The issue with logs and all that is why I propose someone makes an opensource AIM daemon. Not one to replace AIM's server, but one to serve as a middleman...
You can set what server your AIM client connects to, so why not have a daemon running on yer home server that keeps you connected when yer not really on, then just login to home when you want to chat... it can log all of your messages in a central location and send you missed messages when you log in.
add a sql server to that to do log queries through a "SysOp" screenname, and it makes it even better...
I've got a lot of this thing planned out in my head, but don't have enough experience programming threads and sockets in anything other than java (blah) to implement it.
I once knew a guy who had this great idea to use aluminum oxide on DVDs and CDs to prevent scratching. He said the disks could be bulletproof, scratchproof, and unbreakable, although I think he was exagerating...
If that was the case, that would be an AWESOME application for this. Although the MP/RIAA would see that as a reason for preventing backup copies of your media. I mean, if the disk can't be damaged, why would you need a backup? Although you could still lose it or have it stolen...
he works at a club booking bands and is friends with a lot of smaller record labels. He gets comped at least 5 CDs a week. plus he's got shitloads of CDs and a subscription to eMusic.
I don't think he ever bought anything off iTMS or any other per-track service.
I live in an apartment with 6 other people (hooray for huge manhattan apartments!). 3 of them use iTunes and one has a HUGE collection of music. He's got close to 80GB total, and about 14000 songs in his itunes library alone. I have a feeling this will be faster than connecting through samba to his machine and copying... plus, I can browse easier...
I just tried out the program at work, here and transfered some songs from our PC music server. works nice. Although, it doesn't resolve a local iTunes server properly. Oh well, it's not like you wanna download from yourself, per se....
I've run my battery down and fully charged it a hundred times since this started happening... the battery's charge-o-meter must be dead. Even the little green LEDs on the bottom always read either full (when it has any charge) or empty (when the machine goes to sleep).
Too bad this recall doesn't include my powerbook's battery... one of the early jaguar updates broke my battery somehow... I've read of other users experiencing the same thing. After the update, the battery's status isn't acurate by any stretch of the imagination. The thing stays at 99% and when it gets close to dying, it just turns off. No warning. Nothing.
It's not a software issue. I've reformatted several times. And it's not a hardware issue, because when I put my battery into my mom's powerbook, the same thing happens on hers. And when I put her battery in mine, it works as expected. blah. sucks.
my co-worker has used them on several occasions... he didn't really have too much luck with the personals but he managed to find people to jam with (he's a drummer).
my roommate has used it to buy a drumset, some keyboards, a Fender Rhodes, and some other misc instruments, then subsequently sell them back when he needed cash for more than he bought them for.
I, personally have only posted a single personal ad... got 2 responses. one from a guy asking if I got any responses (what a fag), and one from a girl complaining about the ad (what's wrong with "I'm a geeky bastard. I like art, computers and loud music. tattoos are cool."?
anyway, I haven't heard back from her...
btw, craigslist only works if you live in a metropolitan area (ie NYC, SF, etc). If you live in Humplick, KY, yer shit out of luck.
yeah, I recently sat on the train next to a guy coming back from VA. He was so into getting a tablet. I was like "wtf do you want one of them for"
he explained to me how he's in law school and is given much of his research paperwork and books in PDF form. He wants to be able to mark them up and take notes on them in class, and since he sometimes gets the PDF on a CD when he walks in door, he doesn't have time to print out the 100 pages or so.
Also, he was bitching about crappy PDF reading software that's a pain to take notes on. Sure the comment feature in acrobat is nice, but it's not really suited for taking notes in real-time.
so, seriously... isn't it a great time to be a patent lawyer? especially one specializing in software patents... It would be interesting if about 6 years ago, a bunch of lawschool geeks decided that they should get into that, with the popularity of mp3 and such. Then went around to various companies explaining their position.
like the.com explosion... now it's the patent law explosion. Then the entire software industry will crash just as the.com bubble burst and internet advertizing crash.
We have a daystar digital GenesisMP box sitting right here under the desk.... next to our Umax clone with a g4 upgrade... neither is in use...
hooray for a 4-way 132mhz mac! OS9 is on it without the MP libs, so it doesn't do much good. and the video card is a piece of crap... I only wish it was new-world... it'd be so much easier to put linux on it... I hate that linux control panel for booting.. such a pain in the ass.
This lawyer cat (and any bastard who blames video games, movies, books, tv, or any other media for problems with youth and other people) is a complete idiot.
Similar to the assholes that think that just because these rave kids dress in colourful outfits, wear candy bracelets and suck on pacifiers, they are doing so to attract children to the Ketamine and Ecstacy laden nights of drugged out psycodelic dance parties. completely not true. It's part of the spirit of the event. Depictions of donald duck, pokemon, and cell phone brands on the pills? It's for the fun of it.
