> I understand that they are working on getting hardware created, but they are expecting people to pay for little applets that will run under boxee on hardware that you either had to build yourself or hack to even run it in the first place?
Um, I don't think anywhere it suggests that this will be a paid for store. It looks to be a directory for people to distribute plugins. Publishers are then free to set up their own repositories of apps. More like the 'Podcast Directory' in iTunes than the 'iTunes Store'
Plex has something similar called an App Store, but it's all free and open source, but the Plex guys specifically manage what goes into the store.
The Image Packaging System (IPS) should address most if not all of your concerns about Solaris packaging. It's in OpenSolaris now, I guess it's slated for Solaris 11.
Just as a comparison with the London Underground, taking any photos on the Underground requires a permit which costs £300 for a two-hour permit (less for students), details are here. I wonder what the penalty for taking photographs with out a permit is...
What about the infamous 'Plumbers don't wear ties?'. I remeber this scoring 4% in PC Format (UK) about 10 years ago and holding the title of 'Worst Rating' for many a year, it may even still do so...
A 4Meg image file? Who would ever want to use that as a background image.
Someone who doesn't really know what they're doing, which at a guess would cover a large chunk of the myspace users.
Maybe that's the first issue there for your large bandwith to myspace. Or is this some image that was not designed to be used as a background?
It was just a fullsize photo on a friends photo site. Somehow the site ranks quite highly in Google images so I guess someone found it from there. After that I think people saw it on one or two myspace pages and decided to link it as their background, it was on at least 40 myspace profiles at one point.
The copyright/go-away replacement image is still getting pulled about 100 times a day.
Myspace users accounted for nearly 10% (2gb) of my bandwidth usage last month from my general webserving box. Mostly by people using a direct link to a 4Meg image for their background image. Fortunatly this has been largely mitigated with an apache rewrite redirecting myspace users to a polite message asking them to stop.
However this leads me to wonder how much bandwidth myspace is sucking from non-myspace servers just so users can have pretty background pages and other assorted images. Helping support Rupert Murdoch isn't something I'm happy to waste bandwidth on.
Didn't he also say something along the lines of 'The only version that exists now is the version in my head and that's the special edition remakes' and that original versions would never be re-released?
Some podcasts (notably the Ricky Gervais one) come with chapter markers in the RSS feed, thus it is possible to skip through the single MP3 to predefined points, on both iTunes and an iPod.
I wonder if this could be integrated into the normal MP3 playback of iTunes? I.e. can these chapter markers be stored in the iTunes database without requiring a full podcast encapsulation? This could then be used to join mp3 tracks that require playing together into a single MP3.
Of course it would be easier if there was just an option to not have a gap.
Although meta tags are largely thought to be a waste of time these days (from a search engine p.o.v.) you might still consider using "description". This is used by 'Google' and probably others to replace the snipet of your page with an actual description.
It depends on what you want to achive tho. GameSpy always uses "GameSpy is the most complete source for [insert game here] trailers, screenshots, cheats, walkthroughs, release dates, previews, reviews,..." for every game it covers even when it's clearly not 'the most complete source', which just becomes annoying.
If you choose relevent descriptions that are are representative of your page they can be useful, although sometimes actually seeing the search word in the context that it appears in the page is better. See what your search results look like at the moment and if you don't like the summary you see in Google think about using the "description" tag.
> Health and armor make more sense, although a visual picture (blood, debris, etc) would probably be better than either a bar or a number.
Perhaps ID had it right all along with the original Wolfenstein 3D. A picutre of the characters head would get progressivly more bloody as their health went down, tho it did have a % score as well. A quick glance at the state of the picture was always a quicker way to get a feel for your health than distracting yourself by reading and interpreting percentage.
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The difference with Red Dwarf being that, at least for the first few series, it was filmed in front of a live audience, thus the laughter comes across as more genuine rather then the 'canned laughter' that was used in the later series and in 'The IT Croud'. IIRC they stopped filiming in front of a live audience at around series 6.
Personally I've no problem with laughter when it's from a live audience as they only tend to laugh at jokes that are actually funny rather than the ones that the producers thought should get a laugh and the laughter is more 'human' sounding.
IIRC he apeared once in series 2 in an episode called 'Kryten' then in every episode from series 3 onward. I agree that he became a vital character of the show.
You're wrong: ID3v1 were stored at the end of the file, ID3v2.x are at the front.
Ahh yes I've clearly remembered that wrongly.
I wasn't aware of the new padding the newer versions of 2. Will have to investigate at some point, seems that would fix most of the things that caused me problems.
