Wanna try this with Microcrap Media Center Edition? Dream on...
I can stream movies in full hd from my fileserver to any laptop in my house, or to my plasma tv. using windows (not even media center edition). It's actually much easier than my former MythTV/DVD server i had with linux, most of my devices can be setup in under 5 minutes.
You should do a little more research before getting on your high horse. I love linux but when it comes to home media streaming, Windows is miles ahead and way easier to set up.
2 - Windows XP does take 30 minutes to install. "a couple of drivers installs" -- I run XP SP2 in VMware. The last time I tried to install it on real hardware: I needed drivers for the IDE driver, the audio, the network and the video. None of which were included. Of course, the drivers were too big to put on a floppy, and XP refused to see the CDROM drive it just loaded from. Of course the network required a driver as well. Way to go! Fedora Core "just works" on this machine -- needing a driver for the video only.
sounds like a vmware problem
4 - "funky graphics and sound card options and controllers working right out the box". This is bullshit. THEY DON'T WORK RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX WITH WINDOWS. You need to install drivers. Which are very dodgy at times. If anything, Linux has FAR more quality drivers than Windows "in the box". I still use QIC tapes: is there a Windows XP driver that is supported for those?
not many desktop users have a tape drive, how many desktop users have a nvidia or ati video card?
Depending on how you measure, the Sydney Morning Herald is actually more widely circulated than USA Today.
How?
Well, if we consider that USA Today is a USA newspaper and SMH is an Australian newspaper, then we can say that the wideness of the circulation can determined as a ratio to the population of its respective markets. USA has a population of 299,360,879 (2006 est.) according to Wikipedia, and Australia has a population of 20,555,300 (2006 est.). Now, USA Today, the most widely circulated paper in the United States, according to Wikipedia, has a circulation of about 2.25 million newspapers per day. SMH has a circulation of 365,000. So if we divide the circulation by the respective population, we can 0.0075 newspaper per capita for USA Today and 0.0178 newspapers per capita for SMH. That would make SMH more than twice as widely circulated in its respective market than USA today.
That means my office newsletter, which reaches 120 of 120 employees (and is read by around 1/3 to 1/2) is more mainstream than both, and has a wider circulation!
Perhaps it is because microsoft is a convicted monopolist and Bill Gates is the worst of the bunch. They have been found guilty in court of illegally crushing their competition in the name of profits. Had they not done that, there would have been more competition and prices would have been driven down. Gates and microsoft would not be so rich in the first place and the money would instead distributed in the rest of society where it should have been in the first place.
I'm sure a kid in Africa dying of tuberculosis is outraged at the price that the first world is paying for their office software. Thank you for the perspective.
If anyone has an iPod with video please give this a try and let me know if it works.
In QT Pro copy and paste a selection from a movie into a new movie. Save it as the smaller option at the bottom (Reference movie in QT7, it had a different name before). Then on the iPod test that both movies play fine. The reference is sort of like a bookmark into the other movie. I have a few thousand of these and the new iPod would be very useful if it supports this.
Thanks.
Most new porn has done away with the "plot advancement' and 'story' scenes. Also, the hair is better. All your hard work is for nothing.
Can you use Excel? Yes - if you can use open office oocalc, you can easily use excel Can you use Word? Yes - if you can use open office oowrite, you can use word. Can you use Windows? Yes - but I can save your business money by helping you to convert to Linux and open source software. Sounds great! When can you start?
Good thing they're not looking for linebreaks or paragraphs.
And they prove that any drop in CD sales was purely because of the economic slump, when non-essential things like CDs and DVDs are the first things to leave the on-the-spot purchase habits of people.
How does this prove that? It may suggest such a thing, but suggestion and proof are miles apart.
