Are we thinking of the same iTunes? Any music from earlier than last year has DRM and will pretty much only work on an iPod. Heaps of other music stores sell music in WMA format with DRM, which decidedly won't work on Apple hardware. The iTunes library format and the iPod syncing protocol are anything but standard, and while there are a few alternatives to iTunes (which in my experience are not that great), they're only around because of the massive reverse-engineering effort the community's put in.
I'm not sure why you got Insightful for that...
it should not be too hard at all to let it run x86-win32 applications in arm-linux environments
Yes, it should. It's never been done before (to my knowledge), and it is not at all simple.
There is JIT and there is compiling, and the two, although based on exactly the same routine, deliver two different results, performance- and battery-life- wise.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but there's not a huge difference.
I can get referb HP or Dell workstations with 2Ghz CPUs and 1GB RAM for under $100 plus a $100 monitor. These make great Thin clients and simplify administration and security.
Those would make great servers, but they're definitely overkill for clients. I'm using a 10 year old 500MHz P3 with half a gig of ram for a client at home, and it works fine.
I doubt the students will have the know how to hack linux.
As a Linux enthusiast and student in the local equivalent of the 10th grade, wrong: those of us that don't, know how to use Google well enough to find out.
The fact that those who did this had huge resources do not make it less scary, neither does the fact that nobody detected anything. Remeber how that guy operated a tor exit node to get a whole lot of interesting datas; the idea here is the same.
Except that they don't actually see any of that data.
A concrete example would be to send your wikipedia request to a bogus wikipedia website. It would forward all your queries to the real wikipedia, so you couldn't tell the difference (man in the middle), but on some pages it would serve you an altered page; it could also make you feel like you wrote an article, but the article would actually only show up on your copy of the bogus website, not the real one. Encryption twarts this, otherwise it's really the worst case scenario.
I could be wrong, but all DNS does is resolve a domain (e.g. en.wikipedia.org) to an IP address (e.g. 208.80.152.2). So they could redirect you to a completely different website, but not just a different page. Also, because of the way DNS data is usually cached all over the place, they would only see one request per domain during all of your browsing, if that.
Welchia brought university and corporate networks to their knees because of high traffic just as well as Blaster did - perhaps even moreso since it was also doing a lot of HTTP requests to Microsoft's servers.
Microsoft will likely hate this idea, but they could use Bittorrent.
I was raised as a Christian; my parents read me stories from the Bible at night. What the Bible says and what some Christians do are so very different. Some nice examples:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
There is a saying, 'Love your friends and hate your enemies.' But I say: Love your enemies!
Seek peace, and pursue it
There are more. Don't judge a religion by some of its followers.
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Are we thinking of the same iTunes? Any music from earlier than last year has DRM and will pretty much only work on an iPod. Heaps of other music stores sell music in WMA format with DRM, which decidedly won't work on Apple hardware. The iTunes library format and the iPod syncing protocol are anything but standard, and while there are a few alternatives to iTunes (which in my experience are not that great), they're only around because of the massive reverse-engineering effort the community's put in. I'm not sure why you got Insightful for that...
That's a dude's blog. As in, "The views stated herein are my own, and do not necessarily represent those of Opera Software."
Yes, it should. It's never been done before (to my knowledge), and it is not at all simple.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but there's not a huge difference.
Those would make great servers, but they're definitely overkill for clients. I'm using a 10 year old 500MHz P3 with half a gig of ram for a client at home, and it works fine.
Don't you think it would be easier to just download it? There are sites and tools around that let you just download the audio as a mp3.
As a Linux enthusiast and student in the local equivalent of the 10th grade, wrong: those of us that don't, know how to use Google well enough to find out.
You're right: I got 26 out of 33 as a 16 year old from New Zealand.
How did they manage to make using Bugzilla cost $100,000?
No, all of the nightlies are called Minefield.
So how come a TV station broadcasting on channel 18 doesn't spillover onto the top half of channel 17?
Sounds pretty much like a union.
Actually, sudo bash will give you a prompt with #.
Same here (NZ). Has anyone got the admin's email address?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't we not actually found any dark matter yet?
Python does most of that and it's easy.
*sigh* One of these days I'm going to start reading the articles.
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
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There is a saying, 'Love your friends and hate your enemies.' But I say: Love your enemies!
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Seek peace, and pursue it
There are more. Don't judge a religion by some of its followers.Because obviously there aren't any other continents...
Don't forget that it's only shooting little bullety things, which are a lot lighter than spaceships and satellites.
Actually, a lot of the stuff under "Our Philosophy" on "About Us" is slightly paraphrased from "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman.