You know, I was watching the film Strange Days on TV last night, the main character was trading data which was stored on Minidiscs.
This reminded me of the scene in the Matrix where Neo hands over some data on a Minidisc.
Minidisc looks like such a cool format, smaller than zip discs - a PC drive bay for them was manufactured however good luck if you want to find one...
With the ability to use for data, and even copy music from your pc to them - they could have wiped the floor with other storage formats... what happened ??
On the subjeect of ownership of music and all.. I have a CD...
Its starting to skip and deteriorate quite a bit now, seeing as I have already bought the music, am I able to write to the record company asking for a replacement cd for the cost of the media ??
Don't discount the nsa guidelines straight away - there is a lot of valuable, commonsense and straightforward procedural improvements within it. I have recently been using the NSA Router security guide - its quite Cisco specific, but its the the concepts that are important, they can be applied to other vendors as well.
Everytime I read about ram disks - they are pci based.
Is there any reason why a ram drive could not be manufactured in the same form factor as a 3.5"/5.25" hard drive with an IDE interface?
In this way you could have a simple swap replacement for a mechanical drive with a fast solid state one ? With the price of memory now - make a board that takes standard memory (allow it to be stacked sideways to take plenty) and add battery backup - at 34ukp(~45$) for 512megs you could have an impressive - fast piece of storage?
At my (uk) university we had some kind of deal where everything was *free*
sign a form, declaring you were a student of the university and you wouldn't copy anything for anyone else, show your pass and you had the disks for 24 hours.
The disks included:
Office
Windows (lots of flavours)
all the dev stuff (c++ j++)
I think this was more an educational rather than a bulk licensing deal
everytime I read comments relating to linux and the desktop/business world I am frustrated by the short sightedness of some posters.
What SuSE are doing here is making the process of utilising Linux *easy* - I feel that there is a group of posters to slashdot that are extremely stubborn and opposed to this notion.
I own a car, I am not a mechanic, when I buy a car or take it to the garage I don't want to be told - 'sorry you can only drive on x type of road, to drive on y you have to replace the gearbox and upgrade the tires - we can give you the instructions but we won't do it for you' - I want to hand over my money and have a working vehicle I can drive on the majority of the roads availble to me. I don't care how it is done - I want it to work.
My father on the other hand is a mechanic - he wants to be able to modify his car as much as he wants, and to be able to drive on all the roads in the world - he would be dissapointed if he could not and probably wouldn't buy a car which would not allow him to do this.
This analogy can be applied to both Linux and Windows:
Linux satisfies the mechanic in that he can strip the car(OS) down to it's nuts and bolts and build it up in any way he wants - however (without such efforts as described in this story about SuSe) if a home user wants to mod the car(OS) so it can drive on a different type of road(run office) it is possible however without the knowledge and tools(Crossover) he cannot do it - instant dissatisfaction with his purchase.
Windows makes an effort to satisfy the home user - it can do a bunch of wizzy things - but it's pretty unreliable and can also be quite complex to setup (albeit easier that Linux) - however it can never satify the mechanic as you can't look under the hood
Linux has the ability to satisfy both types of person - in a far more complete manner that Windows could ever do. It is efforts like these that should be applauded. If SuSE bundle windows compatability with their distro does it prevent the mechanic playing with the inner workings of the OS ? no he not restricted in any way. Does it help the home user that they can install and run Office without finding out what an.rpm is ? yes (o.k it may not be *this* easy but you get the idea)
The Linux world has some of the most talented programmers working for it - the 'mechanics' of the world are more that catered for, however home users are sadly neglected by both Linux and Windows. The work of Suse, Lycorix, Lindows, Debian is all a step in the right direction as usability and simplicity is the key to Linux succeeding.
Open source projects are generally quicker to respond to user requests
I recently mailed the developer of SNMP_Session.pm for perl regarding a certain functionality I though he had missed and my suggestions for how to incorporate it.
A most friendly reply was forthcoming within 48 hours including an excellent little overview of lexical closures:)
I work for a large corporation and we could struggle to get service like that from the 'support' contracts we *pay* most vendors for...
. I like the Opera web browser a lot, but it is closed source, ad supported (for the free version) or costs money (if you want to get rid of the banner ads)
I was looking into this recently and though of posting exactly the same ask slashdot.
Here is the most useful Usenet thread I found. It describes using multiple ethernet connections equalised as one connection..not round robin balanced as most other solutions seem to employ.
If you are using PPP links check out eql, if (like me) you want to use broadband routers, eql will not do it, as far as I can see.
I bought my keyboard / monitor / mouse extension from ITM Components over in the uk.
Cost around 50 ukp with packaging , but 1600x1200@85hz about 15 feet away with zero degradation is really cool
I believe they import from the US.. Mail them and see, they were really helpful
of course not, if you aren't paying for a service, you can't expect it to be there all the time.
if altavista has indeed scrapped its free e-mail service, tough. The net has been going through a phase where everyone and their brother offers free access + mail + gold bullion on sign up.
Buy your own domain, with a web based configuration and set it to divert all mail received to *@yourdomain.com to your free ISP e-mail. When it goes out of business, pick a new provider and divert to that instead... problem solved.
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ah its a shame about the speed - i had assumed it was because of the licence costs incurred by sony...
You know, I was watching the film Strange Days on TV last night, the main character was trading data which was stored on Minidiscs.
This reminded me of the scene in the Matrix where Neo hands over some data on a Minidisc.
Minidisc looks like such a cool format, smaller than zip discs - a PC drive bay for them was manufactured however good luck if you want to find one...
