>you can mount them where-ever you want... which is kind of cool, but its easier to just see C: D: E: whatever
Please stay with Windows.
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> Welcome to the modern paranoid age, too scared to even use email at a friend's house.
I guess I'm paranoid. My basic assumption is that any and every Windows machine has been rooted and has a keylogger running. I'd never type a password to something whose security I cared for on a Windows machine. People talk about carrying around putty and stuff on a USB flash drive, but I don't see how that's secure at all!
It's not just Windows - I'm not too keen on typing important passwords on a Mac/Linux box of some random person either. But I'm more likely to take the risk in a pinch.
If I was in the market for email-only hosting, I'd be looking at Fastmail. I have a free account with them right now and I've been impressed with their professionalism.
Uh, how do you go about keeping your music on the iPod, but *not* on the "host" computer? That seems pretty darn inconvenient, and pretty much would make iTunes useless.
I'm not the OP but, there's a checkbox called "Sync manually" or something like that (not at a Mac at the moment). Or maybe it's a checkbox called "Let iTunes sync for you" and I turned that off.
I don't use my Mac to listen to music, so why should I eat up gigs of its hard drive to store mp3s? I just import them into iTunes, transfer to the iPod, then delete them from the library. I still use iTunes to fiddle with tags, ratings, and playlists on the iPod directly, so I don't know why you think iTunes becomes useless.
Say I have a picture with a meaningless filename and no identifying marks on it. And I really want to find the more info on the artist/photographer/subject. I want to post the image to some picture search service and it'll spit out results of similar pictures. By "similar", I mean like GQView's similarity feature, which is pretty keen, and frankly magical to me.
To play AAC files, I have to download them, burn a CD, and then rip it back to MP3.
You don't have to burn. Import the m4a into iMovie. Then go dig into the iMovie project's folder - iMovie converts them to AIFF, which you can then encode to whatever.
Recently I used my 12" PowerBook 1GHz G4 with an iPod attached for about 2-2.5 hours and my battery indicator said about half full afterwards. I was doubly impressed as it was charging the iPod the whole time (iPod's battery was full afterward - normally after 2.5 hours play, it would be 1/2).
This is running iTunes and on full brightness the whole time, copying files around, jumping around in my playlists, etc.
Thanks for the tips, but still, how would the average member of the American public learn that these options exist?
My tips were directed towards you, as a person who asked and seemed genuinely interested.
Therein lies the answer for your more general inquiry, I think: if you are interested, you will ask. And someone will point you in the right direction, and you'll find it.
Frankly, though, I think that the average member of the American public isn't interested, so it's sort of a self-negating circumstance. Most people are content to get sold on that one hot song and hear it over and over for a couple of weeks, before moving on to the next.
It'd be a lot easier on my time and wallet if I were one of them:).
Listen to independent (usually college) radio. I spent my formative years listening to KXLU and KALX.
Listen to indie internet radio stations. A lot of people like KEXP; check the directories at shoutcast.com and icecast.org or your mp3's builtin directory (eg iTunes) (shameless plug - I run punk stream if you like punk)
Read indie newspapers, if available. L.A. Weekly if you're in Los Angeles, for example.
Read web sites that cover indie (pitchforkmedia.com is a start). Download stuff at random.
Go to music buying sites like audiolunchbox and magnatune, and listen to samples at random.
Ask friends for recommendations. Borrow stuff from them.
Hit alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie. Download stuff at random.
Go to indie record stores and buy stuff at random. I actually used to do this, buy something based on the cover art. Discovered some great stuff this way. And this was on a high school allowance.
All you need is a seed, and it can open up a whole new microgenre to explore.
Once you find something you like, research them. You'll often find information along the lines of "if you like X, you might like Y". Maybe a band member used to be in another band.
Look up that band's label's site. Often, indie labels have a common "sound" across their lineup, so you might like some of their label mates. Indie label sites usually have downloadable sample songs- download them.
And so on.
I do all these things. I take music seriously, it's a big part of my life. Sometimes it feels like work, to tell you the truth. But I'm driven by the idea that, no matter how much I like the music I've enjoyed in the past, there's something even more incredible out there.
I have a lot of CDs and I continue to buy a lot. But I also have a lot of downloaded music. I have a fairly clear conscience though. I genuinely feel that most indie bands wouldn't hold it against me that I downloaded their music to give it a listen, to see what they are about.
Does all the above sound like "too much effort"? Then, perhaps, music doesn't mean as much to you as me. That's cool.
