ReplayTVs DO HAVE room to room streaming. Been using that feature for years. In conjunction with DVArchive, the ReplayTV could never be bested. Lack of HD doesn't bother me.
> Wouldn't it be better to give this new functionality a new shortcut key, such as the aforementioned ctrl+pgdn?
No! I've been using Ctrl+PgDn for a while to switch tabs. This isn't a NEW shortcut, but an existing one. So they'd be replacing this EXISTING shortcut, which is what you're advocating against.
Best way I've found to do this - assuming you're running your own mailserver - is to move everything you want into your GMail account into a new local account on your mailserver via IMAP. Then mark all the messages as unread. Finally, head over to GMail and have it pop off those messages from your server. The original dates are preserved and your mail is archived.
...I'd like a similar post like "An Intro To Editing Video On Linux." Nor production quality, but something I can edit the commercials out of the shows I record. A product like Womble MPEG-VCR for Linux. Yes, I know how to use Google, but I've never found anything remotely capable of doing what I want. I can hack together MEncoder commands, but that is a pain. This is one of the few areas where a GUI is better than the CLI.
I agree, I never user the hot keys for cutting and pasting, but I do use the mail and web keys. I'm more of a keyboard poweruser. I'm much quicker with the keyboard than the mouse. I find that having the hotkeys for Thunderbird, Firefox, and Trillian or Gaim are handy. I also use the calculator button a lot.
My current beef is with the newer keyboards that have re-arranged the home keys. I still use Ctrl/Shift-Ins/Del for cutting and pasting. With the new configuration, this is impossible. Whoever came up with that design needs to be speed-smacked.
iSilo is by far the best reader I've found. It has the best functionality I've seen and on my Clie the resolution is perfectly acceptable.
The way I get my books is to buy them from Amazon, or Simon Says at MS Reader format and use that ConvertLIT program to render them as HTML. iSiloX then converts them into the appropriate format form the Clie and I'm good to go.
Plus I've then got the book in HTML format so I'm assured that I can convert it into a different format if a better one comes along.
I know I'm violating the DMCA buy removing the encryption from the original LIT file, but I have to go with what works.
I've bought 6 of these things for my parents, inlaws, and friends. They're been great. My father has 3 at his small food processing business, I gave one to my inlaws, one to a friend and have one running my mail server.
Aside from the last one, each is essentially used for word processing, email, and web. And they do that well. Each has been in use for at least 2 years, and I've only had to perform one hardware related task on any one of them. (To be fair, my father jammed a screwdriver in the floppy drive to help get the disk out. Argh.)
They've been great machines for the non-computationally-intensive tasks that these people use them for.
I'm 6 for 6 and will continue recommend these machines for the casual user.
Funny that SBC takes yours $4 a month in their left hand while it passes out your personal information from their right hand. SBC / Ameritech in Ohio a few years back put a very small message on your bill stating that you need to call an 800 number to tell them not to sell your information. If you didn't call by a certain date, you were fair game.
Also SBC does not allow the CLECs in my area to have a feature similar to Privacy Manager. So if you want to block those calls, you have to have SBC. Same with DSL. No SBC, no DSL. They don't allow the CLECs to offer the same services that they do.
What I want is a black box that plugs into the main line coming into my house. It intercepts all calls without ringing any lines, reads the Caller-ID information, and if the call is not Unknown, it will then ring the extensions in the house. This way there's no interruption to anyone calling in having to push any buttons, and I don't have to hear the phone ring at all for the unwanted calls. All unwanted calls get the "Disconnected Number" tone.
Better yet would be if you could program the box with numbers that you don't want to get through.
So call up Dell and waste a lot of time ordering the most expensive system you can find. Add every feature and option available. When it comes to closing the deal back out because of the no NO-OS option. Let them know they're losing a lot of money on this because of it.
Then call up all your friends and get them to do the exact same thing. When word starts getting around about all the $5k systems they ALMOST sold it might start to make some PHBs think....or not...
Yeah, and the first person to try it will be squashed like a bug by the virtually unending financial supply these companies can through at a legal problem. Whereas the little guy with a cap to his resources will have to eventually give up and declare bankruptcy after throwing his life's saving at a hopeless venture.
I had one of the ARQ1's as well. I'm not entirely sure how you mean that you couldn't get the music off the box.
The ARQ had an Ethernet cable with which you could stream your songs from the box to your PC. And with some widely available software from the net, you could do this from Linux or a Mac as well...
And if you were really patient, you could add songs to (or download songs from) the unit with COM port.
When I got my unit originally, this is how I uploaded the 1st 500 songs or so - the ethernet port was not yet supported.
So while the ARQ was not the most sophisticated thing out there, it was able to stream songs over a local network (with proprietary or free software) and you could retrieve songs from the unit once they were added.
As the ARQ was on the bleeding edge of the hard drive based mass media music players, I thought it was a great unit.
I was sorry to see mine die in water damage.
However I agree, the $800 price tag was a bit steep.
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ReplayTVs DO HAVE room to room streaming. Been using that feature for years. In conjunction with DVArchive, the ReplayTV could never be bested. Lack of HD doesn't bother me.
