I have to agree wholeheartedly. I had never tried a DVR until I visited my folks shortly after they got one (from their satellite provider). After that, I decided that I really wanted to be able to do whatever I want with my DVR, so I went with MythTV. There were some challenges to getting it up and running (I'm running MythTV 0.20 on Kubuntu Dapper), but I have enough Linux experience that they were relatively minor. I had (almost) everything working in one day.
Now I have a box (and LCD monitor) that I can watch all my video content, listen to my music (located on another machine and NFS mounted), look at photos, etc. etc. Now there is no way I would give this box up! Really, for me there is just no way Apple's offering could ever appeal. Clearly though I am not going to be their target market.
Just a correction. Membership in the AMA is not a requirement for a medical doctor. The AMA is a professional/lobbying organization, not a certifying authority.
Just mentioning this because I thought the same as you, but only found this out recently.
Well, I don't know if I can say that I *need* more disk space, but I could sure find a way to make use of it! My home setup includes a MythTV DVR setup, and my workstation/home server has a 500Gb drive which is fast filling up, because I'm working on putting all of my DVDs (converted to xVid) on it. My media partition is exported to my DVR, so then I can just pick what I want to watch from a menu. None of that messy getting up from my comfy chair to search for a disk.
Video is what is going to drive this for the consumer market, if anything...
Actually, I'm not part of their group. I just did a few minutes of research with google. It's probably not surprising if you haven't heard of them; the greater Seattle area is after all quite large.
BTW, was there some pro-MS, and/or anti-open source FUD on that website that raised your suspicions? I didn't see any, but I only took a quick look. Most of what I read sounded pretty pro-Linux to me.
I will second this. I built a MythTV combo backend/frontend machine from scratch, and chose MythTV 0.20 and Kubuntu Dapper. As I recall, I ran into a couple of minor problems, but no showstoppers. Depending on your hardware, you might want to start here:
My kit has been up an running for a couple of months now, and let me say, it is awesome! Well worth the effort to get it working. (Well, for me, that was most of the fun anyway. I don't really watch much TV. Go figure...)
I always thought that Seattle's notorious rain was just a smokescreen (rainscreen?) to keep people from moving there! I have to say that both times I've visited (ok, both times it was summer, but still...) the weather was gorgeous.
One question: Are the drivers there more courteous than in other big cities? That was the impression I got last time, even on the highways, people seemed more patient. Perhaps that was just my impression because I was on vacation and feeling relaxed.
I was *just* going to say much the same thing you just did. If I had a 'clever' little scheme to 'protect' DVDs, damn straight I'd sell it to those bozos for whatever I could get, knowing full well that my scheme wouldn't actually prevent anyone from using the content any way they want. (But, I wouldn't do anything that would involve a rootkit. That's just too low). I guess we all draw the line somewhere.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but you should look at http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/eval.html. It looks like you have to register and get an activation code to get the 60 days of updates.
Maybe it's just me (I'm up at 5:30am to catch a flight) but I'm having trouble parsing the headline. Sounds like the rain is signaling cell phones.
Kind of interesting, but (having not read TFA, mind you) I wonder how small amounts of rain affect the signal. One would thing the signal would only be affected by heavy rain, and so the resolution of the resulting data would suffer.
It would be cool if the text of the message was unencrypted. Then you could just change it to what you want.
This reminds me of something a friend of a friend (allegedly) did to a friend of mine, but back in the day when you shut down Windows (98?), it would put on the screen in big, orange, block letters "IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER", or something to that effect. At any rate, said friend lived in a house full of guys who were always talking trash to one another. One typical phrase bandied about was "Shut your fucking hole!". Well, one time, said FOAF got on said friend's computer when he wasn't around. The next time my friend shut his computer down, it said... you probably guessed it...
Well, that's a stretch. If you read the/. faq, (I think it's in there) it comes from way back in the day when people would have to say "The web address is 'h' 't' 't' 'p' 'colon' 'slash' 'slash'....
I work for a well-known university doing IT work, and I cannot imagine getting dressed up too much for work. Hell, most of the professors here are not even as well-dressed as *I* normally am, and I'm generally only wearing jeans and a shirt with a collar.
Of course, it all depends on context. If you're interacting a lot with clients, then you probably want to dress somewhat like them, depending on the situation, of course!
