Who said anything about time travel? How about "they screwed something up in the time line by messing with the spheres, and WWII is still going on, with a little alien assistance"
Only thing is it hasn't been binary pkgs haven't been rereleased for current distros
Actually, dag's repository has rpm's for current redhat-based distros. Works great in fc1 and fc2, except that multi-gnome-terminal isn't gtk2-friendly so the colors are all off (I need to backport my theme to the older gtk).
IBM announced them a copule months ago and already ships them.
That would be Hitachi (others pointed that out).
On that note, the Hitachi drives come with a warning that they should not be left on for more than 24 hours (ie. not for use in servers). What good is a 400G drive if you can't use it in a server? Very few applications (if any) call for that much space in a desktop system.
until the automated TV listing parser stops working
Yeah, except that zap2it now provides users with a direct xml feed for free (well, at the cost of a small survey every 3 months). It's integrated into mythtv, and there is a grabber for xmltv.
this leads certain ISPs to decide to run a blanket block on port 25, which is a real pain in the ass for those of us who *want* to run our own mailservers
If you're on a cable ISP who does this sort of thing (or is thinking of doing such a thing), you should check that agreement you made when you signed up for service. Not only do they not give you permission to run your own services, most of them explicitly forbid you from doing so. So despite the fact that it costs me a bit more, and my download speeds aren't as fast, I went out and got a real ISP.
I use windows for: dvdshrink to back up videos I buy, creating home movie DVD's (since as much as I'd like there to be, there isn't anything nearly as nice for linux, and my mac is too old to use imovie/idvd), and Worms World Party (less since I got SSX 3). Oh, I also use it for Photoshop stuff and IE-compliance testing at work (I have both a linux box and a windows box at work)
I use linux for everything else. Despite linux's shortcomings in the UI department, I find that I have trouble living without a tabbed (gnome) terminal and true virtual desktops.
Don't forget that shift-insert is almost always used to paste the X clipboard (as opposed to the ctrl-c/ctrl-v one managed by the desktop environment). But then some programs (gecko browsers being the most annoying for me) go and alias this to the functionality of ctrl-v, so I have no keyboard equivalent for middle-click paste.
Not to get nitpicky here, but with people throwing these terms around, I thought I'd point out the real difference. A chef is someone who is in charge of cooks. Plain and simple. If you are not in charge, no matter what your level of education or knowledge, you are a cook (or a "culinary professional," as they seem to prefer to be called these days). The exception being those who have attained the highest levels of certification, though at that point, it would be rare to find one not working as a chef.
Thus: Emeril is a chef, but honestly he's not a very good cook; Alton is not a chef, but is a decent cook, and an even better teacher; Wolfgang Puck is a chef, and a damn good cook.
When I first heard that theatres were thinking of doing this (this technique has been talked about for quite awhile), my first thought was that I needed to get myself a really bright infrared LED to mount on a hat...
Why does no one mod the parent up? This site claims to be the official package-download site, and personally I'd much rather install an rpm than leave "loose" files on my system.
Dunno. If I was taken to court twice for $250k (last I heard, the maximum possible penalty for a single copyright infringement offense), with the posibility of losing, I would fear for my life and/or limbs. Living requires food and shelter, and food/shelter require money. If all of my money (and then some - I don't have anywhere near $250k) was taken by the RIAA or the gov't, I wouldn't have food/shelter.
But you are correct. A lawsuit is not a trial in the sense intended by the Double Jeopardy clause.
There is a lot of stuff that runs behind the scenes at livejournal that isn't actually part of the livejournal package (we build their hardware, and have had chats with their developers about some of the cool stuff they're doing). But you're right, all of the basic functionality is there in the OSS version.
Livejournal may be open source, but much of what you get through their service is not part of the open source package. It also won't run under apache 2.x (yet?).
That reminds me of college. My freshman year, my RA needed some computer help, which I was happy to do for him. In return, he bought me a 6-pack of some decent microbrew. Nice to have role models like that.
So if you have to send email through their server, which adds a hidden tracking image and then resends the message, wouldn't all of this be blocked by SPF-aware servers? I can't even send orkut invitations out because they send "from" me and they're not in my SPF record.
Them: We are calling to see how many children you have..
Except that survey calls are explicitly allowed by the national DNC list (along with charities and political organizations, and anyone else not selling anything - which unfortunately includes those companies who want to schedule an appointment with you where they will THEN try to to sell you something)
Honestly, I just wanted to spread the word. I figure that the more people in power who can be made aware of the problems with the DMCA, the more likely that it and other similarly evil bills (PATRIOT) will be rewritten/revoked.
