If you can't do anything else, try creating a 1-disk stripe for each drive. That's what I have to do with my PCI FastTrak card if I want to access non-striped drives.
They say they figured out Windows Media by intercepting communications between clients and servers. Now I know we all like reverse engineering, but isn't this illegal since they're essentially going to profit from it (else they wouldn't be doing it, Real.com is about extorting money and little else)
This is SO a gimmick. It is no replacement for a properly configured server that's 99.98% locked down. You're going to need a second machine to feed files onto the box anyway, so why not just grant the webserving box read-only access on the file server ? Ideally this server would be totally isolated from the internet, and wouldn't accept write requests coming from the web box. So the only way to update anything is to be sitting on a workstation on the inside, and then to have a valid login on the fileserver.
This is so frickin' simple, the only reason this Scarabs company is even in business is because there are too many idiots running semi-important servers out there. Having your network admin'd by a clueless fuck is not something that will be solved by a piece of buzzy hardware.
Do you really think it's necessary to backup every single workstation ? In just about every business I've worked for, we let the users use CD-R, Zip disks or floppies to back up their documents, and keep the serious backup solutions for our servers. In a building with 1000+ PCs, you only need a few gigs worth of ghost images, not a thousand 20gig disk images. I think this mojo backup thing is perfect for businesses, effectively turning every workstation into a fragment of a SAN-type solution. I just hope there is good redundancy built into the system, so that when Joe H. Consultant switches off his PC, he doesn't break the backup stripe.
Why don't we just destroy all subs and weapons and just get the fuck along ? It seems every day the US Army is looking for a fight and it's just pathetic.
Save the whales, save the money and most importantly save the PEOPLE!
Before you mod me down as flamebait, just remember the last time you used Real. Didn't it just suck goats ? RealMedia is a flaky closed format whose only strength is low cpu usage. They never released a proper codec, instead forcing their retarded annoying player down users' throats. Real's time has passed, today's video of choice is DivX or even just good old Mpeg-1.
And if you've even tried the RealOne player, it's the most intrusive player they've ever created. If anything, this is BAD news.
I didn't say I'd never buy _any_ CD, but it definitely irritates me to know that my 20$ will be used to put high-test fuel in some fat guy's Ferrari. There is _NO_ money for musicians, you're better off working the night shift in a pump station, they just pay for stuff when you're on tour, and you get to knock yourself out until the tour's over. But you don't walk away with a cushioned bank account.
Let me transpose the situation : let's say you wanted to buy a used car. Now let's stretch it and say you had the choice between two identical cars, same color, same mileage, same price etc., but one of them is on a dealer's lot while the other is the property of your best friend. Who would you rather give your money to ? A total stranger who doesn't give a flying fuck who you are and just wants his cut, or a friend who really needs the cash ? Replace the used car salesman with the RIAA, and replace the friend with any musician who ever cared about his/her work.
In a sense, this is one of the things I like about mp3.com. They allow artists to sell their music online and keep a REASONABLE portion of the profits, not just 3% of whatever's left after all the discs are pressed and all the prostitutes paid for (or disposed of).
Do painters sell their works to 'promoters' for pennies on the dollar, while someone else gets freaking rich off their backs ? Hell no. Why should music be treated any differently ? There is too much 'commodity' in music, which tends to wash out the art into regular consumerism.
This doesn't mean they're going to fill our prisons with script kiddies. I'm just assuming (hoping) that this life sentence will be used as a trump-card against organized crime and terrorism. They are probably having difficulty accusing people based on computer evidence, people who are involved in serious crimes that are a threat to public safety. This new legislation will just give them the court leverage to conduct proper prosecutions where they previously had little or no foothold.
But then we _are_ talking about the senate.. oh well. Let's hope for the best.
