... are dagrab to rip (mainly coz cdda2wav was playing up), oggenc to encode, and the very friendlyGrip for the frontend. I highly recommend Grip, whatever else you use for the actual back end stuff.
Basically, I was feeling too slack to find out why cdda2wav was giving me grief, so I had a quick squiz thru'/usr/ports/audio, installed dagrab, and was up and ripping within 5 minutes. God, I love ports.
> I'm posting this on a FreeBSD box using no other than Opera for linux.
Ditto, and doesn't it just rock? (=
There are several things I like about FreeBSD that gets it my vote over Linux, the ports collection and Linux binary compatability being two of the biggies. However, my main, most influencing factor in choosing it over Linux is very simple: I know more FreeBSD gurus than Linux gurus.
Really, this should be high on anyone's list of considerations when starting to use a UNIX-alike OS - who do you know, and what do they use? Having expert help you can call up and ask dumb questions of, who you can repay in beer, is worth a lot more than SMP considerations when you're first getting going.
Neat, but as far as I can tell, this is WORM storage, not write many, so it's more like a replacement for CD-R than normal HDs. Of course, I could have misunderstood the article.
Still, it's an interesting concept - melting little dents into the media for bits. I imagine that they're going to have to do some hard research into how to get rid of excess heat along with it.
Could be that one day, when you say your hard drive melted, it really melted.
One of my favourite artists and IMO, one of the most innovative musicians around, Kevin Moore (of Dream Theater) has recently released the entire first Chroma Key album, Dead Air For Radios as MP3s on MP3.com.
Chroma Key is absolutely fantastic music to code (or anything else) by, and Mr Moore's independant label is called (grin) Fight Evil.
I'm sure there's someone who will find this news useful.
Probably stating the obvious here, but as an earlier poster pointed out, things don't stay around for long in the world of software. If people just let this dedication stay as it is, a dedication, Espy's name may be just part of history fairly quickly.
What I think would be a great way to remember him, and keep his name alive, is to do all you can to make his name part of the common parlance. Refer to Debian 2.2 as "Espy release". Talk about installing "Espy Debian", and so on.
It would be a wonderful tibute if, in a couple of years, the Jargon File included an entry for "Espy". That would truly be a lasting memorial.
"There are some men who should have mountains to bear their names to time" - Leonard Cohen.
In 'Last Chance To See', the overall sense was that humanity was doing itself out of a nice planet, despite much hard work by individuals (yourself included, IMO). Several years on, how do you rate our chances of keeping Earth going now? That is, can we halt the environmental slide we've started? ÐÆ
As has been previously pointed out, it's not the majority of us Aussies agreeing, it's the Government pushing a political agenda. The current Govt was only just in the majority at the time of this legislation, and as such needed to pander to an independant moral crusader called Harradine. This was entirely useless, but they pushed the bill through anyway.
Our PM, John Howard, said about those opposing the bill that "they do not understand the mood of middle Australia on this issue," or something like that. What he failed to realize was that middle Australia is, for the most part, totally uninformed and gets all their information through the standard media channels (the 'net is the source of all depravity type things). Unfortunately, most of our PMs are part of that demographic.
Essentially, the attitude of "the majority wants it, so it must be alright" is far too simplistic, and possibly dangerous. There's a fantastic article by Mark Newton, When Democracy Fails (check out the domain name!). This addresses all of these issues, and is fairly relevant to the discussion at hand. ÐÆ
Typing of pronunciation and the like, has anyone considered alternative names for the Dvorak keyboard, that might perhaps be less ambiguous as to pronunciation? QWERTY is fairly straightforward, everyone I know says "kwert-ee".
Looking at the Dvorak layout, similar reasoning might name it the Quote-y layout. Or possibly even the waka-waka. ÐÆ
From what I read in the article, the location given is that of the sculpture itself. And the CIA might have words with anyone wandering into their courtyard with a shovel...
Yes, it will bring a whole new meaning to Virus Protection.
Read Neal Stephenson's 'The Diamond Age', kids. All this sort of revolution will bring is a new paradigm for computing, hacking, cracking....
