in your/etc/apt/sauces.list. That should do the trick. These are semi-official packages, or beta releases of the packages that will go into sid after woody releases.
"Computer!"
"Hi there! Are we going to have a conversation?"
"No. You're going to tell me what those Vogons want, and how they are armed."
"Then shall we have a conversation?"
"What?!"
"According to my programming, in the evening leisure periods, the crew will like to relax, and enjoy a wide range of social activities with robots and computers. And have the machines share in a stimulating -argh whooi..."
"I just jammed a quick negative load across it's logic terminals."
"Hey, that hurt."
"Good."
Reminds me of some of my own eXPeriences with computers...
Has anyone else tried the network install? I found it quite confusing. It seems the colours were switched for the buttons after downloading the install image, and I would answer the opposite of what I thought I was. This caused me to reboot instead of installing twice. I won't bother trying one more time.
Now here's the clincher. Music now-a-days just sounds like carbon copies of everything. Remember bands like Bush, Motley Crue, Metallica (before they sold out), Rob Base, Run DMC and the likes? Today's day and age seems more of a rehash of everything that's already been done. Why buy crappy music much less rip it?
Interesting post, mostly because you are wrong. There's a lot of good, new music on the market these days. Much of it is both better and more original than the bands you list here. Of course, that also means it's more "difficult", and therefore it's not marketed as heavily.
I suggest the record companies really have a marketing problem: all the shit they try to shove down people's throats is, well, crap.:-) It doesn't create an interest in music, doesn't stimulate one's curiosity in new (or old) genres. The bands they advertise are just products, or commercials disguised as products (Spice Girls was a commercial for the product Spice Girls). The culture around it is lacking.
So where does this leave the interesting new music? You don't need marketing to make music, so it will still be made. And it will have an audience, since most people know some other people, and will tell them to listen whatever they listen to themselves, if they think it's of any interest. That's culture. Take part in it yourself, and you will find many people make good music, even though RIAA tells you it's out of fashion these days. The fact that the large record companies suck should not prevent you from listening.
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It sure is a gamer's review, and that in itself makes it pretty useless. People don't choose soundcards based on two or three FPS lost i Quake. The money is better spent elsewhere - a good fan for more overclocking or something.
I would prefer info about audio latency, and how the digital I/O works - does it resample, or is it clean? I know some of CL's cards resample the digital output. That sucks for transfering mp3s (or pcm) to minidisc.
Internal mixing in the chipsets is also an important point if you use Linux, as apps sometimes hang when they wait for/dev/dsp to become ready (flash hangs Mozilla or Opera when xmms plays). That is, unless the chipset can mix. C-Media 8738 can't (and that might explain it's poor performance).
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And the first official pre-release of XFree86 4.2.0 was released yesterday. A couple of unofficial package-collections done by non-maintainers have been out for a while.
I actually installed 4.6 a couple of days ago. Yes, that's 4.6-RELEASE. The.iso-images weren't available, but the handbook on the server already pointed to the install-floppies for 4.6, so I downloaded and installed. Installing from ftp was painless (much better than 4.6-rc2 from CD). It really seems a bit faster than Debian GNU/Linux, although ports isn't quite as idiot-proof as apt. Getting gdm to work didn't happen automtically, among other things.
And I can't figure out how to mount a logical partition containing a FAT32 filesystem. But that's probably because I'm clueless:-)
There's also the problem with big files: I once tried to dl a big new film, and since it took so long I had to go to sleep. When I woke up the file had downloaded OK, and a couple of people had downloaded it from me. The problem was that it wasn't this big new film, it was a teaser for The Scorpion King that went over and over again. So junk assumed to be really popular stuff spreads easily without much human intervention.
The first time I read "This space intentionally left blank" was in the classic adventure game Zork. Are you it wasn't originally some tech writer paying homage to the game?
Yes, this is true. However, you will only find the music you are expected to like this way. Based on my history of liking Aphex Twin, Lesser, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, Techno Animal etc., there is only a slim chance of predicting I'm also going to like Lambchop, Helmet, Naked City and Giant Sand. Not to mention that very few people share music that practically noone has heard about.
Your arguement goes well with your nick -- p2p is perfect for the "more of the same" philosphy of consumerism, which is actually exactly what radio is criticized for in the above article.
