Wow, you really have no understanding of how this technology works. Even if a rapper were to have 3 second segments on an audio track, it sill has to be pressed in a linear fashion. Also, stop/start has no impact on the data of disks, since there is no physical contact with the data portion of the disk in any way. It's simply a laser that scans the surface.
So, why would Popular Mechanics recommend Ubuntu when you could download Yellow Dog Linux (for free as well from public mirrors), which is developed by the company hired by Sony to develop linux for the PS3. This sounds somewhat odd.
This price drop has nothing to do with piracy or any other big bad boogeyman. HMV is lowering their prices because Universal has (finally) made an adjustment to the Canadian market to reflect the strong Canadian dollar and dropped prices across the board. This adjustment was to compensate for the fact that Canadian stores were paying about 15-20% more than their US counterparts due to prices that were set to 10 year old currency exchange rates. You'll see the same problem with books that print US and Canadian prices on them, with the current exchange rates, you're much better off paying in US dollars.
If you want to do the music industry and your ears a favour, boycott HMV, the RIAA, CRIA and the big 5 and buy from the indies and local indy stores.
Well, the machine I'm using at the moment is a Powerbook G4 running Linux. No flash. My machine at home is an x86_64 linux box, with... guess what? No flash.
Nice for the one or other drag-and-drop gadget or small-scale data sync but that's about it.
Yeah, I couldn't imagine any decent AJAXwebapplications. You're right, they're all small scale.
Please, do us a favour and stick to CD-ROMs, Flash and Lingo should have died with them
Cool, I can't wait for the first Linux distro that comes out booting on that! Just as useful as Linux on my iPod, Linux on my toaster and Linux on my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
That's fine, but due to that Opera doesn't behave like any browser, nor does it give the user the option of whitelisting domains for this purpose. Since our web authentication scheme relies on domain wide cookies (for single sign-on across campus), this means that Opera cannot work with it. Our only option is to resolve our domain to an IP, which, due to legacy reasons could have devastating effects across campus.
So, right or wrong, Opera breaks the spec, doesn't allow the user to follow it. For us, that means about 80,000 users can't use Opera.
Sorry, I prefer free speech. Also, I prefer a browser that will allow me to write domain wide cookies (domain.com) without having to resolve domain.com to an IP.
When I originally posted this (yesterday), the web page had the previous contest rules which were open to US residents only. The article was then removed from/. until the linuxonpower.com site was updated. So, now my statement is out of context.
The ironic thing is that I live in Quebec. So, while Linus qualifies (I hadn't realized that he was living in the US, but have since crawled out from under my rock), and I'm very happy that IBM has opened their eyes from the last contest, I still do not qualify.
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Unfortunatetly IBM really doesn't get it. The Linux community is international. This contest excludes some of the best kernel hackers (including Linus!).
this would (in my opinion) surely kill off the demand for CDs...right now, iTunes isn't killing the demand, becuase it's roughly equivalent to download 15 songs for $0.99 per song, or pay $15 for the CD...however, if i could download 15 songs for only $0.75, so why should i ever buy a CD again?
Yes, why would you want to buy 25 year old technology for more than it cost 20 years ago?
As a small indy label owner, I would love to see the price of CD's dropped. The crazy thing is that *we* have to raise our prices to something that we don't feel comfortable with because if we don't, people think our product is high quality. The impression is If an industry monopolist CD cost $20, and you want to sell yours for under $10, then yours must have been made cheaply ergo not of high quality which is absurd. I would proudly compare any of our CDs to any RIAA recording any day.
So, I guess a speed bump on that type of road would simply be a flat surface.:-)
Where I live (here for anglophones), the roads are bad enough in the spring that we could probably all ride on square wheels. There is even talk of having an International Pothole Festival here right before Jazz Fest!
One of my servers managed to get 344 days of uptime running YDL. The only reason why we shut it down was because we needed to move to bigger hardware. Not sure why the uptime is no longer in the netcraft database. Anyway, I recorded the uptime just before I retired the machine:
Wed Jan 8 01:13:35 EST 2003
1:13am up 344 days, 15:07, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.31, 0.32
Apple makes great, robust hardware. It is just too bad that their CPUs are getting on the slow side. Hopefully the rumoured 2.5GHz PPC970's will resolve that.
The 12" powerbook is brand new hardware and getting linux to install on it would be a lot of trouble. I've had Linux running on older powerbooks without any problems.
