Let me thank you publicly for the great work you do.
I'm happier not knowing how many hours I spent trying to get Myth running on Gentoo before being encouraged to try KnoppMyth. You've done a fabulous job of creating a very appliance-like experience and creating a great base for tinkering. And when you mess things up while tinkering, it's one quick restore to get it back - before missing your wife's favorite show.
Everyone should try KnoppMyth as their first MythTV installation. At the very least, at least you'll know how it's supposed to work after you've gone to all the trouble to set it all up.;^)
The registry is a scary thing. I think text files were just considered uncool at MS at one point. INI files were complicated enough, perhaps. But that's nothing, really.
I've witnessed the use of the registry as an IPC mechanism, if you can believe that. That really creeped me out. But later, I worked with MS RPC (which actually used invisible windows to communicate), the use of shared DLL memory without OS mutex primitives, ATL - and learned to suspend the gag reflex.
There are things you wish you could un-see and un-learn...
Q: What was your biggest surprise about being A Borg?
A: That they'd really just let me walk around with a camcorder without having a PR person or a lawyer along. Even after quitting I have the entire run of the place.
From "Corporate Brown-Nosing for Dummies" comes..
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Exit Interview with Scoble
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· Score: 2, Interesting
FTA:
Another surprise? That every bad decision that I thought was bad had a logical explanation behind it. I didn't always agree with the decisions but there was always a decent thought process behind every decision and, most of the time, after hearing the circumstances behind a decision I usually came to the same conclusion that they did. It's not easy building software that hundreds of millions of people use.
No, the beliefs would just evolve to accomodate (or deny) the new discoveries like they always do.
You see, once there's a sudden change in the culture and the current belief system becomes unfit to propogate around the population, new amendments are inserted more-or-less randomly into the belief structure and whichever mutations are most fit to attract the greatest number of believers will become the basis for future generations of the religion.
Or as I like to say: Any religion that encourages abstinance for it's members won't be one for long.
Who else finds it ironic that any religion would not believe in natural selection when presented with such obviously-correct logic?
Actually, I've taken our 3YO daughter to McMenamins theatres. They all have matinees and are very kid-friendly. The Bagdad (SE Portland) is great for kids...
http, html, and the first web browser were developed under NeXTSTEP. After a couple years, and comments from Joy et al about how the browser could become a platform, Gates panics, buys the first IE while writing their own, screws Netscape, and integrates it into Windows.
iTunes Music Store developed under OS-X (basically NeXTSTEP). After a few months, and lots of positive press about how people might actually pay for music if its easy, Gates panics, decides to screw their partners, and integrate their own music store into Windows.
NeXTSTEP/OSX seems to be the platform for innovation. Windows is the platform of derivation. Hell, even Office for OS-X is way better than the Windows version - and it's made by Microsoft!!
Not as individuals or as enterprises - although both have a range of opportunities for taking part in ISO's work, or in contributing to the development of standards through the ISO member in their country. Membership of ISO is open to national standards institutes or similar organizations most representative of standardization in their country (one member in each country). Full members each have one vote, whatever the size or strength of the economy of the country concerned. This means that they can all make their voices heard in the development of standards which are important to their country's industry. ISO also has two categories of membership for countries with fewer resources. Although such members do not have a vote, they can remain up to date on standardization developments. Lists of the three categories of ISO members are available on ISO Online.
Do you really thing MS would risk having the standard at the whim of the non-strategically-aligned?
Netscape plugins don't download, install, and run themselves - they must be installed.
The kind of functionality provided by ActiveX is better left to Java applets - which are signed, run in a security context, and only have access to a sandbox.
What's funny is that all the stupid license agreements people have to accept have trained people to instantly press "Yes" to any dialog:
ActiveX: An unsigned applet is contained on this page. Do you wish to load it?"
User: [Yes means it worky, No means it no worky] "Yes"
ActiveX Control: "Please wait while I null sectors 0-3244040300000000000 of drive 0..."
Opera lets you set the UA string to: Opera, Mozilla 3.0/4.76/5.0, and IE 5.0. All but a couple "Use one of these browser" sites I've surfed render fine under Opera 6.
Not surprisingly, this doesn't work for registering a Passport account: "Microsoft.NET passport no longer supports your browser." not sure how its making this determination...
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Cecil,
Let me thank you publicly for the great work you do.
