Seconded. I have a Hotmail account (p3ngu1n1st4mcs3 at hotmail dot com) and a Yahoo account (msg33k93 at yahoo dot com). Neither one gets a hell of a lot of spam. Yahoo must be running some good filters because what spam I get is recognized and tossed in my Bulk Mail Black Hole folder.
However, the email address I have had the longest (mhass703@2cowherd.net) is basically a spamcatcher now. Notice I don't obfuscate? I don't give a rats ass about that email address anymore. I will prolly stop checking it soon anyway.:P Pity, I have such good memories about the time I was using it as my one-and-only email.
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Heh, this is so fsckn funny...
Bill Gates bringing up OS/2 and comparing it to Linux is basically his way of raising his middle finger in the face of IBM. Gates and IBM had their rancourous falling-out over OS/2, and now that IBM has put much of its still-considerable muscle behind Linux this is his way of talking smack about IBM.
Gates' arrogance is amazing. Read between the lines here. He's saying "we killed OS/2 and we're going to kill Linux...the SCO lawsuit is just the beginning."
Thing is, you can't kill something that has no leaders and is not backed by a rival corporation. Even if Linux was temporarily crushed by MS action or government fiat, it could be revived at any time because the code is free and open and anyone who understands it can build on it.
Read your Greek mythology, Mr. Gates. Hubris goeth before a fall.
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For those who may complain about this post, bear in mind that I cannot take this to email because I can't find an email address either on your user page or your website. Thanks for understanding...
The difference is that NVidia's drivers WORK. And they work WELL. I would rather have drivers that work than drivers that are open source and suck. NVidia is pretty much the only game in town for high-end gaming graphics under Linux. BTW their installer is perhaps one of the easiest under Linux. Almost at Windoze "point and drool" level.
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Actually she is correct about a few of her examples. The old man who wins the lottery and dies the next day is ironic. The two minute late pardon for the guy who just got toasted in the electric chair is ironic. The guy who works up the courage to fly after years of being afraid of it and dies on that plane ride is an ironic situation. The other stuff in the song, true, are either annoyances or bad luck or whatever, but she gets it right a few times.
Oh yeah, irony didn't die on 9/11/2001. Al'Qaeda and the Taliban and Saddam and so on were all once, one way or another, on the CIA's payroll. Cue Alannis...
Ardour is reliant on ALSA which is the next-gen audio architecture for Linux if my memory serves me right. Combined with the low-latency kernel patch, supposedly it is comparable with those Windows and Mac drivers you speak of.
Also, for those who talk of the tools being expensive, understand that musicians in America (unless they are part of a very small elite) do not make a Professional's wages. Usually they have to work a "day job" to survive. If they have a recording contract they are under a contract that can be charitably referred to as legalized slavery. Read this article for details. Even people in bands that you would think would be living the high life have to go back to their "day job" when they are not touring.
We do not treat musicians as professionals here in the US. In Europe, it's a bit better...the State often times steps in with a relationship that we here in the US would call "welfare" but what is more reminiscent of the artist-patron relationship of centuries past. But still, only a small minority can make professional wages as a professional musician. Wake up and smell the desperation.
In 2000, I built a machine specifically for my husband as a digital audio workstation. We bought the most recent Magix semi-pro multitrack software to try to get things going on it. Unmitigated disaster.
Moved from W98SE to W2K in 2001. Tried other software in various stages of legality. Some worked, some didn't. Right no we use machine to do very limited stuff with ACID, Sound Forge XP and Vegas Audio SE. (the last two came free with the full version of ACID 3.)
Yes, Richie uses the machine, but at this point only to dump audio off his cassette portastudio into Vegas Audio SE. mix to 2 track, then master in Sound Forge XP.
Right now he's a hell of a lot more comfortable with his easy-to-use Tascam cassette portastudio than with often arcane audio software. In fact, in spite of these new and kewl developments, the Compact Flash-based digital multitracker made by Fostex is looking like the route he might be taking rather than using this machine I built for him.
Alas, this machine might wind up just being used to master stuff done on the Fostex and encode to MP3 and OGG. (AAC encoding will be done on my G3 Blue-and-white)
BTW this audio machine gets most use under ACID...by me. I love that program. If someone comes up with a F/OSS program that does everything that ACID does I will be forever grateful.
