im making CDs of win32 binaries of free software that also runs in linux to spread to windows users. while they get most of the advatages we do over commercial software, it also means they can also leave microsoft easily as well.
people would say "i cant research the security in this MSFT solution so we better go with free one that we can audit"
that and the risk of losing the DMCA in court is too high. notice how good cases against the DMCA get dropped? corporate assholes know its BS. they came up with it.
mozilla can keep track of seperate passwords for you. if your afraid of losing it, back it up like any other important data. if you want to have access to it elsewhere, take it with you (its already encrypted, but doing so again does not hurt) or put it on the net for you to access. youll probably do a better job of securing it than microsoft.
you should be the one who controls your data. in fact, you should be the one who controls your computer too. if you dont have the know how, learn or get someone you trust to do it for you. dont trust microsoft.
One of the next great struggles with open-source software will be in the database market. I am not aware of any large-scale financial packages that run on (for instance) PostgreSQL
which i do. i know its not going to change anything, but at least i know im not giving any money to them or helping them by contributing to that market.
of course i have no such quams with foriegn films, but the MPAA doesnt want you watching foriegn films...
our goals are similar to thiers. maybe the NRA and us (loosely defined as those who value freedom/open protocols/ etc) can help each other.
if they can take our computers and communications away (becasue computers are how we collaborate and express thought and communicate on a mass scale) then its easier for them to take our guns next now that we are more easily controlled...
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you can use xfree86 in rootless mode with a three button mouse (the logitech scroll wheels work nicely) and have all your unix apps too.
and theres fink, which lets you use debian style package management (including dselect) for the unix stuff. with the rootless hacked version of blackbox and the dock set to autohide, the setup works like it was meant to be like that, except for the visual devide between unix and mac apps (which looks like the visual difference with classic apps running in the os-9 sub system)
thus you get both.
use a fast window manager becasue xfree is slow on os-x. but with a fast window manager (like blackbox) you dont really notice the difference. the actuall apps (like the gimp) will still run at an acceptable speed.
one more difference, cut + paste in unix apps is still first and middle mouse, but you can cut + paste between X and os-x apps. (for example, highlight in xterm and "paste" into mozilla with either the right click menu or ctrl+v) so that inconsistancy is there but still workable since you have the visual cue (the obviously differently decorated windows)
ive found myself running all my apps under the x server and its still nice (xterms, gabber, gimp, remotely running openoffice.org and mozilla from a debian box etc) (remotely running it so i dont have to merge bookmarks) and it works great. turn off sleep if you have ssh session you want to keep active. for some reason sleeping hangs the ssh session and you have to close that term.
while your at it, check out objective c and cocoa, or at least objective c. all the docs are included with the developer tools and its a pretty neat system.
still think your better off with linux/bsd on that xserve. os-x has too much overhead and that annoying case insensitive file system. of course you (or your boss) may not think the nicer hardware is worth the extra price. but it is nice hardware.
trying to evade thier lawers with p2p schemes and the like is not the answer. while you think you may be soving this problem, your only giving them a reason to call you a pirate(so they have an excuse to buy laws) AND promoting thier artists at the same time! its a win/win for them.
if you really want to know why CDs cost so much, its nothing more than supply and demand. its becasue people pay that much. if no one pays that much, theyll stop charging that much (after blaming every computer user for piracy, thanks to napster)
these assholes have money and power because we gave it to them. if we dont give them money, then they cant hire lobyyists or buy themselves senators.
