Can anyone tell me if the calender is part of the default build now?
I'm not sure because (naughty puppy that I am) I installed straight over the top of my previous installation... so I'm not sure if the calender happens to be there because it was carried over from my previous install, or because it's part of the build.
Seems like a funny omission from the release notes if it is there by default now!
A feature I would like similar to 'back' would be to reopen the last page I was on when I last closed the browser. Often, I close the window and find that I still need some info that was on that last page.
Mozilla can do this... under Edit > Preferences > Navigator is the following...
When Navigator starts up, display:
( ) Blank Page (x) Home Page ( ) Last Page Visited
// (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us. // (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us. // (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us. // (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us. // (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us.
I'd *LOVE* to be given some suggestions of good music that is legal to download and try out.
First off, check out CDBaby, an online record store that sells CDs by independent artists (which covers those burning CDRs in their bedroom, and those signed to tiny non-RIAA labels). You might want to check out their About Us page to read about their philosophy, and their artists terms page to see just how much of an improvement they are over mainstream distribution routes. In addition, the majority of artists on CDBaby have streaming RealAudio samples to listen to, plus a lot of them have free MP3s on their websites.
As for specific artists... well, I obviously don't know what sort of stuff you're into, but here's a selection of what I've been listening to recently:
If none of that tickles your fancy, CDBaby have a great search feature whereby you can enter the name of a well-known artist and get a list of recommendations, so whether you're a fan of Radiohead or (heaven forbid) Britney Spears, it shouldn't be too long until you've stumbled onto something you like.
Yeah, I totally agree... CDBaby rock. I placed my first order (You're Pretty, Molly Zenobia and Jennifer Terran) with them a few weeks back, and I couldn't be happier with the service. It took just five days for international delivery (to the UK) - I've had orders from UK companies that have taken longer than that, even when what I ordered was in stock!
There's definitely no going back for me - I'm slowly going completely independent. To be honest, the only loss I'm going to suffer from not buying BMG's music is Patti Smith - and since I already have all her best (early) albums, I can live with that. I'd be more upset if I had to give up Radiohead or R.E.M., but fortunately that's not happened yet... * touch wood *
The best thing about CDBaby is that they're totally open about the terms under which they sell artist's CDs. It's nice to know that the artist is getting more than mere pennies when I purchase one of their albums.
This still isn't good enough. Why? Oh, god, let me count the ways.
Track length. I seem to be paying the same per track if I'm downloading Tori Amos's Boys For Pele album (18 tracks between 1:07 and 6:07 long) or Godspeed You Black Emperor's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennae To Heaven (4 tracks averaging 22 minutes each, spread over 2 CDs). Personally, I'd happily spend a few quid for the twenty-odd-minute epic Storm, but I can't see how they can expect more than a small stack of pennies for the one-minute-seven Mr Zebra (even though it is a pretty good one-minute-seven). Disclaimer: GYBE! are not going to be on this roster. No, really. I don't even have to *look* to be sure of this... leading me neatly on to...
Choice. Sorry, but I'm not really interested in this nice long list of major-label artists. There's only about eight major-label artists I pay any attention to (R.E.M., Radiohead, PJ Harvey et al). Everything else I listen to is independent label artists (Jennifer Terran, You're Pretty, Beth Thornley, Vienna Teng, etc etc etc). I wouldn't be interested until artists like these are on the roster... but hey, hang on, these artists are already offering some of their songs for free download anyway! And I've bought their albums on the strength of those free MP3s!
Money. Where's the money going? To the artists? Really? Hang on a moment, my sides are splitting with laughter. When I buy CDs from CDBaby, I know that a good chunk of my money is going to the artists. When I buy CDs direct from the artist, I know that a good chunk of my money is going into their pockets. When I see bands live (tomorrow is The Rock Of Travolta, can't wait!), I know a good chunk of my money is going into their pockets. The RIAA can carp on and on about how we're ripping off artists, but we all know who the real rip-off merchants are.
Availability. It's too easy to complain about the fact that I couldn't be interested in this shit even if I wanted to be, due to the service being "available to U.S. residents only". Oh well, better stick to my life of crime by not paying the RIAA-tax.
In conclusion, I'm sticking with the indies. Go, baby, go!
These proposals have been around since at least June 2001, when the W3C published their Requirements document for what was then called XML Blueberry and has since become XML 1.1.
