I remember reading (from here) a study where, in laboratory condition, due to the migration of magnetic region inside the platter, from the track to its surrounding, scientists where able to retrieve the last 15 values stored in some part of the disk. of course this information is from memory and should be checked. But I'm sure it is not very difficult to get the temperature necessary to melt aluminium. Personnally, I think removable and external are easier to manage, and more so if you can throw a kilo(sorry, it is so unamerican(the use of international units, for the humor impaired)) of hardware to your neighbour through the window. It only suppose you are in good term whit him, but I recognise it can be difficult for true geeks. On the other hand, true geeks don't use p2p, except during the tests of the one they are writing (and frankly, p2p is so 2000...)
DAAP (http://daap.sourceforge.net/docs/) seems interesting (at least intellectually), but my solution works, so I don't feel very compeled to change(ain't not broken don't fix it) from sf.net, what you can get is: libdaap
This is a C++ library with C and Objective-C/Cocoa wrappers that will, in time, implement a full DAAP client and server. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser Public License, which allows developers to use the library even in non-free software as long as a few restrictions are followed.
At the moment only the C++ interface is available, and it only understands the basic format of the data. It does not yet perform any network operations and thus also doesn't have a higher level interface for listing music and playlists. It also can only act as a client for the moment.
Certainly at this early stage, the primary aim is to get a fully working client so that it gets adopted quickly. We will then look at writing the server interface so that music programs can share their libraries like iTunes does.
Documentation Very little documentation is available for the library at the moment, but hopefully this shall soon be remedied. Most of the documentation is to be found in the source code, and hopefully that is enough to get certain people going. We are hoping to post some proper documentation and sample code soon.
Contributing Contributions to the library are more than welcome. This library is essentially developed in the authors' free time, so does not get as much attention as it may need. Contributions can vary from writing code or documentation to promoting it (telling your favorite digital audio player's author about what they could do with this, for example).
-------------- there is only one database, all the music(all the CDs my wife and I ever bought) is on one mac. the clients are win (98,98se,me,xp). the users are me (on mac), a daugther, my wife, the au-pair. I don't feel like I'm going to sell them to write there own client...
I share* my iTunes music collection from my mac with apache. sharing is one of the things I didn't even look in iTunes (as the store, but primarily because they don't want to sell to me). - * between different room of the house. No internet service, but this is my choice. Technically, it could be done, I just don't want to.
Don't I have the right to profit for the rest of my life from my work? What about my children? What about my grandchildren?
You: why not.<p/> Your childrens: teach them hard work. And they can profit from it.<p/> The more your work is succesful, the more it become part of society, the more it is indissociable of thought process of humans, the more it is unjustifiable to put restriction on its diffusion. (sometime, I have the extrem view that the use of works in advertising (like having a clip pass on MTV) should make them automatically public domain)
true, when they are jobs. when economy is shrinking, short term effect is not as clear (understatement). remember we needed the new deal and WWII to clean up the economy after the market ruled in the 30s.
if Apple was really interested in providing what want the PC crowd, they'll have more than 5% of the market. I think they are more interrested in producing working products with good margins. Switching is perhaps not considered a growth market, and only a replacement one, but there is still a lot of potential here.
any professionnal programmer live in one of two worlds (sometime part time one, part time the other): distributable generic software, or un-distributed specific software. GPL matter only in the first case. In a bank, when you develop the trading software, or the risk analysis, or pricer, redistribution is not an option you can exercise. The only redistribution of software that can arise is in case of M&A, and then, if software is not discarded, the type of transfert is more assimilable to embeded system. And when you buy a company and its IT systems, you get the sources in the (poor) state they are in. So no problem.
