If you look at the png screenshot, it does actually have round corners. I believe that all of the images are not yet deployed in the temp version available for view. I guess we have to wait for the real rollout to see the whole setup.
Umm, I think you meant cease instead of seize? They sound alike but, um, seizing operations in another sovereign country would be Bad. And as an American I think we've invaded quite enough this decade. Now can I get a deal on a Volvo?
Looking at packages.gentoo.org activity, it looks like 2.14 is being added to the portage tree though is currently masked. I would imagine it'll stay masked until everything is in and generally works.
Yeah, same here. I use ogg currently as it sounds cleaner to me than mp3 and the few toy AACs I played with when itunes came out do sound better as well. I currently don't have a way of getting itunes on linux and I don't want want DRMed files but non-drm'ed AACs do sound promissing.
So, as someone considering joining the cult of the white earbud and a hardcore *nix user, should I re-encode my CDs as aac or mp3? I usually use grip and oggenc but as the ipod doesn't support that, I'd be leaning towards aac with faad2 or something.
Just wondering if anyone out there had opinions on this?
Well then there's always the NoScript extension or turning javascript off completely. If you want information about me, you can read my http headers which may or may not be real. Running your javascript code to probe every oriface is a no-no.
I'll also be adding urchin.js to my adblock rules.
That's a camera not a flash drive:P. But, based on the way my camera stores pictures, I'm guessing thats FAT16/12 and not vfat which seems to be the patented one (not really sure). It doesn't use long filenames and it only has 128 meg of storage.
Once we get cameras with UDF as the default, I'll buy a new one.:)
Oh, and I have 2 other cameras with 35mm so I have a backup plan.
Microsoft has a change of heart, and decides that the chance to utterly destroy all its competition and leverage a complete monopoly with Windows is not worth the price of temporarily finding itself villified in the eyes of the public. (Unlikely.)
Is there a day that goes by where they aren't villified in the eyes of the public? They're still been allowed to march on.
Some intrepid open-source developer(s) quickly cracks open the last few secrets of the NTFS file system, finally allowing the Linux kernel total interoperability with NTFS volumes. The open-source community rips out FAT support and relies more on NTFS volumes, fully expecting Microsoft to try to patent this file system too. In the meantime, additional research is performed either to try and create a more universal file system, or grant ext2 and ext3 more reliable interoperability with Windows and other operating systems. (Wishful thinking.)
As you mentioned in your followup post, NTFS already has patents on it. As for FAT support, well I haven't used FAT in years on anything. My flash drives are ext2 largely because 1) I've never not had an os that can't read them 2) I'm a network guy and most of my files get transfered via network. I know my linux boxes don't have fat support and I'll be modifying the freebsd boxes to not build the fat modules (until now I've never had a reason to put effort into not building the module).
Microsoft does indeed go on a licensing spree and begins threatening the markets for all competing operating systems. Commercial OS's will fork over the money; open-source OS's like Linux, BSD, ReactOS, etc. will strip FAT support from their systems, disrupting their interoperability with Windows volumes and each other. The US economy takes such a hard hit from this scandal that the patents get overturned later. Or perhaps, this is the evidence that the free and open-source software advocates in the US need to finally demonstrate that software patents aren't just a hassle, but a genuine liability. (Hard to say.)
I agree with the parts aside from the US economy taking a hard hit from this. Flash drive manufacturers would just sell the drives unformated I think. Windows users probably get the right to use FAT with their copy of windows and the Linux/BSD/etc users can use ext2 just fine. The current issue of MacOS X.4 not having ext2 is probably on someone's list now to fix. Much like the "one-click" patent, I think the net result here is more work for everyone so some jackass can try to make a few more bucks. The result is clear though - software patents are an unbelievably poor idea.
Man, dunno how i'm gonna feel on my lowly powerbook though.. how do you other geeks deal with girlfriends whose laptops are better than yours? aarrgghh...:)
Well, my now ex-girlfriend did have a computer that was argueably faster than me. I of course did the logical thing and went 64-bit new motherboard, more ram and a faster pci-express video card.
Its a good thing we broke up. The arms race in computer equipment could have been rather horrible. But alot of fun. She's also quite the geek.:).
In my experience, people tend to avoid hard drives that have burned them in the past. Some manufacturers have rough years but any of them could give you a drive that will toast itself.
Thinking back as a personal computer owner, I lost 2 WDs, then a Maxtor, then another Maxtor. Then I thought I'd wise up and buy an IBM Deskstar (yeah, the 3rd one I've gotten after RMAing the first two is in my desktop now). When that one tanked I bought a 120 gig seagate to store my data. And that one got a bad sector. While I was RMA'ing that one, I noticed that 120 gigs were like 30 bucks at best buy. So I copied the broken (bad sector) 120 to the other and RMAed the broken one.
I now I have a workstation hard drive and a fileserver with 2 identical 120 gig drives. Have a plan B!