STOP SUPPORTING THEM!
its that simple.if we continue to support them, they will continue to try to controll our lives in the intrest of thier profit and to try to make it harder for (non manufactured) artists that they cant control (becase every independant band gets money, and more importantly, mindshare that could instead go to them)
dont support muscians who are with the RIAA. its not hard, many musicans are not with them. there are many lables that have nothing to do with the RIAA. if musicans you like are with them, write to them. if enough people do, they will notice.
heres ia a list of RIAA labels.
http://www.riaa.org/About-Members-1.cfm
ive been boycotting the RIAA(and MPAA) for years now and i dont feel like im missing much. i still enjoy clubs and concerts, and i still buy CDs. (without worrying that they will break my computer) i know im not denting thier profits, but more importanly i know im not helping them either. i hope that if enough people realize what they are doing and spread the word, they will either change or no longer have the power they do.
if you are a musician thinking of signing on with an RIAA lable, follow the url below, and keep in mind you wont get any play on internet radio stations.
http://www.therecordindustry.com/courtney_artist _r ights.htm (/. puts the little space after r)
http://www.riaa.org/About-Members-1.cfm is a convienient list of labels to avoid. there are plenty of musicians who have nothing to do with them. of course the RIAA is doing everything in thier power to make it hard to musicians to get anywhere without them. thankfully there is alot of good music outside of thier controll.
your right about them trying to take power from us. with the new technology people can make movies without them. people can distribute music without them. musicans can make a living without them controlling it or getting money from it. thats what they dont like. this non sense about piracy is a blatant lie. (if you dont believe me look at record sales when napster was popular, i have other reasons to believe these things, but mostly it just makes sense when you look at what they are doing.)
all the other distros handle that just fine. with all the complaints red hat must of gotten by now, i hope they rewrote thier network settings gui. in 7.2 it was a strange mess that was actually harder to use than the windows 2000 one. (which is strange for linux distros) and did not work as advertised. 7.3 did not seem to improve much.
whats sad is that this is probably giving red hat a bad name that they otherwise dont deserve.
remember, this is microsoft. they can make the "word format" and lie about it. easily. (oops,were not to spec, boo hoo), make it complex enough that its nearly impossible to use and by the time you have a decent parser written, your two versions behind. legal remedys have a pattern of never being more than a slap on the wrist for them. they always find loop-holes, outsmart them etc. its as if they buy out thier legal problems (or in the case of the gates foundation, try to buy out the pr problems that come from being assholes) and then its business as usual.
anyway, it seems enough of thier formats can be used by open office for now. hopefully that will become the de-facto standard... (ok, maybe its wishfull thinking, but open office is the most suited for being a de-facto standard). that would be a real solution. then even microsoft would have to make thier office suite compatable and we would have real choice instead of microsoft speak for choice.
until then, if you want to make sure you can use old documents, ascii (plain text) is the most widely compatable format. (cr/lf are trivial to translate) thats why the ietf uses it for rfcs.
indy music wont have any competition from the riaa bands. there will be a pretty clear dividing line here that may persuade some artists to not sign up with a corporate label if they otherwise would. if internet radio becomes a big oulet for music, these artists would not want to miss out on it.
of course as soon as that started happening, the RIAA would clammor for internet broadcasting licenses, audits of broadcasters a la BSA, and/or whatever else they do to destroy anyone that threatens thier monopoly. but that doesnt mean they will suceed.
its in the system, but for some reason, not on the faq.
vnode(9) vnconfig(8)
of course if your that paranoid, you should take further mesures to protect against compromise. ie, if/home is encrypted whats to prevent someone with console access from trojaning your mount program? so you have to keep a read only media that you can boot from and check the clear partitions before booting and mounting the encrypted ones. you can go farther than that, but its fairly easy to burn a cdrom with a copy of the root partition, md5sums of all content, and a shell script to check it.
see utah-glx. you need xfree86-3.3.6 for it to work (which means not the newer distros, though debian stable, freebsd-stable, and netbsd should all be workable)
i had this on a laptop (mandrake installed it by default) and it worked flawlessly even playing heavy gear 2.
couldnt get it to compile on debian. i think its because they mangle xfree86, not sure.
patents are supposed to advance a given art. software patents do not advance the art of software development.
closed source commercial software is already protected by copyright law. without patents, people would still have and implement ideas. you cant stop that. i think wed would have more software developed if people didnt have to worry about software patents.it only helps companies big enough to use them to stifle competition.