Oh yeah, a little history about Vegas: it started out as the multi-track answer to Sound Forge. It developed looping features from the ACID engine that powers it, and also had a few video features too. Sonic Foundry realized that the video editing features of Vegas were even more compelling (and potentially more lucrative) than the audio multi-tracking features, and split development into Vegas Video and Vegas Audio.
However, the underlying engine in the software was identical between the two, and Sound Forge re-merged the code in time for Vegas 4. Now the line is split into a more entry-level package and one that can do DVD mastering. Entry level is a misnomer...both are still hideously pricey. But worth every penny.
And yes, you can use Vegas 4 as a Digital Audio Workstation even to this day. You just ignore the video features and mix audio tracks.
Small eCommerce company with 40 users goes AD. Two DCs, single domain, single Organizational Unit. Replication traffic between the two DCs starts to choke off internal bandwidth. You look at Event Viewer and there are error messages being generated every few seconds, some real, some spurious. The boss had been using his very limited knowledge of Windows networking and had fuxored the group policy. (A little knowledge is a dangerous thing indeed.) I eventually straightened the mess out and this company still runs under AD to this day, but it took me weeks to do it.
If the company hadn't hired me as a customer service person (yes, that's how I got in) and I hadn't mentioned my MCSE on my resume this wouldn't have gotten fixed at all and the network would have choked on itself as surely as a nice lawn is choked off by a heavy crabgrass infestation.
Now if this all had been running as a simple NT single domain...so much easier...
It's getting to the point where I absolutely cannot wait for this to finally arrive.
My musician husband has been lusting after the ability to record music for years, and the big trouble has been that the right software has been proprietary, often requiring expensive hardware to make it work, and EXPENSIVE on its own.
To wit: Vegas from Sonic Foundry costs $700. Samplitude is about that much. ProTools? If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Sonar by Cakewalk only costs $500. (ONLY)
Unfortunately it's not production quality yet. But from the looks of the site, it looks like they are getting close to it now.
Give it a year or so and I will be able to finally wipe Windows off of the family audio computer and do it the right way...with Free as in FREEDOM software.
As an administrator security is a major issue with me. I spend atleast 1 day a week going over each and every server looking for security updates and whatnot. Thanks to Microsoft's BS Analyzer I know if I have all of the security patches installed on my machines. HOWEVER due to NT's inherant insecurity, 2 of our NT servers were hacked over 20 times in 2 months specifically by warez monkeys to allow dumps for their IRC channels. Mind you all patches were installed, and I followed MS's Baseline security information to a T. So what it boils down to is that there are obviously major, KNOWN security holes with NT that have NOT been taken care of.
Dirty little secret: some of those major, KNOWN security holes also exist in 2K, XP and Server 2K3. They are kernel-level and fundamental to the NT5 security model and would require moving Windows off of the NT kernel and onto something else.
Good that you are migrating away from Windows. People are going to have to face up to the fundamental flaws within sooner or later. And the way Microsoft is moving to "fix" it (Palladium, etc.) is only going to make matters worse.
Well the AD is probably one of the best and coolest advances offered by 2000 server. It is better than an NT 4 domain for so many reasons.
Active Directory is overkill for most businesses. Most businesses fit into the category "small business" (100 users or less) and in an environment like that AD adds a layer of complexity that is more trouble than it's worth.
It is a damn shame that Windows 2K Server (and 2K3 Server now) does not have an option to set your network up as a "NT4-like domain". Basically with 2K you have an all-or-nothing choice...either go with an AD domain and all the complexity it entails, or set everyone up on a workgroup. There is no middle ground.
Since SaMBa can be set up as an "NT4-like domain," and can basically do everything a Primary Domain Controller can except sync with Backup Domain Controllers, this is a viable option for the small business. NT4-like permissions are easier to troubleshoot than Group Policy, you don't get the chatter of AD replication traffic, you don't get the frustration factor of chasing down spurious AD error entries in the log files in the Event Viewer, etc.
And yeah, I did go through the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows 2000 program. I have seen the disaster that is small businesses trying to use Active Directory first hand. It's not pretty.
I will not shed tears over NT4, though. It's crap software and a pain in the ass. Install new software, reinstall the system service packs? No way, bucko. Rest in pieces.
Actually IBM has been providing processors to Apple for years. My G3 Blue-And-White has a true-Blue copper G3 350MHz in it. IBM has continued to evolve the G3 series of chips, and they have continued to supply Apple with faster and faster G3s for the iBook series of laptops.
