After that wretched "G2 Phone Home" crap and the whole "tell me who your are so I can spam the hell out of you unless you use a fake email address like 'realsucks@pissoff.com'" crap, I'm really suprised ANYONE uses the stuff. I haven't come across a single site in the last few years that uses Real to stream, and all of my musician buddies stopped encoding in Real format back in 2001 or so.
File this exploit under "does anyone really care?". It's like finding a zero-day exploit for Windows 3.11 or MS Bob.
get the teen a pc and put it behind a firewall and log all websites accessed. When asswatcher.com or onionbooty.com show up in the logs, bring it to his/her attention and tell them it's not permitted. if they go back to the site, go back to them with a belt in hand and wear their ass out for being disobedient.
corporal punishment kept kids in line for thousands of years, no sense in trying something else.
My bad, I guess you could upgrade your Red Hat 6.2 installation to at least 9 using SOMETHING.
No, you can't. Fresh installs all around are the best way to do that.
My FC5 installs are better, but I still take issue with it forcing you to install packages from the internet. That sucks when you're working in a closed, secure environment.
Jack of all trades is usually what I'm referred to. As a result, I have a 3 page long resume with experience ranging from simple desktop tech, Win32 admin, Unix admin(Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, System V), Linux admin (RHEL 2-4), AS/400 ops, VAX admin, and now including QA and Test engineering. The scope of the resume leads potential employers to look at me as someone that adapst very easily (said to me by my current employer), and in this environment they need people like me. Soon I'm adding Java and C/C++ Developer to the resume, as they're asking that I brush up on these skills.
Try expanding your resume. The days of the one page resume are long gone.
which is why I believe my way of thought just makes sense. There was something, it collapsed, it exploded, creating something else, repeat ad infinitum. If we agree that energy can't be created or destroyed, then there HAD to be something pre-existing in order for there to be a "Big Bang".
not if the universe's expansion reaches an as yet undefined limit and begins to contract. Then, eventually, it will collapse to a single point and explode again.
Nothing we'll ever see, but the possibility that something like this COULD happen is facinating.
"It's been thought for sometime that there may have been some previous Universe that existed "before" ours. This is a difficult idea, because in the Big Bang model, space and time were created in that initial moment."
From the time I was a 5th grader (~1982), I had always assumed that the Big Bang represented a point where a universe prior to our current one collapsed on itself and violently exploded setting everything into motion to create this universe. In my head, I likened it to a star collapsing on itself and exploding as a supernova, but on a far larger scale. If something like that can happen to a star, surely an entire universe could collapse on itself as well. Didn't need an equation to tell me that this was possible, it just seems logical.
$1500 a year??? A typical resident of Metro Phoenix, AZ can spend more than that in the summer. My electric bill is between $500 and $600 a month from June to September.
I beg to differ. Windows 2000 is a far faster platform than XP could ever be. In the majority of the environments I've worked in, 2000 is the platform of choice. I've run into zero compatibility problems with 2000, while XP STILL has compatibility issues (an issue with getting our VxWorks development environment running properly under XP vs it working right immediately with 2000 comes to mind). Try running XP on a Pentium Pro 200 machine, I don't care how much RAM you throw at it, or how fast your drives are, it'll run horribly. 2000, on the other hand, runs quite nicely and enables a lowly machine like that to continue being used productively.
The lone reason I use XP at home right now is because one critical application requires it: Digidesign's ProTools. If I didn't rely on that one app so much, I'd still be using Win2000 for everything I do with Windows. When running my other DAW software (Cubase, FL Studio, Reason, etc...) I can use more virtual synths and fx under 2000 than XP and I can stream more audio tracks at once with 2000 than XP. When I'm in graphic design mode, my 3D rendering is quicker under 2000 and Photoshop filters are faster.
you're still not saying much. You got your money's worth out of a free (as in beer) OS... I'll let you think about that for a minute.
I don't put anyone down that uses Linux. I use it here at the office (RHEL4 and Mandrake 9.2) and on my development box at home (Mandriva 2006 w/MDK 9.2 in a VMWare session). I love Linux, I just don't think it's really ready for prime time just yet. Soon though...
"There are just as many Slashdot users out there saying "Linux users need to realize that if they want their OS to survive blah blah blah" like you. Could you muster up an original thought?"
Linux still needs commercial apps. Linux still needs to be made easier for the newbie. Linux still needs people like you to get off their high horse.
