I used to listen to the FM music radio stations all the time about 10-15 years ago, when I was a kid. I never listened to the mainstream genres of the day, being more interested in 60s and 70s rock, blues, jazz. It was bad enough that the playlists seemed to only get smaller and the number of commercials were increasing, but you could still hear great songs.
Now I can't remember when it was the last time I did that. Even in my car, I only listen to the AM news stations, and even that mostly for the traffic reports (living in Toronto it's suicide not to, you can get stuck for hours on the 401 if you're not aware of accidents). With the consolidation under ClearChannel and Standard Radio, sometimes I can't even tell the difference between stations, they're ALL playing the same music more or less.
Now that the RIAA, and probably the CRIA (the RIAA's Canadian offspring) soon, are paying to have the same song played constantly, they have pretty much guaranteed I will never listen to music on the radio again.
Sorry for the rant, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.
I did not try to compile xorg, I just installed the default packages from Slack-current installed without any problems. Once that was done, I just renamed XF86Config to xorg.conf, and it worked without ANY problems. If I didn't know I had xorg instead XFree86, I couldn't tell the difference. This is obviously because for now they are virtually identical (other than a few different names).
If the packages are available for your distribution, give those a try to see if you have any incompatibilities. Compiling xorg is not easy, I remember it took me three tries in Gentoo (can't remember what was the problem, this was XFree86 4.1.0). In your case, something tells me that you wouldn't be able to compile XFree86 4.4.0 on your system either.
While you're undoubtedly right that this is true for many people, I know several friends who go through cell upgrades often enough *not* to want their personal data on one since it's a pain to do all that migration. That's why 3 of my friends got PDAs - the phones come and go, but the PDAs are both cheaper and much smaller than a laptop, and they last for years. Plus, compared to the cells I've seen, PDAs are infinitely more standards-based with peripherals and software.
Your friends are obviously not using the right phones. For the last year I've been using the same phone (Motorola v60), but before it, I used to change cell phones pretty often, maybe once every three months and not even once did I worry about migrating my phone numbers. Why?
SIM cards! I can store 250 phone numbers on one. As long as you don't need an email address, real address, date of birth, etc, etc, a SIM card will pretty much store all the phone numbers you'll ever need. And when you get a new phone, just switch the SIM card, and it will contain every number you had in the old one.
Obviously, this only works with GSM phones, and does not work with the TDMA and CDMA phones. But if you insist on changing your phones so often, you can't even use anything other than GSM. Well, you could, but switching phones would get far too expensive.
Just like you've done with the iPod headphones, ideally nobody should be able to tell you are carying a laptop, PDA, etc.
I carry my laptop, PDA and minidisk player (yes, it's not an iPod, but it's still worth quite a bit) wherever I go, but because I use a regular backpack to hold everything, I'm as safe as anyone else. I use a sleeve bag for the laptop, with hard padding all around. That way in my backpack, even when surrounded by books, binders and other things, my laptop can take a fair amount of pressure without any problems. I even rode my motorcycle and my bycicle, and nothing happened (no, I did not fall, but the bumps would have cracked a less protected laptop).
The absolute worse you can do is carry a leather Targus bag. It's as close to wearing a "Rob ME!" sticker on your back as possible.
I see one of the three people in the inventors list is Steve Jobs. I guess the guy standing with the whip behind the engineers deserves some credit, but this is ridiculous!
You will pry the Slackware init scripts from my cold dead hands!
On a more serious note, I had always run Slackware on my gateways (about 6 years total), so I know the scripts pretty much inside and out. I have a lot of very specialised scripts that I wrote from scratch tailored specifically for my gateway and home network. But on my workstation I tried a variety of distribuitons, and for a very long time I ran RedHat (from rh4.2 to rh7.3.), mainly because I enjoyed constantly upgrading rpms and trying out new things.
I ran into the same problem you did around the time RedHad came out with rh8.0. I found it amost impossible to track every config file in/etc, because of RedHat's non-standard installation. Not to mention the mass of files in/etc and all over the hdd that I had NO ideea what their purpose was. At that point I realised that the advantage of rpms was far outweighed by the horrible system management in RedHat. Then I tried pretty much all distros out there, and I finally settled on Slackware for my workstation and laptop as well.
I happen to like the BSD style scripts. They make maintainance a breeze, and they almost never need to be changed. Even when I reinstall Slack (for whatever reason, last time it was a hdd starting to fail), I find that most scripts and config files can just be copied over to the new distro. I actually had a masquarading script that lasted me from kernel 2.0.20 untill 2.4.x was released.
