Is there any reason that sort of application should be run on the client machine? It seems like any decent web-based calander could have a username set up for each conference room. What else would it take, and is there any reason you couldn't slip a college student a C-note or two to throw the other stuff into a preexisting a web-based calander?
That would also mean you'd only have one node to fix, when new security issues come up. Don't want to upgrade Outlook on all 50-50,000 nodes every year or three? Put it all on one or two web servers.
Really want a gmail account? I can't get you a security clearance, but a gmail account isn't that hard to find. Reply with an email addy if you want one. Four invites available.
Are people seriously going to vote for the better candidate on copyrights and making backup copies of software?
I sure as hell am. In 2000, given a choice between a continuation of Clinton's policies and the new Bush, I felt completely unable to support either of them.
Both Gore and Bush seemed too anti-trade, even before Bush signed off on the damnable steel and catfish tarriffs. Kerry surely doesn't seem any better on that point.
Health care, abortion, and education are points I just simply don't care about, being single and without a family of my own.
The Middle East? Neither one's going to pull out, and neither one's going to go all out, pumping huge WW2-esque amounts resources into fixing things. The best we can hope for is that Kerry might drag more countries into the mess, but that certainly seems unlikely to happen. The world may like him, but nothing's going to change their opinion of the war.
So.... what else is there to vote on?
I intend to weigh IP law above any other single issue in both my Presidential and Congressional vote.
If you didn't buy it through an importer like Dynamism that supports their sales, it might be possible to badger them into servicing it for a fee or letting you pay them to ship it to their Japan offices and submit it for warranty repairs.
Might try contacting more than one importer before giving up, too, if the first won't do it.
Heck, if forking is a concern, then they should see the writing on the wall and open source Java as soon humanly possible.
There'd be no better way to nip potential feature drift in the bud in the gcc, IBM, etc re-implimentations of Java in the bud than to open up Java. Yes, the compilers are going to be different, but noone in their right mind is going to reimplement a reasonably licensed set of libraries, and that's where almost all the real meat is in Java.
Why on earth would anyone still buy a music device that requires more work than just the usb/firewire mass storage driver?
I can't see how anyone would want to spend the money on a device that's that bent on locking them into that kind of crap.
I might look the other way when some itunes-lover buys an ipod, but I'm sure as hell never buying one, as long as they require that much overhead just to copy the music over.
Does someone want to explain why anyone would choose an itunes or musicmatch or sony software dependant music player?
Processors they can handle. These SFF producers put a ton of work into figuring out proper CPU cooling. What I'm most worried about is that they're billing it as having "two hard drive bays." (note, however, that I'm quoting the/. post, not the article, so maybe they're not.)
I've got a Shuttle XPC with two 7200rpm western digital IDE drives and a pioneer dvd-+rw drive above it, and they're the chief trouble makers in my box. If I could just remove the middle hard drive and replace it with a fan, or even an unused floppy or flash card-reader, it would cut the number of hardware-related crashes I experience by more than half.
In the article, Iwill says they're pushing this towards media producers. They don't settle for 7200rpm IDE drives. If they're seriously advertising this as working well with two hard drives, they'd better build some decent cooling into the drive bays, as those folk are likely to want much faster and warmer drives than mine.
This isn't some old $500 SCO Unix license. This isn't a $150 copy of XP Pro. This is a linux distribution. The reason you only see real attempts at reviews from the mainstream press. Even then, most of the time they're reviewing features common to all mainstream distributions, with rather little emphasis on the significant differences* between the distributions.
Why?
Because it's so insanely easy to just try it out yourself. If you know for sure that you're going to be installing some breed of unix or linux, then just download the free ISO and go at it some weekend. You'll learn a hell of a lot more about what you like and what you don't by installing two or three distros/running two or three LiveCDs, than you ever will by reading some other guy's opinions on the subject.
Do yourself a favor, and hammer the hell out of linuxisos.org for a little while. It'll be time well spent.
(* no, the packaging system doesn't count as a major difference, anymore. unless you're using gentoo's portage or some other freaky thing, the frontends, apt support, and pretty pictures have been developed to the point where they no longer count.)
Okay.... so they're keeping the two shows I sometimes actually liked (Anime Unleashed and the Screen Savers), adding gamer-oriented content I never got to see before.
when the fs type is antiquated and unused, of course!
