"In other news Microsoft has announced that WinXP SP2 has been internally renamed "Longhorn" to more closely coincide with their projected release schedules."
I'm amazed that nobody's mentioned MetaWire yet. They're an all-around great shell/web provider with good policies and nice systems.
I found out about them from an older post on/. and signed up for an account. Sometimes its great to have a shell on a 3rd party system for those times that one of your boxes decides to stop working and you need to troubleshoot.
I just can't figure out what's causing Apple to be so damn candid about this shortage. In the past when things like were suspected (cough) G5 (cough) there wasn't a peep out of Cupertino.
The company that I work for right now is experiencing the EXACT problem that you are referring to: WinXPe forgoes all support from the OS maker (MS) and puts it right on the OEM/Embedded device maker.
While this makes sense for many devices that could be loaded with WinXPe this is a bitch and a half for anybody using it in a pseudo-desktop system use. The people on-site can't run WindowsUpdate and just get the patches, they have to come directly from the maker and be customized for that version of that kernel on that hardware.
In fact, right as I type this I'm watching a patch for Korgo/Sasser deploy to a fleet of about 1000 WinXPe powered devices. Thanks to office politics and people that have such a massive hard-on for Microsoft we are using XPe for a purpose that could be solved (LITERALLY) with a big hard drive, wget, and Apache.
Instead, we have a box that has to have XPe on it which, of course, comes with all of its wonderful 'features' that we never need, should never have to deal with, and only cause us headaches.
However, I DO get overtime for sitting here making sure that this update goes through, so cheers to that! Thanks Microsoft!
wrong. if Natalie Portman was the actress playing Mary Jane then this topic would have already spilled into overflow and would sit at the top of the hall of fame.
One of the biggest reasons that Google's GMail is still more attractive is simply stability.
If you sign up for Spymac mail or Rediffmail you don't have the backing of a major corporation that has an infrastructure in place to support future growth, investors looking for the company to *not* fold, and a dedicated staff just for your data.
Any fly-by-night place can buy a massive hard drive and start offering 1 free GB of mail, but if they run out of cash and fold then what happens to all of your mail in their old system? At least with google there is a pattern of longeviety that seems to ensure your data will be protected for a long while.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but these cool new uses for Google's massive infrastructure aren't 'new' or '1st-Party' in any at all.
People have been making interesting and cool things that tie into the Google API for years now. Visual search engines, google-fighting, and other uses have been posted to/. and discussed already on any tech-aware blog many times over.
As in earlier tests by BMG and SunnComm, the copy protection on the Velvet Revolver disc can be simply disabled by pushing the "Shift" key on a computer while the CD is loading, which blocks the SunnComm software from being installed. The companies say they have long been aware of the work-around but that they were not trying to create an unhackable protection.
If the point is to make people unable to rip the music and you allow a backdoor 'knowingly' then why even bother in the first place?
"We are actively working with Apple to provide a long-term solution to this issue," a posting on SunnComm's Web site reads. "We encourage you to provide feedback to Apple, requesting they implement a solution that will enable the iPod to support other secure music formats."
Dear Apple,
Please support the latest copy-protection scheme from my favourite recording label, BMG and their current subsidiary, SunComm. Also, please compile in support for the different methods for every single other copy protection scheme espoused by every other label on every other album at Best Buy.
Also, please be prepared to update these codecs as the record labels see fit or the iPod and iTunes may no longer be compatible in an effort to keep ahead of nefarious CD pirates.
Also, please CC: this message to anybody else you know that makes CD player apps (Nullsoft, Microsoft, Roxio, Sony, etc, etc,etc).
Finally, please forget about that old 'Redbook' standard for CDs. That is old and should be cast off upon a pile of 8-Tracks, Divx discs, and CSS.
I think it's pretty clear that Yahoo is getting desperate and stupid; they most lileky don't have the infrastructure in place to offer 1GB email accounts or they already would have. 100MB is just a temporary kludge to keep existing users from flocking to GMail as long as possible (p.s: it won't work!)
One thing that all of these uber-DRM schemes don't take into account is that all it takes is ONE person to crack the code, or re-encode the CD via analog means into his computer and post it on KaZaa. Once it hits KaZaa then it's over for the DRM on that CD. People can then swap it all they want, regardless of if their CD only allows for 3 burns or whatever.
