Pure Data will run nicely on NT/2000. Jmax, while prettier seems to have some major stability issues (based on my experience...no flames please). I would just stick with pd. The GUI is ugly, but the results are incredible.
i ignore all of those too, and as an added feature we have that qwest thing that gives us a distinctive ring for long distance vs. local calls. that weeds out the telemarketers aurally right away as they always ring local, and no one but work calls me locally.
this is all great, but for some reason my in-law's cell phone comes up as unavailable or some such crap. they always leave a message, but i'd sure like to stop spending a trillion dollars a year for my wife to call 'em back.
is anyone else hitting overload with this stuff? i'm sick of the mindless pablum that is doled out to me and even sicker of the legislation that gets put into place to protect it. guess what? i don't care!
i've all but given up on tv (must have "good eats", "battlebots" and "the daily show")...i haven't been to a movie that didn't make me feel like i was "goat-sexed" at the box office in YEARS...even music has largely forsaken me.
i read more than ever (god, i LOVE being pretentious!) and i guess i spend more time with my computer than any other "entertainment" device. but i don't watch movies on it or listen to illegally ripped mp3s. i actually use it as a tool for creating my own music.
now, don't get me wrong, i've written to my reps, called their offices, faxed them, etc. i just feel drained. i want it all to stop. yeah, i'm a whiner. anyone wanna toss me a bone with a "me too!" post? damn i hate mondays...
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To be more clear about MY experience: at LEAST 4 of the responses I got were from people who were not what anyone would call "Administrators" but instead were working for small shops and wearing too many hats. I am a firm believer that if you have a web site that you need to have professionals that will take care of your system. But the world doesn't work like that. In the US we require a drivers license...does that mean that everyone on the interstate has one? I doubt it.
Back to my point: the FIRST priority is to get this thing under control. If someone hasn't patched it by now, they are OBVIOUSLY not a professional admin. Telling them that they are "wrothless" isn't going to win any cooperation as it's just pointing out the obvious. I think we need to be a little more pragmatic.
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I spent a couple of hours yesterday sending out emails to just about everyone that hit my box at home. Just toss the IP into a browser and get some contact info from the site that comes up (if one does come up). I got MANY replies thanking me for finding that "hidden" box on their network.
And no, this isn't the time to send off an email that says "ditch your M$ crap and goto apache" because most of these poor admins aren't running IIS because they WANT to...it's what they HAVE to do.
So let's take back some bandwidth already!
but where do we get it?
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i've done some looking around on the site (now that it is a little less on the/.ed side) and i still can't figure out how to get my grubby little paws on this distro. any ideas?
i just read an article on yahoo that is telling me that qwest is going to push msn starting this summer. as a customer who has been livin' the good life with relatively few problems (despite qwest's incredibly POOR customer service) i am wondering what this means for me.
as you can imagine i am not terribly pleased with the idea of having to deal with msn at all. anyone else heard about this? qwest is the ONLY dsl provider in my zone, so i guess that leaves me screwed.
where is all of that competition in the broadband market again? oh yeah...guess i'm on topic after all...
Has anyone considered that this could in fact drive up the subscription costs for these journals? I mean, if the journals in question do put all of the articles online, there are hosting charges to be considered. Bandwidth isn't free.
That said, I agree wholeheartedly with the scholars in question. This stuff should be online NOW! I am glad that MIT is already into this and I can peruse the Computer Music Journal online from anywhere, anytime.
...they show me exactly who i need to hire when i get into a position where i can do some hiring. seriously, you get a kid who obviously has some skills and took some initiative. i think that it is clear that the teacher is at fault. if he has been working with HS people for long, he should have known that issuing such a challenge, even in jest, would be met with a response.
i work in a shop that runs exchange. it isn't so bad. NT is the real problem here. slow and unstable...yech.
on topic: why you would EVER change something that works is beyond me, but as a first line of defense, allow me to point you to the M$ licensing agreement. let them chew on that for a while and if they can figure out how much you have to fork out for it, well, by then the Internet will no longer exist...problem solved.
i subscribe to the philosophy that if i can't complete my work in a standard 45 hr. week, then i need to start evaluating my skills and performance. i don't work for a dot.com or a balls-to-the-wall start-up, so maybe i just don't get it.
i think that we would all agree that the best coding gets done when your head is clear and you are "in the zone." that generally isn't after 14 hours straight in the office. i dunno...
what i DO know is that the last time i read an obituary it included "survived by so-and-so" and not "worked 75 hrs/wk for"...
a member of my family is in the clergy here in the usa. i can tell you that attendance is dropping sharply for people under the age of 40.
in his congregation he has 5 people over the age of 100 (NO JOKE!) but very few members in their 20s-30s.
not really sure what any of that has to do with the net tho. i get the feeling that we like to stretch things around here and make the net the new frontier for every aspect of our lives. personally, i'm not looking for salvation, enlightenment, etc on a web server...
It seems to me that everyone wants to use Gov. Jesse Ventura as an example for just about everything that is right or wrong with the political process. As a (sadly) former Minnesotan who did in fact vote for Ventura, I have to say that his online capaign (there WAS one?!?) had little or nothing to do with his election to the post of governor.
Rather, I think it has everything to do with average folks feeling disenfranchised and finally taking an iterest because there was actually a choice.
