These players ROCK. I have a 60GB model and I better go get another one before they are all out. I can't believe that they EOL'd it. Don't have time to post a witty comment here,.. I gotta go buy another one for my other car.
As far I know, simply purchasing the product has you locked in from the start. Problem is a combination of a few things:
*) CompUSA will not let me see the EULA before I buy it, because it is in the shrinkwrapped box.
*) CompUSA will not allow refunds on software.
So if you're in a situation where you buy the software, crack it open and don't agree with the license,.. tough shit. You are out of luck. Good luck trying to get your money back on opened software.
I don't know what Timothy's deal is but Aeron chairs are the most comfortable chairs around. I have one at home and at work and I couldn't live without them. If you can't get comfortable in your Aeron, then it is not adjusted right. Either that or you're an alien.
I wonder if Shawn will clue us in to what the sales numbers were for the day after this article has been giving him hits all day long. I just went over and bought my copy of BlackAdder. How bout you?
Maybe I read it wrong, but it sure sounded like Timothy is promoting software piracy in the post of this story. How completely irresponsibile can slashdot get. Just when I think slashdot is getting better, some idiot goes and posts some crap that suggests everyone become software pirates. Timothy deserves two slaps upside the head.
I shake my head in wonderment as I read Craig's article and then some of the higher rated comments here. Many of you agree with Craig on some points and I guess I do too. I did take exception to a few things that he mentions, and some of your comments:
*) Comparing the ludacris failed.com business models with the GPL is just plain ridculous. - Am I the only one who picked up on this?
*) Code forking is bad !! - Can someone tell me why I need vi and vim? It's frustrating to get used to all the comfy cozy features of vim and then sit down at a system that only has vi. I have to unlearn all the features of vim quickly. I guess I sum up my fork feelings with this, "the freedom to fork is good, but actually forking usually sucks".
*) Since when is profitability the only motivator behind producing quality software - It's true that not having a solid business plan is bad for business, but it's not only businesses who use and produce software.
I guess my real point to Craig is, I personally do not care what license my software is available under. To some people it does matter a great deal. I am not one of them. I also do not mind paying for software. I am not a free software nut by any standard.
I currently, and for the last 10 years, make my living using and implementing technology. I need technology that does not suck. This makes my life easier and makes me more money. For the most part Microsoft software does suck in one way or another and this is why I got out as soon as I could. Back in 1996 after playing with Linux on and off for a few years I decided it was usable enough to replace the OS on all the computers I owned. I've been pretty much a Linux only user since then.
After 5 years of using Linux, I have learned that it sucks in a lot too in different ways. Mostly the lack of certain applications for it. Windows accels in this regard. But Linux continues to kick ass in many other ways, and that's why I'm sticking with it till something better comes along.
So Craig realize that most computer users don't care about licenses. As long as the software doesnt suck, it's likely to be a success at least in my eyes.
I think the guys who wrote Cyrus IMAP server got it right. I have been using Cyrus for about 4 years now and I rarely delete mail. The server is still responsive and full body text searches are pretty speedy, even on the P133 server that it is running on. I think keeping each mail in a seperate file, and making a directory for each folder is the way to go. It also makes it very simple to restore a lost mail message and to index the whole mailbox. Anyway,.. thats my two cents.
Well I used to be an Audiophile when I was younger. I mean back then I could tell the difference in sound quality between quality audio gear and the CRAP that they sell at Best Buy, Circuit City, Good Guys, etc. But I was also 18 and broke with barely a place to live, but I had a $10,000 stereo system. Although it only consisted of 3 components:
CD Player (not a very good one)
Speakers (Magneplanars)
Amplifier (Solid State Dynaco)
The system sounded incredible but really,..who cares. I listen to music even more now than I did back then and I can still tell the difference I just don't care as much. My priorities in life have shifted and because of that I would probably fail to see the advantages to a $30,000 system compared to a $5,000 system.
