I've tried iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody about 8 months ago and found Rhapsody to have much better selection. I'm not saying its perfect, but the song selection is much, much bigger than Napster and iTunes combined.
They all have popular albums like 50 cent and Mariah Carey, but Rhapsody truly shines in the undeground/Indie selection. Artists like Spoon, MF Doom and entire the Ninja Tune label are available.
I don't really care much about "owning" music as long as I can play it anytime I want, instantly.
I'm tethered to my computer all day, and I'm sure most slashdotters are as well.
For the albums I really like I own the CD anyway, for car rides and jogging.
Also supports devices like WMA11B if you want to listen in your living room.
One feature that absolutely makes it for me? Enter up to 10 artists and Rhapsody will stream your own commercial free radio station with the artists you specified among bunch of similar others as well. Great way to discover new artists! Don't like the song? Guess what, hit "Next Track" and skip to the next one.
I know it windows only. I'm running it under VMWare on my Redhat workstation at work:-)
Overall, I think Rhapsody is the best one out there and definitely step in the right direction. It's not perfect but works as well as iTunes. Best $10 per month I've ever spent:-)
What you pay for with Verisign is the legal protection in case of theft, fraud etc up to $250K
Check http://www.verisign.com/repository/netsure/
I read most of the comments in this thread I think that everyone is missing the point why people get Verisign certificates. It's not just a string of automatically generated random characters, there's a huge insurance company and an army of lawyers behind it.
The cheap certificates do not have that kind of legal protection, and last time I checked CAcert.org does not offer any kind of protection at all:-)
3.Create an "administrator" account that's password protected and talk to the most conservative person in the family about the evils of installing new programs. It just happens that in my family that individual is also most likely to forgot the administrator password:-)
I'm all set for another year. Next time I see them they just give me a couple of cd's with reader rabit and winnie the pooh games to install and I'm all set!
Anyone familiar with debian knows apt, now available in rpm flavors (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/)
seriously, takes away all package management headaches. and repo-janitor (http://imsb.au.dk/~mok/repo-janitor.php) makes running your own repository easy
you are correct about qmail, but that's not the case with tinydns. its mad easy to compile, install and configure. how i see it, only problem in it's wide spread use is the licence.
The reason bind, not djbdns is includedi with every distro is because djbdns can not be distributed in modified/binary form . I don't really agree with it, but hey, thats how Dan J. Bernstein wants it.
Anyway, compiling djbdns is mad easy (unlike qmail) check this out
I'm not sure if this is related, but last night about 5pm UTC my host http://www.ezzi.net got hit with a DDoS attack. Couple hours later they were up and running though.
Currently my film "A Sound of Thunder" is being filmed in Czechoslovakia
Out of all the people that still think that Czechoslovakia is still one country, I would not expect Ray Bradbury be one of them... I mean cmon! They separated in 1993! Czech Republic and Slovakia godamn it! Two very different countries with different languages, goverments and culture.
It turns out that the bug (#115980) is a result of a few subtle but key changes within the 2.6 kernel. A certain functionality with regards to hard disk geometry has been pulled out, as the kernel developers thought it would be better if userspace utilities took care of this instead. The Bugzilla bug is related to CHS geometry problems, which most likely stems from an error within the parted utility, addressing the BIOS incorrectly. It turns out that BIOS updates tend to fix problems for many users that have been bitten by this "bug". On newer machines, this is basically non-reproducible.
Our company swears by it... every machine before it goes on the bench and after it leaves goes through fully automated and comprehensive "Burn-In" process. I'm not sure how much it costs, but its definitely up there around $400 maybe? and comes with bunch of loopback interfaces.
it's pretty up to date too, last version we have has serial ATA, athlon 64 etc support
I can't even count how much time we saved when after initial burn-in we realized that the memory was set to CAS 2.5 instead of 3 causing timer problems and subsequent weird application crashes.
