I thought it was dumb first too - like, duh, it better handle that - but after looking into it it seems that it will only deal with POP and IMAP for incoming, and SMTP for outgoing.
I suggest you look into using Evolution instead, which can work with POP, IMAP, Novell GroupWise, Local delivery, MH-format maildirs, maildir-format maildirs and the standard UNIX mbox spool for incoming mail and SMTP, Sendmail or GroupWise for outgoing mail.
It really is a very very nice email client, I can assure you that.
About as effective as today's PDAs, minus the audio/video stuff, and some glitz. Oh, and less space. But all the apps, calendar, calculator, memos, spreadsheets, and syncing. Sometimes Internet functionality to boot.
IMHO, it must have been limited on processor power and hardware more than the software.
IMNSHO, this is a typical statement of some self-proclaimed "geek" who has written, maybe, a web application in the early 00s. If you didn't use computers ten years ago, don't babble away about how ineffective they were back then. Mmmmmkay?
If it's sensitive, it shouldn't be world readable. Ever. It shouldn't matter if you know that htttp://www.CIA.gov/secret/topsecret/locationsOfAl lAgentsInTheWorld.xls is where the file is; the server shouldn't let anyone load it.
Dude, if you think writing "htttp" with three t:s and put a space in the URL is gonna stop people from finding that document, you're pretty behind to tell you the truth.
I do wonder, however, how YOU knew the location of locationsOfAllAgentsInTheWorld.xls? That's supposed to be a secret!
I don't think bottom-quoting help with the temporal flow at all! You have to start at the bottom and guess at what people are referring to. With the top-quoted emails it is much more common to people actually breaking the quotations up and responding to the sentences/paragraphs that actually matters. At least in my circles: I guess it varies with your community.
Well, since the original poster says bottom and top posting, respectively, and you say bottom and top quoting, you both really think the same thing, which makes your entire post redundant. Start reading before you post, maybe?
Being that I live in Europe, I'd rather spend my hard earned money on building my own box for Digital TV (DVB) using this great, open-source, system: http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/
The DVB standard also includes metadata, so the EPG (electronic program guide) is broadcast together with the actual TV-stream, and it allows for easy recording, editing and storing, as well as playback of mp3, mpeg (or anything else mplayer can handle) and loads of more interesting stuff.
It will never cease to amaze me how slow and plain stupid these companies are. They had the best shot at this ever when Napster existed. They sued the pants off them. Then they had an even better chance with Audiogalaxy (IMO the best of all the music sharing communities ever, nicest solution and best "supply") and then got rid of them.
They're lucky that they got another chance with Kazaa, but what they should have done in the past was to acquire Napster or Audiogalaxy, not do anything to shut it down, but instead keep it running until they found out a nice way of making money off of it. In the meantime, they would have unlimited access to all statistics and information on which music is popular on a scale never previously imagined.
Instead, they just keep shutting them down until all networks are underground and with no central source of track listings what so ever.
I contacted all Swedish MEPs last time around, and urged a couple of my friends to do the same. I'm really glad to see that is made some difference, especially as I got a bit pessimistic seeing the stance that our Swedish Social Democratic Party took regarding this. The liberals, however, were on our side. I haven't had time to read through the whole thing, but it looks like the same conclusion that Canada came to. Go Europe!
Lots of IDEs have several different windows, stacked pretty much like MDI but without the container. Some of them "stick" to each other if I'm not mistaken. Check out Delphi/Kylix/JBuilder from Borland for instance. This is probably what GIMP should do IMO: One "menu-window" that wants to sit at the top of the screen, with much the same functionality of the current GIMP main window. The tools options window, the brush selection, layers window etc would stack under that and each other at the left and right of the screen, with the image(s) you're working on in the middle. All of this is pretty much doable right now, and improves the interface enormously. It should just be the default.
While I agree that Audiogalaxy was, by far, the best p2p system (if you were looking for mp3s, that is), this story depicts it in a pretty flattering way.
