Thanks for agreeing with me that Linux is not stable. A sound playback program is bringing down the system. Other playback programs, such as "play" or mpg123, don't crash my system as badly as KDE's programs do.
So the problem is arts. We all know that KDE does stupid and weird things. There's this really cool thing you'll notice on your Debian system... there's tens of thousands of programs you can install via apt... which is very easy to do. You have the power to choose what programs you want to use. If one is causing you trouble, don't use it, go find another.
What version of the KDE kernel are you using that does not demonstrate this error condition?
KDE isn't a kernel. Just like emacs isn't a kernel.
In other news, Windows 98 doesn't crash when I try to play a sound file.
In other news, Windows 98 does crash when you run (the complied version of) the program: #include
int main() {
while (1) fork();
return 0; } (Using cygwin to get the fork function). Takes about 2 or 3 seconds, and the system is dead in the water.
In even more other news, Linux doesn't crash when running the same program. There are user process limits. The machine does get really slow, however you can get in and use killall.
I'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I believe a web browser can outdo a native application.
Can a browser-based* app do drag and drop? Nope. Extensibility with third-party apps you install? Nope. Scripting? Nope. Loading without the need to be tied to the network 24/7? Forget it.
* Based on W3C Standards, whatever those are, so no ActiveX.
There's a common urban legend that AOL is going to start charging for AIM (or, in some cases, ICQ). It spreads through fake announcements propagated through people's buddy lists. I couldn't find a link on Snopes, though.
As far as I know, Evolution is still free. The Outlook connector, which used to cost $100 per seat (or $10 less than Outlook itself) is now free as well.
The concern is that Evolution and Mozilla are free under two different licenses. As a result, the open source community has no other choice but to bicker divisively over how Free their Libre code is Gratis.
Actually, it's in Outlook. I work at a company that has no Exchange server but dozens of Outlook users. I get dozens of Outlook invites in TNEF format, even when "Send invitations over the Internet in iCalendar format" is checked.
Thanks for agreeing with me that Linux is not stable. A sound playback program is bringing down the system. Other playback programs, such as "play" or mpg123, don't crash my system as badly as KDE's programs do.
I'll write Debian and KDE a note saying that their kernel is bad. I bet their other users would like to know about this. What version of the KDE kernel are you using that does not demonstrate this error condition?
In other news, Windows 98 doesn't crash when I try to play a sound file.
In Thunderbird 1.0, there is a button called "Get Mail." I click this button when I have new mail in a folder other than Home.INBOX and Work.INBOX that I have marked as "Check this folder for new messages." Thunderbird says "You have no new mail." I wait five minutes for Thunderbird's automatic mail check. It then says I have new mail. My saved search, "new mail for Home/Work," then says I have twice as much new mail.
Thunderbird 1.0 is utter shit. The worst part is that Mail.app, which has been around since NeXTStep, behaves even worse. I'd pay good money for a port of KMail to Mac OS X, since that's the only program I've seen to handle IMAP mail checking correctly.
Thanks for the expert opinion. I'm using a Sound Blaster Live! that I bought four years ago. Could you please drop me a line when Linux supports this piece of hardware?
I have friends who used iTools (before.Mac) and they told me that before Apple started charging, it was the largest corporate warez distributor in America. Lots of users were simply abusing their 100 MB of free space to post warez, serials, etc., and Apple was too overwhelmed to fix the problem.
Now that Gmail can be used as a file system, I expect lots of people to abuse their 1 GB of free storage. Then Google will clamp down and impose limitations or (gasp) start charging! Remember, it's BETA so it can change at any time!
This could be the greatest trojan horse since AOL began charging for AIM and ICQ! (BTW STOP AOL FROM CHARGING FOR AIM AND ICQ CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION PLS DO IT NOW!!!)
Sometimes, Outlook invitations are sent using vCalendar (or iCalendar, I forget which) format, which is an open standard. When they are, any open source program can read them and parse them easily. Other times, they are sent using TNEF in those pesky WINMAIL.DAT files that a program will have to decode before being able to parse the invitation. There is supposedly an Outlook setting to say "Send invitations across the Internet in iCalendar format," but that doesn't seem to have an effect on invitations sent within a company.
