Easy way around this: use dvd+rw tools. Despite the name, they work fine on dvd-rw drives. I use them to record DVD-R often. The use the stock mkisofs to make the image, and then pipe it directly to the writer, or they can write images that are pre-made.
This is the exact sort of thing that makes me unable to stand atheists.
Sorry, you're wrong. I am not an atheist, but thank you for trying.
Science does not prove God exists, at least not right now.
Look at the parent. Did I ask for scientific evidence? No, I said show me some evidence. By the way, beliefs can exist without evidence, but I'll be damned if someone tells me that their beliefs are the way and that I accept it without thinking for myself.
How do you _KNOW_ the God exists? Please, show me some hard evidence for the existance of God and then maybe I'll take your religious flaming seriously.
Honestly, beliefs are beliefs, and the sooner you learn to keep them to yourself, the sooner you avoid flame wars.
2. Add tons!!! of documentation. You can't have too much documentation.
I think that when designing UIs it's best to do what people have been trying to beat into your head for years: WRITE THE DOCUMENTATION FIRST! This is especially important in UI design because it forces the people implementing it to implement it consistently.
if nmap had the functionality of, say, ethereal, built in, we'd all have a really good tool to audit every machine from here to Mars.
You have the code, make it happen!:-) Or, start a SourceForge project to make it happen. I'd love to have something like that, and I know C, so count me in.
If they see that there is a need for public domain audio books (and I certainly expect there is), it would seem extremely straightforward for a group like this to get humans to volunteer to read a public domain audio book and digitize it for an archive.
If they asked for volunteers for this, I would be the first to step forward.
Sounds like how Mimet was defeated in Sailor Moon S.
Yeah, that was great. Why do I get the feeling that I'm the only other Slashdot user that remembers this? (Before the S series came to DVD in the US to boot.)
Ps. On a funny not : If you change US with Iraq and Bush with Saddam, you have the same stand-off. Weapons of Mass destruction, no weapons inspectors allowed or welcome, dictatorship (kinda), No mercy to people other then your own etc.
Okay, I call bullshit here. First of all, Iraq agreed to rid itself of WMD as a result of the cease fire of the first Gulf War. It's not as they were coerced into it, Saddam agreed to it so as to not be deposed.
Secondly, the US (contrary to popular Slashdot drone belief) is NOT a dictatorship. The government and society is a reaction to the 8 years under Clinton where anyone could do just about anything and get away with it. Sure, there are laws that Americans do not agree with, and there are not enough Senators that listen to their constituants, but that does not mean that the citizens don't have a say in their government. If the people really cared and weren't acting like dumb sheep, they could look up where canidates get their money from and use that as their voting criterion. The could ask for more debates and the parties involved would agree to them. The problem is not that the US is turning authoritarian, the problem is that many people don't care about their government at all.
I hate to break it to you, Mr. AC, but the US gives a lot of aid to a lot of people. Where do you think most of the World Bank loans come from? Where does much of the money given for African AIDS come from, and other bailout loans? Where has Russia gotten many of its loans? You guessed it, the United States. Opressing people that are different from the WASP majority hasn't happend on a full scale for many years, and every time it happened, our society took note and realized it was wrong.
Now, I am not saying that American government is benevolant, far from it, but one of the things that is great about American society is the right to peaceful dissent. For example, if you have the proper permits, don't break windows or destroy property, don't harm other people, and don't start a riot, you are more than welcome to march in any city that you wish. Note, your protest must be non-violent, and you are protected. The moment that two drunken assholes start pounding on each other or one of your more violent protesters throws a brick through a window, and the government has every right to start arresting those involved for disturbing the peace. You broke your end, and they're protecting citizens that don't agree with you.
Yes, this is STILL off topic, but I can't let a person that's too cowardly to post under their username run off and troll.
I've seen in the news how you US Americans are boycotting french products. Renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries. That's by far the most stupid thing I EVER heard. Why is the USA so powerfull? Well, we in Germany (old Europe, you know) have a saying that tranlates about like this: "The dubmest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes". Oh well.
Please don't make hasty generalizations, or otherwise you're just as bad as the people that do these things. I agree, it's stupid, and wasteful. It is especially wasteful when people buy the wine and then pour it out. They're pouring money down the drain because they feel it might offend the French. Too bad this accomplishes nothing other than supporting the French wine business or perhaps the American alcoholic sewer rat population.
Some of us realize the sacrafices and the effort put forth by France back during the American revolution. While it was not completely selfless (it was done, as I remember, to help expel their rival, England, from the new world), it was important. I am a group of Americans that realize this and I don't go out and start boycotting French goods or demanding that all of the American GIs in Normandy are dug up and brought back to the US. (Yes, there are people as insane as that.) Without France, we wouldn't have our freedom. "Some of us remember why the Statue of Liberty points to the east." (Stolen from kfg)
Having said that, I am not anti-American. I am an American that feels that, with the proper proof, the US has the moral authority to go into Iraq alone. Why do I hold this view? Because Saddam broke the terms of a cease fire the ended the Gulf War. In that cease fire, he agreed to destroy and stop persuing weapons of mass destruction. Now, remember, I feel that we need adequate evidence to do that, and as of yet, I haven't seen it (unlike a majority of my friends that feel we should nuke Iraq * sigh *). If I should see it, I would support the US-led war against Iraq. War sucks, but sometimes diplomacy fails.
Oh, and I believe that the UN's vote on a new resolution, which does not prima facia authorize immediate military action, determines if they are relavant to today's world. Remember what happened in Serbia when the UN would not go after the murderous and corrupt government that was oppressing people and involved in ethnic clensing? Many other nations supported the US going in then. All I wonder is what the difference is now.
(Posted without Karma Bonus as this, well, is off topic)
Having a jabber server set up in the office keeps conversation secure too, instead of going via some server on the internet.
It's also good if you have people telecommuting as they can connect to your Jabber server from home, or for people in the field. Unfortunatly, not many people I talk to think about this.
We will see what happens when corporate AIM succeeds and im becomes pay.;)
If this is really important to you, move all of you instant messaging to Jabber. If you're really hardcore about it, run a Jabber server on a box in your LAN. If you set it up correctly, you can run "gateways" or "agents" that allow you to use your Jabber clients to log onto other instant messaging networks, including the big 4 (ICQ, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo).
I use this in house when I set up instant messaging for clients as it's open source, it can run over the Internet, and there's no chance that the business model is going to change and start charging.
If you mean "backdoor" as in a way for a tech support or other person to get into a system that can be eaisly screwed up by users, then there are many of them around. If you mean "backdoor" by a hole that only a single coder (or small group) of coders knows about so they can stroke their ego, then there are probably are fewer.
Unfortunately, sound is completely broken in debian, using Murphy's original law: if you design something so that it *can* be misassembled, sooner or later someone will misassemble it.
I have my Debian system's sound working fine with ALSA in the stable tree. It took me 10 minutes tops after I got the ALSA source package and issued one command. It works like a charm. I also have OSS sound working flawlessly because for some reason Quake 3 (which I use when flying around for my job) doesn't like the ALSA driver.
I think that this a wonderful idea. The essence and soul of music is live performance, and, in the past, when live performances go well, people wish they could relive them. Now they can. Of course, there are some problems with this:
1. If the artists lip-synchs at concerts, then what's the point of having a recording like this? (And yes, most pop artists still do this. Then again, I don't go to pop concerts...)
2. If the CD is of inferior quality, or if your CD gets scratched and is no good, there's no way to get a replacement.
I still like the idea however, and if it were avaliable at the concerts I frequent, I would be more than happy to pick one of these up.
What's going to happen to AOL IM if AOL goes the way of Compuserv or Prodigy?
Instant Messaging suddenly gets a lot more intelligent?
On a more serious note, if you want a real IM service, use Jabber or ICQ. You may not like ICQ because it's not as pretty as AIM, but trust me, you can do a lot more with it. I prefer Jabber myself though...
It already works under Linux. It is accessed as a USB Mass Storage device using the ISD-200 chip with a VFAT filesystem. The driver is in the vanilla kernel, and the web site for it is here. Also, there is open source firmware (which Archos will be including on its CD-ROM with future players) located at this page. This firmware doesn't support recording yet, but it will very soon now according to the web site.
I have my whole MP3 collection on it, and it's great. Although I have to admit that it's not as visually pleasing as an iPod.
If non-GPL companies feel they can require users to install binary-only modules, why not simply requiring them to apply a kernel patch to remove this new limitation first?
