Nano can be used as a drop-in GPL replacement for pico... dunno about pine...
Unless you make a lot of use of the ctrl-j shortcut, in which case you're screwed as it doesn't support it. (Assuming that Nano hasn't changed that recently.) I tried Nano, and went scurring back to Pico as I thought Nano, quite frankly, was lacking in all the areas I use in the program it tries to emulate.
Who gives a monkeys ass what licence Pico and Pine have? It's a free program, all you masturbatory open source zealots should really get out more. The source is OPEN. YOu can do what you want with it, you just can't distribute it.
The piece is little more than a "HEY! DOWNLOAD NANO!" article. No better than spam.
I have to agree with what someone said further down. Nano is just another open source clone. How about some originality guys?
OH GOD NO! This past run through I finally decided to get my favourite episodes on tape. Stopped taping after War Without End, figuring after a massive taping spree involving most of the third season to that point, I needed a break. "I'll grab them next run through." And now I hear this. Fuck! Just glad I heard! And my wife had better not go into labour before the end of the month...
Were you born stupid, or did you have to take lessons? PS1 pretty much dead? Yeah, that's why Spiderman 2 and Tony Hawk 3 are coming out on it.
Dead? Get a clue. They have an installed userbase of several million in the US alone. Since the PS2 came out last year everyone has been proclaiming the PS1 dead. PSX.IGN.COM have said it more times than I care to remember, than have to swallow their words and say "Oh, it may be dead, but Tony Hawk 3 is coming out on it." If it was in any way shape or form dead, developers would NOT release games on it, end of story.
Nintendo going the cart route for the N64 was the biggest fucking mistake they ever made.
While they have spam protection, it's bloody useless and doesn't actually seem to work at all.
The problem is, all the free web based email services, to provide what you want would take them extra time, and since very few people want it (hell, very few people probably even realise it's possible) they'll never do it. Law of diminishing returns and all that.
Actually the BBC version they did in the early 80's. Scared the crap out of me, so much so that I never watch things like this, on the million to one shot that Wyndham was actually a prophet and not a sci-fi writer.
Please don't give me that "it's my airwaves crap". You're going out of your way here to tap into someone else's legitimate broadcasts just so that you can get free TV. I don't see you making as much of an effort to tap into your neighbour's cellular phone conversations though.
Okay, first of all, if my body picks up the signals, and all radio signals pass through flesh at some point, why don't I have the right to do what the hell I want with them? I'm not condemning nor praising the hackers. All I will say is if you want to, go right ahead.
As for the cell phone myth, it's a radio, nothing more. Despite the FCC outlawing scanners that can pick up cellphones, you can still hear them via images, ie radio anomalies in the scanner. I can routinely listen to cell phone calls on my cell blocked scanner.
It's all the same damn thing. As far as I'm concerned, I have a right to do what I want with anything that invades my body, whether that be radio signals, beef burgers or anything else.
Fuck DirecTV, fuck Microsoft, fuck the FCC, fuck them all.
The FooBar application relies on library Wingbat. So does app YooHoo. Now, the Wingbat library has a security hole that was just found. Oops! Well, a patch is released, packages are made and sent out. You upgrade(or your computer does it automatically), and poof - all of a sudden, YooHoo, FooBar, and all the other apps that use the Wingbat library are more secure.
Or YooHoo and FooBar are now royally hosed because the clowns who wrote them had it hard coded in for a specific library so anything outside of that library version won't work unless you enter symlink hell and set up links to the NEW library just so the retarded old program will work properly.
Just went through this myself with a SNES emulator. Needed a new SDL libary. Once the library it need was installed, several other programs were hosed up due to them not looking for versions >=
I think I have far too much hold over the world. Just yesterday I decided to quit learning Python in favour of C purely because of this issue, and today they go GPL...
No, it;s business. If you yourself committed the exact same act, it would be illegal and extortion and you could be prosecuted. TiVO however are just doing "business".
Business and crime are the same these days, it's just those that committ the former have better legal services at their disposal.
A little off topic but having discovered this I thought I'd share it in case someone has a use for it.
You don't need to shell out $50 or so on a device to let you record stuff crippled by Macrovisions "Quality Protection."
I have an old Betamax VCR. I stuck that between my satellite systems signal output and my VHS VCR and it cleans the signal up, conveniently removing the Macrovision stuff perfectly. Now when I order a PPV on the system I can get my moneys worth and tape it. Sweet!
