I've been trying to use Galeon for several months.
Yesterday, I did exactly as you did: downloaded the M17 RPM an installed it, followed by the Galeon RPM.
When I run it nothing happens. NOTHING. No diagnostic messages, no crash, no whirring of the hard drives - a silence as profound as when the whale swallowed Jonah.
I'm presuming that this isn't what's supposed to happen, right?
I'm running Sawfish 0.30 on Helix 1.2.1(?) on RH 6.2. If someone out there is using the same setup and has had success, I'd be interested in hearing how you managed it. Even more importantly, if someone experienced what I am experiencing and worked their way out of it, I'd LOVE to know your secret! I've heard a lot of good things about Galeon and I'd really like to try it!
P.S. The same thing happens when I run M17 too.
Hmmmm some interesting fallout from that...
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... it'd be a boon for the hearing impaired in
public spaces. Amplified sound targeted to where
they are sitting/standing.
I wonder if it could also be used as a weapon.
Stun people with an amplified blast long enough
to subdue them.
What I deliciously enjoy is that when people on TV use a computer, it is either completely non-branded (i.e., it doesn't look like WinXX) and looks like kooky bad science fiction,
or they're using a Mac (esp. iMacs these days,
I guess it's the happy fun colors...)
The other example I can think of are ads that
show people using WWW browsers. Always Netscape,
never IE.
It's probably the only place where I wish the TV world would influence the real world.
If you signed an agreement form with
University Microfilms Inc. (UMI) when
you finished your thesis, it is they
with whom Contentville is dealing.
As near as I can figure, Contentville
is just a reseller.
So, it might benefit you more this
way because it'll be easier when doing research
to track down dusty theses chock full of
unpublished results.
If I recall, the UMI agreement works out to
something like $7 for every thesis sold if
more than 5(?) are sold in one year. OK,
the chances of my seeing dime of $$$ is slim
(although my thesis was a big hit in Russia
and Eastern Europe, so I"m told:-), but it's
not the rip-off that was initally portrayed
although it WOULD have been nice if Contentville
had had a FAQ explaning things.
This is great! The USPS only gets snail mail to my address accurately about 20-40% of the time (our "regular" delivery person is out on semi-permanent disability, so we have newbies almost every day for months at a time, and our neighborhood has lots of 1/2's A's, etc.)
So, I can expect that all my neighbors will get my spam!:-)
Why is it that the media isn't hounding Valenti with his outrageous quotes?
"Mr. Valenti, aren't you the person who compared owning a VCR with being the Boston Strangler?"
If they just did that, what would happen to public perception of the MP3 issue?
My mantra for life these days is "don't reward stupidity". It's getting to the point where I believe that the best response to some of the more idiotic things being said should be met with a couple seconds of silence, then an outburst of hearty laughter, as if the person were making a joke. Part of the reason that these things get as far as they do is that we've become so worried about offending idiots that we permit the outflow to seep in.
I'm not saying that Valenti can't make a point, or that there can't be any merit in what the RIAA has claimed (although personally, I side with Napster - let the RIAA go after the *individuals* misusing the service), but if they want people to take them seriously, they should find a better mouthpiece and they should think about what they want to say before they say it.
Then again, if you look how the media is relating the sequence of events, I think it proves my point entirely...:-)
The MPAA has convinced a judge in the town of Lower East Cowpoke (pop. 139) to grant an injunction against anyone using FTP or hosting an FTP server because it could be used to transfer MP3's files containing copyrighted music.
"It doesn't matter that the techonology pre-dates the file format by more than 20 years! Unless we control the transmissions and can make more money off of it, it shouldn't be allowed!"
Meanwhile rumours of merger between Microsoft and Time-Warner-AOL-PacBell-Sony-Perdue-Disney-Ford-Sa ab continue. The MPAA expressed support for the merger since it will "keep the control of information in the hands of responsible corporations who will know how to use it wisely."
(Yes, this is fictitious. Yes, it's sarcasm. No, I have not stolen from the breakfast tables of millions of Europeans.)
I switched from a soft-money research position to a tech position.
Before, my boss had no problems calling 18/7 (I was once yelled at for not being able to get a FedEx set up on 12/24.), considered a $1K/year raise (one of two raises in 5 years) "huge", and I spent the last two years spending an AWFUL lot of time trying to keep myself employed. No vacation, no benefits because any of those things would eat into the grant money.