Why ruin a perfectly good system with Mac OS X and install Linux over it?
Well, to each his own I guess. My experience with MacOS X hasn't been that good. We have over 15 Macs in our office (all G4s or iMac G4s) - most of them running MacOS X but mine only run YDL. For the most part, I get much better performance/response than my colleagues, even after Apple has added yet another beta browser to MacOS X. The anti-aliasing of everything in MacOS X also gives me a headache on CRT monitors after about an hour.
Also, call me old fashioned, but I still believe in free (as in "Freedom"), and MacOS X ain't. I use YDL, because they are a small company that *only* does PPC, so I know that their attention will be on *my* hardware and not some entirely different architecture.
While I'm starting to dislike MacOS X less, I still can't work with it anywhere near as quickly as Linux. And, with YDL on my Powerbook, I can setup a micro version of my servers and develop on a closed system while on the train, etc. with the exact same paths/etc. as my servers (IBM Xseries running RedHat, YellowDog briQs and G4s running YDL). Running the same OS on all my hardware makes it really easy to move the code around different architectures. It also means that I'm not forced to use a specific architecture, and can get the hardware that best suits the needs.
So, while YDL might not be for you, but if you own/like Apple hardware, having a distro that keeps your hardware relavant for longer is a good thing for you - whether you use it or not.
I'm assuming that the radio station would be paying the rights for the broadcast and part of that arrangement would be recording rights.
I suspect the AFM will probably have something to say about this more than the RIAA seeing as musicians are paid a different rate when they are recorded than a live performance.
I still have the first machine I ever owned (C-64), as well as *some* of my early machines. I finally moved into an apartment big enough that it wasn't a strain on my marriage to keep them. I now have my own room for them.:-)
Unfortunately some of my favorite old machines didn't survive the 'Please get rid of this shit' requests. This post is dedicated to their memory (bad pun not intended).
After taking way too long to do my B.Mus majoring in Computer Music Technology, and spending much of my free time recording, performing and writing in/for various ensembles/groups/bands (typical music student junkie), it became pretty obvious that the industry wasn't interested in quality, innovation, 'art' or anything other than money. They want a fast sell (nice face and/or nice boobs) because that's what the know how to market.
The most depressing thing was that I had done bunch of indie albums (some where I engineered/recorded/produced, others where I played as well), so I knew how much it really cost to manufacture a CD (less than $2 CND per CD including a jacket, shrinkwrap, etc.). So when you see the CDs selling for $20+ in the stores you would think the artist must be making a couple bucks per CD. Unfortunately, most small artists who manage to get a distribution deal get less than $0.50 or even nothing if the record company hasn't re-cooped their costs (ie. coke and hookers). This after having made far to many compromises in their music because their assigned 'producer' thinks their way won't sell.
So because of this, I became totally depressed/demotivated and got a day job. I've still been recording artists I like to work with (I've got several $k in recording gear at home), and I've been putting money aside to build a studio/label which we hope to be opening for business within the next month or so. Luckily, I've managed to partner with two other musicians (one being my wife) who have had similar depressing experiences with the industry. We've decided that we want to work with a different economic model. Here is part of what we want to do:
We will only work with artists whose music we enjoy and that we have fun recording.
We will never impose any artistic views on the artist.
We'll help the artist sell their CD via our (still non-existant) online store at a price that is reasonable ($10 CND or less) as well as use more traditional distribution/marketing strategies.
We help the artist secure funding (mostly via grants and patrons) to cover recording expenses.
We don't want any IP - all copyright, etc. remains with the artist. The thought of owning part of someone else's idea is really absurd to me.
We refuse to work with any artist that wants to use copy-protection or anything that enhibits the consumer from using the product on their system/platform of choice. This means DVD projects will not be encrypted, and no hardware hacks on CDs
We are musicians and sound engineers, we aren't interested in making $ with the label. We simply use the label to get work we like doing and to help promote/create music that would otherwise never be recorded.
This economic model won't make us rich, but I have no desire to be rich (otherwise I wouldn't be working for a university). I want to do work that I enjoy and hopefully get a fair wage for it. I think that if enough people did this, it could really change the industry. Maybe I'm a naive dreamer, but I'd rather fail at doing this than be a successful part of the RIAA machine.
