Ok, anyone wondering what wonderful bits to get me, look no farther!
Rio Karma (20G) for day to day use, Rio Cali (256mb version) for the gym (Wow just did a currency conversion, and even with the exchange it's about $100CND cheaper to buy this in the states (assuming the $169USD pricetag seen on froogle.google.com)
Linux compatible Serial ATA card for my fileserver (the Silicon Graphics chipsets don't seem to do linux RAID, but according to someof theforumposts it is possible to get it working). This is just an interim solution until I upgrade the whole box and put in a motherboard with a SATA chip, so just looking for something that works:)
A huge and over priced flat panel TV, ungodly expensive reciever, and speakers of such high quality that even the most freakish audiophiles will cry for mercy (this will go in the house I mentioned above).
CDRs
CDRWs
DVDRs (to go with the DVD writer mentioned above)
Obviously some of these are pie in the sky wishlist stuff, others are a bit more serious, and yet others I'll get myself if the boxing day sales are good enough. I leave it to you gentle reader to figure out which is which:)
Sweet, I'll have to check it out! The advantage of MB is that because they have specific style guidelines (and moderators to enforce them) data has consistancy. I've imported a lot of albums from freedb to MB and there is a lot of inconsistancy as far as capitalization, format (ie: disc 1, disk 1, disk 1 of 3, etc) and even naming of bands (The Eagles, Eagles, Eagles, The, etc).
Because the music industry wants to control the content, and wants the public (their customers) pay for it again and again, without actually ever getting it into their grubby, theiving hands.
Check out MusicBrainz, it will fingerprint your ogg or mp3 files and compare the fingerprint against their database (all OSS btw) and send back the correct id3 tags, and save the music files into the directory structure you set up. If it can't find the files you can import missing albums in from freedb or put in albums yourself. It's gotten a lot better in the last year or so as far as the number of fingerprints it has. It's a very sweet system, I just finished tagging a collection of >100G of mp3s and oggs (from various sources) and it performed fantastically.
Right now the tagger program is only for windows, but the author just got a grant and will be working to develop linux and os/x taggers. The libraries are all OSS and there are a few (not as good) taggers written with them for other OSs.
A similarly nice one is the Pentax P-30. It's a bit newer than the K1000, all manual, but still very good. Personally I think that *any* SLR from a company that you can still get lenses for is good. Remember that if you get a P30 at a swap meet for $25 or a brand new canon rebel for $400, the quality of the pictures comes from the photographer, not the camera. A better camera will *not* make you a better photographer, even though some of the features on the newer ones can make your life easier.
I'm a big believer in learning the hard way first, and then use the auto-everything device to see how it is. Remember, if you never have to set your f-stop and shutter speed you won't have the knowledge to do interesting things with the new camera that is auto everything:)
But they can. No joe user would dwelve into kernel editing, but with linux a developer can, without having to pay $1000s to microsoft. In fact, the tools required to edit the kernel come with the linux distribution. Just because it's only 0.000000000001% of the users doesn't mean that it's still not a good thing.
What if MS released the windows 98 source code under the GPL or a BSD or Apache style license? Probably that 0.000000000001% of developers who care enough will take it, fix some of the annoying bugs and features in it and create a windows 99 release that can be used by anyone to patch windows98 and create a useable free version (think dr-dos being released and now used as a minimul dos environment by various companies, ie: apple's virtual pc uses it as a base dos install).
Maybe that wouldn't happen, maybe it would. Without he code being available, it *can't*.
Also, I don't think that a 1.5 is an alpha. Evolution has been quite stable since it's pre-1.0 days. 1.5 is a rehauling, but doesn't place the program back at the alpha stage by any means.
No offense, but that doesn't do someone a lot of good. The original poster probably has to communicate with people using windows certs and pointing to a standard that is impelemented in one mail client doesn't do a whole lot of good:)
"Fit in wallet" and "be safe in wallet" are two different things:) I carried around one of those bootable business card cds from linux care for ages and when I finally needed it I found it had split in two at some point:( I'm sure you can find a better case for them though (I just had a plastic sleeve).
