when my indian friends go back home, i always have them pick up a copy of a book or two for me. for example, the math text we use is kreyszig found here on barnes and noble. my member price is $125 for the hardback new and $87 for the used hardback. my softcover copy from india cost $11. sure the quality isn't the same, but when i want to know how to sovle a partial differential equation, the quality doesnt really impact things that much.
the only tragedy is that i didnt make friends with indians until i got to grad school. if i had known these folks as an undergrad i would have probably setup my own textbook importation raquette.
i picked up an old mo drive a while back with 10 128 mb disks and 5 256 mb disks. i use it to backup stuff like finance info and the like. one really cool thing about mo drives was their backwards compatability. so if i bought a 2gb mo drive, i can still read my 128mb disks. at least thats how it used to be.
another really neat aspect is things like magnets dont have an effect on them. think of a cdrw that you can write to like a zip drive. sure they have those hacks that let you write to a cdrw like it's a regular drive, but they are not consistant across platforms. try running mkfs.ext2 on your cdrw.
they were really useful, it's a shame they never caught on.
and when you sit back at night watching television shows your tivo has recorded checking your email on your zaurus, just know that linux has no place in commercialproducts.
see the above comments where a person who submitted to this journal said it cost the submitter $1500 to process his submission. while this is alot of money, i think it's worth the price to maintain ownership of your work.
i've been monkeying around in perl trying to get something, has anyone been able to successfully hack something together so i dont have to reinvent the wheel?
i must admit that the unlimited downloads (well not quite because they cut your service if you exceed 2000 songs in a month, but that was enought for me) was a big selling point for me. here is the important part the emphisis added:
2. MODIFICATION We may add, delete or modify any of the aspects of our Service and/or any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion. We will notify you of any such changes via email or by posting a change notice on our site at http://www.emusic.com/subscriptions/ If any modification is unacceptable to you, you must stop using the Service. Unless otherwise specifically set forth in our notice, all changes be effective upon the date we notify you of the same ("effective date"). Your continued use of the Service following the effective date will constitute your binding acceptance of and agreement to be bound by the changes specified therein. You should check back frequently and review the terms and conditions of this agreement regularly so you are aware of the most current rights and obligations that apply to you and the terms and conditions of your agreement with us. If any new products or services become available, they will be considered a part of the Service and your use of them will be governed by the terms and conditions of this Agreement unless we notify you that different terms and conditions apply. You must also comply with any additional terms which apply to third-party content, material, information, software or other services.
i personally want what i agreed to when i signed up to emusic. you know, they made an offer, i took it. i signed up for a year, and now after a few months they want to change that.
i'm a current subscriber to emusic, and i was under the impression that i had a contractual agreement. i suppose i need to speak with my friend who studies arbitration about this. i suppose there is something in their terms of service which mentions they can change their terms at a months notice. hardly fair if i cannot cancel my subscription at a months notice.
i guess i have a month to leech as much off them as i want. it's a shame really. i didnt download that much (5 or 6 cds a month). this was mainly because i always thought that i could get the stuff when ever i wanted. since i sit infront of a computer at school. i can download 5 or 6 songs in an hour.
The government also officiously informed the reporters that this is an "official criminal investigation" and asks that they not disclose the request to preserve documents, or the contents of the letter, to anyone -- presumably including their editors, directors, or lawyers -- under the implied threat of prosecution for obstruction of justice.
perhaps reporters are feeling intimidated by this. intimidation such as this could be considered an inhibition of free speech and freedom of the press.
If you don't do a lot of file sharing why do you need broadband?
telecommuting - i like to work from home. i do most of this from a terminal and dialup doesnt give me a responsive enough terminal.
being able to access my data when i'm not at home. when i need a phone number, i just ssh to my house and run abook.
i've done the "share an isdn line" thing in the past. it worked fairly well, but the incremental cost of having my own dsl line now is very small. sure i could get two phone lines for $40 a month, and use one for dialup. alternatively, i could get one phone line and dsl for $45.
if someone offered me a chunk of a broadband connection for $5 a month, i'd probably take it. this would of course violate the terms of service.
Re:looking for something a little more functional.
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do you really think it would make the caes that much bigger? i would imagine i could get a case that supports those little tree things which allows you to place cards horizontally (parallell with the motherboard). like i said i'm looking for something 1/2 the size of a normal case. this should have enough room to easily support 1 or 2 cards and 6 hard drives.
i've been looking around on the net for a mini-itx case which can hold around 6 ide drives but remain relatively small -- say half the size of a regular desktop machine or smaller if possible. while having a case that glows and stuff is nice, i would rather have something that is small and functional which i can put on the network somewhere.
really it's not that hard to find this information. goto postgresql.com, click on support and then read:
http://www.pgsql.com/support/
postgresql, like alot of opensource software, has a free component as well as a commercial one. statements like: I don't doubt the capabilities of PostGres and MySql, but when your DBMS is doing memory dumps, you don't want to have to scour google for an answer. You want the vendor on the phone as fast as possible and MS, in my exeperience, is very good at phone support when it comes to SQL Server.
would indicate that very little research was done when determining how to build your cluster. this is fine if you are familar with ms, but implying that the only way to get support for opensource solutions is through google is very misleading.
