Try mldonkey. It's had most of these features for ages. Remote access via web or telnet , supports several networks including edonkey/emule, bittorrent, kazaa/fasttrack, soulseek, gnutella, and probably some other obscure ones that I've never used. It's been opensource since day one.
I agree, Sony missed a big opportunity here. Perhaps it was just before its time, MD-DATA showed up in 1994 before most people needed so much storage. The first drive they introduced cost $769, and very few were sold. There is a list of all the MD-DATA devices here. most of them are digital cameras, there are a few PC drives at the bottom of the page. You can still buy the data discs at Minidisco for $12.99 each... pretty steep for 140 megabytes. It seems like a format that came too early and was too expensive combined with almost no marketing at all by Sony. It never came down in price and never caught on.
That's exactly why these companies like to use rebates. They attract you with a rebate, but they know half of the people will be too lazy, lose the receipt, forget to mail it in, etc. Personally, I've never had to deal with any fraudulant rebates. Sometimes they are slow, but I've always gotten the money eventually. Slow rebates are better than no rebates.
He's not talking about the US. In many countries you can not apply for credit via mail. The fact that you can do it in the US surprises many non-americans.
I'm an American living in France and I can say that France Telecom has done a very good job of rolling out DSL. I live in a town of 7,000 people which isn't near any large cities and I can get DSL. Most of the smaller villages around here have access as well. You have to go to the most rural of areas to be without broadband.
Also worth mentioning is that cable internet is only available in a handful of the larger cities in France. I suspect most of Europe is the same way. Over here, if you pay for TV it's satelite.
The problem with this is that pornography laws are very different all over the world. For example, in the Netherlands the legal age for participation in porn is 16. So lets say there is a Dutch webserver with pictures of 16 year olds. This is perfectly legal, and the Dutch ISP has no reason not to allow it. A site like this would be labeled as kiddie porn in the US, and any non-porn content on the server could be blocked as well.
The site is very low on details, but on the linuxjack site it says that you can receive calls. It does not explain how this works though. Do you get a real phone number? Can you only receive calls from other microtelco users? I would use this in a second if you could get a real phone number in the country/area of your choice.
So the guy used a bad example, but he had the right idea. Let's say I throw my snickers wrapper in a trash can somewhere. The guy who empties this trash can wasn't careful and spilled a few things. So now I can get fined for his littering? Second example, I purchase a snickers bar and give it to a friend. Later, the firend eats the candy bar and throws the wrapper out of the window of his car. Should I be fined for this? There are a lot of ways trash can end up on the ground, and not all of them will be the original purchaser's fault.
Why would you want to use this on a Pentium 3? The kit costs $250. If you're going to spend that kind of money you might as well by a new board and an Athlon/Pentium 4. I can only see 2 reasons to use this.
This is true. I only have one CD-EXTRA disc. It's extremely lame. You put the disc into your CD-ROM and all it does is pop up a picture of the artist with a button to click which is just a link to his website. I'm not sure why this couldn't be accomplished just by printing the URL on the cover, but it doesn't seem to be any sort of copy protection to me. The disc plays fine on every CD player I have, and I was able to rip MP3's from it.
Are there differences between the R1 and R2 releases? I bought the R2 French edition when it was released in October, and I thought it was mediocre at best. Only the first of the three films has a commentary track, and it's not very good. It's basically an interview about random things. It could have been it's own feature, because it's not related to what's being shown on the screen at all. No commentary at all for the second and third films. The deleted scenes were interesting, but on my DVD there are no commentary tracks for them. The "making of" stuff wasn't bad, but it was basically saying the same stuff over and over again, just like the comentary track. I still had plenty of questions about plot holes etc after watching the DVDs. I thought about waiting for the R1 release, but as a BTTF fan I had to get it right away. Is the R1 release really as good as the reviewer says?
When I was a kid my parents gave a couple of these to me for Christmas. As lame as they may sound, they were actually fun. One of them was a Noah's Ark game. You were sent to different levels to collect animals with a lot of obstacles in the way. The birds were tough! The other game had something to do with Moses, but I don't remember much else. They came on blue cartridges which were obviously not authorized by Nintendo. Are these actually worth anything? They're probably still down in my parents' basement somewhere.
Has anyone actually found the xtunes software useful? I tried it out a few weeks ago in my never ending search for a good Linux mp3 player. I had major problems with the latest (0.30) version. By default, xtunes wants to move all of your mp3's into its own "database", which is just ~/.xtunes/library - a real pain in the ass when you have 60 gigs of well-sorted mp3's (I did figure out how to change this though). I can create playlists, but I can not find any way to add songs to them. There is no documentation, and drag/drop does not work. Strangely, the screenshots show playlists with songs in them, how do you do it? And finally, the whole thing is rather unstable. I can't count the number of times it crashed or became unresponsive while I was trying to figure out my two previous problems.
I've been badly wanting an ipod since they were released, but didn't feel like installing windows or buying a mac. If this ipod solution is usable I will probably buy one, but I have to question the choice of software. Why not a stand-alone application? Or a plugin for an mp3 player that actually works? I hope there are some major improvements to xtunes on the way.
