ha! How many kids do you suppose will want to TRADE their keys with an adult, so they (the kids) can appear OLDER than they really are? When I used to go into AIM chatrooms, I saw kids lie about their age quite a few times (sometimes they'd slip, and tell a different lie on different days, or sometimes you could just ask "are you sure you're really 19? you don't sound like it" and they'd come clean. Some teen girls/boys are actually looking for older men/women, and will lie about their own age if they think they'll be more likely not to be rejected as too young. The girls have gotten the idea that all the guys their own age are insensitive assholes and an older guy will know how to treat them right. Meanwhile, the boys are looking for older women who will put out, since the girls their own age aren't.
Insert rant about Internet chatrooms contributing to the moral decay of society by corrupting its youth.
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Windows backwards compatibility has always been excellent. Hell, it's one of the few systems where people expect to be able to run 20-year old 16-bit DOS binaries and scream and holler when they no longer work.
I'll agree with that. At a school I worked for, I had to make sure a ten-year-old chemistry application worked for students on Windows XP. The program was designed for Windows 3.1, and requires QuickTime 2. It doesn't recognize QuickTime 6. Turns out, you can install QuickTime 2 alongside QuickTime 6, they don't conflict with each other at all, and the app runs just fine. Again, this is an app designed for Windows 3.1, running on Windows XP, with no problems.
Now Zapp, you may ask: "What has that to do with anything?"
Precisely. I worked at Earthlink for over a year, and the only time I heard anybody mention anything related to Scientology while I worked there was a couple of crazy nutball customers.
Rush mentions that in one case he realized that the suspect was using a sports password scheme, does that mean that these people working at the ISPs can view our passwords?
It depends entirely upon the ISP, but yes, at most large ISPs, employees can view your password. It makes tech support MUCH easier when dealing with stupid people. If this bothers you, call your ISP and ask them, and if they don't encrypt their passwords, switch to an ISP that does.
Oh shut up about Earthlink and Scientology. I worked at Earthlink for over a year, and the only thing I ever heard about Scientology was from crazy psycho customers - people like yourself.
Storing passwords plaintext isn't insecure if nobody who isn't supposed to can get to those plaintext passwords, and it makes tech support a HELL of a lot easier. If you don't understand why, you've never worked in tech support.
2) I would like to see what you P233 does when you try to use dynamic webpages (PHP, Perl, MySQL)? Anything below 1GHz will simply die under something like it with a medium amount of users.
That's a load of crap. A P/233 is fine for a web server, even with dynamic pages. Remember that a "medium amount of users" will not all be hitting the server simultaneously. My home page has some pretty damn complex back-end code (over 2700 lines of object-oriented perl) which takes about 0.6 seconds to execute normally (about half of which is just compiling) on a dual PII/300. You could assume it might take two full seconds to execute on a P/233. Those two seconds aren't that significant when you consider the big picture - remember that network latency is a bottleneck for most people. And simpler scripts would be MUCH faster than two seconds. Remember that he's talking about home use; that suggests that a second or two of delay isn't going to hurt anything.
As for a "medium amount of users", I get over 2,000 unique visitors per month, which only counts dynamic page views (not graphics or other static content), doesn't count known robots (they're excluded by user_agent), uses cookies to ensure each visitor is only counted once per browser session regardless of how many pages they view, and also checks IP addresses to avoid over-counting users with cookies disabled. From the perspective of a web server, 2,000 unique visitors a month is practically nothing.
Counting all hits, via "wc -l" on Apache's access_log, I get around 200,000 hits per month, give or take, mostly due to people running BannerFilter's update script from cron jobs. Again, from the web server's perspective, this is also practically nothing.
Don't underestimate the usefulness of an old, slow box.
At least I'm still get personal emails from high ranking democrats, why just today John Kerry himself sent me one.
Careful, I got one of those, but upon further inspection, it turned out to be a scam - just like all those e-mails you get from PayPal and US Bank. I reported it to Kerry's abuse team; they thanked me and said they'd investigate.
E-mail me if you want sheet music to Grassland Level Two from Super Mario Bros. 3. I've got Level One as well, but it doesn't work quite as well for solo piano.
