And then the virus writers realise it is so much harder to even write a user-level virus that can do anything in a Unix environment, so they say "fuck it" and move back to pwning Windows boxen.
Well, it would lighten the load on tracking library dependencies, that's for sure. It seems that one of the easy ways of figuring it out is trying to compile the package in question in a chrooted environment and resolving missing libraries as you find them, but that's also a shit shoot if you're looking for its optional libraries without futzing around with the source code.
Whether or not you agree with pirates (who sell the copyrighted material) or simple copyright infringers (who upload it gratis), these media industries need to compete with them in order to survive. If they were to provide services like allofmp3 where the media is unrestricted (because you trust your customers; you can always sue those who pirate later on) and at a competitive price, people would flock to that service. If you can't compete via price with the freebie pirates, then compete via value of what you're selling. Offering a clean interface, unrestricted and high quality media for an acceptable price will surely appear to be the better deal to most consumers.
Kudos if they keep this up. China seems to make sense as a place to start since they already get a lot of their media via pirated means anyhow.
And for those of you who aren't afraid of a little bit of command line stuff:
Edit your/etc/atp/sources.list file by replacing all occurrences of "breezy" with "dapper". Save, then run "sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade".
Oh come on, you're obviously a long-time Slashdot user. You should know that to get modded up, you need to reply to the first thread that has already been modded up (the "active" or "main" thread in any article's comments). I'm sure plenty of people (including myself) can admit posting in the first thread just to get some attention drawn to your post.
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If you didn't already know, Mozart made a great living being a composer. Many of his works were also derivative works, and with modern copyright, he'd be considered a criminal. Facts are important.
Well, on-line DRM'd music is a profitable market, and including WMP would promote their PlaysForSure DRM (which must be licensed for a fee of course). Other alternatives exist of course with Apple's iTunes Music Store being a primary vendor for competition.
You're assuming he was referring to Gaim, Firefox, and Lame, although he probably was speaking of Lame at least. Konqueror is up there in the outstanding web browsers list just to name one. Opera may be very good, but the "best" is completely subjective.
So how do us Comcast users with our puny 2 GB/month from their outsourced to GigaNews get decent alt.binaries connections? We'd still end up subscribing to something like EasyNews, but that seems like it defeats the benefits of using only the ISP's internal backbone to get stuff.
I know that "bandwidth isn't free", but would you please enlighten us as to how and why your company and others oversell their bandwidth? Why you are traffic shaping? What do you offer as a deal for non-traffic shaping? Is that deal even reasonable? Has your company considered laying down new fibre (or better yet, lighting up dark fibre) as a way to increase the overall bandwidth, get more customers, and lessen the need for traffic shaping?
All I'm asking is for you to try and explain to us non-ISP chaps what you ISPs are up to.
I'm guessing the difference is between using something compiled for i686 and the same thing compiled for pentium4 (up to SSE2). As far as I recall, SSE2 was a very large update of assembler instructions, and knowing the folks at GCC, they've figured out how to use most if not all of them efficiently by now. Some things (I don't know what specifically) would definitely increase in performance, but other things won't. Maybe compiling with -O3 instead of the typical -O2 will give you that extra microsecond of performance as well?
Autopackage probably isn't so widely used because there already exists two major (and relatively simple to use) packaging formats (rpm and deb). When you go past those two packaging formats, there exists a bunch of methods to packaging source code (usually known as "ports" to BSD and Gentoo users), but the packaging of binaries with any sort of external library dependency tracking is usually done in rpm and/or deb. Of course, you could simpley tar.gz/bz2 the binary files and allow the user to extract that wherever they please (e.g. in/opt), but it's generally best to package the binaries in those two major package formats.
Also, just to dig on Windows a bit, DLL Hell (or whatever it would be called in Linux; maybe SO Messy or something) doesn't exist in Linux et al. because of the sharing of libraries. If incompatibilities are an issue, the binary package and/or the configure script (or autoconf) will usually detect that issue before attempting to compile/install the software.
Maybe they were going for an audio server in that configuration? Can't ALSA work over a network analogous to X11's network neutrality? I mean, the first A in ALSA stands for "Advanced", so that's something I'd expect of it.
Debian doesn't really move slow at all; the only perceived slowness is in the stable distribution. If you keep up to date with unstable (which will literally always have something to update for you every day), you'd notice that they keep up to date with the majority of its software. For instance, KOffice 1.5 just came out, and it's available in Debian Sid (unstable) and thusly also available in Ubuntu Dapper (they keep their developmental releases in sync with Sid until a release-freeze starts every six months).
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Is libpr0n in there somewhere? I know that Firefox and co. use it.
And then the virus writers realise it is so much harder to even write a user-level virus that can do anything in a Unix environment, so they say "fuck it" and move back to pwning Windows boxen.
Well, it would lighten the load on tracking library dependencies, that's for sure. It seems that one of the easy ways of figuring it out is trying to compile the package in question in a chrooted environment and resolving missing libraries as you find them, but that's also a shit shoot if you're looking for its optional libraries without futzing around with the source code.
