November 15, 2005 Posted by mitch |
technology |
When will the Record labels stop? Treating *legal* customers like criminals, and disabling their computers if the consumer trys to gain control back over their PC? What is wrong with these corporate types that will stop at nothing to protect their 'intellectual property', if that means destroying *your* computer and *your* data, and even possibly costing someones life because of their attempts to stop you from pirating music. Call it what you like, but last I checked teenagers which the media calls 'hackers' have been put in jail for *much less* than this. What will happen to Sony? Nothing, other than the outlashing of conumers upset at the tricks that they're not supposed to care about. In case you haven't heard, Sony had paid a company to write some digital rights management that they embeded into their CD's, heres the original linked up from Groklaw. And then an update to the original that poses some more interesting ideas. So these "big anti-virus companies" that are supposed to protect you from root kits as well as other malware seemingly only work when theres an interested party with money that wants to keep it installed on your computer? Now, who is keeping your best interests at heart now? I don't want to sit and blow the Linux horn, however, I do want to point out that these situations are only just beginning. If these companies that are supposed to *protect you* but can be bought.... dosen't sound like much protection to me. The companies that have already shown to have their own best interests in mind(which means they want to maximize their profits), already have lots of money to assure that happens. And know where to use it. Which means they want to take away rights givent to you by fair use, and treat the everyday consumer like a criminal. Know your rights, and don't give them up lightly.
November 10, 2005 Posted by mitch |
mythtv |
It may not be to interesting for others to read, but I really don't feel like blogging about anything else. My mythtv box is comming along... the gentoo install is taking a while. I started from stage 2, and have optimized for the athlon processor, along the optimization -03 for speed with GCC. So, the compile time is taking a while. However, I think my kvm switchbox at work has stalled my progress on a couple times because of the scroll lock key. When hitting scroll lock on the key board it seems to halt the compile process. So, I probably had it sitting and doing nothing for the last day... I finished the move to stage 3 today, and I left it compiling my kernel (for the sake of time at work, I simply did a genkernel and made sure it had everything I needed as either modules or compiled in. I don't much care if it takes it all night to compile). So, it should hopefully be done by the time I get back to work tomarrow. So I can start it on compiling everything for myth over the weekend. I got the video card today, so i'll be taking that in tomarrow to be looked at. Should be fun.
November 8, 2005 Posted by mitch |
mythtv |
I'm finally starting my mythtv box build, I'm erecting it out of old parts I've had laying around, so far I've got a 15GB drive for my OS install, an AMD Duron 800, with 640MB RAM, which is a bit much for a myth box but, otherwise the ram will just sit. So... I figure why not right? couldn't hurt. Anyway, when I first fired it up, the Orb heat sink i had on the proc was wicked loud, and we can't have that in a home theater pc. So I bought a new heatsink from pcclub, which will do for now... I'm going to be slowly making it quieter as we go along, but that'll really start happening with a new case. I'll probably eventually replace the mobo/cpu with something else making sure its quiet, but that will be after the new case down the road a bit (or maybe for xmas :) ). After I replaced the cpu fan, the fan on the chipset (A7V133) was wicked loud too... finding a replacement and removing the old one was a problem, so I left on the heat sink... and I'm hoping that the CPU fan will keep the chipset cooler too. I'll know soon enough, I'm starting my gentoo install today :)
November 5, 2005 Posted by mitch |
redhat |
I've been running Fedora for a while now, both at home and on my work machine. Up untill Core 4, the repositories used for the extra packages that are not included with Fedora were excellent. However, both boxes I have, are getting quite messed up when updating... Its becomming extremely annoying. So annoying that I'm considering switching distro's again. Possibly going back to Gentoo. With gentoo's massive software collection, and having it at my fingertips ready to be compiled. If you remember I ran gentoo a year or so ago on my home machine for a while... untill some file system corruption that I blamed on my configuration of Gentoo. Had I known then it was because my harddrive was dieing I might not have been so hasty in making the switch. There were other things that made me make the switch as well however. Such as the Cisco VPN client. New developtments in software packages however, have added an option for vpnc. Which is an open source project that is compatible with the Cisco VPN concentrator we have at work. I still need to test it for myself to make sure I'm able to connect with it, but it will probably be the thing that allows me to go back to Gentoo. With Gentoo, using all the questionably legal software on linux becomes *MUCH* easier because they're still in portage, and no third party repository is needed. So I won't experience the problems I've had currently with Core 4. (Like I said before, using the same repositories now, as I did with core 3... and I never had these problems with core 3.) I'll let you know how it goes.