> Wouldn't it be better to give this new functionality a new shortcut key, such as the aforementioned ctrl+pgdn?
No! I've been using Ctrl+PgDn for a while to switch tabs. This isn't a NEW shortcut, but an existing one. So they'd be replacing this EXISTING shortcut, which is what you're advocating against.
Best way I've found to do this - assuming you're running your own mailserver - is to move everything you want into your GMail account into a new local account on your mailserver via IMAP. Then mark all the messages as unread. Finally, head over to GMail and have it pop off those messages from your server. The original dates are preserved and your mail is archived.
That's why Ion created the USB turntable.
Not a service, but still nifty.
...I'd like a similar post like "An Intro To Editing Video On Linux." Nor production quality, but something I can edit the commercials out of the shows I record. A product like Womble MPEG-VCR for Linux. Yes, I know how to use Google, but I've never found anything remotely capable of doing what I want. I can hack together MEncoder commands, but that is a pain. This is one of the few areas where a GUI is better than the CLI.
Or this?
Voldemort reads /.? Wow.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark? ;)
I agree, I never user the hot keys for cutting and pasting, but I do use the mail and web keys. I'm more of a keyboard poweruser. I'm much quicker with the keyboard than the mouse. I find that having the hotkeys for Thunderbird, Firefox, and Trillian or Gaim are handy. I also use the calculator button a lot.
My current beef is with the newer keyboards that have re-arranged the home keys. I still use Ctrl/Shift-Ins/Del for cutting and pasting. With the new configuration, this is impossible. Whoever came up with that design needs to be speed-smacked.
iSilo is by far the best reader I've found. It has the best functionality I've seen and on my Clie the resolution is perfectly acceptable. The way I get my books is to buy them from Amazon, or Simon Says at MS Reader format and use that ConvertLIT program to render them as HTML. iSiloX then converts them into the appropriate format form the Clie and I'm good to go. Plus I've then got the book in HTML format so I'm assured that I can convert it into a different format if a better one comes along. I know I'm violating the DMCA buy removing the encryption from the original LIT file, but I have to go with what works.
I've bought 6 of these things for my parents, inlaws, and friends. They're been great. My father has 3 at his small food processing business, I gave one to my inlaws, one to a friend and have one running my mail server.
Aside from the last one, each is essentially used for word processing, email, and web. And they do that well. Each has been in use for at least 2 years, and I've only had to perform one hardware related task on any one of them. (To be fair, my father jammed a screwdriver in the floppy drive to help get the disk out. Argh.)
They've been great machines for the non-computationally-intensive tasks that these people use them for.
I'm 6 for 6 and will continue recommend these machines for the casual user.
And they dumped SCO a while back too according to Netcraft.
/.'ers can love or what? ;)
Man, is the a company
Funny that SBC takes yours $4 a month in their left hand while it passes out your personal information from their right hand. SBC / Ameritech in Ohio a few years back put a very small message on your bill stating that you need to call an 800 number to tell them not to sell your information. If you didn't call by a certain date, you were fair game.
Also SBC does not allow the CLECs in my area to have a feature similar to Privacy Manager. So if you want to block those calls, you have to have SBC. Same with DSL. No SBC, no DSL. They don't allow the CLECs to offer the same services that they do.
What I want is a black box that plugs into the main line coming into my house. It intercepts all calls without ringing any lines, reads the Caller-ID information, and if the call is not Unknown, it will then ring the extensions in the house. This way there's no interruption to anyone calling in having to push any buttons, and I don't have to hear the phone ring at all for the unwanted calls. All unwanted calls get the "Disconnected Number" tone.
Better yet would be if you could program the box with numbers that you don't want to get through.
So call up Dell and waste a lot of time ordering the most expensive system you can find. Add every feature and option available. When it comes to closing the deal back out because of the no NO-OS option. Let them know they're losing a lot of money on this because of it.
...or not...
Then call up all your friends and get them to do the exact same thing. When word starts getting around about all the $5k systems they ALMOST sold it might start to make some PHBs think.
Yeah, and the first person to try it will be squashed like a bug by the virtually unending financial supply these companies can through at a legal problem. Whereas the little guy with a cap to his resources will have to eventually give up and declare bankruptcy after throwing his life's saving at a hopeless venture.
I had one of the ARQ1's as well. I'm not entirely sure how you mean that you couldn't get the music off the box.
The ARQ had an Ethernet cable with which you could stream your songs from the box to your PC. And with some widely available software from the net, you could do this from Linux or a Mac as well...
And if you were really patient, you could add songs to (or download songs from) the unit with COM port.
When I got my unit originally, this is how I uploaded the 1st 500 songs or so - the ethernet port was not yet supported.
So while the ARQ was not the most sophisticated thing out there, it was able to stream songs over a local network (with proprietary or free software) and you could retrieve songs from the unit once they were added.
As the ARQ was on the bleeding edge of the hard drive based mass media music players, I thought it was a great unit.
I was sorry to see mine die in water damage.
However I agree, the $800 price tag was a bit steep.