- have you tried putting the hard drive in another linux box and seeing if the same errors show up
- have you tried diddling with the dma/hdparm settings. I know some controllers have "issues" with dma
- Are there actual errors, trouble getting data, slow performance, etc? This could be random warnings thrown out by the driver that may not mean that there is anything disasterously wrong (wild guess).
For me the even better feature of AG was the "related artist" feature. Many many times I would find a song by someone I liked and see the "other people who like this artist also like...." line and either recognize an artist I'd forgotten about, or be introduced to new artists that were in line with my musical tastes. Very cool.
The ability to populate your download queue from anywhere on the web, so I could download to home from work, something you can't do with kazaa/gnutella/etc.
Yup, my thoughts exactly. About a year ago some friends and I thought up a scheme to do mp3 fingerprinting. At the time it was simply to deal with the PITA of setting/verifying mp3 tag information. In the end we ended up not pursuing it because the theory was that someone (the RIAA) would now not have to play "my_loud_fart.mp3" to find out it was really "britney_spears-new_hot_song.mp3", but compare tags.
This would empower the axis of evil in ways that we weren't comfortable with, so the project was put on the back-burner.
We never had such grandious plans as musicbrainz, but all in all, I'm glad someone finally did this, if only so I don't have to deal with tagging my mp3s!:)
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When I've gotten that error it has meant that the drive itself is heading towards the great hardware graveyard in the sky. Since it's raid1 you should be able to simply put in a new/dev/hdb and all should be fine.
IIRC I once got one in the 40s or 50s, some asian teen sex toner catridge html penis enlarging money saving viagra enabled weight lose and interest rate mail of some sort I guess....
Re:Did George Washington and Benjamin Franklin...
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Here's the sinfest link for those who don't know Tatsuya Ishida.
I posted in here already, so I can't, but this post (AC or not) is bang on the mark.
Very similar to the "your favorite [band|os|whatever] sucks" shirts.
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In general, gnome2 is going for the "minimulistic, things just work" approach, while KDE is going the "ultra configurable, complete user control" approach.
I'm not up on KDE that much, other than playing with (and quite enjoying so far) 3.1 in the last while, but gnome has been hacking off options and reducing the ability for the user to mess thing up, or reduce the amount of clutter the user has to deal with to get things done, depending on who you talk to:) There have been no end of flame wars within gnome itself about this (see the desktop-devel and galeon-devel list archives for lovely examples of these).
Personally, well, like the other guy said, it really doesn't matter what I think, there are two different ways of getting things done, two different look and feels, and two different paths for you to try out and see if you like them:)
(Of course there are more than 2, but that's not the issue here).
Re:And the first title will be....
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Yea, cryptonomicon rocked.... I was absolutely enthralled when he was in prision. Gads, what a great book. Huge, but great.
Wow, what a response. I never realized that one badly worded and beer and BC pot influenced braino message would insight so much. I wasn't trolling, but I certainly wasn't coherant. And for the record, all but my desktop machine is debian, and regardless of what I rambled above, I do love it.
I used to be a total debian advocate until about 6 months ago, when I switched my desktop to a gentoo system. Debian is great, but their ethics get in the way of putting out a first class distro.
In gentoo you don't have to go off and find different sources for debian deemed "non-free" or "non compliant" packages, or go off and download things like the win32 codecs by hand because to *gasp* download them automagically would be a violation of blah blah charter blah blah.
To "win the desktop" linux has to give users the ability to easily get the programs and packages that they need and want to use. If granny has to figure out where to find the URL of the secret package such-and-such, she's not going to get it. If it's done for her, she'll be able to appreciate things.
Sorry to rant, but I've noticed more and more lately how debian's philosophy is getting in the way of me getting the programs I want to use. Yes, I know that I can add suchandsuch to my apt-sources, but why should I have to? Also, while as amusing as the legal flame wars about how paragraph 32 line 8 words 14-18 in the program license excludes it from being included in debian main are, they get old real soon.