Hope someone finds this useful. Macrovision are evil.
I smell a class action lawsuit by Tivo purchasers coming...
Maybe from the 0.01% of people who actually noticed this happen. I mean in all honesty, why would you buy this system without signing up for it? That makes about as much sense as buying a satellite system, then not subscribing. If 1000 people bought a TiVO, I'd say probably 2 or 3 would have noticed this has happened.
No lawsuit will be forthcoming, even in the lawsuit happy US.
Even if your lawyers find a way to make it 'legal' the bad press it generates ALWAYS really hurts a product.
While bad press is bad (well duh!), in a situation like this, who outside of Slashdot types is going to give a rats ass? Joe Shmoe The Fuckwit Consumer will just go "Tv recorder... TV recorder good... Must buy" and shell out his hard earned cash for the system.
TiVO will probably lose a handful of sales over this and nothing more. No lawsuit will get very far as you can guarantee they've covered their asses somehow. Nothing will come of this, the system won't die, and there will be no "bad press" since the press that the aforementioned Joe Shmoe The Fuckwit Consumer reads won't publish anything so inane as this story.
Don't get me wrong, they did do wrong IMO, I just try and see the big picture and realise that outside of our little universe, nobody will give a fuck.
Kudos to you dude! Couldn't have said it better myself.
Up here in Canada we have a satellite service called Starchoice. For $49 a month I get a fairly good selection of channels (Iron Chef rules!), BUT, and this is the big one, the system is still effectively a beta! There are numerous glitches, such as the guide randomly resetting itself, program information not being available. Effectively I'm paying $50 a month to beta test their damn system.
There is also the fact that despite paying a fortune for the stations, most of them show commercials as well. Talk about double dipping! I mean the shows have commercials which makes money, the shows are then sponsored which makes even MORE money, AND we pay for the right to watch them which makes even more.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying for quality, but when there is that much money coming in, and no increase in quality... Very aggravating. Alas where I live it's that or nothing, and since I need the TV for my work I have no choice.
Currently trawling through all the posts, but surprised nobody mentioned his association with Monty Python. If I recall he created "Bicycle Repair Man".
I just raised a glass to Mister Adams. He was responsible for forming my sense of humour. I was a huge HH fan growing up, and a lot of what I find funny now is entirely down to his work shaping my concept of what's funny. You will be VERY sorely missed Doug! HH is perhaps the finest radio show in the history of the universe. Time to dig out my boxed set. Cost me 25 pounds about 10 years ago. Small price for a piece of history.
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Unless you make a lot of use of the ctrl-j shortcut, in which case you're screwed as it doesn't support it. (Assuming that Nano hasn't changed that recently.) I tried Nano, and went scurring back to Pico as I thought Nano, quite frankly, was lacking in all the areas I use in the program it tries to emulate.
Who gives a monkeys ass what licence Pico and Pine have? It's a free program, all you masturbatory open source zealots should really get out more. The source is OPEN. YOu can do what you want with it, you just can't distribute it.
The piece is little more than a "HEY! DOWNLOAD NANO!" article. No better than spam.
I have to agree with what someone said further down. Nano is just another open source clone. How about some originality guys?
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DAMN! Back to work for me...
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God, and I thought today was already annoying...
Thanks for the depressing heads up dude.
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Were you born stupid, or did you have to take lessons? PS1 pretty much dead? Yeah, that's why Spiderman 2 and Tony Hawk 3 are coming out on it.
Dead? Get a clue. They have an installed userbase of several million in the US alone. Since the PS2 came out last year everyone has been proclaiming the PS1 dead. PSX.IGN.COM have said it more times than I care to remember, than have to swallow their words and say "Oh, it may be dead, but Tony Hawk 3 is coming out on it." If it was in any way shape or form dead, developers would NOT release games on it, end of story.
Nintendo going the cart route for the N64 was the biggest fucking mistake they ever made.
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Now to go put on my black stockings and do the time warp...
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The problem is, all the free web based email services, to provide what you want would take them extra time, and since very few people want it (hell, very few people probably even realise it's possible) they'll never do it. Law of diminishing returns and all that.
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Okay, first of all, if my body picks up the signals, and all radio signals pass through flesh at some point, why don't I have the right to do what the hell I want with them? I'm not condemning nor praising the hackers. All I will say is if you want to, go right ahead.
