Someday, compact flash may be economical enough to power the next generation mp3 players. I too feel that *all* of the current portable mp3 players are way underpowered in terms of memory. An hours worth of portable music that you have to hook up to a computer to get "a different" hours worth of music does not seem all that appealing to me. Actually, it seems like a waste of time and money.
For me, the perfect mp3 portable would be about the size of a walkman and have at least 30GB of storage. We'll see how long it takes for technology to catch up with those requirements.
No matter what the judge says, this suit is still uncool. I guess it's OK to fix the DVD player market so that I can't play DVD's on my computer. I spent alot of money on my DVDs, my computer and my DVD player. Now all I want to do is play them. Is that so hard to understand judge?
I just installed a Proxim Wireless Ethernet Bridge and a single computer with a wirless PCI card, running Windows.
I worked out so slick that I am considering buying an access point for home and buying a PCMCIA card for my laptop, running Linux. However, it seems like finding someone who has used the pcmcia card under linux might be harder than it sounds.
If anyone has used this card under Linux, I'd like to hear about it.
Does anyone who reads/. remember what it was like when it was cool? I do, and it was damn cool. Hey, I'm all for free speech and everything but the AC's who post on/. are a huge embarrasement. It's almost to the point where I feel bad to be a part of something that would allow the crap posted by these AC's to continue to be posted.
Now that/. is frequently quoted, browsed and felt up by the media,... we should start acting like responsible people and do the right thing. The Natalie Portman crap, the Troll proclamations, the First Post,.. please make it all go away. Rob, Hemos, Andover, you are the only people who can make this happen so what are you waiting for?
Me personally, I'm not trying to win any popularity contests so my site will REQUIRE cookies, a valid login, and I'm even thinking of having mandatory fixed IP address.
The real damage from this unchecked AC activity shines bright when you see what happens as the linked CNN interview shows. The media was quick to run to the/. post and I'm sure it took all of about 2 seconds to find a post from some AC spouting off about fuck the law. Of course the plaintiffs eat that stuff up.
Somebody, please do something before/. turns to total crap.
I will get a Napster server for my site and I can start serving up some mp3 files without the RIAA climbing up my ass. http://www.mp3smuggler.com/ --Aaron
True indeed, I too think the Gimp is a better program than Photoshop, especially for the money. I think it's a real bummer that I can't use it in a production environment. Having done quite a bit of work for graphics art firms and printing firms (both digital and traditional press), I can say that the shortcomings don't stop at the printing subsytem. The Gimp also fails when it comes to import and export to deal with all the braindead Windows/Mac programs. Many times i've seen customers send in files to be printed and the EPS or Postscript is just strange enough that the Gimp doesn't even have a chance to open it up. I started telling customers to send along TIF files (huge!), but the Gimp even has trouble with these files when created with some applications. Luckily though, with the TIF format, ImageMagick almost always can rewrite the TIF file or export to PNM (which Gimp *can* deal with pretty reliably).
Truth is, Photoshop was here a *long* time before web graphics were even relevant and it shows. I personally remember using Photoshop back in late 1991, before the web had even caught fire. The Gimp on the other hand seems to have been made with web graphics only in mind, and that too shows.
What's the point? Point is that I personally don't want to learn, maintain and deal with single purpose applications on this particular scale. Great if Gimp is better than Photoshop (which I agree that it is), but I'd be crazy if I'm gonna maintain two applications,... one for web graphics and another one for everything else.
And this is all before I even mention the Canon FS2710 film scanner that I have, usually sitting with the power off, due to the fact that this $800 paper weight will probably never work under Linux.
Like the guy who posted up above about being at WD for 7 years, I too was at WD for a few years. 3 to be exact. It was a shame to see the chip/controller business go by the wayside. It was a shame to see all of the enginering talnet vaporize too. When the chief scientist (Carl) left, I knew that things would go downhill from there. I didn't work in the drive engineering group, but the way I heard it was that Carl was basically responsible for every hard drive design and worthwhile innovation out of WD in the last 15 years.
