In all seriousness, there seems to be some misconception that iTunes can't play ogg files. Well, I'm not sure about on the PC, but there is a plugin for the Mac that plays ogg files just fine.
Although the backend code is BSD, the graphical frontend would be difficult to replicate in Linux and probably not what they would consider a reasonable investment of resources given the returns. It took iTunes four versions just to be ported to the PC where potential revenue is huge. It would be nice, but Apple isn't giving away iTunes out of the kindness of their heart...they want it to improve their bottom line, and I don't see the Linux community doing that for them. (They'd rather have you go out and buy a Powerbook;-)
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I've been using it for a while and it's legit...they ask for your phone # to call you with a confirmation PIN number, but they never ask for your credit card. Drop $6 and get your family a domain, put up the content management system of your choice, and have it hosted free for 3 years.
In any major organization, servers will never be the source of damage. The problem occurs when the attack hits the "regular user's" machine. In a large company I'm familiar with, the only reason any servers went down when the SQL bug hit was because a lot of users had MS developer tools installed (which apparently has some SQL server elements in it) all got infected and the DoS attacked the system and the servers had no bandwidth to work with. Assuming you have an even half-competent system administration staff, your employees machines are a much larger vulnerability than your servers.
Haven't we seen this all before? I feel as all these "second looks" at Apple and Macs seem to all come down to the same thing: OS X is great, there are some great apps, but the hardware side of things still needs work. I too am a recent "switcher" of sorts and do love my TiBook...but certainly wouldn't give up my PC, if only for the gaming. I'm just happy that the Mac and PC have at least *started* to live in harmony. Rendezvous and Samba do a nice job of connecting things and start to bridge the PC/Mac divide. It's too bad Patrick didn't spend more time metioning this instead of repeating things we've all heard already. My only other qualm with the article was the use of an iBook in the review. As a professional in the tech industry, I think he should have been taking a look at the Powerbooks, but I suppose the iBook has its own merits as well.
Cornell, although not formally endorsing it, has many of it's online course materials already open to the public. Our course-management system called Courseinfo has most course information available to the public.
For a more "mainstream" approach Cornell has also developed Cybertower which is a free service that provides a very multimedia-based (Quicktime based...so get your Crossover plugin for Linux users) glimse into some of the course offerings. (Although Cornell's strong Engineering department is hardly represented, if at all.)
I would guess that many schools have resources like this availible...you just have to know where to look. Are there any other good links to course related sites out there?
Besides being a move to an open-source-based solution, which is good for the community as a whole, this will be good for the development of Enterprise Level PHP. It has been my observation (perhaps a someone inaccurate one?) that PHP has long been overlooked as a solution for high-volume sites...and perhaps rightly so with PHP in its current state. But no doubt Yahoo! intends to make PHP work for them. I can just hope that some of their innovation trickles back down to the mainstream devlopment of PHP where it can be used to further improve its implementation.
Ha! I had an AT&T broadband cable modem with open ports on it for years and have never heard anything about it. I wouldn't worry about it unless you're planning on starting a Fortune 500 company off your home broadband connection.:)
Under the guise of "geek" or "open source advocate," I would have to agree that this seems like a rather questionable element of the EULA. That said, I also realize that this is a piece of software designed for my grandmother and that questionable licensing, although a pertinent subject to the future of software development and use, is not even a conscious thought to Jane and Joe Windowsuser. People will use software that works for them regardless of the EULA. The fact that more people have Microsoft and KazAa on their desktops than Linux should be proof of that. People should be supportive of a company trying to offer Windows/Mac users a viable Linux alternative than concerned with the specifics of their license agreement.
I had done the same thing a few months ago. I kept emailing them and hounding them to send it back to me, and after about three weeks of unanswered emails, they did send it back to me. The only catch: they didn't do anything to it, and so it still doesn't work. So, I'm stuck with a $350 GeForce3 Ti500 that's only good as a paperweight. So the good news is, you'll be getting the card back. The bad news: all you'll be getting is a nice chunk of silicon.
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I'll try that out...thanks!
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After frying my board in a failed bios flash, I was happy to hear that VisionTek would take it back and fix it. Now...three months later I was dissapointed to find that the card I got back wasn't fixed at all...they just shipped it back to me. Well, I guess they don't really care about quality service now, huh?
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In all seriousness, there seems to be some misconception that iTunes can't play ogg files. Well, I'm not sure about on the PC, but there is a plugin for the Mac that plays ogg files just fine.