So there you have it, I _love_ the Slack init scripts. I'm not sure there are much better ones out there in terms of simplicity and complete control. Sure, maybe RedHat's linuxconf (is that thing still around?) may make changing stuff and automation easier, but at a significant loss of control. And God forbit you fubar linuxconf's dependencies so you can't run it. Then you'll really appreciate Slackware.
If anyone has ever played Americas Army, they'll know what I'm talking about. For everybody else, let me just say that having a sniper rifle in AA does not give any great advantage. The game developers spent a LOT of time getting the weapons feel, accuracy, speed of reload, etc as close to the way they are in real life as it is possible with today's technology. There is an annectdote where the programmers had real US weapons master sargeants check the weapons in game, and had them tweak them a lot of times untill they were realistic enough.
In this game all rifles (M4s, M16 and variants), sniper rifles (M24, M82), machine gunes (M249) and their russian counterparts move in the rithm of the character's breathing, movement and a few other factors. The character position (walking, crouching or prone) also affects accuracy, as does the health level (forget about sniping if you are red, almost dead).
In fact, it is sometimes easier to shoot long range with an M4 or M16 than it is to shoot with a sniper rifle (m24 or M82). The sniper rifles are very hard to shoot because they have very long reload times between shots and they shoot one bullet at a time so if you miss you might die. The m24 is the easier of the two, because the m82 requires refocusing after every shot due to recoil. Not to mention that your accuracy goes to hell someone shoots close towards you, even if they don't touch you.
I'm a fairly decent player (60 honor points), and I can shoot well enough that I can take out most snipers with my m4 or m16. Unles, of course, the sniper is at least as good as I am, which doesn't happen too often to ruin the game for me. And even then there are ways to get close enough to a sniper to put him at a great disadvantage.
If in any game the sniper rifle gives an unfair advantage (as it used to in CounterStrike), that game is not very well designed.
... but not because of the RIAA, but simply because the process of finding the albums I liked was almost impossible. The tedious process of finding the songs, downloading them and then repeating the process if the rip was of poor quality or incomplete was not worth my time anymore.
That is not to say that I started buying CDs all of a sudden, far from it. The last CD I bought was more than three years ago (RATM, Battle of LA), and the only reason I did it was because it was my favourite band and I decided to show my support to them. I had the same album in mp3s since the day it came out.
This has been discussed numerous times on/. but I thought it's worth mentioning again. When the RIAA will start changing its abusive tactics towards technology in general, then I _might_ consider buying another CD from them. Even then, I have everything ever played by my favourite rock bands, I have a lot of classical music, blues, jazz. And since of late I've been more interested in DJ mixes that are not even available on CD anywhere (try buying DJ Tiesto or DJ Sasha to name just some very well known people), but only on specialised sites or through other friends, I'm even less likely to buy one of the RIAA CDs.
So unless they will actually release interesting, creative music (instead of Britney et al), I couldn't care less about the RIAA's problems. The one way it did affect me was through the levy imposed on mp3 players in Canada, but you can always buy them from private individuals that bring them over straight from HK or Japan. But that's another can of worms, and it's off topic under this article.
I have to admit that I have been smoking for the past 9 years. Considering that I'm only 24 years old, that's a very long time. I've tried quitting cold turkey, I've tried the patch, the gum, and they all worked up to a point. Every time I tried quitting smoking, I stopped for a few days, but afterwards, I just had to start again. It wasn't the addiction that much, but simply the fact that I enjoy smoking too much.
Before I get all the replies describing all the side effects of smoking, you should know that I can do 150 push-ups every day, I can ride a bicycle for 30kms in about an hour through Toronto (which has its share of hills). So I'm still pretty healthy. When I'll get older this won't be the case anymore, but that's still a way off, so it doesn't feel like such a threat.
I guess this vaccine might work for me. If I can't derive pleasure from smoking, then I might have a chance of quitting. Because my willpower in this respect sure isn't helping.
I've only used brand name CD-Rs, my all time favourites are Kodak Golds. Unfortunately they're not making them anymore, because the process was far more expensive than the regular blue or green dye one. But with the Golds I never had a coaster, and all the ones I kept since 4 years ago still work. Other brands I had luck with were Maxwells and TDKs, but they don't look as nice as the Kodaks.
I also keep them protected in some way, either in sleeves, jewel cases or spindles.
The only CDs that ever failed were Hi-Vals. They were the first spindle I ever bought, and even out of those, only one died completely. The paint just peeled off the CD, and it became unreadable. But that CD saw a lot of abuse, sitting in my car for 3 years through very hot, humid summers and frigid winters in Toronto.
Overall, I agree with the article, a bit of prevention will preserve CDs for a long time, probably untill the data on them has become useless.
