Uhh. AAC don't inherently have DRM. AAC actually has superior audio quality against MP3 in quite a few stuides and is an open format. It's just the proprietary extensions of AAC add DRM. Heck, you could add a proprietary extension to MP3 to make it DRM'ed.
Ah, then it will surprise you to learn that a large portion of nextstep technologies involve postscript integration? You know, there's a reason why Apple has good PDF support throughout their OS. I'm not saying that's it's a bad thing at all. It's saner than... shall we say WMF?
Unfortunately, we will have to wait to read about proper server setups until once the server recovers from a slashdotting.
In the mean time, I suggest you emerge -uDN world while you wait.
Wow, you must be new here.
By slashdot's "standards" (feel free to guess whether I was being sarcastic or ironic), Windows releases are not considered done until service pack 2.
This trait can often be attributed to opensource release cycles, much like how google derives their product stages:
Alpha - New functionality is being developed. API's may change
Beta - Feature set complete. API may have minimal changes due to user feedback. 3rd parties should start coding
Release candidate - Testing in a wide user base as a potential for release
Final - The last release candidate
The many showstopper bugs that have plagued Windows releases, has caused many people to call Windows releases as betas. Also keep in mind how additional functionality is often added in service packs... especially functionality that they promised before the original release and only got around patching it in years after wards (think movie maker 2, proper WiFi support, firewall improvements, DEP, automatic update improvements, WMP 9 from SP2)
I would like to disagree with your assessment. Have you looked at the r300 driver for ATI cards? I believe ATI cards up to X1300 work resonable. The performance if worse than the proprietary ones, but as in supporting xinerama, aiglx, and whatever newfangled X standards, they work great! Plus, IMO, they are better supported and install in a saner fashion.
Note: I agree completely
Ah, this is one of the greater qualms and irony of Valve's distribution system. While most of Valve's games have been modified to run without steam and then published on file sharing networks, I have to laugh at the modified steam clients that allow users, for the most part, to download the games illegally through steam. Talk about deliciously devious theft of service.
Bookmarking has been subverted way before AJAX came along. Any website generated from POST information can't really be bookmarked. That's what PERMALINK is for.
Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean it's crap.
The new flash player seems to work for most people I know, including me. I got it the very day the v9 beta came out and it was pretty stable.
If you are having problems, you should report them to the adobe linux flash team who seems very responsive.
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree. Xgl and AIGLX + compiz have set the bar linux desktops. A better article title might be, "FVWM no longer looks like a pig."
Anyways, I can't bear to have my menu's as transperant as some of those screenshots. That's especially since none of those screen shots appear to have real transperancy.
This is very easy to fix and many popular distro's fix this by default.
What the poster's example is a thread bomb. This is a bit a code that tries to make as many threads as possible. Windows has a fixed number of threads each user can make. In linux, this "limit" is adjustable. On many systems, either the distrubutor or the user hasn't set a limit allowing a fork bomb to affect the system.
However, setting a limit is as easy as one line in/etc/limits or/etc/security/limits.conf
I think what we need a virus that modifies the DRM'ed files on the infected computers so that the DRM is as strict as possible. It will be a good demostration of what the companies are capable of doing.
Also, the companies may possibly be forced to release tools to unDRM/less DRM the files.
Well, a variation of SHA-1, now called SHA-0 was broken similarily more that a year ago (before MD5 was broken). It was just a matter of time they figured out how to break full SHA-1.
In the mean time, people who knew about this switched to SHA-256 which is still known to be good.
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I dunno, fixes and features only in SP's seems pretty popular with Microsoft. That's "black box" in your sense.
Uhh. AAC don't inherently have DRM. AAC actually has superior audio quality against MP3 in quite a few stuides and is an open format. It's just the proprietary extensions of AAC add DRM. Heck, you could add a proprietary extension to MP3 to make it DRM'ed.
Haha. I wish I had mod points. Excellent post.
