These people seem to crack it using Windows based soft-players using the X-Box USB attachment (USB connection is the unencrypted weak link). Perhaps the MPAA should leave the bloggers alone and look at what Microsoft is doing.
Microsoft is a cancer that attaches itself in an security sense to everything it touches...
"Silverlight will plug into Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Safari browsers, meaning the slimmed-down CLR will run on these platforms, as well."
When a browser became a platform I'm not sure, when they started handing out the Web 2.0 Kool-Aid I suppose. It doesn't mention Linux so I reckon they mean Firefox on Windows.
Open Source or no, they are still Microsoft, they announce something big *then* go program it in a half-baked way, then hope to fix it with service packs and hot fixes.
Let's be a bit creative, the best I could do was hum it to "everybody needs somebody" by the Blues Brothers. Someone make a song, a poem, a web comic, a youtube video of it shaved into cattle.
>Slashdot's readership tends to mod up posts they agree with and mod down those they don't, regardless of whether the posts actually further the discussion on the topic.
Well sometimes, especially when there is no real news happening, the discussions on gun control or whatever are often more interesting than TFA.
>Of course the editors can manipulate that to ensure that the site stays on topic
I hope not, that is a very colonial view of what the topic is.
Sorry that is the best I could do, the doing favours for cmdrtaco jokes have been done already.
But seriously, I prefer not having to digg stories, meta-moderating once a week or two is about as much time as I can spend on this at the moment. So hopefully Slashdot will not go too far down the American Idol route, I just want some Linux news and some bad jokes from the users.
>They'll never make a GNU/Linux version of the iPlayer. Never ever ever.
Well they have bet the farm on DRM so I doubt it would. We need a new DVD Jon to make a third party player for it. After all, I have paid for the content already.
So our "intelligence" services specifically gave some Libyan a Visa to come to Britain and hopefully be recruited, and he instead set up a terrorist network, what a load of monkeys. Then they tell a US ISP to help cover up the truth that they were actually making Britain less safe. A bunch of public schoolboy hooray henries, sack the lot of them I say, out source it to India.
So the British "intelligence" services, the same ones that said Saddam Hussein had huge stockpiles of WMD that could strike the UK in 45 minutes, can get a website turned off it America? The ISP just weasely pulls the plug without negotiation just because some guy with a British accent rings up?
Come on America, we all used to look up to you as the beacon of freedom, but now your country is being turned into a Tudor monarchy, within a few years there will be no freedom left, will the last one out please turn off the lights when you leave.
So you have bought a small BIOS, adding to the cost and reflashed it. Now you also need to get Marvell to provide a driver for the Mesh wireless chip on Windows too, then get that signed by Microsoft, then make sure the trendy new screen works, then you have to get Windows and the Applications within the 1GB flash drive, then you have to sort the keymap out, because it has its own custom layout.
Why would you even bother? If you want a Dell then buy a Dell.
Until last year I had 64MB and 200MHz Pentium I, however I used the command line and Emacs/Lynx/Mutt/Mplayer/Python etc which are all written in C and optimised for that, I was also running Gentoo (compiled by a bigger machine over the network) to squeeze out all the unneeded compile options etc.
The OLPC are using GTK+ and want to be able to run a Mozilla based browser and Java and so on and have a high quality, child-focused, graphical experience, so 128MB is a minimum really, plus there is no graphics chip so you will need a certain extra amount to draw X etc. My new Macbook has a similar setup and does not take more than 80MB, at least on Linux.
Now the system has 256MB of Ram and a slightly better processor, so yes it could now run Windows in theory. However as they always say, this is an educational project not a laptop project, and they are of course going to go with the stunning Sugar interface.
The dollar has fallen in value quite a lot, next month we'll no doubt see $250 OLPC if it keeps slipping.
"The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology and mobile services, today announced it has received a Nasdaq Staff Deficiency Letter "
What is the definition of mobile services here? I'm sure Nokia or Vodafone called be called leading in their markets, as for UNIX, the only company with any hope of success with proprietary UNIX were Sun and Oops they open-sourced it. AIX is still big but IBM are certainly backing the Linux horse as their primary Posix platform. HP-UX hasn't done anything new in a long time, with HP going for Linux too. So maybe there are the "leading provider of UNIX®", even if they only have a couple of customers.
Sure, I would not hang up the Xbox, but spin it out, look how well IBM have done, Printers became Lexmark, Laptops became Lenovo and so on. Applications is what Microsoft were good at and they need to get back to it and get on with them, making them faster, simpler and more collaborative, and sell them to anyone who will buy them including Mac, Linux, Symbian, embedded, mobile phones etc, if they don't then in 5-10 years they will find Adobe and Google will have redefined how to be productive and will have pulled the rug out under them.
Counting Coupons according to when they are redeemed is a way to spread out the data. It's a big game, no one outside of Microsoft really knows the real numbers, otherwise the shareholders would demand serious restructuring (kill Xbox, Zune, become MS Office company, return cash pile to shareholders, produce more Mac software etc).
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All credit to the song, its quite good actually, I am gonna set it as my ringtone I think.
Who'd have thought, they would use all that Web 2.0 wisdom of the crowds stuff to hide the fact they censor everything.
kdawson, and the old Taco himself, we salute you.
>But by all means huge props in being able to make ANY topic an attack on Microsoft.
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Cheers, it was my feeble attempt at humour
Well I do not have a car and my butt is not that wide.
