but I think it'd be really slick to make still suits, not to mention portable audio players, PDA, and even laptops that are powered by energy that we are generating anyway.
Trust me, if my computer (or PDA for that fact) were to run off the energy I make sitting at my freak'in desk, we all would be in a world of hurt.
The only excersize I get is running to the bathroom several times after that Super BigGulp of Pepsi!
The only other thing that gets my fingers moving fast, is seeing a new article appear on SlashDot without any postings yet!:-)
Well, I guess I've always been a music lover, but too cheap to by a record, or CD for that matter. I started "pirating" music when I was in Jr. High back in the 60's. I got one of those freakin cool portable cassette tape players and recorded music off the radio. I even saved up for a "high tech" external microphone with the switch on it. That way I could cue up the songs, and argh...that darn DJ always yapping in the last few seconds of the song!!
What I'm trying to say, there has always been copying of music, only the last few years it has been in the spotlight with napster. All along it was widespread, but has happened in a less than "in-yer-face" way via the internet.
Who is going to kick down Jonny's bedroom door just because he is taping off the radio or making a few tapes from a record for his friends? Nobody. Did record sales suffer back then? No. What are the music cops going to do next - insist that there is a certian percentage of static played on all radio stations, just to make the music uncopyable? Or better yet, each radio station must play a ear splitting screech every 10 seconds to make it impossible for anyone to record off the radio, much less off a CD. Gimmie a break!
One thing you forgot to mention, is the bidding wars that went on, and the premium prices small companies paid for over priced spectrums. This caused many smaller guys to go out of business or loose the spectrum because they couldn't make the payments.
Naturally, when the whole thing came tumbling down, the big telcom guys came in and picked up the pieces for pennies on the dollar. Oh, and did I forget to mention, all this was to line the pockets of a few big players, and the US Govt. (of course)
Yea, I guess your right -- shouldn't give away the really cool links on slash. I guess everyone is hooking up to the trough sucking down the poor guys bandwith. I hope he's not on a pay-per-gig overage type plan.
If you are in anticipation of the kick off of a new season - Here's a place to catch up on the latest gossip and even download a wallpaper for your puter. For those of you into ASCII art, they even have a few pics for you. If you are looking for a few original sketches or cells you might want to look Here.
But if your a real die-hard, you can download a few MPEG episodes Here at around 220 meg per episode (also 56k'er versions available for the bandwidth impaired)
I for one like the snappy comebacks and the semi-adult humor. My personal favorite is Bender drinking and smoking cigars!
Well I was at CostCo today, with te full XP license going for $189.00 -- with no option for an upgrade path. Most consumers will follow the least path of resistance -- Just buy a full license and for the second computer, just buy another freakin full license!! (Me thinks this was Micro$ofts evil plan anyway)
Most people are not going to jump through extra hoops just to save $10. Just like that rebate on that 56k modem that you forgot to send in 2-3 years ago -- the manufacture is betting against you actually sending the rebate in! Ten bucks x # of XP purchasers = more ca$h in MS's pocket. My 2 cents worth.
I think that the Linux distros are going to become more and more alike, and the Linux companies are going to turn into service based companies providing consulting services only. It will be a sad day when nobody can afford to pay to make major improvements on a distro that was custom developed in house. Looks like that sad day is here.
Generally, I would say that some of the Open Source projects I monitor have slowed in the release cycle, but for the most part, things haven't stopped. I think it could be that for most of us OS is a hobby. When things are fat, we generally have more time to play and code, when times are lean, most of us are scrambling for the almighty buck.
The weirdest returned email packet I received was from an email newsletter that I had sent out 5 years ago. It had been bouncing around since 1995 and came back to me as undeliverable 5 years later! Now I'm not sure how or why, but when it came back I opened it and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the date and the headers!
I'm not sure if this is what you would call a malformed packet, but definitely a lost one that had returned home to roost!
SlashDot Login? Yea, after a few years of off-and-on reading, I finally got one.:-)
Myself, I just finished plowing through two 1,000 page books on Exchange 2000 and Active Directory and still don't know a thing about it! Leave it to MS to make something so complicated that you need to read the book(s) just to get it installed and working! Pity.
Newt-dog
In fact I prefaced my comments by saying that the article went over my head should have given you a clue that I was an idiot in this specialized area. But I did see a potential in certain areas that I could relate to. I just merely pointed them out, and *I* posted my nic to it.
