For some reason I missed the word "Slashback" on this headline and thought it was a story about interfacing your cuecat with your PS2 and using it to play games.
What an annoying site. Won't display anything if you're using WebWasher to block banner ads, it just says "WebWasher not allowed".
Just FYI if you're using WebWasher, in the "Proxy Engine" section of the options, turn on "No identification as WebWasher with server", and you'll be let straight in.
What's the sense in blocking WebWasher? If you block people, people aren't going to see your ads anyway, the people blocking them are exactly the people who aren't going to click on them anyway. And especially as WebWasher has an option to hide itself!
Well some CDs have CD text track names on them, but I suspect most users could make do with simply the album name (which you could punch in using pretty much any interface - even the wheel on the iPod and a button would do) and track number - at a pinch.
6 hours is not mass storage. My iPod can hold a significant portion of my music collection, and that's what makes it so great. MDs suffer from the "many disks" problem again.
Personally, I think mass-storage portable music players are the future. As soon as someone comes out with a tiny little box that you can stick in your pocket and keep most of your CD collection on, it will change the way we listen to music.
I just bought an iPod, and I think Apple were so close in creating the ultimate portable player. Of course, it only works if you own a Macintosh (despite the fact that I'm using it with Windows, most non-geek Windows users wouldn't buy it if it didn't work with Windows out of the box...), but why can't we buy any iPod-type deviced that doesn't need a computer?
I showed my mother my iPod, and she said that she would love to have one, if only she could copy her CDs onto it without having to have a computer inbetween. IMHO, an iPod-type device which lets you dump CDs straight onto it would sell like hot-cakes. I find that being able to listen to pretty much any music I want to, anywhere and any time I like has changed the way I listen to music, and so much for the better.
Fiddling around with silly memory cards is annoying to me, and confusing for Joe Average. I just want a box with music in it. I'll keep my iPod thanks.:)
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The stats from LowEndMac claiming a higher %age of Linux users is probably bias, since it's a techy web site about low end Macs, probably the best techy thing to do with a low end Mac is to install Linux on it. (They even have a special Linux page.)
The stats from WebSideStory is based on the stats from 125000 sites, and so is arguably more realistic.
Linux is difficult to configure, but that's why companies like SuSE and Mandrake produce distributions that are bundled with special graphical widgets to do all that configuration for you. At least with Linux you get the choice.
At the end of the day, it comes down to what you're used to, really. If you've never used any OS before, you could probably learn Mandrake 8.1 just as fast as Windows XP. If you're used to Windows, Linux is obviously going to seem more difficult. And vice versa.
You've got it the wrong way around. The bug involves having executable files (eg. "hax0r.com" or "killme.exe") sent to IE with the wrong content-type. (eg. "text/html").
IE is still going to ask you "Would you like to run killme.exe?", and if you answer yes, it's your own damn fault.
There's no way to hide an executable inside, say, a text file. Windows will just throw it at Notepad.
I find a very effective spam filter is to simply filter out any e-mail that doesn't have your address in the TO: or CC: fields. It's very rare to see a spam that's correctly addressed in this way.
Of course, you'll have to create exception rules for any mailing lists you're on, but it works really well.
I can't use SSH (Or, indeed VNC, or RDC) because I can't find an SSH program for the Nokia 9210 that works. There's also no VNC client, and no (unsurprisingly, because it's Microsoft) RDC client either. Plus I can't guarantee that any remote PC I may want to use will have SSH/VNC/RDC capabilities either.
GSM *is* encrypted, however, I'm not terribly worried about anyone hax0ring my Debian box. All they will get is access to a normal user account, and they won't even be able to read my mail without another password for the mailbox.
If they're doing what I think they're doing, this would be a very nice thing.
One of the great advantages of the *nix platform that Windows has never really been able to match has been it's remote access capabilities.
I run Windows on my desktop at home, but I also run a Debian GNU/Linux server, for the sole reason so that when I'm away from home, I can telnet into it and read my mail, use IRC, etc.
I even have a Nokia 9210, and using it I can telnet to my Debian box and then use IRC from anywhere in Europe, Asia, or indeed anywhere with a GSM 900/1800 signal. (Basically, anywhere except USA. Suck.:)
Being able to do "apt-get install telnetd irc" on a Windows box would be very nice indeed!
I'm presuming the downloaded music is in an encrypted format and requires a special player or codec, so that they can deny you access if you unsubscribe.
This really isn't any different from a stream-on-demand service. You pay x per month, and this gives you the right to listen to this music whenever you want, until you stop paying.
So... what's the point in downloading it? If the music isn't yours to keep, there's really no point in downloading it at all. Just stream, if you must.
However, I will not be subscribing. If I can't listen to my music while I travel (Which is a lot), then there's really no point. I'm not going to sit down at my PC whenever I want to listen to a certain track. And I'm willing to bet that this music format isn't compatible with the various MP3-on-your-hifi devices kicking around at the moment, let alone any of the portable music players.
I'll stick to buying the CDs, making MP3s, burning onto CD-R and playing them on my Diamond Rio, thanks.
If you live in the USA, these won't work, but the US version of the 9210 is the Nokia 9290.
They're pretty cool devices, they run the Symbian OS (Think Psion), have really decent organiser functions, a web browser, a mail client, a WAP browser, and even a Java virtual machine!