Disclaimer: I've drunk the FSF koolaid - my freedom is more important to me than pretty flashing lights, cute interfaces, or another $10,000 salary. (As a matter of fact I'm doing much better for myself, financially as well as life-style-wise, since I stopped accepting money to work with proprietary software... but that's by-the-by.)
on your webpage you say you will accept the money for a few types of jobs, including:
a Linux, BSD, Windows NT4 or 2000 system administrator;
maybe you should update your page or stop being a fucking liar.
If I remember correctly, I remember reading in one of Jacob Nielson's usability books about how a surprisingly large majority of users thought (this was back in the day before Google) that the Yahoo search field "was the internet". They typed everything into it, and payed no attention to the adress bar.
You can't exactly say that the industries are entirely disparate. Many blockbuster movies become video games, and we've had a spate of video-games turned movies. Which industry are they a part of? Where does their revenue count?
Hit the buttons on your ps2 controller. If Toby McGuire jumps, it's a video game. If everything stops and you see a 'fuck off and die' FBI warning, it's a movie.
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Usually people would reply to this qustion by saying 'google it'. The fact you were one click away from knowing everything about Tara Reid, imdb listing to botched boob job photos, puts you into a new class of laziness that can probably be detected from space.
1) Automated script pulls websites from spam, adds it to list of "sites to ddos/'d-access'". People can get joe jobbed, or fake buried links bog system down.
2) Some Lycos employee in a back room goes through spam and checks links and enters them into the "sites to ddos/'d-access'" list. He is completely unaccountable to the internet community. Maybe he adds a friends site as a joke on his birthday. Maybe he gets paid off by spammer a to not add his site, but hit spammer b instead. Maybe his bosses get mad at altavista. Maybe he learns he is about to get fired...
Cute idea, but fucking scary. If someone hacks a webserver/signs up for a cheapo hosting plan and puts up a payment site for his spam, how long do we give the hosting company to take the page down? Anything too soon and were not giving the company enough time to deal with the matter effectively. Anything too long and the majority of the payments have gone through to the spammer. Shoot first, ask questions later or 20% effective?
The problem with the sweeping generalization fixes is that people are so starved for the final effect they don't see the problems with the implementation.
Baby out with the bathwater. We're basicly giving a company a botnet and asking them to clean up the internet for us.
Personally I would like to encourage everyone, escpecially ISPs to not maintain logs. That way they can answer every subpeona as unable to comply. But that is just me.
Idealism like this often dies when you get a real job.
Logs are important for things like billing/problem resolution/statistics. I would love to see someone resolve a $80k billing discrepancy in court with the argument 'because i say so!'.
I reciently installed a new win2K system and installed the latest service pack 4.
I also killed all the services. and it never ran a web browser. Just mysql. I didn't have any antivirus software on it.
So after placing it on an unfirewalled connection in a locked room, withing 2 hours there were over dozens of virus, worm and spyware installed on the system till it crashed and couldn't even boot. Coming up with 100's of DLL errors!
Again we never open a single web page.
Specificaly some of what was installed was:
and yet my windows 2000 box at home runs great.
so either i have a super secret version of windows 2000, or you're a shitty admin.
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running windows 7. what's the issue? everything works great.
I can stream movies in full hd from my fileserver to any laptop in my house, or to my plasma tv. using windows (not even media center edition). It's actually much easier than my former MythTV/DVD server i had with linux, most of my devices can be setup in under 5 minutes.
You should do a little more research before getting on your high horse. I love linux but when it comes to home media streaming, Windows is miles ahead and way easier to set up.
Let's be serious, would you show up to a Linux user party?
again i ask, how many desktop users have a tape drive, how many desktop users have a nvidia or ati video card?
sounds like a vmware problem
4 - "funky graphics and sound card options and controllers working right out the box". This is bullshit. THEY DON'T WORK RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX WITH WINDOWS. You need to install drivers. Which are very dodgy at times. If anything, Linux has FAR more quality drivers than Windows "in the box". I still use QIC tapes: is there a Windows XP driver that is supported for those?
not many desktop users have a tape drive, how many desktop users have a nvidia or ati video card?
How?
