I can not live without bannerblind. As much as I love Firebird, I just can't stand the internet without Bannerblind. When Firebird has those capabilities, or Bannerblind works with it, only then can I switch. After browsing the web with Firebird, it was the first time in months I ever used something other then Moz+Bannerblind and I realized the web is FULL OF ADS! It's been nice not seeing a single banner add.
...I live accross the street from this guy and nothing unusual is going on. That 1-800-Flowers van has been parked at the end of the block for a few days, come to thing of it, but other thaH$^FHGHATDT^ATDT^h6[NO CARRIER]
...you are missing a very pleasant web experience. FUCK FLASH. Get rid of it, then install Mozilla with Bannerblind and you will never go back. You could always pop into a Flash-ridden browser to read the latest Strongbad e-mail, but apart from that there is no need for flash.
And for all the Flash developers out there... you are NOT programmers. You are "artists". There is a difference. Go learn OOP.
No links today, lookup Bannerblind yourself in Google. Trust me you will LOVE it.:)
I remember reading about how that OS can, in ways, be "secure" because it is older and mostly unused and attackers are much less likely to know how to even respond to the box, let alone know security holes into it. I forget the article, but it is interesting in regards to "security though obscurity" that kind of works.
How will people discover new bands and new music when there is no promotion?
I think that will happen the same way Linux vs Windows happens, and the same way Shareware applications get downloaded. I know a bunch of authors of Palm Pilot software that gets tens of thousands of downloads and many subsequent people to register the product, and all they do is make themselves available on www.palmgear.com and other like sites. A few people will pop up to review all the indi-artists, and the blogs and other reviews will be more valuble than we think! I know many people that value the "blog" type reviews on epinions.com more than Comsumer Reports, myself included!
That said, of course an "artist" with a record label pushing them will have that much more of a boost. That's the whole point to record labels. But when the model of distribution is equal (website) and an indi-artist no longer needs cd-pressers, cases, distribution contracts, trucks for delivery, payola for shelf space piroritization in the physical store location, etc, it will make things that much more equal for indi-artist vs. Brittney.
..but not before we all get sued and laws mark us all as criminals.
Here is the main reason why I think the Music Biz is scared of technology, especailly when downloading is the "normal" way to purchase music:
*Large labels get web site and have music for download.
*Indipendant artist also makes website, has music for download.
And there you go... indi-artist and Brittney spears on the same equal footing. Suddenly the labels loose control of what gets distribution (downloads), what gets airtime (net radio), and that is where the money generation is reborn. The big money is not the few million off of an artist, but in the multiplication of said millions over MANY artists they can make "big" and push onto TRL and control. Oh, and if anyone actually thinks TRL (Total Request Live, a v-e-r-y popular MTV show here in the States) plays what you actualy vote for, you're an idiot. TRL is a marketing tool that plays mostly what you want, but is used to push no-names like P. Diddy's little boy-band on top very quickly. "Look everyone, B2K is #1 on TRL! You all love them!" And then little boys and girls run to the store because "everyone" who is "kewl" must be listenting to those dancing crackheads.
Yes, you do detect some envy. Brilliant minds created TRL and I'm sure every artist that wants to push a CD pays payola to TRL in huge ways. Brilliant business. Wish I thought of it.
5. OpenBSD lead person mouths off about DAPRA/Pentagon. Really that's more along the lines of what really happened. Though consipiracy is more often fun.
So when the governemnt breaks promises to punish the use of Freedom of Speech, it's NOT a conspiracy of sorts?!?
...does OpenBSD also have the Kernel protections mentioned in the original story? And what version was/will-it-be introduced? I took a cursory look at the site, but though I'd be lazy and throw the question your way:)
I've said this before, but I think Maxtor Hard Drive MTBF rates and Iomega tape drive MTBF rates are good, consistent, short time measuerments (both very shitty products that fail reliably).
Me: Wanna go have sex?
Hot Girl: OK! When?
Me: I'm on lunch break in 3 Maxtors and a Tape.
Hot Girl: I'll pay for the Hotel room.
