It's pretty good. Thousands of videos. Quality is as good as what you usually find on YouTube.
Not sure why nobody knows about this. I mean, at 37, I'm now outside MTV's target demographic (but I was 14 when I GOT MY MTV in 1983, the weekend that the Thriller video was released in it's 14-minute glory.)
But anyway, since MY generation was the one that actually watched videos on MTV for about 6 hours a day instead of listening to the radio, I'd think they'd find a way to market this to the 30-45 year age groups. *shrug*
Agreed. Totally durable. My folks bought an 8088 PC in 1981. I was 12. 4.77 mhz, woo hoo! Ten years later, I STILL had it in my senior year of college (they had upgraded to an Epson 286). Along the way, I had upgraded from the base 64 KB of ram to 448 KB, and added a 10 MB hard drive. It had originally shipped with 2 5 1/2" 360kb full-height floppies, of course. Half of the hard drive contained the installation of Word Perfect 5.1 (about 5 MB.) The other 5 MB had, um... Procomm Plus... Tetris... Lotus 1-2-3 (v2.1) and a lot of data files.
The 286, 386, and 486 generations had been introduced by the time I put that sucker to rest. but not before I'd become completely hooked on computers and everything about 'em. Damn, it ruined me for life!:-)
"Cisco's decision to lead with its Linksys brand for consumers hasn't made the company a household name yet, but it's helping."
I don't understand why Cisco doesn't push their name harder in the consumer market. They bought Linksys some time ago... so why don't the Linksys boxes say "...by Cisco!" on them somewhere? Just to gather geek cachet?
Thanks for the info. I was working with the assumption that 128kbps AAC is the same fidelity as 128kbps MP3.
Long ago when I had a Diamond Rio (I was quite the early adopter), I learned quickly just how important the sampling rate is. To squeeze a 60-minute album on the rio's slim 32 MB of storage, I had to rip mp3's at 80kbps or sometimes 64 if it was a longer album. They sounded terrible, especially piano music and other acoustic sounds were very distorted and tinny. So I'd pick 8 tracks from the album, rip them at 128, and get by with a partial album and decent sound quality. Aah, momories.
I didn't mean to claim that I can tell the difference between 128kbps AAC and lossless. But on any decent stereo system, anyone can tell the difference between 128kbps Mp3 and a real CD, for sure. (Not so much on an ipod tho.) I just assumed that 128-AAC was as poor as 128-mp3, so I've been buying CDs and ripping them at a higher rate into iTunes and WMP.
Do you know what a comparable rate is for AAC? For instance, 96kbps in format WMA is similar in quality to 192kbps mp3. Is AAC a 2-for-1 compression too, compared to mp3?
Very cool. I'd be interested in seeing some examples, if you're allowed to list them.
While we're on (or off) the topic, can you shine some light onto why all the major online music stores sell music sampled at 128kbps? I'd buy much more online if the fidelity was higher. Is there any discussion at all about stocking songs in a lossless format? There has to be demand for this, and I'd think that any ITMS competitor who wanted attention would try this.
In an attempt to bring this back on topic, I'll point out that for out-of-print music, a higher sampling rate from online stores is even more desirable, because I can't buy a higher-quality copy in the store.
darnit, sorry for not putting in my line breaks between my paragraphs. I typed it up when Slashdot wasn't accepting posts this afternoon, and lost the breaks when I saved my reply to Notepad, waiting to finally post now. Didn't preview before trying to post the 2nd time. I hope my ugly reply still helps you.:-)
Forgive the obvious question, but why switch? You haven't given any reason for your desire to move away from Citrix. (No... I'm not a Citrix rep, but I am a satisfied customer.)
Citrix's licensing doesn't require renewal. If you have a good system in place, why abandon it?
Having said that, Microsoft's remote desktop in Server 2003 (the framework which Citrix rides on top of) has made great strides towards the functionality that Citrix's Metaframe/Presentation Server provide. MS and Citrix are tight business partners. All of those listed capabilities are easily achieved in a pure-MS option... although it's easier to configure if you're using Citrix. (IMHO.) If you're talking about a handful of users logging in from remote site, Microsoft RDP is fine. If you need a farm of several server hosts, with dozens or hundreds of users coming and going, and the associated challenges of load balancing, categories of published apps, etc., Citrix makes all of this easier.