Or if this bothers you, you can always stick with kernel 2.4 or kernel 2.2 or kernel 2.0. As long as they are maintained and you have the source, they can't take this away from you. I, for one, will not be upgrading to 2.6.0. I usually wait until the last number is at least ten so it doesn't seriously mess up my desktop system.
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Hell, no wonder he can't get anything done - how the hell do people know who to contact? Is it Mr Rodey, Rodney or Rodeny?:-)
Yet another reason to use Preview.:-)
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"If you show a politician some of these numbers, this should get them into action," Rodey said.
In other words, what Mr. Rodney is trying to say is that the United States needs laws to help DSL penetration and to give DSL providers a competitive advantage in the United States. Excuse me Mr. Rodeny, isn't it your department to become competitive?
I have DSL through BellSouth, and I had to call them today because they billed me incorrectly. Two weeks ago I had to call them because I wasn't getting synch. A week before that I had to call them because something else wasn't working. (It's turned out that a BBG is down.) Yet this entire time my friend with cable didn't have to call his provider, got better speeds, and doesn't have to pay a mint to the phone company.
What am I missing? Do DSL companies not want customers? Can they not do regular network maintanence or bill correctly? It seems that cable internet providers can do all this and cheaper. Kind makes me want to switch to cable.
The present value of money is the most basic element of the financial market. Companies need cash to operate and steady revenue to negotiate loans.
I feel like I'm repeating this until I'm blue in the face. Mandrake is a for-profit company. They are not a charity. By buying their PowerPack, I have become a customer. A customer is not responsible for the cash flow of a company they buy product from. If their revenue stream isn't what they want, it is there responsibility to fix it in any way they see fit. If they wish to take donations, fine. But I will not be giving. I will buy the products I need from them because I want to support them. By the way, I purchase one copy, and then refer others to the Mandrake Club if they feel they want to support. Every comment I get from people is positive, and many do subscribe.
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Easy way around this: use dvd+rw tools. Despite the name, they work fine on dvd-rw drives. I use them to record DVD-R often. The use the stock mkisofs to make the image, and then pipe it directly to the writer, or they can write images that are pre-made.
This is the exact sort of thing that makes me unable to stand atheists.
Sorry, you're wrong. I am not an atheist, but thank you for trying.
Science does not prove God exists, at least not right now.
Look at the parent. Did I ask for scientific evidence? No, I said show me some evidence. By the way, beliefs can exist without evidence, but I'll be damned if someone tells me that their beliefs are the way and that I accept it without thinking for myself.
For the record, I am pagan.
> How do you _know_ that God does not exist?
How do you _KNOW_ the God exists? Please, show me some hard evidence for the existance of God and then maybe I'll take your religious flaming seriously.
Honestly, beliefs are beliefs, and the sooner you learn to keep them to yourself, the sooner you avoid flame wars.
2. Add tons!!! of documentation. You can't have too much documentation.
I think that when designing UIs it's best to do what people have been trying to beat into your head for years: WRITE THE DOCUMENTATION FIRST! This is especially important in UI design because it forces the people implementing it to implement it consistently.
if nmap had the functionality of, say, ethereal, built in, we'd all have a really good tool to audit every machine from here to Mars.
:-) Or, start a SourceForge project to make it happen. I'd love to have something like that, and I know C, so count me in.
You have the code, make it happen!
How the hell did that review make slashdot?
What are you talking about? Taco needs to get in touch with this guy, he'd be a great editor.
It doesn't look for particular known signs (Viagra or a .dll mod); it analysizes trends in general.
If you need to take Viagra before playing online, methinks you have bigger problems.
Drug dealing is a 'victimless' crime in which all parties concerned are consenting.
So all of the people that get killed by stray bullets in drug deals gone bad consented to being shot? Drug dealing is not a victimless crime.
No, there is only one killer app everyone really wants and needs. It's the killer app that kills spam...
Yes, and it's called SpamAssassin.
If they see that there is a need for public domain audio books (and I certainly expect there is), it would seem extremely straightforward for a group like this to get humans to volunteer to read a public domain audio book and digitize it for an archive.
If they asked for volunteers for this, I would be the first to step forward.
Sounds like how Mimet was defeated in Sailor Moon S.
Yeah, that was great. Why do I get the feeling that I'm the only other Slashdot user that remembers this? (Before the S series came to DVD in the US to boot.)
