My contract is up with AT&T and my 3GS is showing it's age so there's a very high probability that I'm getting the next iPhone. I hate AT&T though, as it's pretty expensive. Right now I pay 160 bucks for two phones (one normal, one iphone). The wife pays 100 bucks on her Verizon phone. So that's $260 going out for cell phones which is crazy.
Like you I had the unlimited data plan but had to ditch it as I needed to add on tethering for my laptop (didn't jailbreak, went the official route). It seems like AT&T want to do everything they can to get rid of the unlimited data users.
Sprint has an unlimited data plan and have recently stated that it's "here to stay". So if sprint gets the phone tomorrow and the prices are still decent, then I'll cancel Verizon and AT&T and put us all on Sprint and probably save 100 bucks a month doing that.
If you love pinball you should check out the Pinball Museum if you ever go to Vegas. It a pretty awesome way to spend several hours without losing tons of cash (unless you suck at pinball).:)
On the flip side, I developed a rash on my wrist. Looking at pictures online I diagnosed myself with scabies(!!!), obviously I'm an idiot because the doctor said I have a normal case of eczema (excessive dry skin). So the moral of the story is, when you are diagnosing yourself, it's best to get a second opinion.
I hate those useless "lol" or "that's funny" comments, but seriously, this is the funniest thing I've read in a long long time. It's just wonderfully subtle.
Yes, I'm a longtime gentoo user too and have recently switched my desktop (home) and workstation (office) to Ubuntu.
It's not to say that Ubuntu is better then Gentoo or anything else. It's just that I think my day to day goals have changed. Where as before I had more time to tinker and play, Gentoo was so much fun. But now I've switched jobs and life is getting in the way, I need to get "work" done and pass on the tinkering.
After switching to Ubuntu, it's nice to just have little things "work". Not like a Mac, but better then Gentoo. Opening attachments in thunderbird prompt the *right* app. yes, I know I can fix it by opening up some files and preferences but it's all done without me having to mess with it.
Ubuntu allows me to get work done on linux, Gentoo forced me to work on linux.
If an ISP doesn't filter their outgoing email to make sure that it's own users aren't spamming, they WILL get blocked. I'm on a super-secret anti-spam mailing list which I can't tell you about, and everybody there cheerfully admits to blocking their own users' outgoing spam. It's necessary.
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Portsentry was made by Psionic. They were bought out by Cisco in 2002. So Cisco pretty much hired the main developer and that eventually killed the project. The code was open source but obviously a community never really formed around it other then people wondering what happened to it. I welcome the alternative, PSAD, and am planning on to give it a test drive...
What I'd like to see is a very simple source code control system, built on the same design. Perhaps one that would just serve the needs of a single programmer.
How about mounting a webdav file system with a subversion backend that has autoversioning turned on? That way, every time you write to the filesystem, SVN will make a new version. I did this for an office file server and installed track to point to the same repository. So now people have a cheap web interface to view revisions of documents.
All the Mac's in the office mount the webdav repo, my linux box mounts it via fuse, and even windows has "web folders". It was kind of a fun project that turned out to be pretty useful.
Yes, slashdot talked about it here. There were 10 listeners and everyone slammed it because there were only 10 people. Kind of a small "sample size" if you ask me.
not paying for guide data is certainly a benefit for Myth. But for me, the main reason to use Myth was to record shows and do whatever I want with them. So for me, it was control. I can do whatever I want with the recordings and I'm not subjected to some other company telling me how they want me to watch TV.
So yeah, I'd pay a few bucks for reliable guide data.
They were probably getting pressure from other companies.
I had Dish Network and signed up for one of their International channels, SET (Sony Entertainment Television). A few months ago they all of a sudden dropped the listing. It wasn't showing up in my Myth box, and the option to include the data wasn't even on their site anymore. It just disappeared. I checked Dish's site and sure enough the SET listings are there and the source is even from Zap2It! So I'm assuming that Sony told Zap2It to remove their channel data from the XML feed to cut off PVR users.
Hopefully someone picks up the slack, I'd pay a few bucks a month to keep using Myth without the scraping.
No. For us, all you had to do was register with labs.zap2it.com and then you can get the listings for private non-commercial use. So we (mythtv users) weren't abusing the system. I imagine that the abuse they are talking about is people signing up for the service and then reselling their data (that they themselves aggregate from other sources).
Their pricing: the "network edition" costs 18 bucks per user per year, 25 bucks per user per year if you want Outlook/iSync stuff. One thing that I don't like is that you can only buy them in 25-user packs which blows when you add that 26th employee but whatever.
The open vesion is fairly feature rich but misses some minor stuff. At my new company we might actually just use the OS one for a while since there's only 5 of us and I can figure out the backup/restore procedures myself (dump the database/ldap and copy the files?)
I saw Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember) open up for the Flaming Lips years ago where he had 6-8 hacked Speak & Spell toys on stage. He would trigger sounds through each one for his full concert.
Of the recent explorations of circuit-bending, Sonic Boom's Data Rape, recorded under the "Experimental Audio Research" ("EAR") banner and available through Space Age Recordings, stands out as the most distinctive. The entire LP was recorded using modified Texas Instruments Speak & Spell devices, together with some audio processing using a Morley phaser and an EMS VCS3. Speak & Spell was the first in a series of educational toys that was to establish electronic speech synthesis in the mass market. Subsequent products included the less successful, and therefore rarer, Speak & Math, and the downright obscure Speak & Read.
