oh no... you evil person! You just made me have memories of all those products they made with Peter Norton standing on every freaking product cover they made... aaarghhhh
ah reminds me of those good old days when I had a matrix printer. sure they made a lot of noise, but it was pretty quick with printing out hunderds of pages with huge source code listings. and you didn't have to worry that much about running out of paper.
I'm not a huge starwars fan, but I can agree with you on this... Especially with the spaceships: no matter how cool the computer graphics are in the new episodes, most of those completely rendered ships just look too "perfect". They looked so much more "realistic" in the older episodes...
It was even mentioned on dutch radio news, as it is reported through the central press agency (ANP)... it's weird to hear about "the firefox internet browser" on my radio:)
I don't see why they would need to release the source for their player. They probably should release any modifications they did to the kernel, but AFAIK they don't have to release any apps they make run on Linux. It's not like every company who makes commercial software which runs on Linux is obliged to release the source (would be great if they did though)
I think this PR campaign has very bad timing... I have been using Firefox for a long time now on OSX without much trouble, but the latest OSX release is extremely unstable; it crashes very often (I almost *never* had any crashes with previous versions). I only hope the current release of the windows version doesn't have the same troubles.
I think NTFS is probably read-only so you can't fix it directly. But in case you weren't smart enough to keep backups around, you can use Knoppix to backup your files over the network. I did the same thing for a friend who couldn't boot up her XP installation anymore after Norton Antivirus "cleaned" a bit too much (even safe mode didn't work). But I ended up copying the data to an external firewire disk 'cause the network (which Knoppix didn't have any problems to detect) was too slow.
well, since it's GPL... wouldn't it be funny if the community decides to fork the opensourced code to include their own version of caching and clustering.
I worked a lot with resin at my previous job and the caching is pretty good & useful.
I don't think Tomcat does much caching... only caching of jsp compiled code, but I having a jsp engine which doesn't do that is unworkable.
Now that I think of it, if I remember correctly, the resin source was always available. Maybe it's just that they changed the license of it...
well, it would be quite frustrating if your download directory is your Desktop, homedirectory or any other place where you keep other files too. not to mention all the pron you have to download again:-) j/k
is this what you're looking for? http://www.videolan.org/
The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux...
VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License. It started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.
More information about the VideoLAN streaming solution be found in the streaming section.
Sometimes it is almost as if antivirus companies hire people to write all those "proof of concept" virusses, just to make sure that they don't loose any marketshare and they have another good reason to have their spread through press releases...
actually, in the netherlands they daily send batches with sales/stock/employee information through FTP... it's DOS based stuff running under windows where I saw it... I have no idea if they use the same system in Germany as it seems to be made/supported by a dutch company.
I'm hositing a website for a Janet Jackon fanclub... I had to take it down for a few days after sunday since every person on this world started to query search engines to find "janet jackson superbowl". Suddenly it's not that great anymore if you have a high ranking on google and other search engines... ohwell... since sunday we've probably become a "adult oriented" site anyway (the way americans see it). I'm even starting to get personal mails from people offering me free adult hosting:)
telnetting to a server over the internet (back then, ssh was only commercially available) I decided I need to change the settings for a network device. So I typed "ifconfig eth0 down"... It took me a few seconds before I reliazed what I did:) Luckily the datacenter was close so I could take my bike to go there.
sometimes it's very handy that people keep their wireless networks open. a few weeks ago we moved into a new office, and of course the phone company was too late with fixing our ADSL connection. So instead of losing two days of work, we could "borrow" the connection from two wireless networks to choose from. One was DHCP and the other I had to sniff the network to find out which IP address I could use:)
...to write a worm to kill all those open relay sendmail installations around the world which are still being abused by spammers... there's probably no admin around to upgrade them anyway since they never bothered to fix the open relay.:-)
since I own an ibook with an ipod as companion I buy more new albums than I used to... as soon as I bought a new album I rip it to mp3 and put it on my ipod... it's a blessing that a lot of new music nowadays is so crappy or else I'd be broke;) maybe once in a month I download an mp3 from the new because I heard a song on the radio which I liked so I decide to check if that artist has any albums worth purchasing...