And the complaints date from then as well... Elliote Rusty Harold complained almost as soon as the Requirements document and the first Working Draft were published. He makes a number of good points that highlight just how unnecessary XML 1.1 actually is. This link is actually him quoting himself for the time - the original post is probably available on the W3C forums, but I'm far too lazy to look.
Since when has the equivilent of cron needed a web browser to work?
it doesn't, or at least not in Windows 2000.
Start > Run > Cmd.exe > "at/?" yields:
The AT command schedules commands and programs to run on a computer at a specified time and date. The Schedule service must be running to use
the AT command.
AT [\\computername] [ [id] [/DELETE] |/DELETE [/YES]] AT [\\computername] time [/INTERACTIVE]
[/EVERY:date[,...] |/NEXT:date[,...]] "command"
\\computername Specifies a remote computer. Commands are scheduled on t
local computer if this parameter is omitted.
id Is an identification number assigned to a scheduled
command.
/delete Cancels a scheduled command. If id is omitted, all the
scheduled commands on the computer are canceled.
/yes Used with cancel all jobs command when no further
confirmation is desired.
time Specifies the time when command is to run.
/interactive Allows the job to interact with the desktop of the user
who is logged on at the time the job runs.
/every:date[,...] Runs the command on each specified day(s) of the week or
month. If date is omitted, the current day of the month
is assumed.
/next:date[,...] Runs the specified command on the next occurrence of the
day (for example, next Thursday). If date is omitted, t
current day of the month is assumed.
"command" Is the Windows NT command, or batch program to be run.
And to be honest, no, I don't know why it's called "at".
Assuming for one minute that something like this were to happen... do you really think it would involve separately charging for each individual page view?
If this were to be seriously considered, potentially-viable approaches I can see are:
track page views, and when the total amount for a domain/site reaches a certain amount ($5,$10,whatever) it gets charged then.
surfers pay middle-man companies variable amounts, which goes into a browsing "fuel tank". think pay-as-you-go internet.
credit card companies fundamentally change their business model (unlikely)
Personally, I don't see it happening. Two or three years ago, maybe, but I would think people are too used to the way thinks work to be willing to switch to a pay-per-view model.
Just because there's no DOS doesn't mean there's no command line.
Perhaps. But if what is being discussed is MS-DOS itself, then this pronouncement of death has come pretty late. In fact, the corpse was rotting and crawling with maggots by the time this announcement was made.
er... dead? since when?
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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· Score: 2, Informative
In announcing MS-DOS's demise, Microsoft founder Bill Gates typed "exit" at the MS-DOS command line during the launch of Windows XP.
A prize to the person who provides an explanation for how Billy Boy typed "exit" at a command line that doesn't exist?
I haven't had a chance to get at an WinXP machine to check, but the command line must still be there. There's too many reasons that it's necessary, e.g. SQL Server has loads of command-line utilities. Just because MS have taken it off the start menu doesn't mean that it can't be accessed by someone with half a brain.
Personally, I think this raises severe moral and ethical considerations... for example, is it morally acceptable to write an XSLT sheet to transform one human into a completely different human?
knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education
Principal: I'm sorry, Jonny, but what you did was very serious. You turned a computer on before your teacher said you could. As you must know, part of the booting process involves informing the rest of the network of that computer's presence. Thus, by turning on that computer, you knowingly caused information to be sent to every other computer on the network, without authorisation. I'm afraid I have no option but to inform the FBI and have you thrown in jail for the rest of your teenage life.
Jonny: Hang on. I'm sitting in my computer class, and I turn my computer on. Because I did so before the teacher explicity said "you can turn your computer on now", I'm going to go to jail?
[[[ I want to be able to place copies of music and videos I own on my own devices. That's what's called "legal". Everybody else, or so it seems, wants to share the music and videos with a million other people on the internet that don't pay. That's what's called "illegal". ]]]
I agree to an extent... but (and I'm probably going to get slammed for using the phrase again) there are huge "grey areas" here.
For example... if I purchase a CD, and I want to be able to listen to that music in my car (which doesn't have a CD player), I'll make a tape of it. I don't see a problem with this at all - what do the record companies expect us to do, buy two copies just so we can listen in the car as well? But you can't use a similar argument to justify burning a copy of a CD - when would you be in a situation where you can play a CDR but you can't play a CD? This is why the issue of "unrippable" CDs really hasn't bothered me at all.