I'll take it step by step (disregarding whatever views I have about RIAA and it's business model): RIAA sells music. They have the rights to the music (this may not be entirely correct, but I'm over-simplifying. Walk with me). AG lets people share that music - that is, they help someone get the music, who have not paid for rights to it. AG is a company, who wants to make money. They charge other companies money, so they can ship programs with the Satellite. AG is now, effectively, making money off of RIAA's property, without them getting a dime.
This is not strange, people. RIAA needs to protect it's own backyard. They may, or may not, make a whole lot of money, but they can't just stand beside and watch this.
Now, I agree that RIAA's (or rather, the companies whose interests they protect) business model is flawed, outdated and unfair. Unfair to both the artists, who create what RIAA sells, and the consumers who buy what the artists create. Compare RIAA to an estate agent. They take, what, 10% from the seller? RIAA takes more like 90%, leaving the artist with the crumbs. They can do this because no one else is providing the artist with an advance, with studio time, engineers, directors, etc. But all of this costs, and guess who's paying the bill? The artist, that's who. So a record company is more like a mix of an agent and a bank, with really, REALLY high interest charge.
All of this is about to change, fortunately - and it's not gonna be because companies like Napster, Audiogalaxy and Kazaa tries to make money off of anyone elses back. It's because, finally, some of the artists are staring to wake up, and smell the coffee. I'm not talking about "Really Small Garage Band" or "Joe Troubadour" here either, but BIG artists like Courtney Love, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Bono and Bruce Springsteen. Rapper Mos Def recently likened his deal with MCA to slavery (he ended up in that deal when MCA bought Rawkus), Michael Jackson claims the Big Five record companies are treating everyone bad, and black artists even worse, Courtney Love sewed Universal, claiming that record deals are unfair. Things are really about to happen, and when they do, we will see different distribution channels, new means of running radio stations, music television networks, concert promotions, everything.
One more thing though - one of RIAA's biggest concerns with Audiogalaxy, I think, was not that everyone and their brother was getting the new Britney track for free, but that new, unestablished artists saw this as a new way out. They could hire cheap studio time, get their music out there, do live performances, selling their own CDs, and become successful without the "help" of RIAA's world encompassing music monopoly. And that, my friends, scares the fsck out of them.
I see this becoming an issue when someone will be typing " web browser" in the adress bar and Microsoft redirecting them to IE (or pick your own example where microsoft decides where you will end up)
Umm... When I type "web browser" in Galeon's address bar Google gives me Opera first, IE second & third, Netscape is number four & five, Mozilla number six...
Well, this comes pretty handy regarding the post about the VDR for Linux a couple of days ago. I'm thinking of buying one to put a DVB card in and then slapping VDR onto it. That's everything in a box, and a nice looking one too. Then I can watch digital TV, regular (analog) TV, listen to mp3s, watch DVDs, anything. Pretty nice deal if you ask me!
Both the DOS box (www.wehavethewayout.com) and the FreeBSD box (198.63.57.204) have anonymous FTP open. Both of them contains a file in the root directory, called 10k.html. Both of these files are filled with the string "10k" repeated hundreds of times, ended with a </BODY> tag - the size is exactly 10000 bytes. Did they put them there just to make/. readers wonder why, or what the heck is this!?
"Yes, I like virtually all other RPM users, have been in RPM-dependency hell. This shouldn't be a problem inherent in RPM. Surely there is a way to "apt-get" RPMs and handle their dependencies just as well as with apt-get and deb?"
Yes, there is. Apt can handle rpms as aptly as debs, as shown in Connectiva's apt-rpm. The thing people always seem to forget, though, is that, while apt is a wonderful tool, it's not the (only) thing that makes installation of packages on Debian so sweet. What makes apt really, really good is the blood, sweat and tears of the Debian package maintainers, who are amazing when it comes to handling dependencies in packages. Sure, the dependencies sometimes break in testing and unstable, but on the whole it works amazingly great.