I was in the same predicament about 2 years ago. I realised I did not like any new keyboards (I particularly HATE "ergonomical" ones). I heard a lot of people were very happy with the IBM type M keyboard.
So I looked for one, and found one for free at my old company (they were throwing it out). I've been using that keyboard for the past 2 years, and it still works as well as when I first got it. Btw, it was manufactured on the 17th of July 1987.
It might be worth looking into one. I got hooked as soon as I started using it.
When I saw this happen in our lab, I was trying to fix someone's floppy (yes, yes, I'm a lowly lab monitor at my U). I thought it was a broken floppy, but the strange thing was that the computer could read the fine just fine, but Copy/Cut/Paste was disabled in Word and in Explorer.
Our lab is XP-only, and it's very up to date on all security patches, with ONE exception, the machine I was using for the floppy recovery. That one is running Windows98, and I know for a fact it's not patched.
I'll look into it tomorrow, to see what's going on.
Am I the only one here that suddenly got a mental picture of all the "accidents" involving Halon, Simon and the (l)users tresspassing into his server room? [grin]
Already 3 posters that prefer batteries over fuel cell powered laptops. Well, I can't say I disagree that batteries are better, but there are exceptions. There are places where charging a laptop is not possible.
I'm always going to a little coffee shop where the only power outlet is all the way in the back, so I can't recharge my battery. Now I have a laptop that lasts for about 4 hours between charges, but I can't always show up there with a fully charged battery. Why do I keep going there? Somebody upstairs has an open wireless router. Can you spell free broadband access?:)
But that's not the only case. I do small tech jobs, that sometimes take more than the 4 hours my battery lasts. It's annoying to alway hunt for a spare outlet. On one of my last jobs the guy had such a jungle of power wires under his desk that I was literally afraid to plug in anywhere..
And I doubt that the only power source for the laptop would be the methanol fuell cell. You might be able to use a battery or mains instead. But if that isn't the case, running exclusively off methanol is not that expensive.
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Hmmm.... I ride bicycles, motorcycles, go camping, skiing, etc. I think I lead a fairly active lifestyle. And yet I would not touch this Nokia with a 10ft pole. I like Nokia, my 2 year old 8260 has 700 hours of talktime on it (I have no landline for those who are wondering). It's still working well, after a few faceplate and backplate changes and a couple of thorough cleanups inside (dropping your phone while biking will tend to crack stuff)
I can understand rugged designs, but why did they have to make it look like a 2 year-old's toy? I'd really like to see the design team that thought this cell phone was attractive, because most people will hate it. Why are most companies unable to create a rugged design while keeping a professional-looking exterior? Panasonic proved it can be done with their Toughbooks, but in terms of cellphones I'm yet to see such a product.
But I guess for everything there is a market niche, no matter how small. This phone is probably targeted to those who install led lit cases and antenas on their mobiles. To each his own I suppose.
I'm not that old, and yet I believe I should take responsability for my actions. I cannot stand the way the American society works in this respect.
"It's not my fault I have lung cancer, the tabacco companies should have told me smoking is harmfull"
"It's not my fault I'm a drug addict, the dealer gave me crack for free and didn't tell me it's addictive"
"It's not my fault I killed this person, I saw it all in Doom, I swear!"
And the examples could go on ad infinitum. The fault always lies with someone else. In the worst case, I'm partly to blame, a minute part, and should not be punished for it. This sort of behaviour has deep implications on out lives and freedoms. On one side we have the government and big corporations trying to impose more and more severe limitations on everything we do (think DMCA, Patriot Act, etc) just because they can. On the other we have irresponsible individuals that through their defences are curtailing our freedoms even further by casting an unfavourable light on harmless things (eg. computer games).
And the worst of it all is that nobody is forcing anybody to raise their standards in this respect. As geeks we become enraged in those instances, but do we really do anything about it? Do we have the power to do anything?
But can the uncluttering of their page, toning down the ads, and using some features not currently offered on Google give them their title back?
I've just visited yahoo's site for the first time in a couple of years (no, I'm not kidding) and quite frankly their site does not seem uncluttered to me. There are still hundreds of links and adds on the main page.
If it used to be worse, then I guess they made a step in the right direction, but they're still not even close to Google in terms of a clean, functional site. If I wanted news, I'd go to BBC. For shopping, ebay, amazon, etc. But Yahoo is still bunching everything together on the main page.
But most importantly, I doubt that any other company will be able to beat Google. That engine just works. I've been able to find useable info on anything that I searched for, from drivers for my antique hardware to parts for my motorcycle. Other engines did not have anything on those searches, at least nothing that was helpfull.