Also... what about cases where bands have themselves voluntarily released MP3s? For example, R.E.M. released one of the songs from their latest album for free download from their website. Is it "legal" if this MP3 appears on a file-sharing system? Probably not, if the corporations have their way - but what's the difference? There's no loss of revenue, because it was "officially" released for free anyway. This begs the question of why the song was released - probably the official line is that it allows people to hear part of the album to see if they like it enough to buy it or not, thus potentially prodding some sales that they might not have had otherwise. But isn't this what a significant portion of the Napster community did anyway? "try before you buy"? I know that's all I ever did, and my CD collection contains a number of titles it probably wouldn't have if I hadn't had the use of Napster.
The issue is obviously an important one, but before we all go on our corporation-bashing missions it's probably important that there are always at least two sets of "extremists" - in this case, the "lock it all up" corporations are one, and the "rip everything and share it with millions" group is another. Neither are the right way to go about resolving the issue.
Considering the general/. "pro-GPL" attitude, which is pretty much all about enforcing the author's right to declare that his source code must be kept open, this is not really an argument that stands up to much in the way of prodding. If anything, the GPL is closer to being one-way rights going the other way. So how is this "typical/. thinking"?
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Can anyone tell me if the calender is part of the default build now?
I'm not sure because (naughty puppy that I am) I installed straight over the top of my previous installation... so I'm not sure if the calender happens to be there because it was carried over from my previous install, or because it's part of the build.
Seems like a funny omission from the release notes if it is there by default now!
... obviously not including learning grammar.
I prefer the regex version... /(bb|[^b]{2})/
To the regex-ignorant... the above matches two B's or not-B twice ("to be or not to be").
There's even a t-shirt :)
Yeah, no kidding!
Mozilla can do this... under Edit > Preferences > Navigator is the following...
When Navigator starts up, display:
( ) Blank Page
(x) Home Page
( ) Last Page Visited
Woah, hang on a second... they're patenting the System.Xml namespace? In other words they're trying to patent their version of the nice open DOM API?
Somebody slap them...
hmmm....
// (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us.
// (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us.
// (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us.
// (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us.
// (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Your Rights Are Belong To Us.
You get the idea.
First off, check out CDBaby, an online record store that sells CDs by independent artists (which covers those burning CDRs in their bedroom, and those signed to tiny non-RIAA labels). You might want to check out their About Us page to read about their philosophy, and their artists terms page to see just how much of an improvement they are over mainstream distribution routes. In addition, the majority of artists on CDBaby have streaming RealAudio samples to listen to, plus a lot of them have free MP3s on their websites.
As for specific artists... well, I obviously don't know what sort of stuff you're into, but here's a selection of what I've been listening to recently:
If none of that tickles your fancy, CDBaby have a great search feature whereby you can enter the name of a well-known artist and get a list of recommendations, so whether you're a fan of Radiohead or (heaven forbid) Britney Spears, it shouldn't be too long until you've stumbled onto something you like.
Yeah, I totally agree... CDBaby rock. I placed my first order (You're Pretty, Molly Zenobia and Jennifer Terran) with them a few weeks back, and I couldn't be happier with the service. It took just five days for international delivery (to the UK) - I've had orders from UK companies that have taken longer than that, even when what I ordered was in stock!
There's definitely no going back for me - I'm slowly going completely independent. To be honest, the only loss I'm going to suffer from not buying BMG's music is Patti Smith - and since I already have all her best (early) albums, I can live with that. I'd be more upset if I had to give up Radiohead or R.E.M., but fortunately that's not happened yet... * touch wood *
The best thing about CDBaby is that they're totally open about the terms under which they sell artist's CDs. It's nice to know that the artist is getting more than mere pennies when I purchase one of their albums.
As far as I'm concerned, the day punk died was the day that Sporty Spice did a live performance of Anarchy In The UK.
"I am the antichrist, I am Sporty Spice..."
Oh, the pain.
This still isn't good enough. Why? Oh, god, let me count the ways.
In conclusion, I'm sticking with the indies. Go, baby, go!
These proposals have been around since at least June 2001, when the W3C published their Requirements document for what was then called XML Blueberry and has since become XML 1.1.
And the complaints date from then as well... Elliote Rusty Harold complained almost as soon as the Requirements document and the first Working Draft were published. He makes a number of good points that highlight just how unnecessary XML 1.1 actually is. This link is actually him quoting himself for the time - the original post is probably available on the W3C forums, but I'm far too lazy to look.
Agreed.
I refrain from commenting further.
it doesn't, or at least not in Windows 2000.
Start > Run > Cmd.exe > "at /?" yields:
The AT command schedules commands and programs to run on a computer at a specified time and date. The Schedule service must be running to use the AT command.