Hehe, I use the floppy disk to back up my 1.44mb quickbooks backups and that's about it. I can see if you're a student that it'd be more useful for carrying around reports and assignments and such though, but for the sort of data storage I do, CDs are just barely cutting it, and as soon as I see one of these cheapass dvd drives up here in.ca, I'm buying it!
Actually I use them more for recovery CDs. I had a raid array blow a drive over the weekend and used a knoppix livecd to do some of the recovery. A CD with a full shell and tools (ie: not busybox that is on most install CDs (ie: mandrake 9.2 disk 1)) is a godsend when your/var is pooched:)
Sadly knoppix 3.3 doesn't support my PCI IDE card, mandrake's install CD (which I also brought) supports it but doesn't have decent tools that let it be used to do system recovery, and I didnt' get a chance to download the latest gentoo liveCD when I had to go to my colo and deal with things.
This livecd will go in my box of recovery disks, hopefully it'll have all the tools needed for this sort of task!
Other specific uses of livecds are for forensic analysis, an IDS on a CD, etc.
Some of the changes in 2.6 are keeping me from upgrading right now.
- change in mouse behaviour (speed, access to extra buttons)
- some 3rd party modules not updated (nforce2 nic drivers, vmware)
- I've heard cd burning has issues
- I can updated the 2.4.x kernels without any huge worries that my remote server will blow up and require me to get some co-lo monkey to try to fix it:)
Actually once you start using it it *is* pretty useful, and after a while you find yourself needing it under linux and windows (or at least I did).
BTW, not an apple fanboy here... I've been a linux user on the desktop for years, and had my first "real" mac os exposure when work bought powerbooks for the devs, and I got to do my work from os 10.3 instead of my linux desktop.
Integrated syncing with itunes I think. I'm all for the beauty that is the iPod, but it plays ogg and friends, and is compatible via java.... hopefully it's under $500CND... I'm in!
Ok, so Microsoft is coming out with a product that is 90% the same as an existing product from another vender, but 10% optimized for windows only, and probably *just* different enough that it's easy to get in to, but hard to switch back. It'll be included with every copy of windows (when it's released sometime towards the end of the decade).
I remember thinking this same thing when napster was originally shut down. Everyone got their online music from one place. Everyone. The record industry could have taken napster and modified it little by little to match up with a new distribution method that allowed everyone to win, but instead they killed it dead and now the online trading is pretty fragmented.... you have usenet, p2p (many), torrents....
Course, saying the record industry is stupid is redundant in itself....
Should find his email address and email a few nice polite letters telling him that he's not talking to the right people, and the reasons why you use Free Software.
People don't complain now when they can't get right to the main DVD menu do they? The *AA are taking away the rights of the consumers slowly so they don't notice:)
It's only a matter of time before you can't do that either. Notice how on DVDs you can't fast forward to the main menu and skip the 20th cent/Fox/whatever logos at the start? How long until those passive company logos turn into ads? Digital and HDTV are giving the same sort of control to the average TV set. It wouldn't surprise me if sometime in the future this is used to not allow you to change channels at certain points, or maybe even turn off the TV until an ad is finished, or other such things.
I may have my tinfoil hat on, but if you could show the web as it is today (ad wise) to people two or three years ago, they'd think you were joking. I remember a page done up (as a joke) a few years ago just *filled* with flashing banner ads all around and within the content. Didn't look too different than a lot of pages today. Take this analogy over to the real world....
People are turning into sheep, watching more tv and becoming more used to getting their information in short snips (think point form or power point presentations) and companies are seeing this and realizing (like spammers) that the more ads people see, the more they will buy. Call it "branding" or "spamming" or whatever, it's the same idea.
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The impression I got of how they found him was capturing and then "intensely interragating" (I read that as "torturing") them.
Yes, offtopic.
Yes, my spelling sucks.
- Rio Karma (20G) for day to day use, Rio Cali (256mb version) for the gym (Wow just did a currency conversion, and even with the exchange it's about $100CND cheaper to buy this in the states (assuming the $169USD pricetag seen on froogle.google.com)
- AOpen DRW4410 DVD Writer (at under $100 US it'd be cheaper than the above items
:)
- Linux compatible Serial ATA card for my fileserver (the Silicon Graphics chipsets don't seem to do linux RAID, but according to some of the forum posts it is possible to get it working). This is just an interim solution until I upgrade the whole box and put in a motherboard with a SATA chip, so just looking for something that works
:)
- A couple of big ass SATA hard drives to go with it.
