actually, I've found that ad-aware won't detect EVERYTHING and seems to skip some things intentionally -- new.net spyware for e.g. -- so spybot is the better of the two. that said, i've seen some adware that can't be removed by spybot but can be removed by adaware. spybot's HOSTS file and immunization feature makes it more useful, honestly.
I know that debian is released "when it's ready" but does that seem like it's going to be anytime before 2004? If there's a release schedule, I've yet to find it on the debian.org website.
I love the security of running stable (I run it at work, and soon at home, probably,) but I do wish stable had a few more current packages (and I know I can hack/etc/apt/sources.list and add lines for specific packages, but I'd like a debian distro without as much work. I mean, I can't get the 2.4 series kernels in debian without doing everything myself (aparently something in the stock debian kernel breaks my ethernet connection....missing driver or something). I don't want to have to setup everything myself, all the time; that's why I like apt-get.
On the other hand, if this is some self-righteous intellectual property proponent with a bug up their ass and an insatiable appetite for making an example of students who are simply doing what students have been doing since sheet music was invented... namely sharing music... then of course a reasonable solution like that won't work, and encryption will lead to the intellectual downgrading of the campus back to 1970 standards...actually even less than that, as it would be a campus that, for underclassmen, is one effectively sans internet and, if the University is serious about banning all encrypted traffic that might possibly, one day, contain something they don't like, sans networked student labs and arguable sans a library.
I think a lot of folks would do well to read up on OLGA and the university of nevada and the Harry Fox Agency. The short version: the HFA shut down the On-Line Guitar Archive which was housed at Uni. of Nevada due to copyright infringement. Now, this didn't stop people from figuring out songs and writing down the chords and tabbing out the notes so that others could play them, but it did kill a centralized place to get EVERYTHING. In it's day, OLGA was the google of guitar/bass online sheet music; often it was more accurate than "professional" notation books, cos often that was some hack at a piano working out chords that you can't really play on guitar.
They don't need to kill p2p, they just need to fragment it into a gigazillion pieces. Which they're doing a pretty good job of. Remember when napster was the only p2p app in town? (if you didn't want to hop on IRC....) Those halcyon days are long gone, my friends.
I love Opera's gestures, but Moz's implementation is buggy as hell, and to get it to use the right mouse button you have to edit the js.prefs file (and that's never worked for me, either, I always get the mousewheel as the gestures button or I have to use both right and left buttons)...and that's just the Windows problems. Linux mozgestures are a headache because of privs...I always have to do a chmod to the whole directory to get the gestures to work, and even then, I have the same problem w/ WHICH mouse button.
knock opera all you want, but their gestures work with no hassles beyond learning which gesture does what.
I'm personally looking for some kind of web-listing that has the movies available languages. A lot of movies have them listed, but if I don't know that something is going to be available in, e.g., spanish, I won't go out of my way to look for it.
http://insound.com -- mostly a store but lots of great mp3s (rare sonic youth etc)
http://epitonic.com -- reviews and links to related bands/projects in tons of different styles....well worth picking through...got lost in this page for hours
for music making there's a site that's kinda like/. which is http://devdsp.net and for the more avant post-rock music there's Brainwashed.
Ages ago (1996-ish) there used to be a site that would give you a list of recommended artists based on a list of yes/no questions about other artists...firefly.com I think it was called and I can't find it any more. These days I usually get new music via word of mouth on p2p networks and mix tapes. Yes, I still listen to tapes.
There were a couple of posts on bugtraq when the alpha came out a month or two ago saing that it had really obvious security holes (of the "browse and execute and possibly delete any files" variety) -- nothing else was specified as the opera folks were still working things out to make opera not suck -- but I would like to know if they got the issue(s) resolved before running it. I loved 6 (and 6.05) enough that I paid for it, but have since switched to phoenix (and ghostzilla at work) since I got bored.
if there were any justice they would be in boy bands....with hideous hellish contracts.
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That is, I suspect, a little like thinking that it might be nice to affix Pamela Anderson's knockers to Natalie Portman's front side.
Blasphemy. This outrage will not go unanswered. Have you no concept of balance, symmetry, proportion, applied aesthetics, and physical/spiritual curvature??
The dark side of the force is strong in this one. Much anger that we can use to turn him...
If the hardware design habits of the Chinese are anything like their software programming efforts, then the Dragon will be reverse-engineered and rebranded Pentium.