I believe that this is the DMCRA bill, and the EFF has a contact form all filled out and ready to be faxed (remember, it's a lot easier to ignore an email than a fax) to your local representative. I also copied and slightly modified this text and sent it to my state senators.
This bill not only allows for making backups, but would require that copy protected so-called CD's be properly labeled as such, and would allow people who own encrypted media (say, a DVD) to bypass the copy protection in order to view it (say, in GNU/Linux).
The problem is not with the player, but with the id3v2 tag spec. Until the latest (v2.4, I think) version, id3 tags have been specifically set to the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) charset. This means that any compliant player will interpret the characters as Latin1, no matter what they look like. The latest spec activates a "charset" flag, which I think allows a total of 3 charsets, one of which is UTF-8. Unfortunately, id3lib does not support this version of id3v2, so there aren't really any tag editors that are able to write UTF-8 tags (easytag's author is working on migrating away from id3lib, but it's far from ready yet). I was able to test all of this by hacking up my copy of perl's MP3::Tag library to write the UTF-8 flag, and watching rhythmbox correctly display the UTF-8 tags (gstreamer's tag reader is aware of the latest tag version), although xmms still had issues.
Playfair is the equivalent of a Windows OS keygen.
And here I thought that the authors were going out of their way to show that they're about fair use, not copyright infringement (even going so far as to NOT remove the purchaser's information from the files, just the DRM). I mean, what good is it if I want to buy a song from the iTMS, but then (since I don't really use Windows or MacOS) want to share that song out via MythMusic, or listen to it in RhythmBox.
Yes, I would agree with you that the RIAA is giving the artists their cut, but you misread the original equation..99 -.70 -.20 -.20 == -.01, not.01. Though, given that royalty payments are often less than 1%, a penny from a $.99 song is probably accurate for most artists.
under close examination (microscope) a man made diamond is too perfect
Not "too perfect," just a lot fewer flaws. Each process for making gems (diamonds, sapphires, etc) is specific to each manufacturer, and since their slurries and seeds are different from each other (and naturally-formed stones), and consistent, each brand has a specific spectrographic signature. A visual examination can return a "best guess," but even a well-trained eye could still mistake a really good natural gem for a lab-grown one. But basically, the only SURE way to tell is with a spectrograph. The molecular structore of the created gems themselves is identical to natural ones, but the particular mixture used to create them still leaves enough behind to alter the spectrographic signature.
I did quite a bit of research (mostly out of curiosity) about this while I was shopping for engagement rings. There is some info on this manufacturer's website, and I'm sure a google search would turn up a lot more.
Funny. I would have just run MemTest from a floppy (or pxe boot at work) instead of wiping the whole OS. Then again, I have a dual boot machine and use linux 95% of the time, anyway.
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Who said anything about time travel? How about "they screwed something up in the time line by messing with the spheres, and WWII is still going on, with a little alien assistance"
Actually, dag's repository has rpm's for current redhat-based distros. Works great in fc1 and fc2, except that multi-gnome-terminal isn't gtk2-friendly so the colors are all off (I need to backport my theme to the older gtk).
That would be Hitachi (others pointed that out). On that note, the Hitachi drives come with a warning that they should not be left on for more than 24 hours (ie. not for use in servers). What good is a 400G drive if you can't use it in a server? Very few applications (if any) call for that much space in a desktop system.
Yeah, except that zap2it now provides users with a direct xml feed for free (well, at the cost of a small survey every 3 months). It's integrated into mythtv, and there is a grabber for xmltv.
If you're on a cable ISP who does this sort of thing (or is thinking of doing such a thing), you should check that agreement you made when you signed up for service. Not only do they not give you permission to run your own services, most of them explicitly forbid you from doing so. So despite the fact that it costs me a bit more, and my download speeds aren't as fast, I went out and got a real ISP.
I use linux for everything else. Despite linux's shortcomings in the UI department, I find that I have trouble living without a tabbed (gnome) terminal and true virtual desktops.
Don't forget that shift-insert is almost always used to paste the X clipboard (as opposed to the ctrl-c/ctrl-v one managed by the desktop environment). But then some programs (gecko browsers being the most annoying for me) go and alias this to the functionality of ctrl-v, so I have no keyboard equivalent for middle-click paste.
Not to get nitpicky here, but with people throwing these terms around, I thought I'd point out the real difference. A chef is someone who is in charge of cooks. Plain and simple. If you are not in charge, no matter what your level of education or knowledge, you are a cook (or a "culinary professional," as they seem to prefer to be called these days). The exception being those who have attained the highest levels of certification, though at that point, it would be rare to find one not working as a chef.
Thus: Emeril is a chef, but honestly he's not a very good cook; Alton is not a chef, but is a decent cook, and an even better teacher; Wolfgang Puck is a chef, and a damn good cook.
When I first heard that theatres were thinking of doing this (this technique has been talked about for quite awhile), my first thought was that I needed to get myself a really bright infrared LED to mount on a hat...
Why does no one mod the parent up? This site claims to be the official package-download site, and personally I'd much rather install an rpm than leave "loose" files on my system.
Dunno. If I was taken to court twice for $250k (last I heard, the maximum possible penalty for a single copyright infringement offense), with the posibility of losing, I would fear for my life and/or limbs. Living requires food and shelter, and food/shelter require money. If all of my money (and then some - I don't have anywhere near $250k) was taken by the RIAA or the gov't, I wouldn't have food/shelter.
But you are correct. A lawsuit is not a trial in the sense intended by the Double Jeopardy clause.
There is a lot of stuff that runs behind the scenes at livejournal that isn't actually part of the livejournal package (we build their hardware, and have had chats with their developers about some of the cool stuff they're doing). But you're right, all of the basic functionality is there in the OSS version.
Livejournal may be open source, but much of what you get through their service is not part of the open source package. It also won't run under apache 2.x (yet?).
That reminds me of college. My freshman year, my RA needed some computer help, which I was happy to do for him. In return, he bought me a 6-pack of some decent microbrew. Nice to have role models like that.
So if you have to send email through their server, which adds a hidden tracking image and then resends the message, wouldn't all of this be blocked by SPF-aware servers? I can't even send orkut invitations out because they send "from" me and they're not in my SPF record.
Except that survey calls are explicitly allowed by the national DNC list (along with charities and political organizations, and anyone else not selling anything - which unfortunately includes those companies who want to schedule an appointment with you where they will THEN try to to sell you something)
You could just look it up.
Honestly, I just wanted to spread the word. I figure that the more people in power who can be made aware of the problems with the DMCA, the more likely that it and other similarly evil bills (PATRIOT) will be rewritten/revoked.
This bill not only allows for making backups, but would require that copy protected so-called CD's be properly labeled as such, and would allow people who own encrypted media (say, a DVD) to bypass the copy protection in order to view it (say, in GNU/Linux).
The problem is not with the player, but with the id3v2 tag spec. Until the latest (v2.4, I think) version, id3 tags have been specifically set to the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) charset. This means that any compliant player will interpret the characters as Latin1, no matter what they look like. The latest spec activates a "charset" flag, which I think allows a total of 3 charsets, one of which is UTF-8. Unfortunately, id3lib does not support this version of id3v2, so there aren't really any tag editors that are able to write UTF-8 tags (easytag's author is working on migrating away from id3lib, but it's far from ready yet). I was able to test all of this by hacking up my copy of perl's MP3::Tag library to write the UTF-8 flag, and watching rhythmbox correctly display the UTF-8 tags (gstreamer's tag reader is aware of the latest tag version), although xmms still had issues.
And here I thought that the authors were going out of their way to show that they're about fair use, not copyright infringement (even going so far as to NOT remove the purchaser's information from the files, just the DRM). I mean, what good is it if I want to buy a song from the iTMS, but then (since I don't really use Windows or MacOS) want to share that song out via MythMusic, or listen to it in RhythmBox.
Yes, I would agree with you that the RIAA is giving the artists their cut, but you misread the original equation. .99 - .70 - .20 - .20 == -.01, not .01. Though, given that royalty payments are often less than 1%, a penny from a $.99 song is probably accurate for most artists.
Hot Deals Club is probably my favorite site. Low bandwidth, personally-selected deals. Gotten a lot of great deals from here...
Not "too perfect," just a lot fewer flaws. Each process for making gems (diamonds, sapphires, etc) is specific to each manufacturer, and since their slurries and seeds are different from each other (and naturally-formed stones), and consistent, each brand has a specific spectrographic signature. A visual examination can return a "best guess," but even a well-trained eye could still mistake a really good natural gem for a lab-grown one. But basically, the only SURE way to tell is with a spectrograph. The molecular structore of the created gems themselves is identical to natural ones, but the particular mixture used to create them still leaves enough behind to alter the spectrographic signature.
I did quite a bit of research (mostly out of curiosity) about this while I was shopping for engagement rings. There is some info on this manufacturer's website, and I'm sure a google search would turn up a lot more.
Funny. I would have just run MemTest from a floppy (or pxe boot at work) instead of wiping the whole OS. Then again, I have a dual boot machine and use linux 95% of the time, anyway.