Absolutely. I checked them when the first slashdot story was posted and the Server: header definitely said Apache on UNIX (it wasn't specific about which UNIX, as is standard with Apache).
The must've switched it once people started noticing.
You know, if you listen to some Hrvatski, I think you'll agree that the 606 remix he does was probably more Hrvatski than kid606. Probably some 606 samples thrown in or something, but it sounds much more like a Hrvatski track than a 606 track.
He's on tour right now. You should go see him if you get the chance.
Nice other choices, BTW. Richard Devine and the rest of the Schematic label are all incredible. Unfortunately Richard didn't make it to the Schematic tour when it came to my town last month. Sad.
What I was talking about was how, when composing on the computer, for me it's a process of "tap in a bass drum rhythm; tap in a snare rhythm; tap in some other percussion; pick out a decent program to use for a bassline; play a simple bassline; pick out a decent program for a melody; layer a melody on top".
Only once you've done all these things can you really start the process of Making Music. Contrast with "rounding up a bunch of friends and starting to play".
Perhaps that's unfair, because the computer is actually giving you an opportunity to do something you otherwise couldn't: make an entire band with one person. I just find that when I'm making music on the computer it feels less interactive and less instantaneous than when I'm at a friend's house banging out some crappy rock.
So you're saying that a midi keyboard has the same expressive capability as an acoustic grand piano? I think you're wrong
Without hesitation, I'll tell you I'm right.
A grand piano makes grand piano sounds. A MIDI synth makes a fairly-decent (though, I agree, not perfect) grand piano sound and a whole shitload of other sounds.
only a real instrument gives you true, uninhibited power of expression.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean, anyway?
One thing that's really annoying about making music on the computer is the time-delay factor of it all. Even with a MIDI keyboard input device, it's still "hit some notes, fuck around with some settings on the laptop, eventually hear some results". You don't get the kind of immediate feedback you get on a "real instrument".
But saying you can't express yourself using a computer to make music is clear, 100% bullshit.
I have an Alesis QuadraSynth Plus Piano. I also used to own a Kurzweil K2600XS. Both have highly rated piano sounds.
Both, for me, leave a lot to be desired. They're great for practicing and composing, but I wouldn't want to go see a piano concert on one. And I'm certainly no audiophile or otherwise golden-ear, either.
It should be noted that the 2600 features support for a "breath controller" and wind instrument programs designed to work with the controller, but I never tried it, so I have no clue how it sounds.
Sure, some guy might have a $14000 setup, but that doesn't mean he has any talent.
That's what's great about good software on a laptop!
Software is consistently cheaper than its hardware counterpart. This means there will be people with talent who couldn't afford the $14,000 synth setup that can now create their own innovative music.
Sure, there might be more bad musicians, too, but they will get ignored, as always. Cheaper music gear means a larger pool of talent to draw from.
I've yet to hear a synthesis of that one brass instrument that sounded anything like the real thing.
Even the best of digital pianos doesn't sound/feel nearly as close to the Real Thing as I'd like. There will always be a place for real instruments.
But increasingly, the music you listen to includes more and more electronic elements. Being able to do this stuff on your laptop in Cubase means you don't have to cart around racks of synth equipment like you used to. The days of seeing a guy "jamming" on a synth are coming to a close. Instead you'll see more band members tweaking their laptops. You probably already have.
Why is this cool? It means the barriers to entry for making music are coming down. When the tools get good enough and easy enough, the potential pool of people making innovative music opens wide up.
I listen to a lot of IDM (experimental electronic music) so I'm pretty used to seeing "bands" consisting of a guy and his Kaos Pad, but it takes some getting used to at first.
Slashdot uses mod_gzip (watch your connections sometime if you don't believe me), so apparently they decided CPU time was cheaper than bandwidth, at least on very large scales.
For one thing (and this is an EASY one), in the list of authors, you could have hyperlinks to the actual message so you didn't have to jump back to the message index and find the message in there.
