1c1,2 < TODO: Privacy policy goes here --- > By reading present policy you agree that you should be using linux if you want privacy. I can't be blamed if whatever happens to your privacy, > Bill
Bah.
1. The easiest way to find "obscure" music is P2P, of course. You can find rare bootlegs, collectors and whatever you want down there that you'll never find in a real or web store.
2. I never catched a single virus while using P2P, i don't know how you do... Or course, if you download songs like britney_song.exe that'll happen, but... They won't even be listed as mp3s. Of course you should not be using kazaa, nobody sane enough would use this type of crap. Edonkey and soulseek are fine.
3. To me, P2P is here to stay for music addicts because it's the only thing that can let you easily discover new artists. Like in "wow, this guy has a lot of stuff i'm into, let's listen to the ones i don't know..." no store can beat that. Only your friends can give you that, but you nobody has that many friends.
Finally, the only thing that made me think of using ITMS is the fact that it's much faster, and less of a hassle to dig into. But most of the time they won't have the albums i want, or the price will be prohibitive (Like on ITMS when they force you to buy an album song by song, which of course happens when the album has lots of them...). Hey, what they are selling is poor quality audio after all, like all compressed audio unless it's lossless. There is no packaging, artwork and good quality physical media for me, and they make huge cuts on distribution. Plus the DRM crap on top of that. It should be waaaay cheaper...
Replying to myself, but i think the fist thing you should learn them is how to feel cumfortable with bash. Teach them at least the shotcuts to go at beginning/end of line/word, backward and forward delete word, kill line, and the reverse search mecanism. Then train them for maybe 30 minutes to use them effectively
In my experience, they'll ask themselves after one hour how they have been able to live without such editing capabilities (most windows persons don't use editing shortcuts, even when they exists. They're generally not as handy), and that'll make their console experience much more interesting instead of being fustrating... Plus, they're learning emacs at the same time, which could be usefull.
I'd try to teach them the logic behind Unix, that means explaining how the filesystem works, and doing alot of basic console excercices. Teach them the how to use pipes effectively, bash shortcuts, what you can do with ssh to remote admin lots of servers, how to find the info they need...
Try to teach them cool things so they'll be happy and curious enough to dig more into it later. If it's a pain for them, they'll quickly forget it... And i'd stick at the console, show them how X works and what you can do with it, but have them use a console all the time. There's no way you can understand Unix by using graphical managment apps...
Anyhow, 3 days is of course not enough to learn evrything, so I think you should really learn them how to think the Unix way, and stick to that.. then show them that using this way of thinking, they can resolve the problem themselves most of the time (and google helps alot too...)
Noticed the crash problem also, but i think i didn't happened since i upgraded to 0.9.2 two weeks ago (not too sure...). I'm on XP
But i also suspect a memory leak... the memory footprint is huge when there are lot of tabs. Seems strange to me that each tab consumes so much memory, i frequently have to close firebird because it's eating 80 or more MB and it behaves more and more slowly (yes, i often have 15 or 20 opened tabs).
In fact i just tried something :
had 5 opened tabs ->40.660 megs
opened another empty one ->40.668 megs
loaded slashdot into it ->41.284
loaded a flash site into it -> 44.200
loaded google into it -> 44.400
reloaded slashdot -> 44.700
closed the tab -> 44.500
Retried the same thing with another tab, and didn't get the same results at all (much better), but the leaked memory from the previous tab was still here, and firefox now tops at 46 megs while all the tabs that have been opened since i started the test have been closed. That makes about 6 megs leaked with only 2 tabs that visited about 4 sites each...
I also wish they slowed down a little and take the time to squeeze those things. There's no need to hurry, give us a rock solid 1.0 and let it wait as long as it needs to, please.
Furthermore, most internet shops now redirect you to a bank to enter you credit card number. The only thing the site should know is if you made the transaction with the bank, and how many.
I know all the shops (even very little ones) we had to code at my place work that way, we absolutly can't know the credit card number of any transaction, all we have is a tracking number.
