The problem I see with water marking with someones account info is it assumes the purchase is for the account holder.
lets take a guy at university buys a number of tracks for his girl friend for her ipod. 5 years later they broke up moved to different parts of the world maybe she or the new man in her life decides to share the tracks p2p and then the RIAA comes knocking on the door.
so they take his IPod and find probably a lot of music not registered to his account or not marked at all. whats the balance of probability that he pirated some of them. Can he defend himself in court or does he take the RIAA's offer.
I am disappointed apple should choose to do this, and I can't see why anyone would put themselves in such a legally risky position buying from Itunes.
How do they keep missing. This would be nice but its too big and too heavy just a quirky laptop
Take a look at the psp about the right size but flawed still (unless your a gamer). Lets visualise something around the size of the PSP but lets add USB ports both Host and Client A flip over keyboard which protects the screen or folds out the way completely (I believe logitec tried and couldnt get sony to play ball).
A Vga capable port (via Dongle to allow composite out and audio out) built in mike and jack sockets for head phones and mike. a mini dvd recorder/ player SD card slots supporting up to 8 gig storage. Running linux of course with an open hardware specification so anyone can write for it.
give it wifi built in maybe bluetooth and gps capabilitys and small but capable speakers maybe and decent battery life.
just don't mess it up with DRM and it'll be ideal music, movies and,useable apps, remote login with the usb the limits are what drivers you can add to it (heck why not plug in a usb tv stick or a lazer printer, or do a presentation ). For $600 I would buy one.
There you have it the perfect traveling companion. I'd pair it with a phone since we know if that was built in the phone companies would ruin it.
Wouldn't be that difficult to improve google search, just allow users to create filters to blacklist sites.
for example swik is a site that pops up regularly in searches I make and never has any useful information. I have a friend that hates gettng wiki results i like them . ebay is another jumping into search results. retailers have a time and place in search results. when i am looking for drivers or technical info isn't one of them.
for certain there are types of site which could be filtered in or out depending on your search.
I guess certain advertisers would be against this kind of thing however if I don't want to buy something, all that occurs is wasted bandwidth for advertisers,builds resentment against a particular product and a particular brand.
TomTom don't just make all in one units, you can buy a bluetooth GPS unit and software to pair with your phone/pda but its terrible.
first of all it has 2 leds and a button that is all. 1 led is red when discharged amber when charging and off when fully charged. the other led lights up solid green when it has a fix and flashes green when successfully paired.
problem turn the unit on or off with the push button, you don't know is it on is it off. well you may find out if it gets a lock on some satellites 45 seconds or longer much longer if it is off. Is it broken well if its fully charged you may never know it might be fully discharged too.
The only way you can find out if its on is if it shows up in a bluetooth scan but it will not pair if it doesn't have a satellite lock and to top it off leave it stationary it turns its self off after 10 minutes.
plus point when it is paired and locked it works well. Its getting it too that state might take an hour or more...
i watched Dr who last night as well from my mythtv box, it's set to record each episode that is broadcast.
Sky+ is quite good but unfortunately your limited to the capacity of the hard drive if nothing else. There is 300 gig available on my myth backend server and it is capable of outputing to DVD or DivX if I really want it too.
Perhaps It is the ability to record and post content to the Internet that most upsets the Media companies, however it has never tempted me I just want to watch good quality TV when I have the time available. (uploading content wouldn't be a good use of my time).
mythtv along with mythweb is probably the easiest and most convenient way to improve the quality of what you watch. after all I can schedule a recording from my mobile phone if i so wish, or anywhere else with web access. within my household recordings are available to any linux box within range of my wireless network.
with my old xbox (approximate cost £60 cheaper now) hooked up to my TV I can watch live tv via my myth-backend box, any recordings i have audio and Video, access to any internet radio, even browse the net on my TV.
I have a PVR that probably would record HBO for me, if I had a subscription, its not that good at bending over for DRM, It objects to recording macrovision but a cheap TBC in line with the feed sorts that little problem (usually limited to old VHS video tapes anyway).
The real point is that windows media centre is now demonstrating that its not even second best, It is an expensive solution that doesn't even compare well to a cheap pvr.