The word TWAIN is from Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None were selected, but the entry "Technology Without An Interesting Name" continues to haunt the standard.
Here in NJ, there are several that are open 24 hours a day. So, jobhunt during the day, and then work evenings/nights at WallyWorld. Look at that, I've already solved one of your problems.
He'd have to make $8.25 an hour to make the same amount as unemployment. Maybe he could do that, but why would he?
He is OWED those benefits. They were paid for by him and his employer. Not having to take a minimum wage job is part of the benefits provided to you by unemployment insurance. This isn't some slush fund where he's taking money from someone else who probably really couldn't get ANY job. No; that's money that he rightfully deserves to claim while he looks for a good job in his industry.
Would you not claim a dentist bill on your health insurance because "I could just rip the tooth out myself and be done with it." No. He paid for it, so he gets the benefits.
PuTTY, a free ssh client for windows, is a single file with no installer. It saves its settings in the registry, and personally, I prefer this, since it means I just have to delete one file to uninstall it. I can download it to a friend's computer, throw it on the desktop, and not have to hunt around the desktop for the prefs file it created when I want to delete it.
Sure, it leaves a few registry keys around, but as long as they're innocuous, I think that's a better solution that creating a file every time?
One that I see a lot in "unpolished" programs is when several error boxes pop up at once and you have to close them in a specific non-obvious order (presumably in a LIFO pattern, but that's not always obvious depending on how your window manager is setup to create new windows).
That reminds me. Another great thing about SpamAssassin is that any email address that sends you three non-spam messages gets automagically added to a whitelist so none of their emails will ever be counted as spam again.
I'd just like to give some props for SpamAssassin.
If you haven't heard of it, it's an elegant system that assigns a weight to each email message based on hundreds of different tests, and if the email scores over 5 (configurable), it is marked as spam.
One of the nice things about it that is it uses most of the email blacklists, but they're only worth ~2 points, so being in a blacklist alone isn't enough to kill a message. That's good for those blacklists that throw far too many people in that don't belong (osirusoft). It also uses razor, but that is only worth three points, so if someone is piping bugtraq to razor-report (that happened for a while) you won't lose all that email.
There's a really interesting set of tests (it's fun to read them) each with an obscure set of points including:
HTML with a non-white bgcolor (1.2)
Claims conformance to obscure spam law (1.0)
HTML mail with no text portion (3.33)
Various spam phrases (various points depending on how many "hits" there are)
Subject ends in an exclamation point (0.5)
The points have apparently been calculated using some program to give the best accuracy.
Anyway, SpamAssassin is the best of the spam removal programs I've seen. Give it a shot!
All information about imporant changes you will need to make to your application are documented at the top of the README (under the "Migration" section).
There are potentially some changes you will need to make depending on which of the database features you are using.
To upgrade you will need to pg_dump your database and reload it with 'psql -f'. Again, check the readme.
They're not use MySQL to store all their critical data. They're dumping all their data, presumably from some other more reliable database (Oracle, it sounds like), into mysql for quick web searches.
IOW, they're using mysql for what it does best: As a fast datastore for when data integrity isn't important (because they have all the data backed up in Oracle and could redump it to mysql at any time).
Admittedly, some of this post is conjecture, but you'd be crazy to suggest that the Census Bureau would trust all their critical data to mysql.
Slashdot Mirror
Absolutely. I checked them when the first slashdot story was posted and the Server: header definitely said Apache on UNIX (it wasn't specific about which UNIX, as is standard with Apache).
The must've switched it once people started noticing.
I just tried it.
Nautilus, gnome-terminal, and a great many other (but not all) apps segfault.
It's not the Nautilus/gnome-session segfault bug listed in the GARNOME FAQ, either, because I don't have any "Xftcache" files.
Damn.
Keep in mind that this is a brewpub, not your normal 14-screen stadium-seating THX-equipped Cineplex.
Some amount of talking/fucking around is generally tolerated/encouraged. You probably only paid $1 or $2 to get in, so...
