When I was looking for an MP3 player a few years ago, it had the best price/storage ratio. Everything else I looked at either only had half the storage for around $50-100 less, or was the same and cost $50-100 more. So, I got the 60gb 4th gen iPod. To this day it still works fine, in fact I'm listing to some Static-X on it at the moment. I use it most of the day, even when driving (through the line in port, I had to replace the stereo for that).
The only thing that was a disappointment with it was the headphones, which, IMHO, sound awful. So I had to spend another $20 on a decent set of portable headphones. The iPod's sound quality is decent, though I greatly prefer the M-Audio Delta 1010lt in my home computer...
I'm probably going to buy something new around May, something that's 80gb+ and ideally something that supports Vorbis. As I'm fed up with using GTKPod to manage it, ideally I'd like to be able to manage it with rsync (all of my music is properly sorted, tagged, and has the artwork embedded in it). Does anyone have a recommendation?
OK, tax software. I'm Australian, and the tax office allow you to lodge online using their own application. I have found instructions to run the Java app under Ubuntu, but I had no success at all. You likely have GIJ set as the Java runtime, which is what Ubuntu (and Fedora, IIRC) does by default. This doesn't support Swing or much else, and has horrible performance. This can be fixed easily, though:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts sudo update-alternatives --config java (select the number that says "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java") sudo gedit/etc/jvm (add/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun as the first entry)
Now all Java should work properly.
Cue VMWare player. Free, included in the packages for Ubuntu. I figured I'd use this until the ATO software can be installed in Linux (which I'm sure it can be). There's a way to create basic VMWare images using a QEMU which can then be saved as VMWare images. So a licensed version of windows 2000 went on for the sole purpose of doing my tax. This is my current project to make this thing run under Linux, an ongoing quest. Install VMWare Server. Ubuntu provides packages for it and to get it to work all you have to do is go to vmware.com and request a (free) license key for it. You can then create virtual machines easily. It rocks.
You can also give VirtualBox a try. It works well and offers a "seamless" mode (Windows apps appear on the Linux desktop). The only downside to VirtualBox is licensing. The binary that's available is under their "Personal Use and Evaluation License", but they do provide an Ubuntu repository for it. There is a GPL version available that does the same things, but you have to compile it from source.
At the moment I'm using both VMWare Server and VirtualBox OSE (the GPL version) equally.
Paint shop pro, well, it wouldn't install using WINE, Buy CrossOver Office instead (there's a 30 day demo available). It's based on WINE, but actually works.
Haven't figured out how to save alpha transparencies to PNG's yet. But it's doing it. Just save it as a PNG. Unless you index it first it will save the alpha transparencies by default.
Seriously.. Also, if you can't do the widgets, at least have the decency to track (separately) last directory used for opening projects and saving images and use those by default in file open and save dialogs (Like most other windows programs). I imagine I'm not along, in that I keep my project files deep in one tree, while the images that are output are deep in another tree.. it's a pain in the ass to always have to go between them.
The only reason I use gimp is because it's free, not because I like it better. I've started putting the bug in my boss's ear about photoshop, because Gimp is just getting on my nerves. If you're stuck with using Windows, why not give Paint.NET a try? It's under the MIT License. The features are really good and it has a Windows-style UI. Personally I prefer GIMP's UI, though, for the reasons many people seem to hate it (I despise MDI, floating windows ftw).
Give it a try. It's really good and actively maintained. If it only worked under Mono...
I imagine it would be easy to remove if they just gave us the root password.... (or am i getting my distros mixed up?) sudo passwd
Now you have a root password.
Still, to disable Compiz all you'd have to do is click on "System"->"Preferences"->"Desktop Effects" and press the "Enable Desktop Effects" toggle button. No password required (it's a per user setting).
If you want to completely remove Compiz from the system, just click on "System"->"Administration"->"Synaptic Package Manager". Type in your password, and then do a search for "desktop-effects" and "compiz-core" (all over compiz packages depend on this, so removing it will remove them as well) and remove them.
Don't have any Karma to burn anyways:) Both suck in different ways. Personally I hate using OO.o less, but still both of them have awful UIs and are overall pretty shitty. IMHO, the only tolerable office UI is the one MS Office 2004 has on the Mac, though things are still organized poorly.
I do think the UI in 2007 is an improvement over 2003/XP/2000, but that's really anything's an improvement over that.
Try apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. The latest nv driver seems to be a bit more stable, or maybe it's the latest X.Org. The system is completely up to date. I really only have stability issues with it when I do video, especially if I try full screen. It's strange.
