Listen on my stereo, and there is no way you can't tell the difference... unless you're listening to nothing but early White Zombie, and rotating in the occasional Lawnmower Death album.
I made a CD to demonstrate this, which consisted of sound clips that were from cd, sound clips that were mp3'd then decoded to cd, vinyl that went straight to cd, and vinyl that went from the ADC to an mp3 encoder then to cd. If you spent any money on your audio equipment at all, you can hear. ----------------------------
I fail to see what her feelings have to do with anything in this situation. If her husband had died on that mission, then yes, I would. If she had financed the entire operation personally, then again I would. Last I checked, neither of these is true.
What's next, should I prevent the owner of my late mother's cars from doing any after-market work on them. After all, she *was* my mother, so what if she didn't die in a car accident.
Having had worked with a variety of storage systems, I definitely recommend racking all your machines. The biggest issue, noise-wise, is just that you can fit so damned many computers near each other with a rack, that of course it's loud. Racks offer numerous advantages most of which are in the 'wow, suddenly it's easy to follow those cables' and the 'look at all the free space around here' category. Not to mention that it's harder for somebody to accidentally power down a machine that's in a rack with a locked door. ----------------------------
your comment seems to imply that non-free is already gone. it's not. it contains lots of tasty, but non-gpl packages.
As for the year and a generation behind remark, for what I work on, that works for me. I prefer software that works than the absolute sexiest distribution and what not. Some of us actually do work with our computers, and that work isn't just making an eleet theme for Enlightenment.
If you want everything to break, because none of the bugs are fixed yet, run Mandrake, they'll proudly give you things like X4.0 standard, which may or may not work reliably or quickly for you. And they'll continually refer to 'security levels' when a problem is reported, instead of actually checking and seeing that 'yes, there is a problem no matter what'.
I'm unimpressed by the latest and the greatest, I want to do work, I don't want to worry about whether or not Eterm accepts escape sequences in a manner identical to xterm or not. I upgrade to fix bugs, or to gain useful functionality. No other reason. ----------------------------
Just a note, you should try using the Linux version of netscape on FreeBSD. It's significantly more stable (posting from it now), and you get the (dis)advantage of being able to use Linux plug-ins ala Flash. ----------------------------
I definitely recommend trying Debian, and I also recommend trying FreeBSD (just to get a different perspective about what's out there in the free *nix world). I used to be a tarball guy too, but now it's cd/usr/ports/mail/leafnode ; vi Makefile ; make && make install
so much easier, I love not having to worry about what ftp site has the file I need. ----------------------------
I get the feeling you're not a BSD or Debian user. BSD and Debian users have something that RHAT and others don't have. Good package managers. ----------------------------
Personally, I don't consider anything that consists of standard clothing with a logo on it to be designer clothing. The term 'designer' implies, to me, that somebody there's an element of design involved beyond 'embroider a logo there, and use green stitching on the top button'. Designer clothing, to me, on the casual side is stuff in the way of A|X or Diesel or what not, that you can identify without a huge logo on it. As for nicer designer clothing, I think most people who have to wear suits can quickly spot the difference between a today's man suit and a Hugo Boss or a Canali. I personally don't understand how two things came about, first of all I don't understand the urge to wear designer clothing just for it's own sake. Who wears those giant logos? They're always the cheapest things made by that designer anyway, so it's not advertising that you have enough money to wear Calvin Klein or something. They say 'I want to wear designer clothing, but all I can afford is this overpriced low-end item that offers neither additional style, nor quality'. ----------------------------
I was bidding on a pair of gold Neumann's the other day and the auction was pulled and i was given a notice about the VeRO. I'm still trying to figure out what was not legal about that. ----------------------------
I just checked my contact preferences... it seems that yes, I do want to be telemarketed to. Odd considering, how much I despise telemarketers. Generally I don't even give out my voice # to anybody. I've discovered that fax machines are very effective for getting your name off of telemarketing call lists. ----------------------------
I do the same thing. It's amazing how much e-mail 'i_charge_1000USD_to_receive_uce@overtone.org' gets. And it's always fun to hear the spammers remarks when I invoice them. I've never gotten anybody to pay up, but I do occasionally go to the trouble of sicking a collection agency on 'em, if only for the entertainment value.
