I don't think you really understand the message of the peace, love, Linux graffiti. There was no IBM located on the sidewalk adds. I think it was more IBM aligning itself with the rebel image of Linux. Linux in a sense, is very anti-establishment, since IBM is supporting Linux it wanted to use the image of Linux to get away from the old dark suite IBM image. The street graffiti is an ingenious attempt by IBM marketing to make IBM seem antiestablishment with the use of graffiti and because of its support of Linux.
Although it may have been posted on the website for the first time, the Cooker 8.2 beta ISO's have been available for a couple of weeks now on a few mirrors. In the future, just scroll down on the download page. Luckily, the psu mirrow is only a few blocks away from my house:)
I thought the best IBM commercials were the basketball themed spots where the good team was the "Linux All Stars?" with player names like, firewall, and Apache etc. The visiting team, wore black jerseys and had names like "hacker" and "downtime".
There were at least 4 unique commercials with this theme, the best one was when the team "management" paid a consultant 5 million and all he ended up doing was explaining what a triangle was, it reminds me of a friend I have who works at Accenture..
I spent a good 30 mins last night searching around for where I could download these commercials, but I had no success. Does anyone know where to find these? I know IBM had the codernaut commericials available for download.
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Most people who record concerts use at least $2000 - $5000 mics going in to a preamp, an A>D converter, then finally a portable DAT usually the Tascam DA-P1
Well I think it would be kind of a waste to buy $5000 mics if your were just going to patch in to the board.
Obviously, you are not a live taping enthusiast. The recording medium for live concerts can play a big part in the eventual quality of the recording. Most people who record concerts use at least $2000 - $5000 mics going in to a preamp, an A>D converter, then finally a portable DAT usually the Tascam DA-P1. Check out etree to see how live audio enthusiasts are sticklers for quality. All live concerts are traded in SHN format for LOSELESS compression.
That being said, no live taper would ever be caught dead using this thing to record a show. If somebody showed up with this thing a taping section, they would be laughed out of the building.
Its acutaly pretty easy, although I've only done it once for a small business network roughly 25pcs and 3 servers. You make an custom image with win2k and all the windows programs you want to be installed by default. Then you put that image up on an SMB share. You can either boot the clients remotly without a bootdisk if they are equiped with PXE boot rom or you can make a boot disk. There is a good explanation of the process available here.
The "Network in the box" feature sounds like a way for redhat to gain some market share in the corporate desktop market. Whenever I discuss Desktop Linux to the "MCSE crowd" one of the big sticking points is Windows RIS (Remote Installation Services).
I thought the most interesting article was this piece dealing with the recent changes over at Sourceforge. It probably deserves it's own submission even though we have discussed this before.
1. Policy. All documents (including those kept in an electronic medium) created or received by the Firm that are necessary or appropriate to record or support the Firm's professional work product or administrative functions shall be retained for a Current Period plus six years (the "Retention Period"), subject only to specifically stated exceptions set forth below. Thereafter, they shall not be retained. Business Unit Leaders and Office Managing Partners are responsible for insuring that their units comply with this Policy.
2. Current Period. Current Period means, in most cases, the calendar year during which the document was created, revised or received. In some cases, Current Period means the effective life of the document. Examples of documents falling into the latter category are office leases, personnel files, contracts to which the Firm is a party, engagement letters relating to continuing client engagements, tax planning files and the "permanent file" of a continuing client.
As a general rule, choice of the appropriate Current Period and corresponding date of record retention termination should be made by the person who created or received the document in question, and not by the Records Center. Questions arising in connection with the choice of an appropriate Current Period should be directed to the appropriate Unit, Line of Business or Office Managing Partner, or the Office of General Counsel.
Note that in some situations, the Retention Period will have to be extended on a year-to-year basis, as when the IRS has not closed a particular tax year of a client within the Retention Period (the tax workpapers should be retained until it has).
3. Examples of Current Period Plus Six Years:
Working papers and correspondence files relating to the Firm's report, dated March 13, 1997, on the financial statements of Universal Widgets as of December 31, 1996: Terminate retention after December 31, 2003.