You know, if you listen to some Hrvatski, I think you'll agree that the 606 remix he does was probably more Hrvatski than kid606. Probably some 606 samples thrown in or something, but it sounds much more like a Hrvatski track than a 606 track.
He's on tour right now. You should go see him if you get the chance.
Nice other choices, BTW. Richard Devine and the rest of the Schematic label are all incredible. Unfortunately Richard didn't make it to the Schematic tour when it came to my town last month. Sad.
I wasn't actually talking about latency.
What I was talking about was how, when composing on the computer, for me it's a process of "tap in a bass drum rhythm; tap in a snare rhythm; tap in some other percussion; pick out a decent program to use for a bassline; play a simple bassline; pick out a decent program for a melody; layer a melody on top".
Only once you've done all these things can you really start the process of Making Music. Contrast with "rounding up a bunch of friends and starting to play".
Perhaps that's unfair, because the computer is actually giving you an opportunity to do something you otherwise couldn't: make an entire band with one person. I just find that when I'm making music on the computer it feels less interactive and less instantaneous than when I'm at a friend's house banging out some crappy rock.
YMMV, I guess.
So you're saying that a midi keyboard has the same expressive capability as an acoustic grand piano? I think you're wrong
Without hesitation, I'll tell you I'm right.
A grand piano makes grand piano sounds. A MIDI synth makes a fairly-decent (though, I agree, not perfect) grand piano sound and a whole shitload of other sounds.
What's more expressive: a piano or an orchestra?
only a real instrument gives you true, uninhibited power of expression.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean, anyway?
One thing that's really annoying about making music on the computer is the time-delay factor of it all. Even with a MIDI keyboard input device, it's still "hit some notes, fuck around with some settings on the laptop, eventually hear some results". You don't get the kind of immediate feedback you get on a "real instrument".
But saying you can't express yourself using a computer to make music is clear, 100% bullshit.
I have an Alesis QuadraSynth Plus Piano. I also used to own a Kurzweil K2600XS. Both have highly rated piano sounds.
Both, for me, leave a lot to be desired. They're great for practicing and composing, but I wouldn't want to go see a piano concert on one. And I'm certainly no audiophile or otherwise golden-ear, either.
It should be noted that the 2600 features support for a "breath controller" and wind instrument programs designed to work with the controller, but I never tried it, so I have no clue how it sounds.
Sure, some guy might have a $14000 setup, but that doesn't mean he has any talent.
That's what's great about good software on a laptop!
Software is consistently cheaper than its hardware counterpart. This means there will be people with talent who couldn't afford the $14,000 synth setup that can now create their own innovative music.
Sure, there might be more bad musicians, too, but they will get ignored, as always. Cheaper music gear means a larger pool of talent to draw from.
I've yet to hear a synthesis of that one brass instrument that sounded anything like the real thing.
Even the best of digital pianos doesn't sound/feel nearly as close to the Real Thing as I'd like. There will always be a place for real instruments.
But increasingly, the music you listen to includes more and more electronic elements. Being able to do this stuff on your laptop in Cubase means you don't have to cart around racks of synth equipment like you used to. The days of seeing a guy "jamming" on a synth are coming to a close. Instead you'll see more band members tweaking their laptops. You probably already have.
Why is this cool? It means the barriers to entry for making music are coming down. When the tools get good enough and easy enough, the potential pool of people making innovative music opens wide up.
I listen to a lot of IDM (experimental electronic music) so I'm pretty used to seeing "bands" consisting of a guy and his Kaos Pad, but it takes some getting used to at first.
Slashdot uses mod_gzip (watch your connections sometime if you don't believe me), so apparently they decided CPU time was cheaper than bandwidth, at least on very large scales.
That should be endorsment enough, right?
lynx is so 1996, man.
links is the current state of the art in console web-browsers.
If you didn't spend all your time being a condescending ass, maybe you'd know.
For one thing (and this is an EASY one), in the list of authors, you could have hyperlinks to the actual message so you didn't have to jump back to the message index and find the message in there.