Still, one could be redirected to a spoofed bank page, and the casual user probably doesn't know what to check apart the little lock icon...
It's the fastest thing i tried, and i've spent days working via remote graphical connections on a slow line. (client DSL at home -> server ISDN )
To sum up my personnal benchmark :
VNC... a dog
remote X... highly depends on the way the app is coded, seems faster than VNC in some instances, 100x slower in others (just checked this one for fun, my work was mostly with windows apps so i'm not too sure...)
PCAnywhere.. about 2 times faster than VNC
Citrix, Terminal Server: easily 10x faster than pcanywhere, probably more. Most of the time you barely notice you're on a remote machine.
XP pro has TS server, you just have to activate it in "my computer". But only one person at a time can be connected (including the console, so if someone is sitting in front of the computer he will be suspended). Still, it's quite handy...
And i don't know about others, but on 2k server with the included licence you can have 2 connections at the same time, not one. Plus another one at the console.
You know i had doom1 given to me on a few floppies, same thing for warcraft, or windows 3.1.
And MSDOS fitted enterily on one 1.44 floppy, not so long ago...
700 megs / 1.44 = 486,11. Yay, a recent os is about 400 times bigger than msdos something like 12 years ago...
except she didn't name the photos "vacation trip blah blah" because it was a boring task and she prefered to just have the soft name them automatically. I don't see why she'd have the urge to use the metadata if she doesn't name her files properly now...
And furthermore most people have difficulties to understand the whole concept of metadata, even if they are used to computers. Try to explain your grandma that if she wants send by email to her friend her song located at "jazz/Miles davis/so what?" in itunes she should look under c:\mymusic...
PCW is *not* a binary module, it's GPL. What the kernel mainteners removed is a hook which could allow to load a decompressor.
This decompressor could have been anything,GPL or not. It just happens that the developper had had acces through a DNA to informations from phillips, which made it possible to make a decompressor, and vastly improve the cam's performance and capacities. Because of the DNA, he had to ship this in binary form only, but it wasn't inside the kernel, it was cleanly separated from the pcw module.
Removing the hook is stupid, since if some people didn't want to load a binary only thing they could still try to make a GPL decompressor, and if some others wanted to load a binary only decompressor using this hook well it was their own choice !
It didn't taint the kernel, only offered to load something into it, whatever it was...
On the other hand, the author states somewhere on the LKML that his DNA with philips expired more than a year ago, but he still doesn't want to release the source because he feels he would loose the thurst phillips gave him.
If the DNA is over well it's over, they didn't put a date on it just because... Sounds like he likes to keep the source for himself to me... Futhermore the pcw module could still be used without this hook, the cam still worked, but wasn't 100% exploited that's all. Or he could simply have chosen to go userspace and call it a day. But he got pissed and decided to just remove everything.
So if you ask me, both side don't want to listen to each other, act childish and just look dumb. They should both get a life and do something else sometimes...
You must be kidding !
Obviously you never had to write a real dynamic webapp or you'd realize it's something like 1000x harder than writing a vb app.
Of course, static hmtl is easy, but that's not the problem at all...
Just an example i had to deal with today : had to make a combo box where each line is made of 3 aligned columns from a database. The only way to do that in html if you want the columns to be aligned is to pad each columns with nbsp; codes. (you're not going to make a table in a select statement of course..)
Result : For 7400 records in the database, the generated HTML code for the select control takes 2.7 Megs. Nice, still don't know how i'm going to handle that... On the other hand, the old access/vb app the client is using now just uses a vb combo control which automatically binds to the db, probably fetches and manipulate the data in binary form and loads in microseconds. It probably took the developper about 5 minutes to make this, I struggled all day to find a way to make things better, and i'll probably have to make an applet tomorrow to handle that. Still no idea how many time it'll take...
In fact in a lot of case it would be easier to have to code a custom server and client than to write a webapp, because http was *not* designed to do that, it was designed to allow you to fetch files from a server and that's about it.
I thought it was about providing my boss reusable proofs that i'm working while I'm in fact reading slashdot;)
That would be waaaaay more usefull than this stupid error 500 thing...
