...works like a charm. Last tim I installed an update, the whole system got b0rked due to an error in writing to/etc/ttys The file got a byte sum of zero, and the logon window hanged upon next reboot.
No such thing this time, and I think. I feel. I believe that the system is a bit, just a tiny bit snappier in writing to the screen. I'm on a newish Powerbook.
...because you can just un-DRM the stuff you bought from the Real Networks store and then import it to the iPod, right? I mean, iTunes Music Store lets you have an un-DRMed version of your bought songs (actually, as many as you want) on CD so it is a no-brainer. Right?
They just reduced the functionality of a unit I already own. I want a refund now for the lost functionality.
No. The advertised functionality is still there. The third-rate hack from a third-party company is not supported, and it was never intended to be supported.
And when the next 999,999 people join me, it will happen!
If you can find even 20% that many actually using Harmony, I'll buy you a coke when you visit Thule AFB.
I'm an Apple fanboy, but I don't really see this as the correct approach to the problem. In my opinion, the iTunes store is sufficient to attract customers and make the stick with Apple. For ordniary people, the store is cool, updated and fairly priced. Geeks all over the world know what pain in the ass Real is and mostly avoids them at all cost.
Real is only continuing the war with different means. They don't do anything remotely original or radical like just dropping the DRM alltoghether for RIAA-influenced music. Honestly, I can't see the point of having DRM on ANY recoring that is also out on CD, it's just retarded.
...to each, his own wishes. On the bright side, this is only a sale of disposition rights to creative property. Much like what we do when we buy music.
I have to admit, though. The price was VERY steep.
Dunno. I live in norway. A buddy drove around in a Hummer and was mighty proud of it (like Viagra on wheels) until he discovered that the damn thing didn't fit in his garage, the car port was too narrow by 5 cm. He got rid of it and has a BMW 5-series now.
Hummers do look stupid on the street. I appreciate the abilities of the Hummer in its military origin, but in the city, without a war going on, it is just plain dumb.
I said the same thing to my PC when I was running Windows. Then I formatted the harddrive and installed Debian. Then the dialouge became like: "Hey, buddy! Nice work there on the nmap job! Let's go have a pr0n surf for a while. Wanna beer?"
Then I bought a Powerbook and now it's like: "Ooooh.... Yeeeeahh... You're so sexy... (bedroom voice) Let me see you prase that file for me... Can I touch your curved aluminium body? Let me just plug in my iPod somewhere I know you'll approve of it."
When it comes to cars: a resounding "yes". Why, oh why do the Americans drive around in their SUVs? I'v drive a lot of SUVs like the Jeep and BMW X5, and they suck! Fuel, among other things. Horrible security, no parking spaces big enough and fscking lousy productions. There's a woman owning a Hummer in my neighbourhood. She can go on the half an hour trying to find a parking space big enough for her four-seater. Insane.
...USA lags behind Europe too. Europe was quicker to adopt the digital mobile world with SMS and e-payment. USA has been the leader in big iron, Japan and Europe leaders in small, creative and applied tech.
As far as I know, Australia doesn't even have an official fair use cluse. Not in the law books, not in any verdicts. Ripping your bought CDs is technically illegal, technically.Not that anybody cares.
Scandinavian countries have fair use in their copyright laws, while the US has it in the Betamax verdict.
Well, she must have been seen as an asset, as she apparently was offered a 25% raise over two years time for not leaving MS sales. She now has a job for a local company in another own, her home town. They moved after not enjoying the capital too much. But she apparently misses MS and they want her back, says the GF's friend (talked to her on MSN...)
Also, it seems that the MS sales persons are truly out of it some chatting with others in the development business now revealed another story about a lame MS attempt to sell in solutions. They were offered lunch to hear out the offer from the sales person. They listened politely to the sales chat and then confronted the guy with such questions as mean uptime, compability with older equipment etc. He couldn't answer it, and was finally asked: Why should we replace the Linux domain servers, firewall and file servers with your products? The reply was "Well, the TCO of Windows Server is lower" at which point F burst out in laughter at the restaurant. He replied "You want us to pay XXX money for replacing the software, which by the way requires XXX in hardware upgrades. All this to replace free software legacy systems that had 0 downtime over two years?" at that point they said 'thanks for the lunch, you're paying.' and left.