AT [\\computername] [ [id] [/DELETE] | /DELETE [/YES]] AT [\\computername] time [/INTERACTIVE]
[ /EVERY:date[,...] | /NEXT:date[,...]] "command"
\\computername Specifies a remote computer. Commands are scheduled on t local computer if this parameter is omitted.
id Is an identification number assigned to a scheduled command.
time Specifies the time when command is to run.
"command" Is the Windows NT command, or batch program to be run.
And to be honest, no, I don't know why it's called "at".
you silly sod.
now EVERYBODY KNOWS.
you think posting as an anonymous coward will help? you poor naive fool.
so much for secure.
Assuming for one minute that something like this were to happen... do you really think it would involve separately charging for each individual page view?
If this were to be seriously considered, potentially-viable approaches I can see are:
Personally, I don't see it happening. Two or three years ago, maybe, but I would think people are too used to the way thinks work to be willing to switch to a pay-per-view model.
Just because there's no DOS doesn't mean there's no command line.
Perhaps. But if what is being discussed is MS-DOS itself, then this pronouncement of death has come pretty late. In fact, the corpse was rotting and crawling with maggots by the time this announcement was made.
In announcing MS-DOS's demise, Microsoft founder Bill Gates typed "exit" at the MS-DOS command line during the launch of Windows XP.
A prize to the person who provides an explanation for how Billy Boy typed "exit" at a command line that doesn't exist?
I haven't had a chance to get at an WinXP machine to check, but the command line must still be there. There's too many reasons that it's necessary, e.g. SQL Server has loads of command-line utilities. Just because MS have taken it off the start menu doesn't mean that it can't be accessed by someone with half a brain.
Personally, I think this raises severe moral and ethical considerations... for example, is it morally acceptable to write an XSLT sheet to transform one human into a completely different human?
Principal: I'm sorry, Jonny, but what you did was very serious. You turned a computer on before your teacher said you could. As you must know, part of the booting process involves informing the rest of the network of that computer's presence. Thus, by turning on that computer, you knowingly caused information to be sent to every other computer on the network, without authorisation. I'm afraid I have no option but to inform the FBI and have you thrown in jail for the rest of your teenage life.
Jonny: Hang on. I'm sitting in my computer class, and I turn my computer on. Because I did so before the teacher explicity said "you can turn your computer on now", I'm going to go to jail?
Principal: Yes.
Jonny: Oh. Er. Shit.
[[[ I want to be able to place copies of music and videos I own on my own devices. That's what's called "legal". Everybody else, or so it seems, wants to share the music and videos with a million other people on the internet that don't pay. That's what's called "illegal". ]]]
I agree to an extent... but (and I'm probably going to get slammed for using the phrase again) there are huge "grey areas" here.
For example... if I purchase a CD, and I want to be able to listen to that music in my car (which doesn't have a CD player), I'll make a tape of it. I don't see a problem with this at all - what do the record companies expect us to do, buy two copies just so we can listen in the car as well? But you can't use a similar argument to justify burning a copy of a CD - when would you be in a situation where you can play a CDR but you can't play a CD? This is why the issue of "unrippable" CDs really hasn't bothered me at all.
Also... what about cases where bands have themselves voluntarily released MP3s? For example, R.E.M. released one of the songs from their latest album for free download from their website. Is it "legal" if this MP3 appears on a file-sharing system? Probably not, if the corporations have their way - but what's the difference? There's no loss of revenue, because it was "officially" released for free anyway. This begs the question of why the song was released - probably the official line is that it allows people to hear part of the album to see if they like it enough to buy it or not, thus potentially prodding some sales that they might not have had otherwise. But isn't this what a significant portion of the Napster community did anyway? "try before you buy"? I know that's all I ever did, and my CD collection contains a number of titles it probably wouldn't have if I hadn't had the use of Napster.
The issue is obviously an important one, but before we all go on our corporation-bashing missions it's probably important that there are always at least two sets of "extremists" - in this case, the "lock it all up" corporations are one, and the "rip everything and share it with millions" group is another. Neither are the right way to go about resolving the issue.
- Chris.
Considering the general /. "pro-GPL" attitude, which is pretty much all about enforcing the author's right to declare that his source code must be kept open, this is not really an argument that stands up to much in the way of prodding. If anything, the GPL is closer to being one-way rights going the other way. So how is this "typical /. thinking"?
I wonder who he was reminding? us, or himself? "it's ok, I'm allowed to be a journalist despite my uselessness".