Nowadays, I'm 31 years old and my sytem is designed with a few critieria, which are just as important as sound quality. When building my current system I said it must also meet the following criteria:
It must be out of my way: I don't wanna see it, trip over it, smell it or feel it. That's why all of the components reside in a 19 inch rack away from the living areas and the speakers are all in-wall. Wall mounted volume controls and infrared repeaters blend nicely with the white walls. So this criteria is met. It is out of the way.
It must be easily controlled by remote: My system pretty much meets this criteria too, except when I have to change DVD's. A DVD changer would come in handy here. Since rack of equipment is so far for my living room, it's kind of a pain to switch movies. This is one of the reasons I have been ripping DVD's and converting them to Divx format, storing them on the hard drive of my video server. Point is, stay away from any components that have stuff only controllable from the front panel. Make sure you can run the whole thing from remote, it opens up your possibilties immensely.
It must sound decent: Here is where I consciously sacrifice a little sound quality for alot of money saved. For my main system I have a regular old consumer grade Harmon Kardon receiver, my speakers are all of the $100 a pair in-wall type that you get at partsexpress or somewhere. My sound source is one of either a regular old $200 Panasonic DVD, the crappy cable tuner in my crappy Sharp SVHS player or the mp3 server that plays music 24 hours a day. This gives me good enough sound quality to watch movies or listen to music and be happy. And it didn't cost a million bucks.
So that's how my system came about, and I didn't spend alot of money of components either. I probably spent just as much on wiring, wall mounted volume controls, IR repeater system and the rack and mounting equipment. All in all though I say the money spent on the convienance stuff makes the whole system much more house friendly and a pleasure to own.
Since when is QNX developed by 3com. Does anyone have anything to back this up? It seems to me that QNX has been around a lot longer than 3com has been. Does anyone know the full (true) story of it's history.
AOL finally does something cool by releasing some Linux software and Emmett (in his infinite stupidity), slams them down for doin the very thing that the Linux community needs the most.
Regardless of what the hacker nation thinks is cool or not, Linux severely lacks some quality applications in many areas. True that instant messaging is probably not the most critical thing on anybodys list, but it's a start. But when the execs over at AOL look at this bullshit post that Emmett posts, they can't help but think that Linux is still struggling to progress beyond the hacker genre.
Emmett could use a lesson in Linux advocay, and he should take *this* post to heart. And personally, I'm offended that this post ever made it onto the Slashdot home page.
And if you're curious,.. I'm a Linux veteran since the 1.x series and I'm still waiting for some decent applications. I guess I'll keep waiting. --Aaron Newsome
I have used Freeswan extensively, as recent as 4 months ago and it was not even close to being ready for primetime. It was plagued by many. many problems as their very busy mailing list will attest to. I made the mistake of putting it into a production environment without even testing it's reliability.
Once the VPN systems were in production with Freeswan, they were plagued by kernel panics, flaky startup and shutdown and many other problems.
Also, back then, there was a major problem with Windows clients connecting using DHCP addresses (all?!!), in that the way Freeswan is configured, it expects a static IP address at the other end of the tunnel.
These guys who are posting that Freeswan is any sort of panacea, or even a workable solution, either haven't used it for real or are using a dramatically different product than the one I used 4 months ago.
You can read my many cries for help on the mailing list archives I'm sure. Whatever your case, I wouldn't recommend Freeswan unless they have fixed the kernel panics, flaky startup and shutdown,and the dependency on fixed IP addresses.
I submitted this earlier as a reply, I hope the dupe engine doesn't flag me as bad.
I have used Freeswan extensively, as recent as 4 months ago and it was not even close to being ready for primetime. It was plagued by many. many problems as their very busy mailing list will attest to. I made the mistake of putting it into a production environment without even testing it's reliability.
Once the VPN systems were in production with Freeswan, they were plagued by kernel panics, flaky startup and shutdown and many other problems.