Yeah, gnome is also starting to chaffe me. The thing is, I really like the look and feel of GTK. And if gnome continues to go down the road to application stupidity (which really started with nautilus little force you to use spatial before it was really ready road), there's always XFCE which serves as a good alternative.
I figure the pendulum of poorly emulating apple's interface can only go so far and then maybe we'll reach a happy medium of easy to use apps that have features. Only time will tell.
Gaim has been moving that way for a while but this 2.0 thing is too basic. I understand the idea of removing tons and tons of options and keeping it simple for new people but this is the playschool edition of what this app could be. Couldn't we have and advanced option setting which gives us back all of those settings and tweaks we are accustomed to?
As was mine. And indeed, the DVDs look much nicer on the widescreen set (mine actually has the reciever built in but I'd need a roof antenna and I don't have that in my apartment). The idea is eventually to get the HDTV cable but right now I can't justify the cost. I watch so little TV anymore/so few channels in HD on cable/such extreme prices (its another $70 dollars a month from what I'm paying now) I can't justify that.
Plus, the ol' Athlon-XP 1700+ isn't pushing more than 15 FPS in Doom3 and well... thats more of a priority than pretty pictures of reality TV.:)
I'm a Canadian. You Merkans would hate it here. This place sucks. Don't come here. We regularly eat children and stab puppies for sport. It's cold and everyone has a dog-sled. This is a horrible purgatory. I beg of you, please don't come here.
And not a single "eh" in there at all. Like we'd believe you're a Canadian!;)
Well, I'm already can be tracked in dozens of other ways already. My credit cards, bank withdraws, the metro fare card (RFID) in my wallet, security camera, my security badge for work, fingerprints, DNA. All of that of course assumes that someone is interested enough in me to bother tracking. I don't think most people care that much about me if it doesn't help them twart terrorism, or (to a much larger extent) make them money. Then again, maybe my tin foil^W^W electrostatic-bag hat isn't on tight enough...
RFID's cost money. Pushing a button on the remote is far cheaper.
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Jinx!
That'll be $5M in licensing fees please.
That's awesome. Takes me back 25 years to when, 25 years? Half a century? OK, now I'm depressed..
... :).
Half-century eh? Well, they say the mind is the first thing to go
I'm turning 24 in a month. Way to make me feel old.
If you look at the png screenshot, it does actually have round corners. I believe that all of the images are not yet deployed in the temp version available for view. I guess we have to wait for the real rollout to see the whole setup.
Sorry dude,
;^).
I only have 2 120 gig drives backing each other up over rsync. Doubt I can help you much
Umm, I think you meant cease instead of seize? They sound alike but, um, seizing operations in another sovereign country would be Bad. And as an American I think we've invaded quite enough this decade. Now can I get a deal on a Volvo?
Looking at packages.gentoo.org activity, it looks like 2.14 is being added to the portage tree though is currently masked. I would imagine it'll stay masked until everything is in and generally works.
Yeah, same here. I use ogg currently as it sounds cleaner to me than mp3 and the few toy AACs I played with when itunes came out do sound better as well. I currently don't have a way of getting itunes on linux and I don't want want DRMed files but non-drm'ed AACs do sound promissing.
:).
I have to get up the nerve to buy a nano first
So, as someone considering joining the cult of the white earbud and a hardcore *nix user, should I re-encode my CDs as aac or mp3? I usually use grip and oggenc but as the ipod doesn't support that, I'd be leaning towards aac with faad2 or something.
Just wondering if anyone out there had opinions on this?
Am I the only one a little confused by the misuse of "Happy Valley"?
Actually, I'd like that code for my website. I wonder if its freely available ...
Where are you going to find knowledgeable development/admin,etc staff in an Amish village somewhere?
...
Well, I think the real problem with and Amish SysAdmin is that its pretty hard to admin a machine without buttons
Well then there's always the NoScript extension or turning javascript off completely. If you want information about me, you can read my http headers which may or may not be real. Running your javascript code to probe every oriface is a no-no.
I'll also be adding urchin.js to my adblock rules.
That's a camera not a flash drive :P. But, based on the way my camera stores pictures, I'm guessing thats FAT16/12 and not vfat which seems to be the patented one (not really sure). It doesn't use long filenames and it only has 128 meg of storage.
:)
Once we get cameras with UDF as the default, I'll buy a new one.
Oh, and I have 2 other cameras with 35mm so I have a backup plan.
Microsoft has a change of heart, and decides that the chance to utterly destroy all its competition and leverage a complete monopoly with Windows is not worth the price of temporarily finding itself villified in the eyes of the public. (Unlikely.)
Is there a day that goes by where they aren't villified in the eyes of the public? They're still been allowed to march on.
Some intrepid open-source developer(s) quickly cracks open the last few secrets of the NTFS file system, finally allowing the Linux kernel total interoperability with NTFS volumes. The open-source community rips out FAT support and relies more on NTFS volumes, fully expecting Microsoft to try to patent this file system too. In the meantime, additional research is performed either to try and create a more universal file system, or grant ext2 and ext3 more reliable interoperability with Windows and other operating systems. (Wishful thinking.)
