New and improved site. Wow, they think this is an improvement? The old site was not great, but it appeared to be a little better. This "new and improved site" is one of the most horrid sites I have ever seen. Was it done by a third grader? Viewing the source, I see it was made with Microsoft FrontPage 5.0. Probably one of the cops did it at home in his/her spare time. They should have spent a few bucks and hired someone with a little graphical abilites.
This story is weird. I think the guy had some hopes on getting rich quick off the tax payers. However, I do not think it was a severe as the sheriff's office is making it out to be. I don't know the costs of hosting a site. So what would 3.5 million hits per month for three years run for your average hosting site? $300,000? That sounds a little steep to me. Maybe it was a dedicated host, which would add to the cost.
These charges seem like overkill. If your not happy with the deal, then drop the charges in exchange for the hostname and old site content. I am sure the guy would rather go for that then possible jail time on bogus charges. What a litigious society we live in now adays.
Hey, I am a geek too : )
I just have a pretty wife and 2 1/2 year old daughter to watch out for. These types of devices can make things easier for sickos and perverts.
Thanks for the linke to Jalbum, it looks like just the app. Oh by the way, your hosting looks good. Are they Linux servers? I am looking for a hosting site to put up a site for a Church. Do you have any streaming server to stream MP3? I need to stream the sermons of the pastor that I record.
It is a big deal to some. While I may use their OS from time to time, I would never use any of their "personal" products. Why in the world would I trust my personal information to some closed source application made by a proprietary company? What is to stop MS from having my personal data sent to their servers for "annonymous" collection for stats? It may sound paranoid, however this is ones personal information, and should not be trusted to a company that has shown such low ethics as MS has over the years.
Do you use any tool/app to help with all the images? I have been putting up images of my 2 year old daugher for a while now. Though I do not update the site or put many images out since it is tedious and I get too lazy to do it every week : )
It probably was just configuration issues with wine. That is why you buy CrossOver Office for applications and WineX for games. These two apps run the popular MS Windows apps/games they support well and make it simple point-n-click to install/setup everything.
Disney paid to have it work very well under wine. I used it under CrossOver Office with no problems. It seems like it is working well for Walt Disney Co.'s feature animation unit. Though to be honest, I am a programmer and not a graphic artist and Gimp meets all my humble needs : )
I didn't see anyone post about outlook's threading, or lack thereof. I read a bunch of news groups and I cannot stand mails sent by outlook/outlook Express users. MS still has not gotten it right in outlook 2003. I sent a few test emails to the lists I subscribe to with outlook 2003 and the messages show up all over the place. Threading is a very usefull feature. I don't think outlook 2003 is that bad overall, though maybe overkill for a home user. However, its threading makes me want to throw it out a window.
I am giving up my mod points on this aritcle to reply.
Go and download/buy a file recovery program before it is to late. Tell your pop to not use the computer until you get the file recovery software installed. You should be able to get most/all of the files back since I doubt the virus did any kind of secure delete.
Your next step is to switch your pop to Linux if he doesn't require any MS specific application. If Linux is not an option then download AVG Anti-Virus. There is a free version for personal use that comes with an Outlook Express plugin to scan incoming/outgoing email. I also would put Kerio Personal Firewall on your pop's computer. Those two things should keep his computer much safer in the future.
It really does stink to lose that kind of personal data.
You forgot, he has a
oxigen bottle with him... It's dangerous... Wanna have 3th degree burns? Either he burns with you or he just lauches the oxigen propelled canister againts you... Now... Gimme the money or I'll just wack you with the oxigen!!
Oxigen? Is that in any way releated to oxiclean? It is oxygen, you know, the stuff we need to live?
That guy was just trolling. I use Audacity under Linux and WinXP and it is excellent. I am not an audio pro, but what I need to do, Audacity was better then the other apps I tried. I record speeches/sermons to an MP3 recorder and when converted to wav, they take up 700MB to 1GB. Audaicy opens those big files with no problems. And the best part is that editing is very very fast. The other apps I tried would either not be able to load the files or be extremely sloooow trying to do any editing.