Instinct ? The only monkeys I see buying Eminem records are the same monkeys who go to school and wear pants below their ass. It's not instinct that drives us to buy, it's materialism. Something goes horribly wrong during our upbringing and we're trained to believe that owning things will make us feel good. Blame it on TV! Frankly, I don't feel today's artists are worth the 15-20$ for the disc. I do however believe in paying that kind of money for SACD / DVD-Audio if they ever get around to releasing it, but paying through the nose for what amounts to little more than aural junk food just doesn't make much sense to me.
You obviously don't know squat about local bands. Promo cd's aren't sold, they' GIVEN away. That's why we hate the blank cd tax because it artificially inflates our costs quite a lot (sometimes as much as 60% of the cost of media is pure tax - fuck them all).
The general idea is that for a hundred dollars' worth of blanks, you can get a few hundred people listening to your music, telling their friends, driving around in fucking honda civics with their 8000-watt noisebox playing your tune... if you've got good music and you can get it out there, it will become its own advertising up to a certain extent, which will be much more effective than buying airplay at your local CKFU.
Sleeman kicks much ass, both as a range of excellent beers and as a good-natured company. Much more so than Molson or Labatt, who will practically sponsor the entire city of Montreal just to brainwash the masses.
Interesting stunt, but isn't it hard to breathe up there ? Heck, just in a roller coaster I have trouble breathing sometimes, and that's just a short drop of a few dozen feet. And what about (de)compression ? Deep-sea divers start having problems after going a certain depth, isn't there a reverse effect at high altitude where air pressure is very low ?
I recently tried Halo on a friend's XBox, and was duly impressed. The graphics aren't _that_ amazing, aside from a few neat reflection effects here and there, but the gameplay was quite solid. I hadn't played a good coop game in a long time, going back to good old Doom 2.
My only quip had to do with driving vehicles: what the hell were Bungie thinking when they invented yet-another-control-scheme ? That thing always had be hopelessly confused, especially since every other driving game on the planet uses one stick for left-right, and the other for accel-brake (at worst they use a pair of triggers).
Not really. In the long run, getting blown up by a terrorist means you're just dead. 10 years from now you'll still be dead.
A patent litigation will keep you alive, but rape your free will on a daily basis. 10 years from now, you'll still be suffering from the BS litigation and/or its cascading effects on your life and motivation.
I'd rather be shot dead than dragged through endless bureaucracy by the gov't.
Maybe it's just me, but I kind of miss watching the good old ascii progress bars when transferring files, and the regular burst-stop pattern of ZModem packets. I remember a time when I actually enjoyed uploading hundreds of megs of disk images to my local Pir8 board, then spending my byte credits on something else. Just the thought of sharing with a group of like-minded people gave me warm fuzzies. It was a form of community, and we'd greet each other in the forums "Hey man, I've been looking for that disk for ages. Nice up!". The fact that I was sending out what _I_ felt like sending played a major role, compared to the Napster/Kazaa mentality of "Here's my hard drive, take what you want". Kind of like an audiophile making mixtapes/cds for his friends, choosing each title carefully. And again, like our music loving friend, it was never about money, it was about love.
sarcasm aside, it will be one hell of a bloodbath if I were to witness the RIAA charging playback royalties at a rave.. a good rave has live artists and djs, and most if not all of the material is indie electronic. I'm sick of the RIAA throwing its weight around, fooling people into believing they own everyone.
Bitches, bring back Stanley Kubrick. I don't care how, just do it. I can picture the scene right now : A mutilated droid floating through orbital rock debris, pan down to Palpatine crushing a pill in Amidala's shirley temple, then having his way with her as the camera shifts sideways to reveal a cross-dressing Anakin spraying WD-40 on his light saber, only to lop the Senator's head off in one quick swipe. Then gallons of rainbow blood come gushing out in anti-gravity for about 15 minutes, and the credits roll.
Exactly.. but those large businesses are usually quite short-sighted. It would take a really big media fiasco for them to even think about switching over. Saying "Linux is better" doesn't cut it for them. They need to be really scared of M$' future in order to switch.
