the Qube is NOT for self-respecting Linux gurus, it's for offices that want a hassle-free server! there are a lot more of the latter than of the former
it's not their point of view that sucks the most, it's the LAW that makes it illegal to do something that isn't damaging the artists (now go tell me that they're selling less CDs because the lyrics are on a site!) or even the companies involved, and which is not even done for profit.
the radio isn't any better, it's largely controlled by the big music industry too, it's actually their main way of telling you what to listen to. besides, the sound quality is annoying, there are ads, and they don't play what *you* want to hear.
my solution is, as much as possible, to mail order from small labels who do it for the love of the music, like Wayside or New Sonic Architecture or the Artist Shop, or even better directly from the artists, when they offer it. This way they get most of the money.
This just plain SUCKS. States ought to do the right thing and just turn copyright OFF for any individual piece smaller than, say, 100k of information, when used non-commercially.
The copyright madness is getting majorly out of hand.
calm down. France's crypto-liberty is still significantly lower than the US's, according to this article. Not that teh US is such a great place for crypto, seeing that you can't export anything truly secure.
RedHat *definitely* need to make their ftp servers usable. they accept so few connections that they're pretty much always full. the company is getting big, they surely can afford a bit more bandwith!
It's a matter of support; if you use filtering software, you can do it responsibly, and keep the sites you want to support out of the filter list.
me, I tried cookie jar and junkbuster, and while they did a good job of filtering, I noticed enough of a slowdown to make me turn them off at the end. I'm waiting for Mozilla to grow up and stabilize, to have filtering in the client itself.
sounds cool:) then again if it doesn't (i.e if it doesn't actually run under FreeBSD's Linux emulation), don't forget that you can run it under Linux itself! Even the biggest FreeBSD big^H^H^Hadvocate would agree that it's a big step up from NT.
until someone figures out a way to get to the key (which, after all, must either come with the software, or be derivable from your chip's ID), and to decode programs once and for all. give it 3 months after the chips come out.
not that I care much anyway, this would apply to proprietary s/w, which I don't depend on.
learn sed and awk?? that's the last bit of advice I would ever give to anyone learning Linux/Unix nowadays! I'd say learn perl (or python, if you're of that religion), the basics of shell scripting, and be done with it.
coding anything more complicated than a few lines in shell script feels like masochism to me, and sed and awk are redundant once you know some perl (but not the other way around!).
perl is a compiler (compiles into some kind of internal bytecode, but that never prevented it from checking the program for consistency). and perl has good ways to enforce strict coding, just "use strict" and declare your variables etc. perl -w is your friend too.
I think exactly the opposite of JavaScript: it is actually useful, but it doesn't make sense.
It is useful, as in, it does things the developper might wnat to do, and that can't be done otherwise. Which means it can be great to use in a controlled environment, like an "intranet" where you trust the server
It doesn't make sense on the web, because it lets the server control the client much more than the human in front of the client would reasonably want. For one thing, it lets the page open new windows, coming up wth all kinds of annoying popup ads, and even worse, sites that will deliberately make it hard for you to leave!
Unless you happen to trust the site that you're visiting, the only reasonable default for javascript is OFF.
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so basically someone needs to find out a way to grab the keys once and then replay them. I hope divx doesn't get to the point where someone has to bother, but if it does become successful, it'll probably happen.
is it just me, or did time just go back a couple days in Slashdot-land? for a while all the articles available were a couple days old, whiel the "yesterday's articles" were actually yesterday's (and so more recent than the main page's!).
harrumph, lynx's popup boxes are all wrong on the console after I load an isolatin1 font... and every trip to X and back restores the default yucky ibm charset.
incidentally, the guy who wrote the first linked essay, Ram Samudrala, has a VERY interesting site at www.ram.org. I ordered the CD "traversing a twisted path" from him, and it's really worth it.
isn't SuSE the one that mixes non-free stuff deep inside the system, starting with its own install tool?
I may be wrong, and I've never used SuSE myself, but I don't think RedHat is anywhere as bad as some people say around here. There are many things I change when I install a new system, sure, but I haven't had any major problems with RedHat as a Linux distribution.
I've installed Debians too, and I'd say they're about as good, but in different places; Debian's installation isn't as neat as RedHat's, but the package selection is more comprehensive.
yeah, Digital Unix sounds good, and actually has a good reputation of being a stable, high-end Unix. now, Tru64Unix, what the hell is that for a fugly name? it sounds like the kind of cheesy names soundcards or game consoles get.
editing multiple files), and I use plain gdb as a debugger, when strace isn't enough. I've used IDEs before, in the days of MS-DOG, and I don't want ot go back there. I could use 'ddd' sometimes, but I'm generally too lazy to keep it around, and gdb is good anywya.
it is a true story, and a good one too, but this guy does sound like some (gentle) kind of con-man. after all, he's in the business of selling such worthless junk as "motivation" and "inspirational", which are barely half a step above get-rich-quick schemes.
