Yeah, I live very close to RA and we have Frontier FiOS. $105/month for symmetrical 35 Mb/s business class fiber with a static IP. We've never had any issues with speed or Frontier (or Verizon FiOS before them). It makes me feel for everyone stuck on Comcast or dial-up, but 3 of our last 4 residences in the Portland metro area all had fiber, so I'm not sure where in Portland people are living that doesn't have fiber. Did Verizon only run it to the suburbs and skip downtown?
Uhh, I hate to break it to you, but it's a slot machine. It -is- a scam. Lottery games should be played for entertainment purposes only and not investment. The same sort of entertainment you get from going to an arcade for hours on end: the thrill of pushing the buttons on the screen/controller.
They pay out a fixed percent, and the lottery commissions work extremely hard to ensure that the percentage is perfect. I can't imagine a casino being any less stringent, or being more fair, than a government-run lottery commission. On the flip side, most of those lottery machines run Linux, and watching a dmesg scroll across one of their screens is quite enjoyable, especially when you enter its test mode and play the ogg files on it that make up the background tracks, or watch the game load a series of png graphic sprites. That "Walk Like An Egyptian" song sure does get stuck in your head after a few hours of it though.
You "rounded" roughly 304,059,724 people...to 3 million? I think you'd have to have over a billion people in the US before you could write off two orders of magnitude as a "rounding error".
But yes, I agree, your estimate for being hurt by the reactor is correct enough, although 0/300 million does sound better to me.
I'll toss my vote in for putting the next reactor in my city, please! Oh wait, my State had one, then decommissioned it at a freaking -loss-, and a 30 years later I get a check for $40 remunerating me for the trouble. While it worked it single-handedly generated 12% of Oregon's power. From a single reactor!
Goodness I hate knee-jerk politics that interfere with our nation's ability to do rational things like operate its existing power plants.
Well, it isn't really a "GNU" project, it is GPLed, but I think Gnome would be better called a GNU project. Afterall, Gnome exists because of KDE's non-GNU-friendly license.
So if any of the DEs were to be labeled as BSD, I'd say it's KDE.
Just sayin', there's a fun history here, and thinking of KDE as a GNU project is a funny thought.
The new 007 "James Bond" isn't suave or debonair, let alone imposing.
The new Indiana Jones was a joke, and I don't look forward to seeing Shia LaBeouf wielding a whip and Fedora.
The new Batman, although intensely entertaining, just wasn't Batman anymore.
And of course, JJ Abram's gratuitous lens-flare, "rapid-zoom", and "camera shake" tour de force was best left on the cutting room floor and I doubt I'll watch another Star Trek: Cloverfield Edition coming from his portfolio.
It would seem that I shouldn't toss my 2 cents in if I'm going to watch a show Season-by-Season on DVD. Especially not if I'm only on Season 3 out of a potential 5.
Shoot, I guess I've gotta get busy with watching more television!
I was actually researching a very similar problem earlier today. I have a bunch of copies of DVDs that I own, and made in Linux using a combination of xine & dd, xine to grab the css keys, and dd to copy/dev/hdd.
I lost one of my original DVDs and wanted to burn the DVD image to a new DVD-R DL so I can play it on a regular DVD player. Of course I realized too late that the CSS keys weren't copied with the rest of the title, and after many discussions and searches have found that what I'm now looking for is a CLI tool for removing region encoding, CSS, and disabled user options. I haven't found anything yet but I'm looking into the options DVD::RIP provide.
Does anyone else have any software we can look at for removing these hindrances from our DVD images while leaving the actual content unmolested and suitable for burning as an iso back onto a DVD disc?
I guess I am achievement whoring then, because I can't let April 1st pass by without actually getting anything out of the deal, right?
So here goes, please no-one mod me, I just want to disappear into the background!
At least this is better than ponies, I still suffer from partial blindness in my left eye when I accidentally looked at Slashdot in the ponies theme before I turned away.
What titles don't play? Typically the Disney "FastPlay" discs have trouble in Linux. playback is okay, but storing them to disk for later playback is harder.
Well,
We have 20 Mbit symmetrical FiOS. So for $70/mo I can upload files at a full 20 megabits per second, although lately the best I've seen is an upload of 4.5Mbit, so I might be giving Verizon a call if it doesn't pick up sometime soon here. I'm in the process of setting up a server, and nothing in my ToS states that I can't run one, so we'll see about that. Still, not a bad deal really, especially compared to comcast's "We run fibre too" pathetic 5 mbit/768kbit connections they offer around here.