Evolution is the only open source program that can process all Outlook invitations correctly, and it did that as of version 1.0 (years ago). It's under a different license than Mozilla (GPL vs. MPL) so I wonder if the code can ever be reused.
I can crash my Linux workstation at home by playing a sound file using KDE's media player (noatun or kaboodle or whatever). Therefore, I can conclude that Linux is extremely unstable and is not fit for the enterprise.
So take it back. The DVD did not function on his computer the way the packaging promised, therefore the DVD is defective.
(YOU MORAN YOU CANT TAKE A DVD BACK ONCE ITS OPENED)
Retailers will accept returns on DRM-equipped CDs and DVDs if the purchaser is simply unable to view them after the disc's packaging is opened. I've successfully returned such a disc before, and I have the cash to prove it.
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Yeah, I can't wait until they start making motion pictures about the brave civil disobedients who were courageous enough to rip DVDs to their hard drives.
In fact, I look forward to buying the Extreme Edition of "Rippers: The Movie" when it comes out.
By the same token, if I released a piece of software for $200, you don't have the right to pirate it if you don't feel it's worth the price. You pay the content owners, or you live without the content. That's the deal.
Good idea. I've found that security by obscurity (by avoiding popular software like MovableType) is an excellent deterrent.
It's not a cure nor a viable long-term philosophy, but it's a deterrent. That's all you need to deter 99.999% of the robot scripts that troll MT comments.
In other news, I've heard that simply renaming mt-comments.cgi is an excellent solution. No sarcasm here: security by obscurity really works as a deterrent.
When you buy a CD from a band, the RIAA gives the band a few dollars out of the purchase price.
When you buy a CD from allofmp3.com, the band gets nothing from the RIAA or its Russian counterpart.
If you're going to buy from allofmp3.com, just buy KaZaA Plus already. We already know allofmp3.com's customers don't care about the artists getting any money, yet they enjoy paying money for music they could otherwise download for free.
Have you ever used a program that needs to save more than eight megabytes of data at once? Do you consider a 2 MB file to be "large"?
Some games, such as sports games and even Halo 2, can benefit from using a hard drive for prebuffering or saving large amounts of intermediate data. Sony did not allow developers this luxury when they abandoned their hard drive plans. Microsoft did, and many games took advantage.
Or perhaps you'd like to return to the idea of storing binary patches (as for SOCOM II / PS2) on an extraordinarily expensive memory card.
I'm sorry, but that's the last I'll say on this topic. You can Paypal me $20 to continue so I can buy another memory card.
Don't insult my English comprehension and then misspell "suit." It's four letters long.
I'd rather have an eight gigabyte hard drive bundled with the console instead of paying $20 or more for eight megabytes of PlayStation 2 storage. I don't care if it's Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, or whoever that makes the console; the point is that the Xbox is cheaper (if you want to save games) than the PlayStation, and cheaper is better.
The GameCube is cheaper still, but its memory cards are laughably small. Wasn't the first GameCube memory card something like $15 for 512 kilobytes?
Every game that supports saving supports the hard drive.
If nothing else, it makes the Xbox ($150) slightly cheaper than the PS2 ($150 + $20 memory card) if you're interested in saving your progress in games.
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I don't like your method of tech support.
Linux is still more broken than Windows is. Therefore, I will prefer Windows.
I don't have to worry about KDE Kernels, buggy drivers for four-year-old hardware that is extremely common, or pedantic morons who
needlessly quote lines of my messages
so that they can make snide comments in return.
Thanks, Randy, for proving that all the stereotypes about the Linux community are true.
No problem.
What other lies can I tell you to make you feel more satisfied about yourself?
I'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I believe a web browser can outdo a native application.
Can a browser-based* app do drag and drop? Nope. Extensibility with third-party apps you install? Nope. Scripting? Nope. Loading without the need to be tied to the network 24/7? Forget it.
* Based on W3C Standards, whatever those are, so no ActiveX.
Thank you for visiting my web site. However, you still don't know me. I'm not a religious person. Don't believe everything you read on the web.
If you'd like to continue your poorly-contrived ad hominem attack, please leave your name and e-mail address.
