Metadata/Search based filesystems are based on the assumption that users do not know where their files are. I do, you do and for those who don't, no amount of programming wizardry is going to help them in the long run. Ultimatly they will have to learn how to organise their files, just like they have to learn to type,use the mouse and browse the web. And in reality, most people do eventually learn how to organise their files, if they use computers enough. And if they don't, our regular searches will be of use to them with only minor improvements. It's tough, but consider the search results that 'Find my Accounts for Acme Corp. for the third quarter of last year' brings up on the shared drive for even a medium sized accounting department after only a year.
Well I work in an office and most the people there are not Uber oganized people and something like this would help them. They either end up loosing a copy of a presentation or something and I have to seach the server for it (they often are not sure of the name even) or we end up with a dozen nearly identical dupiclates of a 150MB presentation in a dozen different places because everybody pulls it up and then has to save a copy in their own directory.
They have been promissing WinFS since NT 4.0 and it ends up being pushed out till the "next release". It was orginally part of Cairo and got dropped and we got the OK but not spectacular NT 4.0.
This is easy to cover in existing PC games (especially modded ones -- who knows, iD games might already have this), it's a bit more difficult for console games. Specifically, you would need to create a utility that "tapes" the game, in a replayable, demo format. From that point on, a spectator should be able to access that feed and basically see it from any angle, including pause, rewind, fast-forward, and preferably, some sort of slo-mo to get that hip* Matrix style everyone is talking about.
Well on UT2003/2004 you can do server side demo recording that captures all the action and then replay it from any point of view you desire.
Though the last couple patches to 2004 partially broke demo recording.
I just about choked when I saw the word "company" and "98SE" in the same sentence, here in 2004.
I can see it happening on a couple of legacy systems spread around a company, but to have an entire company on it? Jesus - and I thought the company I worked for was behind!
Yeah well we are still using Win 95 and DOS 6.22 for shop floor related stuff because it won't run on anything newer. Try dealing with 100 DOS systems every day... OH I don't have to they don't crash except when there is a hardware issue.
Yes, the office PCs are W2K and the servers run Linux & Netware and are relatively modern.
Max Payne & Max Payne 2 run under WineX along with several others.
No, you won't be able to play the majority of A titles under linux.
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redhat Server costs $350 a year and can be compared to, say, Microsoft Small Busines Server which is a snip at $1,250. Yet MS shops are undercutting you?
With microsoft you supposedly are paying for the life of the product. In a small office it probably can be cheaper to pay $1250 once than to pay $350/Yr for RHEL. If you talking about just file and print serving for a small office (5-10 people) then MS is cheaper after two years.
If the price was $350 for the life of the product or even $600 it would not be a problem. I do have an issue with what I feel is leasing software which is in effect what RH is doing.
I run one of the clan's game servers. I had the demo server up and running about 40-50 minutes after finding out that it was released, half of that was downloading the server package on the box remotely using wget.
The other server admins where "What the heck, how can you do that remotely?". They are all running flavors of windows, and the idea of remote administration (from about 300 miles away) is like weird!
Yeah Onslaught the half dozen members that had downloaded the demo played that till the wee hours of the morning. Alot more fun team game than TDM.
I still use a TI-35Plus calculator because it's much easier than launching a calculator application when I need to do some quick hex/binary/decimal or other simple calculation.
HP was going to kill their calculator line, but last I heard they gave it a reprieve and are introducing some new models.
The ExecPC BBS has been pulled by CoreComm (the company that bought the company that bought the orginal ExecPC) and it's been down most of 2003.
The upnote is one of the orginals apparenlty has the hardware and is in the process of setting up a new home for it and plans on having it up and running again sometime later this month. So the BBS that used to bill themselves as "The world's largest bbs" back in early 90s will live again.
Hmmmm, similar memories downloading demos & music from a BBS called "The Sound Board" if I remember correctly. Downloaded MODs, STMs, 699s and a hand full of other formats (ROLs and forget what else).
Thankfully there still is a demoscene around, though it has maybe lost a bit of the orginal flavor. You can listen to some of the old & new tunes at http://www.scenemusic.net/.
I've used FreeDOS at home & work for flashing BIOS's and have not had an issue. You just need to be sure no XMS, EMS, or UMBPCI TSRs are loaded.
Some single disk version will load one or more of these (usually XMS) and this can cause a small risk of causing issues, but so can MS-DOS/Win9x boot disk with HIMEM or EMM386 loaded.
Maybe not, but it would still be nice with a site where people interested in the art of music could get a place to introduce themselves on and host their music on. I liked mp3.com originally, but then it got a radical layout change so it became very hard to navigate the site IMHO (talking about the most recent layout with black background making it look like a bad porn site and not professional and clean at all).