I am not familiar with the US banks and CC companies, but my bank has no browser bias at all. I'm a client with TD Canada Trust, and I can use whichever browser I choose. Their site works in Mozilla on any platform (tried it on many versions of Linux, Win, and MacOS), Phoenix, IE. I don't know if other browsers work, although they should. Well, except Links and lynx, I have a very hard time imagining how the pages would render text only, and at 40cents per log in, I don't feel like trying.
This is also true of of Royal Bank (where other members of my family have accounts), and also of Scotia Bank.
One tip I can give you (although it's very obvious), before you become a client of any other bank or CC company, ask the sales person about the browsers they support. Or if that person does not know, have someone else call you back with the information. They'll make money off you, so my bet is they'll call.
Oh, one last thing, make it clear to CapitalOne that the reason you're canceling their service is because they don't support your browser of choice. That'll get their attention a bit.
The subject line says it all. Those types of exercises do not require any type of equipment, while toning and strengthening your muscles.
The only drawback is that depending on your fitness level, you might not be able to do enough reps. If you manage to do about 10 in a row, that's a good start, you'll be able to increase that number later on. I started off doing 4 sets of 10 pushups, and about a year later I was doing 4 sets of 25 every day. Needless to say, they were helping me stay into shape, even though I was not going to the gym.
But don't expect to bulk up while doing pushups or situps. If you want bigger muscles, then you really do need to go to a gym or to invest into a weight set. However, any kind of physical exercise helps.
They all have novels that are dealing with the darker side of life. All you're left with after finishing the novels is a feeling of futility, of hopelessness. But they gave me a better understanding of people in general and in particular human degradation and vices and without having to experience it first hand.
The settings are in the middle to the end of the 19th century France, so they have nothing of Science Fiction in them (this is/. after all, so I guess it's expected).
Of the three I've listed Honore de Balzac is the lighter one. His novels do have some positive endings, although none end in the manner we've been taught to expect by Hollywood. Zola is definitely dark, and if you can't stand gory descriptions and settings, don't touch him. He's the more difficult to read too.
I'm sure they are very accessible in translation (at least they are in Toronto).
But it's 3am where I live and I really should get some sleep...
Just a Linux SERVER port. That's not particularly usefull in actually playing the game, since you'd still need Windows on the client side.
The funny thing is, ZaMoose quoted the website, but cut out that most important word, "linux SERVER port". Here's the real quote.
That's not all. We're also working on an in-game browser, linux server port, and host of other features. Yes, we've been busy the past week! More servers, providing for the addition of community servers, more missions, and more Army training! But that's just the tip of the iceberg, troops! Stay tuned for more! [Bacchus]
Hopefully next time timothy will actually visit the web page linked, and make sure that at least the emphasised, bold words correspong to reality.
In the ISO dir there are 5 images. Now I'm fairly sure that the final version of RH 8(?) will still keep the 3CD binary RPMS + 2CDs of SRPMS format from RH 7.3. But there is one thing that really bothers me about that setup. Even for a fairly basic install, I was still required to use all 3 CDs.
I know I included too many packages in the instalation, and if I were to do a clean install, I could trim it down a lot. Right now I have 2Gb in/usr, and I believe I could get a lot under that. But the problem is, it's still too much, and it's too hard to keep the installation small and easily manageable. If I chose any of the preconfigured instalation methods (I think server, kde, gnome workstation, custom system), none of them worked for me. The only one that did the job was custom, but it took a very long time to select individual packages. All the other options left me without some devel tools, or without some servers (e.g apache) or without some smaller apps.
I've been using RH since 4.2, and I used to like the fact that it was an easy to install, configure, and maintain distribution. But ever since they moved to 3CDs of binaries, it doesn't feel like that anymore. It's cumbersome to install (with the individual package selection). It's not very easy to configure, especially for more esoteric configurations like mine (I need a bit of server, workstation and devel stuff). The config files are becoming more fragmented, moved into several directories. Sometimes the only way I can make sense of them is by using linuxconf and the other setup tools, which I don't like.
And maintainance, well, that's a story in itself. The couple of times I used the up2date were a nightmare. The first time it installed amanda, and that thing filled up my 400Mb / partition to the brim before I figured out what was going on, and I managed to clean up the mess. The second time, many apps (including X) got broken. I suppose it works just fine with standard instalations, but with modified ones, it just doesn't. So I gave up on up2date. But there are so many packages that I don't know what they do exactly, that it's impossible to update them all manually.
I'm not pretending to be a great RedHat admin. But I have been using that distro for 5 years, and I'm becoming lost. This is not happening to me with Slackware or gentoo (my other 2 distros) or with OpenBSD. While I'm getting much, much better in these other ones, I feel I'm getting worse in RH.
