a local county(Henrico County) here is issuing ibooks to all of their high-school students. the students dont keep them, but its still a good initiative for every student to be able to use a computer at home
with Mozilla 1.1 blocking jaascript you get their message that your using pop-up blockers and your stealing.
whatever. any site that I get that message from will be the last time I ever go to that site, as apparently it doesnt have anything I would want to see anyways.
I'll take a 16/48 "copy"...better than standard "cd" quality anyways. besides, 24/96 is only used for "surround efx" so it wont do you any good in a car cd player, boombox, etc...
Im with you, in that Ive never copied a commercial release. granted I do burn thousands of audio cds a year but this is done legally; many bands allow recordings of their concerts and there are VERY big trading rings that copy/trade just concert recordings(etree.org, furthur.com, archive.org/etree, etc...) these groups ONLY permit the trading of shows by bands that explicitly allow it, and yet we still have to pay the "copy tax" to the RIAA....
and some of us have pro quality TRUE 24/96 soundcards with digital inputs that can skip the analog step. hell, my M-audio Audiophile 2496 can even act as a DSP and I can pipe my stand alone DVD players digi output through my Audiophile card and back to my receiver digitally.
oh yeah, I can also strip SCMS with my Audiophile 2496...
cant remember the exact model(Im at a friends house), but the Samsung DVD player I bought a year ago DOES support SACD/DVD-A(as well as CD/SVCD/VCD/MP3/CDR/CDRW) and DOES have optical and coax s/pdif output!
now whether the SACD/DVD-A formats will play through that output is another question, but the authors of the article are false.
and its in about 75% of ALL laptops out on the market. all of the GOOD units should have a control for this in the power management settings for Winxxxx. if you want to deal with the hassle of looking up part #s you can buy a non-speedstep mobo for an additional $500-1000:)
PHPNuke and PostNuke are both a big mess. we originally used PHPNuke, then switched to PostNuke, but have since come to the grips that its not that great anymore. weve now begun completely handwriting all our scripts. for example, our main database query script with PHPNuke was 1000+ lines of nonsense code with includes: our new script is 25 lines with NO includes, queries faster and is more customizeable as to output format. there are some features of *Nuke that we like and we are going through figuring out what we like and what we want/need.
Speakeasy's servers may not have been directly involved, but we definitely noticed a slow-down(going through Speakeasy's Chicago POP and we're in Virginia).
not quite sure if Eugenia is even using Mandrake 9. having downloaded and installed the day of release, I can say Ive encountered only 1 bug(cd 1 wouldnt boot...creating a boot floppy for the cd image fixed that). maybe shes using weird hardware, but Man 9 installed flawlessly on my PII400(and fast too!). apparently she didnt read the installer message about 'wheel mice' or she would have known to roll the wheel for about 5 seconds(yes, the mouse jumps erratically for a few seconds, but once you roll the wheel, the mouse works fine) 7 terminals??? guess she told Man to install EVERYTHING...I went through my packages and installed 2 terms, and only the 2 I installed show up on any menus. havent found a broken/non-working package yet(yes, originally I tried the 'update' function from the install....my mistake. if you wait to install updates until after the system is completely installed and running then you will have no problems). MySQL works(dont know why her Mysql wouldnt start at boot...did she change a config?) I like the default KDE3 desktop...wish my Win2000 desktop looked this nice! all in all, I am very happy with Man 9...easily their best, most bug-free distro yet.
my 1 problem(which isnt a Mandrake problem), is that the PHP/MySQL dev work I do on my Win2000 machine doesnt work on Man 9, but chalk that up to incompatible versions between the 2 platforms.
AOL = America On Line...their just a US ISP, known for their annoying "you have mail" commercials and that everyone receives several of their install cds a month in the postal-mail
um, dont know where you learned typing or what keyboards you use, but on every keyboard/typewriter Ive ever used the bumps were on F/J, not d/k. there *suppossed* to be on F/J and 5 for numberpad.
invaded by Arabs, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Ethiopians, Germans, Italians, French, etc..... is there even a truly native Egyptian anymore(ie, direct descendant from original Egypt))
for those who watched the original "LIVE" special where they originally found the first door, is what happened to the piece of wood laying in front of the door? from lots of reading concerning Dr. Hawass zealoutus "egyptians did it all by themselves, etc....", it seems this piece of wood could be the end-all of the discussion(what is the carbon dating of the wood?), but then again, they never made *1* mention of it last night.
as mentioned in a previous post, Dr. Hawass does want to be the one-and-only person with any say-so regarding anything to do with ancient Egypt...even when he refuses to believe scientific fact.
Maxtor is the only IDE manufacturer I havent had any problems with. Maxtor used to have problems, but they got that fixed a couple of years ago and now make the most reliable drives. guess they switched places with Western Digital(now the junk IDE manufacturer)
the company I work for sells many desktops, workstations and servers to the DOD. NONE of them are Windows machines. their either OSX or Unix....take it how you will...
if the case was still in trial, then they would be innocent until proven guilty, but since the courts have allready found them guilty(and appellate courts have upheld the guilty verdict), then Microsoft IS GUILTY. why cant some of you understand this?
not just Linux. on Windows 2000 Pro(sp2), Linux is extremely memory AND CPU hungry. even more memory hungry if you use the "quick start" function....which in all honesty, doesnt speed up the mozilla start process like it says it should.