Also, how receptive will people be to a CD that can only be copied 3 times over its lifetime? Let's say that you're 16 and buy the new Britney Spears CD to listen to. You make one copy for home and one for your new car. Years down the road you make 2 more copies for various reasons and then want to make a 4th dupe of the CD. Wait, you can't, because you're limited to 3 burns over the CD's lifetime. Or, more likely, the company that makes the burning software that keeps track of your burns goes out of business and suddently their servers and backend stuff to keep track of all of this breaks down. Or you run Linux and they don't make software for linux because there's not enough of a market for it. Or you have a Mac and they just don't support Macs. Or your original CD gets scratched, can you then make a copy of the copy w/out the DRM getting involved?
It's just too much for people to keep thinking about over the span of years owning music. This will fail.
Dude. We're trying. Not all of us feel the way that way about the rest of the world and actually DO see the far-reaching consequences of our current administration's actions, coupled with a long-standing attitude in America about the rest of the world.
Mark my words. Rome fell. Greece fell. The british empire fell. The USA will rot from within, eventually collapsing on itself. I hate to say that, but without radical changes NOW then nothing can save us from the grip of people who only want money and power.
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alas, that still seems like a bit too much hardware to play the big three Mac games:
:)
-Breakout
-Super Breakout
-Photoshop
Befor ya'll go crazy, now, remember; I'm a Mac user too
"In other news Microsoft has announced that WinXP SP2 has been internally renamed "Longhorn" to more closely coincide with their projected release schedules."
And I predict that I'll get laid by 2020....
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHhaha!
ahahahahaha! rofl! lol!
These patent lawers always know how to cheer me up!
/me puts hand over "Coleco Forever!" tattoo
I'm amazed that nobody's mentioned MetaWire yet. They're an all-around great shell/web provider with good policies and nice systems.
/. and signed up for an account. Sometimes its great to have a shell on a 3rd party system for those times that one of your boxes decides to stop working and you need to troubleshoot.
I found out about them from an older post on
I just can't figure out what's causing Apple to be so damn candid about this shortage. In the past when things like were suspected (cough) G5 (cough) there wasn't a peep out of Cupertino.
What's causing this newfound openness?
I believe that this box set will also include the 30 minute long death footage of Trinity that was cut for 'consistency'
"Neo"
"Yes"
"Lets act out MacBeth before I die.....one last time!"
"Hark!"
Until some guys gets run over by the Monorail in CSI I'm not even going to acknowledge it.
The company that I work for right now is experiencing the EXACT problem that you are referring to: WinXPe forgoes all support from the OS maker (MS) and puts it right on the OEM/Embedded device maker.
While this makes sense for many devices that could be loaded with WinXPe this is a bitch and a half for anybody using it in a pseudo-desktop system use. The people on-site can't run WindowsUpdate and just get the patches, they have to come directly from the maker and be customized for that version of that kernel on that hardware.
In fact, right as I type this I'm watching a patch for Korgo/Sasser deploy to a fleet of about 1000 WinXPe powered devices. Thanks to office politics and people that have such a massive hard-on for Microsoft we are using XPe for a purpose that could be solved (LITERALLY) with a big hard drive, wget, and Apache.
Instead, we have a box that has to have XPe on it which, of course, comes with all of its wonderful 'features' that we never need, should never have to deal with, and only cause us headaches.
However, I DO get overtime for sitting here making sure that this update goes through, so cheers to that! Thanks Microsoft!
Line breaks are for pussies =/
I can't wait to buy my copy of WinCE so that I can build a picture frame out of it, seeing that my only other options are:
1) Buy one at a store for $2
2) Build the same damn thing with Linux for FREE!!!!!1
Believe me, nobody else looks forward to running virus patches on his fucking Picture Frame than I do!
Newsweek, Wired, 2600, and Maxim
wrong. if Natalie Portman was the actress playing Mary Jane then this topic would have already spilled into overflow and would sit at the top of the hall of fame.
fanboys are insane, i tell ya!
alas, that also equates to you receiving 0 emails total per day :(
Some of us don't use spam filters to give us a feeling of life...
This is going to make those movies/TV Shows on Bittorrent so much better looking! Thanks ATI!