yes, some people make money from software patents. but that is not to advance the art of software, it only holds back development. (except when it forces improvement such as lzw->zlib or gif->ping)
can anyone please tell me where software patents have actually helped the state of the art of software development?
with microsoft owning the patent for a drm os, they become the os gatekeepers deciding who is legally allowed to make an operating system. any anti-trust mesure would then have little effect because they get to decide who plays and who does not and thanks to thier slick lawers and blatant disregard for the law, by what rules. at least this will only be true in america (for now)
indy films, and there is alot of music not going through the RIAA. many bands here in LA sell thier CD/tapes at thier shows, which encourages going out, being around people, and seeing live music in a small friendly setting.
its funny how not having funding from the RIAA does not stop these people from making music...
os 9 is much faster (and better trusted) then X, so it will still be awhile before most photoshop users move over to X, probably when they sort out speed problems. (remember the move from 68k to ppc, at first the 68k machines were actually faster, due to the overhead of emulation, but that did not last long)
there are no compelling reasons for these user to take the speed loss. both speed and compelling reasons (apps,features etc) will come in time. this is just one of the steps that will allow more people to start OS-X regularly.
it probably was not a priority for adobe becasue photoshop 6 ran fine using the os9 subsystem making PS7 a higher priority. sure it was slow, but if that mattered, youd be running 9 anyway.
some companies have policies that restrict or prevent internet access even for programmers. then again, some companies management decide to replace the email system with an exchange server even when all the sys admins and developers unanimously tell them its a bad idea. (the exchange team must have an amazing sales/marketing approach)
one of those big gray books you should have gotten with maya covers mel,and all the other ones make refernces to it. and of course, keep the script editor open when doing stuff. (gimp so badly needs this)
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im making CDs of win32 binaries of free software that also runs in linux to spread to windows users. while they get most of the advatages we do over commercial software, it also means they can also leave microsoft easily as well.
i could use some help, see the todo list.
http://pixel.fairyden.net/embrace.html
people would say "i cant research the security in this MSFT solution so we better go with free one that we can audit"
that and the risk of losing the DMCA in court is too high. notice how good cases against the DMCA get dropped? corporate assholes know its BS. they came up with it.
mozilla can keep track of seperate passwords for you. if your afraid of losing it, back it up like any other important data. if you want to have access to it elsewhere, take it with you (its already encrypted, but doing so again does not hurt) or put it on the net for you to access. youll probably do a better job of securing it than microsoft.
you should be the one who controls your data. in fact, you should be the one who controls your computer too. if you dont have the know how, learn or get someone you trust to do it for you. dont trust microsoft.
One of the next great struggles with open-source software will be in the database market. I am not aware of any large-scale financial packages that run on (for instance) PostgreSQL
do the big financial packages not run on oracle?which i do. i know its not going to change anything, but at least i know im not giving any money to them or helping them by contributing to that market.
of course i have no such quams with foriegn films, but the MPAA doesnt want you watching foriegn films...
our goals are similar to thiers. maybe the NRA and us (loosely defined as those who value freedom/open protocols/ etc) can help each other.
if they can take our computers and communications away (becasue computers are how we collaborate and express thought and communicate on a mass scale) then its easier for them to take our guns next now that we are more easily controlled...
you can use xfree86 in rootless mode with a three button mouse (the logitech scroll wheels work nicely) and have all your unix apps too.
t ilities/
and theres fink, which lets you use debian style package management (including dselect) for the unix stuff. with the rootless hacked version of blackbox and the dock set to autohide, the setup works like it was meant to be like that, except for the visual devide between unix and mac apps (which looks like the visual difference with classic apps running in the os-9 sub system)
thus you get both.
use a fast window manager becasue xfree is slow on os-x. but with a fast window manager (like blackbox) you dont really notice the difference. the actuall apps (like the gimp) will still run at an acceptable speed.
