I discovered my love of music at a fairly young age. I don't know if my family was any more musical than any other typical family of non-musicians living in the Detroit area in the late 60s/early 70s, but many of my earliest memories are of songs we'd hear on the radio while on weekend trips, shopping excursions and camping outings. I have vague memories of being in love with songs like "Tears Of A Clown" and "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" and "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Silly Love Songs", though at that early date (around 5-7 years old) I couldn't have told you who performed them or even have done much more than hum the chorus for you. I can remember the very first single I ever purchased, though. I liked a song by Joe Tex called I Gotcha, which research shows was a hit in 1972, which means I was about 5 years old, and that sounds about right. I can't remember whether Mom gave me money to buy it or whether she just asked me to pick out a 45 while we were at the store. In any even, I know for sure that it was the first non-"kids record" I ever owned myself. I have vague memories of playing my older sister's records, but nothing really specific from that early on.
My first "real" album purchase didn't happen until years later: Parliament's Mothership Connection. Even after I bought my first albums, though, for years my musical purchases overwhelmingly came in the form of 45 RPM, 7-inch singles. American singles of the time were very distinctive looking. Unlike European singles, which replicated the small center holes of 12-inch albums, U.S. singles sported a large center hole. This meant that you usually needed some sort of adapter to play them on a standard turntable. The little plastic adapters were somewhat fragile and impractical, but they sure are a wonderfully iconic element of a bygone age, aren't they?
The prevalence of singles among my early purchases was largely practical. I got a small allowance, which if I remember started out at 25 cents a week, then escalated through 50 cents a week, a dollar a week, and finally $5 a week by the time I entered middle school. When I first started buying singles regularly, they went for about 99 cents to $1.25 apiece. That got you a (usually edited) single mix and a b-side, some of which were purest filler and some of which were fascinating. It would probably seem alien to a music buyer younger than, oh 25 or so, but up until the mid 1980s or so record stores would stock hundreds or even thousands of 7-inch singles, with the top sellers proudly displayed on the walls. Singles were a huge part of the music business, and a lot of record stores devoted just as much space to singles as they did to albums.
My music buying took off in earnest when I turned 12 and got my first paper route. I discovered many artists via 45s during this period, many of which I would come to love and by many many albums by in subsequent years. Some early 45's I bought were by Kraftwerk, XTC, the Police, the B-52s, Devo, Gary Numan, and Yellow Magic Orchestra. I mention this not to try to buld up any cred points, but to point out that the easy, cheap availability of music by these artists made it possible for me to try new things musically without a lot of risk. Albums were a formidable $5-$7 apiece, and $7 bought a lot of M&Ms and Hot Wheels. A kid with a paper route just didn't have a lot of dosh to blow on any full-length album that wasn't a sure thing. For a while, the record industry was fine with this. They'd made a mint on bands like the Beach Boys in the 1960s, who were practically hit single machines, releasing multimillion selling single after single, which would eventually get compiled onto albums almost as an afterthought. Of course, as bands like the Beatles (and eventually the Beach Boys themselves) gained more artistic control they began to deliver albums that stood as coherent statements, but for a long
Oy. If Slashdot had managed to perform even a minimum amount of editorial diligence (which, pot, here's kettle, is what the Register rails on bloggers for not doing), they'd have found pretty quickly that this article is yet another installment in Andrew Orlowski's (an up-and-coming Dvorak-wannabe) ongoing jihad against weblogs. Don't believe the hype.
It's pretty simple. Hit the bookmarks button in the Bookmarks Bar, which takes you into the full-window bookmark interface. Look for the button at the bottom of the window below the rightmost pane that looks like this [+]. Hilite the folder you want to create the new folder inside of and hit the [+] button. I don't know what the nesting limit is, but I've gone two levels deep.
Freeguide is pretty cool. It didn't run at all on OSX's old 1.31-based JVM (nor on some of the earlier 1.4 betas), but I'm running it right now on top of the new JVM.