Because with a minidisc, when you want to record or playback something, the rate is terribly slow. It takes 4 minutes to record a 4 minute song. This is ok if you're at a Dylan concert, but not if you want to record the latest Dylan album from your mp3 collection.
Likewise, when you want to transfer your Dylan recording to your computer, it takes as long as the Dylan concert.
Archos Jukebox Recorder seems like a much more rofessional gadget to me, with a 6 GB disk and the ability to record at 160 kbps.
I'm planning on getting one RSN.
Dare Obasanjo, who wrote this (great!) interview, has already had it published here on Slashdot a couple of months ago: lookie here!
So, it's already two months old, and it needs to be published on the microserfs' version of Slashdot before we read it!?
Oh well, Dare, it was a good piece anyhow!
Here in Sweden, I have a static IP with DSL, 2,5 Mbps in, 0,75 Mbps out. No mail (it's available, but it's an extra charge). It comes at around $25 a month, and if you want, you can pay twice as much for twice the bitrate. In the future they will also provide more IP adresses at an extra charge.
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I thought it was dumb first too - like, duh, it better handle that - but after looking into it it seems that it will only deal with POP and IMAP for incoming, and SMTP for outgoing.
I suggest you look into using Evolution instead, which can work with POP, IMAP, Novell GroupWise, Local delivery, MH-format maildirs, maildir-format maildirs and the standard UNIX mbox spool for incoming mail and SMTP, Sendmail or GroupWise for outgoing mail.
It really is a very very nice email client, I can assure you that.
iRiver H120 (iHP-120)
Cost: $336.04
Capacity: 20 GB
Weight: 5.65 ounces
Formats: MPEG 1/2/2.5 Layer 3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, ASF, WAV
Interfaces: USB 2
Extras: Line-in, SPDIF in/out, microphone in, record as WAV or encode MP3 realtime
Battery time (MP3/WMA/ASF playback time): 16 hours
Format: 4.1x2.4x0.9 inches
Admittedly, does not look as nice as the iPod, and is a bit thicker, but the excellent inputs and outputs as well as lossless encoding does it for me.
What would a pocket pc look like in the early 90's ?
Perhaps like this: Psion PDAs from 1986-1999
Or like this: Apple Newton H1000 from 1993
Or like this: HP 95LX from 1991
How effective would it be ?
About as effective as today's PDAs, minus the audio/video stuff, and some glitz. Oh, and less space. But all the apps, calendar, calculator, memos, spreadsheets, and syncing. Sometimes Internet functionality to boot.
IMHO, it must have been limited on processor power and hardware more than the software.
IMNSHO, this is a typical statement of some self-proclaimed "geek" who has written, maybe, a web application in the early 00s. If you didn't use computers ten years ago, don't babble away about how ineffective they were back then. Mmmmmkay?
Dude, if you think writing "htttp" with three t:s and put a space in the URL is gonna stop people from finding that document, you're pretty behind to tell you the truth.
I do wonder, however, how YOU knew the location of locationsOfAllAgentsInTheWorld.xls? That's supposed to be a secret!
I don't think bottom-quoting help with the temporal flow at all! You have to start at the bottom and guess at what people are referring to. With the top-quoted emails it is much more common to people actually breaking the quotations up and responding to the sentences/paragraphs that actually matters. At least in my circles: I guess it varies with your community.
Well, since the original poster says bottom and top posting, respectively, and you say bottom and top quoting, you both really think the same thing, which makes your entire post redundant. Start reading before you post, maybe?
No, it's still not cool. There was like a meta-hype about nerdyness about 3-5 years ago or so, but it isn't cool. Nerdy is still nerdy.
With this nonsense rambling I'm sure you could get a job at Sun.
Good luck.