However, note that you already can alter files, assuming that the size doesn't change. No harm comes from setting a 0 to a 1 in an ini file with the kernel's ntfs driver.
There's also 3rd party drivers that use an emulation layer and windows' ntfs.sys to give full and safe rw access.
Do note, however, that there's plenty of other ways to transfer files on a dual-booting machine. I probably do more writes to my 30gb fat32 partition (out of 320 total) than I do any other partition on my triple booting rig, here. Also, there's win32 tools that'll read from ext2 and reiserfs partitions. ext3 doesn't seem to work, although that might be a partition size matter, not a partition type one. I have a 110gb partition that the win32 explore2fs tool can only read about half of.
I'm reading this from Arlanda airport in Stockholm, and don't really have any plans this afternoon. Where's the closest rally, or was it all over on May 1st?
As much as the MPAA might suck, and as much as I'd hate to see this kind of technology employed in commercial networks, this would absolutely kick ass at my school.
Finally, they'd be able to cut off the bandwidth caps and packetshapers. Finally, I'd be able to install Gentoo, download a free SHN-encoded album from archive.org, or grab the next OpenCD without waking up the next morning to a disabled network jack and having to bitch and moan until it's reopenned. Finally, I'd have a solid enough connection to get a decent round of UT2k3 in after class.
Allowing network use policies to be enforced in a content-specific rather than cutting off legitimate uses of big chunks of bandwidth is a terrific idea.
Shuffling sucks when you have too big of a collection.
Plain old "pick a random N, play song N" shuffling is annoying as hell when you have multiple genres in the playlist. Would it kill people to set a maximum relative depth in the FS that their shuffling algorithms will reach? Or at the very least to limit genre changes to once every 10 songs?
This has been bugging me for weeks.
If you could just set it to shuffle within the current directory, parent directory, and the parent's immediate children, then in a sanely organized collection, it'd keep the genre limited to the point where it would ALMOST sound like a radio station with non-shitty music. However, by allowing it to reach the parent directory, you also allow it to get to the absolute parent, and start crawling back down to the other directories.
Like, if you started at/music/emo/death_cab_for_cutie/we_have_the_facts, it would take it an absolute minimum of 3 shifts to get out of the emo directory, and it happening in 3 would be patently unlikely.
Brilliant, eh? Now if only I was competent enough to implement it.
Every last one of my grandparents was retired or deceased before the Apple ][e was released. I know dozens and have helped to train a half dozen of their peers, and have yet to meet a single one that wouldn't benefit from a simplification and increased task-oriention of their computer systems.
Sex doesn't enter into it.
Agism, however, is more than justified in this case. It is shockingly naive to assume that the majority of those who retired before the computer revolution have enough training and expertise that they would benefit from having the burden of systems administration dumped upon them.
With all due respect, you're 48. You may be a grandmother, but there's no way (I sincerly hope) that your grandchild(ren) are old enough to build you a computer and be this bent on forcing Linux on you. Those that do have granchildren of that age aren't likely to have nearly the level of technical expertise that people from your age group. My pop's older than you, and uses PGP, open GPG, and absurdly complicated VB scripting regularly, but his mother would be greatly helped by this kind of GUI.
I thought the article to be very insightful/interesting, as it would greatly simplify my grandmother's life.
"The final rule requires that the mark appear using elements of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ("ASCII") character set, and a definition of the term "character" has been added as part of that change. "
Can't say as I think the rest of the rule makes any sense, but I couldn't help but laugh when I saw this bit. Lord forbid we allow non-ascii subject lines!
I second that notion. Tunez is awesome. I set it up with ices and icecast, and now I have great control through an amazing interface from any other node.
It's especially hot for multiple users, because it allows them to collaborate on playlist creation through a clever voting mechanism.
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Is there any reason that sort of application should be run on the client machine? It seems like any decent web-based calander could have a username set up for each conference room. What else would it take, and is there any reason you couldn't slip a college student a C-note or two to throw the other stuff into a preexisting a web-based calander?
That would also mean you'd only have one node to fix, when new security issues come up. Don't want to upgrade Outlook on all 50-50,000 nodes every year or three? Put it all on one or two web servers.
Really want a gmail account? I can't get you a security clearance, but a gmail account isn't that hard to find. Reply with an email addy if you want one. Four invites available.
p
Alternatives:
http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.ph
http://www.isipp.com/gmail4troops/
Are people seriously going to vote for the better candidate on copyrights and making backup copies of software?