Because JSP sucks.
It is hard to debug, and encourages bad practices like putting some java code directly into the JSP, which then becomes a logic and presentation layer instead of just presentation. JSP is the thing you'd want to create a quick and dirty app, but it's sadly an enterprise standard. Now you can try to force everyone to use it as a sole presentation layer, but in many cases, it's very tempting to juste add a little scriplet, because it gets the job done. Then one day you realize your CMS or whatever has become very hard to maintain because there is logic everywhere and you have to recode the whole thing to keep the maintenance costs low. The problem is, that's exactly the type of problem that J2EE is supposed to address, but JSP makes it hard because it's too easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
All true but I think that what he means is that as a developper you can't take what one user says for granted if what he says seems highly improbable and can't be reproduced. You'd better wait to see if the exact same thing happens again than spend a week looking for a bug that isn't there at all (maybe the user made a bad move with the mouse and didn't realise it).
Well IIRC Davis makes wood "speakers" cones. they look like gramaphone speakers, and are known to be their best speakers (And davis speakers really rocks ), especially for classical music. But they are priced at about hmm something like 12000 euros. I can believe they sound good at that price:)
My laptop has a widescreen 17" monitor. It's a joy to work with, really. The increased screen size changes eveything. At this size you don't have to make ergonomic concessions anymore to use a laptop, It just feels better than any workstation i've put my hands on. No eyestrain, no noise, great keyboard, 1440x900 resolution and still very transportable.
How can you beat that ?
Reminds me of going to a computer store and editing autoexec.bat to do an ECHO "THIS COMPUTER SUCKS" loop when I was 10 years old. Would really confuse the people who worked there
That was you ! I spent 10 hours trying to repair the machine at work and was finally fired for being incompetent. Then my wife left me and since this time I've been alone in this dark room reading/.... Damn kids !
Anybody know of a VST equivalent of this ? Having to transport a keyboard with your laptop to enter a few notes kinda sucks... It has to exist, but googling for it is not easy since as soon as you have keyboard and vst in your search you end up with things like halion, etc..
lets be honest Porn is the greatest driver of technology anywhere (VHS, Internet, DVD) ect.
Yeah, and let's not forget that's why we went to the moon. NASA engineers received a signal from the moon wich looked like a fantastic pron movie, of a quality unknown to mankind. So they quicky launched a spacecraft with a few astronauts, and lots of condoms to see how hot those lunar babes were. Only to find out after making a little step on the moon that russians went there before, and installed a pron emiter directed on cap canaveral just to laugh at them. So, they quicky swapped the emiter with an american flag, said hello to the camera and went home with empty hands and fully fuelled balls.
To me, there is a rebellion, but it's not about OSes, it's about freedom in the digital world.
There really is a war going on between heavy capitalism, who tries to do all it can to restrict the use of everything digitally distribuable, and the people from the base, who have the skills to circumvent the rules, and organize hastily a counter attack to each offensives from the big boys. The point is, even Joe Sixpack, who doesn't care at all about the political or economical issues of modern technologies, is starting to understand when he sees he cannot play he's favorite mp3s in his xbox, or play the latests cds in his car stero and asks his tech savvy friends why this is.
But that's nothing, what's important are the implications of such things in a world where everything will be digitalized. The technology, and the extensions we can try to forsee ten years from now can be the thing that will give the power back to the people, or the thing that will allow a control on us that even sci-fi books couldn't imagine.
[ here fade in of terminator 1 music:)]
And personnally, I first see Linux as a *nix system for x86, which allows me to play with UNIX on my laptop. But I also see it as a safe harbor where I can go when i'm fed up with corporate crap. Linux is people-centered, when you have a problem you just chat about it with some other users, or the developpers. Windows stinks corporatism everywhere, you know that the people on the other end want your money, not to help you, or to make things better. They'll lock you as soon as they can anyway. So in a sense to me linux is indeed a rebellion, a rebellion to fight the power of money, to circumvent the people I wish I could tell to go fsk themselves when I'm at work. If I can contribute to this little grain of sand in the wheel of capitalism, I'm all for it:)
Slashdot Mirror
Bah.
