My CD-RW drive stopped working in XP too. So did my DVD drive. Both worked natively in 2000.
You need to download a hacked Adaptec ASPI driver. That's the only way I've found to get any CD or DVD software to work. I'm not sure where to get it -- probably some warez site somewhere. It's kind of strange that you'd have to resort to that to make your hardware work. XP's built-in CD-R functionality will never work with this method, but third-party apps will.
The "correct" way is to get your manufacturer to give you a driver update. Of course, that isn't always an option.
My definition of "small" these days is probably around 400k or less, depending on the app. It's crazy that people are writing multi-megabyte programs to do something as simple as restart the computer. (Or maybe it's just that everyone packages things in multi-megabyte installers.)
A while ago, I ran across rix2k power tools... little prorgams that tend to be under 100k in size. Then there's the Mr. Gibson and his "everything in assembly" philosphy -- also under 100k. Those are the only kinds of things that deserve to be called "tiny."
If you're taking up 1.44MB and want to be called "tiny", you'd better be an entire OS, an office suite, or a 3D game.:-)
I see absolutely no reason why someone can't post as a logged in user.
In my experience, posting anything negative about Linux will get you modded down. Posting positive things about Microsoft can also get you modded down, but not as often. The chances of getting modded down for this decreases for posts over about 2k and for posts that begin with "I know I'm going to get modded down for this...", but I've found that if you state an opinion that is contrary to Slashdot groupthink, you need to post anonymously.
This post here, for example, is one that probably should have been posted anonymously, but in my little utopian world, I think I should be able to have an opinion without cowering behind anononymity just because a few monderators think anyone who doesn't like Linux is automatically a troll.
I'd filter anonymous posts, but there are quite a decent ones out there. But most people on Slashdot seem to believe that if you're not being insighful and interesting, or if you post less than 5 lines of text, it's best to be anonymous.
How to solve the problem?
What we need is an "anonymous" checkbox, and then an "I'm an idiot" checkbox.
Or a new moderation, "-1 Asshole." That way, if you don't agree with the poster, you can still mark them as Troll, but if someone is linking goatse.cx, you can mark them as being just plain annoying.
if it can be written on a bajillion times before giving out
It can be written on once. Fill it up, and you have to buy a new one.
Kinda messes up your cost per MB figures too.
And they're double-sided. Only 250 MB per side.
Also, unlike any other technology currently in use on MP3 players, digital cameras, etc, these discs are not rewritable. That means every time you fill your digital camera, you need to buy a new disc. The main advantage I saw in purchasing a digital camera was the lack of consumable costs.
You're not a web designer, are you? You need to have a copy of every browser that has more than about a 0.2% market share.
Instead it's more likely that web designers will abandon the "cool features" of IE in order to cater to the lowest common denominator. More time spent resolving compatibility issues is less time spent doing actual productive work.
Or everyone could switch to something proprietary that works the same everywhere, like Flash. heh.
I could be wrong here, but it sounds like this could apply to more than just wizards. What about web-based content management tools, which allow the user to copy and paste plain text into an input box, check a few options, and have HTML pages generated on the fly?
(I tried reading the claims of the patent to see if this is true, but got lost in legalese. The patent has 24 claims, and I'm assuming each of those claims must be violated in order to be considered patent infringement.)
Maybe you'll be able to stick one of those Microsoft headset thingies they already make in one of the 4 USB ports.
In fact, if the thing is based on DirectX and Windows, I wonder if it would accept any old USB controller/keyboard/mouse. (I'm sure they're not going to let people install their own drivers, but the Xbox might include a generic driver for those sorts of things, as regular Windows does.)
Conversely, since the controllers are connected using USB (as I understand it), I wonder if the Xbox controller would work when plugged into a normal PC.
It sucks that my university caps download rates, meaning I can only ever get 0.5k/sec from anything other than WWW and FTP... I'd be banned from everything for sure. Now, at least I can download things if I'm willing to take a week...