Well you could try the Internet Underground Music Archive http://www.iuma.com/... it's been around longer than MP3.com I believe, just does not have the mindshare.
Now, how to go about getting them to sell my band's music on the store? Since we don't have a label, the split of sales would be a bit different, I'd assume there would have to be a different deal structure worked out. Does anyone else here on/. have an indie band, and have you tried to deal with iTunes? Any experiences/comments would be most welcome...
As far as I know Apple is only dealing with record copanies, since it's a pain to deal with individual bands. Apple could indirectly get into some *more* legal tussles with Apple Records than they are now.
If your an indy band without a label you can try CD-Baby they have cut a deal so that indy artists can go though them to seel on ITMS. You can read about it here and here.
That is a good idea, except in the fact that the artists that are represented (if you can call it that) by the RIAA have contracts with the RIAA saying they can't do just that. That is like me going to you, saying you market my new software for me. You say OK, here is your 15 year exclusive contract so only Brendan Byrd & Co. can market your software, and we pay you 2% of the profit.
If another company comes to me tomorrow and says Brendon Byrd & Co. is ripping you off, we will give you 25%, it would be breach of contract if I go with them before the original terms of the contract (15 years in this case) are completed.
This is exacly why some artists that would like to release MP3s copies of their songs can't... they would breach their contract and the record company would sue them.
The thing is many band's can't resist the temptation of the money & glamour of getting a top 40 song, and the only way to do that is with a RIAA label. For some the deal works out, for others they get screwed and end up owing the company money in the end.
Sounds like the GNN "Global Network Navigator" service that they offered 7-8 years ago. That was supposed to be their internet only ISP arm... don't know why it died other than possibly lack of interest on the customer side.
The one product that I really liked was NAVIpress... a really decent WYSIWYG web browser that let you publish directly to your personal web site.
I don't understand your issue with the GPL, the company by using & distributing a GPL derived product has to agree by the terms. This is no different than any other EULA by Microsoft, Oracle or other software vendor. Would you write a similar anti-Microsoft article because of the BSA's (Business Software Alliance) raids on Schools & Businesses forcing them to pay up for unlicensed versions of their products, or worse yet shipping counterfeit versions of Windows & Office?
When you use a piece of software there are certain limitations as to what you can do with it based on copyright. The GPL gives the right to do some additional things that normally you would not be allowed to do with somebody else's copyrighted work. You get the right to redistribute it and make derivative copies, the "fee" charged for such rights is that you must release the source code for the derivative work. If Lynksys/Cisco did not want to live with this restriction then they should have either licensed their OS for the router from a traditional vendor, or used an OS licensed under a BSD type license that puts no restrictions on derivative works.
I understand that some companies don't quite understand what the terms of the GPL are, and think that they can do whatever they want with the software. Like any other contract they should have done proper research before agreeing to the contract, and so should not be complaining about having to live up to the terms.
IE is simple (mostly), but there's LOTS of room for improvement. It's no longer the best browser by any measure.
Yeah about the only thing done better in IE than Mozilla/Firebird is how it excludes sites from proxies via wildcards.
If not everything on your local network is in DNS you end up adding a bunch of IPs or Names to the exclusion list. With IE I can have 192.168.* as an exclusion and all local IPs are excluded.
IE is simple (mostly), but there's LOTS of room for improvement. It's no longer the best browser by any measure.
Yeah about the only thing I like the way that IE does is how it excludes sites from proxies via wildcards.
If not everything is in DNS you end up adding a bunch of IPs or Names to the exclusion list. With IE I can have 192.168.* as an exclusion and all local IPs are excluded.
Isnt there a loss of patent if unused or unenforced?
Ummm that's trademarks.... about the only way it helps in patents is reducing the damages. If it can be shown that the patent was intentionally un-enforced for a significant period of time to increased the possible income from "damages" then it is taken into account I believe.
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I honestly don't remember what my first version of Slackware was, except that it came on a CD in the back of the first edition of Slackware Unleashed, back in 1997. It worked fine on my 486/66 with 8 MB RAM. And it feels like so long ago...
Similar thing here... I think it was slackware 3.0 that I received with my copy of "Linux Unleashed" 2nd edition. Was running Win 3.1 on a 486-33 with 8MB RAM dual booting to linux on my second 420MB hard drive.
Was fun... played with it a bit but did not get serious till I started playing with Redhat 4.2... which I put on our first Intranet server at work. I don't think that term was even coined yet.
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Oh yeah ... Linux will have WinFS before MS does.