1. The easiest way to find "obscure" music is P2P, of course. You can find rare bootlegs, collectors and whatever you want down there that you'll never find in a real or web store.
2. I never catched a single virus while using P2P, i don't know how you do... Or course, if you download songs like britney_song.exe that'll happen, but... They won't even be listed as mp3s. Of course you should not be using kazaa, nobody sane enough would use this type of crap. Edonkey and soulseek are fine.
3. To me, P2P is here to stay for music addicts because it's the only thing that can let you easily discover new artists. Like in "wow, this guy has a lot of stuff i'm into, let's listen to the ones i don't know..." no store can beat that. Only your friends can give you that, but you nobody has that many friends.
Finally, the only thing that made me think of using ITMS is the fact that it's much faster, and less of a hassle to dig into. But most of the time they won't have the albums i want, or the price will be prohibitive (Like on ITMS when they force you to buy an album song by song, which of course happens when the album has lots of them...). Hey, what they are selling is poor quality audio after all, like all compressed audio unless it's lossless. There is no packaging, artwork and good quality physical media for me, and they make huge cuts on distribution. Plus the DRM crap on top of that. It should be waaaay cheaper...
Replying to myself, but i think the fist thing you should learn them is how to feel cumfortable with bash. Teach them at least the shotcuts to go at beginning/end of line/word, backward and forward delete word, kill line, and the reverse search mecanism. Then train them for maybe 30 minutes to use them effectively
In my experience, they'll ask themselves after one hour how they have been able to live without such editing capabilities (most windows persons don't use editing shortcuts, even when they exists. They're generally not as handy), and that'll make their console experience much more interesting instead of being fustrating... Plus, they're learning emacs at the same time, which could be usefull.
I'd try to teach them the logic behind Unix, that means explaining how the filesystem works, and doing alot of basic console excercices. Teach them the how to use pipes effectively, bash shortcuts, what you can do with ssh to remote admin lots of servers, how to find the info they need...
Try to teach them cool things so they'll be happy and curious enough to dig more into it later. If it's a pain for them, they'll quickly forget it... And i'd stick at the console, show them how X works and what you can do with it, but have them use a console all the time. There's no way you can understand Unix by using graphical managment apps...
Anyhow, 3 days is of course not enough to learn evrything, so I think you should really learn them how to think the Unix way, and stick to that.. then show them that using this way of thinking, they can resolve the problem themselves most of the time (and google helps alot too...)
Noticed the crash problem also, but i think i didn't happened since i upgraded to 0.9.2 two weeks ago (not too sure...). I'm on XP
But i also suspect a memory leak... the memory footprint is huge when there are lot of tabs. Seems strange to me that each tab consumes so much memory, i frequently have to close firebird because it's eating 80 or more MB and it behaves more and more slowly (yes, i often have 15 or 20 opened tabs). In fact i just tried something : had 5 opened tabs ->40.660 megs
opened another empty one ->40.668 megs
loaded slashdot into it ->41.284
loaded a flash site into it -> 44.200
loaded google into it -> 44.400
reloaded slashdot -> 44.700
closed the tab -> 44.500
Retried the same thing with another tab, and didn't get the same results at all (much better), but the leaked memory from the previous tab was still here, and firefox now tops at 46 megs while all the tabs that have been opened since i started the test have been closed. That makes about 6 megs leaked with only 2 tabs that visited about 4 sites each...
I also wish they slowed down a little and take the time to squeeze those things. There's no need to hurry, give us a rock solid 1.0 and let it wait as long as it needs to, please.
Furthermore, most internet shops now redirect you to a bank to enter you credit card number. The only thing the site should know is if you made the transaction with the bank, and how many.
I know all the shops (even very little ones) we had to code at my place work that way, we absolutly can't know the credit card number of any transaction, all we have is a tracking number.