Funny, when I saw their campaign, I sent apple an email about our switch story. We had moved from a Sun machine running Solaris to an Apple G4 running YDL. There were a number of advantages for us (including a good rep with our Apple dealer). The letter is still here. No response from Apple yet.
I also think that Tim O'Reilly is pretty crazy if he thinks that 15 people on a mailing list is statistically valid in any way. When he gets results like 1500, then we could start looking at the numbers.
And to those folks that say that MacOS X 'just works' as a desktop machine... well, I'm sorry, I have to disagree. For *work* I much prefer Linux . I can actually load and render www pages without the 'click-and-wait' that my colleagues using MacOS X have to suffer, I can compile all the apps I need easily, and can configure the machine the way *I* really want to (plus no NetInfo Manager!).
Stupid thing is, I run Apple hardware, but not their OS.
My only solution for playing Quicktime movies is MacOnLinux, which is cool and everything, but the reason why I run Linux is so that I don't have to run MacOS.
Apple should learn from www.joelonsoftware.com's recent article, and comoditize the player (or a free 'non-pro' version of it) to increase revenues on the encoders.
Heck, I would even *pay* for Quicktime Pro for Linux PPC.
Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4
256K L2 cache & 2MB L3 cache per processor
512MB DDR SDRAM @ 266MHz
60GB Apple Drive Module
CD-ROM drive
ATI Graphics Card
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Two USB ports
Three FireWire ports
Price $3,999.00
TerraSoft's GVS option
GVS9000
CPUs: dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 w/AltiVec.
Memory: 1 GB PC-133 SDRAM - 2 DIMMs.
Storage: 80 GB IDE drive.
Removable: DVD-RW Super Drive.
Communications: Gigabit, FireWire, USB.
Video Card: ATI Radeon 7500 dual (YDL video patch required).
Expansion: single 64/66 PCI slot.
Chassis: GVS 9000 2U Rack System.
Keyboard & Mouse: Apple USB.
Operating System: YDL & Mac OS X pre-installed; complete box sets.
Warranty Service Plan: GVS One year - Hardware.
Weight: 50 lbs.
Price: $3,839.00
So, the GVS has a memory bus that is 1/2 the speed, but a DVD-RW that can be taken out and put into my home machine, for $160 less than Apple's machine.
Also, I wouldn't rush out and buy these machines before someone else tests the cooling system first. I've been burned before buying 1st generation Apple hardware. From my experience, Rev 2 is well worth waiting for.
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Wow, you really have no understanding of how this technology works. Even if a rapper were to have 3 second segments on an audio track, it sill has to be pressed in a linear fashion. Also, stop/start has no impact on the data of disks, since there is no physical contact with the data portion of the disk in any way. It's simply a laser that scans the surface.
Oh, yeah... I know:
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker tits.
RIP Carlin, we need you now more than ever.
I don't get it. Ubuntu officially dropped PPC support last year.
So, why would Popular Mechanics recommend Ubuntu when you could download Yellow Dog Linux (for free as well from public mirrors), which is developed by the company hired by Sony to develop linux for the PS3. This sounds somewhat odd.
Disclaimer: I work for Terra Soft Solutions, so I've clearly got a bias here.
This price drop has nothing to do with piracy or any other big bad boogeyman. HMV is lowering their prices because Universal has (finally) made an adjustment to the Canadian market to reflect the strong Canadian dollar and dropped prices across the board. This adjustment was to compensate for the fact that Canadian stores were paying about 15-20% more than their US counterparts due to prices that were set to 10 year old currency exchange rates. You'll see the same problem with books that print US and Canadian prices on them, with the current exchange rates, you're much better off paying in US dollars.
If you want to do the music industry and your ears a favour, boycott HMV, the RIAA, CRIA and the big 5 and buy from the indies and local indy stores.
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with nearly zero-fuss cross plattform deployment
Well, the machine I'm using at the moment is a Powerbook G4 running Linux. No flash. My machine at home is an x86_64 linux box, with... guess what? No flash.
Nice for the one or other drag-and-drop gadget or small-scale data sync but that's about it.
Yeah, I couldn't imagine any decent AJAX web applications. You're right, they're all small scale.
Please, do us a favour and stick to CD-ROMs, Flash and Lingo should have died with them
Cool, I can't wait for the first Linux distro that comes out booting on that! Just as useful as Linux on my iPod, Linux on my toaster and Linux on my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
The dual disk drive died a couple of years ago, and my kids were using it as a typing toy. Then a couple months ago it stopped powering up.
