well, I suppose it's not a bad thing to be a glorified chat, if you don't mind spending $15 a fucking month for the privilege, along with the $30/each updates.
yeah, that bottle's text reads like it was written by a fucking madman. I had a roommate who was in love with that stuff. The product itself was all right, I guess (unless you got it in your eye), but holy crap the nonsense on the bottle was insane.
i would say it is somewhat burdensome to pick and choose one song at a time, as opposed to creating a list of songs to be dumped at once.
go fuck yourself with your condescending tone. I don't love iTunes - it's turned into a bloated pig of a program. But I don't embrace this neo-hippy outlook that we should all be running a full-blown operating system on a fucking music player, either, wherein i need to navigate a filesystem so that i can simply listen to music.
I'd suggest picking up a decent (it doesn't have to be a monster, unless you're trying to replicate a powerful production server at your home) machine, and run some sort of virtual hosting on it. I have a pretty weak machine that I use for development hosting - a crappy Intel Xeon 3050 (2MB l2 cache, 1.86GHz)and 8GB of DDR2-667 RAM. I put in 4 250GB drives, and run Xen Express 5 on top of it. I have two gigabit ethernet ports on it at the moment. I have 7 virtual machines running on it right now - 5 debian etch servers and 2 windows 2008 x86 servers. One of the 2008 servers is running Sharepoint Services, and the other is a domain controller. I messed around with Xen 4, but really decided to stick with Citrix' product with the 5.0 upgrade. I tried running VMWare Server 2.0 on the same computer (Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS), and I have much better performance with Xen 5. Additionally, the XenCenter management tool is a lot nicer to work with - it makes connecting to iSCSI storage arrays (put a couple of large-capacity PATA drives in those old computers of yours, a $20 D-Link GigE card, and throw OpenFiler on them for a really easy, cheap SAN) stupidly easy. As I mentioned, the performance is nice - the SharePoint VM and DC both respond a lot better under Xen than it did under VMWare. Regardless of what platform you choose, I'd suggest just get one decent computer (it doesn't even have to be particularly fancy - any dual- or quad-core around 2GHz with 8GB of RAM will do great) and put your VMs on there. Building and tearing down machines and networks is so much easier under a virtualized environment.
those are good things to know. I was poking through the manual for one of the archos devices (might've been the Archos 7 tablet), and while all of the manuals state that you can just mount the device as a hard drive, this particular manual mentioned that if you do it as such (as opposed to using WMP), all of your new media copied to the device may not be indexed. Argh. Is this something you've noticed? regardless, thanks for the information - someone please mod parent up.
i guess it's all right for you to individually pick and choose which of your 5000 songs you want to put onto your device, or which ones to play, but i'm not fond of that kind of bs - that's the sort of 'management' i want on a device. having a multimedia player have the complexity of a computer is retarded, even if it is simple.
have you used one of the newer archos devices? the only ones I've messed about with were the ancient ones that looked like they were a portable hard drive enclosure. I'd forgotten about them, until your post. Some of their devices look pretty keen...
I guess you're right - i was hoping to have someone offer what he/she perceives as a real alternative, rather than the shit-for-brains typical answer, "just get rid of the iPod, and go with something else." If I could find something that worked as well as iTunes and an iPod, I'd switch. I haven't been an Apple fanboi since the switch to the x86 architecture, so I couldn't care less who makes it. I just want it to work without issue, and not make me manage my music/video/whatever by either jumping through hoops.
If someone is retarded/stupid/ignorant enough to keep an entire collection of music or video only on a portable media player, then that person deserves to lose it. That's akin to keeping important personal documents on a laptop, never backing it up, and then decrying the fact that all of that personal information is lost forever when the laptop was stolen after being left at a local $coffeenazi shop.
How's the interface for the Zen, or playlist management using whatever software you have? That's more important to me than whether i can give copies of my music to my friends.
what are some real alternatives to the ipod/phone? This isn't a troll - I'm seriously wondering. I have a Touch, and i'd replace it with something less restrictive, if I could find something that didn't look and behave like a cheap-ass taiwanese ripoff of a japanese product. I kind-of/sort-of looked at Zunes, but it doesn't seem to be any better WRT lock-in than apple's products, and i don't see the point in trading one manufacturer's DRM for another.
i hate to agree with thread parent, but i think he/she's right. the last time i worked at a company that did this, they terminated roughly 31% of the IT staff after the whole thing.
The only way I can think of that you could realistically show how much money you're saving is if you figure out how much money the company would lose per minute/hour/day/whatever that the services you maintain weren't provided.
i know it sounds glib, but what you should be doing is looking for another job. Any time someone wants you to 'justify' your time spent, that means that they're looking for ways to cut costs, and that you (or a portion of your department, in a larger environment) are on the short list. Just be prepared.
you make some good points, particularly WRT key-based auth and the ease of getting rid of users with access to elevated functions (short of the people who know root's pw, or have access to it). well done - you've made a believer out of me.
from a software standpoint, when sudo vulnerabilities were quite common, yes it was a lot more secure.
from a permission restriction standpoint, it's about a wash, provided you're using a 'wheel'-type group for either su or sudo. having a user be able to 'sudo' using his/her own password is significantly less secure, i think anyone can agree.
I've only worked with AIX, HP-UX, and really old versions of Solaris, but I don't recall sudo being part of any of those operating systems.
no, the point i was trying to make is that 'real' admins don't have sudo installed on their servers, but seeing as how most UNIX admins nowadays are actually Linux hobbyists, it fell flat. Kind of like saying that you learned to use grep and awk, because your server doesn't have a licensed C compiler, no perl, and company policy doesn't allow you to install software that does not pertain directly to a server's particular role. the response isn't "Man, i remember that crap, or I understand", it's "d00de, ur OS doesn't come with a free-as-in-beer compiler? that's so '80s! why don't you just download the gcc compiler and free your box from the chains of its corporate oppressors, man!"
really? odd, i remember working on commercial UNIX systems within the past 5 years that did not have C compilers installed by default, that did not include a perl interpreter, and where we were generally forbidden to install software on the server that did not directly pertain to its mission. Some healthcare companies are really paranoid about the software that gets installed on their machines, right down to monthly reviews of smitty output (on AIX) to make sure that nothing had been added to the system. it's not so unusual in a locked-down environment, though i agree it's not always so cool to deal with.
yeah, it does, but time was, it was universally considered a security risk on Open Systems (you know, what old-timers like me call UNIX systems). Just like allowing root login on anything except the console, using sudo was generally considered a bad idea.
and i'm not disagreeing with you that living as root is generally a horrible idea - i agree with that. but with a locked-down system and a lot of work to do, it's a lot faster to start a shell as root than continually execute 'sudo', especially if you have to type the friggen password every time, as i see you've mentioned.
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well, I suppose it's not a bad thing to be a glorified chat, if you don't mind spending $15 a fucking month for the privilege, along with the $30/each updates.
Sounds like a deal to me.
jesus fucking christ.
yeah, that bottle's text reads like it was written by a fucking madman. I had a roommate who was in love with that stuff. The product itself was all right, I guess (unless you got it in your eye), but holy crap the nonsense on the bottle was insane.
i would say it is somewhat burdensome to pick and choose one song at a time, as opposed to creating a list of songs to be dumped at once.
go fuck yourself with your condescending tone. I don't love iTunes - it's turned into a bloated pig of a program. But I don't embrace this neo-hippy outlook that we should all be running a full-blown operating system on a fucking music player, either, wherein i need to navigate a filesystem so that i can simply listen to music.
I'd suggest picking up a decent (it doesn't have to be a monster, unless you're trying to replicate a powerful production server at your home) machine, and run some sort of virtual hosting on it.
I have a pretty weak machine that I use for development hosting - a crappy Intel Xeon 3050 (2MB l2 cache, 1.86GHz)and 8GB of DDR2-667 RAM. I put in 4 250GB drives, and run Xen Express 5 on top of it. I have two gigabit ethernet ports on it at the moment. I have 7 virtual machines running on it right now - 5 debian etch servers and 2 windows 2008 x86 servers. One of the 2008 servers is running Sharepoint Services, and the other is a domain controller. I messed around with Xen 4, but really decided to stick with Citrix' product with the 5.0 upgrade. I tried running VMWare Server 2.0 on the same computer (Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS), and I have much better performance with Xen 5. Additionally, the XenCenter management tool is a lot nicer to work with - it makes connecting to iSCSI storage arrays (put a couple of large-capacity PATA drives in those old computers of yours, a $20 D-Link GigE card, and throw OpenFiler on them for a really easy, cheap SAN) stupidly easy. As I mentioned, the performance is nice - the SharePoint VM and DC both respond a lot better under Xen than it did under VMWare.
Regardless of what platform you choose, I'd suggest just get one decent computer (it doesn't even have to be particularly fancy - any dual- or quad-core around 2GHz with 8GB of RAM will do great) and put your VMs on there. Building and tearing down machines and networks is so much easier under a virtualized environment.
those are good things to know. I was poking through the manual for one of the archos devices (might've been the Archos 7 tablet), and while all of the manuals state that you can just mount the device as a hard drive, this particular manual mentioned that if you do it as such (as opposed to using WMP), all of your new media copied to the device may not be indexed. Argh. Is this something you've noticed?
regardless, thanks for the information - someone please mod parent up.
cool - thank you!
someone please mod the previous post up/informative.
thanks - i'll take a look at them.
i guess it's all right for you to individually pick and choose which of your 5000 songs you want to put onto your device, or which ones to play, but i'm not fond of that kind of bs - that's the sort of 'management' i want on a device. having a multimedia player have the complexity of a computer is retarded, even if it is simple.
have you used one of the newer archos devices? the only ones I've messed about with were the ancient ones that looked like they were a portable hard drive enclosure. I'd forgotten about them, until your post. Some of their devices look pretty keen...
