Our music studio only records live sound (no MIDI). We use CCRMA on Fedora20. It has a ton of stuff you might find useful. We use it for the RT prempt capabilities so musicians can auto-punch-in/out during recording without have to go back and time-shift tracks later.
Our "sound card" is a pair of Echo Audiofire 12's for the 24 mics around the studio.
Why buy Linux from a traditionally Windows-only integrator with little Linux experience? There's plenty of very skilled Linux hardware integrators out there. I'm a shill for my favorite, Silicon Mechanics.
Some day all the processing power and storage in that place will fit on something you can hold in your hand. Let's hear from the/. futurist nerds why this will/will not be the case.
I'm not even going to check the website. Pretty much everything worth running already works, except Quickbooks. That's the game killer for real desktop adoption. I completely understand why it's nearly impossible to make it happen, but It would sure be nice if Quickbooks completely worked.
The first thing that occurs to me is that it probably takes more than a week to gather all the fuel to launch a satellite into orbit, you insensitive clod.
I still haven't heard anything about IMAP/SSL and XMPP/SSL support. How does the calendar sync? Please be iCal or CalDAV. I'm going to wait for an emulator to be released before buying this phone so I can at least verify they have adequate software for email and chat.
I've been waiting for an android thread! Before I go buy one...
1. Does it have an IMAP client that supports IDLE? 2. Do the IMAP and SMTP protocols support SSL/TLS from personal CAs? 3. Does the email client support identities (like thunderbird)? 4. Can I use my own Openfire XMPP server with my personal CA? 5. Can I use my own iCal/CalDAV server for my calendar? Is there another app besides google's calendar?
Those are my criteria for buying a new phone. Who's got the answers?
Reminds me of Daikatana for some reason. Someone breaking away on their own with an open-ended, ambitious project that may or may not actually produce anything.
If you popped the disk out of the drive and walked a little way to make it access the disk to load more terrain it would instead generate miles of random tiles. Some of the tiles were endless stacks of chests. You could open those chests and get tons of gold. Works all the way up through Ultima 4. I never played any after that.
I get violently motion sick when I play FPS games, but I can't stop playing this one. It's screaming fast and really fun. I think what makes it desirable to play is that it lacks the polish of the commercial titles but plays incredibly fast on my dated hardware. What it really comes down to is well designed maps and textures (for me).
The most important feature is the new mascot, Tuz. FTFA:
As everybody knows, only important fixes will be merged into the mainline kernel at this late stage of the development cycle. One of the fixes merged by Linus on March 17 was a high-resolution SVG image of "Tuz," the mascot of the 2009 linux.conf.au conference. Tuz, in his new home at Documentation/logo.svg, serves to remind the world of the difficulties faced by the Tasmanian devil and how the linux.conf.au attendees supported the effort to save this species from extinction.
On Dell's website, all the Ubuntu models have a note: Ubuntu 8.04 with DVD Playback. What does that mean? That they installed the unlicensed work-around for you or is there some licensed linux DVD decoder?
From reading the XO wiki it looks like age 4 is about the minimum age that any kid would begin to get any use out of this laptop. does anyone know a link with age recommendations?
You said it so incredibly well. The baseline costs are going to be about equal. But, you hit the wall so fast when trying to get anything done in a windows environment due to licensing restrictions and the excess time spent crawling through the interface to do the simplest task. Until you've seen someone drop a preconfigured kick-start system onto a rackload of servers and have the entire thing running in an hour you haven't seen the power of linux.
I used to be of the same frame of mind as you. Linux in the server room, XP/2000 at the desktops... until Ubuntu Feisty came out. I have tried and hated linux desktop until now. Now every time I sit at a Vista/XP machine I feel crippled by how clunky, unresponsive, and backwards its interface is. The few features of the Windows operating system that kept it useful at the desktop have been far surpassed by what Ubuntu offers.
At first I thought having to use OpenOffice would be a roadblock, but the new features in 2.2 remind me of when MS Office was at its peak in functionality before the shit features started rolling in. The only app I really need windows for is Quickbooks, and that's only because I haven't tried to get it running in Wine yet.
If it's vaporware, the how do you know it's missing the features you described. Maybe by the time it's released it will have all those features you mention.
Personally, I'm holding out for an OSS clone of the iPhone. I need VNC, SSH, RDP, IMAP/IDLE to do my job. My Treo 700P does all that beautifully, but I'd like something slimmer with a big screen like the iPhone. I'll wait and see what these folks put on the market. If it works on any mobile provider then I expect the iPhone will take a nose-dive in market share.
(And don't get me started about "AUTH TLS" email forwarding...)
Ok, what's the weak link here? Is it as bad as plain text or are you just griping about worst case scenarios where space aliens can decrypt our email with their hyper-advanced technology?
Where are these online auctions for this information? Or does that information come with the same spam I get hawking "3 million email addresses for $1000!" I'd love to know what software they use to host such a site. I expect it's probably more secure than the pentagon's systems.
I use aliases for every different website, forum, and merchant I sign up at. Like cdw@mydomain for CDW purchases, etc. It's very interesting to see which address is being used to get spam to me... which worries me because what if they made off with the rest of my account info? I always contact the vendor and explain to them that they've been compromised but they never believe me or I get a knucklehead support person who isn't capable of problem solving.
At least I know who the offenders are and can delete the alias, thus eliminating that avenue of spam.
