Journal Journal: [Z80] Pre-Xmas Lunch Meddlings
So before I amble up to my Dad's for Christmas, I decided to continue to try and work out why the keypad isn't working as behaved.
Once the keypad is working, well, I have then made a real computer - input (keypad) and output (LCD).
Journal Journal: Godfather of Soul Dead at 73: James Brown 1
Former Richard M. Nixon supporter and well known performer, James Brown died this AM of unspecified causes.
Submission + - Vista: The "Longest Suicide Note In History
DiamondGeezer writes: "The Inquirer reports on Peter Gutmann's dissection of Microsoft Vista:
"Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to
provide content protection for so-called "premium content", typically HD data
from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs
considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical
support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not
only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the
protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever
come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for
example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document
analyses the cost involved in Vista's content protection, and the collateral
damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry"
Lesson: If you want your graphics to be of the highest quality, your digital imaging to be top notch, then don't use Vista because it will degrade them in order to protect premium content and there's nothing you can do about it (other than go to OSX or Linux).
Happy New Year"
"Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to
provide content protection for so-called "premium content", typically HD data
from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs
considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical
support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not
only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the
protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever
come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for
example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document
analyses the cost involved in Vista's content protection, and the collateral
damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry"
Lesson: If you want your graphics to be of the highest quality, your digital imaging to be top notch, then don't use Vista because it will degrade them in order to protect premium content and there's nothing you can do about it (other than go to OSX or Linux).
Happy New Year"
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Journal Journal: G_dless Commie Hippy Global Warming Freaks 1
Saw this stupidity in the 'fire hose'.
Really not sure how to express what I read over there, but will give it a try or you can just go peek.
Somehow the original article writer is convinced that no inhabited delta island has ever disappeared before and his written assertion that this can only be caused by 'global warming' convinced the journal owner too.
Submission + - Linux may be ready, but Desktop might be gone
An anonymous reader writes:
There is also an interesting comment on Microsoft shooting itself into foot with more restrictive Vista license, preventing their users from new, emerging of computer usage modes.
However, I guess tinfoil hat wearers will keep their computer "virtual lairs" out of promiscuous (and snoopy, eh?) virtual machines and prying eyes of network storage service providers. OTOH, it is not like they are majority of computer users today, especially of business computer users, who may like to lift less weight — be free from heavy laptops and notebook computers they carry today.
Who knows, if free software conquer and dominate "outside world" (and likely it will), proprietary software will probably "retreat to forts" and get even more closed then today — running only on vendors' servers as subscription-based services and talking to thin free/open UI clients. But, will it be a good outcome? We may never get to see such programs become public, even after their copyright protection expire, as they will never reach us, never pass through our hands, not even in their binary form. Therefore, the practical significance of Free software movement will not be diminished, but on the contrary even more emphasized: they'll have to keep following and recreating functionalities of each useful proprietary program to assure that we don't fall victims to accident, malice or circumstances leading to Alexandria Library type loss of useful tools or knowledge we will get to rely upon.
Apparently, if Free Software can't, none other can, as author argues in an interesting piece on Informit Friday. Chisnall argues that Desktop-ready Linux (or whichever Free/Open Source OS) poised to win over the Desktop market is not just a futile endeavor, but also "barking at wrong tree" as there is new rising trend in personal computing which demands more freedom, or else perhaps at least new kind of licensing, or new type or service.Will 2007 be the year of the Free Software desktop? David Chisnall's answer is "probably not, but who cares?" Microsoft won the desktop war; can Free Software win the next one?
There is also an interesting comment on Microsoft shooting itself into foot with more restrictive Vista license, preventing their users from new, emerging of computer usage modes.
However, I guess tinfoil hat wearers will keep their computer "virtual lairs" out of promiscuous (and snoopy, eh?) virtual machines and prying eyes of network storage service providers. OTOH, it is not like they are majority of computer users today, especially of business computer users, who may like to lift less weight — be free from heavy laptops and notebook computers they carry today.
