As someone who was part of the RB'2005 beta program I can at least explain to you why you have to get a key from the server.;-)
The linux version is a PUBLIC BETA. Expect new (beta) releases quite often.
Each demo key (which is really a beta key) has a finite expiration period and once it expires will not be renewed. This is to encourage you to always be running the latest version when you report problems.
As someone who has just upgraded to RB'2005 Professional for the Mac today, I *can* assure you that your actual license does NOT expire.
Also, you may receive different licenses depending on what testing is occuring. Standard features as opposed to Pro features, etc.
In light of what happened to that Judge's husband in Illinois, and a Judge getting massacred here in Atlanta, I would think really hard next time before posting any Jurist's personal and/ or contact information (address, etc.) regardless whether or not it's publicly available.
Do you really want the DoJ and Gonzales' (1) goons' comin' down on yer ass?
Let me get this straight, you just got done pissing, moaning, and complaining because you THOUGHT a direct link to Ben's site was published resulting in a slashdotting, so you go ahead and post a mirrordot link but only come to find out it wasn't to Ben's site but to ZD Net (who does NOT deserve a mirrordot), and then correct yourself and as a last resort post the original link to Ben's site anyways?
And for those who are interested in getting QuickTime 6 back, I submit to you an Email I submitted to MacInTouch late last evening:
From: george@ellenburg.org
Subject: tip|QuickTime 7, 6, and Tiger [George Ellenburg]
Date: April 30, 2005 8:57:42 PM EDT
To: sub2005@macintouch.com
personname=George Ellenburg other=QuickTime 7, 6, and Tiger TopicType=tip
This is the follow-up to your hint about having both QuickTime 6 & 7 installed at the same time.
If readers want to re-install QuickTime 6, and they've done a clean install (like I did), you can do it but it's a pain.
First, you'll need to download the QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller for Panther, then you'll need to drag the.pkg file out of the.dmg file and onto your hard drive because you'll need to edit it.;-)
Next, expand the package contents and go to:
QuickTime_6.5.2_ReInstaller.pkg/Contents/Resources
In it is a file called "InstallationCheck". It's actually a Perl script.
Edit this file, and look for the following:
if(CheckVersion("$SYSTEM_VERS", "10.4", "ProductVersion", ">=")) {
Replace the 10.4 and make it 10.5, as so:
if(CheckVersion("$SYSTEM_VERS", "10.5", "ProductVersion", ">=")) {
This will allow you to install QuickTime 6.5.2 but....
DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Doing so will render both QuickTime and Spotlight DEAD on your system (temporarily).
You MUST restart after re-installing.
Ignore the myriad of warnings and crashes reporter windows that will pop up when your system comes back up. It's just Spotlight crashing because the QuickTime Spotlight Plugin is crashing, and don't even try to open QuickTime just yet (it will crash, too.)
Rename "QuickTime Player" to something else (as in your previous hint). I called mine "QuickTime (6) Player" and then get out your Mac OS X Tiger Installation DVD or CDs.
Yes....
You WILL need to re-install Tiger, but at this point you can simply do an Archive & Reinstall, and tell OS X to preserve your Users and Network Settings.
Your applications will be okay (you will lose any preference panes however and those will need to be re-installed). Your dashboard widgets will be safe, too.
Once you've reinstalled OS X using the Archive & Reinstall Option, you'll need to reinstall your fonts if you've got some custom one's installed. I recommend doing this through FontBook and pointing FontBook to your Previous System/.../Library/Fonts folder and turning on the option in FontBook to have it verify fonts before installing. With some 500 odd fonts installed previously, I had about 30 that had problems (errors not warnings) so I opted to not re-install those.
But, there's some quirks with this.
QuickTime 6 seems to lose part of it's user-window when running this way (resizing the window brings everything back).
I just confirmed that it will even play the new HD Movie Trailers (by copying the URL from QT7 and pasting it into a new URL window in QT6).
But wouldn't any subsequent releases be in fact based on--let's say for argument--the GPL, and therefore must have the resulting (subsequent) source code released under it as well?
Wouldn't the same apply if a company decided for fork a commercial version?
Is this what the pundits call the virality of the GPL? Personally, i feel it's the virility of the GPL that matters anyway.;-)
I run over 60 web sites (some for profit, some not). All on LAMP. Okay, several are on BAMP, too. (*BSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
MSN Search accounts for such a significant portion of web hits (and traffic) on my non-commercial sites (with very few search "hits" coming from it) that I've simply gone and added "msnbot" to my robots.txt file for all my non-commercial sites.