I sure as hell am. In 2000, given a choice between a continuation of Clinton's policies and the new Bush, I felt completely unable to support either of them.
Both Gore and Bush seemed too anti-trade, even before Bush signed off on the damnable steel and catfish tarriffs. Kerry surely doesn't seem any better on that point.
Health care, abortion, and education are points I just simply don't care about, being single and without a family of my own.
The Middle East? Neither one's going to pull out, and neither one's going to go all out, pumping huge WW2-esque amounts resources into fixing things. The best we can hope for is that Kerry might drag more countries into the mess, but that certainly seems unlikely to happen. The world may like him, but nothing's going to change their opinion of the war.
So.... what else is there to vote on?
I intend to weigh IP law above any other single issue in both my Presidential and Congressional vote.
If you didn't buy it through an importer like Dynamism that supports their sales, it might be possible to badger them into servicing it for a fee or letting you pay them to ship it to their Japan offices and submit it for warranty repairs.
Might try contacting more than one importer before giving up, too, if the first won't do it.
The easter eggs get filtered out, and pushed onto here:
[[WP:-)]]
Easter Egg def.
Curiously, the Easter Egg link doesn't link to the deleted nonsense page. Shall we complain to the editors?
Heck, if forking is a concern, then they should see the writing on the wall and open source Java as soon humanly possible.
There'd be no better way to nip potential feature drift in the bud in the gcc, IBM, etc re-implimentations of Java in the bud than to open up Java. Yes, the compilers are going to be different, but noone in their right mind is going to reimplement a reasonably licensed set of libraries, and that's where almost all the real meat is in Java.
Why on earth would anyone still buy a music device that requires more work than just the usb/firewire mass storage driver?
I can't see how anyone would want to spend the money on a device that's that bent on locking them into that kind of crap.
I might look the other way when some itunes-lover buys an ipod, but I'm sure as hell never buying one, as long as they require that much overhead just to copy the music over.
Does someone want to explain why anyone would choose an itunes or musicmatch or sony software dependant music player?
Processors they can handle. These SFF producers put a ton of work into figuring out proper CPU cooling. What I'm most worried about is that they're billing it as having "two hard drive bays." (note, however, that I'm quoting the /. post, not the article, so maybe they're not.)
I've got a Shuttle XPC with two 7200rpm western digital IDE drives and a pioneer dvd-+rw drive above it, and they're the chief trouble makers in my box. If I could just remove the middle hard drive and replace it with a fan, or even an unused floppy or flash card-reader, it would cut the number of hardware-related crashes I experience by more than half.
In the article, Iwill says they're pushing this towards media producers. They don't settle for 7200rpm IDE drives. If they're seriously advertising this as working well with two hard drives, they'd better build some decent cooling into the drive bays, as those folk are likely to want much faster and warmer drives than mine.
Go to Kuro5hin. There's a number of fascinating, lengthy, relevant articles on the subject there.
This is a linux distribution!
This isn't some old $500 SCO Unix license. This isn't a $150 copy of XP Pro. This is a linux distribution. The reason you only see real attempts at reviews from the mainstream press. Even then, most of the time they're reviewing features common to all mainstream distributions, with rather little emphasis on the significant differences* between the distributions.
Why?
Because it's so insanely easy to just try it out yourself. If you know for sure that you're going to be installing some breed of unix or linux, then just download the free ISO and go at it some weekend. You'll learn a hell of a lot more about what you like and what you don't by installing two or three distros/running two or three LiveCDs, than you ever will by reading some other guy's opinions on the subject.
Do yourself a favor, and hammer the hell out of linuxisos.org for a little while. It'll be time well spent.
(* no, the packaging system doesn't count as a major difference, anymore. unless you're using gentoo's portage or some other freaky thing, the frontends, apt support, and pretty pictures have been developed to the point where they no longer count.)
I'd like to see how you...can handle 10,000 simultaneous connections!
Why, with CODA of course!
Okay.... so they're keeping the two shows I sometimes actually liked (Anime Unleashed and the Screen Savers), adding gamer-oriented content I never got to see before.
I'm supposed to bitch and moan....... why?
when the fs type is antiquated and unused, of course!
However, note that you already can alter files, assuming that the size doesn't change. No harm comes from setting a 0 to a 1 in an ini file with the kernel's ntfs driver.