I peronally dont mind the somewhat slower page rendering times, mainly because I love the tab features.
but for my gateway(router, ftp, apache, furthur s/ling) I'm still using IE5 as my browser(IE6 is horrible)
I've been using Linux for 3+ years, and I cant count the number of times I got so fed up with it that I wiped it clean to reload Win2K. Mandrake 8.1 ran slower on a PIII800 w/ 512MBRam than XP did on my PII350 w/ 128MBRam...how is this possible? I still use Mandrake 8.1(no X/KDE) for my server needs, but as a desktop/workstation, I can only use Win2K(granted, most of my work is audio related, and I'm sorry, but Ardour is FAR from useable as a Linux multi-track recorder/editor)...though it defintely didnt help that I could never get my M-Audio Audiophile to work in Linux(even though the company swears by its Linux support...if so, then why did they pull the Linux driver from its website a year ago?).
yes, I read all the man pages, how-tos, etc...I got Samba to work...ONCE, and I still dont know how that happened...
granted Im not a programmer. i never did a recompile,./configure, make, etc.....a user, no matter how good their intentions are, shouldn't have to recompile anything, period.
he's defintiely right about the fonts. their ugly and about 10points TOO SMALL.
whatever...just let me run my Apache/PHP/MySQL and FTP and I'll be happy, but it would certainly be nice to be able to use the GUI every now and again...some things you just CANT do from the CLI.
in the past 3+ years of web developement, Ive found that if I code a website to display properly in Mozilla or Netscape, then it *almost always* displays correctly in IE, but not the other way around. this includes, HTML, PHP, MySQL, Flash and even Javascript. now if only Mozilla and Linux could get a decent Flash plugin....
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this is much better than what's currently on the tv. been watching this 1 game for the past 10 minutes...they have distinct personalities. at one point they played a game of 'follow-me-around;' quite comical. too bad I cant read German...
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a local county(Henrico County) here is issuing ibooks to all of their high-school students. the students dont keep them, but its still a good initiative for every student to be able to use a computer at home
with Mozilla 1.1 blocking jaascript you get their message that your using pop-up blockers and your stealing.
whatever. any site that I get that message from will be the last time I ever go to that site, as apparently it doesnt have anything I would want to see anyways.
can web sites/companies really be this stupid?
Working in a laptop depot repair shop Ive replaced tons of hard drives. Not 1 Fujitsu, but rather Toshiba and IBM.
as always, YMMV
I'll take a 16/48 "copy"...better than standard "cd" quality anyways.
besides, 24/96 is only used for "surround efx" so it wont do you any good in a car cd player, boombox, etc...
Im with you, in that Ive never copied a commercial release.
granted I do burn thousands of audio cds a year but this is done legally; many bands allow recordings of their concerts and there are VERY big trading rings that copy/trade just concert recordings(etree.org, furthur.com, archive.org/etree, etc...)
these groups ONLY permit the trading of shows by bands that explicitly allow it, and yet we still have to pay the "copy tax" to the RIAA....
and some of us have pro quality TRUE 24/96 soundcards with digital inputs that can skip the analog step.
hell, my M-audio Audiophile 2496 can even act as a DSP and I can pipe my stand alone DVD players digi output through my Audiophile card and back to my receiver digitally.
oh yeah, I can also strip SCMS with my Audiophile 2496...
this is NOT true!!!
cant remember the exact model(Im at a friends house), but the Samsung DVD player I bought a year ago DOES support SACD/DVD-A(as well as CD/SVCD/VCD/MP3/CDR/CDRW) and DOES have optical and coax s/pdif output!
now whether the SACD/DVD-A formats will play through that output is another question, but the authors of the article are false.
and its in about 75% of ALL laptops out on the market. all of the GOOD units should have a control for this in the power management settings for Winxxxx. :)
if you want to deal with the hassle of looking up part #s you can buy a non-speedstep mobo for an additional $500-1000
you know, there are other browsers than Konqueror for Linux.
PHPNuke and PostNuke are both a big mess. we originally used PHPNuke, then switched to PostNuke, but have since come to the grips that its not that great anymore. weve now begun completely handwriting all our scripts.
for example, our main database query script with PHPNuke was 1000+ lines of nonsense code with includes: our new script is 25 lines with NO includes, queries faster and is more customizeable as to output format.
there are some features of *Nuke that we like and we are going through figuring out what we like and what we want/need.