Typically, it's the only thing in my robots.txt files and my bandwidth usage has gone down tremendously.
Besides, why should I support their search engine and "help make it better" when I don't personally believe in the company or its products?
If more people did this it would send a clear message to Microsoft.
Now, i do not recommend doing this to any site which sells anything because that would be stupid. Who would turn down free advertising? But for all those other "non-commercial" sites, why not?
Clearly MSN Search is not a kind player in the game of the Internet (or Life for that matter).
Serious question here... do you deduct the US portion in US dollars or Canadian dollars, and if you have to do currency conversion, is the conversion done at the time you do your taxes or are you allowed to go by what the exchange rate was when you originally got paid? (i'm thinking of those times when the dollar is declining in value).
As someone who's heavily into Ellenburg Genealogy, I also post SSNs.
Of the dead.
Of course, it's not like the information isn't publicly available from the Social Security DEATH Index.
Odds are... this is what that other guy is doing, too.
I figure, if someone wants to use my dead mom's SSN let 'em. This is going to affect me HOW?
Now, with regards to the SSNs of any of my living relatives that's a different story. It's not like I go asking my brothers all the time, "Hey! What's your SSN?"
If by your logic, and such were the case, then HP/UX or AIX would not qualify as both support PAM and could just as easily use LDAP or NIS to store their user accounts.
Darwin may not use the FreeBSD//kernel// (to which I concede), but a kernel does not make an operating system.
Darwin---and subsequently OS X---can be configured to use/etc/passwd if desired (at the expense of a loss of inter-platform functionality) or even LDAP or even authenticate NIS or (shudder) Active Directory.
What Apple has chosen to use is NetInfo which shares similar principles to NIS and YP albeit much more secure.
NetInfo is nothing like the Windows Registry but is more akin to a localized LDAP directory (though not equal).
I'm sorry if your penguined short-sightedness is keeping you from seeing the forest for the trees here. This is not an Apple fanboi speaking here, but someone who's been working with UNIX since before you probably even had an Email address.
For the past 15+ years I have worked with, administered, loathed, and revered just about every version of UNIX that's been on the market, and I'm not just talking about the IA32 architecture here.
Next time you have something to say, why not apt-get'ting a clue first before you speak?
Slashdot Mirror
I've done something simlar for Cobb County, GA.
http://mycobb.net/
Maybe it's because when I keyed in his exact same subject into Google, I found a message board posting for someone asking the exact same thing (4th result):& q=Alternative+to+Newegg&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en
http://www.google.com/froogle/ or http://www.pricewatch.com/?
I mean, is it really that difficult?
As someone who was part of the RB'2005 beta program I can at least explain to you why you have to get a key from the server. ;-)
The linux version is a PUBLIC BETA. Expect new (beta) releases quite often.
Each demo key (which is really a beta key) has a finite expiration period and once it expires will not be renewed. This is to encourage you to always be running the latest version when you report problems.
As someone who has just upgraded to RB'2005 Professional for the Mac today, I *can* assure you that your actual license does NOT expire.
Also, you may receive different licenses depending on what testing is occuring. Standard features as opposed to Pro features, etc.
except in this case you'll need to change 16. ;-)
Not if they use AAC/16kbit mono.
;-)
#1, that codec and that bit rate sound absolutely fantastic considering the available bandwidth.
#2, an hour long program is only about 8mb in size, so it will only take about 10 mins. to download on a dialup.
Of course, it would limit the audience to only those players that already supported the MP4-Audio/AAC OPEN format.
To get an equivalent sounding MP3 you'll need to encode at 32kbps which will more than double the file size.
But, since I already own an iPod, I guess it's not a problem for me.
The Sun is being presented to you today by Sun Microsystems. "Use Solaris. Please! Hey, we even run Linux!"
Mercury is being presented to you this evening by the new Oral-B Thermometer.
Venus is being presented to you by Arista Records... home to Abba! (1)
The Earth is being presented to you this evening by Miracle-Gro. Your lawn will thank you.
Mars is being presented to you this evening by M&M/ Mars Candies. Because sometimes you feel like a nut!