It is sad for me to think that there are actually people in this world like Clemens Vasters who think that the only value is monetary value.
How many of you have helped out at a Homeless shelter or soup kitchen? Donated clothes/etc to the Salvation Army? Helped the Big Brothers or Big Sisters? Helped out Habitat for Humanity? Or thousands of other things one can do to help their fellow humans? I have, and the look on peoples faces when I help them with no selfish intentions is worth 1,000's to me. I just recently helped a co-worker setup a new computer. I saved her a lot of money by building a new computer and using some of her old parts. I gave her a spare 20GB HDD and a video card. I refused payment. Why? Because I wanted to help. Not because I wanted money. She still thanked me and gave me 4 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. That meant more to me then her handing me an impersonal check.
I have a 2 1/2 year old girl, should I start to charge her for my time, since "time is money"? Of course not, I would not trade my time with my little angel for any amount of money.
Now, I can think of thousands of ways to make money in a world where the majority of software is free. I think a balance can be met between free software and pay software. What I do not want to accept is proprietary software. I am a developer for a fortune 500 that does a few billion a year in sales and non of it comes from selling software. This company and hundreds of thousands of other companies in the world need software developed in-house. That requires hiring programmers to build custom applications. Most purchased software are too generic for companies and those companies want to tweak those apps, build extensions or develop complimenting applications. Most companies do not want to fit their business to sofware and instead want software to fit their business. So there will always be a strong need for sofware developers. The only issue that could hurt software developers is not Open Source, but out sourcing.
One other point, why do closed minded people like Clemens Vasters still think that you cannot sell Open Source software? MySQL, JBoss, Red Hat, SuSE, Ximian and others are doing it. What is required for a company to make money with Open Source is a for that company to trully add value. In a world where most of the software is Open Source, companies will once again have to innovate and create value. And that scares a lot of people.
OSS and proprietary both have crap and both have great apps. I have used plenty of little OSS apps that just suck, as well as many closed proprietary apps that just suck. It is silly to think that (OOS == good) and (proprietary == crap), when both models can produce very good applications. However, OSS does give you one thing that you will never get with a proprietary app. Freedom. Freedom to use, modify and distribute the application.
Patented stuff is "open" in the sense that there is full-disclosure of the patented method. I can go and re-create the patented VC-9 stuff with no worries. I can use it for personal use withou paying a dime. What I cannot do is sell my implementation or even give it away for free without the patent holders permission. I don't see this being a bid hinderance. Someone in some other country will make some OSS software to play VC-9 encoded video and put it up somewhere for all to enjoy without paying the evil monopoly a dime. Though MS will still get their fare share since any consumer device sold in the USA will pay their fees.
What world do you live in? You make it sound as if OSS is always one step behind? There are tons and tons of OSS software that are leaps and bounds ahead of proprietary software. What is the #1 webserver? Apache. It blows away any webserver put out by MS. Have you ever heard of python? How about Mozilla/firefox? Oh, and how do you think you were even able to find/.? That is right, a little OSS app called bind that powers the top level domain servers. Without bind, we would not have a very friendly internet right now. Have you ever heard of MySQL? PostgreSQL? The majority of the webs email is still sent using Sendmail. Let us not forget about JBoss. I could go on and on about top-notch OSS software. Even MS uses OSS GPLed software in their Windows Services for Unix stuff. Intall SFU and see the great big GPL notice while you install. It is actually kind of ironic/funny to install some MS software and see a great big GPL notice, especially after hearing how MS said the GPL is a "cancer". Sorry champ, OSS is not lagging behind any proprietry software. You can even go on sourceforge.net now and get tons of OSS for MS Windows. I am sure that does not make MS or the other proprietary companies happy.
It is not like basement rats write OSS. It is professional develpoers like myself that make OSS. We work for companies during the day, and write software at night that we enjoy. The difference is that during the day we work for money and at night we are driven by a passion for development.
