Again, neither the blame nor the credit goes to Microsoft or Apple. Place the responsibility on the device manufacturers. They are the ones who write drivers for the platforms, and if Linux isn't supported, it's their fault.
After all, look at a bone stock Windows install and see how many drivers don't get auto-detected/installed.
Microsoft doesn't write printer drivers, camera drivers, etc. They simply provide an interface. It's up to the manufacturer to decide if they want to make use of it or not.
Anything you can do to make your program read-only, an administrator can undo.
Ok, as root on a *nix box do the following:
#chmod 000/bin/chmod
#chmod 755/bin/chmod
Your only hope of getting things back to normal is to reboot from a rescue disk, mount the/bin partition as read-write and change permissions on/bin/chmod. This is something that a virus could not do, nor could an admin simply logged into the box do.
Operating systems are NOT, I repeat, NOT in the same boat as operating systems. OS/2 was a "better" windows, but windows already had taken hold of the market. Mono is just allowing current linux developers to take advantage of a very powerful and capable language specification which, BTW, will also allow many people to stop needing to use windows.
First, I would say that Operating systems are in the same boat as operating systems. Maybe this was supposed to say "Operating systems aren't in the same boat as programming languages"?
People aren't trying to build a better.NET; we're trying to build a.NET. Is there a.NET for linux?
Are you implying we shouldn't use.NET on linux merely because.NET exists in windows? I think that's not a very good argument...
I think the implication is that, if you trust Microsoft to set the standards, you'll spend all your time and effort playing catch-up to them when they change to a new standard.
For an example of this, look at the Samba project. Yes it's been successful, but look at how difficult some of the advanced functionality was to get correct (Active Directory for starters)
Mono will always be a second-class citizen in the.Net world, precisely because it isn't supported or backed by any truly large player that can hold some influence with Microsoft.
You know it is possible to simply rip the DVD to your hard drive? dvdbackup for Linux works, as do several Freeware/Shareware programs for Windows. Then, you don't have any re-encoding of the audio/video and no loss of quality.
Now, with windows media being the only stream being offered, I will not be able to listen to the broadcasts as windows media player doesn't support either my linux machines (or solaris the other OS I use). So MLB take note, I probably won't renew this year if media player is all you offer.
Quick FYI: Mplayer's supported formats seem to include Windows Media formats. I've sucessfully opened ASF files and WMV files using Mplayer on Gentoo. I'm not sure about Solaris (I don't run it) but Mplayer's page on Solaris seems to indicate that it should work.
Now that that joke is over, do people really think that having all this information in one setup is going to improve anything? After all, look what happens when massive numbers of users try to access one particular resource at the same time (Slashdotting, Farking, September 11).
It seems like this MATRIX is going to require a huge amount of potential bandwidth, computing resources, etc. which will cost us (the taxpayers) more money.
Yes, but you presumably weren't spouting off about it (until now, that is. Beware..)
Thanks for the warning. However, I think that someone at OSDN would be able to analyze web logs and see which IP addresses were GETing the pages without hitting the ad server.
Besides, the worst thing that could happen is I get stuck posting AC or I'm cured of my/. habit.
I'm doing something similar and have yet to be bitchslapped or "$rtbl"ed. In fact, I've been getting mod points more often than usual. (not that I'm implying a cause -> effect relationship here)
All in all, I think that those that run Slashdot turn a somewhat blind eye to the whole ad-blocking proxy thing. Besides, what's worse? Me reading/. 2-3 times a day, tops, or someone hitting their RSS feed once every 10-15 minutes?
I just did exactly that, grab some mp3 files (and a couple.ogg files) and create a new audio CD project. My installed versions of necessary software include:
k3b: 0.11.5
cdrdao: 1.1.8
cdrecord: 2.1a25-dvd
dvd+rw-format: 4.7
growisofs: 5.13
mkisofs: 2.1a24
normalize: 0.7.6
readcd: 2.1a24
sox: 12.17.3
transcode: 0.6.11
I am aware that parts of that (such as dvd+rw tools) wouldn't be necessary. Just pointing out that it can work out of the box. Then again, I'm using Gentoo so "emerge k3b" was all I had to do. Maybe your distro doesn't include sox or normalize as a dependency for k3b, thus it can't use sox to convert the mp3/ogg files to wav.