Apple has had strategic alliances with IBM since Taligent in the early 1990s. A lot of their know-how went into the PowerPC design. (What, you think that Moto could have done it alone?)
Considering how badly Moto has botched G4 production, it's not surprising that they turned to IBM for the future of the PPC line.
Big Blue hasn't been Big Brother for a long, long time. You'll have to switch your focus from Armonk, NY to Redmond, WA.
Right now the most accurate portrayal of a computer hack is in "Matrix Reloaded," where Trinity uses nmap to exploit the hole in SSH1.
However, the finest and most entertaining movie about geeks remains "Pirates of Silicon Valley." AOL Time Warner needs to release it on DVD. Soon.
"Revolution OS" is the most factually accurate movie about geeks. However, it lacks entertainment value, and is clumsily edited, scored and directed. Someone especially fell asleep at the switch during the audio mix...the Philip Glass-clone music is mixed way too loud over everything else. Still, it's important because it tells the Linux story as it is, like it is.
Pointy-haired Bosses need to see "Revolution OS". It will keep their attention better than a multi-page white paper.
They took Caldera's good points (and there were a few) and washed the SuCk-O out of it.
I wonder what all this SCO bullshit will mean for the next major upgrade of Lycoris, Beryl. Maybe it will never happen. Another reason to curse the name of SCO. Now and forever. Amen.
There are a few pro-choice Republicans...my city had a mayor who was both pro-choice and Catholic, for example. If my memory serves me right, John McCain is pro-choice. And there are tons of Republicans, including some I would not agree with otherwise, who are against the concentration of Big Media in the hands of their dreaded Liberal Elite.
Trick is to find one who is both. For example, former LA Mayor Dick Riordan might be pro-choice but he is also in the pocket of Big Media. And of course, the Bodybuilder/Action Hero who would be Governor, Ah-nold Schwartzenegger, knows where his bread is buttered.
Depressing as all hell. Damn, maybe the person who talked about starting a Geek Party might be onto something. Then again, Geek would prolly do worse than even the Greens in the polls.
That's it, I'm moving to The Netherlands first chance I get.:P
Ugh...Howard Berman is my rep. I thought he was finished with this kind of stuff, or at least that's what he said earlier this year. Well, he stands for reelection in 2004, time to get the word out in my 'hood that hack-happy Berman has got to go.
He got scared a little when he didn't get his usual 85% to 95% of the vote in the last election. Unfortunately, we didn't scare him enough. Someone bring in a pro-choice, anti-Big Media Republican candidate to take him out...or an electable Libertarian.
I posted something addressing both issues in the same article...here's the link. Basically the executive summary is that the album is not being killed by iTunes. The practice of putting one or two good songs on a CD's worth of filler has killed the concept of the album way deader than Steve Jobs could ever manage.
Drat, that "death of the album" thingy was on another thread. Sorry, folks. The two concepts just went together, like peanut butter and chocolate or Mountain Dew and a marathon gaming session.
Will post a link to the article on the other thread.
the labels take another 12 cents from the artist's share to recoup "production advances" and "independent promotion"
This is completely and totally true. $0.12 is actually PROGRESS when compared to the status quo. Here's a better breakdown of the whole situation, courtesy record producer Steve Albini: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
As far as the whiners about "the death of the album" go, two things wrong with their premises:
Up until the 1970s that's the way radio and records went. Top 40 Radio created a singles-oriented business, with the album as gravy. Even with great albums like Sgt. Pepper the Beatles made sure there was at least one good single on there if not a few. It was only with the popularity of Album Oriented Radio in the 1970s that things changed. The last gasp of the single 45rpm record as a mass consumer good was in the early 1980s.
The primacy of the album has been basically stood on its head in the first decade of the 21st century. The average CD has you back in the '60s again, with albums that have one or two good songs and an ocean of filler. Some of the people complaining on that list are guilty of this crime against the music consumer.
All that Steve Jobs is doing is levelling the playing field for the consumer. You have never been prevented from downloading a whole album on iTunes...in fact, you get an economic incentive to do so with the $9.99 bargain "album" rate. If a band makes a super-bitchen album, and people hear that the album is great as a whole, they will download the whole album rather than download the songs piecemeal without the advantage of the bulk rate.
The fact of the matter is that the "album" died years ago. Deal with it.