Me- I'm not content to be fed stuff by commercial interests whose agenda run contrary to my search for interesting music. And I have the time and desire to invest in this pursuit. I can appreciate that others may not. Or maybe you're out in the sticks, with no broadband. In which case, I think you to resign yourself to a certain lifestyle, anyway.
BUT I set up my yahoo account 10 years ago, and yes I had a college account,
Erm... Yahoo account 10 years ago? I'm pretty sure Yahoo was just a tilde account at stanford.edu 10 years ago, or just getting started at yahoo.com. I don't think they had "accounts" til much, much later.
Fortunately there are 10 others to choose from in that article; hopefully some of them will suport PG.
Like you, I'm not interested in running anything that requires MySQL. The article lists 2 that can use Postgres - MoveableType and Serendipity. I just switched from MT to Serendipity. Take the Postgres support with a grain of salt- while the basic functionality works there are a lot of queries embedded throughout that are not Postgres compatible.
For example, make sure to set a prefix for the table names during install. I set mine to no prefix and got burned badly because one of the table names turns out to be "references" sans prefix and this is a reserved word in Postgres (does MySQL not have foreign key references yet?). None of the queries in the code properly quoted this, the table never got created during install, and the whole thing went down in flames.
Oh, and don't even think about 3rd party plugins.
So yes, the s9y people are working on Postgres support and I appreciate that they are even making an effort, but it's clear that s9y is a MySQL-based product first, with bugfixes for Pg compatibility. Drupal is the same way. That's fine - I appreciate their efforts. But if you want something that runs robustly on Pg, you might want to look elsewhere.
I'd rather see the newest reply at the very top so I don't have to scroll.
This point has been brought up several times. I counter with this: if the quoted block is just an annoyance to scroll through, why bother quoting? I know what I wrote (and even have a copy)- why are you sending my words back?
Or, from a different angle: if people quoted contextually, and edited so only relevant points remained, you wouldn't have to scroll, would you?
Those are rhetorical questions, btw. People don't quote anymore. Their email client (Outlook, gmail, whatever) does, and no one bothers to take a moment to think about it or make an effort to use it to their advantage in communicating.
Maybe there is a setting, but if this is the default, then the option to change it is pointless- no one will.
I hate getting top-posted emails. I hate trying to wade backwards in time to find out what the hell the cryptic first line refers to. Thank you Outlook for bringing this "feature" to the masses and lazy users who can't be bothered to edit quotes meaningfully for wasting bandwidth and my time. And, now, thank you gmail, for perpetuating it.
I thought it kinda odd about ini_set. This page describes the various variables PHP uses and where they can be set (my mistake not for not reading it properly).
As a PHP programmer, you have to learn to work with register globals both on & off
While I think I see where you're coming from (and I agree that turn it on for this challenge is an interesting twist), I don't know if this is necessarily the case in real life. In environments where register_globals is ON and I can't turn it off at the server level, I'll drop
php_value register_globals Off
in an.htaccess file. No htaccess? I suppose you can use
ini_set('register_globals','Off')
or something like that in your code though it seems unlikely to me that a hoster would be security-zealous enough to disable htaccess but turn PHP's register_globals on.
I think a SUV full of hard drives would be better. Higher density and you don't have the the send-side DVD-write time and the receive-side DVD-read time to contend with.
It's somewhat specious to talk about bandwidth without taking into account the computers at either end...
I should add that another problem with Mac-oriented keyboards is that many (particularly the Apple-branded ones) lack Scroll Lock (Apple uses a "F14" instead). This has dire consequences for those using KVM switches that rely on Scroll Lock to activate features or switching.
If you've got a KVM to switch between PC and Mac, now's the time to finally use a Mac keyboard instead of a PC one.
I have Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX on one (Mac-targetted) keyboard and I have to say it sucks because of the option/alt mapping. On my my Mac, I want the 3rd key from the bottom left to act as command (it does since it's a Mac keyboard), but under Linux/Windows I want it to map to Alt (which it doesn't; the 2nd key does).
On Linux, the interplay between X and my window manager makes for a mess of an xmodmap file that kinda works for some of the uses of alt. On Windows, I have no idea how to remap keys. I don't use it much so I deal with the awkwardness.
On a Mac, just get uControl and click a couple of buttons, and you can remap easily.
So, I would recommend a PC-oriented keyboard in a multi-OS setting. It's just easier to make a Mac deal with it than it is the other way around.
I've been using PEAR's HTML_Template_IT, which has been included in the default PHP distribution for some time. I looked at Smarty as well, at the time I investigated templates, and decided it was overkill for what I wanted.