I wouldn't have said anything, but under gentoo I type "emerge mplayer" and get the latest version, with all the patches and codecs. "emerge freetype" and I get freetype with the 'in the grey' hack to make things look better, etc etc.
Anyone else think that debian is getting a bit anal in these matters?
rant off....
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Well, this is still a problem in rc5, but here's hoping...
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Same here.... KDE has some *very* nifty features. The most impressive is the nice pop-up preview for pretty much every file type under the sun. The only thing that pisses me off is that the file view in konq doesn't seem to cache thumbnails, so every time I go to a directory/reload it I have to wait for the icons to quit jumping around as they have thumbnails created.
I'll give it another go after it's done compiling on my gentoo system though, cause there are some things in gnome2 that are pissing me right off now....
It's still good to see that a site that has been around a while has chosen to do this. If foo.com/random/users/~bob/suff/site decided to do this, no one would care. Ask Jeeves is at least visible and known. I say that as long as the paid links are clearly marked (they appear to be in the top section as "sponsored results") like google's, they I say good. Hopefully other sites will follow this model. Unfortunately, this model doesn't really work for places like salon.com or non-search engine sites.
I just finished a course on self employment and one of the things discussed was business cards, and if when you hand yours to someone and they don't say "hey, nice card" (or similar), change it. If it's not something that's eye catching it'll be put in the persons pile of cards and dumped to the trash or forgotten until they clean up their work area, and then it'll be thrown out.
Something like the hologram or sandwiched steel is exactly what they mean, it's not something that's easily forgotten.
While people say how wonderful IE is and how netscape/mozilla has lost the browser war, and that linux sucks on the desktop. I can't tell you the last pop up/under/flash ad I saw. I use a browser that most tend to ignore (yea yea, keep it under the radar), and if the stupid propriatary scripting does work, it is easily turned off (I either set popups to not be allowed or to open in tabs in the background, where I can close them without ever looking at them).
99% of plugins don't work with mozilla? Gosh, NO! No more gator activeX controls that offer to install on their own? I am so missing out aren't I.
Even if mozilla becomes a target for advertisers, it seems that mozilla is actually listening to the users, and implementing the types of options that they want (pop up blocking, spam blocking) as opposed to IE, which makes it just that much more diffucult to have an online experience that is ad free (and therefor company unfriendly).
Hey IE, why is it so easy to allow plugins yet so easy to not? Where is the "never allow" (for gator activeX esp)? I see there is an "always allow". Why doesn't the cookie more information button save state properly? Hate to piss off those big corporations that you're brownnosing up to.
Free software will be the reason that people never see this shit. Made for the people, and by the people.
Because online travel has such widespread appeal, ads that "roll over" directly to the site hold value for many people, according to the company's interactive ad agency, Otherwise.
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"There's an enormous segment of the population that are appreciating these ads." He said that similar commercials have appeared online over the last eight months.
I say "show me one ". Not one person who has ever clicked an ad, or found something useful in online advertising, but somone who has "appreciated" these pop-unders or new "kick overs".
People (as I understand it) don't want this sort of stuff. They want something like a banner ad that is easily ignored unless it is relevant to them. About the only banner ads I click are the/. thinkgeek ones if they show me a TG product that looks new or that I haven't seen before. If thinkgeek had huge flashing animated fullscreen pop-over-under-kicking ads that is an annoyance, and while I will remember them better, it will not be in a good light, and that will influence my purchases from them in the future.
The one thing that still sucks about it (at least under linux) is the way it handles user sessions. I have to create a new window with it, I can't start a new session and have that "attach" to the other one, like galeon and mozilla. When I start a new phoenix it gives me the user profile chooser box, and then when I choose my profile, tells me it is in use and to bugger off and try another one.
I'll go back to it when it's a bit more user friendly in this manner, it seems like a nice browser, very much like galeon, but without the gnome dependancy, and available for windows as well.
Because to make money you have to annoy the shit out of people, and people ignore inline ads, so the more annoying we make them, the more money we make.