- Aliens Quadrilogy DVD
- A USB keychain storage device... 64 or 128 megs of storage to keep important files safe. According to a recent Linux Journal article, they are the floppies for the new millenium.
- Canon Digital Rebel or...
- Pentax Digital *ist
- Add on bits for my Canon A70 Digital Camera
- Another nice shirt like I got from mom for my birthday
- $1,000,000
- A house that exactly meets what I want (and only costs $1)
- A subscription to Popular Photography Magazine
- A huge and over priced flat panel TV, ungodly expensive reciever, and speakers of such high quality that even the most freakish audiophiles will cry for mercy (this will go in the house I mentioned above).
- CDRs
- CDRWs
- DVDRs (to go with the DVD writer mentioned above)
Obviously some of these are pie in the sky wishlist stuff, others are a bit more serious, and yet others I'll get myself if the boxing day sales are good enough. I leave it to you gentle reader to figure out which is whichSweet, I'll have to check it out! The advantage of MB is that because they have specific style guidelines (and moderators to enforce them) data has consistancy. I've imported a lot of albums from freedb to MB and there is a lot of inconsistancy as far as capitalization, format (ie: disc 1, disk 1, disk 1 of 3, etc) and even naming of bands (The Eagles, Eagles, Eagles, The, etc).
Will check it out though!
Because the music industry wants to control the content, and wants the public (their customers) pay for it again and again, without actually ever getting it into their grubby, theiving hands.
Check out MusicBrainz, it will fingerprint your ogg or mp3 files and compare the fingerprint against their database (all OSS btw) and send back the correct id3 tags, and save the music files into the directory structure you set up. If it can't find the files you can import missing albums in from freedb or put in albums yourself. It's gotten a lot better in the last year or so as far as the number of fingerprints it has. It's a very sweet system, I just finished tagging a collection of >100G of mp3s and oggs (from various sources) and it performed fantastically.
Right now the tagger program is only for windows, but the author just got a grant and will be working to develop linux and os/x taggers. The libraries are all OSS and there are a few (not as good) taggers written with them for other OSs.
A similarly nice one is the Pentax P-30. It's a bit newer than the K1000, all manual, but still very good. Personally I think that *any* SLR from a company that you can still get lenses for is good. Remember that if you get a P30 at a swap meet for $25 or a brand new canon rebel for $400, the quality of the pictures comes from the photographer, not the camera. A better camera will *not* make you a better photographer, even though some of the features on the newer ones can make your life easier.
:)
I'm a big believer in learning the hard way first, and then use the auto-everything device to see how it is. Remember, if you never have to set your f-stop and shutter speed you won't have the knowledge to do interesting things with the new camera that is auto everything
But they can. No joe user would dwelve into kernel editing, but with linux a developer can, without having to pay $1000s to microsoft. In fact, the tools required to edit the kernel come with the linux distribution. Just because it's only 0.000000000001% of the users doesn't mean that it's still not a good thing.
What if MS released the windows 98 source code under the GPL or a BSD or Apache style license? Probably that 0.000000000001% of developers who care enough will take it, fix some of the annoying bugs and features in it and create a windows 99 release that can be used by anyone to patch windows98 and create a useable free version (think dr-dos being released and now used as a minimul dos environment by various companies, ie: apple's virtual pc uses it as a base dos install).
Maybe that wouldn't happen, maybe it would. Without he code being available, it *can't*.
What's the url to the kde beta?
Also, I don't think that a 1.5 is an alpha. Evolution has been quite stable since it's pre-1.0 days. 1.5 is a rehauling, but doesn't place the program back at the alpha stage by any means.
No offense, but that doesn't do someone a lot of good. The original poster probably has to communicate with people using windows certs and pointing to a standard that is impelemented in one mail client doesn't do a whole lot of good :)
(disclaimer - I'm a mutt user)
Software can be duplicated indefinately, hardware... not so much :(
"Fit in wallet" and "be safe in wallet" are two different things :) I carried around one of those bootable business card cds from linux care for ages and when I finally needed it I found it had split in two at some point :( I'm sure you can find a better case for them though (I just had a plastic sleeve).