Ps. On a funny not : If you change US with Iraq and Bush with Saddam, you have the same stand-off. Weapons of Mass destruction, no weapons inspectors allowed or welcome, dictatorship (kinda), No mercy to people other then your own etc.
Okay, I call bullshit here. First of all, Iraq agreed to rid itself of WMD as a result of the cease fire of the first Gulf War. It's not as they were coerced into it, Saddam agreed to it so as to not be deposed.
Secondly, the US (contrary to popular Slashdot drone belief) is NOT a dictatorship. The government and society is a reaction to the 8 years under Clinton where anyone could do just about anything and get away with it. Sure, there are laws that Americans do not agree with, and there are not enough Senators that listen to their constituants, but that does not mean that the citizens don't have a say in their government. If the people really cared and weren't acting like dumb sheep, they could look up where canidates get their money from and use that as their voting criterion. The could ask for more debates and the parties involved would agree to them. The problem is not that the US is turning authoritarian, the problem is that many people don't care about their government at all.
I hate to break it to you, Mr. AC, but the US gives a lot of aid to a lot of people. Where do you think most of the World Bank loans come from? Where does much of the money given for African AIDS come from, and other bailout loans? Where has Russia gotten many of its loans? You guessed it, the United States. Opressing people that are different from the WASP majority hasn't happend on a full scale for many years, and every time it happened, our society took note and realized it was wrong.
Now, I am not saying that American government is benevolant, far from it, but one of the things that is great about American society is the right to peaceful dissent. For example, if you have the proper permits, don't break windows or destroy property, don't harm other people, and don't start a riot, you are more than welcome to march in any city that you wish. Note, your protest must be non-violent, and you are protected. The moment that two drunken assholes start pounding on each other or one of your more violent protesters throws a brick through a window, and the government has every right to start arresting those involved for disturbing the peace. You broke your end, and they're protecting citizens that don't agree with you.
Yes, this is STILL off topic, but I can't let a person that's too cowardly to post under their username run off and troll.
I've seen in the news how you US Americans are boycotting french products.
Renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries. That's by far the most stupid thing I EVER heard.
Why is the USA so powerfull? Well, we in Germany (old Europe, you know) have a saying that tranlates about like this: "The dubmest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes". Oh well.
Please don't make hasty generalizations, or otherwise you're just as bad as the people that do these things. I agree, it's stupid, and wasteful. It is especially wasteful when people buy the wine and then pour it out. They're pouring money down the drain because they feel it might offend the French. Too bad this accomplishes nothing other than supporting the French wine business or perhaps the American alcoholic sewer rat population.
Some of us realize the sacrafices and the effort put forth by France back during the American revolution. While it was not completely selfless (it was done, as I remember, to help expel their rival, England, from the new world), it was important. I am a group of Americans that realize this and I don't go out and start boycotting French goods or demanding that all of the American GIs in Normandy are dug up and brought back to the US. (Yes, there are people as insane as that.) Without France, we wouldn't have our freedom. "Some of us remember why the Statue of Liberty points to the east." (Stolen from kfg)
Having said that, I am not anti-American. I am an American that feels that, with the proper proof, the US has the moral authority to go into Iraq alone. Why do I hold this view? Because Saddam broke the terms of a cease fire the ended the Gulf War. In that cease fire, he agreed to destroy and stop persuing weapons of mass destruction. Now, remember, I feel that we need adequate evidence to do that, and as of yet, I haven't seen it (unlike a majority of my friends that feel we should nuke Iraq * sigh *). If I should see it, I would support the US-led war against Iraq. War sucks, but sometimes diplomacy fails.
Oh, and I believe that the UN's vote on a new resolution, which does not prima facia authorize immediate military action, determines if they are relavant to today's world. Remember what happened in Serbia when the UN would not go after the murderous and corrupt government that was oppressing people and involved in ethnic clensing? Many other nations supported the US going in then. All I wonder is what the difference is now.
(Posted without Karma Bonus as this, well, is off topic)
Having a jabber server set up in the office keeps conversation secure too, instead of going via some server on the internet.
It's also good if you have people telecommuting as they can connect to your Jabber server from home, or for people in the field. Unfortunatly, not many people I talk to think about this.
