... if the.cx ccTLD is any indication. ICAN'T has been blocking redelegation for over a year now without stating any reason as far as I understand. The shit really hit the fan when Planet Three (who initiated the redelegation in June 2000) became insolvent. Those who were using their e-mail and web forwarding services simply disappeared from the Internet. Those who are running their own nameservers should cross their fingers and hope they don't need to change their DNS entries, because they can't. All this because ICAN'T was unable to transfer control of the TLD to nic.cx within 12 months !
You can read about it here:
http://www.nic.cx/cx.home.cfm
The IANA page still lists the wrong contact information:
http://www.iana.org/root-whois/cx.htm
If they are unable to keep their existing database in order, how can they possibly manage new top-level domains ?
I wasn't able to decrypt a file with PGP 6.5.x that was conventionaly encrypted by GPG, other than that GPG uses my existing DSA keys just fine. Now that they can integrate RSA it's going to get even better.
There's another one of those nice IDs in the gnutella.ini that we've come to love from Microsoft etc. This one's called clientid128. I just hope that they left out my MAC address this time. Anyone from Gnullsoft want to clear this up ?
If you carry MDs in a pouch without their cases they're also pretty small. Data storage is a non-issue here. I want to store music on my Minidiscs, not text files. If you believe you need one format for all things then that's your problem. I can't picture anyone wasting any of the scarce space on flashcards for data files when they go into an MP3 player. So in two years you'd pay $50 for roughly 2 hours of music ? Let's see, today I can get two MDs with 148 minutes overall for $4. Beats the hell out of flashcards IMHO. And if you get a player with 40 seconds buffer and use it smartly, they don't skip.
The last thing I want to do is get on the funny british guys backs. I love Pratchett ! (No, not in the "count the legs and divide by two" kind of way, how filthy !) BTW, in my opinion Pratchett is often better in using his particular setting than Adams. I hope I didn't stab into another hornet's nest here.:) I haven't seen Galaxy Quest yet, I takes ridiculously long for films to arive in Europe. But I can't wait to see it !
I don't know, that's like saying it was one of the greatest moments in science fiction when George Lucas gave a robot the ability to bicker. I don't want to attack Adams here, I think his books are great. It's just that I feel his emphasis was more on comedy/parody than science fiction. Which of course leads to the question what science fiction is really about, and I didn't really want to get into a discussion about "hard SF" or sth. like that, so let's leave it this way. I think it is obvious that most of the books listed in Tal Cohen's post are very different from Hitchhiker. The guy who created this topic mentioned Asimov, so I thought he asked for more books of this kind.
I don't think Adams plays in the same league with Asimov or Verne for example. Just like Terry Pratchett is not really a fantasy writer, Adams is not really about SF. I still enjoyed the series when I read it of course, and it's probably the right thing for his 13 year old niece.
You lucky bastard !;) I'm still trying to find out which shops here in Germany are going to sell the Linux version. So Loki does sell a real Linux only version, very good. Did yours come in a tin box or regular cardboard ? And just out of curiosity, what does the readme.htm in the win32 directory say ?
I'm a little confused now: what exactly are they shipping ? If I understood correctly, Loki secured the rights to worldwide distribution of Q3A for Linux. On the Loki website, they only talk about a "tin box special edition" that is "for Linux users only". But I remember from previous reports on Blue's News etc. that the tin box (also called "Elite Edition" I think) was going to be a limited edition for hardcore fans with the Linux binaries thrown in as a bonus. So are there actually two different tin boxes ? Or is the tin box advertised on Loki's site the same "Elite Edition" and a regular Linux package will follow ? If the tin box contains both Linux and Windows binaries, those sales won't show up in the Linux statistics I guess.
Well, once you are in Germany you hopefully learn to speak (or at least read) the language, since you apparently don't understand what the c't newsitem was about. This has nothing to do with state-censorship, because the government only forbids its own agencies to do business with Scientology-related companies, and even that only in Hamburg and Bavaria AFAIK. And it makes perfect sense, as we have seen with the latest User ID-transmitting follies of programs less relevant to system security. This defragger will probably not send your password files to the Internet, but it should at least be checked, especially when it was developed by a Scientology-controlled company and especially when you're a government agency. I agree with my government on few things, but on this issue I'm pleasantly surprised how well they "get it" about Scientology and the US government doesn't.
As for John Travolta/the Cruises, I'd guess that they probably don't even know what Scientology is _really_ about. They're obviously kept around for image reasons ("Hey, they're rich and famous, so how can Scientology be a bad thing ?"), get the VIP treatment and don't have to submit to any interrogation or rundown tortures. (At least I haven't heard otherwise) The only reason one might consider banning their films for is bad acting, but that's just IMHO.;)
And to the moderators: the above post got upped ? Please, that was mostly polemic !
Yes, that's the MD-PC? series, but does it really copy the music data over the serial port ? As far as I understood it you only control the device from the PC, but record normally from a line-out. On the other hand Sony has released a CD/MD deck that can copy at 4x speed.
xmms is an MP3 (and more) player for Unix/X11. You connect to the MD recorder with analog or digital cables. Best thing is a soundcard with an optical digital out (TOSLink). The only drawback is that no consumer grade soundcard (or professional for that matter) can send track marks, so you either split tracks manually or insert ~3 seconds of silence between tracks so the MD recorder can detect track changes. The sweet thing with xmms is that is has a built-in pause function. As Smurphy said, the amount of MD recording space you get for your money beats MP3 hands down. Plus, portable MD recorders/players are cool and sexy, MP3 players are not. (Uuhh , flamebait:) For more info see: http://www.minidisc.org
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I think he was making one of those humor-jokes. ;)
(The sig literally said "nic".)