Sure, someone might try and infect you with some Stephenson-esque "cookie cutter" nanites, but that will only work if your virus protection nanites aren't up to date.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I can't see things being that much different from the situation today with computers.
Apart from being able to see for 20 kms in pitch darkness and leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Can anyone lend credence to my vague memory that McCoy's little plant-mist-spray-bottle thing was actually invented for the series, and quickly gained widespread use elsewhere? Seem to remember reading this somewhere...
So long, DeForest. I know more than a few members of the medical profession will mourn the passing of their inspiration.
In hindsight, there's far too much talk about 'love' and 'empathy' for Dr Calvin, too. But I stiil think there's a bit of a tribute to Asimov's vision in there. ÐÆ
As I don't have my SF collection currently handy, I can't be sure, but isn't this the famous Robotics specialist from Asimov's Robot stories?
Certainly, the " I decided long ago to program the robotic progeny of our human race never to walk in anyone's shadow." comment is very similar to her attitude. ÐÆ
Good for you! Why not just use Lynx and have done with it?
The point of Flash is not functionality, it's the interactive experience (and whatever other buzzwords you wish to add). Look at the Star Trek: Insurrection web site for a perfect example of Flash being used to enhance the basic site. If you just wanted to grab a picture and leave, great. Go to the straight HTML version. But using the Flashed site, you get an interface that looks and sounds like a real TNG computer. It's also fairly quick loading, and I imagine that the vast majority of web users (read: the great unwashed) couldn't give a pair of dingoes kidneys for the fact that it doesn't actually impart any extra information.
Flash is made for fun, not practicality. And isn't that what you're on the net for, really? ÐÆ
After MM released their (buggy) specs for the Flash file format (ooh: alliteration), some people got together to get the OpenSWF project going. (Slightly) More info at http://www.openswf.org/
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... are dagrab to rip (mainly coz cdda2wav was playing up), oggenc to encode, and the very friendlyGrip for the frontend. I highly recommend Grip, whatever else you use for the actual back end stuff.
/usr/ports/audio, installed dagrab, and was up and ripping within 5 minutes.
Basically, I was feeling too slack to find out why cdda2wav was giving me grief, so I had a quick squiz thru'
God, I love ports.
> I'm posting this on a FreeBSD box using no other than Opera for linux.
Ditto, and doesn't it just rock? (=
There are several things I like about FreeBSD that gets it my vote over Linux, the ports collection and Linux binary compatability being two of the biggies. However, my main, most influencing factor in choosing it over Linux is very simple: I know more FreeBSD gurus than Linux gurus.
Really, this should be high on anyone's list of considerations when starting to use a UNIX-alike OS - who do you know, and what do they use? Having expert help you can call up and ask dumb questions of, who you can repay in beer, is worth a lot more than SMP considerations when you're first getting going.
Neat, but as far as I can tell, this is WORM storage, not write many, so it's more like a replacement for CD-R than normal HDs. Of course, I could have misunderstood the article.
Still, it's an interesting concept - melting little dents into the media for bits. I imagine that they're going to have to do some hard research into how to get rid of excess heat along with it.
Could be that one day, when you say your hard drive melted, it really melted.
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Well, if they'd thought about it, they would have put up three mirrors.
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What if you folded the napkin until it was big enough?
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One of my favourite artists and IMO, one of the most innovative musicians around, Kevin Moore (of Dream Theater) has recently released the entire first Chroma Key album, Dead Air For Radios as MP3s on MP3.com.
Chroma Key is absolutely fantastic music to code (or anything else) by, and Mr Moore's independant label is called (grin) Fight Evil.
I'm sure there's someone who will find this news useful.
ÐÆ
Probably stating the obvious here, but as an earlier poster pointed out, things don't stay around for long in the world of software. If people just let this dedication stay as it is, a dedication, Espy's name may be just part of history fairly quickly.
What I think would be a great way to remember him, and keep his name alive, is to do all you can to make his name part of the common parlance. Refer to Debian 2.2 as "Espy release". Talk about installing "Espy Debian", and so on.
It would be a wonderful tibute if, in a couple of years, the Jargon File included an entry for "Espy". That would truly be a lasting memorial.
