Apple iTunes & iPods are the dominant software & hardware audio players, but not everone has an iPod or wants to use Apple iTunes. If you do not use Apple iTunes, then you might like to check out Juice Receiver [1]. Juice uses RSS feeds to download podcasts to your computer. Juice is platform-independent, so you can use it from virtually any computer and play the files on any MP3 device. If you need assistance with it, then see the Juice FAQ [2] and the Juice User Guide (PDF) [3].
Have you ever wanted a Windows CD that would install Windows by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? And have it merged with the latest Service Pack to save time? Followed by silently installing all your favourite applications along with DirectX 9.0c,.Net Framework 1.1 and then all the required hotfixes, updated drivers, registry tweaks, and a readily patched UXTheme.dll without any user interaction whatsoever? Then this guide will show you how you can do just that!
Through the course of this guide, you will create a CD that does all the installing for you. The CD will be fully updated with the latest hotfixes, and install all your programs for you.
I'll admit that probably had more to do with the fact that I was running a live CD than a real install, but that's a horrible way to give someone a first impression of your OS.
The only quickbooks that I have used was a version for DOS back in 1995, so take my advice with a grain of salt. I haven't used this product myself, but Linux Canada makes Quasar a GPL'd accounting program. If you need it, you can buy tech support from them & if necessary you can buy the close source edition too.
Computer-on-a-stick uses the Gnome desktop, includes remote access via SSH, VNC, RDP, and runs on Linux kernel 2.6.x so it is impervious to 99% of all spyware, adware, viruses & exploits since they target Windows OS & applications.
If you already have a USB memory device or if you PC can not boot from a USB device, then there are alternatives.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. As a current Cablevision/OptimumOnline user, I downloaded over 10GB in just Linux distros just this past week: one 4GB Knoppix 4.0 DVD, five FC4 CDs, four Centos 4.1 CDs, & CDs 1-4 of Debian 3.1r0a.
As for speeds, I get 10Mbit/1Mbit. There is a local Debian mirror at Suny Stonybrook and I get about 800KB/s sustained from it. I can upload to my website at a max of 80KB/s. Sure its a ratio of 1:10 but its been this fast for the past three years & I have never been emailed or postal mailed by OO regarding any sort of bandwidth usage or abuse.
Knoppix 4.0 is brand spanking new release only as a 4GB ISO that at last check had a 230:1140 seed to downloader ratio. I think that is why there is little to no info about it.
As for the review, if you are at all familiar with Knoppix then it is just the same Knoppix with a huge load of packages, some GUI improvements, and some new functionality brought about by using packages & configuration info from Knoppix derivatives (like Kanotix) that was then accepted by Klaus Knoppix & fed back into Knoppix mainline. I felt that Knoppix 3.9 was ugly and now 4.0 uses KDE 3.4.1 with the Plastik widget style as default as opposed to previous release which used Keramik on KDE 3.4.0. Those folks who were missing GNOME can now use GNOME 2.8 since it has been missing for at least 18 months. Knoppix 4.0 uses a older more stable snapshot of UnionFS and will now not crash or exhibit strange filesystem behaviors like 3.9 did. V4.0 includes OO.o 2.0 beta, KOffice & if I recall correctly, abiword & gnumeric so it looks like office apps are all covered. If you want specifics on the packages, then look to the package list file on the Knoppix mirrors.
Knoppix users & newbies should also note that installing Knoppix to the HD is not recommended since something tends to break. In Knoppix 3.9, networking was broken due to a missing link in/etc/rc*.d. In past releases new users that installed Knoppix also experienced fstab problems in regards to optical drives and had difficulties in using the Debian package system since at that time Knoppix was a mixture of Debian stable/testing/unstable. Knoppix 4.0 is using Debian unstable for all of its packages, so maintenance of the HD should be easier than before. So far the only thing broken in a HD install of Knoppix 4.0 is manpages functionality. man ls or man vi works on DVD but is broken when run from the HD install.
Like most special conference releases (ex: Knoppix 3.8 Cebit Edition), Knoppix 4.0 DVD edition from LinuxTag, is standardized in German but contains support for many languages. A boot time cheat code of: knoppix lang=us will force it to load in US English. A more permanent method is to hexedit the ISO and change the lang=de entries to lang=us. Again like most conference releases, Klaus Knopper did not officially release the DVD as in is only for sale at LinuxTag for 5 euros. As a FOSS project, it is legal to distribute the ISO and this is what someone has done. You can find torrent trackers, screenshot galleries, and more info at the Knoppix 4.0 DVD Knoppix.net forum thread about.