I think they do to some extent. I'm not a Colorado student, but I attend another midwestern university. I can always get on irc.colorado.edu from a computer on campus, but can never got on from my ISP at home. I know Stanford used to limit use to only clients on internet-2, maybe Colorado does the same? I suppose they could go a bit farther and limit access to only Colorado students, but then again how many college students use IRC anymore? I only know one other besides myself at my school. If they limited to Colorado students only I'd imagine the server would be almost entirely unused.
This release isn't quite as nice as some of iD's past Linux offerings. First, this release only works for the multiplayer portion of the game. The single player portion is said to be supported in a later release, but who knows how long that will take. Second, you must use either wine or an actual windows installation to install this thing. Apparently it has to do with how the CD was put together, it's just one big EXE from which all the PAK files are extracted. So you must run the windows installer under wine so you can get the PAK files, so you can finally install the Linux binary. Seems like quite a hassle to me, I would really hate to install wine just so I could run one game natively under Linux. Apparently the people at Tuxgames are working on setting up some sort of linux installer. But what options do they really have? The way I see it they could either set up some sort of mini-wine distribution on their installation CD to extract the data from the EXE, or find out the compression scheme that this EXE uses and hack together some native linux program to get the PAK data out. Either way, it doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
3 of the games in the top 25 of their voting section are already available on Linux (Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Tribes 2). So let me get this straight, people will pay for a $5 a month subscription to this thing, but they won't shell out $10 for a linux version of Quake 3?
The only thing that could make me switch at this point is if all the winamp DLL plugins somehow work in the linux version. Winamp has a lot of nice plugins you won't find for xmms. Somehow I doubt it, but have they even addressed the plugin issue at all?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Super Mario 3 was definitely the best Mario game Nintendo has come up with. I didn't like Mario64 much at all.
But even besides that, the list seemed focused mainly on PC games released in the past 3-4 years. Very few older games, and even fewer console games. I don't think they explored "all time" well enough.
I give it ten minutes before people try to find a way to add a keyboard and mouse, too.
Why would they need to wait 10 minutes? The description says it supports USB mice and keyboards.
I know it was a joke but... there is no Caddyshack 2 disc set is there? I recently bought the 20th anniversary edition and it was only one disc. Sorry I just had to ask, I'm a big fan of that movie.
I have DVD's released over a year ago with this "enhancement." Your best bet is to pick up a DVD player with the region switching menu. They haven't come up with a way to stop those yet.
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Try mldonkey. It's had most of these features for ages. Remote access via web or telnet , supports several networks including edonkey/emule, bittorrent, kazaa/fasttrack, soulseek, gnutella, and probably some other obscure ones that I've never used. It's been opensource since day one.
I agree, Sony missed a big opportunity here. Perhaps it was just before its time, MD-DATA showed up in 1994 before most people needed so much storage. The first drive they introduced cost $769, and very few were sold. There is a list of all the MD-DATA devices here. most of them are digital cameras, there are a few PC drives at the bottom of the page. You can still buy the data discs at Minidisco for $12.99 each... pretty steep for 140 megabytes. It seems like a format that came too early and was too expensive combined with almost no marketing at all by Sony. It never came down in price and never caught on.
That's exactly why these companies like to use rebates. They attract you with a rebate, but they know half of the people will be too lazy, lose the receipt, forget to mail it in, etc. Personally, I've never had to deal with any fraudulant rebates. Sometimes they are slow, but I've always gotten the money eventually. Slow rebates are better than no rebates.
I can almost picture the meeting between Bush and Blair. "We get the oil, you can have the domain names!"
He's not talking about the US. In many countries you can not apply for credit via mail. The fact that you can do it in the US surprises many non-americans.
I'm an American living in France and I can say that France Telecom has done a very good job of rolling out DSL. I live in a town of 7,000 people which isn't near any large cities and I can get DSL. Most of the smaller villages around here have access as well. You have to go to the most rural of areas to be without broadband.
Also worth mentioning is that cable internet is only available in a handful of the larger cities in France. I suspect most of Europe is the same way. Over here, if you pay for TV it's satelite.
The problem with this is that pornography laws are very different all over the world. For example, in the Netherlands the legal age for participation in porn is 16. So lets say there is a Dutch webserver with pictures of 16 year olds. This is perfectly legal, and the Dutch ISP has no reason not to allow it. A site like this would be labeled as kiddie porn in the US, and any non-porn content on the server could be blocked as well.
Exactly. I've never been on a flight where pork was one of the meal options. It's usually beef, chicken, or fish.
You don't think airlines inside the US already provide this information? Get real!
The site is very low on details, but on the linuxjack site it says that you can receive calls. It does not explain how this works though. Do you get a real phone number? Can you only receive calls from other microtelco users? I would use this in a second if you could get a real phone number in the country/area of your choice.
