I've been using it for about a month and love it. I love the price too, it's FREE as in somethingrather.. And it not only works with perl, but also with C++, PHP, Python, HTML.. and a ton more.. even text files look better!
I life in the SF Bay Area, but lived in L.A. before, and one thing I have found that is very true, this is something that was pointed out to me while I lived in L.A. by a friend of mine. In Southern California, they spend a lot of time hating Bay Area people, and they claim that the feeling is mutual. Having been raised here, I knew this was a false statement.
Well, now when I go to digg (which I have been doing for a few months), every chance someone gets to put down/. seems to be taken. They're always going on about how digg is just so much better.. and how/.ers hate digg.. umm.. grow up, no one hates you.. and yes, it is just you!!
While I am glad that Yahoo worked for you, let me tell you all/.'ers my story.
We start off by downloading their software to my gaming machine, since they do not support Linux. I went ahead and installed the software and proceeded to sign up for their Y! Unlimited. Forked out $59.88 for the yearly option (the $4.99 per month is only that price if you pay for the year in advance).
So then I start browsing their library, find a couple of songs I liked and wanted to actually purchase them. So I go ahead and purchase the songs for $.79 cents each (3 songs) and I see the system downloading the songs. Suddenly there's an error, it asks me if it should retry or cancel. Of course I tell it to retry.... this goes on about 15 times.. one of the other options is to contact customer support.. yes, that great redirection to a page where you are told that it might be up to 7 days before they get back to you...
I looked and looked all over the place for some sort of "quicker" tech support, finally found an email address and started working with them, one email a day.. 5 days later we still cannot get my system to download, or let alone play any individual songs on my system. I can listen to the radio stations on the site, but I cannot listen/download/purchase individual songs.. I am then refered to their billing department since it is obvious their service will not work on my machine, they of course need to verify all my information and again another day goes by. By the time I got a reply from them, it had been over 10 days I had been batling with this..
The email I received back from Yahoo's Music Service simply read "We are sorry, but we do not give refunds, as agreed to by you when you signed up for our service.".. nice...
So here I am, out $59.88, out $2.37 (3 songs), no music, no songs, no desire to ever do business with Yahoo again.
While I am glad the system worked for you, be careful of what you add to your computer.. if some software you need conflicts with your yahoo music system, then you're SOL..
-thrillbert --- To err is human, to give refunds is not company policy.
Below is the set of emails of when MS tried to recruit me. Read from bottom up since that's how the emails were actually sent.
----- Original Message ----- From: James Hunt To: 'Mauricio ' Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 9:46 AM Subject: RE: UNIX Opportunities at Microsoft - WebTV
Thank you for the quick reply. I respect an individual that sticks to their morals. Take care.
James
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mauricio [mailto:mauricio@xxxx.com%5D > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 1:51 PM > To: James Hunt > Subject: Re: UNIX Opportunities at Microsoft - WebTV > > > James > > Thank you for taking the time to look at my resume and to send me the > description for this job. Unfortunately, being an advocate of open source, > it would be against my morals to work for the Anti-Christ. But I do > appreciate you having taken the time to email me. > > Regards, > Mauricio > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: James Hunt > To: > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:15 PM > Subject: UNIX Opportunities at Microsoft - WebTV > > > > Hi Mauricio, > > > > I am interested in your background for our full-time UNIX/Solaris sys. > admin > > position at Mircosoft. > > > > This position is within the Network Operations Center of our WebTV > division > > which is a 100% Solaris shop, supporting more than 1 million subscribers. > > We are located at the brand new Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in > Mountain > > View, along with several other Microsoft divisions (5 buildings). > > > > If you are interested, I would like to set up a time for us to speak via > > phone. Simply reply to this message or call me at (650) 693 3542. > > > > I have also attached the job description. > > > > > Kindest Regards, > > > > James > > > > > > James Hunt > > Microsoft - WebTV > > Technical Recruiter > > http://www.webtv.com/ > > http://www.microsoft.com/
Probably nobody uses DVD-Audio. The effort spent cracking the copy protection will be proportional to the popularity of the medium.
You are correct! Perfect example would be SCO Unix.. there hasn't been a bug in that system in years.. maybe because the only people still using it is the SCO Group...
You obviously did not take a look at their software and some of the presentations available on their site.