Maybe the Net will help this along. Maybe there will spring up a spirit of community that will bring some real choices to the polls...
But I think that the true root cause of change will have more to do with the serious lack of choices and less to do with whether or not you are jacked in.
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this is all great, but for some reason my in-law's cell phone comes up as unavailable or some such crap. they always leave a message, but i'd sure like to stop spending a trillion dollars a year for my wife to call 'em back.
i've all but given up on tv (must have "good eats", "battlebots" and "the daily show")...i haven't been to a movie that didn't make me feel like i was "goat-sexed" at the box office in YEARS...even music has largely forsaken me.
i read more than ever (god, i LOVE being pretentious!) and i guess i spend more time with my computer than any other "entertainment" device. but i don't watch movies on it or listen to illegally ripped mp3s. i actually use it as a tool for creating my own music.
now, don't get me wrong, i've written to my reps, called their offices, faxed them, etc. i just feel drained. i want it all to stop. yeah, i'm a whiner. anyone wanna toss me a bone with a "me too!" post? damn i hate mondays...
To be more clear about MY experience: at LEAST 4 of the responses I got were from people who were not what anyone would call "Administrators" but instead were working for small shops and wearing too many hats. I am a firm believer that if you have a web site that you need to have professionals that will take care of your system. But the world doesn't work like that. In the US we require a drivers license...does that mean that everyone on the interstate has one? I doubt it.
Back to my point: the FIRST priority is to get this thing under control. If someone hasn't patched it by now, they are OBVIOUSLY not a professional admin. Telling them that they are "wrothless" isn't going to win any cooperation as it's just pointing out the obvious. I think we need to be a little more pragmatic.
I spent a couple of hours yesterday sending out emails to just about everyone that hit my box at home. Just toss the IP into a browser and get some contact info from the site that comes up (if one does come up). I got MANY replies thanking me for finding that "hidden" box on their network.
And no, this isn't the time to send off an email that says "ditch your M$ crap and goto apache" because most of these poor admins aren't running IIS because they WANT to...it's what they HAVE to do.
So let's take back some bandwidth already!
i've done some looking around on the site (now that it is a little less on the /.ed side) and i still can't figure out how to get my grubby little paws on this distro. any ideas?
i have never heard anything put so perfectly.
i tip my hat to you sir!
as you can imagine i am not terribly pleased with the idea of having to deal with msn at all. anyone else heard about this? qwest is the ONLY dsl provider in my zone, so i guess that leaves me screwed.
where is all of that competition in the broadband market again? oh yeah...guess i'm on topic after all...
Has anyone considered that this could in fact drive up the subscription costs for these journals? I mean, if the journals in question do put all of the articles online, there are hosting charges to be considered. Bandwidth isn't free.
That said, I agree wholeheartedly with the scholars in question. This stuff should be online NOW! I am glad that MIT is already into this and I can peruse the Computer Music Journal online from anywhere, anytime.
...they show me exactly who i need to hire when i get into a position where i can do some hiring. seriously, you get a kid who obviously has some skills and took some initiative. i think that it is clear that the teacher is at fault. if he has been working with HS people for long, he should have known that issuing such a challenge, even in jest, would be met with a response.
i work in a shop that runs exchange. it isn't so bad. NT is the real problem here. slow and unstable...yech.
on topic: why you would EVER change something that works is beyond me, but as a first line of defense, allow me to point you to the M$ licensing agreement. let them chew on that for a while and if they can figure out how much you have to fork out for it, well, by then the Internet will no longer exist...problem solved.
i voted. and i still don't feel any better.
i couldn't get behind anyone 100% and more to the point, i voted against people rather than for them (yeah, typical whining...).
this sucks. the system is sick. what do we do now?
i subscribe to the philosophy that if i can't complete my work in a standard 45 hr. week, then i need to start evaluating my skills and performance. i don't work for a dot.com or a balls-to-the-wall start-up, so maybe i just don't get it.
i think that we would all agree that the best coding gets done when your head is clear and you are "in the zone." that generally isn't after 14 hours straight in the office. i dunno...
what i DO know is that the last time i read an obituary it included "survived by so-and-so" and not "worked 75 hrs/wk for"...
a member of my family is in the clergy here in the usa. i can tell you that attendance is dropping sharply for people under the age of 40.
in his congregation he has 5 people over the age of 100 (NO JOKE!) but very few members in their 20s-30s.
not really sure what any of that has to do with the net tho. i get the feeling that we like to stretch things around here and make the net the new frontier for every aspect of our lives. personally, i'm not looking for salvation, enlightenment, etc on a web server...
It seems to me that everyone wants to use Gov. Jesse Ventura as an example for just about everything that is right or wrong with the political process. As a (sadly) former Minnesotan who did in fact vote for Ventura, I have to say that his online capaign (there WAS one?!?) had little or nothing to do with his election to the post of governor.
Rather, I think it has everything to do with average folks feeling disenfranchised and finally taking an iterest because there was actually a choice.
Maybe the Net will help this along. Maybe there will spring up a spirit of community that will bring some real choices to the polls...
But I think that the true root cause of change will have more to do with the serious lack of choices and less to do with whether or not you are jacked in.
As always, I could be wrong.