I think it is to give the user some feedback that their keystroke or mouse-click was successfull. Just like the little beeps on microwave buttons.
If it didn't make any noise, most people wouldn't feel like they had done anything, and if the computer didn't respond immediately, they would think that their click didn't work and they would start clicking again.
I would find it very annoying to not have the click. I guess you could replace the click with some kind of physical feeling that tells the user "you did it right," but it would probably be hard to do that without making a noise.
Some students at my university recently completed a similar project. Their project was to work with the bookstore and professors to automate the book adoption process.
They used a database called "Books In Print." I believe that the bookstore received this in paper form and they were able to buy a license for an electronic format (CD-ROM I think) but it was pretty expensive. I don't know if this is available online or not, but I'm pretty sure you can purchase CD's and load it into your own database. This would take a lot of space, so you might try searching for "Books In Print" to see if that turns up anything online for you to check into.
I agree, a Linux box as a router works just fine. I have a 486 with no hard drive and 16 meg ram running the linux router project stuff (www.linuxrouter.org) with no problems.
I don't know much about hardware routers, but I know that a Linux box will do the job nicely.
Each directory on the CD (it scans recursively) is considered a playlist. The code scans the cd for directories containing mp3s and keeps an alphabetical list of those. It then scans those directories for mp3's and makes an alphabetical list of tracks within the playlist. The user can then use an infrared remote to scan through the disk one track at a time, with shuffle mode on, at the playlist level, or even type a number to go directly to a track.
I have one of these running at home and I'm about to convert the code to use a hard drive and use it in the car.
I have considered building these for sale, but I don't have any good connections to get hardware cheap, so it wouldn't be very profitable for me and not worth the time.
If anyone is interested in one of these and has some extra hardware, I'd consider converting your hardware into a player.
My email is ericwyles [at] hotmail [dot] com.
I'm not saying I would do this for certain -- I'm just throwing the idea out to see what you all think. Depending on the response I'll decide whether or not to pursue this idea further.
It doesn't matter what Microsoft (or anyone else) does or does not do to increase their security, people will always be the biggest security hole.
I have read comments saying that they should do away with the auto-launch, but this would still leave you dependant on the people to not launch the offending files.
With any new functionality that is added to a system, there is another opportunity for people to screw something up. The ILOVEYOU virus just happened to be distributed through email, but it could have been distributed through other channels. If a virus was mailed out on disk with a note that said "Put this in your floppy drive and run everything on the disk" no one would argue against the fact that the people caused damage to themselves. No one would try to blame the post office or the manufacturer of the floppy disk. Any security model is reliant on people.
For every door or window I put in my house, I give someone another easy way to break in. Should we stop using doors and windows (no pun intended)?
A user that installs Linux at home, runs around as root all day, and runs everything that is emailed to him is just as vulnerable to these attacks as a windows user.
Ultimately people are to blame for these incidents and IMHO the best solution is user education. We don't let people drive a car without a license, not just because they may hurt themselves, but because they may hurt others through their carelesness.
This is one of the most frustrating things for me because every once in a while I decide I'm going to figure it out. I end up spending a whole day messing with it and get frustrated and quit.
I've been through countless online tutorials, but I just can't get it. I tried SWAT, but the web interface never seemed to save my changes.
I might pick up this book if it is really good. Anyone have any experience with it?
Maybe my problem is that I'm running RedHat? I've heard its harder with RedHat if you install the out of the box Samba and I usually do because I do an install everything.
I recently read that years ago, Metallica (or at least individual members, I'm not sure which) used to send thank-you notes to people who were caught shoplifting Metallica albums from record stores. Is this true? If so, why the change in attitide since then?
It's been about 10 years since I read any of the "trilogy" and although they are excellent books I don't read that much and never read them all. I think I read the first three.
People can just download and share until they get banned, and then what? Well, they are left with not being able to do something they weren't supposed to be doing in the first place.
