I like the response that he gave on Ubuntu 9.10 being a buggy release. One thing I've come to realize isn't the 9.10 is more or less buggy than previous versions, but that I'm starting to use Ubuntu to do more things. I now have it installed as my main work OS, and I also have Ubuntu 9.10 Studio (which is another beast with the RT Kernel) installed at home to record my band. So in the end, I notice more bugs that I wouldn't have with earlier versions because I didn't use earlier versions as much.
With that said, if I install Ubuntu, and use all the default applications and settings, It's a solid experience (read netbook). The more I tend to install and tweak things the way I like seems to be where I start running into problems (ubuntu studio, work pc with network intensive applications and samba file shares, etc). Evolution connecting to Exchange 2007 has also been a pet peeve of mine in 9.10, as I was able to do it compiling from source with an updated connector, but 9.10 still doesn't have an update in the repository for it.
I can use Ubuntu now for much more than I could, but it still has a ways to go before I find it a totally pleasant experience.
Funny you bring up Eliot Spitzer. Even though he was a egotistical bastard, he did make a really good AG.
As far as DirecTV, I've been a customer for years. Mainly because of Sunday Ticket. This year, I feel like I'm being nickled and dimed for everything. I bought all the HD packages, yet they still charge an extra $100 to get the games in HD. I'm done after this year. As much as I like watching my team on Sunday's, it's just not worth it anymore. That was the only thing tying me anymore to DirecTV, so I will look at alternatives next year.
The other thing that irks me is I have Tivo Receiver I bought early on. It was the first HD DirectTV DVR, and it cost me $1000. I was only able to use that for a year before they stopped supporting it. Now I'm stuck with their DVR's, and they are very substandard. We used to think our batteries were dying in our remote controls, but it's just that these units are very underpowered and the response time is horrible.
It's too bad that DirecTV plays these games with their customers. I was an early adopter, and I remember one of their strong points was customer service. It seems that they really stopped caring about customers and only care about their wallets. I will not go back to them.
I agree. What he did is akin to theft of service. I am entrusted with not only network security, but also allowing reasonable access to network resources. The point of having a network isn't to keep people out of it, but to let the proper people use it.
With that said, I think the $5million bail is way off base. It's excessive to the point that it is used to keep the defended incarcerated. That is not the point of bail. Bail should be set as a deterrent to flee before a trial is finished, not to keep someone indefinitely in a cell.
I have not documented my settings, but I've followed community develop documentation to get my setup going.
Also, I did not install the Ubuntu Studio Distribution, I instead installed Ubuntu 9.10 first, then used the repositories to upgrade my desktop with the ubuntu studio package, and the Linux realtime kernel.
These are good starting points. The major issue with documentation and tutorials is that Ardour and Jackd are changing so rapidly that the documents outdate themselves very quickly. Like I said, 4 years ago I wouldn't even think about using Linux for DAW work. In the past two years, especially since the freebob and ffdao projects, the scene has exploded.
If you still have questions after this, feel free to mail me. Depending on your hardware I may be able to help with jackd settings and with general questions.
While I'm not into Laptop Orchestra's, I do use Ubuntu Studio now for MOST of my audio processing.
Only 4 years ago, I couldn't make it work. I use a Presonus Firepod to record my band, and also have some other gadgets. The only thing I am really missing is something like Gearbox for my Line 6 PodXT, there just isn't a substitute yet for Linux. No worries though, I pretty much have my board setup the way I want, so rarely even use Gearbox anymore.
Anyway, back to my point. I now use Linux as my DAW, as a sequencer, and increasing for my general computing needs. I love Jackd with Ardour and Patchage. It's gotten to the point where it's not just a suitable replacement for Cubase or Pro-Tools, but is my preferred setup. Now that my ATI drivers are finally working properly with the RT kernel in Ubuntu 9.10, I am finding the cube desktop actually useful instead of just eye candy. I can have my mixers, editors, patchage, etc. on separate workspaces and get to them easily.
Just a month ago, I had a friend of mine come over to check out my setup. He is a drummer that also wanted to start home recordings. He bought a ART Tubefire 8, and was very disappointed with the crippled Cubase LE that came with the hardware. After seeing my setup, he went out, bought a $300 computer and a firewire card and asked me to get him setup. Knowing nothing about Linux, or Ubuntu, etc, he is now using the setup to great success.. If there was ever a killer app for Linux, this is it, at least for music professionals and hobbyists.
