Actually, "cd quality" means poor quality. Honestly, a CD has a flat sound. Every CD sounds the same. Unrealistic.
12" vinyl records have much dynamic. More punch. If you listen to classic music on vinyl, you hear every instrument as if it was really nearby you. You don't get that feeling with a CD. Because a CD has only 16 bits of dynamic, music is overcompressed. Quiet music doesn't give anything on a CD. And when parts of the music become louder, there's a small difference of amplitude, but it has nothing to do with what real musicians played originally. Vinyl reflects this in a far better way.
Things may change with SCD (24 bits, 96 khz) . But the CD is definitely something lame for audiophile experts (nothing to do with the original music), for electronic music (the music isn't very punchy compared to vinyl), and for DJ's (I really hate mixing on CD, and I can't imagine hip-hop DJ's with CDJs) .
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Unless the sampled song is free of author rights, sampling is subject to severe rules. You can't freely sample something and use it in your own songs unless the result substantially differs from the original sample.
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You're playing with words. Producing music costs a lot of time and money. With Napster/Gnutella/whatever P2P software, music makers get less money back. So you're *stealing* them.
Fortunately, vinyl presses are very expensive. So DJ's are still buying a lot of records.
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Oficially, Napster is not supposed to be a system to share copyrighted songs. It's supposed to be a way for musicians to share their music. Free music.
And that idea is really great. It'd have been wonderful for music makers if the rules had been respected.
But it hasn't been the case. Napster is a tool for piracy. Only copyrighted materials here. And not only music from majors full of $$$, there's also a lot of songs from little labels as well. Without their agreement. That's bad.
People are crying because Napster is dying. But they don't even realize that they really *stole* commercial songs. This is shameful piracy. Blaming the judge or blaming Napster that only filters 99% is stupid. Blame yourself. Blame stupid users that violated the rules and turned something legal into a 100% illegal stuff.
Internet is nice to share opinions, to ask help, to work on free software and to share *free* stuff. Using it as a convenient way to share warez/commercial movies/commercial songs is a shame. People doing that should better shup up than yell "oh shit, someone wants to stop us from stealing commercial stuff. Fuck him, we will have to install another software to do the same thing, it will take 5 minutes of our precious time".
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GRSecurity is a similar project. It's a big kernel patch that contains a lot of unofficial security enhancements for a linux kernel. Some unmaintained patches have been ported to latest kernels, other patches have been merged to work together, and some extra improvements have been added.
The most important things are PAX and Openwall to reduce stack smashing exploits,/proc restrictions, setuid capabilities drop, and LIDS.
I'm running GRSecurity since it was announced on Freshmeat on various loaded production servers. It works like a charm. I just found PAX somewhat slow, it's why I dropped it for Openwall.
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TO7 is a bad example, because you could purchase it with a real mechanical keyboard (the same thing applied to other Thomson computers. I had a MO5) .
It was also the case for most old 8-bit computers. ZX80/ZX81/Spectrum also had a flat keyboard, but you could also buy a mechanical keyboard.
Flat keyboards are error-prone. You can easily type a key twice, or mix characters if you press two keys by error. But when they require a zero force (or a low force), they are relaxing for the wrist. And damn quiet.
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It's always the same story : security through obscurity doesn't work. We already saw that with DeCSS.
When people need to close sources and algorithms of a crypto system, it's almost always because it's flacky. They don't trust their own algorithms. They don't want other people know how they are working, because they know the algorithms can easily be broken when you know their mechanics.
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Actually, people are already paying for content like on-demand TV programs and Minitel.
People refuse to pay when something has been free for a while. It's mostly an internet-only problem. There have been tons of free resources on internet, so people don't want to pay. In their mind, Internet == free for use. If you change this, they will yell.
It's just like Napster and software piracy. People who got free music and free software will know that it's possible to get free commercial stuff. So they will try to get them for free forever, even if it's illegal and immature. You can have strong laws, add filters and crazy control systems. People won't play the game. They used to get something for free, they don't want to pay any more.
They would pay for something that has never been free. Going to a cinema isn't free. Going to a disco isn't free (well... sometimes it is, but you always drink something) . Having food on the table isn't free. A car isn't free. People accept it. People buy these stuff. It's why the traditionnal commerce works, while e-commerce is a joke.
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Je capte pas, pourquoi tu aurais le droit de faire ça avec des vinyls alors que c'est interdit pour des cd ?
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TPJ is an excellent publication for programmers. Not only for Perl programmers but for all programmers. There are very good algorithms and ideas to solve problems.
TPJ has only 2-3 pages of blah-blah and news of the world. The rest is 100% listings. These are solutions to real-world problems, with always good explanations from the author. It's also an excellent way to discover powerful Perl modules you never heard about before.
