There are are two aspects of drug use. The first is the human rights issue i.e. Why am I imprisoned for doing damage to myself and not hurting anybody, which you are reffering to, and is similar to alcoholism, gambling etc., and there is the sociological aspect. It errodes societies, produces crime and state oppresion. So there are no clear-cut solution. In Europe, by trying to marginalize addicts they try to tackle the social problem more successively, I think, from the cowboy attitude in the USA.
I don't think they are giong to open up their drivers because of DRM. Macrovision, HDTV all rely upon the drivers. If the source is available, the next thing is to remove DRM
Drugs should be administered to registered addicts by medical personell in qualified institutions, together with psycological help to fight the addiction. It has been tried and succeded in Switcherland and elsewhere. Although it has little short-term effect on the number of addicts, it takes the drugs off the streets, elliminates drug-related crime and reduces drug use, because fewer individuals enter the vicious circle of addiction. This "war on drugs" is never going to be won, much like "war on terror". Like it is said in other posts, its only to recycle the drug money back into the system.
Net Neutrality means that as IP services mature, the telecoms will loose income that they get from traditional sources, ie telephony, mobile telephony, video telehony, conferecing, (even telesurgery) etc., UNLESS they can somehow degrade the quality in favor of their own services. But, on the other hand, fast and reliable IP services are not a basic human right like water. They have to be heavily funded by private companies, and they are saying that they are not dumb enough to do it to loose money. So I think its not like Internet Companies Vs Telcos, its more like Telcos against the World. We want fast and cheap communications and they don't like giving it.
Apparently Gates acknowledges that collaboration and sharing of results (the bazzar vs the cathedral) produces superior outcome. See his latest efforts for a vaccine against AIDS http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5197082.stm It's just that Microsoft is here to make money and not necessarily to make the software world a better place.
Fresh install of legit copy to a new hard drive (or partition with partition magic) and simply drag and drop the personal files and use microsofts' transfer of personal settings. In case you use a new HD you'll be left with extra storage afterwards..
If file sharing is a criminal offence, then the ISPs can be obliged via a court order to reveal the names of the offenders, while if it was only civil, it would have been virtually impossible to get sued because the ISPs wouldn't release the information..
The problem with these technologies can lie on the human side also. Can you speak error-free, like on the 9 o'clock news? How can a machine hear one thing and reason that it must be another?
I wonder.. The demo tries to create a file in/tmp. So how would that change unix permissions? the file, even if it can be changed to executable, can not be installed and only has the permissions of the (limited) user..
Pirate versions of windows can recieve security patches. Pirate versions of Office don't, since any office updates will break the cracks used. Therefore office flaws can be more damaging to the cheap scate user. He has to pay, or (preferably) use OO instead
A/V software is needed on the mac (and on linux for that matter) if their data is (and most probably would) accessible by Win32 computers, so that they spot the malware before it gets installed..
ARCCOS has been cracked with AnyDVD, hasn't it? I don't know about this one though.. I think the very requirement that it should play on a normal DVD player makes it easier to crack the copy protection. So to watch the DVD on Linux you need to:
1. Pay and download the movie. 2. Install their DRM 3. Burn the DVD 4. Use a different installation of windows with unlocking software (can be done even on the same machine) 5. Copy the DVD in an non-DRMed format 6. Watch it under Linux 7. Profit? (actually a loss if you pay $20 for the movie and a couple of days to unlock it)
You can add that when we browse on Windows its imperative to use a user account that does not have any rights to install software. If we place this on top of your list, the others are an overkill..
I think interoperability will hurt the bottom line more than the fines, cause they are a multinational that operates all over the world and not just in EU. Full interoperability would obviously hurt sales of Windows licences, esp in the enterprise. And its just what the fine is about, that they are using their market share on the desktop to monopolize the enterprise sector too. Its not about security, which is a technicality and can be improved. Its all about revenue..
I bought the same, on Linux worked fine, on XP the drivers gave me an infinate loop. So I had to exchange that with an 9600 XT with sub-par support under linux, as you can see in my other posts..
Sorry , I cut and pasted from the e-mail, but the formating didn't go through. I guess I sould have pressed the "preview" button before. I must have assumed that nowdays everything "just works" in linux (swiftfox on kubuntu dapper). Slashdot doesn't permitt the same post twice either. Better luck next time.
My correspondance with the fglrx packager:
Dear Sir/Sirs,
>
> I don't know if this is the proper channel to report bugs or
> deficiencies of the fglrx drivers to, but I don't know where else to
> turn to.
>
> My system is RADEON 9600 XT 256MB (AGP) on Intel 845PE motherboard ,
> Pentium4 2.4 GHz, 1GB RAM. While on Windows XP everything runs fine,
> on every flavor of Linux I've tried I get the same bugs:
>
> 1. glxgears freezes linux, and also every type of openGL application
> after approx. 1 min.
>
> 2. Xv video overlay on TV-out produces only the upper half of the
> piped video. If I disable Xv overlay, video is correctly displayed but
> the performance deteriorates to a point where it is unwatchable.