Jupiter is being presented to you this evening by Jupiter Research, because we really really want to know what you think!
Saturn is being presented to you this evening by On Star! Who will call 9-1-1 when *your* airbags deploy?
Neptune is being presented to you this evening by Microsoft. When do you want your computer to crash, today?
Uranus is being presented to you this evening by Preparation-H. It's not just for removing bags from a model's eyes you know!
Pluto is being presented to you this evening by Walt Disney World. Celebrate the magic!
--
(1) Who gives a shit if Abba is signed with Arista or not. Don't be so anal-retentive.
In light of what happened to that Judge's husband in Illinois, and a Judge getting massacred here in Atlanta, I would think really hard next time before posting any Jurist's personal and/ or contact information (address, etc.) regardless whether or not it's publicly available.
Do you really want the DoJ and Gonzales' (1) goons' comin' down on yer ass?
(1) He replaced Ashcroft and ain't much better.
Let me get this straight, you just got done pissing, moaning, and complaining because you THOUGHT a direct link to Ben's site was published resulting in a slashdotting, so you go ahead and post a mirrordot link but only come to find out it wasn't to Ben's site but to ZD Net (who does NOT deserve a mirrordot), and then correct yourself and as a last resort post the original link to Ben's site anyways?
Well, I guess we know Apple Security hasn't upgraded to Tiger yet because they're still running PGP 8.1.
Wasn't Internet Explorer originally based on Spyglass Mosaic?
Wasn't that originally licensed under the GPL?
Wouldn't that make any subsequent versions of IE based originally on Spyglass Mosaic?
Show me the source!
And for those who are interested in getting QuickTime 6 back, I submit to you an Email I submitted to MacInTouch late last evening:
.pkg file out of the .dmg file and onto your hard drive because you'll need to edit it. ;-)
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From: george@ellenburg.org
Subject: tip|QuickTime 7, 6, and Tiger [George Ellenburg]
Date: April 30, 2005 8:57:42 PM EDT
To: sub2005@macintouch.com
personname=George Ellenburg
other=QuickTime 7, 6, and Tiger
TopicType=tip
This is the follow-up to your hint about having both QuickTime 6 & 7 installed at the same time.
If readers want to re-install QuickTime 6, and they've done a clean install (like I did), you can do it but it's a pain.
First, you'll need to download the QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller for Panther, then you'll need to drag the
Next, expand the package contents and go to:
QuickTime_6.5.2_ReInstaller.pkg/Contents/Resource
In it is a file called "InstallationCheck". It's actually a Perl script.
Edit this file, and look for the following:
if(CheckVersion("$SYSTEM_VERS", "10.4", "ProductVersion", ">=")) {
Replace the 10.4 and make it 10.5, as so:
if(CheckVersion("$SYSTEM_VERS", "10.5", "ProductVersion", ">=")) {
This will allow you to install QuickTime 6.5.2 but....
DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Doing so will render both QuickTime and Spotlight DEAD on your system (temporarily).
You MUST restart after re-installing.
Ignore the myriad of warnings and crashes reporter windows that will pop up when your system comes back up. It's just Spotlight crashing because the QuickTime Spotlight Plugin is crashing, and don't even try to open QuickTime just yet (it will crash, too.)
Rename "QuickTime Player" to something else (as in your previous hint). I called mine "QuickTime (6) Player" and then get out your Mac OS X Tiger Installation DVD or CDs.
Yes....
You WILL need to re-install Tiger, but at this point you can simply do an Archive & Reinstall, and tell OS X to preserve your Users and Network Settings.
Your applications will be okay (you will lose any preference panes however and those will need to be re-installed). Your dashboard widgets will be safe, too.
Once you've reinstalled OS X using the Archive & Reinstall Option, you'll need to reinstall your fonts if you've got some custom one's installed. I recommend doing this through FontBook and pointing FontBook to your Previous System/.../Library/Fonts folder and turning on the option in FontBook to have it verify fonts before installing. With some 500 odd fonts installed previously, I had about 30 that had problems (errors not warnings) so I opted to not re-install those.
But, there's some quirks with this.
QuickTime 6 seems to lose part of it's user-window when running this way (resizing the window brings everything back).
I just confirmed that it will even play the new HD Movie Trailers (by copying the URL from QT7 and pasting it into a new URL window in QT6).
Enjoy!
... Subscribers can get a chance to see it early!