I think the best cdrom players are still those who are not faster than 12x or 10x... anything faster than that is a pain to work with; they make a lot of noise, and need too much time to spin up and down...
also, one time I had a (official) Windows NT CD which has a small crack in it... after putting it in a 40x or so drive, it exploded into hundreds of pieces... no kidding!
first of all a disclaimer, I've been a proud xs4all user for many years now so I'm a little biased;)
anyway in can understand that some people may see this as an ISP trying getting censorship power this way... but if you now enough about what XS4ALL stands for, you will know that is absolutely NOT their intention... XS4ALL is by far one of the most cyberrights-aware (if that's a word:) ) ISP's I know... trust me on this, applying censorship is the last thing they want to do...
I run Gimp on my OSX iBook... even though I can imagine some of the graphics professionals need certain things from Photoshop... as I use it for my hobby work, Gimp is more than enough... and even better at some points... plus I don't feel like cashing in the $$$ for photoshop and I want to keep my ibook clean of warez... It's too bad I have to run Gimp on XDarwin/Xfree86, as the screenrefresh is a bit slow on a ibook... it would be cool to have a native OSX version of Gimp though...
Once upon a time I noticed that I always have too many windows open and spend too much time finding one of the many xterm's and netscape windows I open at the same time... The first solution for me when was when Powershell arrived, which was I think one of the first xterm apps to allow tabbed shells into a single window... Later kde's xterm started to support this as well (though I don't use KDE so I don't fancy getting the extra bloat that comes with it)...
Later I found ion's sister windowmanager called 'pwm' which does the same thing of all windows and can automatically stick windows from the same app into one single window... ie if you open a new Netscape window, you can have it automatically stick to all the other netscape windows you have opened... it only sucks with popup windows on sites as they will be opened at full size but then you never ask for them anyway...
tabbed windows are a great solution IMHO as I never found any quicker way to navigate the many windows I open at the same time...
this book has been released back in 1998 (which is centuries ago in Internet time:) ) and currently there's a lot of more choices when it comes to mailinglistsoftware...and not to forget the important technologies used (ldap directories, databases) it's kinda weird to review it now.
maybe it's time for O'reilly to make a 2nd edition though...
of the good old days when commercial pc games were "protected" by putting bad sectors on the diskettes (yes when they still fitted on a few disks and were twice as fun as modern games)... to prevent regular diskcopy to work... of course it didn't take long before we had programs that were able to copy the bad sectors too:-)
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oh no... you evil person!
You just made me have memories of all those products they made with Peter Norton standing on every freaking product cover they made... aaarghhhh
ah reminds me of those good old days when I had a matrix printer. sure they made a lot of noise, but it was pretty quick with printing out hunderds of pages with huge source code listings. and you didn't have to worry that much about running out of paper.
I'm not a huge starwars fan, but I can agree with you on this... Especially with the spaceships: no matter how cool the computer graphics are in the new episodes, most of those completely rendered ships just look too "perfect". They looked so much more "realistic" in the older episodes...
Ricardo.
It was even mentioned on dutch radio news, as it is reported through the central press agency (ANP)... it's weird to hear about "the firefox internet browser" on my radio :)
www.monkeysforkerry.org ?
sorry, couldn't resist...
I don't see why they would need to release the source for their player.
They probably should release any modifications they did to the kernel, but AFAIK they don't have to release any apps they make run on Linux. It's not like every company who makes commercial software which runs on Linux is obliged to release the source (would be great if they did though)
Ricardo.
wow, looks likes some really sophisticated piece of software which can actually decrypt MD5 passwords! ;-)
Ricardo.I think this PR campaign has very bad timing...
I have been using Firefox for a long time now on OSX without much trouble, but the latest OSX release is extremely unstable; it crashes very often (I almost *never* had any crashes with previous versions). I only hope the current release of the windows version doesn't have the same troubles.
Ricardo.
I think NTFS is probably read-only so you can't fix it directly. But in case you weren't smart enough to keep backups around, you can use Knoppix to backup your files over the network. I did the same thing for a friend who couldn't boot up her XP installation anymore after Norton Antivirus "cleaned" a bit too much (even safe mode didn't work). But I ended up copying the data to an external firewire disk 'cause the network (which Knoppix didn't have any problems to detect) was too slow.
Go Linux/Knoppix!
Ricardo.
well, since it's GPL... wouldn't it be funny if the community decides to fork the opensourced code to include their own version of caching and clustering.
I worked a lot with resin at my previous job and the caching is pretty good & useful.
I don't think Tomcat does much caching... only caching of jsp compiled code, but I having a jsp engine which doesn't do that is unworkable.
