The Internet Underground Music Archive has been around forever (I remember trying to get 128 kbps downloaded and playing without skipping on my IIcx...), and it superficially appears to offer similar services as mp3.com.
What does/did mp3.com offer to artists that cannot be found anywhere else?
I was bit dubious at first, but the patch includes source code. I did install the supplied binary, though...
What I'm really surprised about however is the fact that a) a third-party developer can fix a problem like this at all, and how easily the fix can be hooked into Safari. It appears that this OpenStep/Cocoa framework stuff is really flexible...
Wasn't that case settled because of the fact that AT&T had copied a bunch of BSD code, and the realization had been made that both had screwed up and the easiest course of action was to say "From this day forth..." both were legal? that's always been my understanding of that settlement.
I think the case was much in favor of BSD: System V contained loads of BSD files, which AT&T conventiently had lost the copyright notices to, and had also forgotten to give due credit in the documentation for; on the other hand, the Net/2 release was found to contain only minor copyright infringements, which could be healed by removing three files, and making minor modifications to a couple of others.
The exact terms of the settlement remain secret, but Marshall Kirk McKusick wrote this nice history summary.
If SCO really has any way to re-start the proceedings on this, I somehow feel Berkeley lawyers will have none of it...
[T]here are fairly solid theories that solar flare activity is directly related to the mean global temperature.
Care to share some references? Google turns up just some press releases about one paper, and none of the pop science publications have picked it up... and I suspect the New Scientist would not mind running such a story.
The one paper, according to the press release, sees similiar coefficients in Levy distributions between solar flare activity and global temperature. However, that team didn't say there was a correlation between temperature and solar flare activity. I don't quite see the "directly related" bit that you postulate in there...
I just got the slower IBM/Hitachi 80 GB 2.5" (IC25N080) drive for use in a Lex Barebone, and turning it on for the first time it really freaked me out: with two desktops churning away close by, I couldn't hear anything. Even at home with no other noise source, it's barely hearable even when accessed.
The final nail in the Bluetooth coffin should have been the approval of the 802.15.3a PHY last month in Singapore.
I'm not sure Bluetooth is the answer to connecting devices around me, but so far, it seems to be the most convincing solution, and far superior than trying to align IrDA ports. The article basically says that some new-fangled wireless standard is going to put Bluetooth out of business: that might be true, but Bluetooth has a large advantage in deployed products, and there's ample devices which are available in retail, and are working more or less well.
I've always been surprised by the sheer amount of naysayers when it comes to Bluetooth.
Best of all--and, to my ears, completely indistinguishable from the original CD--was AIFF.
Really? No, I think you need to spend at least $50 per feet on speaker cable to really make that distiction. And obviously, you need the P4 Extreme Edition for a top-quality rip.
Someone tell him the AIFF is bit for bit identical with the CD, if he ripped it properly. But another reader needed to point out that iTunes has preferences to make it retrieve CDDB entries automatically. Oh well.
Don't get me wrong, the first thing I do when getting a new Mac is to get a mouse with a scroll wheel for it, and that usually involves a right-hand button as well.
The important bit for be is that I can see the difference in almost all Mac apps, I get the most "useful" commands, as opposed to Windows apps where more often than not I get commands on the context menu that are not available anywhere else.
For a long time, on Macs, you had all kinds of "accelerators", but they were only that: you did not need to memorize obtuse key combinations (different for each app, of course), but you could run most of them with just the mouse (except for text entry). This is completely opposite to my experience with Windows software, where many times, you can activate a function or feature only through a context menu or some key stroke combination.
Otherwise, I completly agree: making often used functions more readily accessible for the power user is a good thing, and you can use the right.hand-button on your mouse just like that in Mac OS X.
Oh, and one last thing: "experimentation unless it's 'inappropriate'." Although there's quite a few occasions where there's no undo, Apple's Human Interface Guidelines require (or at least strongly suggest) undo features at all possible levels, so as long it's undoable, it should be OK.
Perhaps another reason "PHBs" might be heading to other sources than the IT staff is because the IT staff treats them with such contempt?
Maybe. However, in many larger organizations, IT goes right along with facilities and other administrative tasks, and staff is often treated as a pure caretaker or janitor. So contempt surely works both ways.
When I first complained that SpamAssassin blocked their newsletter, and merely asked if they could look into it, I was laughed at, and they tried to convince me that I needed to whitelist them or, in their words, "...learn how to use your spam blocking software".
And what exactly is wrong with that? You chose to subscribe to some list, and you chose to install software that will kill some of the messages you receive. Why should the list maintainer bother. More to the point: how can the list maintainer get messages past all spam filters? Isn't it exactly the purpose of a spam filter that you cannot circumvent it?
