Troll? I'll disagree in that I think the 'flamebait' rating of the parent is unwarranted. All options should be considered when articles are brought up. Again, as someone who has experience with both distros mentioned, I fail to see how I'm 'trolling' here.
Debian is a fine distro, but it's not for everyone.
haha, you borked the SuSE link too! You need to use the PREVIEW button before posting.:) Perhaps Gentoo isn't for you, but it sure is for me. Currently running 4 Gentoo boxes, 2 as desktops with Gnome. Over 5 years I've been through RH->MDK->DEB->SLACK and now I'm all set on Gentoo.
And there's not an installer since they signed a bad contract with InstallSheild, who doesn't have a Linux version.
Incorrect, InstallShield has InstallShield Multiplatform which handles "[...] Mac OS X, OS/400, Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and all other OS platforms you target." It creates a Java Swing GUI (commandline available by using the -console switch) which I'm using at work to create installers for our apps. Our target archs are AIX, Solaris and Linux, you layout your app, then it creates the installers for whichever archs you choose. It's really pretty nice, if you don't mind waiting for the Java GUI to load.;)
-- Cd Baby reports on itunes meeting re: indy music. Posted by leflaw on June 6, 2003 at 7:44 AM EDT Apple iTunes + independent music
I got an invitation to go to Apple's office for a presentation/meeting today (June 5, 2003) about how to get independent artists into the iTunes Music Store. There were about 150 people there, representatives from the best independent record labels and music services, in this invitation-only conference room. Steve Jobs came out and started a two and a half hour presentation/seminar/Q&A about iTunes and the benefits of independent labels making their music available there. I type fast and had my laptop, so I wrote down all the major points of their presentation as they went.
NOTE: I've skipped the super-basic introduction to iTunes and what it does, because that can be found so many other places. This is the stuff that I felt was most important to musicians: The basics
* The basics of iTunes Music Store are covered in many places, so if you haven't used iTunes Music store yet, read these links first: * Apple's iTunes Music Store website. * Great video showing the service. * NOTE: iTunes is not a website! It can only be accessed from the iTunes software run on Mac OS X (now) and Windows (by the end of the year.) * I highly suggest trying it for yourself. If you don't have a Mac, use a friend's. Enter your credit card info and actually buy a song. Tell it to store your info for future purchases. Buy a few more songs with the one-click system. I'm serious. You should try it yourself to really experience how amazingly cool it is. * They're using a DRM called Fairplay to make sure you can't put these songs on the internet and have them play on another player.
Current Stats:
* There are 6-7 million copies of iTunes in use. * 3.5 million songs sold so far. Selling about 500,000 songs a week now. * More than 75% of songs have sold at least once. There is a wide breadth in purchasing. This is not only fueled by hits. * 45% of all songs have been bought as an album. In other words: don't worry about the death of the album format. 45% of people prefer to buy as an album anyway, even though they always have the option to only buy per-song. * 90% of sales are 1-click downloads. (1-click is where customer has credit card stored on file, so that as soon as they click a song title, it starts downloading and their credit card is automatically charged.) * 10 previews (free 30 second listen) for every purchase. Meaning: 10 listens per buy.
Price of music on iTunes
* Songs must be 99 cents each. * Full albums are recommended to be $9.99 or lower. * Album price must be less than or equal to the sum of their tracks. So if you have a 5-song album, it can't be more than $4.95 to buy the full-length album. * Apple strongly recommends going even lower than $9.99. They'd like to see that price drop to make the full-album purchase even more desirable. * Only exception: if a song is over 7 minutes long, they won't offer it as a separate download. It will be available as part of the album only. * There is no cost to put your music on iTunes. * There will be no up-front advance from Apple. * Details on the wholesale price to the label will be mailed to us, later.
Sales report to SoundScan
* Apple is reporting all iTunes sales to SoundScan! * SoundScan measures per-song not per-album. * So if someone buys your whole album, each track on the album is reported as a song sale. * SoundScan requested to do it that way. It was their idea, not Apple's.
