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What Can I Do About Book Pirates? 987

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 14, 2009 @05:07PM from the see-how-you-feel-after-writing-a-book dept.

peterwayner writes "Six of the top ten links on a Google search for one of my books point to a pirate site when I type in 'wayner data compression textbook.' Others search strings actually locate pages that are selling legit copies including digital editions for the Kindle. I've started looking around for suggestions. Any thoughts from the Slashdot crowd? The free copies aren't boosting sales for my books. Do I (1) get another job, (2) sue people, or (3) invent some magic spell? Is society going to be able to support people who synthesize knowledge or will we need to rely on the Wikipedia for everything? I'm open to suggestions."

Comment doom shareware (Score 1) 739

by JBv on Saturday April 25, 2009 @10:18AM (#27712479) Attached to: What Did You Do First With Linux?

I think it was about 95/96 I was an undergraduate student.

A friend of mine in the lab installed Slackware from floppies, complete with doom, on a pentium 120MHz. It was the only lab computer with a serious game. Linux seemed both alien and magical to a DOS/windows 3.1 user.

At the end of the year I was running c++ code on a Alpha station with RedHat 64bit installed, it was buggy (no X, console garbage) but faster and more useful than NT.

To think that it took me almost 10 years to come back to 64bit Linux on my workstation :)

Comment Generational naming (Score 1) 1397

by JBv on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @05:21AM (#26706713) Attached to: Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do?

Depending on the year of deployment and relation to other servers and services, we have namespaces of minerals, godzilla monsters, fruit names, lord of the rings characters, etc...

Adds some fun to functionality :)

Comment Re:Fwooosh! (Score 1) 471

by JBv on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @03:18PM (#23408076) Attached to: Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard

Everytime something new and sexy comes to desktop PCs that does not depend on windows or microsoft, microsoft loses power.

So now we may have web browsing and voip on power up with no need for explorer or windows. Soon we may have bios-knoppix or bios-ubuntu, with openoffice and support for external media. I bet that would make for some sleepless nights in Redmond.

Feed The Register: Toshiba readies Cell-based graphics engine (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday September 24, 2007 @06:32AM

Watch out, Nvidia, here comes... er... SpursEngine

Toshiba will next week formally announce a processor based on the Cell chip that sits inside each Sony PlayStation 3 games console. The new CPU will be pitched not only at consumer electronics kit but set head-to-head with today's PC and Mac graphics chips.

Journal Journal: Hello?

Journal by JBv on Thursday November 28, 2002 @02:20PM

Ummm... no fans, no foes, no journal.

Fixed Journal. This is my first and probably last entry in this journal.

Now to find some fans and foes.

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