Anyone have a pointer to the "Day in the life of RMS" file?
The one where he begins his day by waking up under a bench in Central Square by the Marxist Education Center, rummages through the Burger King dumpster for "GNU-burgers" and "GNU-fries".
Been years since I've seen that one and Google is being very unfriendly today.
"Or, if you don't want to have to rip to your hard drive, install MacFUSE and use dvdfs in place of Mac the Ripper."
Whatever works best for the individual is the best solution.
For myself, I have a hard drive on my MDD specifically dedicated to storing the ripped files until I burn them to a DVD. I find it's just easier for me to let Mac The Ripper do it's thing while I'm doing something else.
I do like Titanium, for it's video compression format. It does a really good job (as far as I can tell) of squeezing a dual layer DVD onto a single layer blank DVD. Certainly good enough for casual viewing.
If I ever get off my butt and set up an XBOX as a media center, I might just rerip all my favorite DVDs (Office Space, Buckaroo Banzai, Futurama, etc) to.avi or DivX and either stream them to the XBOX or copy them to the XBOX hard drive.
Looks like the shills and hucksters for the RIAA/MPAA have been saving up their mod points.
So, what scared them the most, the description of how to rip a DVD for Fair Use purposes, or the suggestion to buy used DVDs, a practice that deprives the MPAA affiliated studios of money?
Use #1, then #2, then enjoy viewing your unencumbered, non-copy protected, de-DRMed, region free backup copies of your inexpensive previously viewed DVDs via your DVD player, on your computer, and, by using Visual Hub, on your iPod, PSP, or other PMP device.
Don't buy new DVDs. Get them used from your locally owned independent used CD/DVD shops or eBay. You'll save money and won't be putting money into the pockets of the MPAA affiliated studios or Blockbuster.
Wow! Look how long it took for the MS Fanboy Brigade to get some modpoints in order to mod me down.
Almost two weeks.
Pray, what is the "flamebait" in the honest truth of:
"You're paying Microsoft for the privilege of using their OS. And MS absolves themselves of any liability whatsoever in their shrinkwrap EULA.
The ONLY thing that MS affirms is that, somewhere in the box, is a chunk of digital media with an OS on it. That's it. They don't even affirm that it'll even fit in the CD tray, let alone that it'll actually install or work on your computer."
READ the EULA! That is, essentially, what it says.
And Bill Gates is still slapping you across the face with his dick, and he's still laughing at you!
"We design the magazines you read, we write, produce and edit the television shows and movies you watch, we fill your internet with beautiful images, we architect the spaces you move in, the transport you travel in and the reasons you travel for, we write the books you read, the music you listen to on the iPod we designed.
We watch your webcam while you sleep.
DON'T fuck with us."
Damn! Damn! I SO wish I had mod points right now. All would go to mod you up.
"When I upgraded my HD, all I had to do was copy the old drive to the new drive. No "reinstall the OS, run a bazillion updates, and then reinstall the apps and restore my files." A straight copy from the backup volume to the new drive was all it took, with no special ghosting software required."
When my 450 Mhz G3 Powermac (blue and white) died, it was running OS 10.3.9.
When its replacement, a 1.42 Ghz G4 dual processor arrived, I installed the boot drive from the B&W. Remember, 10.3.9 was installed on a 450 Mhz G3.
The "new" Mac booted from that drive. Let me say that again for the Widows fanboys:
The new Mac, a dual processor G4, booted from the boot drive of a 450 Mhz G3 Mac.
And all my apps worked too.
And, when I installed 10.4 and all the updates, the G4 Mac continued to work essentially flawlessly.
So, you see, Mr. "what do you do with your Macs", one thing we don't do is waste huge amounts of time when upgrading to new hardware.
"In any event, this doesn't really get me excited, as I'm even less inclined to buy into Apple's expensive machines when I can run FreeBSD or Linux on the cheapest of the cheap laptops and be very happy."
You are not the Macbook target audience.
You will never be the Macbook target audience.
Accept reality and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed, overlord.
"Now of course, if anyone is dumb enough to follow the link, AND accept an executable download, AND run that download, they will be infected. Is that what's actually happening here?"
I received the following the other day:
From: hes@cat.rpi.edu To: -redacted-@gis.net Subject: Message could not be delivered Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:36:51 -0400 X-Rcpt-To: X-DPOP: Version number supressed
Dear user of gis.net,
We have detected that your email account has been used to send a huge amount of junk email during this week. Obviously, your computer was compromised and now runs a trojaned proxy server.
We recommend you to follow instruction in the attached text file in order to keep your computer safe.
Sincerely yours, gis.net user support team.
With, of course, an attached file that was not a text file, but a trojan.
So, to answer the question, YES. People ARE THAT STUPID.
Despite the fact that the email did not originate with GIS in Newton Massachusetts, but at Rennsaleer Polytechnic Institute in New York, some luser using GIS will have clicked on that trojan and will have gotten his machine 0wned.