Hillsboro, Oregon by the way.
I say that Microsoft is about $500 too bloated. That extra 5 seconds on initial load, and 2 seconds to open a file are worth the half a grand it'd cost for me to purchase Microsoft Office 2003. Ehh, $499 for an office suite, I tell you, that's just insane.
I'll stick with OpenOffice.org thank you ver much, it's more than capable.
Happy business user of OpenOffice.org since 2002.
Maybe if we "Dot Slash" them? Come on now, what is this, dyslashexia? I mean, for goodness' sake, how lazy do you have to be to not even take the time to proof-read the entire joke (and subject) of your one-sentence post?
I propose an idiot filter, which forces every poster to re-read every word they write before posting it, and have it peer-reviewed (pre-metamoding) before it can be posted. Oh it'd be wonderful.
Oh right, Slashdot, my mistake.
I was at the OsCon '04 Keynotes. Larry Wall's State of The Onion Address was entertaining, if not a bit hard to follow at times. When he was discussing ADHD it seemed as though he was mostly using it to contrast his "opposite" problem, and make the point that any kind of singular personality (strictly ADHD bounciness, or strictly task-switching deficiency) was a bad thing, or at least not as productive as a good balance.
In his talk about Tom Christiansen his tone seemed to be half humour/half endearing. I'd say there's no ill will between them, or between Larry Wall and people who have ADHD in general.
If you run xscreensaver -demo and follow along you might get a bit clearer picture of what he wanted, but then again maybe not. Half the time it seemed like he was running the wrong screen saver, or the screen saver he chose didn't appear to apply to his topic. Then again, at other times (like where he demonstrates how his mind solves puzzles) it was very funny and appropriate.
OT: What I really want to see is the "Life, the Universe, and Everything" keynote transcription, it was the last one that night. In it I saw perl6 extensions used to create variables with dual values, and Conway's Game of Life written in perl...in Klingon! If anyone has a link to this program, or can remember the CPAN::Klingon module's name it'd be great.
It was great being at the State of the Onion address in person, but from reading last year's address, I came away with the opinion that Larry Wall is a better author than orator, and his language can be mildly stilted at times. But what more could be expected from a hacker?
I run my own mail server. I have roughly 330 GB of drive space on my web/file/e-mail server. I trust myself to store it pretty much 100%. My only problem is sporadic reliability (which a UPS and backup MX record will soon fix), and crackers/script kiddies breaking into it and wreaking senseless damage on it.
That's who I think is more trustworthy than Google.
If you want, you can try Slashdotting my feeble website, but here's my checklist: http://web.praeluceo.net/docs/LinuxIns tall.pdf
I install Linux on friends and family computers. I have only used this particular document once, and it proved fairly successful. Apart from some questions arising regarding a few terms I used in it, it was very beneficial to both myself (as the Installer) and the person I was working with.
Something to keep in mind is who you're working with. Your traditional computer user isn't going to know they have a Pentium IV 2.4 GHz CPU, with 256 MB DDR266 RAM. They won't know the brand or chipset of their NIC, or the size of their hard drive half the time. People know how big "C" is, but on most manufactured computers, that's only part of the drive, the rest is tied up in a "recovery partition". They are the same people that respond with "Windows" when you ask them what internet browser they use, or "Netscape" when you ask them what their operating sytem is (I have gotten both of these in various forms).
Presentation - I run the projector at my Church, and for over a year now we've used OpenOffice.org Impress for all weekly presentations. That means creating a file each week with the lyrics to a few songs split up into easy-to-read sections. I've created an Impress template for each season, and use the template to create new files each week.
I'd also like to mention that all post-production audio editing is done within Audacity for the Church. That is, all of the service (the Pastor preaching, the singing, the guest speakers, et al) is recorded off of our crummy mics into our EuroRack UB2442FX-Pro board, and from there goes straight into Audacity and the hard drive. I then boost the volume a bit, and clean up static and pops and hisses and whatnot before burning to CD for people who want it.
I do notice that after a cursory glance (upgraded from 1.1.3 to 1.2) the "auto adjust volume" feature seems to be missing, where oh where did it go? Now I have to use the "boost" button, which doesn't seem as friendly to me.
