"I bet with Slack 10, I can add my friend's windows printer! Oh... It's okay. I bet my wireless card will work now! Well, shit... my laptop isn't even supported. And I can't even get the sound to work. Oh, alright. Read the manual, huh?"
BTW, I just upgraded from 9.1 to 10 on my Thinkpad T41 by running swaret --update && swaret --upgrade. Well, my original Slackware installation wasn't quite "out of the box", but I grabbed a good bag of tricks
Also, you can print to any windows printer, just use RedMon
and CUPS.
Yankee Group analysts envision that broadband network providers could give precedence to their own revenue-generating services, possibly leading to the demise of the biggest VoIP player today, Vonage
Or the other way around. Vonage may have (and I think already has) such an agreement with certain ISPs that Vonage will have better bandwidth if your Internet was from that provider.
Alternatively, Vonage will be the OEM provider of the ISP branded VoIP, like in case of Earthlink VoIP.
I am sure I don't need to worry about Vonage.
Why reinvent the wheel, what was wrong with using Grace.
While I agree that the Motif app looks a little outdated, the app is free as in GPL and is really powerful in terms of features. For example, it allows scripting.
- Dunno, seems like the original article missed the actual link.
kde-redhat project
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I always get my KDE for Red Hat (and Fedora)
from the kde-redhat project. The project's lead Rex Dieter is doing an awesome job of keeping the latest KDE packaged as rpms that are available via apt-get with all dependencies worked out. Upgrade is as easy as
I think it's a figure of speach meaning "a Russel Sprague". Probably borrowed from the Frank languages, where the indefinite article is the same word as the word for the numeral "one".
XForms in Mozilla is not coming soon
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There is a long discussion of the proposed XForms support in Mozilla Bug 9786. There are 460 votes for this bug, however the support is not forthcoming. Basically, there is no one willing to implement XForms in Mozilla because XForms has too many dependencies on other XML modules that are not implemented in mozilla.
If you are developing only for IE6, you can use a commercial formsPlayer component. I tried their demo, it looked decent.
There are also server-side XForms modules that render XForms as HTML forms. For example, Apache project lists JXForms.
Obviously, in the future, you wouln't be able to rip anything, because it's going to be DRM protected in hardware. But the bigger point is that you wouldn't need to. Once you bought a piece of music, you should be able to get from this new service a copy-protected file playable on the device of your choice. Hopefully, you'll be able to select the bit rate you want.
I think Sklyarov's software was intended for the purpose of making encrypted eBooks readable on devices other than the computers. Now, with this service, you wouldn't need to break the encryption, you would go and get the copy of the ebook for your PDA.
I am not sure that exactly how the proposed service works, but if does, it may eliminate the need for illegal hacking.
Why would I want to share a description only? -- It's just silly
If I interpret the article correctly, if you bought a CD, they would give you free and legal files for any music player you own. There could be some value.
Albhy Galuten, chairman of the CRF, says: "This would essentially say, if you have the rights to this piece of content, we don't care what kind of device you're using. It would say, tell me the device, and we'll send you the correct file.
In Chinese folklore, literature and popular history all divisions in China (a very popular topic), whether through civil war or barbarian invasion always end up with the country reunited by some glorious hero (or occassionally talented despot who is then deposed by a glorious hero).
Taiwan wouldn't mind the reunification once the mainland is Democratic. I agree, it will take a glorious hero or a talented despot (a la Gorbachev) to lead the mainland to the path of democracy.
Because of its exceptional performance and quality, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is at the core of the MPEG-4 and 3GPP specifications and is the new audio codec of choice for Internet, wireless, and digital broadcast arenas. AAC provides audio encoding that compresses much more efficiently than older formats such as MP3, yet delivers quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio.
AAC was developed by the MPEG group that includes Dolby, Fraunhofer (FhG), AT&T, Sony, and Nokia--companies that have also been involved in the development of audio codecs such as MP3 and AC3 (also known as Dolby Digital). The AAC codec in QuickTime 6 builds upon new, state-of-the art signal processing technology from Dolby Laboratories and brings true variable bit rate (VBR) audio encoding to QuickTime.
MPEG-4 AAC has been specified as the high-quality general audio coder for 3G wireless terminals. Apple Computer has incorporated MPEG-4 AAC into QuickTime 6 and iTunes 4, as well as the latest version of its award-winning iPod portable music player. The Digital Radio Mondiale system (the next-generation digital replacement for radio broadcasting under 30 MHZ) builds on the audio coding of MPEG-4 AAC. These exciting platforms represent the state of the art in audio coding--and Via Licensing is pleased to offer the MPEG-4 AAC Patent License Agreement.
The MPEG-4 AAC standard incorporates MPEG-2 AAC, forming the basis of the MPEG-4 audio compression technology for data rates above 32 kbps per channel. Additional tools increase the effectiveness of MPEG-2 AAC at lower bit rates, and add scalability or error resilience characteristics. These additional tools extend AAC into its MPEG-4 incarnation (ISO/IEC 14496-3, Subpart 4).
A copy of the MPEG-4 Audio standard can be purchased from the ISO online store (search for "14496-3").