Now that he's gone and the SCSI business is a memory, you can all expect nothing but crap to come out of this company for years to come.
All of these posters talking about EIDE (or whatever this months incarnation of the ATA spec is) being better than SCSI have no clue what they are talking about. I use my computers alot. Anytime I sit down to a system with any type of IDE drive, I can immediately feel the sluggishness set in, all while the CPU wastes cycles babysitting the rather braindead disk channel. Server or not, SCSI systems are *always* better and I will *always* continue to pay the extra quid to be at the keyboard of a system that doesn't slow me down. For me, that's not EIDE - ever.
Case in point: my shiny new Dell 600MHz system with the best Dell has to offer in EIDE technology. Many fingertip tappings waiting for the fluttering of the hard drive to settle down whilst I work. To me, that's not good technology or a good use of my time. At my earliest conveinance, I'll be swapping out the disc subsytem in favor of something with 80 pins and real bandwidth capability.
I can't believe the number of clueless posters on Slashdot today who don't know what the fundamental difference between a vector illustration program and a bitmap graphics program or where one might be needed instead of the other. If Corel were to read the mindless postings of some of these clueless users, they might not even bother with the port of this and other packages. If they do read these posts I hope they read down far enough to read my post which is screaming... Hey guys, there are real graphic artists out there who desperately need to be free of the Windows OS. Anyone who has ever attempted to do any vector illustration under Linux will tell you that this application is sorely overdue. The only promising applications that I've seen native in Linux are GYVE and Killustrator and both are a very (very) long ways off from being as functional and feature packed as CorelDraw 3 which came out about 5 years ago (which incidentally, *is* available for Linux at the over inflated price of about $500 dollars last time I checked). What would really be nice is if Adobe would get with the program as well and offer up a Photoshop version of Linux. Anyone who says that Gimp is better than Photoshop has never tried to use Gimp in a real pre-press or final-press application. There are not even Pantone matching available on the Gimp which means it's not even in the race. Hopefully Corel and Adobe will read the sensible cries from real business users and do the right thing, which is give us the Linux ports we need to be free of the Microsoft monopoly.
Whatever those Linux uptimes mean, I can say they must not use NFS. I have plenty of Linux servers running both at home and at work, plus a few at customer sites.
All the servers not using NFS for any reason have outstanding uptimes. Those that do use NFS,.. well, they don't.
I find myself constantly needing to reboot system because of some NFS snafu. The most common problems are occasionaly a server will stop accepting nfs mount requests from a client. The clients say RPC Timed Out. This prompts me to restart the NFS service on the server:
Sometime it works sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it says "Bind Failed, Port already In Use". Huh?
Another favorite is trying to restart a system that has any NFS components running. On Redhat systems the shutdown comes to the point where it says Unmounting NFS volumes and just hangs,... forever. Is it just me or does anyone think this is completley unaceptable.
Sometimes the NFS frustration on Linux is so much that I feel prompted to write a book and title it "Why Does NFS on Linux Suck So Badly", but I don't think it would get published. Maybe a book called "NFS Annoyances" and have O'Reilly publish it.
Moderate it as flame bait or whatever you like, I just had to get that off my chest.
Has anyone seen the latest add from Microsft. It clearly says "More sites on the Internet use IIS and Windows NT than other other OS/Server combinations, even Solaris*".
* September 1999 Netcraft survey
This is clearly crap. Can they do this with a good conscience? IIS is *way* behind Apache in number of websites, so how can they publish such crap with a good conscience. Either way, the PHB's will read that crap and buy into it.
Rob, Hemos, Roblimo and all,... I hope you're listening. This story should have never been posted at all. I've read through all of the comments (moderated @ 3 or higher) and I tend to agree with most of them. This story should have stayed on debian-legal until it really was a story. Obviously Bruce was upset and *shouting* a bit to his closest correspondence partners to let off some steam. Only problem was his steam happens to be publicly available on the Internet and you folks choose to run a story on it,... big mistake judging on the proportions that this hype has grown to.
