[Dorset] Linux box for sale
Hi everyone, I have Linux box that I need to get rid of. It consists of a Gigabyte motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 +3400 processor, a 120Gbyte SATA HDD, a CD/DVD writer and a CD/DVD ROM drive all in a black Antec tower case. It also has a Linksys wireless NIC card installed. There is no keyboard but I can throw in a wireless mouse and a square flat screen Relisys monitor. It is running Ubuntu Linux 9.04 at the moment There is also a compact computer desk available too. If anyone is interested and would like to make me an offer I can be contacted off-list at archi...@tiscali.co.uk. Regards Archie Ferrier -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] OT: Sign up to oppose the Digital Economy Bill
On 1 April 2010 17:36, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: On Thursday 01 Apr 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:09:58 +0100, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: people who illegally download buy more music legally than those whodon't. *clearly* those people would spend even more if they weren't downloading illegally. I'm not sure if you left out the sarcasm tags or whether you really believe that. The theory is that illegal downloading is like payola without the bribes; people download music to see if they like it, they then go out to buy the music when they've selected what they want from all the ones that they've downloaded. People who don't illegally download on the other hand, are more cautious when buying because they don't know if they will like the music or not. If the theory is correct, then I would say that it's the modern equivalent of going into the local record shop and asking them to play a record before you buy it. That sounds about right to me Terry, so surely the solution for the music industry is obvious ... Time Limited Downloads. By this I mean a new file format that plays an embedded MP3, (or whatever), and kills / cripples itself after a pre-defined time, say a day or a week. If the user goes on to buy the item online, it should be possible to detect somehow that they had downloaded the Time Limited version and they could be given a discount on the full version as a reward for being legitimate. That would provide exactly the style of Try before you Buy that the theory says is happening, and would provide a whole host of new sales opportunities for the industry to boot ! -- Cheers Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] OT: Sign up to oppose the Digital Economy Bill
On 3 April 2010 13:49, Peter Washington pugwash1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 1 April 2010 17:36, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: On Thursday 01 Apr 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:09:58 +0100, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: people who illegally download buy more music legally than those whodon't. *clearly* those people would spend even more if they weren't downloading illegally. I'm not sure if you left out the sarcasm tags or whether you really believe that. The theory is that illegal downloading is like payola without the bribes; people download music to see if they like it, they then go out to buy the music when they've selected what they want from all the ones that they've downloaded. People who don't illegally download on the other hand, are more cautious when buying because they don't know if they will like the music or not. If the theory is correct, then I would say that it's the modern equivalent of going into the local record shop and asking them to play a record before you buy it. That sounds about right to me Terry, so surely the solution for the music industry is obvious ... Time Limited Downloads. By this I mean a new file format that plays an embedded MP3, (or whatever), and kills / cripples itself after a pre-defined time, say a day or a week. If the user goes on to buy the item online, it should be possible to detect somehow that they had downloaded the Time Limited version and they could be given a discount on the full version as a reward for being legitimate. That would provide exactly the style of Try before you Buy that the theory says is happening, and would provide a whole host of new sales opportunities for the industry to boot ! Thats essentially what DRM is. As it's already been proven, it is entirely ineffective. However, if they were free, time limited full songs would be a nice way of doing publicity and try before you buy. It will never happen though because the DRM will be broken and everyone knows this. -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
Re: [Dorset] OT: Sign up to oppose the Digital Economy Bill
On Saturday 03 Apr 2010, Peter Washington wrote: That would provide exactly the style of Try before you Buy that the theory says is happening, and would provide a whole host of new sales opportunities for the industry to boot ! Yes. Every DRM that has been invented has been cracked in time. However, if a significant proportion of the people on the planet weren't inherently dishonest, DRM wouldn't be necessary. By the way, I include the media companies in the group 'inherently dishonest'. If they weren't so greedy and didn't keep trying to make us buy the same music, at inflated prices, every time we get a new playing device, then there would be less incentive to crack the DRM (and many people would be less inclined to use the cracked media). -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.orgchannel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