However it is possible to upgrade the software on a computer running XP media centre without losing anything. by converting it to dual boot fiesty (ubuntu 7.04) simply boot from the CD resize the ntfs partitions to give space for ubuntu (you probably want 3 partitions root swop and media). once ubuntu is installed install mythtv and mythweb and maybe mythmusic or slimserver.
If you install VMWare its possible to even run your already installed windows applications without the need to reboot back in to windows. Your Windows installation will not be harmed by this upgrade.
If your running XP media centre edition you have nothing to lose from trying out mythtv and seeing if it meets your requirements.
really what would be nice to see would be a proper review of a dual boot mythtv / media centre PC. That would be a good slashdot story especially if the person / people who do it are open to answer a few questions.
As long as there's far more tech-savvy men than women, the generalization by assuming a gender serves a useful purpose. Get your fellow sisters to become on average at least as tech-savvy as the average man, and then complain. To be fair the average man is pretty much as tech-savvy as the average woman, There may be more tech-savvy men than women however the average man or woman is pretty much clueless to the same degree.
However perhaps the Grandparent of this post should take pride in womens natural ability in social engineering.
I think most men can relate to the truthiness of this. Having spent several hours performing tasks for women for the hope of some reward... maybe next time...
maybe not internet based apps but more lan based apps. Take for example Open office I have about 10 computers to choose from all running ubuntu and a server that is on 24/7 is there any good reason that open office is loaded on all of them?
Ok laptops can be used off the lan so maybe they need to have some apps stored locally. perhaps a cache for programs you use often. At the moment each PC will recieve updates individually it would make better use of my network, my time, and the repositories if updates only needed to be downloaded the once.
Of course I already have the option of multiple users logged on to a server but it's going to get slower the more users there are.
More intelligent use of the Lan I can see an advantage too but not web based apps using a browser to access networked resources is probably the worst way of doing so. xdcmp or ssh seem far better alternatives.
I do like the idea of cached applications. makes it very easy to flush and get rid of the accumulated crud on a system. (if the flush was to the trash then anything you do go to use can be pulled back out rather than pulled in over your lan).
Sounds like you need some sort of timeout on how long this sort of stuff hangs around. In the UK convictions (except in certain situations) expire after a while.
That is what I used to think, but actually they don't. Any time a criminal records check is carried out any convictions (excluding most motoring related offenses) will be dug up.
This last Link is the most interesting however you might want to consider that your ip address will be recorded by the police server that holds this document if you click on the link. Paranoid? maybe but when you realise that any "intelligence" is almost certain to be recorded on the PNC . Accessing this document may well count as intelligence after all why would a good citizen want to know this. surely only an activist, political malcontent, and potential terrorist would want to know?
heres an extract.
"1.3 The Retention Guidelines are based on a format of restricting access to PNC data,
rather than the deletion of that data. The restriction of access is achieved by setting
strict time periods after which the relevant event histories will 'step down' and only
be open to inspection by the police. Following the 'step down' other users of PNC
will be unaware of the existence of such records, save for those occasions where
the individual is the subject of an Enhanced Check under the Criminal Records
Bureau vetting process. In those cases the data should be dealt with as intelligence
and only disclosed, where the relevance test has been applied, on the authority of
the Chief Officer. The 'step down' time periods are based on the following criteria,
as set out in detail in the chart at Appendix 1;
The age of the subject
The final outcome
The sentence imposed
The offence category 1.4 All non conviction events, for example acquittals and arrests, will be 'stepped down'
when the relevant entry is made on the PNC. This will ensure that such data is only
open to inspection by the police. 1.5 It is recognised that the introduction of these guidelines may have implications for
the business of the non police agencies with which the police currently share PNC
data. Work is already under way to ensure that there is a clear understanding of the
needs of all stake holders. 1.6 Applications from non police agencies to access nominal records on the PNC will
be considered by a Panel chaired by the ACPO lead for Recording and Disclosure
of Convictions.
Background
2.1 The Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 amended PACE, and removed the
"Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928, La Trinité-sur-Mer, France) is a French far-right nationalist politician, founder and president of the Front National (National Front) party."
"He has been charged with Holocaust denial several times, and has unsuccessfully sued some who had accused him of this."
right wing i would think gwb et al, This guys more reminiscent of the KKK I guess by your reckoning Stalin was a left leaning liberal...
