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Firmware And Open Firmware

KernelThread Examines Extensible
Firmware And Open Firmware 06/17/2004 01:12 PM

Eject stuck CDs using open firmware

Eject stuck CDs using open firmware 12/15/2003 11:44 AM
I had a CD get stuck in my slot-loading superdrive Aluminum Powerbook, running 10.3. The CD became unresponsive and not recognized by my computer at all! Here is the fix. Hold Control-Command-Option-Eject Button; this will s...

Rockbox Plans Open Source Firmware For
iRiver Gear

Rockbox Plans Open Source Firmware For
iRiver Gear 09/08/2004 03:45 AM

Protect your investment: buy open

Protect your investment: buy open 01/27/2004 01:47 PM
Scoble has written a weblog entry about, among other things, iTunes DRM and Microsoft DRM, and whether you should get an iPod. Scoble works for Microsoft, as do a number of good, sharp, ethical people that I know, and I know him in passing, and he seems to be a good guy. With that disclaimer out of the way, let me say that I think that this blog entry of his epitomizes the sloppiest, worst thinking about digital-media in the field today.

Scoble's point, if I understand it, is that we are going to spend a bundle acquiring music from "legit" services like the iTunes Music Store and the upcoming Microsoft music store. If we spend hundreds of dollars on digital music, we should be on the lookout to protect and maximise that investment. I agree.

Well, says Scoble, all of the music that we buy from these legit services is going to have DRM use-restriction technology ("See, when you buy music from a service like Apple's iTunes or Napster (or MSN), it comes with DRM attached."). So the issue becomes "choosing between two competing lockin schemes."

And in that choice, says Scoble, Microsoft wins, because it has more licensees of its proprietary, lock-in format. That means that when you want to play your music in your car, it's more likely that you'll find a car-stereo manufacturer that has paid Microsoft to play Microsoft music than that you'll find one that has coughed up to Apple to play Apple music.

And this is the problem with Scoble's reasoning. We have a world today where we can buy CDs, we can download DRM-music, we can download non-DRM music from legit services, we can download "pirate" music from various services, and we can sometimes defeat DRM using off-the-shelf apps for Linux (which has a CD recovery tool that handily defeats CD DRM), the Mac (with tools like AudioHijack that make it easy to convert DRM music to MP3s or other open formats) and Windows (I assume, since I don't use Windows, but as Scoble points out, there's lots of Windows software out there.).

In this world where we have consumer choices to make, Scoble argues that our best buy is to pick the lock-in company that will have the largest number of licensees.

That's just about the worst choice you can make.

If I'm going to protect my investment in digital music, my best choice is clearly to invest in buying music in a format that anyone can make a player for. I should buy films, not kinetoscopes. I should buy VHS, not Betamax. I should buy analog tape, not DAT.

Because Scoble's right. If you buy Apple Music or if you buy Microsoft Music, you're screwed if you want to do something with that music that Apple or Microsoft doesn't like.

Copyright law has never said that the guy who makes the records gets to tell you what kind of record player you can use. If Scoble and his employer want to offer a product with "features" that their customers want, those features should reflect what their customers want: No Windows user rolled out of bed this morning and said, "I wish there was a way that I could get Microsoft to deliver me tools that allow me to do less with the music I buy."

No, the "customer" for Microsoft DRM is the guy who makes the records: the music industry; and not the gal who buys the records: you. That customer has already told Microsoft how it feels about its products: in the Broadcast Flag negotiation, the movie companies locked Microsoft DRM out of consideration for use in next-generation PVRs in favor of DRM that Sony (also a movie company, surprise, surprise) had a patent for.

Microsoft is selling out its customers to people who aren't even buying. Scoble points out that Microsoft licensed the hell out of its OS to hardware vendors, pioneering a new kind of open-ness. He's right. Microsoft set a good example that Apple has been too stupid to follow, and it's time for the company to do it again. When Microsoft shipped its first search-engine (which makes a copy of every page it searches), it violated the letter of copyright law. When Microsoft made its first proxy server (which makes a copy of every page it caches), it broke copyright law. When Microsoft shipped its first CD-ripping technology, it broke copyright law.

