I upgraded my office workstation to KDE 4, but the thing holding me back on my home PC is the state of Amarok 2.x. I have an iPod Classic--a gift from my brother--and Amarok 2.x has a distinctly crippled feature set vis-a-vis v1.4. "Various Artists" does not group in a similar way--most are scattered about in single file albums. Worse, podcasts cannot be copied to my iPod. At one point I was able to use a Gnome tool for this, but that is no longer working for me, either.
I have a hard time understanding where the upgrade is when the features I want are missing.
There are diploma mills that crank out such types for exorbitant fees--Phoenix U, Strayer, etc.--but I don't think the big names are exempt. I once met a University of Maryland College Park grad (B.S. in computer science) who didn't understand pointers and who couldn't grok hexadecimal math. These shortcomings notwithstanding, she was enrolled in their graduate program.
John Henry told his captain, "Lord, a man ain't nothin' but a man. But before I let that steam drill beat me down, I'm gonna die with a hammer in my hand--Lord, Lord--I'll die with a hammer in my hand."
Blasphemy?! What next, burning witches? These people call themselves a modern, western society? Primitive, superstitious a**holes is more like it.
I guess Tom Lehrer is gonna be banned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f72CTDe4-0
We've been happy with Firebird. A few years ago, I was looking to port some 40K lines of Embedded SQL from Oracle to an open source database. MySQL had fees for commercial use, and at that time PostgreSQL lacked the transaction management we required (it may now, but it certainly did not then). The port to Firebird 1.5 when smoothly, and subsequent upgrades a have been painless. It's simple to install, simple to manage.
This sounds very familiar. I joined Army ROTC in '73, when all instructors had at least one tour in Vietnam. I served in the 82nd Airborne in the late '70s, when every senior NCOs, many captains, and all field grades had been to Vietnam. Micromanagement was was a common complaint, both from them and in the reading I've done then and since. But while the Infantry School would lecture against micromanagement, I can't say that I saw many of my seniors taking a hands off approach.
This is essentially what Borland did with Interbase. Check the Firebird web site, especially the project history and you'll see how Borland changed their mind but only after the cat was out of the bag.
Adding a meaningful permissions scheme will either kill many of my kids games, force a repurchase, or give me loads of headaches. When we got an XP box, I thought "Great, no crap installed by teenagers." Then I found that none of their games would play without write ability to the game directory in 'Program Files'. So guess what? They are administrators, too. We're not talking small stuff or fly-by-night companies. My kids have worked very hard to keep EA Games in business. I'm glad they will be out of my house when Longhorn comes around. Let the university's tech support sort it out with them.
There were similar problems with Eudora which my wife uses for email. So, she's an admistrator, too. And Eudora had its own headache under XP--she and I could not share mailboxes as we had done under Win98, even if the mailboxes were in a shared directory.
Good thing I have my own Linux box. When the kids and their games leave, I'm getting the Mrs. a Mac and shinning on we're-all-administrators-here Windows for good.
A friend tells me that if you roast a cat at 375F for 5 minutes per pound, you can cook out all the allergins. Be sure to baste well, however, so it won't dry out.
Best Buy's service plans are a joke. We bought and installed an over-the-range GE microwave from Best Buy. The receipt and service plan specifically stated "in-home service". However, on both occassions where the microwave required servicing, they flatly refused to honor the "in-home" portion of the clause. On the first occassion, they told us to bring it to the store--not the store we got it from but a store 15 miles further away. They kept it for a week, never called us, and we returned to pick it up, found the box was tagged 5 days previous with "no service". It took 2 more days and many phone calls to find where we should take it for service plan work. When I demanded a refund, all they would refund was the service plan. They would not take return on the microwave, which I would never have purchased without a service plan.
My experiencs with Sears and Circuit City have been completely different and wholy satisfactory. Circuit City's replacement warrenty is Number One in my books: Even when my son's minidisc player was two years old and completely out of date, they gave us a full refund without question, which more than covered a new and greatly improved player.
Wait, wait. We're not subsidizing the paper industry by allowing the clear cutting of Federal forests: We're proactively preventing forest fires. Sorry. Lost my head there for a minute.