About positioning and getting attention on iTunes
* Apple has hired an editorial staff with backgrounds in music to decide what gets featured. * Editorial team makes decisions every day as to what goes where. * Big labels don't get preferential treatment. * "We pick music we like, and we think everyone else is going to like." * "We've had a lot of people offer money", but Apple refuses money, and has no plan
Understood, I've just kicked off 'emerge bittorrent' and should have it soon so I can contribute to the fun. Oh, and I see the new Matrix movie in a few days! Stop the spoilers!:)
No kidding! My Apple//e had 64K, and now these iBooks only have TWICE that? After 20 years they should have made a bigger jump than that. (/me tries to image OS X booting with 128K)
I've got a friend who just did just this, the support for the hardware is excellent. To na-sayers who will complain about Apple's proprietary hardware, it's actually an advantage here; without all sorts of wacky configurations to choose from, everything on the iBook is supported from network/sound/trackpad/function key maps/sleep/power savers/etc. Add to that the benh kernel and you'll really be moving. Think about all the kern modules that are not needed and thus not loaded via that specialized kernel built just for that hardware configuration, talk about a clean implementation.
This way your running on less power hungry hardware, and running an OS that's much less power hungry to boot, and a kernel that only does what it needs for that top. You avoid the MS tax, you can get a 700Mhz for 999$, you get built in wifi (airport card an add 79$), you get the best battery life, plus Debian/GNU Linux which supports the hardware beautifully. Any na-sayers about Linux fonts need to run Gnome2.2 and then get back to me. Don't like Gnome? Install it for the fonts, and then run Fluxbox or Openbox. If you give it a try I doubt you'll be disappointed.
"AMD will relocate a substantial number of engineers to IBM's silicon development facility in Fishkill, N.Y., and joint development work will start later this month."
That's always a good news/bad news type of thing. Still, the fact that IBM/AMD are going to concentrate on SOI tells me that perhaps the newers AMD's will require less power, which can ONLY be a 'good thing'(tm)
is IE faster than Phoenix? seriously, that would be a comparision I'd like to see. also, if IE edged it out, you'd have to retest it every 6 months or so since Phoenix get's faster and faster as the days go on.
hey, Linux users, for more Phoenix speed plug this into yr ~/.phoenix/default/xxxxxxxx.xlt/user.js file:
// This one makes a huge difference. Last value in milliseconds (default is 250)
Yep, I get the error when trying it on Mozilla 0.9.5+ (2001101408) in Win2000 (after hacking the user.agent to allow Moz to view msn.com), IE 5.5 in Win2000, Netscape 4.77/Moz 0.9.5+ in Linux at home. Thanks for the assist, I just find it funny that they *say* it's compliant when it's not, and you're correct, I'm sure it is compliant with MSXHTML! Great 'standards'!
"All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard," said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, referring to the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry standards for Web technologies."
BUT if you run the W3C validator [http://validator.w3.org/] against MSN.com, it fails:
--
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.msn.com&ch ar set=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline
"Sorry, this document does not validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict."
--
Goodwill Computers in Austin, TX will take any donations. Tax rec is no problem.
Besides being for a good cause, this is a great place to go buy old parts for the Linux boxen you're working on, plus they have an AWESOME museum of old computers.
OS X only 'fairly' secure out of the box
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While doing some research on this, and eating Altoids, I found a 'Shareware' app for OS X called Brickhouse. Esentially it's a GUI for 'ipfw' to apply/change firewall rules under OS X. In the description it states:
While Mac OS X is fairly secure as installed, it also includes a powerful network traffic filter or firewall that can both prevent break-in attempts and keep your computer from being used in attack on another computer. Unfortunately, the default installation leaves it wide open, and you must manually 'add rules' or filters using a command line tool called ipfw. You need to use Terminal.app to do this.
So there you go, it won't be enough for Mommy or Daddy to install OS X, they'll need to configure ipfw, and in this case, they'll need a 25$ Shareware product to do it! Man, that bites. Will OS X users want/demand free software as we've come to appreciate under Linux? I for one can't go back. I'm looking for the time when source is taken from a GPL'd Linux app, and then 'carbonized' (with the pinstripe look) and then released as a 25$ shareware app for OS X.
Oh, and I'm already sick of the 'pinstripe' look of EVERY OS X app. Yeech!
Check my ping, I don't pay for Linux, I dnld it and use it for free. Yes I do have to burn it on to an.88 cent cdr, but I used my last copy to install Linux on five machines.
Maybe you should think before you drink.
Slashdot Mirror
Troll? I'll disagree in that I think the 'flamebait' rating of the parent is unwarranted. All options should be considered when articles are brought up. Again, as someone who has experience with both distros mentioned, I fail to see how I'm 'trolling' here.
Debian is a fine distro, but it's not for everyone.