>
> I have tried ubuntu 5.10 and 6.06, kubuntu 5.10 and 6.06, SuSe 10.1,
> drivers 2.25.18 and 2.26.18 with every possible configuration and I
> get the same bugs.
>
> I have switched back to "ati" driver on kubuntu 6.06 albeit with no
> TV-out.
>
> Luckily windows can read linux filesystems and I watch my videos this
way
>
> I would greatly appreciate if the drivers for linux can pipe video to
> my tv while I work on my monitor, just like extended desktop on xp.
>
> Thanks for reading.
Responce:
Unfortunately I don't for for ATI, so can't really help you much with
the drivers. I just submit the packaging scripts to ATI for their
installer. But maybe the following is helpful to you:
> 1. glxgears freezes linux, and also every type of openGL application
> after approx. 1 min.
I have never heard of this problem before. I have a Mobility 9600 and
9800XT myself, and have no such problems with the driver. Have you
tried changing "fast writes" in your BIOS to "off", or trying
different Linux kernels?
> 2. Xv video overlay on TV-out produces only the upper half of the
> piped video. If I disable Xv overlay, video is correctly displayed but
> the performance deteriorates to a point where it is unwatchable.
I guess you are using PAL TV? I believe this is a know issue, and
there is no way around it other than reverting to much older drivers
(8.20 might work, 8.16 should for sure if you can get it to compile on
your kernel). From what I hear, ATI should be working on TV stuff for
future releases, but I have no idea when they will be released. For
now I'd recommend you disable Xv, and use the OpenGL display target of
your video player (for example in mplayer use: "-vo gl2"). That
should give you good performance, provided you can fix issue #1.
I suggest you check out the Rage3D community site at
http://rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=88 and the unofficial ATI
wiki at http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page for more info.
If you lock down your system, don't install software from untrusted sources and don't browse the web with admin rights, windows is a good compromise between security and usability. On the other hand, if you always run as admin, install every free (or non-free) crapware and use the same machine for logging in your bank account, I don't see how a change in a technicality (the OS) is going to help you from being exploited.
Right, if you are, lets say, in Spain and you download Maddonna, Sony Spain Inc. can ask you for 20 euros for the album. If you upload to 10 people you own 10X20 plus your own=220 euros, etc.
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There are are two aspects of drug use. The first is the human rights issue i.e. Why am I imprisoned for doing damage to myself and not hurting anybody, which you are reffering to, and is similar to alcoholism, gambling etc., and there is the sociological aspect. It errodes societies, produces crime and state oppresion. So there are no clear-cut solution. In Europe, by trying to marginalize addicts they try to tackle the social problem more successively, I think, from the cowboy attitude in the USA.
I don't think they are giong to open up their drivers because of DRM. Macrovision, HDTV all rely upon the drivers. If the source is available, the next thing is to remove DRM
Drugs should be administered to registered addicts by medical personell in qualified institutions, together with psycological help to fight the addiction. It has been tried and succeded in Switcherland and elsewhere. Although it has little short-term effect on the number of addicts, it takes the drugs off the streets, elliminates drug-related crime and reduces drug use, because fewer individuals enter the vicious circle of addiction. This "war on drugs" is never going to be won, much like "war on terror". Like it is said in other posts, its only to recycle the drug money back into the system.
Net Neutrality means that as IP services mature, the telecoms will loose income that they get from traditional sources, ie telephony, mobile telephony, video telehony, conferecing, (even telesurgery) etc., UNLESS they can somehow degrade the quality in favor of their own services. But, on the other hand, fast and reliable IP services are not a basic human right like water. They have to be heavily funded by private companies, and they are saying that they are not dumb enough to do it to loose money. So I think its not like Internet Companies Vs Telcos, its more like Telcos against the World. We want fast and cheap communications and they don't like giving it.
Apparently Gates acknowledges that collaboration and sharing of results (the bazzar vs the cathedral) produces superior outcome. See his latest efforts for a vaccine against AIDS http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5197082.stm It's just that Microsoft is here to make money and not necessarily to make the software world a better place.
Fresh install of legit copy to a new hard drive (or partition with partition magic) and simply drag and drop the personal files and use microsofts' transfer of personal settings. In case you use a new HD you'll be left with extra storage afterwards..
If file sharing is a criminal offence, then the ISPs can be obliged via a court order to reveal the names of the offenders, while if it was only civil, it would have been virtually impossible to get sued because the ISPs wouldn't release the information..
The problem with these technologies can lie on the human side also. Can you speak error-free, like on the 9 o'clock news? How can a machine hear one thing and reason that it must be another?
I wonder.. The demo tries to create a file in /tmp. So how would that change unix permissions? the file, even if it can be changed to executable, can not be installed and only has the permissions of the (limited) user..
In Greece for 55 euros+VAT=65 we get 0.5Mb..
