Thinking of Switching to a OSX for a laptop
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Fix a Troubled Mac
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I'm getting tired of playing engineer all the time for all the laptops I buy, running linux (usually XP Pro and BSD under vmware).
Someone told me this when I mentioned about getting a Mac laptop: "They Just Work out of the box and all the time!". Is this really true?
This concept is new to me, but I am looking into it more. If nothing else, they look awfully perty...Glowing apples are kinda cool.
OK, so the new Library in Seattle uses RFID to keep track of their books, and uses an automatic sorting machine to deliver them to the correct location depending on their RFID. I see no harm in that. What next, the Patriot Act will allow the government access to the books you check out, heh.
Large collaborative multi-user video games will still be kicking around with better graphics and resolution, normal progression from the old school days of Amiga.
The biggest leap will be in a new catagory tied into videogames, but on the educational side. The industry of edutainment will explode in the coming years, as educators realize that to make people learn, you make them interested. When I left University of Illinois in Urbana in 2000, a cool guy by the name of Sridaar Iyer was already working on a vrml multi-user videogame (in the traditional sense) that teaches High school kids about chemistry. His website is WhoolaIt challenged kids in groups to compete and learn. Yes, there has been issues with VRML and whatnot, but there are other alternatives. The point is kids love it, and get value from it.
At the University of Washington, my fiance is in a Masters program that teaches about Edutainment (cognitive studies). Talented engineers and artists are making great strides in this field. I think it will be one of those fields such as video game programming. Years ago, you didnt see specific programes JUST for video games. Now there everywhere (as are network security degrees and such). You will see these programs break off into seperate educationl only programs for games tied to teaching.
Multi-user online environments will also be suppliments to Lectures for courses. I use to do multi-user ADL (advanced distant learning) courses and testbed studies. We found that not only do people like collaborating like that, but physically challened people also greatly enjoy it, as they can still participate in the community and course, without fear of being judged due to a dissability. At the time the biggest problem was sending textures over the wires, but with pre-loaded disks with the textures already on them and stored locally, the only bandwith issues are avatar movement (UDP) and the live chat (TCP). It has a lot of potential.
As for home gaming, as computing needs become cheaper, you will see more CAVE VR environments. Paul Rajlick, formerly of the NCSA, is already working ona home version of the CAVE (using true VR/shutter glasses, wand, etc). You play CAVE quake and its unlike anything console system.
Overall, the market for games/edutainment will rival Hollywood. And the best part is, the field doesnt revolve around a bunch of conceited pricks:)
Allan was also the largest contributer of the New Seattle Library that opened up this week. I have to hand it to him, his money went to good use.
Not only it is an architectural masterpiece, but it has 11 floors with ramps that gradually wrap down to the bottom levels, and an ingenious system for finding books easily. Combined with the RFIP chips in all the books, along with the conveyor system that automatically scans and sorts the books, it is another great masterpiece, financed by the big man.WIFI for the entire building doesnt hurt either:)
I think you have a 1 in 15 chance of clicking the link to RTFA... I clicked the last one... Doh, its a 71 page PDF! eek, better try another one
CD's are really a bargain when you put it this way
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The Way the Music Died
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· Score: 5, Informative
You have to hand it to the RIAA, they have their *own unique way of pricing cd's. as they state:
One 1987 Washington Post article reported that record executives believed that the price of a CD would eventually settle around $10.
Twenty years later, production costs have come down, but consumers are still complaining about the cost of CDs, which now are priced at upwards of $16. The industry's main lobbying arm, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), responds that prices have come down. According to an article published on the RIAA's Web site, "Between 1983 and 1996, the average price of a CD fell by more than 40%. Over this same period of time, consumer prices... rose nearly 60%. If CD prices had risen at the same rate as consumer prices over this period, the average retail price of a CD in 1996 would have been $33.86 instead of $12.75."
Anyone who has burned a CD on his computer for less than a dollar may still wonder why a product that is so cheap to manufacture could cost so much. The answer is that while the cost of physically producing a CD has dropped dramatically over two decades, the costs of marketing that album have grown tremendously. For example, in the early 1980s, music videos were an optional route for the industry to promote their artists. Now labels are expected to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars producing music videos for all of their major artists. Even marketing a major album to radio can costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. And if an album is unlikely to get on radio or MTV, some labels have decided to launch costly television advertising campaigns to gain exposure for their artists.
However, the price of a CD isn't just paying for expensive marketing campaigns; it's also subsidizing releases by other artists that will never sell enough to make a profit. An artist at a major label may need to sell more than a million units before the venture ends up in the black. Most albums never sell anywhere near that. According to the RIAA, only 10 percent of albums ever achieve profitability.
