I want to see the scene where the Dogtown surfers are rocketing through the carcass of the old Pacific Ocean Park pier in IMAX. Worth the cost of admission alone.
"You'll never hear surf music again" -- Jimi Hendrix
Right now, I can only play ONE DVD on my Linux box. That's an unencrypted demo disk of anime from Bandai. I have been futzing and futzing with both of my Linux installations (Red Hat 7.3 and Lycoris Build 46) and have yet to have any DVD playing enjoyment.
WTF happened to LinDVD? I would be more than willing to BUY a piece of software to legally play my DVDs under Linux.
As long as this absurd situation exists, there will be people breaking this absurd law to play the DVDs they bought with their own money. Millione di grazie, Don Valenti. I _won't_ kiss your fsckn ring.
Although to be fair, Torvalds is not a standard Swedish surname. There are hundreds and hundreds of people named Torvald living in Sweden, Finland and for that matter all over the world.
If you bothered to read "Just For Fun", Linus explains that his grandfather changed his name from Torvald to Torvalds. There is exactly one family with the surname Torvalds, and it's Linus' family.
I suspect that somebody with knowledge of Swedish flagged "Torvalds" as a typo.
Ms. Ian strikes again with a great idea. Put all the out-of-print music on an industry-built website and use micropayments for downloading! Great freakin' idea. Considering that a lot of people search P2P sites for music that is out of print or otherwise unavailable, this is great.
I found out something interesting this weekend: Representative Howard Berman is indeed my representative. (He doesn't represent me or my views but that's just my dumb luck for living in this part of the San Fernando Valley...) Anyway, he will be holding a Town Hall meeting HERE:
Thursday, August 8th, at 6pm
At Sepulveda Middle School Auditorium At the corner of Plummer and Sepulveda.
Anyway, if anybody lives in the East San Fernando Valley, this would be the opportunity to confront Berman over his MPAA/RIAA hax0r bill.
...because this eliminates one of the last reasons I have to still run Windows. Get software that can match ProTools, Sound Forge, Vegas and Acid (the latter three are from Sonic Foundry) and I will gladly take Windows 2K off of one of my machines. Gladly. One of my big complaints about Linux is that there is no decent pro-level audio tools for Linux. Hopefully ReHMuDi will fix that. One less Windozer==one less headache.
Just to keep the record scrupulously accurate, I tried my Lycoris HD yesterday and had no further problems with connectivity. Lycoris does indeed rock. Scoff all you want about the "toy" nature of the distro...I strongly believe the folks who are building Lycoris are doing some important stuff which will trickle into more "mainstream" distributions and yield definite improvements.
The most important thing about Lycoris is this: they are doing Linux for Newbies the right way. Everything Lycoris puts out has been released with source code. If you buy Lycoris from the Lycoris site or from Fry's or whatever you get a source code CD-ROM along with your installer CD. This is contrary to Lindows which does NOT release source.
Lycoris is not 100% polished yet. I tried to update a Build 44 install to Build 46, but it didn't entirely work...something has stepped on my TCP-IP stack and my connectivity is dead. Perhaps a fresh install of Build 46 from a burnt CD will do the trick.
Once they get Open Office as part of the install Lycoris will be the leader in easy distros. For geeks like me, it won't be the distro that is used on a daily basis (I really like RH 7.3) but for my Great Uncle who's never touched a PC it's great.
Let's see...Win2K lasts about a year, you are correct, sir...however, I have had better luck with 9x than you. I have had a 98SE install up and running for a year before doing the reformat-reinstall mambo, and even with 95 I would usually give it six months before giving it its mandatory enema.
Linux? Had an install of Slack going for two years straight before sending the computer off to live with a friend. Never updated it, mind you...it just kept going and going like the Eveready rabbit.
Of course, I was never doing uptime pissing contests with any of my machines...I always shut down computers when not in use. I live in California. A friend's machine that was thrown 6 feet across a room by the Northridge quake survived because it was shut down, while another friend's BBS machine that was up during the quake lost all its hard drives.
I'm going to have to set up one of my machines to run 24/7...I'm going to have to figure out how to secure it against quake damage. And I don't mean games, folks.;-)
Brain-dead easy to install. You can even play Solitaire while you wait...which won't be long, considering the entire distro fits on one CD-ROM.
It also works a lot like Windows and is skinned to look very much like XP. Once Open Office is a part of the general distribution it will be even easier and more like Windows. The.ISO for Amethyst is available for download, so you can sample it for absolutely free.
http://www.lycoris.com/ (no, I don't work for them)
About 12 people showed up at Jillian's at CityWalk. Lots of fun, however the general noise factor made any sort of serious conversation impossible.
Of the 12 people, three of us were female. In your face, NJ!
I have created an IRC channel at irc.openprojects.net called #la-meetup . Hopefully we'll figure out a time when everyone can meet in there. As far as future meetups go, we all definitely want to do this again. Whether we do it under the auspices of Meetup or not is not clear.