Bah! This guys actually beat out a user named "Bill6969" that announced his new service called 'Passport'
;)
He really didn't seem to care about standards, either, so he created his own standards
One of the biggest reasons that Google's GMail is still more attractive is simply stability.
If you sign up for Spymac mail or Rediffmail you don't have the backing of a major corporation that has an infrastructure in place to support future growth, investors looking for the company to *not* fold, and a dedicated staff just for your data.
Any fly-by-night place can buy a massive hard drive and start offering 1 free GB of mail, but if they run out of cash and fold then what happens to all of your mail in their old system? At least with google there is a pattern of longeviety that seems to ensure your data will be protected for a long while.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but these cool new uses for Google's massive infrastructure aren't 'new' or '1st-Party' in any at all.
/. and discussed already on any tech-aware blog many times over.
People have been making interesting and cool things that tie into the Google API for years now. Visual search engines, google-fighting, and other uses have been posted to
As in earlier tests by BMG and SunnComm, the copy protection on the Velvet Revolver disc can be simply disabled by pushing the "Shift" key on a computer while the CD is loading, which blocks the SunnComm software from being installed. The companies say they have long been aware of the work-around but that they were not trying to create an unhackable protection.
,etc).
If the point is to make people unable to rip the music and you allow a backdoor 'knowingly' then why even bother in the first place?
"We are actively working with Apple to provide a long-term solution to this issue," a posting on SunnComm's Web site reads. "We encourage you to provide feedback to Apple, requesting they implement a solution that will enable the iPod to support other secure music formats."
Dear Apple,
Please support the latest copy-protection scheme from my favourite recording label, BMG and their current subsidiary, SunComm. Also, please compile in support for the different methods for every single other copy protection scheme espoused by every other label on every other album at Best Buy.
Also, please be prepared to update these codecs as the record labels see fit or the iPod and iTunes may no longer be compatible in an effort to keep ahead of nefarious CD pirates.
Also, please CC: this message to anybody else you know that makes CD player apps (Nullsoft, Microsoft, Roxio, Sony, etc, etc
Finally, please forget about that old 'Redbook' standard for CDs. That is old and should be cast off upon a pile of 8-Tracks, Divx discs, and CSS.
Thanks for your time.
Love, Tom
This discussion need a fucking tinfoil Turban over it. Get ready for your conspiracies, folks!
Excellent point. Mods, please up the parent accordingly...
Gmail: 1,024 megabytes
Yahoo: 100 megabytes
I think it's pretty clear that Yahoo is getting desperate and stupid; they most lileky don't have the infrastructure in place to offer 1GB email accounts or they already would have. 100MB is just a temporary kludge to keep existing users from flocking to GMail as long as possible (p.s: it won't work!)
One thing that all of these uber-DRM schemes don't take into account is that all it takes is ONE person to crack the code, or re-encode the CD via analog means into his computer and post it on KaZaa. Once it hits KaZaa then it's over for the DRM on that CD. People can then swap it all they want, regardless of if their CD only allows for 3 burns or whatever.
Also, how receptive will people be to a CD that can only be copied 3 times over its lifetime? Let's say that you're 16 and buy the new Britney Spears CD to listen to. You make one copy for home and one for your new car. Years down the road you make 2 more copies for various reasons and then want to make a 4th dupe of the CD. Wait, you can't, because you're limited to 3 burns over the CD's lifetime. Or, more likely, the company that makes the burning software that keeps track of your burns goes out of business and suddently their servers and backend stuff to keep track of all of this breaks down. Or you run Linux and they don't make software for linux because there's not enough of a market for it. Or you have a Mac and they just don't support Macs. Or your original CD gets scratched, can you then make a copy of the copy w/out the DRM getting involved?
It's just too much for people to keep thinking about over the span of years owning music. This will fail.
Dude. We're trying. Not all of us feel the way that way about the rest of the world and actually DO see the far-reaching consequences of our current administration's actions, coupled with a long-standing attitude in America about the rest of the world.
Mark my words. Rome fell. Greece fell. The british empire fell. The USA will rot from within, eventually collapsing on itself. I hate to say that, but without radical changes NOW then nothing can save us from the grip of people who only want money and power.