Lease dated November 1, 1993 covering a lease term of February 1, 1994 through January 31, 1995: Terminate retention after December 31, 2001.
Letter dated August 19, 1996: Terminate retention after December 31, 2002.
Permanent files deemed superseded on September 30, 1998: Terminate retention after December 31, 2004.
Tax, litigation, and bankruptcy planning files created in May 1998 covering the three-year period of 1998, 1999 and 2000: Terminate retention after December 31, 2006.
4. Record Type/Retention Period:
ABAS Files
Billing File - 6 years
Correspondence File - 6 years
Financial Statements - 15 years from record year
Permanent/Carry-Forward - "No date" while active, Current + 6 years from the "superseded date."
Reports - 15 years from the "period ending" specified in report
Superseded - Current + 6 years from the "superseded date"
Workpapers - Current + 6 years
TLS Files
Billing File - 6 years
Correspondence File - 6 years
Permanent/Carry Forward - "No date" while active, Current + 6 years from the "superseded date."
Planning - "No date" while active. Current + 6 years from the "superseded date."
Superseded - Current + 6 years from the "superseded date"
Tax Return - 15 years
TLS IAS - 15 years (Tax Return)
Workpapers - 6 years
The following exceptions to the general policy have their appropriate retention periods set forth in parentheses. For permanent retention, consider microfilming or other less bulky storage systems:
(a) Documents pertaining to Firm governance and regulatory matters (permanent).
(b) Agreements and related documents pertaining to mergers or acquisitions by the Firm, as designated by OGC (permanent).
(c) Minutes of meetings of the Firm's Board of Partners and Principals and the Board's Committees, as well as other Firm Committees designated by the Firm's Senior Partner (permanent).
(d) Certain legal or historical files designated by the General Counsel (discretion of OGC).
(e) Firm Policy Releases (until superseded). The partner or director leading the group issuing the policy should ensure that one full historical set of the Releases or Statements issued by it is retained permanently.
(f) Documents (i) relating to threatened or pending litigation involving the Firm or its personnel or (ii) subject to a subpoena (the longer of the termination of the litigation/subpoena matter or the Retention Period - consultation with OGC required before any disposition).
(g) Financial records, including tax returns, of the Firm (discretion of the Chief Financial Officer).
5. Documents To Be Retained for a Period SHORTER than the Retention Period:
(a) Practice Quality review documents, including reports, correspondence, questionnaires, and supporting workpapers that identify or relate to findings or evaluations of specified engagements, offices or individuals (12 months from date of creation, or less when it is determined by the Director, Audit Quality--or his or her counterparts in other Lines of Business--that they have served their intended purpose).
(b) Personnel records of former employees (Current Period plus three years).
(c) Internal administrative documents, such as office financial information (discretion of appropriate Unit, Line of Business or Office Managing Partner).
(d) Engagements terminated before completion, such as audit engagements where no report is issued (Current Period plus three years; all uncompleted engagements should be clearly marked as such).
6. Other Exceptions:
(a) Any person who creates or receives a document or class of documents that he or she believes should be the subject of an exception should refer the matter to OGC.
(b) OGC will notify the appropriate Records Center of any files that must be retained beyond their assigned destruction date due to pending litigation or other reasons. At that time the files will be retained indefinitely, and destruction will require specific approval of OGC.
(c) In reference to E-mails and general correspondence of any type, if the communication is necessary to support PwC work, it should be included in the engagement files, either electronically or in paper form. If it is not necessary to support PwC work, it should not be retained. Desk file or rough file material should be discarded at the end of the engagement.
7. Organization and Timing of Destruction:
Persons responsible for maintenance of Firm files should conduct a review of all files during each December to identify those files that should be destroyed promptly after December 31 of that year. Thereafter, during January of the following year, such documents should be destroyed only upon formal authorization from the designated partner.