If you install software, and it doesn't work like you want it to, why don't you fix it, then?
Sounds like you're talking to some server or other most of the times yoiu need a Windows box.
Have you considered Remote Desktop Connection? The client's great, and it sound as if you might have a Windows 2000 Server or XP which you could run Terminal Server in Remote Administration mode on..
On my feeble white iBook 500, VPC is just too slow for about anything, so I usually RDC into a server at work, tunneled over ssh. It's surprisingly responsive; on a couple of occasions, I even ran it over a GPRS connection, and it was workable.
[B]y the time the "Play My Music" button is the size of your monitor, theres no way you could mistakeningly hit the wrong button!
But I'm sure you can use TweakUI to assign 158 different actions to that big button depending on which combination of mouse buttons you press and scroll wheel movements you make...
Ahem, and what exactly is controlling the signals and switches?
Here in Hamburg, Germany, about 10 years ago, they upgraded the main control system for one of the bigger stations (hundreds of switches, thousands of signals) from some more-or-less manual, electro-mechanical system to a fully computerized one.
They made really, really sure that everything would work out: they built an exact model of the entire track layout, with all the switches, signals and whatnot, and ran model trains on it for a couple of months. Worked like a charm.
Then they hooked up the real thing, and within minutes, it crashed. After a long weekend, they figured out that the Turbo Pascal heap was too small for the real-world number of trains that the system had to handle.
I dare not ask what the use nowadays, when they chose commodity, off-the-shelf hard- and software back then...
Ordered them right away, to have something to play with. They arrived this morning.
They basically work as advertised; pick up the receiver, punch in the number and you're connected within a sec or two (considering that the call is routed from Germany to San Diego and back, not too bad). Voice quality is OK.
It seems SIPphone is just reselling preconfigured units from Grandstream; they have a full manual online, as well as a current firmware image for your phone to boot off. SIPphone apparently did not customize the firmware, or lock any of the settings, so you can do whatever you wish with the phone.
As I suspected (but the SIPphone FAQ or docs don't mention), the phone has a built-in web-server for configuration purposes, with an easy-to-guess default password; so if you're going to put this phone up on a public IP, make sure you have a decent firewall in front of it.
The SIPphone directory just works; no frills, but works.
As my employer has two offices at opposite ends of the country, we're probably going to get a couple more, and look into open source gateway solutions. We've wanted to do that for quite some time, but we couldn't find cheap phone to try this with, so this offering almost perfect for us.
But why is it that the tried-and-true paper ballot must be replaced? If most (if not all) countries in Europe can find enough volunteers and monitors to sort and count the ballots, why isn't this possible in the US? Or even pay these people?
Do software developers employed by companies still retain the copyright to what they write?
According to the study, this is the law in Germany. However, although the employee is the author, the employer usually gets full exploitation rights for the work; the author has to be "properly compensated".
The main contention in the study seems to be about the GPL's language of "author", and the subsequent inability of the author (as employee) to force the employer to stick to the GPL (the employer has full rights to sub-license any way he wishes).
Isn't this a moot issue with the GPL, since there is always exactly one copyright holder, regardless of who else contributed? That is, if the distributor of GPL'd software elects to include someone else's contribution, they nevertheless distribute it under their own copyright?
There is no such thing as a "copyright holder", as far as I understand it; there's the author(s) and possible licensees of a work.
Because you cannot waive authorship, or "assign" it to anybody, you and every other contributor automatically form a common law company. So if you want to sue someone (for GPL violation, for instance) you can only act with the consent of every author of the work, or at least, you have to establish that none of the authors objects. This is not easy. So it might be that someone violating the GPL in Germany will get away easily.
On the other hand, if someone wants to sue the makers of the work (it's borked), he only needs one of them, as the common law company is represented by any of it's owners, and the plaintiff can go after any one of them.
Now, IANAL, so I have no clue how theoretical any of this stuff is...
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I was bit dubious at first, but the patch includes source code. I did install the supplied binary, though...
What I'm really surprised about however is the fact that a) a third-party developer can fix a problem like this at all, and how easily the fix can be hooked into Safari. It appears that this OpenStep/Cocoa framework stuff is really flexible...
Oh and yes, it does work!
The exact terms of the settlement remain secret, but Marshall Kirk McKusick wrote this nice history summary.
If SCO really has any way to re-start the proceedings on this, I somehow feel Berkeley lawyers will have none of it...
(It's Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display, for those who wonder.)
The one paper, according to the press release, sees similiar coefficients in Levy distributions between solar flare activity and global temperature. However, that team didn't say there was a correlation between temperature and solar flare activity. I don't quite see the "directly related" bit that you postulate in there...
