I have found Konqueror to not be supported by many websites, including such as gmail.com.
I too have had some problems with Konqueror choking, but it's almost execlusively been due to badly formed html.
I noticed that the latest KDE release (3.3.2) has literally dozens of fixes to the khtml code, including at least one that mentions gmail specifically. I haven't tried it out myself yet, but have a look at the changelog. The improvements made with each release of KDE are quite astonishing. Previous show-stopper bugs in Konq have been alleviated by point releases in the past, at least for me.
I'm not sure how active that mailing list is, since the project has moved to sourceforge,
The stats show 47.2% activity in the last week, and it is listed as 'mature', or level 6.
This could perhaps be exactly what is needed to relinquish control of cross-platform network gaming from the likes of GameSpy. It just needs more exposure, since hardly any game developers are likely to have heard of it.
Personally, I like the way it works in KDE's Kontact application. It simply ties together the existing email, address book and calendar applications into an integrated framework. There are additional modules for things like RSS feeds and weather.
It has the advantage of being similar enough to outlook that most non-technical users are comfortable making the switch.
It's not perfect, but it looks like they are taking it in the right direction, and it is actively being improved.
And how many seconds do you think it would take for MS to drop Office for Mac in this scenario?
I wholly agree with your entire post, but I think that IBM and Apple would have to look to other sources for an office suite. And this could be a good thing, as they would probably choose to invest in putting the finishing polish on Open Office, and use whatever means possible to break the MS Office stranglehold.
I bought a Sony TV, Sony VCR, and Sony DVD player in hopes that the remote control situation would be mitigated a bit.
This is exactly the path that I've chosen as well, with almost good results.
The remote that came with my STR-DE845 receiver would be the best remote ever, except for one or two fatal design flaws. See, on the surface, this is an extremely simple remote, with no more buttons than necessary. This makes it great for parents, wives/girlfriends and other non-techies to use. But it also has a flip-open feature, that reveals all the buttons a techno-geek could ask for. Unfortunately, DVD's were pretty new to the market when this remote was designed, and there is no way to navigate a DVD menu with the simple set of buttons. This would be acceptable, if you could simply flip open the cover, and use the cursor buttons found there to navigate menus. But when you flip open the panel, the remote assumes that you want to access features of the receiver, and not the current device. So, you have to do two more button presses to tell it you want it to send DVD signals instead of receiver signals. This is less than intuitive, and I myself sometimes forget this all important step. If you forget, and start hitting the cursor keys without switching modes, you end up adjusting critical receiver settings, such as front/rear/mid speaker volumes or balance, surround mode, and equalizer setttings. I've regretted to this day showing my girlfriend the flip open panel, because it's inevitable that she'll mess up these settings trying to get to some special features on a DVD.
If it wasn't for this shortcoming, this remote would be the best designed remote, ever. I prefer it's ergonomic shape to that of any other remote I've ever used. It has a small LCD display to give the user some feedback (although they didn't do as much as they could have with it.) And the flip open panel lets you get down and dirty when you need to. If they simply would have set the default to the current device, rather than receiver, on opening the panel, I would be satisfied.
It also inexplicably sometimes changes channels on the TV when it's set to change them on the VCR. Since I'm tuning through the VCR, changing the TV from one of its inputs to its tuner gets me a nice blast of static.
Check the settings of your TV. You should be able to 'lock' it to one of the video inputs. The feature is called 'channel fix' on my Sony TV.
Also, if you happen to go for Sony equipment that is one or two levels above the basic entry level models, they usually include a feature called S-Link. This will automate things a bit. For instance, switching the receiver or TV to the proper input when the DVD player is turned on, or play is started.
Since I still use the TV's internal tuner, the TV needs to switch from tuner/S-Video input when changing between DVD's and television. The remote is smart enough to send the TV the proper command when necessary, but this is kind of a hack. Since the TV doesn't accept remote signals for about 10 seconds when it's first turned on, you need to reselect DVD after this 'warm-up' time. Again, this confuses the heck out of my girlfriend. (The remote sends all necessary power commands when you switch functions, so I've taught the g/f to just select DVD or TV or VCR or CD, and everything necessary gets the proper 'power on' command from the remote. But with the 'warm-up' delay, the TV doesn't receive the 'switch input' command also sent by the remote.) Also, since the TV and receiver are about three feet from each other, you need to have a good angle from the remote to get signals to both devices. Unfortunately, the TV was the first component I purchased, and I was unaware of S-Link, and went for the cheapest Sony TV that had S-Video input/output. Of course it lacks the S-Link. Had I gone for one model higher, I would have had it. Of course, this is only an issue with my setup, where I still use the TV's built-in tuner. If I were using a set-top box (or other external tuner), the T
I've never seen any kind of device with Firewire connectors.