The sales droid got a bit upset and tried to mention something about Linux being more expensive to maintain, and he replied that they could easily afford the two days of onsite tech for maintanence a year and how many times a year would they require someone to look at the Windows systems?
Talk about crazy... My GF's best friend has a PC running Windows Server 2003, as her home computer. Her main applications are......MSN Messenger and Internet Explorer. Mind you, this was when WS2k3 was still in beta.
All this is running quite unhappily on a Pentium II, 266 with 64 MBs of RAM. When I saw this snail / turtle-like behemoth of a computer I was baffled that it ran a 2003 install with absolutely everything installed and turned on! Except for anything resembling a firewall.
I asked her where she had gotten this computes, as it was clearly set up for dealing out some MS SQL data, although I'm not too familiar with it so I didn't look into the files on the filled-to-the-brim hard-drive.
It turns out, her brother's GF is a market droid at Microsoft here. She had given a computer that was in private use by some developer or something and meant that (actual quote): "2003 is just so much better, just look: it's three years more advanced."
I swear to Buddha, that's an actual quote as told to me by my GF's friend.
How the hell can Microsoft push ANY product, let alone the crap they force-feed down people's throats? I knew that their programmers had their panties in a bunch or were oblivious to obvious problems. But their salespeople too?
This was a woman that had won the seller of the year award or some crap. Clearly, she doesn't have a clue to what she did, or have any facts for back up her decision. If I had met a clueless salesperson like her I would have kicked her out after ten minutes in my office. If she had not noticed the Macs around by then or what they were, she clearly has no business there. (Except maybe for selling Office for Mac, a very good product, but she was in the OS division)
I work for a very successful Internet news site. We rely almost 100% on the ad revenue generated and have large serious customers.
We do know that some of the people are annoyed of the ads, but for the most part they are OK.
In case he ad revenue is gone, well, people have to pay. Simple enough. Our newspaper is the most successful in the country so we will survive even if people have to pay for net access.
But we don't want to chardge. We love to provide a really good newssite for free and the ads let us do that. It is the same principle as the local city papers that survive on ads. Remove ads, they will be gone and the selection will be severely reduced.
This is even more cruical on the net. Small sites can maintain the budget by adding some spare revenues and this lowers the publishing threshold for most people.
Of course! Some friends of mine calculated all the time and effort that went into the removal of spyware, securing of computers, calling support when that #$%#""""!!!! program requires admin rights to run into their TCO.
It turns out, their Macs was a little under 1/2 the TCO.
Installed, works.
Favourite quote: "We get actual work done!" And their Linux server, which I set up a little over two years ago, still runs Debian, manages itself and frankly I haven't looked at it for almost a year.
(1) The strongest man in Great Britain took a sledge hammer to one of the tubes. It was only slightly dented. I'd imagine Lumber acts the same way when he takes a sledge hammer to it.
That is irrelevant.You could have the crappiest, lousiest Turkish concrete in a tub, let it harden, and hav ethe WORLD'S strongest man hammer at ip and only 'dent it slightly'. If you put it in a roof, it might just collapse and kill a lot of people.
That description is about as un-scientific as they come and irrelevant to any argument. It is, at best, a pop-sci attempt to demonstrate anything.
OK. This update b0rked my PowerBook up really well. Afteer an update and Repair Permissions (Always a good idea), I restarted the PB. After a seemingly normal reboot, it halted at Logon Window staring... And did not go any further.
On Apple Discussions, arguably the best official tech solution pages from any major computer company, a possible solution has been posted.
If the problems appear, reboot into single-user mode. Go to the/etc directory (type cd/etc and hit enter for those who seldom wander into Terminal)
There you will find a screwed up file, 'ttys' and a backup of the same file called 'ttys.applesaved'. Overwrite the borken file by typing 'sudp cp/etc/ttys.applesaved/etc/ttys' and hit enter. Type in your admin password, hit enter. Reboot the machine, rejoice as you now get in.
I was less fortunate, as the machine was the only ne at home so I never ot to read the advice. I did archive and reinstall, it worked surprisingly well. I have done this under Windows, and lost all settings ang programs. When the 10.3 system was in, even my desktop icons were right where I left them. I did another updated and it worked swell!
People won't accept such low standards in other area so why should they in computing?