That wouldn't even require any extra programming.
from 'dict twain':
The word TWAIN is from Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None were selected, but the entry "Technology Without An Interesting Name" continues to haunt the standard.
Here in NJ, there are several that are open 24 hours a day. So, jobhunt during the day, and then work evenings/nights at WallyWorld. Look at that, I've already solved one of your problems.
He'd have to make $8.25 an hour to make the same amount as unemployment. Maybe he could do that, but why would he?
He is OWED those benefits. They were paid for by him and his employer. Not having to take a minimum wage job is part of the benefits provided to you by unemployment insurance. This isn't some slush fund where he's taking money from someone else who probably really couldn't get ANY job. No; that's money that he rightfully deserves to claim while he looks for a good job in his industry.
Would you not claim a dentist bill on your health insurance because "I could just rip the tooth out myself and be done with it." No. He paid for it, so he gets the benefits.
It's there:
- Apply the SET_PERSONALITY patch missing from 2.4.18 (me)
Here's the ChangeLog.
That was quick. (It includes a lot more stuff than just the patch missing from rc4).
That's actually a feature of the Gtk menuing widgets, not Gimp.
Try it in other applications sometime.
Well, not always...?
PuTTY, a free ssh client for windows, is a single file with no installer. It saves its settings in the registry, and personally, I prefer this, since it means I just have to delete one file to uninstall it. I can download it to a friend's computer, throw it on the desktop, and not have to hunt around the desktop for the prefs file it created when I want to delete it.
Sure, it leaves a few registry keys around, but as long as they're innocuous, I think that's a better solution that creating a file every time?
One that I see a lot in "unpolished" programs is when several error boxes pop up at once and you have to close them in a specific non-obvious order (presumably in a LIFO pattern, but that's not always obvious depending on how your window manager is setup to create new windows).
Also, I hate it when code is under-documented.
Gee, that's nice. Care to explain how to make that "sophisticated" clipboard model work with something other than plain text?
It's explained (high-level) right there in that same article that you didn't bother to read.
Better luck next time.
That reminds me. Another great thing about SpamAssassin is that any email address that sends you three non-spam messages gets automagically added to a whitelist so none of their emails will ever be counted as spam again.
I'd just like to give some props for SpamAssassin.
If you haven't heard of it, it's an elegant system that assigns a weight to each email message based on hundreds of different tests, and if the email scores over 5 (configurable), it is marked as spam.
One of the nice things about it that is it uses most of the email blacklists, but they're only worth ~2 points, so being in a blacklist alone isn't enough to kill a message. That's good for those blacklists that throw far too many people in that don't belong (osirusoft). It also uses razor, but that is only worth three points, so if someone is piping bugtraq to razor-report (that happened for a while) you won't lose all that email.
There's a really interesting set of tests (it's fun to read them) each with an obscure set of points including:
HTML with a non-white bgcolor (1.2)
Claims conformance to obscure spam law (1.0)
HTML mail with no text portion (3.33)
Various spam phrases (various points depending on how many "hits" there are)
Subject ends in an exclamation point (0.5)
The points have apparently been calculated using some program to give the best accuracy.
Anyway, SpamAssassin is the best of the spam removal programs I've seen. Give it a shot!
All information about imporant changes you will need to make to your application are documented at the top of the README (under the "Migration" section).
There are potentially some changes you will need to make depending on which of the database features you are using.
To upgrade you will need to pg_dump your database and reload it with 'psql -f'. Again, check the readme.
That's a cheesy way to dispute his claims.
They're not use MySQL to store all their critical data. They're dumping all their data, presumably from some other more reliable database (Oracle, it sounds like), into mysql for quick web searches.
IOW, they're using mysql for what it does best: As a fast datastore for when data integrity isn't important (because they have all the data backed up in Oracle and could redump it to mysql at any time).
Admittedly, some of this post is conjecture, but you'd be crazy to suggest that the Census Bureau would trust all their critical data to mysql.