I'm happier not knowing how many hours I spent trying to get Myth running on Gentoo before being encouraged to try KnoppMyth. You've done a fabulous job of creating a very appliance-like experience and creating a great base for tinkering. And when you mess things up while tinkering, it's one quick restore to get it back - before missing your wife's favorite show.
Everyone should try KnoppMyth as their first MythTV installation. At the very least, at least you'll know how it's supposed to work after you've gone to all the trouble to set it all up. ;^)
Syler as Spock brings a whole new meaning to the term "Mind Meld".
The registry is a scary thing. I think text files were just considered uncool at MS at one point. INI files were complicated enough, perhaps. But that's nothing, really.
I've witnessed the use of the registry as an IPC mechanism, if you can believe that. That really creeped me out. But later, I worked with MS RPC (which actually used invisible windows to communicate), the use of shared DLL memory without OS mutex primitives, ATL - and learned to suspend the gag reflex.
There are things you wish you could un-see and un-learn...
FTA:
Q: What was your biggest surprise about being A Borg?
A: That they'd really just let me walk around with a camcorder without having a PR person or a lawyer along. Even after quitting I have the entire run of the place.
FTA:
Another surprise? That every bad decision that I thought was bad had a logical explanation behind it. I didn't always agree with the decisions but there was always a decent thought process behind every decision and, most of the time, after hearing the circumstances behind a decision I usually came to the same conclusion that they did. It's not easy building software that hundreds of millions of people use.
Someone put too much XAML in his Cool-Aid...
Or as I like to say: Any religion that encourages abstinance for it's members won't be one for long.
Who else finds it ironic that any religion would not believe in natural selection when presented with such obviously-correct logic?
Actually, I've taken our 3YO daughter to McMenamins theatres. They all have matinees and are very kid-friendly. The Bagdad (SE Portland) is great for kids...
http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?type=theater
DVD-Video is anywhere from 3-10MB.
Even w/o optimum connection, 11g could do this.
But most of the things you'd stream from your computer wouldn't be DVD. Players are $30 with a remote and already in the correct room.
But imagine having a wireless virtual external monitor. For presentations, iTunes visualization, and remote machine control...
As usual, Apple's onto something here.
http, html, and the first web browser were developed under NeXTSTEP. After a couple years, and comments from Joy et al about how the browser could become a platform, Gates panics, buys the first IE while writing their own, screws Netscape, and integrates it into Windows.
iTunes Music Store developed under OS-X (basically NeXTSTEP). After a few months, and lots of positive press about how people might actually pay for music if its easy, Gates panics, decides to screw their partners, and integrate their own music store into Windows.
NeXTSTEP/OSX seems to be the platform for innovation. Windows is the platform of derivation. Hell, even Office for OS-X is way better than the Windows version - and it's made by Microsoft!!
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/faqs/faq-general.html#1. 10
1.10 Can anyone join ISO?
Not as individuals or as enterprises - although both have a range of opportunities for taking part in ISO's work, or in contributing to the development of standards through the ISO member in their country. Membership of ISO is open to national standards institutes or similar organizations most representative of standardization in their country (one member in each country). Full members each have one vote, whatever the size or strength of the economy of the country concerned. This means that they can all make their voices heard in the development of standards which are important to their country's industry. ISO also has two categories of membership for countries with fewer resources. Although such members do not have a vote, they can remain up to date on standardization developments. Lists of the three categories of ISO members are available on ISO Online.
Do you really thing MS would risk having the standard at the whim of the non-strategically-aligned?
Netscape plugins don't download, install, and run themselves - they must be installed.
The kind of functionality provided by ActiveX is better left to Java applets - which are signed, run in a security context, and only have access to a sandbox.
What's funny is that all the stupid license agreements people have to accept have trained people to instantly press "Yes" to any dialog:
ActiveX: An unsigned applet is contained on this page. Do you wish to load it?"
User: [Yes means it worky, No means it no worky] "Yes"
ActiveX Control: "Please wait while I null sectors 0-3244040300000000000 of drive 0..."
Mammy
I've found this to be true as well.
.NET passport no longer supports your browser." not sure how its making this determination...
Opera lets you set the UA string to: Opera, Mozilla 3.0/4.76/5.0, and IE 5.0. All but a couple "Use one of these browser" sites I've surfed render fine under Opera 6.
Not surprisingly, this doesn't work for registering a Passport account: "Microsoft