The major drawback is hardware support still has a ways to go. But, right now there is the ability to get high end music recording equipment working very well right out of the box. I am a very satisfied "customer". And to think, 4 years ago I never thought it would get there.
I was thinking the same thing. People tend to look at Netbooks more as a toy. It's much lighter weight tends to lead to people throwing it around more, or putting it in a backpack with a bunch of other items, whereas a laptop tends to be carried around in it's own laptop bag.
I wonder what the failure rate is of SSD models compared to regular hard drives, as not having any moving parts would seem to fair better, and be spec'd similar to a 'mid-sized electronic device'. I have a Dell Mini 9 with an SSD, and when I saw that Dell was defaulting the newer Mini 10v's with a traditional HD, I kind of cringed.
I preffer a solo game sometimes. For one, I can easily pause it, and that's important for someone with an 8 month old baby.
Secondly, I've played a lot of MMORPGs, and I sometimes don't feel like my character really impacts the game world. Especially in games like WoW and LOTRO. EVE-Online is one of the few where even though the gameworld is relatively static, the politics and story are player driven.
I just started playing Dragon Age: Origins. Maybe it is a throw back, but I fills a niche for me. So far, I think the game is fantastic. I love the story it is telling, and there are only a handful of games I've played that have engrossed me. All of them have been solo player games. Bioshock (and before that system shock), Planescape: Torment, Elder Scrolls: Morrowind....
Don't get me wrong, there are great multiplayer games with great stories like the Halo series... I guess it wouldn't be hard to add a co-op mode to Dragon Age: Origins, but it would undermine both the qualities of the game I mentioned above. I wouldn't be able to pause it. And I wouldn't be as immersed if I had to keep talking tactics to another person over a headset.
I don't know how I would of ever completed my "Back on Track" essays in in-school suspension without cursive. 1000 words of cursive poetry on how I would avoid making the same mistakes. I ultimately did make the same mistakes, because I practically lived in in-school suspension. I highly doubt they would've let me have my netbook or blackberry with me...
Why is this modded down? There was an operating system called OS-9, and it was a pretty good one considering it did serious multi-tasking on 8bit computers (Tandy Color Computers and other Motorola 68B09E clones)... I remember them running multi-line BBS's before PC's with DOS had the ability to... I also know OS-9 was extensively used in banking terminals and ATM's, and a few of them are still kicking around. So maybe the article did mean to put os-9 instead of os/2 a second time.
The last time I checked there was still a community out there for OS-9, so another OS that is still being used despite it's age and relative obscurity.
The reason the U.S. wouldn't attack North Korea in a cyber war is the same reason we wouldn't attack Iran. The internet is a far more powerful tool when it is use to sway opinion than it is to cripple systems.
Which title would you buy, one that has the text 2 speech or one that doesn't? Seems like this is a value add, and any publisher would be loosing out by asking Amazon to withhold kindle.
So, Amazon in a sense wins, because I'm willing to bet most titles will end up with text 2 speech anyways.
Then again, some people buy operating systems when there are perfectly good operating systems available for free. So what do I know?
I listed the albums (from memory) that each of these songs comes from. I wasn't sure on the Load vs. Reload songs, as they are both the same album to me really.
But to make my point, there are more songs from And Justice for All then on St. Anger and Death Magnetic combined.
Which brings me to the next point. No matter what Metallica does, they will be a target. Some of it justified, but most of it will be misguided and ill informed.
