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Re:oh wellI see 13 replies beneath my threshold already, so someone's probably
already mentioned these... three contemporary UK acts that might do it
for you. None of them do concept albums per se, but cerain... themes?
do tend to emerge repeatedly from their music. AFAIK none of these have
done anything (sales-wise) in the US.
- Radiohead
- Badly Drawn Boy
- Manic Street Preachers
- Spiritualised
- Saint Etienne
- The Pogues (actually an 80s-90s group but WTF
- The Divine Comedy (these just split up a couple of months ago but have 5 or 6
superb albums in the can.) - Electronic (first and third albums: the second was written under
the influence of Prozac, and it shows - Scritti Politti finally released a new album. If you have vague
associations of crappy 80s pop to do from the name, don't worry.
I'd give you a brief idea of what they're about, but that'd spoil the
fun
Some other stuff I really like, but seems to be a minority taste
(around here anyway!): Destiny's Child! (`Independent Woman' is
fantastic, classic pop.) And flamenco, whilst it has a seriously
intimidating pain barrier (to the uninitiated it often sounds like
tuneless wailing): the classic, Elvis-Beatles-Stones-Hendrix type
figure, probably the greatest flamenco cantaor of all time, was
Camaron de la Isla. Tons of mp3s at
http://www.flamenco-world.com. I got into it purely by accident,
got stranded at my parent's place for three weeks with nothing else to
listen to. Like the candlestick suddenly resolving into two faces,
after about a week of putting it on as background, I suddenly grokked
it's indescribable beauty. - Radiohead
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not an art gallery
Minor niggle, but the Barbican isn't really an "art gallery" per se. It's more like a university campus environment, but close to central London (prob ~20 mins walk from the City, the finacial district) which hosts many different art and cultural events. Last time I went I saw Vincente Amigo: highly recommended live if you happen to have had a bang on the head when you were a baby which left you cursed with the desire to listen to flamenco. I liked him so much I bought his most recent album.
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Re:Bazzaar model promotion
>Also I'd like to mention that, on Napster, the
> ability to browse other people's entire
>collection also helps promote music. For
>example, when I searched for "Cuban" "Latin"
>music and accidentally ran into some flamenco
>music. i liked it much so I searched for the
>word "flamenco." What returned was some guy
>who had quite a few flamenco music. So I took
>a look at his entire collection, all of which
>are classical guitar and flamenco music. So
>that is how I found Christopher Parkening's
>guitar work.Whoo-hoo, couldn't let this go..
I first got into flamenco through someone else's CDs. I took saved my holiday and took nearly a month off work in December 1999, stayed in the country with my folks. After packing I suddenly realised I hadn't picked out any CDs - I was late for the train - so I grabbed three flamenco CDs at random from my then-housemate's room. (He was Spanish, from Cadiz.)
Stuck in the country with only these three to listen to, I got through the considerable pain barrier & found I quite liked it. Came back & borrowed a few more; then started buying my own collection. I've now got >40 CDs of flamenco. All because I could listen to music I hadn't actually paid for...
Finally, some personal recommendations:
- Anything by Camaron de la Isla, especially the 70s stuff with Paco de Lucia. (Get the 3-CD 'Antologia' best of, which covers his entire career, to get a feel for his changing styles.)
- Carmen Linares
- Enrique Morente
- Miguel Poveda
- Tomatito
- El Lebriano (try 'Casablanca', with North African musicians...)
- Ketama
- Pata Negra
- tons of others...
Or just pick up the 'Rough Guide to Flamenco', "20 for the 20th Century', 'Nuevo Flamenco'.... compilations. Also, see the excellent Flamenco World site, in Spanish and English.
Enjoy!
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How can rational people accept the supernatural?Karma? Schmarma!
I still manage to be surprised that rational people can accept supernatural explanations for their own subjective experiences. Read the sci.skeptic FAQ? It's good stuff. I tend to pigeonhole theists alongside UFO freaks, crystal-waving new age bubbleheads and Carlos Castaneda fans. I really cannot understand how people who use computers daily can swallow such transparent myth.
