Neither of my schools ever offered to let my financial aid cover living expenses.
I guess you didn't go to schools with a fat enough bank.
I'd be perfectly happy staying in the US doing things to help my fellow citizens.
How about AmeriCorps? It was invented by the Clinton administration as sort of a domestic PeaceCorps. Teaching computer skills is even one of the tasks they list. You work for them for a year in exchange for money to pay for school or pay off school loans (and your loans are deferred while you're with them). Some people also get money for living expenses but all get health insurance which may not sound like a big deal until you need it.
Again I wonder why they don't offer jobs instead of welfare if they are going to give you money anyway.
Because that would be Socialist and Socalism Is Bad. There are other reasons given but for most people, that simple-minded concept is what it boils down to.
LANs are so cheap, even for relatively large LANs, that equipment expenses are more likely to be written off as capital expense rather than being depreciated over time.
Did you mean "operating expense?" My understanding of "capital expense" is that it is something cost of which is amortized over time, typically things which are expensive but durable like a new roof or a printing press. The alternative is an operating expense which simply comes from your budget for that year. A ream of paper or polo shirts for your staff would be operating expenses, even if you spent $100,000 on polo shirts. So I would think it would be the capital expenses which are deprecated.
But what do I know, I work for a university where even though my department buys computers every year and replaces them on a 4-year cycle, the money still comes from the capital, not operating, budget.
That was the old OS X Server, 1.2. Not long after OS X 10 came out they came out with OS X 10 Server which is basically OS X with extra GUI tools for managing the stuff that every OS X has built-in. Actually, that's a bit of an exagerration, OS X Server has stuff like NetBoot that you can't do with OS X.
Have you looked at WebRFM? It seems old and abandoned (home page gone, mirror remains) but they implemented it on a server at my uni just this year. The "visible" part of WebRFM is web-based file browser but this does include the code to get the per-user stuff happening. Here's the relevant bit from the web page:
"WebRFM implements a virtual-root mechanism, such that each user's access is restricted to his own area (home directory, by default), and it is designed to run in the user's security context (UID/GID) such that OS-based access control and quota limits are also being imposed. A special setuid wrapper to enable this is included. Other wrappers (such as the Apache suEXEC wrapper) can also be used."
We're leaving our Indigo iMacs running OS 9 until they're replaced over the next two years. This summer's Macs will be running OS X and last year's Macs are getting switched to OS X. Unfortunately the arrival of the Entourage update (soon, I hope) doesn't really affect our plans. The Entourage update will only bring compatibility with Exchange 2000 (or newer) and our Uni's Exchange servers can't get upgraded until Active Directory gets deployed which isn't going to happen this calendar year, maybe not even until next summer. It's a bummer.
So, we're going to switch to Entourage anyway and use Exchange as an IMAP server since the faculty never use Outlok for anything but email anyway (for the few staff with Macs, they can use Outlook in Classic). Everyone in our IT dept. has been using Entourage this way for a while now and it works great. Since LDAP is also enabled on the server, Entourage can even access the Global Address List.
the evil incarnation known as Word 5 (or was it 6?)
It was Word 6 that was evil. Word 5 rocks (Word 98 was the return to sanity after Word 6). I like some features which have appeared over the years but version 5 was the pinacle of "everything you need, nothing your don't."
Well, they have for a long time but they're extras, not built-in. I've never used them because I have little NT desktop experience and they were rendered basically obsolete by Win2k. With Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced RunAs which is a pretty good sudo equivalent. You can Shift-right click any program, choose RunAs and you are prompted to provide the credentials you would like to use to run that one app. You can set a shortcut to a program to always prompt you for credentials (if you want to run it as "yourself" just click a radio button). You can also do it from the command line. If you want a "shell" as another user, just run "runas/user:[domain]\[username] cmd." There *are* a few things which are very difficult to do using RunAs, adding a printer (when you need to install a drive) comes to mind.