I have nothing listed under the Sections column on that page; no checkboxes at all. The authors and topics columns are fine. Checking Collapse Sections didn't help (and I don't want to show EVERYTHING on the front page).
If my name is not on one of the secret lists the government maintains how is showing my ID with my real name going to stop me from doing anything? I'm not a list!
But how else could we be sure you're not Ted Kennedy?
I, for one, respect your decision. I don't entirely understand it (you use ALSA? Huh? Isn't that a sound driver thingie? What can't you do in Mac OS X because of the lack of ALSA?) and I hope you're not avoiding the version of Mac OS X that comes pre-installed just because you're afraid of wanting to upgrade later - you can always use OSX now, and switch to Debian when you decide the version of OSX you have isn't good enough anymore. I would at least suggest dual-booting.
But being upset with Apple for charging for their product is silly. You do business with a company, you pay them money. They make a product you want, you can have it if you pay them, or you can choose to use something else instead. OSX is included, so you can use that at no additional cost. If you want to upgrade, you can either buy the new version of OSX from Apple, or use an alternative such as Debian, or not upgrade. As for me, I hate Linux on the desktop, and I plan on buying the upgrade from Apple because it will be worth the price to me. Or, I'll just stick with what I have; the new features in Tiger won't be available in Debian anyway and I love Mac OS X.
At this point I think they only reason Apple has any "near-monopoly" on legal music downloads is because the other alternatives are worse. I can't speak for other people but I won't buy DRM encumbered music regardless of price.
You do realize that music purchased from the iTunes Music Store is also DRM-encumbered?
Two questions: 1) just to verify, you are actually able to play the music you "purchased", yes? 2) if they should eventually figure out that your credit card doesn't work, will your ability to play the music be revoked? Or will they just turn your account over to a collections agency, or both?
For anyone else: if you live outside the US, can you get it to work anyway?
If iTunes / iPods accounted for 90% of the music player market
They're not that far off.
and if Apple were trying to leverage this market share to take over other markets, I might agree with you.
Like, leveraging a near-monopoly on legal music downloads to take over the portable digital music player market?
Currently, I believe Apple is absolutely innocent of any wrongdoing related to the iTMS and iPod; they both enjoy great success simply by being the best* service and product (respectively) available. However, Apple does need to proceed carefully, as their market share grows further.
It will be interesting to see how big a dent Microsoft's marketing wizards can make in Apple's market share. That's what will really set Microsoft apart from the competition.
* Other players may be better than the iPod in some way, but when all factors are taken into consideration (including things like style, and availability of ridiculously overpriced specialized accessories), the iPod is the clear winner for most people
They should instead say something like "Free software", "Free to get, free to use", anything that doesn't have the bad vibe that comes with "free download"
I had a hell of a time with the binary package for Mac OS X; it installs to/usr/local/mysql, which is great, but then you have to make symlinks for things like:/usr/local/bin/mysql/usr/local/include/mysql/usr/local/lib/mysql
Oh, and/usr/local/bin isn't in $PATH by default; I had to add that. Of course I could have put it in/usr/bin instead, but/usr/local/bin is really a more appropriate place IMHO.
I didn't bother dealing with the man pages, so of course "man mysql" doesn't find anything.
I'm thinking there was something else I had to do; I don't remember. On the plus side, the "mysql" user and group were already there, so I didn't have to worry about that.
Your instructions for compiling from source, as I recall, result in a similar mess, because it just puts everything in/usr/local/mysql too. Configuring with --prefix=/usr or something might work, but I'd prefer not to have files strewn all over my system that aren't put there by a package manager, or by myself directly. Yeah, you can start the server without creating all the symlinks, but try getting Perl's DBD::mysql to work properly.
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ha! How many kids do you suppose will want to TRADE their keys with an adult, so they (the kids) can appear OLDER than they really are? When I used to go into AIM chatrooms, I saw kids lie about their age quite a few times (sometimes they'd slip, and tell a different lie on different days, or sometimes you could just ask "are you sure you're really 19? you don't sound like it" and they'd come clean. Some teen girls/boys are actually looking for older men/women, and will lie about their own age if they think they'll be more likely not to be rejected as too young. The girls have gotten the idea that all the guys their own age are insensitive assholes and an older guy will know how to treat them right. Meanwhile, the boys are looking for older women who will put out, since the girls their own age aren't.