Now, for redistributable software, there is the world of the commercial, and the word of the open (and a lot in between). Commercial software is a world I know very little. The only thing I know is that my current customer, when buying a financial software, bought also access to the source. I think also that the reality of commercial software, generic and packaged, and sold, is the concern of less than 10% of developper worldwide. if there are cheaters in this 10%, we, as a society, must punish them when caught. (And I think it is the main reason why Microsoft should have been destroyed by DOJ : when the cheater is the winner, developed society can not sustains itself very long, because, before long everybody cheats. Let corporations cheat, lobby, buy politician, steal oil abroad, and be surprised to have unsecurity at home...but it is not the subject) For open projects, if elegance is part of the motivation, licence coherence is important, and must be part of the solution. If ego booster is the main drive, perhaps we can find some cheaters there too. But usually, a little flame war correct the situation.
it behooves democracy for citizens to demand that other perspectives be represented on the caucus
how that ?
from m-w.com:
caucus
: a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy; also : a group of people united to promote an agreed-upon cause
I don't know what is a caucus is US legislative system, but it certainly doesn't seems democratic.
How are the digital rights of the customers managed by such a product? Remember that 99% of all texts all corporate PC are copyright the respective corporations. About 1% french people (according to official sources) have made music using their computer. That's about 600000 creative artists, in France only. How drm schemes manages their digital rights ? Drm is such a misnomer... and I feel bad for/. editors to fall for it. Or we must redefine the acronym. I suggest, each time somebody speaks of DRM, to explain it as: Destructive Restrictions of Mankind. Any better suggestion welcome.
I'm not sure most french minitel services are accessible from international. They use, for the most usual, 4 digit numbers 3611 : white and yellow pages (free) 361[3-6(or 7 or 8, I don't use them)] + service name once connected for paying ones. Once upon a time, there was a correlation between the last digit and the price, directly added to your phone bill.
Some are using more normals numbers, like infogrefffe:08 36 29 11 11, wich should translate as (33)836291111. It cost several euro each minute.
Concerning your specific model, check the manufacturer (there where several), then try to google more informations. If it is really compatible with the french one, some pointer are cept and videotex.
As a matter of fact, I just found that the garanty of mine is expired since july 90, and that it still bear the inscription: "property of the state"
minitel 1B is still provided free (when you have one, most are at home for 10 years or more) it provides 24*80 chars, and can, with a very cheap adapter, be connected as a console to the serial port of a linux box. it make no noise, there is an integrated screen saver, and by using the serial port, you can communicate at 9600, instead of the 75/1200 of the modem. the only drawback is the limited keyboard, making it very unpratical to input some keys.
So, minitel services can die, but long live the (physical) minitel (the one I have since 1990 show no signs of problem)
barcode and scanning equipement where paid by inflation. when they where introduced, in the mid eighties, there was about 12% inflation a year. the fact that the store was able, with barcoded articles, to increase price of articles without having to update the (no longuer present) tags on each articles permitted to finance the investement in about 6 month for a typical store. (they buy with a certain target price, they inflate price while stock is in inventory, and they pay providers a few month after the inventory is sold. even at the prices of 85, it was cheap for them. )
1)dejanews existed 2)it was renamed deja --- 3 or 4)google bought it 4 or 3)they had groups in beta with some month or year of archive --- 5) they integrated dejanews archive in their system
I agree google is clean & all, but there was a time when the best engine was northern light (nlsearch.com, not quite the same now), after having replaced altavista, and when the typical isp was generous when he archived 15 days of some groups of news. So yes, google now is better that was dejanews. But when dejanews were alone, they were the best (easy;)
first sentence should read: especially with the advent of dejanews, one of the first and most known public web access to usenet archives, later acquired and integrated by google. </pedantry> the lack of memory and precision of IT never stops to amaze me.
... I was toying for some time with the reverse idea, replacing network with memory access, having one processor write at processor speed to a special memory location, and another reading at processor speed from a special memory location, the two being interconnected. The idea being to explode gigabit ethernet speed limits
even if png is good, how do you know there is not some company somewhere, with a broadly worded patent in it's pocket, just waiting for a suficient big player to use it, and being sued?
what is interesting with cell phone is not the portable phone, it is the cell(s). So when was the first cell boundary crossing without dropping the conversation? That would be a date to remember.
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I remember reading (from here) a study where, in laboratory condition, due to the migration of magnetic region inside the platter, from the track to its surrounding, scientists where able to retrieve the last 15 values stored in some part of the disk. of course this information is from memory and should be checked. But I'm sure it is not very difficult to get the temperature necessary to melt aluminium.