And yeah, on a mildly unrelated note: I'm sick of the XMMS developers, and the "community" behind them. I'm a lousy coder, so I'm not one to speak, but if you're going to maintain a project, especially one as well known as XMMS, please oh please keep it up-to-date! What I wouldn't give for a Wasabi-based media player in Linux, something like Winamp3 -should- have been. I've stopped using XMMS for now, it just isn't developed, and barely plays the audio files I want it to. I've been using "juk" lately, and have grown to like it a lot. I wish it had an OSD plugin, but I like how it pops up the current song, and lets you quickly skip it. I just wish the "History" ranked songs by how many completed listenings it's had, maybe the latest version does so, I haven't upgraded to KDE 3.2 yet.
And finally, the parent says OpenOffice.org Writer "seems to be acceptable", but I would argue that it's more than acceptible, I prefer it to MS Word. I've used it since the 1.0 RCs for all of my homework assignments, granted StarOffice 5.2 was very near "garbage" quality, and I never used it seriously, but right now at OOo 1.1 I can say its the sweetest word processor I've ever used. I absolutely love Writer's export to PDF and to Palm Docbook formats. I enjoy its clean interface, and despite being blamed (rightly so) in the past for being slow and pokey, 1.1 is speedy enough for me, and directly competitive with Microsoft Office 97 & 2000, which is what I, my parents, my girlfriend, another friend of mine, and my Church were converting from. Actually, my girlfriend had MSOffice XP, but I convinced her to try OpenOffice.org, since it has the pdf feature in Windows, and she types up notes for classmates that don't always have Word (I want to shoot the person who invented MS Works). Her school, the University of Oregon, also has a great system. When school starts all students get two CDs, one is an application CD, the other is a "Windows Updater". The latter CD updated their computers before they got onto the network to protect them against the slew of viruses released over the summer, the former CD had "essential programs" for all students, including a virus scanner, firewall, WinZip, and OpenOffice.org 1.1. How cool is that? Even a nice little installer saying that if the student doesn't have MS Word, this is the preferred Word Processor.
Well, we all now know that Timothy takes baths in vaporware, because his current "bain" must be the already existing "coming real soon now" technology. Does anybody else remember mRAM and all of those holographic-3D RAM concepts from years gone by?
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Yeah, I live very close to RA and we have Frontier FiOS. $105/month for symmetrical 35 Mb/s business class fiber with a static IP. We've never had any issues with speed or Frontier (or Verizon FiOS before them). It makes me feel for everyone stuck on Comcast or dial-up, but 3 of our last 4 residences in the Portland metro area all had fiber, so I'm not sure where in Portland people are living that doesn't have fiber. Did Verizon only run it to the suburbs and skip downtown?
Hipster GoDaddy supported SOPA before it was cool...
Uhh, I hate to break it to you, but it's a slot machine. It -is- a scam. Lottery games should be played for entertainment purposes only and not investment. The same sort of entertainment you get from going to an arcade for hours on end: the thrill of pushing the buttons on the screen/controller.
They pay out a fixed percent, and the lottery commissions work extremely hard to ensure that the percentage is perfect. I can't imagine a casino being any less stringent, or being more fair, than a government-run lottery commission. On the flip side, most of those lottery machines run Linux, and watching a dmesg scroll across one of their screens is quite enjoyable, especially when you enter its test mode and play the ogg files on it that make up the background tracks, or watch the game load a series of png graphic sprites. That "Walk Like An Egyptian" song sure does get stuck in your head after a few hours of it though.
Why would Los Angeles want people's hair?
(:
You "rounded" roughly 304,059,724 people...to 3 million? I think you'd have to have over a billion people in the US before you could write off two orders of magnitude as a "rounding error". But yes, I agree, your estimate for being hurt by the reactor is correct enough, although 0/300 million does sound better to me. I'll toss my vote in for putting the next reactor in my city, please! Oh wait, my State had one, then decommissioned it at a freaking -loss-, and a 30 years later I get a check for $40 remunerating me for the trouble. While it worked it single-handedly generated 12% of Oregon's power. From a single reactor! Goodness I hate knee-jerk politics that interfere with our nation's ability to do rational things like operate its existing power plants.
If you give him a Bluetooth headset he's going to ask for a latte.
I thought it was Catholicism where you had to buy indulgences?
Well, it isn't really a "GNU" project, it is GPLed, but I think Gnome would be better called a GNU project. Afterall, Gnome exists because of KDE's non-GNU-friendly license.
So if any of the DEs were to be labeled as BSD, I'd say it's KDE.
Just sayin', there's a fun history here, and thinking of KDE as a GNU project is a funny thought.
