So, I bought my car in the Netherlands. They even have higher taxes on those, than here in Austria. I paid my tax in austria and came away with a saving of somewhere in the 3000-4000 EUR (4000+ US$). Since we can trade goods without problems and import tax, you can buy something for the price including tax in germany and ship it to the netherlands. Friends of mine do that with blank CD's and DVD's thru ebay all the time. We also have a lot of tax on those, but when you already paid your tax in germany, you don't have to do so in Austria again. It all just boils down to knowing what to buy where and how. Course, Apple will loose a bit of sales in the Netherlands, but maybe that will leave us with "upgradeable" ipods with exchangable HD's? Sometimes even big cooperations get creative, if they fear they will sell less.
I have been working for a company, that did offer a lot of apps for Banks. They even programmed a java middleware thingy to get everything up2date. Guess what: nobody bought it. Another thing: since mainframes are expensive, the entire development for the mainframes was done on IBM Risc machines (AIX) with Microfocus Cobol. The thing could cross-compiled to get it to the customer. So, if they wanted to save money, the could have switched to Unix easily (CICS was using DB/2 as Database backend - just like on the mainframe).
So why would anyone in their right mind port this to Windows? As someone said before. Those RISC Unix Systems are way more reliable than an X86 Platform.
Finally a post from my iffy-spiffy new Mandrake. It took me about 14 hours to download. Since the machin ran thru the night my UL to DL ratio is probably somewhere around 1,4:1 (so I am a contributer). I like. Much better than the RedHat 8 I had beforehand. I am still having problems with my CD-Burner, DVD setup, but those are glitches I can cope with. FWIW I even got my integrated Soundcard on this Dell Dimension 4550 running and played an AVI-File 3 Minutes after installation finished. Take that Windows XX
Hey cool! It took me about 15min to set wxpython and all the stuff up. Then It took me another 10min to get my firewall iptables rules straight (basically plug port 6881 thru and allow outgoing connections to 6969). It's now downloading at 34KB/s and uploading at about 37KB/s. Not bad.
Well, here it is. I am one of the lucky 10 persons who got to the ftp-server: ed2k://|file|Anything Box - Binaural Repeats.zip|40570015|2231120c93f1c5e5ea8a93e3bbe90 051| Unfortunately turning this into an "a href" html link does not work because of the special characters, so you need to copy-and-paste.
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I just yesterday finished with the same problem. Here is a post I made about this
I have bought a new DVD-Player which has all the features I need. The Grundig GDV130 (a TYT / Scan2000 Clone). Read about it here: German English My personal experience with flashing that player: (only in german) here
There is a forum on Yahoo-Groups for the Scan2000/TYT Clones here. You need the latest Firmware and a tool called GSK2 from the files Section. With that tool you can make the Firmware Macrovision free AND Turn of User Prohibition. So now you can switch off subtitles which you sometimes aren't allowed, you can go directly to the Title-Menu. It's really neat.
My new Grundig GDV130 DVD Player now has these cool features:
- Regionfree (Remote-Control Code) - Macrovision Free (thru the new Firmware) - No User Prohibitions (I can now switch of those subtitles, or go directly to the title-menu without watching those nasty copyright notices) - Good SVCD/VCD Playback - CVD (China VCD Subtitles) with SVCD
We use Free S/Wan set up with these wonderful docs. We now communicate with the Linux-Firewall with PGPnet.Ok that one is not open source, but it's quite cheep at about 700 ATS (50 US$) per copy. We also use some Linux-Laptops (old 486 and Pentium) as router. They also have freeswan on it. Hope this helps
Do you think that in times where the Internet reaches everywhere, and even I - a single-household - am connecting my third computer to my LAN, that to few people control the "key business". I mean Linus (Torvalds) and Alan (Cox) control the Linux-Kernel. You are THE open source man. Brian solves any license questions. Bill Gates (still) controls the major market share. The list goes on and on. Having so much power might (and in some cases already is:-) tempting. And the famouse quote "Linus and Alan should fly on different planes" also comes to mind! Do you think that might be dangerous in the near future?
Say, that all fits into the 2MB of the PalmIII I was planning to do something similiar, but thougth the PalmIII (and the PalmV) might just have to little memory for that. What software are you using?
Just needed to tell the community: IBM has released a few drivers for their ServeRAID controllers (model I, II, 3H and 3L) under GPL. It can be found here
I'll visit my aunt in June. She lives near San Francisco. Which will be the best cinema to watch Star Wars in? I mean do all cinemas have THX and biiig screens and all that, or is there a favourite one where you'll go?? Just asking
So is this MP3-DJ-Box running Linux or what? I'm planning to maybe do a little mp3-proggy (using the xaudio-sdk) and building a denon 2500f-like DJ-MP3-Player.
Do any of you know of a pogram which already does that (without using a fancy interface)? The Porblem is: I'd like to use a little LC-Display or something, and not carry a whole monitor around for dj-ing.
So, I buy CD's and listen to mp3's. Of course borrowing CD's from your friends and ripping them is illegal, but I'm doing it anyway. I still buy about 4-6 CD's per month. It's just that sometimes your looking for that special song, and don't want to buy the whole (crappy) album. Even Maxi-CD's ar quite expensive when all you want is one song (not x remixes). With mp3 you'll be able to get just the songs you really want (and pay for just that). I think record-companies will have a recession with a lot of people loosing jobs.
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So, I bought my car in the Netherlands. They even have higher taxes on those, than here in Austria.