The only nasty thing about TPJ is when you live oversea. I live in France, and the paper edition of TPJ always comes to my mailbox 3 months late.
TPJ is that sort of magazine you don't throw away. You keep it, you archive all issues, because they are like an excellent up-to-date reference book.
I'd strongly suggest any programmer to subscribe TPJ. *But* you have to already know Perl to understand everything. TPJ isn't a good magazine for beginners. All articles assume that you already know all Perl basics (and some Perl intrinsics too) .
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It's really funny to see how popular Loft Story has been. Celebrity #1 : Loana. Nobody hear about her before Loft Story, and she's far from being as cute as Nikkie.
I can hardly understand why Loft Story has been so popular on Google. Loft Story is only a french TV show, while Big Brother can be watched by far more people (english language) .
Anyway, Loft Story is over now. The game ended yesterday. Loana and Christophe won. We'll have to wait until 2002 to see Loft Story 2.
It was the first time something like Big Brother happened in France, and I have to say.... that I really loved it. As a proof, you can check my Loft Story for Unix client.
But I still can't figure out why Big Brother has been beaten in Google's audience.
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Waahhh... les miennes n'ont jamais été acceptées, huhuh (c'est con, j'aurais bien aimé voir celle sur le problème des licenses liées à un auteur particulier, et ce qu'elles devenaient après sa mort) .
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Richard Stevens. Douglas Adams (not really internet-related but definitely someone I loved). The ZIP algorithm inventor (sorry I can't remember his name) . And now Usenet's daddy. All rest in heaven now.
But do you think Richard Stevens and the Usenet creator were enjoying today's internet ? They built something that worked perfectly to exchange tons of messages with low bandwidths. Now, everyone has 100x the bandwidth they had when they designed their product. Computers are 100x faster. So what ? Do we find info 100x faster than before ?
Actually not. To read a simple text, you have to download hundreds of kilobytes. 99% is bloat (ads, bloated HTML, useless Java, etc) . Reading messages on a web discussion board is slow. You have to issue dozens of clicks before reading a thread, and wait for every ad to load. Usenet provided a consistent, sorted, easy to parse, and *fast* way to share info with other people.
7 years ago, I was providing access to 12000 newsgroups on Minitel. Minitel is a french terminal, with a 1200 bauds modem (and 75 bauds in emission) . And it worked. People could easily browse all Usenet news. Faster and easier than on web sites.
Another thing is that Usenet let you choose any client. You can choose your preferred fancy interface. Web discussion boards don't let you a lot of choice.
Migrating from Usenet to web sites is stupid. It wastes a lot of bandwidth for nothing. People do this because :
Everyone can open its own web site
People can force users to see web ads to read messages
Great deal. Web discussion boards provides inconsistency and redundancy. How many web sites discusses the same thing ? How many questions are asked on a web site though they were already answered on another web site ?
Usenet solved this a long time ago.
What killed Usenet is the load of uuencoded warez and spam. Everyone has to filter messages to find real ones. Lousy. But we can't fight stupidity. Give people mail access, they will send spam. Give people Napster, they will share copyrighted songs. Give people a CD writer, they will burn commercial software. Give people the web, they will DOS it or try root exploits. Give people usenet, they will kill it. And there's no way back.
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I have a Psion 5 MX for a while, and what I love with Epoc is the presence of native Java and Perl interpreters. And they work very well. When I worked as a programming teacher, I checked algorithms in the train on the Psion. Really nice.
Another great thing : Opera. I've never seen IE on Windows CE devices, but Opera for Epoc renders very well.
Last great thing with Epoc : you can find a lot of freeware. More than on Palm (a lot of shareware) and much more than Pocket PC (almost no freeware at all) .
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"the human ear can't hear sounds below 2.5 bels"
That's totally false. Humans can hear below 1 bel (except babies, older people, and people with ear diseases) . It's approximately twice the level of human breath.
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Once again, Microsoft wants to do services that only work with Microsoft software. POP is simple and efficient. If they wanted to increase security, they could just have upgraded to APOP or Imap. Almost all clients support these protocols.
But they are somewhat shooting themselves in the foot. Not every Windows users wants (or is able) to upgrade Outlook. I guess their hotline will get a lot of calls, and they may go back to some standard protocol then.
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Actually, "cd quality" means poor quality. Honestly, a CD has a flat sound. Every CD sounds the same. Unrealistic.
12" vinyl records have much dynamic. More punch. If you listen to classic music on vinyl, you hear every instrument as if it was really nearby you. You don't get that feeling with a CD. Because a CD has only 16 bits of dynamic, music is overcompressed. Quiet music doesn't give anything on a CD. And when parts of the music become louder, there's a small difference of amplitude, but it has nothing to do with what real musicians played originally. Vinyl reflects this in a far better way.
