So use Mozilla brand NS6 instead of Netscape brand NS6. Mozilla 0.8 is already several proverbial kilometers ahead of NS4 in terms of HTML/CSS/DOM standards conformance and stability.
You have to use.SWFs or.SVGs to show animation. Don't watch the cartoons, eh?
On wb.com or disney.com, if they use Flash to show animated content, that's OK because I surfed in explicitly to view animated content. But if Flash is used for navigation or advertising (shock the monkey anyone?), it gets annoying real fast.
Sometimes content must be updated without reloading, many applications require real time data streaming.
Granted. But I've also seen Java used to annoy and advertise (shock the monkey anyone?). Even then, stock tickers can be done with an autorefreshing <iframe>.
Point: Don't annoy. Oh, and to your other comment:
The web is more than a World Wide Reference Section.
Have you looked at the parallel web that is Everything? It's a bulletin board that has both factual content and humor, and it's all text (except the ASCII art).
Granted, some sites (corbis.com, artchive.com, etc.) actually provide images as their content, but bullet GIFs instead of <li> and transparent spacer GIFs instead of CSS positioning doesn't look very "content" to me.
Last time I looked, there wasn't an NS6 that had email and newsgroups built-in. If I was up to NS6, I'd have to put up with more Netscape commercialism, and I'd have been exposed to some security problems that didn't hit 4.76.
Have you looked at Mozilla 0.8 (NS6 without the commercialism and with more bugfixes) yet?
But with a 4+ year old computer and only 128 MB
(I wish I could fit that much RAM in my 4+ year old computer.) Mozilla 0.8 should work just fine for you.
The original goal of Web and HTML was to be platform neutral - now I'm being told that I need one of the approved browsers in order to sites.
The point wasn't to reject all browsers but a select few. The point was to reject a few bad browsers (read IE 4 for Windows and Netscape 4.x) that are known not to conform to standards, known not to degrade gracefully when presented with content they don't recognize, known not to be accessible to the physically challenged, and known not to be fixable by the community.
I use conforming HTML 4 on my own pages and see no reason why I should have to support user agents that don't handle conforming HTML in a "nice" way.
If you're running Netscape 4, upgrade to Mozilla 0.8. Now.
You could (and should) have used a server-side dynamic page that looked at the User-Agent: request header and 302'ed to (or, better yet, displayed) the correct content.
Many professionals have their pages hosted on a free service (such as GeoCities, XOOM, FortuneCity, Freeservers, or the like) that does not permit CGI access "for security purposes." Do you know how much mod_perlcosts per month?
Frankly, I don't *want* massive Java/Flash/DXQRCIHTML/XML/super-special effects-enabled web sites. I just want the damn content. Text, and the ability to display PNG and JPG graphics. That's really all I need or want.
Then compile Galeon on your machine and don't install any heavy plugins.
But I don't see what the problem here really is at the top end: just generate your pages from a database and stick the content into a template for the browser/platform in question. What's the big deal?
Until recently, any org that primarily provided education could get a.edu. However, the.edu domain is now restricted to American not-for-profits that provide a bachelor's degree. All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Isn't everyone always saying how napster can provide a legitimate service to swap non-commercial MP3's?
If you want people to hear your non-commercial MP3s, get hosted. I helped my brother's metal band get on MP3.com. The high-powered MP3.com servers and connection are much more reliable than the 56K modem of some Napster user in Zimbabwe.
It is shocking that a corporation would invent something and then turn right around and patent it!
It's only shocking because Rambus agreed not to file patents on any of the SDRAM technology, but while the standard was being made, Rambus amended an existing patent application to include new claims that covered SDRAM.
...when I run a wire from my sound card's digital out to the digital in and hit record?
You'll get nothing useful. The Secure Audio Path (available in Windows ME and Windows XP) won't play through unsigned drivers, signed drivers turn off digital outputs when Secure Audio Path is open, and some labels may require Secure Audio Path for playback. You'll have to use analog, but with a good setup, analog doesn't suck as much as the sheeple think it does.
Only 47,000 variations on this track, and 2.5 million songs to go.
I guess you've never heard of Soundex hashing. (Of course, PayNapster would use something more advanced, but this illustrates the point.) It would also have the side effect of keeping illegal (under US "derivative work" copyright law) cover songs off PayNapster.
The reason the RIAA has been able to go after Napster, is because of the centralized root servers. Why not just move those servers out of the RIAA's reach?
Even worse, if I want to be the 500th person to make their own recording of "Yesterday" by McCartney and distribute it via Napster I guess I'm screwed too.