Unsubscribers can get a chance to read it yesterday!
WHERE THE HELL IS BOOK?!
God.....
Damnit!
I want to know what the hell is up with BOOK! Who the hell is he?!
Son of a BITCH!
I mean... River is cute and all... you'd think they'd at least continue on with Book's character and give us fans some insight into his past.
I mean... please. The character "River" is so cliché. Book is a real enigma.
Fuck.
But wouldn't any subsequent releases be in fact based on--let's say for argument--the GPL, and therefore must have the resulting (subsequent) source code released under it as well?
;-)
Wouldn't the same apply if a company decided for fork a commercial version?
Is this what the pundits call the virality of the GPL? Personally, i feel it's the virility of the GPL that matters anyway.
I run over 60 web sites (some for profit, some not). All on LAMP. Okay, several are on BAMP, too. (*BSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
MSN Search accounts for such a significant portion of web hits (and traffic) on my non-commercial sites (with very few search "hits" coming from it) that I've simply gone and added "msnbot" to my robots.txt file for all my non-commercial sites.
Typically, it's the only thing in my robots.txt files and my bandwidth usage has gone down tremendously.
Besides, why should I support their search engine and "help make it better" when I don't personally believe in the company or its products?
If more people did this it would send a clear message to Microsoft.
Now, i do not recommend doing this to any site which sells anything because that would be stupid. Who would turn down free advertising? But for all those other "non-commercial" sites, why not?
Clearly MSN Search is not a kind player in the game of the Internet (or Life for that matter).
I just want to know what the f_ck is up with Ron Glass' character, "Shepherd Book". I mean, who the hell is he?
How many preachers carry an ident-card that gets them royal treatment at an Alliance Cruiser?
What about fellatio?
Because.... you do know not all gays are into sodomy.
What about masturbation?
Because.... you do know not all gays are into fellatio.
What about kissing?
Because.... you do know not all gays are into maturbation.
What about holding hands?
Because.... you do know not all gays are into kissing.
Catch my drift?
Serious question here... do you deduct the US portion in US dollars or Canadian dollars, and if you have to do currency conversion, is the conversion done at the time you do your taxes or are you allowed to go by what the exchange rate was when you originally got paid? (i'm thinking of those times when the dollar is declining in value).
As someone who's heavily into Ellenburg Genealogy, I also post SSNs.
Of the dead.
Of course, it's not like the information isn't publicly available from the Social Security DEATH Index.
Odds are... this is what that other guy is doing, too.
I figure, if someone wants to use my dead mom's SSN let 'em. This is going to affect me HOW?
Now, with regards to the SSNs of any of my living relatives that's a different story. It's not like I go asking my brothers all the time, "Hey! What's your SSN?"
With X-Grid coming standar with 10.4 doing this in the future will be child's play.
The only way you'll see support added for OOo Writer is if the Federal Government (and other Governments!) demand it.
Even then, you'll only see it in a special "Government Version" of Office. It will NEVER be added to it's consumer and prosumer version of their apps.
It's too great of a risk for Microsoft to do that.
Why would anyone need to buy Office any more at that point?
Especially considering that the bulk of Microsoft's profits come from their Office Suite and NOT from operating systems.
ha ha you live in cobb co, ga?
My Dear Child, /etc/passwd does not make a UNIX.
//kernel// (to which I concede), but a kernel does not make an operating system.
/etc/passwd if desired (at the expense of a loss of inter-platform functionality) or even LDAP or even authenticate NIS or (shudder) Active Directory.
If by your logic, and such were the case, then HP/UX or AIX would not qualify as both support PAM and could just as easily use LDAP or NIS to store their user accounts.
Darwin may not use the FreeBSD
Darwin---and subsequently OS X---can be configured to use
What Apple has chosen to use is NetInfo which shares similar principles to NIS and YP albeit much more secure.
NetInfo is nothing like the Windows Registry but is more akin to a localized LDAP directory (though not equal).
I'm sorry if your penguined short-sightedness is keeping you from seeing the forest for the trees here. This is not an Apple fanboi speaking here, but someone who's been working with UNIX since before you probably even had an Email address.
For the past 15+ years I have worked with, administered, loathed, and revered just about every version of UNIX that's been on the market, and I'm not just talking about the IA32 architecture here.
Next time you have something to say, why not apt-get'ting a clue first before you speak?