Slashdot Mirror
BTW, I just upgraded from 9.1 to 10 on my Thinkpad T41 by running swaret --update && swaret --upgrade. Well, my original Slackware installation wasn't quite "out of the box", but I grabbed a good bag of tricks
Also, you can print to any windows printer, just use RedMon and CUPS.
Or the other way around. Vonage may have (and I think already has) such an agreement with certain ISPs that Vonage will have better bandwidth if your Internet was from that provider.
Alternatively, Vonage will be the OEM provider of the ISP branded VoIP, like in case of Earthlink VoIP. I am sure I don't need to worry about Vonage.
While I agree that the Motif app looks a little outdated, the app is free as in GPL and is really powerful in terms of features. For example, it allows scripting.
Led mousepad is for protecting your lap from dangerous radioactive emissions coming out from your optical wireless mouse
- Dunno, seems like the original article missed the actual link.
I always get my KDE for Red Hat (and Fedora) from the kde-redhat project. The project's lead Rex Dieter is doing an awesome job of keeping the latest KDE packaged as rpms that are available via apt-get with all dependencies worked out. Upgrade is as easy as
The ping times to Mars and back will kill ya.
I think it's a figure of speach meaning "a Russel Sprague". Probably borrowed from the Frank languages, where the indefinite article is the same word as the word for the numeral "one".
or "ointment" as in "mirom pomazannyj"
There is a long discussion of the proposed XForms support in Mozilla Bug 9786. There are 460 votes for this bug, however the support is not forthcoming. Basically, there is no one willing to implement XForms in Mozilla because XForms has too many dependencies on other XML modules that are not implemented in mozilla.
If you are developing only for IE6, you can use a commercial formsPlayer component. I tried their demo, it looked decent.
There are also server-side XForms modules that render XForms as HTML forms. For example, Apache project lists JXForms.
In other news, SCO filse a patent for the use of integers 1-7 for error numbers.
Obviously, in the future, you wouln't be able to rip anything, because it's going to be DRM protected in hardware. But the bigger point is that you wouldn't need to. Once you bought a piece of music, you should be able to get from this new service a copy-protected file playable on the device of your choice. Hopefully, you'll be able to select the bit rate you want.
I think Sklyarov's software was intended for the purpose of making encrypted eBooks readable on devices other than the computers. Now, with this service, you wouldn't need to break the encryption, you would go and get the copy of the ebook for your PDA.
I am not sure that exactly how the proposed service works, but if does, it may eliminate the need for illegal hacking.
If I interpret the article correctly, if you bought a CD, they would give you free and legal files for any music player you own. There could be some value.
No, no! You're paying 18 dollars for the 2 or 3 songs you really want and the rest of the music is free. Is this a better deal?
Anyway, real men don't buy CDs with songs. They buy CDs with "movements" *wink wink*
That's 2003-04-12T19:03:12-05:00 in ISO 8601
With FSF distributing tools of production for free, how's it not a communism?
Taiwan wouldn't mind the reunification once the mainland is Democratic. I agree, it will take a glorious hero or a talented despot (a la Gorbachev) to lead the mainland to the path of democracy.
I don't think so,
2 googols = 2*10^100 = 2 ^ (1 + 100/log(2)) = 2^333
2^666 = (2 googols)^2.
1 googol is 1E100, while 128 bits is 2^128=3.4E38?
Seems there is a common misconception that was debunked as early as 1997 .
From Apple's AAC page
Because of its exceptional performance and quality, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is at the core of the MPEG-4 and 3GPP specifications and is the new audio codec of choice for Internet, wireless, and digital broadcast arenas. AAC provides audio encoding that compresses much more efficiently than older formats such as MP3, yet delivers quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio.
AAC was developed by the MPEG group that includes Dolby, Fraunhofer (FhG), AT&T, Sony, and Nokia--companies that have also been involved in the development of audio codecs such as MP3 and AC3 (also known as Dolby Digital). The AAC codec in QuickTime 6 builds upon new, state-of-the art signal processing technology from Dolby Laboratories and brings true variable bit rate (VBR) audio encoding to QuickTime.
From Via Licensing
MPEG-4 AAC has been specified as the high-quality general audio coder for 3G wireless terminals. Apple Computer has incorporated MPEG-4 AAC into QuickTime 6 and iTunes 4, as well as the latest version of its award-winning iPod portable music player. The Digital Radio Mondiale system (the next-generation digital replacement for radio broadcasting under 30 MHZ) builds on the audio coding of MPEG-4 AAC. These exciting platforms represent the state of the art in audio coding--and Via Licensing is pleased to offer the MPEG-4 AAC Patent License Agreement.
The MPEG-4 AAC standard incorporates MPEG-2 AAC, forming the basis of the MPEG-4 audio compression technology for data rates above 32 kbps per channel. Additional tools increase the effectiveness of MPEG-2 AAC at lower bit rates, and add scalability or error resilience characteristics. These additional tools extend AAC into its MPEG-4 incarnation (ISO/IEC 14496-3, Subpart 4).
A copy of the MPEG-4 Audio standard can be purchased from the ISO online store (search for "14496-3").
That's true. It happened at our annual nitrogen ice cream fest.
Does anyone know if Java for solaris/x86 is better optimized than Java for linux/x86?
I know that Java for solaris/sparc has some specific garbage collection options.
Don't use gnuplot. Use Grace. It can be scripted and is much more powerful and flexible.