Even if they ban IP's, people can just stay with napster until they get banned, then jump on to gnutella until they get banned, then the next thing, etc, etc
It's going to take something more than banning users to have any impact on Metallica's (or anyone else's) music sales.
My problem with the custom CD approach is that you lose the continuity and theme of having an entire album by one artist. If this model were to become the way most music was distributed, I think we would all be missing out on a lot of good music.
Often times I am first interested in hearing an artist because of one song, but after I buy the album I find that it isn't even close to my favorite song by that artist. Many other songs on the album may be a lot better, but with a custom CD I would have only picked the 1 song from that artist and would have missed out on a lot of good music.
My post doesn't even belong on Slashdot because the contents of it already reside in my brain. Anyone that wanted to know what I thought could have just looked into my brain to get the information.
OK, now I'm just getting silly, but I don't guess there is anything wrong with that.
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I see your point about stories about Freshmeat and stories the same as on Freshmeat not being the same. However, I still think that it's OK for something like this to be on Slashdot, mostly b/c it can't be assumed that people who read Slashdot read any other site.
Slashdot Mirror
I use http://www.remarq.com and it works nicely. It's free and it will do exactly what you need.
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Do you know if these are tall enough to hold expansion cards? If so, one of these would be perfect for my mp3 player.
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I think it is to give the user some feedback that their keystroke or mouse-click was successfull. Just like the little beeps on microwave buttons.
If it didn't make any noise, most people wouldn't feel like they had done anything, and if the computer didn't respond immediately, they would think that their click didn't work and they would start clicking again.
I would find it very annoying to not have the click. I guess you could replace the click with some kind of physical feeling that tells the user "you did it right," but it would probably be hard to do that without making a noise.
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and this link might help get you started. It looked confusing to me, but you might find something searchable in there somewhere.
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Some students at my university recently completed a similar project. Their project was to work with the bookstore and professors to automate the book adoption process.
They used a database called "Books In Print." I believe that the bookstore received this in paper form and they were able to buy a license for an electronic format (CD-ROM I think) but it was pretty expensive. I don't know if this is available online or not, but I'm pretty sure you can purchase CD's and load it into your own database. This would take a lot of space, so you might try searching for "Books In Print" to see if that turns up anything online for you to check into.
Hope that helps a little.
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I agree, a Linux box as a router works just fine. I have a 486 with no hard drive and 16 meg ram running the linux router project stuff (www.linuxrouter.org) with no problems.
I don't know much about hardware routers, but I know that a Linux box will do the job nicely.
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Each directory on the CD (it scans recursively) is considered a playlist. The code scans the cd for directories containing mp3s and keeps an alphabetical list of those. It then scans those directories for mp3's and makes an alphabetical list of tracks within the playlist. The user can then use an infrared remote to scan through the disk one track at a time, with shuffle mode on, at the playlist level, or even type a number to go directly to a track.
I have one of these running at home and I'm about to convert the code to use a hard drive and use it in the car.
I have considered building these for sale, but I don't have any good connections to get hardware cheap, so it wouldn't be very profitable for me and not worth the time.
If anyone is interested in one of these and has some extra hardware, I'd consider converting your hardware into a player.
My email is ericwyles [at] hotmail [dot] com.
I'm not saying I would do this for certain -- I'm just throwing the idea out to see what you all think. Depending on the response I'll decide whether or not to pursue this idea further.
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Modifying my car mp3 player to also support .ogg files.
Cool!!
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you don't own the movie.
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companies that make virus scanners write at least some of the viruses in order to stay in business.
Is that too crazy to be true? I don't think so.
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It doesn't matter what Microsoft (or anyone else) does or does not do to increase their security, people will always be the biggest security hole.
I have read comments saying that they should do away with the auto-launch, but this would still leave you dependant on the people to not launch the offending files.