Wether or not you support the RIAA, the artist or file swappers, giving away copyrighted material is stealing.
not really
Wether or not you support the RIAA, the artist or file swappers, giving away copyrighted material is copyright infringement.
that's why these people are not being charged with theft, or larceny. no matter how many times the riaa folks say it in the paper, copyright infringement is not theft.
someone should purchase an itunes file from someone who has already purchased it legally. then they can legally break the drm apple has in place in order to use the product for which they paid. i believe there are provisions in the dmca for this. it would be an interesting test for the dmca.
as for the practicallity of it. i dont see a problem with an entity purchasing "used" itunes audio files and then reselling them like used cd stores do. shure you could have copied the music file before you sold it to the online reseller. you could have copied the cd before you sold it to 'daves music mine'. you should still have the right to sell that for which you paid. if this really messes up apples' business model, it's not your fault.
If you'd had to type in all the metadata for your own CD collection, you never would have bothered. (Unless you're obsessive or something; most people aren't.)
i cannot argue with this, but when you get back from fiji you can eaily annotate the files from your camera with that information. then someday in the future, when you are browsing throught them and you see one with nice waterfall shot, you can update the metadata of that file. with time you would have the ability to find the needle in the haystack so to speak.
the community is a good way to do this also. a group of friends interested in photography, sharing the same database of files, would populate your metadata rather quickly.
find a bunch of people who are interested in sorting things like music, make it web based and give out accounts. it's what i did and it's worked pretty well.
it's webbased written in perl with everything stored in a postgres database. i found that with thousands of multimedia files (mp3's, avi's, images, etc.) it was impossible to find the stuff when i want it. now i can find an image from my 2001 trip to nebraska by issuing the following queries:
file_keywords: 2001 and file_keywords: nebraska and mime_type:image
some of this information can be extracted in an automated fashion (like mime types can be found throught file::magic), the rest of this information needs to be entered at some point, but once the files have been described it can find things pretty quickly. also i can group frequent queries together using lists. so the list:
images::vaction::nebraska can be associated with the above query making it easy to generate relevant hierarchies. so that some of the same images stored in image::vaction::nebraska can also be found in images::produce::corn.
if anyone is interested in using this send me an email. i'm about to put it back into the cvs. i've spent the last few months cleaning stuff up.
i had a similar problem a while back and i started beating on it with postgresql and perl. it's actually getting to a nice polished state. currently it's webbased, but i think my roommate wrote something for the console also.
here's the skinny. i store files in a tree based on their checksum. so the file with the checksum a23f55abab... would be stored like this:/mnt/fsroot/set1/a/2/3/a23f55abab...
then i store pointers to this file in a database along with different metadata (mimetype, original file name, keywords, mount point (set1), etc). then i define lists based on queries to the database.
so i could have a list like:
images::vacation::italy 2001
the images would have keywords like
italy, vacation, 2001
and the query defining that list would look something like:
keywords:vacation and keywords:italy and keywords:2001 and mime_type:image
i need to commit this stuff to the CVS, but it seems to work.
you: correct policies can prevent these things. and when tom gives it to berol, it's still in the same company, and they paid a license for tom's windows, didn't they?! and it's actually quite smart to wipe your disks before you transfer them from in or out of your company. for more reasons than license compliance.
the article: We pass our old computers down. The guys in engineering need a new PC, so they get one and we pass theirs on to somebody doing clerical work. Well, if you don't wipe the hard drive on that PC, that's a violation. Even if they can tell a piece of software isn't being used, it's still a violation if it's on that hard drive.
the comment you were replying to was referencing the article. are you sure you read the article?
just got off the phone with verizon
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i told them my dsl had been choking off and on for the last day and that my ip address had been changing on the hour. now i get to see pittsburghs own special dot on the map. it's quite comforting:).
the good news is that they told me it should be fixed in 4 hours (that was two hours ago).
that pathetic attempt was not his but rather slashdots. the despamifications of email addresses is a feature. here is mine harrold@sage.che.pitt.edu. it doesnt matter really, spamassassin will take care fo it. the email address is however his. you simply know what it is-congratulations. when you have the ability to check, delete and send his email, then it will be yours.
