What about the programs named after their window manager - like Kthis and Gthat or Xother?!
The whole Apple "i" obsession (iMac, iPod, iBook...) well, just don't get me started!
I have 6-way power strips coming from every outlet in my apartment, and of those, I think one socket is free.
I need one more coax outlet in my apartment (the one I have is already split between cable modem and 2 TV's) and could even do with another telephone socket.
Some patch panels would be nice too, so that the entire bottom half of my apartment doesn't have to be on wireless.
Oh and can someone fix the quality of the wiring so that my X10 devices work reliably?
I guess I really need to buy my own house and have the electricians in....
I can't seem to find any useful system specs on the site/forum:
Does it work over Samba/FTP/SSH, or is it all via Windows software or some crappy Java applet?
Does it appear as a USB hard drive with a FAT32 filesystem or similar?
Does it run ethernet at 100BaseT?
Are there any hacking efforts to put these features in?
Me and a couple of friends came up with something like this idea.
Basically you can have a tiny WinXP backup drive to boot to, which will provide NTFS support and drivers for whatever RAID/SCSI/CD-RW/Network/Firewire etc. equipment you have, but most importantly, a nice GUI!;o)
So when you main Windows partition goes tits up, there's no need for boot disks etc. just set the backup partition to active and restore using Ghost or whatever LIVE.
Three main problems I've found when (briefly) looking at the demos of Ghost 7, DriveImage 7 and TrueImage 6:
1. you can't backup a system disk live - i.e. you can't boot into Windows and backup your C: drive (DI7 can do this)
2. Linux/XP support - only the very latest versions (and usually only the corporate versions) of these programs can backup ext3/NTFS partitions.
3. Boot sector copying - I've never managed to properly restore a dual boot system (see below) as nothing seems to properly backup the MBR/LILO.
Drive Image 7:
DI7 can't handle any Linux partition types and I've heard that "it can't handle dual boot systems" which I can only assume means that it doesn't snapshot the MBR either.
Most people I've talked to agree that DI5 was the last decent version, but only worked from DOS.
Acronis TrueImage 6:
When I tried Acronis when I was getting a bigger HD for my laptop, it backed it up, then couldn't copy it to my RAID drive as it didn't have drivers, and I never got networking to work. When I eventually managed to backup to my IDE drive, the image was then un-restorable for some reason, which I think had something to do with not saving NTLoader from the MBR.
Symantec (Norton) Ghost 7:
I've not tried Ghost7 much myself, but a friend managed to backup an ext3 and NTFS dual boot system, but could only get Linux to work when he restored it - XP just wouldn't boot, which might also have been an MBR issue....
Totalnic lock all your domains so you have to write to Australia (snail mail!) to request them to be unlocked before transferring them away.
Godaddy will not charge you if a transfer to them is unsuccessful (e.g. when I tried to transfer from Totalnic to Godaddy and found that my domains were locked!).
Easily makes it pretty easy to deal with co.uk domains - not all the crappy paperwork of Nominet.
Really good joke that one, you almost got me up until point #3 where I realised you were being sarcastic.
The data structures thing really took it too far though dude....
All my Mac-loving friends say running KazaA is the #1 reason to buy VirtualPC!
I like the VMWare idea too, you could even keep your warez within the VM Disk, so at the touch of a button you no longer run KazaA or have any MP3s, ka-ching!
...and you'll have a REAL uprising on your hands RIAA.
Someone really needs to take these fsckers down, since when could corporations just get laws passed for anything they please?
Does anyone know anyone who works for RIAA? I mean there must be some techies working there who are just hating all the curruption!
OK, so if I download a CD full of songs, I'll pay the artist directly $15 and I'll give 50c for the production of the CD.
I'm not paying RIAA anything, in fact this has stopped me buying CD's now, even though I don't download MP3s.
I think a few modern-thinking artists should setup an iTunes-like site where 100% of the money goes to them, not 11%, they could totally cut out the record companies.
Everyone is missing the point here with the MD5 hashes.
OK, if you use the defaults in your MP3 encoder, and the ID3 tags from CDDB the *encoding* would be the same, but not the end file. Know why?
The rippring process differs greatly - you've got things like scratches on discs that some CD-ROMs will pick up as errors and some won't, you've got pauses due to slow processor/HD on different computers etc.
The only way I'd say to get an identical file would be to rip it using the same computer, encoder and CDDB - in which case "Jane Doe" must have been the original producer of the Napster file if the KazaA one matches it (or she copied it from someone else).
She's guilty as Hell, but personally I support her as the RIAA/MPAA are scum.
Slashdot Mirror
You mean you didn't go for the Perl::Necklace module?!
I've had the "Delay Write" error on WinXP Pro SP1a too - in fact this was a Maxtor 8Mb cache ATA133 80Gb running off an ATA-133 RAID card.
I was using it to stream MPEG2 from my PVR card.
The only way to fix it was to plug the drive into the mobo's UDMA-100 slot!
What about the programs named after their window manager - like Kthis and Gthat or Xother?! The whole Apple "i" obsession (iMac, iPod, iBook...) well, just don't get me started!
I have 6-way power strips coming from every outlet in my apartment, and of those, I think one socket is free.
I need one more coax outlet in my apartment (the one I have is already split between cable modem and 2 TV's) and could even do with another telephone socket.
Some patch panels would be nice too, so that the entire bottom half of my apartment doesn't have to be on wireless.
Oh and can someone fix the quality of the wiring so that my X10 devices work reliably?
I guess I really need to buy my own house and have the electricians in....
I can't seem to find any useful system specs on the site/forum: Does it work over Samba/FTP/SSH, or is it all via Windows software or some crappy Java applet? Does it appear as a USB hard drive with a FAT32 filesystem or similar? Does it run ethernet at 100BaseT? Are there any hacking efforts to put these features in?