... if the .cx ccTLD is any indication. ICAN'T has been blocking redelegation for over a year now without stating any reason as far as I understand. The shit really hit the fan when Planet Three (who initiated the redelegation in June 2000) became insolvent. Those who were using their e-mail and web forwarding services simply disappeared from the Internet. Those who are running their own nameservers should cross their fingers and hope they don't need to change their DNS entries, because they can't. All this because ICAN'T was unable to transfer control of the TLD to nic.cx within 12 months !
You can read about it here: http://www.nic.cx/cx.home.cfm
The IANA page still lists the wrong contact information: http://www.iana.org/root-whois/cx.htm
If they are unable to keep their existing database in order, how can they possibly manage new top-level domains ?
I wasn't able to decrypt a file with PGP 6.5.x that was conventionaly encrypted by GPG, other than that GPG uses my existing DSA keys just fine. Now that they can integrate RSA it's going to get even better.
There's another one of those nice IDs in the gnutella.ini that we've come to love from Microsoft etc. This one's called clientid128. I just hope that they left out my MAC address this time. Anyone from Gnullsoft want to clear this up ?
If you carry MDs in a pouch without their cases they're also pretty small.
Data storage is a non-issue here. I want to store music on my Minidiscs, not text files. If you believe you need one format for all things then that's your problem. I can't picture anyone wasting any of the scarce space on flashcards for data files when they go into an MP3 player.
So in two years you'd pay $50 for roughly 2 hours of music ? Let's see, today I can get two MDs with 148 minutes overall for $4. Beats the hell out of flashcards IMHO.
And if you get a player with 40 seconds buffer and use it smartly, they don't skip.
The last thing I want to do is get on the funny british guys backs. I love Pratchett ! (No, not in the "count the legs and divide by two" kind of way, how filthy !) :)
BTW, in my opinion Pratchett is often better in using his particular setting than Adams. I hope I didn't stab into another hornet's nest here.
I haven't seen Galaxy Quest yet, I takes ridiculously long for films to arive in Europe. But I can't wait to see it !
I don't know, that's like saying it was one of the greatest moments in science fiction when George Lucas gave a robot the ability to bicker.
I don't want to attack Adams here, I think his books are great. It's just that I feel his emphasis was more on comedy/parody than science fiction. Which of course leads to the question what science fiction is really about, and I didn't really want to get into a discussion about "hard SF" or sth. like that, so let's leave it this way.
I think it is obvious that most of the books listed in Tal Cohen's post are very different from Hitchhiker. The guy who created this topic mentioned Asimov, so I thought he asked for more books of this kind.
I don't think Adams plays in the same league with Asimov or Verne for example. Just like Terry Pratchett is not really a fantasy writer, Adams is not really about SF. I still enjoyed the series when I read it of course, and it's probably the right thing for his 13 year old niece.
You lucky bastard ! ;)
I'm still trying to find out which shops here in Germany are going to sell the Linux version.
So Loki does sell a real Linux only version, very good. Did yours come in a tin box or regular cardboard ? And just out of curiosity, what does the readme.htm in the win32 directory say ?
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wossName
I'm a little confused now: what exactly are they shipping ?
If I understood correctly, Loki secured the rights to worldwide distribution of Q3A for Linux. On the Loki website, they only talk about a "tin box special edition" that is "for Linux users only".
But I remember from previous reports on Blue's News etc. that the tin box (also called "Elite Edition" I think) was going to be a limited edition for hardcore fans with the Linux binaries thrown in as a bonus.
So are there actually two different tin boxes ? Or is the tin box advertised on Loki's site the same "Elite Edition" and a regular Linux package will follow ? If the tin box contains both Linux and Windows binaries, those sales won't show up in the Linux statistics I guess.
Well, once you are in Germany you hopefully learn to speak (or at least read) the language, since you apparently don't understand what the c't newsitem was about.
;)
This has nothing to do with state-censorship, because the government only forbids its own agencies to do business with Scientology-related companies, and even that only in Hamburg and Bavaria AFAIK. And it makes perfect sense, as we have seen with the latest User ID-transmitting follies of programs less relevant to system security. This defragger will probably not send your password files to the Internet, but it should at least be checked, especially when it was developed by a Scientology-controlled company and especially when you're a government agency.
I agree with my government on few things, but on this issue I'm pleasantly surprised how well they "get it" about Scientology and the US government doesn't.
As for John Travolta/the Cruises, I'd guess that they probably don't even know what Scientology is _really_ about. They're obviously kept around for image reasons ("Hey, they're rich and famous, so how can Scientology be a bad thing ?"), get the VIP treatment and don't have to submit to any interrogation or rundown tortures. (At least I haven't heard otherwise)
The only reason one might consider banning their films for is bad acting, but that's just IMHO.
And to the moderators: the above post got upped ? Please, that was mostly polemic !
Yes, that's the MD-PC? series, but does it really copy the music data over the serial port ? As far as I understood it you only control the device from the PC, but record normally from a line-out.
On the other hand Sony has released a CD/MD deck that can copy at 4x speed.
xmms is an MP3 (and more) player for Unix/X11. :)
You connect to the MD recorder with analog or digital cables. Best thing is a soundcard with an optical digital out (TOSLink). The only drawback is that no consumer grade soundcard (or professional for that matter) can send track marks, so you either split tracks manually or insert ~3 seconds of silence between tracks so the MD recorder can detect track changes. The sweet thing with xmms is that is has a built-in pause function.
As Smurphy said, the amount of MD recording space you get for your money beats MP3 hands down. Plus, portable MD recorders/players are cool and sexy, MP3 players are not. (Uuhh , flamebait
For more info see: http://www.minidisc.org