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hell yeah.
when my indian friends go back home, i always have them pick up a copy of a book or two for me. for example, the math text we use is kreyszig found here on barnes and noble. my member price is $125 for the hardback new and $87 for the used hardback. my softcover copy from india cost $11. sure the quality isn't the same, but when i want to know how to sovle a partial differential equation, the quality doesnt really impact things that much.
the only tragedy is that i didnt make friends with indians until i got to grad school. if i had known these folks as an undergrad i would have probably setup my own textbook importation raquette.
i picked up an old mo drive a while back with 10 128 mb disks and 5 256 mb disks. i use it to backup stuff like finance info and the like. one really cool thing about mo drives was their backwards compatability. so if i bought a 2gb mo drive, i can still read my 128mb disks. at least thats how it used to be.
another really neat aspect is things like magnets dont have an effect on them. think of a cdrw that you can write to like a zip drive. sure they have those hacks that let you write to a cdrw like it's a regular drive, but they are not consistant across platforms. try running mkfs.ext2 on your cdrw.
they were really useful, it's a shame they never caught on.
and when you sit back at night watching television shows your tivo has recorded checking your email on your zaurus, just know that linux has no place in commercial products.
someone mod this troll down.
see the above comments where a person who submitted to this journal said it cost the submitter $1500 to process his submission. while this is alot of money, i think it's worth the price to maintain ownership of your work.
you have just what i've been looking for. this made my day :)
i've been monkeying around in perl trying to get something, has anyone been able to successfully hack something together so i dont have to reinvent the wheel?
which can be found here: http://www.emusic.com/bem/new_signup/terms.html
i must admit that the unlimited downloads (well not quite because they cut your service if you exceed 2000 songs in a month, but that was enought for me) was a big selling point for me. here is the important part the emphisis added:
2. MODIFICATION
We may add, delete or modify any of the aspects of our Service and/or any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion. We will notify you of any such changes via email or by posting a change notice on our site at http://www.emusic.com/subscriptions/ If any modification is unacceptable to you, you must stop using the Service. Unless otherwise specifically set forth in our notice, all changes be effective upon the date we notify you of the same ("effective date"). Your continued use of the Service following the effective date will constitute your binding acceptance of and agreement to be bound by the changes specified therein. You should check back frequently and review the terms and conditions of this agreement regularly so you are aware of the most current rights and obligations that apply to you and the terms and conditions of your agreement with us. If any new products or services become available, they will be considered a part of the Service and your use of them will be governed by the terms and conditions of this Agreement unless we notify you that different terms and conditions apply. You must also comply with any additional terms which apply to third-party content, material, information, software or other services.
i personally want what i agreed to when i signed up to emusic. you know, they made an offer, i took it. i signed up for a year, and now after a few months they want to change that.
i'm a current subscriber to emusic, and i was under the impression that i had a contractual agreement. i suppose i need to speak with my friend who studies arbitration about this. i suppose there is something in their terms of service which mentions they can change their terms at a months notice. hardly fair if i cannot cancel my subscription at a months notice.
i guess i have a month to leech as much off them as i want. it's a shame really. i didnt download that much (5 or 6 cds a month). this was mainly because i always thought that i could get the stuff when ever i wanted. since i sit infront of a computer at school. i can download 5 or 6 songs in an hour.
The government also officiously informed the reporters that this is an "official criminal investigation" and asks that they not disclose the request to preserve documents, or the contents of the letter, to anyone -- presumably including their editors, directors, or lawyers -- under the implied threat of prosecution for obstruction of justice.
perhaps reporters are feeling intimidated by this. intimidation such as this could be considered an inhibition of free speech and freedom of the press.
and downloading music is not free, i pay verizon every month for my internet access. i pay a flat rate for internet access and water.
i've done the "share an isdn line" thing in the past. it worked fairly well, but the incremental cost of having my own dsl line now is very small. sure i could get two phone lines for $40 a month, and use one for dialup. alternatively, i could get one phone line and dsl for $45.
if someone offered me a chunk of a broadband connection for $5 a month, i'd probably take it. this would of course violate the terms of service.
do you really think it would make the caes that much bigger? i would imagine i could get a case that supports those little tree things which allows you to place cards horizontally (parallell with the motherboard). like i said i'm looking for something 1/2 the size of a normal case. this should have enough room to easily support 1 or 2 cards and 6 hard drives.
i've been looking around on the net for a mini-itx case which can hold around 6 ide drives but remain relatively small -- say half the size of a regular desktop machine or smaller if possible. while having a case that glows and stuff is nice, i would rather have something that is small and functional which i can put on the network somewhere.
has anyone here seen a case like this?
really it's not that hard to find this information. goto postgresql.com, click on support and then read:
http://www.pgsql.com/support/
postgresql, like alot of opensource software, has a free component as well as a commercial one. statements like:
I don't doubt the capabilities of PostGres and MySql, but when your DBMS is doing memory dumps, you don't want to have to scour google for an answer. You want the vendor on the phone as fast as possible and MS, in my exeperience, is very good at phone support when it comes to SQL Server.
would indicate that very little research was done when determining how to build your cluster. this is fine if you are familar with ms, but implying that the only way to get support for opensource solutions is through google is very misleading.
