I've got dozens and dozens of CD's with holes all in them, like someone sprayed acid on them or something, it's not eaten through the plastic at all, just the foil is gone. It's really weird. I can't explain what it is for sure but best guess is that about two years ago my A/C went out and I went 9 months without climate control, 100% humidity and high heat. Very miserable (I won't mention the name of the HVAC contractor though) and now I am wondering if that's what killed all those CD's.. I thought it was toner that got on them when I broke open a toner cart but I find that hard to accept.
I just upgraded streamripper to 1.60-pre1 and it seems to have solved a lot of the "mpglib error at: xxxxxx" errors I was getting before with the 1.32 I was using.
I just rip indie stuff so don't get your panties in a knot, this sure makes it 100% easier than downloading the files one at a time. I even set Kalarm to start and stop streamripper at night, when they play the best stuff..
I don't know why people insist on calling it 56k service when there is no such thing.
Anyway, most older folks don't seem to care about slow ass 53k connections, they just go take a dump or make a cup of coffee while they download pics of the kids and today's trojans and viruses with OE....
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.......... Not for me. Sorry... I want FIBER damn it!!
Could it be that he's just a dumbass? I've played with every distro out there, including some of the most far-out oddball distros and never had any serious problem like this dummy had.
I suggest that Mr. Dummy try Suse 9.0 Professional, or better, 9.1 in a few weeks.
Works, straight out of the box, no tweaking required. I've gotten it to work flawlessly on some of the most antiquated crap you could ever imagine, I have a recycling business and I have some real bow-wow dogs and I run Linux on some really fonky crap..
Me thinks this article stinks. Me thinks I smell some M$ paychecks in this guys mailbox...
And the suspect tosses 4000gb of disgusting kiddy sickness into a 2hp shredder. Bzzzzzzzzzt!! DA: Sorry your honor, we have no evidence on this slime except paper shreds. Judge: Case dismissed...
I wish I could take an old craptop display and turn it into a tiny, portable display. I frequently am called out to work on headless units and when they crap out I need to plug in a display to see what's up. I hate to drag a 30 lb CRT around, it would be nice if I had a tiny flat screen and tiny keyboard that I could use instead. I have several old Compaq LTE 386/486 units that I could strip down. Even keeping the laptop intact would be ok, as long as I could use it's keyboard and it's display to view and control the headless box.
Anything like that out there or anyone built one like that??
"But I can't say I agree with the writer's opinion that privacy fears"
Well someone reading my email then sending me ads according to what I discuss with my friends is a bad as my local grocer wanting to sniff my underwear then send me coupons according to what he thinks I've been eating.
PF: Somebody mentioned that the Canopy Group & SCO owns some parts of Trolltech.
ME: Sorry, we don't have any influence on them.
PF: Do they have any influence on you?
ME: Not really. They have a 5.7% stake in Trolltech. Historically Canopy became an investor because we cooperated with Caldera. As you might know we made and delivered the graphic install, which was the first graphical install for Linux, for Caldera Linux. The Canopy Group as the main investor in Caldera was so impressed by the work we had done that they wanted to invest in Trolltech, to make sure that Trolltech could become a solid company that could continue to deliver software to the Linux community. It's pretty ironic to see what has happened historically after that of course. But they don't have any influence on Trolltech. Trolltech is employee-owned, 65% of the shares are owned by the employees and we control the business so they have a small stake in us and that is it.
PF: You haven't talk about this complicated with SCO on Linux
EE: The patent issue or the corporate issue?
PF: The thing that SCO is asking and preparing to sue everybody about some code they pretend they own in Linux.
EE: I can tell you that we do not support these actions from SCO. Trolltech in many ways is dependent on the success of Linux. We think Linux is a Good Thing. We support Linux in many ways. On the other hand everybody has the right to bring his case to court. In this case it is very strange that they have not pinpointed exactly where in the code there is a problem and we feel that if they really had a problem with this, they could have acted very differently in presenting this to the community. So again we do not support these actions.
PF: You have any position on software patents? Especially since in the EU there is going to be a law to be passed soon.
EE: Trolltech is against software patenting. We think it is a bad thing and we see with horror what is happening to the US software market because of the patent policy over there. From my limited understanding of the subject, US patent law isn't that bad, it's the actual application of that law by the US patent office which is the problem. We sincerely hope that we will not get a parallel situation in Europe and we think that would be a catastrophe to the software industry in Europe. We think that we are well protected by copyright laws and other laws. we think that software is a very different product from other types of commercial production products. And we think that it is very important for innovation that people can continue to share ideas and that companies are not allowed to patent things which are very obvious.
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you mean THESE sarcasm tags??
Uh, try again, window units are $600-$800 around here in the summer time. They are in HIGH demand and they rape people around here.
Ain't no such thing as a $100 air conditioner in this area, not to mention something that small wouldn't do any good at all in a 6 room house.
Besides, I was have contractor problems. I toughed it out but didn't think it would hurt the damn CD's
I'll say this,
I burn a lot of discs at max speed and they frequently won't run on OLDER pc's.