If linux is ready for YOUR desktop, fine, you're not asking much of it. I, on the other hand, need more than Linux currently offers. I CAN do a great deal of my work under Linux (FPGA development, Java and C dev, word processing, anything server related, email, web browsing, music/video playback), but not all of it. There's still no ProTools or Cubase for Linux (No, Rosegarden and Ardour don't cut it), still no FL Studio, Rebirth, Reason, or Serato Scratch and support for any Digidesign hardware will likely never materialize. While my console emulators usually have Linux versions, the vast majority of my commercial games don't (ID games are the notable exception). I still can't work with my Flash projects under Linux. The Gimp is nice and all, but I'm far faster (and therefore more productive) in PhotoShop.
"Have you tried installing those packages that RH and SuSe distribute for those alternate desktops? They are distributed and they install, but they often have empty menus. Rarely do the companies take the effort to really integrate those alternates desktops/WMs into their distro."
Which is why I love Mandrake/Mandriva so much. Sometimes I forget to install Fluxbox or WM when I do a fresh install on a PC. From Mandrake 7 to Mandriva 2006, if I go back and install a windowmanager after the fact, it gets it's menus properly populated. I've NEVER had an issue with it. In fact, I've been rather loyal to it because Mandrake was the first distro I used that gave me more than 2 desktop choices by default. I've always been dogged out when I tell someone I use Mandrake, especially on IRC (Efnet/#linux), but by and large things simply work on it. It's easy as hell for a newbie to use and, no matter what you think, it's still linux; ubergeeks can still use it as they wish.
I almost took a job working for a fairly large hosting company in Tempe, AZ that hosted, among other things, porn. One of the job functions was to check the sites if they appeared to be down. Viewing the content of the sites was normal day-to-day work.
Wife didn't care about it until she found out they hosted teh ghey pr0n. Then she stomped around the house and revoked my sex privilages until I turned it down... That took all of 5 minutes.
The Amiga computers carved out a nice little niche for itself here in the States. I knew far more people with Amiga 1000's and 2000's (including myself, had a 2000HD) than CD32's (only one person I knew had one, but he also had an FM Towns Marty, SuperGrafx, and NeoGeo when they ran $1000).
And, besides that, we're talkign about game consoles, not home computers.
The 7800 was a case of really, really, REALLY bad timing. I remember reading about the next-gen console in a 1983 issue of Electronic Games (complete with a then-awesome screenshot of Pole Position), only to see Atari get nervous about releasing it thanks to the game industry tanking that year. Fast-forward 3 years and the thing finally got released with the typical dismal support from Atari and almost ZERO 3rd party support (thanks to Nintendo's 3rd party licensing).
I have a box at home running XP SP1. It's my ProTools 6.1.1/Cubase SX2 machine, complete with a Digidesign Audiomedia III card. Neither ProTools 6.1.1 or the ASIO drivers for the AMIII will work with SP2 - AT ALL!!!
Scroll down and find the little yellow exclamation mark to find this:
"Additional Computer Requirements
System Software: Windows XP Professional or Home Edition (Pro Tools LE 6.1 can NOT be installed on systems running Windows 98, Me, 2000, NT, 95, or 3.1) Windows XP Service Pack 1
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is not qualified with Pro Tools LE 6.1.1 "
Not qualified 'cause it won't run on SP2 (I've tried). There's no workaround for this either. To be able to use ProTools with XP, my minimum investment is about $300 for a used Digi001 and PTLE 6.4 from Ebay. I could upgrade to the current PT7 if I buy an Mbox, but at $500+ this is not a real option for me. The version of PTLE I run now does everything the new version does, it just doesn't look as pretty. New plugins are still compatible, so there's no overly compelling reason to upgrade.
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... so it can properly display Amiga HAM images.
... and people still use Real anything...
Wow.
After that wretched "G2 Phone Home" crap and the whole "tell me who your are so I can spam the hell out of you unless you use a fake email address like 'realsucks@pissoff.com'" crap, I'm really suprised ANYONE uses the stuff. I haven't come across a single site in the last few years that uses Real to stream, and all of my musician buddies stopped encoding in Real format back in 2001 or so.
File this exploit under "does anyone really care?". It's like finding a zero-day exploit for Windows 3.11 or MS Bob.
get the teen a pc and put it behind a firewall and log all websites accessed. When asswatcher.com or onionbooty.com show up in the logs, bring it to his/her attention and tell them it's not permitted. if they go back to the site, go back to them with a belt in hand and wear their ass out for being disobedient.
corporal punishment kept kids in line for thousands of years, no sense in trying something else.