I'm not trying to flame, but you must not get out much. There are literally thousands of consumer electronics, computers and peripherals, and industrial equipment that use firewire. It's also known as IEEE 1394 and i.Link. Perhaps those names are more familiar to you?
Virtually every digital camcorder uses firewire, and many (most?) x86 motherboards come with it built in now. There are also mp3 players (besides Apple's) that use it, DVD players, HD TV's have it, set top boxes for satellite/cable have it (and cable co's are required to provide a box with firewire if the consumer requests it.) There are also firewire printers, scanners, and all manner of external storage devices that use it.
Mac came out with USB connectors years and years before USB was big. And, yo ucan't get a MAC with parallel or serial ports any more
So, when Apple adopts another industry standard connector (developed by Intel, no less) you criticize them for adopting it before everyone else? And, just to clarify, all Macs still come with a serial port, and it's called USB. Care to guess what that 'S' stands for? That's right, Universal SerialBus. Except you're no longer limited to one or two serial devices on your computer. What's that? You need to connect twelve serial devices at once? Hmm... not sure how you'd accomplish that in the old days, but now you can buy a single USB adapter that has 1, 2, 4, 8 or even 12 DB9 serial ports, and some even come with parallel ports as well.
But none of this has anything to do with audio. And it's the same story. Apple has had standard headphone jacks for audio out from day one until the present. The four year old iMac I'm using to type this has 2 headphone jacks on the front panel, and audio in and out on the side which also use industry standard 1/8" stereo mini jacks.
(which is part of the reason that I or my company could never buy a Mac).
Honestly, it sounds like you and your IT staff are suffering from incompatibility problems more than any particular hardware platform is.
With very few exceptions, every Mac made since the beginning has had 1/8" mini jacks for audio in and out. Using an older iMac for a jukebox is probably one of the best solutions out there, especially for non-technical parents. It's already been pointed out that there are third-party solutions to make it remote capable.
Also, if you are already using iTunes on a Mac or Windows machine, the Airport Express has a 1/8" mini jack for audio out, that doubles as a fiber optic s/pdif connector, if you want digital output to your stereo.
Honestly, I don't know where people get the idea that Apple invents new types of incompatible jacks and connectors. Let's see here, I've got mini jacks for audio, check; usb, check; firewire, check. Nope, no non-standard connectors on this iMac here. What are you talking about, again? Or, saying it another way, exactly what type of 'bizarre connectors' have you encountered for audio on a Mac? The only "different than PC" standard they've ever had would be ADB keyboard and mouse ports. And it's been at least five years since they made a machine with that standard.
Cars aren't built to take massive damage from behind because it almost never happens (aside from police cars parked on the side of the highway).
Well, some cars, such as NASCAR and military vehicles, which are expected to take rear-end hits, have safety features such as fuel tank bladders and shielding between the trunk and passenger compartment. The expensive factory-equipped police cruisers lack these safety features, even though high-speed rear-end collisions are more common in a vehicle used for police duty, as you point out.
Besides, there is a trunk between the passengers and rear bumper to provide a crumple zone. This isn't a flaw, it's a design choice.
You are correct that this is a design choice. But it is a flawed design. According to federal statistics, the Crown Victoria is more likely to catch fire when rear-ended than any other car.
The design flaw is this: the gas tank is positioned between the rear axle and the rear bumper, and is ruptured on a rear end collision when it wraps around the axle. See, the 'crumple zone' is a metal container filled with a flammable liquid. To make matters worse, there are sharp bolts and other protrusions in the area of the gas tank, increasing the likelyhood of a breach. Ford, while not accepting
responsibility for the design flaw, has nonetheless issued a recommendation that a hex-head bolt attached to the rear bumper be replaced with a round-headed fastener, and that a metal tab on the undercarriage be ground down.