Well, OpenOffice's native file formats are basically an XML stylesheet.ZIPped with your information in text format...finally a file format that would be easy for other programs to use (it's an open standard) and file sizes are very reasonable too.
GIMP is impressive solely for the fact it's an open answer to Photoshop (c'mon, how many of you actually USE CMYK separations?) and it works. You have no excuse to use Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro, because there is a Win32 version out there.
My husband is white. Obviously white. However, he shaves his head, and has a goatee. For a time, we also drove around in a 1979 Olds Cutlass, one of the cars Latino gangs favor.
For the time we owned the Cutlass, my husband got pulled over on a regular basis.
The M.O. was the same. Richie gets pulled over. He is instructed to put his hands on his head. The cops eyeball the car, then finally check him out. The blue eyes are a dead giveaway that the person they pulled over does not "fit the profile."
The cops then go into a very embarrassed hemming and hawing dance. "Terribly sorry, sir, continue on your way, have a good one."
I dread to think what would have happened had Richie actually been Latino. We now drive around in a beige Chevy Nova '86 (basically a Toyota Corolla) and he hasn't been pulled over since.
The reason that the G5s might be coming in at a different (lower) price point than G4s might be because Apple is sourcing the chip from IBM, not Motorola. Perhaps IBM is giving Apple a way better price on the new chip than they could get on G4s from Motorola...it would make sense considering that IBM is in way better financial shape than Motorola is now.
It would be a sacrificial amount right now for me to do, but yes, if Linus got sued, I would indeed pony up $100 cash money and donate it to Linus' defense fund.
Linux is way too important to the future of computing to not do this.
OK...here's an old one...Macintosh HFS. (Hierarchical FS)
If my memory serves me right, the Mac file system since Macintosh transitioned from the original Mac FS to HFS has been laid out as a flat-file database, complete with a master B-tree. (no dirty jokes, please)
If this is the case, then HFS+ still is laid out on a similar structure...with some changes that allow it to access larger volume sizes. Old-school HFS would only scale to 2GB. Now HFS+ scales almost infinitely...and has journaling too.
So again, Apple has been there and done that and others have followed.
There's no excuse now. I have a Blue and White G3. It has 512MB of RAM. It has enough processor power to do it if I turn a lot of the silly eye candy off. iTunes is calling me. And now this poll says the OS I most resemble is MacOS X.
Resistance is futile. I must be assimilated by the Cupertino Collective. JagWire, here I come...
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Seconded. I have a Hotmail account (p3ngu1n1st4mcs3 at hotmail dot com) and a Yahoo account (msg33k93 at yahoo dot com). Neither one gets a hell of a lot of spam. Yahoo must be running some good filters because what spam I get is recognized and tossed in my Bulk Mail Black Hole folder.
:P Pity, I have such good memories about the time I was using it as my one-and-only email.
However, the email address I have had the longest (mhass703@2cowherd.net) is basically a spamcatcher now. Notice I don't obfuscate? I don't give a rats ass about that email address anymore. I will prolly stop checking it soon anyway.
Note to those who wish to comment about my journal posts, etc: working email addresses are in this post. Ditch the 'leet numeric substitutions if you want the first two addresses to work right.
Heh, this is so fsckn funny...
Bill Gates bringing up OS/2 and comparing it to Linux is basically his way of raising his middle finger in the face of IBM. Gates and IBM had their rancourous falling-out over OS/2, and now that IBM has put much of its still-considerable muscle behind Linux this is his way of talking smack about IBM.
Gates' arrogance is amazing. Read between the lines here. He's saying "we killed OS/2 and we're going to kill Linux...the SCO lawsuit is just the beginning."
Thing is, you can't kill something that has no leaders and is not backed by a rival corporation. Even if Linux was temporarily crushed by MS action or government fiat, it could be revived at any time because the code is free and open and anyone who understands it can build on it.
Read your Greek mythology, Mr. Gates. Hubris goeth before a fall.
If you want to comment, email me at msgeek93 at yahoo dot com. I have had hideous problems with a small, vicious group of crapflooders whom I angered back in the MsGeek.Org days and don't want to turn my journal into a sewer of gay pr0n and other crap. I am stuck doing this because some people here have no sense of manners.
For those who may complain about this post, bear in mind that I cannot take this to email because I can't find an email address either on your user page or your website. Thanks for understanding...