What's wrong with the i-tal "nv" driver? Never installed nVidious's closed-source crap, never likely to. It's 2d only. Ie, no Beryl/Compiz. It also doesn't seem to be very stable. I use that driver on my PowerBook (it runs Ubuntu), but X freezes half of the time I try to play a video*. If I'm at home I have to ssh in from another machine and kill X so I can use the thing again, or if I'm anywhere else I have to reboot (keyboard and mouse are frozen as is everything on the desktop, ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't do anything).
* It doesn't matter whether I'm using VLC, Xine, Mplayer, or Totem. I happens very often, which is why I'll usually just boot it into OS X if I want to play a dvd or avi.
Also, in reply to Lumpy (gp), why is it so hard to go to "System->Administration->Restricted Drivers Manager"? I've done that with a few GeForce4 (integrated) cards and it's as easy as typing your password and clicking a button.
If you're not running 7.04, then just do "System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager" and do a search for "nvidia-glx". Install that and it should work (you might have to change/etc/X11/xorg.conf to "nvidia" rather than "nv", I don't remember if that's automatic or not).
Ubuntu is by far the easiest distro to install 3d graphics drivers on since they provide the packages. No compiling and it will always work across reboots since the driver gets updated when the kernel does.
Most distros nowadays are pretty decent about not installing, never mind running, stuff "out of the box".
One word: Ubuntu. Ubuntu doesn't install much out of the box, but it doesn't install a firewall. If you apt-get, say, apache2, it automatically starts it. That's not cool. The Fedora/RHEL/CentOS way is better. If you install something, it stays disabled until you configure it and enable it. They also default to installing a firewall, and also default to using SELinux.
The only place where it really looks native is on Linux/BSD/Unix running Gnome. Everywhere else, it just looks out-of-place with the rest of the system. What are you smoking? Just curious. Under Linux, Firefox looks awful. It doesn't follow the theme properly. The controls look Win95-ish, but uglier. There are UI rendering glitches everywhere. It ignores the desktop icon theme. It renders ugly fonts compared to the rest of the system, and ignores the desktop font preferences. It blatently ignores the Human Interface Guidelines. In every way it sticks out and looks hideous compared to the rest of the desktop. It barely attempts to integrate at all with the desktop.
IMHO, the only place it seems to get a sort of native look is on XP. I don't like using it on OS X, but I like Safari even less. The only reason I stick with it on Linux (Ubuntu) and OS X is because of some really great extensions. The controls can be made to not look hideously ugly (still not native, which is very irritating), but overall FF on Linux (Gnome) seriously pisses me off. Every other application I use integrates very well with the desktop and looks great.
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$thePath = explode("/",ereg_replace($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']," ",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])); There isn't supposed to be a space in the quotes. The lameness filter added that.
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Or, do it the way I do.
1. Name the PHP file "download". 2. Use this option either in httpd.conf or.htaccess: <Files/path/to/file/download> SetHandler application/x-httpd-php </Files>
3. Access it like: http://localhost/download or accept arguments like http://localhost/download/file.odt
If you want to get what comes after the slash, this is all you need: $thePath = explode("/",ereg_replace($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']," ",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
The problem you're describing is that the kind of content you're describing is hard to make, and that most of it is too expensive to do without the support of television commercial payments. Sanctuary. The production quality is pretty good. Amanda Tapping is the main character, too. It's $2/episode "standard" quality (dvd-like), $2.50 for hi-def (780p). Both are encoded with h264 and are DRM-free.
Overall I'm liking the show and hope it goes on. It'd be cool to see more good shows like this.
Umm, no. I use eMusic. For my $19.99/mo, I get 75 DRM-free LAME-encoded mp3's. It works out to about $0.27/song. When you run out of downloads and need to finish an album (I only buy albums) the booster packs can get as cheap as $0.40/song ($19.99 for 50).
Also, it's not like Napster where you "rent" the songs. The files are just regular DRM-free mp3s. If you cancel your subscription, you still keep what you've downloaded.
Is there really room for a new player right now? With many years of Linux experience why should I look at Solaris? Curiosity only holds so much water when you just want to get stuff done. Solaris is very stable. Also, unlike Linux, large parts of it's kernel are not constantly being rewritten. It also has a stable ABI.
Personally, once OpenSolaris goes GPLv3 I'm switching.
Probably, but since this desktop runs on xulrunner/firefox it will likely eat up 1GB+ ram by itself, ignore the system themes, render ugly fonts, render ugly buttons (there is a workaround), freeze often when trying to open new windows/apps/etc, and make Win95 seem like a rock solid desktop.