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Our music studio only records live sound (no MIDI). We use CCRMA on Fedora20. It has a ton of stuff you might find useful. We use it for the RT prempt capabilities so musicians can auto-punch-in/out during recording without have to go back and time-shift tracks later. Our "sound card" is a pair of Echo Audiofire 12's for the 24 mics around the studio.
Why buy Linux from a traditionally Windows-only integrator with little Linux experience? There's plenty of very skilled Linux hardware integrators out there. I'm a shill for my favorite, Silicon Mechanics.
I think you're forgetting the pleasure cyborgs in Blade Runner.
Some day all the processing power and storage in that place will fit on something you can hold in your hand. Let's hear from the /. futurist nerds why this will/will not be the case.
I'm not even going to check the website. Pretty much everything worth running already works, except Quickbooks. That's the game killer for real desktop adoption. I completely understand why it's nearly impossible to make it happen, but It would sure be nice if Quickbooks completely worked.
The first thing that occurs to me is that it probably takes more than a week to gather all the fuel to launch a satellite into orbit, you insensitive clod.
Clearly if I'm getting a frist psot on /. then they've gotten to us to!
I still haven't heard anything about IMAP/SSL and XMPP/SSL support. How does the calendar sync? Please be iCal or CalDAV. I'm going to wait for an emulator to be released before buying this phone so I can at least verify they have adequate software for email and chat.
I've been waiting for an android thread! Before I go buy one...
1. Does it have an IMAP client that supports IDLE?
2. Do the IMAP and SMTP protocols support SSL/TLS from personal CAs?
3. Does the email client support identities (like thunderbird)?
4. Can I use my own Openfire XMPP server with my personal CA?
5. Can I use my own iCal/CalDAV server for my calendar? Is there another app besides google's calendar?
Those are my criteria for buying a new phone. Who's got the answers?
Reminds me of Daikatana for some reason. Someone breaking away on their own with an open-ended, ambitious project that may or may not actually produce anything.
If you popped the disk out of the drive and walked a little way to make it access the disk to load more terrain it would instead generate miles of random tiles. Some of the tiles were endless stacks of chests. You could open those chests and get tons of gold. Works all the way up through Ultima 4. I never played any after that.
I get violently motion sick when I play FPS games, but I can't stop playing this one. It's screaming fast and really fun. I think what makes it desirable to play is that it lacks the polish of the commercial titles but plays incredibly fast on my dated hardware. What it really comes down to is well designed maps and textures (for me).
What does it take to get into Grand Central? I've been signing up over and over for a year now.
The most important feature is the new mascot, Tuz. FTFA:
As everybody knows, only important fixes will be merged into the mainline kernel at this late stage of the development cycle. One of the fixes merged by Linus on March 17 was a high-resolution SVG image of "Tuz," the mascot of the 2009 linux.conf.au conference. Tuz, in his new home at Documentation/logo.svg, serves to remind the world of the difficulties faced by the Tasmanian devil and how the linux.conf.au attendees supported the effort to save this species from extinction.
Since I abandoned Windows 2 years ago I haven't really played any games. Does UT3 run on Linux or do I need Cedega?
Use Alfresco for document sharing.
On Dell's website, all the Ubuntu models have a note: Ubuntu 8.04 with DVD Playback. What does that mean? That they installed the unlicensed work-around for you or is there some licensed linux DVD decoder?
From reading the XO wiki it looks like age 4 is about the minimum age that any kid would begin to get any use out of this laptop. does anyone know a link with age recommendations?
You said it so incredibly well. The baseline costs are going to be about equal. But, you hit the wall so fast when trying to get anything done in a windows environment due to licensing restrictions and the excess time spent crawling through the interface to do the simplest task. Until you've seen someone drop a preconfigured kick-start system onto a rackload of servers and have the entire thing running in an hour you haven't seen the power of linux.
At first I thought having to use OpenOffice would be a roadblock, but the new features in 2.2 remind me of when MS Office was at its peak in functionality before the shit features started rolling in. The only app I really need windows for is Quickbooks, and that's only because I haven't tried to get it running in Wine yet.
If it's vaporware, the how do you know it's missing the features you described. Maybe by the time it's released it will have all those features you mention. Personally, I'm holding out for an OSS clone of the iPhone. I need VNC, SSH, RDP, IMAP/IDLE to do my job. My Treo 700P does all that beautifully, but I'd like something slimmer with a big screen like the iPhone. I'll wait and see what these folks put on the market. If it works on any mobile provider then I expect the iPhone will take a nose-dive in market share.
Ok, what's the weak link here? Is it as bad as plain text or are you just griping about worst case scenarios where space aliens can decrypt our email with their hyper-advanced technology?
Is this the same principle as how my wife charges her vibr... ahem... Sonicare toothbrush?
Where are these online auctions for this information? Or does that information come with the same spam I get hawking "3 million email addresses for $1000!" I'd love to know what software they use to host such a site. I expect it's probably more secure than the pentagon's systems.
I use aliases for every different website, forum, and merchant I sign up at. Like cdw@mydomain for CDW purchases, etc. It's very interesting to see which address is being used to get spam to me... which worries me because what if they made off with the rest of my account info? I always contact the vendor and explain to them that they've been compromised but they never believe me or I get a knucklehead support person who isn't capable of problem solving.
At least I know who the offenders are and can delete the alias, thus eliminating that avenue of spam.