On the other hand, I recently started reading about Buddhism here, and, modulo the culturally specific far-eastern context, found it very interesting and thought-provoking. Next thing in the reading pile happened to be The Elegant Universe, which discusses superstring theory and how it unifies quantum mechanics and relativity. (Links to Amazon, sorry B&N too slow... where else is there? anyone?) This last is utterly mind-bending. Now there are still some features of the universe and cosmology that are poorly understood; some things we may never be able to know, although we can invent untestable theories about what they might mean. I can see that there is space within this framework for something... hard to comprehend. We may call this 'the mind of god' if we like, but whatever it is, is sure as hell isn't an old guy with a big beard sitting on a cloud taking an interest in the events on planet Earth.
Christian Geeks? Do me a favour.
This comment posted with mozilla!
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MPAA slandering Open SourceI'm really surprised that Slashdot hasn't picked up these comments about the evil of Open Source . Choice extract:
"Matthew Pavlovich [of LiViD] is a leader in the so-called 'open source' movement, which is dedicated to the proposition that material, copyrighted or not, should be made available over the Internet for free. Acting in concert with like-minded individuals throughout the world, Pavlovich engaged in purposeful, unlawful conduct directed toward substantial business enterprises in the State of California by posting DeCSS. He did so knowing that his actions would adversely affect these business enterprises
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Re:So what does this mean?It's theoretically known that comets will tend to break apart due to the sudden heating from the sun as they approach the sun. However it hasn't been observed very often before. Shoemaker-Levy 9 (which crashed into Jupiter) did this, but a different cause - tidal stress from Jupiter. This seems to have been caused by the heat from the sun causing explosive sublimation of the ices that comprise much of the comet. Given that this particular LINEAR comet (it's named for the the LINEAR automated survey which has found tons of comets) doesn't appear to have approached the sun before,the ratio of ice to dirt is likely to be high. There's also speculation that the object itself broke off a larger parent body; not sure of the details on that one. NASA's Space Science site usually has good coverage of these things (here's their LINEAR story.) Sign up for the news alert mail, you get to hear about these things before Slashdot
Apologies for any accidental misinfo in this.
HTH
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RFC1918
Many networks already do filter RFC1918 packets on their border routers. An interestingly heated discussion on the pros and cons of this is to be found on the nanog list. first message of (LONG!) thread
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Re:Other NASA comments
Told you so.
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Re:How A Boy Made It This Far - How Your Daughter
Yeah, well done, we're all very proud of you. You seem rather tense and unhappy though; why do you think this could be?
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Re:Get Off It Already!Absolutely, ++this comment. The troll lost
It was rather sad how many of the responses on the original story were the same knee-jerk "aww c'mon, enough of this PC crap, no-one stopping women doing computers if they want to, therefore they don't want / are unable to perform in tech roles" type nonsense. To all the young males out there feeling irritated (threatened?) by the radical paradigm-breaking idea that maybe women DO suffer from discrimination from men -- and not just from classical "corr darlin'" sexist gits, but from apparently well-educated intelligent middle-class types who
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Re:I'd believe them, except that...How depressing that this gets moderated up to 5, Insightful. Some people could use a course in basic rhetoric and logic, and perhaps some social science as well...
>it can't be social pressures [...] because social pressures
>steer GUYS away from technology too!Right. And viruses can't be spreading via email on Windows, because Linux has email too !
> It's no different for girls than it is for us guys.
Refraining from abuse by a heroic effort... let me just repeat this 'Insightful' phrase again. Take a deep breath, read it through... notice anything ?
> It's no different for girls than it is for us guys.
>sniff sniff Anyone here have any actual data or studies on women in technology, or are we just gonna cite anecdotal evidence as gospel, and repeat the "common sense" ideas that we haven't really reassessed since we were 11? Ask a silly question...