The problem is with the crappy job so many companies do with their installers and programs. They *still* are often not written for multiple users in mind. So what often happens is you try to do the right thing and run the installer via RunAs instead of being logged in as an Admin and the Programs shortcuts end up in the wrong profile (they should offer All Users or Current User as choices). Another common screw-up is the install creates keys in the Current User's registry which is fine except when the program is run by another user (remember the Current User during intallation was the Admin), the program fails to run correctly or maybe run at all. The program itself should be able to create the necessary registry entries the first time a given user runs it! Then there's all the programs that still install all kinds of crap in the SystemRoot (C:\Winnt\ or C:\Windows) instead of their own directory.
Windows 2000/XP have many features to help the user operate it safely but very few applications, including Microsoft's own apps, are written to take full advantage of them.
How about the Archos Jukebox Recorder 20? I haven't used one, I just found this when a professor was asking about something to do field recordings (I actually suggested the Multimedia Jukebox for her because she wanted a place to put her digital photos and you can buy a memory card reader for the Multimedia Jukebox). It's not iPod sized but it's still pretty small.
The specs say this can do up to 160Kbps encoding. I read a user comment somewhere that the built-in mic tends to pick up the hard drive noise but it has "Stereo Digital Line In/Out, Stereo Analog Line in" and you probably wouldn't use the built-in mic anyway.
Archos's Ondio is even smaller than the iPod and can record up VPR 160Kbps MP3s through line-in. It has 128MB Flash memory instead of a hard drive but is expandable with MultiMediaCards. You might not be able to make it through one show on just the 128MB but certainly could with an additional MMC. Again, I haven't used any of Archos's stuff, I just came across it on their web site.
Okay, but you've already got a script which watches for IP changes to update the non-canonical hostname, right? So add a few lines to the script to get the canonical hostname for the new IP, write it into the postfix.conf file (or whatever its called) then kill -HUP postfix. I bet this is even a problem someone else has already solved but there's a good chance that writing your own is easier than finding someone else's.
The patch is not out yet, it's due this summer. If Exchange has IMAP and LDAP enabled, Entourage v.X is a great client for email and Global Contacts. It's the group calendaring which is still a big missing piece.
Unfortunately they say it will require Exchange 2000 (or newer) which screws us since it'll probably be another year before our organization has Active Directory going (required for Exchange 2000).
Of course, now there is an option that lets you pay 2 mega-corps instead of 1
Given that generic retail chains (WalMart) represent the huge majority of album sales already, people have been paying 2 mega-corps for years. #2 goes to national chains like Tower or whatever you find in your local mall. Distant third are the small business owners, who have been in the same bad position for longer than even the independent book stores.
Book stores are surviving in the face of amazon.com and it's ilk because books are still best enjoyed as very tangible things. Maybe small music stores can hang on by doing some of the things the book stores have done to make themselves a "scene." It's been clear for a while now that music in bit form makes sense and that's the form it's going to take. Even so, there's no reason to think Apple or even it's business model will monopolize music sales in the future. This is still just the beginning.
But those kiosks aren't on public IPs anyway, right? You can't VNC into those kiosks from your home computer, right? So, there's no need to upgrade those machines, you just upgrade the thing(s) which acts as the gateway to the public Internet, if there is any. It's more important that the "connective tissue" of the Internet, the routers and switches, can handle IPv6 so people at the ends don't have to worry or wonder.
And if we're really lucky, it'll have its own speech capability so it can reply, "not right now 'Cheech,' I'm going to play The Clash instead."
But seriously folks, I don't think that's very realistic. Sure, they are phones now which can accept voice commands but they require training and have a very limited vocabulary. The kind of recognition you're talking about is a lot closer to understanding continuous speech, something which is a lot harder and requires a lot more processing to do well.
More feasible is teaching it to recognize a few words like Stop Start Pause Next Track Album. Even that I think would not be a software upgrade but would require a hardware upgrade.