A tool like this is very important if you have many crap machines coming from the street and you dont know who worked on them before (Joe Sixpack thought that lower CAS will make his computer go faster, but his el cheapo memory modules just wont take it)
Allright, here's the deal: I'm incorporated, I got *real* customers paying me *real* money to develop highly customized CMS in perl.
So quit your yapping and if you work hard drop me at line aoeajsdaf at yahoo.com (freemail address to protect my privacy).
I'm heavily using and re-using other people's code (based off twiki.org) and the final product will be GPL. And don't worry as long as real estate agents have jobs, so do we.
Masses believe Bush again! Bush will probably get reelected.
Everybody in US please vote, the stakes are too high! And please, vote for an electable candidate that can get elected by the rest of the public. just my $.02
I did and I never had any problems whatsoever. One time one of the technicians cracked the die by accident, but since the damage was not too apparent I got new cpu in 48 hours.
Of course this was on reseller level, but since most cpu's were boxed (we get all higher end cpu's boxed for extended warranty) I dont think there would be much difference for the end user
finally its here! i want an mp3 portable with one of these.
altough im kinda skeptical if we will actually see it happen. remember those quarter sized 300mb disks that were supposed to be a big hit last year? put all kinds of restriction on them and tried to sell drm music on it. no wonder noone bought it
what we need is a *legal* way to play dvds under linux.
until then we are limited to a tivo like functionality.
also software-based pvr's will never be cost effective. right now you can encode tv shows on cheap via epia boards, however in couple of years everyone will have HDTV and as of yet, pci bus doesnt have enough bandwidth to handle it. (and when that technology will be available, it will be way over $500 i'm willing to spend on a box like that)
i beat this hp laserjet with a golf club once (insert office space reference here) until the golf club broke. yes, the golf club broke. the printer itself showed severe damage on the outside, but stil held together...
Re:Merits of PHP compared to Perl?
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when you pick php you have to be careful what you buy into... unlike perl, php is controlled by a vendor. php by itself is free, but if you want to do anything serious w/ it you will need zend optimizer which is about $2g per cpu (im talking 300% performance increase through caching etc). hey, mod_perl is free and it does basicly the same thing.
performance wise, i think perl and php are on the same level
i started out with php and then slowly moved to perl. i still have a lot of apps in php that i have to manintain once in a while... and let me tell you - its major pain.
php is really easy to learn and implement, but it lacks infracstructure. on the other hand, in perl you get away with a lot more things and its true that if you are not careful perl will get obfuscated and unmaintainable very fast.
beauty of perl comes in when you put effort into developing strong infrastructure and stick to it. always use strict, -wt (warnings and taint mode). organize your code into neat modules (CGI::Application) and use a templating system (HTML::Template is very simple and wont let you clutter html with code). note that php doesnt have any of this features as readily available as in perl through CPAN modules
when it comes to documentation, it might be true that php has good resources online, but perl has a lot larger comunity (check out perlmonks.org) i got replies on my questions within 30 minutes of posting!
in short... perl has superior architecture to php, however php has better corporate support and better learning curve
did you guys noticed whats the channel count on those tuners? i checked out Haupage and All beautiful spanky new radeon. i it found very disturbing that the actual channel count on the tuners is only 125 channels! everyone who has cable knows that theres way more bullshit channels than that!
what i think they are going for is syncing the ads on the billboards w/ ads on the radio. i think you are more likely to remember a brand name/product if you also see it while listening to the pitch on the radio
presonally i dont really mind targeted advertising - hey if its a product that i might like i will think of it when it comes to spending my paycheck;-)
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.giantpath.com/TMIU/rhapsody.htmlp hp
:-)
:-)
http://www.mp3.com/tech/services_20050753_review.
I've tried iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody about 8 months ago and found Rhapsody to have much better selection. I'm not saying its perfect, but the song selection is much, much bigger than Napster and iTunes combined.
They all have popular albums like 50 cent and Mariah Carey, but Rhapsody truly shines in the undeground/Indie selection. Artists like Spoon, MF Doom and entire the Ninja Tune label are available.
