<div dir="ltr"><b>Take action:<br><br>
* Contact the CEO of EA and tell him NO to DRM in games!<br></b>
<br>
<<a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/spore" target="_blank">http://www.defectivebydesign.org/spore</a>><br>
<br>
<b> * Please digg:</b><br>
<br>
<<a href="http://digg.com/gaming_news/Spore_and_more_activate_against_Electronic_Arts" target="_blank">http://digg.com/gaming_news/Spore_and_more_activate_against_Electronic_Arts</a>><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Spore and More: Activate against Electronic Arts</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
Electronic Arts (EA) and Amazon have been the targets of a justified</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
online rebellion the last couple weeks. The impetus for the backlash</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
is EA's use of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology in its</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
game Spore. As of right now, the game has received 2,226 1-star</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
reviews on Amazon -- more than we've ever seen before -- and they are</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
primarily focused on EA's DRM system. DefectiveByDesign members have</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
tagged the game with tags like defectivebydesign and drm infected.</span><br>
<br><br clear="all"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Bertrand Russell</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">I ask you only two questions :</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">1. Did u find joy in ur life?</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">2.How many found joy from ur life ??</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">-Hemanth HM </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><br>
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A big congratz from my side madhu... :)<br>
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Praveen A <<a href="mailto:pravi.a@gmail.com">pravi.a@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Great Work Madhu !!! We are proud of you for the hard work you have<br>
> done !!! It was such an important task and you have stood up to the<br>
> challenge and delivered.<br>
><br>
> And you truly deserve this special mention. I'm sure this would be a<br>
> great motivations to many students.<br>
><br>
> Keep up the good work.<br>
><br>
> Happy Hacking<br>
> Praveen<br>
><br>
> PS: We should plan to give a special gift to Madhu on SFD to celebrate<br>
> this.<br>
><br>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
> From: Michael Banck <<a href="mailto:mbanck@debian.org">mbanck@debian.org</a>><br>
> Date: 2008/9/15<br>
> Subject: Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org">debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> it has been more than three years since the last "Bits from the Debian<br>
> GNU/Hurd porters"[1], high time for an update on the port.<br>
><br>
> * Snapshot releases<br>
><br>
> Three new snapshot releases have been done by Philip Charles, K14, K15<br>
> (which was only done as an updated mini CD-ISO, not a full snapshot),<br>
> and K16. K16 has been released[2] on December 18th, 2007 featuring four<br>
> CDs or two DVDs. Additionally, it also features a ready-to-go<br>
> qemu-image[3] for the first time. K16 was also the first snapshot which<br>
> included TLS (Thread Local Storage), a requirement for modern glibcs.<br>
> New ported packages include Qt3, Qt4, SDL and Emacs22.<br>
><br>
> * Base and toolchain status<br>
><br>
> Currently, most base packages are current, with the notable exception of<br>
> util-linux, which has been a big problem over the last years. However,<br>
> Samuel Thibault got all outstanding issues of util-linux applied<br>
> upstream so the version in experimental is mostly working. The<br>
> toolchain is in pretty good shape as well since TLS support got<br>
> implemented; we are using the current glibc, binutils and gcc Debian<br>
> packages unmodified.<br>
><br>
> * Xen support<br>
><br>
> Besides qemu, which can be very slow to run, a Xen DomU port for GNU<br>
> Mach has been made available by Samuel Thibault. It requires a non-PAE<br>
> hypervisor and some minor manual tweaking, but is otherwise quite<br>
> functional and stable already, see its wiki page[4] for further<br>
> information. This will make people running the Hurd less dependent on<br>
> specific hardware, as a lot of newer computers do not work with the<br>
> underlying GNU Mach kernel anymore.<br>
><br>
> * Autobuilder availability and archive coverage improved<br>
><br>
> The percentage of packages built for Debian GNU/Hurd has improved from<br>
> 40% to now nearly 60%[5] since the last Bits from the porters. Further,<br>
> the backlog of outdated packages has been greatly reduced. This is due<br>
> to the addition of two[6][7] Xen autobuilders earlier this year, which<br>
> made the hurd-i386 autobuilders far more robust and fault-tolerant as<br>
> they not need local admin attention anymore in case of problems with the<br>
> GNU/Hurd guests.<br>
><br>
> The remaining 40% of packages are either waiting for other packages to<br>
> become available (see [8] for a (big) graph of those relationships) or<br>
> are failing for some reason[9]; a complete list of build failures can be<br>
> found at [10].<br>
><br>
> * Developer machine<br>