... does this mean they've got time to fix the broken Rage128 driver for XP???
I'll bet all the companies that forked over money for unix licenses are kicking themselves in the ass right about now.
My bad, I guess you could upgrade your Red Hat 6.2 installation to at least 9 using SOMETHING.
No, you can't. Fresh installs all around are the best way to do that.
My FC5 installs are better, but I still take issue with it forcing you to install packages from the internet. That sucks when you're working in a closed, secure environment.
Jack of all trades is usually what I'm referred to. As a result, I have a 3 page long resume with experience ranging from simple desktop tech, Win32 admin, Unix admin(Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, System V), Linux admin (RHEL 2-4), AS/400 ops, VAX admin, and now including QA and Test engineering. The scope of the resume leads potential employers to look at me as someone that adapst very easily (said to me by my current employer), and in this environment they need people like me. Soon I'm adding Java and C/C++ Developer to the resume, as they're asking that I brush up on these skills.
Try expanding your resume. The days of the one page resume are long gone.
which is why I believe my way of thought just makes sense. There was something, it collapsed, it exploded, creating something else, repeat ad infinitum. If we agree that energy can't be created or destroyed, then there HAD to be something pre-existing in order for there to be a "Big Bang".
without the context you just provided, it was a random, meaningless quote.
not if the universe's expansion reaches an as yet undefined limit and begins to contract. Then, eventually, it will collapse to a single point and explode again.
Nothing we'll ever see, but the possibility that something like this COULD happen is facinating.
uuuuuummm.... yeaaaah... Not sure where you're going with this one.
Looke like it has nothing to do with anything, just a random line pulled out of a random chapter of the Bible.
Thumpers are good for stuff like that...
"It's been thought for sometime that there may have been some previous Universe that existed "before" ours. This is a difficult idea, because in the Big Bang model, space and time were created in that initial moment."
From the time I was a 5th grader (~1982), I had always assumed that the Big Bang represented a point where a universe prior to our current one collapsed on itself and violently exploded setting everything into motion to create this universe. In my head, I likened it to a star collapsing on itself and exploding as a supernova, but on a far larger scale. If something like that can happen to a star, surely an entire universe could collapse on itself as well. Didn't need an equation to tell me that this was possible, it just seems logical.
$1500 a year??? A typical resident of Metro Phoenix, AZ can spend more than that in the summer. My electric bill is between $500 and $600 a month from June to September.
I beg to differ. Windows 2000 is a far faster platform than XP could ever be. In the majority of the environments I've worked in, 2000 is the platform of choice. I've run into zero compatibility problems with 2000, while XP STILL has compatibility issues (an issue with getting our VxWorks development environment running properly under XP vs it working right immediately with 2000 comes to mind). Try running XP on a Pentium Pro 200 machine, I don't care how much RAM you throw at it, or how fast your drives are, it'll run horribly. 2000, on the other hand, runs quite nicely and enables a lowly machine like that to continue being used productively.
The lone reason I use XP at home right now is because one critical application requires it: Digidesign's ProTools. If I didn't rely on that one app so much, I'd still be using Win2000 for everything I do with Windows. When running my other DAW software (Cubase, FL Studio, Reason, etc...) I can use more virtual synths and fx under 2000 than XP and I can stream more audio tracks at once with 2000 than XP. When I'm in graphic design mode, my 3D rendering is quicker under 2000 and Photoshop filters are faster.
you're still not saying much. You got your money's worth out of a free (as in beer) OS... I'll let you think about that for a minute.
I don't put anyone down that uses Linux. I use it here at the office (RHEL4 and Mandrake 9.2) and on my development box at home (Mandriva 2006 w/MDK 9.2 in a VMWare session). I love Linux, I just don't think it's really ready for prime time just yet. Soon though...
"There are just as many Slashdot users out there saying "Linux users need to realize that if they want their OS to survive blah blah blah" like you. Could you muster up an original thought?"
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it's been done over and over. Here's a few of my own thoughts on the subject: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=93340&cid
Linux still needs commercial apps. Linux still needs to be made easier for the newbie. Linux still needs people like you to get off their high horse.