I would really appreciate any ideeas, any help I can get with this problem. Maybe I'm doing it all wrong, but it feels that RH is getting far too complex to run. Is it just me, or does anyone else share this feeling?
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I used to listen to the FM music radio stations all the time about 10-15 years ago, when I was a kid. I never listened to the mainstream genres of the day, being more interested in 60s and 70s rock, blues, jazz. It was bad enough that the playlists seemed to only get smaller and the number of commercials were increasing, but you could still hear great songs.
Now I can't remember when it was the last time I did that. Even in my car, I only listen to the AM news stations, and even that mostly for the traffic reports (living in Toronto it's suicide not to, you can get stuck for hours on the 401 if you're not aware of accidents). With the consolidation under ClearChannel and Standard Radio, sometimes I can't even tell the difference between stations, they're ALL playing the same music more or less.
Now that the RIAA, and probably the CRIA (the RIAA's Canadian offspring) soon, are paying to have the same song played constantly, they have pretty much guaranteed I will never listen to music on the radio again.
Sorry for the rant, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.
I did not try to compile xorg, I just installed the default packages from Slack-current installed without any problems. Once that was done, I just renamed XF86Config to xorg.conf, and it worked without ANY problems. If I didn't know I had xorg instead XFree86, I couldn't tell the difference. This is obviously because for now they are virtually identical (other than a few different names).
If the packages are available for your distribution, give those a try to see if you have any incompatibilities. Compiling xorg is not easy, I remember it took me three tries in Gentoo (can't remember what was the problem, this was XFree86 4.1.0). In your case, something tells me that you wouldn't be able to compile XFree86 4.4.0 on your system either.
Your friends are obviously not using the right phones. For the last year I've been using the same phone (Motorola v60), but before it, I used to change cell phones pretty often, maybe once every three months and not even once did I worry about migrating my phone numbers. Why?
SIM cards! I can store 250 phone numbers on one. As long as you don't need an email address, real address, date of birth, etc, etc, a SIM card will pretty much store all the phone numbers you'll ever need. And when you get a new phone, just switch the SIM card, and it will contain every number you had in the old one.
Obviously, this only works with GSM phones, and does not work with the TDMA and CDMA phones. But if you insist on changing your phones so often, you can't even use anything other than GSM. Well, you could, but switching phones would get far too expensive.
Just like you've done with the iPod headphones, ideally nobody should be able to tell you are carying a laptop, PDA, etc.
I carry my laptop, PDA and minidisk player (yes, it's not an iPod, but it's still worth quite a bit) wherever I go, but because I use a regular backpack to hold everything, I'm as safe as anyone else. I use a sleeve bag for the laptop, with hard padding all around. That way in my backpack, even when surrounded by books, binders and other things, my laptop can take a fair amount of pressure without any problems. I even rode my motorcycle and my bycicle, and nothing happened (no, I did not fall, but the bumps would have cracked a less protected laptop).
The absolute worse you can do is carry a leather Targus bag. It's as close to wearing a "Rob ME!" sticker on your back as possible.
As /. keeps prooving several times every day, time warps happen all the time.
This is just one example, but I'm sure many more can be found without launching the probe...
I see one of the three people in the inventors list is Steve Jobs. I guess the guy standing with the whip behind the engineers deserves some credit, but this is ridiculous!
*grin*
You will pry the Slackware init scripts from my cold dead hands!
/etc, because of RedHat's non-standard installation. Not to mention the mass of files in /etc and all over the hdd that I had NO ideea what their purpose was. At that point I realised that the advantage of rpms was far outweighed by the horrible system management in RedHat. Then I tried pretty much all distros out there, and I finally settled on Slackware for my workstation and laptop as well.
On a more serious note, I had always run Slackware on my gateways (about 6 years total), so I know the scripts pretty much inside and out. I have a lot of very specialised scripts that I wrote from scratch tailored specifically for my gateway and home network. But on my workstation I tried a variety of distribuitons, and for a very long time I ran RedHat (from rh4.2 to rh7.3.), mainly because I enjoyed constantly upgrading rpms and trying out new things.
I ran into the same problem you did around the time RedHad came out with rh8.0. I found it amost impossible to track every config file in
I happen to like the BSD style scripts. They make maintainance a breeze, and they almost never need to be changed. Even when I reinstall Slack (for whatever reason, last time it was a hdd starting to fail), I find that most scripts and config files can just be copied over to the new distro. I actually had a masquarading script that lasted me from kernel 2.0.20 untill 2.4.x was released.
So there you have it, I _love_ the Slack init scripts. I'm not sure there are much better ones out there in terms of simplicity and complete control. Sure, maybe RedHat's linuxconf (is that thing still around?) may make changing stuff and automation easier, but at a significant loss of control. And God forbit you fubar linuxconf's dependencies so you can't run it. Then you'll really appreciate Slackware.