Who knows, if free software conquer and dominate "outside world" (and likely it will), proprietary software will probably "retreat to forts" and get even more closed then today — running only on vendors' servers as subscription-based services and talking to thin free/open UI clients. But, will it be a good outcome? We may never get to see such programs become public, even after their copyright protection expire, as they will never reach us, never pass through our hands, not even in their binary form. Therefore, the practical significance of Free software movement will not be diminished, but on the contrary even more emphasized: they'll have to keep following and recreating functionalities of each useful proprietary program to assure that we don't fall victims to accident, malice or circumstances leading to Alexandria Library type loss of useful tools or knowledge we will get to rely upon.
Submission + - Science, philosophy dangerous - Pope
amigoro writes: "Science and philosophy are dangerous and will destroy humanity unless they welcome faith in God, according to a seriously scary looking Pope Benedict XVI [Press Esc]. He claims that "The cognitive capacities of human beings, their control over the material world through the power of thought, has made such unimaginable progress"
At least JP II apologized for what he did to Galileo, but Ben is trying to take the Church back a 500 years. In doing so he is probably trying to take the world back to the middle ages. Thank God people are losing their faiths."
Submission + - Vista DRM "longest suicide note in history"
An anonymous reader writes: VISTA'S CONTENT PROTECTION specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history, claims a new and detailed report from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
"Peter Gutmann's report describes the pernicious DRM built into Vista and required by MS for approval of hardware and drivers," said INQ reader Brad Steffler, MD, who brought the report to our attention. "As a physician who uses PCs for image review before I perform surgery, this situation is intolerable. It is also intolerable for me as a medical school professor as I will have to switch to a MAC or a Linux PC. These draconian dicta just might kill the PC as we know it."
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_c ost.txt
"Peter Gutmann's report describes the pernicious DRM built into Vista and required by MS for approval of hardware and drivers," said INQ reader Brad Steffler, MD, who brought the report to our attention. "As a physician who uses PCs for image review before I perform surgery, this situation is intolerable. It is also intolerable for me as a medical school professor as I will have to switch to a MAC or a Linux PC. These draconian dicta just might kill the PC as we know it."
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_
Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater 408
PhreakOfTime writes "For the first time the rising ocean levels have washed away an inhabited island. Lohachara island was at one point home to some 10,000 people. It, along with several other spits of land near the Indian mainland, is now permanently underwater. From the article: ' As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, inundate vast areas of countries from Bangladesh to Egypt, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities. Eight years ago ... the first uninhabited islands - in the Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati - vanished beneath the waves. The people of low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, have been evacuated as a precaution, but the land still juts above the sea. The disappearance of Lohachara, once home to 10,000 people, is unprecedented.'"
Submission + - Vista Security Cost Analysis - A Must read
kd5ftn writes: "The inquirer reports on a startling new publication released by Peter Gutmannon of the detrimental effects of Windows Vista upon the computer industry. A MUST READ!"
Submission + - Open source Wi-Fi, cellular, GPS... RF jammer
ladyada writes: "After two years of development, the Wave Bubble open source Wi-Fi/Cellular/GPS/Bluetooth/etc. RF jammer is complete. Included on the website are: full schematics, source code and documentation. You might also want to read the thesis that I originally designed the jammer for.
http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/ (website)
http://www.ladyada.net/pub/research.html (thesis)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladyada/sets/72057594 103963559/ (flickr photo set)"
http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/ (website)
http://www.ladyada.net/pub/research.html (thesis)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladyada/sets/7205759
Submission + - RIAA Sues Allofmp3.com for 1.5 Trillion Dollars.
EonBlueApocalypse writes: "The Recording Industry Association of America, the legal arm of the United States music industry, on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking more than one and a half trillion dollars in damages from AllofMP3.com." Also it's note worthy that Russia's GDP is 1.58 trillion dollars.
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Journal Journal: LINUX: Flash Player 9 (Really) 2
So there I was trying to get my fix of crappy American television via www.abc.com. What's this new "Ugly Betty" show all about I wondered? I hit the site and I get a message saying that I need to update my Flash 9 player. So I click the link and where do I go? To the same old download that Adobe has had for Linux users for the past 20 years. Dead as a parrot from a Monty Python sketch, only deader. Bah. Well, luckily someone recently informed me of a beta release program for Adobe's upcom