one more difference, cut + paste in unix apps is still first and middle mouse, but you can cut + paste between X and os-x apps. (for example, highlight in xterm and "paste" into mozilla with either the right click menu or ctrl+v) so that inconsistancy is there but still workable since you have the visual cue (the obviously differently decorated windows)
ive found myself running all my apps under the x server and its still nice (xterms, gabber, gimp, remotely running openoffice.org and mozilla from a debian box etc) (remotely running it so i dont have to merge bookmarks) and it works great. turn off sleep if you have ssh session you want to keep active. for some reason sleeping hangs the ssh session and you have to close that term.
all of this is at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_apps_u
slashdot puts a space in utilities but the link should work.
while your at it, check out objective c and cocoa, or at least objective c. all the docs are included with the developer tools and its a pretty neat system.
still think your better off with linux/bsd on that xserve. os-x has too much overhead and that annoying case insensitive file system. of course you (or your boss) may not think the nicer hardware is worth the extra price. but it is nice hardware.
trying to evade thier lawers with p2p schemes and the like is not the answer. while you think you may be soving this problem, your only giving them a reason to call you a pirate(so they have an excuse to buy laws) AND promoting thier artists at the same time! its a win/win for them.
t _r ights.htm
if you really want to know why CDs cost so much, its nothing more than supply and demand. its becasue people pay that much. if no one pays that much, theyll stop charging that much (after blaming every computer user for piracy, thanks to napster)
these assholes have money and power because we gave it to them. if we dont give them money, then they cant hire lobyyists or buy themselves senators.
STOP SUPPORTING THEM!
its that simple.if we continue to support them, they will continue to try to controll our lives in the intrest of thier profit and to try to make it harder for (non manufactured) artists that they cant control (becase every independant band gets money, and more importantly, mindshare that could instead go to them)
dont support muscians who are with the RIAA. its not hard, many musicans are not with them. there are many lables that have nothing to do with the RIAA. if musicans you like are with them, write to them. if enough people do, they will notice.
heres ia a list of RIAA labels.
http://www.riaa.org/About-Members-1.cfm
ive been boycotting the RIAA(and MPAA) for years now and i dont feel like im missing much. i still enjoy clubs and concerts, and i still buy CDs. (without worrying that they will break my computer) i know im not denting thier profits, but more importanly i know im not helping them either. i hope that if enough people realize what they are doing and spread the word, they will either change or no longer have the power they do.
if you are a musician thinking of signing on with an RIAA lable, follow the url below, and keep in mind you wont get any play on internet radio stations.
http://www.therecordindustry.com/courtney_artis
(/. puts the little space after r)
http://www.riaa.org/About-Members-1.cfm
is a convienient list of labels to avoid. there are plenty of musicians who have nothing to do with them. of course the RIAA is doing everything in thier power to make it hard to musicians to get anywhere without them. thankfully there is alot of good music outside of thier controll.
your right about them trying to take power from us. with the new technology people can make movies without them. people can distribute music without them. musicans can make a living without them controlling it or getting money from it. thats what they dont like. this non sense about piracy is a blatant lie. (if you dont believe me look at record sales when napster was popular, i have other reasons to believe these things, but mostly it just makes sense when you look at what they are doing.)
all the other distros handle that just fine. with all the complaints red hat must of gotten by now, i hope they rewrote thier network settings gui. in 7.2 it was a strange mess that was actually harder to use than the windows 2000 one. (which is strange for linux distros) and did not work as advertised. 7.3 did not seem to improve much.
whats sad is that this is probably giving red hat a bad name that they otherwise dont deserve.
remember, this is microsoft. they can make the "word format" and lie about it. easily. (oops,were not to spec, boo hoo), make it complex enough that its nearly impossible to use and by the time you have a decent parser written, your two versions behind. legal remedys have a pattern of never being more than a slap on the wrist for them. they always find loop-holes, outsmart them etc. its as if they buy out thier legal problems (or in the case of the gates foundation, try to buy out the pr problems that come from being assholes) and then its business as usual.
anyway, it seems enough of thier formats can be used by open office for now. hopefully that will become the de-facto standard... (ok, maybe its wishfull thinking, but open office is the most suited for being a de-facto standard). that would be a real solution. then even microsoft would have to make thier office suite compatable and we would have real choice instead of microsoft speak for choice.