This is true. The installer is a dialog/Xdialog script that guides the user to partition the HD, create a user account, enter the root passwd, and then decompresses the entire compresed loopback KNOPPIX and KNOPPIX2 files to the new partition. Then it applies the user info, converts the init & runlevels to be normal init system, and installs grub to the MBR. At no point is there any choice in deciding which packages to install since ALL of them get installed.
Knoppix users & newbies should also note that installing Knoppix to the HD is not recommended since something tends to break. In Knoppix 3.9, networking was broken due to a missing link in/etc/rc*.d. In past releases new users that installed Knoppix also experienced fstab problems in regards to optical drives and had difficulties in using the Debian package system since at that time Knoppix was a mixture of Debian stable/testing/unstable.
Want to expand your Linux skills & save the church some bucks? If you have a chance, purchase Penguin in the Pew by Donald Parris. I volunteer edited it & its a quality publication. I am no way affiliated with the author nor do I receive any monetary gain from the book.
Description: Penguin in the Pew clears up the confusion about the terms "free" and "open source", addresses the challenges of hardware compatibility, software interoperability, and whether a migration is really more expensive than an upgrade. Readers will learn why and how they should migrate to the GNU/Linux operating system. Additionally, Penguin in the Pew connects readers to the growing community of Christians who use, develop and provide technical support for GNU/Linux and other free and open source applications. The book's author, Don Parris, invites fellow Christians to join in a dialogue where the GNU/Linux "philosophy" and Christian values intersect.
I agree that OSS could certainly be better, but how about recognizing something like KDE? KDE could use better defaults but there are activly working on improving that. As for the design, libraries, & performance, have you heard that like OS X, KDE gets faster on the same hardware with every new release? Did you also know that KDE uses compontenized & modularized (I am killing the spelling) KIOslaves & KParts which help to expose functionallity to every KDE app which reduces redundancy & waste. If a new KPart or KIOslave is created for 1 app, it can be used by all apps. This is how you open a text file from a remote system in the Kate editor by pointing the Open dialog to ftp://ftp.system.com/directory/file.txt.
Also note that your complaint about bloat falls on the deaf ears of comercial/propreitary software devs too. Close source apps are bloating up all the time. Think of how much redundancy is used even in MS apps when Office XP or 2k3, Visual Studio, Media player, & normal apps use different libraries which provide different GUI widgets & controls. How about Adobe Acrobat? They finally heard the collective complains about that bloated POS & v7 is quick to load up. Now only if they could retroactively make v5 & v6 quicker.
Use Kanotix as it is designed for installing to HD. Knopix is not designed to install to HD as it pulls from Debian stable, testing, unstable and updating a a HD-installed Knoppix is a pain.
Its being investigated at my alma mater. RIT Research to Examine Success and Failure Rate of Women in IT ProgramsWomen in IT Education Understanding Gendered Attrition in Departments of Information Technology about the project Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has received an Information Technology Workforce (ITWF) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the experiences of undergraduate women in departments of Information Technology (IT). Most research to date into women's experiences in undergraduate computing programs has focused on Computer Science departments. While IT programs have cast themselves as qualitatively different from traditional CS, it is not clear whether women's experiences in these programs are more positive than in CS, where retention of female students has been consistently problematic.
They can use this money instead of just earmarking it for Redmond.
Exactly. They can use that money and pour it back into their locally created Asianux. See Miracle Linux, Red Flag and Haansoft jointly introduce Asianux 2.0: MIRACLE Technology Conference 2005, TOKYO, 2-MAR-2005 - - MIRACLE LINUX Corporation ( Tokyo Japan, President: Takeshi Sato. Hereafter referred to as MIRACLE LINUX), Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. ( Beijing China, Executive President: Chris Zhao. Hereafter referred to as Red Flag) and Haansoft, Inc. ( Seoul South Korea, CEO: Jong Jin Baek. Hereafter referred to as Haansoft) jointly announced today Asianux 2.0 to be generally available at the end of July 2005.