This is old news, I thought from the headline that they had finally released 8x DVD-R, but 8x DVD+R's have been available for weeks.
He was probably being unhelpful so that he could give the job to his cousin from Bangalor....
Me and a couple of friends came up with something like this idea. Basically you can have a tiny WinXP backup drive to boot to, which will provide NTFS support and drivers for whatever RAID/SCSI/CD-RW/Network/Firewire etc. equipment you have, but most importantly, a nice GUI! ;o)
So when you main Windows partition goes tits up, there's no need for boot disks etc. just set the backup partition to active and restore using Ghost or whatever LIVE.
Three main problems I've found when (briefly) looking at the demos of Ghost 7, DriveImage 7 and TrueImage 6:
1. you can't backup a system disk live - i.e. you can't boot into Windows and backup your C: drive (DI7 can do this)
2. Linux/XP support - only the very latest versions (and usually only the corporate versions) of these programs can backup ext3/NTFS partitions.
3. Boot sector copying - I've never managed to properly restore a dual boot system (see below) as nothing seems to properly backup the MBR/LILO.
Drive Image 7:
DI7 can't handle any Linux partition types and I've heard that "it can't handle dual boot systems" which I can only assume means that it doesn't snapshot the MBR either.
Most people I've talked to agree that DI5 was the last decent version, but only worked from DOS.
Acronis TrueImage 6:
When I tried Acronis when I was getting a bigger HD for my laptop, it backed it up, then couldn't copy it to my RAID drive as it didn't have drivers, and I never got networking to work. When I eventually managed to backup to my IDE drive, the image was then un-restorable for some reason, which I think had something to do with not saving NTLoader from the MBR.
Symantec (Norton) Ghost 7:
I've not tried Ghost7 much myself, but a friend managed to backup an ext3 and NTFS dual boot system, but could only get Linux to work when he restored it - XP just wouldn't boot, which might also have been an MBR issue....
I keep hearing about all these other Star Wars films/cartoons, but have never seen them, personally I have heard of:
Holiday Special (Wookies)
Battle for Endor (Ewoks) and apparently a sequel
Phantom Edit (unofficial Ep1 with Jar Jar removed)
...this was going to be a story about the Flash killer plugin for Mozilla Firebird?!
So again Microsoft is going to use it's own form to kill another established format (Flash) and not even consider a standard format (SVG).
Or the domain would be up for auction by now, without the possibility of you being able to transfer it to another registrar: www.suit-u-sir.com
Then we'd be able to shoot anyone who sends us UCE (maybe we should extend that to anyone who cuts us up on the freeway?!)
The story looks like unprofessional BS to me - do reporters go to university to learn things like scientific method and statistics?
Anyone who opens, let alone replies to, an Email entitled "Fr33 Viagara, increase your P#E@N%I!S size" deserves to be shot too.
Best for international - godaddy.com
Worst for international - icann.totalnic.net
Best for UK - easily.co.uk
Totalnic lock all your domains so you have to write to Australia (snail mail!) to request them to be unlocked before transferring them away.
Godaddy will not charge you if a transfer to them is unsuccessful (e.g. when I tried to transfer from Totalnic to Godaddy and found that my domains were locked!).
Easily makes it pretty easy to deal with co.uk domains - not all the crappy paperwork of Nominet.
That's try actually, my boss is married to one of the sand people from Star Wars.
;o)
I couldn't help but grin at the slaughter in Episode II, even better than A New Hope, just for that scene!
I doubt I'm earning more than my 5'0 dwarven boss.
Really good joke that one, you almost got me up until point #3 where I realised you were being sarcastic. The data structures thing really took it too far though dude....
Gotta agree with you there.
I used to love PHP, but I've found it way too slow for things that Perl is good at - regex and array manipulation.
Don't even get me started on the crappy XML-RPC implementations for PHP!
Newsgroups seem to be disappearing and re-appearing like mad this last couple of weeks.
Plus the number of posts indicators seem to have been reset or something.
See comp.sys.acorn.* for an example.
All my Mac-loving friends say running KazaA is the #1 reason to buy VirtualPC! I like the VMWare idea too, you could even keep your warez within the VM Disk, so at the touch of a button you no longer run KazaA or have any MP3s, ka-ching!
...and you'll have a REAL uprising on your hands RIAA. Someone really needs to take these fsckers down, since when could corporations just get laws passed for anything they please? Does anyone know anyone who works for RIAA? I mean there must be some techies working there who are just hating all the curruption!
So that's any VIA chipset or Phoenix/AMI BIOS that I'm not going to buy.
OK, so if I download a CD full of songs, I'll pay the artist directly $15 and I'll give 50c for the production of the CD.
I'm not paying RIAA anything, in fact this has stopped me buying CD's now, even though I don't download MP3s.
I think a few modern-thinking artists should setup an iTunes-like site where 100% of the money goes to them, not 11%, they could totally cut out the record companies.
Everyone is missing the point here with the MD5 hashes.
OK, if you use the defaults in your MP3 encoder, and the ID3 tags from CDDB the *encoding* would be the same, but not the end file. Know why?
The rippring process differs greatly - you've got things like scratches on discs that some CD-ROMs will pick up as errors and some won't, you've got pauses due to slow processor/HD on different computers etc.
The only way I'd say to get an identical file would be to rip it using the same computer, encoder and CDDB - in which case "Jane Doe" must have been the original producer of the Napster file if the KazaA one matches it (or she copied it from someone else).
She's guilty as Hell, but personally I support her as the RIAA/MPAA are scum.
Great, so now we'll have two 64-Bit processors that won't run most of your apps because VIA has put hardware DRM on the motherboard!
I'm going with SiS for now, or maybe Intel.