Friends get accounts that are on a whitelist as 'always good', and then websites generally get some variation of 'devnull@overtone.org' (gee, I wonder what happens to that e-mail) ----------------------------
Yep, these remixes probably are often the same things that you find in the white label section of your local independant record shop. White Labels, if you're not aware, records which aren't particularly legitimate. They're often used by DJs, and I sincerely doubt that any artist ever sees a dime from them. The napster remixes are the same thing, only more widely distributed. ----------------------------
I've learned while doing a variety of work that I love streamlining processes. Every time I make somebody's job a little easier, it's rewarding. My current goal is to simplify the jobs of our operations department as completely as is possible, by improving the software used to configure and monitor our network of servers.
Your goal is to become more proficient in your craft, and to make your work more effeciently accessible by people. You say that these are values, not goals, but that's semantics at best.
Goals are important, the problem is that some people have bugs in their goals. They define success as a static condition. As long as you realize that success, and the goals associated with it, are by neccessity dynamic, goals are incredibly useful, if only to help stay focused.
I went on the search for the perfect geek desk and ended up with a Middle Atlantic Edit Center. It's made for video editing but also works well with the serious geek (especially those of us who have a multitude of equipment and like having a rack handy). It's not the cheapest thing you'll ever see, but it's very well made, attractive and will make you the envy of your geek type friends.
You can buy them at most any large pro audio-type place. I bought mine from Full Compass
Just curious, a pet peeve of mine, why is it that so many people consider a binary protocol to be harder to debug than a text protocol? Really, is it that much easier to look for text than a binary string? I'm not familiar with the protocols in question, but I'd wager a guess that any differenece in ease of implementation is based mostly on sanity of protocol design, not whether there are text or binary fields. ----------------------------
Isn't it far more traditional to use the PBX's software-based port mapping capability than to actually move wires in a closet? it would seem to me that moving wires in a closet would create a nasty nasty mess. ----------------------------
I was going to e-mail but it appeared to be a spamtrap. What do you mean, exactly, by 'there is no mandatory locking'? I'm not trying to be stupid here, I'm just not sure what exactly is lacking with regards to available file locking. ----------------------------
The Athlon 800 uses 43 Watts under typical use and 48 Watts maximum. I'd love to know where you're getting the information that PIII-800s use only 17.2 Watts? I can't find a datasheet on the 800, but the 600 seems to use 37 Watts under typical use, according to Intel datasheets. ----------------------------
The fact of the matter is that most people making websites aren't well-funded companies. And most commerce sites aren't run off MySQL. The types of sites I see people cutting their perl teeth and using MySQL for are things like www.fruhead.com which is a fan site and has some discussion stuff.
Nobody would care if there was a little corruption, and realistically it wouldn't matter.
As for my argument that most people don't know how Oracle works, perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I'm saying that most people a) can't afford Oracle, and b) if they could, wouldn't know how to use it. I'm not talking about real companies. At work, I use Solid and Oracle, depending on the task. They work for their respective purposes. I'm not saying these people who like MySQL for odd reasons are *RIGHT*. I'm trying to explain the rationale. You're right, good developers *do* continue learning forever. But be honest and think about every 'developer' you've ever met. Were a majority of them good? Didn't think so.
Again, I repeat myself... I don't agree with the majority opinion, but I do believe I can explain it.
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Oh, I'm not advocating the use of MySQL at all, nor excusing it. I'm saying that for people who want to hack a database to hold say... lyrics, or the tour dates for their band, it works. It's not an RDBMS, and it's not something I'd trust anything of remote importance to me.