Heck, even Dell has been doing this for a couple of years. Now if only harddrive firmwares and similar stuff worked too.
Ah, then it will surprise you to learn that a large portion of nextstep technologies involve postscript integration? You know, there's a reason why Apple has good PDF support throughout their OS. I'm not saying that's it's a bad thing at all. It's saner than... shall we say WMF?
Unfortunately, we will have to wait to read about proper server setups until once the server recovers from a slashdotting. In the mean time, I suggest you emerge -uDN world while you wait.
Wow, you must be new here. By slashdot's "standards" (feel free to guess whether I was being sarcastic or ironic), Windows releases are not considered done until service pack 2. This trait can often be attributed to opensource release cycles, much like how google derives their product stages: Alpha - New functionality is being developed. API's may change Beta - Feature set complete. API may have minimal changes due to user feedback. 3rd parties should start coding Release candidate - Testing in a wide user base as a potential for release Final - The last release candidate The many showstopper bugs that have plagued Windows releases, has caused many people to call Windows releases as betas. Also keep in mind how additional functionality is often added in service packs... especially functionality that they promised before the original release and only got around patching it in years after wards (think movie maker 2, proper WiFi support, firewall improvements, DEP, automatic update improvements, WMP 9 from SP2)
I would like to disagree with your assessment. Have you looked at the r300 driver for ATI cards? I believe ATI cards up to X1300 work resonable. The performance if worse than the proprietary ones, but as in supporting xinerama, aiglx, and whatever newfangled X standards, they work great! Plus, IMO, they are better supported and install in a saner fashion.
Note: I agree completely Ah, this is one of the greater qualms and irony of Valve's distribution system. While most of Valve's games have been modified to run without steam and then published on file sharing networks, I have to laugh at the modified steam clients that allow users, for the most part, to download the games illegally through steam. Talk about deliciously devious theft of service.
Bookmarking has been subverted way before AJAX came along. Any website generated from POST information can't really be bookmarked. That's what PERMALINK is for.
Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean it's crap. The new flash player seems to work for most people I know, including me. I got it the very day the v9 beta came out and it was pretty stable. If you are having problems, you should report them to the adobe linux flash team who seems very responsive.
Wait, really? Where can I find out more about this?
Oh crap, I just modded this incorrectly. Posting to revert moderation..
Parent is right! Please read Novell's response by the man himself!
Zomg! This was rated 3 INSIGHTFUL???
Sounds like they are infected by CWS (Cool Web Search).
This is in fact one of the worst spywares you can get. Quite a few variants can be deemed rootkit like.
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree. Xgl and AIGLX + compiz have set the bar linux desktops. A better article title might be, "FVWM no longer looks like a pig." Anyways, I can't bear to have my menu's as transperant as some of those screenshots. That's especially since none of those screen shots appear to have real transperancy.
Direct link to the video: Here
Hey, you know it's true when US-CERT says it too.
This is very easy to fix and many popular distro's fix this by default. What the poster's example is a thread bomb. This is a bit a code that tries to make as many threads as possible. Windows has a fixed number of threads each user can make. In linux, this "limit" is adjustable. On many systems, either the distrubutor or the user hasn't set a limit allowing a fork bomb to affect the system. However, setting a limit is as easy as one line in /etc/limits or /etc/security/limits.conf
It's actually from a google TechTalk. See it on Google Video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-824646398 0976635143&q=Google+techtalks+is%3Afree
I think what we need a virus that modifies the DRM'ed files on the infected computers so that the DRM is as strict as possible. It will be a good demostration of what the companies are capable of doing. Also, the companies may possibly be forced to release tools to unDRM/less DRM the files.
Well, a variation of SHA-1, now called SHA-0 was broken similarily more that a year ago (before MD5 was broken). It was just a matter of time they figured out how to break full SHA-1. In the mean time, people who knew about this switched to SHA-256 which is still known to be good.
Anonymous coward is most appropiate here. I live in the nation's capital and I pay more for less than him... and there's no competition whatsoever.