The gimp now supports both ways of doing it. You can have multiple windows or you can dock them to one window, or even do both. Take a look at this screen shot. I have all the dialog windows docked and can get to them by clicking the tab.
Gimp now has the ability to dock all those windows to one. I am running gimp 1.3.23 and I have only one window (note, you need to press enter in the URL bar since my host does not allow outside linking of images). You can select any dialog and just add it to the tab area and click the tab and there you go.
I fail to see how MS packaging extras with their OS and charging for the combination rather than selling them separately and not totally integrating them and allowing you to buy another player is abuse of monopoly status.
Because what MS ships with their OS today, later becomes an "integral part of the OS". The next version of MS Windows is going to have MS Media player "integrated". You will no longer be able to uninstall it just like you cannot uninstall IE now. You need to think of the average Joe. He plugs in his peecee and uses what is there. MS knows that and that is why they "integrate" things and it gives them an instant monopoly. Do you really want all media to be some closed MS format only? Do you really want them controlling what you can do with media? If MS is allowed to control the media market, then you will need to by MS Windows. Look at how MS use to offer IE for Mac. Once IE became the major browser, MS practically stopped developing IE on the Mac. You can get IE 5 for the Mac. IE 5 is old and sucky. You can Windows Media Player 9 for Mac now, however, if MS took over the media market, that too would dwindle away.
There are plenty of other problems with Microsoft's media formats such as; ASF is patented so you cannot use them without a license, MS does not let you convert ASF to other formats. Here is a good article on ASF
This is a good thing, as examiners can now search this database of prior art, which is substantially larger than the current USPTO patent database.
To me this sound as if an examiner only checks the patent application DB for prior art? That is pretty silly. What if there is prior art that no one applied for patent? This feature in particular. It is not a huge feature and probably never had a patent filed for it. So in this case, an examiner would find no prior art when in fact this has been a feature for many, many years.
Think about it. MS can grab all these bogus patents knowing there is plenty of prior art. (In this case, this has been a feature of Unix desktops before Linux or MS Windows). Now we all know that MS will get these patents. So, small time Linux distributions will not have the money to fight this in court. Would Red Hat or even SuSE/Novell want to fight something like this? Patent away the features of Linux or make it very hard for Linux to add new features. I guess MS feels they cannot just beat Linux on technical merits, so why not beat them on Legal merits?
Did Mac OS have a feature like this? If so, for how long? Apple is the only company I see spending the money to fight MS on these silly patents.
It doesn't take much to get a patent now adays`. The Patent office doesn't verify crap. I guess they figure to let the companies fight it out in court.
Maybe a bunch of/. users should just start picking random features and applying for a patent? Could be an easy way to make some cash?
American business and the American government is going down the drain fast.
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New and improved site. Wow, they think this is an improvement? The old site was not great, but it appeared to be a little better. This "new and improved site" is one of the most horrid sites I have ever seen. Was it done by a third grader? Viewing the source, I see it was made with Microsoft FrontPage 5.0. Probably one of the cops did it at home in his/her spare time. They should have spent a few bucks and hired someone with a little graphical abilites.
This story is weird. I think the guy had some hopes on getting rich quick off the tax payers. However, I do not think it was a severe as the sheriff's office is making it out to be. I don't know the costs of hosting a site. So what would 3.5 million hits per month for three years run for your average hosting site? $300,000? That sounds a little steep to me. Maybe it was a dedicated host, which would add to the cost.
These charges seem like overkill. If your not happy with the deal, then drop the charges in exchange for the hostname and old site content. I am sure the guy would rather go for that then possible jail time on bogus charges. What a litigious society we live in now adays.
Hey, I am a geek too : )
I just have a pretty wife and 2 1/2 year old daughter to watch out for. These types of devices can make things easier for sickos and perverts.
Thanks for the linke to Jalbum, it looks like just the app. Oh by the way, your hosting looks good. Are they Linux servers? I am looking for a hosting site to put up a site for a Church. Do you have any streaming server to stream MP3? I need to stream the sermons of the pastor that I record.