Now I work for a.com which expects products to roll-out on rather short time scales, but I am paid about 60% more than I was before, have my own health and dental insurance, and a 401k plan. On average I work about 45-48 hours a week and have 15 vacation days.
Life's too short to waste it on a company that doesn't care about you.
... I'm not surprised. We've already given away so many rights "for the baaaaaiiiiiiiiiibiiiees", the whole 1984 blew past us a long time ago.
The scariest part of this is that people can, and frequently DO send e-mail from different places. Also, multiple people frequently use the same phone line. So consider these two situations:
Someone who sends e-mail at home and at work.
Two roommates who send e-mail from the same computer.
It is very easy to forge e-mail. What's to stop someone from forging e-mail in the name of someone in two places? Nothing of course. What guarantee is there that the FBI will understand that they could easy get false data? None of course. Since we're already setting up classes of crimes for which "innocent until proven guilty" is no longer upheld (in practice), it won't be long until someone is convicted of a crime based upon what is fraudulent electronic evidence.
I seem to recall a friend having his web pages turned off at tripod because they tripped the "nudity" sensors. Apparently they did a sweep looking for excessing fleshtones, the had someone look at all the images that were flagged.
Of course there are several ways to defeat the program:
Don't be white. "Flesh tones" as used is insanely non-representative of the true range of flesh colors.
Don't use color. Greyscale will be a LOT harder to deal with.
Put a lot of face shots in. Lots of flesh tones but not anything pornographic.
Retro-60's - purple on gold, etc...:-)
The best way to get rid of a stupid system is to think around it.
I once put an Easter Egg file on a CD-ROM of a Conference Procedings with the "prize" being lunch at my expense at the next meeting in the series. All I did was drop a file in a directory (by itself) called something like "findme.txt". No one found it!:-) I can only imagine that people who put in some creative Easter eggs in software must go NUTS waiting for someone to stumble across them...
Boston's housing market is also especially tight, esp. in the Cambridge area. Cambridge didn't get rid of rent control for 20 years causing an artificial deficit in the number of available apartments on the open market. (According to one study, only 30% of the people living in rent controlled housing would've qualified for it had there been any means test. Abuses were rampant.)
During the 1990's this was made worse by letting people sell off apartments as condos. So, you had a siazable fraction of the apartments cut off from the populace, which inflated the market price considerably. When rent control was (finally) lifted, all the rents went up to meet what market was left (since the condos remained condos). Since all the rent control apartments were already occupied, demand stayed high and supply stayed low.
The vacancy rate is almost zero, and has been that way for several years. Attempts to fix that (i.e., building more housing) have failed because the people who have places to live refuse to allow any large-scale housing to be built (favorite quote: "housing destroys our urban landscape").
I live one town over, which used to be the "unfashionable" (read: affordable) place to live, but I've seen rents double in five years (fortunately, not mine - yet). To rent a 2-bdrm apartment at what's supposed to be the "right" fraction of your income, you'd have to make at least $45-50K.
Because Boston is such a college town, landlords can ask for anything and get it. They'll just squeeze more people into an apartment. It's very common to have every room converted into a bedroom save the kitchen and bathroom (although even that's not a certainty; an ex-BF of my sister slept in a de-commissioned 2nd bathroom!). I have also seen ads around Cambridge asking for (literally) a closet to sleep in for $100/month (the ad gave dimension requirements and everything).
As always, it's simple supply and demand. Unfortunately, there's no clear solution for increasing the supply.
The last time I was at JPL, there was a guy outside (well, at the corner of Foothill and Oak Grove) handing out a 10-page (or thereabouts) write up of why the "new" pictures of the Face on Mars were faked by JPL to cover up for the "old" picture of the Face on Mars.
He went on and on about phase angles, etc., claiming that NASA deliberately avoided taking any picture under the exact same circumstances (but managing to avoid talking about the number of dust storms that would've taken place in the interim) so as to prevent people from really seeing what was there.
It was especially clear to me that even if there WERE new pictures at exactly the same phase, etc. it wouldn't satisfy any of the believers.