"Now of course, if anyone is dumb enough to follow the link, AND accept an executable download, AND run that download, they will be infected. Is that what's actually happening here?"
Yes.
NEVER underestimate the willful stupidity, mind numbing incompetence and insistant ignorance of the typical Windows luser.
The STORM botnet? ALL Windows machines. ALL OF THEM.
"That's hilarious that you can pay MS hundreds of dollar for the software,"
You're paying Microsoft for the privilege of using their OS. And MS absolves themselves of any liability whatsoever in their shrinkwrap EULA.
The ONLY thing that MS affirms is that, somewhere in the box, is a chunk of digital media with an OS on it. That's it. They don't even affirm that it'll even fit in the CD tray, let alone that it'll actually install or work on your computer.
Feel that? It's Bill Gates, slapping his dick on your face. And laughing at you.
Oh, yeah! Some years ago, the Dr. Bronner's company was at a Central Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts) festival, giving away samples and posters of the The Label. I have my poster laminated and it hangs in the bathroom.
I will never lack for bathroom reading material ever again!
Somewhere on some hardrive here, I also have a PDF of The Label.
I use Dr. Bronner's soaps for handwashing, shower and shampoo. Nothing else. Yes, it's expensive, but the label DOES encourage you to "DILUTE! DILUTE!" It's genuinely "all natural" and not tested on lab animals.
For handwashing, I find a tiny squirt of liquid, about half the diameter of a bottle cap, produces more than enough suds to do a thorough job of cleaning my hands.
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So, will die sez in his sig:
"61% of Democrats believe, or are not unsure, that President Bush knew and participated in the 9/11 attacks."
90% of long term Fox News Channel viewers And Free Republic readers believe 100% of the bullshit they see on Fox News Channel and Free Republic.
See, I can pull spurious "facts" out of my ass, too.
... going off to his shift at Logan Airport .
And that ain't a bottle of Moxie in that brown paper bag.
Feel safer, now?
...turn out the lights.
Oh, and grab me one of them Aeron chairs while you're at it.
Thanks!
I'll give you US$20.00 for your 2nd gen iPod. Seriously. This is legit.
I need to get the data off the HD of MY 2nd gen iPod, and the frigging thing won't mount on the desktop anymore.
I need a 2nd gen so I can change out the HD with my HD.
"... Attached to the emails was so-called Trojan horse software which records data entered in computers using the Windows Operating System."
Fixed your typo!
HTH!
HAND!
I bow in thy honored direction, Sensei! Truly, your Google Fu is strong!
Doctress Neutopia upgrade FTW!
Anyone have a pointer to the "Day in the life of RMS" file?
The one where he begins his day by waking up under a bench in Central Square by the Marxist Education Center, rummages through the Burger King dumpster for "GNU-burgers" and "GNU-fries".
Been years since I've seen that one and Google is being very unfriendly today.
"Or, if you don't want to have to rip to your hard drive, install MacFUSE and use dvdfs in place of Mac the Ripper."
.avi or DivX and either stream them to the XBOX or copy them to the XBOX hard drive.
Whatever works best for the individual is the best solution.
For myself, I have a hard drive on my MDD specifically dedicated to storing the ripped files until I burn them to a DVD. I find it's just easier for me to let Mac The Ripper do it's thing while I'm doing something else.
I do like Titanium, for it's video compression format. It does a really good job (as far as I can tell) of squeezing a dual layer DVD onto a single layer blank DVD. Certainly good enough for casual viewing.
If I ever get off my butt and set up an XBOX as a media center, I might just rerip all my favorite DVDs (Office Space, Buckaroo Banzai, Futurama, etc) to
WOW! The off-topic mod was FAST!
Looks like the shills and hucksters for the RIAA/MPAA have been saving up their mod points.
So, what scared them the most, the description of how to rip a DVD for Fair Use purposes, or the suggestion to buy used DVDs, a practice that deprives the MPAA affiliated studios of money?
#1, Mac The Ripper.
#2, Toast Titanium.
Use #1, then #2, then enjoy viewing your unencumbered, non-copy protected, de-DRMed, region free backup copies of your inexpensive previously viewed DVDs via your DVD player, on your computer, and, by using Visual Hub, on your iPod, PSP, or other PMP device.
Don't buy new DVDs. Get them used from your locally owned independent used CD/DVD shops or eBay. You'll save money and won't be putting money into the pockets of the MPAA affiliated studios or Blockbuster.
Wow! Look how long it took for the MS Fanboy Brigade to get some modpoints in order to mod me down.
Almost two weeks.
Pray, what is the "flamebait" in the honest truth of:
"You're paying Microsoft for the privilege of using their OS. And MS absolves themselves of any liability whatsoever in their shrinkwrap EULA.
The ONLY thing that MS affirms is that, somewhere in the box, is a chunk of digital media with an OS on it. That's it. They don't even affirm that it'll even fit in the CD tray, let alone that it'll actually install or work on your computer."