Thats one viewpoint, however perhaps you might be motivated to make a better product. As a customer of yours or your competitors I get a better product from either of you. Why should the customer get shafted with a poor quality product made second rate by the patents your competitor holds limiting your product and your patents causing similar problems for your competitors.
Don't think either of you can hack it? then let competitor 3 or 4 or 5... step in and take up the slack. If you truly can innovate are experts in your field then who's product will i buy the cutting edge or a pale imitation. Do we really want the pace of innovation slowed by a factor of around 20 ?
what will take Dell that unspecified amount of time is probably to test their laptop line to see which is the best dell laptop + given linux distro combination. I hope they will come up with a good one, otherwise it will be anything but a success. I am hoping Dell goes one better than pick the most compatible existing Laptops/PC's. If they have taken anything from the survey responses they should realise that Open Source drivers were key requirements for Linux systems, more so than a particular distro.
This really means that hardware such as broadcom wireless cards are not going to be welcomed and an alternative card will need to be specified.
For Dells Desktop Linux range maybe they will make some form of liciencing deal so DVD MP3 multimedia is installed and available at first boot.
Finally what support are they going to offer, inhouse or subcontracted to redhat maybe?
Hopefully Each PC will have a designed for Linux and Open source sticker on it (and not just covering up the windows sticker).
If they really want to sell Linux systems I expect them to make a Linux product.
As much as the Linux community wants to believe it, has the amount of Linux installs really doubled as well? I wouldn't think so. I think it is possible 18 months ago i knew one person who ran linux, Now amongst computer geek friends it is close to 100% mostly ubuntu. Ordinary users not so much.
when you talk about the amount of linux installs doubling your not doubling a huge number so doubling is entirely possible. what may be more significant is the people who are converting are not average windows users, they are tending to be the people ordinary windows users turn to... I don't know about you but I positively enjoy solving issues with ubuntu, I am sick to death of windows malware and virus's.
Linux is fun for geeks windows is a chore. For ordinary users linux needs more work (or they do) maybe 3 or 4 years ordinary pc users will see ubuntu as a perfect solution for them, maybe sooner as their "windows support" takes longer and longer to respond to yet another request to fix thier windows pc
please it is obvious that Apple and the content owners want to sell content, sales which would be impacted by freely available divx. Sure you can convert formats but wouldnt you rather just buy media in a compatible format.
won't be long before compatable formats are also freely available - if the device sells well
Ubuntu is a good distro for Linux Newbies not Windows Newbies. Being on the wong side of 40 I've been lucky enough to experience the microchip revolution, I had to learn Log tables and how to use a slide rule (although the calculator caught on fast and the digital watch with red LED display. I started with the sinclair ZX81 and 1K of RAM moving onwards and upwards over the years and it was fun.
with the introduction of the bbs and later the internet you could be engaged with a massive community of talent and make your own mark interesting times for sure.
Computing was a frontier and you could be out there exploring it. Today with a mature computer industry we have the mass market windows and wheres the fun in that, Windows isn't fun it's boring, theres no challenges it just works to an extent, sure there's virus problems malware problems to sort out but they are tedious failings of a badly designed os. Anything that is interesting is locked away closed source. Whats left ripping movies and music hardly challenging or interesting. Oh theres also the big brother aspect of reporting tools like WGA poking into our stuff, Windows really manages to suck away at the soul.
However there is Linux and that is interesting it is 95% open, 5% that isn't are the binary blobs that certain hardware manufacturers insist we use. The real annoyance with these blobs is we can't go there and thats why they are loathed so much. Linux is full of little challenges and some big ones too, take that Monitor problem 1440 by 900. in Xorg.conf all it took was the addition of 1440x900 in to a line of relatively square screen resolutions. Sure if there was a better hardware database and the guys doing Xorg want to they can ensure that this can be done automatically. It is not important to the majority of people who run Linux, If you want a good os that doesn't suck where it all just works choose OSX.
Linux has its rewards for people like me who like to be challenged, who enjoy developing skills that in windows are pointless, because you can't see the code in windows.
Ubuntu can be used at a desktop level by ordinary people but its not particularly for them now. It's for people with a genuine interest in getting under the hood.
First off it depends on getting hold of the right howto (The one in ubuntu community docs is pretty good so is the one by stephen parker).