If anyone has ever played Americas Army, they'll know what I'm talking about. For everybody else, let me just say that having a sniper rifle in AA does not give any great advantage. The game developers spent a LOT of time getting the weapons feel, accuracy, speed of reload, etc as close to the way they are in real life as it is possible with today's technology. There is an annectdote where the programmers had real US weapons master sargeants check the weapons in game, and had them tweak them a lot of times untill they were realistic enough.
In this game all rifles (M4s, M16 and variants), sniper rifles (M24, M82), machine gunes (M249) and their russian counterparts move in the rithm of the character's breathing, movement and a few other factors. The character position (walking, crouching or prone) also affects accuracy, as does the health level (forget about sniping if you are red, almost dead).
In fact, it is sometimes easier to shoot long range with an M4 or M16 than it is to shoot with a sniper rifle (m24 or M82). The sniper rifles are very hard to shoot because they have very long reload times between shots and they shoot one bullet at a time so if you miss you might die. The m24 is the easier of the two, because the m82 requires refocusing after every shot due to recoil. Not to mention that your accuracy goes to hell someone shoots close towards you, even if they don't touch you.
I'm a fairly decent player (60 honor points), and I can shoot well enough that I can take out most snipers with my m4 or m16. Unles, of course, the sniper is at least as good as I am, which doesn't happen too often to ruin the game for me. And even then there are ways to get close enough to a sniper to put him at a great disadvantage.
If in any game the sniper rifle gives an unfair advantage (as it used to in CounterStrike), that game is not very well designed.
... but not because of the RIAA, but simply because the process of finding the albums I liked was almost impossible. The tedious process of finding the songs, downloading them and then repeating the process if the rip was of poor quality or incomplete was not worth my time anymore.
/. but I thought it's worth mentioning again. When the RIAA will start changing its abusive tactics towards technology in general, then I _might_ consider buying another CD from them. Even then, I have everything ever played by my favourite rock bands, I have a lot of classical music, blues, jazz. And since of late I've been more interested in DJ mixes that are not even available on CD anywhere (try buying DJ Tiesto or DJ Sasha to name just some very well known people), but only on specialised sites or through other friends, I'm even less likely to buy one of the RIAA CDs.
That is not to say that I started buying CDs all of a sudden, far from it. The last CD I bought was more than three years ago (RATM, Battle of LA), and the only reason I did it was because it was my favourite band and I decided to show my support to them. I had the same album in mp3s since the day it came out.
This has been discussed numerous times on
So unless they will actually release interesting, creative music (instead of Britney et al), I couldn't care less about the RIAA's problems. The one way it did affect me was through the levy imposed on mp3 players in Canada, but you can always buy them from private individuals that bring them over straight from HK or Japan. But that's another can of worms, and it's off topic under this article.
I have to admit that I have been smoking for the past 9 years. Considering that I'm only 24 years old, that's a very long time. I've tried quitting cold turkey, I've tried the patch, the gum, and they all worked up to a point. Every time I tried quitting smoking, I stopped for a few days, but afterwards, I just had to start again. It wasn't the addiction that much, but simply the fact that I enjoy smoking too much.
Before I get all the replies describing all the side effects of smoking, you should know that I can do 150 push-ups every day, I can ride a bicycle for 30kms in about an hour through Toronto (which has its share of hills). So I'm still pretty healthy. When I'll get older this won't be the case anymore, but that's still a way off, so it doesn't feel like such a threat.
I guess this vaccine might work for me. If I can't derive pleasure from smoking, then I might have a chance of quitting. Because my willpower in this respect sure isn't helping.
... is the major reason for my failed CDs.
I've only used brand name CD-Rs, my all time favourites are Kodak Golds. Unfortunately they're not making them anymore, because the process was far more expensive than the regular blue or green dye one. But with the Golds I never had a coaster, and all the ones I kept since 4 years ago still work. Other brands I had luck with were Maxwells and TDKs, but they don't look as nice as the Kodaks.
I also keep them protected in some way, either in sleeves, jewel cases or spindles.
The only CDs that ever failed were Hi-Vals. They were the first spindle I ever bought, and even out of those, only one died completely. The paint just peeled off the CD, and it became unreadable. But that CD saw a lot of abuse, sitting in my car for 3 years through very hot, humid summers and frigid winters in Toronto.
Overall, I agree with the article, a bit of prevention will preserve CDs for a long time, probably untill the data on them has become useless.
