There have been a lot of comments about what format to offer the music in. I'd recommend making the tracks available at reasonably good quality bitrate MP3's (or OGG) and FLAC - nothing else. Why? The majority of your audience that doesn't really care about the technical aspects of encoding quality will be satisfied with whatever bitrate MP3 you give them. The rest of your users (like me) will have very specific opinions on how the music should be encoded, from format to bitrate even specific encoder options. You're never going to have enough formats and options to keep all these people happy! Just offer a decent quality version and absolutely lossless FLAC and let the "audiophiles" decide for themselves how they want it encoded. Everyone will be happier this way:-)
All I can say is wow! I'm from Kansas and have written (with the help of the EFF and others) lots of emails to him regarding this issue. Maybe they made a difference, maybe not, but in either case you can guess who I'll be voting for come election time:-)
Probably the game that most changed the way I think is Lists and Lists. It's a text adventure game that teaches you Scheme, which is a dialect of Lisp. If you've never programmed in a language like Lisp, try it out! It is a totally different way of thinking about programming and this game is a great way to learn it. There's even an online version at the webpage.
Why not donate the books you don't want anymore to your local public library? Then others can read them for free and if other people donate their unused books you can read them for free. Sounds like it fills most of the requirements you listed, though perhaps over not quite as large a geographic area. And as a bonus, most libraries will even put a nifty "Donated by" tag in the front of the book!
Nope. SATAN was a vulnerability probing tool that came out of SGI quite a while back. SAINT was based on it (at least in function, I don't know if the code was based on it). They have nothing to do with Nagios.
The previous version of Nagios was called Netsaint, but they changed the name to Nagios because of possible trademark problems with WebSAINT, which is a web based tool that uses SAINT.
From the notice at the bottom of netsaint.org: NetSaint is not affiliated with World Wide Digital Security, Inc. (WWDSI); Richard S. Carson and Associates, Inc; and the marks WEB SAINT, SAINT, SAINTWRITER, SAINTEXPRESS, and SAINTBASIC owned by Richard S. Carson and Associates, Inc.
And I may as well mention that Nagios/Netsaint is a really great tool and I highly recommend it. It won't, however, keep you up to date on "suspicious" activity - it's mostly for just making sure that your server and any services that run on it are going.
For some documentation, I prefer to have it on the computer because you can't grep a dead tree. However, for some things, like for instance the Camel Book, I prefer to have it printed because it's something that I read all the way through, like a book. It's also easier to take with you (you don't always have access to a computer for reading). If it's just for reference about one particular part of the subject covered, on the computer is much more handy. But for something I'm going to read all the way through (possibly more than once), printed is the best.
Well, considering that Ximian is the only easily installable version of the GNOME desktop (unless you stick with what comes default with your distro), I would say probably quite a few. And Evolution is a mail client, so that comparison doesn't make much sense.
Well, the most obvious problem is that there are way too many domains to request each one be added to a whitelist every time you want to do something (How many links did you click while viewing slashdot today? Do you want to have to go ask the librarian every time?)
And another obvious problem that we've seen with other censorware is that what one person wants isn't always what another person wants.
And, for that matter, most current censorware applications have the ability to specifically unblock certain sites, so you should still be able to do that.
This doesn't have to do with Macs, but I hadn't heard of the WinMX program before, so I did a Google search on it, and the first Paid Ad that came up was:
Winmx - Downloading unauthorized files is illegal. www.MusicUnited.org Find Legal Digital Music Services HERE!
Well then you should try Nagios (Used to be Netsaint). Does all sorts of monitoring and 2D maps of systems (and their status) or a 3D VRML map! Doesn't do histograms though... In all seriousness though, it really is a neat piece of software and very handy.
I pay the same or more for the download service as for the CD, download the tracks slowly, install their software several times until it works, burn it on a CD, rip it, encode it, then listen to it? And the music companies wonder why their online services aren't insanely popular...
I'm sure your experience depends on the credit union you use. Of course the same goes for whatever bank you use, a lot depends on which bank it is. I haven't had any of the problems you mentioned with the local credit union I'm a member of.