One reason I try to use v1 where possible is that id3v1 tags are stored at the front of the mp3 in defined length fields. This makes them very easy to update without having to rewrite the whole file.
id3v2 has the tags stored at the end of the file and (in my experience) requires reading/writing through the whole file to make the update.
This isn't really a problem unless you're connecting to your media over a slow network connection. Compare updating a v2 tag over a 10meg connection compared to a local disk and notice the speed difference. Now try the same comparison with a v1 tag. The v1 update is almost instant over the network where at the v2 update can take upwards of a minute if you've got a large mp3.
Things may have been improved somewhat, but this was my experience using iTunes (v4?) and a variety of other tagging software.
Of course it's best just to get the tags right in the first place...
>There's one feature that's been sorely missing: the equivalent of lilo's -R option (boot another OS once).
You can probably do what you need using Grub's 'savedefault' command, eg
grub> help savedefault savedefault: savedefault [--stage2=STAGE2_FILE] [--default=DEFAULT] [--once]
Save DEFAULT as the default boot entry in STAGE2_FILE. If
'--once' is specified, the default is reset after the next reboot. grub> savedefault --default=1 --once
iirc some distro's come with a 'grub-default' (or similar) command for performing this direct from a shell prompt.
This new keyboard doesn't look particularly ergonomic to me, the angle between the left and right hand sides isn't great enough and the buttons in the middle are going to be difficult to reach.
Kenesis make some of the best ergonomic keyboards available, a guy in our office has one and it's done wonders for his RSI. You can see some examples of their keyboards here http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm
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> I understand that they are working on getting hardware created, but they are expecting people to pay for little applets that will run under boxee on hardware that you either had to build yourself or hack to even run it in the first place?
Um, I don't think anywhere it suggests that this will be a paid for store. It looks to be a directory for people to distribute plugins. Publishers are then free to set up their own repositories of apps. More like the 'Podcast Directory' in iTunes than the 'iTunes Store'
Plex has something similar called an App Store, but it's all free and open source, but the Plex guys specifically manage what goes into the store.
The Image Packaging System (IPS) should address most if not all of your concerns about Solaris packaging. It's in OpenSolaris now, I guess it's slated for Solaris 11.
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/
Just as a comparison with the London Underground, taking any photos on the Underground requires a permit which costs £300 for a two-hour permit (less for students), details are here. I wonder what the penalty for taking photographs with out a permit is...
Also from Brendan Gregg comes the always useful /usr/bin/maybe. Other funnies from him here.
Also, there are six billion people on this planet.
6 billion in 1999, 6.7 billion now, scary isn't it.
http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop
Obviously you can't change the battery yourself, but from those pictures it looks like even Apple couldn't change it. That can't be so, can it?
r y/
Apple will replace it under their service program, when the phone is out-of-warranty. $85.95 including postage.
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/service/batte
> Will this undercut Apple's iTV?
It's a bit difficult to tell since it's not even released yet, nor have many details been made public.
Will find out more at today's keynote I expect.
What about the infamous 'Plumbers don't wear ties?'. I remeber this scoring 4% in PC Format (UK) about 10 years ago and holding the title of 'Worst Rating' for many a year, it may even still do so. ..
A bit of shamless self promotion here..
I'm working on mapix.co.uk at the moments. It's a project to build up a photographic map of the UK.
Still being tested and developed but have a look round.
> There is a mod you can get that "un-Xboxes" the UI
BTMod is I think the one you're referring to. A 'must have' mod for Oblivion really.
Worth pointing out that according to this, brief, article Nigeria has ordered 1 million of these laptops at $100 a throw.
A 4Meg image file? Who would ever want to use that as a background image.
Someone who doesn't really know what they're doing, which at a guess would cover a large chunk of the myspace users.
Maybe that's the first issue there for your large bandwith to myspace. Or is this some image that was not designed to be used as a background?
It was just a fullsize photo on a friends photo site. Somehow the site ranks quite highly in Google images so I guess someone found it from there. After that I think people saw it on one or two myspace pages and decided to link it as their background, it was on at least 40 myspace profiles at one point.
The copyright/go-away replacement image is still getting pulled about 100 times a day.
Myspace users accounted for nearly 10% (2gb) of my bandwidth usage last month from my general webserving box. Mostly by people using a direct link to a 4Meg image for their background image. Fortunatly this has been largely mitigated with an apache rewrite redirecting myspace users to a polite message asking them to stop.