The Brookhaven National Lab located on eastern Long Island, NY gives summer Sunday tours of their facilities(2004 schedule). If you have the chance, then GO! Seeing RHIC up close if pretty damn cool. I'm no particle physicist but their tours are quite impressive and are given by the researchers themselves. Oh, and yes they have beowulf linux clusters too.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system: In general, the operating system is the first layer of software loaded into computer memory when it starts up. As the first software layer, all other software that gets loaded after it depends on this software to provide them with various common core services. These common core services include, but are not limited to: disk access, memory management, task scheduling, and user interfacing. Since these basic common services are assumed to be provided by the OS, there is no need to re-implement those same functions over and over again in every other piece of software that you may use. The portion of code that performs these core services is called the "kernel" of the operating system. Operating system kernels had been evolved from libraries that provided the core services into unending programs that control system resources because of the early needs of accounting for computer usage and then protecting those records. So that is the OS and the kernel. A new kernel version is new drivers and updated system services, which is a good thing. This is not the same as upgrading Win2000 to winXP or changing Linux distros as those involve many many more programs, libraries, & systems as compared (what is collectively known as an Operating System) to a kernel.
downloading one season of a TV show with BitTorrent AFAIK in the USA, downloading a season of a TV show is OK if it was recorded from an over the airwaves broadcast. I feel that over the air broadcast is covered under fair use and timeshifting. Now if I downloaded a season of a TV show that was ripped from DVD or VHS then it is illegal. Is it now automatically illegal to download a TV show?
Slashdot Mirror
is fine for non-GNU UNIX grep.
If you have GNU grep, then
Apple iTunes & iPods are the dominant software & hardware audio players, but not everone has an iPod or wants to use Apple iTunes. If you do not use Apple iTunes, then you might like to check out Juice Receiver [1]. Juice uses RSS feeds to download podcasts to your computer. Juice is platform-independent, so you can use it from virtually any computer and play the files on any MP3 device. If you need assistance with it, then see the Juice FAQ [2] and the Juice User Guide (PDF) [3].
p e rGuide.pdf
[1] http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/faq/index.ph
[3] http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/docs/JuiceUs
MSFN's Unattended Windows : Introduction
Have you ever wanted a Windows CD that would install Windows by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? And have it merged with the latest Service Pack to save time? Followed by silently installing all your favourite applications along with DirectX 9.0c, .Net Framework 1.1 and then all the required hotfixes, updated drivers, registry tweaks, and a readily patched UXTheme.dll without any user interaction whatsoever? Then this guide will show you how you can do just that!
Through the course of this guide, you will create a CD that does all the installing for you. The CD will be fully updated with the latest hotfixes, and install all your programs for you.
That video is not XGL. It is quite impressive and it can give you an idea of what XGL could look like, it is not XGL but is Luminocity and it is taken from http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xshots. Read "How Luminocity Relates to Other Stuff" to get more info on Luminocity. Read the interview with KDE's Zack Rusin: "Beauty and Magic for KDE, with Zack Rusin". Download the demo video of Zack's XGL hacks: http://vizzzion.org/stuff/xgl_wanking.avi 16MB. If you want to read more about XGL then read aseigo's blog entry or Zack's blog.
That opening line was written by the editor of the piece. John Terpstra is a good author and more importantly, a long time contributor to FOSS, namely samba. See "Samba-3 by Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment".
I'll admit that probably had more to do with the fact that I was running a live CD than a real install, but that's a horrible way to give someone a first impression of your OS.
I agree. Ubuntu LiveCD is known to be much slower than other LiveCDs. See LiveCD Boot Benchmarks: Round 1, Popular LiveCDs:I would recommend Knoppix or Kanotix (both use KDE). There are some LiveCDs with GNOME so check distrowatch.com for more info.
The only quickbooks that I have used was a version for DOS back in 1995, so take my advice with a grain of salt. I haven't used this product myself, but Linux Canada makes Quasar a GPL'd accounting program. If you need it, you can buy tech support from them & if necessary you can buy the close source edition too.
Computer-on-a-stick uses the Gnome desktop, includes remote access via SSH, VNC, RDP, and runs on Linux kernel 2.6.x so it is impervious to 99% of all spyware, adware, viruses & exploits since they target Windows OS & applications.
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If you already have a USB memory device or if you PC can not boot from a USB device, then there are alternatives.
Two Linux distros designed for small size & boot on CDR or USB devices
Damn Small Linux 50MB http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/linuxuser/2005/0
Puppy Linux 40-90MB http://flaviostechnotalk.com/wordpress/index.php/
Two Linux distros designed to boot from CDR & used as the base for many derivatives
Knoppix http://www.linuxforums.org/news/article-24309.htm
Slax http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/1193
Michael's Minute Archive "Apple's Colossal Disappointment" June 8th, 2005
Garbage man or the p.c. Sanitation worker
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4695495.stm
Perhaps. Perhaps not. As a current Cablevision/OptimumOnline user, I downloaded over 10GB in just Linux distros just this past week: one 4GB Knoppix 4.0 DVD, five FC4 CDs, four Centos 4.1 CDs, & CDs 1-4 of Debian 3.1r0a.