Do you have any legitimate contacts with self-hosted email servers (i.e. Unix-savvy DSL subscribers?) Because the odds are, their mail to you was dropped, too. My suggestion: use a less lossy mail provider (i.e., just about anyone) and do your _own_ mail filtering client side, using a smart client (e.g Apple's Mail.app) or a smart client side tool (e.g. PopFile.)
Indeed. I have run my own mail server for 3 years, which has never sent a single spam, and which has never been used as a relay for a single spam (I religiously use the available tools for diagnosing open relays against my own domain), and two weeks ago AOL started blocking my IP, simply because it's in a DHCP range (doubly silly, considering my "dynamic" IP has only changed once in the last 18 months.)
I wouldn't care, except that several nontechnical family members are AOL subscribers, so I have to remember every time I need to contact these people that their mail is being hosted by a braindead provider with extremely lossy inbound mail servers, and I have to use another account (hosted on an outside provider) to contact them, with no assurance of success.
This is cool and all, but is anyone else shuddering at the idea of a Gnome build with even more library dependencies than it has now? Screw getting a cup of coffee while Gnome builds, it's more like grow your own beans, roast them, age them, grind them...
Encrypted disk images are really easy to use on OS X. They're encrypted using AES-128 (much more secure than the above hardware solution) and the performance is really quite good (fast enough to playback Quicktime movies from, even on a G3.) The Apple KBase entry on how to use them is here.
The console business model depends on losing a lot of money upfront early in the life of the system and making it up later as game royalties scale up (w/ volume) and costs come down (improved production yields, sunk costs [fabs, etc.] being recovered.) The problem was that Sega entered the last console generation already in a financial hole, and couldn't afford to lose any more money promoting money-losing hardware.
Windows Media Player doesn't work in any OSX browser except IE because it doesn't correctly and fully implement the Netscape Plugin API. (there are bugs filed against this at bugzilla.mozilla.org, do a query to see the details) IE interfaces directly with this incorrect implementation of the API, which is how it works. Other browsers don't have that luxury.
Exactly. There was a great post here that talks about tabs as a hack to work around the fact that new window creation speed is so lousy in most browsers. The most impressive thing to me about Safari is how fast it pops open and populates new windows, even on my poky 450 MHz G3. I've been a Mozilla user since the 0.7 days, and later Chimera, so I had become pretty accustomed to tabs, but I can honestly say after 3 days of using Safari with it's InstaPop (tm) windows, I don't miss them.
The/tmp thing is easily accomplished if the user is in the admin group since most Apple software updates like to chmod g+w / even when I don't want it that way.
I habitually do a
sudo chmod 755/
after every software installation that uses the Apple installer (even non-Apple ones), since PKG's love to reset this. Very nearly every Apple installed package does it, and a distressing number of 3rd party packages do, too.
The way I see it, apple's simply walked in, ripped off YEARS of work done by the KDE team and gotten it all for free. Isn't there something that can be done about this?
Sure, they could have implemented it as a closed source project. What part of "open" are you not understanding?
Why bother with GNU Darwin and their screwy politics? You'd be much better off installing the base Darwin distro from Apple and then installing Fink or Darwin Ports on top, both of which are active and well-supported on PPC.
I'm not trying to be a smartass here, but there's already a very advanced Mac build of Mozilla (utilizing a Carbon front end), not to mention a pretty darned great Gecko-based browser, Chimera, using a Cocoa front-end. What could a GTK-based Mozilla offer Apple or Mac users that those two aren't already doing?
Wow, that is so cool. I never knew my browser (Chimera) supported Runic. The next time Thor visits, he'll have no problem surfing Valhalla's site. Phresh!
31 October 2002: For those of you experiencing crashes when loading sites with Flash, check out the
beta of the Macromedia Shockwave Flash plugin. This plugin fixes an issue that causes crashes in the latest mainstream Flash release.
Try the "Test Styles" bookmarklet from this page. It's really slick -- it lets you dynamically make changes in the stylesheet on the page you are viewing. You have to temporarily toggle off popup blocking for it to work, since it pops up a new window for typing in the changes.