However I wouldnt call it easy there are a few concepts that are not explained very well. First is the PRE-install work which means getting your distro working with the right drivers and the TV-Card(s) working properly. For digital tv Kaffiene is essential and for analogue you can't go far wrong with xawtv.
Once you are able to watch TV on your box you can then start to work on Mythtv. Critical is setting up mysql and the mythtv user configuration has to be by the mythtv user or you find problems with permissions later.
Biggest issue with most howto's is that they are easy to misread and just are not quite step by step.
multiple cards are not that easy either you need to learn about udev and identifying your cards with a symbolic link. with 2 or more cards which physical card gets assigned to which device is random at bootup. God Knows how you get on with 2 physically identical cards and different sources.
Once it is setup thou your granny could use it. system requirements are not too bad I setup the backend on an AMD Athlon 1.4ghz PC with 512 of Ram and it copes fine with a couple of frontends connected.
If you have the time and a system spare its a good little project and you learn a lot and it does work very well.
'The State of Illinois recently consolidated its IT systems onto Microsoft software -- and has no interest in using Linux, says unemployed Paul Campbell, EX director of the state's Central Management Services department. "We don't have time for science projects in state government," he says.'prior to resigning last friday
There fixed that for you:)
"Campbell was paid $125,736 a year as director.
Assistant Director Maureen O'Donnell, 42, will take over as acting director until a permanent replacement is named. She is paid $106,912."
look at what your suggesting pretend somebody else wrote it and see how paranoid it seems? After all we have cable modems ethernet and dialup to report on windows users already.
All this is, is just another method of data transmission. Satellite (SKY) has been broadcasting data down to customers for years. A digital terrestial broadcast is no different, there isn't really that much difference between packets of video data, and data.
I believe upstream is provided by a phoneline. Interestingly and perhaps worthy of paranoia is what stops someone from recieving the packets meant for you? since it is a broadcast after all possibly millions will recieve data meant for you just most won't be able to decrypt it.
Bit torrent could become extremely fast if its possible to harvest all the blocks on the signal potentially you could be recieving up to the whole swarms packets. I wonder if its possible to listen only or would it be the digital equivilent of a paper shredder lots of meaningless bits.
It is possible to take in a raw mpeg-ts stream and record more than one channel at the same time.
Isn't this system similar to the print on demand systems that were hyped a few years ago? anyone ever seen one of these machines in real life?
I guess DVD production is a simpler task but I can't imagine it will be successful.
I was quite interested in some comments about the registry. to be specific that the registry maintains records about other hard drives being connected to the computer Hard drive serial numbers and such like.
It would have been interesting to see if other hard drives had been connected wouldnt be that unusual to have an external usb HD or a secondary HD.
Is anyone reading this familiar with this registry information and where it might be found.
It also seems windows maintains no record of past IP addresses so evidence of presence of a router or not is lost after a reboot.
good read but I would like to know more about the hd history in the registry any windows experts here:)
supported broadcom and linux in the same sentence thats an oxymoron for sure broadcom do not support Linux. yes there are native drivers but I am pretty sure they are 100% reverse engineered. They can't get go faster than B speed the poweroutput is also crippled (I think it only works in a fallback mode). the NDiswrapper version of the driver does work properly getting full power and 54g speeds.
If you want supported wireless nic's Ralink for example do have open source drivers.
A Linux certified Laptop should have OEM support for the hardware inside. why should any person who wants to run Linux, support people like broadcom who will not supply Linux drivers when there are other companies who will happily supply Linux drivers for thier products.
It seems to me to be a kick in the teeth for hardware companies that support Linux when you go buy thier competitors products.
whats the difference between VMWare and Virtual PC ? one is just a windows application. That is why MS isn't going to win this one. Did you know you can get a complete ready to use Mono development environment as a VM, works well hosted on ubuntu, or XP or... Its actually configured on OpenSuse 10.2 but the underlying OS isn't too important what does matter is how quick you can go from downloading to using (missing out the configuration, resolve issue stage is a lot of time saved)
I really would like to see more like this for other development environments.
Thanks for the suggestion if I can get in the case I will see if it is purely a mechanical problem like you suggest. would be nice if it was repairable.
I wonder if this will include OS X Intel, which Microsoft claims they simply just absolutely cannot port VB to under any circumstamces ever. That would be pretty funny. Actually it seems the answer is yes http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads
interesting snipit from that page "Will binaries from Windows work?