So when I KNOW I have to burn one for an old pc I burn it at 4x or 6x (with k3b) and it always works.
I've got dozens and dozens of CD's with holes all in them, like someone sprayed acid on them or something, it's not eaten through the plastic at all, just the foil is gone. It's really weird. I can't explain what it is for sure but best guess is that about two years ago my A/C went out and I went 9 months without climate control, 100% humidity and high heat. Very miserable (I won't mention the name of the HVAC contractor though) and now I am wondering if that's what killed all those CD's.. I thought it was toner that got on them when I broke open a toner cart but I find that hard to accept.
The rot thing, I dunno, that's weird too...
Oh yeah, and I don't mean punch cards like the Florida crap, I mean like this one,l lot1893b.jpg
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/ba
check this site for more info,
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/
Papaer Ballots..
I was graced with an ad proclaiming I could buy SCOX for $4 a share through sharebuilder.com while looking up the currents...
Hmmmmmmmm......
is M$ only, that sucks.
I just upgraded streamripper to 1.60-pre1 and it seems to have solved a lot of the "mpglib error at: xxxxxx" errors I was getting before with the 1.32 I was using.
I just rip indie stuff so don't get your panties in a knot, this sure makes it 100% easier than downloading the files one at a time.
I even set Kalarm to start and stop streamripper at night, when they play the best stuff..
I love it..
People are more likely to relate Hydrogen to the Hindenburg.
When you talk about hydrogen powered cars to people that ALWAYS mention the Hindenburg..
and he's fine sticking with his pokey ass 53k
I don't know why people insist on calling it 56k service when there is no such thing.
Anyway, most older folks don't seem to care about slow ass 53k connections, they just go take a dump or make a cup of coffee while they download pics of the kids and today's trojans and viruses with OE....
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.......... Not for me. Sorry...
I want FIBER damn it!!
himself.
Could it be that he's just a dumbass?
I've played with every distro out there, including some of the most far-out oddball distros and never had any serious problem like this dummy had.
I suggest that Mr. Dummy try Suse 9.0 Professional, or better, 9.1 in a few weeks.
Works, straight out of the box, no tweaking required. I've gotten it to work flawlessly on some of the most antiquated crap you could ever imagine, I have a recycling business and I have some real bow-wow dogs and I run Linux on some really fonky crap..
Me thinks this article stinks. Me thinks I smell some M$ paychecks in this guys mailbox...
" Where is all the media hype about this privacy issue?"
I dunno, I can't seem to find any privacy concerns between my Konqueror and A9........
I think they must have smoked about that much worth of Ganja to have come up with this one and they need to pay their dealer up..
And the suspect tosses 4000gb of disgusting kiddy sickness into a 2hp shredder. Bzzzzzzzzzt!!
DA: Sorry your honor, we have no evidence on this slime except paper shreds.
Judge: Case dismissed...
I think this may end up being a bad idea.
I wish I could take an old craptop display and turn it into a tiny, portable display.
I frequently am called out to work on headless units and when they crap out I need to plug in a display to see what's up. I hate to drag a 30 lb CRT around, it would be nice if I had a tiny flat screen and tiny keyboard that I could use instead. I have several old Compaq LTE 386/486 units that I could strip down. Even keeping the laptop intact would be ok, as long as I could use it's keyboard and it's display to view and control the headless box.
Anything like that out there or anyone built one like that??
Yeah so what I promote my website, I'm not the only one that does that...
a lysis+Diagramming/Inline+Taps/Overview.htm
BTW, Fluke sells this very item with a Fluke label on it, the "Fluke TAP-12"
http://www.flukenetworks.com/us/LAN/Monitoring+An
I assure you, this device from Fluke or Shomiti (now Finisar)
costs a HELL of a lot more than $4,000
Get this, http://www.haking.pl/en/index.php?page=hakin9_live
= std
m entation.html
then get this,
http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution
and get this too,
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/phlak
then get one of these,
http://www.systemrecycler.com/shomiti/
and lastly get this just for shits, grins and giggles,
http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/docu
Get your own Carnivore device...
http://www.systemrecycler.com/shomiti/
Nine out of ten of the voices in my head told me to stay home today and clean my guns..
"Despite assertions made by Linux vendors, a Linux cluster is not a high performance computer,"
Maybe so but not everyone can pull a Cray out of his ass when they need horsepower. A Linux cluster is affordable, a Cray is the thing of wet dreams..
"But I can't say I agree with the writer's opinion that privacy fears"
Well someone reading my email then sending me ads according to what I discuss with my friends is a bad as my local grocer wanting to sniff my underwear then send me coupons according to what he thinks I've been eating.
Google's idea, like dirty underwear, stinks..
Linux.
GPL = no fuss, no muss, no $$$
Gotta love it!
three guesses and the first two don't count...
have been FIRED and put out on their asses, do it in the same style as "Roger & Me"..
I despise that piece of crap Micheal Moore but the above mentioned film he made was a tear jerker..
Concentrate on the damage offshoring is doing to America and the misery is brings to people put out on their ass with bills to pay and kids to feed..
I feel much relieved now...