CB
as a former user of Debian, and a now fulltime user of Gentoo, I say "mod parent up". because it's true.
CB
AWWWWW...I just got SP3 installed last night!
CB
funniest post I've seen in a long time! what other 'major' distros are out there? Red Hat? thanks for funny, funny post, you made me smile :).
former RH(5.0)->MDK->SLACK->DEBIAN user, now fulltime GENTOO user,
CB
haha, you borked the SuSE link too! You need to use the PREVIEW button before posting. :) Perhaps Gentoo isn't for you, but it sure is for me. Currently running 4 Gentoo boxes, 2 as desktops with Gnome. Over 5 years I've been through RH->MDK->DEB->SLACK and now I'm all set on Gentoo.
CB
that is the main reason folks like us will be waiting to compare the specs of this 'fastest ever...' to an AMD 32/64 equiped box.
CB
And there's not an installer since they signed a bad contract with InstallSheild, who doesn't have a Linux version.
;)
Incorrect, InstallShield has InstallShield Multiplatform which handles "[...] Mac OS X, OS/400, Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and all other OS platforms you target." It creates a Java Swing GUI (commandline available by using the -console switch) which I'm using at work to create installers for our apps. Our target archs are AIX, Solaris and Linux, you layout your app, then it creates the installers for whichever archs you choose. It's really pretty nice, if you don't mind waiting for the Java GUI to load.
CB
cookies? j/k.
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Cd Baby reports on itunes meeting re: indy music.
Posted by leflaw on June 6, 2003 at 7:44 AM EDT
Apple iTunes + independent music
I got an invitation to go to Apple's office for a presentation/meeting today (June 5, 2003) about how to get independent artists into the iTunes Music Store. There were about 150 people there, representatives from the best independent record labels and music services, in this invitation-only conference room. Steve Jobs came out and started a two and a half hour presentation/seminar/Q&A about iTunes and the benefits of independent labels making their music available there. I type fast and had my laptop, so I wrote down all the major points of their presentation as they went.
NOTE: I've skipped the super-basic introduction to iTunes and what it does, because that can be found so many other places. This is the stuff that I felt was most important to musicians:
The basics
* The basics of iTunes Music Store are covered in many places, so if you haven't used iTunes Music store yet, read these links first:
* Apple's iTunes Music Store website.
* Great video showing the service.
* NOTE: iTunes is not a website! It can only be accessed from the iTunes software run on Mac OS X (now) and Windows (by the end of the year.)
* I highly suggest trying it for yourself. If you don't have a Mac, use a friend's. Enter your credit card info and actually buy a song. Tell it to store your info for future purchases. Buy a few more songs with the one-click system. I'm serious. You should try it yourself to really experience how amazingly cool it is.
* They're using a DRM called Fairplay to make sure you can't put these songs on the internet and have them play on another player.
Current Stats:
* There are 6-7 million copies of iTunes in use.
* 3.5 million songs sold so far. Selling about 500,000 songs a week now.
* More than 75% of songs have sold at least once. There is a wide breadth in purchasing. This is not only fueled by hits.
* 45% of all songs have been bought as an album. In other words: don't worry about the death of the album format. 45% of people prefer to buy as an album anyway, even though they always have the option to only buy per-song.
* 90% of sales are 1-click downloads. (1-click is where customer has credit card stored on file, so that as soon as they click a song title, it starts downloading and their credit card is automatically charged.)
* 10 previews (free 30 second listen) for every purchase. Meaning: 10 listens per buy.
Price of music on iTunes
* Songs must be 99 cents each.
* Full albums are recommended to be $9.99 or lower.
* Album price must be less than or equal to the sum of their tracks. So if you have a 5-song album, it can't be more than $4.95 to buy the full-length album.
* Apple strongly recommends going even lower than $9.99. They'd like to see that price drop to make the full-album purchase even more desirable.
* Only exception: if a song is over 7 minutes long, they won't offer it as a separate download. It will be available as part of the album only.
* There is no cost to put your music on iTunes.
* There will be no up-front advance from Apple.
* Details on the wholesale price to the label will be mailed to us, later.
Sales report to SoundScan
* Apple is reporting all iTunes sales to SoundScan!
* SoundScan measures per-song not per-album.
* So if someone buys your whole album, each track on the album is reported as a song sale.
* SoundScan requested to do it that way. It was their idea, not Apple's.