I'd remove connection limits, and impose instead bandwidth limits. Meaning I set Napster up to upload at a max aggregate rate of 100K/sec, and determine the maximum number of simultaneous connections from that. Isn't limiting bandwidth the real purpose for the limit anyway? Is it better to have 2 people downloading at 500KB/sec, or 10 people each downloading at 1KB/sec?
Not that it matters to me... I stopped supporting the RIAA as soon as they started putting copy restrictions on CDs.
I read an article in the Globe and Mail (I believe around Sept '99 or Jan 2000) from the point of view of telemarketers, and about how different parts of the country respond to them. (Given the time zone differences, they'd start calling people in the east coast at the beginning of a shift, and end in the west cost several hours later.) I thought it was quite hilarious. (I wonder if it's online somewhere...)
Among the observations:
- Nobody can tell you to take a hike as politely as someone from New Brunswick.
- In Quebec, a surprising proportion of the population insist they can't speak English.
- Folks from Toronto are the most likely to ask for money in exchange for their opinion.
I've heard that too -- but I've received calls from things which were almost certainly not human -- no background noise, and the thing kept the line connected, instead of hanging up as you'd expect a burgaler to do. (Being patient and having nothing to do, I stayed on the line for a minute [watching TV], assunming the call was a human who had for some reason had to drop the phone after dialing, and would be back shortly.)
I just found it hard to believe that robbers would bother phoning door to door, given the effort involved in determining the phone numbers of potential targets. (If I wanted to know the phone number of the person who lives down the street, I'd have no idea how to find it, given that the phone company doesn't publish house numbers in their listings.)
I'm more concerned that they tried to sneak it into the terrorism bill, rather than propose it on its own. How, exactly, does trashing my MP3 collection prevent Osama Bin Laden from steering jet planes into buildings? I'm not trying to be insensitive -- I'm just wondering what's with these corporations that try to take advantage of a horrible situation by pushing insane laws?
It makes me wonder what else could be inside that bill that is completely unrelated to terrorism. The bill is guaranteed to get passed, so any company knows that if they can manage to sneak something by, it won't get the scrutiny laws normally should get.
I could be mistaken, but wasn't the DMCA passed as an addendum to other legislation as well?
Is it worse to own almost all of one thing, or a large chunk of just about everything? Especially when you're not always sure who the real owner is... how obvious is it that Winamp belongs to AOLTW?
As a side note, while watching CNN on Sept 11th, looking at the undulating blue ribbon at the bottom of the screen, I could have sworn I saw the WB (Warner Brothers) logo appear faintly in the waves for a while. I blinked a few times, pointed it out to someone else, and we were 100% convinced they're trying to stick subliminal advertising in there. (Not quite subliminal -- if you look, it's plainly obvious.) It faded away after about 30 seconds, though. Has anyone else seen this?
So just know that while you're watching or reading one of AOLTW's publications that you could be seeing advertising for one of the its many other properties.
Next up on CNN: Sonique sucks, use Winamp. Followed by: the latest hollywood blockbuster from Warner Brothers.
So, in other words, if "Linux users" aren't asking for the software you're creating, you're not welcome to develop for Linux. And to make it closed-source, is of course, utter blasphemy.
Winamp looks like it's sort of headed in that direction. In addition to the playlist (which now supports multiple playlists at once), they've got a "media library", which lets you select music by artist, year, genre, etc. (It only lets you select one at a time, at least for now. But it is only alpha, not feature-complete yet.) There is also a new "database explorer", which you can use to put together queries like ((year > 1990) && (genre = "Rock")). (I'd guess the media library will eventually do everything the database explorer lets you do.)
I've heard that before, too, and I'm not sure I believe it. When my phone company was talking about their new broadband service, they mentioned that they have fibre optic lines running within 2km of every house in the province. I'd heard the technology referred to as some sort of fibre hybrid service. (I believe new installations might be regular ADSL, though -- I'm not sure what's happening with all of the infrastructure they had been putting in place up until that point.)