This does sound like an interesting idea, though. Hopefully someone will implement an alternative with Webkit (there is a GTK+ port in progress).
but rather the deliberate crippling of the wifi and the horrible PC-side software. Well, it's Microsoft. Do you really expect software from them to not be awful and crippled?
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Using Firefox is theft. It steals marketshare from Internet Explorer and rapes Microsoft's vendor lock-in. It must be stopped.
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And someone has a problem with reading. From TFA:
Many people have suggested that I publish via RSS instead of e-mail. For me the problem with that is that our newsletter is used to send out the location of new sites for getting around blocking software, so that by the time the last sites have gotten blocked in most places, the new ones are being mailed out. As long as people can access their e-mail accounts, they can get the new site announcements. But if we used an RSS feed instead of e-mail, then blocking software companies would just block our RSS feed.
Or just install the CustomizeGoogle extension for Firefox. It has an option to automatically switch gmail, calendar, apps, etc to ssl. Plus it can remove the ads, block cookies to google-analyitics.com, randomize the search tracking cookie, and many other things.
Oh! and bonus points if it is Linux friendly... I really would like to have XP+Ubuntu on this machine (without having to buy an external CardBus wireless adaptor). Unless you're doing gaming, why not just go with Ubuntu and virtualize Windows? You can even make the Windows apps appear seamlessly on the Linux desktop (ie, not in a desktop window).
VMWare Server and VirtualBox are free. I haven't used VirtualBox so I can't comment on it, but VMWare Server's snapshot feature* alone makes this nicer than running Windows native.
* It's rather crippled compared to the snapshot feature in VMWare Workstation, though.
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When I was looking for an MP3 player a few years ago, it had the best price/storage ratio. Everything else I looked at either only had half the storage for around $50-100 less, or was the same and cost $50-100 more. So, I got the 60gb 4th gen iPod. To this day it still works fine, in fact I'm listing to some Static-X on it at the moment. I use it most of the day, even when driving (through the line in port, I had to replace the stereo for that).
The only thing that was a disappointment with it was the headphones, which, IMHO, sound awful. So I had to spend another $20 on a decent set of portable headphones. The iPod's sound quality is decent, though I greatly prefer the M-Audio Delta 1010lt in my home computer...
I'm probably going to buy something new around May, something that's 80gb+ and ideally something that supports Vorbis. As I'm fed up with using GTKPod to manage it, ideally I'd like to be able to manage it with rsync (all of my music is properly sorted, tagged, and has the artwork embedded in it). Does anyone have a recommendation?
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
sudo update-alternatives --config java
(select the number that says "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java")
sudo gedit
(add
Now all Java should work properly. Cue VMWare player. Free, included in the packages for Ubuntu. I figured I'd use this until the ATO software can be installed in Linux (which I'm sure it can be). There's a way to create basic VMWare images using a QEMU which can then be saved as VMWare images. So a licensed version of windows 2000 went on for the sole purpose of doing my tax. This is my current project to make this thing run under Linux, an ongoing quest. Install VMWare Server. Ubuntu provides packages for it and to get it to work all you have to do is go to vmware.com and request a (free) license key for it. You can then create virtual machines easily. It rocks.
You can also give VirtualBox a try. It works well and offers a "seamless" mode (Windows apps appear on the Linux desktop). The only downside to VirtualBox is licensing. The binary that's available is under their "Personal Use and Evaluation License", but they do provide an Ubuntu repository for it. There is a GPL version available that does the same things, but you have to compile it from source.
At the moment I'm using both VMWare Server and VirtualBox OSE (the GPL version) equally. Paint shop pro, well, it wouldn't install using WINE, Buy CrossOver Office instead (there's a 30 day demo available). It's based on WINE, but actually works. Haven't figured out how to save alpha transparencies to PNG's yet. But it's doing it. Just save it as a PNG. Unless you index it first it will save the alpha transparencies by default.
The only reason I use gimp is because it's free, not because I like it better. I've started putting the bug in my boss's ear about photoshop, because Gimp is just getting on my nerves. If you're stuck with using Windows, why not give Paint.NET a try? It's under the MIT License. The features are really good and it has a Windows-style UI. Personally I prefer GIMP's UI, though, for the reasons many people seem to hate it (I despise MDI, floating windows ftw).
Give it a try. It's really good and actively maintained. If it only worked under Mono...
Now you have a root password.