Remember, most websites suck. This includes database backed sites, and as far as I can tell, that's the most common use of MySQL. I've never seen anybody running anything of importance off a MySQL db. ----------------------------
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Listen on my stereo, and there is no way you can't tell the difference... unless you're listening to nothing but early White Zombie, and rotating in the occasional Lawnmower Death album.
I made a CD to demonstrate this, which consisted of sound clips that were from cd, sound clips that were mp3'd then decoded to cd, vinyl that went straight to cd, and vinyl that went from the ADC to an mp3 encoder then to cd. If you spent any money on your audio equipment at all, you can hear.
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I fail to see what her feelings have to do with anything in this situation. If her husband had died on that mission, then yes, I would. If she had financed the entire operation personally, then again I would. Last I checked, neither of these is true.
What's next, should I prevent the owner of my late mother's cars from doing any after-market work on them. After all, she *was* my mother, so what if she didn't die in a car accident.
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Having had worked with a variety of storage systems, I definitely recommend racking all your machines. The biggest issue, noise-wise, is just that you can fit so damned many computers near each other with a rack, that of course it's loud. Racks offer numerous advantages most of which are in the 'wow, suddenly it's easy to follow those cables' and the 'look at all the free space around here' category. Not to mention that it's harder for somebody to accidentally power down a machine that's in a rack with a locked door.
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See topic of your message.
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nope, no causality found.
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your comment seems to imply that non-free is already gone. it's not. it contains lots of tasty, but non-gpl packages.
As for the year and a generation behind remark, for what I work on, that works for me. I prefer software that works than the absolute sexiest distribution and what not. Some of us actually do work with our computers, and that work isn't just making an eleet theme for Enlightenment.
If you want everything to break, because none of the bugs are fixed yet, run Mandrake, they'll proudly give you things like X4.0 standard, which may or may not work reliably or quickly for you. And they'll continually refer to 'security levels' when a problem is reported, instead of actually checking and seeing that 'yes, there is a problem no matter what'.
I'm unimpressed by the latest and the greatest, I want to do work, I don't want to worry about whether or not Eterm accepts escape sequences in a manner identical to xterm or not. I upgrade to fix bugs, or to gain useful functionality. No other reason.
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Just a note, you should try using the Linux version of netscape on FreeBSD. It's significantly more stable (posting from it now), and you get the (dis)advantage of being able to use Linux plug-ins ala Flash.
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I definitely recommend trying Debian, and I also recommend trying FreeBSD (just to get a different perspective about what's out there in the free *nix world). I used to be a tarball guy too, but now it's cd /usr/ports/mail/leafnode ; vi Makefile ; make && make install
so much easier, I love not having to worry about what ftp site has the file I need.
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I get the feeling you're not a BSD or Debian user. BSD and Debian users have something that RHAT and others don't have. Good package managers.
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Personally, I don't consider anything that consists of standard clothing with a logo on it to be designer clothing. The term 'designer' implies, to me, that somebody there's an element of design involved beyond 'embroider a logo there, and use green stitching on the top button'. Designer clothing, to me, on the casual side is stuff in the way of A|X or Diesel or what not, that you can identify without a huge logo on it. As for nicer designer clothing, I think most people who have to wear suits can quickly spot the difference between a today's man suit and a Hugo Boss or a Canali. I personally don't understand how two things came about, first of all I don't understand the urge to wear designer clothing just for it's own sake. Who wears those giant logos? They're always the cheapest things made by that designer anyway, so it's not advertising that you have enough money to wear Calvin Klein or something. They say 'I want to wear designer clothing, but all I can afford is this overpriced low-end item that offers neither additional style, nor quality'.
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I wouldn't do that... after all, that makes an assumption about the existance of les couilles.
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Obviously you've never commuted in SV. Average traffic flow is not, in my experience, 60 MPH.
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I was bidding on a pair of gold Neumann's the other day and the auction was pulled and i was given a notice about the VeRO. I'm still trying to figure out what was not legal about that.