Insert rant about Internet chatrooms contributing to the moral decay of society by corrupting its youth.
and for those not using windows and winzip?
StuffIt Expander is available for Linux/x86, Solaris/Sparc and Solaris/x86.
iMacs come with big friendly illustrated instructions that explain how to plug in the power cord, and where the power button is.
Windows backwards compatibility has always been excellent. Hell, it's one of the few systems where people expect to be able to run 20-year old 16-bit DOS binaries and scream and holler when they no longer work.
I'll agree with that. At a school I worked for, I had to make sure a ten-year-old chemistry application worked for students on Windows XP. The program was designed for Windows 3.1, and requires QuickTime 2. It doesn't recognize QuickTime 6. Turns out, you can install QuickTime 2 alongside QuickTime 6, they don't conflict with each other at all, and the app runs just fine. Again, this is an app designed for Windows 3.1, running on Windows XP, with no problems.
Now Zapp, you may ask: "What has that to do with anything?"
Precisely. I worked at Earthlink for over a year, and the only time I heard anybody mention anything related to Scientology while I worked there was a couple of crazy nutball customers.
Rush mentions that in one case he realized that the suspect was using a sports password scheme, does that mean that these people working at the ISPs can view our passwords?
It depends entirely upon the ISP, but yes, at most large ISPs, employees can view your password. It makes tech support MUCH easier when dealing with stupid people. If this bothers you, call your ISP and ask them, and if they don't encrypt their passwords, switch to an ISP that does.
SSL?
If the server supports it. Most don't.
Oh shut up about Earthlink and Scientology. I worked at Earthlink for over a year, and the only thing I ever heard about Scientology was from crazy psycho customers - people like yourself.
Storing passwords plaintext isn't insecure if nobody who isn't supposed to can get to those plaintext passwords, and it makes tech support a HELL of a lot easier. If you don't understand why, you've never worked in tech support.
2) I would like to see what you P233 does when you try to use dynamic webpages (PHP, Perl, MySQL)? Anything below 1GHz will simply die under something like it with a medium amount of users.
That's a load of crap. A P/233 is fine for a web server, even with dynamic pages. Remember that a "medium amount of users" will not all be hitting the server simultaneously. My home page has some pretty damn complex back-end code (over 2700 lines of object-oriented perl) which takes about 0.6 seconds to execute normally (about half of which is just compiling) on a dual PII/300. You could assume it might take two full seconds to execute on a P/233. Those two seconds aren't that significant when you consider the big picture - remember that network latency is a bottleneck for most people. And simpler scripts would be MUCH faster than two seconds. Remember that he's talking about home use; that suggests that a second or two of delay isn't going to hurt anything.
As for a "medium amount of users", I get over 2,000 unique visitors per month, which only counts dynamic page views (not graphics or other static content), doesn't count known robots (they're excluded by user_agent), uses cookies to ensure each visitor is only counted once per browser session regardless of how many pages they view, and also checks IP addresses to avoid over-counting users with cookies disabled. From the perspective of a web server, 2,000 unique visitors a month is practically nothing.
Counting all hits, via "wc -l" on Apache's access_log, I get around 200,000 hits per month, give or take, mostly due to people running BannerFilter's update script from cron jobs. Again, from the web server's perspective, this is also practically nothing.
Don't underestimate the usefulness of an old, slow box.
At least I'm still get personal emails from high ranking democrats, why just today John Kerry himself sent me one.
Careful, I got one of those, but upon further inspection, it turned out to be a scam - just like all those e-mails you get from PayPal and US Bank. I reported it to Kerry's abuse team; they thanked me and said they'd investigate.
I'm working on one, but like many webmail apps, for security reasons, it doesn't render HTML.
E-mail me if you want sheet music to Grassland Level Two from Super Mario Bros. 3. I've got Level One as well, but it doesn't work quite as well for solo piano.
They sold off Network Solutions quite awhile ago.
I have nothing listed under the Sections column on that page; no checkboxes at all. The authors and topics columns are fine. Checking Collapse Sections didn't help (and I don't want to show EVERYTHING on the front page).