After several deaths and one very public disfigurement, the Phoenix Police Department has retrofitted their Crown Victorias with a gas tank bladder, similar to what is mandated by most if not all racing sanctioning bodies, such as NASCAR.
The part of this story that I find interesting, is that Ford has had problems with gas tank designs going back to the sixties, even before the well known Pinto debacle. Starting with the 'drop-in' tank of the early Mustang, where the gas tank acted as the floor of the trunk. This design flaw caused the passenger compartment to be sprayed with a mist of gasoline on rear-end impact. See here.
The reason the Pinto incident became so well known, was that Ford knew there was a fatal design flaw, but decided it would be cheaper in the long run to settle with the injured or deceased families than to redesign the gas tank, or fit the cars with a $1 plastic baffle to lessen the likelyhood of it rupturing. The Pinto gas tank had the exact same flaws (mounted between bumper and axle, and sharp objects in it's vicinity) as the current Crown Vics.
Well, if you'd like to stick it to the RIAA, buy your CDs at your local used record store. Unless you absolutely must have a copy that is untouched, you can get a better deal, support the local economy, and cut the RIAA out of the loop. That's what I do, and then immediately rip the CD onto my computer. (I don't return the disc after this, and I think if someone made a habit of this, they'd probably catch on.)
I've had to return exactly one CD because it was too scratched up to play or rip, and they happily gave me store credit for the amount. Usually, they don't take in discs that are so scratched up.
The misconception throughout this thread is that the water used for cooling will be returned to the lake. But it isn't. After used for cooling, it ends up in the drinking water supply. Therefore, there is no warm water being returned to the lake. Therefore, no convection currents, no rampant algae growth, no chlorine or other chemicals being dumped back in, etc.
Well, I took your advice and submitted my request for a Linux version of iTunes. Here is my plea:
I am a very satisfied, long-term Macintosh, iPod, and iTunes user. I have purchased over 300 tracks from the iTunes Music store so far, and find it to be an excellent resource for obtaining music legally over the internet.
I also use linux at home, and am intending to build a home theater PC running linux. The only thing missing from my linux experience is the ability to play the encrypted AAC files purchased from the iTunes music store. I would really like to consolidate my entire music library, both encrypted AAC files and mp3s and other unencumbered formats, and be able to share all of my music with all of my home computers, regardless of operating system.
Although I have purchased many times more music from the iTunes Music Store than I have on CD in the past year, the one thing that keeps holding me back is the ability to play this purchased music on my future home theater PC. Once this new machine is built and deployed in my entertainment system, I think it is likely that I will again opt for purchasing music on CD, as it can then be encoded in a format that allows playback on all of my devices.
While I realize that the Airport Express would offer some of the features that I seek in integrating my iTunes purchased tracks into my home entertainment system, I feel it does not fulfill all of my requirements, such as IR remote control, or streaming to other computers in the house that are running a non-Apple or Microsoft operating system. And really, once I have a home theater PC, I will want to access my music from within the on-screen display on my television screen as I will with the rest of the features of the home theater PC.
Thank you for reading my suggestion, and providing such an excellent set of products as iTunes, the iPod, and the iTunes Music Store. They are all the best-of-breed in their respective categories that I have come to expect in my nearly 25 years as an Apple customer.
I hope other slashdotters will send similar feedback to Apple.
"Gee, Bob, we really like the way you shut down those communist open source advocates from following your own mandates. And we're pleased as punch that you've faithfully upgraded your systems every year. But the icing on the cake is how you've required the users of your system to use an MS operating system to access public data. We'd really, really like to give you a reward for your loyalty to Redmond, but you being an elected official and all, it just might not look good. Now, if your website had some advertising we could purchase... Oh, and make sure there is a closed bidding process for the advertising, so no one actually sees how much we're kicking back to you..."
A properly secured system would only allow root to log in from the console, and physical security should prevent the malicious user from gaining console access.
Delegating administrative privileges can be controlled with extremely fine granularity using sudo, as this excellent series of articles point out.
Here is a relevant quote from the first article: Once you have sudo configured correctly, you can change the root password and not give it to anyone. Nobody should need the root password if they have the correct sudo permissions, after all! Reducing the number of people who have the root password can help improve security.
I'm a tech savy guy, and I find iTunes counter-intuitive for adding songs to our iPod's library.
