The copy protection is a joke because it's a simple matter of programming to get around it.
Copy protected CD's will cause problems for many audio CD players (and my guess is that the audio quality will drop as they try to put more crap and errors in them to prevent copying - think macrovision)
This is a stepping stone for some future devices that will have intense hardware copy protection and will be locked down and controlled by the music industry as much as possible.
These things will all ultimately fail because the data is put there to be read and played, some one will figure out how to get at it and once the bits are off the disk it's pretty easy to replicate and distribute them.
The only way the general public can protect their rights is to shun any of these new technologies. Unless they provide some compelling reason and benefit the to general public, they should not be successful, especailly if there are competing standards. The installed legacy base is huge and inertia is a very hard thing to overcome.
I personally don't mind what they do with the data as long as my name is not attached to it. If it helps Tivo be profitable and survive against an increasing field of (more unscrupulous) competators, let them. The Tivo is great and i would be really unhappy if they were not successful and were forced out of the market and I had to go to a vendor such as M$ that really does not give a shit about the customer the way the Tive does.
I've looked at all these pretty closely with the following criteria in mind:
1) It has to fit into my existing home network, work with exiting machines, access my existing files,...
2) It has to be portable. This means wireless (802.11b please) and run on recharable batterys.
3) It has to have a good screen, at least 800x600 and half decent input cabablilites.
4) I just want the hardware, i don't want to buy any service to go with it.
After checking out the latest offerings i found exactly what i was looking for. It's called a laptop and it works great! Seriously, if you are thinking about a web pad forget it. Go get an old laptop, anything over about a pentium 133 with a reasonable amount of memory in it is fine as an appliance. Load linux on it, get an wireless access point and pc-card and you are laughing.
Wow, went Microsoft tried this they were unsuccessful. This would seem to mean that clearly Scientology is the more powerful evil corporation when it comes to asserting proprietary control over their technology. Now only the question that remains is, Who is satan's right hand man Bill Gates or L. Ron Hubbard?:)
Exactly so these moths can breed but their offspring can't, oh except for that.00001% that mutate and can and turn out to be a bunch of horny hungry little suckers and are an even worst pest that the originals:)
I believe that killer bees were created or spread as the result of a genetic engineering experiment (through cross breeding) that escaped into the wild. The problem with these sorts of things is that it is really hard to close the barn door once it's open.
There were tons of the current Ipaqs running Linux
at Linux Expo, unfortunately there did not really
seem to be much in the way of real apps running on
them. What is the state of the Linux environment
for these things, is it fragmented by the distributions available or is there some common ground that people can start writing to?
I'll buy one of these things as soon as I can boot
Linux on it and run at least the same basic apps
that I can on my palm, ie. a datebook, addressbook
memos, etc.
Being that the mp3 format is lossy, it is not an exact copy of the original. Does a close approximation count? At what point does it become a "hand drawn facsimile"?
I don't really think that this is true. Most of the Linux media apps i've used in the last while seem to be standardized on (for video at least) the avifile stuff which is a clever hack that allows some (most, all, i don't know) windows codecs in the form of dlls to be run natively under linux. While i'm sure that we we would all like to see pure linux versions of these codecs, we have to take what we can get, and if people are clever enough to hijack the windows ones, so be it. It's the result that matters. Let people write for media player if they want to, if we can take and use the result under Linux, the problem is solved.
They had this at the LinuxCare booth at Linux expo, it looks really cool, like a set of conentric circle. The best part of course was that Linus wandered over to look at it while I was there!
Could some one please mirror the.ps file so that the poor guy doesn't get slashdotted. with Email
I've always wondered whether a machine running VMWare would make a good firewall. You could run are really stripped down virtual machine that controls access to the outside ethernet inteface and mediates access to the host OS.
Doug Miller does not have a great track record at predicting the future, considering that M$ scoped up his previous company Softway Systems for a song.
I happen to like my job, I happen to like my employer. I want to work for a company, be part of it, work with it for our combined success, I want to be judged, promoted and rewarded for my work and efforts, not the amount of time I've worked there and not on the collective effort of my co-workers.
I don't want to work for a union, I don't want to work with unionized people, I do not want to work in an environment where it is "us the employees" vs "them in managment".
Unions are for people that work in comodity positions where anyone can do the same job and exist to protect dead wood.
Re:Do this on other platforms
on
2.2 vs 2.4
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· Score: 2
I mean't, the kernel, I don't consider the rest of the distribution to be the O/S.
Do this on other platforms
on
2.2 vs 2.4
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· Score: 2
On your lunch hour, download the next full version release of your operating system (service packs are for sissys). Configure it, compile it, install it and be back working with no problems by the end of the hour. That's what I did.
It seems to me that with the increased availablity of gadgets that want to dial home to connect to a proprietary service, there is a need for a project to spoof modem connections and reverse engineer protocols. I see these things all the time and think, nice piece of hardware but I don't want to be shackled to their service. Take for example these new digital picture frames. They look like something that has a lot of hacking potential but how do you get them to talk to your own machine instead of calling home. Is it possible to attach two modems together using some sort of crossover cable? Is anyone working on reverse engineering some of the protocols used by these devices? I know may of these companies are selling the hardware at a loss in the hope that they will make money on the subscription, too bad for them.