Also, back then, there was a major problem with Windows clients connecting using DHCP addresses (all?!!), in that the way Freeswan is configured, it expects a static IP address at the other end of the tunnel.
These guys who are posting that Freeswan is any sort of panacea, or even a workable solution, either haven't used it for real or are using a dramatically different product than the one I used 4 months ago.
You can read my many cries for help on the mailing list archives I'm sure. Whatever your case, I wouldn't recommend Freeswan unless they have fixed the kernel panics, flaky startup and shutdown,and the dependency on fixed IP addresses.
I considered doing the same thing years ago with scanned images. I scan hundreds of images per month and I thought the free form text search of the scanned images was in order.
At the time the only OCR software that I could find on Linux was from a company called Vividata. At that time they were just adding Linux support and it didn't seem to work for shit, but the support was pretty new.
I use shell scripts to drive SANE programs to do the scanning and conversion to PDF using convert (Image Magick) and then ps2pdf (ghostscript). If the Vividata product actually works now, it might be nice to scan, then OCR, then convert to PDF. A quick index by ht://Dig will then make a nice searchablke archive of scanned docs.
The Vividata products however are not free, if this is a consideration.
It seems that M$ managed to prevent people frm writing reviews of SQL Server for many years. This included good, bad or indifferent. No reviews at all were allowed and they seemed to enforce it rather well.
Unless your need for pictures is extremely trivial, don't even consider replacing your 35mm camera with even the best of digital cameras.
Unless you are talking about a Nikon D1 (around $5,000 US) or better, digital cameras don't even approach the quality of pictures that you get from even the cheapest of 35mm cameras.
My portable camera setup consists of a Nikon F4, a and a Sony DSC-770 digital camera. The digital camera was purchased as a compliment to the 35mm system and it was very expensive in relationship to the quality of images it is able to produce. I paid nearly $1800 for this camera the same week it was introduced and I am not at all happy with the results.
There is something that all consumer grade digital cameras suffer from and there is no escaping it. It is called interpolation. And it will decrease the sharpness of your images noticeably, even to the naked eye on everyday pictures. Interpolation occurs because each pixel in the CCD array can only be a receptor for RED, GREEN, or BLUE. So when the camera takes a reading of a pixel, say a RED one, it has to guess from surounding GREEN and BLUE sensors what the GREEN and BLUE values for the pixel area covered bye this RED pixel would be. This behavoir decreases your image quality considerably, which is precisely why digicams (consumer grade) are woefully inadequate for all but the most trivial of uses.
Then there is the issue of print quality. Do you plan on using these images in print or just on the web. Most people I know that take pictures actually like to see prints of them. Ok, so lets do a little math. We'll compare my Sony DSC-770 at around $1,800 to a cheaper setup, my old Canon A1 which I paid $300 for the entire setup and my trusty Canon FS2710 film scanner at around $800 (or that's what I paid, they are probably much cheaper now).
Ok, we're still talking about making some prints. My Sony spits out uncompressed TIFF images at 1344x1024, 3.94MB which sounds huge if you're talking about web graphics, but not so huge if you're talking about making prints. My Canon scanner spits out images that are 3764x2509, 27MB at 2720dpi for a 35mm negative. Ok some quick math,... what print quality is considered good? you've just picked up a cheapo Epson stylus to print out your images, and you want them to be sharp. Let's see,.. the Epson does 1440x700 or something like that. A quick glance at the 1440 number tells you that the Sony camera image would print out to be about an inch wide at full resolution. That's not a print, that's a stamp. Ok, something more reasonable, say 600 dpi, or maybe 300 dpi. Well at 600 dpi the Sony camera will print out an image at 2.2x1.7 inches. The Canon 35mm will print out at 6.2x4.1 inches. 4x6 is generally the smallest print that is considered reasonable. At 300 dpi (which is still a decent resolution), the Sony image will be 4.4x3.4 inches. Not even the size of a standard print. The Canon setup however will print out at a full 12x8 inches. Enough for a decent enlargement.