If linux is ready for YOUR desktop, fine, you're not asking much of it. I, on the other hand, need more than Linux currently offers. I CAN do a great deal of my work under Linux (FPGA development, Java and C dev, word processing, anything server related, email, web browsing, music/video playback), but not all of it. There's still no ProTools or Cubase for Linux (No, Rosegarden and Ardour don't cut it), still no FL Studio, Rebirth, Reason, or Serato Scratch and support for any Digidesign hardware will likely never materialize. While my console emulators usually have Linux versions, the vast majority of my commercial games don't (ID games are the notable exception). I still can't work with my Flash projects under Linux. The Gimp is nice and all, but I'm far faster (and therefore more productive) in PhotoShop.
Linux is coming along. It'll be there one day.
"Have you tried installing those packages that RH and SuSe distribute for those alternate desktops? They are distributed and they install, but they often have empty menus. Rarely do the companies take the effort to really integrate those alternates desktops/WMs into their distro."
Which is why I love Mandrake/Mandriva so much. Sometimes I forget to install Fluxbox or WM when I do a fresh install on a PC. From Mandrake 7 to Mandriva 2006, if I go back and install a windowmanager after the fact, it gets it's menus properly populated. I've NEVER had an issue with it. In fact, I've been rather loyal to it because Mandrake was the first distro I used that gave me more than 2 desktop choices by default. I've always been dogged out when I tell someone I use Mandrake, especially on IRC (Efnet/#linux), but by and large things simply work on it. It's easy as hell for a newbie to use and, no matter what you think, it's still linux; ubergeeks can still use it as they wish.
"...is nerdcore going to turn into a legitimate subgenre? Or will this always be our dirty little secret?"
As long as these dudes start buying their beats from me, I could care less if it becomes "legit" or not.
I almost took a job working for a fairly large hosting company in Tempe, AZ that hosted, among other things, porn. One of the job functions was to check the sites if they appeared to be down. Viewing the content of the sites was normal day-to-day work.
Wife didn't care about it until she found out they hosted teh ghey pr0n. Then she stomped around the house and revoked my sex privilages until I turned it down... That took all of 5 minutes.
The Amiga computers carved out a nice little niche for itself here in the States. I knew far more people with Amiga 1000's and 2000's (including myself, had a 2000HD) than CD32's (only one person I knew had one, but he also had an FM Towns Marty, SuperGrafx, and NeoGeo when they ran $1000).
And, besides that, we're talkign about game consoles, not home computers.
The 7800 was a case of really, really, REALLY bad timing. I remember reading about the next-gen console in a 1983 issue of Electronic Games (complete with a then-awesome screenshot of Pole Position), only to see Atari get nervous about releasing it thanks to the game industry tanking that year. Fast-forward 3 years and the thing finally got released with the typical dismal support from Atari and almost ZERO 3rd party support (thanks to Nintendo's 3rd party licensing).
because, while it may have capture 50% of the market in the UK for 2 years, it captured pretty much ZERO of the far larger US and Japanese markets.
That's how it was lame.
How did the Commodore CD32 NOT make this list??? Also suspiciously missing is the Atari XEGS.
r a:_XE_series_and_XEGS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Amiga_CD32
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_XEGS#Tramiel_E
If that' the case, then the Atari Panther, Sega Neptune, 3D0 M2, and Indrema's console all deserve to be there.
I have a box at home running XP SP1. It's my ProTools 6.1.1/Cubase SX2 machine, complete with a Digidesign Audiomedia III card. Neither ProTools 6.1.1 or the ASIO drivers for the AMIII will work with SP2 - AT ALL!!!
http://archive.digidesign.com/compato/xp/tb/
Scroll down and find the little yellow exclamation mark to find this:
"Additional Computer Requirements
System Software: Windows XP Professional or Home Edition (Pro Tools LE 6.1 can NOT be installed on systems running Windows 98, Me, 2000, NT, 95, or 3.1)
Windows XP Service Pack 1
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is not qualified with Pro Tools LE 6.1.1 "
Not qualified 'cause it won't run on SP2 (I've tried). There's no workaround for this either. To be able to use ProTools with XP, my minimum investment is about $300 for a used Digi001 and PTLE 6.4 from Ebay. I could upgrade to the current PT7 if I buy an Mbox, but at $500+ this is not a real option for me. The version of PTLE I run now does everything the new version does, it just doesn't look as pretty. New plugins are still compatible, so there's no overly compelling reason to upgrade.
M$ just screwed me on this one.