...unless Apple starts giving it away. Seriously. Between Google apps and XDrive I have everything.mac has for FREE. Even the zealots will come around.
Oh yeah, home servers, unless they are exposed to the Internet, do not give you the ability to access your data from anywhere there's connectivity. I dread to think what would happen in an Internet where you have home servers everywhere. Particularly home servers running WINDOWS. The only folks who would be happy in a situation like that would be Russian pr0n spammers.
ftp? No way! sftp/ssh2/scp. Sure, it doesn't come installed with Windows. But there are free solutions for that. Port 22, port 80, port 443. That's it. End of story.
And the fact of the matter is that they aren't bad musicians at all. Like many in comedy they all had backgrounds in music before Tap. It used to be that some sort of musical ability was a prerequisite for being a comedian. Vaudeville sort of made that a part of being a theatrical comedian. It's not really as wedded to comedy anymore -- I think that Andy Kaufman was the last person to call himself a "song and dance man" -- but it's in the DNA.
Same with animators. Max and Dave Fleischer created a very unique system at their studio where the animators had to know how to read music to time out cartoons. At the very least, they had to know how to read rhythms. The Fleischers had a radically different system than any other studio, and only Tezuka Osamu really copied their methods. However, because Tezuka Osamu copied the Fleischer system, a lot of animation made for domestic consumption in Japan has the seiyuu laying on their voice performances after everything else is done, and x-sheets containing rhythmic notation of some sort or another. The American/Canadian/European system that started at Disney had the soundtrack recording go first and everything else being animated to that "track." When the Japanese did overseas services for studios like Hanna-Barbera in the '60s and '70s they used the "track goes first" system. From what I understand, in modern Japan, whether they animate to the track or not is a personal decision of the production company. Some studios do, some don't.
Anyway what I was getting at is that there are a lot of animators who are also musicians. Some are just people who play music for fun, some are really, really good at it, for example Jim Smith who helped create Ren & Stimpy and whose guitar playing can be heard at the beginning and end of every episode. Being funny and being musical seems to be connected somehow.
The antidote is K3B. Of course, you have to run Linux to run it. Nobody's ported it to Windows...yet. Since the command-line cdrtools that K3B depends on have been ported to Win32 already, it should be easy for someone who knows what they are doing to do it. K3B is a lot like the Nero of yore, only it never got bloated.
I can scroll from the trackpad by using 2 fingers on in and moving them up or down depending on whether you need to scroll up or down. I can also "right click" by putting 2 fingers on the trackpad and clicking. And if I want the classic "right click" I can plug in a mouse or a trackball.
Indeed. This is one more reason to hate iPhone. I have a Core 2 Duo MacBook. It would benefit from native 64-bit Intel code. It's fine with Tiger but it would seriously kick butt with Leopard.
Oh well...time to get the biggest freaking 2.5" SATA drive I can afford and partition to dual-boot Linux on my MacBook. 64-bit Intel code and 64-bit Intel apps are ready for prime time on Linux. And an October release also means I don't have the downtime to install Leopard when it becomes available...I finish my BA at the end of December so my MacBook will be busy until then.
This is a major bummer. Thanks a lot, Apple.
BTW: anyone think this is a way to head off the "Mac nano" aka Apple TV running Mac OS X? This way, you have to be an uber-leet h4x0r to install Mac OS X Tiger on an Apple TV. Once Leopard comes out with its native Intel code it will be dead easy to convert an Apple TV to a full-fledged Mac. So they are delaying the inevitable this way.
$599+a USB keyboard lying around at home+a USB mouse lying around at home+a PC monitor you have lying around at home = a real Mac with Tiger on it.
If you value the many hours it takes to hack an AppleTV at <$170.00, then maybe your argument flies. If you think your time is worth more, maybe this is a project that isn't worth the hack value.
I wouldn't run such a Mac with only 512MB of RAM...I would advocate maxing it out to 2GB to make Tiger chuff happily. But it will run and it is a real Mac.
Only the newer CF mini-recorders could obsolete MiniDisc. Great for recording audio for podcasts. Yeah, it's lossy and ATRAC and you can't really get digital data off the discs without major hassle (the analog hole is your friend) but they were great and fit in your pocket.
Now with CF media getting cheap, and CF mini-recorders that are all too happy to move audio data at USB2 speed to your computer, whether it's a Mac or a PC, it's almost time for me to retire my beloved little MD "Walkman."
Anyone want to buy some unused, still in the wrapper MD media?
Indeed. The fact Debra became our Secretary of State was balm that soothed the wounds of four more years of Arnold Freaking Schwarzenegger and his signature on my Masters Degree diploma if I go to the university of my choice.
Go Debra go! So nice to have a real, live she-geek in public office!
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Luky's Hardware. This is another place for airplane and aerospace surplus stuff. Nurnies and greeblies galore. Everyone asks me where I got the aircraft aluminum mystery parts for my stunt lightsabres. They were obtained there.
...was good because it was FUN. True, it's not High Art, but it was a roaring good time.
One of the main problems with the Prequels was George Lucas trying to be "profound" on the one hand, and on the other hand create all kinds of merchandising and toy making opportunities. (Jar Jar) The other problem he didn't have Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher (who is now an in-demand script doctor, no less!) to improv dialogue like he had in the first Star Wars movie, nor did he have Lawrence Kasdan to rewrite his crappy dialogue like he did with Empire and Jedi.
I rediscovered my love of Star Wars with Genndy Tartakovsky's brilliant Clone Wars animated short series. That put all the fun back. Too bad Tartakovsky isn't involved with the CGI animated series.
Indeed. He might have described when punk rock died in New York, but around that time it EXPLODED in LA, OC and San Francisco. And then the torch moved north to Portland and Seattle.
Whenever a lot of people talk about punk they forget LA, OC and the Bay Area. All they see is New York, London and Seattle. There's a lot missing in the standard narrative about punk, and it has to do with missing chapters in California.
And remember: it's 30 years since the year Two Sevens Clashed. God that makes me feel old.
One word: Linux. Somehow or another Linux has always supported these cards. Whether you used OSS or ALSA, they are picked up and run just fine.
Now, IBM ThinkPad 600 and 600e audio, on the other hand...it is still a nightmare to get working under Linux. And under Windows 2K or later it just comes right up. Why? Because IBM let Microsoft in on the weird kludge they used for sound, and Linux driver coders had to reverse engineer it. And there are three chips on the ThinkPad 600 and 600e that look like audio cards. Only one of them is the correct chip.
IANAL either, but this is the doctrine of unclean hands. It can be used to get the YouTube case laughed out of court. Which it should. Viacom is expecting YouTube to do something Viacom does not do itself on its own, similar website. Buh-bye, Mr. Redstone.
Yes, you can run Linux as a Parallels guest OS. You are also not wedded to XP for your Windows version...you can run Windows 2000, 98SE, 95, OS/2 or even DOS as a guest OS. Any OS that can run on Intel x86 can run as a Parallels guest OS. And it can run completely isolated from the host OS if you don't enable file sharing and Internet access. If anything, it's a superior way of running Windows if you have to do it.
...for moving from a Windows office to an xNIX office. And by xNIX I mean Macs and Linux boxes side by side. I mean FreeBSD and/or Solaris too serving up your data. Mac OS X has a few advantages Linux does not have and never will: Microsoft and Adobe software. Adobe is even reintroducing Premiere for Mac OS X, something that the platform lost when Apple put out Final Cut the first time and Adobe got their noses out of joint over it.
I hate MS and Adobe as much as the next geek, and will gleefully point out F/OSS solutions like OpenOffice.Org, Kino and The GIMP, but let's face it, what will someone completely unhip to F/OSS rather have in front of them: the F/OSS workalike or the reassuring name-brand? Will MS and Adobe ever port to Linux? When pigs fly.
With Mac OS X, you have an xNIX under the hood, and a friendly face out in front. Give the office folks Macs, and use Linux or FreeBSD on those servers that used to run Windows Server. Heck, basically Mac OS X Server is Mac OS X plus ports of stuff like Samba and CUPS. Save your money you would have spent on an XServe and repurpose some PCs with Linux or FreeBSD.
Wireless networks do not scale well. Even at small scale performance isn't that great but at large scale the shared medium takes its toll beyond that.
So if you don't want to use a wireless network, don't. There's a nice little Giga Ethernet port right there ready to plug into your network. Problem solved.
Woodbury University migrated its student accounts to Gmail. Very happy about it. Nice to apply Gmail's industrial-strength, nearly infallable Spam filters to my account.
Who needs freaking MS and their "Live*" crap? Apparently not the IT department, whose natural instinct would have been to pile on more MS junk but they went the Gmail route because whatever solution they picked would have had to work on the Macs at WU too.
The Googleplex has made recent decisions I would have to categorize as "evil." However, I cannot argue with the fact that their stuff just WORKS, period. I for one welcome our Googleplex overlords. However I wish they'd grow more of a spine in dealing with Big Media.:P
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...unless Apple starts giving it away. Seriously. Between Google apps and XDrive I have everything .mac has for FREE. Even the zealots will come around.
Oh yeah, home servers, unless they are exposed to the Internet, do not give you the ability to access your data from anywhere there's connectivity. I dread to think what would happen in an Internet where you have home servers everywhere. Particularly home servers running WINDOWS. The only folks who would be happy in a situation like that would be Russian pr0n spammers.
