Nvidia’s closed drivers

August 27, 2006 at 7:17 pm (Free software, Uncategorized)

Not not enough that I had to disable render accelaration to make nvidia’s drivers to work with xorg 7.1, now I also had to start playing with the files to make the driver work with 2.6.18rc4.

Luckly enough the problem is in the opensource part of the driver so I found this

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72488 so I didn’t waste too much time on it.

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Meretz suggests a law that will outlaw file sharing programs

August 16, 2006 at 8:38 am (Digital Rights, Free software, Uncategorized)

I opened up the news today and I was shocked

Meretz, the so called liberal party, submitted a proposal for new copyright law that will outlaw uploading and download copyrighted material from the net. Halamo has this piece.

For those who can’t read hebrew I’ll try to give a short summary:

  • Outlawing uploading and downloading of copyrighted material
  • Outlawing the development of drm passing programs without license (yes you won’t be able to play DVD on linux anymore
  • Service providers which can must monitor their service to check for illegal activity and regularly clean their caches
  • Service provider must remove offending material within 12 hours of being told (that gives so much time to the client to explain and protect itself).
  • The law applies also to non Israeli service provider as long as the service was provided in Israel. So they can actually sue companies from all over the world in Israel, I wonder what international trade agreements say about that.
  • And last but not least according to ynet, this law will also outlaw file sharing programs! even for legitimate use!

This law will serve a real blow to fair use rights and to opensource in Israel in general. I wondered how long before a DMCA like law is passed in Israel.

Next will be ofcourse software patents…

Meretz if you ever had a chance to get my vote in election you just lost it completly forever.

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My first post

August 7, 2006 at 4:56 pm (Uncategorized)

Well,

This is my first post, still trying to learn how to use the site.

I guess the first question people will ask, if why am I writing in English?

I have two answers for that, one, I type faster in English, and the second is that some of the people I know don’t know Hebrew. Nevertheless I think at least part of the posts will be in Hebrew, which is exactly the reason why I looked hard to find a blog that supports categorizing.

Good thing there is a spell checker

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