I wonder though if we can get stats on which images are requested the most. I'll bet that the Face on Mars location is ranked up there with Olympus Mons, and Valles Marineris
Actually, quite a lot of data is available from NASA. There's the Astronomical Data Center which has several thousand catalogs of objects obtainable over the WWW or on CD-ROM at a very reasonable price (I paid $5, it might be a little higher now).
Also, if one is a Guest user of NASA facilities, one only has "rights" to the data for six months, after which it is available (unprocessed) to anyone who asks for it. Archives for different missions are available at different NASA sites.
I have to say I'm disappointed that there will be an.eu domain, for no other reason than that I've been a webmaster for 6 1/2 years and one of my favorite things has been to look at the stats generated each month and checking out what new countries have hit my sites.
Think of it like techno stamp collecting.
But if some country I haven't received hits from only has sites in the.eu domain there won't likely be a way to figure this out (although I think I have all of Europe at this point).
Two years ago I did a small CD press run: * 4-color CD * creation of the "mother" CD * jewelcases For 750 CD - it was about $1300. I didn't do the printing for the inserts into the jewelbox. If I had it was about another $1000 (4-color printing, fold-out, two-sided). So, the cost per CD at a VERY SMALL run, ***but at a quality similar to commercial CDs*** worked out to about $3/CD. The price for CDs in the marketplace, given how little the artist gets from each CD sold is completely unjustified. It's no wonder that lots of garage and independent artists charge LESS for their small run CDs then the major labels do for their very large run pressing (where the cost/CD goes to under $1 each).
It doesn't have to stand in court. It's Napster's own policy that's biting them back. Since Napster promised to remove any specified user's account per the artist's request, if Metallica comes back after a couple of weeks, looks up any of 300,000 users and finds out that metallica mp3s are still being offered, Napster is going to face more trouble in court.
This gets back to the point made by another poster: what if you just called all of your Napster files metallica_000001.mp3, up to metallica_300000.mp3, but having absolutely NO Metallica content within them? Or, make the template m3tall1ca_######.mp3 so they can't claim any trademark issues.
Seems to me the best way to thrwart what being done is to make it VERY difficult to make the case that the alleged violations are genuine. Consider:
Metallica's Lawyers: we found all these copies of our music on this site.
Judge: How do you know?
Metallica: It's has the word metallica on the file name.
Defense: Please play one.
Judge: Is this your music?
Metallica: Uh..... No.
Judge: Did you check the files to see if the content is actually your music?
Metallica: Uh..... No.
Judge: Case dismissed, precedence set.
They might have more trouble in court, but it doesn't have to be a difficult experience. Personally, I like the idea of sending money to bands to wean them off of their record label. Look at Aimee Mann who is label-free and having a very successful year (Magnolia soundtrack nomination).
I tried to do this. I got a terse reply from Sorenson saying it was all Apple's problem, and NO response whatsoever from Apple.
I suppose if I did hear anything, it would be the old "You're the only one who has ever asked about this" while (one of my pet peeves: they never are able to provide documentation showing that this is really true).
When I was in college (back when dinosaurs roamed the planet) my friends and I had thought we had solved the problem because 42 = $2B and therefore the ultimate question had to be "To be or not to be".
But we quickly realized that $2B = 43 and not 42.
Mr. Adams has pointed out (in "Don't Panic", or it might be in the book of the radio transcripts) that the book's answer "What do you get if you multiply six by nine" does get you 42 if you use base 13...
In the past, you've been a very vocal advocate for Apple products, in particular the Mac. What are your thoughts concerning some of Apple's controversial decisions, such as killing production of the Newton, or where Apple is headed?
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I've been trying to use Galeon for several months. Yesterday, I did exactly as you did: downloaded the M17 RPM an installed it, followed by the Galeon RPM.
When I run it nothing happens. NOTHING. No diagnostic messages, no crash, no whirring of the hard drives - a silence as profound as when the whale swallowed Jonah.
I'm presuming that this isn't what's supposed to happen, right?
I'm running Sawfish 0.30 on Helix 1.2.1(?) on RH 6.2. If someone out there is using the same setup and has had success, I'd be interested in hearing how you managed it. Even more importantly, if someone experienced what I am experiencing and worked their way out of it, I'd LOVE to know your secret! I've heard a lot of good things about Galeon and I'd really like to try it!
P.S. The same thing happens when I run M17 too.
I wonder if it could also be used as a weapon. Stun people with an amplified blast long enough to subdue them.