Well another great post that went over my head!:-)
Although I did enjoy the paragraph on filesystem journaling -- After pulling my one of my [gasp] Win2000 servers offline the other night to do a defrag, I could appreciate the fact that a developer could tweak Ext3 to do some neat things. (ahh, for linux, at least) Like when I save and resave files on a test server, the journaling approach could be made more efficient by only saving the changed data! (not the whole freakin fragmented file)
Now the question could be -- Is there someone who will step up to the plate and produce several custom filesystems. The article points out that there is no "best" file system, but given the options, I'm sure the teckie endusers could tweak settings to meet their needs, be it server or desktop.
Why would I want to sit at my desk and read five novels or 10 hours worth of reading?
Why, that would just about kill a weeks worth of/. reading at work!! (BTW, I hope the boss dosn't read this!);-)
I thought that Micro$oft's fear was not being able to take over the internet in the next 5 years? I guess he'll have to arm wrestle AOL's Steve Case for the title.
My 2 cents.
Last year at ComDex I got a freed disk with StarOffice on it. I gave it a chance and it was ok, but I still use M$ office for most of my file massaging, and yes that's where I point the kids when it's report time. I will have to give version 6 a download and see if it everything that/. people say it is. Maybe I'll install it on one or two of the kids computers.
Slashdot Mirror
Newt-dog
Trust me, if my computer (or PDA for that fact) were to run off the energy I make sitting at my freak'in desk, we all would be in a world of hurt. :-)
The only excersize I get is running to the bathroom several times after that Super BigGulp of Pepsi!
The only other thing that gets my fingers moving fast, is seeing a new article appear on SlashDot without any postings yet!
Newt-dog
What I'm trying to say, there has always been copying of music, only the last few years it has been in the spotlight with napster. All along it was widespread, but has happened in a less than "in-yer-face" way via the internet.
Who is going to kick down Jonny's bedroom door just because he is taping off the radio or making a few tapes from a record for his friends? Nobody. Did record sales suffer back then? No.
What are the music cops going to do next - insist that there is a certian percentage of static played on all radio stations, just to make the music uncopyable? Or better yet, each radio station must play a ear splitting screech every 10 seconds to make it impossible for anyone to record off the radio, much less off a CD. Gimmie a break!
Newt-dog
Naturally, when the whole thing came tumbling down, the big telcom guys came in and picked up the pieces for pennies on the dollar. Oh, and did I forget to mention, all this was to line the pockets of a few big players, and the US Govt. (of course)
Newt-dog
Newt-dog
But if your a real die-hard, you can download a few MPEG episodes Here at around 220 meg per episode (also 56k'er versions available for the bandwidth impaired)
I for one like the snappy comebacks and the semi-adult humor. My personal favorite is Bender drinking and smoking cigars!
Newt-dog
Well I bet that at least half of those names are Californians that have P.O. boxes in Oregon just to get their cars registered cheap!
Most people are not going to jump through extra hoops just to save $10. Just like that rebate on that 56k modem that you forgot to send in 2-3 years ago -- the manufacture is betting against you actually sending the rebate in! Ten bucks x # of XP purchasers = more ca$h in MS's pocket. My 2 cents worth.
Newt-dog
Newt-dog
Newt-dog
I'm not sure if this is what you would call a malformed packet, but definitely a lost one that had returned home to roost!
Newt-dog
SlashDot Login? Yea, after a few years of off-and-on reading, I finally got one. :-)
Myself, I just finished plowing through two 1,000 page books on Exchange 2000 and Active Directory and still don't know a thing about it! Leave it to MS to make something so complicated that you need to read the book(s) just to get it installed and working! Pity.
Newt-dog
Newt-dog
Although I did enjoy the paragraph on filesystem journaling -- After pulling my one of my [gasp] Win2000 servers offline the other night to do a defrag, I could appreciate the fact that a developer could tweak Ext3 to do some neat things. (ahh, for linux, at least) Like when I save and resave files on a test server, the journaling approach could be made more efficient by only saving the changed data! (not the whole freakin fragmented file)
Now the question could be -- Is there someone who will step up to the plate and produce several custom filesystems. The article points out that there is no "best" file system, but given the options, I'm sure the teckie endusers could tweak settings to meet their needs, be it server or desktop.
Newt-dog
How many links are we gonna post on this one... Will the REAL Link please stand up! Newt-dog
Why, that would just about kill a weeks worth of
(BTW, I hope the boss dosn't read this!)
Newt-dog
I thought that Micro$oft's fear was not being able to take over the internet in the next 5 years? I guess he'll have to arm wrestle AOL's Steve Case for the title. My 2 cents.
Last year at ComDex I got a freed disk with StarOffice on it. I gave it a chance and it was ok, but I still use M$ office for most of my file massaging, and yes that's where I point the kids when it's report time. I will have to give version 6 a download and see if it everything that /. people say it is. Maybe I'll install it on one or two of the kids computers.