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I just checked my contact preferences... it seems that yes, I do want to be telemarketed to. Odd considering, how much I despise telemarketers. Generally I don't even give out my voice # to anybody. I've discovered that fax machines are very effective for getting your name off of telemarketing call lists.
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I do the same thing. It's amazing how much e-mail 'i_charge_1000USD_to_receive_uce@overtone.org' gets. And it's always fun to hear the spammers remarks when I invoice them. I've never gotten anybody to pay up, but I do occasionally go to the trouble of sicking a collection agency on 'em, if only for the entertainment value.
Friends get accounts that are on a whitelist as 'always good', and then websites generally get some variation of 'devnull@overtone.org' (gee, I wonder what happens to that e-mail)
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Yep, these remixes probably are often the same things that you find in the white label section of your local independant record shop. White Labels, if you're not aware, records which aren't particularly legitimate. They're often used by DJs, and I sincerely doubt that any artist ever sees a dime from them. The napster remixes are the same thing, only more widely distributed.
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I've learned while doing a variety of work that I love streamlining processes. Every time I make somebody's job a little easier, it's rewarding. My current goal is to simplify the jobs of our operations department as completely as is possible, by improving the software used to configure and monitor our network of servers.
Your goal is to become more proficient in your craft, and to make your work more effeciently accessible by people. You say that these are values, not goals, but that's semantics at best.
Goals are important, the problem is that some people have bugs in their goals. They define success as a static condition. As long as you realize that success, and the goals associated with it, are by neccessity dynamic, goals are incredibly useful, if only to help stay focused.
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I went on the search for the perfect geek desk and ended up with a Middle Atlantic Edit Center. It's made for video editing but also works well with the serious geek (especially those of us who have a multitude of equipment and like having a rack handy). It's not the cheapest thing you'll ever see, but it's very well made, attractive and will make you the envy of your geek type friends.
You can buy them at most any large pro audio-type place. I bought mine from Full Compass
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Just curious, a pet peeve of mine, why is it that so many people consider a binary protocol to be harder to debug than a text protocol? Really, is it that much easier to look for text than a binary string? I'm not familiar with the protocols in question, but I'd wager a guess that any differenece in ease of implementation is based mostly on sanity of protocol design, not whether there are text or binary fields.
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Isn't it far more traditional to use the PBX's software-based port mapping capability than to actually move wires in a closet? it would seem to me that moving wires in a closet would create a nasty nasty mess.
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I was going to e-mail but it appeared to be a spamtrap. What do you mean, exactly, by 'there is no mandatory locking'? I'm not trying to be stupid here, I'm just not sure what exactly is lacking with regards to available file locking.
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Actually it's more like 1.65x the wattage. not 2x.
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The Athlon 800 uses 43 Watts under typical use and 48 Watts maximum. I'd love to know where you're getting the information that PIII-800s use only 17.2 Watts? I can't find a datasheet on the 800, but the 600 seems to use 37 Watts under typical use, according to Intel datasheets.
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Nobody would care if there was a little corruption, and realistically it wouldn't matter.
As for my argument that most people don't know how Oracle works, perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I'm saying that most people a) can't afford Oracle, and b) if they could, wouldn't know how to use it. I'm not talking about real companies. At work, I use Solid and Oracle, depending on the task. They work for their respective purposes. I'm not saying these people who like MySQL for odd reasons are *RIGHT*. I'm trying to explain the rationale. You're right, good developers *do* continue learning forever. But be honest and think about every 'developer' you've ever met. Were a majority of them good? Didn't think so.
Again, I repeat myself... I don't agree with the majority opinion, but I do believe I can explain it.
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Oh, I'm not advocating the use of MySQL at all, nor excusing it. I'm saying that for people who want to hack a database to hold say... lyrics, or the tour dates for their band, it works. It's not an RDBMS, and it's not something I'd trust anything of remote importance to me.
Remember, most websites suck. This includes database backed sites, and as far as I can tell, that's the most common use of MySQL. I've never seen anybody running anything of importance off a MySQL db.
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