As you mentioned in your followup post, NTFS already has patents on it. As for FAT support, well I haven't used FAT in years on anything. My flash drives are ext2 largely because 1) I've never not had an os that can't read them 2) I'm a network guy and most of my files get transfered via network. I know my linux boxes don't have fat support and I'll be modifying the freebsd boxes to not build the fat modules (until now I've never had a reason to put effort into not building the module).
Microsoft does indeed go on a licensing spree and begins threatening the markets for all competing operating systems. Commercial OS's will fork over the money; open-source OS's like Linux, BSD, ReactOS, etc. will strip FAT support from their systems, disrupting their interoperability with Windows volumes and each other. The US economy takes such a hard hit from this scandal that the patents get overturned later. Or perhaps, this is the evidence that the free and open-source software advocates in the US need to finally demonstrate that software patents aren't just a hassle, but a genuine liability. (Hard to say.)
I agree with the parts aside from the US economy taking a hard hit from this. Flash drive manufacturers would just sell the drives unformated I think. Windows users probably get the right to use FAT with their copy of windows and the Linux/BSD/etc users can use ext2 just fine. The current issue of MacOS X.4 not having ext2 is probably on someone's list now to fix. Much like the "one-click" patent, I think the net result here is more work for everyone so some jackass can try to make a few more bucks. The result is clear though - software patents are an unbelievably poor idea.
Man, dunno how i'm gonna feel on my lowly powerbook though .. how do you other geeks deal with girlfriends whose laptops are better than yours? aarrgghh ... :)
:).
Well, my now ex-girlfriend did have a computer that was argueably faster than me. I of course did the logical thing and went 64-bit new motherboard, more ram and a faster pci-express video card.
Its a good thing we broke up. The arms race in computer equipment could have been rather horrible. But alot of fun. She's also quite the geek.
In my experience, people tend to avoid hard drives that have burned them in the past. Some manufacturers have rough years but any of them could give you a drive that will toast itself. Thinking back as a personal computer owner, I lost 2 WDs, then a Maxtor, then another Maxtor. Then I thought I'd wise up and buy an IBM Deskstar (yeah, the 3rd one I've gotten after RMAing the first two is in my desktop now). When that one tanked I bought a 120 gig seagate to store my data. And that one got a bad sector. While I was RMA'ing that one, I noticed that 120 gigs were like 30 bucks at best buy. So I copied the broken (bad sector) 120 to the other and RMAed the broken one. I now I have a workstation hard drive and a fileserver with 2 identical 120 gig drives. Have a plan B!
Image Adblockers are history.
...
*Hands you a book on Regular Expressions*
I rarely see ads and yet, photo albums such as yahoo are still working fine
Yeah, gnome is also starting to chaffe me. The thing is, I really like the look and feel of GTK. And if gnome continues to go down the road to application stupidity (which really started with nautilus little force you to use spatial before it was really ready road), there's always XFCE which serves as a good alternative.
I figure the pendulum of poorly emulating apple's interface can only go so far and then maybe we'll reach a happy medium of easy to use apps that have features. Only time will tell.
Amen.
Gaim has been moving that way for a while but this 2.0 thing is too basic. I understand the idea of removing tons and tons of options and keeping it simple for new people but this is the playschool edition of what this app could be. Couldn't we have and advanced option setting which gives us back all of those settings and tweaks we are accustomed to?
Cause, ya know, statements like that won't polarize us at all
As was mine. And indeed, the DVDs look much nicer on the widescreen set (mine actually has the reciever built in but I'd need a roof antenna and I don't have that in my apartment). The idea is eventually to get the HDTV cable but right now I can't justify the cost. I watch so little TV anymore/so few channels in HD on cable/such extreme prices (its another $70 dollars a month from what I'm paying now) I can't justify that.
... thats more of a priority than pretty pictures of reality TV. :)
Plus, the ol' Athlon-XP 1700+ isn't pushing more than 15 FPS in Doom3 and well
My question is does she have a sister?
I'm a Canadian. You Merkans would hate it here. This place sucks. Don't come here. We regularly eat children and stab puppies for sport. It's cold and everyone has a dog-sled. This is a horrible purgatory. I beg of you, please don't come here.
;)
And not a single "eh" in there at all. Like we'd believe you're a Canadian!
Well, I'm already can be tracked in dozens of other ways already. My credit cards, bank withdraws, the metro fare card (RFID) in my wallet, security camera, my security badge for work, fingerprints, DNA. All of that of course assumes that someone is interested enough in me to bother tracking. I don't think most people care that much about me if it doesn't help them twart terrorism, or (to a much larger extent) make them money. Then again, maybe my tin foil^W^W electrostatic-bag hat isn't on tight enough ...
RFID's cost money. Pushing a button on the remote is far cheaper.
even a sub dermal tag inserted somewhere in the user's body.
I'll be getting off the ride now thanks!! I know they want to cover that in their patent but it gives me the creeps.