Manos is just torture.
Maybe it's because it was filmed in El Paso.
What I deliciously enjoy is that when people on TV use a computer, it is either completely non-branded (i.e., it doesn't look like WinXX) and looks like kooky bad science fiction, or they're using a Mac (esp. iMacs these days, I guess it's the happy fun colors...)
The other example I can think of are ads that show people using WWW browsers. Always Netscape, never IE.
It's probably the only place where I wish the TV world would influence the real world.
Cool! Think of the features:
I would pay $50 for one!
(This will make no sense to anyone except MST3K fans. It refers to a movie that makes "Plan 9 from Outer Space" look like "Gone With the Wind".)
(*) Natalie Portman skin optional
So, it might benefit you more this way because it'll be easier when doing research to track down dusty theses chock full of unpublished results.
If I recall, the UMI agreement works out to something like $7 for every thesis sold if more than 5(?) are sold in one year. OK, the chances of my seeing dime of $$$ is slim (although my thesis was a big hit in Russia and Eastern Europe, so I"m told :-), but it's
not the rip-off that was initally portrayed
although it WOULD have been nice if Contentville
had had a FAQ explaning things.
If I learn more, I'll post it.
So, I can expect that all my neighbors will get my spam! :-)
"Mr. Valenti, aren't you the person who compared owning a VCR with being the Boston Strangler?"
If they just did that, what would happen to public perception of the MP3 issue?
My mantra for life these days is "don't reward stupidity". It's getting to the point where I believe that the best response to some of the more idiotic things being said should be met with a couple seconds of silence, then an outburst of hearty laughter, as if the person were making a joke. Part of the reason that these things get as far as they do is that we've become so worried about offending idiots that we permit the outflow to seep in.
I'm not saying that Valenti can't make a point, or that there can't be any merit in what the RIAA has claimed (although personally, I side with Napster - let the RIAA go after the *individuals* misusing the service), but if they want people to take them seriously, they should find a better mouthpiece and they should think about what they want to say before they say it.
Then again, if you look how the media is relating the sequence of events, I think it proves my point entirely... :-)
"It doesn't matter that the techonology pre-dates the file format by more than 20 years! Unless we control the transmissions and can make more money off of it, it shouldn't be allowed!"
Meanwhile rumours of merger between Microsoft and Time-Warner-AOL-PacBell-Sony-Perdue-Disney-Ford-Sa ab continue. The MPAA expressed support for the merger since it will "keep the control of information in the hands of responsible corporations who will know how to use it wisely."
(Yes, this is fictitious. Yes, it's sarcasm. No, I have not stolen from the breakfast tables of millions of Europeans.)
Before, my boss had no problems calling 18/7 (I was once yelled at for not being able to get a FedEx set up on 12/24.), considered a $1K/year raise (one of two raises in 5 years) "huge", and I spent the last two years spending an AWFUL lot of time trying to keep myself employed. No vacation, no benefits because any of those things would eat into the grant money.
Now I work for a .com which expects products to roll-out on rather short time scales, but I am paid about 60% more than I was before, have my own health and dental insurance, and a 401k plan. On average I work about 45-48 hours a week and have 15 vacation days.
Life's too short to waste it on a company that doesn't care about you.
The scariest part of this is that people can, and frequently DO send e-mail from different places. Also, multiple people frequently use the same phone line. So consider these two situations:
It is very easy to forge e-mail. What's to stop someone from forging e-mail in the name of someone in two places? Nothing of course. What guarantee is there that the FBI will understand that they could easy get false data? None of course. Since we're already setting up classes of crimes for which "innocent until proven guilty" is no longer upheld (in practice), it won't be long until someone is convicted of a crime based upon what is fraudulent electronic evidence.
Of course it has probably happened already.
Of course there are several ways to defeat the program:
The best way to get rid of a stupid system is to think around it.
I once put an Easter Egg file on a CD-ROM of a Conference Procedings with the "prize" being lunch at my expense at the next meeting in the series. All I did was drop a file in a directory (by itself) called something like "findme.txt". No one found it! :-) I can only imagine that people who put in some creative Easter eggs in software must go NUTS waiting for someone to stumble across them...