You can even download a telnet application for it. IRC on the train? Sweet.
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Surely the two halves should be called MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 ?
Still, I can't imagine this will be much better than "Mortal Kombat"...
Never mind...
This article is beginning to look like something I'd see on memepool.
The Black and White website is force-feedback enabled, if you've got a shakeymouse.
Now that would be cool.
How is this any different from this, other than the fact that it won't use up a slot?
What an annoying site. Won't display anything if you're using WebWasher to block banner ads, it just says "WebWasher not allowed".
Just FYI if you're using WebWasher, in the "Proxy Engine" section of the options, turn on "No identification as WebWasher with server", and you'll be let straight in.
What's the sense in blocking WebWasher? If you block people, people aren't going to see your ads anyway, the people blocking them are exactly the people who aren't going to click on them anyway. And especially as WebWasher has an option to hide itself!
Yes dammit, that's exactly what I expect. Storage is CHEAP, and is the 21st century after all.
Where's my flying car anyway?
Well some CDs have CD text track names on them, but I suspect most users could make do with simply the album name (which you could punch in using pretty much any interface - even the wheel on the iPod and a button would do) and track number - at a pinch.
6 hours is not mass storage. My iPod can hold a significant portion of my music collection, and that's what makes it so great. MDs suffer from the "many disks" problem again.
I just bought an iPod, and I think Apple were so close in creating the ultimate portable player. Of course, it only works if you own a Macintosh (despite the fact that I'm using it with Windows, most non-geek Windows users wouldn't buy it if it didn't work with Windows out of the box...), but why can't we buy any iPod-type deviced that doesn't need a computer?
I showed my mother my iPod, and she said that she would love to have one, if only she could copy her CDs onto it without having to have a computer inbetween. IMHO, an iPod-type device which lets you dump CDs straight onto it would sell like hot-cakes. I find that being able to listen to pretty much any music I want to, anywhere and any time I like has changed the way I listen to music, and so much for the better.
Fiddling around with silly memory cards is annoying to me, and confusing for Joe Average. I just want a box with music in it. I'll keep my iPod thanks. :)
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Here in the UK (And probably elsewhere as well) they sell a neat little light for the GBA that's called the "GBA Floodlights". (Or something similar.)
They work really well, take a look at photos of mine.
I like the sound of the Bluetooth adapter, if only for multiplayer gaming without the damned wire...
The stats from LowEndMac claiming a higher %age of Linux users is probably bias, since it's a techy web site about low end Macs, probably the best techy thing to do with a low end Mac is to install Linux on it. (They even have a special Linux page.)
The stats from WebSideStory is based on the stats from 125000 sites, and so is arguably more realistic.
In the UK, over 90% of cars are manual.
At the end of the day, it comes down to what you're used to, really. If you've never used any OS before, you could probably learn Mandrake 8.1 just as fast as Windows XP. If you're used to Windows, Linux is obviously going to seem more difficult. And vice versa.
IE is still going to ask you "Would you like to run killme.exe?", and if you answer yes, it's your own damn fault.
There's no way to hide an executable inside, say, a text file. Windows will just throw it at Notepad.
Of course, you'll have to create exception rules for any mailing lists you're on, but it works really well.
I can't use SSH (Or, indeed VNC, or RDC) because I can't find an SSH program for the Nokia 9210 that works. There's also no VNC client, and no (unsurprisingly, because it's Microsoft) RDC client either. Plus I can't guarantee that any remote PC I may want to use will have SSH/VNC/RDC capabilities either.
GSM *is* encrypted, however, I'm not terribly worried about anyone hax0ring my Debian box. All they will get is access to a normal user account, and they won't even be able to read my mail without another password for the mailbox.
One of the great advantages of the *nix platform that Windows has never really been able to match has been it's remote access capabilities.
I run Windows on my desktop at home, but I also run a Debian GNU/Linux server, for the sole reason so that when I'm away from home, I can telnet into it and read my mail, use IRC, etc.
I even have a Nokia 9210, and using it I can telnet to my Debian box and then use IRC from anywhere in Europe, Asia, or indeed anywhere with a GSM 900/1800 signal. (Basically, anywhere except USA. Suck. :)
Being able to do "apt-get install telnetd irc" on a Windows box would be very nice indeed!
This really isn't any different from a stream-on-demand service. You pay x per month, and this gives you the right to listen to this music whenever you want, until you stop paying.
So... what's the point in downloading it? If the music isn't yours to keep, there's really no point in downloading it at all. Just stream, if you must.
However, I will not be subscribing. If I can't listen to my music while I travel (Which is a lot), then there's really no point. I'm not going to sit down at my PC whenever I want to listen to a certain track. And I'm willing to bet that this music format isn't compatible with the various MP3-on-your-hifi devices kicking around at the moment, let alone any of the portable music players.
I'll stick to buying the CDs, making MP3s, burning onto CD-R and playing them on my Diamond Rio, thanks.
Where I work we have a USB A-to-A cable, but I've never been able to work out what it's for. :P
It sounds like you want a tablet PC, although this being SlashDot I'm sure a lot of people will hate the fact that it's Microsoft.
They're pretty cool devices, they run the Symbian OS (Think Psion), have really decent organiser functions, a web browser, a mail client, a WAP browser, and even a Java virtual machine!
You can even download a telnet application for it. IRC on the train? Sweet.