Exactly. Would you buy a car that gets engine trouble every other day? Sure, it's a simple thing to fix and if you're stuck in a ditch, you can call for guidance to reset the engine and remove the cruft inside it.
But they are to an extent. They are using a tool with the insistance that they should not have to learn how to use it properly.
Does that mak the users stupid? Or the creators of the paradigm?
This kind of rationale doesn't work in very many places, why should it apply to computers?
I suppose an analogy to the car industry is in place. A long time ago, power steering was introduced to the masses. It was very cool, and saved much work operating the steering wheel at lower speeds. The car industry introduced it, and soon there were quite a few accidents. What the car industry had forgotten was the fact that the steering becomes dangerously light at high speeds, something hadn't been aware of since their testers were professionals and handled the problem. But the end users aren't professionals, and soon they drove off the road at high speeds. The problem was solved, by making the power steering less at higher speeds.
Sometimes, I wonder if Microsoft has any normal-user testing at all. How can you launch a product like XP (SP1) and not notice the inherent problems in the design? I think it might be because all the people involved in creation and testing are professionals and don't have real-world problems.
So why isn't it properly configured out of the box? Other systems are. Why not Windows (pre SP2)?
I agree somewhat to the argument, if it had been 10 years ago. But not not. A computer is a commodity, to be used by a variety of users, where only a little part of them are capable of 'brak the shell into little unpriviliged sandboxes'. I know that I'm not.
Windows is a popular tool of the stupid
No, it is not. There are Windows users with 50% more IQ than you or me, yet they still get pwned. Windows is a tool of necessity. I have to use Windows at work, since it is all that is offered. I bitch and complain a lot abou this and get heard only a little. So I'm stuck with it.
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...works like a charm. Last tim I installed an update, the whole system got b0rked due to an error in writing to /etc/ttys The file got a byte sum of zero, and the logon window hanged upon next reboot.
No such thing this time, and I think. I feel. I believe that the system is a bit, just a tiny bit snappier in writing to the screen. I'm on a newish Powerbook.
...because you can just un-DRM the stuff you bought from the Real Networks store and then import it to the iPod, right? I mean, iTunes Music Store lets you have an un-DRMed version of your bought songs (actually, as many as you want) on CD so it is a no-brainer. Right?
They just reduced the functionality of a unit I already own. I want a refund now for the lost functionality.
No. The advertised functionality is still there. The third-rate hack from a third-party company is not supported, and it was never intended to be supported.
And when the next 999,999 people join me, it will happen!
If you can find even 20% that many actually using Harmony, I'll buy you a coke when you visit Thule AFB.
I'm an Apple fanboy, but I don't really see this as the correct approach to the problem. In my opinion, the iTunes store is sufficient to attract customers and make the stick with Apple. For ordniary people, the store is cool, updated and fairly priced. Geeks all over the world know what pain in the ass Real is and mostly avoids them at all cost.
Real is only continuing the war with different means. They don't do anything remotely original or radical like just dropping the DRM alltoghether for RIAA-influenced music. Honestly, I can't see the point of having DRM on ANY recoring that is also out on CD, it's just retarded.
...to each, his own wishes. On the bright side, this is only a sale of disposition rights to creative property. Much like what we do when we buy music.
I have to admit, though. The price was VERY steep.
Well, yeah. More or less. I meanb, I have always been a sick and demented pervert but never got it out.
How 'bout you? Has your humour always been so bad even the Amish think your company sucks?
Dunno. I live in norway. A buddy drove around in a Hummer and was mighty proud of it (like Viagra on wheels) until he discovered that the damn thing didn't fit in his garage, the car port was too narrow by 5 cm. He got rid of it and has a BMW 5-series now.
Hummers do look stupid on the street. I appreciate the abilities of the Hummer in its military origin, but in the city, without a war going on, it is just plain dumb.
I've been talking to my PC for years:
You god damned son of a bitch! F'n Piece of shit!
I said the same thing to my PC when I was running Windows. Then I formatted the harddrive and installed Debian. Then the dialouge became like: "Hey, buddy! Nice work there on the nmap job! Let's go have a pr0n surf for a while. Wanna beer?"
Then I bought a Powerbook and now it's like: "Ooooh.... Yeeeeahh... You're so sexy... (bedroom voice) Let me see you prase that file for me... Can I touch your curved aluminium body? Let me just plug in my iPod somewhere I know you'll approve of it."