When it comes to discovering music you didn't know you would like, there's nothing like good old-fashion force-feeding.
No, I don't like NRK. I like Harald Are Lund's programs. He usually plays a dose of Captain Beefheart, some jazz, some noise, some techno etc., and then lots of music you probably never heard of. He's really great for getting to know new music. I don't actually like most of the music he plays, but I'll always hear something new.
NRK has changed a bit since you lived here; now it's 3 radio channels and 2 TV channels, but HAL has been there since before 1970.
The problem with the modern music distribution channels (p2p that is) is that you don't get to know about music you don't about: you don't know how to search for things you never heard about. Radio is quite brilliant when it comes to forcing The Unknown upon you. That's what I like about radio; but as the subject of this thread shows, this is less widespread in America. So I'm glad I live in Norway .
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Well, Mozilla is big, but KDE is huge. If you read apt-listchanges you will see this for Mozilla:
* urgency=high. it should be installed into woody
Most of the updates at the moment are fixes, while KDE 3.0 isn't just a bugfix for 2.2. Some things are repaired, while others are broken. It's better to have a good 2.2 than a half-baked 3.0x for the next Debian Stable. And the same goes for Mozilla.
Yeah, and this could explain why certain words are impossible to block in Hotmail -- like "debt". There's one single company I've tried to block in any way, but it's just not possible.
IMHO, setting up a printer is just as easy in Linux as in Windows - if you already have the driver, that is. apt-get install cupsys cubsys-bsd and point your browser at http://localhost:631, then just chose your printer. If you need to compile Ghostscript with stp-support it gets much harder though. Buying an older printer makes stuff a whole lot easier.
I bought Einstürzende Neubauten's Berlin Babylon CD a couple of weeks ago, and that one had some sort of copy protection too. It was supposed to be unplayable on a computer, and exhibited the same symptoms as the M.J. CD - it spun for a long time (more than a minute), but turned out to be playable after all.
Naturally, I had to try ripping it too, and grip worked somewhat; the only problem was the timing of some of the songs, esp. the last one, which was reported to be several minutes longer than it really was, causing grip to time out when trying to rip past the track on the CD.
This was on a 12x AOpen DVD-rom, both in Windows 2000 and Linux. I wouldn't recommend the drive, though, as it Linux refuses to let it use DMA.
As Anonymous Coward already pointed out, the subtitles work better with the libcss-plugin. I got it working with with the older css-patch as well, but the text was in green. I look forward to try vlc again now; hope it's still progressing under BeOS too - what we really need is cross platform DVD playback. Not that it isn't nice with good DVD playback in Linux and *BSD, but I really like what VideoLAN is doing for other OSs. Now port it to AtheOS too.:-)
Well, I just bought a Radeon 32 MB DDR, and finally all my old problems with xine were gone (I had a TNT2 Ultra before) - it plays smoothly in 1280x960, and looks better than WinDVD on a Banshee I had on another computer. It could be the motion compensation in the ATI, of course. It's brilliant. And ATI now also has good support in DRI, so we all know what we shall buy, don't we?
No, you don't have to run a kernel at all. If you think a kernel is too low-ranking for you, you could run a general in stead. General Protection is fine, but has some faults. I would never trust a damn kernel myself.
To quote some site I found that mentioned Steven Milloy, the man behind Junk Science:
Before Milloy moved into his present role as "JunkMan", he was employed by a number of professional PR and lobbying companies, including
Multinational Business Services which was Phillip Morris's main lobbyist on the environmental tobacco issue in late 1992 (when Milloy worked there).
So, if you trust this man on tobacco issues, I guess you also can trust him on global warming.
Well, why shouldn't we expect Quake 3 for BeOS when the OpenGL is done? It's the benchmark for 3D performance, so hopefully Be, Inc. understand this is a game that needs to be ported. QNX (which I don't like very much) uses Mesa for OpenGL, so it's not very fast and not well supported.
Whoohoo! Now there will be two games for BeOS. No, seriously - this is actually the second time I've heard of a major game that will be released for BeOS. The first one was Black & White. Which of course will be the best game ever.
