I saw the original fantastic four movie you speak of, and it's truly one of those "bad in a good way" movies. Invite your friends, microwave some popcorn, and have a good laugh.
(and it looks like they spent some money on that movie too, and they never bothere relesing it in the theatres)!
Come to think of it, they are probably going to sue you since you linked to it as well.
You must be joking - you can't actually be so stupid. First, I live in Canada where the courts have ruled it's not illegal to download music from p2p networks (too lazy to dig up a news link). Second, as a previous poster mentioned, AllofMp3.com is in full accordance with Russian and international law, so nothing I am doing is wrong. Maybe the RIAA isn't getting what they feel is their cut, but I could care less. I'll always try and do the right thing (TM), and follow the dictates of my conscience.
I've experimented with three of the top mp3 downloading services: iTunes, AllOfMp3 and Napster. And of the three, AllOfMp3.com was clearly the fairest with the best selection.
I guess calling them "music" downloading services is more accurate, because iTunes distributes songs in the mpeg4 format (I'm guessing only the iPod can play mpeg4's, because my MuVo mp3 player won't). Other annoyances include a circa 20 mg application I had to download and install just to have the privilege to shop at iTunes, the rather weak selection (I was looking for tracks off the new Seether album "Karma and Effect", which they didn't have) and lastly the.99 cost per track which is a little expensive. Nice interface though.
Napster is so friggin' annoying, from the splash page to the pathetic selection (unless you like rap like R. Kelly *gag*) that I had to bail. They too didn't have any of the tracks I was looking for.
Happily, AllOfMp3.com did have all the tracks I wanted, and each track costs about 12 to 20 cents! This is by far the best deal I could find. The "catch" is you have to commit $10 from your credit card, but I easily got more than an album's worth of music I really wanted, and I'll continue to shop there for all my fist raising, head banging needs. The interface was simple enough to navigate (could be streamlined more, but I'm nit-picking) and I was able to download in mp3 format at various levels of quality. Highly configurable. IMHO, it's the best music download service on the internet.
For every dollar lost by the Sasser worm, another industry profited. In this case it was system administrators, the hotel and hospitality industry, internet security companies and the list goes on.
because of non-standardization issues etc, but malware isn't - and likely never will be - a problem for Linux.
Windows may be user-friendly, Mac OSX is a looker, but most Linux distributions have a good mix of what's important and are generally impervious to the datamining, spyware tricks out there.
Maybe we should appreciate what's so good about Linux (for a change).
Netflex doesn't deliver to the barren icy landscapes of Ontario Canada, so I use Zip.ca which is the same kinda deal. Awesome selection, no late fees, movies up the wazoo, highly recommended.
Give him something constructive to do, instead of misdirecting his time and talents (read: community service in the technology field). Maybe his parents weren't paying any attention to him, or perhaps he felt lonely and unnoticed. We don't know what this kid has gone through, but he probably doesn't belong in a jail cell!
Just because the kid caused some of you sysadmins a hard time (ok, you lost some money too) doesn't mean he shouldn't receive mercy and understanding. The kid has some skillz and motivation (better than alot of kids who waste their lives smoking pot and playing xbox), so let's utilise his talents and give him a future.
Out of all the countless theories circulating the vast expanses of the internet, why choose this one? Why was this comet theory put on the front page of/. to be ripped apart while others are completely ignored or unknown?
The truth is, the further in you get, the more time you've got to spend doing pointless tasks in order to increase your "experience", which then allows you to access another fraction of virtual acreage. In the same way that I lost interest in the Dreamcast game Shenmue when I was forced to get a job shifting virtual boxes around a virtual dockyard for hours of real-time
He's using Shenmue, of all games, to illustrate this point? Shenmue was bloody brilliant. Nothing was a grind, and I don't recall having to work at the docks for "hours" as he states. And even if he did, Shenmue is nothing like WoW, Evercrack and Final Fantasy. It's a different animal - top of the food chain I might add.