However this leads me to wonder how much bandwidth myspace is sucking from non-myspace servers just so users can have pretty background pages and other assorted images. Helping support Rupert Murdoch isn't something I'm happy to waste bandwidth on.
> "Or is a blood sample like a fingerprint, something that everyone should provide to their government?"
I'm still yet to be convinced that the government should, or needs to have, a record of everyones fingerprint, let alone DNA.
Didn't he also say something along the lines of 'The only version that exists now is the version in my head and that's the special edition remakes' and that original versions would never be re-released?
> though of course you can't have both IE7 and IE6 on the same system at the same time
Yes you can.
Some podcasts (notably the Ricky Gervais one) come with chapter markers in the RSS feed, thus it is possible to skip through the single MP3 to predefined points, on both iTunes and an iPod.
I wonder if this could be integrated into the normal MP3 playback of iTunes? I.e. can these chapter markers be stored in the iTunes database without requiring a full podcast encapsulation? This could then be used to join mp3 tracks that require playing together into a single MP3.
Of course it would be easier if there was just an option to not have a gap.
Although meta tags are largely thought to be a waste of time these days (from a search engine p.o.v.) you might still consider using "description". This is used by 'Google' and probably others to replace the snipet of your page with an actual description.
..." for every game it covers even when it's clearly not 'the most complete source', which just becomes annoying.
It depends on what you want to achive tho. GameSpy always uses "GameSpy is the most complete source for [insert game here] trailers, screenshots, cheats, walkthroughs, release dates, previews, reviews,
If you choose relevent descriptions that are are representative of your page they can be useful, although sometimes actually seeing the search word in the context that it appears in the page is better. See what your search results look like at the moment and if you don't like the summary you see in Google think about using the "description" tag.
> Health and armor make more sense, although a visual picture (blood, debris, etc) would probably be better than either a bar or a number.
Perhaps ID had it right all along with the original Wolfenstein 3D. A picutre of the characters head would get progressivly more bloody as their health went down, tho it did have a % score as well. A quick glance at the state of the picture was always a quicker way to get a feel for your health than distracting yourself by reading and interpreting percentage.
The difference with Red Dwarf being that, at least for the first few series, it was filmed in front of a live audience, thus the laughter comes across as more genuine rather then the 'canned laughter' that was used in the later series and in 'The IT Croud'. IIRC they stopped filiming in front of a live audience at around series 6.
Personally I've no problem with laughter when it's from a live audience as they only tend to laugh at jokes that are actually funny rather than the ones that the producers thought should get a laugh and the laughter is more 'human' sounding.
IIRC he apeared once in series 2 in an episode called 'Kryten' then in every episode from series 3 onward. I agree that he became a vital character of the show.
You're wrong: ID3v1 were stored at the end of the file, ID3v2.x are at the front.
Ahh yes I've clearly remembered that wrongly.
I wasn't aware of the new padding the newer versions of 2. Will have to investigate at some point, seems that would fix most of the things that caused me problems.
>Why on earth would you want to use id3v1?
One reason I try to use v1 where possible is that id3v1 tags are stored at the front of the mp3 in defined length fields. This makes them very easy to update without having to rewrite the whole file.
id3v2 has the tags stored at the end of the file and (in my experience) requires reading/writing through the whole file to make the update.
This isn't really a problem unless you're connecting to your media over a slow network connection. Compare updating a v2 tag over a 10meg connection compared to a local disk and notice the speed difference. Now try the same comparison with a v1 tag. The v1 update is almost instant over the network where at the v2 update can take upwards of a minute if you've got a large mp3.
Things may have been improved somewhat, but this was my experience using iTunes (v4?) and a variety of other tagging software.
Of course it's best just to get the tags right in the first place...
>There's one feature that's been sorely missing: the equivalent of lilo's -R option (boot another OS once).
You can probably do what you need using Grub's 'savedefault' command, eg
grub> help savedefault
savedefault: savedefault [--stage2=STAGE2_FILE] [--default=DEFAULT] [--once]
Save DEFAULT as the default boot entry in STAGE2_FILE. If
'--once' is specified, the default is reset after the next reboot.
grub> savedefault --default=1 --once
iirc some distro's come with a 'grub-default' (or similar) command for performing this direct from a shell prompt.
This new keyboard doesn't look particularly ergonomic to me, the angle between the left and right hand sides isn't great enough and the buttons in the middle are going to be difficult to reach.
Kenesis make some of the best ergonomic keyboards available, a guy in our office has one and it's done wonders for his RSI. You can see some examples of their keyboards here http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm