Audioscrobbler only supports iPod with iTunes Mac currently. (Audioscrobbler is a plugin that records and shares your listening habits and was featured here before). There's an Audioscrobbler iTunes Windows plugin but no definite plans to support iPod yet.
K-Lite K++ 2.4.3 (the original)
Kazaa Lite Resurrection
Kazaa LiteTools K++
K-Lite 2.6
iMesh Lite
Grokster Lite
Overnet Lite
eDonkey2000 Lite
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Blubster Lite
Re:Nice, but they've got it all wrong...
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People will realize (either by themselves or more likely through their technically-apt friends or relatives) that they can use an relatively easy Linux distro for free rather than spend a hundred or so dollars every two years to upgrade Windows (or buy another over-priced PC from the store just to upgrade their OS). This is intended for those people.
Are people really prepared to let insurance companies track their every move to save money on car insurance?
Yes. The masses will put up with almost anything to save money on recurring bills/purchases. That's exactly why mega-corporations like Wal-Mart are taking over the world.
This is exactly why there's BOINC, distributed.net, Grid.org, etc. that have multiple projects served to one user-installed program: Instead of projects having to compete for real-time resources, they run work units one after the other, and users can pick and choose which projects are run. This should prevent said burnout for most users.
That's because those whose filesystems were destroyed couldn't get online to report it! They probably then decided "to hell with computers" and bought log cabins in the Ozarks.
Actually, Mandrake 9 did destroy my Windows XP Pro install by writing over the boot sector. (I had no trouble installing Mandrake on my Win9x machine.) Suffice it to say, my XP machine is still solely an XP machine (a new install).
That's funny, considering that the last time I tried to install Mandrake (v9), I went through the partition configuration during install like I did on my Win9x machine, but on my WinXP machine, partitioned with NTFS, Mandrake's install wiped out everything. It was the last time indeed.
The other is iCalShare, recommended by a free/open-source PIM app with a rather familiar name, Mozilla Calendar. I use Moz Cal and recommend it, except that to-do list item recurrences do not actually recur--hope they fix that one soon.
I believe that everyone has a different path in life. Suffice it to say, just because someone is a "genius" doesn't mean that he/she should or will achieve a 4.0 GPA, get a Ph.D., etc. Indeed, he/she may very well end up in the Air Force with an unusually large amount of brain power and perhaps do some things completely unheard of with it: Maybe finally sniff out Bin Laden, or maybe just hit on female cadets. (Ever watch M.A.S.H.? It's not reality but certainly relative: There are actually a few smarties in the Forces, as much as you may wish to believe it's the consolation prize.)
Your idea of success is a social one, and an unfortunate one at that. "Why didn't he succeed?" He's not dead yet, is he? He and you have the rest of your lives yet to achieve success--enumerating on what you "have heard" of him right now and your own current "successes" is highly prone to uprooting later.
No, not every great career requires a college education, but many do, particularly mainstream, urban-centered ones that employ many others. But if you're independent (many people don't have "bosses" per se); if you have great ideas and/or talents (the arts, anyone?); if you're not leeching off pre-existing, larger-scale systems, you don't necessarily have to have degree(s) in higher education to be "successful" in life. But often times you do.
Or, just click Start, click Run, type "msconfig," hit Enter, click the Startup tab, and uncheck anything that you don't want to run at startup. There are numerous guides online that can help you sort the wheat from the chaff, and just doing this once will probably be enough, especially if you have a name-brand PC that you bought from Best Buy (since manufacturers and places like BB tend to pile on a bunch of unnecessary startup modules).
Here are my recommendations for RSS/news readers for Windows (and other platforms):
If you use the Mozilla browser, NewsMonster is a great RSS add-on. It is cross-platform, and the basic version is free and open source. (There is a Pro version with a bunch more features for a fee.) It installs as a second sidebar in the Mozilla browser, and you can read feeds like you read email in most email clients. It also installs with about twenty popular feeds to get you started. It has a few bugs, but it is my favorite one overall.
Another one is AmphetaDesk. It is also free, open source, and cross-platform. It displays all your feeds in a web page in your browser. It runs in the Windows taskbar, checking ever so often for updates. It's not as powerful as other RSS readers--it's not easy to tell which feeds and articles are new/updated, for instance--but it is rock-solid with no bugs that I've ever found.
This is the Slashdot article about Cringely's article.
These are the ignorant comments that the_quark posted after reading the Slashdot article about Cringely's article.
This are the people that posted ignorant replies to the ignorant comments that the_quark posted after reading the Slashdot article about Cringely's article.
And this is giveuptheghost, who posted an unfunny parody of an anti-drug TV ad, was modded down, and lost precious karma points on Slashdot.
Slashdot posts support ignorance. If you post to Slashdot, you might too.
"The second page features experimental add-ons to Google's toolbar, a software download that lets people surfing the Web with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser search the Google database through a persistent application built into the IE interface."
And here are the descriptions of said add-ons:
"One feature called 'browser control,' sure to raise eyebrows about Google's ambitions and direction, lets people suppress advertising pop-up windows that appear when the browser attempts to leave a Web site. The feature works by clearing the JavaScript event 'onUnload.'
"Asked to clarify whether this browsing feature marked a departure from Google's traditional search mission, the Google representative would only say that 'it's something we're experimenting with to see if there's any level of demand or interest.'
"Another experimental navigation feature, albeit with a more direct connection to search, helps Google toolbar users navigate through results with a 'next' and 'previous' button, eliminating the need to double back to the search results page.
"A third toolbar experiment is a 'combined search' button, letting people search Google's image, newsgroup and general databases in combination."
However, I looked on the Google Toolbar site, Google Labs, and even searched the web (with Google), and I couldn't find this "second page" that ZDNet's article mentioned.
My question is, does anyone here know where the experimental add-ons for the Google Toolbar are at? Perhaps they are only for a private beta group (like the Folding@home Google Toolbar add-on)? Perhaps ZDNet's info isn't quite right?
Hmm; I don't think that was really Al Lowe's website...
"This account has been disabled..
To have the account restored, contact Customer Service."
Trillian: The current battle against corporatism
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Napster... symbolized the Net's challenge to hierarchical business and institutional structures -- until it showed the true power of corporatists. For years, the hackers believed nobody could stop them. After the Napster battles, it was clear that lobbyists and lawmakers, especially conjunction with wealthy corporatists, could.
As pious as this may sound (so please don't reply saying so), if you, by any chance, want to get with a very similar, very current fight, but this time with instant messaging, may I suggest downloading Trillian (for Windows), which connects to ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, and is trying to stay connecting to AIM.
And like Napster, these guys have vowed to not stop fighting. Though some of its users have already tired of getting kicked off and have went back to the AIM client already.
"One reason is that the site [PetFoodDirect.com], like L.L. Bean, gives the consumer a variety of shipping choices, from regular mail to next day air."
Jon, while I agree that this is great, I must point out that nearly every online retailer offers these different shipping choices. It's not at all just a feature of these two sites.
It makes me wonder if you've even fulfilled many orders that you may have placed online at various e-merchants. And if you haven't, how is that that you believe you can convince us that you know what you're talking about when you write an essay about online retailing and order fulfillment from the customer's perspective?
Oh, you mean RC5's not frivolous? There are people dying in the world due to our continued lack of scientific knowledge regarding various diseases and our own gene structures.
I don't understand why michael spends more brain cells quoting a horrible 80's song than by saying, "Don't people learn?"
Learn what? Not to download and install Audiogalaxy? The spyware was stealth. The license agreement had nothing to do with the spyware. No one who installed Audiogalaxy with that spyware knowingly or agreeingly did so.
If anyone should be learning anything from this, it should be the companies like Audiogalaxy, SongSpy, etc. that let this stuff get bundled, and then experience bad press they get afterwards for not being more responsible or tactful...