This looks like just another episode of "Predictive pop science", where some interest groups hires a 'researcher' to prove a point. Anyone with half a brain can cook up flaky stories like this that probably fool the lower 50-60% of the population, but the rest of us know this is pure hogwash.
Just look back when they were saying Doom and Quake should be banned because they 'caused' the Columbine massacre. We could push that further and say that Doom and Quake should be banned because, by 'causing' Columbine's events, they have led us all to hate Jon Katz to the point of slashing him open with a chainsaw and firing a rocket into his exposed ribcage.
And then.. ? Just pick your favorite extreme-stupidity group, ask them what they don't like, then pay some HB-1 guy in a white lab coat to make up a believable story so he can get famous and earn his green card.
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For those just tuning in, the SuperDrive is just a Pioneer DVR-104 burner thrown into a Mac. You can buy the same drive and install it in a PC just like you would any other burner. The problem is that Pioneer has been having trouble keeping a steady supply of them.
I bought such a drive last december, and it died on me 3 weeks later. The drive was out-of-stock and the store was forced to refund my fat wad of cash. They just started receiving new units two weeks ago. I don't know how Apple has been dealing with this pathetic shortage, but it sure was a pain in the ass. Today I don't even want to buy that burner, because I am afraid it might again disappear from the shelves within weeks. Now I'm not saying this is a bad drive, I just landed on a lemon (probably damaged in shipping). The bitch is that had my original drive been replaced in timely fashion, I would have had 8 months to capitalize on it (home video conversions and corporate DVD promo mastering - big $$$ =) I really looked like a fool when I was forced to drop a handful of contracts thanks to my invisible DVD burner. And yet there was nothing to be done, Pioneer was silent; "Just wait a little longer" they said.
Anyone can understand the value of getting a 1000$ toy before everyone else. At first it was scanners, and people would pay 5$ a pop to scan photos to floppy. Then cd burners came around and people were paying 30$/disc to backup their hard drive. And not so long ago, DVD burners. Now they've dropped prices about 40%, making them so much more accessible to the unwashed masses. Of course there is still a place in the local market for my skills and experience, but I won't be able to charge nearly as much now that just about anyone can get a burner and "EZ-DVD-Creator for dummies" software.
Microsoft sets a 5-year lifetime on all their OS products. Windows 98 is just about up now. Windows 2000 will therefore officially die (on paper) sometime in late 2004/early 2005. We all know Bill would like to sell us another hojillion copies of WinXP, but the truth is that the support contracts for Win2K are still valid for another couple of years. They can't just pull the plug like this, it opens them up to an easy class-action lawsuit. Although that wouldn't hurt their 40? billion bank account much, it would surely throw around an imperial storm cruiser-load of bad press and maybe finally take CNN's eyes off Pakistan.
This isn't like some little free util going from freeware to cripple-ware or some other triviality. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of corporate users with long-winded paperwork to cover their asses against Microsoft. It's much more profound than the usual "This software has no warranties whatsoever" EULA trite.
You've obviously single and without child. The reason guys fear relationships so damn much is because they're a pain in the ass. At first, you think "Why argue ? Lessfuck!", and then it becomes "I'll tell her how I felt, and she will understand and apologize", a couple years later you say out loud "Get off my back, you whiney ungrateful whore" and finally you realize "My life is over. Pass the K-Y, my soul's about to get violated again". And then you have a child so you can forget about Ms Evil and concentrate on a new, pure, untainted human being devoid of cruelty.
And then you get to laugh because he/she is now experiencing the same hell you went through, then someone gets pissed and sends you off to some crusty retirement home with an old lady that always steals your soup crackers.
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If you can't do anything else, try creating a 1-disk stripe for each drive. That's what I have to do with my PCI FastTrak card if I want to access non-striped drives.