I seriously misread that as "The Mythbusters Construct a Kill Bot." I was thinking that maybe Radio Shack was prepared to do anything to restore their former glory...
My first was an Apple//c. With 128K of memory, I thought I was *the man*. Of course, my C-64 using friends used to always say that the C-64 had way better graphics, using sprites, and they were probably right. Oh well, anyone remember:
- call -151
- What pages $100, $200 and $300 were for? (And what '$' meant in those days?)
- How many 6502 opcodes can you remember? Let's see, here are a few:
Speaking of this... I like to play with the exposure settings on my (cheap) digital camera. Turning the exposure way up and taking pictures at night results in some very interesting photos. Try it. It's best with multi-colored lights.
I don't know about RedHat, but SuSE definitely supports mp3 out of the box. Maybe they dropped support briefly and the brought it back? I don't know. I use SuSE pro 9.3 and xmms and amarok are there.
Well, in my case at least, math definitely impacted my sex life, for the better!
See, I got my PhD in math, and while I was in grad school, I met my future wife. Had I not decided to pursue my degree, I never would have even been in the same city to meet her. (She's a (bio)stats geek, so being in a related field gave us something to break the ice with).
(I know, I know, leave it to a math geek to take a joke too seriously...)
Well, it's not like the bad guys are presented by the media in a purely factual way. You're right, this is crap, but I can understand why journalists do this. News is just entertainment, and we shouldn't pretend it is otherwise. You want a police blotter, read your local TAB (or its equivalent).
On the other hand, regarding the remark about the "semi-automatic machine gun," that was unforgivable!
Though I have to say that I receive "conference spam" from these morons on a regular basis. They don't strike me as being particularly interested in rigorous science, and I'm not at all surprised that a randomly generated paper was accepted. I'm so annoyed with the spam I've received from these idiots that I hope the MIT students raise enough money to go, and show everyone how idiotic the organizers really are.
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I have to agree wholeheartedly. I had never tried a DVR until I visited my folks shortly after they got one (from their satellite provider). After that, I decided that I really wanted to be able to do whatever I want with my DVR, so I went with MythTV. There were some challenges to getting it up and running (I'm running MythTV 0.20 on Kubuntu Dapper), but I have enough Linux experience that they were relatively minor. I had (almost) everything working in one day.
Now I have a box (and LCD monitor) that I can watch all my video content, listen to my music (located on another machine and NFS mounted), look at photos, etc. etc. Now there is no way I would give this box up! Really, for me there is just no way Apple's offering could ever appeal. Clearly though I am not going to be their target market.
What's in a name? I am!
Just mentioning this because I thought the same as you, but only found this out recently.
Well, I don't know if I can say that I *need* more disk space, but I could sure find a way to make use of it! My home setup includes a MythTV DVR setup, and my workstation/home server has a 500Gb drive which is fast filling up, because I'm working on putting all of my DVDs (converted to xVid) on it. My media partition is exported to my DVR, so then I can just pick what I want to watch from a menu. None of that messy getting up from my comfy chair to search for a disk.
Video is what is going to drive this for the consumer market, if anything...
Actually, I'm not part of their group. I just did a few minutes of research with google. It's probably not surprising if you haven't heard of them; the greater Seattle area is after all quite large.
BTW, was there some pro-MS, and/or anti-open source FUD on that website that raised your suspicions? I didn't see any, but I only took a quick look. Most of what I read sounded pretty pro-Linux to me.
Umm, complete bullshit. The site you mentioned was formed by the Bellevue Linux Users group (or at least hosted there.) See their site here:
http://www.bellevuelinux.org/index.html
ConnectExpress.com is one of their sponsors.
I will second this. I built a MythTV combo backend/frontend machine from scratch, and chose MythTV 0.20 and Kubuntu Dapper. As I recall, I ran into a couple of minor problems, but no showstoppers. Depending on your hardware, you might want to start here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186747
My kit has been up an running for a couple of months now, and let me say, it is awesome! Well worth the effort to get it working. (Well, for me, that was most of the fun anyway. I don't really watch much TV. Go figure...)
I always thought that Seattle's notorious rain was just a smokescreen (rainscreen?) to keep people from moving there! I have to say that both times I've visited (ok, both times it was summer, but still...) the weather was gorgeous.