It's worth pointing out that passthru printing to a local machine when logged in remotely is WAY easier in Citrix that just using MS Terminal Services. The Citrix Universal Print Driver ("UDP") is not 100% foolproof (tip: it's the PCL5 driver for HP Color Laserjet 4500), but it works 95% of the time for 95% of printers. My last job had over 100 users logging in from a) home and b) other offices branches, and I only had to load a small handful of drivers for screwball home computers from Brother, samsung, canon, whatever... there is no standardization at home and that's what kills, and makes the UDP shine. Like I said, it's my estimation that 95% of printers work 95% of the time with the UDP. If everyone logging in to your farm has an HP Laserjet locally, then you won't have any problem with a non-Citrix solution. Otherwise, you'll be glad to have the UDP.
Another nice feature in Citrix that MS doesn't offer - virtual IP. Big frustration of Terminal Services (in general) is that all users logged in to a pacticular server share that server's IP address. When you have older software that expects each user to have an different IP address (for machine-to-machine messaging, for instance), 20 users all having the same IP addy throws a wrench in the works. The newsest Citrix Presentation Server (4.0?) handles this situation. I can't speak about the other TS software mentioned in other people's responses, but MS doesn't handle this at all.
I'd suggest setting up an RDP server (like a citrix server w/o the actual citrix software), since you already have all the licensing and software that you require: MS Server CALs, and MS Terminal Server CAL's. Play, test, evaluate. Good luck!
To answer your questions, at least as far as the beta version is concerned:
Presently, with the IE7 beta 2, you can uninstall it. After installing IE7 beta 2, it appears in the "Add/Remove Programs" list (you have to choose the "Show Updates" option at the top). When installed, there seems to be no way to get IE6 on your machine. After uninstalling, IE6 "returns", if you will.
Also - the beta does not seem to work inside Windows Explorer. If you enter a URL at the top of Windows Explorer, it launches in a new tab in IE7, or as a new instance of IE7 if it's not currently running.
I classified my library of about 1000 books using the Dewey decimal system. It's great! I deviated from the strict classifications in the 800's (fiction), there I just alphabetized by author's last name. If you do the 800's strictly, you'd be seperating your fiction by country of origin, which makes it harder for find a book later.
I agree with the earlier poster about how a library specialized in computer stuff can get overloaded near the front. But, you know, if 25% of your collection is about networking and programming, then so be it. You're going to have 25% of your wall space be about computer crap no matter how you arrange it. (And after 5 years, it's mostly outdated too, if it's anything like mine.) So it might as well be coherently organized.
Yes, 005 is for all computer science stuff, but 005.13x is for traditional programming languages, 005.27x is internet and internet programming, 005.447 is for networking, 005.75x is for databases... please don't throw this back at me if I got those numbers wrong, but my point is just that Dewey is designed to allow for classifications, sub-classifications, sub-sub-classifications, as far as needed. And if you don't like the way it looks when it's on your shelf, you can always rearrange all the 005's to your liking, like I did for the 800's (see above).
Has anyone posted on how to get Dewey numbers for books that don't have them on the title page? I did it at the Library of Congress website. Click on "basic search", search on the title, and click on "Full Record" when it comes up.This will give you the dewey Decimal number.
I did about 10-20 books a night until I was through my library. This may sound like a chore to many, but if you have 3500 books like you say, then I expect you'll find it to be a labor of love. It is surprisingly entertaining to see how books will be categorized, and how two books that you read 20 years apart that you never thought of as being related may land right next to each other on the shelf.
[...]and understand that what is in your best interest and in the company's best interest are no longer related.
There is a consideration that you (original poster) may not have considered, and that is this: Where would you be if something bad happened to the systems after your resignation but before you left, and your security access hadn't been revoked? Something that you didn't cause, but something that looks malicious?
There is a definite up-side to having your access revoked: it absolves you of any suspicion if something bad DOES happen.
In this regard, sometimes the company's best interests and yours are indeed very closely related.
But I agree, it still hurts to be treated as unnecessary. Sort of like being dumped by your girlfriend (hypothetical gf -- this is slashdot after all) right when you're getting ready to give her the "lets just be friends" speech.
So take heart in the fact that you dumped them first. They're just being the angry ex, giving you back your CD's and clothes so you don't come around anymore and accidentally hook up with her roomate.:-)
Good luck in future endevors, and take this as a lesson that everybody is just looking out for number one. Cheers.