Let me just give you the one feature which I think makes this extremely useful:
1) The ability to highlight the area of a graph and paste it into a spreadsheet and having it show up as real data, not graphics.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a CLI type of guy, but the truth is that we live in a graphical world, and I get paid to provide users what they need to make their jobs easier.. I'm pretty sure this will help them.
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There are no data that cannot be plotted on a straight line if the axis are chosen correctly.
I love that headline.. a patch to fix problems.. great.. I'll apply it to my marriage, my job, my car, my bank account (too little money could be a problem).. and I'll apply it twice to my teenage daughter for better results..
I knew eventually microsoft would do something right...
Pretty interesting topic you have chosen, and one that not many people even think about. I know that I have not thought about this, or at least, not in this sense.
As any normal individual, I have a certain level of stress in my life. Both at work with a boss that refuses to recognize my contributions, and at home dealing with the teenager of the house who refuses to accept my authority.. for the most part, I would say that the technology in my house (3 servers, 1 desktop and 1 laptop, all mine!@#!@$) relieves some of this stress and tension. I love to sit down in front of my computer and play xpatience or pacman after an argument, and at work, I love to spend my day reading/. of course.
So even though in these scenarios computers help relieve the stress, there are situations where the technology creates a lot more stress than we need, such is the case when things don't work as advertised.. or when that hardware keeps failing but you cannot duplicate it.. or maybe when no matter what you try, you can't get that program running/compiled..
So I would think that depending on the type of work that you do on your system, it is either a stress reliever or a stress source..
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Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
thanks to the clamav folks, and thanks to open source
I'm glad to hear that. Personally, I use MyMail wrapper with SpamAssasin.. but funny enough, I've yet to receive even a single email with the virus.. could be related to my friend filter, which unfortunately, I cannot share the source code to that..;)
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You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today.
Music and XML, two formats I can't read worth a damn coming together in one great package...
I guess it's time to read up on XML and learn what all this hoopla is about! <g>
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If that statement is true, then you must have stolen it because you can't seem to be able to put a proper sentence together:
have always to be made by laywers
How about always have to be made by lawyers or maybe have to always be made by a lawyer.
Even if the original threat if fraudulent
I assume you were going for IS instead of IF.. good try though, keep working at it and maybe they'll let you clean up some old test papers off the floor at the next Mensa meeting...
You know, a lot of friends and colleagues have been laughing at me when I tell them that Mac is the new force to be reckoned with. I've been watching them for a little while now and ever since they integrated FreeBSD into their OS, they've taken on a new direction which seems a lot more proffitable.
Don't get me wrong, I still have my two Linux and two OpenBSD boxes at home along with the obligatory windows boxes for the wife, daughter and gaming.. but you know what? I'd love to get my hands on one of them OS X boxes..
If you don't think I'm right.. that's your opinion.. but I know if I had OS X experience, I might be able to get a job Here!
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No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
Here's your pizza box working as a mail server taking care of all my spam:
OpenBSD 3.1 (GENERIC) #27: Wed Apr 17 13:52:53 MDT 2002
deraadt@sparc.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/ compile/GENERIC
real mem = 66781184
avail mem = 58892288
using 200 buffers containing 3338240 bytes of memory
bootpath:/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,SPARCstation-5
cpu0 at mainbus0: MB86904 @ 70 MHz, on-chip FPU
cpu0: 16K instruction (32 b/l), 8K data (16 b/l) cache enabled
I've only had to reboot it once in the past year, and that's because I was cleaning my garage this past weekend.. otherwise, it runs very much like my refrigerator.. I never have to even think about it.
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A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
-- Edgar A. Shoaff
Slashdot Mirror
I've been using it for about a month and love it. I love the price too, it's FREE as in somethingrather.. And it not only works with perl, but also with C++, PHP, Python, HTML.. and a ton more.. even text files look better!
http://www.pspad.com
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The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away.
I life in the SF Bay Area, but lived in L.A. before, and one thing I have found that is very true, this is something that was pointed out to me while I lived in L.A. by a friend of mine. In Southern California, they spend a lot of time hating Bay Area people, and they claim that the feeling is mutual. Having been raised here, I knew this was a false statement.
/. seems to be taken. They're always going on about how digg is just so much better.. and how /.ers hate digg.. umm.. grow up, no one hates you.. and yes, it is just you!!
