This is New Zealand we're talking about.
Rural means either high-tech farmers who have
had at least some training at an agricultural
college, and already have aerial photographs
of their farms scanned into their pasture
management software (developed in New Zealand
sold all over the world), pay their farmhands via
internet banking and are more tech savy than any
dumb yank, or else they're city folk who have
moved to the country-side for the life-style
(hobby farmers, aka yuppy farmers).
The actual digital data of a CDDA file is identical to that of a.wav file at 44.1 sample rate, 16 bits... no format conversion occurs. The only issue is the layout on the CD- but the raw data is identical.
Almost...
The byte order is reversed, one is big-endian, the other little-endian. CDDA also lacks the header that a.wav has.
CD rippers just read the raw CDDA, swap the byte order and add a.wav header. This fact does not alter your valid point though.
most Unix software runs just fine without being installed in a root-only location. Unix software almost never uses a registry-type system, or anything not accessible to joe user.
You can set the mount options so that joe user can't execute anything from removable media.
Of course, this does not stop joe user from cp'ing the executable to his home directory...
But you could have the home directory also mounted on an execute-not-allowed filesystem, and have/usr/bin read-only.
Now, be perfectly honest with me. After that mp3 is ripped to your hard drive, is it going to stay there
In my case, it'll stay there. I rip for convenience so I can do jukebox type stuff, not to steal. Anyways, why would I tie up my 33k modem so others can access my HD?
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
This is simply untrue - FUD. You can compile closed/proprietary stuff with GPL'ed tools. It's the code that's protected, not the use of the tools.
due to win9x being most widely used out in the business world today, I believe win9x is the right choice for schools to run
In that case, schools should have used Macs in the late 80s and early 90s, because the Mac environment then was closer to today's Win9x than the old Win 3.1 was.
StarOffice seems to take an eternity to load, but once loaded it runs fine
I read somewhere that you can speed up the load time (and perhaps the runtime performance) by not installing the Java component. IIRC the Java component slows it down big time.
Linux will never be as easy to learn and to use at the workplace than Windows. They just cannot handle the truth. Remember, some people have better things to do than to read 900 page Unix tomes all day.
The end-user wouldn't be using Linux, they would be using KDE (or gnome if you prefer, but KDE is probably easier).
The end user doesn't even need to know that linux is the kernel underneath the gui somewhere.
FUD: To use Linux you have to read 900 page Unix tomes - Hahaha.
there is one very long musical segment that the producer of the CD decided to split in several tracks. In that case, blank detection won't work.
In that case I would personally prefer to keep it as one track anyway. I have several CDs that have songs that actually belong together, and on my PC they are one MP3 file for that reason. I don't want kjukebox on random play picking only one song from a bracket that should be heard together.
That is just my personal preference though...
I WILL buy CDs from artists I like, but only buy downloading/ripping the ones I like and mailing a personal check to the band (via member,fan club/agent) for how much I think its worth.
I WILL buy grocery items from your shop, but I will only pay what I think it's worth.
Um, does anybody else see what's wrong with this picture?
Everyone always mentions population density as an excuse for coverage in the US, but it seems like a pretty poor one.
Especially since the population is just as dense inside a major US city as it is anywhere.
It is in-between cities that the population is sparce.
So don't let me hear any more excuses about population density!
An upgrade with software is like a trade-in with physical goods. I.e. you "give back" the old item in return for a discount on the new item.
IMHO this means that for an "upgrade" you can't sell off the old version, but if you buy a new version at full price you can sell the old version.
The reason it wasn't so popular was that it wasn't very keen on cleaning viruses so much as stomping them. It usually wanted you to reinstall software that had been infected; its main clean command was del *.*:)
Being the paranoid that I am, I would reinstall anyway, rather than allowing an attempt to clean.
Y'know, that's a darn good point about employees futzing around with fonts and underlining and wotnot for a memo that could be scribbled on a scrap of paper. I don't think computers have improved our productivity at every level. Oh, sure we can do large batch processing for billing etc. Great in the utilities industry where I work (gas & power) but that's all "big iron" stuff. The desktop stuff is oh so much farting around. I know coz we waste a lot of time getting our conditional formatting just so in Excel in the department where I work. But hey, I'm getting off topic. For X terminals I see the advantage in home networks. One big box in each home - one X term in each room. something like that.
Is that site for real, or a parody. It scares me to think those people could be serious.
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I'm not sure what recourse a non-American has, or if the DMCA applies, but they were able to bring a foriegner to court over DeCSS, and I imagine it will happen again.
Not in my country. Yankee imperialists fuck off. New Zealand is a sovereign state. The yanks can put pressure on our spineless gummint, but the people won't take it.