And Bruce apologizes to Corel ? Slashdot should apologize to everybody including Bruce and the Slashdot reader community.
Bottom line is, I'm a 4 year Linux only user who has been *DESPERATELY* waiting for Windows quality apps to come to Linux. Replacements for apps like Corel Draw, Pagemaker, Microsoft Money, etc would make my life a hell of alot easier. Corel is the first company that has even come close to giving me hope that I will eventually get Linux replacements for these apps.
Let's try not to piss them off before they even get the first app out the door (wp doesn't count, there are plenty of word proc apps and I use vim mostly anyway). I'd also like to see for once the Linux "lynch em all" attitude chill just for a moment and realize that everything that Corel is doing for the Linux users is ultimately a good thing.
It looks like Roblimo might be a little paranoid in his claims about Microsoft. I have a really strong feeling that Microsoft did nothing intentional to break the Lotus product, and I'll even go out on a limb and say that Lotus probably made the problem themselves by using outdated or unpublished API's even after being warned not to by Microsoft.
On the other hand, either way the end result is still the same in that Lotus gets broken, and that should have been caught in the extensive (yeah right) testing done by MS prior to releasing this beast on the world
I've been waiting for a usable version of wine for at least 3 years now. It's not any more usable for me now, than the first day I started waiting. How long should we be waiting? If it doesn't run the apps I need then it is useless for me.
If this is true (which is beleivable), then I guess us non Microsoft Operating System users are doomed for life without a decent stable web browser.
I have been a Linux only user for almost 3 years now (no MS allowed), and I've been patiently waiting for a decent web browser to be available for my platform, which is currently a Redhat 6.0 box.
So far,.. no such luck. Netscape 4.x is barely a workable solution but this is what I've been stuck with for a really time now.
If IE was available for Linux, I seriously wouldn't care if Netscape died a horrible death or not. All I want is a decent web browser for my computer system of choice.
If I had a nickel for everytime I've ever seen "Bus Error" on my machine while trying to run Netscape, I'd be a rich man. Java applets usually crash the browser, as well as just about anything else that's not well behaved pure html.
And while I'm on a rant has anyone appreciated the crappy Motif toolkit used with those awful pushbutton checkboxes on forms. Or the dropdown list widget that fills up your entire screen on drop downs that have many items. What's that all about?
So I'll be patiently waiting for a decent browser for Linux. I'd even pay for it. Whatever it takes... I wonder how lng I'll be waiting.
If this is true (which is beleivable), then I guess us non Microsoft Operating System users are doomed for life without a decent stable web browser.
I have been a Linux only user for almost 3 years now (no MS allowed), and I've been patiently waiting for a decent web browser to be available for my platform, which is currently a Redhat 6.0 box.
So far,.. no such luck. Netscape 4.x is barely a workable solution but this is what I've been stuck with for a really time now.
If IE was available for Linux, I seriously wouldn't care if Netscape died a horrible death or not. All I want is a decent web browser for my computer system of choice.
If I had a nickel for everytime I've ever seen "Bus Error" on my machine while trying to run Netscape, I'd be a rich man. Java applets usually crash the browser, as well as just about anything else that's not well behaved pure html.
And while I'm on a rant has anyone appreciated the crappy Motif toolkit used with those awful pushbutton checkboxes on forms. Or the dropdown list widget that fills up your entire screen on drop downs that have many items. What's that all about?
So I'll be patiently waiting for a decent browser for Linux. I'd even pay for it. Whatever it takes... I wonder how lng I'll be waiting.