Guns were designed to kill human beings. They also have other recreational uses such as starting races and outward gestures of joy in public celebration (e.g. Iran and Iraq), but they were designed primarily to snuff the life of another person.
Please don't compare guns with a software technology that has so many legal and practical applications - and kills no one.
You're "right on the money" dpilot. Seriously, launch titles are generally pretty good and have that "wow" factor early adopters live for. I dropped a bundle for the PS2 shortly after it was launched (and I was an early adopter for every other console since the SNES) and I've always got my money's worth.
The worst jobs (for me anyway) is installing 9x windows operating systems without any drivers. Case in point, the Dell Latitude laptop which just got dropped off at my apartment 10 seconds ago. It's a favour for a very good friend, but these kinds of jobs usually eat up more time than there worth.
I've tried most of the major distros in the last 6 or so years: redhat/fedora, debian (I haven't tried Debian Sarge yet)/storm/ubuntu, slackware, mandrake, caldera, gentoo/etc and even a few floppy distros. The one I like best is Ubuntu. It's not a very pretty install (I was a little alarmed at the lack of input I had during the installation process), but it's polished, nimble and alot of the useless crufty apps is happily absent. A firewall is also amiss (not a good thing and the only beef I've got with Ubuntu), but you can easily remedy the situation with: apt-get install firestarter
If you're a regular/. reader, you've likely already heard the buzz on this newer distro, but for those newcomers wondering which linux to try, I heartily recommed Ubuntu.
A "cesspool of viruses, trojans, dialers, loggers and malware"? Yes, the internet has it's problems, but your statement is a bit over-dramatised. Web surfing and online shopping is addictive as hell and anything but a hassle. Even joe luddite from down the street will buy his fishing tackle off the internet.
All this mirth and joviality is inappropriate, considering the prolific author Steven King has died today at age 55.
As a gesture of respect, let's abstain from jokes about hot grits being poured down pants, Natalie Portman, and the pathetic pasttimes of old people in Korea and take a quite moment to imagine a beowolf cluster of Apple computers running on Intel architecture!
So because McAfee and Macromedia introduced linux products, all doomsayers have been proven wrong once and for all? It's only a big toe either company has trepidly dipped into the Free/Open Source Swimming pool. For all we know they could be pet projects just to keep their developers happy.
I'm a linux user, but I will neither use nor need either product.
Any comparisons, reviews and/or screenshots of Sarge yet? I'm especially curious about the installation process (I've installed "potato", back around kernel 2.2 era I believe it was, and it was rediculously counter-intuitive). I'm ready to try it again.
I'd hate to see what poor Aunt Mable or Grandma would think if they saw that list.
Actually, Aunt Mable is reasonably well off. Her retirement pension from being a school teacher for 23 years is rather generous, and besides, she sells drugs on the side. As for Grandma, she's dead, rest her soul. You haven't heard?
I totally agree with you. I love Fedora and I have it currently installed. It's a great little os, as long as you don't care about gaming, watching or burning dvd's or working multimedia apps. These linux distros have to stop adding all these crufty apps that don't work well or not at all.
Now that Micheal Dell has dropped 100 mil on Redhats lap, how about addressing the many multimedia deficits? Like, comon! I don't want to spend 6 hours updating this friggin lib and reconfiging that friggin file to watch a 2 hour movie! I'm past the hacker phase: the days of spelunking the inner recesses of the operating system and obsessively tweaking and recompiling are gone. Now I want Linux to fulfill basic user needs like it's supposed to.
If it can't handle common multimedia chores like the ones previously mentioned, it's not ready as a desktop os. Use it as a server and hide it in the closet!
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I saw the original fantastic four movie you speak of, and it's truly one of those "bad in a good way" movies. Invite your friends, microwave some popcorn, and have a good laugh.
(and it looks like they spent some money on that movie too, and they never bothere relesing it in the theatres)!
