With this, we will see an increasing number of bad configured Linux-boxes. Next, people start complaining about how bad Linux is, how unreliable etc...
Recently I was asked to help install Netscape on a Windows-box. Well... imagine a PII/266 with 128 MByte RAM throwing errors at you that he's running low on Memory. Now, imagine a Desktop cluttered with started programs like AIM, Yahoo-Messenger, two different Office-Suites... With installations like these you could even bring a Linux-box to its knees.
I don't know if I really want this. But I know that I'll refuse to clean those messes up!!
I just have brought mine back to live today. The Power-Supply of my A3000-Tower was broken.
I replaced it with a normal PC-Power-Supply, connected the wires to the correct wires coming from the motherboard.
Plus, I had to rejumper J350 to "_vsync" since the new supply was lacking a wire with a 50 Hz rate.
I found a some very helpful infos to do this on the following website:
http://www.casema.net/~kroone/3000
I'm happy as a little kid on christmas eve - My Amiga is alive again!
And it has Ethernet (I'm on IRCnet right now).
When will people learn, that not the design of the case, but the design of the system is what counts?
I rather have a Quad-Athlon in a plain beige box than a 386SX in a colorful case. The computercase will be sitting hidden under the table, so what good will that design be anyway?
But, maybe some "best of both worlds" solution could be: Show Information of specific filetypes such as bitrate and length for MP3s, resolution and depth for pictures, number of files in a zip-archive... Admitted, it would mess up the tables with the search-results.
If you can take the time to search for an MP3 on Napster, then you sure can take the time to search for free Music you'd like too.
There are lots and lots of good tracks around from artists whose main goal is to be heard by a large audience. As it is for the Techno-Band of my friend and me. (Nope, no names here, no spam on Slashdot!)
Why not? IRC for chatting, Gnutella for file-sharing.
I never understood, why Napster was focused only on MP3 as a music source. I use Gnutella to search for all kinds of music-files like MOD, XM, S3M, IT... and MP3 as well.
MP3 is cool, I agree, but there are so many cool tunes in other formats around. And what do you do when OGG comes?
If all mankind would be clever enough, to appreciate the freedom of anonymity and would not abuse it with things like DoS, child-porn or racism propaganda we wouldn't need any accountability or whatsoever.
Oh what a wonderful (virtual) world this would be...
Over here in switzerland, you can have your entry in the phonebook marked as "does not wish advertising". The entry is then marked with a little star.
Of course, I have mine entry marked and spam-calls have decreased at almost 99 %. (Though it wasn't that much calls anyway, but it's annoying nontheless.) When someone calls me to advertise whatever it is, I just tell him that I do not wish any advertising by phone and refer to the marked entry. If the caller would insist on advertising, this then would be illegal.
Since you do not need to have the entire MP3 to preview it, this should not be necessary. You can start the download and play the part of it you already downloaded. Of course, it still sucks but you can limit bandwidth-waste to a minimum.
And besides: There are chatrooms in Napster -> excellent way to blame those users that are spreading fake MP3s.
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Installing and using are not the same.
To drive a car is easy. But to build one from the ground up requires special skills...
"If you can't win, join"
Well... honestly, I heard it that many times I've become a true atheist. I'll believe when it runs on my Linuxbox.
Just some thoughts:
With this, we will see an increasing number of bad configured Linux-boxes. Next, people start complaining about how bad Linux is, how unreliable etc...
Recently I was asked to help install Netscape on a Windows-box. Well... imagine a PII/266 with 128 MByte RAM throwing errors at you that he's running low on Memory. Now, imagine a Desktop cluttered with started programs like AIM, Yahoo-Messenger, two different Office-Suites... With installations like these you could even bring a Linux-box to its knees.
I don't know if I really want this. But I know that I'll refuse to clean those messes up!!
Simple technical solution don't solve complex social problems. You can't just block access by using certain keywords.
You would block Mr. Burkhard Sporn from Essex too.
All the time I thought you could only transfer data over the internet and now you tell me, I could download women?
Internet sure is a weird place...
Now we've got an AIM.
Who pulls the trigger?