K.W. was undoubtedly important in the eighties, but during the last decade the adventure genre more or less died. This was also the fault of the same company, plus Origin with their mildly sucking Wing Commander series. WC was also important in the evolution of sound and graphics - but of course no person in his or her right mind wants to play a movie. So, actually - the only achievement of Sierra was digging their own grave with more realistic sound & video crap.
John Carmack is a more likely candidate. --
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Try adding something like
./
./
/etc/apt/sauces.list. That should do the trick. These are semi-official packages, or beta releases of the packages that will go into sid after woody releases.
deb http://kde3.geniussystems.net/debian/
or
deb http://kde.ping.uio.no/i386
in your
From The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
..."
"Computer!"
"Hi there! Are we going to have a conversation?"
"No. You're going to tell me what those Vogons want, and how they are armed."
"Then shall we have a conversation?"
"What?!"
"According to my programming, in the evening leisure periods, the crew will like to relax, and enjoy a wide range of social activities with robots and computers. And have the machines share in a stimulating -argh whooi
"I just jammed a quick negative load across it's logic terminals."
"Hey, that hurt."
"Good."
Reminds me of some of my own eXPeriences with computers...
Has anyone else tried the network install? I found it quite confusing. It seems the colours were switched for the buttons after downloading the install image, and I would answer the opposite of what I thought I was. This caused me to reboot instead of installing twice. I won't bother trying one more time.
I suggest the record companies really have a marketing problem: all the shit they try to shove down people's throats is, well, crap.
So where does this leave the interesting new music? You don't need marketing to make music, so it will still be made. And it will have an audience, since most people know some other people, and will tell them to listen whatever they listen to themselves, if they think it's of any interest. That's culture. Take part in it yourself, and you will find many people make good music, even though RIAA tells you it's out of fashion these days. The fact that the large record companies suck should not prevent you from listening.
It sure is a gamer's review, and that in itself makes it pretty useless. People don't choose soundcards based on two or three FPS lost i Quake. The money is better spent elsewhere - a good fan for more overclocking or something.
/dev/dsp to become ready (flash hangs Mozilla or Opera when xmms plays). That is, unless the chipset can mix. C-Media 8738 can't (and that might explain it's poor performance).
I would prefer info about audio latency, and how the digital I/O works - does it resample, or is it clean? I know some of CL's cards resample the digital output. That sucks for transfering mp3s (or pcm) to minidisc.
Internal mixing in the chipsets is also an important point if you use Linux, as apps sometimes hang when they wait for
And the first official pre-release of XFree86 4.2.0 was released yesterday. A couple of unofficial package-collections done by non-maintainers have been out for a while.
I actually installed 4.6 a couple of days ago. Yes, that's 4.6-RELEASE. The .iso-images weren't available, but the handbook on the server already pointed to the install-floppies for 4.6, so I downloaded and installed. Installing from ftp was painless (much better than 4.6-rc2 from CD). It really seems a bit faster than Debian GNU/Linux, although ports isn't quite as idiot-proof as apt. Getting gdm to work didn't happen automtically, among other things.
:-)
And I can't figure out how to mount a logical partition containing a FAT32 filesystem. But that's probably because I'm clueless
There's also the problem with big files: I once tried to dl a big new film, and since it took so long I had to go to sleep. When I woke up the file had downloaded OK, and a couple of people had downloaded it from me. The problem was that it wasn't this big new film, it was a teaser for The Scorpion King that went over and over again. So junk assumed to be really popular stuff spreads easily without much human intervention.
The first time I read "This space intentionally left blank" was in the classic adventure game Zork. Are you it wasn't originally some tech writer paying homage to the game?
Yes, this is true. However, you will only find the music you are expected to like this way. Based on my history of liking Aphex Twin, Lesser, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, Techno Animal etc., there is only a slim chance of predicting I'm also going to like Lambchop, Helmet, Naked City and Giant Sand. Not to mention that very few people share music that practically noone has heard about.
Your arguement goes well with your nick -- p2p is perfect for the "more of the same" philosphy of consumerism, which is actually exactly what radio is criticized for in the above article.
When it comes to discovering music you didn't know you would like, there's nothing like good old-fashion force-feeding.