If my name is not on one of the secret lists the government maintains how is showing my ID with my real name going to stop me from doing anything? I'm not a list!
But how else could we be sure you're not Ted Kennedy?
I, for one, respect your decision. I don't entirely understand it (you use ALSA? Huh? Isn't that a sound driver thingie? What can't you do in Mac OS X because of the lack of ALSA?) and I hope you're not avoiding the version of Mac OS X that comes pre-installed just because you're afraid of wanting to upgrade later - you can always use OSX now, and switch to Debian when you decide the version of OSX you have isn't good enough anymore. I would at least suggest dual-booting.
But being upset with Apple for charging for their product is silly. You do business with a company, you pay them money. They make a product you want, you can have it if you pay them, or you can choose to use something else instead. OSX is included, so you can use that at no additional cost. If you want to upgrade, you can either buy the new version of OSX from Apple, or use an alternative such as Debian, or not upgrade. As for me, I hate Linux on the desktop, and I plan on buying the upgrade from Apple because it will be worth the price to me. Or, I'll just stick with what I have; the new features in Tiger won't be available in Debian anyway and I love Mac OS X.
At this point I think they only reason Apple has any "near-monopoly" on legal music downloads is because the other alternatives are worse. I can't speak for other people but I won't buy DRM encumbered music regardless of price.
You do realize that music purchased from the iTunes Music Store is also DRM-encumbered?
Two questions: 1) just to verify, you are actually able to play the music you "purchased", yes? 2) if they should eventually figure out that your credit card doesn't work, will your ability to play the music be revoked? Or will they just turn your account over to a collections agency, or both?
For anyone else: if you live outside the US, can you get it to work anyway?
...but in Finland there's no place I can get anything decent any time early.
I'm not sure what Apple's selection is like for those genres (probably not good), but look for an EU version of iTMS in a couple months.
While Apple may be the most popular player/store combo right now, their market share is still less than 50% of the total market.
No it isn't. iTMS has a 70% market share among legal music downloads, while the iPod has 58% market share among portable digital music players.
If iTunes / iPods accounted for 90% of the music player market
They're not that far off.
and if Apple were trying to leverage this market share to take over other markets, I might agree with you.
Like, leveraging a near-monopoly on legal music downloads to take over the portable digital music player market?
Currently, I believe Apple is absolutely innocent of any wrongdoing related to the iTMS and iPod; they both enjoy great success simply by being the best* service and product (respectively) available. However, Apple does need to proceed carefully, as their market share grows further.
It will be interesting to see how big a dent Microsoft's marketing wizards can make in Apple's market share. That's what will really set Microsoft apart from the competition.
* Other players may be better than the iPod in some way, but when all factors are taken into consideration (including things like style, and availability of ridiculously overpriced specialized accessories), the iPod is the clear winner for most people
They should instead say something like "Free software", "Free to get, free to use", anything that doesn't have the bad vibe that comes with "free download"
What bad vibe is that, exactly?
Consider the target market for Firefox....
Isn't that kind of how time works?
Yeah, that's a bug. They're working on it.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60455
I had a hell of a time with the binary package for Mac OS X; it installs to /usr/local/mysql, which is great, but then you have to make symlinks for things like: /usr/local/bin/mysql /usr/local/include/mysql /usr/local/lib/mysql
/usr/local/bin isn't in $PATH by default; I had to add that. Of course I could have put it in /usr/bin instead, but /usr/local/bin is really a more appropriate place IMHO.
/usr/local/mysql too. Configuring with --prefix=/usr or something might work, but I'd prefer not to have files strewn all over my system that aren't put there by a package manager, or by myself directly. Yeah, you can start the server without creating all the symlinks, but try getting Perl's DBD::mysql to work properly.
Oh, and
I didn't bother dealing with the man pages, so of course "man mysql" doesn't find anything.
I'm thinking there was something else I had to do; I don't remember. On the plus side, the "mysql" user and group were already there, so I didn't have to worry about that.
Your instructions for compiling from source, as I recall, result in a similar mess, because it just puts everything in
I dunno how the hell you'd burn it, but damn, that would be wrong.