The same goes for video games. Anyone can get obsessed over any thought. Some people get obsessed with washing their hands until they bleed. Some people have disorders where they scream all night, or try to remove imaginary insects from their body with razor blades (GET THEM OFF MEEEEEE!). Does that mean we should ban soap? Should we ban sharp things? Should we live in a world without entertainment?
What's good to one person can be a complete detriment to another. Look at firefighters. Some people are completely phobic of fire, others don't mind it. Most people lie somewhere in between.
No one's going to little Johnny's kindergarten class with posters of GTA or Manhunt or Doom3 and saying "tell your parents you want this!" Hell, I don't think video games are marketed ENOUGH. They're still pretty underground, it seems.... for the most part...
You know something... I think I'm gonna start obsessing over Darwin's theory of natural selection. Maybe I should go around putting bullets in the heads of every stupid person who blames media for problems in the world. I should go on a killing spree and take out every person who is horrified by my actions. You know, that's what I'll do....
My defense... well, that's easy. Jack Thompson inspired me. I'm doing it for him. He's my idol. My god. He'll get me off. He tells me what to do in my dreams...
will hold technology companies liable for supplying devices or software that can be used to illegally copy music, videos, software, etc.
doesn't that also include harddrives, digital cameras (think smartmedia card, memorystick, etc), computers, cell phones, notebooks (can write down song lyrics), pens, pencils, markers, knives (can carve copies of pictures), film, eyeballs, ears, brains, humans, etc, etc, etc??!?!?!?!
I don't see any way of enforcing this or even wording it so that it would be posible and not infringe on our everyday rights. Not only do I not see any way of doing this, I don't want people to even try.
i propose a mass suicide if the world gets that restrictive. A world that restrictive is not worth living in. A world that restrictive is worse than slavery. We're nearing that, now, with all this RIAA/MPAA bullshit.
I understand the need to protect what's yours, but I believe it's starting to be taken too far.
and, being that developers are geeks and geeks IRC, i'm sure someone has created an irc client for it. If not, you could always code up one yourself...
btw, I have no idea why there wouldn't be an irc client... I mean, shit.
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The issue with logs and all that is why I propose someone makes an opensource AIM daemon. Not one to replace AIM's server, but one to serve as a middleman...
You can set what server your AIM client connects to, so why not have a daemon running on yer home server that keeps you connected when yer not really on, then just login to home when you want to chat... it can log all of your messages in a central location and send you missed messages when you log in.
add a sql server to that to do log queries through a "SysOp" screenname, and it makes it even better...
I've got a lot of this thing planned out in my head, but don't have enough experience programming threads and sockets in anything other than java (blah) to implement it.
but DVDs are made by sandwiching the etching surface between two pieces of plastic which is one thing that makes them so durable...
as long as the plastic surfaces are coated with the aluminum oxide, there would be virtually no chance of damaging that surface of the disk. right?
I once knew a guy who had this great idea to use aluminum oxide on DVDs and CDs to prevent scratching. He said the disks could be bulletproof, scratchproof, and unbreakable, although I think he was exagerating...
If that was the case, that would be an AWESOME application for this. Although the MP/RIAA would see that as a reason for preventing backup copies of your media. I mean, if the disk can't be damaged, why would you need a backup? Although you could still lose it or have it stolen...
hmmmm.... I'll have to take it in.
I still have applecare... yay for the extended plan!
my comment was a joke.
when I first ran it, I wanted to test it out, but couldn't. I had to fire-up iTunes on the PC at work to test it out. nice and fast.
although an amazing thing that I just realized... we have a VPN where we can see people's itunes shares in our NJ offices (we're in NY).
now THAT is cool. I housed a bunch of someone's R&B collection.
I don't think he ever bought anything off iTMS or any other per-track service.
anyway, between the two of us, we've got over 140GB of unique mp3s... can you fit all that?
I just tried out the program at work, here and transfered some songs from our PC music server. works nice. Although, it doesn't resolve a local iTunes server properly. Oh well, it's not like you wanna download from yourself, per se....
that doesn't help me, unfortunately...
I've run my battery down and fully charged it a hundred times since this started happening... the battery's charge-o-meter must be dead. Even the little green LEDs on the bottom always read either full (when it has any charge) or empty (when the machine goes to sleep).
hmmm, I'll have to dig up my book then to see the calibration.
yeah, that's what I was saying. it's the battery. not the powerbook or the software.
Too bad this recall doesn't include my powerbook's battery... one of the early jaguar updates broke my battery somehow... I've read of other users experiencing the same thing. After the update, the battery's status isn't acurate by any stretch of the imagination. The thing stays at 99% and when it gets close to dying, it just turns off. No warning. Nothing.
It's not a software issue. I've reformatted several times. And it's not a hardware issue, because when I put my battery into my mom's powerbook, the same thing happens on hers. And when I put her battery in mine, it works as expected. blah. sucks.
"WOAH, 5 grams?!?! depending on the speed of that thing, I could have my friend fly something over for me from down 2nd ave! :D"
brings new meaning to the phrase "gimmie a couple minutes and I'll fly down there"
not that I use OS9... well, this one last machine at work, here is running 9.