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Ah, interesting, good info to have :) Glad you go it worked out!
A couple of thoughts:
- have you tried putting the hard drive in another linux box and seeing if the same errors show up
- have you tried diddling with the dma/hdparm settings. I know some controllers have "issues" with dma
- Are there actual errors, trouble getting data, slow performance, etc? This could be random warnings thrown out by the driver that may not mean that there is anything disasterously wrong (wild guess).
For me the even better feature of AG was the "related artist" feature. Many many times I would find a song by someone I liked and see the "other people who like this artist also like...." line and either recognize an artist I'd forgotten about, or be introduced to new artists that were in line with my musical tastes. Very cool.
The ability to populate your download queue from anywhere on the web, so I could download to home from work, something you can't do with kazaa/gnutella/etc.
Wish they'd come back....
Yup, my thoughts exactly. About a year ago some friends and I thought up a scheme to do mp3 fingerprinting. At the time it was simply to deal with the PITA of setting/verifying mp3 tag information. In the end we ended up not pursuing it because the theory was that someone (the RIAA) would now not have to play "my_loud_fart.mp3" to find out it was really "britney_spears-new_hot_song.mp3", but compare tags.
:)
This would empower the axis of evil in ways that we weren't comfortable with, so the project was put on the back-burner.
We never had such grandious plans as musicbrainz, but all in all, I'm glad someone finally did this, if only so I don't have to deal with tagging my mp3s!
When I've gotten that error it has meant that the drive itself is heading towards the great hardware graveyard in the sky. Since it's raid1 you should be able to simply put in a new /dev/hdb and all should be fine.
IIRC I once got one in the 40s or 50s, some asian teen sex toner catridge html penis enlarging money saving viagra enabled weight lose and interest rate mail of some sort I guess....
Here's the sinfest link for those who don't know Tatsuya Ishida.
I posted in here already, so I can't, but this post (AC or not) is bang on the mark.
Very similar to the "your favorite [band|os|whatever] sucks" shirts.
In general, gnome2 is going for the "minimulistic, things just work" approach, while KDE is going the "ultra configurable, complete user control" approach.
:) There have been no end of flame wars within gnome itself about this (see the desktop-devel and galeon-devel list archives for lovely examples of these).
:)
I'm not up on KDE that much, other than playing with (and quite enjoying so far) 3.1 in the last while, but gnome has been hacking off options and reducing the ability for the user to mess thing up, or reduce the amount of clutter the user has to deal with to get things done, depending on who you talk to
Personally, well, like the other guy said, it really doesn't matter what I think, there are two different ways of getting things done, two different look and feels, and two different paths for you to try out and see if you like them
(Of course there are more than 2, but that's not the issue here).
Yea, cryptonomicon rocked.... I was absolutely enthralled when he was in prision. Gads, what a great book. Huge, but great.
Course, you have to wait a day or two to actually *use* it :) (~19 hours on my k7-900 1.4rc2).
"A young ladies illustrated primer"
Wow, what a response. I never realized that one badly worded and beer and BC pot influenced braino message would insight so much. I wasn't trolling, but I certainly wasn't coherant. And for the record, all but my desktop machine is debian, and regardless of what I rambled above, I do love it.
Of course, this being slashdot and all...
Bah.
I used to be a total debian advocate until about 6 months ago, when I switched my desktop to a gentoo system. Debian is great, but their ethics get in the way of putting out a first class distro.
In gentoo you don't have to go off and find different sources for debian deemed "non-free" or "non compliant" packages, or go off and download things like the win32 codecs by hand because to *gasp* download them automagically would be a violation of blah blah charter blah blah.
To "win the desktop" linux has to give users the ability to easily get the programs and packages that they need and want to use. If granny has to figure out where to find the URL of the secret package such-and-such, she's not going to get it. If it's done for her, she'll be able to appreciate things.
