The article poster might want to refer to this page on computer repair, which covers the OEM license. Generally, Microsoft will not require a new OS license for a motherboard replacement that is truly a replacement (i.e., same OEM/model). If you're trying to replace the box with a non-OEM motherboard, you're hosed, because this is not in compliance with the OEM license agreement, which is different from the retail EULA.
If you're replacing with the same/equivalent OEM motherboard, then just state immediately that the repair/upgrade was made in compliance with the OEM EULA right away, as this will save you a lot of time and hassle.
Does anyone know how much of the PS3's hardware is actually supported? When you run Linux on Cell, is it actually using all of the Cell cores, or is it just using the main (PPC-like) one?
Cell as implemented in the PS3 has 8 cells. One is disabled (probably due to poor yields when demanding that all 8 be working.) In Linux, one is devoted to kernel tasks. That leaves you with six Cell SPEs to work with besides the PPC PPE.
You didn't answer the parent's question completely, I think. Which cell is the kernel using (I'm assuming the PPC PPE), and more importantly, does the PS3 support in the Linux kernel enable access to the Six Cell SPEs in anyway, or are you basically on your own.
3d brings us to the other point, which is that Linux runs in the PS3 "hypervisor" environment and you do not have unfettered access to the video hardware. I don't know precisely what you're not allowed to do that you can do in the commercial environment though; I've never seen a complete description of that.
Seems like that defeats the whole purpose doesn't it? PS3 is all about the 3D graphics.
Am I really the only one having a fantasy about living in a cold (Not humid) and dark server room with only a 14" screen, an old Keytronic Cherry keyboard, unlimited supplies of coca-cola, insane bandwidth and hundreds of servers at my rootly disposal through ssh?
If this suceeds, I think we basically win the internet freedom war against the telcoms and cable companies- it'll be a long time before they can do any more damage.
Maybe. I guess it depends on how loosely worded the bill ends up being and how many loopholes get thrown in by senators catering to special interests (read: corporate campaign sponsors). This sort of pandering to special interests isn't a Republican thing and it isn't a Democrat thing either -- it's a politician thing.
That's why the parent said "in compiled form." Red Hat isn't publishing the IP address list it has collected, it is compiling the number of unique IP addresses seeking FC6 upgrades and using that number as a statistic.
This is no more 'evil' than the management of Dolphin Stadium in Miami counting the number of people who pass through the turnstiles and publishing that number to show how many people came to Miami to watch the Super Bowl.
f you don't have the time and the resources to fully support what you put on the internet, don't do it, or plan on a huge legal bill. You will be sued for negligence. You will lose your job. You're obligated to support what you put on the internet, whether or not the GPL says "no warranty".
Obligated by whom? If Linus and his band of merry kernel hackers got together and said "Ok, we've all had enough of Linux. Time to move on!", except to fulfill 3rd-party contractural obligations (i.e., Linus works for OSDL, Alan Cox for Red Hat, etc.), what would prevent them from doing so? Nothing!
You use software that you didn't pay for, in terms of support you deserve exactly what you paid for. If the authors happen to be kind enough to return your e-mails instead of snickering 'RTFM', that great, but a FOSS author is under no obligation to support anything. If he wants his project to succeed, he will have to support what he's written for at least some time, but nobody's gonna put his feet to the coals for dropping support for a project he no longer has time for.
None, because it ruins the entire point of maps if you turn them into nothing but billboards.
Does it, though? I could see, for instance, fast food chains getting in on the action. Imagine, if you will, if all of the KFCs got together and on the roof of each of the KFC restauraunts is a huge image of Colonel Sanders at the time Google is doing the fly-by photos. You'd know right where get your Original Recipe(tm) Bucket of Chicken without even searching!
Isn't a movie trailer advertising for a currently-showing or (more usually) upcoming movie? Just because movie previews are helpful and/or content that you might want to see doesn't make them not commercials.
Yes and no. H.264 isn't 'MPEG-4' it's MPEG-4 AVC. MPEG-4 is just a name the covers many, many codecs. H.264 is just one such codec. Even so, Qualcomm isn't th only patent holder, by far, of H.264/AVC, so the article title is misleading. From MPEG-LA, which is the primary provider of licenses for H.264 (and lots of other MPEG standards): MPEG LA's AVC Patent Portfolio License currently includes patents owned by DAEWOO Electronics Corporation; Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute; France Télécom, société anonyme; Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.; Fujitsu Limited; Hitachi, Ltd.; Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; LG Electronics Inc.; LSI Logic Corporation; Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; Robert Bosch GmbH; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Sedna Patent Services, LLC; Sharp Corporation; Siemens AG; Sony Corporation; The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; Toshiba Corporation; UB Video Inc.; and Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. MPEG LA's goal is to provide worldwide access to as much AVC essential intellectual property as possible; new Licensors and essential patents may be added at no additional royalty during the current term. Interestingly enough, I don't even see Qualcomm in list. Considering that Qualcomm is the patent holder for CDMA and related technologies, I'm guessing that Qualcomm doesn't even have any patents in the MPEG LA pool, but instead has patented particular implementations of H.264 for use in mobile phone applications.