Except this time it's by the publishers not the labels. Composers' and performers' rights organizations such as ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI in the US (along with a host of organizations in other countries) control cover rights, as a cover can be considered a "derivative work" and/or a "public performance" of a copyrighted work, and there is no longer a public domain to speak of.
What about FRESH? That would be a more precise name:
F ree (it's free software)
R emote (remote login is its main purpose)
E ncrypted (truth in advertising; encryption doesn't in and of itself provide security)
SH ell
Windows XP will itself destroy protected audio and video files that do not "authenticate" with the sound and/or video cards.
It doesn't delete them; it simply refuses to play them through any driver that isn't signed by Microsoft. To be signed, the driver must disable all digital outputs (such as waveOut to waveIn (What-U-Hear), writing to file, and connectors on the card) when the Secure Audio Path is open.
if you received 100 replies you could automatically halt querying to see if they would suffice.
Sorry, I realized that as soon as I hit submit.
A DSL line can handle over a thousand a second. This shouldn't be a problem, and again, this is all configurable and adaptable. You get to make the rules.
But a good dial-up connection runs at only 50 kilobit/s. Are you saying that users who want to use ALPINE should pack up and move to an area where DSL is available?
This is not intended to be the be-all-end-all of peer searching. It is simply a usable completely decentralized searching network... I can think of quite a few better ways to get certain things
Not to put down the ALPINE system, but I'm beginning to think a completely decentralized approach just won't work for dial-up users.
split the search tasks up into hierarchies. you search for N inside a given range. if the result can't get found within that range, you propogate the request of the tree
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I've tried to upgrade to Netscape 6.0
So use Mozilla brand NS6 instead of Netscape brand NS6. Mozilla 0.8 is already several proverbial kilometers ahead of NS4 in terms of HTML/CSS/DOM standards conformance and stability.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
You have to use .SWFs or .SVGs to show animation. Don't watch the cartoons, eh?
On wb.com or disney.com, if they use Flash to show animated content, that's OK because I surfed in explicitly to view animated content. But if Flash is used for navigation or advertising (shock the monkey anyone?), it gets annoying real fast.
Sometimes content must be updated without reloading, many applications require real time data streaming.
Granted. But I've also seen Java used to annoy and advertise (shock the monkey anyone?). Even then, stock tickers can be done with an autorefreshing <iframe>.
Point: Don't annoy. Oh, and to your other comment:
The web is more than a World Wide Reference Section.
Have you looked at the parallel web that is Everything? It's a bulletin board that has both factual content and humor, and it's all text (except the ASCII art).
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Images ARE content
Granted, some sites (corbis.com, artchive.com, etc.) actually provide images as their content, but bullet GIFs instead of <li> and transparent spacer GIFs instead of CSS positioning doesn't look very "content" to me.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Frankly, any site I hit with "aural" content gets bypassed immediately
Even MP3.com?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Why not install it on the server level so that it forwards using more standard, lower-level methods
Installing any dynamic content on a server costs a hefty chunk of change when upgrading from free hosting (Geo/Tripod/8m/Xoom).
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Last time I looked, there wasn't an NS6 that had email and newsgroups built-in. If I was up to NS6, I'd have to put up with more Netscape commercialism, and I'd have been exposed to some security problems that didn't hit 4.76.
Have you looked at Mozilla 0.8 (NS6 without the commercialism and with more bugfixes) yet?
But with a 4+ year old computer and only 128 MB
(I wish I could fit that much RAM in my 4+ year old computer.) Mozilla 0.8 should work just fine for you.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
The original goal of Web and HTML was to be platform neutral - now I'm being told that I need one of the approved browsers in order to sites.
The point wasn't to reject all browsers but a select few. The point was to reject a few bad browsers (read IE 4 for Windows and Netscape 4.x) that are known not to conform to standards, known not to degrade gracefully when presented with content they don't recognize, known not to be accessible to the physically challenged, and known not to be fixable by the community.
I use conforming HTML 4 on my own pages and see no reason why I should have to support user agents that don't handle conforming HTML in a "nice" way.
If you're running Netscape 4, upgrade to Mozilla 0.8. Now.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
You could (and should) have used a server-side dynamic page that looked at the User-Agent: request header and 302'ed to (or, better yet, displayed) the correct content.
Many professionals have their pages hosted on a free service (such as GeoCities, XOOM, FortuneCity, Freeservers, or the like) that does not permit CGI access "for security purposes." Do you know how much mod_perl costs per month?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Frankly, I don't *want* massive Java/Flash/DXQRCIHTML/XML/super-special effects-enabled web sites. I just want the damn content. Text, and the ability to display PNG and JPG graphics. That's really all I need or want.