It broke copyright law because copyright law was broken. Copyright law changes all the time to reflect the new tools that companies like Microsoft invent. If Microsoft wants to deliver a compelling service to its customers, let it make general-purpose tools that have the side-effect of breaking Sony and Apple's DRM, giving its customers more choice in the players they use. Microsoft has shown its willingness to go head-to-head with antitrust people to defend its bottom line: next to them, the copyright courts and lawmakers are pantywaists, Microsoft could eat those guys for lunch, exactly the way Sony kicked their asses in 1984 when they defended their right to build and sell VCRs, even though some people might do bad things with them. Just like the early MP3 player makers did when they ate Sony's lunch by shipping product when Sony wouldn't.

But forget Microsoft, because Scoble's not talking about the best thing for Microsoft, he's talking about the best thing for you. The best way to protect your investment in music. Without a doubt, the best way to protect that investment is to only buy music that isn't in a lock-in format, and to break the locks on any music you do own, while you can. Scoble asks what you will do if "Apple doesn't make a system that plays its AAC format in a car stereo?" I'll tell you what you should do: you should get yourself tools to turn AACs into OGGs or MP3s right now, so that you can buy any car stereo you want and play your music on it. If you can't get those tools, you shouldn't buy AACs (Student: "What do I do if three thugs follow me down a dark deserted street in the middle of the night?" "Master: Don't walk down a dark deserted street in the middle of the night.")

Microsoft can pursue the bone-stupid strategy of kowtowing to the music labels instead of delivering the tools its customers want, but it's a dead end. When Sony invented the VCR, it did so after the movie companies had already decreed that they would only license their movies for use on the "Discovision," a hunk of shit best forgotten on the trashheap of history (much like the products that Sony later delivered instead of MP3 walkmen). With the VCR, though, Sony delivered what its customers wanted, and the movie companies got rich off of it, dragged kicking and screaming to the money-tree again.

Now, that's grandiose. Now that's visionary. Next to that, Microsoft's fraidy-cat technology is suicidally stupid, and so are you if you invest in it. Protect your investment. Vote with your wallet. Buy open. Link

Apple: Open-source will protect Tiger

Apple: Open-source will protect Tiger 09/01/2004 03:55 PM
ZDNet Sep 1 2004 7:54PM GMT

Apple: Open-Source Pedigree Will Protect
Tiger

Apple: Open-Source Pedigree Will Protect
Tiger 09/01/2004 07:03 PM
Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of software at Apple, said Wednesday that having a greater number of people keeping an eye on source code leads to better software security. By Jo Best, CNET News.com (via MyAppleMenu)

Apple: Open-source heritage will protect
Tiger

Apple: Open-source heritage will protect
Tiger 09/01/2004 03:40 PM
Apple says it is counting on the open-source heritage of its operating system to spare Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) from the security woes that have plagued Microsoft...

Don't just protect the unconceived:
protect the inanimate!

Don't just protect the unconceived:
protect the inanimate! 05/09/2004 02:30 PM
Fafnir of Fafblog has written a good think-piece explaining the logical next step in the Bush administration's campaign to protect the rights of the unconceived: protecting the rights of the inanimate.

This is yknow a huge step backwards for women's health and for contraception and the prevention of abortions. But it is a huge step forward for what we at Fafblog like to call the "rights of the unconceived," which is just a few short steps from what we are really lookin forward to which is the rights of the inanimate.

I have personally spent hours an hours talkin to cans, waffle irons, boxes, printer cartridges and forks and they all dream of one thing: no longer bein treated as second-class citizens in the United States.

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Stupid Banner Ads

Stupid Banner Ads 06/18/2004 03:56 PM
Stupid Internet Ads. From Scary Crayon. SHOOT TERRORIS T WIN IPOD.

Do you block banner ads?

Do you block banner ads? 09/18/2004 05:21 PM
We here at MacMerc.com have a love/hate relationship with banner advertisements. On the one hand they are annoying--especially those "Click the monkey and win a prize" ones. But on the other hand, they help us pay our hosting fees.