I really like the idea of using MD5 to ensure file integrity across the network. I hate searching for a file on Gnutella and finding 13 different versions. Of course, the tape trading and sharing communities have been on the cutting edge for quite some time. Phish and Grateful dead enthusiasts were the first to embrace, lossless formats such as SHN, and even older technologies such as DAT. Laptop recording is also taking off as well, they even sell a modified cursoe powered picturebook that is made for concert taping.
As far as illegal uploads are concerned, there is a list of the bands and material types that are currently allowed. I haven't tried this app yet, I will as soon as I get off work, but I would imagine that client communicates with a centralized server to check MD5 sums and also check filenames so the only way to actually put up a illegal file for sharing is change its name to something like 11.29.98-Phish-David-Bowie03.shn and post it as a new file so a MD5sum is created.
BTW my domain, http://www.phataudio.org was originally an old school phish mp3 site;)
Toms Hardware has a 1300v1300 comparison
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You don't have to look so far too see that AOL/TW has done a poor job when it comes to acquisitions. Netscape, GNN, ICQ, and many others have gone way downhill since AOL, TW, or AOL/TW acquired them. What evidence is there to persuade people that the same thing won't happen with RedHat?
For windows users, you can still use Morpheus for all your mp3 and pr0n downloads. I wouldn't be suprised if Morpheus is next considering Kazaa and Morpheus are based on the same technology from fastrack. Both morpheus and kazaa are similar to napster in the sense that they have centralized authentication, but they differ in the fact that there is not a centralized index. There is a good writeup on morpheus and kazaa available here.
I think apple is misleading customers because I bet that most people think that with this burner they will have the ability to copy DVD's that they already own. Plus, most of the people will be using this drive to burn CD's which I beleive it writes CD's at 8x, hardly groundbreaking considering 24x CD burners are available for under $150.
Does anyone else find it funny that Robertson has that same picture plastered all over the lindows website and the e-mail in question? He is certainly better looking than BillG but does he need to have his picture plastered everywhere? It reminds me of those cheesy personal injury billboards you see everywhere with the lawyer'
s ugly mug plastered on it.
The PC had both solutions before Apple adopted them. As far as DVD recording is concerned, the DVD recorder included in the powermacs and the new imacs is mickey mouse at best.
This is not an ipod killer, its a nomad jukebox killer. I don't think this is designed to be a "pocket player." That being said, I think this device has a lot of potential.
As far as firewire concerned, its only useful when you put your collection on the player for the first time. After that, most people will update their player with a few tracks at a time for which the speed of USB is surely enough.
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Doesn't that leave out the entire Russian population?
I don't think you really understand the message of the peace, love, Linux graffiti. There was no IBM located on the sidewalk adds. I think it was more IBM aligning itself with the rebel image of Linux. Linux in a sense, is very anti-establishment, since IBM is supporting Linux it wanted to use the image of Linux to get away from the old dark suite IBM image. The street graffiti is an ingenious attempt by IBM marketing to make IBM seem antiestablishment with the use of graffiti and because of its support of Linux.
Although it may have been posted on the website for the first time, the Cooker 8.2 beta ISO's have been available for a couple of weeks now on a few mirrors. In the future, just scroll down on the download page. Luckily, the psu mirrow is only a few blocks away from my house :)
Wired has a preview too. Check it out here
There were at least 4 unique commercials with this theme, the best one was when the team "management" paid a consultant 5 million and all he ended up doing was explaining what a triangle was, it reminds me of a friend I have who works at Accenture..
I spent a good 30 mins last night searching around for where I could download these commercials, but I had no success. Does anyone know where to find these? I know IBM had the codernaut commericials available for download.
Most people who record concerts use at least $2000 - $5000 mics going in to a preamp, an A>D converter, then finally a portable DAT usually the Tascam DA-P1
Well I think it would be kind of a waste to buy $5000 mics if your were just going to patch in to the board.
DUH!
Most reporters and concert recorders use DAT, not cassettes as the recording medium. People stopped using cassettes over 10 years ago.
That being said, no live taper would ever be caught dead using this thing to record a show. If somebody showed up with this thing a taping section, they would be laughed out of the building.
