This guy gets it exactly right. The complete freedom behind the Internet is exactly what makes it so appealing, and I truly hope it stays that way forever.
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Serious props to the EFF guys for cracking this.
I had heard about this inter-governmental-corporate scheme for a few years, but since I’ve never owned a color laser printer didn’t have much of an opportunity to check it out.
The way they cracked it is a pretty tricky technique, but determing the parity bits was a big help in separating data from structure. Hooray for reverse engineering!
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One day…
…Linux will be viable on the desktop. On this day, Microsoft and Apple will actually be worried about an upwards kink in the slowly growing curve of Linux marketshare. But first, Windows Vista and Mac OS X86 will arrive with interfaces that ‘just work;’ where the computer gets out of the way and takes care of the semantics.
Linux will always be huge in the realm of IT and CS users. It fosters programmers in a way that Windows can’t really do – but the cost is a huge degree of user unfriendliness.
So with this contemporary 2006 scenario in mind, programs like NetworkManager that simply make existing technology “just work” are big deals.
I think programs like this one reveal just how technically and culturally difficult it is to create technology that “just works” for Linux. The majority ofsoftware operates within one “layer”: Userspace, daemonized, or in the kernel (modules).
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My, that’s liberating
Nothing like a bunch of slightly pretentious graffiti artists to brighten up your day. But its OK, props for being interesting.
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It’s funny because it’s true
Click.
And much hilarity ensued.