Was there last year, and I can see it now... The british kids selling Ectasy at Space, Pacha, El Divino and cafe Del Mar, can just bill you electronically.
Shows up on credit card as "adult entertainment". I see the potential for abuse.
I didn't realize it wasn't case sensitive. It can be turned on in newer versions, so I take it it is off by default? How exactly does one enable that? I don't know enough about macs, only reason it was mentioned bc a friend on OSX burned me a dvd of all my files, only he screwed it up and (by default) the cd came out as HFS +. Apparently, I didnt have the kernel mod enabled by default and it caught me offguard ona busy day. Also didnt realize it was a journalized FS. Im considering going with a mac laptop, so all this info is useful.
So I wonder how the speed would compare to EXT2/3, or any other aspects as far as file systems are concerned. Or NTFS (which I also have unsecessfully tried to write to with shaky results).
I could really use a spellcheck:) As for the to/from field, yes, its the same, but it says "from me to you". It takes some getting used to, but thats a minor detail. The organisation of the Inbox is really nice. Granted, I use mutt on linux, but for a defauly POP account, There is no doubt its going to be a hit.
I havent even dwelved in depth about the search feature yet. I would say tehre is a learning curve, but probbaly well worth it.
Someone whos brother works for google sent me an invite. I've had a chance to play around with it, and to be honest, I think it will be a big hit. For an online pop account, it's set up in a very nice way. Instead of the default normal inbox (new messages coming in are placed above the older ones, good has only the names of the people you have received messages from, and then all additional messages to and from that same person are put under their own thread, wityh an easy to use feature for archiving threads. It also says if the mail was sent from someone else to you, or sent from you to someone else. Theres a lot of other features, such as staring someone, but havent quite gotten that far yet. And yes, you get 1GB of storage. All in all, affter using the interface, I dont think I will go back to using other free email accounts.
I imagine he could contribute something along the lines of social engineering. After all, he teaches a course in it now through (I could be wrong) SANS Institute. It's a 3 day course.
I was wondering the same thing. This isnt related to PHLAK. I run PHLACK under vmware, but im not really too impressed with it, and think it has a long way to go. As far as blackhats use that, whitehats use this, etc, I'm not buying it. People will use whatever tool supports there needs the most. I will try this out, but when it comes down to it, a skilled person with just a few tools can probably do as much as someone with hundreds. Personally, if I could have 1 tool, it would probably be NETCAT.
*Hopefully Mandrake 10 will come with the kernel source code, unlike 9.2. Cant run vmware without it. Who releases a distro without the kernel source anyways..
Has anyone had luck with the S-Vidio out on a Radeon 9600? The last driver they released simply wouldnt work, couldnt even get a screen. The drivers with Mandrake 9.2 worked after editing the xf config by hand. I have S-video out, and the only way I can get it to work is either just the monitor, or just the TV. Isnt there a clone mode, where I can have it going to the monitor, but then replicating it on the TV at a different resolution? Or even a way to switch back and forth using a virtual consle.
open my resume in a hex editor and read the slack code, which says "fuck you if your paranoid enough to open this document in a hex editor. Maybey SCO should do the same.
Thats not too surprising. My neighbor is a director in MSN, though on the NBC side so none of the news trickled down to him. Its kind of interesting someone just contacted me about a new position at MS. It is a non-publically advertised position for a LINUX sys. admin for the new hush-hush linux test lab just set up. Apparently there looking for people. The manager of the lab needed linux right away just to be productive , so I was told while he learned MS. I heard they have a lab, but can never find any information on it. From what there looking for, heavy linux knowledge and lots of shell scripting in bash. And from my friends at MSN, Linux is usually not ever mentioned in the worlplace, but is the top thing on everyones minds. I dont know, working as a linux admin for MS? Sac-religeous?
Truly a classic interview on news.com. McBride compares his situation to OJ simpson, implying if the people they are sueing win and get off.
Another interesting point was when Farber asks "what about the secure specialized versions of linux that people like the FBI and CIA use, will you be suing them to?"
McBride: "No, we dont plan on having them named in the lawsuit tomarrow".
McBrides interviews always seem to go in circles.
http://news.com.com/2100-1014-5168921.html?tag=nl
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I'm getting tired of playing engineer all the time for all the laptops I buy, running linux (usually XP Pro and BSD under vmware). Someone told me this when I mentioned about getting a Mac laptop: "They Just Work out of the box and all the time!". Is this really true?