During the 1990's this was made worse by letting people sell off apartments as condos. So, you had a siazable fraction of the apartments cut off from the populace, which inflated the market price considerably. When rent control was (finally) lifted, all the rents went up to meet what market was left (since the condos remained condos). Since all the rent control apartments were already occupied, demand stayed high and supply stayed low.
The vacancy rate is almost zero, and has been that way for several years. Attempts to fix that (i.e., building more housing) have failed because the people who have places to live refuse to allow any large-scale housing to be built (favorite quote: "housing destroys our urban landscape").
I live one town over, which used to be the "unfashionable" (read: affordable) place to live, but I've seen rents double in five years (fortunately, not mine - yet). To rent a 2-bdrm apartment at what's supposed to be the "right" fraction of your income, you'd have to make at least $45-50K.
Because Boston is such a college town, landlords can ask for anything and get it. They'll just squeeze more people into an apartment. It's very common to have every room converted into a bedroom save the kitchen and bathroom (although even that's not a certainty; an ex-BF of my sister slept in a de-commissioned 2nd bathroom!). I have also seen ads around Cambridge asking for (literally) a closet to sleep in for $100/month (the ad gave dimension requirements and everything).
As always, it's simple supply and demand. Unfortunately, there's no clear solution for increasing the supply.
He went on and on about phase angles, etc., claiming that NASA deliberately avoided taking any picture under the exact same circumstances (but managing to avoid talking about the number of dust storms that would've taken place in the interim) so as to prevent people from really seeing what was there.
It was especially clear to me that even if there WERE new pictures at exactly the same phase, etc. it wouldn't satisfy any of the believers.
I wonder though if we can get stats on which images are requested the most. I'll bet that the Face on Mars location is ranked up there with Olympus Mons, and Valles Marineris
Also, if one is a Guest user of NASA facilities, one only has "rights" to the data for six months, after which it is available (unprocessed) to anyone who asks for it. Archives for different missions are available at different NASA sites.
Think of it like techno stamp collecting.
But if some country I haven't received hits from only has sites in the .eu domain there won't likely be a way to figure this out (although I think I have all of Europe at this point).
Two years ago I did a small CD press run: * 4-color CD * creation of the "mother" CD * jewelcases For 750 CD - it was about $1300. I didn't do the printing for the inserts into the jewelbox. If I had it was about another $1000 (4-color printing, fold-out, two-sided). So, the cost per CD at a VERY SMALL run, ***but at a quality similar to commercial CDs*** worked out to about $3/CD. The price for CDs in the marketplace, given how little the artist gets from each CD sold is completely unjustified. It's no wonder that lots of garage and independent artists charge LESS for their small run CDs then the major labels do for their very large run pressing (where the cost/CD goes to under $1 each).
This gets back to the point made by another poster: what if you just called all of your Napster files metallica_000001.mp3, up to metallica_300000.mp3, but having absolutely NO Metallica content within them? Or, make the template m3tall1ca_######.mp3 so they can't claim any trademark issues.
Seems to me the best way to thrwart what being done is to make it VERY difficult to make the case that the alleged violations are genuine. Consider:
Metallica's Lawyers: we found all these copies of our music on this site.
Judge: How do you know?
Metallica: It's has the word metallica on the file name.
Defense: Please play one.
Judge: Is this your music?
Metallica: Uh..... No.
Judge: Did you check the files to see if the content is actually your music?
Metallica: Uh..... No.
Judge: Case dismissed, precedence set.
They might have more trouble in court, but it doesn't have to be a difficult experience. Personally, I like the idea of sending money to bands to wean them off of their record label. Look at Aimee Mann who is label-free and having a very successful year (Magnolia soundtrack nomination).
I suppose if I did hear anything, it would be the old "You're the only one who has ever asked about this" while (one of my pet peeves: they never are able to provide documentation showing that this is really true).
OK - I suppose it's wishful thinking to hope that users would realize by now not to open e-mail attachments they know nothing about...
But we quickly realized that $2B = 43 and not 42.
Mr. Adams has pointed out (in "Don't Panic", or it might be in the book of the radio transcripts) that the book's answer "What do you get if you multiply six by nine" does get you 42 if you use base 13...
In the past, you've been a very vocal advocate for Apple products, in particular the Mac. What are your thoughts concerning some of Apple's controversial decisions, such as killing production of the Newton, or where Apple is headed?