I just have brought mine back to live today. The Power-Supply of my A3000-Tower was broken.
I replaced it with a normal PC-Power-Supply, connected the wires to the correct wires coming from the motherboard.
Plus, I had to rejumper J350 to "_vsync" since the new supply was lacking a wire with a 50 Hz rate.
I found a some very helpful infos to do this on the following website:
http://www.casema.net/~kroone/3000
I'm happy as a little kid on christmas eve - My Amiga is alive again!
And it has Ethernet (I'm on IRCnet right now).
Sorry for being a bit off-topic.
My absolute favorite for searching MAME-roms is http://www.mame.dk
It's searchable for genre, year of release, name...
Try "Parodius" or "Blazing Star" if you're into 2D-Shooters. =:-)
I think, this will work kind of like recognizing handwriting. You have to train it, until it recognizes the music you probably like the most.
To many users that will still be too complicated.
It has to understand sentences as:
"Move all the wiggly-digglies I typed in last week from the big disk disk to the small ohwhatwasitsnameagain"
Sure. Since it's a feature that slashdot offers me, I suppose it's alright to fill in the URL of my homepage.
When will people learn, that not the design of the case, but the design of the system is what counts?
I rather have a Quad-Athlon in a plain beige box than a 386SX in a colorful case.
The computercase will be sitting hidden under the table, so what good will that design be anyway?
I must admit, that's a valid point you made.
But, maybe some "best of both worlds" solution could be: Show Information of specific filetypes such as bitrate and length for MP3s, resolution and depth for pictures, number of files in a zip-archive...
Admitted, it would mess up the tables with the search-results.
If you can take the time to search for an MP3 on Napster, then you sure can take the time to search for free Music you'd like too.
There are lots and lots of good tracks around from artists whose main goal is to be heard by a large audience. As it is for the Techno-Band of my friend and me. (Nope, no names here, no spam on Slashdot!)
Why not?
IRC for chatting, Gnutella for file-sharing.
I never understood, why Napster was focused only on MP3 as a music source. I use Gnutella to search for all kinds of music-files like MOD, XM, S3M, IT... and MP3 as well.
MP3 is cool, I agree, but there are so many cool tunes in other formats around. And what do you do when OGG comes?
If all mankind would be clever enough, to appreciate the freedom of anonymity and would not abuse it with things like DoS, child-porn or racism propaganda we wouldn't need any accountability or whatsoever.
Oh what a wonderful (virtual) world this would be...
It's on Gnutella now.
Filename : beta.tgz
Filelength: 1'385'319 Bytes
Forgot to mention:
It also counts for fax-machines, so I suppose it's relevant for answering-machines too.
Over here in switzerland, you can have your entry in the phonebook marked as "does not wish advertising". The entry is then marked with a little star.
Of course, I have mine entry marked and spam-calls have decreased at almost 99 %. (Though it wasn't that much calls anyway, but it's annoying nontheless.)
When someone calls me to advertise whatever it is, I just tell him that I do not wish any advertising by phone and refer to the marked entry. If the caller would insist on advertising, this then would be illegal.
Since you do not need to have the entire MP3 to preview it, this should not be necessary. You can start the download and play the part of it you already downloaded. Of course, it still sucks but you can limit bandwidth-waste to a minimum.
And besides: There are chatrooms in Napster -> excellent way to blame those users that are spreading fake MP3s.
All the stories, articles and comments ever posted on slashdot. Is there anything more suitable for this?
This will probably be the first mail-account ever to be slashdotted.
Congrats from me too. All the best to both of you.
Why not just hook up the line-out of your soundcard to the line-in of your stereo? All you need is some cables.
Besides, you can not only use it for listening to MP3s but for gaming or listening to MOD, XM, S3M etc...
Just imagine: A machine dedicated to run Linux on it! Now THAT would rock.
Amiga Hardware and Linux Software
The best of both world.
If there was one, I want one. What more can I say?
I know that it's been reverse-engineered and that there are quite a number of clones out there. (I'm using GTK-Gnutella.)
Though what I wanted to say is that the legal status of the protocol is not clear (at least to me). Who owns the rights? Is it under GPL now?