I guess you're right - i was hoping to have someone offer what he/she perceives as a real alternative, rather than the shit-for-brains typical answer, "just get rid of the iPod, and go with something else."
If I could find something that worked as well as iTunes and an iPod, I'd switch. I haven't been an Apple fanboi since the switch to the x86 architecture, so I couldn't care less who makes it.
I just want it to work without issue, and not make me manage my music/video/whatever by either jumping through hoops.
If someone is retarded/stupid/ignorant enough to keep an entire collection of music or video only on a portable media player, then that person deserves to lose it. That's akin to keeping important personal documents on a laptop, never backing it up, and then decrying the fact that all of that personal information is lost forever when the laptop was stolen after being left at a local $coffeenazi shop.
How's the interface for the Zen, or playlist management using whatever software you have? That's more important to me than whether i can give copies of my music to my friends.
what are some real alternatives to the ipod/phone?
This isn't a troll - I'm seriously wondering. I have a Touch, and i'd replace it with something less restrictive, if I could find something that didn't look and behave like a cheap-ass taiwanese ripoff of a japanese product. I kind-of/sort-of looked at Zunes, but it doesn't seem to be any better WRT lock-in than apple's products, and i don't see the point in trading one manufacturer's DRM for another.
i hate to agree with thread parent, but i think he/she's right. the last time i worked at a company that did this, they terminated roughly 31% of the IT staff after the whole thing.
The only way I can think of that you could realistically show how much money you're saving is if you figure out how much money the company would lose per minute/hour/day/whatever that the services you maintain weren't provided.
i know it sounds glib, but what you should be doing is looking for another job. Any time someone wants you to 'justify' your time spent, that means that they're looking for ways to cut costs, and that you (or a portion of your department, in a larger environment) are on the short list. Just be prepared.
awesome - i'll have to jailbreak the 'spare' touch i now have, and see how it goes.
Thanks!
did requiem get updated for itunes 8? it worked well for whatever DRM nonsense iTunes 7 uses, but it chokes on iTunes 8 stuff.
i'm a n00b WRT jailbroken iPhones/Touches - if you jailbreak your Touch, can you sync it with a non iTunes application?
you make some good points, particularly WRT key-based auth and the ease of getting rid of users with access to elevated functions (short of the people who know root's pw, or have access to it).
well done - you've made a believer out of me.
hmmm, have you tried that? i couldn't get duplicates made of keys with the 'do not duplicate' made, even with a phone call from the company.
oh, and by the way, it's somewhat more difficult to have a key duplicated that says 'do not duplicate' than it is to pull data from an RFID device.
provided, of course, you're not a locksmith or have access to key blanks.
from a software standpoint, when sudo vulnerabilities were quite common, yes it was a lot more secure.
from a permission restriction standpoint, it's about a wash, provided you're using a 'wheel'-type group for either su or sudo. having a user be able to 'sudo' using his/her own password is significantly less secure, i think anyone can agree.
I've only worked with AIX, HP-UX, and really old versions of Solaris, but I don't recall sudo being part of any of those operating systems.
no, the point i was trying to make is that 'real' admins don't have sudo installed on their servers, but seeing as how most UNIX admins nowadays are actually Linux hobbyists, it fell flat. Kind of like saying that you learned to use grep and awk, because your server doesn't have a licensed C compiler, no perl, and company policy doesn't allow you to install software that does not pertain directly to a server's particular role. the response isn't "Man, i remember that crap, or I understand", it's "d00de, ur OS doesn't come with a free-as-in-beer compiler? that's so '80s! why don't you just download the gcc compiler and free your box from the chains of its corporate oppressors, man!"
aaaah, fuck it. why bother...
sharing root passwords? how many people would you give root access, besides the admin and his/her backup?
really? odd, i remember working on commercial UNIX systems within the past 5 years that did not have C compilers installed by default, that did not include a perl interpreter, and where we were generally forbidden to install software on the server that did not directly pertain to its mission.
Some healthcare companies are really paranoid about the software that gets installed on their machines, right down to monthly reviews of smitty output (on AIX) to make sure that nothing had been added to the system.
it's not so unusual in a locked-down environment, though i agree it's not always so cool to deal with.
yeah, it does, but time was, it was universally considered a security risk on Open Systems (you know, what old-timers like me call UNIX systems). Just like allowing root login on anything except the console, using sudo was generally considered a bad idea.
and i'm not disagreeing with you that living as root is generally a horrible idea - i agree with that. but with a locked-down system and a lot of work to do, it's a lot faster to start a shell as root than continually execute 'sudo', especially if you have to type the friggen password every time, as i see you've mentioned.
hahahaha, i know what you mean - $(...) doesn't look right to me, and without thinking my hands will automatically drop in the backticks.
odd, apparently X/Open doesn't agree with your statements re: AIX - It's been UNIX 98 branded since 2001 (AIX 5 on POWER architecture).