They say they figured out Windows Media by intercepting communications between clients and servers. Now I know we all like reverse engineering, but isn't this illegal since they're essentially going to profit from it (else they wouldn't be doing it, Real.com is about extorting money and little else)
This is SO a gimmick. It is no replacement for a properly configured server that's 99.98% locked down. You're going to need a second machine to feed files onto the box anyway, so why not just grant the webserving box read-only access on the file server ? Ideally this server would be totally isolated from the internet, and wouldn't accept write requests coming from the web box. So the only way to update anything is to be sitting on a workstation on the inside, and then to have a valid login on the fileserver.
This is so frickin' simple, the only reason this Scarabs company is even in business is because there are too many idiots running semi-important servers out there. Having your network admin'd by a clueless fuck is not something that will be solved by a piece of buzzy hardware.
Do you really think it's necessary to backup every single workstation ? In just about every business I've worked for, we let the users use CD-R, Zip disks or floppies to back up their documents, and keep the serious backup solutions for our servers. In a building with 1000+ PCs, you only need a few gigs worth of ghost images, not a thousand 20gig disk images. I think this mojo backup thing is perfect for businesses, effectively turning every workstation into a fragment of a SAN-type solution. I just hope there is good redundancy built into the system, so that when Joe H. Consultant switches off his PC, he doesn't break the backup stripe.
Why don't we just destroy all subs and weapons and just get the fuck along ? It seems every day the US Army is looking for a fight and it's just pathetic.
Save the whales, save the money and most importantly save the PEOPLE!
Before you mod me down as flamebait, just remember the last time you used Real. Didn't it just suck goats ? RealMedia is a flaky closed format whose only strength is low cpu usage. They never released a proper codec, instead forcing their retarded annoying player down users' throats. Real's time has passed, today's video of choice is DivX or even just good old Mpeg-1.
And if you've even tried the RealOne player, it's the most intrusive player they've ever created. If anything, this is BAD news.
Oh how I wish I had mod points. I'm just in that kind of mood today.
I didn't say I'd never buy _any_ CD, but it definitely irritates me to know that my 20$ will be used to put high-test fuel in some fat guy's Ferrari. There is _NO_ money for musicians, you're better off working the night shift in a pump station, they just pay for stuff when you're on tour, and you get to knock yourself out until the tour's over. But you don't walk away with a cushioned bank account.
Let me transpose the situation : let's say you wanted to buy a used car. Now let's stretch it and say you had the choice between two identical cars, same color, same mileage, same price etc., but one of them is on a dealer's lot while the other is the property of your best friend. Who would you rather give your money to ? A total stranger who doesn't give a flying fuck who you are and just wants his cut, or a friend who really needs the cash ? Replace the used car salesman with the RIAA, and replace the friend with any musician who ever cared about his/her work.
In a sense, this is one of the things I like about mp3.com. They allow artists to sell their music online and keep a REASONABLE portion of the profits, not just 3% of whatever's left after all the discs are pressed and all the prostitutes paid for (or disposed of).
Do painters sell their works to 'promoters' for pennies on the dollar, while someone else gets freaking rich off their backs ? Hell no. Why should music be treated any differently ? There is too much 'commodity' in music, which tends to wash out the art into regular consumerism.
This doesn't mean they're going to fill our prisons with script kiddies. I'm just assuming (hoping) that this life sentence will be used as a trump-card against organized crime and terrorism. They are probably having difficulty accusing people based on computer evidence, people who are involved in serious crimes that are a threat to public safety. This new legislation will just give them the court leverage to conduct proper prosecutions where they previously had little or no foothold.
But then we _are_ talking about the senate.. oh well. Let's hope for the best.
To use technology, one must possess a properly functioning brain.