About positioning and getting attention on iTunes
* Apple has hired an editorial staff with backgrounds in music to decide what gets featured.
* Editorial team makes decisions every day as to what goes where.
* Big labels don't get preferential treatment.
* "We pick music we like, and we think everyone else is going to like."
* "We've had a lot of people offer money", but Apple refuses money, and has no plan
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No kidding! My Apple //e had 64K, and now these iBooks only have TWICE that? After 20 years they should have made a bigger jump than that. (/me tries to image OS X booting with 128K)
:)
BTW:
CB
I've got a friend who just did just this, the support for the hardware is excellent. To na-sayers who will complain about Apple's proprietary hardware, it's actually an advantage here; without all sorts of wacky configurations to choose from, everything on the iBook is supported from network/sound/trackpad/function key maps/sleep/power savers/etc. Add to that the benh kernel and you'll really be moving. Think about all the kern modules that are not needed and thus not loaded via that specialized kernel built just for that hardware configuration, talk about a clean implementation.
This way your running on less power hungry hardware, and running an OS that's much less power hungry to boot, and a kernel that only does what it needs for that top. You avoid the MS tax, you can get a 700Mhz for 999$, you get built in wifi (airport card an add 79$), you get the best battery life, plus Debian/GNU Linux which supports the hardware beautifully. Any na-sayers about Linux fonts need to run Gnome2.2 and then get back to me. Don't like Gnome? Install it for the fonts, and then run Fluxbox or Openbox. If you give it a try I doubt you'll be disappointed.
CB
Arrested for Misspelling Compus on Slashdot
CB
agreed, the first thing I saw was the controller, it was a dead ringer for SNES. I think this person is trying to have a little fun with us.
Cho, Mike Cho
That's always a good news/bad news type of thing. Still, the fact that IBM/AMD are going to concentrate on SOI tells me that perhaps the newers AMD's will require less power, which can ONLY be a 'good thing'(tm)
Chuck Bucket
"...and AMD makes great ships"
/.!
3 8
really? then you make great ghosts on
Here's a better link for this story: (moderators, please follow link)
http://www.eetimes.com/semi/news/OEG20030108S00
Mike Cho
hey, Linux users, for more Phoenix speed plug this into yr ~/.phoenix/default/xxxxxxxx.xlt/user.js file:
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
CB
Yep, I get the error when trying it on Mozilla 0.9.5+ (2001101408) in Win2000 (after hacking the user.agent to allow Moz to view msn.com), IE 5.5 in Win2000, Netscape 4.77/Moz 0.9.5+ in Linux at home. Thanks for the assist, I just find it funny that they *say* it's compliant when it's not, and you're correct, I'm sure it is compliant with MSXHTML! Great 'standards'!
So, Microsoft says:
h ar set=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline
"All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard," said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, referring to the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry standards for Web technologies."
BUT if you run the W3C validator [http://validator.w3.org/] against MSN.com, it fails:
--
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.msn.com&c
"Sorry, this document does not validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict."
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Please explain this to me.
Besides being for a good cause, this is a great place to go buy old parts for the Linux boxen you're working on, plus they have an AWESOME museum of old computers.
Chuck Bucket
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(is sick)
http://goodwillcomputerworks.net/museum/index.html
The Comadore PET is where I started.
http://goodwillcomputerworks.net/museum/index.html
- While Mac OS X is fairly secure as installed, it also includes a powerful network traffic filter or firewall that can both prevent break-in attempts and keep your computer from being used in attack on another computer. Unfortunately, the default installation leaves it wide open, and you must manually 'add rules' or filters using a command line tool called ipfw. You need to use Terminal.app to do this.
So there you go, it won't be enough for Mommy or Daddy to install OS X, they'll need to configure ipfw, and in this case, they'll need a 25$ Shareware product to do it! Man, that bites. Will OS X users want/demand free software as we've come to appreciate under Linux? I for one can't go back. I'm looking for the time when source is taken from a GPL'd Linux app, and then 'carbonized' (with the pinstripe look) and then released as a 25$ shareware app for OS X.Oh, and I'm already sick of the 'pinstripe' look of EVERY OS X app. Yeech!
Chuck Bucket
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Check my ping, I don't pay for Linux, I dnld it and use it for free. Yes I do have to burn it on to an .88 cent cdr, but I used my last copy to install Linux on five machines.
Maybe you should think before you drink.
Chuck Bucket
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