Still, to disable Compiz all you'd have to do is click on "System"->"Preferences"->"Desktop Effects" and press the "Enable Desktop Effects" toggle button. No password required (it's a per user setting).
If you want to completely remove Compiz from the system, just click on "System"->"Administration"->"Synaptic Package Manager". Type in your password, and then do a search for "desktop-effects" and "compiz-core" (all over compiz packages depend on this, so removing it will remove them as well) and remove them.
Don't have any Karma to burn anyways
I do think the UI in 2007 is an improvement over 2003/XP/2000, but that's really anything's an improvement over that.
* It doesn't matter whether I'm using VLC, Xine, Mplayer, or Totem. I happens very often, which is why I'll usually just boot it into OS X if I want to play a dvd or avi.
Also, in reply to Lumpy (gp), why is it so hard to go to "System->Administration->Restricted Drivers Manager"? I've done that with a few GeForce4 (integrated) cards and it's as easy as typing your password and clicking a button.
If you're not running 7.04, then just do "System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager" and do a search for "nvidia-glx". Install that and it should work (you might have to change
Ubuntu is by far the easiest distro to install 3d graphics drivers on since they provide the packages. No compiling and it will always work across reboots since the driver gets updated when the kernel does.
Most distros nowadays are pretty decent about not installing, never mind running, stuff "out of the box".
One word: Ubuntu. Ubuntu doesn't install much out of the box, but it doesn't install a firewall. If you apt-get, say, apache2, it automatically starts it. That's not cool. The Fedora/RHEL/CentOS way is better. If you install something, it stays disabled until you configure it and enable it. They also default to installing a firewall, and also default to using SELinux.If you're running Ubuntu on a ppc chip (I'm running it on a G4 PowerBook right now), then all you need to do is:
sudo apt-get install ibm-j2re1.5
It runs Eclipse and JAP very well.
IMHO, the only place it seems to get a sort of native look is on XP. I don't like using it on OS X, but I like Safari even less. The only reason I stick with it on Linux (Ubuntu) and OS X is because of some really great extensions. The controls can be made to not look hideously ugly (still not native, which is very irritating), but overall FF on Linux (Gnome) seriously pisses me off. Every other application I use integrates very well with the desktop and looks great.
Or, do it the way I do.
.htaccess:
/path/to/file/download>
" ",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
1. Name the PHP file "download".
2. Use this option either in httpd.conf or
<Files
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
3. Access it like:
http://localhost/download or accept arguments like http://localhost/download/file.odt
If you want to get what comes after the slash, this is all you need:
$thePath = explode("/",ereg_replace($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'],
file.odt would be located in $thePath[1].
Overall I'm liking the show and hope it goes on. It'd be cool to see more good shows like this.
an iPhone user can buy songs on iTMS for less.
Umm, no. I use eMusic. For my $19.99/mo, I get 75 DRM-free LAME-encoded mp3's. It works out to about $0.27/song. When you run out of downloads and need to finish an album (I only buy albums) the booster packs can get as cheap as $0.40/song ($19.99 for 50).Also, it's not like Napster where you "rent" the songs. The files are just regular DRM-free mp3s. If you cancel your subscription, you still keep what you've downloaded.
Dude, what's your problem? Are you just trying to troll? Get a life. Seriously. Get a life.
Personally, once OpenSolaris goes GPLv3 I'm switching.
ReiserFS: It puts the stab in fstab.
Probably, but since this desktop runs on xulrunner/firefox it will likely eat up 1GB+ ram by itself, ignore the system themes, render ugly fonts, render ugly buttons (there is a workaround), freeze often when trying to open new windows/apps/etc, and make Win95 seem like a rock solid desktop.
This does sound like an interesting idea, though. Hopefully someone will implement an alternative with Webkit (there is a GTK+ port in progress).
Here is a better quality version.(sorry for the shitty quality. I imagine that version has been recompressed about 3 bazillion times. Too lazy to search for a better version)
Using Firefox is theft. It steals marketshare from Internet Explorer and rapes Microsoft's vendor lock-in. It must be stopped.
Or just install the CustomizeGoogle extension for Firefox. It has an option to automatically switch gmail, calendar, apps, etc to ssl. Plus it can remove the ads, block cookies to google-analyitics.com, randomize the search tracking cookie, and many other things.
VMWare Server and VirtualBox are free. I haven't used VirtualBox so I can't comment on it, but VMWare Server's snapshot feature* alone makes this nicer than running Windows native.
* It's rather crippled compared to the snapshot feature in VMWare Workstation, though.