As for the cell phone myth, it's a radio, nothing more. Despite the FCC outlawing scanners that can pick up cellphones, you can still hear them via images, ie radio anomalies in the scanner. I can routinely listen to cell phone calls on my cell blocked scanner.
It's all the same damn thing. As far as I'm concerned, I have a right to do what I want with anything that invades my body, whether that be radio signals, beef burgers or anything else.
Fuck DirecTV, fuck Microsoft, fuck the FCC, fuck them all.
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All very well, except they don't make new shows anymore. They only make 2-3 specials a year. Shame.:(
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Or YooHoo and FooBar are now royally hosed because the clowns who wrote them had it hard coded in for a specific library so anything outside of that library version won't work unless you enter symlink hell and set up links to the NEW library just so the retarded old program will work properly.
Just went through this myself with a SNES emulator. Needed a new SDL libary. Once the library it need was installed, several other programs were hosed up due to them not looking for versions >=
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I think I have far too much hold over the world. Just yesterday I decided to quit learning Python in favour of C purely because of this issue, and today they go GPL...
I'm scared...
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No, it;s business. If you yourself committed the exact same act, it would be illegal and extortion and you could be prosecuted. TiVO however are just doing "business".
Business and crime are the same these days, it's just those that committ the former have better legal services at their disposal.
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stinkgeek.com - you know your life as a nerd is empty so why not fill it with useless crap at a premium price?
Whats that I smell? Why it's the pungent stench of hypocrisy!
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Iron Chef
Buffy
Babylon 5 reruns
F1 motor racing
Other than that, great idea. If it came down to it I could live without the first two as well. There is very little on TV that's actually any good.
Survivor sucks goat cock BTW.
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You don't need to shell out $50 or so on a device to let you record stuff crippled by Macrovisions "Quality Protection."
I have an old Betamax VCR. I stuck that between my satellite systems signal output and my VHS VCR and it cleans the signal up, conveniently removing the Macrovision stuff perfectly. Now when I order a PPV on the system I can get my moneys worth and tape it. Sweet!
Hope someone finds this useful. Macrovision are evil.
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Maybe from the 0.01% of people who actually noticed this happen. I mean in all honesty, why would you buy this system without signing up for it? That makes about as much sense as buying a satellite system, then not subscribing. If 1000 people bought a TiVO, I'd say probably 2 or 3 would have noticed this has happened.
No lawsuit will be forthcoming, even in the lawsuit happy US.
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While bad press is bad (well duh!), in a situation like this, who outside of Slashdot types is going to give a rats ass? Joe Shmoe The Fuckwit Consumer will just go "Tv recorder... TV recorder good... Must buy" and shell out his hard earned cash for the system.
TiVO will probably lose a handful of sales over this and nothing more. No lawsuit will get very far as you can guarantee they've covered their asses somehow. Nothing will come of this, the system won't die, and there will be no "bad press" since the press that the aforementioned Joe Shmoe The Fuckwit Consumer reads won't publish anything so inane as this story.
Don't get me wrong, they did do wrong IMO, I just try and see the big picture and realise that outside of our little universe, nobody will give a fuck.
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Up here in Canada we have a satellite service called Starchoice. For $49 a month I get a fairly good selection of channels (Iron Chef rules!), BUT, and this is the big one, the system is still effectively a beta! There are numerous glitches, such as the guide randomly resetting itself, program information not being available. Effectively I'm paying $50 a month to beta test their damn system.
There is also the fact that despite paying a fortune for the stations, most of them show commercials as well. Talk about double dipping! I mean the shows have commercials which makes money, the shows are then sponsored which makes even MORE money, AND we pay for the right to watch them which makes even more.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying for quality, but when there is that much money coming in, and no increase in quality... Very aggravating. Alas where I live it's that or nothing, and since I need the TV for my work I have no choice.
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Currently trawling through all the posts, but surprised nobody mentioned his association with Monty Python. If I recall he created "Bicycle Repair Man".
I just raised a glass to Mister Adams. He was responsible for forming my sense of humour. I was a huge HH fan growing up, and a lot of what I find funny now is entirely down to his work shaping my concept of what's funny. You will be VERY sorely missed Doug! HH is perhaps the finest radio show in the history of the universe. Time to dig out my boxed set. Cost me 25 pounds about 10 years ago. Small price for a piece of history.
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
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That's a great idea. Anyone got a ouija board handy?
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