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I discovered my love of music at a fairly young age. I don't know if my family was any more musical than any other typical family of non-musicians living in the Detroit area in the late 60s/early 70s, but many of my earliest memories are of songs we'd hear on the radio while on weekend trips, shopping excursions and camping outings. I have vague memories of being in love with songs like "Tears Of A Clown" and "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" and "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Silly Love Songs", though at that early date (around 5-7 years old) I couldn't have told you who performed them or even have done much more than hum the chorus for you. I can remember the very first single I ever purchased, though. I liked a song by Joe Tex called I Gotcha, which research shows was a hit in 1972, which means I was about 5 years old, and that sounds about right. I can't remember whether Mom gave me money to buy it or whether she just asked me to pick out a 45 while we were at the store. In any even, I know for sure that it was the first non-"kids record" I ever owned myself. I have vague memories of playing my older sister's records, but nothing really specific from that early on.
My first "real" album purchase didn't happen until years later: Parliament's Mothership Connection. Even after I bought my first albums, though, for years my musical purchases overwhelmingly came in the form of 45 RPM, 7-inch singles. American singles of the time were very distinctive looking. Unlike European singles, which replicated the small center holes of 12-inch albums, U.S. singles sported a large center hole. This meant that you usually needed some sort of adapter to play them on a standard turntable. The little plastic adapters were somewhat fragile and impractical, but they sure are a wonderfully iconic element of a bygone age, aren't they?
The prevalence of singles among my early purchases was largely practical. I got a small allowance, which if I remember started out at 25 cents a week, then escalated through 50 cents a week, a dollar a week, and finally $5 a week by the time I entered middle school. When I first started buying singles regularly, they went for about 99 cents to $1.25 apiece. That got you a (usually edited) single mix and a b-side, some of which were purest filler and some of which were fascinating. It would probably seem alien to a music buyer younger than, oh 25 or so, but up until the mid 1980s or so record stores would stock hundreds or even thousands of 7-inch singles, with the top sellers proudly displayed on the walls. Singles were a huge part of the music business, and a lot of record stores devoted just as much space to singles as they did to albums.
My music buying took off in earnest when I turned 12 and got my first paper route. I discovered many artists via 45s during this period, many of which I would come to love and by many many albums by in subsequent years. Some early 45's I bought were by Kraftwerk, XTC, the Police, the B-52s, Devo, Gary Numan, and Yellow Magic Orchestra. I mention this not to try to buld up any cred points, but to point out that the easy, cheap availability of music by these artists made it possible for me to try new things musically without a lot of risk. Albums were a formidable $5-$7 apiece, and $7 bought a lot of M&Ms and Hot Wheels. A kid with a paper route just didn't have a lot of dosh to blow on any full-length album that wasn't a sure thing. For a while, the record industry was fine with this. They'd made a mint on bands like the Beach Boys in the 1960s, who were practically hit single machines, releasing multimillion selling single after single, which would eventually get compiled onto albums almost as an afterthought. Of course, as bands like the Beatles (and eventually the Beach Boys themselves) gained more artistic control they began to deliver albums that stood as coherent statements, but for a long
Oy. If Slashdot had managed to perform even a minimum amount of editorial diligence (which, pot, here's kettle, is what the Register rails on bloggers for not doing), they'd have found pretty quickly that this article is yet another installment in Andrew Orlowski's (an up-and-coming Dvorak-wannabe) ongoing jihad against weblogs. Don't believe the hype.
Here's a great resource for fontspotting. Type geeks go nuts!
They look fine on OSX. I still prefer Lucida Grande, but I like Vera slightly better than Verdana.
It's pretty simple. Hit the bookmarks button in the Bookmarks Bar, which takes you into the full-window bookmark interface. Look for the button at the bottom of the window below the rightmost pane that looks like this [+]. Hilite the folder you want to create the new folder inside of and hit the [+] button. I don't know what the nesting limit is, but I've gone two levels deep.
Freeguide is pretty cool. It didn't run at all on OSX's old 1.31-based JVM (nor on some of the earlier 1.4 betas), but I'm running it right now on top of the new JVM.