Entourage is already a good Exchange client for email and server-side contacts if LDAP and IMAP are enabled on the server. Yes, group calendaring is still the big missing piece, one which is supposed to be filled in this summer. Currently Mac Exchange clients have to use Outlook 2001 which is a big improvement over its predecessor but still pretty crappy and half-assed. Outlook 2001 was written by the Exchange group, not MBU. The announcement that Entourage would be the Exchange client was good news not only because it meant there would finally be an OS X native client but also because its the MBU doing it, not the Exchange group.
You're iCal suggestion wouldn't replicate some of the most useful features. Could you create an event on your calendar and have it sent to who ever else should be there and let them Accept or Decline it and have that action not only send you a reply (so you know if they're coming) but also automatically add it their calendars? Okay, that one might actually work, I'm not sufficiently familiar with iCal capable clients.
Even better, with the iCal option, how do you take a list of 7 people and with the click of a button, find the first hour all 7 are free this week? How do you get all 7 calendars displayed, one person per line, to look for yourself when they're free? Sure all of these *could* be done using iCal published calendars, because the data is there, but it would be totally client dependent, it's not a part of any standard. iCal is client-oriented, it assumes that the client is the primary storage location for calendar information. That's fine when you're doing personal calendars but in an organizational setting, the data and some of the connections made between data sets should be on the server.
You may not even have to have iTunes to access iTunes shares. The protocol is called DAAP but it's basically HTTP 1.1 running on port 3689. This guy is working on breaking down the protocol and pudge (and others, I'm sure) found that you can sniff the URL out of your packets then use something like curl to actually download instead of stream MP3 files.
I think reverse-engineering the MP3 sharing will be cake so the only thing you'd need a real iTunes app for is the DRM'd AAC files. Actually, I think the DRM handling is really done by QuickTime so it may be possible to write applications which can use a QuickTime API for handling DRM tracks.
Yes, if you look in that directory, you'll see there has been a "theme song" for each release since 3.0.
Here are the tracks with my made-up genre categorization of them. I think 3.0 and 3.1 are superior to 3.2 and 3.3.
3.0 "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)" Genre: Electronica 3.1 "Systemagic" Genre: Germanic industrial 3.2 "Goldflipper" Genre: James Bond theme 3.3 "Puff the Barbarian" Genre: Fantasy metal
I don't know. In case it can be done by editing the prefs by hand, here's an example of the lines to add to your prefs. Sorry I don't have a Mac handy to show you what the path part would look like. You can probably look at other parts of the prefs.js file to figure out what the path should look like.
In Mozilla 1.3, there's only the option for move or resize "existing windows." Another person's comment says 1.4 alpha has a "move or resize existing windows" option.
Mozilla 1.3 has an option to play a user-specified sound when a popup window has been suppressed. It can also display an icon in the status bar (the default).
Mozilla won't block this because this is in response to a user action. If you disable JavaScript entirely, this window probably won't open but you won't get to follow the link either.
This is just an interstitial ad combined with JavaScript code to resize the target window. If this kind of thing catches on, Mozilla will probably add a checkbox for "move or resize new windows" to Scripts & Plugins preferences. You'll still get the ad but it won't be full screen. Alternately they could add a preference to open all new windows in a separate tab which would have essentially the same effect.
First, yes, it's a moral decision to not steal. Beyond that, Steve gave good reasons for choosing Apple Music over searching P2P - speed and quality. If you buy from Apple you get faster downloads than you usually can on P2P. You also get to browse, which can be a faster way to find what you want, and if you do a keyword search, it'll probably faster than it often is using P2P clients. 128Kbps AAC will definitely sound better than 128Kbps MP3 but more importantly the quality of the encoding will be good and you'll get the whole file. You'll also know that when you download a Celine Dion track, that's what you get.
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Neither of my schools ever offered to let my financial aid cover living expenses.
I guess you didn't go to schools with a fat enough bank.
I'd be perfectly happy staying in the US doing things to help my fellow citizens.