The article states RISC, so I would guess it's fair to say it's not a pentium clone of any type.
There has to be a way to take Windows Media Player off your computer. If I am correct, there should be a program to illimate the presence of Microsoft product
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I think you want something like http://www.mediageek.org/ -- it's not specifically about this, but there is a bit of "take-back-the-media" activism on there. Check 'em out.
My old answering machine message was, in a monotone: "To leave a message, speak after the tone. To hear a tone, press the number 2. For a list of the ways in which technology has failed to improve our lives, press 3." <beep>
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actually, I've found that ad-aware won't detect EVERYTHING and seems to skip some things intentionally -- new.net spyware for e.g. -- so spybot is the better of the two. that said, i've seen some adware that can't be removed by spybot but can be removed by adaware. spybot's HOSTS file and immunization feature makes it more useful, honestly.
...he'll post it two or three times tomorrow.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/ThirdWor ld_def.html
dyjgttwt?
I love the security of running stable (I run it at work, and soon at home, probably,) but I do wish stable had a few more current packages (and I know I can hack /etc/apt/sources.list and add lines for specific packages, but I'd like a debian distro without as much work. I mean, I can't get the 2.4 series kernels in debian without doing everything myself (aparently something in the stock debian kernel breaks my ethernet connection....missing driver or something). I don't want to have to setup everything myself, all the time; that's why I like apt-get.
http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=2003 0411
...and when was the last time you bought and paid for a good novel?
I think a lot of folks would do well to read up on OLGA and the university of nevada and the Harry Fox Agency. The short version: the HFA shut down the On-Line Guitar Archive which was housed at Uni. of Nevada due to copyright infringement. Now, this didn't stop people from figuring out songs and writing down the chords and tabbing out the notes so that others could play them, but it did kill a centralized place to get EVERYTHING. In it's day, OLGA was the google of guitar/bass online sheet music; often it was more accurate than "professional" notation books, cos often that was some hack at a piano working out chords that you can't really play on guitar.
They don't need to kill p2p, they just need to fragment it into a gigazillion pieces. Which they're doing a pretty good job of. Remember when napster was the only p2p app in town? (if you didn't want to hop on IRC....) Those halcyon days are long gone, my friends.
knock opera all you want, but their gestures work with no hassles beyond learning which gesture does what.
I'm personally looking for some kind of web-listing that has the movies available languages. A lot of movies have them listed, but if I don't know that something is going to be available in, e.g., spanish, I won't go out of my way to look for it.
....bet it'll look a lot like this.
as long as you're not running a safe operating system, no amount of hats are going to protect you, buddy.
http://insound.com -- mostly a store but lots of great mp3s (rare sonic youth etc) http://epitonic.com -- reviews and links to related bands/projects in tons of different styles....well worth picking through...got lost in this page for hours
Ages ago (1996-ish) there used to be a site that would give you a list of recommended artists based on a list of yes/no questions about other artists...firefly.com I think it was called and I can't find it any more. These days I usually get new music via word of mouth on p2p networks and mix tapes. Yes, I still listen to tapes.
There were a couple of posts on bugtraq when the alpha came out a month or two ago saing that it had really obvious security holes (of the "browse and execute and possibly delete any files" variety) -- nothing else was specified as the opera folks were still working things out to make opera not suck -- but I would like to know if they got the issue(s) resolved before running it. I loved 6 (and 6.05) enough that I paid for it, but have since switched to phoenix (and ghostzilla at work) since I got bored.
I don't care what anybody says, Emacs is the best OS out there, hands down.
if there were any justice they would be in boy bands ....with hideous hellish contracts.
The dark side of the force is strong in this one. Much anger that we can use to turn him...
Speaking of upgrading FreeBSD...you might be interested this recent experiment too.
...if you are, maybe you should be posting this over here
The article states RISC, so I would guess it's fair to say it's not a pentium clone of any type.
one patch and another
I think you want something like http://www.mediageek.org/ -- it's not specifically about this, but there is a bit of "take-back-the-media" activism on there. Check 'em out.
but isn't the biggest thing against single-sign-on the fact that there's a single point of failure? why would open source change that?
way off topic, i know:
My old answering machine message was, in a monotone: "To leave a message, speak after the tone. To hear a tone, press the number 2. For a list of the ways in which technology has failed to improve our lives, press 3." <beep>