Do you use any tool/app to help with all the images? I have been putting up images of my 2 year old daugher for a while now. Though I do not update the site or put many images out since it is tedious and I get too lazy to do it every week : )
It probably was just configuration issues with wine. That is why you buy CrossOver Office for applications and WineX for games. These two apps run the popular MS Windows apps/games they support well and make it simple point-n-click to install/setup everything.
Disney paid to have it work very well under wine. I used it under CrossOver Office with no problems. It seems like it is working well for Walt Disney Co.'s feature animation unit. Though to be honest, I am a programmer and not a graphic artist and Gimp meets all my humble needs : )
I didn't see anyone post about outlook's threading, or lack thereof. I read a bunch of news groups and I cannot stand mails sent by outlook/outlook Express users. MS still has not gotten it right in outlook 2003. I sent a few test emails to the lists I subscribe to with outlook 2003 and the messages show up all over the place. Threading is a very usefull feature. I don't think outlook 2003 is that bad overall, though maybe overkill for a home user. However, its threading makes me want to throw it out a window.
I am giving up my mod points on this aritcle to reply.
Go and download/buy a file recovery program before it is to late. Tell your pop to not use the computer until you get the file recovery software installed. You should be able to get most/all of the files back since I doubt the virus did any kind of secure delete.
Your next step is to switch your pop to Linux if he doesn't require any MS specific application. If Linux is not an option then download AVG Anti-Virus. There is a free version for personal use that comes with an Outlook Express plugin to scan incoming/outgoing email. I also would put Kerio Personal Firewall on your pop's computer. Those two things should keep his computer much safer in the future.
It really does stink to lose that kind of personal data.
I was referring to the spelling of oxygen as oxigen. And making a joke of the infomercial product "oxi clean".
SFU actaully has GPLed code in it. You will see the GPL license when you install it. As for SFU having any SCO "IP", that has not been proven at all.
That guy was just trolling. I use Audacity under Linux and WinXP and it is excellent. I am not an audio pro, but what I need to do, Audacity was better then the other apps I tried. I record speeches/sermons to an MP3 recorder and when converted to wav, they take up 700MB to 1GB. Audaicy opens those big files with no problems. And the best part is that editing is very very fast. The other apps I tried would either not be able to load the files or be extremely sloooow trying to do any editing.
Thanks for the great app!
How many of you have helped out at a Homeless shelter or soup kitchen? Donated clothes/etc to the Salvation Army? Helped the Big Brothers or Big Sisters? Helped out Habitat for Humanity? Or thousands of other things one can do to help their fellow humans? I have, and the look on peoples faces when I help them with no selfish intentions is worth 1,000's to me. I just recently helped a co-worker setup a new computer. I saved her a lot of money by building a new computer and using some of her old parts. I gave her a spare 20GB HDD and a video card. I refused payment. Why? Because I wanted to help. Not because I wanted money. She still thanked me and gave me 4 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. That meant more to me then her handing me an impersonal check.
I have a 2 1/2 year old girl, should I start to charge her for my time, since "time is money"? Of course not, I would not trade my time with my little angel for any amount of money.
Now, I can think of thousands of ways to make money in a world where the majority of software is free. I think a balance can be met between free software and pay software. What I do not want to accept is proprietary software. I am a developer for a fortune 500 that does a few billion a year in sales and non of it comes from selling software. This company and hundreds of thousands of other companies in the world need software developed in-house. That requires hiring programmers to build custom applications. Most purchased software are too generic for companies and those companies want to tweak those apps, build extensions or develop complimenting applications. Most companies do not want to fit their business to sofware and instead want software to fit their business. So there will always be a strong need for sofware developers. The only issue that could hurt software developers is not Open Source, but out sourcing.
One other point, why do closed minded people like Clemens Vasters still think that you cannot sell Open Source software? MySQL, JBoss, Red Hat, SuSE, Ximian and others are doing it. What is required for a company to make money with Open Source is a for that company to trully add value. In a world where most of the software is Open Source, companies will once again have to innovate and create value. And that scares a lot of people.