Quite a while ago, as a public service to our readers, we posted an article on ad blocking and now that sufficient time has passed and our Google AdSense revenues are dwindling, we thought it might be the appropriate time to see if some method of ad blocking as become a standard part of your internet experience.

Poll out on us here-->

Google Banner ads

Google Banner ads 06/20/2004 05:17 AM

Google introduces Adsense banner ads.

Google has recently introduced banner ads for their adsense program, so perhaps all the talk about how text ads perform better is not true.

You could argue that banner ads are a different thing, that they are richer media and thus brand advertising. But the difference is that Google's image ads do not pay publishers on an impressions basis, but for clicks, just like current contextual text ads.

Adwords works. People click on text ads which are relevant to a search because they are actively looking for something. But perhaps when ads are served alongside static content, the conversion rate is lower, and perhaps people are starting to ignore them now that the novelty has worn off. So maybe in your face image ads are back, for good reason.

The problem for Google is that image ads are not only 'in your face', they are very much in the face of a website. With the renewed confidence that content publishers now have, my guess is that CPM impressions based advertising will be back. If publishers have leverage they will want the guaranteed revenue that being paid for traffic gives them.

Google got rid of all CPM advertising making a big bet on the best of both worlds CPC model that sits in between an advertiser and publishers needs. If CPM is back is that bad news for Google?

[David Galbraith]

Neat Banner

Neat Banner 01/10/2004 09:06 PM
Picked this up the other day, I like it.

Forum Banner

Forum Banner 12/11/2002 08:09 AM
I now use the following banner on any forum I belong to, if they allow image banners that is.

Bytes From a Banner

Bytes From a Banner 12/02/2003 02:01 AM
Radically scaling bandwidth and interface refactoring make strange bedfellows. For example, one interesting design problem that's presented when dealing with critically accessed pages (i.e. Google's search results page) is tradeoff. Meaning: An interface feature that could add weight to the...

Google to run banner ads

Google to run banner ads 05/13/2004 04:57 AM
Silicon.com May 13 2004 8:25AM GMT

Nano's Banner Company?

Nano's Banner Company? 08/03/2004 10:53 AM
Nanosys files its IPO this week. Is the nanotechnology company worth buying?

A Site for Banner Ad Freaks

A Site for Banner Ad Freaks 08/23/2004 04:42 AM
Most internet users try to ignore banner ads, but web designer Tari Akpodiete can't stop collecting them. She's put her collection of 15,000 ad samples online for all who care to look. By Daniel Terdiman.

Simple banner rotator

Simple banner rotator 11/14/2002 10:33 PM
This is simple banner rotator. It just picks all files from a specified directory, shuffles them and shows one-by-one, once per page view. Very simple and easy to use.

Google offers banner ads

Google offers banner ads 05/24/2004 09:51 PM
Journalism.co.uk May 25 2004 1:56AM GMT

Google's Next Step: Banner Ads

Google's Next Step: Banner Ads 05/13/2004 03:27 PM
The search company's rapid expansion continues as it jumps into the market for selling the bigger, graphical ads it had been known for replacing.

Ocala Star Banner

Ocala Star Banner 11/10/2003 11:35 PM
Rumsfeld is now trying to deny having made some of the statements he's on record as having said prior to the war .. Ol' Rummie, kicking it Ministry of Truth style: .. Rumsfeld retreats, disclaims earlier rhetoric .. lies about his lies .. Ocala Star-Banner

starbanner.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031109/NEWS/ 211090375/1003
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So far, a banner year for attacks

So far, a banner year for attacks 08/04/2004 07:52 AM

Yahoo To Test Banner Ads

Yahoo To Test Banner Ads 06/05/2005 11:28 PM
"A Yahoo Inc. spokeswoman confirmed this week that the company's search-marketing division, formerly known as Overture Services, plans to start testing graphical banner ads displayed based on their relevancy to a Web page's content in the next few weeks."

Google to sell banner ads

Google to sell banner ads 05/12/2004 09:29 PM
The search engine giant plans for the first time to sell ads that include images, a surprise reversal for a company that has won regard for its pioneering use of text-only marketing pitches.