Track Listing with original Album:
All Nightmare Long - Death Magnetic Battery - Master of Puppets Creeping Death - Ride the Lightning Disposable Heroes - Master of Puppets Dyers Eve - And Justice for All Enter Sandman - Metallica Fade To Black - Ride the Lightning Fight Fire With Fire - Ride the Lightning For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ride the Lightning Frantic - St. Anger Fuel - Reload Hit The Lights - Kill em All King Nothing Load Master of Puppets - Master of Puppets Mercyful Fate (Medley) - Garage Inc. No Leaf Clover - S&M Nothing Else Matters - Metallica One - And Justice for All Orion - Master of Puppets Sad But True - Metallica Seek And Destroy - Kill em All The Memory Remains - Reload The Shortest Straw - And Justice for All The Thing That Should Not Be - Master of Puppets The Unforgiven - Metallica Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Master of Puppets Wherever I May Roam - Metallica Whiplash - Kill em All
If some people come to their senses. The vechicles being used to exploit kids these days aren't the reason kids are being exploited. Parents should watch what their kids are doing. It's called good parenting. The idiots blaming technology should keep using it to catch these sick fucks. I know what appalls me the most, that their are sick fucks out there taking advantage of children... The next appalling thing is that politicians don't have one clue about the real problem and wave a victory flag everytime they wage war against technology because some slimeball tells them this will get them more popular. People like Andrew Cuomo aren't doing anything good to help kids. NOTHING. NADDA. They are basically misleading parents... and the parents (not to their fault, they just want to protect their children from horrible shit like usenet) are eating this up...
I'm more than agitated with this, not because it hurts technology somehow, but because you have more clueless sit hands politicians that have no touch with reality, just as long as they are popular. I wish it wasn't so illegal to slap some of these assholes upside the head.
Don't know why I thought of it, but as soon as I saw the imaging I thought of Clive Barkers Weaveworld novel. Maybe magic isn't actually magic, and there are reasons, and scientific ones, that people have certain insight that others can't fathom. I definitely don't want to be one of those whack jobs that think the Earth is still flat, but things like this and string theory always keep me wondering if the guy down the street doing LSD and pulling down his pants all the time was really crazy or just had a different sense of perception.
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I like the response that he gave on Ubuntu 9.10 being a buggy release. One thing I've come to realize isn't the 9.10 is more or less buggy than previous versions, but that I'm starting to use Ubuntu to do more things. I now have it installed as my main work OS, and I also have Ubuntu 9.10 Studio (which is another beast with the RT Kernel) installed at home to record my band. So in the end, I notice more bugs that I wouldn't have with earlier versions because I didn't use earlier versions as much.
With that said, if I install Ubuntu, and use all the default applications and settings, It's a solid experience (read netbook). The more I tend to install and tweak things the way I like seems to be where I start running into problems (ubuntu studio, work pc with network intensive applications and samba file shares, etc). Evolution connecting to Exchange 2007 has also been a pet peeve of mine in 9.10, as I was able to do it compiling from source with an updated connector, but 9.10 still doesn't have an update in the repository for it.
I can use Ubuntu now for much more than I could, but it still has a ways to go before I find it a totally pleasant experience.
Funny you bring up Eliot Spitzer. Even though he was a egotistical bastard, he did make a really good AG.
As far as DirecTV, I've been a customer for years. Mainly because of Sunday Ticket. This year, I feel like I'm being nickled and dimed for everything. I bought all the HD packages, yet they still charge an extra $100 to get the games in HD. I'm done after this year. As much as I like watching my team on Sunday's, it's just not worth it anymore. That was the only thing tying me anymore to DirecTV, so I will look at alternatives next year.
The other thing that irks me is I have Tivo Receiver I bought early on. It was the first HD DirectTV DVR, and it cost me $1000. I was only able to use that for a year before they stopped supporting it. Now I'm stuck with their DVR's, and they are very substandard. We used to think our batteries were dying in our remote controls, but it's just that these units are very underpowered and the response time is horrible.
It's too bad that DirecTV plays these games with their customers. I was an early adopter, and I remember one of their strong points was customer service. It seems that they really stopped caring about customers and only care about their wallets. I will not go back to them.
As a positive of visiting all these sites to write their book, they also now glow in the dark and can heat their food without a microwave.
I agree. What he did is akin to theft of service. I am entrusted with not only network security, but also allowing reasonable access to network resources. The point of having a network isn't to keep people out of it, but to let the proper people use it.
With that said, I think the $5million bail is way off base. It's excessive to the point that it is used to keep the defended incarcerated. That is not the point of bail. Bail should be set as a deterrent to flee before a trial is finished, not to keep someone indefinitely in a cell.
I have not documented my settings, but I've followed community develop documentation to get my setup going.