Strange transformation that.
When it comes to cars: a resounding "yes". Why, oh why do the Americans drive around in their SUVs? I'v drive a lot of SUVs like the Jeep and BMW X5, and they suck! Fuel, among other things. Horrible security, no parking spaces big enough and fscking lousy productions. There's a woman owning a Hummer in my neighbourhood. She can go on the half an hour trying to find a parking space big enough for her four-seater. Insane.
...USA lags behind Europe too. Europe was quicker to adopt the digital mobile world with SMS and e-payment. USA has been the leader in big iron, Japan and Europe leaders in small, creative and applied tech.
As far as I know, Australia doesn't even have an official fair use cluse. Not in the law books, not in any verdicts. Ripping your bought CDs is technically illegal, technically.Not that anybody cares.
Scandinavian countries have fair use in their copyright laws, while the US has it in the Betamax verdict.
Well, she must have been seen as an asset, as she apparently was offered a 25% raise over two years time for not leaving MS sales. She now has a job for a local company in another own, her home town. They moved after not enjoying the capital too much. But she apparently misses MS and they want her back, says the GF's friend (talked to her on MSN...)
Also, it seems that the MS sales persons are truly out of it some chatting with others in the development business now revealed another story about a lame MS attempt to sell in solutions. They were offered lunch to hear out the offer from the sales person. They listened politely to the sales chat and then confronted the guy with such questions as mean uptime, compability with older equipment etc. He couldn't answer it, and was finally asked: Why should we replace the Linux domain servers, firewall and file servers with your products? The reply was "Well, the TCO of Windows Server is lower" at which point F burst out in laughter at the restaurant. He replied "You want us to pay XXX money for replacing the software, which by the way requires XXX in hardware upgrades. All this to replace free software legacy systems that had 0 downtime over two years?" at that point they said 'thanks for the lunch, you're paying.' and left.
The sales droid got a bit upset and tried to mention something about Linux being more expensive to maintain, and he replied that they could easily afford the two days of onsite tech for maintanence a year and how many times a year would they require someone to look at the Windows systems?
Talk about crazy... My GF's best friend has a PC running Windows Server 2003, as her home computer. Her main applications are... ...MSN Messenger and Internet Explorer. Mind you, this was when WS2k3 was still in beta.
All this is running quite unhappily on a Pentium II, 266 with 64 MBs of RAM. When I saw this snail / turtle-like behemoth of a computer I was baffled that it ran a 2003 install with absolutely everything installed and turned on! Except for anything resembling a firewall.
I asked her where she had gotten this computes, as it was clearly set up for dealing out some MS SQL data, although I'm not too familiar with it so I didn't look into the files on the filled-to-the-brim hard-drive.
It turns out, her brother's GF is a market droid at Microsoft here. She had given a computer that was in private use by some developer or something and meant that (actual quote): "2003 is just so much better, just look: it's three years more advanced."
I swear to Buddha, that's an actual quote as told to me by my GF's friend.
How the hell can Microsoft push ANY product, let alone the crap they force-feed down people's throats? I knew that their programmers had their panties in a bunch or were oblivious to obvious problems. But their salespeople too?
This was a woman that had won the seller of the year award or some crap. Clearly, she doesn't have a clue to what she did, or have any facts for back up her decision. If I had met a clueless salesperson like her I would have kicked her out after ten minutes in my office. If she had not noticed the Macs around by then or what they were, she clearly has no business there. (Except maybe for selling Office for Mac, a very good product, but she was in the OS division)
I work for a very successful Internet news site. We rely almost 100% on the ad revenue generated and have large serious customers.
We do know that some of the people are annoyed of the ads, but for the most part they are OK.
In case he ad revenue is gone, well, people have to pay. Simple enough. Our newspaper is the most successful in the country so we will survive even if people have to pay for net access.
But we don't want to chardge. We love to provide a really good newssite for free and the ads let us do that. It is the same principle as the local city papers that survive on ads. Remove ads, they will be gone and the selection will be severely reduced.
This is even more cruical on the net. Small sites can maintain the budget by adding some spare revenues and this lowers the publishing threshold for most people.
Of course! Some friends of mine calculated all the time and effort that went into the removal of spyware, securing of computers, calling support when that #$%#""""!!!! program requires admin rights to run into their TCO.
It turns out, their Macs was a little under 1/2 the TCO.