Yes, they will."
The Vmware image seems to be the most interesting download. Having the development environment self contained and ready to play seems like a really good idea and of course all you need is the free vmware player.
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The problem I see with water marking with someones account info is it assumes the purchase is for the account holder.
lets take a guy at university buys a number of tracks for his girl friend for her ipod.
5 years later they broke up moved to different parts of the world maybe she or the new man in her life decides to share the tracks p2p and then the RIAA comes knocking on the door.
so they take his IPod and find probably a lot of music not registered to his account or not marked at all.
whats the balance of probability that he pirated some of them.
Can he defend himself in court or does he take the RIAA's offer.
I am disappointed apple should choose to do this, and I can't see why anyone would put themselves in such a legally risky position buying from Itunes.
How do they keep missing. This would be nice but its too big and too heavy just a quirky laptop
,useable apps, remote login with the usb the limits are what drivers you can add to it (heck why not plug in a usb tv stick or a lazer printer, or do a presentation ). For $600 I would buy one.
Take a look at the psp about the right size but flawed still (unless your a gamer).
Lets visualise something around the size of the PSP but lets add USB ports both Host and Client
A flip over keyboard which protects the screen or folds out the way completely (I believe logitec tried and couldnt get sony to play ball).
A Vga capable port (via Dongle to allow composite out and audio out) built in mike and jack sockets for head phones and mike. a mini dvd recorder/ player SD card slots supporting up to 8 gig storage. Running linux of course with an open hardware specification so anyone can write for it.
give it wifi built in maybe bluetooth and gps capabilitys and small but capable speakers maybe and decent battery life.
just don't mess it up with DRM and it'll be ideal music, movies and
There you have it the perfect traveling companion.
I'd pair it with a phone since we know if that was built in the phone companies would ruin it.
Wouldn't be that difficult to improve google search, just allow users to create filters to blacklist sites.
,builds resentment against a particular product and a particular brand.
for example swik is a site that pops up regularly in searches I make and never has any useful information.
I have a friend that hates gettng wiki results i like them . ebay is another jumping into search results.
retailers have a time and place in search results. when i am looking for drivers or technical info isn't one of them.
for certain there are types of site which could be filtered in or out depending on your search.
I guess certain advertisers would be against this kind of thing however if I don't want to buy something, all that occurs is wasted bandwidth for advertisers
TomTom don't just make all in one units, you can buy a bluetooth GPS unit and software to pair with your phone/pda but its terrible.
...
first of all it has 2 leds and a button that is all.
1 led is red when discharged amber when charging and off when fully charged.
the other led lights up solid green when it has a fix and flashes green when successfully paired.
problem turn the unit on or off with the push button, you don't know is it on is it off. well you may find out if it gets a lock on some satellites 45 seconds or longer much longer if it is off. Is it broken well if its fully charged you may never know it might be fully discharged too.
The only way you can find out if its on is if it shows up in a bluetooth scan but it will not pair if it doesn't have a satellite lock and to top it off leave it stationary it turns its self off after 10 minutes.
plus point when it is paired and locked it works well. Its getting it too that state might take an hour or more
i watched Dr who last night as well from my mythtv box, it's set to record each episode that is broadcast.
Sky+ is quite good but unfortunately your limited to the capacity of the hard drive if nothing else.
There is 300 gig available on my myth backend server and it is capable of outputing to DVD or DivX if I really want it too.
Perhaps It is the ability to record and post content to the Internet that most upsets the Media companies, however it has never tempted me I just want to watch good quality TV when I have the time available. (uploading content wouldn't be a good use of my time).
mythtv along with mythweb is probably the easiest and most convenient way to improve the quality of what you watch.
after all I can schedule a recording from my mobile phone if i so wish, or anywhere else with web access. within my household recordings are available to any linux box within range of my wireless network.
with my old xbox (approximate cost £60 cheaper now) hooked up to my TV I can watch live tv via my myth-backend box, any recordings i have audio and Video, access to any internet radio, even browse the net on my TV.
I have a PVR that probably would record HBO for me, if I had a subscription, its not that good at bending over for DRM, It objects to recording macrovision but a cheap TBC in line with the feed sorts that little problem (usually limited to old VHS video tapes anyway).