Get off my lawn!
It would seem that I shouldn't toss my 2 cents in if I'm going to watch a show Season-by-Season on DVD. Especially not if I'm only on Season 3 out of a potential 5. Shoot, I guess I've gotta get busy with watching more television!
Surely you meant to say Dunder Mifflin Paper Company? Heaven forbid Michael Scott ever become anything more than middle management!
I was actually researching a very similar problem earlier today. I have a bunch of copies of DVDs that I own, and made in Linux using a combination of xine & dd, xine to grab the css keys, and dd to copy /dev/hdd.
I lost one of my original DVDs and wanted to burn the DVD image to a new DVD-R DL so I can play it on a regular DVD player. Of course I realized too late that the CSS keys weren't copied with the rest of the title, and after many discussions and searches have found that what I'm now looking for is a CLI tool for removing region encoding, CSS, and disabled user options. I haven't found anything yet but I'm looking into the options DVD::RIP provide.
Does anyone else have any software we can look at for removing these hindrances from our DVD images while leaving the actual content unmolested and suitable for burning as an iso back onto a DVD disc?
I guess I am achievement whoring then, because I can't let April 1st pass by without actually getting anything out of the deal, right? So here goes, please no-one mod me, I just want to disappear into the background! At least this is better than ponies, I still suffer from partial blindness in my left eye when I accidentally looked at Slashdot in the ponies theme before I turned away.
The current bailouts would have been unncessary with gold coins. Fiat money is not honest money, we got exactly what we bargained for.
What titles don't play? Typically the Disney "FastPlay" discs have trouble in Linux. playback is okay, but storing them to disk for later playback is harder.
Well, We have 20 Mbit symmetrical FiOS. So for $70/mo I can upload files at a full 20 megabits per second, although lately the best I've seen is an upload of 4.5Mbit, so I might be giving Verizon a call if it doesn't pick up sometime soon here. I'm in the process of setting up a server, and nothing in my ToS states that I can't run one, so we'll see about that. Still, not a bad deal really, especially compared to comcast's "We run fibre too" pathetic 5 mbit/768kbit connections they offer around here. Hillsboro, Oregon by the way.
E-mail is still free.
--Sig
Use The Force Luke.
(I'll even attach a picture of the Death Star if it saves me 41 cents to get in touch with you)
I say that Microsoft is about $500 too bloated. That extra 5 seconds on initial load, and 2 seconds to open a file are worth the half a grand it'd cost for me to purchase Microsoft Office 2003. Ehh, $499 for an office suite, I tell you, that's just insane. I'll stick with OpenOffice.org thank you ver much, it's more than capable. Happy business user of OpenOffice.org since 2002.
Maybe if we "Dot Slash" them? Come on now, what is this, dyslashexia? I mean, for goodness' sake, how lazy do you have to be to not even take the time to proof-read the entire joke (and subject) of your one-sentence post? I propose an idiot filter, which forces every poster to re-read every word they write before posting it, and have it peer-reviewed (pre-metamoding) before it can be posted. Oh it'd be wonderful. Oh right, Slashdot, my mistake.
I was at the OsCon '04 Keynotes. Larry Wall's State of The Onion Address was entertaining, if not a bit hard to follow at times. When he was discussing ADHD it seemed as though he was mostly using it to contrast his "opposite" problem, and make the point that any kind of singular personality (strictly ADHD bounciness, or strictly task-switching deficiency) was a bad thing, or at least not as productive as a good balance.
In his talk about Tom Christiansen his tone seemed to be half humour/half endearing. I'd say there's no ill will between them, or between Larry Wall and people who have ADHD in general.
If you run xscreensaver -demo and follow along you might get a bit clearer picture of what he wanted, but then again maybe not. Half the time it seemed like he was running the wrong screen saver, or the screen saver he chose didn't appear to apply to his topic. Then again, at other times (like where he demonstrates how his mind solves puzzles) it was very funny and appropriate.
OT: What I really want to see is the "Life, the Universe, and Everything" keynote transcription, it was the last one that night. In it I saw perl6 extensions used to create variables with dual values, and Conway's Game of Life written in perl...in Klingon! If anyone has a link to this program, or can remember the CPAN::Klingon module's name it'd be great.
It was great being at the State of the Onion address in person, but from reading last year's address, I came away with the opinion that Larry Wall is a better author than orator, and his language can be mildly stilted at times. But what more could be expected from a hacker?