After a couple of years now, I must say that I *hate* HTML_Template_IT, on a number of levels. Debugging problems is the crap because it fails silently for the most part and I'm left do a lot of manual tracing. Furthermore, it doesn't behave the way I think it should a lot of time, doing replacements where I don't think it should, etc.
On a general templating level, I get irritated sometime with tracking down problems. Is it in the primary PHP file? The template? The CSS? Where is it?!?! It's the nature of the beast, I guess, but as I work solo for all my projects, I know I've lost a lot of accrued time just hunting the problem down to the right file.
I happened to do some benchmarking recently, with ApacheBench, on a new server I'd just rolled out. Apache was dishing out static pages at about 2500/sec. Regular (non-templated) PHP pages doing simple stuff (includes, mostly) were churning out around 300/sec. My template projects: 25/sec. Luckily, this is low-traffic stuff.
I still use it, though. Inertia, I guess. I have to maintain those projects so I have to keep using it regardless. I don't mean this to be a screed against the HTML_Template_IT folks, or templating in general. In fact, I'm resigned to it as the thought of going back to HTML interspersed in my PHP horrifies me. But it's not all roses.
I agree that the meyerweb example is a hack (slicing images? bleh).
THIS, on the other hand is some crazy magic and it hurts my head to look at the source. I still don't understand it.
How's that for diagonals?
-h3
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I've long wished that Wietse Venema would turn his attention next to a replacement for BIND. Can you imagine it? I get wistful thinking about it.
In this day and age of DNS and MTAs synergizing to combat spam, it kind of makes some sense, doesn't it?
I use tinydns myself but the DJB way has also irked me. Which is why I turned to postfix after evaluating qmail long ago. sendmail's security problems and horrid config made it out of the question.
Kinda like BIND. Though the config isn't as bad as sendmail.cf (and tinydns's data file is about as bad), I'd like to see what Wietse would come up with...
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>you can mount them where-ever you want... which is kind of cool, but its easier to just see C: D: E: whatever
Please stay with Windows.
> Welcome to the modern paranoid age, too scared to even use email at a friend's house.
I guess I'm paranoid. My basic assumption is that any and every Windows machine has been rooted and has a keylogger running. I'd never type a password to something whose security I cared for on a Windows machine. People talk about carrying around putty and stuff on a USB flash drive, but I don't see how that's secure at all!
It's not just Windows - I'm not too keen on typing important passwords on a Mac/Linux box of some random person either. But I'm more likely to take the risk in a pinch.
If I was in the market for email-only hosting, I'd be looking at Fastmail. I have a free account with them right now and I've been impressed with their professionalism.
Uh, how do you go about keeping your music on the iPod, but *not* on the "host" computer? That seems pretty darn inconvenient, and pretty much would make iTunes useless.
I'm not the OP but, there's a checkbox called "Sync manually" or something like that (not at a Mac at the moment). Or maybe it's a checkbox called "Let iTunes sync for you" and I turned that off.
I don't use my Mac to listen to music, so why should I eat up gigs of its hard drive to store mp3s? I just import them into iTunes, transfer to the iPod, then delete them from the library. I still use iTunes to fiddle with tags, ratings, and playlists on the iPod directly, so I don't know why you think iTunes becomes useless.
No, not like Google images.
Say I have a picture with a meaningless filename and no identifying marks on it. And I really want to find the more info on the artist/photographer/subject. I want to post the image to some picture search service and it'll spit out results of similar pictures. By "similar", I mean like GQView's similarity feature, which is pretty keen, and frankly magical to me.
Does anyone know of a service like this?
To play AAC files, I have to download them, burn a CD, and then rip it back to MP3.
You don't have to burn. Import the m4a into iMovie. Then go dig into the iMovie project's folder - iMovie converts them to AIFF, which you can then encode to whatever.
DRM is gone once it's been AIFF'd, of course.
-h3
Recently I used my 12" PowerBook 1GHz G4 with an iPod attached for about 2-2.5 hours and my battery indicator said about half full afterwards. I was doubly impressed as it was charging the iPod the whole time (iPod's battery was full afterward - normally after 2.5 hours play, it would be 1/2).
This is running iTunes and on full brightness the whole time, copying files around, jumping around in my playlists, etc.
-h3
Thanks for the tips, but still, how would the average member of the American public learn that these options exist?
:).
My tips were directed towards you, as a person who asked and seemed genuinely interested.
Therein lies the answer for your more general inquiry, I think: if you are interested, you will ask. And someone will point you in the right direction, and you'll find it.