This concept is new to me, but I am looking into it more. If nothing else, they look awfully perty...Glowing apples are kinda cool.
OK, so the new Library in Seattle uses RFID to keep track of their books, and uses an automatic sorting machine to deliver them to the correct location depending on their RFID. I see no harm in that. What next, the Patriot Act will allow the government access to the books you check out, heh.
Large collaborative multi-user video games will still be kicking around with better graphics and resolution, normal progression from the old school days of Amiga.
The biggest leap will be in a new catagory tied into videogames, but on the educational side. The industry of edutainment will explode in the coming years, as educators realize that to make people learn, you make them interested. When I left University of Illinois in Urbana in 2000, a cool guy by the name of Sridaar Iyer was already working on a vrml multi-user videogame (in the traditional sense) that teaches High school kids about chemistry. His website is WhoolaIt challenged kids in groups to compete and learn. Yes, there has been issues with VRML and whatnot, but there are other alternatives. The point is kids love it, and get value from it.
At the University of Washington, my fiance is in a Masters program that teaches about Edutainment (cognitive studies). Talented engineers and artists are making great strides in this field. I think it will be one of those fields such as video game programming. Years ago, you didnt see specific programes JUST for video games. Now there everywhere (as are network security degrees and such). You will see these programs break off into seperate educationl only programs for games tied to teaching.
Multi-user online environments will also be suppliments to Lectures for courses. I use to do multi-user ADL (advanced distant learning) courses and testbed studies. We found that not only do people like collaborating like that, but physically challened people also greatly enjoy it, as they can still participate in the community and course, without fear of being judged due to a dissability. At the time the biggest problem was sending textures over the wires, but with pre-loaded disks with the textures already on them and stored locally, the only bandwith issues are avatar movement (UDP) and the live chat (TCP). It has a lot of potential.
As for home gaming, as computing needs become cheaper, you will see more CAVE VR environments. Paul Rajlick, formerly of the NCSA, is already working ona home version of the CAVE (using true VR/shutter glasses, wand, etc). You play CAVE quake and its unlike anything console system.
Overall, the market for games/edutainment will rival Hollywood. And the best part is, the field doesnt revolve around a bunch of conceited pricks :)
Allan was also the largest contributer of the New Seattle Library that opened up this week. I have to hand it to him, his money went to good use.
Not only it is an architectural masterpiece, but it has 11 floors with ramps that gradually wrap down to the bottom levels, and an ingenious system for finding books easily. Combined with the RFIP chips in all the books, along with the conveyor system that automatically scans and sorts the books, it is another great masterpiece, financed by the big man.WIFI for the entire building doesnt hurt either :)
I think you have a 1 in 15 chance of clicking the link to RTFA... I clicked the last one... Doh, its a 71 page PDF! eek, better try another one
One 1987 Washington Post article reported that record executives believed that the price of a CD would eventually settle around $10.
Twenty years later, production costs have come down, but consumers are still complaining about the cost of CDs, which now are priced at upwards of $16. The industry's main lobbying arm, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), responds that prices have come down. According to an article published on the RIAA's Web site, "Between 1983 and 1996, the average price of a CD fell by more than 40%. Over this same period of time, consumer prices ... rose nearly 60%. If CD prices had risen at the same rate as consumer prices over this period, the average retail price of a CD in 1996 would have been $33.86 instead of $12.75."
Anyone who has burned a CD on his computer for less than a dollar may still wonder why a product that is so cheap to manufacture could cost so much. The answer is that while the cost of physically producing a CD has dropped dramatically over two decades, the costs of marketing that album have grown tremendously. For example, in the early 1980s, music videos were an optional route for the industry to promote their artists. Now labels are expected to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars producing music videos for all of their major artists. Even marketing a major album to radio can costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. And if an album is unlikely to get on radio or MTV, some labels have decided to launch costly television advertising campaigns to gain exposure for their artists.
However, the price of a CD isn't just paying for expensive marketing campaigns; it's also subsidizing releases by other artists that will never sell enough to make a profit. An artist at a major label may need to sell more than a million units before the venture ends up in the black. Most albums never sell anywhere near that. According to the RIAA, only 10 percent of albums ever achieve profitability.
Classic case of "He said, she said" http://computertimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,510 4,2292,00.html
Oh come on.......
I give it one day until Mr Dude comes out with another key changer.
Surlely I'm not the only one who has used Mr dude (research purposes only
Was there last year, and I can see it now... The british kids selling Ectasy at Space, Pacha, El Divino and cafe Del Mar, can just bill you electronically.