There's a common urban legend that AOL is going to start charging for AIM (or, in some cases, ICQ). It spreads through fake announcements propagated through people's buddy lists. I couldn't find a link on Snopes, though.
As far as I know, Evolution is still free. The Outlook connector, which used to cost $100 per seat (or $10 less than Outlook itself) is now free as well.
The concern is that Evolution and Mozilla are free under two different licenses. As a result, the open source community has no other choice but to bicker divisively over how Free their Libre code is Gratis.
Actually, it's in Outlook. I work at a company that has no Exchange server but dozens of Outlook users. I get dozens of Outlook invites in TNEF format, even when "Send invitations over the Internet in iCalendar format" is checked.
Thanks for agreeing with me that Linux is not stable. A sound playback program is bringing down the system. Other playback programs, such as "play" or mpg123, don't crash my system as badly as KDE's programs do.
I'll write Debian and KDE a note saying that their kernel is bad. I bet their other users would like to know about this. What version of the KDE kernel are you using that does not demonstrate this error condition?
In other news, Windows 98 doesn't crash when I try to play a sound file.
In Thunderbird 1.0, there is a button called "Get Mail." I click this button when I have new mail in a folder other than Home.INBOX and Work.INBOX that I have marked as "Check this folder for new messages." Thunderbird says "You have no new mail." I wait five minutes for Thunderbird's automatic mail check. It then says I have new mail. My saved search, "new mail for Home/Work," then says I have twice as much new mail.
Thunderbird 1.0 is utter shit. The worst part is that Mail.app, which has been around since NeXTStep, behaves even worse. I'd pay good money for a port of KMail to Mac OS X, since that's the only program I've seen to handle IMAP mail checking correctly.
Thanks for the expert opinion. I'm using a Sound Blaster Live! that I bought four years ago. Could you please drop me a line when Linux supports this piece of hardware?
I have friends who used iTools (before .Mac) and they told me that before Apple started charging, it was the largest corporate warez distributor in America. Lots of users were simply abusing their 100 MB of free space to post warez, serials, etc., and Apple was too overwhelmed to fix the problem.
Now that Gmail can be used as a file system, I expect lots of people to abuse their 1 GB of free storage. Then Google will clamp down and impose limitations or (gasp) start charging! Remember, it's BETA so it can change at any time!
This could be the greatest trojan horse since AOL began charging for AIM and ICQ! (BTW STOP AOL FROM CHARGING FOR AIM AND ICQ CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION PLS DO IT NOW!!!)
Sometimes, Outlook invitations are sent using vCalendar (or iCalendar, I forget which) format, which is an open standard. When they are, any open source program can read them and parse them easily. Other times, they are sent using TNEF in those pesky WINMAIL.DAT files that a program will have to decode before being able to parse the invitation. There is supposedly an Outlook setting to say "Send invitations across the Internet in iCalendar format," but that doesn't seem to have an effect on invitations sent within a company.
Evolution is the only open source program that can process all Outlook invitations correctly, and it did that as of version 1.0 (years ago). It's under a different license than Mozilla (GPL vs. MPL) so I wonder if the code can ever be reused.
I can crash my Linux workstation at home by playing a sound file using KDE's media player (noatun or kaboodle or whatever). Therefore, I can conclude that Linux is extremely unstable and is not fit for the enterprise.
So take it back. The DVD did not function on his computer the way the packaging promised, therefore the DVD is defective.
(YOU MORAN YOU CANT TAKE A DVD BACK ONCE ITS OPENED)
Retailers will accept returns on DRM-equipped CDs and DVDs if the purchaser is simply unable to view them after the disc's packaging is opened. I've successfully returned such a disc before, and I have the cash to prove it.
Thank you for your reply. I'd like to cite you for an article I'm writing about on-line freedom fighters. What is your name and email address, please?
How is Kazaa Plus different from the free, ad-supported version of Kazaa?
Exclusive features include:
No Ads - no banners or annoying pop-ups while you search.
Should you have a problem installing the application Kazaa Plus offers 24 Hour Customer Support by email.
'Search More' up to 15 times depending on your Participation Level. This means you can access up to 3,000 results per search.
Enjoy faster automatic downloads as a result of multiple sources increasing from 8 to 40 sources.
Customize your homepage within Kazaa Plus 'Web' view.