"... a whole new range of items for players to add to their Katamari, including everything from fish to world landmarks, like the Eiffel Tower."
Hmm. I vaguely recall picking up lots of fish in the first one, and something that looked a lot like the Eiffel Tower at the end of the 'World' level.
No matter. A few new maps would be enough to make me happy! Hopefully they'll keep the "punks" on motorcycles that say "bim-bim-bim-bimbimBIMBIM-bim!"
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100% guarantee that some of the programmers and technical folks from these companies are avid slashdot readers. I personally was introduced to Slashdot in 2001 from a coworker who was a former java programmer at Lifeminders.com, here in VA. Hmm, come to think of it, we both got laid off from that company, too.
In an interesting twist, the company that I work for now briefly occupied one floor of the bulding that Lifeminders used to occupy. It had all the trappings of a 1999 dot-com company. Beautiful space, all wood-and-glass, and warehouse-style ceilings with halogen spotlight bulbs. We purchased some of that furniture when we left that space; I'm sitting right now on a Herman Miller Aeron chair formerly occupied by a lifeminders.com tushie. Gosh darn these are comfortable chairs.
Cheers. And this officially pops my Slashdot cherry - my first post.
I agree completely - These books are EXCELLENT, and easy to acquire (amazon.com, etc). They are very engaging with excellent diagrams and illustrations. The first 2 volumes are adequate to get you going... come back for the later volumes when you're ready for more competitive play. I speak as a relative beginner myself; I'm sure that experts might feel other books have more information, but the Janice Kim books excel as starter books because they are not intimidating at all -- very friendly and informative.
I'm surprised how few people are reccommending these books; I find the computer resources to be dry and confusing, myself. And playing a computer is very frustrating as a beginner because they don't make as many mistakes as you do, even at the lowest level settings. It really helps to have another novice to play with so you can talk through your games and learn from each other's mistakes.
Good luck.
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Check out http://www.mtv.com/overdrive
It's pretty good. Thousands of videos. Quality is as good as what you usually find on YouTube.
Not sure why nobody knows about this. I mean, at 37, I'm now outside MTV's target demographic (but I was 14 when I GOT MY MTV in 1983, the weekend that the Thriller video was released in it's 14-minute glory.)
But anyway, since MY generation was the one that actually watched videos on MTV for about 6 hours a day instead of listening to the radio, I'd think they'd find a way to market this to the 30-45 year age groups. *shrug*
Agreed. Totally durable. My folks bought an 8088 PC in 1981. I was 12. 4.77 mhz, woo hoo! Ten years later, I STILL had it in my senior year of college (they had upgraded to an Epson 286). Along the way, I had upgraded from the base 64 KB of ram to 448 KB, and added a 10 MB hard drive. It had originally shipped with 2 5 1/2" 360kb full-height floppies, of course. Half of the hard drive contained the installation of Word Perfect 5.1 (about 5 MB.) The other 5 MB had, um... Procomm Plus... Tetris... Lotus 1-2-3 (v2.1) and a lot of data files.
:-)
The 286, 386, and 486 generations had been introduced by the time I put that sucker to rest. but not before I'd become completely hooked on computers and everything about 'em. Damn, it ruined me for life!
Ha. You can tell it's been a while since I've shopped for home networking hardware. Thanks.
From the article, regarding Cisco:
"Cisco's decision to lead with its Linksys brand for consumers hasn't made the company a household name yet, but it's helping."
I don't understand why Cisco doesn't push their name harder in the consumer market. They bought Linksys some time ago... so why don't the Linksys boxes say "...by Cisco!" on them somewhere? Just to gather geek cachet?
Informed insight welcome.
Thanks for the info. I was working with the assumption that 128kbps AAC is the same fidelity as 128kbps MP3.
Long ago when I had a Diamond Rio (I was quite the early adopter), I learned quickly just how important the sampling rate is. To squeeze a 60-minute album on the rio's slim 32 MB of storage, I had to rip mp3's at 80kbps or sometimes 64 if it was a longer album. They sounded terrible, especially piano music and other acoustic sounds were very distorted and tinny. So I'd pick 8 tracks from the album, rip them at 128, and get by with a partial album and decent sound quality. Aah, momories.