They have been promissing WinFS since NT 4.0 and it ends up being pushed out till the "next release". It was orginally part of Cairo and got dropped and we got the OK but not spectacular NT 4.0.
Well on UT2003/2004 you can do server side demo recording that captures all the action and then replay it from any point of view you desire.
Though the last couple patches to 2004 partially broke demo recording.
Yeah well we are still using Win 95 and DOS 6.22 for shop floor related stuff because it won't run on anything newer. Try dealing with 100 DOS systems every day
Yes, the office PCs are W2K and the servers run Linux & Netware and are relatively modern.
Max Payne & Max Payne 2 run under WineX along with several others.
No, you won't be able to play the majority of A titles under linux.
With microsoft you supposedly are paying for the life of the product. In a small office it probably can be cheaper to pay $1250 once than to pay $350/Yr for RHEL. If you talking about just file and print serving for a small office (5-10 people) then MS is cheaper after two years.
If the price was $350 for the life of the product or even $600 it would not be a problem. I do have an issue with what I feel is leasing software which is in effect what RH is doing.
The other server admins where "What the heck, how can you do that remotely?". They are all running flavors of windows, and the idea of remote administration (from about 300 miles away) is like weird!
Yeah Onslaught the half dozen members that had downloaded the demo played that till the wee hours of the morning. Alot more fun team game than TDM.
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HP was going to kill their calculator line, but last I heard they gave it a reprieve and are introducing some new models.
The upnote is one of the orginals apparenlty has the hardware and is in the process of setting up a new home for it and plans on having it up and running again sometime later this month. So the BBS that used to bill themselves as "The world's largest bbs" back in early 90s will live again.
Thankfully there still is a demoscene around, though it has maybe lost a bit of the orginal flavor. You can listen to some of the old & new tunes at http://www.scenemusic.net/.
Some single disk version will load one or more of these (usually XMS) and this can cause a small risk of causing issues, but so can MS-DOS/Win9x boot disk with HIMEM or EMM386 loaded.
Well you could try the Internet Underground Music Archive http://www.iuma.com/ ... it's been around longer than MP3.com I believe, just does not have the mindshare.
If your an indy band without a label you can try CD-Baby they have cut a deal so that indy artists can go though them to seel on ITMS. You can read about it here and here.
You could contact CD-Baby to find out more.
This is exacly why some artists that would like to release MP3s copies of their songs can't
The thing is many band's can't resist the temptation of the money & glamour of getting a top 40 song, and the only way to do that is with a RIAA label. For some the deal works out, for others they get screwed and end up owing the company money in the end.
The one product that I really liked was NAVIpress ... a really decent WYSIWYG web browser that let you publish directly to your personal web site.
here was mine....
I don't understand your issue with the GPL, the company by using & distributing a GPL derived product has to agree by the terms. This is no different than any other EULA by Microsoft, Oracle or other software vendor. Would you write a similar anti-Microsoft article because of the BSA's (Business Software Alliance) raids on Schools & Businesses forcing them to pay up for unlicensed versions of their products, or worse yet shipping counterfeit versions of Windows & Office?
When you use a piece of software there are certain limitations as to what you can do with it based on copyright. The GPL gives the right to do some additional things that normally you would not be allowed to do with somebody else's copyrighted work. You get the right to redistribute it and make derivative copies, the "fee" charged for such rights is that you must release the source code for the derivative work. If Lynksys/Cisco did not want to live with this restriction then they should have either licensed their OS for the router from a traditional vendor, or used an OS licensed under a BSD type license that puts no restrictions on derivative works.
I understand that some companies don't quite understand what the terms of the GPL are, and think that they can do whatever they want with the software. Like any other contract they should have done proper research before agreeing to the contract, and so should not be complaining about having to live up to the terms.
If not everything on your local network is in DNS you end up adding a bunch of IPs or Names to the exclusion list. With IE I can have 192.168.* as an exclusion and all local IPs are excluded.
If not everything is in DNS you end up adding a bunch of IPs or Names to the exclusion list. With IE I can have 192.168.* as an exclusion and all local IPs are excluded.
this page you will see the following stupid comment...
Two dumb things about this...
1. UT2003 is made by Epic
2. UT2003 was a premier product that AMD was showing off as a 64bit application running under SUSE linux on the Opteron when it was released.
Two big mistakes
I'm just glad that Feingold voted against it in the Setate ... one of the few decent people on the hill, wish Kohl would have voted against it also.
Was fun ... played with it a bit but did not get serious till I started playing with Redhat 4.2 ... which I put on our first Intranet server at work. I don't think that term was even coined yet.
- subsolar