Spitzer said at a press conference the states were still calculating the exact amount of the damages, but said they amounted to ``hundreds of millions of dollars'' or ``several dollars per CD.''
so... i have around 400 cds. by my calculations, the riaa owes me $1200. empeg, here i come!
but joking aside... what will happen to the cash that the courts make the riaa cough up? as a major purchaser of cds, i'd sure like to be refunded for some of the cost of my music. --
the number in the leftmost column is the pci bus. as you can see, `00' is the `real' pci bus, while the agp bus is `01'. i don't know if this is because agp is just a souped-up pci bus, or if it just looks like one for compatibility. either way, pci is cool.
so a mobo manufacturer could slap another agp connector on a single agp bus, but since both cards would have to share that bus, you would run the risk of maxxing it out, resulting in crappy framerates.
what you really want is a mobo with dual agp busses, one slot on each. a quick search on google turns up... a bunch of false positives, like dual-cpu mobos with a single agp port. but i'm sure it won't be long before dual-agp boards are all over. --
come, now. many sites, including yahoo, have been taken out with ddos attacks. though a/. attack would not be quite as bad as a `real' ddos, they are quite similar.
yeah, and year from now, they'll be charging you $.33 per mail. it will take a week to be delivered, assuming that your message was not in the 25% that get lost every day.
disclaimer: i have been a debian user for about 3 years now. debian is easily the best linux distro i've ever used- on a desktop. this is not a flame.
debian is horrible for embedded systems. i've tried it. the debian package management depends heavily on perl and a bunch of associated utilities & libraries which don't fit too well on, say, 8mb of flash disk. in fact, it takes a lot of effort to strip a debian distro down under 20-30 megs.
if you really want to do use linux on embedded hardware, do yourself a favor and just build your own distro. for small systems, it's really not all that hard.
if you are lazy, check out lem, linux embedded. it's about 8 megs total, and includes X and glibc 2.1.x.
if you want linux on a desktop, or for a linux server, you can't go wrong with debian.
these announcements really underscore the need for a standard linux base or something similar.
but from what i can tell, the lsb only determines what libraries and such should be installed. perhaps a better solution would be to create a meta-package format, which could be cleanly converted into.deb,.rpm,.tgz,.slp (or whatever format) with some supplied tools. then a software vendor would only have to create a single package, and either convert it, or offer the meta-package which the end-user could convert.
in any case, until there is a standardized linux base/package system, this sort of thing is going to continue. it's no different than software houses developing for msft; they are the market leader in terms of number of users. similarly, redhat has a higher percentage of users than any other linux distro. it's all about getting the biggest market possible for their software.
(this is not a troll. it's my opinion. please read it all the way through before moderating.)
star awful-ice is a heap of shit. it's bloated, slow, and forces that horrible browser/file manager/word processor metaphor down your throat. what sort of godless wretch would design such a useless interface?
now... consider mozilla. it's taken two years to get to the point where they are considering a beta release. star awful-ice is (in my estimation) at least twice as big as mozilla - (correct me if i'm wrong, please) you do the math.
and even if star awful-ice does grow to dominate the linux office suite market, there are going to be high-quality alternatives, such as abiword.
until sun gets their act together with star awful-ice, more power to corel. they are leading the way for commercial software houses, by proving that their apps can be ported to linux. they have good products (quattro pro kicks excel's ass any day) and are a good company, despite their current financial problems.
plus, with corel's current level of commitment to linux, if they go under it's a possibility that they will just release their code. i'd much rather see the code for wp/qpro released than the trash from sun.
ever since they lost their monopoly, they have had the petulant attitude of a child deprived of a favorite toy. nsi needs to drop the bad attitude and focus on getting customers through superior service and cost. i suppose it can be hard to compete with the likes of joker, who offers ~$12usd registration for a year, versus $35 - $85 to nsi.
also, has anyone noticed that nsi seems to be giving themselves a rather large amount of domains? they have netsol.com, netsol.org, networksoutions.com, networksolutions.org, networksolutions.net, nsi.com, nsi.net, networksol.com, and netsolution.org - and that's just the ones i can think up off hand.