Of course DVD's are film, not software. Really, guys, there are more important things going on in Sydney right now:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0201/28/sport/sport100. html:)
SongSpy, now in version XE Beta 2.0, is installing a very nasty spyware app called FTapp without users' knowledge whatsoever - not in the license agreement that users have to agree to when they install SongSpy, nor in the FAQ on their website.
"We're still working on pulling together a formal policy in full-blown legalese. But rest assured that we ourselves are privacy zealots and won't be doing anything remotely devious with the information you provide us. Also, we take pride in how little we know about what you are doing on SongSpy, you aren't tracked, logged, or monitored for analysis by the client software."
"Virus Characteristics: This is an advertising/user monitoring trojan. Once running this trojan may track your web browsing activity and/or display advertisements.
"Indications Of Infection: Presence of the file FTAPP.DLL
"Method Of Infection: This trojan is installed via an executable.
"Removal Instructions: Use specified engine and DAT files for detection. Use the ADD/REMOVE Programs Control Panel in Windows to remove this program."
In fact, an entry for FTapp is in the Add/Remove Program applet of Windows' Control Panel. But, if you try to remove it, it says that there was an error and asks if you wish to just remove the install entry from Add/Remove Programs. Thus, FTapp CANNOT be uninstalled this way; it will remain.
At the time I discovered FTapp on my system, I assumed that the next step was to just delete the (unhidden) folder C:\Program Files\ftapp. I've done this and haven't had any problems yet.
The folder C:\Program Files\ftapp contains two files: FTapp.dll and FTapp.mon. Viewing the properties sheet for FTapp.dll didn't reveal much, but opening FTapp.mon was my greatest cause for alarm. In it appears to be lots of websites I've visited recently.
SongSpy users cannot even contact SongSpy, either. Their support, in its entirety, is the FAQ, and the only way they have set up to be contacted (here) is at staff@songspy.com, and only for business proposals or if someone is from the media (hint hint).
Also, iMesh 3.0 was just released this week, and it contains something called FTPBack/FTP_back/FTP Back. Also stealth, it's installed automatically during iMesh 3.0 setup and without users' knowledge and is set to run at Windows startup using the Windows Registry's Run key...
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That's almost enough to get me to buy a Mac.
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K-Lite K++ 2.4.3 (the original)
Kazaa Lite Resurrection
Kazaa LiteTools K++
K-Lite 2.6
iMesh Lite
Grokster Lite
Overnet Lite
eDonkey2000 Lite
LimeWire Lite
Blubster Lite
People will realize (either by themselves or more likely through their technically-apt friends or relatives) that they can use an relatively easy Linux distro for free rather than spend a hundred or so dollars every two years to upgrade Windows (or buy another over-priced PC from the store just to upgrade their OS). This is intended for those people.
-Scott
Are people really prepared to let insurance companies track their every move to save money on car insurance?
Yes. The masses will put up with almost anything to save money on recurring bills/purchases. That's exactly why mega-corporations like Wal-Mart are taking over the world.
-Scott
Here I thought I was the only fan of Police Quest II. :)
Since the universe is expanding, perhaps Mars was once an Earth?
This is exactly why there's BOINC, distributed.net, Grid.org, etc. that have multiple projects served to one user-installed program: Instead of projects having to compete for real-time resources, they run work units one after the other, and users can pick and choose which projects are run. This should prevent said burnout for most users.
That's because those whose filesystems were destroyed couldn't get online to report it! They probably then decided "to hell with computers" and bought log cabins in the Ozarks.
Actually, Mandrake 9 did destroy my Windows XP Pro install by writing over the boot sector. (I had no trouble installing Mandrake on my Win9x machine.) Suffice it to say, my XP machine is still solely an XP machine (a new install).
That's funny, considering that the last time I tried to install Mandrake (v9), I went through the partition configuration during install like I did on my Win9x machine, but on my WinXP machine, partitioned with NTFS, Mandrake's install wiped out everything. It was the last time indeed.
Not all of C64's hardware was fantastic: I don't miss having to wait ten minutes for Maniac Mansion to load (if it would at all).
