199089
submission
os_evaluator writes:
According to OS News, a team comprised of members from Bell-Labs, IBM Research, Sandia National Labs, and Vita Nuova has completed a port of Plan 9 to the Blue Gene supercomputer. Plan 9 kernels are running on both the compute nodes and the I/O nodes and the Ethernet, Torus, Collective Network, Barrier Network, and Management network are all supported." This is very good news for both Plan 9 and IBM. Hopefully now people will start taking Plan 9 as a serious operating system, and see the brilliant design of it that has been overlooked for so many years. Daily ISOs are available at the Bell-Labs website. You are encouraged to try it out and expect the unexpected.
199079
submission
bingbong writes:
I'm a DVD addict with a large DVD collection. I want to save space and rip all my DVDs to a storage drive, and then serve them to my various TVs around the house. Are there any suggestions for ripping, cataloging and streaming software? I might also be moving to the UK from the US in the next year. So ideally this system would be something i could use over there.
so that's my dream. Any thoughts?
199021
submission
BillGatesLoveChild writes:
When Trey Harrison found his music lighting software 'Salvation' had been pirated, he was taken aback. Being an Independent Software Developer, there wasn't much he could do. So he contacted the Warez Group and asked them nicely. They wrote back and said sorry, that they at least hoped more people got to see it and that in accordance with his wishes, they wouldn't release it again.
But what of the Anti-Piracy tool "Armadillo Software Passport" that was supposed to have protected Trey's Software? Unlike the Pirates who responded straight away, Trey says he never heard a peep back from Armadillo. Seems the Pirates have better "customer support" than the Anti-piracy agents!
Of course, "Ask Nicely" may not work for the RIAA who as Orson Scott Card's famous essay pointed out have perhaps irreversible ill-will due to their history of ripping off artists and consumers and buying off Congressmen. But for smaller companies and independents, perhaps it's worth a try? There's even hope for the industry heavies. Mark Ishikawa of Anti-P2P Company BayTSP says 85% of people he sends a gentle warning on behalf of the MPAA
"do not come back, with no headlines and no public relations blowups."
Could a softly-softly approach work better for IP owners that heavy-handed threats and lawyers?