So the guy used a bad example, but he had the right idea. Let's say I throw my snickers wrapper in a trash can somewhere. The guy who empties this trash can wasn't careful and spilled a few things. So now I can get fined for his littering? Second example, I purchase a snickers bar and give it to a friend. Later, the firend eats the candy bar and throws the wrapper out of the window of his car. Should I be fined for this? There are a lot of ways trash can end up on the ground, and not all of them will be the original purchaser's fault.
This is true. I only have one CD-EXTRA disc. It's extremely lame. You put the disc into your CD-ROM and all it does is pop up a picture of the artist with a button to click which is just a link to his website. I'm not sure why this couldn't be accomplished just by printing the URL on the cover, but it doesn't seem to be any sort of copy protection to me. The disc plays fine on every CD player I have, and I was able to rip MP3's from it.
Are there differences between the R1 and R2 releases? I bought the R2 French edition when it was released in October, and I thought it was mediocre at best. Only the first of the three films has a commentary track, and it's not very good. It's basically an interview about random things. It could have been it's own feature, because it's not related to what's being shown on the screen at all. No commentary at all for the second and third films. The deleted scenes were interesting, but on my DVD there are no commentary tracks for them. The "making of" stuff wasn't bad, but it was basically saying the same stuff over and over again, just like the comentary track. I still had plenty of questions about plot holes etc after watching the DVDs. I thought about waiting for the R1 release, but as a BTTF fan I had to get it right away. Is the R1 release really as good as the reviewer says?
When I was a kid my parents gave a couple of these to me for Christmas. As lame as they may sound, they were actually fun. One of them was a Noah's Ark game. You were sent to different levels to collect animals with a lot of obstacles in the way. The birds were tough! The other game had something to do with Moses, but I don't remember much else. They came on blue cartridges which were obviously not authorized by Nintendo. Are these actually worth anything? They're probably still down in my parents' basement somewhere.
Has anyone actually found the xtunes software useful? I tried it out a few weeks ago in my never ending search for a good Linux mp3 player. I had major problems with the latest (0.30) version. By default, xtunes wants to move all of your mp3's into its own "database", which is just ~/.xtunes/library - a real pain in the ass when you have 60 gigs of well-sorted mp3's (I did figure out how to change this though). I can create playlists, but I can not find any way to add songs to them. There is no documentation, and drag/drop does not work. Strangely, the screenshots show playlists with songs in them, how do you do it? And finally, the whole thing is rather unstable. I can't count the number of times it crashed or became unresponsive while I was trying to figure out my two previous problems.
I've been badly wanting an ipod since they were released, but didn't feel like installing windows or buying a mac. If this ipod solution is usable I will probably buy one, but I have to question the choice of software. Why not a stand-alone application? Or a plugin for an mp3 player that actually works? I hope there are some major improvements to xtunes on the way.
I think they do to some extent. I'm not a Colorado student, but I attend another midwestern university. I can always get on irc.colorado.edu from a computer on campus, but can never got on from my ISP at home. I know Stanford used to limit use to only clients on internet-2, maybe Colorado does the same? I suppose they could go a bit farther and limit access to only Colorado students, but then again how many college students use IRC anymore? I only know one other besides myself at my school. If they limited to Colorado students only I'd imagine the server would be almost entirely unused.
This release isn't quite as nice as some of iD's past Linux offerings. First, this release only works for the multiplayer portion of the game. The single player portion is said to be supported in a later release, but who knows how long that will take. Second, you must use either wine or an actual windows installation to install this thing. Apparently it has to do with how the CD was put together, it's just one big EXE from which all the PAK files are extracted. So you must run the windows installer under wine so you can get the PAK files, so you can finally install the Linux binary. Seems like quite a hassle to me, I would really hate to install wine just so I could run one game natively under Linux. Apparently the people at Tuxgames are working on setting up some sort of linux installer. But what options do they really have? The way I see it they could either set up some sort of mini-wine distribution on their installation CD to extract the data from the EXE, or find out the compression scheme that this EXE uses and hack together some native linux program to get the PAK data out. Either way, it doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
3 of the games in the top 25 of their voting section are already available on Linux (Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Tribes 2). So let me get this straight, people will pay for a $5 a month subscription to this thing, but they won't shell out $10 for a linux version of Quake 3?
The only thing that could make me switch at this point is if all the winamp DLL plugins somehow work in the linux version. Winamp has a lot of nice plugins you won't find for xmms. Somehow I doubt it, but have they even addressed the plugin issue at all?
That's a price just about anyone can afford.
But even besides that, the list seemed focused mainly on PC games released in the past 3-4 years. Very few older games, and even fewer console games. I don't think they explored "all time" well enough.
I give it ten minutes before people try to find a way to add a keyboard and mouse, too. Why would they need to wait 10 minutes? The description says it supports USB mice and keyboards.
I know it was a joke but... there is no Caddyshack 2 disc set is there? I recently bought the 20th anniversary edition and it was only one disc. Sorry I just had to ask, I'm a big fan of that movie.
I have DVD's released over a year ago with this "enhancement." Your best bet is to pick up a DVD player with the region switching menu. They haven't come up with a way to stop those yet.