quote:Original post by LessThanJoe Ahh, what''s this about RH costing money (nearly as much as windows)?
You can purchase RedHat (in a store, online from RedHat or from any other seller - Walnut Creek CD-ROM tends to sell most distros for cost of media and shipping/handling) or you can download it from anybody offering it, or copy it from a friend. There are some restrictions: some of the applications offered in the retail version are not free but are proprietary. Copying those is illegal.
quote:If I''m not seeing things, what version of linux would you suggest for someone who is brand new to this?
I never suggest distros; it''s a religious issue. You''re just going to have to invest the time to try various ones until you find the one that suits you.
quote:Original post by baldurk one thing noted earlier, perhaps off topic, but what the hey.
isn''t playing DVDs with ogle technically illegal? I thought that as the makers of ogle hadn''t paid lots of money to get the DVD format, they reverse engineered it, making it illegal? perhaps I''m wrong.
It may have changed to be finaly illegal but it used to just be dangerous water. It wasn''t illegal but the DVD gods were trying hard to make it that way. Some teen in Europe somewhere Cracked the CCS encription DVDs use and spread the knowledge. After doing it he reported that his house was raided and is computer taken. Ogle makers were just the only ones with the balls to use the info without licencing it. The thing is the encription is ment to prevent piracy of the DVDs. Only it doesn''t actualy do that at all. It only prevents someone form playing an encriped DVD on an unlicened Player. You would have the exact same problem with the orignal disk as the copy. Its basicly a scam to take more money from everone that uses the DVD format. Movie makers pay for it. The DVD player Hardware and Software pay for it. Yet it doesn''t do anything but jack peoples wallets and get in the way. I Own several players for windows and I can tell you I don''t feel one drop of guilt for fireing up a DVD I paid for in Ogle on the same system I paid for, on the same DVD drive I paid for. I souldn''t have to. It would be one thing if it were about piracy but its not piracy to play a bought and paid for DVD. There may be something else to it but I''ve yet to cross is path.
The Content Scrambling System (CSS) is, like Goober King pointed out, entirely an attempt to lock consumers into products from a certain region only. This is a lot more insiduous than you might think. For one, it precludes you from purchasing content in another region - say while on holiday in France if you''re from the US. For another, it opens the possibility of differing content to be distributed in different regions, and by different I don''t mean just voice-overs. It sounds like conspiracy theory, but it opens the door for "censorship" in the sense of the media companies controlling what we see and hear, something that is particularly concerning to US residents in the face of the government''s intent to relax regulations over how many radio stations a company may own in the same market (hearings were held last week, IIRC).
In any case, CSS is useless as an anti-piracy mechanism since a bitstream digital copy of the entire disc can easily be made, CSS and all. If anything, Jon Johansen''s DeCSS software is a form of consumer advocacy that says "let me choose what I want to watch and where I want to purchase it." Of course, the argument was that by removing the scrambling a readable digital feed was obtained which could then be uploaded to piracy distribution sites or burned onto CD-ROMs. But if you''ve already bought the DVD and maintain proof of purchase, then you''re not doing anything wrong by watching the DVD under Linux using DeCSS. I mean, that''s like saying that running Napster or KaZaA makes you a criminal, irrespective of what your actual network activity looks like.
Recently the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been losing steam, and DeCSS has been virtually swept under the carpet in favor of pursuing a bigger and more real target: online music and online distribution of copyright works in general. And this time they actually have a point: it''s not whether you copy or decrypt copyright works for your own use that makes you a pirate, it''s distributing it to others.
I put the computer together, set up the bios, installed windows on a 30gig partition formatted NTFS style.
Then after doing that, I went back to the setup to try to format FAT32 style, but after it formatted it started trying to installing windows on that partition.
What did I do wrong, and how do I fix it?
Thanks.
[edited by - lessthanjoe on June 17, 2003 6:11:03 PM]