Hey, it might be frightening if you were a little person.
Thus, it works in Japan (home of small people who are constantly bending over.)
Legal disclaimer: the above post is not meant to insult, degrade, harm, etc. any people from Japan, China, Taiwan, or any surrounding areas. Copyright 2004, all rights reserved, smoking or non-smoking, window or aisle, chicken of fish, $699 per license, etc.
Considering that drugs in the drinks at bars, clubs etc actually happens, it is not very unlikely to happen, neh?
So, you're saying that a drug dealer (who wants to make as much money as possible) is willing to drop his product into random people's drinks with the intent that once they're hooked, they'll find him? What is this, the AOL approach to drug dealing?
In the world of crystal meth, the drug dealers do in fact create a market by giving away meth in new areas. Then a number of the recipients of the free samples will be hooked. The drug dealers have created market for their product that did not exist previously.
Yes, but this presumes that the people that get the samples are interested in the first place. If I walk up to you and say "Hey, fishbonez, want some meth?" If you say "No." then there's no market. I go on to ask someone else.
Show me where people have been given samples against their will, and are now drug addicts and I'll accept that argument.
So, let me get this straight; these users can't or won't pay to purchase music/videos/software/etc., but they will pay some company a monthly fee to protect them as they illegally download said music/videos/software/etc.
I actually hope that this company is a front for the RIAA, nailing those who are too stupid/greedy to figure it out.
Now maybe all you higher-than-thou elitist Mac users will realize that you aren't any better than anyone else. Your platform can be just as vulnerable to security exploits, virus, etc.
For the currency impaired, that's the revenue for this year. Last year was 2.0 million USD
On a similar note, 108% revenue growth isn't that impressive when you're talking about this small of an amount. Now if IBM showed 108% revenue growth, then there'd be something to talk about.
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Again, neither the blame nor the credit goes to Microsoft or Apple. Place the responsibility on the device manufacturers. They are the ones who write drivers for the platforms, and if Linux isn't supported, it's their fault.
After all, look at a bone stock Windows install and see how many drivers don't get auto-detected/installed.
Microsoft doesn't write printer drivers, camera drivers, etc. They simply provide an interface. It's up to the manufacturer to decide if they want to make use of it or not.
Because he changed the keymap on his computer, not someone else's, asshole.
The Karma. The Karma. The Karma's on fire. I don't need no water let the /. Karma burn.
Ok, as root on a *nix box do the following:
Your only hope of getting things back to normal is to reboot from a rescue disk, mount the /bin partition as read-write and change permissions on /bin/chmod. This is something that a virus could not do, nor could an admin simply logged into the box do.
First, I would say that Operating systems are in the same boat as operating systems. Maybe this was supposed to say "Operating systems aren't in the same boat as programming languages"?
I think the implication is that, if you trust Microsoft to set the standards, you'll spend all your time and effort playing catch-up to them when they change to a new standard.
For an example of this, look at the Samba project. Yes it's been successful, but look at how difficult some of the advanced functionality was to get correct (Active Directory for starters)
Mono will always be a second-class citizen in the .Net world, precisely because it isn't supported or backed by any truly large player that can hold some influence with Microsoft.
You know it is possible to simply rip the DVD to your hard drive? dvdbackup for Linux works, as do several Freeware/Shareware programs for Windows. Then, you don't have any re-encoding of the audio/video and no loss of quality.
Sorry to be so late, but I just caught this in M2. Okidata continues to make impact printers. Check the bottom of the page for 24 pin printers.
Quick FYI: Mplayer's supported formats seem to include Windows Media formats. I've sucessfully opened ASF files and WMV files using Mplayer on Gentoo. I'm not sure about Solaris (I don't run it) but Mplayer's page on Solaris seems to indicate that it should work.