A tech-savvy guy like yourself has trouble plugging in a cable?! That's all it takes to sync your music library in iTunes with your iPod... plug it in. Unless you have turned that option off in the preferences, in which case you are faced with the befuddling task of drag and drop. Really. Drag a song, an album, an artist, a genre or whatever selection you like and drop it on the iPod icon in the 'source' column. Is that so hard?
Perhaps you're not as tech-savvy as you like to believe? Or maybe years of Microsoft use have left you expecting simple tasks to be more complicated. I really don't see how they could make it any simpler or more intuitive.
I was quite amazed to learn this fact while sipping suds at my local watering hole. There was a technician working on the machine, and had it open. Seeing the guts, it was pretty obviously just a pc inside. It even had a cd-rom drive, mounted sideways. When he was finished, and started it up, it looked (from across the room) to be Linux starting up.
I asked the (extremely grumpy) repairman what OS was running on the box, and he grumped, "ly-nucks", with a frown. I asked him how he liked it, and he gave me a thumbs down.
Then I quipped, "So you're more of a BSD guy, then?" He gave me a long stare, turned his back, and walked out. My drinking buddy thought it was pretty funny.
Five minutes later, it was into it's endless reboot cycle that he'd been called in to fix. Freakin' genius.
Seeing linux, as well as the technician's incompetence and rude manner, made me consider applying for a job with the vending company. I may yet, but I doubt my credentials would impress them.
The most specific labeling I've seen has been Sumatran Mandheling, of which (I believe) Blue Lintong is a subvariety. I don't know if I've been exposed to this particular subvariety, but from the description I ran across on The Coffee Review, it sounds exactly like the Sumatran blends I've had: earthy, mellow, full-bodied...
Yep, Kona and Jamaican Blue Mountain are fine, expensive coffees, good for a special treat. But for day to day drinking, I find Sumatran to be my favorite. Since moving to Phoenix, I've settled for the Sumatran/Columbian that is Trader Joe's house blend. Good stuff, and it won't put you in the poor house. (Gotta love Trader Joe's!)
The rare occasions when I have coffee outside of my house, I'll usually go for a latte or cappucino, with ice in the blast furnace the locals call summer.
If you are in the Twin Cities of Minnneapolis/St. Paul, Dunn Brothers is one of the best coffees I have ever tasted. They started out as a supplier to local restaurants, and then opened a couple of shops around town. One of the owners roasts the coffee himself every morning (or at least that's how it was when I lived there, many moons ago.)
Well, i just looked up their website, to post a link here, and I see they are going the franchise route. I hope this doesn't ruin it...
That's my suspicion, anyhow. Now, if he were visiting and taking pictures of independent coffee houses across the land, his site would deserve a visit. But the McDonalds of coffee does not.
Has anybody researched this for a connection back to HQ? It just reminds me a little too much of the Mini robot website, that slashdotters quickly debunked by tracing the website ownership back to a ad agency used by BMW/Mini.
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And in other news, Karl teaches George how to use one of the internets, and he stumbles onto slashdot.
I too have had some problems with Konqueror choking, but it's almost execlusively been due to badly formed html.
I noticed that the latest KDE release (3.3.2) has literally dozens of fixes to the khtml code, including at least one that mentions gmail specifically. I haven't tried it out myself yet, but have a look at the changelog. The improvements made with each release of KDE are quite astonishing. Previous show-stopper bugs in Konq have been alleviated by point releases in the past, at least for me.
The stats show 47.2% activity in the last week, and it is listed as 'mature', or level 6.
This could perhaps be exactly what is needed to relinquish control of cross-platform network gaming from the likes of GameSpy. It just needs more exposure, since hardly any game developers are likely to have heard of it.
It has the advantage of being similar enough to outlook that most non-technical users are comfortable making the switch.
It's not perfect, but it looks like they are taking it in the right direction, and it is actively being improved.
And how many seconds do you think it would take for MS to drop Office for Mac in this scenario?
I wholly agree with your entire post, but I think that IBM and Apple would have to look to other sources for an office suite. And this could be a good thing, as they would probably choose to invest in putting the finishing polish on Open Office, and use whatever means possible to break the MS Office stranglehold.
This is exactly the path that I've chosen as well, with almost good results.