The real point is that windows media centre is now demonstrating that its not even second best, It is an expensive solution that doesn't even compare well to a cheap pvr.
However it is possible to upgrade the software on a computer running XP media centre without losing anything.
by converting it to dual boot fiesty (ubuntu 7.04) simply boot from the CD resize the ntfs partitions to give space for ubuntu (you probably want 3 partitions root swop and media). once ubuntu is installed install mythtv and mythweb and maybe mythmusic or slimserver.
If you install VMWare its possible to even run your already installed windows applications without the need to reboot back in to windows. Your Windows installation will not be harmed by this upgrade.
If your running XP media centre edition you have nothing to lose from trying out mythtv and seeing if it meets your requirements.
really what would be nice to see would be a proper review of a dual boot mythtv / media centre PC.
That would be a good slashdot story especially if the person / people who do it are open to answer a few questions.
However perhaps the Grandparent of this post should take pride in womens natural ability in social engineering.
I think most men can relate to the truthiness of this. Having spent several hours performing tasks for women for the hope of some reward... maybe next time...
Bluetack works well too.
maybe not internet based apps but more lan based apps.
Take for example Open office I have about 10 computers to choose from all running ubuntu and a server that is on 24/7 is there any good reason that open office is loaded on all of them?
Ok laptops can be used off the lan so maybe they need to have some apps stored locally.
perhaps a cache for programs you use often. At the moment each PC will recieve updates individually it would make better use of my network, my time, and the repositories if updates only needed to be downloaded the once.
Of course I already have the option of multiple users logged on to a server but it's going to get slower the more users there are.
More intelligent use of the Lan I can see an advantage too but not web based apps using a browser to access networked resources is probably the worst way of doing so. xdcmp or ssh seem far better alternatives.
I do like the idea of cached applications. makes it very easy to flush and get rid of the accumulated crud on a system. (if the flush was to the trash then anything you do go to use can be pulled back out rather than pulled in over your lan).
Sounds like you need some sort of timeout on how long this sort of stuff hangs around. In the UK convictions (except in certain situations) expire after a while.
That is what I used to think, but actually they don't. Any time a criminal records check is carried out any convictions (excluding most motoring related offenses) will be dug up.
http://www.crb.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=1871
http://www.disclosure-scotland.org.uk/PDF/WEEDING% 20POLICY%20revised%20060307.pdf
http://www.acpo.police.uk/asp/policies/Data/Retent ion%20of%20Records.pdf
This last Link is the most interesting however you might want to consider that your ip address will be recorded by the police server that holds this document if you click on the link. Paranoid? maybe but when you realise that any "intelligence" is almost certain to be recorded on the PNC . Accessing this document may well count as intelligence after all why would a good citizen want to know this. surely only an activist, political malcontent, and potential terrorist would want to know?
heres an extract.
"1.3 The Retention Guidelines are based on a format of restricting access to PNC data,
rather than the deletion of that data. The restriction of access is achieved by setting
strict time periods after which the relevant event histories will 'step down' and only
be open to inspection by the police. Following the 'step down' other users of PNC
will be unaware of the existence of such records, save for those occasions where
the individual is the subject of an Enhanced Check under the Criminal Records
Bureau vetting process. In those cases the data should be dealt with as intelligence
and only disclosed, where the relevance test has been applied, on the authority of
the Chief Officer. The 'step down' time periods are based on the following criteria,
as set out in detail in the chart at Appendix 1;
The age of the subject
The final outcome
The sentence imposed
The offence category
1.4 All non conviction events, for example acquittals and arrests, will be 'stepped down'
when the relevant entry is made on the PNC. This will ensure that such data is only
open to inspection by the police.
1.5 It is recognised that the introduction of these guidelines may have implications for
the business of the non police agencies with which the police currently share PNC
data. Work is already under way to ensure that there is a clear understanding of the
needs of all stake holders.
1.6 Applications from non police agencies to access nominal records on the PNC will
be considered by a Panel chaired by the ACPO lead for Recording and Disclosure
of Convictions.
Background
2.1 The Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 amended PACE, and removed the
French right wing politician um thats spinning it a little isn't it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen
"Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928, La Trinité-sur-Mer, France) is a French far-right nationalist politician, founder and president of the Front National (National Front) party."
