Shareware DEAD? WHAT?!? Some of us are using it more and more.
I know after years of not having any money, and using shareware for free, I LOVE that I can afford to pay people who make shareware, and support independent software.
emusic.com is a great site for fully legal unlocked standard MP3 files. Check out their JAZZ and WORLD sections, especially!
etree.org for a directory huge lossless (true CD quality) legal audio files from FTP sites. Mostly live shows. HUGE files will fill up your space fast.
mp3.com for downloads-a-plenty. All put up there by the musicians, who want you to download them!
Emusic gets my best vote here, because their CDs have a one-click to download all songs on a CD. You can go add say 50 albums to your queue with 50 clicks each night before bed, and fill up your collection pretty fast. (non-windows people use zinf for this one-click capability.)
I'm sure there are many of us on Slashdot who have been kinda thinking about getting one of these PVRs, but don't know which is better: TiVo, ReplayTV, or the others.
Can a good Slashdot nerd who's researched the pros and cons of each give the rest of us a good intelligent recommendation? (Or at least point to a good URL you've found elsewhere?)
Sorry - I agree. But the musicians themselves set the price of their CD. I recommend $10, but they often sell for $15 anyway. I DO try to convince them, though!
10 Reasons you should check out CD Baby
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We carry 30,000 CDs from independent artists that are not affiliated with the RIAA. (Meaning: you can boycott the RIAA and still buy damn good music.)
We only work directly with the musicians, not distributors or labels. So we pay the artists every week. Unlike buying the majors, your money spent on CDs goes directly to the artists.
We actually listened to every one of those 30,000 CDs before selling them, and can tell you which ones we highly recommend, here: http://www.cdbaby.com/picks. (It's somebody's full-time job, listening to 75 new albums a day, writing internal reviews, and linking up to other albums in the store, for the last 5 years.)
The world's most complete list of music CDs that can't be copied or played on computers and many other electronics equipment, is at Fat Chuck's Corrupt CDs list.
Please also post any new corrupt or DRM CDs you find on that complete list, there.
www.openbsd.org and the main OpenBSD ftp site are hosted at a SunSITE at the University of Alberta, Canada. These sites are hosted on a large Sun system, which has access to lots of storage space and Internet bandwidth. The presence of the SunSITE gives the OpenBSD group access to this bandwidth. This is why the main site runs here. Many of the OpenBSD mirror sites run OpenBSD, but since they do not have guaranteed access to this large amount of bandwidth, the group has chosen to run the main site at the University of Alberta SunSITE.
Opera Software today continued its Linux Bonanza Week with a public release of Opera 6.02 for Linux. The new version includes important fixes to the document and user interface, with special emphasis on the display of Asian characters, making this an important upgrade for Linux users all over the world.
In China, the government has moved to install the open-source Linux operating system provided by Red Flag in an attempt to avoid reliance on U.S. companies, particularly Microsoft. The successful RedFlag formula will now be replicated in the embedded market.
"After dominating the Chinese desktop market, RedFlag is now poised to move into the embeddded market," says Danny Huang, geveral manager embedded products, Redflag Software Technologies Co., Ltd. "With Opera on board as a partner, RedFlag now offers the very best in embedded systems solutions for the Chinese market."
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I know after years of not having any money, and using shareware for free, I LOVE that I can afford to pay people who make shareware, and support independent software.
Recent shareware fees paid:
- 10 licenses of the Opera web browser
- A ton of Chank's fonts
- Limewire
- UltraEdit
Plus PayPal tip-jars to the great Quanta, MusicBrainz, and even websites like Ryze.Whenever I need a program/tool, the first places I look are TinyApps (very small software for Windows), and Tucows.
I sure HOPE it's not just me that's out there doing what I can to support the independent shareware programmers!
Released yesterday: http://www.openssl.org
Maybe M as in 1000 as in Roman numerals, like OS X.
Anyone know how can they say that a CPU chip will help wireless technology?
Isn't that up to the operating system and wireless ethernet card?
etree.org for a directory huge lossless (true CD quality) legal audio files from FTP sites. Mostly live shows. HUGE files will fill up your space fast.
mp3.com for downloads-a-plenty. All put up there by the musicians, who want you to download them!