Well, now when I go to digg (which I have been doing for a few months), every chance someone gets to put down
While I am glad that Yahoo worked for you, let me tell you all /.'ers my story.
We start off by downloading their software to my gaming machine, since they do not support Linux. I went ahead and installed the software and proceeded to sign up for their Y! Unlimited. Forked out $59.88 for the yearly option (the $4.99 per month is only that price if you pay for the year in advance).
So then I start browsing their library, find a couple of songs I liked and wanted to actually purchase them. So I go ahead and purchase the songs for $.79 cents each (3 songs) and I see the system downloading the songs. Suddenly there's an error, it asks me if it should retry or cancel. Of course I tell it to retry.... this goes on about 15 times.. one of the other options is to contact customer support.. yes, that great redirection to a page where you are told that it might be up to 7 days before they get back to you...
I looked and looked all over the place for some sort of "quicker" tech support, finally found an email address and started working with them, one email a day.. 5 days later we still cannot get my system to download, or let alone play any individual songs on my system. I can listen to the radio stations on the site, but I cannot listen/download/purchase individual songs.. I am then refered to their billing department since it is obvious their service will not work on my machine, they of course need to verify all my information and again another day goes by. By the time I got a reply from them, it had been over 10 days I had been batling with this..
The email I received back from Yahoo's Music Service simply read "We are sorry, but we do not give refunds, as agreed to by you when you signed up for our service.".. nice...
So here I am, out $59.88, out $2.37 (3 songs), no music, no songs, no desire to ever do business with Yahoo again.
While I am glad the system worked for you, be careful of what you add to your computer.. if some software you need conflicts with your yahoo music system, then you're SOL..
-thrillbert
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To err is human, to give refunds is not company policy.
Below is the set of emails of when MS tried to recruit me. Read from bottom up since that's how the emails were actually sent.
----- Original Message -----
From: James Hunt
To: 'Mauricio '
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: UNIX Opportunities at Microsoft - WebTV
Thank you for the quick reply. I respect an individual that sticks to
their morals. Take care.
James
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mauricio [mailto:mauricio@xxxx.com%5D
> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 1:51 PM
> To: James Hunt
> Subject: Re: UNIX Opportunities at Microsoft - WebTV
>
>
> James
>
> Thank you for taking the time to look at my resume and to send me the
> description for this job. Unfortunately, being an advocate of open source,
> it would be against my morals to work for the Anti-Christ. But I do
> appreciate you having taken the time to email me.
>
> Regards,
> Mauricio
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Hunt
> To:
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:15 PM
> Subject: UNIX Opportunities at Microsoft - WebTV
>
>
> > Hi Mauricio,
> >
> > I am interested in your background for our full-time UNIX/Solaris sys.
> admin
> > position at Mircosoft.
> >
> > This position is within the Network Operations Center of our WebTV
> division
> > which is a 100% Solaris shop, supporting more than 1 million
subscribers.
> > We are located at the brand new Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in
> Mountain
> > View, along with several other Microsoft divisions (5 buildings).
> >
> > If you are interested, I would like to set up a time for us to speak via
> > phone. Simply reply to this message or call me at (650) 693 3542.
> >
> > I have also attached the job description. >
> >
> > Kindest Regards,
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> > James Hunt
> > Microsoft - WebTV
> > Technical Recruiter
> > http://www.webtv.com/
> > http://www.microsoft.com/
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Film at 11!
Tom Cruise will have to go in a re-dub the Top Gun Movie to say:
I'm too close for Missles Goose, I'm switching to Lasers!
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Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
Probably nobody uses DVD-Audio. The effort spent cracking the copy protection will be proportional to the popularity of the medium.
You are correct! Perfect example would be SCO Unix.. there hasn't been a bug in that system in years.. maybe because the only people still using it is the SCO Group...
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Hi Mom!
Let me just give you the one feature which I think makes this extremely useful:
Don't get me wrong. I'm a CLI type of guy, but the truth is that we live in a graphical world, and I get paid to provide users what they need to make their jobs easier.. I'm pretty sure this will help them.
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There are no data that cannot be plotted on a straight line if the axis are chosen correctly.
As a ferniture deliverer I see a problem
/. reader could be a furniture delivery person... then I looked at his spelling..