Whether or not you agree with pirates (who sell the copyrighted material) or simple copyright infringers (who upload it gratis), these media industries need to compete with them in order to survive. If they were to provide services like allofmp3 where the media is unrestricted (because you trust your customers; you can always sue those who pirate later on) and at a competitive price, people would flock to that service. If you can't compete via price with the freebie pirates, then compete via value of what you're selling. Offering a clean interface, unrestricted and high quality media for an acceptable price will surely appear to be the better deal to most consumers.
Kudos if they keep this up. China seems to make sense as a place to start since they already get a lot of their media via pirated means anyhow.
And for those of you who aren't afraid of a little bit of command line stuff:
/etc/atp/sources.list file by replacing all occurrences of "breezy" with "dapper". Save, then run "sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade".
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Damn kids and your GUIs...
Dude, you forgot about random bursts of posts by ScuttleMonkey.
Oh come on, you're obviously a long-time Slashdot user. You should know that to get modded up, you need to reply to the first thread that has already been modded up (the "active" or "main" thread in any article's comments). I'm sure plenty of people (including myself) can admit posting in the first thread just to get some attention drawn to your post.
If you didn't already know, Mozart made a great living being a composer. Many of his works were also derivative works, and with modern copyright, he'd be considered a criminal. Facts are important.
Well, on-line DRM'd music is a profitable market, and including WMP would promote their PlaysForSure DRM (which must be licensed for a fee of course). Other alternatives exist of course with Apple's iTunes Music Store being a primary vendor for competition.
But I use Debian! I can't be bothered to configure my USE flags and whatnot. I only compile software I'm helping develop. :P
So, Ignorance is Strength then? Yay for 1984!
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Good job reading that EULA! Everything but the preamble can be modified under the GPL terms.
With proper attribution and other actions required by the GNU Free Document License, it ain't plagiarism! How fun.
Which is why people like Sirius or iPods: commercial free. Hey, there's a concept that works! No ads + pay for content = happy customers + profit.
You're assuming he was referring to Gaim, Firefox, and Lame, although he probably was speaking of Lame at least. Konqueror is up there in the outstanding web browsers list just to name one. Opera may be very good, but the "best" is completely subjective.
Yeah, after manually running ./configure --prefix=/opt/pwn3d && make && sudo make install, the virus will run quite well.
So how do us Comcast users with our puny 2 GB/month from their outsourced to GigaNews get decent alt.binaries connections? We'd still end up subscribing to something like EasyNews, but that seems like it defeats the benefits of using only the ISP's internal backbone to get stuff.
I know that "bandwidth isn't free", but would you please enlighten us as to how and why your company and others oversell their bandwidth? Why you are traffic shaping? What do you offer as a deal for non-traffic shaping? Is that deal even reasonable? Has your company considered laying down new fibre (or better yet, lighting up dark fibre) as a way to increase the overall bandwidth, get more customers, and lessen the need for traffic shaping?
All I'm asking is for you to try and explain to us non-ISP chaps what you ISPs are up to.
Dude, I think you ssh'd into my machine and read that out of my log files! :(
I'm guessing the difference is between using something compiled for i686 and the same thing compiled for pentium4 (up to SSE2). As far as I recall, SSE2 was a very large update of assembler instructions, and knowing the folks at GCC, they've figured out how to use most if not all of them efficiently by now. Some things (I don't know what specifically) would definitely increase in performance, but other things won't. Maybe compiling with -O3 instead of the typical -O2 will give you that extra microsecond of performance as well?
Autopackage probably isn't so widely used because there already exists two major (and relatively simple to use) packaging formats (rpm and deb). When you go past those two packaging formats, there exists a bunch of methods to packaging source code (usually known as "ports" to BSD and Gentoo users), but the packaging of binaries with any sort of external library dependency tracking is usually done in rpm and/or deb. Of course, you could simpley tar.gz/bz2 the binary files and allow the user to extract that wherever they please (e.g. in /opt), but it's generally best to package the binaries in those two major package formats.
Also, just to dig on Windows a bit, DLL Hell (or whatever it would be called in Linux; maybe SO Messy or something) doesn't exist in Linux et al. because of the sharing of libraries. If incompatibilities are an issue, the binary package and/or the configure script (or autoconf) will usually detect that issue before attempting to compile/install the software.
Maybe they were going for an audio server in that configuration? Can't ALSA work over a network analogous to X11's network neutrality? I mean, the first A in ALSA stands for "Advanced", so that's something I'd expect of it.
Debian doesn't really move slow at all; the only perceived slowness is in the stable distribution. If you keep up to date with unstable (which will literally always have something to update for you every day), you'd notice that they keep up to date with the majority of its software. For instance, KOffice 1.5 just came out, and it's available in Debian Sid (unstable) and thusly also available in Ubuntu Dapper (they keep their developmental releases in sync with Sid until a release-freeze starts every six months).
The main Creative Commons Licenses (by, sa, and/or nc) are the closest we'll ever get to "open source media" for a long time, but it does exist.