Its acutaly pretty easy, although I've only done it once for a small business network roughly 25pcs and 3 servers. You make an custom image with win2k and all the windows programs you want to be installed by default. Then you put that image up on an SMB share. You can either boot the clients remotly without a bootdisk if they are equiped with PXE boot rom or you can make a boot disk. There is a good explanation of the process available here.
The "Network in the box" feature sounds like a way for redhat to gain some market share in the corporate desktop market. Whenever I discuss Desktop Linux to the "MCSE crowd" one of the big sticking points is Windows RIS (Remote Installation Services).
I thought the most interesting article was this piece dealing with the recent changes over at Sourceforge. It probably deserves it's own submission even though we have discussed this before.
Retention of Firm Documents
1. Policy. All documents (including those kept in an electronic medium) created or received by the Firm that are necessary or appropriate to record or support the Firm's professional work product or administrative functions shall be retained for a Current Period plus six years (the "Retention Period"), subject only to specifically stated exceptions set forth below. Thereafter, they shall not be retained. Business Unit Leaders and Office Managing Partners are responsible for insuring that their units comply with this Policy.
2. Current Period. Current Period means, in most cases, the calendar year during which the document was created, revised or received. In some cases, Current Period means the effective life of the document. Examples of documents falling into the latter category are office leases, personnel files, contracts to which the Firm is a party, engagement letters relating to continuing client engagements, tax planning files and the "permanent file" of a continuing client.
As a general rule, choice of the appropriate Current Period and corresponding date of record retention termination should be made by the person who created or received the document in question, and not by the Records Center. Questions arising in connection with the choice of an appropriate Current Period should be directed to the appropriate Unit, Line of Business or Office Managing Partner, or the Office of General Counsel.
Note that in some situations, the Retention Period will have to be extended on a year-to-year basis, as when the IRS has not closed a particular tax year of a client within the Retention Period (the tax workpapers should be retained until it has).
3. Examples of Current Period Plus Six Years:
Working papers and correspondence files relating to the Firm's report, dated March 13, 1997, on the financial statements of Universal Widgets as of December 31, 1996: Terminate retention after December 31, 2003.
Lease dated November 1, 1993 covering a lease term of February 1, 1994 through January 31, 1995: Terminate retention after December 31, 2001.
Letter dated August 19, 1996: Terminate retention after December 31, 2002.
Permanent files deemed superseded on September 30, 1998: Terminate retention after December 31, 2004.
Tax, litigation, and bankruptcy planning files created in May 1998 covering the three-year period of 1998, 1999 and 2000: Terminate retention after December 31, 2006.
4. Record Type/Retention Period:
ABAS Files
Billing File - 6 years
Correspondence File - 6 years
Financial Statements - 15 years from record year
Permanent/Carry-Forward - "No date" while active, Current + 6 years from the "superseded date."
Reports - 15 years from the "period ending" specified in report
Superseded - Current + 6 years from the "superseded date"
Workpapers - Current + 6 years
TLS Files
Billing File - 6 years
Correspondence File - 6 years
Permanent/Carry Forward - "No date" while active, Current + 6 years from the "superseded date."
Planning - "No date" while active. Current + 6 years from the "superseded date."
Superseded - Current + 6 years from the "superseded date"
Tax Return - 15 years
TLS IAS - 15 years (Tax Return)
Workpapers - 6 years
The following exceptions to the general policy have their appropriate retention periods set forth in parentheses. For permanent retention, consider microfilming or other less bulky storage systems:
(a) Documents pertaining to Firm governance and regulatory matters (permanent).
(b) Agreements and related documents pertaining to mergers or acquisitions by the Firm, as designated by OGC (permanent).
(c) Minutes of meetings of the Firm's Board of Partners and Principals and the Board's Committees, as well as other Firm Committees designated by the Firm's Senior Partner (permanent).
(d) Certain legal or historical files designated by the General Counsel (discretion of OGC).
(e) Firm Policy Releases (until superseded). The partner or director leading the group issuing the policy should ensure that one full historical set of the Releases or Statements issued by it is retained permanently.