I just got the slower IBM/Hitachi 80 GB 2.5" (IC25N080) drive for use in a Lex Barebone, and turning it on for the first time it really freaked me out: with two desktops churning away close by, I couldn't hear anything. Even at home with no other noise source, it's barely hearable even when accessed.
This is where the real stuff is: The Trailing Edge and Trailing-Edge.
I've always been surprised by the sheer amount of naysayers when it comes to Bluetooth.
Someone tell him the AIFF is bit for bit identical with the CD, if he ripped it properly. But another reader needed to point out that iTunes has preferences to make it retrieve CDDB entries automatically. Oh well.
In the world I live in, Dilbert is not funny. It's true.
Don't get me wrong, the first thing I do when getting a new Mac is to get a mouse with a scroll wheel for it, and that usually involves a right-hand button as well.
The important bit for be is that I can see the difference in almost all Mac apps, I get the most "useful" commands, as opposed to Windows apps where more often than not I get commands on the context menu that are not available anywhere else.
For a long time, on Macs, you had all kinds of "accelerators", but they were only that: you did not need to memorize obtuse key combinations (different for each app, of course), but you could run most of them with just the mouse (except for text entry). This is completely opposite to my experience with Windows software, where many times, you can activate a function or feature only through a context menu or some key stroke combination.
Otherwise, I completly agree: making often used functions more readily accessible for the power user is a good thing, and you can use the right.hand-button on your mouse just like that in Mac OS X.
Oh, and one last thing: "experimentation unless it's 'inappropriate'." Although there's quite a few occasions where there's no undo, Apple's Human Interface Guidelines require (or at least strongly suggest) undo features at all possible levels, so as long it's undoable, it should be OK.
Oh, be grateful I wasn't trying to be witty... it is quite late here in central Europe, and I've got the flu.
If you install software, and it doesn't work like you want it to, why don't you fix it, then?
Have you considered Remote Desktop Connection? The client's great, and it sound as if you might have a Windows 2000 Server or XP which you could run Terminal Server in Remote Administration mode on..
On my feeble white iBook 500, VPC is just too slow for about anything, so I usually RDC into a server at work, tunneled over ssh. It's surprisingly responsive; on a couple of occasions, I even ran it over a GPRS connection, and it was workable.
Here in Hamburg, Germany, about 10 years ago, they upgraded the main control system for one of the bigger stations (hundreds of switches, thousands of signals) from some more-or-less manual, electro-mechanical system to a fully computerized one.
They made really, really sure that everything would work out: they built an exact model of the entire track layout, with all the switches, signals and whatnot, and ran model trains on it for a couple of months. Worked like a charm.
Then they hooked up the real thing, and within minutes, it crashed. After a long weekend, they figured out that the Turbo Pascal heap was too small for the real-world number of trains that the system had to handle.
I dare not ask what the use nowadays, when they chose commodity, off-the-shelf hard- and software back then...
They basically work as advertised; pick up the receiver, punch in the number and you're connected within a sec or two (considering that the call is routed from Germany to San Diego and back, not too bad). Voice quality is OK.
It seems SIPphone is just reselling preconfigured units from Grandstream; they have a full manual online, as well as a current firmware image for your phone to boot off. SIPphone apparently did not customize the firmware, or lock any of the settings, so you can do whatever you wish with the phone.
As I suspected (but the SIPphone FAQ or docs don't mention), the phone has a built-in web-server for configuration purposes, with an easy-to-guess default password; so if you're going to put this phone up on a public IP, make sure you have a decent firewall in front of it.
The SIPphone directory just works; no frills, but works.
As my employer has two offices at opposite ends of the country, we're probably going to get a couple more, and look into open source gateway solutions. We've wanted to do that for quite some time, but we couldn't find cheap phone to try this with, so this offering almost perfect for us.
Nokia already has such contraptions... you can plug in any POTS compatible device into them.
But why is it that the tried-and-true paper ballot must be replaced? If most (if not all) countries in Europe can find enough volunteers and monitors to sort and count the ballots, why isn't this possible in the US? Or even pay these people?
The main contention in the study seems to be about the GPL's language of "author", and the subsequent inability of the author (as employee) to force the employer to stick to the GPL (the employer has full rights to sub-license any way he wishes).
Because you cannot waive authorship, or "assign" it to anybody, you and every other contributor automatically form a common law company. So if you want to sue someone (for GPL violation, for instance) you can only act with the consent of every author of the work, or at least, you have to establish that none of the authors objects. This is not easy. So it might be that someone violating the GPL in Germany will get away easily.
On the other hand, if someone wants to sue the makers of the work (it's borked), he only needs one of them, as the common law company is represented by any of it's owners, and the plaintiff can go after any one of them.
Now, IANAL, so I have no clue how theoretical any of this stuff is...