For just a second I read the above line and wondered how a
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Collaboration, n.:
A literary partnership based on the false assumption that the other fellow can spell.
Is Dennis Quaid driving it?
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There's a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad it's not a fence.
For some reason it just sounded funny.. logistical.. sounds like preventative or retentative for that matter...
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There are three things I always forget. Names, faces -- the third I can't remember.
They get viruses when you ship them? Maybe sealing the box a little better could help?
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Antonym, n.:
Scenario:
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Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a policeman's tie.
...oh..oohhh...oooohhhhh...aaaahhhh.. command.
Regards,
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"Two sure ways to tell a sexy male; the first is, he has a bad memory. I forget the second."
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"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets"
I knew eventually microsoft would do something right...
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Universe, n.:
It shuts down the instant you bring it online. To conserve energy.
Now I'm really going to have to wait for a bathroom stall to open up.. portable pr0n.. just what we all needed...
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How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
Good catch.. but no, I now read
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Vail's Second Axiom:
Pretty interesting topic you have chosen, and one that not many people even think about. I know that I have not thought about this, or at least, not in this sense.
/. of course.
As any normal individual, I have a certain level of stress in my life. Both at work with a boss that refuses to recognize my contributions, and at home dealing with the teenager of the house who refuses to accept my authority.. for the most part, I would say that the technology in my house (3 servers, 1 desktop and 1 laptop, all mine!@#!@$) relieves some of this stress and tension. I love to sit down in front of my computer and play xpatience or pacman after an argument, and at work, I love to spend my day reading
So even though in these scenarios computers help relieve the stress, there are situations where the technology creates a lot more stress than we need, such is the case when things don't work as advertised.. or when that hardware keeps failing but you cannot duplicate it.. or maybe when no matter what you try, you can't get that program running/compiled..
So I would think that depending on the type of work that you do on your system, it is either a stress reliever or a stress source..
---
Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
thanks to the clamav folks, and thanks to open source
;)
I'm glad to hear that. Personally, I use MyMail wrapper with SpamAssasin.. but funny enough, I've yet to receive even a single email with the virus.. could be related to my friend filter, which unfortunately, I cannot share the source code to that..
---
You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today.
I guess it's time to read up on XML and learn what all this hoopla is about! <g>
---
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Wow.. that's a very impressive list, except that you missed the two most important things that are needed:
Damn dot commers.. ran the economy down to the ground and they still want to put the carriage before the horse.
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The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie. -- Lenny Bruce
Proud owner of a Mensa membership card.
If that statement is true, then you must have stolen it because you can't seem to be able to put a proper sentence together:
have always to be made by laywers
How about always have to be made by lawyers or maybe have to always be made by a lawyer.
Even if the original threat if fraudulent
I assume you were going for IS instead of IF.. good try though, keep working at it and maybe they'll let you clean up some old test papers off the floor at the next Mensa meeting...
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To please try to keep up!
You know, a lot of friends and colleagues have been laughing at me when I tell them that Mac is the new force to be reckoned with. I've been watching them for a little while now and ever since they integrated FreeBSD into their OS, they've taken on a new direction which seems a lot more proffitable.
Don't get me wrong, I still have my two Linux and two OpenBSD boxes at home along with the obligatory windows boxes for the wife, daughter and gaming.. but you know what? I'd love to get my hands on one of them OS X boxes..
If you don't think I'm right.. that's your opinion.. but I know if I had OS X experience, I might be able to get a job Here!
---
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
Here's your pizza box working as a mail server taking care of all my spam:
/ compile/GENERIC /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000 /esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0
OpenBSD 3.1 (GENERIC) #27: Wed Apr 17 13:52:53 MDT 2002
deraadt@sparc.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc
real mem = 66781184
avail mem = 58892288
using 200 buffers containing 3338240 bytes of memory
bootpath:
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,SPARCstation-5
cpu0 at mainbus0: MB86904 @ 70 MHz, on-chip FPU
cpu0: 16K instruction (32 b/l), 8K data (16 b/l) cache enabled
I've only had to reboot it once in the past year, and that's because I was cleaning my garage this past weekend.. otherwise, it runs very much like my refrigerator.. I never have to even think about it.
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A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
-- Edgar A. Shoaff