We will see what happens when corporate AIM succeeds and im becomes pay. ;)
If this is really important to you, move all of you instant messaging to Jabber. If you're really hardcore about it, run a Jabber server on a box in your LAN. If you set it up correctly, you can run "gateways" or "agents" that allow you to use your Jabber clients to log onto other instant messaging networks, including the big 4 (ICQ, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo).
I use this in house when I set up instant messaging for clients as it's open source, it can run over the Internet, and there's no chance that the business model is going to change and start charging.
If you mean "backdoor" as in a way for a tech support or other person to get into a system that can be eaisly screwed up by users, then there are many of them around. If you mean "backdoor" by a hole that only a single coder (or small group) of coders knows about so they can stroke their ego, then there are probably are fewer.
"File transfer failed: Code 75(flock of seagulls)"
Let me guess, the next cute Windows error sound will be "I Ran" then. I guess it's true that more of MS OSes have their base in the 80's...
I have my Debian system's sound working fine with ALSA in the stable tree. It took me 10 minutes tops after I got the ALSA source package and issued one command. It works like a charm. I also have OSS sound working flawlessly because for some reason Quake 3 (which I use when flying around for my job) doesn't like the ALSA driver.
I think that this a wonderful idea. The essence and soul of music is live performance, and, in the past, when live performances go well, people wish they could relive them. Now they can. Of course, there are some problems with this:
1. If the artists lip-synchs at concerts, then what's the point of having a recording like this? (And yes, most pop artists still do this. Then again, I don't go to pop concerts...)
2. If the CD is of inferior quality, or if your CD gets scratched and is no good, there's no way to get a replacement.
I still like the idea however, and if it were avaliable at the concerts I frequent, I would be more than happy to pick one of these up.
Instant Messaging suddenly gets a lot more intelligent?
On a more serious note, if you want a real IM service, use Jabber or ICQ. You may not like ICQ because it's not as pretty as AIM, but trust me, you can do a lot more with it. I prefer Jabber myself though...
It already works under Linux. It is accessed as a USB Mass Storage device using the ISD-200 chip with a VFAT filesystem. The driver is in the vanilla kernel, and the web site for it is here. Also, there is open source firmware (which Archos will be including on its CD-ROM with future players) located at this page. This firmware doesn't support recording yet, but it will very soon now according to the web site.
I have my whole MP3 collection on it, and it's great. Although I have to admit that it's not as visually pleasing as an iPod.
If non-GPL companies feel they can require users to install binary-only modules, why not simply requiring them to apply a kernel patch to remove this new limitation first?
Or if this bothers you, you can always stick with kernel 2.4 or kernel 2.2 or kernel 2.0. As long as they are maintained and you have the source, they can't take this away from you. I, for one, will not be upgrading to 2.6.0. I usually wait until the last number is at least ten so it doesn't seriously mess up my desktop system.
Hell, no wonder he can't get anything done - how the hell do people know who to contact? Is it Mr Rodey, Rodney or Rodeny? :-)
:-)
Yet another reason to use Preview.
"If you show a politician some of these numbers, this should get them into action," Rodey said.
In other words, what Mr. Rodney is trying to say is that the United States needs laws to help DSL penetration and to give DSL providers a competitive advantage in the United States. Excuse me Mr. Rodeny, isn't it your department to become competitive?
I have DSL through BellSouth, and I had to call them today because they billed me incorrectly. Two weeks ago I had to call them because I wasn't getting synch. A week before that I had to call them because something else wasn't working. (It's turned out that a BBG is down.) Yet this entire time my friend with cable didn't have to call his provider, got better speeds, and doesn't have to pay a mint to the phone company.
What am I missing? Do DSL companies not want customers? Can they not do regular network maintanence or bill correctly? It seems that cable internet providers can do all this and cheaper. Kind makes me want to switch to cable.
The present value of money is the most basic element of the financial market. Companies need cash to operate and steady revenue to negotiate loans.
I feel like I'm repeating this until I'm blue in the face. Mandrake is a for-profit company. They are not a charity. By buying their PowerPack, I have become a customer. A customer is not responsible for the cash flow of a company they buy product from. If their revenue stream isn't what they want, it is there responsibility to fix it in any way they see fit. If they wish to take donations, fine. But I will not be giving. I will buy the products I need from them because I want to support them. By the way, I purchase one copy, and then refer others to the Mandrake Club if they feel they want to support. Every comment I get from people is positive, and many do subscribe.