So once again, unless you're taking snapshots of things that aren't really to important to you, don't waste your time trying to replace your 35mm with a digital camera. If you do decide that you just gotta have a digital, then get the best one you can afford because the feature set on the low-end is strictly for point and shoot enthusiasts. Oh yeah, and be leary of the usefulness of any feature that is not directly related to increasing image quality,... most of the digicams out there nowadays are loaded with useless bells and whistles that do nothing but complicate the camera.
And one more thing, if you do get a digicam,.. the service offered by Ofoto.com is outstanding. The 100 free digital prints are worth signing up for alone. I don't work for them but I use them alot, and have grown to love it.
I tried a while back to run Autodesk 3D Studio release 4 under DosEMU but I got a crufty error about DPMI or something. I thne realized in the docs that 3DSR4 was specifically listed as non-op for this very reason.
Now, after checking the docs on the website link above, I can't find anything that claims one way or the other if this app works.
Can anyone recommend the best Linux Napster tools. It's been a few months since I've tried, but a few months ago all the linux Napster stuff I tried was woefully inadequate. If there are decent Napster tools out there, then I'll forego the http access at http://www.mp3smuggler.com/.
That is pretty cool of Procom to join the GPL scene, but seriously... who give two shits about NetBEUI anymore. Most NetBIOS networks I see nowadays, run their NetBIOS over TCP/IP, which works about as well as expected.
But NetBEUI? Why would anyone use that in today's day and age. Unless you're designing a high speed system or a standalone custom (like in a auto or something), I see this release news as mostly noisy output from another "me too" open source come lately.
While were at it, can somebody get the source to Lantastic released. I think that would be cool (not).
I second that motion for an SBLive distro. It really stinks that I bought a shiny new Dell for work and it came with an SBLive card (that's not the part that stinks).
I saw that the OSS driver guys offered an SB!Live driver. I bought it. I tried it. It sucked. The card obviously has some troubles under Linux. I think they should pull the driver and go back to the drawing board until they have a driver that performs at an acceptable level.
--Aaron Newsome
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These players ROCK. I have a 60GB model and I better go get another one before they are all out. I can't believe that they EOL'd it. Don't have time to post a witty comment here,.. I gotta go buy another one for my other car.
--Aaron
*) CompUSA will not let me see the EULA before I buy it, because it is in the shrinkwrapped box.
*) CompUSA will not allow refunds on software.
So if you're in a situation where you buy the software, crack it open and don't agree with the license,.. tough shit. You are out of luck. Good luck trying to get your money back on opened software.
--Aaron
I don't know what Timothy's deal is but Aeron chairs are the most comfortable chairs around. I have one at home and at work and I couldn't live without them. If you can't get comfortable in your Aeron, then it is not adjusted right. Either that or you're an alien.
I wonder if Shawn will clue us in to what the sales numbers were for the day after this article has been giving him hits all day long. I just went over and bought my copy of BlackAdder. How bout you?
--Aaron Newsome
Maybe I read it wrong, but it sure sounded like Timothy is promoting software piracy in the post of this story. How completely irresponsibile can slashdot get. Just when I think slashdot is getting better, some idiot goes and posts some crap that suggests everyone become software pirates. Timothy deserves two slaps upside the head.
What exactly is an aspint server? I have never heard of this.
*) Comparing the ludacris failed .com business models with the GPL is just plain ridculous. - Am I the only one who picked up on this?
*) Code forking is bad !! - Can someone tell me why I need vi and vim? It's frustrating to get used to all the comfy cozy features of vim and then sit down at a system that only has vi. I have to unlearn all the features of vim quickly. I guess I sum up my fork feelings with this, "the freedom to fork is good, but actually forking usually sucks".