I think I'd have kept the money too, and had a lawyer handle the whole thing instead of doing it myself. Then again, he only ended up in the situation of having a legal claim to the money through a set of coincidences and luck, so that would probably have fucked it up.
given the laws that he quotes, I'm surprised that it was *his* bank that ended up losing the money (for as long as he kept it); I'd have expected the original junkmailer to get charged, which would have been just perfect.
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the Qube is NOT for self-respecting Linux gurus, it's for offices that want a hassle-free server! there are a lot more of the latter than of the former
it's not their point of view that sucks the most, it's the LAW that makes it illegal to do something that isn't damaging the artists (now go tell me that they're selling less CDs because the lyrics are on a site!) or even the companies involved, and which is not even done for profit.
my solution is, as much as possible, to mail order from small labels who do it for the love of the music, like Wayside or New Sonic Architecture or the Artist Shop, or even better directly from the artists, when they offer it. This way they get most of the money.
The copyright madness is getting majorly out of hand.
(and it's "la France", btw)
- no complete freedom (still limited to 128 bits)
- export controlled for anything over 56 bits, and
- "declarative process will be simplfied", seeming to imply that you'll still (in theory) have to declare your use of crypto.
France remains a not-so-free country regarding crypto.RedHat *definitely* need to make their ftp servers usable. they accept so few connections that they're pretty much always full. the company is getting big, they surely can afford a bit more bandwith!
me, I tried cookie jar and junkbuster, and while they did a good job of filtering, I noticed enough of a slowdown to make me turn them off at the end. I'm waiting for Mozilla to grow up and stabilize, to have filtering in the client itself.
uhm, turn java off, to begin with. you can always turn it on for sites that actually need it, as opposed to sites that will annoy you with it.
sounds cool :) then again if it doesn't (i.e if it doesn't actually run under FreeBSD's Linux emulation), don't forget that you can run it under Linux itself! Even the biggest FreeBSD big^H^H^Hadvocate would agree that it's a big step up from NT.
not that I care much anyway, this would apply to proprietary s/w, which I don't depend on.
thin'(E, whiskey) & thick'(E, glass) & last-night'(E).
of course, you lose all kinds of implications and connotations...
coding anything more complicated than a few lines in shell script feels like masochism to me, and sed and awk are redundant once you know some perl (but not the other way around!).
perl is a compiler (compiles into some kind of internal bytecode, but that never prevented it from checking the program for consistency). and perl has good ways to enforce strict coding, just "use strict" and declare your variables etc. perl -w is your friend too.
It is useful, as in, it does things the developper might wnat to do, and that can't be done otherwise. Which means it can be great to use in a controlled environment, like an "intranet" where you trust the server
It doesn't make sense on the web, because it lets the server control the client much more than the human in front of the client would reasonably want. For one thing, it lets the page open new windows, coming up wth all kinds of annoying popup ads, and even worse, sites that will deliberately make it hard for you to leave!
Unless you happen to trust the site that you're visiting, the only reasonable default for javascript is OFF.
so basically someone needs to find out a way to grab the keys once and then replay them. I hope divx doesn't get to the point where someone has to bother, but if it does become successful, it'll probably happen.
harrumph, lynx's popup boxes are all wrong on the console after I load an isolatin1 font... and every trip to X and back restores the default yucky ibm charset.
incidentally, the guy who wrote the first linked essay, Ram Samudrala, has a VERY interesting site at www.ram.org. I ordered the CD "traversing a twisted path" from him, and it's really worth it.
I may be wrong, and I've never used SuSE myself, but I don't think RedHat is anywhere as bad as some people say around here. There are many things I change when I install a new system, sure, but I haven't had any major problems with RedHat as a Linux distribution.
I've installed Debians too, and I'd say they're about as good, but in different places; Debian's installation isn't as neat as RedHat's, but the package selection is more comprehensive.
yeah, Digital Unix sounds good, and actually has a good reputation of being a stable, high-end Unix. now, Tru64Unix, what the hell is that for a fugly name? it sounds like the kind of cheesy names soundcards or game consoles get.
but will it be Open Source??
I think I'd have kept the money too, and had a lawyer handle the whole thing instead of doing it myself. Then again, he only ended up in the situation of having a legal claim to the money through a set of coincidences and luck, so that would probably have fucked it up.
given the laws that he quotes, I'm surprised that it was *his* bank that ended up losing the money (for as long as he kept it); I'd have expected the original junkmailer to get charged, which would have been just perfect.