Do you have any legitimate contacts with self-hosted email servers (i.e. Unix-savvy DSL subscribers?) Because the odds are, their mail to you was dropped, too. My suggestion: use a less lossy mail provider (i.e., just about anyone) and do your _own_ mail filtering client side, using a smart client (e.g Apple's Mail.app) or a smart client side tool (e.g. PopFile.)
Indeed. I have run my own mail server for 3 years, which has never sent a single spam, and which has never been used as a relay for a single spam (I religiously use the available tools for diagnosing open relays against my own domain), and two weeks ago AOL started blocking my IP, simply because it's in a DHCP range (doubly silly, considering my "dynamic" IP has only changed once in the last 18 months.)
I wouldn't care, except that several nontechnical family members are AOL subscribers, so I have to remember every time I need to contact these people that their mail is being hosted by a braindead provider with extremely lossy inbound mail servers, and I have to use another account (hosted on an outside provider) to contact them, with no assurance of success.
This is cool and all, but is anyone else shuddering at the idea of a Gnome build with even more library dependencies than it has now? Screw getting a cup of coffee while Gnome builds, it's more like grow your own beans, roast them, age them, grind them...
Encrypted disk images are really easy to use on OS X. They're encrypted using AES-128 (much more secure than the above hardware solution) and the performance is really quite good (fast enough to playback Quicktime movies from, even on a G3.) The Apple KBase entry on how to use them is here.
The console business model depends on losing a lot of money upfront early in the life of the system and making it up later as game royalties scale up (w/ volume) and costs come down (improved production yields, sunk costs [fabs, etc.] being recovered.) The problem was that Sega entered the last console generation already in a financial hole, and couldn't afford to lose any more money promoting money-losing hardware.
Windows Media Player doesn't work in any OSX browser except IE because it doesn't correctly and fully implement the Netscape Plugin API. (there are bugs filed against this at bugzilla.mozilla.org, do a query to see the details) IE interfaces directly with this incorrect implementation of the API, which is how it works. Other browsers don't have that luxury.
I think you meant to say "The most popular, dynamic tool for delivering irritating, obnoxious ad content." :)
I still use Chimera for some things but I'm never going back to IE -- it's just too freaking slow and I'm spoiled.
Chimera nightlies support browsing to Rendezvous sites. I can't remember whether or not it's turned on by default, though.
Exactly. There was a great post here that talks about tabs as a hack to work around the fact that new window creation speed is so lousy in most browsers. The most impressive thing to me about Safari is how fast it pops open and populates new windows, even on my poky 450 MHz G3. I've been a Mozilla user since the 0.7 days, and later Chimera, so I had become pretty accustomed to tabs, but I can honestly say after 3 days of using Safari with it's InstaPop (tm) windows, I don't miss them.
I habitually do a after every software installation that uses the Apple installer (even non-Apple ones), since PKG's love to reset this. Very nearly every Apple installed package does it, and a distressing number of 3rd party packages do, too.
Sure, they could have implemented it as a closed source project. What part of "open" are you not understanding?
Why bother with GNU Darwin and their screwy politics? You'd be much better off installing the base Darwin distro from Apple and then installing Fink or Darwin Ports on top, both of which are active and well-supported on PPC.
I'm not trying to be a smartass here, but there's already a very advanced Mac build of Mozilla (utilizing a Carbon front end), not to mention a pretty darned great Gecko-based browser, Chimera, using a Cocoa front-end. What could a GTK-based Mozilla offer Apple or Mac users that those two aren't already doing?
Wow, that is so cool. I never knew my browser (Chimera) supported Runic. The next time Thor visits, he'll have no problem surfing Valhalla's site. Phresh!
Check your Flash plugin version. A recent (but not the latest) release of Flash caused constant crashes in Chimera.
Try the "Test Styles" bookmarklet from this page. It's really slick -- it lets you dynamically make changes in the stylesheet on the page you are viewing. You have to temporarily toggle off popup blocking for it to work, since it pops up a new window for typing in the changes.
Look closely at the banner ad that was running when I took a look at the Anti-Leech page.