Shows up on credit card as "adult entertainment". I see the potential for abuse.
I didn't realize it wasn't case sensitive. It can be turned on in newer versions, so I take it it is off by default? How exactly does one enable that? I don't know enough about macs, only reason it was mentioned bc a friend on OSX burned me a dvd of all my files, only he screwed it up and (by default) the cd came out as HFS +. Apparently, I didnt have the kernel mod enabled by default and it caught me offguard ona busy day. Also didnt realize it was a journalized FS. Im considering going with a mac laptop, so all this info is useful.
So I wonder how the speed would compare to EXT2/3, or any other aspects as far as file systems are concerned. Or NTFS (which I also have unsecessfully tried to write to with shaky results).
Although not a linux filesystem, OSX being based off BSD uses it, and is *nix based in a way. You can mount it from Linux (read only I think).
I could really use a spellcheck :)
As for the to/from field, yes, its the same, but it says "from me to you". It takes some getting used to, but thats a minor detail. The organisation of the Inbox is really nice. Granted, I use mutt on linux, but for a defauly POP account, There is no doubt its going to be a hit.
I havent even dwelved in depth about the search feature yet. I would say tehre is a learning curve, but probbaly well worth it.
Someone whos brother works for google sent me an invite. I've had a chance to play around with it, and to be honest, I think it will be a big hit. For an online pop account, it's set up in a very nice way. Instead of the default normal inbox (new messages coming in are placed above the older ones, good has only the names of the people you have received messages from, and then all additional messages to and from that same person are put under their own thread, wityh an easy to use feature for archiving threads. It also says if the mail was sent from someone else to you, or sent from you to someone else. Theres a lot of other features, such as staring someone, but havent quite gotten that far yet. And yes, you get 1GB of storage. All in all, affter using the interface, I dont think I will go back to using other free email accounts.
I imagine he could contribute something along the lines of social engineering. After all, he teaches a course in it now through (I could be wrong) SANS Institute. It's a 3 day course.
I was wondering the same thing. This isnt related to PHLAK. I run PHLACK under vmware, but im not really too impressed with it, and think it has a long way to go. As far as blackhats use that, whitehats use this, etc, I'm not buying it. People will use whatever tool supports there needs the most. I will try this out, but when it comes down to it, a skilled person with just a few tools can probably do as much as someone with hundreds. Personally, if I could have 1 tool, it would probably be NETCAT.
"He says many are starting to see that SCO's Linux battle is a war by proxy between IBM and Microsoft."
Thats a good way of looking at it.
*Hopefully Mandrake 10 will come with the kernel source code, unlike 9.2. Cant run vmware without it. Who releases a distro without the kernel source anyways..
They have S-video support. Let me know if you can get it working in clone mode though
whats does your /var/log/XFree86.0.log say? ON Mandrake 9.2, I couldnt get the driver working, but with the previous driver release.
Has anyone had luck with the S-Vidio out on a Radeon 9600?
The last driver they released simply wouldnt work, couldnt even get a screen. The drivers with Mandrake 9.2 worked after editing the xf config by hand. I have S-video out, and the only way I can get it to work is either just the monitor, or just the TV. Isnt there a clone mode, where I can have it going to the monitor, but then replicating it on the TV at a different resolution? Or even a way to switch back and forth using a virtual consle.
open my resume in a hex editor and read the slack code, which says "fuck you if your paranoid enough to open this document in a hex editor. Maybey SCO should do the same.
Thats not too surprising. My neighbor is a director in MSN, though on the NBC side so none of the news trickled down to him. Its kind of interesting someone just contacted me about a new position at MS. It is a non-publically advertised position for a LINUX sys. admin for the new hush-hush linux test lab just set up. Apparently there looking for people. The manager of the lab needed linux right away just to be productive , so I was told while he learned MS. I heard they have a lab, but can never find any information on it. From what there looking for, heavy linux knowledge and lots of shell scripting in bash. And from my friends at MSN, Linux is usually not ever mentioned in the worlplace, but is the top thing on everyones minds. I dont know, working as a linux admin for MS? Sac-religeous?
Truly a classic interview on news.com. McBride compares his situation to OJ simpson, implying if the people they are sueing win and get off. Another interesting point was when Farber asks "what about the secure specialized versions of linux that people like the FBI and CIA use, will you be suing them to?" McBride: "No, we dont plan on having them named in the lawsuit tomarrow". McBrides interviews always seem to go in circles. http://news.com.com/2100-1014-5168921.html?tag=nl
comcast world also requires you settle your bills 1 month in advance. have fun.
nice!