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The difference is that NVidia's drivers WORK. And they work WELL. I would rather have drivers that work than drivers that are open source and suck. NVidia is pretty much the only game in town for high-end gaming graphics under Linux. BTW their installer is perhaps one of the easiest under Linux. Almost at Windoze "point and drool" level.
Actually she is correct about a few of her examples. The old man who wins the lottery and dies the next day is ironic. The two minute late pardon for the guy who just got toasted in the electric chair is ironic. The guy who works up the courage to fly after years of being afraid of it and dies on that plane ride is an ironic situation. The other stuff in the song, true, are either annoyances or bad luck or whatever, but she gets it right a few times.
Oh yeah, irony didn't die on 9/11/2001. Al'Qaeda and the Taliban and Saddam and so on were all once, one way or another, on the CIA's payroll. Cue Alannis...
Also, for those who talk of the tools being expensive, understand that musicians in America (unless they are part of a very small elite) do not make a Professional's wages. Usually they have to work a "day job" to survive. If they have a recording contract they are under a contract that can be charitably referred to as legalized slavery. Read this article for details. Even people in bands that you would think would be living the high life have to go back to their "day job" when they are not touring.
We do not treat musicians as professionals here in the US. In Europe, it's a bit better...the State often times steps in with a relationship that we here in the US would call "welfare" but what is more reminiscent of the artist-patron relationship of centuries past. But still, only a small minority can make professional wages as a professional musician. Wake up and smell the desperation.
Not a troll...here's the details.
In 2000, I built a machine specifically for my husband as a digital audio workstation. We bought the most recent Magix semi-pro multitrack software to try to get things going on it. Unmitigated disaster.
Moved from W98SE to W2K in 2001. Tried other software in various stages of legality. Some worked, some didn't. Right no we use machine to do very limited stuff with ACID, Sound Forge XP and Vegas Audio SE. (the last two came free with the full version of ACID 3.)
Yes, Richie uses the machine, but at this point only to dump audio off his cassette portastudio into Vegas Audio SE. mix to 2 track, then master in Sound Forge XP.
Right now he's a hell of a lot more comfortable with his easy-to-use Tascam cassette portastudio than with often arcane audio software. In fact, in spite of these new and kewl developments, the Compact Flash-based digital multitracker made by Fostex is looking like the route he might be taking rather than using this machine I built for him.
Alas, this machine might wind up just being used to master stuff done on the Fostex and encode to MP3 and OGG. (AAC encoding will be done on my G3 Blue-and-white)
BTW this audio machine gets most use under ACID...by me. I love that program. If someone comes up with a F/OSS program that does everything that ACID does I will be forever grateful.
Oh yeah, a little history about Vegas: it started out as the multi-track answer to Sound Forge. It developed looping features from the ACID engine that powers it, and also had a few video features too. Sonic Foundry realized that the video editing features of Vegas were even more compelling (and potentially more lucrative) than the audio multi-tracking features, and split development into Vegas Video and Vegas Audio.
However, the underlying engine in the software was identical between the two, and Sound Forge re-merged the code in time for Vegas 4. Now the line is split into a more entry-level package and one that can do DVD mastering. Entry level is a misnomer...both are still hideously pricey. But worth every penny.
And yes, you can use Vegas 4 as a Digital Audio Workstation even to this day. You just ignore the video features and mix audio tracks.
Small eCommerce company with 40 users goes AD. Two DCs, single domain, single Organizational Unit. Replication traffic between the two DCs starts to choke off internal bandwidth. You look at Event Viewer and there are error messages being generated every few seconds, some real, some spurious. The boss had been using his very limited knowledge of Windows networking and had fuxored the group policy. (A little knowledge is a dangerous thing indeed.) I eventually straightened the mess out and this company still runs under AD to this day, but it took me weeks to do it.
If the company hadn't hired me as a customer service person (yes, that's how I got in) and I hadn't mentioned my MCSE on my resume this wouldn't have gotten fixed at all and the network would have choked on itself as surely as a nice lawn is choked off by a heavy crabgrass infestation.
Now if this all had been running as a simple NT single domain...so much easier...
It's getting to the point where I absolutely cannot wait for this to finally arrive.
My musician husband has been lusting after the ability to record music for years, and the big trouble has been that the right software has been proprietary, often requiring expensive hardware to make it work, and EXPENSIVE on its own.