sorry to nitpick, but the connection is 150kbit/sec, not 150kbyte/sec. with 150kbit/sec, you will pull about 15kbyte/sec - 18.75kbyte/sec, with some lost due to tcp/ip overhead.
what's more interesting is how it would handle the loss of one or two cell channels due to poor coverage/signal quality.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:48:16 GMT Content-Type: text/html X-Cache: MISS from cache_host Age: 0 X-Cache: MISS from cache_host Proxy-Connection: close -- snip --
for a grand total of 232 bytes.
my previous post was slightly incorrect; i passed a bad http request, which generated a few more headers:
-- snip -- GET / HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request Server: Squid/2.0.RELEASE Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:02:27 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 811 Expires: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:02:27 GMT X-Squid-Error: ERR_INVALID_REQ 0 X-Cache: MISS from cache_host Proxy-Connection: close -- snip -- grand total: 289 bytes.
on the other hand, http is fairly simple, is proxy and firewall friendly, and it's ubiquitous. http is going to be here for quite some time, simply because of the amount of deployment - bxxp or no bxxp.
of course, look at how fast http superseded gopher.
of slightly more interest to me is the security implications of bxxp. since it's two-way, it could be difficult to filter, and opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities for propagation of virii and spam.
sounds like it would have a lot of overhead. on the other hand, http isn't all that lightweight either; a simple request to yahoo.com takes 289 bytes. so it has merit.
it will be interesting to see some http vs. bxxp benchmarks whenever there is code behind it.
i recall the days when you could get software to solve any number of hardware problems. not enough ram? get ramdoubler. not enough disk space? get stacker. computer not fast enough? get 386to486.exe!
a rule-of-thumb i recall from that era was something along the lines of: 'software solutions to hardware problems are impractical'.
the fact that they do the compression in hardware may have some merit. so i did a bit of testing; i checked the sizes of/proc/kcore, and the size after piping/proc/kcore through gzip and into a file.
on my 32mb box: (4944k used, not counting cache)
compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name 18796861 33558528 43.9% kcore
on my 192mb box: (144872k used, not counting cache)
compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name 99302828 201265152 50.6% kcore
figures are probably quite skewed, since the core image was not a snapshot. but it looks like the actual used memory compresses better then the bit-soup that is in the dimms when the system powers up.
who knows... maybe ibm has a few tricks up their sleeves. be interesting to see some linux source to deal with these beasts... i'm assuming that it's os-dependent, and since ibm has been great about linux lately, i'd think they would release whatever kernel patches would be necessary to use these things.
perhaps the real motivation is a desire to avoid further litigation from modifying java by creating their own knock-off.
and i'm sure they will hype the same things as their broken java: works better & faster on windows platforms, portabilty between windows platforms, blah blah blah.
though offtopic, does anyone else notice how every msft product cycle is touted as faster, yet the minimum requirements keep going up and up? shouldn't this be considered some sort of false advertising, or is there a legal loophole they are exploiting?
hmm, looks like most of the mirrors don't have the new version. ah, well.
blender is _really_ cool software. i just wish it would work with my voodoo3. they say that glide doesn't support enough of opengl for it to work well.
yeah, but what about the people who register frequent mis-spellings of major sites. like atlavista. com?
just because the TLDs are there does not mean that people will use them. and tricks like mis-spellings and foo.net (where foo.com is the `real' site) get those types of sites _far_ more exposure than they would get if they all existed in.sex,.xxx, or.porn.
adding more TLDs is just going to increase the pollution of the namespace. just imagine how many people are going to go out and register microsoft.FOO or metallica.FOO in the hopes that the `real' company/band/whatever will shell out some cash to get it.
on the other hand, maybe icann is in bed with nsi or core. there are bound to be a _lot_ more domain registrations with more TLDs to overrun and pollute.
come on. it's pretty obvious that the current system isn't working too well. how about designing a new domain structure and scrapping the current one. make people registering new domains prove that they have a real need for it, and have a group of people monitoring of the registrars to prevent approval of domain name squatting and namespace pollution. offer anyone with a currently active domain free re-registration in the new system, maybe with a free year or something.
i'm sure that everyone will shoot that idea down, but you have to do the same thing to get a block of ip addresses; theory being that if everyone and their brother go out and get a full/24, they aren't real likely to use the whole thing. so you have to justify your needs. why should the domain structure be any different?
