distros than I've had learning to rebuild the kernel, compile software, and edit config files on slackware. Plus I've learned a hell of a lot along the way.
I also run slackware on a laptop as my sole OS. If you're a slackware fan like me you might also want to check out Linux from scratch
Happy hacking:)
sometimes a 90% solution is good enough ...
You maybe right but isn't this more like a 10% solution falling to a 0% solution after people realize the movies they want aren't listed on bittorrent.com?
Most people know to use google (movie title filetype:tor) to find torrents.
Plus bittorrent is released under an open source license so Cohen's no longer in control of the code.
Perhaps he's duping the studios -- gimme so money and I'll help you fight movie sharing, knowing full well removing links from his site won't do much in the long run but he can get some cash in the meantime.
I get my stuff from price watch.
First I find the processor I want, then I get the system board, memory, HD, DVD, case, keyboard, monitor, etc.. Having saved by building it myself, I like to splurge on a nice case, aluminium or fish tank cases are nice.
TiVo's announcement comes as it faces stiffer competition from computer companies, cell phone providers and television networks that are scrambling to beam TV shows into any handheld device with a screen capable of playing video.
This is great news and I don't mean to be a troll but isn't it a bit disturbing that companies seem more focused on systems that promote vendor-lockin by controlling content?
Television is bascially a one-way pipe to a dumb terminal. I'd much rather see companies working toward bringing greater Internet access to these devices whereby consumers can shop for competitive content in an open market.
Just a thought.
I wish them the best of luck but unforntunately the purpose of the patent laws seems to be, not to promote the progress of science but to concentrate wealth. The drug companies, et el, have paid millions of dollars to congress to buy a system that keeps them in power. Sadly Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru don't have the kind of money it takes to control the situation in the long term.
In the context of Doc Searls' interesting essay about communications carriers in general, this is called bundling and it's a classic example of vendor-lockin.
Sprint couldn't just give you decent Internet access and have you go out onto a competitive net and find your own music vendor. They have to try to tie you to their own over priced service. To many carriers, a free and openly competitive Internet puts puts them out of the game by reducing them to what they really are -- nothing more than carriers. Expect more of this in the future.
The purpose of copyrights and patents is to promote the progress of science and useful arts USC Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. It's purpose is not to make inventors rich.
When you look at the great inventions, people mostly didn't do it for the money. I talking not about things like the light bulb but the fundamental research that went into most of the break through discoveries in science. Take just about anything, the vacuum tube, the transistor, integrated ciruit, the Internet, etc. and you'll find the incentive came, not from being able to get rich from it, but by the desire to create and discover. That people can make a living from their discoveries and inventions is great but it's not essential for progress.
I've cloned a lot of Linux boxes with plain ol' dd. I had a script that mounted the HD, ran dd, then did a sed search and replace on things like, username, hostname, DNS servers, etc..
You're probably cloning windows whose config files are not as simple as those in unix but there are still a lot of tools out there that can help (e.g. openldap commands for manipulating Active Directory, adding new users, etc.).
Maybe someone will do for movies what itunes and MP3s have done for music.
From an efficiency point of view it doesn't seem to make sense to keep hauling stuff around on funny plastic discs. Perhaps in a few years from now both Blu-ray and HD-DVD will be irrelevant.
The article claims the i2Hub network has been shutdown. Yet Wiki claims i2Hub was a peer-to-peer filesharing program.
I assume the i2Hub website is the only thing that's closed and that the software is still out there. And if it's P2P it should be able to operate regardless. Right?
Even if the majority of shareholders back such human rights declarations I'm not sure this is legal. Under US law corporations have an obligation to maximize profit irrespective of anything else. Strange but true.
This doctrine was established in a landmark Supreme Court case Dodge v. Ford Motor Company which established that even minority share holders can prevent a corporation from doing anything that hinders the maximization of profits.
I could be completely wrong.
I could almost support this bill if it wan't that the entertainment industry openly bribes the senators who'll vote on this legislation, example, Orin Hatch, entertainment contributions for the 2004 cycle were $180,000+.
If you follow the trail it looks like most of this kind of legislation is bought and paid for by the very people it benefits.
According to a datataker forum post in response to a question about the DT515 Linux:
/dev/ttyS0") to capture the ASCII data.
The dataTaker transmits and receives simple ASCII commands. You can use any simple terminal program to program and recive data from a Datataker data logger.
Wonder if this would work for the DT80. If you connect using a serial cable you can use the Linux cu command (something like "cu --parity=none -s 115200 -l
From there you can probably pipe into gnuplot
Always happy to help anyone move to Linux.