Being that I live in Europe, I'd rather spend my hard earned money on building my own box for Digital TV (DVB) using this great, open-source, system:
http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/
The DVB standard also includes metadata, so the EPG (electronic program guide) is broadcast together with the actual TV-stream, and it allows for easy recording, editing and storing, as well as playback of mp3, mpeg (or anything else mplayer can handle) and loads of more interesting stuff.
It will never cease to amaze me how slow and plain stupid these companies are. They had the best shot at this ever when Napster existed. They sued the pants off them. Then they had an even better chance with Audiogalaxy (IMO the best of all the music sharing communities ever, nicest solution and best "supply") and then got rid of them.
They're lucky that they got another chance with Kazaa, but what they should have done in the past was to acquire Napster or Audiogalaxy, not do anything to shut it down, but instead keep it running until they found out a nice way of making money off of it. In the meantime, they would have unlimited access to all statistics and information on which music is popular on a scale never previously imagined.
Instead, they just keep shutting them down until all networks are underground and with no central source of track listings what so ever.
I contacted all Swedish MEPs last time around, and urged a couple of my friends to do the same. I'm really glad to see that is made some difference, especially as I got a bit pessimistic seeing the stance that our Swedish Social Democratic Party took regarding this.
The liberals, however, were on our side. I haven't had time to read through the whole thing, but it looks like the same conclusion that Canada came to.
Go Europe!
"an application is delivered as one self-contained file [...] [t]his gets rid of the problem of "installation" all together."
Sure. It also gets rid of the concept of shared libraries.
Oh weird, his X Strike Force site [debian.org] is down.
No, it's not.
...at the reg: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/27561.html.
Anyways, it seems pretty clear that Intel will have to pay, which is another sad example of the poor state of the US patent system.
Lots of IDEs have several different windows, stacked pretty much like MDI but without the container. Some of them "stick" to each other if I'm not mistaken.
Check out Delphi/Kylix/JBuilder from Borland for instance.
This is probably what GIMP should do IMO: One "menu-window" that wants to sit at the top of the screen, with much the same functionality of the current GIMP main window. The tools options window, the brush selection, layers window etc would stack under that and each other at the left and right of the screen, with the image(s) you're working on in the middle.
All of this is pretty much doable right now, and improves the interface enormously. It should just be the default.
What do you mean, not listed? Am I totally misunderstanding you, or what?
Anyway, Private Media Group is listed on Nasdaq as PRVT.
While I agree that Audiogalaxy was, by far, the best p2p system (if you were looking for mp3s, that is), this story depicts it in a pretty flattering way.
I'll take it step by step (disregarding whatever views I have about RIAA and it's business model):
RIAA sells music. They have the rights to the music (this may not be entirely correct, but I'm over-simplifying. Walk with me).
AG lets people share that music - that is, they help someone get the music, who have not paid for rights to it.
AG is a company, who wants to make money. They charge other companies money, so they can ship programs with the Satellite.
AG is now, effectively, making money off of RIAA's property, without them getting a dime.
This is not strange, people. RIAA needs to protect it's own backyard. They may, or may not, make a whole lot of money, but they can't just stand beside and watch this.
Now, I agree that RIAA's (or rather, the companies whose interests they protect) business model is flawed, outdated and unfair. Unfair to both the artists, who create what RIAA sells, and the consumers who buy what the artists create.
Compare RIAA to an estate agent. They take, what, 10% from the seller? RIAA takes more like 90%, leaving the artist with the crumbs. They can do this because no one else is providing the artist with an advance, with studio time, engineers, directors, etc. But all of this costs, and guess who's paying the bill? The artist, that's who. So a record company is more like a mix of an agent and a bank, with really, REALLY high interest charge.
All of this is about to change, fortunately - and it's not gonna be because companies like Napster, Audiogalaxy and Kazaa tries to make money off of anyone elses back. It's because, finally, some of the artists are staring to wake up, and smell the coffee. I'm not talking about "Really Small Garage Band" or "Joe Troubadour" here either, but BIG artists like Courtney Love, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Bono and Bruce Springsteen.