Also, I did not install the Ubuntu Studio Distribution, I instead installed Ubuntu 9.10 first, then used the repositories to upgrade my desktop with the ubuntu studio package, and the Linux realtime kernel.
My sources are as follows:
Upgrade Ubuntu to Ubuntu Studio
Ubuntu Multimedia Forums
Excellent Tips/Tutorials from one of the users
jackd home page
Ardour Homepage
These are good starting points. The major issue with documentation and tutorials is that Ardour and Jackd are changing so rapidly that the documents outdate themselves very quickly. Like I said, 4 years ago I wouldn't even think about using Linux for DAW work. In the past two years, especially since the freebob and ffdao projects, the scene has exploded.
If you still have questions after this, feel free to mail me. Depending on your hardware I may be able to help with jackd settings and with general questions.
While I'm not into Laptop Orchestra's, I do use Ubuntu Studio now for MOST of my audio processing.
Only 4 years ago, I couldn't make it work. I use a Presonus Firepod to record my band, and also have some other gadgets. The only thing I am really missing is something like Gearbox for my Line 6 PodXT, there just isn't a substitute yet for Linux. No worries though, I pretty much have my board setup the way I want, so rarely even use Gearbox anymore.
Anyway, back to my point. I now use Linux as my DAW, as a sequencer, and increasing for my general computing needs. I love Jackd with Ardour and Patchage. It's gotten to the point where it's not just a suitable replacement for Cubase or Pro-Tools, but is my preferred setup. Now that my ATI drivers are finally working properly with the RT kernel in Ubuntu 9.10, I am finding the cube desktop actually useful instead of just eye candy. I can have my mixers, editors, patchage, etc. on separate workspaces and get to them easily.
Just a month ago, I had a friend of mine come over to check out my setup. He is a drummer that also wanted to start home recordings. He bought a ART Tubefire 8, and was very disappointed with the crippled Cubase LE that came with the hardware. After seeing my setup, he went out, bought a $300 computer and a firewire card and asked me to get him setup. Knowing nothing about Linux, or Ubuntu, etc, he is now using the setup to great success.. If there was ever a killer app for Linux, this is it, at least for music professionals and hobbyists.
The major drawback is hardware support still has a ways to go. But, right now there is the ability to get high end music recording equipment working very well right out of the box. I am a very satisfied "customer". And to think, 4 years ago I never thought it would get there.
I was thinking the same thing. People tend to look at Netbooks more as a toy. It's much lighter weight tends to lead to people throwing it around more, or putting it in a backpack with a bunch of other items, whereas a laptop tends to be carried around in it's own laptop bag.
I wonder what the failure rate is of SSD models compared to regular hard drives, as not having any moving parts would seem to fair better, and be spec'd similar to a 'mid-sized electronic device'. I have a Dell Mini 9 with an SSD, and when I saw that Dell was defaulting the newer Mini 10v's with a traditional HD, I kind of cringed.
I preffer a solo game sometimes. For one, I can easily pause it, and that's important for someone with an 8 month old baby.
Secondly, I've played a lot of MMORPGs, and I sometimes don't feel like my character really impacts the game world. Especially in games like WoW and LOTRO. EVE-Online is one of the few where even though the gameworld is relatively static, the politics and story are player driven.
I just started playing Dragon Age: Origins. Maybe it is a throw back, but I fills a niche for me. So far, I think the game is fantastic. I love the story it is telling, and there are only a handful of games I've played that have engrossed me. All of them have been solo player games. Bioshock (and before that system shock), Planescape: Torment, Elder Scrolls: Morrowind....
Don't get me wrong, there are great multiplayer games with great stories like the Halo series... I guess it wouldn't be hard to add a co-op mode to Dragon Age: Origins, but it would undermine both the qualities of the game I mentioned above. I wouldn't be able to pause it. And I wouldn't be as immersed if I had to keep talking tactics to another person over a headset.
I don't know how I would of ever completed my "Back on Track" essays in in-school suspension without cursive. 1000 words of cursive poetry on how I would avoid making the same mistakes. I ultimately did make the same mistakes, because I practically lived in in-school suspension. I highly doubt they would've let me have my netbook or blackberry with me...