Adjust your scan frequency for My Kazaa and control how often your shared files are scanned.
Limit uploads from your 'My Shared Folder' according to other users Participation.
Other great features of the latest version of Kazaa Plus (v2.6.6) include:
Multiple simultaneous searches - searching is now much faster because you can run up to 24 concurrent searches.
Multiple search results tabs - display each search you perform in a new window.
'Quick' and 'Advanced' search tabs - the search view within Kazaa allows both quick and advanced searches. Use the advanced search to obtain more accurate results in less time.
Search Agent - Searching for a file? Get Search Agent on the case to perform repeated searches every 30 minutes over a 24 hour period.
Web search - use the Kazaa Media Desktop interface to search the web.
Improved built-in virus protection: BullGuard P2P software is specially designed to quarantine and delete dangerous files from other P2P users.
Channels - Kazaa includes Search and Browse Channels. Channels are websites specially designed for viewing within Kazaa, giving you direct access to downloads and information.
Peer Points Manager provided by Altnet - Collect Altnet Peer Points by sharing Gold Icon Files. Altnet Points are redeemable for sponsored downloads and chances to win prizes.
Shared playlists- Create unique shared playlists and search for other KMD users playlists
Media Player image handling- View images and play audio and video files within the built-in Media Player in 'Theater' view.
Magnet Links - Magnet links allow web sites to link directly to files that can be downloaded with P2P technology. This can result in significant savings in online distribution and hosting costs.
Kapsules- Kazaa v2.6.2 introduces the concept of Kapsules - custom digital packaging of multi-file collections. For example, a Kapsule may include music, exclusive footage of live performance, lyrics and images - all of the same band or artist.
I bet it has evil DRM.
(Score: 5, Fearmongering)
Yeah, I can't wait until they start making motion pictures about the brave civil disobedients who were courageous enough to rip DVDs to their hard drives.
In fact, I look forward to buying the Extreme Edition of "Rippers: The Movie" when it comes out.
You don't have the right to watch any movie.
By the same token, if I released a piece of software for $200, you don't have the right to pirate it if you don't feel it's worth the price. You pay the content owners, or you live without the content. That's the deal.
Good idea. I've found that security by obscurity (by avoiding popular software like MovableType) is an excellent deterrent.
It's not a cure nor a viable long-term philosophy, but it's a deterrent. That's all you need to deter 99.999% of the robot scripts that troll MT comments.
In other news, I've heard that simply renaming mt-comments.cgi is an excellent solution. No sarcasm here: security by obscurity really works as a deterrent.
When you buy a CD from a band, the RIAA gives the band a few dollars out of the purchase price.
When you buy a CD from allofmp3.com, the band gets nothing from the RIAA or its Russian counterpart.
If you're going to buy from allofmp3.com, just buy KaZaA Plus already. We already know allofmp3.com's customers don't care about the artists getting any money, yet they enjoy paying money for music they could otherwise download for free.
Have you ever used a program that needs to save more than eight megabytes of data at once? Do you consider a 2 MB file to be "large"?
Some games, such as sports games and even Halo 2, can benefit from using a hard drive for prebuffering or saving large amounts of intermediate data. Sony did not allow developers this luxury when they abandoned their hard drive plans. Microsoft did, and many games took advantage.
Or perhaps you'd like to return to the idea of storing binary patches (as for SOCOM II / PS2) on an extraordinarily expensive memory card.
I'm sorry, but that's the last I'll say on this topic. You can Paypal me $20 to continue so I can buy another memory card.
Don't insult my English comprehension and then misspell "suit." It's four letters long.
I'd rather have an eight gigabyte hard drive bundled with the console instead of paying $20 or more for eight megabytes of PlayStation 2 storage. I don't care if it's Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, or whoever that makes the console; the point is that the Xbox is cheaper (if you want to save games) than the PlayStation, and cheaper is better.
The GameCube is cheaper still, but its memory cards are laughably small. Wasn't the first GameCube memory card something like $15 for 512 kilobytes?
Every game that supports saving supports the hard drive.
If nothing else, it makes the Xbox ($150) slightly cheaper than the PS2 ($150 + $20 memory card) if you're interested in saving your progress in games.