Well, if we consider that USA Today is a USA newspaper and SMH is an Australian newspaper, then we can say that the wideness of the circulation can determined as a ratio to the population of its respective markets. USA has a population of 299,360,879 (2006 est.) according to Wikipedia, and Australia has a population of 20,555,300 (2006 est.). Now, USA Today, the most widely circulated paper in the United States, according to Wikipedia, has a circulation of about 2.25 million newspapers per day. SMH has a circulation of 365,000. So if we divide the circulation by the respective population, we can 0.0075 newspaper per capita for USA Today and 0.0178 newspapers per capita for SMH. That would make SMH more than twice as widely circulated in its respective market than USA today.
That means my office newsletter, which reaches 120 of 120 employees (and is read by around 1/3 to 1/2) is more mainstream than both, and has a wider circulation!
Yeah, and now both companies are bankrupt.
Some people get off on realism, some people are busy and like to jump in a plane and blow shit up going as fast as they can.
Because it is free, expect what you pay for.
Widely accepted? According to what?
Some people thing is is, have you taken a look at OpenOffice recently?
I'm sure a kid in Africa dying of tuberculosis is outraged at the price that the first world is paying for their office software. Thank you for the perspective.
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If anyone has an iPod with video please give this a try and let me know if it works.
In QT Pro copy and paste a selection from a movie into a new movie. Save it as the smaller option at the bottom (Reference movie in QT7, it had a different name before). Then on the iPod test that both movies play fine. The reference is sort of like a bookmark into the other movie. I have a few thousand of these and the new iPod would be very useful if it supports this.
Thanks.
Most new porn has done away with the "plot advancement' and 'story' scenes. Also, the hair is better. All your hard work is for nothing.
Good thing they're not looking for linebreaks or paragraphs.
How would a toolbar thats more popular and more stable on ie bring users to firefox?
in the network troubleshooting world, it is handy to be able to sniff gigabit connections.
How does this prove that? It may suggest such a thing, but suggestion and proof are miles apart.
on your webpage you say you will accept the money for a few types of jobs, including:
a Linux, BSD, Windows NT4 or 2000 system administrator;
maybe you should update your page or stop being a fucking liar.
i don't think you know what a majority is.
Hit the buttons on your ps2 controller. If Toby McGuire jumps, it's a video game. If everything stops and you see a 'fuck off and die' FBI warning, it's a movie.
Usually people would reply to this qustion by saying 'google it'. The fact you were one click away from knowing everything about Tara Reid, imdb listing to botched boob job photos, puts you into a new class of laziness that can probably be detected from space.
Congrats.
1) Automated script pulls websites from spam, adds it to list of "sites to ddos/'d-access'". People can get joe jobbed, or fake buried links bog system down.
2) Some Lycos employee in a back room goes through spam and checks links and enters them into the "sites to ddos/'d-access'" list. He is completely unaccountable to the internet community. Maybe he adds a friends site as a joke on his birthday. Maybe he gets paid off by spammer a to not add his site, but hit spammer b instead. Maybe his bosses get mad at altavista. Maybe he learns he is about to get fired...
Cute idea, but fucking scary. If someone hacks a webserver/signs up for a cheapo hosting plan and puts up a payment site for his spam, how long do we give the hosting company to take the page down? Anything too soon and were not giving the company enough time to deal with the matter effectively. Anything too long and the majority of the payments have gone through to the spammer. Shoot first, ask questions later or 20% effective?
The problem with the sweeping generalization fixes is that people are so starved for the final effect they don't see the problems with the implementation.
Baby out with the bathwater. We're basicly giving a company a botnet and asking them to clean up the internet for us.
Idealism like this often dies when you get a real job.
Logs are important for things like billing/problem resolution/statistics. I would love to see someone resolve a $80k billing discrepancy in court with the argument 'because i say so!'.
and yet my windows 2000 box at home runs great.
so either i have a super secret version of windows 2000, or you're a shitty admin.
take your pick.