I did just that! Thanks for the info!
Come to think of it, they are probably going to sue you since you linked to it as well.
You must be joking - you can't actually be so stupid. First, I live in Canada where the courts have ruled it's not illegal to download music from p2p networks (too lazy to dig up a news link). Second, as a previous poster mentioned, AllofMp3.com is in full accordance with Russian and international law, so nothing I am doing is wrong. Maybe the RIAA isn't getting what they feel is their cut, but I could care less. I'll always try and do the right thing (TM), and follow the dictates of my conscience.
sheer brilliance!
I've experimented with three of the top mp3 downloading services: iTunes, AllOfMp3 and Napster. And of the three, AllOfMp3.com was clearly the fairest with the best selection.
.99 cost per track which is a little expensive. Nice interface though.
I guess calling them "music" downloading services is more accurate, because iTunes distributes songs in the mpeg4 format (I'm guessing only the iPod can play mpeg4's, because my MuVo mp3 player won't). Other annoyances include a circa 20 mg application I had to download and install just to have the privilege to shop at iTunes, the rather weak selection (I was looking for tracks off the new Seether album "Karma and Effect", which they didn't have) and lastly the
Napster is so friggin' annoying, from the splash page to the pathetic selection (unless you like rap like R. Kelly *gag*) that I had to bail. They too didn't have any of the tracks I was looking for.
Happily, AllOfMp3.com did have all the tracks I wanted, and each track costs about 12 to 20 cents! This is by far the best deal I could find. The "catch" is you have to commit $10 from your credit card, but I easily got more than an album's worth of music I really wanted, and I'll continue to shop there for all my fist raising, head banging needs. The interface was simple enough to navigate (could be streamlined more, but I'm nit-picking) and I was able to download in mp3 format at various levels of quality. Highly configurable. IMHO, it's the best music download service on the internet.
How did system administrators profit from this?
Overtime, hiring, job security.
For every dollar lost by the Sasser worm, another industry profited. In this case it was system administrators, the hotel and hospitality industry, internet security companies and the list goes on.
Why was a patch needed in the first place? Bad coding. And we got 17 yr old punks exploiting these loopholes.
You would think a legion of Microsoft coders, testers and quality controllers would have caught it first.
because of non-standardization issues etc, but malware isn't - and likely never will be - a problem for Linux.
Windows may be user-friendly, Mac OSX is a looker, but most Linux distributions have a good mix of what's important and are generally impervious to the datamining, spyware tricks out there.
Maybe we should appreciate what's so good about Linux (for a change).
Netflex doesn't deliver to the barren icy landscapes of Ontario Canada, so I use Zip.ca which is the same kinda deal. Awesome selection, no late fees, movies up the wazoo, highly recommended.
Give him something constructive to do, instead of misdirecting his time and talents (read: community service in the technology field).
Maybe his parents weren't paying any attention to him, or perhaps he felt lonely and unnoticed. We don't know what this kid has gone through, but he probably doesn't belong in a jail cell!
Just because the kid caused some of you sysadmins a hard time (ok, you lost some money too) doesn't mean he shouldn't receive mercy and understanding. The kid has some skillz and motivation (better than alot of kids who waste their lives smoking pot and playing xbox), so let's utilise his talents and give him a future.
Out of all the countless theories circulating the vast expanses of the internet, why choose this one? Why was this comet theory put on the front page of /. to be ripped apart while others are completely ignored or unknown?
The truth is, the further in you get, the more time you've got to spend doing pointless tasks in order to increase your "experience", which then allows you to access another fraction of virtual acreage. In the same way that I lost interest in the Dreamcast game Shenmue when I was forced to get a job shifting virtual boxes around a virtual dockyard for hours of real-time
He's using Shenmue, of all games, to illustrate this point? Shenmue was bloody brilliant. Nothing was a grind, and I don't recall having to work at the docks for "hours" as he states. And even if he did, Shenmue is nothing like WoW, Evercrack and Final Fantasy. It's a different animal - top of the food chain I might add.