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Anecdotal evidence
1: My aunt got her BSc degree in math and CompSci at Imperial College, London, in the late 60s - an incredible achievement. She then got into teaching, and for the last 20 years has been working in the west (== very rural) of Ireland, at a Tertiary level college, teaching IT and CS. I remember her saying that twenty years ago, the classes would be full of women. Now thanks to the internet "as soon as the 14 year old boys get near a computer they cluster around it and start pulling down porn."
2: I've known several women in tech careers professionally. All of them were as good as (or better than) their male peers, and all of them (as far as I could see) were consistently patronised, marginalised, shunted into "female orientated" roles (guess who gets to handle telecoms ?) and generally treated like shit.
3: Someone recently posted a brief announcement on the NANOG list about a "women in technology" mailing list starting up. The general tone of the responses seemed to be to be amused superiority; a couple of people got
4: Only last week a similar discussion happened where I work; apparently intelligent, sensible programmers were seriously advancing the notion that women are genetically unable to code owing to some chromosomal imbalance.
Draw your own conclusions. Oh, you already have
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BBC hypeAs one of my esteemed colleagues pointed out this morning, this is mostly just the BBC hyping a (domestic) show that's going out tonight ('Panorama') with a pseudo-'news' spinoff. Read the NASA quotes carefully and it's obvious the cracker / DoSer never got near actual live production systems.
Panorama used to be good - or at least, I remember it being good, perhaps I just didn't have the web to compare it against in those days. Nowadays it's been largely dumbed down and become increasingly sensationalist, along with the rest of their (domestic terrestrial) output.
BBC News 24 (reputedly) and the World Service (from personal experience) are still good, though.
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hilarious, can I watch?This is the funniest thing I've seen all week. Is he planning to do any testing? Yes it seems so, although he'll be sitting on top whilst it's being tested
Should be a pretty spectacular show. Here's hoping for a webcast!
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context map
context map of what
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akThe picture used to illustrate this is unlikely to be what this rumour is about. It's a southern hemisphere crater; the BBC story is talking about the bottom of Valles Marineris.
As the Mars Global Surveyor's raw dataset is up on the web the assembled
- M04-wa.html is a list of images from the general region.Enjoy !
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Re:How much power does a PC pull?
many thanks for the info -- just what I needed to know.
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How much power does a PC pull?
I just got hit by an enormous electricity bill -- 650 UKP, or about (uh) $1000 -- for
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Re:Rad-hard?Stuff radiation hardening, what about the temperature cycle ? Unless it's in an airtight container obviously fans and convection cooling aren't going to work
This
More realistically -- I've always wondered if any GPL'd code ever made it off the planet. Sure, NASA & contractors write their own code; but surely gcc or something has been folded into onboard code at some point, on something ? Anyone?
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Re:Bootlegging
> In fact, the UK publishing companies have set up
> a price-fixing cartel which should be
> investigated sometime soon, but the price isn't
> fixed _too_ high, so there's not too many
> complaints.
Actually, the Net Book Agreement collapsed a couple of years ago.
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Re:The User was RIGHT
Don't be so proud of this technological terror you've created
http://www.securityfocus.com/vdb/bottom.html?vid =664:
Mutt Text/Enriched Handler Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
A buffer overflow vulnerability in Mutt's handlers for the text/enriched MIME type allows malicious
email messages to execute commands as the user running Mutt.
bugtraq id
664
object
mutt (exec)
class
Boundary Condition Error
cve
GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
remote
Yes
local
Yes
published
September 27, 1999
updated
April 11, 2000
vulnerable
Mutt Mutt 0.95.6
not vulnerable
Mutt Mutt 1.0pre3
Nothing comparable with Outlook's abominable security model, and of course it could only trash your own files
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Re:Ethical "Attack"By this standard the ILOVEYOU author must also have been a white-hat -- well, grey-hat anyway -- consider, (a) 'ILOVEYOU' subjectline, without spaces, thus v easy to filter; (b) the fact that it could clearly have been
[off-topic] Still it doesn't seem to have had much effect on luser's behaviour. I guess we'll just have to wait for the Big One before people start to realise that an office with Microsoft
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Re:malicious no, a moron,..Something I always wanted to do back when I worked in a Windows shop -- back up the standard IT dept warnings about not opening attachments by writing a simple program to mail us back saying "User x just opened an attachment." After a round of public humiliations everyone would be told that this would be a continuous policy, and would henceforth be a disciplinary offence.