The other is iCalShare, recommended by a free/open-source PIM app with a rather familiar name, Mozilla Calendar. I use Moz Cal and recommend it, except that to-do list item recurrences do not actually recur--hope they fix that one soon.
I believe that everyone has a different path in life. Suffice it to say, just because someone is a "genius" doesn't mean that he/she should or will achieve a 4.0 GPA, get a Ph.D., etc. Indeed, he/she may very well end up in the Air Force with an unusually large amount of brain power and perhaps do some things completely unheard of with it: Maybe finally sniff out Bin Laden, or maybe just hit on female cadets. (Ever watch M.A.S.H.? It's not reality but certainly relative: There are actually a few smarties in the Forces, as much as you may wish to believe it's the consolation prize.)
Your idea of success is a social one, and an unfortunate one at that. "Why didn't he succeed?" He's not dead yet, is he? He and you have the rest of your lives yet to achieve success--enumerating on what you "have heard" of him right now and your own current "successes" is highly prone to uprooting later.
No, not every great career requires a college education, but many do, particularly mainstream, urban-centered ones that employ many others. But if you're independent (many people don't have "bosses" per se); if you have great ideas and/or talents (the arts, anyone?); if you're not leeching off pre-existing, larger-scale systems, you don't necessarily have to have degree(s) in higher education to be "successful" in life. But often times you do.Or, just click Start, click Run, type "msconfig," hit Enter, click the Startup tab, and uncheck anything that you don't want to run at startup. There are numerous guides online that can help you sort the wheat from the chaff, and just doing this once will probably be enough, especially if you have a name-brand PC that you bought from Best Buy (since manufacturers and places like BB tend to pile on a bunch of unnecessary startup modules).
Here are my recommendations for RSS/news readers for Windows (and other platforms):
If you use the Mozilla browser, NewsMonster is a great RSS add-on. It is cross-platform, and the basic version is free and open source. (There is a Pro version with a bunch more features for a fee.) It installs as a second sidebar in the Mozilla browser, and you can read feeds like you read email in most email clients. It also installs with about twenty popular feeds to get you started. It has a few bugs, but it is my favorite one overall.
Another one is AmphetaDesk. It is also free, open source, and cross-platform. It displays all your feeds in a web page in your browser. It runs in the Windows taskbar, checking ever so often for updates. It's not as powerful as other RSS readers--it's not easy to tell which feeds and articles are new/updated, for instance--but it is rock-solid with no bugs that I've ever found.
Civil disobedience doesn't involve speaking about it and/or organizing publicly?
Apparently folks like Gandhi and the EFF had/have it all wrong?
This is Cringely.
This is the article that Cringely wrote.
This is the Slashdot article about Cringely's article.
These are the ignorant comments that the_quark posted after reading the Slashdot article about Cringely's article.
This are the people that posted ignorant replies to the ignorant comments that the_quark posted after reading the Slashdot article about Cringely's article.
And this is giveuptheghost, who posted an unfunny parody of an anti-drug TV ad, was modded down, and lost precious karma points on Slashdot.
Slashdot posts support ignorance. If you post to Slashdot, you might too.
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The story that ZDNet is carrying says that Google has also created some new experimental add-ons to the Google Toolbar:
And here are the descriptions of said add-ons:
However, I looked on the Google Toolbar site, Google Labs, and even searched the web (with Google), and I couldn't find this "second page" that ZDNet's article mentioned.
My question is, does anyone here know where the experimental add-ons for the Google Toolbar are at? Perhaps they are only for a private beta group (like the Folding@home Google Toolbar add-on)? Perhaps ZDNet's info isn't quite right?
Assuming the poster is correct with linking Altnet to Flooz.com...
How are they going to give out rewards in exchange for using your computer if Flooz is bankrupt? Look at Flooz's website.
This stinks, man. Never trust these deceptive practices or those who practice them...
Hmm; I don't think that was really Al Lowe's website...
"This account has been disabled.. To have the account restored, contact Customer Service."