(f) Documents (i) relating to threatened or pending litigation involving the Firm or its personnel or (ii) subject to a subpoena (the longer of the termination of the litigation/subpoena matter or the Retention Period - consultation with OGC required before any disposition).
(g) Financial records, including tax returns, of the Firm (discretion of the Chief Financial Officer).
5. Documents To Be Retained for a Period SHORTER than the Retention Period:
(a) Practice Quality review documents, including reports, correspondence, questionnaires, and supporting workpapers that identify or relate to findings or evaluations of specified engagements, offices or individuals (12 months from date of creation, or less when it is determined by the Director, Audit Quality--or his or her counterparts in other Lines of Business--that they have served their intended purpose).
(b) Personnel records of former employees (Current Period plus three years).
(c) Internal administrative documents, such as office financial information (discretion of appropriate Unit, Line of Business or Office Managing Partner).
(d) Engagements terminated before completion, such as audit engagements where no report is issued (Current Period plus three years; all uncompleted engagements should be clearly marked as such).
6. Other Exceptions:
(a) Any person who creates or receives a document or class of documents that he or she believes should be the subject of an exception should refer the matter to OGC.
(b) OGC will notify the appropriate Records Center of any files that must be retained beyond their assigned destruction date due to pending litigation or other reasons. At that time the files will be retained indefinitely, and destruction will require specific approval of OGC.
(c) In reference to E-mails and general correspondence of any type, if the communication is necessary to support PwC work, it should be included in the engagement files, either electronically or in paper form. If it is not necessary to support PwC work, it should not be retained. Desk file or rough file material should be discarded at the end of the engagement.
7. Organization and Timing of Destruction:
Persons responsible for maintenance of Firm files should conduct a review of all files during each December to identify those files that should be destroyed promptly after December 31 of that year. Thereafter, during January of the following year, such documents should be destroyed only upon formal authorization from the designated partner.
As far as illegal uploads are concerned, there is a list of the bands and material types that are currently allowed. I haven't tried this app yet, I will as soon as I get off work, but I would imagine that client communicates with a centralized server to check MD5 sums and also check filenames so the only way to actually put up a illegal file for sharing is change its name to something like 11.29.98-Phish-David-Bowie03.shn and post it as a new file so a MD5sum is created. BTW my domain, http://www.phataudio.org was originally an old school phish mp3 site ;)
Tom's Hardware has a nice review and comparison of the athlon 1300 vs. the Celeron 1300.
You don't have to look so far too see that AOL/TW has done a poor job when it comes to acquisitions. Netscape, GNN, ICQ, and many others have gone way downhill since AOL, TW, or AOL/TW acquired them. What evidence is there to persuade people that the same thing won't happen with RedHat?
nvr mind there is one!
Last time I checked there wasn't a windows port of tuxracer ;)
I put up a mirror of the screens available here
For windows users, you can still use Morpheus for all your mp3 and pr0n downloads. I wouldn't be suprised if Morpheus is next considering Kazaa and Morpheus are based on the same technology from fastrack. Both morpheus and kazaa are similar to napster in the sense that they have centralized authentication, but they differ in the fact that there is not a centralized index. There is a good writeup on morpheus and kazaa available here.
I think apple is misleading customers because I bet that most people think that with this burner they will have the ability to copy DVD's that they already own. Plus, most of the people will be using this drive to burn CD's which I beleive it writes CD's at 8x, hardly groundbreaking considering 24x CD burners are available for under $150.
You think with all that brainpower, they could figure out that you should not have a Flash Only site.
Does anyone else find it funny that Robertson has that same picture plastered all over the lindows website and the e-mail in question? He is certainly better looking than BillG but does he need to have his picture plastered everywhere? It reminds me of those cheesy personal injury billboards you see everywhere with the lawyer' s ugly mug plastered on it.
You can check out ExtremeTech's report here
The PC had both solutions before Apple adopted them. As far as DVD recording is concerned, the DVD recorder included in the powermacs and the new imacs is mickey mouse at best.
As far as firewire concerned, its only useful when you put your collection on the player for the first time. After that, most people will update their player with a few tracks at a time for which the speed of USB is surely enough.