Personnally, I think removable and external are easier to manage, and more so if you can throw a kilo(sorry, it is so unamerican(the use of international units, for the humor impaired)) of hardware to your neighbour through the window. It only suppose you are in good term whit him, but I recognise it can be difficult for true geeks. On the other hand, true geeks don't use p2p, except during the tests of the one they are writing (and frankly, p2p is so 2000...)
DAAP (http://daap.sourceforge.net/docs/) seems interesting (at least intellectually), but my solution works, so I don't feel very compeled to change(ain't not broken don't fix it)
...
from sf.net, what you can get is:
libdaap
This is a C++ library with C and Objective-C/Cocoa wrappers that will, in time, implement a full DAAP client and server. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser Public License, which allows developers to use the library even in non-free software as long as a few restrictions are followed.
At the moment only the C++ interface is available, and it only understands the basic format of the data. It does not yet perform any network operations and thus also doesn't have a higher level interface for listing music and playlists. It also can only act as a client for the moment.
Certainly at this early stage, the primary aim is to get a fully working client so that it gets adopted quickly. We will then look at writing the server interface so that music programs can share their libraries like iTunes does.
Documentation
Very little documentation is available for the library at the moment, but hopefully this shall soon be remedied. Most of the documentation is to be found in the source code, and hopefully that is enough to get certain people going. We are hoping to post some proper documentation and sample code soon.
Contributing
Contributions to the library are more than welcome. This library is essentially developed in the authors' free time, so does not get as much attention as it may need. Contributions can vary from writing code or documentation to promoting it (telling your favorite digital audio player's author about what they could do with this, for example).
--------------
there is only one database, all the music(all the CDs my wife and I ever bought) is on one mac. the clients are win (98,98se,me,xp). the users are me (on mac), a daugther, my wife, the au-pair. I don't feel like I'm going to sell them to write there own client
I share* my iTunes music collection from my mac with apache.
sharing is one of the things I didn't even look in iTunes (as the store, but primarily because they don't want to sell to me).
-
* between different room of the house. No internet service, but this is my choice. Technically, it could be done, I just don't want to.
yes, but obviously obvious obvious obvious does not seem obvious enough for the typical patent examinator
You: why not.<p/>
Your childrens: teach them hard work. And they can profit from it.<p/>
The more your work is succesful, the more it become part of society, the more it is indissociable of thought process of humans, the more it is unjustifiable to put restriction on its diffusion. (sometime, I have the extrem view that the use of works in advertising (like having a clip pass on MTV) should make them automatically public domain)
true, when they are jobs.
when economy is shrinking, short term effect is not as clear (understatement).
remember we needed the new deal and WWII to clean up the economy after the market ruled in the 30s.
ok troll, but the consumer is also a producer (or else, he has no money to consume), and economies of scale always hurt the employement.
please read the whole sentence
I didn't read the article, on ly the title
you did the same with the post to witch you replied
if Apple was really interested in providing what want the PC crowd, they'll have more than 5% of the market.
I think they are more interrested in producing working products with good margins.
Switching is perhaps not considered a growth market, and only a replacement one, but there is still a lot of potential here.
any professionnal programmer live in one of two worlds (sometime part time one, part time the other):
distributable generic software, or un-distributed specific software. GPL matter only in the first case. In a bank, when you develop the trading software, or the risk analysis, or pricer, redistribution is not an option you can exercise.
The only redistribution of software that can arise is in case of M&A, and then, if software is not discarded, the type of transfert is more assimilable to embeded system. And when you buy a company and its IT systems, you get the sources in the (poor) state they are in. So no problem.
Now, for redistributable software, there is the world of the commercial, and the word of the open (and a lot in between). Commercial software is a world I know very little. The only thing I know is that my current customer, when buying a financial software, bought also access to the source. I think also that the reality of commercial software, generic and packaged, and sold, is the concern of less than 10% of developper worldwide. if there are cheaters in this 10%, we, as a society, must punish them when caught. (And I think it is the main reason why Microsoft should have been destroyed by DOJ : when the cheater is the winner, developed society can not sustains itself very long, because, before long everybody cheats. Let corporations cheat, lobby, buy politician, steal oil abroad, and be surprised to have unsecurity at home...but it is not the subject)
For open projects, if elegance is part of the motivation, licence coherence is important, and must be part of the solution. If ego booster is the main drive, perhaps we can find some cheaters there too. But usually, a little flame war correct the situation.
how that ?
from m-w.com:
caucus
: a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy; also : a group of people united to promote an agreed-upon cause
I don't know what is a caucus is US legislative system, but it certainly doesn't seems democratic.