No, I don't like NRK. I like Harald Are Lund's programs. He usually plays a dose of Captain Beefheart, some jazz, some noise, some techno etc., and then lots of music you probably never heard of. He's really great for getting to know new music. I don't actually like most of the music he plays, but I'll always hear something new.
NRK has changed a bit since you lived here; now it's 3 radio channels and 2 TV channels, but HAL has been there since before 1970.
The problem with the modern music distribution channels (p2p that is) is that you don't get to know about music you don't about: you don't know how to search for things you never heard about. Radio is quite brilliant when it comes to forcing The Unknown upon you. That's what I like about radio; but as the subject of this thread shows, this is less widespread in America. So I'm glad I live in Norway .
Well, Mozilla is big, but KDE is huge. If you read apt-listchanges you will see this for Mozilla:
* urgency=high. it should be installed into woody
Most of the updates at the moment are fixes, while KDE 3.0 isn't just a bugfix for 2.2. Some things are repaired, while others are broken. It's better to have a good 2.2 than a half-baked 3.0x for the next Debian Stable. And the same goes for Mozilla.
Yeah, and this could explain why certain words are impossible to block in Hotmail -- like "debt". There's one single company I've tried to block in any way, but it's just not possible.
IMHO, setting up a printer is just as easy in Linux as in Windows - if you already have the driver, that is. apt-get install cupsys cubsys-bsd and point your browser at http://localhost:631, then just chose your printer.
If you need to compile Ghostscript with stp-support it gets much harder though. Buying an older printer makes stuff a whole lot easier.
I bought Einstürzende Neubauten's Berlin Babylon CD a couple of weeks ago, and that one had some sort of copy protection too. It was supposed to be unplayable on a computer, and exhibited the same symptoms as the M.J. CD - it spun for a long time (more than a minute), but turned out to be playable after all.
Naturally, I had to try ripping it too, and grip worked somewhat; the only problem was the timing of some of the songs, esp. the last one, which was reported to be several minutes longer than it really was, causing grip to time out when trying to rip past the track on the CD.
This was on a 12x AOpen DVD-rom, both in Windows 2000 and Linux. I wouldn't recommend the drive, though, as it Linux refuses to let it use DMA.
As Anonymous Coward already pointed out, the subtitles work better with the libcss-plugin. I got it working with with the older css-patch as well, but the text was in green. :-)
I look forward to try vlc again now; hope it's still progressing under BeOS too - what we really need is cross platform DVD playback. Not that it isn't nice with good DVD playback in Linux and *BSD, but I really like what VideoLAN is doing for other OSs. Now port it to AtheOS too.
Well, I just bought a Radeon 32 MB DDR, and finally all my old problems with xine were gone (I had a TNT2 Ultra before) - it plays smoothly in 1280x960, and looks better than WinDVD on a Banshee I had on another computer. It could be the motion compensation in the ATI, of course. It's brilliant. And ATI now also has good support in DRI, so we all know what we shall buy, don't we?
No, you don't have to run a kernel at all. If you think a kernel is too low-ranking for you, you could run a general in stead. General Protection is fine, but has some faults. I would never trust a damn kernel myself.
So, if you trust this man on tobacco issues, I guess you also can trust him on global warming.
Well, why shouldn't we expect Quake 3 for BeOS when the OpenGL is done? It's the benchmark for 3D performance, so hopefully Be, Inc. understand this is a game that needs to be ported. QNX (which I don't like very much) uses Mesa for OpenGL, so it's not very fast and not well supported.
Whoohoo! Now there will be two games for BeOS. No, seriously - this is actually the second time I've heard of a major game that will be released for BeOS. The first one was Black & White. Which of course will be the best game ever.
Why is GSM so great? Here in Europe, we'll be using UMTS before AT&T give you GSM. America is just so last millenium. :-P
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K.W. was undoubtedly important in the eighties, but during the last decade the adventure genre more or less died. This was also the fault of the same company, plus Origin with their mildly sucking Wing Commander series. WC was also important in the evolution of sound and graphics - but of course no person in his or her right mind wants to play a movie. So, actually - the only achievement of Sierra was digging their own grave with more realistic sound & video crap.
John Carmack is a more likely candidate.
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Any new rootholes for us to exploit, or will it be just the same, old, boring stuff?
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