s/IE/IE or Outlook/ and I would mostly agree with you, but not completely. Plenty of other software people install themselves from the Web either includes spyware or is spyware itself. Remember Bonzi Buddy? What illiterate mom/little sister/etc. could resist the cute purple monkey?
More recently, there have been programs claiming to spyware removers that are spyware themselves!
And at that point, virtualization kits will become commonplace that run Windows in a sandbox so that Windows thinks it's in a Palladium environment, but where it's really not.
But will these virtualization kits have the TCPM-enabled BIOS? What about open source virtualization kits? IIRC, Mac OS X can run in a virtualized environment only once the checks for the hardware DRM are removed by a hack. It seems like there would be copyright or patent issues that would prevent a FOSS virtualization kit from running Windows in a Palladium environment.
Around here people put in ads for 'Bridgeport Operator' when they mean they want someone who can operate a manual lathe like the Bridgeport. Otherwise, the ads are for 'NC Machinist' or 'CNC Machinist', when they are looking for an operator skilled with a computer-operated mill.
You, uh, also have to know how to operate a bridgeport upright mill.
Last I checked, bridgeport operating was a specialized skill that actually pays pretty well in my area (Metro Detroit) because it requires some training and experience to actually know what you're doing.
And if it's not an it uses a registered or otherwise restricted key blank, like, say, a mailbox or P.O. Box key, then bumping is next to impossible because you simply can't get a blank without permission.
Isn't this almost a step backwards? I mean, if you ask me, command line was always simpler and faster for me, but too many people were confused by "all that weird stuff you have to type."
So in came the GUIs and icons.
Now we're coming full circle and replacing GUIs and icons with command line again?
Right. Anyone who's had training or coursework in group dynamics (like me), can tell you that this is a form of groupthink. It's actually not unlike the Nazis in Germany or similar acts conducted at Andersonville during the American Civil War. And of course, when called on it, everyone was just following orders. But, the basic tendancy in the HP spying situation and these other two examples are essentially the same type of groupthink.
Psychologists actually deem this to be a disorder and have other names for it like 'collective behavior disorder'.
It's the whole classic problem of the fact that with these discs, you basically have to include the encryption key on the disc. So the licensed player has to know where to find it. At some point, it has to be in memory to decrypt the disc. So, since you have both the encrypted data and the key used to decrypt it, you can have at the unencrypted data all you want.
No matter how you slice it, all DRM can be cracked because the user's computer, at some point, has the encryption key in memory. That is, until Trusted Computing is made mandatory and getting at the keys in memory will be impossible because the 'Trusted Computing' stuff won't let you at it.:)
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You're right.
The article poster might want to refer to this page on computer repair, which covers the OEM license. Generally, Microsoft will not require a new OS license for a motherboard replacement that is truly a replacement (i.e., same OEM/model). If you're trying to replace the box with a non-OEM motherboard, you're hosed, because this is not in compliance with the OEM license agreement, which is different from the retail EULA.
If you're replacing with the same/equivalent OEM motherboard, then just state immediately that the repair/upgrade was made in compliance with the OEM EULA right away, as this will save you a lot of time and hassle.
Cell as implemented in the PS3 has 8 cells. One is disabled (probably due to poor yields when demanding that all 8 be working.) In Linux, one is devoted to kernel tasks. That leaves you with six Cell SPEs to work with besides the PPC PPE.
You didn't answer the parent's question completely, I think. Which cell is the kernel using (I'm assuming the PPC PPE), and more importantly, does the PS3 support in the Linux kernel enable access to the Six Cell SPEs in anyway, or are you basically on your own.3d brings us to the other point, which is that Linux runs in the PS3 "hypervisor" environment and you do not have unfettered access to the video hardware. I don't know precisely what you're not allowed to do that you can do in the commercial environment though; I've never seen a complete description of that.
Seems like that defeats the whole purpose doesn't it? PS3 is all about the 3D graphics.That's why the parent said "in compiled form." Red Hat isn't publishing the IP address list it has collected, it is compiling the number of unique IP addresses seeking FC6 upgrades and using that number as a statistic.