The thing that worries me about any government computer security activity is that many managers who will have the final say have no practical experience beyond MS Word and a bit of COBOL as a undergrad. I once worked in a SCIF where the regs spoke of "zeroing core memory". Magnetic media was not allowed out once inside yet we had an internet connection and dozens of Macs running System 7 file sharing.
Okay, so the guy had done a lot for the software industry but let's get real: Show of hands--how many of us would have decent jobs if all software were completely free as defined by Stallman? Uuuuhhh... yeah, I thought so. The man needs to come down from his ivory tower and look at how the real world works.
I've used Java for over seven years and have never paid Sun a time for it. Likewise we use Java in our product and neither us nor our customers have paid Sun a dime for it--though they have paid a lot for our product! And damn glad I am, too, that they buy our software. It pays our bills and gives me some time to contribute to at least one free project. Now what is so wrong with this picture?
This could be a great opportunity for private industry contractors.
No one is gonna do this work for free and who says NASA has the money. IMHO,the moon and Mars mission stuff is a shellgame with Hubble a victim. The administration says it wants to do something big but it will cost a lot of money. So, to "save" money, it will do some preliminary research. To fund this research, they cancel other programs. These other programs cost more than the research so they save money now (to pay for Iraq? tax cuts?). And since the research never comes to anything, they save money in the long run.
Remember, this is the administration that cancelled much of NASA's earth observing work and then turns around and says, "Gee, we can't find any signs of global warming."
Yeah, the joke just reached out and slapped me. But I figured some would see it as preaching rather than a gag that cuts both ways. Religion brings out zealots and as Washington Post humor writer Gene Weingarten notes, "Humor is largely cynicism and zealots are too earnest to be cynical."
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I've had no luck getting either Banshee or gPodder to copy podcasts on to my iPod Classic.
I upgraded my office workstation to KDE 4, but the thing holding me back on my home PC is the state of Amarok 2.x. I have an iPod Classic--a gift from my brother--and Amarok 2.x has a distinctly crippled feature set vis-a-vis v1.4. "Various Artists" does not group in a similar way--most are scattered about in single file albums. Worse, podcasts cannot be copied to my iPod. At one point I was able to use a Gnome tool for this, but that is no longer working for me, either. I have a hard time understanding where the upgrade is when the features I want are missing.
There are diploma mills that crank out such types for exorbitant fees--Phoenix U, Strayer, etc.--but I don't think the big names are exempt. I once met a University of Maryland College Park grad (B.S. in computer science) who didn't understand pointers and who couldn't grok hexadecimal math. These shortcomings notwithstanding, she was enrolled in their graduate program.
I don't understand their answer to "What is the secret to life the universe and everything?"
John Henry told his captain, "Lord, a man ain't nothin' but a man. But before I let that steam drill beat me down, I'm gonna die with a hammer in my hand--Lord, Lord--I'll die with a hammer in my hand."
Blasphemy?! What next, burning witches? These people call themselves a modern, western society? Primitive, superstitious a**holes is more like it. I guess Tom Lehrer is gonna be banned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f72CTDe4-0
Biran Krebs, the former "Security Fix" blogger for the Washington Post, recommended this approach back in October 2009: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/e-banking_on_a_locked_down_non.html
Mr Ortiz is a moron. His taste buds must be dead.
We've been happy with Firebird. A few years ago, I was looking to port some 40K lines of Embedded SQL from Oracle to an open source database. MySQL had fees for commercial use, and at that time PostgreSQL lacked the transaction management we required (it may now, but it certainly did not then). The port to Firebird 1.5 when smoothly, and subsequent upgrades a have been painless. It's simple to install, simple to manage.
This sounds very familiar. I joined Army ROTC in '73, when all instructors had at least one tour in Vietnam. I served in the 82nd Airborne in the late '70s, when every senior NCOs, many captains, and all field grades had been to Vietnam. Micromanagement was was a common complaint, both from them and in the reading I've done then and since. But while the Infantry School would lecture against micromanagement, I can't say that I saw many of my seniors taking a hands off approach.
This is essentially what Borland did with Interbase. Check the Firebird web site, especially the project history and you'll see how Borland changed their mind but only after the cat was out of the bag.