Guns were designed to kill human beings. They also have other recreational uses such as starting races and outward gestures of joy in public celebration (e.g. Iran and Iraq), but they were designed primarily to snuff the life of another person.
Please don't compare guns with a software technology that has so many legal and practical applications - and kills no one.
You're "right on the money" dpilot. Seriously, launch titles are generally pretty good and have that "wow" factor early adopters live for. I dropped a bundle for the PS2 shortly after it was launched (and I was an early adopter for every other console since the SNES) and I've always got my money's worth.
;)
Helps if you got kids into videogames too
The worst jobs (for me anyway) is installing 9x windows operating systems without any drivers. Case in point, the Dell Latitude laptop which just got dropped off at my apartment 10 seconds ago. It's a favour for a very good friend, but these kinds of jobs usually eat up more time than there worth.
I've tried most of the major distros in the last 6 or so years: redhat/fedora, debian (I haven't tried Debian Sarge yet)/storm/ubuntu, slackware, mandrake, caldera, gentoo/etc and even a few floppy distros. The one I like best is Ubuntu. It's not a very pretty install (I was a little alarmed at the lack of input I had during the installation process), but it's polished, nimble and alot of the useless crufty apps is happily absent. A firewall is also amiss (not a good thing and the only beef I've got with Ubuntu), but you can easily remedy the situation with:
/. reader, you've likely already heard the buzz on this newer distro, but for those newcomers wondering which linux to try, I heartily recommed Ubuntu.
apt-get install firestarter
If you're a regular
A "cesspool of viruses, trojans, dialers, loggers and malware"? Yes, the internet has it's problems, but your statement is a bit over-dramatised. Web surfing and online shopping is addictive as hell and anything but a hassle. Even joe luddite from down the street will buy his fishing tackle off the internet.
Your views are in the minority now.
All this mirth and joviality is inappropriate, considering the prolific author Steven King has died today at age 55.
As a gesture of respect, let's abstain from jokes about hot grits being poured down pants, Natalie Portman, and the pathetic pasttimes of old people in Korea and take a quite moment to imagine a beowolf cluster of Apple computers running on Intel architecture!
So because McAfee and Macromedia introduced linux products, all doomsayers have been proven wrong once and for all? It's only a big toe either company has trepidly dipped into the Free/Open Source Swimming pool. For all we know they could be pet projects just to keep their developers happy.
I'm a linux user, but I will neither use nor need either product.
Any comparisons, reviews and/or screenshots of Sarge yet? I'm especially curious about the installation process (I've installed "potato", back around kernel 2.2 era I believe it was, and it was rediculously counter-intuitive). I'm ready to try it again.
If the manufacturer pays for disposal/recycling, the cost will be off-loaded to the consumer via higher prices.
Either way, you and I will pay the bill.
I'd hate to see what poor Aunt Mable or Grandma would think if they saw that list.
Actually, Aunt Mable is reasonably well off. Her retirement pension from being a school teacher for 23 years is rather generous, and besides, she sells drugs on the side. As for Grandma, she's dead, rest her soul. You haven't heard?
I totally agree with you. I love Fedora and I have it currently installed. It's a great little os, as long as you don't care about gaming, watching or burning dvd's or working multimedia apps. These linux distros have to stop adding all these crufty apps that don't work well or not at all.
Now that Micheal Dell has dropped 100 mil on Redhats lap, how about addressing the many multimedia deficits? Like, comon! I don't want to spend 6 hours updating this friggin lib and reconfiging that friggin file to watch a 2 hour movie! I'm past the hacker phase: the days of spelunking the inner recesses of the operating system and obsessively tweaking and recompiling are gone. Now I want Linux to fulfill basic user needs like it's supposed to.
If it can't handle common multimedia chores like the ones previously mentioned, it's not ready as a desktop os. Use it as a server and hide it in the closet!