Frankly, though, I think that the average member of the American public isn't interested, so it's sort of a self-negating circumstance. Most people are content to get sold on that one hot song and hear it over and over for a couple of weeks, before moving on to the next.
It'd be a lot easier on my time and wallet if I were one of them
-h3
Listen to independent (usually college) radio. I spent my formative years listening to KXLU and KALX.
:).
Listen to indie internet radio stations. A lot of people like KEXP; check the directories at shoutcast.com and icecast.org or your mp3's builtin directory (eg iTunes) (shameless plug - I run punk stream if you like punk)
Read indie newspapers, if available. L.A. Weekly if you're in Los Angeles, for example.
Read web sites that cover indie (pitchforkmedia.com is a start). Download stuff at random.
Go to music buying sites like audiolunchbox and magnatune, and listen to samples at random.
Ask friends for recommendations. Borrow stuff from them.
Hit alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie. Download stuff at random.
Go to indie record stores and buy stuff at random. I actually used to do this, buy something based on the cover art. Discovered some great stuff this way. And this was on a high school allowance.
All you need is a seed, and it can open up a whole new microgenre to explore.
Once you find something you like, research them. You'll often find information along the lines of "if you like X, you might like Y". Maybe a band member used to be in another band.
Look up that band's label's site. Often, indie labels have a common "sound" across their lineup, so you might like some of their label mates. Indie label sites usually have downloadable sample songs- download them.
And so on.
I do all these things. I take music seriously, it's a big part of my life. Sometimes it feels like work, to tell you the truth. But I'm driven by the idea that, no matter how much I like the music I've enjoyed in the past, there's something even more incredible out there.
I have a lot of CDs and I continue to buy a lot. But I also have a lot of downloaded music. I have a fairly clear conscience though. I genuinely feel that most indie bands wouldn't hold it against me that I downloaded their music to give it a listen, to see what they are about.
Does all the above sound like "too much effort"? Then, perhaps, music doesn't mean as much to you as me. That's cool.
Me- I'm not content to be fed stuff by commercial interests whose agenda run contrary to my search for interesting music. And I have the time and desire to invest in this pursuit. I can appreciate that others may not. Or maybe you're out in the sticks, with no broadband. In which case, I think you to resign yourself to a certain lifestyle, anyway.
That's why I don't live in the sticks
-h3
BUT I set up my yahoo account 10 years ago, and yes I had a college account,
Erm... Yahoo account 10 years ago? I'm pretty sure Yahoo was just a tilde account at stanford.edu 10 years ago, or just getting started at yahoo.com. I don't think they had "accounts" til much, much later.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html
Just a little historical eyebrow-raise. Unless your name happens to be "Jerry Yang" or "David Filo", in which case, my apologies.
-h3
Fortunately there are 10 others to choose from in that article; hopefully some of them will suport PG.
:p.
Like you, I'm not interested in running anything that requires MySQL. The article lists 2 that can use Postgres - MoveableType and Serendipity. I just switched from MT to Serendipity. Take the Postgres support with a grain of salt- while the basic functionality works there are a lot of queries embedded throughout that are not Postgres compatible.
For example, make sure to set a prefix for the table names during install. I set mine to no prefix and got burned badly because one of the table names turns out to be "references" sans prefix and this is a reserved word in Postgres (does MySQL not have foreign key references yet?). None of the queries in the code properly quoted this, the table never got created during install, and the whole thing went down in flames.
Oh, and don't even think about 3rd party plugins.
So yes, the s9y people are working on Postgres support and I appreciate that they are even making an effort, but it's clear that s9y is a MySQL-based product first, with bugfixes for Pg compatibility. Drupal is the same way. That's fine - I appreciate their efforts. But if you want something that runs robustly on Pg, you might want to look elsewhere.
Actually, I don't think such a thing exists
-h3 (yes, I'll try to submit patches)
Seems like 1.3.31 was officially released today (11 May) after last week's premature 'announcement' here.
:).
Here's the official announcement/changelog.
A new version of modssl to go with it too- just in time for the new server I had to set up today
-h3
I'd rather see the newest reply at the very top so I don't have to scroll.
This point has been brought up several times. I counter with this: if the quoted block is just an annoyance to scroll through, why bother quoting? I know what I wrote (and even have a copy)- why are you sending my words back?
Or, from a different angle: if people quoted contextually, and edited so only relevant points remained, you wouldn't have to scroll, would you?
Those are rhetorical questions, btw. People don't quote anymore. Their email client (Outlook, gmail, whatever) does, and no one bothers to take a moment to think about it or make an effort to use it to their advantage in communicating.
