I'm not sure about this, but as little as it makes sense, my guess is that the Finnish police somehow interprets Wikipedia's donation drive as being organised on Finnish soil although the legal entity is in California. Which sort of is the case, assuming that the copy for the donation banner is translated and/or the markup for the banner is included to codebase of the Finnish Wikipedia version by volunteers physically located in Finland.
This is the kind of knee-jerk bureaucracy we have to deal with in this country.
ZFS with snapshotting and stuff is usable in any file system.. even root ones. True, ZFS is a memory hog, but man, imagine a root file system where you could have file system provided revision control for *every* file...
An apt-based system with some of the modifications and default configurations Debian provides is in lots of situations just that much simpler to maintain than a BSD userland. It's way easy to use a rolling release in a Debian environment or upgrade between stable releases with a couple of commands.
More out-of-ass talking. I didn't notice that this post was in place already, with an explanation the f5 boxes' relationship with Linux. (Whatever Linux is in them faces only the management interface)
I know nothing about tcp/ip stacks, but it's interesting that netcraft's monitoring service claims to be able to separate generic linux machines from f5 ones, in my experience they don't recognize that many specialized OS'es (I've developed have some sort obsession with netcrafting sites I visit). Netapp and f5 are among the only special OSes i've seen detected properly on netcraft.
You're right... but then the court either smokes too much crack, is populated by demented baby boomers, disagrees with the law or all of the above (if I understand Valimaki's post correctly).
The Court of Appeal said that the circumvention program (authored by the defendants) made the copying of copyrighted content possible in addition to simply watching. We threw a literary counter-argument that the defendants' program only did break the encryption and make watching DVD's possible. The program wasn't suitable for copying content. We have some paperback proof of this, not in any occasion did we claim otherwise. The Court of Appeal still insisted that the CSS system itself was originally designed to prevent copying and therefore any tampering with the encryption whatsoever - so decrypting the DVD for the purpose of watching is illegal.
Netcraft thinks it's an F5 BIG-IP device, which probably means that they've got a big, fancy load balancer. If my memory doesn't fail me, F5's appliance OS is BSD based.
I've been setting up a few of these at work (small business and non profit environments where people actually use the oem shipped OS).
Vista itself is only a part of the problem, but these machines are actually quite horrible to use even after doubling the RAM from 1 to 2 gigs. Yes, I said a few awful things to the person who ordered them with 1 gig.
The "WOW" is partially caused by the fact the OEM installs are loaded with really bad crapware, and you only get to burn recovery dvd images containing not only all the crapware, but also the settings and users you created during the unboxing process. That's HP's fault of course, but does that affect stuff like updates taking forever to reboot-install? Dunno.
I had an all too similar experience with mid-range 2 gig RAM Acer laptops, too. Crapware, slow explorer navigation, and ridiculous update installer performance.
Hah, i also remember turning aero glass back on on both machine types, not having hardware accelerated video made just moving windows around the desktop consume ridiculous amounts of cpu. Microsoft-independent driver issues, I presume. The HPs had intel chipsets, the Acer ones had ATI. The hp machines seemed like nice units for portable laptop use, though, and they ran vanilla ubuntu live cds perfectly. Too bad they weren't mine.
...unless, of course you have 3 gigs of ram or more. With enough RAM Vista could be a nice security bonus compared to earlier NT versions, but personally I think the GUI changes stink.
sooner or later, probably some time from now it might make sense for Debian to focus at releasing their testing branch as a continuous distro like Gentoo or Arch, and focusing at giving it community support and timely security patches insead of using it at something developing toards a stable release. It seems like Debian stable has far too many users many users for server stuff for this to sound realistic now, but maybe after the next Ubuntu LTS release, Debian's lack of scheduled releases (released when ready, patch support for oldstable for [how long was it again?]) could make it hard to compete with release cycles like the one of Ubuntu LTS, and its regular, 18 month supported releases has. But decreased interest in Debian stable is probably depending on improved quality of other distros.
Does this theory make sense at all or will people keep using debian stable?
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I'm not sure about this, but as little as it makes sense, my guess is that the Finnish police somehow interprets Wikipedia's donation drive as being organised on Finnish soil although the legal entity is in California. Which sort of is the case, assuming that the copy for the donation banner is translated and/or the markup for the banner is included to codebase of the Finnish Wikipedia version by volunteers physically located in Finland.