Pirate versions of windows can recieve security patches. Pirate versions of Office don't, since any office updates will break the cracks used. Therefore office flaws can be more damaging to the cheap scate user. He has to pay, or (preferably) use OO instead
A/V software is needed on the mac (and on linux for that matter) if their data is (and most probably would) accessible by Win32 computers, so that they spot the malware before it gets installed..
I agree. OpenGL crashes mine too, Xv on tv-out is also broken.
NO tv-out for the "ati" X.org drivers also
ARCCOS has been cracked with AnyDVD, hasn't it? I don't know about this one though.. I think the very requirement that it should play on a normal DVD player makes it easier to crack the copy protection. So to watch the DVD on Linux you need to:
1. Pay and download the movie.
2. Install their DRM
3. Burn the DVD
4. Use a different installation of windows with unlocking software (can be done even on the same machine)
5. Copy the DVD in an non-DRMed format
6. Watch it under Linux
7. Profit? (actually a loss if you pay $20 for the movie and a couple of days to unlock it)
You can add that when we browse on Windows its imperative to use a user account that does not have any rights to install software. If we place this on top of your list, the others are an overkill..
Embedded MPlayer plugin for firefox-swiftfox. Im not sure about saving-transcoding though
I think interoperability will hurt the bottom line more than the fines, cause they are a multinational that operates all over the world and not just in EU. Full interoperability would obviously hurt sales of Windows licences, esp in the enterprise. And its just what the fine is about, that they are using their market share on the desktop to monopolize the enterprise sector too. Its not about security, which is a technicality and can be improved. Its all about revenue..
I bought the same, on Linux worked fine, on XP the drivers gave me an infinate loop. So I had to exchange that with an 9600 XT with sub-par support under linux, as you can see in my other posts..
Sorry , I cut and pasted from the e-mail, but the formating didn't go through. I guess I sould have pressed the "preview" button before. I must have assumed that nowdays everything "just works" in linux (swiftfox on kubuntu dapper). Slashdot doesn't permitt the same post twice either. Better luck next time.
My correspondance with the fglrx packager: Dear Sir/Sirs, > > I don't know if this is the proper channel to report bugs or > deficiencies of the fglrx drivers to, but I don't know where else to > turn to. > > My system is RADEON 9600 XT 256MB (AGP) on Intel 845PE motherboard , > Pentium4 2.4 GHz, 1GB RAM. While on Windows XP everything runs fine, > on every flavor of Linux I've tried I get the same bugs: > > 1. glxgears freezes linux, and also every type of openGL application > after approx. 1 min. > > 2. Xv video overlay on TV-out produces only the upper half of the > piped video. If I disable Xv overlay, video is correctly displayed but > the performance deteriorates to a point where it is unwatchable. > > I have tried ubuntu 5.10 and 6.06, kubuntu 5.10 and 6.06, SuSe 10.1, > drivers 2.25.18 and 2.26.18 with every possible configuration and I > get the same bugs. > > I have switched back to "ati" driver on kubuntu 6.06 albeit with no > TV-out. > > Luckily windows can read linux filesystems and I watch my videos this way > > I would greatly appreciate if the drivers for linux can pipe video to > my tv while I work on my monitor, just like extended desktop on xp. > > Thanks for reading. Responce: Unfortunately I don't for for ATI, so can't really help you much with the drivers. I just submit the packaging scripts to ATI for their installer. But maybe the following is helpful to you: > 1. glxgears freezes linux, and also every type of openGL application > after approx. 1 min. I have never heard of this problem before. I have a Mobility 9600 and 9800XT myself, and have no such problems with the driver. Have you tried changing "fast writes" in your BIOS to "off", or trying different Linux kernels? > 2. Xv video overlay on TV-out produces only the upper half of the > piped video. If I disable Xv overlay, video is correctly displayed but > the performance deteriorates to a point where it is unwatchable. I guess you are using PAL TV? I believe this is a know issue, and there is no way around it other than reverting to much older drivers (8.20 might work, 8.16 should for sure if you can get it to compile on your kernel). From what I hear, ATI should be working on TV stuff for future releases, but I have no idea when they will be released. For now I'd recommend you disable Xv, and use the OpenGL display target of your video player (for example in mplayer use: "-vo gl2"). That should give you good performance, provided you can fix issue #1. I suggest you check out the Rage3D community site at http://rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=88 and the unofficial ATI wiki at http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page for more info.
They sell Google-in-a-box appliances without root access or source. If it contains Red Hat Linux isn't it a violation of GPL?
I bet they haven' fixed the (proper display of) TV-out on ati cards, let alone "Vista Killer"
If you lock down your system, don't install software from untrusted sources and don't browse the web with admin rights, windows is a good compromise between security and usability. On the other hand, if you always run as admin, install every free (or non-free) crapware and use the same machine for logging in your bank account, I don't see how a change in a technicality (the OS) is going to help you from being exploited.
Right, if you are, lets say, in Spain and you download Maddonna, Sony Spain Inc. can ask you for 20 euros for the album. If you upload to 10 people you own 10X20 plus your own=220 euros, etc.