I have ripped and encoded about 2,500 files myself. I disagree with the other poster who claimed that bladeenc is fast at all. It seems to be a pretty slow encoder for me, but then again I encode at 256K. I have heard that bladeenc will encode in near realtime on a 233Mhz at 128K. But I can tell you that it comes no where near realtime even on my 400Mhz with 256MB Ram. I don't think I'll be changing encoders any time soon unless someone demonstrates a noticeably better sound quality encoder. --Aaron
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Sounds like you answered you own question. The only thing to do is A.) Get your ISP to do the right thing, which is move adult content to another server and work with CyberPatrol to remove the block for the clean server. or B.) Get a new ISP that doesn't talerate such crap from customers for a few bucks.
If anyone has ever been on the receiving and of a monthly headache such as Columbia House, you'd agree that this could only be a good thing. Dealing with those autmoatic shipments every month really suck. The only way I could get them to stop is let them ship one and then refuse to pay for it or send it back. That seemed to stop them from coming.
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Someday, compact flash may be economical enough to power the next generation mp3 players. I too feel that *all* of the current portable mp3 players are way underpowered in terms of memory. An hours worth of portable music that you have to hook up to a computer to get "a different" hours worth of music does not seem all that appealing to me. Actually, it seems like a waste of time and money.
For me, the perfect mp3 portable would be about the size of a walkman and have at least 30GB of storage. We'll see how long it takes for technology to catch up with those requirements.
Well, Redhat may not be the end all to be all, but it's nice to see that someone is thinking along the right lines over there.
No matter what the judge says, this suit is still uncool. I guess it's OK to fix the DVD player market so that I can't play DVD's on my computer. I spent alot of money on my DVDs, my computer and my DVD player. Now all I want to do is play them. Is that so hard to understand judge?
I just installed a Proxim Wireless Ethernet Bridge and a single computer with a wirless PCI card, running Windows.
I worked out so slick that I am considering buying an access point for home and buying a PCMCIA card for my laptop, running Linux. However, it seems like finding someone who has used the pcmcia card under linux might be harder than it sounds.
If anyone has used this card under Linux, I'd like to hear about it.
I've been waiting for someone to opensource the Altavista search engine. Now I can finally put the old rusting Cray to use that's in the backyard.
Now that /. is frequently quoted, browsed and felt up by the media,... we should start acting like responsible people and do the right thing. The Natalie Portman crap, the Troll proclamations, the First Post, .. please make it all go away. Rob, Hemos, Andover, you are the only people who can make this happen so what are you waiting for?
Me personally, I'm not trying to win any popularity contests so my site will REQUIRE cookies, a valid login, and I'm even thinking of having mandatory fixed IP address.
The real damage from this unchecked AC activity shines bright when you see what happens as the linked CNN interview shows. The media was quick to run to the /. post and I'm sure it took all of about 2 seconds to find a post from some AC spouting off about fuck the law. Of course the plaintiffs eat that stuff up.
Somebody, please do something before /. turns to total crap.
Aaron Newsome
I will get a Napster server for my site and I can start serving up some mp3 files without the RIAA climbing up my ass. http://www.mp3smuggler.com/ --Aaron
Truth is, Photoshop was here a *long* time before web graphics were even relevant and it shows. I personally remember using Photoshop back in late 1991, before the web had even caught fire. The Gimp on the other hand seems to have been made with web graphics only in mind, and that too shows.
What's the point? Point is that I personally don't want to learn, maintain and deal with single purpose applications on this particular scale. Great if Gimp is better than Photoshop (which I agree that it is), but I'd be crazy if I'm gonna maintain two applications,... one for web graphics and another one for everything else.
And this is all before I even mention the Canon FS2710 film scanner that I have, usually sitting with the power off, due to the fact that this $800 paper weight will probably never work under Linux.
Now that he's gone and the SCSI business is a memory, you can all expect nothing but crap to come out of this company for years to come.
All of these posters talking about EIDE (or whatever this months incarnation of the ATA spec is) being better than SCSI have no clue what they are talking about. I use my computers alot. Anytime I sit down to a system with any type of IDE drive, I can immediately feel the sluggishness set in, all while the CPU wastes cycles babysitting the rather braindead disk channel. Server or not, SCSI systems are *always* better and I will *always* continue to pay the extra quid to be at the keyboard of a system that doesn't slow me down. For me, that's not EIDE - ever.