Although IE is the best browser for 9, it is lacking some more modern features (tabbed browsing, etc).
oh well...
my co-worker has used them on several occasions... he didn't really have too much luck with the personals but he managed to find people to jam with (he's a drummer).
my roommate has used it to buy a drumset, some keyboards, a Fender Rhodes, and some other misc instruments, then subsequently sell them back when he needed cash for more than he bought them for.
I, personally have only posted a single personal ad... got 2 responses. one from a guy asking if I got any responses (what a fag), and one from a girl complaining about the ad (what's wrong with "I'm a geeky bastard. I like art, computers and loud music. tattoos are cool."?
anyway, I haven't heard back from her...
btw, craigslist only works if you live in a metropolitan area (ie NYC, SF, etc). If you live in Humplick, KY, yer shit out of luck.
I'm curious if someone had a degenerative disease and was treated by such a therapy if they'd then be denied participation in the olympics.
this is definately gonna be something people will be talking about before the next olympics.
yeah, I recently sat on the train next to a guy coming back from VA. He was so into getting a tablet. I was like "wtf do you want one of them for"
he explained to me how he's in law school and is given much of his research paperwork and books in PDF form. He wants to be able to mark them up and take notes on them in class, and since he sometimes gets the PDF on a CD when he walks in door, he doesn't have time to print out the 100 pages or so.
Also, he was bitching about crappy PDF reading software that's a pain to take notes on. Sure the comment feature in acrobat is nice, but it's not really suited for taking notes in real-time.
accidently clicked submit.. doh.
.com explosion... now it's the patent law explosion. Then the entire software industry will crash just as the .com bubble burst and internet advertizing crash.
so, seriously... isn't it a great time to be a patent lawyer? especially one specializing in software patents... It would be interesting if about 6 years ago, a bunch of lawschool geeks decided that they should get into that, with the popularity of mp3 and such. Then went around to various companies explaining their position.
like the
I for one, welcome our new patent lawyer overlords.
We have a daystar digital GenesisMP box sitting right here under the desk.... next to our Umax clone with a g4 upgrade... neither is in use...
hooray for a 4-way 132mhz mac! OS9 is on it without the MP libs, so it doesn't do much good. and the video card is a piece of crap... I only wish it was new-world... it'd be so much easier to put linux on it... I hate that linux control panel for booting.. such a pain in the ass.
This lawyer cat (and any bastard who blames video games, movies, books, tv, or any other media for problems with youth and other people) is a complete idiot.
Similar to the assholes that think that just because these rave kids dress in colourful outfits, wear candy bracelets and suck on pacifiers, they are doing so to attract children to the Ketamine and Ecstacy laden nights of drugged out psycodelic dance parties. completely not true. It's part of the spirit of the event. Depictions of donald duck, pokemon, and cell phone brands on the pills? It's for the fun of it.
The same goes for video games. Anyone can get obsessed over any thought. Some people get obsessed with washing their hands until they bleed. Some people have disorders where they scream all night, or try to remove imaginary insects from their body with razor blades (GET THEM OFF MEEEEEE!). Does that mean we should ban soap? Should we ban sharp things? Should we live in a world without entertainment?
What's good to one person can be a complete detriment to another. Look at firefighters. Some people are completely phobic of fire, others don't mind it. Most people lie somewhere in between.
No one's going to little Johnny's kindergarten class with posters of GTA or Manhunt or Doom3 and saying "tell your parents you want this!" Hell, I don't think video games are marketed ENOUGH. They're still pretty underground, it seems.... for the most part...
You know something... I think I'm gonna start obsessing over Darwin's theory of natural selection. Maybe I should go around putting bullets in the heads of every stupid person who blames media for problems in the world. I should go on a killing spree and take out every person who is horrified by my actions. You know, that's what I'll do....
My defense... well, that's easy. Jack Thompson inspired me. I'm doing it for him. He's my idol. My god. He'll get me off. He tells me what to do in my dreams...
That's the ticket.
HARE KRISHNA!
welcome our new bipedal overlords...
doesn't that also include harddrives, digital cameras (think smartmedia card, memorystick, etc), computers, cell phones, notebooks (can write down song lyrics), pens, pencils, markers, knives (can carve copies of pictures), film, eyeballs, ears, brains, humans, etc, etc, etc??!?!?!?!
I don't see any way of enforcing this or even wording it so that it would be posible and not infringe on our everyday rights. Not only do I not see any way of doing this, I don't want people to even try.
i propose a mass suicide if the world gets that restrictive. A world that restrictive is not worth living in. A world that restrictive is worse than slavery. We're nearing that, now, with all this RIAA/MPAA bullshit.
I understand the need to protect what's yours, but I believe it's starting to be taken too far.
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and, being that developers are geeks and geeks IRC, i'm sure someone has created an irc client for it. If not, you could always code up one yourself...
btw, I have no idea why there wouldn't be an irc client... I mean, shit.