The concert was pretty much all ambient sounds from what I remember and not very impressive (sounding), but it was pretty neat seeing him up there with no instruments besides these "toys".:)
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My contract is up with AT&T and my 3GS is showing it's age so there's a very high probability that I'm getting the next iPhone. I hate AT&T though, as it's pretty expensive. Right now I pay 160 bucks for two phones (one normal, one iphone). The wife pays 100 bucks on her Verizon phone. So that's $260 going out for cell phones which is crazy.
Like you I had the unlimited data plan but had to ditch it as I needed to add on tethering for my laptop (didn't jailbreak, went the official route). It seems like AT&T want to do everything they can to get rid of the unlimited data users.
Sprint has an unlimited data plan and have recently stated that it's "here to stay". So if sprint gets the phone tomorrow and the prices are still decent, then I'll cancel Verizon and AT&T and put us all on Sprint and probably save 100 bucks a month doing that.
If you love pinball you should check out the Pinball Museum if you ever go to Vegas. It a pretty awesome way to spend several hours without losing tons of cash (unless you suck at pinball). :)
http://www.pinballmuseum.org/
On the flip side, I developed a rash on my wrist. Looking at pictures online I diagnosed myself with scabies(!!!), obviously I'm an idiot because the doctor said I have a normal case of eczema (excessive dry skin). So the moral of the story is, when you are diagnosing yourself, it's best to get a second opinion.
CSS is Awesome!
It's a joke, I love CSS. :)
No.
What about Spaghetti Cat? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMyHuCVaRaE
yeah, I've never heard of yahoo either. I'm going to jeeves it.
I hate those useless "lol" or "that's funny" comments, but seriously, this is the funniest thing I've read in a long long time. It's just wonderfully subtle.
You must be new here. :)
they should change the name to Phoenix
I would just add a giant ice cube to the ocean....
Dude: "Thus solving the problem forever"
Little Girl: "But---"
Dude: "I SAID FOREVER!"
huh? Isn't he just asking all the other distro's to adapt to ubuntu's release schedule?
No, wrong. it's the next stable release of ext. remember people, odd numbers are development, even numbers are stable!
okay, mod me down, I should really come up with new jokes.
Does anyone know if the chroot feature has been included (previously mentioned on slashdot)? Or is this just an upgrade for the security fix?
Back up your Firefox Profile and start clean.
Yes, I'm a longtime gentoo user too and have recently switched my desktop (home) and workstation (office) to Ubuntu.
It's not to say that Ubuntu is better then Gentoo or anything else. It's just that I think my day to day goals have changed. Where as before I had more time to tinker and play, Gentoo was so much fun. But now I've switched jobs and life is getting in the way, I need to get "work" done and pass on the tinkering.
After switching to Ubuntu, it's nice to just have little things "work". Not like a Mac, but better then Gentoo. Opening attachments in thunderbird prompt the *right* app. yes, I know I can fix it by opening up some files and preferences but it's all done without me having to mess with it.
Ubuntu allows me to get work done on linux, Gentoo forced me to work on linux.
--Ajay
dude, spamassassin-users isn't that secret.
Portsentry was made by Psionic. They were bought out by Cisco in 2002. So Cisco pretty much hired the main developer and that eventually killed the project. The code was open source but obviously a community never really formed around it other then people wondering what happened to it. I welcome the alternative, PSAD, and am planning on to give it a test drive...
--Ajay
How about mounting a webdav file system with a subversion backend that has autoversioning turned on? That way, every time you write to the filesystem, SVN will make a new version. I did this for an office file server and installed track to point to the same repository. So now people have a cheap web interface to view revisions of documents.
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.webdav.autoversioning.html
All the Mac's in the office mount the webdav repo, my linux box mounts it via fuse, and even windows has "web folders". It was kind of a fun project that turned out to be pretty useful.
--Ajay
Yes, slashdot talked about it here. There were 10 listeners and everyone slammed it because there were only 10 people. Kind of a small "sample size" if you ask me.
--Ajay
not paying for guide data is certainly a benefit for Myth. But for me, the main reason to use Myth was to record shows and do whatever I want with them. So for me, it was control. I can do whatever I want with the recordings and I'm not subjected to some other company telling me how they want me to watch TV.
So yeah, I'd pay a few bucks for reliable guide data.
--Ajay
They were probably getting pressure from other companies.
I had Dish Network and signed up for one of their International channels, SET (Sony Entertainment Television). A few months ago they all of a sudden dropped the listing. It wasn't showing up in my Myth box, and the option to include the data wasn't even on their site anymore. It just disappeared. I checked Dish's site and sure enough the SET listings are there and the source is even from Zap2It! So I'm assuming that Sony told Zap2It to remove their channel data from the XML feed to cut off PVR users.
Hopefully someone picks up the slack, I'd pay a few bucks a month to keep using Myth without the scraping.
--Ajay
No. For us, all you had to do was register with labs.zap2it.com and then you can get the listings for private non-commercial use. So we (mythtv users) weren't abusing the system. I imagine that the abuse they are talking about is people signing up for the service and then reselling their data (that they themselves aggregate from other sources).
--Ajay
Their pricing: the "network edition" costs 18 bucks per user per year, 25 bucks per user per year if you want Outlook/iSync stuff. One thing that I don't like is that you can only buy them in 25-user packs which blows when you add that 26th employee but whatever.
The open vesion is fairly feature rich but misses some minor stuff. At my new company we might actually just use the OS one for a while since there's only 5 of us and I can figure out the backup/restore procedures myself (dump the database/ldap and copy the files?)
--Ajay
From an article about it:
The concert was pretty much all ambient sounds from what I remember and not very impressive (sounding), but it was pretty neat seeing him up there with no instruments besides these "toys".
--Ajay