Case in point: my shiny new Dell 600MHz system with the best Dell has to offer in EIDE technology. Many fingertip tappings waiting for the fluttering of the hard drive to settle down whilst I work. To me, that's not good technology or a good use of my time. At my earliest conveinance, I'll be swapping out the disc subsytem in favor of something with 80 pins and real bandwidth capability.
I can't believe the number of clueless posters on Slashdot today who don't know what the fundamental difference between a vector illustration program and a bitmap graphics program or where one might be needed instead of the other. If Corel were to read the mindless postings of some of these clueless users, they might not even bother with the port of this and other packages. If they do read these posts I hope they read down far enough to read my post which is screaming ... Hey guys, there are real graphic artists out there who desperately need to be free of the Windows OS. Anyone who has ever attempted to do any vector illustration under Linux will tell you that this application is sorely overdue. The only promising applications that I've seen native in Linux are GYVE and Killustrator and both are a very (very) long ways off from being as functional and feature packed as CorelDraw 3 which came out about 5 years ago (which incidentally, *is* available for Linux at the over inflated price of about $500 dollars last time I checked). What would really be nice is if Adobe would get with the program as well and offer up a Photoshop version of Linux. Anyone who says that Gimp is better than Photoshop has never tried to use Gimp in a real pre-press or final-press application. There are not even Pantone matching available on the Gimp which means it's not even in the race. Hopefully Corel and Adobe will read the sensible cries from real business users and do the right thing, which is give us the Linux ports we need to be free of the Microsoft monopoly.
Anyone who thinks that the Gimp is better than Photoshop has never had to do any real press work with it.
All the servers not using NFS for any reason have outstanding uptimes. Those that do use NFS, .. well, they don't.
I find myself constantly needing to reboot system because of some NFS snafu. The most common problems are occasionaly a server will stop accepting nfs mount requests from a client. The clients say RPC Timed Out. This prompts me to restart the NFS service on the server:
Sometime it works sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it says "Bind Failed, Port already In Use". Huh?
Another favorite is trying to restart a system that has any NFS components running. On Redhat systems the shutdown comes to the point where it says Unmounting NFS volumes and just hangs, ... forever. Is it just me or does anyone think this is completley unaceptable.
Sometimes the NFS frustration on Linux is so much that I feel prompted to write a book and title it "Why Does NFS on Linux Suck So Badly", but I don't think it would get published. Maybe a book called "NFS Annoyances" and have O'Reilly publish it.
Moderate it as flame bait or whatever you like, I just had to get that off my chest.
Aaron Newsome
Has anyone seen the latest add from Microsft. It clearly says "More sites on the Internet use IIS and Windows NT than other other OS/Server combinations, even Solaris*".
* September 1999 Netcraft survey
This is clearly crap. Can they do this with a good conscience? IIS is *way* behind Apache in number of websites, so how can they publish such crap with a good conscience. Either way, the PHB's will read that crap and buy into it.
Sorry Rob, but I think this was posted a few weeks ago.
Oh yeah, shameless site plugs in the comment forum doesn't bother me.
http://www.mp3smuggler.com/. Thanks, Aaron
Rob, Hemos, Roblimo and all, ... I hope you're listening. This story should have never been posted at all. I've read through all of the comments (moderated @ 3 or higher) and I tend to agree with most of them. This story should have stayed on debian-legal until it really was a story. Obviously Bruce was upset and *shouting* a bit to his closest correspondence partners to let off some steam. Only problem was his steam happens to be publicly available on the Internet and you folks choose to run a story on it,... big mistake judging on the proportions that this hype has grown to.
And Bruce apologizes to Corel ? Slashdot should apologize to everybody including Bruce and the Slashdot reader community.