First of all, "affiliates" probably means companies with which the bank has a close relationship. For instance, many banks have outside companies do their data processing or do their online banking or bill pay services for them. There's really no way they could do these services without sharing your info.
As for banks that don't share your information, have you considered trying a credit union? Unlike banks whose main concern is making money for the shareholders, a credit union's main concern is providing the best service to their members because it is run by the members for the members.
I just always told them I wouldn't tell them my personal information and it didn't seem like that big of a deal to them. Or, if you like, you could always have fun making up fake addresses. Even so, my Dad refuses to shop at RatShack because they always ask for your address.
I was thinking about the same questions a while ago and came up with a solution that I think is pretty good. Once a month I make a backup of my fileserver on a CD-R, then I drop it off at my safe deposit box. I keep about 5 months back just in case. The advantage to using the safe deposit box is that it doesn't cost anything (I already had the box), it's close by (better than mailing), and the bank gets to worry about security, fire-proofing, etc. instead of me.
A book that I found very helpful for learning SQL is Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes. When I first started learning SQL I mostly got everything from the early Slashcode sources and the MySQL manual as I needed it - not the best way to learn:-). I was a bit skeptical about the "10 minutes" approach, but each of the chapters actually did work out to about 10 minutes and the information was easy to understand (may have helped that I already knew some about SQL) and was fairly thorough. Another point that I really liked about it is that for the most part it only talked about the SQL standard, not just how one vendor implemented it. However, if an important vendor differed in their implementation, they would talk about it. This worked out great for me because I just wanted to know SQL basics and "best practices" and could figure out vendor specifics from their manuals.
MS declined to sign a formal agreement that they would not appear again.
So, why couldn't they just compare the MD5 of every new picture uploaded against the MD5 of the picture that was taken down. Sure, if anyone changes the picture just a little it'll work, but that picture will not be posted again. I don't know exactly what the agreement was, that might not have been enough, but depending on the wording it may have been. And if that would have taken care of it, it would have prevented a case that could possibly cause a lot of headaches for a lot of ISP's.
That's odd. My credit card had that information on it (Visa). It's written in the signature area. I've seen it on other e-commerce websites, it's supposed to help protect against fraud.
Gandi has worked great for me. Only 12 euros per year (about $10) and their terms of service are very good (you actually own the domain). They also do website and e-mail redirection for free.
I think it already is - the last couple of VCR's I've bought set their clocks themselves once you have plugged them into the electrical outlet. I thought they did this via a signal sent across the power grid. Am I mistaken about that?
Actually, I think that it gets off a TV signal. According to the manual on my new VCR it looks for a local PBS station and apparently the time signal is encoded in that. Unfortunately for me our local PBS station must have be on a weird channel, because 8 wasn't on the list to choose from, so I didn't get to see it work.
Does anyone have such a list though? Can anyone provide a copy of it? Is it even technically possible to generate? In real time, or even close?
Well, the Debian announcement says this:
BXA regulations require that you not knowingly export to embargoed countries, as a show of good faith you may wish to consider implementing a reverse IP lookup that identifies the computer requesting the download, and that blocks downloads of the cryptographic archive to countries embargoed by the United States: Cuba (.cu), Iran (.ir), Iraq (.iq), Libya (.ly), North Korea (.kp), Syria (.sy), Sudan (.sd) and Taliban Occupied Afghanistan.
I know it's not an IP list, but it would be fairly simple to impliment - just block those TLD's. I suppose it would slow your server down some, having to reverse resolve every IP that connects to it. As far as updating the list, that shouldn't be too hard - all you have to do is have your lawyer give you a call every time a country is added or removed from the list (how often does that happen?) and just add their ccTLD to the block list. Or, just did a quick Google search and you can get a list from the U.S. Department of State.
It's as though they just walked up and handed security to those who don't know how to use it.