Still, one could be redirected to a spoofed bank page, and the casual user probably doesn't know what to check apart the little lock icon...
Yep, but we're talking about the number of users you can legally use with the bundled "standard" licence.
To sum up my personnal benchmark :
To clarify more :
XP pro has TS server, you just have to activate it in "my computer". But only one person at a time can be connected (including the console, so if someone is sitting in front of the computer he will be suspended). Still, it's quite handy...
And i don't know about others, but on 2k server with the included licence you can have 2 connections at the same time, not one. Plus another one at the console.
You know i had doom1 given to me on a few floppies, same thing for warcraft, or windows 3.1.
And MSDOS fitted enterily on one 1.44 floppy, not so long ago...
700 megs / 1.44 = 486,11. Yay, a recent os is about 400 times bigger than msdos something like 12 years ago...
except she didn't name the photos "vacation trip blah blah" because it was a boring task and she prefered to just have the soft name them automatically.
I don't see why she'd have the urge to use the metadata if she doesn't name her files properly now...
And furthermore most people have difficulties to understand the whole concept of metadata, even if they are used to computers. Try to explain your grandma that if she wants send by email to her friend her song located at "jazz/Miles davis/so what?" in itunes she should look under c:\mymusic...
PCW is *not* a binary module, it's GPL. What the kernel mainteners removed is a hook which could allow to load a decompressor.
This decompressor could have been anything,GPL or not. It just happens that the developper had had acces through a DNA to informations from phillips, which made it possible to make a decompressor, and vastly improve the cam's performance and capacities. Because of the DNA, he had to ship this in binary form only, but it wasn't inside the kernel, it was cleanly separated from the pcw module.
Removing the hook is stupid, since if some people didn't want to load a binary only thing they could still try to make a GPL decompressor, and if some others wanted to load a binary only decompressor using this hook well it was their own choice !
It didn't taint the kernel, only offered to load something into it, whatever it was...
On the other hand, the author states somewhere on the LKML that his DNA with philips expired more than a year ago, but he still doesn't want to release the source because he feels he would loose the thurst phillips gave him.
If the DNA is over well it's over, they didn't put a date on it just because... Sounds like he likes to keep the source for himself to me...
Futhermore the pcw module could still be used without this hook, the cam still worked, but wasn't 100% exploited that's all. Or he could simply have chosen to go userspace and call it a day. But he got pissed and decided to just remove everything.
So if you ask me, both side don't want to listen to each other, act childish and just look dumb. They should both get a life and do something else sometimes...
You must be kidding ! Obviously you never had to write a real dynamic webapp or you'd realize it's something like 1000x harder than writing a vb app. Of course, static hmtl is easy, but that's not the problem at all...
Just an example i had to deal with today : had to make a combo box where each line is made of 3 aligned columns from a database. The only way to do that in html if you want the columns to be aligned is to pad each columns with nbsp; codes. (you're not going to make a table in a select statement of course..)
Result : For 7400 records in the database, the generated HTML code for the select control takes 2.7 Megs. Nice, still don't know how i'm going to handle that... On the other hand, the old access/vb app the client is using now just uses a vb combo control which automatically binds to the db, probably fetches and manipulate the data in binary form and loads in microseconds.
It probably took the developper about 5 minutes to make this, I struggled all day to find a way to make things better, and i'll probably have to make an applet tomorrow to handle that. Still no idea how many time it'll take...
In fact in a lot of case it would be easier to have to code a custom server and client than to write a webapp, because http was *not* designed to do that, it was designed to allow you to fetch files from a server and that's about it.
I thought it was about providing my boss reusable proofs that i'm working while I'm in fact reading slashdot ;)
That would be waaaaay more usefull than this stupid error 500 thing...
Because JSP sucks.
It is hard to debug, and encourages bad practices like putting some java code directly into the JSP, which then becomes a logic and presentation layer instead of just presentation. JSP is the thing you'd want to create a quick and dirty app, but it's sadly an enterprise standard. Now you can try to force everyone to use it as a sole presentation layer, but in many cases, it's very tempting to juste add a little scriplet, because it gets the job done. Then one day you realize your CMS or whatever has become very hard to maintain because there is logic everywhere and you have to recode the whole thing to keep the maintenance costs low.