$40 standard
$30 if you own a modem
$25 if you own a modem and can get the student discount available to some universities (not sure if they're still offering that this year)
Note that at today's exchange rate, that works out to $15.96 U.S. a month. (or $25.54 with modem rental and no discount)
Vibe Vision the television-over-phoneline service, or did you mean ordinary Vibe the DSL Internet service?
I was under the impression that Vibe Vision was in fairly early stages of rollout... only available in one or two cities so far. I'd almost expect problems with it at this stage, especially considering how new that technology is. At least I think it's new -- are there any other companies out there offering television service over the DSL line?
I have never, ever heard of this unit of measure called a "slug."
Wouldn't NASA use the metric system, anyway? I was under the impression that the scientific community in the U.S. often uses metric measurements, so they can communicate with the rest of the world. (After all, there's no point in doing research if the rest of the planet can't understand your results.)
(Isn't Joules actually a metric unit? It's been a while since high school physics...)
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Don't Ernie and Bert seem kind of young? (They've lived together for a while, but we all know puppets don't age.)
I always thought they were brothers or something... at most, college roommates.
Why is the drop in CS sales automatically attributed to the new Napsters? I actually don't know that many people that use them.
Besides, when Napster first started, CD sales were going through the roof. They only started dropping again after Napster was killed.
Or, maybe the drop in sales has something to do with the fact that the whole economy is slowing down.
Or the fact that people simply don't like the RIAA, and are boycotting them. I'm starting to get just a little bit annoyed by their anti-competitive tactics, their purchasing of laws, and their misinformation.
I, personally, have purchased more CDs as a direct result of being able to preview the music first, and know many other people who are the same way. Sure, there may be people who purchase less, but the point is, the RIAA is wrong in trying to convince everyone that the drop in sales can only be attributed to new Napsters.
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Even if you don't have an LCD screen, ClearType looks great. You just have to enable it manually (in Display properties somewhere.)
My CD-RW drive stopped working in XP too. So did my DVD drive. Both worked natively in 2000.
You need to download a hacked Adaptec ASPI driver. That's the only way I've found to get any CD or DVD software to work. I'm not sure where to get it -- probably some warez site somewhere. It's kind of strange that you'd have to resort to that to make your hardware work. XP's built-in CD-R functionality will never work with this method, but third-party apps will.
The "correct" way is to get your manufacturer to give you a driver update. Of course, that isn't always an option.
My definition of "small" these days is probably around 400k or less, depending on the app. It's crazy that people are writing multi-megabyte programs to do something as simple as restart the computer. (Or maybe it's just that everyone packages things in multi-megabyte installers.)
:-)
A while ago, I ran across rix2k power tools... little prorgams that tend to be under 100k in size. Then there's the Mr. Gibson and his "everything in assembly" philosphy -- also under 100k. Those are the only kinds of things that deserve to be called "tiny."
If you're taking up 1.44MB and want to be called "tiny", you'd better be an entire OS, an office suite, or a 3D game.
Whoever moderated this as a troll, I think, proves the point.
If you challenge to the status quo, you're a troll.
They already start at 0 -- isn't that enough?
AC posts tend to get overlooked by moderators who browse at +1. If 5 people think an AC post deserves a positive moderation, it should have a +5.
I don't mean to sound like a troll, but...
once you have 28 or so karma...
who cares?
I see absolutely no reason why someone can't post as a logged in user.
In my experience, posting anything negative about Linux will get you modded down. Posting positive things about Microsoft can also get you modded down, but not as often. The chances of getting modded down for this decreases for posts over about 2k and for posts that begin with "I know I'm going to get modded down for this...", but I've found that if you state an opinion that is contrary to Slashdot groupthink, you need to post anonymously.
This post here, for example, is one that probably should have been posted anonymously, but in my little utopian world, I think I should be able to have an opinion without cowering behind anononymity just because a few monderators think anyone who doesn't like Linux is automatically a troll.