Things may change with SCD (24 bits, 96 khz) . But the CD is definitely something lame for audiophile experts (nothing to do with the original music), for electronic music (the music isn't very punchy compared to vinyl), and for DJ's (I really hate mixing on CD, and I can't imagine hip-hop DJ's with CDJs) .
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Unless the sampled song is free of author rights, sampling is subject to severe rules. You can't freely sample something and use it in your own songs unless the result substantially differs from the original sample.
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You're playing with words. Producing music costs a lot of time and money. With Napster/Gnutella/whatever P2P software, music makers get less money back. So you're *stealing* them.
Fortunately, vinyl presses are very expensive. So DJ's are still buying a lot of records.
-- Pure FTP server - Upgrade your FTP server to something simple and secure.
Oficially, Napster is not supposed to be a system to share copyrighted songs. It's supposed to be a way for musicians to share their music. Free music.
And that idea is really great. It'd have been wonderful for music makers if the rules had been respected.
But it hasn't been the case. Napster is a tool for piracy. Only copyrighted materials here. And not only music from majors full of $$$, there's also a lot of songs from little labels as well. Without their agreement. That's bad.
People are crying because Napster is dying. But they don't even realize that they really *stole* commercial songs. This is shameful piracy. Blaming the judge or blaming Napster that only filters 99% is stupid. Blame yourself. Blame stupid users that violated the rules and turned something legal into a 100% illegal stuff.
Internet is nice to share opinions, to ask help, to work on free software and to share *free* stuff. Using it as a convenient way to share warez/commercial movies/commercial songs is a shame. People doing that should better shup up than yell "oh shit, someone wants to stop us from stealing commercial stuff. Fuck him, we will have to install another software to do the same thing, it will take 5 minutes of our precious time".
-- Pure FTP server - Upgrade your FTP server to something simple and secure.
GRSecurity is a similar project. It's a big kernel patch that contains a lot of unofficial security enhancements for a linux kernel. Some unmaintained patches have been ported to latest kernels, other patches have been merged to work together, and some extra improvements have been added. /proc restrictions, setuid capabilities drop, and LIDS.
The most important things are PAX and Openwall to reduce stack smashing exploits,
I'm running GRSecurity since it was announced on Freshmeat on various loaded production servers. It works like a charm. I just found PAX somewhat slow, it's why I dropped it for Openwall.
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TO7 is a bad example, because you could purchase it with a real mechanical keyboard (the same thing applied to other Thomson computers. I had a MO5) .
It was also the case for most old 8-bit computers. ZX80/ZX81/Spectrum also had a flat keyboard, but you could also buy a mechanical keyboard.
Flat keyboards are error-prone. You can easily type a key twice, or mix characters if you press two keys by error. But when they require a zero force (or a low force), they are relaxing for the wrist. And damn quiet.
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It's always the same story : security through obscurity doesn't work. We already saw that with DeCSS.
When people need to close sources and algorithms of a crypto system, it's almost always because it's flacky. They don't trust their own algorithms. They don't want other people know how they are working, because they know the algorithms can easily be broken when you know their mechanics.
-- Pure FTP server - Upgrade your FTP server to something simple and secure.
Actually, people are already paying for content like on-demand TV programs and Minitel.
People refuse to pay when something has been free for a while. It's mostly an internet-only problem. There have been tons of free resources on internet, so people don't want to pay. In their mind, Internet == free for use. If you change this, they will yell.
It's just like Napster and software piracy. People who got free music and free software will know that it's possible to get free commercial stuff. So they will try to get them for free forever, even if it's illegal and immature. You can have strong laws, add filters and crazy control systems. People won't play the game. They used to get something for free, they don't want to pay any more.
They would pay for something that has never been free. Going to a cinema isn't free. Going to a disco isn't free (well... sometimes it is, but you always drink something) . Having food on the table isn't free. A car isn't free. People accept it. People buy these stuff. It's why the traditionnal commerce works, while e-commerce is a joke.
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Sorry, but what is Webvan ? I've never heard about it so far.
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OpenBSD has a very young female hacker
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Rootkits and exploit scripts often come with a little disclaimer : "for educational purpose only", "it's only a proof of concept", etc.
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Yup, 4 Mb is 100% of the RAM my Atari Mega STE has. And 4 Mb is the maximum amount of RAM I can plug into it.
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Je capte pas, pourquoi tu aurais le droit de faire ça avec des vinyls alors que c'est interdit pour des cd ?
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TPJ is an excellent publication for programmers. Not only for Perl programmers but for all programmers. There are very good algorithms and ideas to solve problems.