I don't really care much about "owning" music as long as I can play it anytime I want, instantly.
I'm tethered to my computer all day, and I'm sure most slashdotters are as well.
For the albums I really like I own the CD anyway, for car rides and jogging.
Also supports devices like WMA11B if you want to listen in your living room.
One feature that absolutely makes it for me? Enter up to 10 artists and Rhapsody will stream your own commercial free radio station with the artists you specified among bunch of similar others as well. Great way to discover new artists! Don't like the song? Guess what, hit "Next Track" and skip to the next one.
I know it windows only. I'm running it under VMWare on my Redhat workstation at work
Overall, I think Rhapsody is the best one out there and definitely step in the right direction. It's not perfect but works as well as iTunes. Best $10 per month I've ever spent
What you pay for with Verisign is the legal protection in case of theft, fraud etc up to $250K
:-)
Check http://www.verisign.com/repository/netsure/
I read most of the comments in this thread I think that everyone is missing the point why people get Verisign certificates. It's not just a string of automatically generated random characters, there's a huge insurance company and an army of lawyers behind it.
The cheap certificates do not have that kind of legal protection, and last time I checked CAcert.org does not offer any kind of protection at all
There's a really simple solution I use for both my customers and my family members. Just don't give them administrator privileges!
:-)
1. Create a "user" or "limited" account for every family member.
2. Install firefox, thunderbird, spybot, openoffice, trillian.
4. Turn on automatic updates
3.Create an "administrator" account that's password protected and talk to the most conservative person in the family about the evils of installing new programs. It just happens that in my family that individual is also most likely to forgot the administrator password
I'm all set for another year. Next time I see them they just give me a couple of cd's with reader rabit and winnie the pooh games to install and I'm all set!
Anyone familiar with debian knows apt, now available in rpm flavors (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/)
seriously, takes away all package management headaches. and repo-janitor (http://imsb.au.dk/~mok/repo-janitor.php) makes running your own repository easy
you are correct about qmail, but that's not the case with tinydns. its mad easy to compile, install and configure. how i see it, only problem in it's wide spread use is the licence.
The reason bind, not djbdns is includedi with every distro is because djbdns can not be distributed in modified/binary form . I don't really agree with it, but hey, thats how Dan J. Bernstein wants it.
Anyway, compiling djbdns is mad easy (unlike qmail) check this out
I use djbdns anywhere I need DNS server.
I'm not sure if this is related, but last night about 5pm UTC my host http://www.ezzi.net got hit with a DDoS attack. Couple hours later they were up and running though.
Currently my film "A Sound of Thunder" is being filmed in Czechoslovakia
Out of all the people that still think that Czechoslovakia is still one country, I would not expect Ray Bradbury be one of them... I mean cmon! They separated in 1993! Czech Republic and Slovakia godamn it! Two very different countries with different languages, goverments and culture.
tsk tsk. known bug, check the release notes. i dont think theres a workaround for it yet
Copy and paste from here
It turns out that the bug (#115980) is a result of a few subtle but key changes within the 2.6 kernel. A certain functionality with regards to hard disk geometry has been pulled out, as the kernel developers thought it would be better if userspace utilities took care of this instead. The Bugzilla bug is related to CHS geometry problems, which most likely stems from an error within the parted utility, addressing the BIOS incorrectly. It turns out that BIOS updates tend to fix problems for many users that have been bitten by this "bug". On newer machines, this is basically non-reproducible.
According to this: Dual-head AGP video cards "just work"
on my g450 I'm using mgapdesk on RH9 with varying degree of success. In another words, it's piece of crap. I'm due for an upgrade
216. Queef. [9.9 points]
WTF?
http://www.uxd.com/qtpro.shtml
Our company swears by it... every machine before it goes on the bench and after it leaves goes through fully automated and comprehensive "Burn-In" process. I'm not sure how much it costs, but its definitely up there around $400 maybe? and comes with bunch of loopback interfaces.
it's pretty up to date too, last version we have has serial ATA, athlon 64 etc support
I can't even count how much time we saved when after initial burn-in we realized that the memory was set to CAS 2.5 instead of 3 causing timer problems and subsequent weird application crashes.