Disclaimer: I'm a jazz musician
I have a feeling they're predicting success more from weblogs than anything else. The problem with prediciting new hits by analyzing past data is that new music comes from a distinctly human creativity process that's not readily quantifiable.
If you fed all the music of the 1940s into such a program and then asked it to predict the success-ability of a 1950s rock and roll song you'd probably get does-not-compute. Similarly you couldn't predict 60s pop from 50s rock and roll, or 70s punk from 60s pop. And where would something like rap fit in? Every new successful song has something uniquely undefinable that spurs it's popularity.
When I was in college I took a music class where we tried to quantify every aspect of certain pieces of music. The result -- can't be done. What makes even a simple one line melody with no accompaniment "likeable" or "great" comes from a multiplicity of undefinable variables. And for each layer of accompaniment that gets added the music's complexity increases exponetially.
Then again I could be completely wrong.
San Francisco has had free Wi-Fi for quite some time. I had the pleasure of meeting Ralf Muehlen, one of the primary contributors, when I donated equipment to the project last year.
What's interesting is that there's no reason why a lot of Internet access shouldn't be free. We don't pay a service charge for broadcast radio and television. There's an argument that Wi-Fi should be more like HAM radio -- you buy your equipment and your're online. Developments in mesh networking, especially where it's possible to relay through multiple nodes could help make this a reality. Of course we'd still need the wired backbone.
Of course there are a lot of special interests working against this. Not least, the FCC (backed by the current fee based providers) who are adamant about keeping power limititation extremely low for the ISM unlicensed spectrum. Of course the cell phone compainies have no problem blasting at thousands of times more power than we can. But that's life in politics I guess.
Be interesting to see how this plays out in the next few years, especially with the advent on 802.16.
Please get in touch with someone from sflan if you can contribute bandwidth, equipment, or technical expertise. It's a really good cause.
I think parent is correct. I've heard you can play these on ogle. download here.
I don't believe there has been any indication of systems compromised and hacked into by Sony ...
Not hacked by Sony but others are beginning to take advantage as a result of Sony making it easy for them. Sony Rootkit Trojans Emerge. So far, trojans Backdoor.IRC.Synd.a and its variant Backdoor.IRC.Synd.B have been detected.
It's already happened. Sony Slammed with Suits over Rootkit
Among other things, Sony is specifically accused of fraud, false advertising, trespass and violation of state and federal statues prohibiting malware, and unauthorized computer tampering,
You don't see V12 engines in Hyundais either ...
But could V12 manufacturers prevent someone from putting a V12 into a Hyundai?
How binding will Apple's EULA be that says you can only run this OS on our hardware?
Microsoft is evil: +5 Insightful
Apple can be evil too: -1 Troll
It's more likey that violence in video games is a symptom not a cause. Right or wrong, America was founded on violence and violence is inherent within its culture and language.
It's too dificult for politicians to examine and change the root causes of violence. Much easier to go after the symtoms.
Too bad for the French the EU is not in charge of DNS. They could just delete his domain name:)
If Newton or Leibniz had invented calculus today they would have incorporated it into a computer program and filed a patent under a method for finding rates of change.
Aren't audio CDs an inefficient use of space? How much music can get on an audio CD? If you figure on mp3s you can get about 600M on a CD which works out roughly to 1M/minute or about 10 hours on one CD.
They claim rates of 744Kbit/s but my 802.11b cards get twice that. I know that 802.16 has the advantage of greater range but it also operates in the 10GHz+ so if data rates are proportional to signal baud then data rates should be much higher, right?
Also, in physics there's measurement called "skin depth" which is the distance a wave travels in a non conducting medium before it's power level drops by 1/e or about 1/3 and for which the formula is (wavelength/2*pi). The higher the freq the greater the drop off.
I'm not doubting the 20km+ claims of 802.16 but given the FCC power limits of about 10mW per channel I can't figure out how they're getting a greater range than the lower freq 802.11.
Bottom line: Facebook, Pope John XIII, and other online student speech cases are popping up all over the place yet no case defining the amount of control a school has over a student based on that student's web speech has come before the Supreme Court. When will this happen? Moreover, what will be the result when it finally does?"
Any court, let alone the Supreme Court is unlikely to want to hear such a case. Isn't this is a matter of non government private contracts? When you enroll with the school you agree to abide by their rules, no matter how absurd. What could the court do? These kind of contracts have existed forever for all kinds of clubs, organizations, societies, etc.. As long as the contract doesn't violate the law itself (e.g. discriminate on the basis of race or sex) there's really nothing you can do short of telling them to fuck off and finding another school that's more sympathetic to your blogging activities.