With the ability to use for data, and even copy music from your pc to them - they could have wiped the floor with other storage formats... what happened ??
On the subjeect of ownership of music and all..
I have a CD...
Its starting to skip and deteriorate quite a bit now, seeing as I have already bought the music, am I able to write to the record company asking for a replacement cd for the cost of the media ??
James
Don't discount the nsa guidelines straight away - there is a lot of valuable, commonsense and straightforward procedural improvements within it. I have recently been using the NSA Router security guide - its quite Cisco specific, but its the the concepts that are important, they can be applied to other vendors as well.
Cheers,
James
when it plays ogg :)
if you buy a nes, gut it, put a pc inside... is it legal to run an nes emulator on it ? :)
Original Here
Everytime I read about ram disks - they are pci based.
Is there any reason why a ram drive could not be manufactured in the same form factor as a 3.5"/5.25" hard drive with an IDE interface?
In this way you could have a simple swap replacement for a mechanical drive with a fast solid state one ? With the price of memory now - make a board that takes standard memory (allow it to be stacked sideways to take plenty) and add battery backup - at 34ukp(~45$) for 512megs you could have an impressive - fast piece of storage?
sign a form, declaring you were a student of the university and you wouldn't copy anything for anyone else, show your pass and you had the disks for 24 hours.
The disks included:
Office
Windows (lots of flavours)
all the dev stuff (c++ j++)
I think this was more an educational rather than a bulk licensing deal
everytime I read comments relating to linux and the desktop/business world I am frustrated by the short sightedness of some posters.
.rpm is ? yes
What SuSE are doing here is making the process of utilising Linux *easy* - I feel that there is a group of posters to slashdot that are extremely stubborn and opposed to this notion.
I own a car, I am not a mechanic, when I buy a car or take it to the garage I don't want to be told - 'sorry you can only drive on x type of road, to drive on y you have to replace the gearbox and upgrade the tires - we can give you the instructions but we won't do it for you' - I want to hand over my money and have a working vehicle I can drive on the majority of the roads availble to me. I don't care how it is done - I want it to work.
My father on the other hand is a mechanic - he wants to be able to modify his car as much as he wants, and to be able to drive on all the roads in the world - he would be dissapointed if he could not and probably wouldn't buy a car which would not allow him to do this.
This analogy can be applied to both Linux and Windows:
Linux satisfies the mechanic in that he can strip the car(OS) down to it's nuts and bolts and build it up in any way he wants - however (without such efforts as described in this story about SuSe) if a home user wants to mod the car(OS) so it can drive on a different type of road(run office) it is possible however without the knowledge and tools(Crossover) he cannot do it - instant dissatisfaction with his purchase.
Windows makes an effort to satisfy the home user - it can do a bunch of wizzy things - but it's pretty unreliable and can also be quite complex to setup (albeit easier that Linux) - however it can never satify the mechanic as you can't look under the hood
Linux has the ability to satisfy both types of person - in a far more complete manner that Windows could ever do. It is efforts like these that should be applauded. If SuSE bundle windows compatability with their distro does it prevent the mechanic playing with the inner workings of the OS ? no he not restricted in any way. Does it help the home user that they can install and run Office without finding out what an
(o.k it may not be *this* easy but you get the idea)
The Linux world has some of the most talented programmers working for it - the 'mechanics' of the world are more that catered for, however home users are sadly neglected by both Linux and Windows. The work of Suse, Lycorix, Lindows, Debian is all a step in the right direction as usability and simplicity is the key to Linux succeeding.
fu-fme.com
:)
Open source projects are generally quicker to respond to user requests
:)
I recently mailed the developer of SNMP_Session.pm for perl regarding a certain functionality I though he had missed and my suggestions for how to incorporate it.
A most friendly reply was forthcoming within 48 hours including an excellent little overview of lexical closures
I work for a large corporation and we could struggle to get service like that from the 'support' contracts we *pay* most vendors for...
. I like the Opera web browser a lot, but it is closed source, ad supported (for the free version) or costs money (if you want to get rid of the banner ads)
so buy it ? support the developers...
I was looking into this recently and though of posting exactly the same ask slashdot.
Here is the most useful Usenet thread I found. It describes using multiple ethernet connections equalised as one connection..not round robin balanced as most other solutions seem to employ.
If you are using PPP links check out eql, if (like me) you want to use broadband routers, eql will not do it, as far as I can see.
he should have used dvipdfm
I have to do all my editing in Windows, but with files located on a Solaris machine with no Samba.
Ultraedit has a semi-well implemented "Save to FTP site" function which is most useful.
It also does all the standard syntax highlighting, projects etc and is a fair price (shareware).
I think this went for the desktops in our labs as well.
dvi2pdfm gives faultless output every time....
Excellent dvi-> pdf convertor
I bought my keyboard / monitor / mouse extension from ITM Components over in the uk. .. Mail them and see, they were really helpful
Cost around 50 ukp with packaging , but 1600x1200@85hz about 15 feet away with zero degradation is really cool
I believe they import from the US
For another example of a multiply negative anti-spam checkbox look at The Times
of course not, if you aren't paying for a service, you can't expect it to be there all the time.
if altavista has indeed scrapped its free e-mail service, tough. The net has been going through a phase where everyone and their brother offers free access + mail + gold bullion on sign up.
Buy your own domain, with a web based configuration and set it to divert all mail received to *@yourdomain.com to your free ISP e-mail. When it goes out of business, pick a new provider and divert to that instead... problem solved.