Hehe, I use the floppy disk to back up my 1.44mb quickbooks backups and that's about it. I can see if you're a student that it'd be more useful for carrying around reports and assignments and such though, but for the sort of data storage I do, CDs are just barely cutting it, and as soon as I see one of these cheapass dvd drives up here in .ca, I'm buying it!
Could someone set up a bittorrent link or a north american mirror?
Actually I use them more for recovery CDs. I had a raid array blow a drive over the weekend and used a knoppix livecd to do some of the recovery. A CD with a full shell and tools (ie: not busybox that is on most install CDs (ie: mandrake 9.2 disk 1)) is a godsend when your /var is pooched :)
Sadly knoppix 3.3 doesn't support my PCI IDE card, mandrake's install CD (which I also brought) supports it but doesn't have decent tools that let it be used to do system recovery, and I didnt' get a chance to download the latest gentoo liveCD when I had to go to my colo and deal with things.
This livecd will go in my box of recovery disks, hopefully it'll have all the tools needed for this sort of task!
Other specific uses of livecds are for forensic analysis, an IDS on a CD, etc.
What about the crashing copies of the released product? From what I've seen they don't seem to care too much about those...
I already sucked it down from the main kernel.org site actually, 2.5mb/s :)
Some of the changes in 2.6 are keeping me from upgrading right now. :)
- change in mouse behaviour (speed, access to extra buttons)
- some 3rd party modules not updated (nforce2 nic drivers, vmware)
- I've heard cd burning has issues
- I can updated the 2.4.x kernels without any huge worries that my remote server will blow up and require me to get some co-lo monkey to try to fix it
ftp.us.kernel.org and ftp.ca.kernel.org aren't updated yet, so I guess we're free to slashdot the main kernel.org server back to the stone age? :)
Actually once you start using it it *is* pretty useful, and after a while you find yourself needing it under linux and windows (or at least I did).
BTW, not an apple fanboy here... I've been a linux user on the desktop for years, and had my first "real" mac os exposure when work bought powerbooks for the devs, and I got to do my work from os 10.3 instead of my linux desktop.
Integrated syncing with itunes I think. I'm all for the beauty that is the iPod, but it plays ogg and friends, and is compatible via java.... hopefully it's under $500CND... I'm in!
Ok, so Microsoft is coming out with a product that is 90% the same as an existing product from another vender, but 10% optimized for windows only, and probably *just* different enough that it's easy to get in to, but hard to switch back. It'll be included with every copy of windows (when it's released sometime towards the end of the decade).
Sound familiar to anyone?
I remember thinking this same thing when napster was originally shut down. Everyone got their online music from one place. Everyone. The record industry could have taken napster and modified it little by little to match up with a new distribution method that allowed everyone to win, but instead they killed it dead and now the online trading is pretty fragmented.... you have usenet, p2p (many), torrents....
Course, saying the record industry is stupid is redundant in itself....
Should find his email address and email a few nice polite letters telling him that he's not talking to the right people, and the reasons why you use Free Software.
People don't complain now when they can't get right to the main DVD menu do they? The *AA are taking away the rights of the consumers slowly so they don't notice :)
It's only a matter of time before you can't do that either. Notice how on DVDs you can't fast forward to the main menu and skip the 20th cent/Fox/whatever logos at the start? How long until those passive company logos turn into ads? Digital and HDTV are giving the same sort of control to the average TV set. It wouldn't surprise me if sometime in the future this is used to not allow you to change channels at certain points, or maybe even turn off the TV until an ad is finished, or other such things.
I may have my tinfoil hat on, but if you could show the web as it is today (ad wise) to people two or three years ago, they'd think you were joking. I remember a page done up (as a joke) a few years ago just *filled* with flashing banner ads all around and within the content. Didn't look too different than a lot of pages today. Take this analogy over to the real world....
People are turning into sheep, watching more tv and becoming more used to getting their information in short snips (think point form or power point presentations) and companies are seeing this and realizing (like spammers) that the more ads people see, the more they will buy. Call it "branding" or "spamming" or whatever, it's the same idea.