*) Since when is profitability the only motivator behind producing quality software - It's true that not having a solid business plan is bad for business, but it's not only businesses who use and produce software.
I guess my real point to Craig is, I personally do not care what license my software is available under. To some people it does matter a great deal. I am not one of them. I also do not mind paying for software. I am not a free software nut by any standard.
I currently, and for the last 10 years, make my living using and implementing technology. I need technology that does not suck. This makes my life easier and makes me more money. For the most part Microsoft software does suck in one way or another and this is why I got out as soon as I could. Back in 1996 after playing with Linux on and off for a few years I decided it was usable enough to replace the OS on all the computers I owned. I've been pretty much a Linux only user since then.
After 5 years of using Linux, I have learned that it sucks in a lot too in different ways. Mostly the lack of certain applications for it. Windows accels in this regard. But Linux continues to kick ass in many other ways, and that's why I'm sticking with it till something better comes along.
So Craig realize that most computer users don't care about licenses. As long as the software doesnt suck, it's likely to be a success at least in my eyes.
Is it just me or does this thing not include a browser. I looked hard but I didn't see one. What gives?
I think the guys who wrote Cyrus IMAP server got it right. I have been using Cyrus for about 4 years now and I rarely delete mail. The server is still responsive and full body text searches are pretty speedy, even on the P133 server that it is running on. I think keeping each mail in a seperate file, and making a directory for each folder is the way to go. It also makes it very simple to restore a lost mail message and to index the whole mailbox. Anyway,.. thats my two cents.
- CD Player (not a very good one)
- Speakers (Magneplanars)
- Amplifier (Solid State Dynaco)
The system sounded incredible but really,..who cares. I listen to music even more now than I did back then and I can still tell the difference I just don't care as much. My priorities in life have shifted and because of that I would probably fail to see the advantages to a $30,000 system compared to a $5,000 system.Nowadays, I'm 31 years old and my sytem is designed with a few critieria, which are just as important as sound quality. When building my current system I said it must also meet the following criteria:
- It must be out of my way : I don't wanna see it, trip over it, smell it or feel it. That's why all of the components reside in a 19 inch rack away from the living areas and the speakers are all in-wall. Wall mounted volume controls and infrared repeaters blend nicely with the white walls. So this criteria is met. It is out of the way.
- It must be easily controlled by remote: My system pretty much meets this criteria too, except when I have to change DVD's. A DVD changer would come in handy here. Since rack of equipment is so far for my living room, it's kind of a pain to switch movies. This is one of the reasons I have been ripping DVD's and converting them to Divx format, storing them on the hard drive of my video server. Point is, stay away from any components that have stuff only controllable from the front panel. Make sure you can run the whole thing from remote, it opens up your possibilties immensely.
- It must sound decent: Here is where I consciously sacrifice a little sound quality for alot of money saved. For my main system I have a regular old consumer grade Harmon Kardon receiver, my speakers are all of the $100 a pair in-wall type that you get at partsexpress or somewhere. My sound source is one of either a regular old $200 Panasonic DVD, the crappy cable tuner in my crappy Sharp SVHS player or the mp3 server that plays music 24 hours a day. This gives me good enough sound quality to watch movies or listen to music and be happy. And it didn't cost a million bucks.
So that's how my system came about, and I didn't spend alot of money of components either. I probably spent just as much on wiring, wall mounted volume controls, IR repeater system and the rack and mounting equipment. All in all though I say the money spent on the convienance stuff makes the whole system much more house friendly and a pleasure to own.Aaron Newsome
Since when is QNX developed by 3com. Does anyone have anything to back this up? It seems to me that QNX has been around a lot longer than 3com has been. Does anyone know the full (true) story of it's history.
I have 3000+ MP3's, all from CD's that I bought and ripped. So what's yer point.
Does anyone have a clue how flash works? My memory cards for my camera seem to store images indefinetely even without power?