The remote that came with my STR-DE845 receiver would be the best remote ever, except for one or two fatal design flaws. See, on the surface, this is an extremely simple remote, with no more buttons than necessary. This makes it great for parents, wives/girlfriends and other non-techies to use. But it also has a flip-open feature, that reveals all the buttons a techno-geek could ask for. Unfortunately, DVD's were pretty new to the market when this remote was designed, and there is no way to navigate a DVD menu with the simple set of buttons. This would be acceptable, if you could simply flip open the cover, and use the cursor buttons found there to navigate menus. But when you flip open the panel, the remote assumes that you want to access features of the receiver, and not the current device. So, you have to do two more button presses to tell it you want it to send DVD signals instead of receiver signals. This is less than intuitive, and I myself sometimes forget this all important step. If you forget, and start hitting the cursor keys without switching modes, you end up adjusting critical receiver settings, such as front/rear/mid speaker volumes or balance, surround mode, and equalizer setttings. I've regretted to this day showing my girlfriend the flip open panel, because it's inevitable that she'll mess up these settings trying to get to some special features on a DVD.
If it wasn't for this shortcoming, this remote would be the best designed remote, ever. I prefer it's ergonomic shape to that of any other remote I've ever used. It has a small LCD display to give the user some feedback (although they didn't do as much as they could have with it.) And the flip open panel lets you get down and dirty when you need to. If they simply would have set the default to the current device, rather than receiver, on opening the panel, I would be satisfied.
It also inexplicably sometimes changes channels on the TV when it's set to change them on the VCR. Since I'm tuning through the VCR, changing the TV from one of its inputs to its tuner gets me a nice blast of static.
Check the settings of your TV. You should be able to 'lock' it to one of the video inputs. The feature is called 'channel fix' on my Sony TV.
Also, if you happen to go for Sony equipment that is one or two levels above the basic entry level models, they usually include a feature called S-Link. This will automate things a bit. For instance, switching the receiver or TV to the proper input when the DVD player is turned on, or play is started.
Since I still use the TV's internal tuner, the TV needs to switch from tuner/S-Video input when changing between DVD's and television. The remote is smart enough to send the TV the proper command when necessary, but this is kind of a hack. Since the TV doesn't accept remote signals for about 10 seconds when it's first turned on, you need to reselect DVD after this 'warm-up' time. Again, this confuses the heck out of my girlfriend. (The remote sends all necessary power commands when you switch functions, so I've taught the g/f to just select DVD or TV or VCR or CD, and everything necessary gets the proper 'power on' command from the remote. But with the 'warm-up' delay, the TV doesn't receive the 'switch input' command also sent by the remote.) Also, since the TV and receiver are about three feet from each other, you need to have a good angle from the remote to get signals to both devices. Unfortunately, the TV was the first component I purchased, and I was unaware of S-Link, and went for the cheapest Sony TV that had S-Video input/output. Of course it lacks the S-Link. Had I gone for one model higher, I would have had it. Of course, this is only an issue with my setup, where I still use the TV's built-in tuner. If I were using a set-top box (or other external tuner), the T
I'm not trying to flame, but you must not get out much. There are literally thousands of consumer electronics, computers and peripherals, and industrial equipment that use firewire. It's also known as IEEE 1394 and i.Link. Perhaps those names are more familiar to you?
Virtually every digital camcorder uses firewire, and many (most?) x86 motherboards come with it built in now. There are also mp3 players (besides Apple's) that use it, DVD players, HD TV's have it, set top boxes for satellite/cable have it (and cable co's are required to provide a box with firewire if the consumer requests it.) There are also firewire printers, scanners, and all manner of external storage devices that use it.
But don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself.
Mac came out with USB connectors years and years before USB was big. And, yo ucan't get a MAC with parallel or serial ports any more
So, when Apple adopts another industry standard connector (developed by Intel, no less) you criticize them for adopting it before everyone else? And, just to clarify, all Macs still come with a serial port, and it's called USB. Care to guess what that 'S' stands for? That's right, Universal Serial Bus. Except you're no longer limited to one or two serial devices on your computer. What's that? You need to connect twelve serial devices at once? Hmm... not sure how you'd accomplish that in the old days, but now you can buy a single USB adapter that has 1, 2, 4, 8 or even 12 DB9 serial ports, and some even come with parallel ports as well.