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I personally don't mind what they do with the data as long as my name is not attached to it. If it helps Tivo be profitable and survive against an increasing field of (more unscrupulous) competators, let them. The Tivo is great and i would be really unhappy if they were not successful and were forced out of the market and I had to go to a vendor such as M$ that really does not give a shit about the customer the way the Tive does.
I've looked at all these pretty closely with the following criteria in mind:
...
1) It has to fit into my existing home network, work with exiting machines, access my existing files,
2) It has to be portable. This means wireless (802.11b please) and run on recharable batterys.
3) It has to have a good screen, at least 800x600 and half decent input cabablilites.
4) I just want the hardware, i don't want to buy any service to go with it.
After checking out the latest offerings i found exactly what i was looking for. It's called a laptop and it works great! Seriously, if you are thinking about a web pad forget it. Go get an old laptop, anything over about a pentium 133 with a reasonable amount of memory in it is fine as an appliance. Load linux on it, get an wireless access point and pc-card and you are laughing.
Wow, went Microsoft tried this they were unsuccessful. This would seem to mean that clearly Scientology is the more powerful evil corporation when it comes to asserting proprietary control over their technology. Now only the question that remains is, Who is satan's right hand man Bill Gates or L. Ron Hubbard? :)
Don't bother developing .NET for Linux, we'll do it. Really, we will...
This worked for me thanks!
When I try to install it, it just craps out with
* Conflict between mozilla vM18 (required by nautilus-suggest v1.0) and mozilla v0.8
* Conflict between mozilla-mail v0.8 (required by nautilus-suggest v1.0) and mozilla vM18
I don't have mozilla M18 installed on my system
Has anyone heard any rumours on Quicksilver, it's
been about 2 years since Cryptonomicon was released. Seems about time for the next one.
Exactly so these moths can breed but their offspring can't, oh except for that .00001% that mutate and can and turn out to be a bunch of horny hungry little suckers and are an even worst pest that the originals :)
I believe that killer bees were created or spread as the result of a genetic engineering experiment (through cross breeding) that escaped into the wild. The problem with these sorts of things is that it is really hard to close the barn door once it's open.
There were tons of the current Ipaqs running Linux
at Linux Expo, unfortunately there did not really
seem to be much in the way of real apps running on
them. What is the state of the Linux environment
for these things, is it fragmented by the distributions available or is there some common ground that people can start writing to?
I'll buy one of these things as soon as I can boot
Linux on it and run at least the same basic apps
that I can on my palm, ie. a datebook, addressbook
memos, etc.
Being that the mp3 format is lossy, it is not an exact copy of the original. Does a close approximation count? At what point does it become a "hand drawn facsimile"?
I don't really think that this is true. Most of the Linux media apps i've used in the last while seem to be standardized on (for video at least) the avifile stuff which is a clever hack that allows some (most, all, i don't know) windows codecs in the form of dlls to be run natively under linux. While i'm sure that we we would all like to see pure linux versions of these codecs, we have to take what we can get, and if people are clever enough to hijack the windows ones, so be it. It's the result that matters. Let people write for media player if they want to, if we can take and use the result under Linux, the problem is solved.
That was a long time ago, things have improved considably since then.
How about:
setenv MAIL "xterm -e mutt"
for example
They had this at the LinuxCare booth at Linux expo, it looks really cool, like a set of conentric circle. The best part of course was that Linus wandered over to look at it while I was there!
.ps file so that the poor guy doesn't get slashdotted. with Email
Could some one please mirror the
snip
I've always wondered whether a machine running VMWare would make a good firewall. You could run are really stripped down virtual machine that controls access to the outside ethernet inteface and mediates access to the host OS.
Doug Miller does not have a great track record at predicting the future, considering that M$ scoped up his previous company Softway Systems for a song.
I happen to like my job, I happen to like my employer. I want to work for a company, be part of it, work with it for our combined success, I want to be judged, promoted and rewarded for my work and efforts, not the amount of time I've worked there and not on the collective effort of my co-workers.
I don't want to work for a union, I don't want to work with unionized people, I do not want to work in an environment where it is "us the employees" vs "them in managment".
Unions are for people that work in comodity positions where anyone can do the same job and exist to protect dead wood.
I mean't, the kernel, I don't consider the rest of the distribution to be the O/S.
On your lunch hour, download the next full version release of your operating system (service packs are for sissys). Configure it, compile it, install it and be back working with no problems by the end of the hour. That's what I did.
How about just filling the envelope with glue!
Hmmm, the problem is that you have no control
over the modem that you are trying to spoof.
Seems to me that in order to reverse engineer the protocol, you would need to snoop an actuall conversation.
It seems to me that with the increased availablity of gadgets that want to dial home to connect to a proprietary service, there is a need for a project to spoof modem connections and reverse engineer protocols. I see these things all the time and think, nice piece of hardware but I don't want to be shackled to their service. Take for example these new digital picture frames. They look like something that has a lot of hacking potential but how do you get them to talk to your own machine instead of calling home. Is it possible to attach two modems together using some sort of crossover cable? Is anyone working on reverse engineering some of the protocols used by these devices? I know may of these companies are selling the hardware at a loss in the hope that they will make money on the subscription, too bad for them.