"He has been charged with Holocaust denial several times, and has unsuccessfully sued some who had accused him of this."
right wing i would think gwb et al, This guys more reminiscent of the KKK I guess by your reckoning Stalin was a left leaning liberal...
Thats one viewpoint,
... step in and take up the slack.
however perhaps you might be motivated to make a better product. As a customer of yours or your competitors I get a better product from either of you. Why should the customer get shafted with a poor quality product made second rate by the patents your competitor holds limiting your product and your patents causing similar problems for your competitors.
Don't think either of you can hack it? then let competitor 3 or 4 or 5
If you truly can innovate are experts in your field then who's product will i buy the cutting edge or a pale imitation. Do we really want the pace of innovation slowed by a factor of around 20 ?
If they have taken anything from the survey responses they should realise that Open Source drivers were key requirements for Linux systems, more so than a particular distro.
This really means that hardware such as broadcom wireless cards are not going to be welcomed and an alternative card will need to be specified.
For Dells Desktop Linux range maybe they will make some form of liciencing deal so DVD MP3 multimedia is installed and available at first boot.
Finally what support are they going to offer, inhouse or subcontracted to redhat maybe?
Hopefully Each PC will have a designed for Linux and Open source sticker on it (and not just covering up the windows sticker).
If they really want to sell Linux systems I expect them to make a Linux product.
when you talk about the amount of linux installs doubling your not doubling a huge number so doubling is entirely possible. what may be more significant is the people who are converting are not average windows users, they are tending to be the people ordinary windows users turn to... I don't know about you but I positively enjoy solving issues with ubuntu, I am sick to death of windows malware and virus's.
Linux is fun for geeks windows is a chore. For ordinary users linux needs more work (or they do) maybe 3 or 4 years ordinary pc users will see ubuntu as a perfect solution for them, maybe sooner as their "windows support" takes longer and longer to respond to yet another request to fix thier windows pc
please it is obvious that Apple and the content owners want to sell content, sales which would be impacted by freely available divx. Sure you can convert formats but wouldnt you rather just buy media in a compatible format.
won't be long before compatable formats are also freely available - if the device sells well
Ubuntu is a good distro for Linux Newbies not Windows Newbies.
Being on the wong side of 40 I've been lucky enough to experience the microchip revolution, I had to learn Log tables and how to use a slide rule (although the calculator caught on fast and the digital watch with red LED display. I started with the sinclair ZX81 and 1K of RAM moving onwards and upwards over the years and it was fun.
with the introduction of the bbs and later the internet you could be engaged with a massive community of talent and make your own mark interesting times for sure.
Computing was a frontier and you could be out there exploring it. Today with a mature computer industry we have the mass market windows and wheres the fun in that, Windows isn't fun it's boring, theres no challenges it just works to an extent, sure there's virus problems malware problems to sort out but they are tedious failings of a badly designed os. Anything that is interesting is locked away closed source. Whats left ripping movies and music hardly challenging or interesting. Oh theres also the big brother aspect of reporting tools like WGA poking into our stuff, Windows really manages to suck away at the soul.
However there is Linux and that is interesting it is 95% open, 5% that isn't are the binary blobs that certain hardware manufacturers insist we use. The real annoyance with these blobs is we can't go there and thats why they are loathed so much. Linux is full of little challenges and some big ones too, take that Monitor problem 1440 by 900. in Xorg.conf all it took was the addition of 1440x900 in to a line of relatively square screen resolutions. Sure if there was a better hardware database and the guys doing Xorg want to they can ensure that this can be done automatically. It is not important to the majority of people who run Linux, If you want a good os that doesn't suck where it all just works choose OSX.
Linux has its rewards for people like me who like to be challenged, who enjoy developing skills that in windows are pointless, because you can't see the code in windows.
Ubuntu can be used at a desktop level by ordinary people but its not particularly for them now. It's for people with a genuine interest in getting under the hood.
First off it depends on getting hold of the right howto (The one in ubuntu community docs is pretty good so is the one by stephen parker).
However I wouldnt call it easy there are a few concepts that are not explained very well.
First is the PRE-install work which means getting your distro working with the right drivers and the TV-Card(s) working properly. For digital tv Kaffiene is essential and for analogue you can't go far wrong with xawtv.
Once you are able to watch TV on your box you can then start to work on Mythtv.