(oh so shoot me, I'm pissed)
Instinct ? The only monkeys I see buying Eminem records are the same monkeys who go to school and wear pants below their ass. It's not instinct that drives us to buy, it's materialism. Something goes horribly wrong during our upbringing and we're trained to believe that owning things will make us feel good. Blame it on TV! Frankly, I don't feel today's artists are worth the 15-20$ for the disc. I do however believe in paying that kind of money for SACD / DVD-Audio if they ever get around to releasing it, but paying through the nose for what amounts to little more than aural junk food just doesn't make much sense to me.
You obviously don't know squat about local bands. Promo cd's aren't sold, they' GIVEN away. That's why we hate the blank cd tax because it artificially inflates our costs quite a lot (sometimes as much as 60% of the cost of media is pure tax - fuck them all).
The general idea is that for a hundred dollars' worth of blanks, you can get a few hundred people listening to your music, telling their friends, driving around in fucking honda civics with their 8000-watt noisebox playing your tune... if you've got good music and you can get it out there, it will become its own advertising up to a certain extent, which will be much more effective than buying airplay at your local CKFU.
Sleeman kicks much ass, both as a range of excellent beers and as a good-natured company. Much more so than Molson or Labatt, who will practically sponsor the entire city of Montreal just to brainwash the masses.
Interesting stunt, but isn't it hard to breathe up there ? Heck, just in a roller coaster I have trouble breathing sometimes, and that's just a short drop of a few dozen feet. And what about (de)compression ? Deep-sea divers start having problems after going a certain depth, isn't there a reverse effect at high altitude where air pressure is very low ?
I recently tried Halo on a friend's XBox, and was duly impressed. The graphics aren't _that_ amazing, aside from a few neat reflection effects here and there, but the gameplay was quite solid. I hadn't played a good coop game in a long time, going back to good old Doom 2.
My only quip had to do with driving vehicles: what the hell were Bungie thinking when they invented yet-another-control-scheme ? That thing always had be hopelessly confused, especially since every other driving game on the planet uses one stick for left-right, and the other for accel-brake (at worst they use a pair of triggers).
Easy : any network device made by Realtek. Crap at sending data frames, but great for raising kernel-panicking PCI bus errors.
Not really. In the long run, getting blown up by a terrorist means you're just dead. 10 years from now you'll still be dead.
A patent litigation will keep you alive, but rape your free will on a daily basis. 10 years from now, you'll still be suffering from the BS litigation and/or its cascading effects on your life and motivation.
I'd rather be shot dead than dragged through endless bureaucracy by the gov't.
Maybe it's just me, but I kind of miss watching the good old ascii progress bars when transferring files, and the regular burst-stop pattern of ZModem packets. I remember a time when I actually enjoyed uploading hundreds of megs of disk images to my local Pir8 board, then spending my byte credits on something else. Just the thought of sharing with a group of like-minded people gave me warm fuzzies. It was a form of community, and we'd greet each other in the forums "Hey man, I've been looking for that disk for ages. Nice up!". The fact that I was sending out what _I_ felt like sending played a major role, compared to the Napster/Kazaa mentality of "Here's my hard drive, take what you want". Kind of like an audiophile making mixtapes/cds for his friends, choosing each title carefully. And again, like our music loving friend, it was never about money, it was about love.
sarcasm aside, it will be one hell of a bloodbath if I were to witness the RIAA charging playback royalties at a rave.. a good rave has live artists and djs, and most if not all of the material is indie electronic. I'm sick of the RIAA throwing its weight around, fooling people into believing they own everyone.
Bitches, bring back Stanley Kubrick. I don't care how, just do it. I can picture the scene right now : A mutilated droid floating through orbital rock debris, pan down to Palpatine crushing a pill in Amidala's shirley temple, then having his way with her as the camera shifts sideways to reveal a cross-dressing Anakin spraying WD-40 on his light saber, only to lop the Senator's head off in one quick swipe. Then gallons of rainbow blood come gushing out in anti-gravity for about 15 minutes, and the credits roll.
And that's a wrap.