Installed, works.
Favourite quote: "We get actual work done!" And their Linux server, which I set up a little over two years ago, still runs Debian, manages itself and frankly I haven't looked at it for almost a year.
Why would any sane small business choose Windows?
Did you notice what it said under the little logo in the upper left corner? Beta.
B-E-T-A.
Google adds stuff to gmail all the time, but whining about it on Slashdot gives little result. Drop them a mail.
I did about POP and SMTP, and they served up secure POP and SMTP when enough people suggested it.
Link to debunking of lie.
I bet most of you have never heard about Argo,
I think it just might be you that did not wach "The day after tomorrow" with its weather and saline bouys.
True, I was a bit uncertain about this so I included a sudo anyway... ;) Better safe than sorry.
(1) The strongest man in Great Britain took a sledge hammer to one of the tubes. It was only slightly dented. I'd imagine Lumber acts the same way when he takes a sledge hammer to it.
That is irrelevant.You could have the crappiest, lousiest Turkish concrete in a tub, let it harden, and hav ethe WORLD'S strongest man hammer at ip and only 'dent it slightly'. If you put it in a roof, it might just collapse and kill a lot of people.
That description is about as un-scientific as they come and irrelevant to any argument. It is, at best, a pop-sci attempt to demonstrate anything.
OK. This update b0rked my PowerBook up really well. Afteer an update and Repair Permissions (Always a good idea), I restarted the PB. After a seemingly normal reboot, it halted at Logon Window staring... And did not go any further.
/etc directory (type cd /etc and hit enter for those who seldom wander into Terminal)
/etc/ttys.applesaved /etc/ttys' and hit enter. Type in your admin password, hit enter. Reboot the machine, rejoice as you now get in.
On Apple Discussions, arguably the best official tech solution pages from any major computer company, a possible solution has been posted.
If the problems appear, reboot into single-user mode. Go to the
There you will find a screwed up file, 'ttys' and a backup of the same file called 'ttys.applesaved'. Overwrite the borken file by typing 'sudp cp
I was less fortunate, as the machine was the only ne at home so I never ot to read the advice. I did archive and reinstall, it worked surprisingly well. I have done this under Windows, and lost all settings ang programs. When the 10.3 system was in, even my desktop icons were right where I left them. I did another updated and it worked swell!
2004-12-02 08:42:14 Apple Music Store launched in Canada (Apple,Music) (rejected)
It's like you don't even try anymore. This site has become the fucking LAST to have any news. I have paid my last subscription.
People won't accept such low standards in other area so why should they in computing?
Exactly. Would you buy a car that gets engine trouble every other day? Sure, it's a simple thing to fix and if you're stuck in a ditch, you can call for guidance to reset the engine and remove the cruft inside it.
But why should you?
But they are to an extent. They are using a tool with the insistance that they should not have to learn how to use it properly.
Does that mak the users stupid? Or the creators of the paradigm?
This kind of rationale doesn't work in very many places, why should it apply to computers?
I suppose an analogy to the car industry is in place. A long time ago, power steering was introduced to the masses. It was very cool, and saved much work operating the steering wheel at lower speeds. The car industry introduced it, and soon there were quite a few accidents. What the car industry had forgotten was the fact that the steering becomes dangerously light at high speeds, something hadn't been aware of since their testers were professionals and handled the problem. But the end users aren't professionals, and soon they drove off the road at high speeds. The problem was solved, by making the power steering less at higher speeds.
Sometimes, I wonder if Microsoft has any normal-user testing at all. How can you launch a product like XP (SP1) and not notice the inherent problems in the design? I think it might be because all the people involved in creation and testing are professionals and don't have real-world problems.
Once configured properly, it can be quite secure.
So why isn't it properly configured out of the box? Other systems are. Why not Windows (pre SP2)?
I agree somewhat to the argument, if it had been 10 years ago. But not not. A computer is a commodity, to be used by a variety of users, where only a little part of them are capable of 'brak the shell into little unpriviliged sandboxes'. I know that I'm not.
Windows is a popular tool of the stupid
No, it is not. There are Windows users with 50% more IQ than you or me, yet they still get pwned. Windows is a tool of necessity. I have to use Windows at work, since it is all that is offered. I bitch and complain a lot abou this and get heard only a little. So I'm stuck with it.