"Whoa!"
Now that that joke is over, do people really think that having all this information in one setup is going to improve anything? After all, look what happens when massive numbers of users try to access one particular resource at the same time (Slashdotting, Farking, September 11).
It seems like this MATRIX is going to require a huge amount of potential bandwidth, computing resources, etc. which will cost us (the taxpayers) more money.
Of course, keeping in mind that funny mods no longer add to karma, I think moderators are more willing to throw around funny mods.
Thanks for the warning. However, I think that someone at OSDN would be able to analyze web logs and see which IP addresses were GETing the pages without hitting the ad server.
Besides, the worst thing that could happen is I get stuck posting AC or I'm cured of my /. habit.
I'm doing something similar and have yet to be bitchslapped or "$rtbl"ed. In fact, I've been getting mod points more often than usual. (not that I'm implying a cause -> effect relationship here)
All in all, I think that those that run Slashdot turn a somewhat blind eye to the whole ad-blocking proxy thing. Besides, what's worse? Me reading /. 2-3 times a day, tops, or someone hitting their RSS feed once every 10-15 minutes?
I just did exactly that, grab some mp3 files (and a couple .ogg files) and create a new audio CD project. My installed versions of necessary software include:
I am aware that parts of that (such as dvd+rw tools) wouldn't be necessary. Just pointing out that it can work out of the box. Then again, I'm using Gentoo so "emerge k3b" was all I had to do. Maybe your distro doesn't include sox or normalize as a dependency for k3b, thus it can't use sox to convert the mp3/ogg files to wav.
Thus, it works in Japan (home of small people who are constantly bending over.)
Legal disclaimer: the above post is not meant to insult, degrade, harm, etc. any people from Japan, China, Taiwan, or any surrounding areas. Copyright 2004, all rights reserved, smoking or non-smoking, window or aisle, chicken of fish, $699 per license, etc.
by Ben Hutchings (4651) on Tue Mar 02, '04 07:15 AM (#8439394)
How do you have a 4 digit /. ID and not recognize a quote from Office Space?
So, you're saying that a drug dealer (who wants to make as much money as possible) is willing to drop his product into random people's drinks with the intent that once they're hooked, they'll find him? What is this, the AOL approach to drug dealing?
Yes, but this presumes that the people that get the samples are interested in the first place. If I walk up to you and say "Hey, fishbonez, want some meth?" If you say "No." then there's no market. I go on to ask someone else.
Show me where people have been given samples against their will, and are now drug addicts and I'll accept that argument.
My understanding is that Ruby is much like that. Everything is an object. The typing is left to methods inherent in each object.
You might want to give that a try. IANARP,YMMV,HAND
So, let me get this straight; these users can't or won't pay to purchase music/videos/software/etc., but they will pay some company a monthly fee to protect them as they illegally download said music/videos/software/etc.
I actually hope that this company is a front for the RIAA, nailing those who are too stupid/greedy to figure it out.
Now maybe all you higher-than-thou elitist Mac users will realize that you aren't any better than anyone else. Your platform can be just as vulnerable to security exploits, virus, etc.
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<voice char="Butthead">Uh, Beavis. Calm down. Huh, huh.</voice>
For some reason, women love the Sims games. More than likely, they're up at all hours running their little Sims' lives.
I guess that keeps them from running our lives, though. </flamebait>
Yes, robots.txt for those who feel polite, .htaccess (or the IIS equiv) for those who still like to snoop.
.htaccess anyone?
That, along with an appropriate robots.txt file should be all you would need to prevent a crawl, right?
For the currency impaired, that's the revenue for this year. Last year was 2.0 million USD
On a similar note, 108% revenue growth isn't that impressive when you're talking about this small of an amount. Now if IBM showed 108% revenue growth, then there'd be something to talk about.
Sorry, but color me unimpressed.
The parent is either the most insightful thing ever posted, or the biggest bunch of doubletalk crap I've ever read.
Would someone please translate this and tell me what the hell is being said?