Long pig. Yum, yum.
ftp? No way! sftp/ssh2/scp. Sure, it doesn't come installed with Windows. But there are free solutions for that. Port 22, port 80, port 443. That's it. End of story.
And the fact of the matter is that they aren't bad musicians at all. Like many in comedy they all had backgrounds in music before Tap. It used to be that some sort of musical ability was a prerequisite for being a comedian. Vaudeville sort of made that a part of being a theatrical comedian. It's not really as wedded to comedy anymore -- I think that Andy Kaufman was the last person to call himself a "song and dance man" -- but it's in the DNA.
Same with animators. Max and Dave Fleischer created a very unique system at their studio where the animators had to know how to read music to time out cartoons. At the very least, they had to know how to read rhythms. The Fleischers had a radically different system than any other studio, and only Tezuka Osamu really copied their methods. However, because Tezuka Osamu copied the Fleischer system, a lot of animation made for domestic consumption in Japan has the seiyuu laying on their voice performances after everything else is done, and x-sheets containing rhythmic notation of some sort or another. The American/Canadian/European system that started at Disney had the soundtrack recording go first and everything else being animated to that "track." When the Japanese did overseas services for studios like Hanna-Barbera in the '60s and '70s they used the "track goes first" system. From what I understand, in modern Japan, whether they animate to the track or not is a personal decision of the production company. Some studios do, some don't.
Anyway what I was getting at is that there are a lot of animators who are also musicians. Some are just people who play music for fun, some are really, really good at it, for example Jim Smith who helped create Ren & Stimpy and whose guitar playing can be heard at the beginning and end of every episode. Being funny and being musical seems to be connected somehow.
The antidote is K3B. Of course, you have to run Linux to run it. Nobody's ported it to Windows...yet. Since the command-line cdrtools that K3B depends on have been ported to Win32 already, it should be easy for someone who knows what they are doing to do it. K3B is a lot like the Nero of yore, only it never got bloated.
Dude, you don't wanna know.
I can scroll from the trackpad by using 2 fingers on in and moving them up or down depending on whether you need to scroll up or down. I can also "right click" by putting 2 fingers on the trackpad and clicking. And if I want the classic "right click" I can plug in a mouse or a trackball.
Any questions?
Indeed. This is one more reason to hate iPhone. I have a Core 2 Duo MacBook. It would benefit from native 64-bit Intel code. It's fine with Tiger but it would seriously kick butt with Leopard.
Oh well...time to get the biggest freaking 2.5" SATA drive I can afford and partition to dual-boot Linux on my MacBook. 64-bit Intel code and 64-bit Intel apps are ready for prime time on Linux. And an October release also means I don't have the downtime to install Leopard when it becomes available...I finish my BA at the end of December so my MacBook will be busy until then.
This is a major bummer. Thanks a lot, Apple.
BTW: anyone think this is a way to head off the "Mac nano" aka Apple TV running Mac OS X? This way, you have to be an uber-leet h4x0r to install Mac OS X Tiger on an Apple TV. Once Leopard comes out with its native Intel code it will be dead easy to convert an Apple TV to a full-fledged Mac. So they are delaying the inevitable this way.
My question: when are they going to call a Debian release "Wheeze" after the penguin toy? Oh. Wait. I know.
$599+a USB keyboard lying around at home+a USB mouse lying around at home+a PC monitor you have lying around at home = a real Mac with Tiger on it.
If you value the many hours it takes to hack an AppleTV at <$170.00, then maybe your argument flies. If you think your time is worth more, maybe this is a project that isn't worth the hack value.
I wouldn't run such a Mac with only 512MB of RAM...I would advocate maxing it out to 2GB to make Tiger chuff happily. But it will run and it is a real Mac.
Only the newer CF mini-recorders could obsolete MiniDisc. Great for recording audio for podcasts. Yeah, it's lossy and ATRAC and you can't really get digital data off the discs without major hassle (the analog hole is your friend) but they were great and fit in your pocket.
Now with CF media getting cheap, and CF mini-recorders that are all too happy to move audio data at USB2 speed to your computer, whether it's a Mac or a PC, it's almost time for me to retire my beloved little MD "Walkman."
Anyone want to buy some unused, still in the wrapper MD media?
Nice! I'm sure that's in the offing for the Pacific Coast states soon.
Indeed. The fact Debra became our Secretary of State was balm that soothed the wounds of four more years of Arnold Freaking Schwarzenegger and his signature on my Masters Degree diploma if I go to the university of my choice.
Go Debra go! So nice to have a real, live she-geek in public office!