As for speeds, I get 10Mbit/1Mbit. There is a local Debian mirror at Suny Stonybrook and I get about 800KB/s sustained from it. I can upload to my website at a max of 80KB/s. Sure its a ratio of 1:10 but its been this fast for the past three years & I have never been emailed or postal mailed by OO regarding any sort of bandwidth usage or abuse.
Knoppix 4.0 is brand spanking new release only as a 4GB ISO that at last check had a 230:1140 seed to downloader ratio. I think that is why there is little to no info about it.
/etc/rc*.d. In past releases new users that installed Knoppix also experienced fstab problems in regards to optical drives and had difficulties in using the Debian package system since at that time Knoppix was a mixture of Debian stable/testing/unstable. Knoppix 4.0 is using Debian unstable for all of its packages, so maintenance of the HD should be easier than before. So far the only thing broken in a HD install of Knoppix 4.0 is manpages functionality. man ls or man vi works on DVD but is broken when run from the HD install.
As for the review, if you are at all familiar with Knoppix then it is just the same Knoppix with a huge load of packages, some GUI improvements, and some new functionality brought about by using packages & configuration info from Knoppix derivatives (like Kanotix) that was then accepted by Klaus Knoppix & fed back into Knoppix mainline. I felt that Knoppix 3.9 was ugly and now 4.0 uses KDE 3.4.1 with the Plastik widget style as default as opposed to previous release which used Keramik on KDE 3.4.0. Those folks who were missing GNOME can now use GNOME 2.8 since it has been missing for at least 18 months. Knoppix 4.0 uses a older more stable snapshot of UnionFS and will now not crash or exhibit strange filesystem behaviors like 3.9 did. V4.0 includes OO.o 2.0 beta, KOffice & if I recall correctly, abiword & gnumeric so it looks like office apps are all covered. If you want specifics on the packages, then look to the package list file on the Knoppix mirrors.
Knoppix users & newbies should also note that installing Knoppix to the HD is not recommended since something tends to break. In Knoppix 3.9, networking was broken due to a missing link in
Like most special conference releases (ex: Knoppix 3.8 Cebit Edition), Knoppix 4.0 DVD edition from LinuxTag, is standardized in German but contains support for many languages. A boot time cheat code of: knoppix lang=us will force it to load in US English. A more permanent method is to hexedit the ISO and change the lang=de entries to lang=us. Again like most conference releases, Klaus Knopper did not officially release the DVD as in is only for sale at LinuxTag for 5 euros. As a FOSS project, it is legal to distribute the ISO and this is what someone has done. You can find torrent trackers, screenshot galleries, and more info at the Knoppix 4.0 DVD Knoppix.net forum thread about.
This is true. The installer is a dialog/Xdialog script that guides the user to partition the HD, create a user account, enter the root passwd, and then decompresses the entire compresed loopback KNOPPIX and KNOPPIX2 files to the new partition. Then it applies the user info, converts the init & runlevels to be normal init system, and installs grub to the MBR. At no point is there any choice in deciding which packages to install since ALL of them get installed.
/etc/rc*.d. In past releases new users that installed Knoppix also experienced fstab problems in regards to optical drives and had difficulties in using the Debian package system since at that time Knoppix was a mixture of Debian stable/testing/unstable.
Knoppix users & newbies should also note that installing Knoppix to the HD is not recommended since something tends to break. In Knoppix 3.9, networking was broken due to a missing link in
You can find torrent trackers & even info on how to hexedit the ISO to force it to US English at the Knoppix.net forum thread.
Want to expand your Linux skills & save the church some bucks? If you have a chance, purchase Penguin in the Pew by Donald Parris. I volunteer edited it & its a quality publication. I am no way affiliated with the author nor do I receive any monetary gain from the book.
Description:
Penguin in the Pew clears up the confusion about the terms "free" and "open source", addresses the challenges of hardware compatibility, software interoperability, and whether a migration is really more expensive than an upgrade. Readers will learn why and how they should migrate to the GNU/Linux operating system. Additionally, Penguin in the Pew connects readers to the growing community of Christians who use, develop and provide technical support for GNU/Linux and other free and open source applications. The book's author, Don Parris, invites fellow Christians to join in a dialogue where the GNU/Linux "philosophy" and Christian values intersect.