I agree though, it was depressing indeed, I leared to program on that thing in high school.
I've keept my SuperPET (old photo) for years at the risk of divorce, and this comes out a week after I toss it
That's fine, but due to that Opera doesn't behave like any browser, nor does it give the user the option of whitelisting domains for this purpose. Since our web authentication scheme relies on domain wide cookies (for single sign-on across campus), this means that Opera cannot work with it. Our only option is to resolve our domain to an IP, which, due to legacy reasons could have devastating effects across campus.
So, right or wrong, Opera breaks the spec, doesn't allow the user to follow it. For us, that means about 80,000 users can't use Opera.
Sorry, I prefer free speech. Also, I prefer a browser that will allow me to write domain wide cookies (domain.com) without having to resolve domain.com to an IP.
When I originally posted this (yesterday), the web page had the previous contest rules which were open to US residents only. The article was then removed from /. until the linuxonpower.com site was updated. So, now my statement is out of context.
The ironic thing is that I live in Quebec. So, while Linus qualifies (I hadn't realized that he was living in the US, but have since crawled out from under my rock), and I'm very happy that IBM has opened their eyes from the last contest, I still do not qualify.
The following contest is intended for viewing in the United States only (except in Puerto Rico) and shall only be construed and evaluated according to United States law. Do not proceed in this site if you are not a resident of, and located, in the United States (except Puerto Rico) at the time of entry.
Unfortunatetly IBM really doesn't get it. The Linux community is international. This contest excludes some of the best kernel hackers (including Linus!).
IBM, get with the program!
this would (in my opinion) surely kill off the demand for CDs...right now, iTunes isn't killing the demand, becuase it's roughly equivalent to download 15 songs for $0.99 per song, or pay $15 for the CD...however, if i could download 15 songs for only $0.75, so why should i ever buy a CD again?
Yes, why would you want to buy 25 year old technology for more than it cost 20 years ago?
As a small indy label owner, I would love to see the price of CD's dropped. The crazy thing is that *we* have to raise our prices to something that we don't feel comfortable with because if we don't, people think our product is high quality. The impression is If an industry monopolist CD cost $20, and you want to sell yours for under $10, then yours must have been made cheaply ergo not of high quality which is absurd. I would proudly compare any of our CDs to any RIAA recording any day.
So, I guess a speed bump on that type of road would simply be a flat surface. :-)
Where I live (here for anglophones), the roads are bad enough in the spring that we could probably all ride on square wheels. There is even talk of having an International Pothole Festival here right before Jazz Fest!
Does anyone actually believe that Sun will still be here in 10 years. As I said before, I doubt it very much.
Here's the proof
My Desktop machine is doing well also. It serves as a YDL mirror and a simple website for the McGill LUG.
Apple makes great, robust hardware. It is just too bad that their CPUs are getting on the slow side. Hopefully the rumoured 2.5GHz PPC970's will resolve that.
The 12" powerbook is brand new hardware and getting linux to install on it would be a lot of trouble. I've had Linux running on older powerbooks without any problems.
Why ruin a perfectly good system with Mac OS X and install Linux over it?
Well, to each his own I guess. My experience with MacOS X hasn't been that good. We have over 15 Macs in our office (all G4s or iMac G4s) - most of them running MacOS X but mine only run YDL. For the most part, I get much better performance/response than my colleagues, even after Apple has added yet another beta browser to MacOS X. The anti-aliasing of everything in MacOS X also gives me a headache on CRT monitors after about an hour.
Also, call me old fashioned, but I still believe in free (as in "Freedom"), and MacOS X ain't. I use YDL, because they are a small company that *only* does PPC, so I know that their attention will be on *my* hardware and not some entirely different architecture.
While I'm starting to dislike MacOS X less, I still can't work with it anywhere near as quickly as Linux. And, with YDL on my Powerbook, I can setup a micro version of my servers and develop on a closed system while on the train, etc. with the exact same paths/etc. as my servers (IBM Xseries running RedHat, YellowDog briQs and G4s running YDL). Running the same OS on all my hardware makes it really easy to move the code around different architectures. It also means that I'm not forced to use a specific architecture, and can get the hardware that best suits the needs.
So, while YDL might not be for you, but if you own/like Apple hardware, having a distro that keeps your hardware relavant for longer is a good thing for you - whether you use it or not.