With any new functionality that is added to a system, there is another opportunity for people to screw something up. The ILOVEYOU virus just happened to be distributed through email, but it could have been distributed through other channels. If a virus was mailed out on disk with a note that said "Put this in your floppy drive and run everything on the disk" no one would argue against the fact that the people caused damage to themselves. No one would try to blame the post office or the manufacturer of the floppy disk. Any security model is reliant on people.
For every door or window I put in my house, I give someone another easy way to break in. Should we stop using doors and windows (no pun intended)?
A user that installs Linux at home, runs around as root all day, and runs everything that is emailed to him is just as vulnerable to these attacks as a windows user.
Ultimately people are to blame for these incidents and IMHO the best solution is user education. We don't let people drive a car without a license, not just because they may hurt themselves, but because they may hurt others through their carelesness.
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Just a blanket reply to everyone that helped. Especially that l33t d00d at the top!!
I'm going to give it another shot this weekend.
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This is one of the most frustrating things for me because every once in a while I decide I'm going to figure it out. I end up spending a whole day messing with it and get frustrated and quit.
I've been through countless online tutorials, but I just can't get it. I tried SWAT, but the web interface never seemed to save my changes.
I might pick up this book if it is really good. Anyone have any experience with it?
Maybe my problem is that I'm running RedHat? I've heard its harder with RedHat if you install the out of the box Samba and I usually do because I do an install everything.
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and then get rid of my computer, everyone will think I was set up?
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My question is this:
I recently read that years ago, Metallica (or at least individual members, I'm not sure which) used to send thank-you notes to people who were caught shoplifting Metallica albums from record stores. Is this true? If so, why the change in attitide since then?
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I knew the author of the original article was off when I read this a few days ago.
.com site. It's all about the .org and .net
Everyone knows that "It's a dot-org or a dot-net."
I rarely look for info about linux an a
He was just throwing around a buzz-word (dot-com) without researching his topic.
By the way, is "buzz-word" becoming a buzz-word?
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It's been about 10 years since I read any of the "trilogy" and although they are excellent books I don't read that much and never read them all. I think I read the first three.
So, me not getting it is probably the case here.
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Because if it means the same thing as "multiplied by" then I think you meant to say "6 times 7 equals 42"
Or maybe I just didn't get the joke?
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I just gave gnutella as an example of something people could move on to.
My post implied that people would get banned from gnutella, but I don't know if that would ever happen or not.
Just giving an example.
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Then I don't see the point.
People can just download and share until they get banned, and then what? Well, they are left with not being able to do something they weren't supposed to be doing in the first place.
Even if they ban IP's, people can just stay with napster until they get banned, then jump on to gnutella until they get banned, then the next thing, etc, etc
It's going to take something more than banning users to have any impact on Metallica's (or anyone else's) music sales.
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My problem with the custom CD approach is that you lose the continuity and theme of having an entire album by one artist. If this model were to become the way most music was distributed, I think we would all be missing out on a lot of good music.
Often times I am first interested in hearing an artist because of one song, but after I buy the album I find that it isn't even close to my favorite song by that artist. Many other songs on the album may be a lot better, but with a custom CD I would have only picked the 1 song from that artist and would have missed out on a lot of good music.
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Kenwood is supposed to have a car mp3 deck out this summer in the US. That's what I'm holding out for.
If you want to read the information straight from Kenwood, look at The Response To My Post On Kenwood's Support Board
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I had to wait until today for my paycheck that comes on the last day of the month.
I guess that's the price I pay for working for a software firm.
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My post doesn't even belong on Slashdot because the contents of it already reside in my brain. Anyone that wanted to know what I thought could have just looked into my brain to get the information.
OK, now I'm just getting silly, but I don't guess there is anything wrong with that.
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I see your point about stories about Freshmeat and stories the same as on Freshmeat not being the same. However, I still think that it's OK for something like this to be on Slashdot, mostly b/c it can't be assumed that people who read Slashdot read any other site.
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