I agree that OSS could certainly be better, but how about recognizing something like KDE? KDE could use better defaults but there are activly working on improving that. As for the design, libraries, & performance, have you heard that like OS X, KDE gets faster on the same hardware with every new release? Did you also know that KDE uses compontenized & modularized (I am killing the spelling) KIOslaves & KParts which help to expose functionallity to every KDE app which reduces redundancy & waste. If a new KPart or KIOslave is created for 1 app, it can be used by all apps. This is how you open a text file from a remote system in the Kate editor by pointing the Open dialog to ftp://ftp.system.com/directory/file.txt.
Also note that your complaint about bloat falls on the deaf ears of comercial/propreitary software devs too. Close source apps are bloating up all the time. Think of how much redundancy is used even in MS apps when Office XP or 2k3, Visual Studio, Media player, & normal apps use different libraries which provide different GUI widgets & controls. How about Adobe Acrobat? They finally heard the collective complains about that bloated POS & v7 is quick to load up. Now only if they could retroactively make v5 & v6 quicker.
Use Kanotix as it is designed for installing to HD. Knopix is not designed to install to HD as it pulls from Debian stable, testing, unstable and updating a a HD-installed Knoppix is a pain.
There are issues with the installer script, see this post on the Knoppix.net forums. There is also a bug in Knoppix 3.9 that prevents that breaks the Debian package system. See Knoppix.net wiki about bugs.
Its being investigated at my alma mater. RIT Research to Examine Success and Failure Rate of Women in IT Programs Women in IT Education
Understanding Gendered Attrition in Departments of Information Technology
about the project
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has received an Information Technology Workforce (ITWF) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the experiences of undergraduate women in departments of Information Technology (IT). Most research to date into women's experiences in undergraduate computing programs has focused on Computer Science departments. While IT programs have cast themselves as qualitatively different from traditional CS, it is not clear whether women's experiences in these programs are more positive than in CS, where retention of female students has been consistently problematic.
M O'Gara's report about "Who is PJ?": Google.com text only cache. Puke!
Seeing as how TFA is /.-ed
Here is a review of the D-Link DGL-4300 Gaming router. They even test the unit with PCs running Fedora Core 3.
They can use this money instead of just earmarking it for Redmond.
Exactly. They can use that money and pour it back into their locally created Asianux. See Miracle Linux, Red Flag and Haansoft jointly introduce Asianux 2.0:
MIRACLE Technology Conference 2005, TOKYO, 2-MAR-2005 - - MIRACLE LINUX Corporation ( Tokyo Japan, President: Takeshi Sato. Hereafter referred to as MIRACLE LINUX), Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. ( Beijing China, Executive President: Chris Zhao. Hereafter referred to as Red Flag) and Haansoft, Inc. ( Seoul South Korea, CEO: Jong Jin Baek. Hereafter referred to as Haansoft) jointly announced today Asianux 2.0 to be generally available at the end of July 2005.
The Brookhaven National Lab located on eastern Long Island, NY gives summer Sunday tours of their facilities(2004 schedule). If you have the chance, then GO! Seeing RHIC up close if pretty damn cool. I'm no particle physicist but their tours are quite impressive and are given by the researchers themselves. Oh, and yes they have beowulf linux clusters too.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system:
In general, the operating system is the first layer of software loaded into computer memory when it starts up. As the first software layer, all other software that gets loaded after it depends on this software to provide them with various common core services. These common core services include, but are not limited to: disk access, memory management, task scheduling, and user interfacing. Since these basic common services are assumed to be provided by the OS, there is no need to re-implement those same functions over and over again in every other piece of software that you may use. The portion of code that performs these core services is called the "kernel" of the operating system. Operating system kernels had been evolved from libraries that provided the core services into unending programs that control system resources because of the early needs of accounting for computer usage and then protecting those records.
So that is the OS and the kernel. A new kernel version is new drivers and updated system services, which is a good thing. This is not the same as upgrading Win2000 to winXP or changing Linux distros as those involve many many more programs, libraries, & systems as compared (what is collectively known as an Operating System) to a kernel.
downloading one season of a TV show with BitTorrent
AFAIK in the USA, downloading a season of a TV show is OK if it was recorded from an over the airwaves broadcast. I feel that over the air broadcast is covered under fair use and timeshifting. Now if I downloaded a season of a TV show that was ripped from DVD or VHS then it is illegal.
Is it now automatically illegal to download a TV show?