I didn't mean to claim that I can tell the difference between 128kbps AAC and lossless. But on any decent stereo system, anyone can tell the difference between 128kbps Mp3 and a real CD, for sure. (Not so much on an ipod tho.) I just assumed that 128-AAC was as poor as 128-mp3, so I've been buying CDs and ripping them at a higher rate into iTunes and WMP.
Do you know what a comparable rate is for AAC? For instance, 96kbps in format WMA is similar in quality to 192kbps mp3. Is AAC a 2-for-1 compression too, compared to mp3?
Again, thanks.
Very cool. I'd be interested in seeing some examples, if you're allowed to list them.
While we're on (or off) the topic, can you shine some light onto why all the major online music stores sell music sampled at 128kbps? I'd buy much more online if the fidelity was higher. Is there any discussion at all about stocking songs in a lossless format? There has to be demand for this, and I'd think that any ITMS competitor who wanted attention would try this.
In an attempt to bring this back on topic, I'll point out that for out-of-print music, a higher sampling rate from online stores is even more desirable, because I can't buy a higher-quality copy in the store.
Cheers.
Already been done. It was called "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." And the third one wasn't much to write home about, either.
darnit, sorry for not putting in my line breaks between my paragraphs. I typed it up when Slashdot wasn't accepting posts this afternoon, and lost the breaks when I saved my reply to Notepad, waiting to finally post now. Didn't preview before trying to post the 2nd time. I hope my ugly reply still helps you. :-)
Forgive the obvious question, but why switch? You haven't given any reason for your desire to move away from Citrix. (No... I'm not a Citrix rep, but I am a satisfied customer.) Citrix's licensing doesn't require renewal. If you have a good system in place, why abandon it? Having said that, Microsoft's remote desktop in Server 2003 (the framework which Citrix rides on top of) has made great strides towards the functionality that Citrix's Metaframe/Presentation Server provide. MS and Citrix are tight business partners. All of those listed capabilities are easily achieved in a pure-MS option... although it's easier to configure if you're using Citrix. (IMHO.) If you're talking about a handful of users logging in from remote site, Microsoft RDP is fine. If you need a farm of several server hosts, with dozens or hundreds of users coming and going, and the associated challenges of load balancing, categories of published apps, etc., Citrix makes all of this easier. It's worth pointing out that passthru printing to a local machine when logged in remotely is WAY easier in Citrix that just using MS Terminal Services. The Citrix Universal Print Driver ("UDP") is not 100% foolproof (tip: it's the PCL5 driver for HP Color Laserjet 4500), but it works 95% of the time for 95% of printers. My last job had over 100 users logging in from a) home and b) other offices branches, and I only had to load a small handful of drivers for screwball home computers from Brother, samsung, canon, whatever... there is no standardization at home and that's what kills, and makes the UDP shine. Like I said, it's my estimation that 95% of printers work 95% of the time with the UDP. If everyone logging in to your farm has an HP Laserjet locally, then you won't have any problem with a non-Citrix solution. Otherwise, you'll be glad to have the UDP. Another nice feature in Citrix that MS doesn't offer - virtual IP. Big frustration of Terminal Services (in general) is that all users logged in to a pacticular server share that server's IP address. When you have older software that expects each user to have an different IP address (for machine-to-machine messaging, for instance), 20 users all having the same IP addy throws a wrench in the works. The newsest Citrix Presentation Server (4.0?) handles this situation. I can't speak about the other TS software mentioned in other people's responses, but MS doesn't handle this at all. I'd suggest setting up an RDP server (like a citrix server w/o the actual citrix software), since you already have all the licensing and software that you require: MS Server CALs, and MS Terminal Server CAL's. Play, test, evaluate. Good luck!
"Halo obsessives are not IT managers..."
Except, of course, for the gamers who are IT managers. Duh? It's not so cut 'n' dried.
To answer your questions, at least as far as the beta version is concerned:
Presently, with the IE7 beta 2, you can uninstall it. After installing IE7 beta 2, it appears in the "Add/Remove Programs" list (you have to choose the "Show Updates" option at the top). When installed, there seems to be no way to get IE6 on your machine. After uninstalling, IE6 "returns", if you will.
Also - the beta does not seem to work inside Windows Explorer. If you enter a URL at the top of Windows Explorer, it launches in a new tab in IE7, or as a new instance of IE7 if it's not currently running.
Cheers.
Some insights on using Dewey:
I classified my library of about 1000 books using the Dewey decimal system. It's great! I deviated from the strict classifications in the 800's (fiction), there I just alphabetized by author's last name. If you do the 800's strictly, you'd be seperating your fiction by country of origin, which makes it harder for find a book later.