Now that I think of it, if I remember correctly, the resin source was always available. Maybe it's just that they changed the license of it...
Ricardo.
well, it would be quite frustrating if your download directory is your Desktop, homedirectory or any other place where you keep other files too.
not to mention all the pron you have to download again
Ricardo.
is this what you're looking for?
http://www.videolan.org/
The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux...
VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License. It started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.
More information about the VideoLAN streaming solution be found in the streaming section.
Sometimes it is almost as if antivirus companies hire people to write all those "proof of concept" virusses, just to make sure that they don't loose any marketshare and they have another good reason to have their spread through press releases...
Ricardo.
actually, in the netherlands they daily send batches with sales/stock/employee information through FTP...
it's DOS based stuff running under windows where I saw it...
I have no idea if they use the same system in Germany as it seems to be made/supported by a dutch company.
Ricardo.
I'm hositing a website for a Janet Jackon fanclub... I had to take it down for a few days after sunday since every person on this world started to query search engines to find "janet jackson superbowl". :)
Suddenly it's not that great anymore if you have a high ranking on google and other search engines...
ohwell... since sunday we've probably become a "adult oriented" site anyway (the way americans see it). I'm even starting to get personal mails from people offering me free adult hosting
Ricardo.
telnetting to a server over the internet (back then, ssh was only commercially available) I decided I need to change the settings for a network device. So I typed "ifconfig eth0 down"... It took me a few seconds before I reliazed what I did
sometimes it's very handy that people keep their wireless networks open. :)
a few weeks ago we moved into a new office, and of course the phone company was too late with fixing our ADSL connection. So instead of losing two days of work, we could "borrow" the connection from two wireless networks to choose from. One was DHCP and the other I had to sniff the network to find out which IP address I could use
Ricardo.
Ricardo.
since I own an ibook with an ipod as companion I buy more new albums than I used to... as soon as I bought a new album I rip it to mp3 and put it on my ipod...
it's a blessing that a lot of new music nowadays is so crappy or else I'd be broke
maybe once in a month I download an mp3 from the new because I heard a song on the radio which I liked so I decide to check if that artist has any albums worth purchasing...
Ricardo.
I think the best cdrom players are still those who are not faster than 12x or 10x... anything faster than that is a pain to work with; they make a lot of noise, and need too much time to spin up and down...
also, one time I had a (official) Windows NT CD which has a small crack in it... after putting it in a 40x or so drive, it exploded into hundreds of pieces... no kidding!
Ricardo.
first of all a disclaimer, I've been a proud xs4all user for many years now so I'm a little biased ;)
:) ) ISP's I know... trust me on this, applying censorship is the last thing they want to do...
anyway in can understand that some people may see this as an ISP trying getting censorship power this way... but if you now enough about what XS4ALL stands for, you will know that is absolutely NOT their intention... XS4ALL is by far one of the most cyberrights-aware (if that's a word
Ricardo.
I run Gimp on my OSX iBook... even though I can imagine some of the graphics professionals need certain things from Photoshop... as I use it for my hobby work, Gimp is more than enough... and even better at some points... plus I don't feel like cashing in the $$$ for photoshop and I want to keep my ibook clean of warez...
It's too bad I have to run Gimp on XDarwin/Xfree86, as the screenrefresh is a bit slow on a ibook...
it would be cool to have a native OSX version of Gimp though...
Once upon a time I noticed that I always have too many windows open and spend too much time finding one of the many xterm's and netscape windows I open at the same time... The first solution for me when was when Powershell arrived, which was I think one of the first xterm apps to allow tabbed shells into a single window... Later kde's xterm started to support this as well (though I don't use KDE so I don't fancy getting the extra bloat that comes with it)...
Later I found ion's sister windowmanager called 'pwm' which does the same thing of all windows and can automatically stick windows from the same app into one single window... ie if you open a new Netscape window, you can have it automatically stick to all the other netscape windows you have opened... it only sucks with popup windows on sites as they will be opened at full size but then you never ask for them anyway...
tabbed windows are a great solution IMHO as I never found any quicker way to navigate the many windows I open at the same time...
this book has been released back in 1998 (which is centuries ago in Internet time
maybe it's time for O'reilly to make a 2nd edition though...
Ricardo.
of the good old days when commercial pc games were "protected" by putting bad sectors on the diskettes (yes when they still fitted on a few disks and were twice as fun as modern games)