READ the EULA! That is, essentially, what it says.
And Bill Gates is still slapping you across the face with his dick, and he's still laughing at you!
"We design the magazines you read, we write, produce and edit the television shows and movies you watch, we fill your internet with beautiful images, we architect the spaces you move in, the transport you travel in and the reasons you travel for, we write the books you read, the music you listen to on the iPod we designed.
We watch your webcam while you sleep.
DON'T fuck with us."
Damn! Damn! I SO wish I had mod points right now. All would go to mod you up.
Except for the "DON'T fuck with us." part.
That's implied and doesn't need to be stated.
"It's hard to get across the point of exactly how easy this kind of thing is with OS X."
I am not at all surprised at your experience.
I cannot imagine anyone doing something similar with a Vista boot drive with as little hassle as we experienced.
Hell, I can't imagine anyone doing that with a Vista boot drive at all.
"When I upgraded my HD, all I had to do was copy the old drive to the new drive. No "reinstall the OS, run a bazillion updates, and then reinstall the apps and restore my files." A straight copy from the backup volume to the new drive was all it took, with no special ghosting software required."
When my 450 Mhz G3 Powermac (blue and white) died, it was running OS 10.3.9.
When its replacement, a 1.42 Ghz G4 dual processor arrived, I installed the boot drive from the B&W. Remember, 10.3.9 was installed on a 450 Mhz G3.
The "new" Mac booted from that drive. Let me say that again for the Widows fanboys:
The new Mac, a dual processor G4, booted from the boot drive of a 450 Mhz G3 Mac.
And all my apps worked too.
And, when I installed 10.4 and all the updates, the G4 Mac continued to work essentially flawlessly.
So, you see, Mr. "what do you do with your Macs", one thing we don't do is waste huge amounts of time when upgrading to new hardware.
"In any event, this doesn't really get me excited, as I'm even less inclined to buy into Apple's expensive machines when I can run FreeBSD or Linux on the cheapest of the cheap laptops and be very happy."
You are not the Macbook target audience.
You will never be the Macbook target audience.
Accept reality and welcome your new, Jonathan Ive designed, overlord.
"Now of course, if anyone is dumb enough to follow the link, AND accept an executable download, AND run that download, they will be infected. Is that what's actually happening here?"
I received the following the other day:
With, of course, an attached file that was not a text file, but a trojan.
So, to answer the question, YES. People ARE THAT STUPID.
Despite the fact that the email did not originate with GIS in Newton Massachusetts, but at Rennsaleer Polytechnic Institute in New York, some luser using GIS will have clicked on that trojan and will have gotten his machine 0wned.
Going from 'Insightful' to 'Flamebait' in a little more than 24 hours pretty much proves my thesis about MS Fanboys and mod points.
"Now of course, if anyone is dumb enough to follow the link, AND accept an executable download, AND run that download, they will be infected. Is that what's actually happening here?"
Yes.
NEVER underestimate the willful stupidity, mind numbing incompetence and insistant ignorance of the typical Windows luser.
The STORM botnet? ALL Windows machines. ALL OF THEM.
Mod me down, and I will be more powerful than...
Oh, never mind!
"That's hilarious that you can pay MS hundreds of dollar for the software,"
You're paying Microsoft for the privilege of using their OS. And MS absolves themselves of any liability whatsoever in their shrinkwrap EULA.
The ONLY thing that MS affirms is that, somewhere in the box, is a chunk of digital media with an OS on it. That's it. They don't even affirm that it'll even fit in the CD tray, let alone that it'll actually install or work on your computer.
Feel that? It's Bill Gates, slapping his dick on your face. And laughing at you.
Look at ALL the comments modded 0.
Just wait 'till MS has their own corps of Enforcement Gundams!
Then you'll see some mighty fine Ubermodding!
Can we please have a "Libertarian Blowhard" moderation?
Thank you!
http://whyfirefoxisblockedisslashdotted.com/
"Ever read the labels on those?"
Oh, yeah! Some years ago, the Dr. Bronner's company was at a Central Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts) festival, giving away samples and posters of the The Label. I have my poster laminated and it hangs in the bathroom.
I will never lack for bathroom reading material ever again!
Somewhere on some hardrive here, I also have a PDF of The Label.
ALL GLORY TO GOOGLE!
Here's the URL for the PDF!
"Over the last few years it's become harder to find hand soap (at least the liquid type) that isn't antibacterial"
I've been using Dr. Bronner's liquid and bar soaps for years. They contain NO specifically "anti-bacterial' ingrediants.
I use Dr. Bronner's soaps for handwashing, shower and shampoo. Nothing else. Yes, it's expensive, but the label DOES encourage you to "DILUTE! DILUTE!" It's genuinely "all natural" and not tested on lab animals.
For handwashing, I find a tiny squirt of liquid, about half the diameter of a bottle cap, produces more than enough suds to do a thorough job of cleaning my hands.
The bar soaps are just as good, too.