Wether or not you support the RIAA, the artist or file swappers, giving away copyrighted material is stealing.
not really
Wether or not you support the RIAA, the artist or file swappers, giving away copyrighted material is copyright infringement.
that's why these people are not being charged with theft, or larceny. no matter how many times the riaa folks say it in the paper, copyright infringement is not theft.
someone should purchase an itunes file from someone who has already purchased it legally. then they can legally break the drm apple has in place in order to use the product for which they paid. i believe there are provisions in the dmca for this. it would be an interesting test for the dmca.
as for the practicallity of it. i dont see a problem with an entity purchasing "used" itunes audio files and then reselling them like used cd stores do. shure you could have copied the music file before you sold it to the online reseller. you could have copied the cd before you sold it to 'daves music mine'. you should still have the right to sell that for which you paid. if this really messes up apples' business model, it's not your fault.
Seriously, how is this misleading or unclear? AT&T really did make an OS called "UNIX" and SCO really does now own it (or so they claim). Honest.
because unix is a trademark of the opengroup which sco seems to understand. as such the opengroup gets to define what is and is not UNIX.
If you'd had to type in all the metadata for your own CD collection, you never would have bothered. (Unless you're obsessive or something; most people aren't.)
i cannot argue with this, but when you get back from fiji you can eaily annotate the files from your camera with that information. then someday in the future, when you are browsing throught them and you see one with nice waterfall shot, you can update the metadata of that file. with time you would have the ability to find the needle in the haystack so to speak.
the community is a good way to do this also. a group of friends interested in photography, sharing the same database of files, would populate your metadata rather quickly.
find a bunch of people who are interested in sorting things like music, make it web based and give out accounts. it's what i did and it's worked pretty well.
it's webbased written in perl with everything stored in a postgres database. i found that with thousands of multimedia files (mp3's, avi's, images, etc.) it was impossible to find the stuff when i want it. now i can find an image from my 2001 trip to nebraska by issuing the following queries:
file_keywords: 2001 and file_keywords: nebraska and mime_type:image
some of this information can be extracted in an automated fashion (like mime types can be found throught file::magic), the rest of this information needs to be entered at some point, but once the files have been described it can find things pretty quickly. also i can group frequent queries together using lists. so the list:
images::vaction::nebraska can be associated with the above query making it easy to generate relevant hierarchies. so that some of the same images stored in image::vaction::nebraska can also be found in images::produce::corn.
if anyone is interested in using this send me an email. i'm about to put it back into the cvs. i've spent the last few months cleaning stuff up.
i had a similar problem a while back and i started beating on it with postgresql and perl. it's actually getting to a nice polished state. currently it's webbased, but i think my roommate wrote something for the console also.
/mnt/fsroot/set1/a/2/3/a23f55abab...
here's the skinny. i store files in a tree based on their checksum. so the file with the checksum a23f55abab... would be stored like this:
then i store pointers to this file in a database along with different metadata (mimetype, original file name, keywords, mount point (set1), etc). then i define lists based on queries to the database.
so i could have a list like:
images::vacation::italy 2001
the images would have keywords like
italy, vacation, 2001
and the query defining that list would look something like:
keywords:vacation and
keywords:italy and
keywords:2001 and
mime_type:image
i need to commit this stuff to the CVS, but it seems to work.
you:
correct policies can prevent these things. and when tom gives it to berol, it's still in the same company, and they paid a license for tom's windows, didn't they?! and it's actually quite smart to wipe your disks before you transfer them from in or out of your company. for more reasons than license compliance.
the article:
We pass our old computers down. The guys in engineering need a new PC, so they get one and we pass theirs on to somebody doing clerical work. Well, if you don't wipe the hard drive on that PC, that's a violation. Even if they can tell a piece of software isn't being used, it's still a violation if it's on that hard drive.
the comment you were replying to was referencing the article. are you sure you read the article?
i told them my dsl had been choking off and on for the last day and that my ip address had been changing on the hour. now i get to see pittsburghs own special dot on the map. it's quite comforting :).
the good news is that they told me it should be fixed in 4 hours (that was two hours ago).
that pathetic attempt was not his but rather slashdots. the despamifications of email addresses is a feature. here is mine harrold@sage.che.pitt.edu. it doesnt matter really, spamassassin will take care fo it. the email address is however his. you simply know what it is-congratulations. when you have the ability to check, delete and send his email, then it will be yours.