Naturally the idea was a complete non-starter. The whole reason they used Outlook in the first place was so they could send each other pretty HTMLified mail with, like, colours ! and fonts ! and stiuff; plus they were always mailing 100Mb Excel and Access docs around to each other.
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Re:More info -- from one of the deposedHmmm. Ob_IANAL
If you haven't got a copy of the file, they can't ask you for it -- they don't know you ever had it. Is simple prudence and best practice for data security now against the law ? Presumably not, until you are notified to retain everything related to the case. At which point one unsubscribes from lists, alerts everyone you have email contact with, and so on ?
Clue me in, someone ?
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Re:You know you're turning into a geezer when...
... you faked the flu to get day off school to watch the first Shuttle launch back in '81. STS looked much cooler before they stopped painting the external tank white
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Re:hold the front page
Irony: it's sorta like coppery, but a bit darker ?
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Re:hold the front page
Of course it's a log scale. Oh look there's just been a big correction and the market now appears to be back on the long term trend line.
I was going to indulge in a long Katz rant but then I thoughtr, what's the point ?
The idea that tech stocks are wildly over-valued isn't exactly a big secret. The phrase "irrational exurberance" itself was comes from Alan Greenspan[1], who's been trying to talk it down for at least 3 years AFAIK.
( [1] Chairman of the Federal Reserve for the benefit of the ignorant.)
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hold the front pagehttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^IXIC&d=5y NASDAQ: five year chart
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^IXIC&d=1y NASDAQ: one year chartIt certainly looks like a big correction could come any day now. Oh yes.
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My experiencelate post, but what the hell. In January this year I was fired from my Intranet admin and development job at Bain and Company, Inc. because I was using Perl and Apache. I now work for a much cooler company using mod_perl, MySQL, etc etc on Linux. I am much happier when I wake up in the morning now =)
Pretty soon after I left everything was transferred to an IIS box built to the approved corporate standard. There's too much Perl to throw out overnight, but future development will be ASP with Visual InterDev. (Odd that I could replace / replicate ASP stuff quickly but not the other way round
Even on NT, Apache ran without problems for nearly a year. Not a single crash. The average uptime on the NT server zoomed up to >30 days.
From what I hear, the IIS box has rolled over and died many times in the last few months. Still, at least it did so in the Approved Corporate Manner.
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DIALOG and DATASTAR -- what I want from the webA bit off-topic, assuming this turns into yet-another mp3 discussion
Before I'd so much as seen a webpage I was using DATASTAR and Dialog (and a couple of other big online databases.) For those who haven't seen them, they are
This is the biggest missed opportunity of the web/net. Searching for articles on something using standard web search engines is slow, painful, and often you end up with a random assortment of stuff. You spend ages sorting spurious hits from the real thing, following links that look like they might be relevant but actually aren't, and so on.
What I would like is a web interface to one of those databases. I'd even be willing to pay small amounts to get the fulltext of an article once located. Too ofen the best info you can find is a mixture of someone's personal notes, a couple of academic sites' "top level overviews" without anything specific and a bunch of lame niche sites. When I first heard about the web I naively imagined it might become something like the great free public lending library; alas, not so.
Is there any chance of digital access to the LOCKSS info ? Not unless you're physically in the library, I guess. Ah well.
vila: a long and noble tradition
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Re:Puh-leezeGuess who said :
"I've always thought that Visual Basic is a good product."
Was it
- Bill Gates ?
- Linux Torvalds ?
- Zaphod Beeblebrox ?
- Hemos ?
Answer : Linux Torvalds. Source : Linux Journal.
http://www2.linuxjourn al.com/articles/conversations/006.html
Personally, I prefer Perl, but there ya go
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