AOL finally does something cool by releasing some Linux software and Emmett (in his infinite stupidity), slams them down for doin the very thing that the Linux community needs the most.
.. I'm a Linux veteran since the 1.x series and I'm still waiting for some decent applications. I guess I'll keep waiting. --Aaron Newsome
Regardless of what the hacker nation thinks is cool or not, Linux severely lacks some quality applications in many areas. True that instant messaging is probably not the most critical thing on anybodys list, but it's a start. But when the execs over at AOL look at this bullshit post that Emmett posts, they can't help but think that Linux is still struggling to progress beyond the hacker genre.
Emmett could use a lesson in Linux advocay, and he should take *this* post to heart. And personally, I'm offended that this post ever made it onto the Slashdot home page.
And if you're curious,
Once the VPN systems were in production with Freeswan, they were plagued by kernel panics, flaky startup and shutdown and many other problems.
Also, back then, there was a major problem with Windows clients connecting using DHCP addresses (all?!!), in that the way Freeswan is configured, it expects a static IP address at the other end of the tunnel.
These guys who are posting that Freeswan is any sort of panacea, or even a workable solution, either haven't used it for real or are using a dramatically different product than the one I used 4 months ago.
You can read my many cries for help on the mailing list archives I'm sure. Whatever your case, I wouldn't recommend Freeswan unless they have fixed the kernel panics, flaky startup and shutdown,and the dependency on fixed IP addresses.
I submitted this earlier as a reply, I hope the dupe engine doesn't flag me as bad.
My two cents. --Aaron Newsome
Once the VPN systems were in production with Freeswan, they were plagued by kernel panics, flaky startup and shutdown and many other problems.
Also, back then, there was a major problem with Windows clients connecting using DHCP addresses (all?!!), in that the way Freeswan is configured, it expects a static IP address at the other end of the tunnel.
These guys who are posting that Freeswan is any sort of panacea, or even a workable solution, either haven't used it for real or are using a dramatically different product than the one I used 4 months ago.
You can read my many cries for help on the mailing list archives I'm sure. Whatever your case, I wouldn't recommend Freeswan unless they have fixed the kernel panics, flaky startup and shutdown,and the dependency on fixed IP addresses.
My two cents. --Aaron Newsome
At the time the only OCR software that I could find on Linux was from a company called Vividata. At that time they were just adding Linux support and it didn't seem to work for shit, but the support was pretty new.
I use shell scripts to drive SANE programs to do the scanning and conversion to PDF using convert (Image Magick) and then ps2pdf (ghostscript). If the Vividata product actually works now, it might be nice to scan, then OCR, then convert to PDF. A quick index by ht://Dig will then make a nice searchablke archive of scanned docs.
The Vividata products however are not free, if this is a consideration.
--Aaron Newsome
It seems that M$ managed to prevent people frm writing reviews of SQL Server for many years. This included good, bad or indifferent. No reviews at all were allowed and they seemed to enforce it rather well.
Unless you are talking about a Nikon D1 (around $5,000 US) or better, digital cameras don't even approach the quality of pictures that you get from even the cheapest of 35mm cameras.
My portable camera setup consists of a Nikon F4, a and a Sony DSC-770 digital camera. The digital camera was purchased as a compliment to the 35mm system and it was very expensive in relationship to the quality of images it is able to produce. I paid nearly $1800 for this camera the same week it was introduced and I am not at all happy with the results.
There is something that all consumer grade digital cameras suffer from and there is no escaping it. It is called interpolation. And it will decrease the sharpness of your images noticeably, even to the naked eye on everyday pictures. Interpolation occurs because each pixel in the CCD array can only be a receptor for RED, GREEN, or BLUE. So when the camera takes a reading of a pixel, say a RED one, it has to guess from surounding GREEN and BLUE sensors what the GREEN and BLUE values for the pixel area covered bye this RED pixel would be. This behavoir decreases your image quality considerably, which is precisely why digicams (consumer grade) are woefully inadequate for all but the most trivial of uses.