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Spitzer said at a press conference the states were still calculating the exact amount of the damages, but said they amounted to ``hundreds of millions of dollars'' or ``several dollars per CD.''
so... i have around 400 cds. by my calculations, the riaa owes me $1200. empeg, here i come!
but joking aside... what will happen to the cash that the courts make the riaa cough up? as a major purchaser of cds, i'd sure like to be refunded for some of the cost of my music.
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whew, that was close! slashdot might have lost it's journalistic integrity if they posted a story with inaccurate information!
slashdot would never stoop to posting a story with inaccurate information.
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yeah, it's technically possible. agp is very similar to pci, but it is faster, and you don't have to share the bus with other devices.
quick example here:
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03)
(stuff deleted)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev 03)
the number in the leftmost column is the pci bus. as you can see, `00' is the `real' pci bus, while the agp bus is `01'. i don't know if this is because agp is just a souped-up pci bus, or if it just looks like one for compatibility. either way, pci is cool.
so a mobo manufacturer could slap another agp connector on a single agp bus, but since both cards would have to share that bus, you would run the risk of maxxing it out, resulting in crappy framerates.
what you really want is a mobo with dual agp busses, one slot on each. a quick search on google turns up... a bunch of false positives, like dual-cpu mobos with a single agp port. but i'm sure it won't be long before dual-agp boards are all over.
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come, now. many sites, including yahoo, have been taken out with ddos attacks. though a /. attack would not be quite as bad as a `real' ddos, they are quite similar.
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yeah, and year from now, they'll be charging you $.33 per mail. it will take a week to be delivered, assuming that your message was not in the 25% that get lost every day.
joy.
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disclaimer: i have been a debian user for about 3 years now. debian is easily the best linux distro i've ever used- on a desktop. this is not a flame.
debian is horrible for embedded systems. i've tried it. the debian package management depends heavily on perl and a bunch of associated utilities & libraries which don't fit too well on, say, 8mb of flash disk. in fact, it takes a lot of effort to strip a debian distro down under 20-30 megs.
if you really want to do use linux on embedded hardware, do yourself a favor and just build your own distro. for small systems, it's really not all that hard.
if you are lazy, check out lem, linux embedded. it's about 8 megs total, and includes X and glibc 2.1.x.
if you want linux on a desktop, or for a linux server, you can't go wrong with debian.
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these announcements really underscore the need for a standard linux base or something similar.
.deb, .rpm, .tgz, .slp (or whatever format) with some supplied tools. then a software vendor would only have to create a single package, and either convert it, or offer the meta-package which the end-user could convert.
but from what i can tell, the lsb only determines what libraries and such should be installed. perhaps a better solution would be to create a meta-package format, which could be cleanly converted into
in any case, until there is a standardized linux base/package system, this sort of thing is going to continue. it's no different than software houses developing for msft; they are the market leader in terms of number of users. similarly, redhat has a higher percentage of users than any other linux distro. it's all about getting the biggest market possible for their software.
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the front page on the orbs site also has a list of email addresses to complain to if you don't agree with MAPS's actions. quick cut 'n' paste:
go forth and complain.
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star awful-ice is a heap of shit. it's bloated, slow, and forces that horrible browser/file manager/word processor metaphor down your throat. what sort of godless wretch would design such a useless interface?
now... consider mozilla. it's taken two years to get to the point where they are considering a beta release. star awful-ice is (in my estimation) at least twice as big as mozilla - (correct me if i'm wrong, please) you do the math.
and even if star awful-ice does grow to dominate the linux office suite market, there are going to be high-quality alternatives, such as abiword.
until sun gets their act together with star awful-ice, more power to corel. they are leading the way for commercial software houses, by proving that their apps can be ported to linux. they have good products (quattro pro kicks excel's ass any day) and are a good company, despite their current financial problems.
plus, with corel's current level of commitment to linux, if they go under it's a possibility that they will just release their code. i'd much rather see the code for wp/qpro released than the trash from sun.
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any us citizen or company can get a free
anyways, enough with the crap, here's the link. www.nic.us.