But none of this has anything to do with audio. And it's the same story. Apple has had standard headphone jacks for audio out from day one until the present. The four year old iMac I'm using to type this has 2 headphone jacks on the front panel, and audio in and out on the side which also use industry standard 1/8" stereo mini jacks.
(which is part of the reason that I or my company could never buy a Mac).
Honestly, it sounds like you and your IT staff are suffering from incompatibility problems more than any particular hardware platform is.
Also, if you are already using iTunes on a Mac or Windows machine, the Airport Express has a 1/8" mini jack for audio out, that doubles as a fiber optic s/pdif connector, if you want digital output to your stereo.
Honestly, I don't know where people get the idea that Apple invents new types of incompatible jacks and connectors. Let's see here, I've got mini jacks for audio, check; usb, check; firewire, check. Nope, no non-standard connectors on this iMac here. What are you talking about, again? Or, saying it another way, exactly what type of 'bizarre connectors' have you encountered for audio on a Mac? The only "different than PC" standard they've ever had would be ADB keyboard and mouse ports. And it's been at least five years since they made a machine with that standard.
I ask again, what are you talking about?
Well, some cars, such as NASCAR and military vehicles, which are expected to take rear-end hits, have safety features such as fuel tank bladders and shielding between the trunk and passenger compartment. The expensive factory-equipped police cruisers lack these safety features, even though high-speed rear-end collisions are more common in a vehicle used for police duty, as you point out.
Besides, there is a trunk between the passengers and rear bumper to provide a crumple zone. This isn't a flaw, it's a design choice.
You are correct that this is a design choice. But it is a flawed design. According to federal statistics, the Crown Victoria is more likely to catch fire when rear-ended than any other car.
The design flaw is this: the gas tank is positioned between the rear axle and the rear bumper, and is ruptured on a rear end collision when it wraps around the axle. See, the 'crumple zone' is a metal container filled with a flammable liquid. To make matters worse, there are sharp bolts and other protrusions in the area of the gas tank, increasing the likelyhood of a breach. Ford, while not accepting responsibility for the design flaw, has nonetheless issued a recommendation that a hex-head bolt attached to the rear bumper be replaced with a round-headed fastener, and that a metal tab on the undercarriage be ground down.
After several deaths and one very public disfigurement, the Phoenix Police Department has retrofitted their Crown Victorias with a gas tank bladder, similar to what is mandated by most if not all racing sanctioning bodies, such as NASCAR.
The part of this story that I find interesting, is that Ford has had problems with gas tank designs going back to the sixties, even before the well known Pinto debacle. Starting with the 'drop-in' tank of the early Mustang, where the gas tank acted as the floor of the trunk. This design flaw caused the passenger compartment to be sprayed with a mist of gasoline on rear-end impact. See here.
The reason the Pinto incident became so well known, was that Ford knew there was a fatal design flaw, but decided it would be cheaper in the long run to settle with the injured or deceased families than to redesign the gas tank, or fit the cars with a $1 plastic baffle to lessen the likelyhood of it rupturing. The Pinto gas tank had the exact same flaws (mounted between bumper and axle, and sharp objects in it's vicinity) as the current Crown Vics.
Yep. It's a catepillar alright. Obviously a species from the family Geometridae. Members of which are commonly refered to as inchworms.
I've had to return exactly one CD because it was too scratched up to play or rip, and they happily gave me store credit for the amount. Usually, they don't take in discs that are so scratched up.
My local store is now carrying used DVDs as well.
The misconception throughout this thread is that the water used for cooling will be returned to the lake. But it isn't. After used for cooling, it ends up in the drinking water supply. Therefore, there is no warm water being returned to the lake. Therefore, no convection currents, no rampant algae growth, no chlorine or other chemicals being dumped back in, etc.
- I am a very satisfied, long-term Macintosh, iPod, and iTunes user. I have purchased over 300 tracks from the iTunes Music store so far, and find it to be an excellent resource for obtaining music legally over the internet.
I hope other slashdotters will send similar feedback to Apple.I also use linux at home, and am intending to build a home theater PC running linux. The only thing missing from my linux experience is the ability to play the encrypted AAC files purchased from the iTunes music store. I would really like to consolidate my entire music library, both encrypted AAC files and mp3s and other unencumbered formats, and be able to share all of my music with all of my home computers, regardless of operating system.