CPM Banner Programs Still Marching
Onward

CPM Banner Programs Still Marching
Onward 12/04/2002 01:13 PM
What banner programs are out there and running these days?

FeedDemon banner contest finalists

FeedDemon banner contest finalists 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

The submission deadline for the FeedD emon banner contest has passed, and I'd like to thank everyone who submitted a design. There were many very nice entries, but I've narrowed them down to a few finalists. If you'd like to take gander at the finalists, please visit:

http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/banners/contest/finalists.asp

I'll announce the winners here tomorrow.

Google Jumps into Banner Advertising

Google Jumps into Banner Advertising 05/13/2004 06:37 PM
Google has decided to sell banner advertising on other companies' Web sites. It is a departure from the text-only advertising that it made famous -- not to mention, immensely profitable.

Perry waves biotech banner

Perry waves biotech banner 02/12/2004 10:18 PM
The Scotsman Feb 13 2004 2:40AM GMT

DevShed: Banner Management With
phpAdsNew (Pt. 1)

DevShed: Banner Management With
phpAdsNew (Pt. 1) 03/17/2005 02:48 AM
DevShed has a new posting today for anyone out there considering putting banner ads on their site, and a software package that can help you with it - phpAdsNew.

Achieve Results With Banner Exchange

Achieve Results With Banner Exchange 12/13/2003 04:51 AM
WebmasterBase Dec 13 2003 3:31AM ET

DevShed: Banner Management With
phpAdsNew (Pt. 2)

DevShed: Banner Management With
phpAdsNew (Pt. 2) 04/12/2005 11:27 AM
With the latest part in their Banner Management with phpAdsNew series, DevShed dives deeper into the world of this powerful ad management system.

Google Bets the House on Banner Ads

Google Bets the House on Banner Ads 05/13/2004 08:11 PM
Washington Post May 13 2004 11:33PM GMT

FeedDemon banner contest winners

FeedDemon banner contest winners 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

Yes terday I listed the finalists in the FeedDemon banner contest, and as promised I'm ready to announce the winners.

And the winner is...well, every one of the finalists is a winner! I found it impossible to choose a single winner among the finalists in each category, since I could see myself using all of their banners. So, all three of the finalists will receive a free copy of both TopStyle Pro and FeedDemon. My thanks again to everyone who submitted a design, and my congratulations to the three winners below:

• Olegas Kurasovas
• Albert Tanutama
• Christopher Owens

Now that the contest is over, I've created a page of FeedDemon banners and buttons:

http://www.bradsoft. com/feeddemon/banners/

If you'd like to use any of these images on your site, please feel free to do so :)

Google introduces Adsense banner ads.

Google introduces Adsense banner ads. 06/18/2004 07:07 PM
Google has recently introduced banner ads for their adsense program, so perhaps all the talk about how text ads perform...

US Irish in St Patrick's Day Iraqi
banner outrage

US Irish in St Patrick's Day Iraqi
banner outrage 03/20/2003 01:04 PM
Common sense the first casualty of war

Google Bets the House on Banner Ads
(washingtonpost.com)

Google Bets the House on Banner Ads
(washingtonpost.com) 05/13/2004 12:39 PM
washingtonpost.com - One gets the impression that nobody's getting a lot of sleep these days at Google HQ in Silicon Valley.

Using Flash for the First Time - Part 1:
Building a Banner

Using Flash for the First Time - Part 1:
Building a Banner 04/04/2005 06:43 PM
Jump-start your Flash authoring skills! Learn the basics of starting a new Flash project and working with layers.

PHP Class 'Simple banner rotator'
released

PHP Class 'Simple banner rotator'
released 11/15/2002 07:51 PM
This is simple banner rotator. It just picks all files from a specified directory, shuffles them and shows one-by-one, once per page view. Very simple and easy to use.

Sql injection in jPortal version 2.3.1
(module banner)

Sql injection in jPortal version 2.3.1
(module banner) 04/11/2005 05:53 PM
Posted by Marcin \, Apr 11 2005
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