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ever since they lost their monopoly, they have had the petulant attitude of a child deprived of a favorite toy. nsi needs to drop the bad attitude and focus on getting customers through superior service and cost. i suppose it can be hard to compete with the likes of joker, who offers ~$12usd registration for a year, versus $35 - $85 to nsi.
also, has anyone noticed that nsi seems to be giving themselves a rather large amount of domains? they have netsol.com, netsol.org, networksoutions.com, networksolutions.org, networksolutions.net, nsi.com, nsi.net, networksol.com, and netsolution.org - and that's just the ones i can think up off hand.
i will never give a dime to nsi.
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what's more interesting is how it would handle the loss of one or two cell channels due to poor coverage/signal quality.
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GET http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:48:16 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
X-Cache: MISS from cache_host
Age: 0
X-Cache: MISS from cache_host
Proxy-Connection: close
-- snip --
for a grand total of 232 bytes.
my previous post was slightly incorrect; i passed a bad http request, which generated a few more headers:
-- snip --
GET /
HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Server: Squid/2.0.RELEASE
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:02:27 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 811
Expires: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:02:27 GMT
X-Squid-Error: ERR_INVALID_REQ 0
X-Cache: MISS from cache_host
Proxy-Connection: close
-- snip --
grand total: 289 bytes.
and that's not counting the tcp/ip headers.
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of course, look at how fast http superseded gopher.
of slightly more interest to me is the security implications of bxxp. since it's two-way, it could be difficult to filter, and opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities for propagation of virii and spam.
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it will be interesting to see some http vs. bxxp benchmarks whenever there is code behind it.
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a rule-of-thumb i recall from that era was something along the lines of: 'software solutions to hardware problems are impractical'.
the fact that they do the compression in hardware may have some merit. so i did a bit of testing; i checked the sizes of
on my 32mb box: (4944k used, not counting cache)
on my 192mb box: (144872k used, not counting cache)
figures are probably quite skewed, since the core image was not a snapshot. but it looks like the actual used memory compresses better then the bit-soup that is in the dimms when the system powers up.
who knows... maybe ibm has a few tricks up their sleeves. be interesting to see some linux source to deal with these beasts... i'm assuming that it's os-dependent, and since ibm has been great about linux lately, i'd think they would release whatever kernel patches would be necessary to use these things.
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and i'm sure they will hype the same things as their broken java: works better & faster on windows platforms, portabilty between windows platforms, blah blah blah.
though offtopic, does anyone else notice how every msft product cycle is touted as faster, yet the minimum requirements keep going up and up? shouldn't this be considered some sort of false advertising, or is there a legal loophole they are exploiting?
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hmm, looks like most of the mirrors don't have the new version. ah, well.
blender is _really_ cool software. i just wish it would work with my voodoo3. they say that glide doesn't support enough of opengl for it to work well.
anyways... plug plug. blender rocks.
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i eventually got sick of the writing, which was horrible.
looks like they aren't playing it anymore, but they are still playing "when radio was", show that plays old radio dramas. lots of good stuff.
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if that really happened, is jackson really able to override the normal processes like that?
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so what's the benefit?
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i'd have _no_ problem paying $20 - $25us for a domain, it's still a quarter of the price nsi charges.
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MR. HERNDSTADT: My name is Raymond R. Brown.
if the guys giving the interview can't even figure out who they are, i doubt the subject will say anything all that interesting.
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just because the TLDs are there does not mean that people will use them. and tricks like mis-spellings and foo.net (where foo.com is the `real' site) get those types of sites _far_ more exposure than they would get if they all existed in
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on the other hand, maybe icann is in bed with nsi or core. there are bound to be a _lot_ more domain registrations with more TLDs to overrun and pollute.
come on. it's pretty obvious that the current system isn't working too well. how about designing a new domain structure and scrapping the current one. make people registering new domains prove that they have a real need for it, and have a group of people monitoring of the registrars to prevent approval of domain name squatting and namespace pollution. offer anyone with a currently active domain free re-registration in the new system, maybe with a free year or something.
i'm sure that everyone will shoot that idea down, but you have to do the same thing to get a block of ip addresses; theory being that if everyone and their brother go out and get a full
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