A tool like this is very important if you have many crap machines coming from the street and you dont know who worked on them before (Joe Sixpack thought that lower CAS will make his computer go faster, but his el cheapo memory modules just wont take it)
Allright, here's the deal:
I'm incorporated, I got *real* customers paying me *real* money to develop highly customized CMS in perl.
So quit your yapping and if you work hard drop me at line aoeajsdaf at yahoo.com (freemail address to protect my privacy).
I'm heavily using and re-using other people's code (based off twiki.org) and the final product will be GPL. And don't worry as long as real estate agents have jobs, so do we.
Everybody in US please vote, the stakes are too high! And please, vote for an electable candidate that can get elected by the rest of the public. just my $.02
I did and I never had any problems whatsoever. One time one of the technicians cracked the die by accident, but since the damage was not too apparent I got new cpu in 48 hours.
Of course this was on reseller level, but since most cpu's were boxed (we get all higher end cpu's boxed for extended warranty) I dont think there would be much difference for the end user
well, the real question is... does it come with a hot girl to talk to?
(check out the screenshots)
finally its here! i want an mp3 portable with one of these.
altough im kinda skeptical if we will actually see it happen. remember those quarter sized 300mb disks that were supposed to be a big hit last year? put all kinds of restriction on them and tried to sell drm music on it. no wonder noone bought it
what we need is a *legal* way to play dvds under linux.
until then we are limited to a tivo like functionality.
also software-based pvr's will never be cost effective. right now you can encode tv shows on cheap via epia boards, however in couple of years everyone will have HDTV and as of yet, pci bus doesnt have enough bandwidth to handle it. (and when that technology will be available, it will be way over $500 i'm willing to spend on a box like that)
i have Zenith C27V22 HDTV
:-)
it has 1080i HDTV component input, 480p component input and also something that looks just like standard vga connector.
in the manual it says that its a "RGB VGA in."
does that mean i can just hook up my pc directly into it? of course with proper resolution and refresh rate.
if thats true then i just wasted $200 for progressive scan dvd player w/ mp3 playback
now we are talking about linux drivers right? :-)
im asking because i went to every single link you stated and none of the manufacturers explicitly stated that they support linux drivers
i beat this hp laserjet with a golf club once (insert office space reference here) until the golf club broke. yes, the golf club broke. the printer itself showed severe damage on the outside, but stil held together...
performance wise, i think perl and php are on the same level
... and let me tell you - its major pain.
i started out with php and then slowly moved to perl. i still have a lot of apps in php that i have to manintain once in a while
php is really easy to learn and implement, but it lacks infracstructure. on the other hand, in perl you get away with a lot more things and its true that if you are not careful perl will get obfuscated and unmaintainable very fast.
beauty of perl comes in when you put effort into developing strong infrastructure and stick to it. always use strict, -wt (warnings and taint mode). organize your code into neat modules (CGI::Application) and use a templating system (HTML::Template is very simple and wont let you clutter html with code). note that php doesnt have any of this features as readily available as in perl through CPAN modules
when it comes to documentation, it might be true that php has good resources online, but perl has a lot larger comunity (check out perlmonks.org) i got replies on my questions within 30 minutes of posting!
in short... perl has superior architecture to php, however php has better corporate support and better learning curve
did you guys noticed whats the channel count on those tuners? i checked out Haupage and All beautiful spanky new radeon. i it found very disturbing that the actual channel count on the tuners is only 125 channels! everyone who has cable knows that theres way more bullshit channels than that!
what i think they are going for is syncing the ads on the billboards w/ ads on the radio. i think you are more likely to remember a brand name/product if you also see it while listening to the pitch on the radio
;-)
presonally i dont really mind targeted advertising - hey if its a product that i might like i will think of it when it comes to spending my paycheck