Sorry to rant, but I've noticed more and more lately how debian's philosophy is getting in the way of me getting the programs I want to use. Yes, I know that I can add suchandsuch to my apt-sources, but why should I have to? Also, while as amusing as the legal flame wars about how paragraph 32 line 8 words 14-18 in the program license excludes it from being included in debian main are, they get old real soon.
I wouldn't have said anything, but under gentoo I type "emerge mplayer" and get the latest version, with all the patches and codecs. "emerge freetype" and I get freetype with the 'in the grey' hack to make things look better, etc etc.
Anyone else think that debian is getting a bit anal in these matters?
rant off....
Well, this is still a problem in rc5, but here's hoping...
Same here.... KDE has some *very* nifty features. The most impressive is the nice pop-up preview for pretty much every file type under the sun. The only thing that pisses me off is that the file view in konq doesn't seem to cache thumbnails, so every time I go to a directory/reload it I have to wait for the icons to quit jumping around as they have thumbnails created.
I'll give it another go after it's done compiling on my gentoo system though, cause there are some things in gnome2 that are pissing me right off now....
Is there a way to get streaming of that show, or is it archived anywhere (or could it be? :) for those of us who are without?
It's still good to see that a site that has been around a while has chosen to do this. If foo.com/random/users/~bob/suff/site decided to do this, no one would care. Ask Jeeves is at least visible and known. I say that as long as the paid links are clearly marked (they appear to be in the top section as "sponsored results") like google's, they I say good. Hopefully other sites will follow this model. Unfortunately, this model doesn't really work for places like salon.com or non-search engine sites.
I just finished a course on self employment and one of the things discussed was business cards, and if when you hand yours to someone and they don't say "hey, nice card" (or similar), change it. If it's not something that's eye catching it'll be put in the persons pile of cards and dumped to the trash or forgotten until they clean up their work area, and then it'll be thrown out.
Something like the hologram or sandwiched steel is exactly what they mean, it's not something that's easily forgotten.
Damn, you're even lower than me!
Ok, how about one that's affordable to a normal human and not the cost of a decent PC MB and CPU :)
While people say how wonderful IE is and how netscape/mozilla has lost the browser war, and that linux sucks on the desktop. I can't tell you the last pop up/under/flash ad I saw. I use a browser that most tend to ignore (yea yea, keep it under the radar), and if the stupid propriatary scripting does work, it is easily turned off (I either set popups to not be allowed or to open in tabs in the background, where I can close them without ever looking at them).
99% of plugins don't work with mozilla? Gosh, NO! No more gator activeX controls that offer to install on their own? I am so missing out aren't I.
Even if mozilla becomes a target for advertisers, it seems that mozilla is actually listening to the users, and implementing the types of options that they want (pop up blocking, spam blocking) as opposed to IE, which makes it just that much more diffucult to have an online experience that is ad free (and therefor company unfriendly).
Hey IE, why is it so easy to allow plugins yet so easy to not? Where is the "never allow" (for gator activeX esp)? I see there is an "always allow". Why doesn't the cookie more information button save state properly? Hate to piss off those big corporations that you're brownnosing up to.
Free software will be the reason that people never see this shit. Made for the people, and by the people.
I say " show me one ". Not one person who has ever clicked an ad, or found something useful in online advertising, but somone who has "appreciated" these pop-unders or new "kick overs".
People (as I understand it) don't want this sort of stuff. They want something like a banner ad that is easily ignored unless it is relevant to them. About the only banner ads I click are the
The one thing that still sucks about it (at least under linux) is the way it handles user sessions. I have to create a new window with it, I can't start a new session and have that "attach" to the other one, like galeon and mozilla. When I start a new phoenix it gives me the user profile chooser box, and then when I choose my profile, tells me it is in use and to bugger off and try another one.
I'll go back to it when it's a bit more user friendly in this manner, it seems like a nice browser, very much like galeon, but without the gnome dependancy, and available for windows as well.
Because to make money you have to annoy the shit out of people, and people ignore inline ads, so the more annoying we make them, the more money we make.
*sigh*