I'll get pix up today sometime. They'll be up on MsGeek.Org and I'll send a link address to the folks at Meetup.
Jillian's has some neat arcade games and all but it is WAY TOO FSCKN LOUD to carry on a conversation in.
We got something like 10 people who showed up out of the myriads that RSVPed. No, the place didn't get/.-ed. I did get fr15t p0st status by being the first to show at Jillian's, however.
However, the folk who DID show up were great, and we intend to meet again. I was able to get emails and we'll figure the rest out on our own. Possibly this is also going to spin off into an IRC channel too...stay tuned.
I'm too lazy to get the pix off of my digital camera tonight...you'll have to wait until tomorrow. I'll have a page of photos up at MsGeek.Org.
Woooo! That's going to be the ultimate Shuttle bitty box...nForce2-based. The first nForce already has very usable sound onboard and the first decent onboard video of any all-in-one kit.
This is going to be the LAN party hot setup. Maybe Santa will leave one under the tree this Xmas.;-)
The problem didn't happen in the LA-Beverly Hills-Hollywood (damn, who concatenated that unholy hodge-podge!) area. 48 geeks will be dropping by Jillian's Bowling Alley in CityWalk for the meetup. Including moi.
I would have actually preferred a little more localism. A San Fernando Valley meetup would have been way better for my purposes (Sherman Oaks, anyone?) and I'm sure Westsiders would have been much happier with a Venice or Santa Monica locale. Downtown would probably have been better for the NOC geeks centered around One Wilshire. However, it's cool that there will be such a throng.
I will be bringing the digital camera. Photos will be up at msgeek.org as soon as I can swing it after the big event.
Now that Microsoft has woken up to the need for improved security it is imperative that they should have SSH as an integral part of.NET Server and back-port it, Security Configurator and Analysis-style, to W2K Server and NT4 Server.
SSH, SFTP and SCP would be wonderful tools to have. Just yank out Telnet, yank out IIS FTP Server and so forth and put this in instead. Terminal Services is fine and all but sometimes you need to do remote file transfers. The current alternatives MS provides are just not any good.
...and they still haven't put any Iron Chef episodes out on DVD yet. (IC USA doesn't count, dammit!) The Food Network. Can't live with 'em, can't live without them.
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Really great suggestion there...that would rock.
I want to see the scene where the Dogtown surfers are rocketing through the carcass of the old Pacific Ocean Park pier in IMAX. Worth the cost of admission alone.
"You'll never hear surf music again" -- Jimi Hendrix
No, it's owned by Viacom.
Precisely. He is a Finnish ethnic Swede.
Right now, I can only play ONE DVD on my Linux box. That's an unencrypted demo disk of anime from Bandai. I have been futzing and futzing with both of my Linux installations (Red Hat 7.3 and Lycoris Build 46) and have yet to have any DVD playing enjoyment.
WTF happened to LinDVD? I would be more than willing to BUY a piece of software to legally play my DVDs under Linux.
As long as this absurd situation exists, there will be people breaking this absurd law to play the DVDs they bought with their own money. Millione di grazie, Don Valenti. I _won't_ kiss your fsckn ring.
Although to be fair, Torvalds is not a standard Swedish surname. There are hundreds and hundreds of people named Torvald living in Sweden, Finland and for that matter all over the world.
If you bothered to read "Just For Fun", Linus explains that his grandfather changed his name from Torvald to Torvalds. There is exactly one family with the surname Torvalds, and it's Linus' family.
I suspect that somebody with knowledge of Swedish flagged "Torvalds" as a typo.
Here's a URL to find out if you are in Berman's district:
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
I'm sure we can't change his mind, but at the very least he can feel some heat from his constituents.
I found out something interesting this weekend: Representative Howard Berman is indeed my representative. (He doesn't represent me or my views but that's just my dumb luck for living in this part of the San Fernando Valley...) Anyway, he will be holding a Town Hall meeting HERE:
Anyway, if anybody lives in the East San Fernando Valley, this would be the opportunity to confront Berman over his MPAA/RIAA hax0r bill....because this eliminates one of the last reasons I have to still run Windows. Get software that can match ProTools, Sound Forge, Vegas and Acid (the latter three are from Sonic Foundry) and I will gladly take Windows 2K off of one of my machines. Gladly. One of my big complaints about Linux is that there is no decent pro-level audio tools for Linux. Hopefully ReHMuDi will fix that. One less Windozer==one less headache.
Just to keep the record scrupulously accurate, I tried my Lycoris HD yesterday and had no further problems with connectivity. Lycoris does indeed rock. Scoff all you want about the "toy" nature of the distro...I strongly believe the folks who are building Lycoris are doing some important stuff which will trickle into more "mainstream" distributions and yield definite improvements.
Jon is indeed spinning in his grave.
The most important thing about Lycoris is this: they are doing Linux for Newbies the right way. Everything Lycoris puts out has been released with source code. If you buy Lycoris from the Lycoris site or from Fry's or whatever you get a source code CD-ROM along with your installer CD. This is contrary to Lindows which does NOT release source.