How about AmeriCorps? It was invented by the Clinton administration as sort of a domestic PeaceCorps. Teaching computer skills is even one of the tasks they list. You work for them for a year in exchange for money to pay for school or pay off school loans (and your loans are deferred while you're with them). Some people also get money for living expenses but all get health insurance which may not sound like a big deal until you need it.
Again I wonder why they don't offer jobs instead of welfare if they are going to give you money anyway.
Because that would be Socialist and Socalism Is Bad. There are other reasons given but for most people, that simple-minded concept is what it boils down to.
LANs are so cheap, even for relatively large LANs, that equipment expenses are more likely to be written off as capital expense rather than being depreciated over time.
Did you mean "operating expense?" My understanding of "capital expense" is that it is something cost of which is amortized over time, typically things which are expensive but durable like a new roof or a printing press. The alternative is an operating expense which simply comes from your budget for that year. A ream of paper or polo shirts for your staff would be operating expenses, even if you spent $100,000 on polo shirts. So I would think it would be the capital expenses which are deprecated.
But what do I know, I work for a university where even though my department buys computers every year and replaces them on a 4-year cycle, the money still comes from the capital, not operating, budget.
That sounds more like a euphemism for diarrhea.
That was the old OS X Server, 1.2. Not long after OS X 10 came out they came out with OS X 10 Server which is basically OS X with extra GUI tools for managing the stuff that every OS X has built-in. Actually, that's a bit of an exagerration, OS X Server has stuff like NetBoot that you can't do with OS X.
Have you looked at WebRFM? It seems old and abandoned (home page gone, mirror remains) but they implemented it on a server at my uni just this year. The "visible" part of WebRFM is web-based file browser but this does include the code to get the per-user stuff happening. Here's the relevant bit from the web page:
"WebRFM implements a virtual-root mechanism, such that each user's access is restricted to his own area (home directory, by default), and it is designed to run in the user's security context (UID/GID) such that OS-based access control and quota limits are also being imposed. A special setuid wrapper to enable this is included. Other wrappers (such as the Apache suEXEC wrapper) can also be used."
We're leaving our Indigo iMacs running OS 9 until they're replaced over the next two years. This summer's Macs will be running OS X and last year's Macs are getting switched to OS X. Unfortunately the arrival of the Entourage update (soon, I hope) doesn't really affect our plans. The Entourage update will only bring compatibility with Exchange 2000 (or newer) and our Uni's Exchange servers can't get upgraded until Active Directory gets deployed which isn't going to happen this calendar year, maybe not even until next summer. It's a bummer.
So, we're going to switch to Entourage anyway and use Exchange as an IMAP server since the faculty never use Outlok for anything but email anyway (for the few staff with Macs, they can use Outlook in Classic). Everyone in our IT dept. has been using Entourage this way for a while now and it works great. Since LDAP is also enabled on the server, Entourage can even access the Global Address List.
the evil incarnation known as Word 5 (or was it 6?)
It was Word 6 that was evil. Word 5 rocks (Word 98 was the return to sanity after Word 6). I like some features which have appeared over the years but version 5 was the pinacle of "everything you need, nothing your don't."
Su does not exist, nor does sudo.
/user:[domain]\[username] cmd." There *are* a few things which are very difficult to do using RunAs, adding a printer (when you need to install a drive) comes to mind.
Well, they have for a long time but they're extras, not built-in. I've never used them because I have little NT desktop experience and they were rendered basically obsolete by Win2k. With Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced RunAs which is a pretty good sudo equivalent. You can Shift-right click any program, choose RunAs and you are prompted to provide the credentials you would like to use to run that one app. You can set a shortcut to a program to always prompt you for credentials (if you want to run it as "yourself" just click a radio button). You can also do it from the command line. If you want a "shell" as another user, just run "runas
The problem is with the crappy job so many companies do with their installers and programs. They *still* are often not written for multiple users in mind. So what often happens is you try to do the right thing and run the installer via RunAs instead of being logged in as an Admin and the Programs shortcuts end up in the wrong profile (they should offer All Users or Current User as choices). Another common screw-up is the install creates keys in the Current User's registry which is fine except when the program is run by another user (remember the Current User during intallation was the Admin), the program fails to run correctly or maybe run at all. The program itself should be able to create the necessary registry entries the first time a given user runs it! Then there's all the programs that still install all kinds of crap in the SystemRoot (C:\Winnt\ or C:\Windows) instead of their own directory.