I'm assuming that the radio station would be paying the rights for the broadcast and part of that arrangement would be recording rights.
I suspect the AFM will probably have something to say about this more than the RIAA seeing as musicians are paid a different rate when they are recorded than a live performance.
I still have the first machine I ever owned (C-64), as well as *some* of my early machines. I finally moved into an apartment big enough that it wasn't a strain on my marriage to keep them. I now have my own room for them. :-)
Unfortunately some of my favorite old machines didn't survive the 'Please get rid of this shit' requests. This post is dedicated to their memory (bad pun not intended).
RIP Amiga 2000, Apple IIfx, Q840AV, PPC6100
The most depressing thing was that I had done bunch of indie albums (some where I engineered/recorded/produced, others where I played as well), so I knew how much it really cost to manufacture a CD (less than $2 CND per CD including a jacket, shrinkwrap, etc.). So when you see the CDs selling for $20+ in the stores you would think the artist must be making a couple bucks per CD. Unfortunately, most small artists who manage to get a distribution deal get less than $0.50 or even nothing if the record company hasn't re-cooped their costs (ie. coke and hookers). This after having made far to many compromises in their music because their assigned 'producer' thinks their way won't sell.
So because of this, I became totally depressed/demotivated and got a day job. I've still been recording artists I like to work with (I've got several $k in recording gear at home), and I've been putting money aside to build a studio/label which we hope to be opening for business within the next month or so. Luckily, I've managed to partner with two other musicians (one being my wife) who have had similar depressing experiences with the industry. We've decided that we want to work with a different economic model. Here is part of what we want to do:
This economic model won't make us rich, but I have no desire to be rich (otherwise I wouldn't be working for a university). I want to do work that I enjoy and hopefully get a fair wage for it. I think that if enough people did this, it could really change the industry. Maybe I'm a naive dreamer, but I'd rather fail at doing this than be a successful part of the RIAA machine.
Funny, when I saw their campaign, I sent apple an email about our switch story. We had moved from a Sun machine running Solaris to an Apple G4 running YDL. There were a number of advantages for us (including a good rep with our Apple dealer). The letter is still here. No response from Apple yet.
I also think that Tim O'Reilly is pretty crazy if he thinks that 15 people on a mailing list is statistically valid in any way. When he gets results like 1500, then we could start looking at the numbers.
And to those folks that say that MacOS X 'just works' as a desktop machine... well, I'm sorry, I have to disagree. For *work* I much prefer Linux . I can actually load and render www pages without the 'click-and-wait' that my colleagues using MacOS X have to suffer, I can compile all the apps I need easily, and can configure the machine the way *I* really want to (plus no NetInfo Manager!).
Stupid thing is, I run Apple hardware, but not their OS.
My only solution for playing Quicktime movies is MacOnLinux, which is cool and everything, but the reason why I run Linux is so that I don't have to run MacOS.
Apple should learn from www.joelonsoftware.com's recent article, and comoditize the player (or a free 'non-pro' version of it) to increase revenues on the encoders.
Heck, I would even *pay* for Quicktime Pro for Linux PPC.
Apple's thingy
Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4
256K L2 cache & 2MB L3 cache per processor
512MB DDR SDRAM @ 266MHz
60GB Apple Drive Module
CD-ROM drive
ATI Graphics Card
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Two USB ports
Three FireWire ports
Price $3,999.00
TerraSoft's GVS option
GVS9000
CPUs: dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 w/AltiVec.
Memory: 1 GB PC-133 SDRAM - 2 DIMMs.
Storage: 80 GB IDE drive.
Removable: DVD-RW Super Drive.
Communications: Gigabit, FireWire, USB.
Video Card: ATI Radeon 7500 dual (YDL video patch required).
Expansion: single 64/66 PCI slot.
Chassis: GVS 9000 2U Rack System.
Keyboard & Mouse: Apple USB.
Operating System: YDL & Mac OS X pre-installed; complete box sets.
Warranty Service Plan: GVS One year - Hardware.
Weight: 50 lbs.
Price: $3,839.00
So, the GVS has a memory bus that is 1/2 the speed, but a DVD-RW that can be taken out and put into my home machine, for $160 less than Apple's machine.
Also, I wouldn't rush out and buy these machines before someone else tests the cooling system first. I've been burned before buying 1st generation Apple hardware. From my experience, Rev 2 is well worth waiting for.