><br>
> We are currently working on getting a general DD-accessible porter box<br>
> setup. In the meantime, interested people can contact<br>
> <a href="mailto:hurd-shell-account@gnu.org">hurd-shell-account@gnu.org</a> to get an account on one of the publically<br>
> accessible (Debian) GNU/Hurd developer machines. For further details,<br>
> see [11].<br>
><br>
> * Summer of Code 2008<br>
><br>
> This year, the GNU Hurd participated as its own organization at Google's<br>
> Summer of Code, thanks to the coordination done by Olaf Buddenhagen[12].<br>
> All of the 5 projects were carried out quite successfully. The most<br>
> practically relevant project for Debian GNU/Hurd was the implementation<br>
> of a procfs translator[13] by Madhusudan C.S., which provides a<br>
> traditional Unix-style /proc file system and the subsequent porting of<br>
> the procps package, so utilities like pgrep etc. will be available after<br>
> lenny, and procps Build-Depends no longer need to be special-cased on<br>
> hurd-i386.<br>
><br>
> Other GSoC projects were lisp bindings by Flavio Cruz, better system<br>
> debugging and tracing by Andrei Barbu, namespace-based translator<br>
> selection by Sergiu Ivanov and network virtualization by Zheng Da. More<br>
> information on the details and outcome of those projects can be found on<br>
> the wiki[14].<br>
><br>
> * Still no debian-installer<br>
><br>
> Unfortunately, the Debian GNU/Hurd port still lacks d-i support. On the<br>
> other hand, debootstrap now mostly works, even to cross-debootstrap a<br>
> hurd-i386 installation from GNU/Linux, if one works around bug #498731.<br>
> A relatively easy solution could be to use the GNU/Linux d-i to<br>
> cross-install and setup a Debian GNU/Hurd system. People who have<br>
> experience in d-i and possibly Debian GNU/Hurd are more than welcome to<br>
> contact us at <a href="mailto:debian-hurd@lists.debian.org">debian-hurd@lists.debian.org</a>.<br>
><br>
><br>
> for the Debian GNU/Hurd porters,<br>
><br>
> Michael Banck<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00006.html" target="_blank">http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00006.html</a><br>
> [2] <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/15770" target="_blank">http://kerneltrap.org/node/15770</a><br>
> [3]<br>
> <a href="http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/K16/debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/K16/debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img.tar.gz</a><br>
> [4] <a href="http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen/" target="_blank">http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen/</a><<a href="http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen/" target="_blank">http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen/</a>><br>
> [5] <a href="http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/" target="_blank">http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/</a><br>
> [6]<br>
> <a href="http://buildd.net/cgi/hostpackages.cgi?unstable_arch=hurd-i386&searchtype=bach" target="_blank">http://buildd.net/cgi/hostpackages.cgi?unstable_arch=hurd-i386&searchtype=bach</a><br>
> [7]<br>
> <a href="http://buildd.net/cgi/hostpackages.cgi?unstable_arch=hurd-i386&searchtype=mozart" target="_blank">http://buildd.net/cgi/hostpackages.cgi?unstable_arch=hurd-i386&searchtype=mozart</a><br>
> [8] <a href="http://dept-info.labri.fr/%7Ethibault/tmp/graph-radial.pdf" target="_blank">http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/graph-radial.pdf</a><<a href="http://dept-info.labri.fr/%7Ethibault/tmp/graph-radial.pdf" target="_blank">http://dept-info.labri.fr/%7Ethibault/tmp/graph-radial.pdf</a>><br>
> [9] <a href="http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/unsorted/PortingIssues/" target="_blank">http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/unsorted/PortingIssues/</a><<a href="http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/unsorted/PortingIssues/" target="_blank">http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/unsorted/PortingIssues/</a>><br>
> [10] <a href="http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/hurd-i386_Failed.html" target="_blank">http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/hurd-i386_Failed.html</a><br>
> [11] <a href="http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/public_hurd_boxen/" target="_blank">http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/public_hurd_boxen/</a><<a href="http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/public_hurd_boxen/" target="_blank">http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/public_hurd_boxen/</a>><br>
> [12] <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hurd/about.html" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hurd/about.html</a><br>
> [13] <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hurd/news/20080903T160206Z.html" target="_blank">http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hurd/news/20080903T160206Z.html</a><br>
> [14] <a href="http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/community/gsoc/" target="_blank">http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/community/gsoc/</a><<a href="http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/community/gsoc/" target="_blank">http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/community/gsoc/</a>><br>
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