OSS and proprietary both have crap and both have great apps. I have used plenty of little OSS apps that just suck, as well as many closed proprietary apps that just suck. It is silly to think that (OOS == good) and (proprietary == crap), when both models can produce very good applications. However, OSS does give you one thing that you will never get with a proprietary app. Freedom. Freedom to use, modify and distribute the application.
Patented stuff is "open" in the sense that there is full-disclosure of the patented method. I can go and re-create the patented VC-9 stuff with no worries. I can use it for personal use withou paying a dime. What I cannot do is sell my implementation or even give it away for free without the patent holders permission. I don't see this being a bid hinderance. Someone in some other country will make some OSS software to play VC-9 encoded video and put it up somewhere for all to enjoy without paying the evil monopoly a dime. Though MS will still get their fare share since any consumer device sold in the USA will pay their fees.
What world do you live in? You make it sound as if OSS is always one step behind? There are tons and tons of OSS software that are leaps and bounds ahead of proprietary software. What is the #1 webserver? Apache. It blows away any webserver put out by MS. Have you ever heard of python? How about Mozilla/firefox? Oh, and how do you think you were even able to find /.? That is right, a little OSS app called bind that powers the top level domain servers. Without bind, we would not have a very friendly internet right now. Have you ever heard of MySQL? PostgreSQL? The majority of the webs email is still sent using Sendmail. Let us not forget about JBoss. I could go on and on about top-notch OSS software. Even MS uses OSS GPLed software in their Windows Services for Unix stuff. Intall SFU and see the great big GPL notice while you install. It is actually kind of ironic/funny to install some MS software and see a great big GPL notice, especially after hearing how MS said the GPL is a "cancer". Sorry champ, OSS is not lagging behind any proprietry software. You can even go on sourceforge.net now and get tons of OSS for MS Windows. I am sure that does not make MS or the other proprietary companies happy.
It is not like basement rats write OSS. It is professional develpoers like myself that make OSS. We work for companies during the day, and write software at night that we enjoy. The difference is that during the day we work for money and at night we are driven by a passion for development.
The gimp now supports both ways of doing it. You can have multiple windows or you can dock them to one window, or even do both. Take a look at this screen shot. I have all the dialog windows docked and can get to them by clicking the tab.
j pg
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jdrabb/files/gimp-1.3.
Note: you need to copy and paste the link since my host does not allow external linking.
Gimp now has the ability to dock all those windows to one. I am running gimp 1.3.23 and I have only one window (note, you need to press enter in the URL bar since my host does not allow outside linking of images). You can select any dialog and just add it to the tab area and click the tab and there you go.
There are plenty of other problems with Microsoft's media formats such as; ASF is patented so you cannot use them without a license, MS does not let you convert ASF to other formats. Here is a good article on ASF
I have never seen Mac get 5%. If you look at w3schools it shows Mac with 2.5% and Linux with 2.6%. Didn't you read the /. article on Desktop Linux Share Overtaking Macintosh or the Yahoo! News article?
Think about it. MS can grab all these bogus patents knowing there is plenty of prior art. (In this case, this has been a feature of Unix desktops before Linux or MS Windows). Now we all know that MS will get these patents. So, small time Linux distributions will not have the money to fight this in court. Would Red Hat or even SuSE/Novell want to fight something like this? Patent away the features of Linux or make it very hard for Linux to add new features. I guess MS feels they cannot just beat Linux on technical merits, so why not beat them on Legal merits?
/. users should just start picking random features and applying for a patent? Could be an easy way to make some cash?
Did Mac OS have a feature like this? If so, for how long? Apple is the only company I see spending the money to fight MS on these silly patents.
It doesn't take much to get a patent now adays`. The Patent office doesn't verify crap. I guess they figure to let the companies fight it out in court.
Maybe a bunch of
American business and the American government is going down the drain fast.
Ok, I have added GE/GM to my list of nasty companies : )