Then there is the issue of print quality. Do you plan on using these images in print or just on the web. Most people I know that take pictures actually like to see prints of them. Ok, so lets do a little math. We'll compare my Sony DSC-770 at around $1,800 to a cheaper setup, my old Canon A1 which I paid $300 for the entire setup and my trusty Canon FS2710 film scanner at around $800 (or that's what I paid, they are probably much cheaper now).
Ok, we're still talking about making some prints. My Sony spits out uncompressed TIFF images at 1344x1024, 3.94MB which sounds huge if you're talking about web graphics, but not so huge if you're talking about making prints. My Canon scanner spits out images that are 3764x2509, 27MB at 2720dpi for a 35mm negative. Ok some quick math, ... what print quality is considered good? you've just picked up a cheapo Epson stylus to print out your images, and you want them to be sharp. Let's see,.. the Epson does 1440x700 or something like that. A quick glance at the 1440 number tells you that the Sony camera image would print out to be about an inch wide at full resolution. That's not a print, that's a stamp. Ok, something more reasonable, say 600 dpi, or maybe 300 dpi. Well at 600 dpi the Sony camera will print out an image at 2.2x1.7 inches. The Canon 35mm will print out at 6.2x4.1 inches. 4x6 is generally the smallest print that is considered reasonable. At 300 dpi (which is still a decent resolution), the Sony image will be 4.4x3.4 inches. Not even the size of a standard print. The Canon setup however will print out at a full 12x8 inches. Enough for a decent enlargement.
So once again, unless you're taking snapshots of things that aren't really to important to you, don't waste your time trying to replace your 35mm with a digital camera. If you do decide that you just gotta have a digital, then get the best one you can afford because the feature set on the low-end is strictly for point and shoot enthusiasts. Oh yeah, and be leary of the usefulness of any feature that is not directly related to increasing image quality,... most of the digicams out there nowadays are loaded with useless bells and whistles that do nothing but complicate the camera.
And one more thing, if you do get a digicam, .. the service offered by Ofoto.com is outstanding. The 100 free digital prints are worth signing up for alone. I don't work for them but I use them alot, and have grown to love it.
My two cents, Aaron Newsome.
I tried a while back to run Autodesk 3D Studio release 4 under DosEMU but I got a crufty error about DPMI or something. I thne realized in the docs that 3DSR4 was specifically listed as non-op for this very reason.
.. anyone?
Now, after checking the docs on the website link above, I can't find anything that claims one way or the other if this app works.
Any clues,
Can anyone recommend the best Linux Napster tools. It's been a few months since I've tried, but a few months ago all the linux Napster stuff I tried was woefully inadequate. If there are decent Napster tools out there, then I'll forego the http access at http://www.mp3smuggler.com/.
How is this shell any different from the one that's in public domain? Any ideas?
That is pretty cool of Procom to join the GPL scene, but seriously ... who give two shits about NetBEUI anymore. Most NetBIOS networks I see nowadays, run their NetBIOS over TCP/IP, which works about as well as expected.
But NetBEUI? Why would anyone use that in today's day and age. Unless you're designing a high speed system or a standalone custom (like in a auto or something), I see this release news as mostly noisy output from another "me too" open source come lately.
While were at it, can somebody get the source to Lantastic released. I think that would be cool (not).
--Aaron Newsome
I second that motion for an SBLive distro. It really stinks that I bought a shiny new Dell for work and it came with an SBLive card (that's not the part that stinks).
I saw that the OSS driver guys offered an SB!Live driver. I bought it. I tried it. It sucked. The card obviously has some troubles under Linux. I think they should pull the driver and go back to the drawing board until they have a driver that performs at an acceptable level.
--Aaron Newsome
If everybody made links to emtpy .mp3 files on their sites, maybe the RIAA would stay off my back.