Since all the ftp servers are probably overloaded right now, here's the bittorrent link. I'm getting about 30kbps up/down, so it's not too bad.
e ri casarmy/armyops200.exe.html
http://www.3dgamers.com/dlexit/torrent/games/am
I was in the same predicament about 2 years ago. I realised I did not like any new keyboards (I particularly HATE "ergonomical" ones). I heard a lot of people were very happy with the IBM type M keyboard.
So I looked for one, and found one for free at my old company (they were throwing it out). I've been using that keyboard for the past 2 years, and it still works as well as when I first got it. Btw, it was manufactured on the 17th of July 1987.
It might be worth looking into one. I got hooked as soon as I started using it.
When I saw this happen in our lab, I was trying to fix someone's floppy (yes, yes, I'm a lowly lab monitor at my U). I thought it was a broken floppy, but the strange thing was that the computer could read the fine just fine, but Copy/Cut/Paste was disabled in Word and in Explorer.
Our lab is XP-only, and it's very up to date on all security patches, with ONE exception, the machine I was using for the floppy recovery. That one is running Windows98, and I know for a fact it's not patched.
I'll look into it tomorrow, to see what's going on.
Am I the only one here that suddenly got a mental picture of all the "accidents" involving Halon, Simon and the (l)users tresspassing into his server room? [grin]
Don't play with Halon, it's much too dangerous.
Already 3 posters that prefer batteries over fuel cell powered laptops. Well, I can't say I disagree that batteries are better, but there are exceptions. There are places where charging a laptop is not possible.
:)
I'm always going to a little coffee shop where the only power outlet is all the way in the back, so I can't recharge my battery. Now I have a laptop that lasts for about 4 hours between charges, but I can't always show up there with a fully charged battery. Why do I keep going there? Somebody upstairs has an open wireless router. Can you spell free broadband access?
But that's not the only case. I do small tech jobs, that sometimes take more than the 4 hours my battery lasts. It's annoying to alway hunt for a spare outlet. On one of my last jobs the guy had such a jungle of power wires under his desk that I was literally afraid to plug in anywhere..
And I doubt that the only power source for the laptop would be the methanol fuell cell. You might be able to use a battery or mains instead. But if that isn't the case, running exclusively off methanol is not that expensive.
Hmmm.... I ride bicycles, motorcycles, go camping, skiing, etc. I think I lead a fairly active lifestyle. And yet I would not touch this Nokia with a 10ft pole. I like Nokia, my 2 year old 8260 has 700 hours of talktime on it (I have no landline for those who are wondering). It's still working well, after a few faceplate and backplate changes and a couple of thorough cleanups inside (dropping your phone while biking will tend to crack stuff)
I can understand rugged designs, but why did they have to make it look like a 2 year-old's toy? I'd really like to see the design team that thought this cell phone was attractive, because most people will hate it. Why are most companies unable to create a rugged design while keeping a professional-looking exterior? Panasonic proved it can be done with their Toughbooks, but in terms of cellphones I'm yet to see such a product.
But I guess for everything there is a market niche, no matter how small. This phone is probably targeted to those who install led lit cases and antenas on their mobiles. To each his own I suppose.
I'm not that old, and yet I believe I should take responsability for my actions. I cannot stand the way the American society works in this respect.
"It's not my fault I have lung cancer, the tabacco companies should have told me smoking is harmfull"
"It's not my fault I'm a drug addict, the dealer gave me crack for free and didn't tell me it's addictive"
"It's not my fault I killed this person, I saw it all in Doom, I swear!"
And the examples could go on ad infinitum. The fault always lies with someone else. In the worst case, I'm partly to blame, a minute part, and should not be punished for it. This sort of behaviour has deep implications on out lives and freedoms. On one side we have the government and big corporations trying to impose more and more severe limitations on everything we do (think DMCA, Patriot Act, etc) just because they can. On the other we have irresponsible individuals that through their defences are curtailing our freedoms even further by casting an unfavourable light on harmless things (eg. computer games).
And the worst of it all is that nobody is forcing anybody to raise their standards in this respect. As geeks we become enraged in those instances, but do we really do anything about it? Do we have the power to do anything?
You tell me. Please.
Someone have gay sex with me please!
I've just visited yahoo's site for the first time in a couple of years (no, I'm not kidding) and quite frankly their site does not seem uncluttered to me. There are still hundreds of links and adds on the main page.
If it used to be worse, then I guess they made a step in the right direction, but they're still not even close to Google in terms of a clean, functional site. If I wanted news, I'd go to BBC. For shopping, ebay, amazon, etc. But Yahoo is still bunching everything together on the main page.
But most importantly, I doubt that any other company will be able to beat Google. That engine just works. I've been able to find useable info on anything that I searched for, from drivers for my antique hardware to parts for my motorcycle. Other engines did not have anything on those searches, at least nothing that was helpfull.