To wit: Vegas from Sonic Foundry costs $700. Samplitude is about that much. ProTools? If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Sonar by Cakewalk only costs $500. (ONLY)
Unfortunately it's not production quality yet. But from the looks of the site, it looks like they are getting close to it now.
Give it a year or so and I will be able to finally wipe Windows off of the family audio computer and do it the right way...with Free as in FREEDOM software.
Dirty little secret: some of those major, KNOWN security holes also exist in 2K, XP and Server 2K3. They are kernel-level and fundamental to the NT5 security model and would require moving Windows off of the NT kernel and onto something else.
Good that you are migrating away from Windows. People are going to have to face up to the fundamental flaws within sooner or later. And the way Microsoft is moving to "fix" it (Palladium, etc.) is only going to make matters worse.
Active Directory is overkill for most businesses. Most businesses fit into the category "small business" (100 users or less) and in an environment like that AD adds a layer of complexity that is more trouble than it's worth.
It is a damn shame that Windows 2K Server (and 2K3 Server now) does not have an option to set your network up as a "NT4-like domain". Basically with 2K you have an all-or-nothing choice...either go with an AD domain and all the complexity it entails, or set everyone up on a workgroup. There is no middle ground.
Since SaMBa can be set up as an "NT4-like domain," and can basically do everything a Primary Domain Controller can except sync with Backup Domain Controllers, this is a viable option for the small business. NT4-like permissions are easier to troubleshoot than Group Policy, you don't get the chatter of AD replication traffic, you don't get the frustration factor of chasing down spurious AD error entries in the log files in the Event Viewer, etc.
And yeah, I did go through the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows 2000 program. I have seen the disaster that is small businesses trying to use Active Directory first hand. It's not pretty.
I will not shed tears over NT4, though. It's crap software and a pain in the ass. Install new software, reinstall the system service packs? No way, bucko. Rest in pieces.
Actually IBM has been providing processors to Apple for years. My G3 Blue-And-White has a true-Blue copper G3 350MHz in it. IBM has continued to evolve the G3 series of chips, and they have continued to supply Apple with faster and faster G3s for the iBook series of laptops.
Apple has had strategic alliances with IBM since Taligent in the early 1990s. A lot of their know-how went into the PowerPC design. (What, you think that Moto could have done it alone?)
Considering how badly Moto has botched G4 production, it's not surprising that they turned to IBM for the future of the PPC line.
Big Blue hasn't been Big Brother for a long, long time. You'll have to switch your focus from Armonk, NY to Redmond, WA.
SUCKED. It was a hatchet job.
Right now the most accurate portrayal of a computer hack is in "Matrix Reloaded," where Trinity uses nmap to exploit the hole in SSH1.
However, the finest and most entertaining movie about geeks remains "Pirates of Silicon Valley." AOL Time Warner needs to release it on DVD. Soon.
"Revolution OS" is the most factually accurate movie about geeks. However, it lacks entertainment value, and is clumsily edited, scored and directed. Someone especially fell asleep at the switch during the audio mix...the Philip Glass-clone music is mixed way too loud over everything else. Still, it's important because it tells the Linux story as it is, like it is.
Pointy-haired Bosses need to see "Revolution OS". It will keep their attention better than a multi-page white paper.
They took Caldera's good points (and there were a few) and washed the SuCk-O out of it.
I wonder what all this SCO bullshit will mean for the next major upgrade of Lycoris, Beryl. Maybe it will never happen. Another reason to curse the name of SCO. Now and forever. Amen.
There are a few pro-choice Republicans...my city had a mayor who was both pro-choice and Catholic, for example. If my memory serves me right, John McCain is pro-choice. And there are tons of Republicans, including some I would not agree with otherwise, who are against the concentration of Big Media in the hands of their dreaded Liberal Elite.
:P
Trick is to find one who is both. For example, former LA Mayor Dick Riordan might be pro-choice but he is also in the pocket of Big Media. And of course, the Bodybuilder/Action Hero who would be Governor, Ah-nold Schwartzenegger, knows where his bread is buttered.
Depressing as all hell. Damn, maybe the person who talked about starting a Geek Party might be onto something. Then again, Geek would prolly do worse than even the Greens in the polls.
That's it, I'm moving to The Netherlands first chance I get.