It's not like having extra security without knowing exactly what it does is a bad thing. The Crypto section doesn't just contain things like PGP, but important server utilities like SSH, SSL and other things. It's my opinion that SSH should be installed by default (in place of telnet) on every server as it is much more secure. The people you're talking about probably didn't understand exactly how telnet worked and they probably won't understand exactly how SSH works, but they'll still get the benefits of the extra security as will anyone who depends on the servers that they run.
The Debian team has been working on this for a long time. Hopefully it will make installations and upgrades quicker as the servers can now be on the same continent:-).
One thing that was interesting is that under section 740.13(e) of the US EAR, the software can be exported as long as the people that are exporting it file for export notification. Apparently one thing that they were worried about was whether or not the individual mirrors had to each file or if Debian could just file for the main archives and all the mirrors. According to their legal advice that should be okay. Let's just hope that they don't have any legal problems with it in the future.
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For those of you that are curious, the actual email that Andi Barth sent out is here.
There have been a lot of comments about what format to offer the music in. I'd recommend making the tracks available at reasonably good quality bitrate MP3's (or OGG) and FLAC - nothing else. Why? The majority of your audience that doesn't really care about the technical aspects of encoding quality will be satisfied with whatever bitrate MP3 you give them. The rest of your users (like me) will have very specific opinions on how the music should be encoded, from format to bitrate even specific encoder options. You're never going to have enough formats and options to keep all these people happy! Just offer a decent quality version and absolutely lossless FLAC and let the "audiophiles" decide for themselves how they want it encoded. Everyone will be happier this way :-)
All I can say is wow! I'm from Kansas and have written (with the help of the EFF and others) lots of emails to him regarding this issue. Maybe they made a difference, maybe not, but in either case you can guess who I'll be voting for come election time :-)
Probably the game that most changed the way I think is Lists and Lists. It's a text adventure game that teaches you Scheme, which is a dialect of Lisp. If you've never programmed in a language like Lisp, try it out! It is a totally different way of thinking about programming and this game is a great way to learn it. There's even an online version at the webpage.
Why not donate the books you don't want anymore to your local public library? Then others can read them for free and if other people donate their unused books you can read them for free. Sounds like it fills most of the requirements you listed, though perhaps over not quite as large a geographic area. And as a bonus, most libraries will even put a nifty "Donated by" tag in the front of the book!
Nope. SATAN was a vulnerability probing tool that came out of SGI quite a while back. SAINT was based on it (at least in function, I don't know if the code was based on it). They have nothing to do with Nagios.
The previous version of Nagios was called Netsaint, but they changed the name to Nagios because of possible trademark problems with WebSAINT, which is a web based tool that uses SAINT.
From the notice at the bottom of netsaint.org: NetSaint is not affiliated with World Wide Digital Security, Inc. (WWDSI); Richard S. Carson and Associates, Inc; and the marks WEB SAINT, SAINT, SAINTWRITER, SAINTEXPRESS, and SAINTBASIC owned by Richard S. Carson and Associates, Inc.
And I may as well mention that Nagios/Netsaint is a really great tool and I highly recommend it. It won't, however, keep you up to date on "suspicious" activity - it's mostly for just making sure that your server and any services that run on it are going.
For some documentation, I prefer to have it on the computer because you can't grep a dead tree. However, for some things, like for instance the Camel Book, I prefer to have it printed because it's something that I read all the way through, like a book. It's also easier to take with you (you don't always have access to a computer for reading). If it's just for reference about one particular part of the subject covered, on the computer is much more handy. But for something I'm going to read all the way through (possibly more than once), printed is the best.
Well, considering that Ximian is the only easily installable version of the GNOME desktop (unless you stick with what comes default with your distro), I would say probably quite a few. And Evolution is a mail client, so that comparison doesn't make much sense.
Well, the most obvious problem is that there are way too many domains to request each one be added to a whitelist every time you want to do something (How many links did you click while viewing slashdot today? Do you want to have to go ask the librarian every time?)
And another obvious problem that we've seen with other censorware is that what one person wants isn't always what another person wants.