I am not familiar with the US banks and CC companies, but my bank has no browser bias at all. I'm a client with TD Canada Trust, and I can use whichever browser I choose. Their site works in Mozilla on any platform (tried it on many versions of Linux, Win, and MacOS), Phoenix, IE. I don't know if other browsers work, although they should. Well, except Links and lynx, I have a very hard time imagining how the pages would render text only, and at 40cents per log in, I don't feel like trying.
This is also true of of Royal Bank (where other members of my family have accounts), and also of Scotia Bank.
One tip I can give you (although it's very obvious), before you become a client of any other bank or CC company, ask the sales person about the browsers they support. Or if that person does not know, have someone else call you back with the information. They'll make money off you, so my bet is they'll call.
Oh, one last thing, make it clear to CapitalOne that the reason you're canceling their service is because they don't support your browser of choice. That'll get their attention a bit.
The subject line says it all. Those types of exercises do not require any type of equipment, while toning and strengthening your muscles.
The only drawback is that depending on your fitness level, you might not be able to do enough reps. If you manage to do about 10 in a row, that's a good start, you'll be able to increase that number later on. I started off doing 4 sets of 10 pushups, and about a year later I was doing 4 sets of 25 every day. Needless to say, they were helping me stay into shape, even though I was not going to the gym.
But don't expect to bulk up while doing pushups or situps. If you want bigger muscles, then you really do need to go to a gym or to invest into a weight set. However, any kind of physical exercise helps.
Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, Proust and many others...
/. after all, so I guess it's expected).
They all have novels that are dealing with the darker side of life. All you're left with after finishing the novels is a feeling of futility, of hopelessness. But they gave me a better understanding of people in general and in particular human degradation and vices and without having to experience it first hand.
The settings are in the middle to the end of the 19th century France, so they have nothing of Science Fiction in them (this is
Of the three I've listed Honore de Balzac is the lighter one. His novels do have some positive endings, although none end in the manner we've been taught to expect by Hollywood. Zola is definitely dark, and if you can't stand gory descriptions and settings, don't touch him. He's the more difficult to read too.
I'm sure they are very accessible in translation (at least they are in Toronto).
But it's 3am where I live and I really should get some sleep...
The funny thing is, ZaMoose quoted the website, but cut out that most important word, "linux SERVER port". Here's the real quote.
Hopefully next time timothy will actually visit the web page linked, and make sure that at least the emphasised, bold words correspong to reality.
In the ISO dir there are 5 images. Now I'm fairly sure that the final version of RH 8(?) will still keep the 3CD binary RPMS + 2CDs of SRPMS format from RH 7.3. But there is one thing that really bothers me about that setup. Even for a fairly basic install, I was still required to use all 3 CDs.
/usr, and I believe I could get a lot under that. But the problem is, it's still too much, and it's too hard to keep the installation small and easily manageable. If I chose any of the preconfigured instalation methods (I think server, kde, gnome workstation, custom system), none of them worked for me. The only one that did the job was custom, but it took a very long time to select individual packages. All the other options left me without some devel tools, or without some servers (e.g apache) or without some smaller apps.
I know I included too many packages in the instalation, and if I were to do a clean install, I could trim it down a lot. Right now I have 2Gb in
I've been using RH since 4.2, and I used to like the fact that it was an easy to install, configure, and maintain distribution. But ever since they moved to 3CDs of binaries, it doesn't feel like that anymore. It's cumbersome to install (with the individual package selection). It's not very easy to configure, especially for more esoteric configurations like mine (I need a bit of server, workstation and devel stuff). The config files are becoming more fragmented, moved into several directories. Sometimes the only way I can make sense of them is by using linuxconf and the other setup tools, which I don't like.
And maintainance, well, that's a story in itself. The couple of times I used the up2date were a nightmare. The first time it installed amanda, and that thing filled up my 400Mb / partition to the brim before I figured out what was going on, and I managed to clean up the mess. The second time, many apps (including X) got broken. I suppose it works just fine with standard instalations, but with modified ones, it just doesn't. So I gave up on up2date. But there are so many packages that I don't know what they do exactly, that it's impossible to update them all manually.
I'm not pretending to be a great RedHat admin. But I have been using that distro for 5 years, and I'm becoming lost. This is not happening to me with Slackware or gentoo (my other 2 distros) or with OpenBSD. While I'm getting much, much better in these other ones, I feel I'm getting worse in RH.
I would really appreciate any ideeas, any help I can get with this problem. Maybe I'm doing it all wrong, but it feels that RH is getting far too complex to run. Is it just me, or does anyone else share this feeling?