Some guy made the poem already http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/94717.html#id947 44
These people seem to crack it using Windows based soft-players using the X-Box USB attachment (USB connection is the unencrypted weak link). Perhaps the MPAA should leave the bloggers alone and look at what Microsoft is doing.
Microsoft is a cancer that attaches itself in an security sense to everything it touches...
"Silverlight will plug into Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Safari browsers, meaning the slimmed-down CLR will run on these platforms, as well."
When a browser became a platform I'm not sure, when they started handing out the Web 2.0 Kool-Aid I suppose. It doesn't mention Linux so I reckon they mean Firefox on Windows.
Nothing because Microsoft will mess it up.
Open Source or no, they are still Microsoft, they announce something big *then* go program it in a half-baked way, then hope to fix it with service packs and hot fixes.
Who cares, you can run Python on both!
Let's be a bit creative, the best I could do was hum it to "everybody needs somebody" by the Blues Brothers. Someone make a song, a poem, a web comic, a youtube video of it shaved into cattle.
Someone set one up, in a shop that ships world wide preferably.
>Slashdot's readership tends to mod up posts they agree with and mod down those they don't, regardless of whether the posts actually further the discussion on the topic.
Well sometimes, especially when there is no real news happening, the discussions on gun control or whatever are often more interesting than TFA.
>Of course the editors can manipulate that to ensure that the site stays on topic
I hope not, that is a very colonial view of what the topic is.
Sorry that is the best I could do, the doing favours for cmdrtaco jokes have been done already.
But seriously, I prefer not having to digg stories, meta-moderating once a week or two is about as much time as I can spend on this at the moment. So hopefully Slashdot will not go too far down the American Idol route, I just want some Linux news and some bad jokes from the users.
>They'll never make a GNU/Linux version of the iPlayer. Never ever ever.
Well they have bet the farm on DRM so I doubt it would. We need a new DVD Jon to make a third party player for it. After all, I have paid for the content already.
Not reasonable at all, do I get cash back until they make Linux work?
So our "intelligence" services specifically gave some Libyan a Visa to come to Britain and hopefully be recruited, and he instead set up a terrorist network, what a load of monkeys. Then they tell a US ISP to help cover up the truth that they were actually making Britain less safe. A bunch of public schoolboy hooray henries, sack the lot of them I say, out source it to India.
So the British "intelligence" services, the same ones that said Saddam Hussein had huge stockpiles of WMD that could strike the UK in 45 minutes, can get a website turned off it America? The ISP just weasely pulls the plug without negotiation just because some guy with a British accent rings up?
Come on America, we all used to look up to you as the beacon of freedom, but now your country is being turned into a Tudor monarchy, within a few years there will be no freedom left, will the last one out please turn off the lights when you leave.
So you have bought a small BIOS, adding to the cost and reflashed it. Now you also need to get Marvell to provide a driver for the Mesh wireless chip on Windows too, then get that signed by Microsoft, then make sure the trendy new screen works, then you have to get Windows and the Applications within the 1GB flash drive, then you have to sort the keymap out, because it has its own custom layout.
Why would you even bother? If you want a Dell then buy a Dell.
>[e.g. 3rd world nations] will start shipping with Windows instead of their OSS tools.
Well since the laptop is built with a custom OpenFirmware and a LinuxBios (kernel on the firmware), how are they going to boot Windows exactly?
Until last year I had 64MB and 200MHz Pentium I, however I used the command line and Emacs/Lynx/Mutt/Mplayer/Python etc which are all written in C and optimised for that, I was also running Gentoo (compiled by a bigger machine over the network) to squeeze out all the unneeded compile options etc.
The OLPC are using GTK+ and want to be able to run a Mozilla based browser and Java and so on and have a high quality, child-focused, graphical experience, so 128MB is a minimum really, plus there is no graphics chip so you will need a certain extra amount to draw X etc. My new Macbook has a similar setup and does not take more than 80MB, at least on Linux.
I'm sure Nokia or Vodafone *could* be called leading in their markets,
Sorry, still eating breakfast, no caffeine yet.
Now the system has 256MB of Ram and a slightly better processor, so yes it could now run Windows in theory. However as they always say, this is an educational project not a laptop project, and they are of course going to go with the stunning Sugar interface.
The dollar has fallen in value quite a lot, next month we'll no doubt see $250 OLPC if it keeps slipping.
"The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology and mobile services, today announced it has received a Nasdaq Staff Deficiency Letter "
What is the definition of mobile services here? I'm sure Nokia or Vodafone called be called leading in their markets, as for UNIX, the only company with any hope of success with proprietary UNIX were Sun and Oops they open-sourced it. AIX is still big but IBM are certainly backing the Linux horse as their primary Posix platform. HP-UX hasn't done anything new in a long time, with HP going for Linux too. So maybe there are the "leading provider of UNIX®", even if they only have a couple of customers.
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. Proprietary Unix will be dead by Christmas. Linux forever.
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Sure, I would not hang up the Xbox, but spin it out, look how well IBM have done, Printers became Lexmark, Laptops became Lenovo and so on. Applications is what Microsoft were good at and they need to get back to it and get on with them, making them faster, simpler and more collaborative, and sell them to anyone who will buy them including Mac, Linux, Symbian, embedded, mobile phones etc, if they don't then in 5-10 years they will find Adobe and Google will have redefined how to be productive and will have pulled the rug out under them.
Counting Coupons according to when they are redeemed is a way to spread out the data. It's a big game, no one outside of Microsoft really knows the real numbers, otherwise the shareholders would demand serious restructuring (kill Xbox, Zune, become MS Office company, return cash pile to shareholders, produce more Mac software etc).