Adding a meaningful permissions scheme will either kill many of my kids games, force a repurchase, or give me loads of headaches. When we got an XP box, I thought "Great, no crap installed by teenagers." Then I found that none of their games would play without write ability to the game directory in 'Program Files'. So guess what? They are administrators, too. We're not talking small stuff or fly-by-night companies. My kids have worked very hard to keep EA Games in business. I'm glad they will be out of my house when Longhorn comes around. Let the university's tech support sort it out with them.
There were similar problems with Eudora which my wife uses for email. So, she's an admistrator, too. And Eudora had its own headache under XP--she and I could not share mailboxes as we had done under Win98, even if the mailboxes were in a shared directory.
Good thing I have my own Linux box. When the kids and their games leave, I'm getting the Mrs. a Mac and shinning on we're-all-administrators-here Windows for good.
Nine years doesn't sound like much: Add up all time expended by users, administrators, ISPs, etc. over this SPAM. I bet it comes to far more.
A friend tells me that if you roast a cat at 375F for 5 minutes per pound, you can cook out all the allergins. Be sure to baste well, however, so it won't dry out.
The French have long sold their imagery. Not as good as free but you can still get your pictures.
Best Buy's service plans are a joke. We bought and installed an over-the-range GE microwave from Best Buy. The receipt and service plan specifically stated "in-home service". However, on both occassions where the microwave required servicing, they flatly refused to honor the "in-home" portion of the clause. On the first occassion, they told us to bring it to the store--not the store we got it from but a store 15 miles further away. They kept it for a week, never called us, and we returned to pick it up, found the box was tagged 5 days previous with "no service". It took 2 more days and many phone calls to find where we should take it for service plan work. When I demanded a refund, all they would refund was the service plan. They would not take return on the microwave, which I would never have purchased without a service plan.
My experiencs with Sears and Circuit City have been completely different and wholy satisfactory. Circuit City's replacement warrenty is Number One in my books: Even when my son's minidisc player was two years old and completely out of date, they gave us a full refund without question, which more than covered a new and greatly improved player.
Wait, wait. We're not subsidizing the paper industry by allowing the clear cutting of Federal forests: We're proactively preventing forest fires. Sorry. Lost my head there for a minute.
How about "translated to a different file format"?
Bob Bemer: Fatal system error. Cannot reboot.
How appropriate to see this posted on the same day as this Dilbert strip.
The thing that worries me about any government computer security activity is that many managers who will have the final say have no practical experience beyond MS Word and a bit of COBOL as a undergrad. I once worked in a SCIF where the regs spoke of "zeroing core memory". Magnetic media was not allowed out once inside yet we had an internet connection and dozens of Macs running System 7 file sharing.
Okay, so the guy had done a lot for the software industry but let's get real: Show of hands--how many of us would have decent jobs if all software were completely free as defined by Stallman? Uuuuhhh... yeah, I thought so. The man needs to come down from his ivory tower and look at how the real world works.
I've used Java for over seven years and have never paid Sun a time for it. Likewise we use Java in our product and neither us nor our customers have paid Sun a dime for it--though they have paid a lot for our product! And damn glad I am, too, that they buy our software. It pays our bills and gives me some time to contribute to at least one free project. Now what is so wrong with this picture?
This could be a great opportunity for private industry contractors.
No one is gonna do this work for free and who says NASA has the money. IMHO,the moon and Mars mission stuff is a shellgame with Hubble a victim. The administration says it wants to do something big but it will cost a lot of money. So, to "save" money, it will do some preliminary research. To fund this research, they cancel other programs. These other programs cost more than the research so they save money now (to pay for Iraq? tax cuts?). And since the research never comes to anything, they save money in the long run.
Remember, this is the administration that cancelled much of NASA's earth observing work and then turns around and says, "Gee, we can't find any signs of global warming."
Yeah, the joke just reached out and slapped me. But I figured some would see it as preaching rather than a gag that cuts both ways. Religion brings out zealots and as Washington Post humor writer Gene Weingarten notes, "Humor is largely cynicism and zealots are too earnest to be cynical."
Luke 10:25-37 (NRSV)
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