Although the backend code is BSD, the graphical frontend would be difficult to replicate in Linux and probably not what they would consider a reasonable investment of resources given the returns. It took iTunes four versions just to be ported to the PC where potential revenue is huge. It would be nice, but Apple isn't giving away iTunes out of the kindness of their heart...they want it to improve their bottom line, and I don't see the Linux community doing that for them. (They'd rather have you go out and buy a Powerbook ;-)
- 500 Mbytes space
- 5 Gb. transfer (.99 cents for every addtional Gb)
- PHP
- CGI
- SSH
- MySQL
- $25 Google ad words voucher
and you can register your own domain for $6 a year. I've been using it for a while and it's legit...they ask for your phone # to call you with a confirmation PIN number, but they never ask for your credit card. Drop $6 and get your family a domain, put up the content management system of your choice, and have it hosted free for 3 years.Gotta love the books on tape too...Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash Unabridged for $32. Not bad...not bad at all.
In any major organization, servers will never be the source of damage. The problem occurs when the attack hits the "regular user's" machine. In a large company I'm familiar with, the only reason any servers went down when the SQL bug hit was because a lot of users had MS developer tools installed (which apparently has some SQL server elements in it) all got infected and the DoS attacked the system and the servers had no bandwidth to work with. Assuming you have an even half-competent system administration staff, your employees machines are a much larger vulnerability than your servers.
Haven't we seen this all before? I feel as all these "second looks" at Apple and Macs seem to all come down to the same thing: OS X is great, there are some great apps, but the hardware side of things still needs work. I too am a recent "switcher" of sorts and do love my TiBook...but certainly wouldn't give up my PC, if only for the gaming. I'm just happy that the Mac and PC have at least *started* to live in harmony. Rendezvous and Samba do a nice job of connecting things and start to bridge the PC/Mac divide. It's too bad Patrick didn't spend more time metioning this instead of repeating things we've all heard already. My only other qualm with the article was the use of an iBook in the review. As a professional in the tech industry, I think he should have been taking a look at the Powerbooks, but I suppose the iBook has its own merits as well.
Does that come with a 401k plan and a good dental plan? It still probably has a better retirement plan than Enron :P
Cornell, although not formally endorsing it, has many of it's online course materials already open to the public. Our course-management system called Courseinfo has most course information available to the public.
For a more "mainstream" approach Cornell has also developed Cybertower which is a free service that provides a very multimedia-based (Quicktime based...so get your Crossover plugin for Linux users) glimse into some of the course offerings. (Although Cornell's strong Engineering department is hardly represented, if at all.) I would guess that many schools have resources like this availible...you just have to know where to look. Are there any other good links to course related sites out there?
Besides being a move to an open-source-based solution, which is good for the community as a whole, this will be good for the development of Enterprise Level PHP. It has been my observation (perhaps a someone inaccurate one?) that PHP has long been overlooked as a solution for high-volume sites...and perhaps rightly so with PHP in its current state. But no doubt Yahoo! intends to make PHP work for them. I can just hope that some of their innovation trickles back down to the mainstream devlopment of PHP where it can be used to further improve its implementation.
Ha! I had an AT&T broadband cable modem with open ports on it for years and have never heard anything about it. I wouldn't worry about it unless you're planning on starting a Fortune 500 company off your home broadband connection. :)
Under the guise of "geek" or "open source advocate," I would have to agree that this seems like a rather questionable element of the EULA. That said, I also realize that this is a piece of software designed for my grandmother and that questionable licensing, although a pertinent subject to the future of software development and use, is not even a conscious thought to Jane and Joe Windowsuser. People will use software that works for them regardless of the EULA. The fact that more people have Microsoft and KazAa on their desktops than Linux should be proof of that. People should be supportive of a company trying to offer Windows/Mac users a viable Linux alternative than concerned with the specifics of their license agreement.
At yet most of us religiously read (and take the advice of) posts by the likes of CmdrTaco...
Linux + Rendezvous + Acqua = Microsoft's worst nightmare.
I had done the same thing a few months ago. I kept emailing them and hounding them to send it back to me, and after about three weeks of unanswered emails, they did send it back to me. The only catch: they didn't do anything to it, and so it still doesn't work. So, I'm stuck with a $350 GeForce3 Ti500 that's only good as a paperweight. So the good news is, you'll be getting the card back. The bad news: all you'll be getting is a nice chunk of silicon.
I'll try that out...thanks!
After frying my board in a failed bios flash, I was happy to hear that VisionTek would take it back and fix it. Now...three months later I was dissapointed to find that the card I got back wasn't fixed at all...they just shipped it back to me. Well, I guess they don't really care about quality service now, huh?