As pious as this may sound (so please don't reply saying so), if you, by any chance, want to get with a very similar, very current fight, but this time with instant messaging, may I suggest downloading Trillian (for Windows), which connects to ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, and is trying to stay connecting to AIM.
http://www.trillian.cc/
http://www.ceruleansoftware.com/
And like Napster, these guys have vowed to not stop fighting. Though some of its users have already tired of getting kicked off and have went back to the AIM client already.
Jon, while I agree that this is great, I must point out that nearly every online retailer offers these different shipping choices. It's not at all just a feature of these two sites.
It makes me wonder if you've even fulfilled many orders that you may have placed online at various e-merchants. And if you haven't, how is that that you believe you can convince us that you know what you're talking about when you write an essay about online retailing and order fulfillment from the customer's perspective?
Oh, you mean RC5's not frivolous? There are people dying in the world due to our continued lack of scientific knowledge regarding various diseases and our own gene structures.
Try one of these instead, please...
Genome@Home: gene structure
Folding@Home: protein folding
United Devices: cancer and anthrax
Parabon Pioneer: cancer
Entropia's FightAIDS@Home: AIDS
No kidding.
I don't understand why michael spends more brain cells quoting a horrible 80's song than by saying, "Don't people learn?"
Learn what? Not to download and install Audiogalaxy? The spyware was stealth. The license agreement had nothing to do with the spyware. No one who installed Audiogalaxy with that spyware knowingly or agreeingly did so.
If anyone should be learning anything from this, it should be the companies like Audiogalaxy, SongSpy, etc. that let this stuff get bundled, and then experience bad press they get afterwards for not being more responsible or tactful...
Of course DVD's are film, not software. Really, guys, there are more important things going on in Sydney right now: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0201/28/sport/sport100. html :)
SongSpy, now in version XE Beta 2.0, is installing a very nasty spyware app called FTapp without users' knowledge whatsoever - not in the license agreement that users have to agree to when they install SongSpy, nor in the FAQ on their website.
In fact, their FAQ says this (here):
"What is your privacy policy?
"We're still working on pulling together a formal policy in full-blown legalese. But rest assured that we ourselves are privacy zealots and won't be doing anything remotely devious with the information you provide us. Also, we take pride in how little we know about what you are doing on SongSpy, you aren't tracked, logged, or monitored for analysis by the client software."
I looked up FTapp with Google and found nary any info, except for a virus entry for FTapp in McAfee's Virus Information Library. FTapp's entry in McAfee's Virus Information Library says the following:
"Virus Characteristics: This is an advertising/user monitoring trojan. Once running this trojan may track your web browsing activity and/or display advertisements.
"Indications Of Infection: Presence of the file FTAPP.DLL
"Method Of Infection: This trojan is installed via an executable.
"Removal Instructions: Use specified engine and DAT files for detection. Use the ADD/REMOVE Programs Control Panel in Windows to remove this program."
In fact, an entry for FTapp is in the Add/Remove Program applet of Windows' Control Panel. But, if you try to remove it, it says that there was an error and asks if you wish to just remove the install entry from Add/Remove Programs. Thus, FTapp CANNOT be uninstalled this way; it will remain.
At the time I discovered FTapp on my system, I assumed that the next step was to just delete the (unhidden) folder C:\Program Files\ftapp. I've done this and haven't had any problems yet.
The folder C:\Program Files\ftapp contains two files: FTapp.dll and FTapp.mon. Viewing the properties sheet for FTapp.dll didn't reveal much, but opening FTapp.mon was my greatest cause for alarm. In it appears to be lots of websites I've visited recently.
SongSpy users cannot even contact SongSpy, either. Their support, in its entirety, is the FAQ, and the only way they have set up to be contacted (here) is at staff@songspy.com, and only for business proposals or if someone is from the media (hint hint).
Also, iMesh 3.0 was just released this week, and it contains something called FTPBack/FTP_back/FTP Back. Also stealth, it's installed automatically during iMesh 3.0 setup and without users' knowledge and is set to run at Windows startup using the Windows Registry's Run key...