Speakeasy's servers may not have been directly involved, but we definitely noticed a slow-down(going through Speakeasy's Chicago POP and we're in Virginia).
not quite sure if Eugenia is even using Mandrake 9. having downloaded and installed the day of release, I can say Ive encountered only 1 bug(cd 1 wouldnt boot...creating a boot floppy for the cd image fixed that).
maybe shes using weird hardware, but Man 9 installed flawlessly on my PII400(and fast too!). apparently she didnt read the installer message about 'wheel mice' or she would have known to roll the wheel for about 5 seconds(yes, the mouse jumps erratically for a few seconds, but once you roll the wheel, the mouse works fine)
7 terminals??? guess she told Man to install EVERYTHING...I went through my packages and installed 2 terms, and only the 2 I installed show up on any menus.
havent found a broken/non-working package yet(yes, originally I tried the 'update' function from the install....my mistake. if you wait to install updates until after the system is completely installed and running then you will have no problems). MySQL works(dont know why her Mysql wouldnt start at boot...did she change a config?)
I like the default KDE3 desktop...wish my Win2000 desktop looked this nice!
all in all, I am very happy with Man 9...easily their best, most bug-free distro yet.
my 1 problem(which isnt a Mandrake problem), is that the PHP/MySQL dev work I do on my Win2000 machine doesnt work on Man 9, but chalk that up to incompatible versions between the 2 platforms.
AOL = America On Line...their just a US ISP, known for their annoying "you have mail" commercials and that everyone receives several of their install cds a month in the postal-mail
um, dont know where you learned typing or what keyboards you use, but on every keyboard/typewriter Ive ever used the bumps were on F/J, not d/k. there *suppossed* to be on F/J and 5 for numberpad.
invaded by Arabs, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Ethiopians, Germans, Italians, French, etc.....
is there even a truly native Egyptian anymore(ie, direct descendant from original Egypt))
true, but Hawass isnt even respected as a true archeaologist outside of egyptian circles.
this still doesnt answer the question of the piece of wood originally found in front of the first door a few years ago...
for those who watched the original "LIVE" special where they originally found the first door, is what happened to the piece of wood laying in front of the door?
from lots of reading concerning Dr. Hawass zealoutus "egyptians did it all by themselves, etc....", it seems this piece of wood could be the end-all of the discussion(what is the carbon dating of the wood?), but then again, they never made *1* mention of it last night.
as mentioned in a previous post, Dr. Hawass does want to be the one-and-only person with any say-so regarding anything to do with ancient Egypt...even when he refuses to believe scientific fact.
Maxtor is the only IDE manufacturer I havent had any problems with. Maxtor used to have problems, but they got that fixed a couple of years ago and now make the most reliable drives.
guess they switched places with Western Digital(now the junk IDE manufacturer)
the company I work for sells many desktops, workstations and servers to the DOD. NONE of them are Windows machines. their either OSX or Unix....take it how you will...
if the case was still in trial, then they would be innocent until proven guilty, but since the courts have allready found them guilty(and appellate courts have upheld the guilty verdict), then Microsoft IS GUILTY.
why cant some of you understand this?
not just Linux. on Windows 2000 Pro(sp2), Linux is extremely memory AND CPU hungry. even more memory hungry if you use the "quick start" function....which in all honesty, doesnt speed up the mozilla start process like it says it should.
I peronally dont mind the somewhat slower page rendering times, mainly because I love the tab features.
but for my gateway(router, ftp, apache, furthur s/ling) I'm still using IE5 as my browser(IE6 is horrible)
well, I would uninstall "QOS" from your network properties list. not only is it not needed, but thats where a good portion of your bandwidth is going.
I've been using Linux for 3+ years, and I cant count the number of times I got so fed up with it that I wiped it clean to reload Win2K. Mandrake 8.1 ran slower on a PIII800 w/ 512MBRam than XP did on my PII350 w/ 128MBRam...how is this possible?
./configure, make, etc.....a user, no matter how good their intentions are, shouldn't have to recompile anything, period.
I still use Mandrake 8.1(no X/KDE) for my server needs, but as a desktop/workstation, I can only use Win2K(granted, most of my work is audio related, and I'm sorry, but Ardour is FAR from useable as a Linux multi-track recorder/editor)...though it defintely didnt help that I could never get my M-Audio Audiophile to work in Linux(even though the company swears by its Linux support...if so, then why did they pull the Linux driver from its website a year ago?).
yes, I read all the man pages, how-tos, etc...I got Samba to work...ONCE, and I still dont know how that happened...
granted Im not a programmer. i never did a recompile,
he's defintiely right about the fonts. their ugly and about 10points TOO SMALL.
whatever...just let me run my Apache/PHP/MySQL and FTP and I'll be happy, but it would certainly be nice to be able to use the GUI every now and again...some things you just CANT do from the CLI.
in the past 3+ years of web developement, Ive found that if I code a website to display properly in Mozilla or Netscape, then it *almost always* displays correctly in IE, but not the other way around.
this includes, HTML, PHP, MySQL, Flash and even Javascript.
now if only Mozilla and Linux could get a decent Flash plugin....
this is much better than what's currently on the tv. been watching this 1 game for the past 10 minutes...they have distinct personalities.
at one point they played a game of 'follow-me-around;' quite comical.
too bad I cant read German...