I agree with the earlier poster about how a library specialized in computer stuff can get overloaded near the front. But, you know, if 25% of your collection is about networking and programming, then so be it. You're going to have 25% of your wall space be about computer crap no matter how you arrange it. (And after 5 years, it's mostly outdated too, if it's anything like mine.) So it might as well be coherently organized.
Yes, 005 is for all computer science stuff, but 005.13x is for traditional programming languages, 005.27x is internet and internet programming, 005.447 is for networking, 005.75x is for databases... please don't throw this back at me if I got those numbers wrong, but my point is just that Dewey is designed to allow for classifications, sub-classifications, sub-sub-classifications, as far as needed. And if you don't like the way it looks when it's on your shelf, you can always rearrange all the 005's to your liking, like I did for the 800's (see above).
Has anyone posted on how to get Dewey numbers for books that don't have them on the title page? I did it at the Library of Congress website. Click on "basic search", search on the title, and click on "Full Record" when it comes up.This will give you the dewey Decimal number.
I did about 10-20 books a night until I was through my library. This may sound like a chore to many, but if you have 3500 books like you say, then I expect you'll find it to be a labor of love. It is surprisingly entertaining to see how books will be categorized, and how two books that you read 20 years apart that you never thought of as being related may land right next to each other on the shelf.
Good luck & have fun.
[...]and understand that what is in your best interest and in the company's best interest are no longer related.
There is a consideration that you (original poster) may not have considered, and that is this: Where would you be if something bad happened to the systems after your resignation but before you left, and your security access hadn't been revoked? Something that you didn't cause, but something that looks malicious?
There is a definite up-side to having your access revoked: it absolves you of any suspicion if something bad DOES happen.
In this regard, sometimes the company's best interests and yours are indeed very closely related.
But I agree, it still hurts to be treated as unnecessary. Sort of like being dumped by your girlfriend (hypothetical gf -- this is slashdot after all) right when you're getting ready to give her the "lets just be friends" speech.
So take heart in the fact that you dumped them first. They're just being the angry ex, giving you back your CD's and clothes so you don't come around anymore and accidentally hook up with her roomate.
Good luck in future endevors, and take this as a lesson that everybody is just looking out for number one. Cheers.
The differences between the $200 and the $400 video card are pretty small.
Yeah... about 3 months.
Forgive my western-centric view. I stand corrected! Cheers.
"... a whole new range of items for players to add to their Katamari, including everything from fish to world landmarks, like the Eiffel Tower."
Hmm. I vaguely recall picking up lots of fish in the first one, and something that looked a lot like the Eiffel Tower at the end of the 'World' level.
No matter. A few new maps would be enough to make me happy! Hopefully they'll keep the "punks" on motorcycles that say "bim-bim-bim-bimbimBIMBIM-bim!"
100% guarantee that some of the programmers and technical folks from these companies are avid slashdot readers. I personally was introduced to Slashdot in 2001 from a coworker who was a former java programmer at Lifeminders.com, here in VA. Hmm, come to think of it, we both got laid off from that company, too.
In an interesting twist, the company that I work for now briefly occupied one floor of the bulding that Lifeminders used to occupy. It had all the trappings of a 1999 dot-com company. Beautiful space, all wood-and-glass, and warehouse-style ceilings with halogen spotlight bulbs. We purchased some of that furniture when we left that space; I'm sitting right now on a Herman Miller Aeron chair formerly occupied by a lifeminders.com tushie. Gosh darn these are comfortable chairs.
Cheers. And this officially pops my Slashdot cherry - my first post.
I agree completely - These books are EXCELLENT, and easy to acquire (amazon.com, etc). They are very engaging with excellent diagrams and illustrations. The first 2 volumes are adequate to get you going... come back for the later volumes when you're ready for more competitive play. I speak as a relative beginner myself; I'm sure that experts might feel other books have more information, but the Janice Kim books excel as starter books because they are not intimidating at all -- very friendly and informative. I'm surprised how few people are reccommending these books; I find the computer resources to be dry and confusing, myself. And playing a computer is very frustrating as a beginner because they don't make as many mistakes as you do, even at the lowest level settings. It really helps to have another novice to play with so you can talk through your games and learn from each other's mistakes. Good luck.