This is no more 'evil' than the management of Dolphin Stadium in Miami counting the number of people who pass through the turnstiles and publishing that number to show how many people came to Miami to watch the Super Bowl.
Really? They don't work?
Have you been successful in getting it to work? Because I was about to try that app as soon as I had the chance...
You use software that you didn't pay for, in terms of support you deserve exactly what you paid for. If the authors happen to be kind enough to return your e-mails instead of snickering 'RTFM', that great, but a FOSS author is under no obligation to support anything. If he wants his project to succeed, he will have to support what he's written for at least some time, but nobody's gonna put his feet to the coals for dropping support for a project he no longer has time for.
By mid-year, my pre-production lab will have 150TB. Our production datacenter, just for PLM alone, has something like half a petabyte.
Yes and no. H.264 isn't 'MPEG-4' it's MPEG-4 AVC. MPEG-4 is just a name the covers many, many codecs. H.264 is just one such codec. Even so, Qualcomm isn't th only patent holder, by far, of H.264/AVC, so the article title is misleading. From MPEG-LA, which is the primary provider of licenses for H.264 (and lots of other MPEG standards): MPEG LA's AVC Patent Portfolio License currently includes patents owned by DAEWOO Electronics Corporation; Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute; France Télécom, société anonyme; Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.; Fujitsu Limited; Hitachi, Ltd.; Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; LG Electronics Inc.; LSI Logic Corporation; Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; Robert Bosch GmbH; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Sedna Patent Services, LLC; Sharp Corporation; Siemens AG; Sony Corporation; The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; Toshiba Corporation; UB Video Inc.; and Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. MPEG LA's goal is to provide worldwide access to as much AVC essential intellectual property as possible; new Licensors and essential patents may be added at no additional royalty during the current term. Interestingly enough, I don't even see Qualcomm in list. Considering that Qualcomm is the patent holder for CDMA and related technologies, I'm guessing that Qualcomm doesn't even have any patents in the MPEG LA pool, but instead has patented particular implementations of H.264 for use in mobile phone applications.
s/IE/IE or Outlook/ and I would mostly agree with you, but not completely. Plenty of other software people install themselves from the Web either includes spyware or is spyware itself. Remember Bonzi Buddy? What illiterate mom/little sister/etc. could resist the cute purple monkey?
More recently, there have been programs claiming to spyware removers that are spyware themselves!
ndiswrapper will do the job, and works just fine with centrino (2100) chipsets.
Around here people put in ads for 'Bridgeport Operator' when they mean they want someone who can operate a manual lathe like the Bridgeport. Otherwise, the ads are for 'NC Machinist' or 'CNC Machinist', when they are looking for an operator skilled with a computer-operated mill.
You, uh, also have to know how to operate a bridgeport upright mill.
Last I checked, bridgeport operating was a specialized skill that actually pays pretty well in my area (Metro Detroit) because it requires some training and experience to actually know what you're doing.
And if it's not an it uses a registered or otherwise restricted key blank, like, say, a mailbox or P.O. Box key, then bumping is next to impossible because you simply can't get a blank without permission.
Nope! I did it from the Cyber Cafe next door to my house. How cool am I?
Isn't this almost a step backwards? I mean, if you ask me, command line was always simpler and faster for me, but too many people were confused by "all that weird stuff you have to type."
So in came the GUIs and icons.
Now we're coming full circle and replacing GUIs and icons with command line again?
Relax. It's all just a part of the New World Order(tm). Nothing to see here. Move along.
*gasp* *shock* You mean Dell doesn't actually make their own printers?
Next thing you're going to tell me is that Dell doesn't actually make it's own processors or hard drives!
What?
Oy vey! What a ham!
Right. Anyone who's had training or coursework in group dynamics (like me), can tell you that this is a form of groupthink. It's actually not unlike the Nazis in Germany or similar acts conducted at Andersonville during the American Civil War. And of course, when called on it, everyone was just following orders. But, the basic tendancy in the HP spying situation and these other two examples are essentially the same type of groupthink.
Psychologists actually deem this to be a disorder and have other names for it like 'collective behavior disorder'.
It's the whole classic problem of the fact that with these discs, you basically have to include the encryption key on the disc. So the licensed player has to know where to find it. At some point, it has to be in memory to decrypt the disc. So, since you have both the encrypted data and the key used to decrypt it, you can have at the unencrypted data all you want.
:)
No matter how you slice it, all DRM can be cracked because the user's computer, at some point, has the encryption key in memory. That is, until Trusted Computing is made mandatory and getting at the keys in memory will be impossible because the 'Trusted Computing' stuff won't let you at it.