He got scared a little when he didn't get his usual 85% to 95% of the vote in the last election. Unfortunately, we didn't scare him enough. Someone bring in a pro-choice, anti-Big Media Republican candidate to take him out...or an electable Libertarian.
I posted something addressing both issues in the same article...here's the link. Basically the executive summary is that the album is not being killed by iTunes. The practice of putting one or two good songs on a CD's worth of filler has killed the concept of the album way deader than Steve Jobs could ever manage.
Drat, that "death of the album" thingy was on another thread. Sorry, folks. The two concepts just went together, like peanut butter and chocolate or Mountain Dew and a marathon gaming session.
Will post a link to the article on the other thread.
This is completely and totally true. $0.12 is actually PROGRESS when compared to the status quo. Here's a better breakdown of the whole situation, courtesy record producer Steve Albini:
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
As far as the whiners about "the death of the album" go, two things wrong with their premises:
- Up until the 1970s that's the way radio and records went. Top 40 Radio created a singles-oriented business, with the album as gravy. Even with great albums like Sgt. Pepper the Beatles made sure there was at least one good single on there if not a few. It was only with the popularity of Album Oriented Radio in the 1970s that things changed. The last gasp of the single 45rpm record as a mass consumer good was in the early 1980s.
- The primacy of the album has been basically stood on its head in the first decade of the 21st century. The average CD has you back in the '60s again, with albums that have one or two good songs and an ocean of filler. Some of the people complaining on that list are guilty of this crime against the music consumer.
All that Steve Jobs is doing is levelling the playing field for the consumer. You have never been prevented from downloading a whole album on iTunes...in fact, you get an economic incentive to do so with the $9.99 bargain "album" rate. If a band makes a super-bitchen album, and people hear that the album is great as a whole, they will download the whole album rather than download the songs piecemeal without the advantage of the bulk rate.The fact of the matter is that the "album" died years ago. Deal with it.
Well, OpenOffice's native file formats are basically an XML stylesheet .ZIPped with your information in text format...finally a file format that would be easy for other programs to use (it's an open standard) and file sizes are very reasonable too.
GIMP is impressive solely for the fact it's an open answer to Photoshop (c'mon, how many of you actually USE CMYK separations?) and it works. You have no excuse to use Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro, because there is a Win32 version out there.
My husband is white. Obviously white. However, he shaves his head, and has a goatee. For a time, we also drove around in a 1979 Olds Cutlass, one of the cars Latino gangs favor.
For the time we owned the Cutlass, my husband got pulled over on a regular basis.
The M.O. was the same. Richie gets pulled over. He is instructed to put his hands on his head. The cops eyeball the car, then finally check him out. The blue eyes are a dead giveaway that the person they pulled over does not "fit the profile."
The cops then go into a very embarrassed hemming and hawing dance. "Terribly sorry, sir, continue on your way, have a good one."
I dread to think what would have happened had Richie actually been Latino. We now drive around in a beige Chevy Nova '86 (basically a Toyota Corolla) and he hasn't been pulled over since.
Lousy fuckin LAPD...
The reason that the G5s might be coming in at a different (lower) price point than G4s might be because Apple is sourcing the chip from IBM, not Motorola. Perhaps IBM is giving Apple a way better price on the new chip than they could get on G4s from Motorola...it would make sense considering that IBM is in way better financial shape than Motorola is now.
It would be a sacrificial amount right now for me to do, but yes, if Linus got sued, I would indeed pony up $100 cash money and donate it to Linus' defense fund.
Linux is way too important to the future of computing to not do this.
OK...here's an old one...Macintosh HFS. (Hierarchical FS)
If my memory serves me right, the Mac file system since Macintosh transitioned from the original Mac FS to HFS has been laid out as a flat-file database, complete with a master B-tree. (no dirty jokes, please)
If this is the case, then HFS+ still is laid out on a similar structure...with some changes that allow it to access larger volume sizes. Old-school HFS would only scale to 2GB. Now HFS+ scales almost infinitely...and has journaling too.
So again, Apple has been there and done that and others have followed.
[AOL] Me too! [/AOL]
There's no excuse now. I have a Blue and White G3. It has 512MB of RAM. It has enough processor power to do it if I turn a lot of the silly eye candy off. iTunes is calling me. And now this poll says the OS I most resemble is MacOS X.
Resistance is futile. I must be assimilated by the Cupertino Collective. JagWire, here I come...