How are the digital rights of the customers managed by such a product? /. editors to fall for it.
Remember that 99% of all texts all corporate PC are copyright the respective corporations. About 1% french people (according to official sources) have made music using their computer. That's about 600000 creative artists, in France only. How drm schemes manages their digital rights ?
Drm is such a misnomer... and I feel bad for
Or we must redefine the acronym. I suggest, each time somebody speaks of DRM, to explain it as:
Destructive Restrictions of Mankind. Any better suggestion welcome.
I'm not sure most french minitel services are accessible from international. They use, for the most usual, 4 digit numbers
3611 : white and yellow pages (free)
361[3-6(or 7 or 8, I don't use them)] + service name once connected for paying ones. Once upon a time, there was a correlation between the last digit and the price, directly added to your phone bill.
Some are using more normals numbers, like infogrefffe:08 36 29 11 11, wich should translate as (33)836291111. It cost several euro each minute.
Concerning your specific model, check the manufacturer (there where several), then try to google more informations. If it is really compatible with the french one, some pointer are cept and videotex.
As a matter of fact, I just found that the garanty of mine is expired since july 90, and that it still bear the inscription: "property of the state"
minitel 1B is still provided free (when you have one, most are at home for 10 years or more)
it provides 24*80 chars, and can, with a very cheap adapter, be connected as a console to the serial port of a linux box.
it make no noise, there is an integrated screen saver, and by using the serial port, you can communicate at 9600, instead of the 75/1200 of the modem.
the only drawback is the limited keyboard, making it very unpratical to input some keys.
So, minitel services can die, but long live the (physical) minitel (the one I have since 1990 show no signs of problem)
and the average non brit EU citizen neither
I don't know MS SQL Server much (even if I know a lot about SQL), but I have yet to see a patch to a MS vulnerability that come without an EULA.
So, what was the EULA for the patch?
If the EULA for the patch is any different from the original one, how can we tell it is free?
from above site:
The inflation rate for the Unites States in the year 1980 is 13.48
barcode and scanning equipement where paid by inflation.
when they where introduced, in the mid eighties, there was about 12% inflation a year. the fact that the store was able, with barcoded articles, to increase price of articles without having to update the (no longuer present) tags on each articles permitted to finance the investement in about 6 month for a typical store.
(they buy with a certain target price, they inflate price while stock is in inventory, and they pay providers a few month after the inventory is sold. even at the prices of 85, it was cheap for them. )
as far as I remember:
;)
1)dejanews existed
2)it was renamed deja
---
3 or 4)google bought it
4 or 3)they had groups in beta with some month or year of archive
---
5) they integrated dejanews archive in their system
I agree google is clean & all, but there was a time when the
best engine was northern light (nlsearch.com, not quite the same now), after having replaced altavista, and when the typical isp was generous when he archived 15 days of some groups of news. So yes, google now is better that was dejanews. But when dejanews were alone, they were the best (easy
first sentence should read: especially with the advent of dejanews, one of the first and most known public web access to usenet archives, later acquired and integrated by google.
</pedantry>
the lack of memory and precision of IT never stops to amaze me.
... I was toying for some time with the reverse idea, replacing network with memory access, having one processor write at processor speed to a special memory location, and another reading at processor speed from a special memory location, the two being interconnected. The idea being to explode gigabit ethernet speed limits
it was probably common sense, but not common practice
even if png is good, how do you know there is not some company somewhere, with a broadly worded patent in it's pocket, just waiting for a suficient big player to use it, and being sued?
what is interesting with cell phone is not the portable phone, it is the cell(s).
So when was the first cell boundary crossing without dropping the conversation?
That would be a date to remember.