Recently a US govt department got a licencing concession from MS re use of.DOC format in non-ms software. Not a big step but it proved that MS will change the rules when threatened with competing OS products.
If a govt dept put out a requirement for software that can read and write both MS and OASIS formats natively, do you think they wouldnt tender for the contract?
MS Word does support plugins to read/write obscure file formats -you can install some from the Office CD which aren't installed by default
So it should be possible to add that functionality. However - I believe that if Govt buyers specify OASIS compatibility as a requirement then MS will be obliged to provide it eventually (much better than requiring relicensing of.doc just for Govt employees, as was previously achieved)
What radio stations let you choose what songs you want to hear?
Phone up your local station and make a request, you'll get it most times. Search for a radio station that plays stuff you like, most times you'll find one of them as well.
I read yesterday that Rhapsody is a streaming and download service, and the "free" songs are songs you listen to by streaming. they aren't really free as you don't get to keep them. (its actually "25 free streamed songs per month", not "25 songs to play as you like, every month"
the whole service is based on listening to remote files. If you want to burn CDs you pay an extra charge over what you already stumped up, for a DRM-controlled AAC download. Which to me makes Rhapsody a rather expensive radio station.
If you want a web server on XP Pro, have a look at Apache 2.x.. it's easy to configure (text file config with lots of helpful nots in it, edit it in notepad) and pretty speedy.
I guess not being IIS is a slight security advantage too, although any server is dangerous if you don't keep it patched fully up-to-date
True - however the bulk of the legal influence the RIAA in the United States is wielded on its behalf by Congress members and Senators lobbied by the association.
Mr.Orrin Hatch being the most high-profile example visible to a British eye, his proposals, for example, that filesharers PCs should be taken from them, and his backng of an attempt to write clauses about copyright protection into an American anti-terrorist bill are good examples of the sort of power the RIAA doesn't have over here.
I get the impression - please correct e if wrong - that while Wi-fi is geared towards the NAT router model, WiMax is designed to distribute a pool of available IP addresses to connected machines individually - ie it works like an ISP.
You wouldn't want your ISP to serve you a remotely NATted address by default any more than you'd want WiMax distributing the full, unfirewalled internet to every device in your house
Norton Internet Security does actually download DATs for adblocking, and the 2003 release had this fully functional long before Adblock came along. Are people outraged by a free tool but not a commercial one?
Find the EEPROM chip which houses the firmware, copy data off it into an EPROM of similar size and install in the original chip's socket.
(EEPROM can be electrically erased, EPROM can't be reflashed by software). This depends on the ROM chip being a standard type rather than custom. Otherwise we're down to third-party modchips.
I expect future DVD players will have USB ports so you can boot them off a key drive and flash the latest firmware, and keeping up-to-date firmware will be required for all DVDs to play
Why don't they just use ADSL over power line technology instead of fixed radio base stations? The power source is DC and around 750 volt if I recall correctly, shouldn't be difficult to get a stable carrier signal over that.
If the service is this easy to implement it should only be a matter of time before railway equipment manufacturers like Alsthom offer trains with wifi preinstalled. That should break T-mobiles extortionate charges.
(replying here due to vast wave of trolls and little else worthy of my time)
Any Indian software industry will almost certainly build its foundations on Linux rather than licence a proprietary OS.
I suspect certain parties *coughRedmondcough* may use this as an ideological reason to support Windows - "Running / Developing Linux is spporting our nation's strategic competitors - run an American OS !" etc.
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Recently a US govt department got a licencing concession from MS re use of .DOC format in non-ms software. Not a big step but it proved that MS will change the rules when threatened with competing OS products.
If a govt dept put out a requirement for software that can read and write both MS and OASIS formats natively, do you think they wouldnt tender for the contract?
MS Word does support plugins to read/write obscure file formats -you can install some from the Office CD which aren't installed by default
.doc just for Govt employees, as was previously achieved)
So it should be possible to add that functionality. However - I believe that if Govt buyers specify OASIS compatibility as a requirement then MS will be obliged to provide it eventually (much better than requiring relicensing of
Sue (TM) is owned by SCO (R) !!!