And, for that matter, most current censorware applications have the ability to specifically unblock certain sites, so you should still be able to do that.
This doesn't have to do with Macs, but I hadn't heard of the WinMX program before, so I did a Google search on it, and the first Paid Ad that came up was:
Winmx - Downloading unauthorized files is illegal.
www.MusicUnited.org Find Legal Digital Music Services HERE!
Thought that was kinda interesting.
Well then you should try Nagios (Used to be Netsaint). Does all sorts of monitoring and 2D maps of systems (and their status) or a 3D VRML map! Doesn't do histograms though... In all seriousness though, it really is a neat piece of software and very handy.
I pay the same or more for the download service as for the CD, download the tracks slowly, install their software several times until it works, burn it on a CD, rip it, encode it, then listen to it? And the music companies wonder why their online services aren't insanely popular...
I'm sure your experience depends on the credit union you use. Of course the same goes for whatever bank you use, a lot depends on which bank it is. I haven't had any of the problems you mentioned with the local credit union I'm a member of.
First of all, "affiliates" probably means companies with which the bank has a close relationship. For instance, many banks have outside companies do their data processing or do their online banking or bill pay services for them. There's really no way they could do these services without sharing your info.
As for banks that don't share your information, have you considered trying a credit union? Unlike banks whose main concern is making money for the shareholders, a credit union's main concern is providing the best service to their members because it is run by the members for the members.
I just always told them I wouldn't tell them my personal information and it didn't seem like that big of a deal to them. Or, if you like, you could always have fun making up fake addresses. Even so, my Dad refuses to shop at RatShack because they always ask for your address.
I was thinking about the same questions a while ago and came up with a solution that I think is pretty good. Once a month I make a backup of my fileserver on a CD-R, then I drop it off at my safe deposit box. I keep about 5 months back just in case. The advantage to using the safe deposit box is that it doesn't cost anything (I already had the box), it's close by (better than mailing), and the bank gets to worry about security, fire-proofing, etc. instead of me.
A book that I found very helpful for learning SQL is Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes. When I first started learning SQL I mostly got everything from the early Slashcode sources and the MySQL manual as I needed it - not the best way to learn :-). I was a bit skeptical about the "10 minutes" approach, but each of the chapters actually did work out to about 10 minutes and the information was easy to understand (may have helped that I already knew some about SQL) and was fairly thorough. Another point that I really liked about it is that for the most part it only talked about the SQL standard, not just how one vendor implemented it. However, if an important vendor differed in their implementation, they would talk about it. This worked out great for me because I just wanted to know SQL basics and "best practices" and could figure out vendor specifics from their manuals.
That's odd. My credit card had that information on it (Visa). It's written in the signature area. I've seen it on other e-commerce websites, it's supposed to help protect against fraud.
Gandi has worked great for me. Only 12 euros per year (about $10) and their terms of service are very good (you actually own the domain). They also do website and e-mail redirection for free.
I know it's not an IP list, but it would be fairly simple to impliment - just block those TLD's. I suppose it would slow your server down some, having to reverse resolve every IP that connects to it. As far as updating the list, that shouldn't be too hard - all you have to do is have your lawyer give you a call every time a country is added or removed from the list (how often does that happen?) and just add their ccTLD to the block list. Or, just did a quick Google search and you can get a list from the U.S. Department of State.
The Debian team has been working on this for a long time. Hopefully it will make installations and upgrades quicker as the servers can now be on the same continent :-).
One thing that was interesting is that under section 740.13(e) of the US EAR, the software can be exported as long as the people that are exporting it file for export notification. Apparently one thing that they were worried about was whether or not the individual mirrors had to each file or if Debian could just file for the main archives and all the mirrors. According to their legal advice that should be okay. Let's just hope that they don't have any legal problems with it in the future.
Well, seeing as every other slashdotter is replying to this story, I figured I might as well also - Congratulations!
One thought that's just a little frightening is the possibility of little CmdrTacos running around (LtnCmdrTaco?)
Anyways, best luck to both of you!