Why is this modded down? There was an operating system called OS-9, and it was a pretty good one considering it did serious multi-tasking on 8bit computers (Tandy Color Computers and other Motorola 68B09E clones)... I remember them running multi-line BBS's before PC's with DOS had the ability to... I also know OS-9 was extensively used in banking terminals and ATM's, and a few of them are still kicking around. So maybe the article did mean to put os-9 instead of os/2 a second time.
The last time I checked there was still a community out there for OS-9, so another OS that is still being used despite it's age and relative obscurity.
I up the same creek as you...
In fact, if my online identity was worth anything, I'd probably sell it myself...
I find this very rude and discriminatory. How do we know this guy wasn't Gimped?
The reason the U.S. wouldn't attack North Korea in a cyber war is the same reason we wouldn't attack Iran. The internet is a far more powerful tool when it is use to sway opinion than it is to cripple systems.
I just hope the 10.04 release will be called Leaping Lizard.
I wonder if kindle would pronounce losing the same as loosing?
Which title would you buy, one that has the text 2 speech or one that doesn't? Seems like this is a value add, and any publisher would be loosing out by asking Amazon to withhold kindle.
So, Amazon in a sense wins, because I'm willing to bet most titles will end up with text 2 speech anyways.
Then again, some people buy operating systems when there are perfectly good operating systems available for free. So what do I know?
I listed the albums (from memory) that each of these songs comes from. I wasn't sure on the Load vs. Reload songs, as they are both the same album to me really.
But to make my point, there are more songs from And Justice for All then on St. Anger and Death Magnetic combined.
Which brings me to the next point. No matter what Metallica does, they will be a target. Some of it justified, but most of it will be misguided and ill informed.
Track Listing with original Album:
All Nightmare Long - Death Magnetic
Battery - Master of Puppets
Creeping Death - Ride the Lightning
Disposable Heroes - Master of Puppets
Dyers Eve - And Justice for All
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Fade To Black - Ride the Lightning
Fight Fire With Fire - Ride the Lightning
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ride the Lightning
Frantic - St. Anger
Fuel - Reload
Hit The Lights - Kill em All
King Nothing Load
Master of Puppets - Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley) - Garage Inc.
No Leaf Clover - S&M
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
One - And Justice for All
Orion - Master of Puppets
Sad But True - Metallica
Seek And Destroy - Kill em All
The Memory Remains - Reload
The Shortest Straw - And Justice for All
The Thing That Should Not Be - Master of Puppets
The Unforgiven - Metallica
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Master of Puppets
Wherever I May Roam - Metallica
Whiplash - Kill em All
This lead is then formed into figurines, painted, and sold as toys.
In other news, people are expressing their love of Vista and the new Office Ribbon Design.
"Why does your house smell like Cow Shit?"
"Damnit, I need to reboot my robotic flowers again."
Because McCain is actually older than the rocks they found?
Chilean fertilizer is a euphemism for bird shit.
Holy Cow, there are birds on Mars...
Slashdot.... deductive reasoning at it's best.
If some people come to their senses. The vechicles being used to exploit kids these days aren't the reason kids are being exploited. Parents should watch what their kids are doing. It's called good parenting. The idiots blaming technology should keep using it to catch these sick fucks. I know what appalls me the most, that their are sick fucks out there taking advantage of children... The next appalling thing is that politicians don't have one clue about the real problem and wave a victory flag everytime they wage war against technology because some slimeball tells them this will get them more popular. People like Andrew Cuomo aren't doing anything good to help kids. NOTHING. NADDA. They are basically misleading parents ... and the parents (not to their fault, they just want to protect their children from horrible shit like usenet) are eating this up...
I'm more than agitated with this, not because it hurts technology somehow, but because you have more clueless sit hands politicians that have no touch with reality, just as long as they are popular. I wish it wasn't so illegal to slap some of these assholes upside the head.
This is exactly what we need as nerds. Smaller is better. I might finally get laid.
Don't know why I thought of it, but as soon as I saw the imaging I thought of Clive Barkers Weaveworld novel. Maybe magic isn't actually magic, and there are reasons, and scientific ones, that people have certain insight that others can't fathom. I definitely don't want to be one of those whack jobs that think the Earth is still flat, but things like this and string theory always keep me wondering if the guy down the street doing LSD and pulling down his pants all the time was really crazy or just had a different sense of perception.