I paid my tax in austria and came away with a saving of somewhere in the 3000-4000 EUR (4000+ US$).
Since we can trade goods without problems and import tax, you can buy something for the price including tax in germany and ship it to the netherlands.
Friends of mine do that with blank CD's and DVD's thru ebay all the time. We also have a lot of tax on those, but when you already paid your tax in germany, you don't have to do so in Austria again.
It all just boils down to knowing what to buy where and how.
Course, Apple will loose a bit of sales in the Netherlands, but maybe that will leave us with "upgradeable" ipods with exchangable HD's? Sometimes even big cooperations get creative, if they fear they will sell less.
For those who have linux, this might help:
/ serenity_ifs2.mov
wget -U "User-Agent: iTunes/4.6 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.3)" http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
I have been working for a company, that did offer a lot of apps for Banks. They even programmed a java middleware thingy to get everything up2date. Guess what: nobody bought it. Another thing: since mainframes are expensive, the entire development for the mainframes was done on IBM Risc machines (AIX) with Microfocus Cobol. The thing could cross-compiled to get it to the customer. So, if they wanted to save money, the could have switched to Unix easily (CICS was using DB/2 as Database backend - just like on the mainframe).
So why would anyone in their right mind port this to Windows? As someone said before. Those RISC Unix Systems are way more reliable than an X86 Platform.
Finally a post from my iffy-spiffy new Mandrake.
It took me about 14 hours to download. Since the machin ran thru the night my UL to DL ratio is probably somewhere around 1,4:1 (so I am a contributer).
I like. Much better than the RedHat 8 I had beforehand.
I am still having problems with my CD-Burner, DVD setup, but those are glitches I can cope with.
FWIW I even got my integrated Soundcard on this Dell Dimension 4550 running and played an AVI-File 3 Minutes after installation finished.
Take that Windows XX
Hey cool!
It took me about 15min to set wxpython and all the stuff up.
Then It took me another 10min to get my firewall iptables rules straight (basically plug port 6881 thru and allow outgoing connections to 6969).
It's now downloading at 34KB/s and uploading at about 37KB/s.
Not bad.
Well, here it is. I am one of the lucky 10 persons who got to the ftp-server:0 051|
ed2k://|file|Anything Box - Binaural Repeats.zip|40570015|2231120c93f1c5e5ea8a93e3bbe9
Unfortunately turning this into an "a href" html link does not work because of the special characters, so you need to copy-and-paste.
Thanks to http://news.google.com/ here it is:
A Radio Chip in every consumer product
I just yesterday finished with the same problem.
Here is a post I made about this
I have bought a new DVD-Player which
has all the features I need. The Grundig GDV130 (a TYT / Scan2000 Clone).
Read about it here:
German
English
My personal experience with flashing that player: (only in german) here
There is a forum on Yahoo-Groups for the Scan2000/TYT Clones here. You need the latest Firmware and a tool called GSK2 from the files Section.
With that tool you can make the Firmware Macrovision free AND Turn of User Prohibition.
So now you can switch off subtitles which you sometimes aren't allowed, you can go directly to the Title-Menu. It's really neat.
My new Grundig GDV130 DVD Player now has these cool features:
- Regionfree (Remote-Control Code)
- Macrovision Free (thru the new Firmware)
- No User Prohibitions (I can now switch of those subtitles, or go directly
to the title-menu without watching those nasty copyright notices)
- Good SVCD/VCD Playback
- CVD (China VCD Subtitles) with SVCD
Cheers
Still it comes from the heart. I hope you'll have a wonderfull wedding with a nice little webcam, so we on the other side of the World can watch it.
Cheers to you both
Since I'm also a genius and named Leonard I definitely know that (well at least the second statement is true :-).
So it's not OF Quirm but DA Quirm.
We use Free S/Wan set up with these wonderful docs. .Ok that one is not open source, but it's quite cheep at about 700 ATS (50 US$) per copy.
We now communicate with the Linux-Firewall with PGPnet
We also use some Linux-Laptops (old 486 and Pentium) as router. They also have freeswan on it. Hope this helps
Do you think that in times where the Internet reaches everywhere, and even I - a single-household - am connecting my third computer to my LAN, that to few people control the "key business". :-) tempting.
I mean Linus (Torvalds) and Alan (Cox) control the Linux-Kernel. You are THE open source man. Brian solves any license questions. Bill Gates (still) controls the major market share. The list goes on and on.
Having so much power might (and in some cases already is
And the famouse quote "Linus and Alan should fly on different planes" also comes to mind!
Do you think that might be dangerous in the near future?
Say, that all fits into the 2MB of the PalmIII I was planning to do something similiar, but thougth the PalmIII (and the PalmV) might just have to little memory for that. What software are you using?
Just needed to tell the community: IBM has released a few drivers for their ServeRAID controllers (model I, II, 3H and 3L) under GPL. It can be found here
I'll visit my aunt in June. She lives near San Francisco. Which will be the best cinema to watch Star Wars in? I mean do all cinemas have THX and biiig screens and all that, or is there a favourite one where you'll go?? Just asking
So is this MP3-DJ-Box running Linux or what?
I'm planning to maybe do a little mp3-proggy (using the xaudio-sdk) and
building a denon 2500f-like DJ-MP3-Player.
Do any of you know of a pogram which already does that (without using a fancy interface)?
The Porblem is: I'd like to use a little LC-Display or something, and not carry a whole monitor around for dj-ing.
Any answer appreciated
Ciao
Leo
What do you think?