One question: Are the drivers there more courteous than in other big cities? That was the impression I got last time, even on the highways, people seemed more patient. Perhaps that was just my impression because I was on vacation and feeling relaxed.
I was *just* going to say much the same thing you just did. If I had a 'clever' little scheme to 'protect' DVDs, damn straight I'd sell it to those bozos for whatever I could get, knowing full well that my scheme wouldn't actually prevent anyone from using the content any way they want. (But, I wouldn't do anything that would involve a rootkit. That's just too low). I guess we all draw the line somewhere.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but you should look at http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/eval.html. It looks like you have to register and get an activation code to get the 60 days of updates.
No, you get updates for 60 days as part of the trial offer. After that you have to pay to continue getting updates.
As usual, Novell has been playing 'rename the product.' Does anyone know how SLED 10 compares to OpenSUSE 10.1?
Hmm, the servers seem to be a bit... slow for some reason. Even mcs.anl.gov. That says something!
Heh, I'm sitting here on my laptop at USENIX, waiting for the talk to start. How many of you out there are doing the same?
Maybe it's just me (I'm up at 5:30am to catch a flight) but I'm having trouble parsing the headline. Sounds like the rain is signaling cell phones.
Kind of interesting, but (having not read TFA, mind you) I wonder how small amounts of rain affect the signal. One would thing the signal would only be affected by heavy rain, and so the resolution of the resulting data would suffer.
It would be cool if the text of the message was unencrypted. Then you could just change it to what you want.
This reminds me of something a friend of a friend (allegedly) did to a friend of mine, but back in the day when you shut down Windows (98?), it would put on the screen in big, orange, block letters "IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER", or something to that effect. At any rate, said friend lived in a house full of guys who were always talking trash to one another. One typical phrase bandied about was "Shut your fucking hole!". Well, one time, said FOAF got on said friend's computer when he wasn't around. The next time my friend shut his computer down, it said... you probably guessed it...
IT IS NOW SAFE TO SHUT YOUR FUCKING HOLE
Well, that's a stretch. If you read the
Pretty funny, actually.
Of course, it all depends on context. If you're interacting a lot with clients, then you probably want to dress somewhat like them, depending on the situation, of course!
I seriously misread that as "The Mythbusters Construct a Kill Bot." I was thinking that maybe Radio Shack was prepared to do anything to restore their former glory...
Well, $100-$1FF was the stack, but now that think about it, I've forgotten what used to lie in $200-$2FF.
My first was an Apple //c. With 128K of memory, I thought I was *the man*. Of course, my C-64 using friends used to always say that the C-64 had way better graphics, using sprites, and they were probably right. Oh well, anyone remember:
- call -151
- What pages $100, $200 and $300 were for? (And what '$' meant in those days?)
- How many 6502 opcodes can you remember? Let's see, here are a few:
4c JMP
20 JSR
60 RTS
A9 LDA(?) (Load accumulator, direct)
Well, it's been quite a long time, I'm surprised I can remember any of those.
Speaking of this... I like to play with the exposure settings on my (cheap) digital camera. Turning the exposure way up and taking pictures at night results in some very interesting photos. Try it. It's best with multi-colored lights.
I don't know about RedHat, but SuSE definitely supports mp3 out of the box. Maybe they dropped support briefly and the brought it back? I don't know. I use SuSE pro 9.3 and xmms and amarok are there.
Haven't been to Brown Sugar in a while. Mmmmmm, Thai foooooood...
(more in email...)
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See, I got my PhD in math, and while I was in grad school, I met my future wife. Had I not decided to pursue my degree, I never would have even been in the same city to meet her. (She's a (bio)stats geek, so being in a related field gave us something to break the ice with).
(I know, I know, leave it to a math geek to take a joke too seriously...)
Well, it's not like the bad guys are presented by the media in a purely factual way. You're right, this is crap, but I can understand why journalists do this. News is just entertainment, and we shouldn't pretend it is otherwise. You want a police blotter, read your local TAB (or its equivalent).
On the other hand, regarding the remark about the "semi-automatic machine gun," that was unforgivable!
Though I have to say that I receive "conference spam" from these morons on a regular basis. They don't strike me as being particularly interested in rigorous science, and I'm not at all surprised that a randomly generated paper was accepted. I'm so annoyed with the spam I've received from these idiots that I hope the MIT students raise enough money to go, and show everyone how idiotic the organizers really are.