-h3
I'm depressed to see that gmail appears to use top-posting aka "jeopardy quoting" for replies.
Maybe there is a setting, but if this is the default, then the option to change it is pointless- no one will.
I hate getting top-posted emails. I hate trying to wade backwards in time to find out what the hell the cryptic first line refers to. Thank you Outlook for bringing this "feature" to the masses and lazy users who can't be bothered to edit quotes meaningfully for wasting bandwidth and my time. And, now, thank you gmail, for perpetuating it.
I feel like Don Quixote.
-h3
Also, Pioneer doesn't make +R drives since they're the big name behind the -R standard.
Starting with the A06, their drives burn +R/+RW too.
-h3
I thought it kinda odd about ini_set. This page describes the various variables PHP uses and where they can be set (my mistake not for not reading it properly).
-h3
Too much work - try for $var = "10 or true"
-h3
As a PHP programmer, you have to learn to work with register globals both on & off
While I think I see where you're coming from (and I agree that turn it on for this challenge is an interesting twist), I don't know if this is necessarily the case in real life. In environments where register_globals is ON and I can't turn it off at the server level, I'll drop
in an-h3
I think a SUV full of hard drives would be better. Higher density and you don't have the the send-side DVD-write time and the receive-side DVD-read time to contend with.
It's somewhat specious to talk about bandwidth without taking into account the computers at either end...
-h3
I should add that another problem with Mac-oriented keyboards is that many (particularly the Apple-branded ones) lack Scroll Lock (Apple uses a "F14" instead). This has dire consequences for those using KVM switches that rely on Scroll Lock to activate features or switching.
-h3
If you've got a KVM to switch between PC and Mac, now's the time to finally use a Mac keyboard instead of a PC one.
I have Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX on one (Mac-targetted) keyboard and I have to say it sucks because of the option/alt mapping. On my my Mac, I want the 3rd key from the bottom left to act as command (it does since it's a Mac keyboard), but under Linux/Windows I want it to map to Alt (which it doesn't; the 2nd key does).
On Linux, the interplay between X and my window manager makes for a mess of an xmodmap file that kinda works for some of the uses of alt. On Windows, I have no idea how to remap keys. I don't use it much so I deal with the awkwardness.
On a Mac, just get uControl and click a couple of buttons, and you can remap easily.
So, I would recommend a PC-oriented keyboard in a multi-OS setting. It's just easier to make a Mac deal with it than it is the other way around.
-h3
I've been using PEAR's HTML_Template_IT, which has been included in the default PHP distribution for some time. I looked at Smarty as well, at the time I investigated templates, and decided it was overkill for what I wanted.
After a couple of years now, I must say that I *hate* HTML_Template_IT, on a number of levels. Debugging problems is the crap because it fails silently for the most part and I'm left do a lot of manual tracing. Furthermore, it doesn't behave the way I think it should a lot of time, doing replacements where I don't think it should, etc.
On a general templating level, I get irritated sometime with tracking down problems. Is it in the primary PHP file? The template? The CSS? Where is it?!?! It's the nature of the beast, I guess, but as I work solo for all my projects, I know I've lost a lot of accrued time just hunting the problem down to the right file.
I happened to do some benchmarking recently, with ApacheBench, on a new server I'd just rolled out. Apache was dishing out static pages at about 2500/sec. Regular (non-templated) PHP pages doing simple stuff (includes, mostly) were churning out around 300/sec. My template projects: 25/sec. Luckily, this is low-traffic stuff.
I still use it, though. Inertia, I guess. I have to maintain those projects so I have to keep using it regardless. I don't mean this to be a screed against the HTML_Template_IT folks, or templating in general. In fact, I'm resigned to it as the thought of going back to HTML interspersed in my PHP horrifies me. But it's not all roses.
I use and like http://www.encap.org/
I agree that the meyerweb example is a hack (slicing images? bleh).
THIS, on the other hand is some crazy magic and it hurts my head to look at the source. I still don't understand it.
How's that for diagonals?
-h3
I've long wished that Wietse Venema would turn his attention next to a replacement for BIND. Can you imagine it? I get wistful thinking about it.
In this day and age of DNS and MTAs synergizing to combat spam, it kind of makes some sense, doesn't it?
I use tinydns myself but the DJB way has also irked me. Which is why I turned to postfix after evaluating qmail long ago. sendmail's security problems and horrid config made it out of the question.
Kinda like BIND. Though the config isn't as bad as sendmail.cf (and tinydns's data file is about as bad), I'd like to see what Wietse would come up with...
-h3