Lycoris is not 100% polished yet. I tried to update a Build 44 install to Build 46, but it didn't entirely work...something has stepped on my TCP-IP stack and my connectivity is dead. Perhaps a fresh install of Build 46 from a burnt CD will do the trick.
Once they get Open Office as part of the install Lycoris will be the leader in easy distros. For geeks like me, it won't be the distro that is used on a daily basis (I really like RH 7.3) but for my Great Uncle who's never touched a PC it's great.
Let's see...Win2K lasts about a year, you are correct, sir...however, I have had better luck with 9x than you. I have had a 98SE install up and running for a year before doing the reformat-reinstall mambo, and even with 95 I would usually give it six months before giving it its mandatory enema.
;-)
Linux? Had an install of Slack going for two years straight before sending the computer off to live with a friend. Never updated it, mind you...it just kept going and going like the Eveready rabbit.
Of course, I was never doing uptime pissing contests with any of my machines...I always shut down computers when not in use. I live in California. A friend's machine that was thrown 6 feet across a room by the Northridge quake survived because it was shut down, while another friend's BBS machine that was up during the quake lost all its hard drives.
I'm going to have to set up one of my machines to run 24/7...I'm going to have to figure out how to secure it against quake damage. And I don't mean games, folks.
Here's the pix page...
http://www.msgeek.org/html/la-meetup/
It would make a good anime.
Brain-dead easy to install. You can even play Solitaire while you wait...which won't be long, considering the entire distro fits on one CD-ROM.
.ISO for Amethyst is available for download, so you can sample it for absolutely free.
It also works a lot like Windows and is skinned to look very much like XP. Once Open Office is a part of the general distribution it will be even easier and more like Windows. The
http://www.lycoris.com/
(no, I don't work for them)
About 12 people showed up at Jillian's at CityWalk. Lots of fun, however the general noise factor made any sort of serious conversation impossible.
Of the 12 people, three of us were female. In your face, NJ!
I have created an IRC channel at irc.openprojects.net called #la-meetup . Hopefully we'll figure out a time when everyone can meet in there. As far as future meetups go, we all definitely want to do this again. Whether we do it under the auspices of Meetup or not is not clear.
I'll get pix up today sometime. They'll be up on MsGeek.Org and I'll send a link address to the folks at Meetup.
Yet another "me too" post but it had to be said.
/.-ed. I did get fr15t p0st status by being the first to show at Jillian's, however.
Jillian's has some neat arcade games and all but it is WAY TOO FSCKN LOUD to carry on a conversation in.
We got something like 10 people who showed up out of the myriads that RSVPed. No, the place didn't get
However, the folk who DID show up were great, and we intend to meet again. I was able to get emails and we'll figure the rest out on our own. Possibly this is also going to spin off into an IRC channel too...stay tuned.
I'm too lazy to get the pix off of my digital camera tonight...you'll have to wait until tomorrow. I'll have a page of photos up at MsGeek.Org.
Woooo! That's going to be the ultimate Shuttle bitty box...nForce2-based. The first nForce already has very usable sound onboard and the first decent onboard video of any all-in-one kit.
;-)
This is going to be the LAN party hot setup. Maybe Santa will leave one under the tree this Xmas.
Jillian's is a bowling alley too. At CityWalk. In Universal City, CA. This is where the LA /.-ers will be meeting.
/.-ings of a bowling alley! Damn!
Two
The problem didn't happen in the LA-Beverly Hills-Hollywood (damn, who concatenated that unholy hodge-podge!) area. 48 geeks will be dropping by Jillian's Bowling Alley in CityWalk for the meetup. Including moi.
I would have actually preferred a little more localism. A San Fernando Valley meetup would have been way better for my purposes (Sherman Oaks, anyone?) and I'm sure Westsiders would have been much happier with a Venice or Santa Monica locale. Downtown would probably have been better for the NOC geeks centered around One Wilshire. However, it's cool that there will be such a throng.
I will be bringing the digital camera. Photos will be up at msgeek.org as soon as I can swing it after the big event.
Now that Microsoft has woken up to the need for improved security it is imperative that they should have SSH as an integral part of .NET Server and back-port it, Security Configurator and Analysis-style, to W2K Server and NT4 Server.
SSH, SFTP and SCP would be wonderful tools to have. Just yank out Telnet, yank out IIS FTP Server and so forth and put this in instead. Terminal Services is fine and all but sometimes you need to do remote file transfers. The current alternatives MS provides are just not any good.
...and they still haven't put any Iron Chef episodes out on DVD yet. (IC USA doesn't count, dammit!) The Food Network. Can't live with 'em, can't live without them.
...Windows Update once got hammered by Code Red. "Hacked By Chinese" in big block letters. There goes your theory down in flames.
No, it's SID. After the psycho toy-mutilating boy in Toy Story.