Windows 2000/XP have many features to help the user operate it safely but very few applications, including Microsoft's own apps, are written to take full advantage of them.
The main virus definition download site was down over this past weekend, I'm guessing because of the BugBear.B worm.
I would hope not, it defeats the purpose of having AV software if you can't get the definitions during a big outbreak.
Diners were hardly ever made out of train cars and the classic appearance was not defined by diners made from train cars
DINER FACTS
How about the Archos Jukebox Recorder 20? I haven't used one, I just found this when a professor was asking about something to do field recordings (I actually suggested the Multimedia Jukebox for her because she wanted a place to put her digital photos and you can buy a memory card reader for the Multimedia Jukebox). It's not iPod sized but it's still pretty small.
The specs say this can do up to 160Kbps encoding. I read a user comment somewhere that the built-in mic tends to pick up the hard drive noise but it has "Stereo Digital Line In/Out, Stereo Analog Line in" and you probably wouldn't use the built-in mic anyway.
Archos's Ondio is even smaller than the iPod and can record up VPR 160Kbps MP3s through line-in. It has 128MB Flash memory instead of a hard drive but is expandable with MultiMediaCards. You might not be able to make it through one show on just the 128MB but certainly could with an additional MMC. Again, I haven't used any of Archos's stuff, I just came across it on their web site.
Okay, but you've already got a script which watches for IP changes to update the non-canonical hostname, right? So add a few lines to the script to get the canonical hostname for the new IP, write it into the postfix.conf file (or whatever its called) then kill -HUP postfix. I bet this is even a problem someone else has already solved but there's a good chance that writing your own is easier than finding someone else's.
The patch is not out yet, it's due this summer. If Exchange has IMAP and LDAP enabled, Entourage v.X is a great client for email and Global Contacts. It's the group calendaring which is still a big missing piece.
Unfortunately they say it will require Exchange 2000 (or newer) which screws us since it'll probably be another year before our organization has Active Directory going (required for Exchange 2000).
Of course, now there is an option that lets you pay 2 mega-corps instead of 1
Given that generic retail chains (WalMart) represent the huge majority of album sales already, people have been paying 2 mega-corps for years. #2 goes to national chains like Tower or whatever you find in your local mall. Distant third are the small business owners, who have been in the same bad position for longer than even the independent book stores.
Book stores are surviving in the face of amazon.com and it's ilk because books are still best enjoyed as very tangible things. Maybe small music stores can hang on by doing some of the things the book stores have done to make themselves a "scene." It's been clear for a while now that music in bit form makes sense and that's the form it's going to take. Even so, there's no reason to think Apple or even it's business model will monopolize music sales in the future. This is still just the beginning.
But those kiosks aren't on public IPs anyway, right? You can't VNC into those kiosks from your home computer, right? So, there's no need to upgrade those machines, you just upgrade the thing(s) which acts as the gateway to the public Internet, if there is any. It's more important that the "connective tissue" of the Internet, the routers and switches, can handle IPv6 so people at the ends don't have to worry or wonder.
And if we're really lucky, it'll have its own speech capability so it can reply, "not right now 'Cheech,' I'm going to play The Clash instead."
But seriously folks, I don't think that's very realistic. Sure, they are phones now which can accept voice commands but they require training and have a very limited vocabulary. The kind of recognition you're talking about is a lot closer to understanding continuous speech, something which is a lot harder and requires a lot more processing to do well.
More feasible is teaching it to recognize a few words like Stop Start Pause Next Track Album. Even that I think would not be a software upgrade but would require a hardware upgrade.