Although I have purchased many times more music from the iTunes Music Store than I have on CD in the past year, the one thing that keeps holding me back is the ability to play this purchased music on my future home theater PC. Once this new machine is built and deployed in my entertainment system, I think it is likely that I will again opt for purchasing music on CD, as it can then be encoded in a format that allows playback on all of my devices.
While I realize that the Airport Express would offer some of the features that I seek in integrating my iTunes purchased tracks into my home entertainment system, I feel it does not fulfill all of my requirements, such as IR remote control, or streaming to other computers in the house that are running a non-Apple or Microsoft operating system. And really, once I have a home theater PC, I will want to access my music from within the on-screen display on my television screen as I will with the rest of the features of the home theater PC.
Thank you for reading my suggestion, and providing such an excellent set of products as iTunes, the iPod, and the iTunes Music Store. They are all the best-of-breed in their respective categories that I have come to expect in my nearly 25 years as an Apple customer.
"Gee, Bob, we really like the way you shut down those communist open source advocates from following your own mandates. And we're pleased as punch that you've faithfully upgraded your systems every year. But the icing on the cake is how you've required the users of your system to use an MS operating system to access public data. We'd really, really like to give you a reward for your loyalty to Redmond, but you being an elected official and all, it just might not look good. Now, if your website had some advertising we could purchase... Oh, and make sure there is a closed bidding process for the advertising, so no one actually sees how much we're kicking back to you..."
Delegating administrative privileges can be controlled with extremely fine granularity using sudo, as this excellent series of articles point out.
Here is a relevant quote from the first article:
Once you have sudo configured correctly, you can change the root password and not give it to anyone. Nobody should need the root password if they have the correct sudo permissions, after all! Reducing the number of people who have the root password can help improve security.
A tech-savvy guy like yourself has trouble plugging in a cable?! That's all it takes to sync your music library in iTunes with your iPod... plug it in. Unless you have turned that option off in the preferences, in which case you are faced with the befuddling task of drag and drop. Really. Drag a song, an album, an artist, a genre or whatever selection you like and drop it on the iPod icon in the 'source' column. Is that so hard?
Perhaps you're not as tech-savvy as you like to believe? Or maybe years of Microsoft use have left you expecting simple tasks to be more complicated. I really don't see how they could make it any simpler or more intuitive.
I was quite amazed to learn this fact while sipping suds at my local watering hole. There was a technician working on the machine, and had it open. Seeing the guts, it was pretty obviously just a pc inside. It even had a cd-rom drive, mounted sideways. When he was finished, and started it up, it looked (from across the room) to be Linux starting up.
I asked the (extremely grumpy) repairman what OS was running on the box, and he grumped, "ly-nucks", with a frown. I asked him how he liked it, and he gave me a thumbs down.
Then I quipped, "So you're more of a BSD guy, then?" He gave me a long stare, turned his back, and walked out. My drinking buddy thought it was pretty funny.
Five minutes later, it was into it's endless reboot cycle that he'd been called in to fix. Freakin' genius.
Seeing linux, as well as the technician's incompetence and rude manner, made me consider applying for a job with the vending company. I may yet, but I doubt my credentials would impress them.
war flying!
Well it fits the old joke:
Cars with Lucas wiring have three headlamp settings: off, dim, and flicker.
Your dad's name wouldn't happen to be Tim Allen, now would it? Or Red Green?
There was a G3 'All-in-One' PowerMac. Other than that, you are correct.
The most specific labeling I've seen has been Sumatran Mandheling, of which (I believe) Blue Lintong is a subvariety. I don't know if I've been exposed to this particular subvariety, but from the description I ran across on The Coffee Review, it sounds exactly like the Sumatran blends I've had: earthy, mellow, full-bodied...
The rare occasions when I have coffee outside of my house, I'll usually go for a latte or cappucino, with ice in the blast furnace the locals call summer.
Well, i just looked up their website, to post a link here, and I see they are going the franchise route. I hope this doesn't ruin it...
(I'm also dismayed to see the use of IIS.)
That's my suspicion, anyhow. Now, if he were visiting and taking pictures of independent coffee houses across the land, his site would deserve a visit. But the McDonalds of coffee does not.
Has anybody researched this for a connection back to HQ? It just reminds me a little too much of the Mini robot website, that slashdotters quickly debunked by tracing the website ownership back to a ad agency used by BMW/Mini.