The problem is, that's exactly the type of problem that J2EE is supposed to address, but JSP makes it hard because it's too easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
All true but I think that what he means is that as a developper you can't take what one user says for granted if what he says seems highly improbable and can't be reproduced.
You'd better wait to see if the exact same thing happens again than spend a week looking for a bug that isn't there at all (maybe the user made a bad move with the mouse and didn't realise it).
Well IIRC Davis makes wood "speakers" cones. they look like gramaphone speakers, and are known to be their best speakers (And davis speakers really rocks ), especially for classical music. But they are priced at about hmm something like 12000 euros. I can believe they sound good at that price :)
Err you mean we can actually speak outside of this slashdot thing ? Could be handy !
personally i'll wait for the next which wil allow me to have port *outside* the dvd
My laptop has a widescreen 17" monitor. It's a joy to work with, really. The increased screen size changes eveything. At this size you don't have to make ergonomic concessions anymore to use a laptop, It just feels better than any workstation i've put my hands on. No eyestrain, no noise, great keyboard, 1440x900 resolution and still very transportable. How can you beat that ?
Reminds me of going to a computer store and editing autoexec.bat to do an ECHO "THIS COMPUTER SUCKS" loop when I was 10 years old. Would really confuse the people who worked there
/. ...
That was you ! I spent 10 hours trying to repair the machine at work and was finally fired for being incompetent. Then my wife left me and since this time I've been alone in this dark room reading
Damn kids !
My brother just got a rat for Valentine's day. No joke !
But since his gf looks like one maybe she thinks they're cute...
Anybody know of a VST equivalent of this ? Having to transport a keyboard with your laptop to enter a few notes kinda sucks... It has to exist, but googling for it is not easy since as soon as you have keyboard and vst in your search you end up with things like halion, etc..
lets be honest Porn is the greatest driver of technology anywhere (VHS, Internet, DVD) ect.
Yeah, and let's not forget that's why we went to the moon. NASA engineers received a signal from the moon wich looked like a fantastic pron movie, of a quality unknown to mankind.
So they quicky launched a spacecraft with a few astronauts, and lots of condoms to see how hot those lunar babes were. Only to find out after making a little step on the moon that russians went there before, and installed a pron emiter directed on cap canaveral just to laugh at them. So, they quicky swapped the emiter with an american flag, said hello to the camera and went home with empty hands and fully fuelled balls.
To me, there is a rebellion, but it's not about OSes, it's about freedom in the digital world.
:)]
:)
There really is a war going on between heavy capitalism, who tries to do all it can to restrict the use of everything digitally distribuable, and the people from the base, who have the skills to circumvent the rules, and organize hastily a counter attack to each offensives from the big boys.
The point is, even Joe Sixpack, who doesn't care at all about the political or economical issues of modern technologies, is starting to understand when he sees he cannot play he's favorite mp3s in his xbox, or play the latests cds in his car stero and asks his tech savvy friends why this is.
But that's nothing, what's important are the implications of such things in a world where everything will be digitalized.
The technology, and the extensions we can try to forsee ten years from now can be the thing that will give the power back to the people, or the thing that will allow a control on us that even sci-fi books couldn't imagine.
[ here fade in of terminator 1 music
And personnally, I first see Linux as a *nix system for x86, which allows me to play with UNIX on my laptop. But I also see it as a safe harbor where I can go when i'm fed up with corporate crap. Linux is people-centered, when you have a problem you just chat about it with some other users, or the developpers. Windows stinks corporatism everywhere, you know that the people on the other end want your money, not to help you, or to make things better. They'll lock you as soon as they can anyway. So in a sense to me linux is indeed a rebellion, a rebellion to fight the power of money, to circumvent the people I wish I could tell to go fsk themselves when I'm at work. If I can contribute to this little grain of sand in the wheel of capitalism, I'm all for it