until then, if you want to make sure you can use old documents, ascii (plain text) is the most widely compatable format. (cr/lf are trivial to translate) thats why the ietf uses it for rfcs.
for your old mac word files, try strings(1)
its in preferences/privacy and security/images
its in there because sites can track you with images. but yes, it is silly to put it there.
indy music wont have any competition from the riaa bands. there will be a pretty clear dividing line here that may persuade some artists to not sign up with a corporate label if they otherwise would. if internet radio becomes a big oulet for music, these artists would not want to miss out on it.
of course as soon as that started happening, the RIAA would clammor for internet broadcasting licenses, audits of broadcasters a la BSA, and/or whatever else they do to destroy anyone that threatens thier monopoly. but that doesnt mean they will suceed.
its in the system, but for some reason, not on the faq.
/home is encrypted whats to prevent someone with console access from trojaning your mount program? so you have to keep a read only media that you can boot from and check the clear partitions before booting and mounting the encrypted ones. you can go farther than that, but its fairly easy to burn a cdrom with a copy of the root partition, md5sums of all content, and a shell script to check it.
vnode(9)
vnconfig(8)
of course if your that paranoid, you should take further mesures to protect against compromise. ie, if
echo
cat
grep
see utah-glx. you need xfree86-3.3.6 for it to work (which means not the newer distros, though debian stable, freebsd-stable, and netbsd should all be workable)
i had this on a laptop (mandrake installed it by default) and it worked flawlessly even playing heavy gear 2.
couldnt get it to compile on debian. i think its because they mangle xfree86, not sure.
im interested in these double blind studies, do you have a reference?
theres also alot of music where the differnce in quality wouldnt matter (gwar)
while we may have legal rights to fair use, they dont have any legal obligation to facilitate it.
patents are supposed to advance a given art. software patents do not advance the art of software development.
closed source commercial software is already protected by copyright law. without patents, people would still have and implement ideas. you cant stop that. i think wed would have more software developed if people didnt have to worry about software patents.it only helps companies big enough to use them to stifle competition.
yes, some people make money from software patents. but that is not to advance the art of software, it only holds back development. (except when it forces improvement such as lzw->zlib or gif->ping)
can anyone please tell me where software patents have actually helped the state of the art of software development?
with microsoft owning the patent for a drm os, they become the os gatekeepers deciding who is legally allowed to make an operating system. any anti-trust mesure would then have little effect because they get to decide who plays and who does not and thanks to thier slick lawers and blatant disregard for the law, by what rules. at least this will only be true in america (for now)
indy films, and there is alot of music not going through the RIAA. many bands here in LA sell thier CD/tapes at thier shows, which encourages going out, being around people, and seeing live music in a small friendly setting.
its funny how not having funding from the RIAA does not stop these people from making music...
microsoft has the patent on DRM in the OS
but getting there,
os 9 is much faster (and better trusted) then X, so it will still be awhile before most photoshop users move over to X, probably when they sort out speed problems. (remember the move from 68k to ppc, at first the 68k machines were actually faster, due to the overhead of emulation, but that did not last long)
there are no compelling reasons for these user to take the speed loss. both speed and compelling reasons (apps,features etc) will come in time. this is just one of the steps that will allow more people to start OS-X regularly.
it probably was not a priority for adobe becasue photoshop 6 ran fine using the os9 subsystem making PS7 a higher priority. sure it was slow, but if that mattered, youd be running 9 anyway.
some companies have policies that restrict or prevent internet access even for programmers. then again, some companies management decide to replace the email system with an exchange server even when all the sys admins and developers unanimously tell them its a bad idea. (the exchange team must have an amazing sales/marketing approach)
one of those big gray books you should have gotten with maya covers mel,and all the other ones make refernces to it. and of course, keep the script editor open when doing stuff. (gimp so badly needs this)
you can also find help at sites likehighend3d