The TV Series LOST is returning with its much awaited 2nd Season on Star World. Be sure to catch it on Sunday at 11pm. Meanwhile, my comrade-in-arms (read "Fireworks MX 2004") and myself decided to get DynamiX into a bit of LOST spirit, and the following graphic was the result of all the horsing around.
posted by Ayush Gupta @ 8:34 AM
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The poem's existence was reported online by the OSx86 Project, a site dedicated to all things technical related to OS X on the Intel platform. Apple recently started shipping desktop computers and notebooks with Intel Corp.'s processors. The poem reads: "Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined his existing OS was so blind, he'd do better to pirate an OS that ran great but found his hardware declined. Please don't steal Mac OS! Really, that's way uncool. (C) Apple Computer Inc." Apple confirmed that the poem was embedded in the OS by developers. Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday confirmed that it has embedded in OS X a poem that warns hackers against stealing the Mac operating system. "We can confirm that this text is built into our products," the company said in an email. "Hopefully it, and many other legal warnings, will remind people that they should not steal Mac OS X."
posted by Ayush Gupta @ 7:09 AM
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Its set to release sometime now, and the graphics are really good. Somehow this is the first *fantasy* MMORPG that seems to have interested me. Should watch for this one..
More details on: Wikipedia
posted by Shashank Shekhar @ 10:09 PM
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Sweet!
Google was set to launch Gmail Chat on Monday, which will let users send instant messages with one click from their e-mail account, see when contacts are online and save the chat history like an e-mail message, reports CNet. Gmail Chat is available on Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher, and Firefox 1.0 and higher, and in the US English interface only.While the chat functions of Google Talk are integrated into Gmail, users must download the Google Talk client application to make voice calls.
posted by Ayush Gupta @ 10:37 PM
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Note: this post was originally intended as a comment to the previous post (by Ayush.) However, I thought I'd make it a post in its own right because it got a bit long and copyright is one of those things that are hazy to a lot of people and yet important in the modern world. Read it as if it were addressed to Ayush, even though it contains nothing specific about him or the blog.
You don't need a license to sue people. If you write something and don't mention anything about a license, it defaults to "all rights reserved". Nobody then has the right to copy it.
Most people, by not mentioning any license for content they create, default to "all rights reserved." This is bad for society as a whole as more and more content gets locked up, so the Creative Commons was created to give people an alternative, for everybody's benefit. You can put your content under a less restrictive "some rights reserved" CC license to allow the creation of a "commons" of art and literature (makes me chuckle in the context of our blog) that people can use as a basis for their own works. The CC allows you to fill out a form specifying what kind of use you want to allow, and generates a tailor-made license.
You seem to have chosen a very restrictive license (Attribution Required, Non-Commercial Use Only, and No Derivative Works allowed.)
I would suggest using a more open license, because if you are going to use such a restrictive license, you may as well not use any license at all. Remember, as I explained above, licenses are used to give rights, not to take them away. Without a license, your readers only have fair-use rights. With a license you can give them any rights you want.
Keep in mind that however restrictive the license is, people still have the fair-use rights. They can copy content for excerpts in reviews, parodies (making fun of us), personal use, etc. Nothing can take away fair-use rights.
Whatever license you put on the content, you are still its owner. You are free to change the license at any time. However, by specifically stating so, you can put your work in the public domain, which means that nobody owns it, and anybody can do with it whatever they'd like.
The extension to this is that you can only put a license on content if you are the owner. Since blog posts are owned by the authors, you need to get permission from all of them to put on a license. This is a worthwhile goal, since if we all agree to use a more open license for our content, we'll be doing a tiny bit (very, very tiny) to create a public commons of knowledge and art.
Think of this as a first attempt to introduce the basis of copyrights. Please see other sources for more information, as everything in this post is not guaranteed to be accurate. As always, don't trust a single source for any information.
Welcome to the world of Intellectual "Property", where the poor people are Bill Gates, the rich people are actually poor, and the big men with sticks are the lawyers.
posted by Roshan Shariff @ 8:26 AM
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Our WebLog, DynamiX Notes, now has its own exclusive copyrights. Hosted generously by Creative Commons, which offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. They have built upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright. They are a nonprofit organisation.
posted by Ayush Gupta @ 2:18 AM
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Okay, I think you guys should try to actively get new people into the clan, even the core group. As it stands, I see more people in the Alumni section (excluding Anshuman and Deepak) than in the Dynamites list (excluding Pandey Sir & Pankaj Sir). This is not a very healthy situation. I know that for the non-board students this is the final examination time, so what you can do is to spread via word of mouth that the old DynamiX people are gone and the DynamiX brand is represented by new people. Tell them that it means a completely different DynamiX, a more dynamic DynamiX in a matter of speaking. So list of people whom you'd want in the core, and the people whom you'd want to join DX. Sometimes some people use computers quite regularly, know some stuff about it, but aren't quite technical people.. programmers, gamers etc. They form a very valuable portion of the non-core group as they can be trusted to handle computers during events, and otherwise too.
Also, try to get more people as they join the clan to join the blog too. The idea of the blog is NOT to publish Firefox tips and tricks and be a general entertainment forum, but to be a means of talking to the clan. The tips and tricks, tech news etc are just means to keep the blog alive when the activity level is low (like during exams.. now). Talk to and reach out to as many people as you can in the school.
posted by Shashank Shekhar @ 2:11 AM
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Un-Officially though, but it can be well announced that the present commitee of the Dynamix Clan has dissolved. Everything that was possible by a hand-ful of students in contributing towards creating a community of like-minded people has been done above the potential. Only because of Dynamix, our school is into the process of becoming a reputed one in terms of computers, technology and the students too.
All the senior serious members deserve a sincere thank you, of-course from the students and from the school too. Some of their concrete achievements are :-
* Organised Symposia(twice)
* Maintained our school website
* Held Work-shop(s)
* Brought many a trophies for school
* Organised gaming competiton(Frag-Fest)
* Pushed(not exactly!) other tech people into this community and so on...
Now the thing is, in march, all of them retires. All of them are through with their duties. After a two-year close parental relationship with Dynamix, they are parting away. Their role has ended. The series is over for them. In short, their era has ended. They are stepping into a totally different world of college life. A very best of luck to you all. May you succeed in whatever you do.
This is a post-of-assurance for the departing(no wrong intended!) members. In this post, on behalf of all the "fresh-blood" taking over, I am promising you all of a more active, better, sexier(yes seriously!) and a more focussed clan. All the activities that previous batch couldn't carry out(like departments), will be completed by us in success. New ideas, which an integral requirement of a clan like those of ours, will be thought of and worked upon. I am sure you are not, but the following few lines are for those who are worried, along with being concerned about the future of the clan. I would like to say that there is absolutely no need to take "not-required-tensions". The new team in place, is all set to except the challenge. Things will be shaked up at the Dynamix. Anything & Everything possible by the new hand-ful of boys/girls making up the team Dynamix will be done above potential as you guys have done. May god bless us.
I wish you all, a very happy lifetime.
Regards
(Siddharth Razdan)
posted by Siddharth Razdan @ 4:36 AM
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