Then compile Galeon on your machine and don't install any heavy plugins.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
But I don't see what the problem here really is at the top end: just generate your pages from a database and stick the content into a template for the browser/platform in question. What's the big deal?
I know of a good system to do this: the Everything engine (which powers the world's largest online encyclopedia). But what about people whose content is hosted on Freeservers, GeoCities, and XOOM, hosts whose security policies do not permit server-side dynamic page generation?
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Until recently, any org that primarily provided education could get a .edu. However, the .edu domain is now restricted to American not-for-profits that provide a bachelor's degree.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Isn't everyone always saying how napster can provide a legitimate service to swap non-commercial MP3's?
If you want people to hear your non-commercial MP3s, get hosted. I helped my brother's metal band get on MP3.com. The high-powered MP3.com servers and connection are much more reliable than the 56K modem of some Napster user in Zimbabwe.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
It is shocking that a corporation would invent something and then turn right around and patent it!
It's only shocking because Rambus agreed not to file patents on any of the SDRAM technology, but while the standard was being made, Rambus amended an existing patent application to include new claims that covered SDRAM.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
You'll get nothing useful. The Secure Audio Path (available in Windows ME and Windows XP) won't play through unsigned drivers, signed drivers turn off digital outputs when Secure Audio Path is open, and some labels may require Secure Audio Path for playback. You'll have to use analog, but with a good setup, analog doesn't suck as much as the sheeple think it does.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
NI started out on TVT Records, and TVT's partnering with Napster. There's a TVT logo on halo 2 (pretty hate machine).
Record labels' promises of fame and fortune are a nine inch nails - terrible lie.mp3All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Only 47,000 variations on this track, and 2.5 million songs to go.
I guess you've never heard of Soundex hashing. (Of course, PayNapster would use something more advanced, but this illustrates the point.) It would also have the side effect of keeping illegal (under US "derivative work" copyright law) cover songs off PayNapster.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
The reason the RIAA has been able to go after Napster, is because of the centralized root servers. Why not just move those servers out of the RIAA's reach?
They already have.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Even worse, if I want to be the 500th person to make their own recording of "Yesterday" by McCartney and distribute it via Napster I guess I'm screwed too.
Except this time it's by the publishers not the labels. Composers' and performers' rights organizations such as ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI in the US (along with a host of organizations in other countries) control cover rights, as a cover can be considered a "derivative work" and/or a "public performance" of a copyrighted work, and there is no longer a public domain to speak of.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
and we make a song called Metallica
Except many modern acts (Billy Joel, *NSYNC, etc.) are trademarking their names.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
most of your "rights" don't mature until you're 18
But if even 10% of the high school seniors in the district sign the petition, that's a lot of names.
you'll get the equivalent of "those kids are so cute"
Human children are not cute. Eloi children (depicted in Precious Moments drawings and figurines) are.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
clients besides the official one, and older napster official clients, will no longer work
on the official servers. But there are other Napster-compatible directory servers that run OpenNap.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Encrypted SHell
What about FRESH? That would be a more precise name:
F ree (it's free software)
R emote (remote login is its main purpose)
E ncrypted (truth in advertising; encryption doesn't in and of itself provide security)
SH ell
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Windows XP will itself destroy protected audio and video files that do not "authenticate" with the sound and/or video cards.
It doesn't delete them; it simply refuses to play them through any driver that isn't signed by Microsoft. To be signed, the driver must disable all digital outputs (such as waveOut to waveIn (What-U-Hear), writing to file, and connectors on the card) when the Secure Audio Path is open.
I never did upgrade to 2000
Lucky you. My box came bundled with Windows ME.
Get XP at Everything2.comAll your hallucinogen are belong to us.
if you received 100 replies you could automatically halt querying to see if they would suffice.
Sorry, I realized that as soon as I hit submit.
A DSL line can handle over a thousand a second. This shouldn't be a problem, and again, this is all configurable and adaptable. You get to make the rules.
But a good dial-up connection runs at only 50 kilobit/s. Are you saying that users who want to use ALPINE should pack up and move to an area where DSL is available?
This is not intended to be the be-all-end-all of peer searching. It is simply a usable completely decentralized searching network ... I can think of quite a few better ways to get certain things
Not to put down the ALPINE system, but I'm beginning to think a completely decentralized approach just won't work for dial-up users.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
split the search tasks up into hierarchies. you search for N inside a given range. if the result can't get found within that range, you propogate the request of the tree
Which is exactly how Napster works. And look what happened to the company that hosts the biggest nap network.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.