Exactly.. but those large businesses are usually quite short-sighted. It would take a really big media fiasco for them to even think about switching over. Saying "Linux is better" doesn't cut it for them. They need to be really scared of M$' future in order to switch.
This looks like just another episode of "Predictive pop science", where some interest groups hires a 'researcher' to prove a point. Anyone with half a brain can cook up flaky stories like this that probably fool the lower 50-60% of the population, but the rest of us know this is pure hogwash.
.. ? Just pick your favorite extreme-stupidity group, ask them what they don't like, then pay some HB-1 guy in a white lab coat to make up a believable story so he can get famous and earn his green card.
Just look back when they were saying Doom and Quake should be banned because they 'caused' the Columbine massacre. We could push that further and say that Doom and Quake should be banned because, by 'causing' Columbine's events, they have led us all to hate Jon Katz to the point of slashing him open with a chainsaw and firing a rocket into his exposed ribcage.
And then
For those just tuning in, the SuperDrive is just a Pioneer DVR-104 burner thrown into a Mac. You can buy the same drive and install it in a PC just like you would any other burner. The problem is that Pioneer has been having trouble keeping a steady supply of them.
I bought such a drive last december, and it died on me 3 weeks later. The drive was out-of-stock and the store was forced to refund my fat wad of cash. They just started receiving new units two weeks ago. I don't know how Apple has been dealing with this pathetic shortage, but it sure was a pain in the ass. Today I don't even want to buy that burner, because I am afraid it might again disappear from the shelves within weeks. Now I'm not saying this is a bad drive, I just landed on a lemon (probably damaged in shipping). The bitch is that had my original drive been replaced in timely fashion, I would have had 8 months to capitalize on it (home video conversions and corporate DVD promo mastering - big $$$ =) I really looked like a fool when I was forced to drop a handful of contracts thanks to my invisible DVD burner. And yet there was nothing to be done, Pioneer was silent; "Just wait a little longer" they said.
Anyone can understand the value of getting a 1000$ toy before everyone else. At first it was scanners, and people would pay 5$ a pop to scan photos to floppy. Then cd burners came around and people were paying 30$/disc to backup their hard drive. And not so long ago, DVD burners. Now they've dropped prices about 40%, making them so much more accessible to the unwashed masses. Of course there is still a place in the local market for my skills and experience, but I won't be able to charge nearly as much now that just about anyone can get a burner and "EZ-DVD-Creator for dummies" software.
Oh well, thanks Pioneer.
Microsoft sets a 5-year lifetime on all their OS products. Windows 98 is just about up now. Windows 2000 will therefore officially die (on paper) sometime in late 2004/early 2005. We all know Bill would like to sell us another hojillion copies of WinXP, but the truth is that the support contracts for Win2K are still valid for another couple of years. They can't just pull the plug like this, it opens them up to an easy class-action lawsuit. Although that wouldn't hurt their 40? billion bank account much, it would surely throw around an imperial storm cruiser-load of bad press and maybe finally take CNN's eyes off Pakistan.
This isn't like some little free util going from freeware to cripple-ware or some other triviality. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of corporate users with long-winded paperwork to cover their asses against Microsoft. It's much more profound than the usual "This software has no warranties whatsoever" EULA trite.
You've obviously single and without child. The reason guys fear relationships so damn much is because they're a pain in the ass. At first, you think "Why argue ? Lessfuck!", and then it becomes "I'll tell her how I felt, and she will understand and apologize", a couple years later you say out loud "Get off my back, you whiney ungrateful whore" and finally you realize "My life is over. Pass the K-Y, my soul's about to get violated again". And then you have a child so you can forget about Ms Evil and concentrate on a new, pure, untainted human being devoid of cruelty.
And then you get to laugh because he/she is now experiencing the same hell you went through, then someone gets pissed and sends you off to some crusty retirement home with an old lady that always steals your soup crackers.
And then...