Bottom line is, I'm a 4 year Linux only user who has been *DESPERATELY* waiting for Windows quality apps to come to Linux. Replacements for apps like Corel Draw, Pagemaker, Microsoft Money, etc would make my life a hell of alot easier. Corel is the first company that has even come close to giving me hope that I will eventually get Linux replacements for these apps.
Let's try not to piss them off before they even get the first app out the door (wp doesn't count, there are plenty of word proc apps and I use vim mostly anyway). I'd also like to see for once the Linux "lynch em all" attitude chill just for a moment and realize that everything that Corel is doing for the Linux users is ultimately a good thing.
Thanks, Aaron Newsome
On the other hand, either way the end result is still the same in that Lotus gets broken, and that should have been caught in the extensive (yeah right) testing done by MS prior to releasing this beast on the world
I've been waiting for a usable version of wine for at least 3 years now. It's not any more usable for me now, than the first day I started waiting. How long should we be waiting? If it doesn't run the apps I need then it is useless for me.
--Aaron Newsome
I have been a Linux only user for almost 3 years now (no MS allowed), and I've been patiently waiting for a decent web browser to be available for my platform, which is currently a Redhat 6.0 box.
So far, .. no such luck. Netscape 4.x is barely a workable solution but this is what I've been stuck with for a really time now.
If IE was available for Linux, I seriously wouldn't care if Netscape died a horrible death or not. All I want is a decent web browser for my computer system of choice.
If I had a nickel for everytime I've ever seen "Bus Error" on my machine while trying to run Netscape, I'd be a rich man. Java applets usually crash the browser, as well as just about anything else that's not well behaved pure html.
And while I'm on a rant has anyone appreciated the crappy Motif toolkit used with those awful pushbutton checkboxes on forms. Or the dropdown list widget that fills up your entire screen on drop downs that have many items. What's that all about?
So I'll be patiently waiting for a decent browser for Linux. I'd even pay for it. Whatever it takes ... I wonder how lng I'll be waiting.
Thanks Aaron Newsome
I have been a Linux only user for almost 3 years now (no MS allowed), and I've been patiently waiting for a decent web browser to be available for my platform, which is currently a Redhat 6.0 box.
So far,
If IE was available for Linux, I seriously wouldn't care if Netscape died a horrible death or not. All I want is a decent web browser for my computer system of choice.
If I had a nickel for everytime I've ever seen "Bus Error" on my machine while trying to run Netscape, I'd be a rich man. Java applets usually crash the browser, as well as just about anything else that's not well behaved pure html.
And while I'm on a rant has anyone appreciated the crappy Motif toolkit used with those awful pushbutton checkboxes on forms. Or the dropdown list widget that fills up your entire screen on drop downs that have many items. What's that all about?
So I'll be patiently waiting for a decent browser for Linux. I'd even pay for it. Whatever it takes
Thanks Aaron Newsome
I have ripped and encoded about 2,500 files myself. I disagree with the other poster who claimed that bladeenc is fast at all. It seems to be a pretty slow encoder for me, but then again I encode at 256K. I have heard that bladeenc will encode in near realtime on a 233Mhz at 128K. But I can tell you that it comes no where near realtime even on my 400Mhz with 256MB Ram. I don't think I'll be changing encoders any time soon unless someone demonstrates a noticeably better sound quality encoder. --Aaron
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Sounds like you answered you own question. The only thing to do is A.) Get your ISP to do the right thing, which is move adult content to another server and work with CyberPatrol to remove the block for the clean server. or B.) Get a new ISP that doesn't talerate such crap from customers for a few bucks.
If you're interested in this kind of thing, you should consider subscribing. --Aaron
If anyone has ever been on the receiving and of a monthly headache such as Columbia House, you'd agree that this could only be a good thing. Dealing with those autmoatic shipments every month really suck. The only way I could get them to stop is let them ship one and then refuse to pay for it or send it back. That seemed to stop them from coming.