I'd filter anonymous posts, but there are quite a decent ones out there. But most people on Slashdot seem to believe that if you're not being insighful and interesting, or if you post less than 5 lines of text, it's best to be anonymous.
How to solve the problem?
What we need is an "anonymous" checkbox, and then an "I'm an idiot" checkbox.
Or a new moderation, "-1 Asshole." That way, if you don't agree with the poster, you can still mark them as Troll, but if someone is linking goatse.cx, you can mark them as being just plain annoying.
if it can be written on a bajillion times before giving out It can be written on once. Fill it up, and you have to buy a new one. Kinda messes up your cost per MB figures too. And they're double-sided. Only 250 MB per side.
Also, unlike any other technology currently in use on MP3 players, digital cameras, etc, these discs are not rewritable. That means every time you fill your digital camera, you need to buy a new disc. The main advantage I saw in purchasing a digital camera was the lack of consumable costs.
Um, no.
You're not a web designer, are you? You need to have a copy of every browser that has more than about a 0.2% market share.
Instead it's more likely that web designers will abandon the "cool features" of IE in order to cater to the lowest common denominator. More time spent resolving compatibility issues is less time spent doing actual productive work.
Or everyone could switch to something proprietary that works the same everywhere, like Flash. heh.
I could be wrong here, but it sounds like this could apply to more than just wizards. What about web-based content management tools, which allow the user to copy and paste plain text into an input box, check a few options, and have HTML pages generated on the fly?
(I tried reading the claims of the patent to see if this is true, but got lost in legalese. The patent has 24 claims, and I'm assuming each of those claims must be violated in order to be considered patent infringement.)
Maybe you'll be able to stick one of those Microsoft headset thingies they already make in one of the 4 USB ports.
In fact, if the thing is based on DirectX and Windows, I wonder if it would accept any old USB controller/keyboard/mouse. (I'm sure they're not going to let people install their own drivers, but the Xbox might include a generic driver for those sorts of things, as regular Windows does.)
Conversely, since the controllers are connected using USB (as I understand it), I wonder if the Xbox controller would work when plugged into a normal PC.
It sucks that my university caps download rates, meaning I can only ever get 0.5k/sec from anything other than WWW and FTP... I'd be banned from everything for sure. Now, at least I can download things if I'm willing to take a week...
I'd remove connection limits, and impose instead bandwidth limits. Meaning I set Napster up to upload at a max aggregate rate of 100K/sec, and determine the maximum number of simultaneous connections from that. Isn't limiting bandwidth the real purpose for the limit anyway? Is it better to have 2 people downloading at 500KB/sec, or 10 people each downloading at 1KB/sec?
Not that it matters to me... I stopped supporting the RIAA as soon as they started putting copy restrictions on CDs.
I read an article in the Globe and Mail (I believe around Sept '99 or Jan 2000) from the point of view of telemarketers, and about how different parts of the country respond to them. (Given the time zone differences, they'd start calling people in the east coast at the beginning of a shift, and end in the west cost several hours later.) I thought it was quite hilarious. (I wonder if it's online somewhere...)
Among the observations:
- Nobody can tell you to take a hike as politely as someone from New Brunswick.
- In Quebec, a surprising proportion of the population insist they can't speak English.
- Folks from Toronto are the most likely to ask for money in exchange for their opinion.
I've heard that too -- but I've received calls from things which were almost certainly not human -- no background noise, and the thing kept the line connected, instead of hanging up as you'd expect a burgaler to do. (Being patient and having nothing to do, I stayed on the line for a minute [watching TV], assunming the call was a human who had for some reason had to drop the phone after dialing, and would be back shortly.)
I just found it hard to believe that robbers would bother phoning door to door, given the effort involved in determining the phone numbers of potential targets. (If I wanted to know the phone number of the person who lives down the street, I'd have no idea how to find it, given that the phone company doesn't publish house numbers in their listings.)
I'm more concerned that they tried to sneak it into the terrorism bill, rather than propose it on its own. How, exactly, does trashing my MP3 collection prevent Osama Bin Laden from steering jet planes into buildings? I'm not trying to be insensitive -- I'm just wondering what's with these corporations that try to take advantage of a horrible situation by pushing insane laws?