No seriously, why don't you post your system specs while you're at it.
OK! My newest rig: 486 DX/66 with 8 MB ram, Trident 516kb VGA video card, not one but two 5 1/4 floppy drives, 40 mb full height hard disk, Dos 6.22 with QEMM memory manager (614 free in lower memory, all TSR's loaded in HMA or UMB), mouse, keyboard, 9600 baud modem, Near Letter Quality 9 pin Citizen color printer, PC Tools to keep it all running, Stacker to double the disk drive space, and PKZip 2.04g to compress all those Scam! magazine and Pr!mal warez I leech from the Boards with ZModem and store on my floppies.
Think it's time to upgrade anything?
Also get free POP3 Hotmail access for spam free HM
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Take a look at http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/ "HotPop". It is a proxy that gives you POP3 access to your Hotmail account. So you can have: Outlook (connects to) POPFile (connects to) HotPop
Result? In Outlook, you get all your POP3 accounts and Hotmail, delivered into one inbox with no spam. Never need to manually check Hotmail etc. And with a hotsync, it all goes into my Palm Tungsten T. Sweet. And for the un-1337, POPFile is easy to setup and use on Wind0z3 b0x3n:)
One more thing... DISABLE ANTIVIRUS E-MAIL SCANNING before you install POPFile. Don't re-ename the scanning software until after everything is talking to everything else perfectly.
QEMM? Pah! Some of us manually editied out config.sys files and autoexec.bat files
Did that too... himem.sys and emm386.exe with all the tweaked options. Fun stuff. QEMM 386 was great because it had tons of colorfull, complex, and completely useless (for a 12 year old, anyway) screens to stare at and run tests again and again. Crazy. I think the test of a true hard core geek is to see if he/she gets mesmerized by watching the GUI of a hard drive degragging program. I used to stare at that thing like moths to a blue light. Ahh... memories of BBS's and ZModem and leechin' files and checking.nfo's.
Tonight plenty of darkness, and tomorrow morning scattered light!
Not too worried any more...
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Seriously... every time a law like the one mentioned in the article gets passed, I used to freak out and just feel down, despressed, and sad for like five or ten minutes. It's the only thing that makes reading Slashdot unpleasant. Or... it was.
Then I think about how, here in the USA(TM), it is illegal to drink under the age of 21, illegal to have sex under the age of 17 (most states) and illegal to smoke pot. Yet these events happen every day, all the time, easily and freely. At least for us geeks that manage to get out of the house a few days a week!:)
So I ask myself, "Self! What is harder to stop the distribution of: a physical, smelly, heavy shippment of pot, or an mp3?" And then I realize that NOTHING can stop me from enjoying my music where and when I want. If the USA(TM) government can't stop the Crack and the Pot, how can they stop mp3's, an invisible, intangible, almost instantly transferable commodity?
It's/.'ed right now, but is the HUUUUUUUUGE ship from the intro to the movie Spaceballs on the list? That beast scrolled along the screen for three minutes!
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Thanks for the awesome info!
Big Shit Of Death?
Sounds painfull.
And for all the Flash developers out there... you are NOT programmers. You are "artists". There is a difference. Go learn OOP.
No links today, lookup Bannerblind yourself in Google. Trust me you will LOVE it. :)
I welcome suggestions as to why Windows or even Linux would be a safer choice in regards to security.
And OpenBSD with Evil Bit checking is even better. ;)
I think that will happen the same way Linux vs Windows happens, and the same way Shareware applications get downloaded. I know a bunch of authors of Palm Pilot software that gets tens of thousands of downloads and many subsequent people to register the product, and all they do is make themselves available on www.palmgear.com and other like sites. A few people will pop up to review all the indi-artists, and the blogs and other reviews will be more valuble than we think! I know many people that value the "blog" type reviews on epinions.com more than Comsumer Reports, myself included!
That said, of course an "artist" with a record label pushing them will have that much more of a boost. That's the whole point to record labels. But when the model of distribution is equal (website) and an indi-artist no longer needs cd-pressers, cases, distribution contracts, trucks for delivery, payola for shelf space piroritization in the physical store location, etc, it will make things that much more equal for indi-artist vs. Brittney.