Emusic gets my best vote here, because their CDs have a one-click to download all songs on a CD. You can go add say 50 albums to your queue with 50 clicks each night before bed, and fill up your collection pretty fast. (non-windows people use zinf for this one-click capability.)
Very handy for cut-and-pasting long chunks of code without having to retype it while reading the page.
Here's the link to read PHP and MySQL Web Development as reviewed here.
VERY interesting read! I wonder why that chapter wasn't included in the book? Seems informative.
Wait - is this for real? Can anyone else confirm this?
I know we all get pretty sarcastic about this kind of thing, so it's hard to tell when someone's serious. Please post back, if you know.
Well then shoppa... tell us how you did it! The point is not to brag, but to help show others what you've learned in tuning your own box.
I'm sure there are many of us on Slashdot who have been kinda thinking about getting one of these PVRs, but don't know which is better: TiVo, ReplayTV, or the others.
Can a good Slashdot nerd who's researched the pros and cons of each give the rest of us a good intelligent recommendation? (Or at least point to a good URL you've found elsewhere?)
Thanks!
Sorry - I agree. But the musicians themselves set the price of their CD. I recommend $10, but they often sell for $15 anyway. I DO try to convince them, though!
10 Reasons You Should Check Out CD Baby:
They're all listed at Fat Chuck's List of Corrupt CDs.
Please also post any new corrupt or DRM CDs you find on that complete list, there.
(While you're at it, boycott the RIAA by buying independent CDs, instead!)
Theo has been a role model to us all, in that regard!
Ooof! Don't I know it! Yeah I missed that part of the IUMA EULA once.
But now my son Iuma is 2 years old and doesn't seem to mind it so much.
RTFFAQ:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#wwwsolaris
8.18 - Why does www.openbsd.org run on Solaris?
www.openbsd.org and the main OpenBSD ftp site are hosted at a SunSITE at the University of Alberta, Canada. These sites are hosted on a large Sun system, which has access to lots of storage space and Internet bandwidth. The presence of the SunSITE gives the OpenBSD group access to this bandwidth. This is why the main site runs here. Many of the OpenBSD mirror sites run OpenBSD, but since they do not have guaranteed access to this large amount of bandwidth, the group has chosen to run the main site at the University of Alberta SunSITE.
EMusic, for that same price, lets you download fully unlocked standard MP3 files.
$9.95 a month gets you unlimited downloads - not an additional 99 cents per song. You can burn 'em and do anything you want with 'em.
Emusic a very underrated site, now that their big-advertising VC stuff has gone. Really wonderful. (NO I'm not affiliated.)
Another good link about it: conchrepublic.com
First read the story of how the residents of the Florida Keys did this in 1982, and created the Conch Republic!
That's a much nicer place to secede from the union.
:-)
Plus the owner of CD Baby is a fellow programmer addicted to Slashdot under his alias "linuxbaby".
:-)
Did anyone find the link to download Lycoris for free?
Or is it really paid-only?
I would just put a title at the top of it saying:
"Why to use apt-get:"
Don't overlook the last sentence of the story - that Labrie has since left the company.
:-)
Could someone possibly go on to "bigger and better" things after that?
Opera Software today continued its Linux Bonanza Week with a public release of Opera 6.02 for Linux. The new version includes important fixes to the document and user interface, with special emphasis on the display of Asian characters, making this an important upgrade for Linux users all over the world.
More at: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/07/2002 0703_2.html
and...
Opera waves the red flag in China
In China, the government has moved to install the open-source Linux operating system provided by Red Flag in an attempt to avoid reliance on U.S. companies, particularly Microsoft. The successful RedFlag formula will now be replicated in the embedded market.
"After dominating the Chinese desktop market, RedFlag is now poised to move into the embeddded market," says Danny Huang, geveral manager embedded products, Redflag Software Technologies Co., Ltd. "With Opera on board as a partner, RedFlag now offers the very best in embedded systems solutions for the Chinese market."
Press release here: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/07/2002 0701_2.html