"There are some men who should have mountains to bear their names to time" - Leonard Cohen.
ÐÆ
In 'Last Chance To See', the overall sense was that humanity was doing itself out of a nice planet, despite much hard work by individuals (yourself included, IMO).
Several years on, how do you rate our chances of keeping Earth going now? That is, can we halt the environmental slide we've started?
ÐÆ
...and, for a lighter take on the whole business, may we present this satire.
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As has been previously pointed out, it's not the majority of us Aussies agreeing, it's the Government pushing a political agenda. The current Govt was only just in the majority at the time of this legislation, and as such needed to pander to an independant moral crusader called Harradine. This was entirely useless, but they pushed the bill through anyway.
Our PM, John Howard, said about those opposing the bill that "they do not understand the mood of middle Australia on this issue," or something like that. What he failed to realize was that middle Australia is, for the most part, totally uninformed and gets all their information through the standard media channels (the 'net is the source of all depravity type things). Unfortunately, most of our PMs are part of that demographic.
Essentially, the attitude of "the majority wants it, so it must be alright" is far too simplistic, and possibly dangerous. There's a fantastic article by Mark Newton, When Democracy Fails (check out the domain name!). This addresses all of these issues, and is fairly relevant to the discussion at hand.
ÐÆ
Typing of pronunciation and the like, has anyone considered alternative names for the Dvorak keyboard, that might perhaps be less ambiguous as to pronunciation? QWERTY is fairly straightforward, everyone I know says "kwert-ee".
Looking at the Dvorak layout, similar reasoning might name it the Quote-y layout. Or possibly even the waka-waka.
ÐÆ
From what I read in the article, the location given is that of the sculpture itself. And the CIA might have words with anyone wandering into their courtyard with a shovel...
ÐÆ
Yes, it will bring a whole new meaning to Virus Protection.
Read Neal Stephenson's 'The Diamond Age', kids. All this sort of revolution will bring is a new paradigm for computing, hacking, cracking....
Sure, someone might try and infect you with some Stephenson-esque "cookie cutter" nanites, but that will only work if your virus protection nanites aren't up to date.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I can't see things being that much different from the situation today with computers.
Apart from being able to see for 20 kms in pitch darkness and leap tall buildings in a single bound.
ÐÆ
Can anyone lend credence to my vague memory that McCoy's little plant-mist-spray-bottle thing was actually invented for the series, and quickly gained widespread use elsewhere? Seem to remember reading this somewhere...
So long, DeForest. I know more than a few members of the medical profession will mourn the passing of their inspiration.
ÐÆ
Point taken. :P
In hindsight, there's far too much talk about 'love' and 'empathy' for Dr Calvin, too. But I stiil think there's a bit of a tribute to Asimov's vision in there.
ÐÆ
As I don't have my SF collection currently handy, I can't be sure, but isn't this the famous Robotics specialist from Asimov's Robot stories?
Certainly, the " I decided long ago to program the robotic progeny of our human race never to walk in anyone's
shadow." comment is very similar to her attitude.
ÐÆ
Yah, I'm already sick enough of the "This Film has yet to be classified" screen at the films.
I can see it now. All us Aussie web users will be seeing are yellow screens saying "This Web Site has yet to be classified".
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Good for you! Why not just use Lynx and have done with it?
The point of Flash is not functionality, it's the interactive experience (and whatever other buzzwords you wish to add). Look at the Star Trek: Insurrection web site for a perfect example of Flash being used to enhance the basic site. If you just wanted to grab a picture and leave, great. Go to the straight HTML version. But using the Flashed site, you get an interface that looks and sounds like a real TNG computer. It's also fairly quick loading, and I imagine that the vast majority of web users (read: the great unwashed) couldn't give a pair of dingoes kidneys for the fact that it doesn't actually impart any extra information.
Flash is made for fun, not practicality. And isn't that what you're on the net for, really?
ÐÆ
After MM released their (buggy) specs for the Flash file format (ooh: alliteration), some people got together to get the OpenSWF project going. (Slightly) More info at http://www.openswf.org/
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