It makes me wonder what else could be inside that bill that is completely unrelated to terrorism. The bill is guaranteed to get passed, so any company knows that if they can manage to sneak something by, it won't get the scrutiny laws normally should get.
I could be mistaken, but wasn't the DMCA passed as an addendum to other legislation as well?
Is it worse to own almost all of one thing, or a large chunk of just about everything? Especially when you're not always sure who the real owner is... how obvious is it that Winamp belongs to AOLTW?
As a side note, while watching CNN on Sept 11th, looking at the undulating blue ribbon at the bottom of the screen, I could have sworn I saw the WB (Warner Brothers) logo appear faintly in the waves for a while. I blinked a few times, pointed it out to someone else, and we were 100% convinced they're trying to stick subliminal advertising in there. (Not quite subliminal -- if you look, it's plainly obvious.) It faded away after about 30 seconds, though. Has anyone else seen this?
So just know that while you're watching or reading one of AOLTW's publications that you could be seeing advertising for one of the its many other properties.
Next up on CNN: Sonique sucks, use Winamp. Followed by: the latest hollywood blockbuster from Warner Brothers.
:-)
So, in other words, if "Linux users" aren't asking for the software you're creating, you're not welcome to develop for Linux. And to make it closed-source, is of course, utter blasphemy.
Winamp looks like it's sort of headed in that direction. In addition to the playlist (which now supports multiple playlists at once), they've got a "media library", which lets you select music by artist, year, genre, etc. (It only lets you select one at a time, at least for now. But it is only alpha, not feature-complete yet.) There is also a new "database explorer", which you can use to put together queries like ((year > 1990) && (genre = "Rock")). (I'd guess the media library will eventually do everything the database explorer lets you do.)
I've heard that before, too, and I'm not sure I believe it. When my phone company was talking about their new broadband service, they mentioned that they have fibre optic lines running within 2km of every house in the province. I'd heard the technology referred to as some sort of fibre hybrid service. (I believe new installations might be regular ADSL, though -- I'm not sure what's happening with all of the infrastructure they had been putting in place up until that point.)
$40 standard $30 if you own a modem $25 if you own a modem and can get the student discount available to some universities (not sure if they're still offering that this year) Note that at today's exchange rate, that works out to $15.96 U.S. a month. (or $25.54 with modem rental and no discount)
Vibe Vision the television-over-phoneline service, or did you mean ordinary Vibe the DSL Internet service?
I was under the impression that Vibe Vision was in fairly early stages of rollout... only available in one or two cities so far. I'd almost expect problems with it at this stage, especially considering how new that technology is. At least I think it's new -- are there any other companies out there offering television service over the DSL line?
I have never, ever heard of this unit of measure called a "slug." Wouldn't NASA use the metric system, anyway? I was under the impression that the scientific community in the U.S. often uses metric measurements, so they can communicate with the rest of the world. (After all, there's no point in doing research if the rest of the planet can't understand your results.) (Isn't Joules actually a metric unit? It's been a while since high school physics...)
Don't Ernie and Bert seem kind of young? (They've lived together for a while, but we all know puppets don't age.) I always thought they were brothers or something... at most, college roommates.
Why is the drop in CS sales automatically attributed to the new Napsters? I actually don't know that many people that use them. Besides, when Napster first started, CD sales were going through the roof. They only started dropping again after Napster was killed. Or, maybe the drop in sales has something to do with the fact that the whole economy is slowing down. Or the fact that people simply don't like the RIAA, and are boycotting them. I'm starting to get just a little bit annoyed by their anti-competitive tactics, their purchasing of laws, and their misinformation. I, personally, have purchased more CDs as a direct result of being able to preview the music first, and know many other people who are the same way. Sure, there may be people who purchase less, but the point is, the RIAA is wrong in trying to convince everyone that the drop in sales can only be attributed to new Napsters.