With the right mix of chemicals, maybe it could make LSD as well. As long as you don't mind completely missing Monday and Tuesday...
I bet it was a trap laid by Beagle 2... only now can it come out of hiding....
PS NASA - nobody expected them to last this long and you still have one on-the-go. Good work whatever happens
What radio stations let you choose what songs you want to hear?
Phone up your local station and make a request, you'll get it most times. Search for a radio station that plays stuff you like, most times you'll find one of them as well.
I read yesterday that Rhapsody is a streaming and download service, and the "free" songs are songs you listen to by streaming. they aren't really free as you don't get to keep them. (its actually "25 free streamed songs per month", not "25 songs to play as you like, every month"
the whole service is based on listening to remote files. If you want to burn CDs you pay an extra charge over what you already stumped up, for a DRM-controlled AAC download. Which to me makes Rhapsody a rather expensive radio station.
I'll have a play with it on my Ubuntu 'box then.. that surprises me though, as I didn't find it at all hard. Must be even better on *nix...
If you want a web server on XP Pro, have a look at Apache 2.x.. it's easy to configure (text file config with lots of helpful nots in it, edit it in notepad) and pretty speedy.
I guess not being IIS is a slight security advantage too, although any server is dangerous if you don't keep it patched fully up-to-date
True - however the bulk of the legal influence the RIAA in the United States is wielded on its behalf by Congress members and Senators lobbied by the association.
Mr.Orrin Hatch being the most high-profile example visible to a British eye, his proposals, for example, that filesharers PCs should be taken from them, and his backng of an attempt to write clauses about copyright protection into an American anti-terrorist bill are good examples of the sort of power the RIAA doesn't have over here.
There is a British Phonographic Industry association, but the Recording Industry Association of America has no legal power here.
Adblock googlesyndication.com - no banners for me under any circumstances !
This guy only posts on /. to link to his own site, and he's also posted those links in another /. story today using tinyurl to disguise it.
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I get the impression - please correct e if wrong - that while Wi-fi is geared towards the NAT router model, WiMax is designed to distribute a pool of available IP addresses to connected machines individually - ie it works like an ISP.
You wouldn't want your ISP to serve you a remotely NATted address by default any more than you'd want WiMax distributing the full, unfirewalled internet to every device in your house
Norton Internet Security does actually download DATs for adblocking, and the 2003 release had this fully functional long before Adblock came along. Are people outraged by a free tool but not a commercial one?
Even more shocking.. the words communications and communism share the same linguistic root!
Find the EEPROM chip which houses the firmware, copy data off it into an EPROM of similar size and install in the original chip's socket.
(EEPROM can be electrically erased, EPROM can't be reflashed by software). This depends on the ROM chip being a standard type rather than custom. Otherwise we're down to third-party modchips.
I expect future DVD players will have USB ports so you can boot them off a key drive and flash the latest firmware, and keeping up-to-date firmware will be required for all DVDs to play
No cables. 3 rails. One powered at positive 750volts DC, two for the return circuit and the guidance of the train.
I think it was all laid out before WW2.
3rd rail....
Why don't they just use ADSL over power line technology instead of fixed radio base stations? The power source is DC and around 750 volt if I recall correctly, shouldn't be difficult to get a stable carrier signal over that.
If the service is this easy to implement it should only be a matter of time before railway equipment manufacturers like Alsthom offer trains with wifi preinstalled. That should break T-mobiles extortionate charges.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey (Parent's Sig
That poor server would probably rather be either, right now.
erm.. I am using gmail's SSL POP3 - that's what I linked to :-s
(replying here due to vast wave of trolls and little else worthy of my time)
Any Indian software industry will almost certainly build its foundations on Linux rather than licence a proprietary OS.
I suspect certain parties *coughRedmondcough* may use this as an ideological reason to support Windows - "Running / Developing Linux is spporting our nation's strategic competitors - run an American OS !" etc.
Software and politics don't mix easily.