Rapper Mos Def recently likened his deal with MCA to slavery (he ended up in that deal when MCA bought Rawkus), Michael Jackson claims the Big Five record companies are treating everyone bad, and black artists even worse, Courtney Love sewed Universal, claiming that record deals are unfair. Things are really about to happen, and when they do, we will see different distribution channels, new means of running radio stations, music television networks, concert promotions, everything.
One more thing though - one of RIAA's biggest concerns with Audiogalaxy, I think, was not that everyone and their brother was getting the new Britney track for free, but that new, unestablished artists saw this as a new way out. They could hire cheap studio time, get their music out there, do live performances, selling their own CDs, and become successful without the "help" of RIAA's world encompassing music monopoly. And that, my friends, scares the fsck out of them.
I see this becoming an issue when someone will be typing " web browser" in the adress bar and Microsoft redirecting them to IE (or pick your own example where microsoft decides where you will end up)
Umm... When I type "web browser" in Galeon's address bar Google gives me Opera first, IE second & third, Netscape is number four & five, Mozilla number six...
Well, this comes pretty handy regarding the post about the VDR for Linux a couple of days ago. I'm thinking of buying one to put a DVB card in and then slapping VDR onto it. That's everything in a box, and a nice looking one too.
Then I can watch digital TV, regular (analog) TV, listen to mp3s, watch DVDs, anything. Pretty nice deal if you ask me!
Both the DOS box (www.wehavethewayout.com) and the FreeBSD box (198.63.57.204) have anonymous FTP open. Both of them contains a file in the root directory, called 10k.html. /. readers wonder why, or what the heck is this!?
Both of these files are filled with the string "10k" repeated hundreds of times, ended with a </BODY> tag - the size is exactly 10000 bytes.
Did they put them there just to make
"Yes, I like virtually all other RPM users, have been in RPM-dependency hell. This shouldn't be a problem inherent in RPM. Surely there is a way to "apt-get" RPMs and handle their dependencies just as well as with apt-get and deb?"
Yes, there is. Apt can handle rpms as aptly as debs, as shown in Connectiva's apt-rpm. The thing people always seem to forget, though, is that, while apt is a wonderful tool, it's not the (only) thing that makes installation of packages on Debian so sweet. What makes apt really, really good is the blood, sweat and tears of the Debian package maintainers, who are amazing when it comes to handling dependencies in packages. Sure, the dependencies sometimes break in testing and unstable, but on the whole it works amazingly great.
Basically, what you want is an Archos Jukebox Recorder. Check out the new 20 GB version: http://www.archos.com/us/products/product_500277.h tml
Don't know about the cost for this one, but the 6GB one seems pretty cheap. It's not Firewire, but the new 20GB one has USB 2.0.
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Because with a minidisc, when you want to record or playback something, the rate is terribly slow. It takes 4 minutes to record a 4 minute song. This is ok if you're at a Dylan concert, but not if you want to record the latest Dylan album from your mp3 collection.
Likewise, when you want to transfer your Dylan recording to your computer, it takes as long as the Dylan concert.
Archos Jukebox Recorder seems like a much more rofessional gadget to me, with a 6 GB disk and the ability to record at 160 kbps.
I'm planning on getting one RSN.
Dare Obasanjo, who wrote this (great!) interview, has already had it published here on Slashdot a couple of months ago: lookie here!
So, it's already two months old, and it needs to be published on the microserfs' version of Slashdot before we read it!?
Oh well, Dare, it was a good piece anyhow!
Here in Sweden, I have a static IP with DSL, 2,5 Mbps in, 0,75 Mbps out. No mail (it's available, but it's an extra charge). It comes at around $25 a month, and if you want, you can pay twice as much for twice the bitrate. In the future they will also provide more IP adresses at an extra charge.