Critical is setting up mysql and the mythtv user configuration has to be by the mythtv user or you find problems with permissions later.
Biggest issue with most howto's is that they are easy to misread and just are not quite step by step.
multiple cards are not that easy either you need to learn about udev and identifying your cards with a symbolic link. with 2 or more cards which physical card gets assigned to which device is random at bootup.
God Knows how you get on with 2 physically identical cards and different sources.
Once it is setup thou your granny could use it.
system requirements are not too bad I setup the backend on an AMD Athlon 1.4ghz PC with 512 of Ram and it copes fine with a couple of frontends connected.
If you have the time and a system spare its a good little project and you learn a lot and it does work very well.
There fixed that for you
"Campbell was paid $125,736 a year as director.
Assistant Director Maureen O'Donnell, 42, will take over as acting director until a permanent replacement is named. She is paid $106,912."
See you can save money with windows
look at what your suggesting pretend somebody else wrote it and see how paranoid it seems? After all we have cable modems ethernet and dialup to report on windows users already.
All this is, is just another method of data transmission. Satellite (SKY) has been broadcasting data down to customers for years. A digital terrestial broadcast is no different, there isn't really that much difference between packets of video data, and data.
I believe upstream is provided by a phoneline. Interestingly and perhaps worthy of paranoia is what stops someone from recieving the packets meant for you? since it is a broadcast after all possibly millions will recieve data meant for you just most won't be able to decrypt it.
Bit torrent could become extremely fast if its possible to harvest all the blocks on the signal potentially you could be recieving up to the whole swarms packets. I wonder if its possible to listen only or would it be the digital equivilent of a paper shredder lots of meaningless bits.
It is possible to take in a raw mpeg-ts stream and record more than one channel at the same time.
Maybe it is a back handed reference to the Apple Newton/ 1523238
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/02
Isn't this system similar to the print on demand systems that were hyped a few years ago? anyone ever seen one of these machines in real life?
I guess DVD production is a simpler task but I can't imagine it will be successful.
I was quite interested in some comments about the registry.
:)
to be specific that the registry maintains records about other hard drives being connected to the computer
Hard drive serial numbers and such like.
It would have been interesting to see if other hard drives had been connected wouldnt be that unusual to have an external usb HD or a secondary HD.
Is anyone reading this familiar with this registry information and where it might be found.
It also seems windows maintains no record of past IP addresses so evidence of presence of a router or not is lost
after a reboot.
good read but I would like to know more about the hd history in the registry
any windows experts here
supported broadcom and linux in the same sentence thats an oxymoron for sure broadcom do not support Linux.
yes there are native drivers but I am pretty sure they are 100% reverse engineered.
They can't get go faster than B speed the poweroutput is also crippled (I think it only works in a fallback mode). the NDiswrapper version of the driver does work properly getting full power and 54g speeds.
If you want supported wireless nic's Ralink for example do have open source drivers.
A Linux certified Laptop should have OEM support for the hardware inside.
why should any person who wants to run Linux, support people like broadcom who will not supply Linux drivers when there are other companies who will happily supply Linux drivers for thier products.
It seems to me to be a kick in the teeth for hardware companies that support Linux when you go buy thier competitors products.
whats the difference between VMWare and Virtual PC ?
one is just a windows application.
That is why MS isn't going to win this one.
Did you know you can get a complete ready to use Mono development environment as a VM, works well hosted on ubuntu, or XP or...
Its actually configured on OpenSuse 10.2 but the underlying OS isn't too important what does matter is how quick you can go from downloading to using (missing out the configuration, resolve issue stage is a lot of time saved)
I really would like to see more like this for other development environments.
Thanks for the suggestion if I can get in the case I will see if it is purely a mechanical problem like you suggest.
would be nice if it was repairable.
http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads
also you can get it in a vm
heres the link to the torrent (1.3 gig) root mono pwd mono
http://svn.myrealbox.com/mono1.2.3_opensuse10.2_v
notes for the torrent
http://www.mono-project.com/VMWare_Image
interesting snipit from that page
"Will binaries from Windows work?
Yes, they will."
The Vmware image seems to be the most interesting download.
Having the development environment self contained and ready to play seems like a really good idea and of course all you need is the free vmware player.
I'd love to see more projects take this approach.