God, that little Bitch is cute, though. Yum.
Here is the main reason why I think the Music Biz is scared of technology, especailly when downloading is the "normal" way to purchase music:
*Large labels get web site and have music for download.
*Indipendant artist also makes website, has music for download.
And there you go... indi-artist and Brittney spears on the same equal footing. Suddenly the labels loose control of what gets distribution (downloads), what gets airtime (net radio), and that is where the money generation is reborn. The big money is not the few million off of an artist, but in the multiplication of said millions over MANY artists they can make "big" and push onto TRL and control. Oh, and if anyone actually thinks TRL (Total Request Live, a v-e-r-y popular MTV show here in the States) plays what you actualy vote for, you're an idiot. TRL is a marketing tool that plays mostly what you want, but is used to push no-names like P. Diddy's little boy-band on top very quickly. "Look everyone, B2K is #1 on TRL! You all love them!" And then little boys and girls run to the store because "everyone" who is "kewl" must be listenting to those dancing crackheads.
Yes, you do detect some envy. Brilliant minds created TRL and I'm sure every artist that wants to push a CD pays payola to TRL in huge ways. Brilliant business. Wish I thought of it.
Really that's more along the lines of what really happened. Though consipiracy is more often fun.
So when the governemnt breaks promises to punish the use of Freedom of Speech, it's NOT a conspiracy of sorts?!?
Me: Wanna go have sex?
Hot Girl: OK! When?
Me: I'm on lunch break in 3 Maxtors and a Tape.
Hot Girl: I'll pay for the Hotel room.
OK! My newest rig:
486 DX/66 with 8 MB ram, Trident 516kb VGA video card, not one but two 5 1/4 floppy drives, 40 mb full height hard disk, Dos 6.22 with QEMM memory manager (614 free in lower memory, all TSR's loaded in HMA or UMB), mouse, keyboard, 9600 baud modem, Near Letter Quality 9 pin Citizen color printer, PC Tools to keep it all running, Stacker to double the disk drive space, and PKZip 2.04g to compress all those Scam! magazine and Pr!mal warez I leech from the Boards with ZModem and store on my floppies.
Think it's time to upgrade anything?
Result? In Outlook, you get all your POP3 accounts and Hotmail, delivered into one inbox with no spam. Never need to manually check Hotmail etc. And with a hotsync, it all goes into my Palm Tungsten T. Sweet. And for the un-1337, POPFile is easy to setup and use on Wind0z3 b0x3n :)
One more thing... DISABLE ANTIVIRUS E-MAIL SCANNING before you install POPFile. Don't re-ename the scanning software until after everything is talking to everything else perfectly.
Did that too... himem.sys and emm386.exe with all the tweaked options. Fun stuff. QEMM 386 was great because it had tons of colorfull, complex, and completely useless (for a 12 year old, anyway) screens to stare at and run tests again and again. Crazy. I think the test of a true hard core geek is to see if he/she gets mesmerized by watching the GUI of a hard drive degragging program. I used to stare at that thing like moths to a blue light. Ahh... memories of BBS's and ZModem and leechin' files and checking .nfo's.
And if it isn't, use QEMM to put some TSR proggies in UMB and HMA space. Perfect for Ultima VI or Wing Commander.
(Nothing new here, just felt nostalgic after seeing the "640 kB" quote).
Then I think about how, here in the USA(TM), it is illegal to drink under the age of 21, illegal to have sex under the age of 17 (most states) and illegal to smoke pot. Yet these events happen every day, all the time, easily and freely. At least for us geeks that manage to get out of the house a few days a week! :)
So I ask myself, "Self! What is harder to stop the distribution of: a physical, smelly, heavy shippment of pot, or an mp3?" And then I realize that NOTHING can stop me from enjoying my music where and when I want. If the USA(TM) government can't stop the Crack and the Pot, how can they stop mp3's, an invisible, intangible, almost instantly transferable commodity?
They can't.
Thanks for the laugh! :)