This is the kind of knee-jerk bureaucracy we have to deal with in this country.
Apparently the Pirate Party has to move Piratepad to a new server already...
ZFS with snapshotting and stuff is usable in any file system.. even root ones. True, ZFS is a memory hog, but man, imagine a root file system where you could have file system provided revision control for *every* file...
You'd get a dpkg/apt-based distro with awesomeness that can't be ported to Linux due to GPL constraints (DTrace, ZFS). These two tools alone bring an insane amount of features any sysadmin would love.
An apt-based system with some of the modifications and default configurations Debian provides is in lots of situations just that much simpler to maintain than a BSD userland. It's way easy to use a rolling release in a Debian environment or upgrade between stable releases with a couple of commands.
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~cmackenzie/wotd-rss.php
More out-of-ass talking. I didn't notice that this post was in place already, with an explanation the f5 boxes' relationship with Linux. (Whatever Linux is in them faces only the management interface)
Oh, I was talking out of my ass, then. How exotic.
On second thought, I might have confused f5 with netapp. They seem to use bsd in some appliances (search for BSD in the post).
I know nothing about tcp/ip stacks, but it's interesting that netcraft's monitoring service claims to be able to separate generic linux machines from f5 ones, in my experience they don't recognize that many specialized OS'es (I've developed have some sort obsession with netcrafting sites I visit). Netapp and f5 are among the only special OSes i've seen detected properly on netcraft.
...and now there's a real blog post in English on Turre Legal's blog.
You're right... but then the court either smokes too much crack, is populated by demented baby boomers, disagrees with the law or all of the above (if I understand Valimaki's post correctly).
I forgot to link to the translation of the blog post
Well, since cracking CSS is criminal according to the court it seems pretty clear that it's illegal
There's now a proper, human made translation of Turre legal's blog entry available
Netcraft thinks it's an F5 BIG-IP device, which probably means that they've got a big, fancy load balancer. If my memory doesn't fail me, F5's appliance OS is BSD based.
Musicbrainz...
I'm still waiting for the new Jimmy Page signature Les Foul... and everybody knows that SG stands for Shitgabber.
I've been setting up a few of these at work (small business and non profit environments where people actually use the oem shipped OS).
Vista itself is only a part of the problem, but these machines are actually quite horrible to use even after doubling the RAM from 1 to 2 gigs. Yes, I said a few awful things to the person who ordered them with 1 gig.
The "WOW" is partially caused by the fact the OEM installs are loaded with really bad crapware, and you only get to burn recovery dvd images containing not only all the crapware, but also the settings and users you created during the unboxing process. That's HP's fault of course, but does that affect stuff like updates taking forever to reboot-install? Dunno.
I had an all too similar experience with mid-range 2 gig RAM Acer laptops, too. Crapware, slow explorer navigation, and ridiculous update installer performance.
Hah, i also remember turning aero glass back on on both machine types, not having hardware accelerated video made just moving windows around the desktop consume ridiculous amounts of cpu. Microsoft-independent driver issues, I presume. The HPs had intel chipsets, the Acer ones had ATI. The hp machines seemed like nice units for portable laptop use, though, and they ran vanilla ubuntu live cds perfectly. Too bad they weren't mine.
...unless, of course you have 3 gigs of ram or more. With enough RAM Vista could be a nice security bonus compared to earlier NT versions, but personally I think the GUI changes stink.
ICANN has cheezburger?!
I always post this one when someone mentions china these days: http://420.thrashbarg.net/beijing_2008_olympics_logo_story_vincentchow_animated.gif.
(put together from these)
Anyone who believes in the essential decency of the white man's culture must realize that this means that Communism wins and America loses!
Logically, this made me think of J F C.
Does that mean you're enjoying some fresh vegetables? :P
sooner or later, probably some time from now it might make sense for Debian to focus at releasing their testing branch as a continuous distro like Gentoo or Arch, and focusing at giving it community support and timely security patches insead of using it at something developing toards a stable release. It seems like Debian stable has far too many users many users for server stuff for this to sound realistic now, but maybe after the next Ubuntu LTS release, Debian's lack of scheduled releases (released when ready, patch support for oldstable for [how long was it again?]) could make it hard to compete with release cycles like the one of Ubuntu LTS, and its regular, 18 month supported releases has. But decreased interest in Debian stable is probably depending on improved quality of other distros. Does this theory make sense at all or will people keep using debian stable?