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This is New Zealand we're talking about.
Rural means either high-tech farmers who have
had at least some training at an agricultural
college, and already have aerial photographs
of their farms scanned into their pasture
management software (developed in New Zealand
sold all over the world), pay their farmhands via
internet banking and are more tech savy than any
dumb yank, or else they're city folk who have
moved to the country-side for the life-style
(hobby farmers, aka yuppy farmers).
I saw this where I used to work. They were using SAP and had to upgrade at tens of millions of NZ$ because SAP stopped supporting the old version.
Almost
The byte order is reversed, one is big-endian, the other little-endian. CDDA also lacks the header that a
CD rippers just read the raw CDDA, swap the byte order and add a
You can set the mount options so that joe user can't execute anything from removable media.
Of course, this does not stop joe user from cp'ing the executable to his home directory
But you could have the home directory also mounted on an execute-not-allowed filesystem, and have
In my case, it'll stay there. I rip for convenience so I can do jukebox type stuff, not to steal. Anyways, why would I tie up my 33k modem so others can access my HD?
This is simply untrue - FUD. You can compile closed/proprietary stuff with GPL'ed tools. It's the code that's protected, not the use of the tools.
I produce invoices, payroll and everything else on StarCalc. I type correspondence in StarWriter and I use Kmail as my email client.
It all works fine on my K6-2 500 with 64Mb RAM.
I also use it as an MP3 jukebox with kjukebox, a handy little prog that came with my SuSE disks.
can you type rpm -i?
Or use a package manager like kpackage...
When I click on a file with extension
due to win9x being most widely used out in the business world today, I believe win9x is the right choice for schools to run
In that case, schools should have used Macs in the late 80s and early 90s, because the Mac environment then was closer to today's Win9x than the old Win 3.1 was.
StarOffice seems to take an eternity to load, but once loaded it runs fine
I read somewhere that you can speed up the load time (and perhaps the runtime performance) by not installing the Java component. IIRC the Java component slows it down big time.
Linux will never be as easy to learn and to use at the workplace than Windows. They just cannot handle the truth. Remember, some people have better things to do than to read 900 page Unix tomes all day.
The end-user wouldn't be using Linux, they would be using KDE (or gnome if you prefer, but KDE is probably easier).
The end user doesn't even need to know that linux is the kernel underneath the gui somewhere.
FUD: To use Linux you have to read 900 page Unix tomes - Hahaha.
I had no problems with ripping this cd. I used grip and ripped to ogg format.
I use grip, and it has bladenc as the back-end encoder. How do I replace this with an ogg encoder?
there is one very long musical segment that the producer of the CD decided to split in several tracks. In that case, blank detection won't work.
...
In that case I would personally prefer to keep it as one track anyway. I have several CDs that have songs that actually belong together, and on my PC they are one MP3 file for that reason. I don't want kjukebox on random play picking only one song from a bracket that should be heard together.
That is just my personal preference though
I WILL buy CDs from artists I like, but only buy downloading/ripping the ones I like and mailing a personal check to the band (via member,fan club/agent) for how much I think its worth.
I WILL buy grocery items from your shop, but I will only pay what I think it's worth.
Um, does anybody else see what's wrong with this picture?
Everyone always mentions population density as an excuse for coverage in the US, but it seems like a pretty poor one.
Especially since the population is just as dense inside a major US city as it is anywhere.
It is in-between cities that the population is sparce.
So don't let me hear any more excuses about population density!
An upgrade with software is like a trade-in with physical goods. I.e. you "give back" the old item in return for a discount on the new item.
IMHO this means that for an "upgrade" you can't sell off the old version, but if you buy a new version at full price you can sell the old version.
and the rest of the world uses various forms of NTSC
Here in New Zealand we use PAL. IFAIK the Aussies use PAL too.
yes, it kills your privacy, but for that fee you get better anti terrorist tools.
But the terrorists don't always use computers!
And even if they do, they won't use any box that's not locked down.
I'm glad I don't live in America. I'm glad the tools I need to keep the FBI and American corporate spies out of my computer are legal in my country.
Luckily, anthrax does not effect computers that do not run Outlook.
The reason it wasn't so popular was that it wasn't very keen on cleaning viruses so much as stomping them. It usually wanted you to reinstall software that had been infected; its main clean command was del *.* :)
Being the paranoid that I am, I would reinstall anyway, rather than allowing an attempt to clean.
virus -> viruses
air -> air
But on slashdot we would say "virusen" as in:
Box - Boxen
Linux - Linuxen
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Not in my country. Yankee imperialists fuck off. New Zealand is a sovereign state. The yanks can put pressure on our spineless gummint, but the people won't take it.
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