Luky's Hardware. This is another place for airplane and aerospace surplus stuff. Nurnies and greeblies galore. Everyone asks me where I got the aircraft aluminum mystery parts for my stunt lightsabres. They were obtained there.
...was good because it was FUN. True, it's not High Art, but it was a roaring good time.
One of the main problems with the Prequels was George Lucas trying to be "profound" on the one hand, and on the other hand create all kinds of merchandising and toy making opportunities. (Jar Jar) The other problem he didn't have Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher (who is now an in-demand script doctor, no less!) to improv dialogue like he had in the first Star Wars movie, nor did he have Lawrence Kasdan to rewrite his crappy dialogue like he did with Empire and Jedi.
I rediscovered my love of Star Wars with Genndy Tartakovsky's brilliant Clone Wars animated short series. That put all the fun back. Too bad Tartakovsky isn't involved with the CGI animated series.
...Bakshi's Wizards. Better than any of the movies you mention.
Never was there a finer commentary on the human condition than "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
"You see! You see! Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!"
Great dialogue, man. Or at least better than any that was in the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. ^_^
Big example: VH1's "History of Punk Rock."
They even had the nerve to talk to people like Henry Rollins and Keith Morris and NOT talk about the California punk scene.
Indeed. He might have described when punk rock died in New York, but around that time it EXPLODED in LA, OC and San Francisco. And then the torch moved north to Portland and Seattle.
Whenever a lot of people talk about punk they forget LA, OC and the Bay Area. All they see is New York, London and Seattle. There's a lot missing in the standard narrative about punk, and it has to do with missing chapters in California.
And remember: it's 30 years since the year Two Sevens Clashed. God that makes me feel old.
One word: Linux. Somehow or another Linux has always supported these cards. Whether you used OSS or ALSA, they are picked up and run just fine.
Now, IBM ThinkPad 600 and 600e audio, on the other hand...it is still a nightmare to get working under Linux. And under Windows 2K or later it just comes right up. Why? Because IBM let Microsoft in on the weird kludge they used for sound, and Linux driver coders had to reverse engineer it. And there are three chips on the ThinkPad 600 and 600e that look like audio cards. Only one of them is the correct chip.
IANAL either, but this is the doctrine of unclean hands. It can be used to get the YouTube case laughed out of court. Which it should. Viacom is expecting YouTube to do something Viacom does not do itself on its own, similar website. Buh-bye, Mr. Redstone.
Yes, you can run Linux as a Parallels guest OS. You are also not wedded to XP for your Windows version...you can run Windows 2000, 98SE, 95, OS/2 or even DOS as a guest OS. Any OS that can run on Intel x86 can run as a Parallels guest OS. And it can run completely isolated from the host OS if you don't enable file sharing and Internet access. If anything, it's a superior way of running Windows if you have to do it.
...for moving from a Windows office to an xNIX office. And by xNIX I mean Macs and Linux boxes side by side. I mean FreeBSD and/or Solaris too serving up your data. Mac OS X has a few advantages Linux does not have and never will: Microsoft and Adobe software. Adobe is even reintroducing Premiere for Mac OS X, something that the platform lost when Apple put out Final Cut the first time and Adobe got their noses out of joint over it.
I hate MS and Adobe as much as the next geek, and will gleefully point out F/OSS solutions like OpenOffice.Org, Kino and The GIMP, but let's face it, what will someone completely unhip to F/OSS rather have in front of them: the F/OSS workalike or the reassuring name-brand? Will MS and Adobe ever port to Linux? When pigs fly.
With Mac OS X, you have an xNIX under the hood, and a friendly face out in front. Give the office folks Macs, and use Linux or FreeBSD on those servers that used to run Windows Server. Heck, basically Mac OS X Server is Mac OS X plus ports of stuff like Samba and CUPS. Save your money you would have spent on an XServe and repurpose some PCs with Linux or FreeBSD.
Wireless networks do not scale well. Even at small scale performance isn't that great but at large scale the shared medium takes its toll beyond that.
So if you don't want to use a wireless network, don't. There's a nice little Giga Ethernet port right there ready to plug into your network. Problem solved.
Woodbury University migrated its student accounts to Gmail. Very happy about it. Nice to apply Gmail's industrial-strength, nearly infallable Spam filters to my account.
:P
Who needs freaking MS and their "Live*" crap? Apparently not the IT department, whose natural instinct would have been to pile on more MS junk but they went the Gmail route because whatever solution they picked would have had to work on the Macs at WU too.
The Googleplex has made recent decisions I would have to categorize as "evil." However, I cannot argue with the fact that their stuff just WORKS, period. I for one welcome our Googleplex overlords. However I wish they'd grow more of a spine in dealing with Big Media.