I run my own mail server. I have roughly 330 GB of drive space on my web/file/e-mail server. I trust myself to store it pretty much 100%. My only problem is sporadic reliability (which a UPS and backup MX record will soon fix), and crackers/script kiddies breaking into it and wreaking senseless damage on it.
That's who I think is more trustworthy than Google.
If you want, you can try Slashdotting my feeble website, but here's my checklist:s tall.pdf
http://web.praeluceo.net/docs/LinuxIn
I install Linux on friends and family computers. I have only used this particular document once, and it proved fairly successful. Apart from some questions arising regarding a few terms I used in it, it was very beneficial to both myself (as the Installer) and the person I was working with.
Something to keep in mind is who you're working with. Your traditional computer user isn't going to know they have a Pentium IV 2.4 GHz CPU, with 256 MB DDR266 RAM. They won't know the brand or chipset of their NIC, or the size of their hard drive half the time. People know how big "C" is, but on most manufactured computers, that's only part of the drive, the rest is tied up in a "recovery partition". They are the same people that respond with "Windows" when you ask them what internet browser they use, or "Netscape" when you ask them what their operating sytem is (I have gotten both of these in various forms).
But that's just my opinion.
It isn't Sedna, get it right, it's Rupport. They practice astrology, and we really do need some sort of planetary shielding right about now!
Presentation - I run the projector at my Church, and for over a year now we've used OpenOffice.org Impress for all weekly presentations. That means creating a file each week with the lyrics to a few songs split up into easy-to-read sections. I've created an Impress template for each season, and use the template to create new files each week.
I'd also like to mention that all post-production audio editing is done within Audacity for the Church. That is, all of the service (the Pastor preaching, the singing, the guest speakers, et al) is recorded off of our crummy mics into our EuroRack UB2442FX-Pro board, and from there goes straight into Audacity and the hard drive. I then boost the volume a bit, and clean up static and pops and hisses and whatnot before burning to CD for people who want it.
I do notice that after a cursory glance (upgraded from 1.1.3 to 1.2) the "auto adjust volume" feature seems to be missing, where oh where did it go? Now I have to use the "boost" button, which doesn't seem as friendly to me.
And yeah, on a mildly unrelated note:
I'm sick of the XMMS developers, and the "community" behind them. I'm a lousy coder, so I'm not one to speak, but if you're going to maintain a project, especially one as well known as XMMS, please oh please keep it up-to-date!
What I wouldn't give for a Wasabi-based media player in Linux, something like Winamp3 -should- have been. I've stopped using XMMS for now, it just isn't developed, and barely plays the audio files I want it to. I've been using "juk" lately, and have grown to like it a lot. I wish it had an OSD plugin, but I like how it pops up the current song, and lets you quickly skip it. I just wish the "History" ranked songs by how many completed listenings it's had, maybe the latest version does so, I haven't upgraded to KDE 3.2 yet.
And finally, the parent says OpenOffice.org Writer "seems to be acceptable", but I would argue that it's more than acceptible, I prefer it to MS Word. I've used it since the 1.0 RCs for all of my homework assignments, granted StarOffice 5.2 was very near "garbage" quality, and I never used it seriously, but right now at OOo 1.1 I can say its the sweetest word processor I've ever used. I absolutely love Writer's export to PDF and to Palm Docbook formats. I enjoy its clean interface, and despite being blamed (rightly so) in the past for being slow and pokey, 1.1 is speedy enough for me, and directly competitive with Microsoft Office 97 & 2000, which is what I, my parents, my girlfriend, another friend of mine, and my Church were converting from. Actually, my girlfriend had MSOffice XP, but I convinced her to try OpenOffice.org, since it has the pdf feature in Windows, and she types up notes for classmates that don't always have Word (I want to shoot the person who invented MS Works). Her school, the University of Oregon, also has a great system. When school starts all students get two CDs, one is an application CD, the other is a "Windows Updater". The latter CD updated their computers before they got onto the network to protect them against the slew of viruses released over the summer, the former CD had "essential programs" for all students, including a virus scanner, firewall, WinZip, and OpenOffice.org 1.1. How cool is that? Even a nice little installer saying that if the student doesn't have MS Word, this is the preferred Word Processor.
Well, we all now know that Timothy takes baths in vaporware, because his current "bain" must be the already existing "coming real soon now" technology.
Does anybody else remember mRAM and all of those holographic-3D RAM concepts from years gone by?
I'l believe this when it's in my digital camera.