TPJ has only 2-3 pages of blah-blah and news of the world. The rest is 100% listings. These are solutions to real-world problems, with always good explanations from the author. It's also an excellent way to discover powerful Perl modules you never heard about before.
The only nasty thing about TPJ is when you live oversea. I live in France, and the paper edition of TPJ always comes to my mailbox 3 months late.
TPJ is that sort of magazine you don't throw away. You keep it, you archive all issues, because they are like an excellent up-to-date reference book.
I'd strongly suggest any programmer to subscribe TPJ. *But* you have to already know Perl to understand everything. TPJ isn't a good magazine for beginners. All articles assume that you already know all Perl basics (and some Perl intrinsics too) .
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It's really funny to see how popular Loft Story has been. Celebrity #1 : Loana. Nobody hear about her before Loft Story, and she's far from being as cute as Nikkie.
I can hardly understand why Loft Story has been so popular on Google. Loft Story is only a french TV show, while Big Brother can be watched by far more people (english language) .
Anyway, Loft Story is over now. The game ended yesterday. Loana and Christophe won. We'll have to wait until 2002 to see Loft Story 2.
It was the first time something like Big Brother happened in France, and I have to say.... that I really loved it. As a proof, you can check my Loft Story for Unix client.
But I still can't figure out why Big Brother has been beaten in Google's audience.
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Waahhh... les miennes n'ont jamais été acceptées, huhuh (c'est con, j'aurais bien aimé voir celle sur le problème des licenses liées à un auteur particulier, et ce qu'elles devenaient après sa mort) .
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Ahaha, ça roule. C'est rigolo de te retrouver sur ./
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Everyone has stereo hardware, nowadays. And even prologic and 5+1 . And what's Ximian doing ? Trying to implement mono . It's already obsolete.
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Yup, but your brother is crazy :)
(Jedi)
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Fortunately, Geena Davis looks a lot like Scully, but more sexy (and her show is more funny than X-Files) .
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But do you think Richard Stevens and the Usenet creator were enjoying today's internet ? They built something that worked perfectly to exchange tons of messages with low bandwidths. Now, everyone has 100x the bandwidth they had when they designed their product. Computers are 100x faster. So what ? Do we find info 100x faster than before ?
Actually not. To read a simple text, you have to download hundreds of kilobytes. 99% is bloat (ads, bloated HTML, useless Java, etc) . Reading messages on a web discussion board is slow. You have to issue dozens of clicks before reading a thread, and wait for every ad to load. Usenet provided a consistent, sorted, easy to parse, and *fast* way to share info with other people.
7 years ago, I was providing access to 12000 newsgroups on Minitel. Minitel is a french terminal, with a 1200 bauds modem (and 75 bauds in emission) . And it worked. People could easily browse all Usenet news. Faster and easier than on web sites.
Another thing is that Usenet let you choose any client. You can choose your preferred fancy interface. Web discussion boards don't let you a lot of choice.
Migrating from Usenet to web sites is stupid. It wastes a lot of bandwidth for nothing. People do this because :
Usenet solved this a long time ago.
What killed Usenet is the load of uuencoded warez and spam. Everyone has to filter messages to find real ones. Lousy. But we can't fight stupidity. Give people mail access, they will send spam. Give people Napster, they will share copyrighted songs. Give people a CD writer, they will burn commercial software. Give people the web, they will DOS it or try root exploits. Give people usenet, they will kill it. And there's no way back.
-- Pure FTP server - Upgrade your FTP server to something simple and secure.
I have a Psion 5 MX for a while, and what I love with Epoc is the presence of native Java and Perl interpreters. And they work very well. When I worked as a programming teacher, I checked algorithms in the train on the Psion. Really nice.
Another great thing : Opera. I've never seen IE on Windows CE devices, but Opera for Epoc renders very well.
Last great thing with Epoc : you can find a lot of freeware. More than on Palm (a lot of shareware) and much more than Pocket PC (almost no freeware at all) .
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A stock OpenBSD installation is compiled for 386. Did you recompile the kernel and the whole source code with pentium3 optimizations ?
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"the human ear can't hear sounds below 2.5 bels"
That's totally false. Humans can hear below 1 bel (except babies, older people, and people with ear diseases) . It's approximately twice the level of human breath.
-- Pure FTP server - Upgrade your FTP server to something simple and secure.
Once again, Microsoft wants to do services that only work with Microsoft software. POP is simple and efficient. If they wanted to increase security, they could just have upgraded to APOP or Imap. Almost all clients support these protocols.
But they are somewhat shooting themselves in the foot. Not every Windows users wants (or is able) to upgrade Outlook. I guess their hotline will get a lot of calls, and they may go back to some standard protocol then.
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