There's also 3rd party drivers that use an emulation layer and windows' ntfs.sys to give full and safe rw access.
The Captive project
Do note, however, that there's plenty of other ways to transfer files on a dual-booting machine. I probably do more writes to my 30gb fat32 partition (out of 320 total) than I do any other partition on my triple booting rig, here. Also, there's win32 tools that'll read from ext2 and reiserfs partitions. ext3 doesn't seem to work, although that might be a partition size matter, not a partition type one. I have a 110gb partition that the win32 explore2fs tool can only read about half of.
Look, I know someone's asked before why there's not a summary in the changelog already, but here's what I want:
Would someone please try and summarize the top 10 changes here? At damned near 500kb, the changelog is bigger than some compiled kernels!
Please?
I'm reading this from Arlanda airport in Stockholm, and don't really have any plans this afternoon. Where's the closest rally, or was it all over on May 1st?
Does it answer this one?
/. post, too.
What the hell is it?
Might have been nice to mention that in the
As much as the MPAA might suck, and as much as I'd hate to see this kind of technology employed in commercial networks, this would absolutely kick ass at my school.
Finally, they'd be able to cut off the bandwidth caps and packetshapers. Finally, I'd be able to install Gentoo, download a free SHN-encoded album from archive.org, or grab the next OpenCD without waking up the next morning to a disabled network jack and having to bitch and moan until it's reopenned. Finally, I'd have a solid enough connection to get a decent round of UT2k3 in after class.
Allowing network use policies to be enforced in a content-specific rather than cutting off legitimate uses of big chunks of bandwidth is a terrific idea.
Shuffling sucks when you have too big of a collection.
/music/emo/death_cab_for_cutie/we_have_the_facts, it would take it an absolute minimum of 3 shifts to get out of the emo directory, and it happening in 3 would be patently unlikely.
Plain old "pick a random N, play song N" shuffling is annoying as hell when you have multiple genres in the playlist. Would it kill people to set a maximum relative depth in the FS that their shuffling algorithms will reach? Or at the very least to limit genre changes to once every 10 songs?
This has been bugging me for weeks.
If you could just set it to shuffle within the current directory, parent directory, and the parent's immediate children, then in a sanely organized collection, it'd keep the genre limited to the point where it would ALMOST sound like a radio station with non-shitty music. However, by allowing it to reach the parent directory, you also allow it to get to the absolute parent, and start crawling back down to the other directories.
Like, if you started at
Brilliant, eh? Now if only I was competent enough to implement it.
Every last one of my grandparents was retired or deceased before the Apple ][e was released. I know dozens and have helped to train a half dozen of their peers, and have yet to meet a single one that wouldn't benefit from a simplification and increased task-oriention of their computer systems.
Sex doesn't enter into it.
Agism, however, is more than justified in this case. It is shockingly naive to assume that the majority of those who retired before the computer revolution have enough training and expertise that they would benefit from having the burden of systems administration dumped upon them.
With all due respect, you're 48. You may be a grandmother, but there's no way (I sincerly hope) that your grandchild(ren) are old enough to build you a computer and be this bent on forcing Linux on you. Those that do have granchildren of that age aren't likely to have nearly the level of technical expertise that people from your age group. My pop's older than you, and uses PGP, open GPG, and absurdly complicated VB scripting regularly, but his mother would be greatly helped by this kind of GUI.
I thought the article to be very insightful/interesting, as it would greatly simplify my grandmother's life.
"The final rule requires that the mark appear using elements of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ("ASCII") character set, and a definition of the term "character" has been added as part of that change. "
Can't say as I think the rest of the rule makes any sense, but I couldn't help but laugh when I saw this bit. Lord forbid we allow non-ascii subject lines!
I'm an american, so the only places on this earth where they don't speak my language and there's business to be done are Boston and inner-Russia.
And in Soviet Russia, your "partners" find you.
(Which is arguably a good thing, as not even this tech could possibly tell all the damnable Soviet appartment buildings apart)
Videos of maglev trains, with sound. My apologies in advance to the host.
/.'ing commence!
Let the
I second that notion. Tunez is awesome. I set it up with ices and icecast, and now I have great control through an amazing interface from any other node.
It's especially hot for multiple users, because it allows them to collaborate on playlist creation through a clever voting mechanism.
Again, the link is here.
Wow. That topic line just about gave me a heart attack.
Thought for a second there that the Supreme Court was banning tacos.