Entourage is already a good Exchange client for email and server-side contacts if LDAP and IMAP are enabled on the server. Yes, group calendaring is still the big missing piece, one which is supposed to be filled in this summer. Currently Mac Exchange clients have to use Outlook 2001 which is a big improvement over its predecessor but still pretty crappy and half-assed. Outlook 2001 was written by the Exchange group, not MBU. The announcement that Entourage would be the Exchange client was good news not only because it meant there would finally be an OS X native client but also because its the MBU doing it, not the Exchange group.
You're iCal suggestion wouldn't replicate some of the most useful features. Could you create an event on your calendar and have it sent to who ever else should be there and let them Accept or Decline it and have that action not only send you a reply (so you know if they're coming) but also automatically add it their calendars? Okay, that one might actually work, I'm not sufficiently familiar with iCal capable clients.
Even better, with the iCal option, how do you take a list of 7 people and with the click of a button, find the first hour all 7 are free this week? How do you get all 7 calendars displayed, one person per line, to look for yourself when they're free? Sure all of these *could* be done using iCal published calendars, because the data is there, but it would be totally client dependent, it's not a part of any standard. iCal is client-oriented, it assumes that the client is the primary storage location for calendar information. That's fine when you're doing personal calendars but in an organizational setting, the data and some of the connections made between data sets should be on the server.
You may not even have to have iTunes to access iTunes shares. The protocol is called DAAP but it's basically HTTP 1.1 running on port 3689. This guy is working on breaking down the protocol and pudge (and others, I'm sure) found that you can sniff the URL out of your packets then use something like curl to actually download instead of stream MP3 files.
I think reverse-engineering the MP3 sharing will be cake so the only thing you'd need a real iTunes app for is the DRM'd AAC files. Actually, I think the DRM handling is really done by QuickTime so it may be possible to write applications which can use a QuickTime API for handling DRM tracks.
Yes, if you look in that directory, you'll see there has been a "theme song" for each release since 3.0.
Here are the tracks with my made-up genre categorization of them. I think 3.0 and 3.1 are superior to 3.2 and 3.3.
3.0 "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)" Genre: Electronica
3.1 "Systemagic" Genre: Germanic industrial
3.2 "Goldflipper" Genre: James Bond theme
3.3 "Puff the Barbarian" Genre: Fantasy metal
I don't know. In case it can be done by editing the prefs by hand, here's an example of the lines to add to your prefs. Sorry I don't have a Mac handy to show you what the path part would look like. You can probably look at other parts of the prefs.js file to figure out what the path should look like.
user_pref("privacy.popups.sound_enabled", true);
user_pref("privacy.popups.sound_url", "C:\\sound\\doh.wav");
In Mozilla 1.3, there's only the option for move or resize "existing windows." Another person's comment says 1.4 alpha has a "move or resize existing windows" option.
No, it only has "move or resize existing windows." Does Phoenix allow per-domain exceptions for that setting? That would be nice.
Mozilla 1.3 has an option to play a user-specified sound when a popup window has been suppressed. It can also display an icon in the status bar (the default).
Mozilla won't block this because this is in response to a user action. If you disable JavaScript entirely, this window probably won't open but you won't get to follow the link either.
This is just an interstitial ad combined with JavaScript code to resize the target window. If this kind of thing catches on, Mozilla will probably add a checkbox for "move or resize new windows" to Scripts & Plugins preferences. You'll still get the ad but it won't be full screen. Alternately they could add a preference to open all new windows in a separate tab which would have essentially the same effect.
Why buy when you can get it free?
First, yes, it's a moral decision to not steal. Beyond that, Steve gave good reasons for choosing Apple Music over searching P2P - speed and quality. If you buy from Apple you get faster downloads than you usually can on P2P. You also get to browse, which can be a faster way to find what you want, and if you do a keyword search, it'll probably faster than it often is using P2P clients. 128Kbps AAC will definitely sound better than 128Kbps MP3 but more importantly the quality of the encoding will be good and you'll get the whole file. You'll also know that when you download a Celine Dion track, that's what you get.