1) Get a CD player with a andio-out jack
2) Connect the andio-out jack to audio-in on your computer
3) Open up sound recording software
4) Play the track you want to rip, and begin recording
5) When track is done playing, stop sound recording software
You now have a nice DRM free copy of the track you wanted to rip in the format of your choice. Enjoy!
No, more like: (1) Shut down computer. (2) Install hard drive, connect power and IDE cables. (3) Turn computer back on and make sure it autodetects the drive. (4) Pop in KNOPPIX live-CD, format, and install distro of choice.
BTW, If you put an empty drive in as primary master, it's just gonna bitch about not having an OS. So you'll need that KNOPPIX CD anyway.
The server seems to already be running slow... Anyway, here is the text of the blog at http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000224.html . (this was the first blog linket to in the article)
c-n y-- r--d th-s?
Languagehat has an entry concerning the decipherability of English texts made up of words that have had their letters scrambled (except for the first and last). [via Avva in Russian] I had written something about this phenomenon back in March with a different scrambled text. (I am always amazed how these unattributed texts can spread like folklore across the Web.) It was hard at the time to find a source for the quoted text, but I think I've traced it back to some work that Kourosh Saberi at UC Irvine and David R. Perrott at Cal State Los Angeles have done, mentioned here in an article by D. W. Massaro at UC Santa Cruz. I sent some email to Professor Saberi, but hadn't heard back from him. They wrote up their results in the 29 April 1999 issue of Nature, but I've been unable to find it online. Here's a press release for that article; see also this editorial in Nature Science Update.
[Addendum 09/15/03: The jumbled letters meme continues to spread. In good folkloric fashion, I've seen two variants: the first with "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy" and the second with "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy". Here's another reference to the Saberi and Perrott article on the ABCNEWS dot com site.]
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Probably because you have had 10-20+ years of English, while she has had only maybe 5 or less.
Of course, I may be wrong on the numbers. But you get the point.
OK, this is a major troll, but I don't have any mod points left. And maybe ill get a couple of karma points. OK, probably not... but anyway...
1) It's during the installation process. Tell me, how often do you do that?
Anyway, instllations are so boring, I really wouldn't mind some good ads.
2) Nobody keeps their homepage. Thats hardly something hard to change or ignore.
3) Ads in bookmarks are even easier to ignore. Or delete.
4) Only the downloadable version has ads. The others do not. Maybe you should consider buying Mandrake to support them.
5) Contrary to another comment of yours, there are no ads in screensavers. RTFA and you will see that.
6) No one is even close to owning your desktop. There are only ads in the installation, bookmarks, and homepage. Thats nowhere close to someone owning your desktop.
I mean demanding money for things that you had no input in? It's like me asking everyone who uses Windows to pay me because I think Ms stole my code. Hmm I think I'd have more reason than SCO actually..I did sent Ms some beta bug reports...
Hold it right there. You willingly sent bug reports to MS. Thus you actually helped MS. And posted it on Slashdot.
Almost every Windows vuln article I see this argument. And very time it gets refuted. Yes the Windows troll just will not go away.
Debian distrobutes how many thousands of different packages? I don't remember, but it was over 2,000.
Now then, how mnay different packages does MS make? 200-250. 5 out of 250 MS pacakges. 10 out of more than 2,000 Debian packages. Now Debian doesn't sound so bad, does it?
On top of that, most of the Debian security vulnerabilities are theoretical or requite access to the machine to use the exploit. Hardly as big of a threat as MS vulnerabilities.
There are also many unofficial builds optimised for different architectures. Some them include AA fonts.
Go to the MozillaZine builds forum, and you will see peoplw discussing them.
Gamespot is right. You shouldn't have ripped off their videos. You had no right whatsoever to use them.
Whould you like it is someone took your hard work and used it without you're permission? The people at Gamespot don't. They have to make a living. If you don't like it, tough. Its THIER video, not yours.
Its not GS who is the asshole in this case, it's you.
I've installed various distros of Linux (Redhat, Pogo?, and one other (maybe Slackware?)) and maybe it was just my total lack of patience but it seemed like I could get something to work on one distro and not on another. Graphics card would/wouldn't work, ethernet would/wouldn't work, sound would/wouldn't work. I actually started keeping a notebook around to write down the methods I got things to work. Sometimes it'd work again and sometimes it wouldn't.
First of all, why did you try Pogo and Slackware? There are distros meant for Linux newbs, and they are called RH and Mandrake.
Second, thats a hardware problem. NOT a GUI one. If your hardware isn't supported, then I'm sorry. There isn't much one can do.
Then once I got everything working I'd have to figure out which GUI(s) were installed on it. Sometimes they'd work and sometimes they wouldn't. Mostly due to video card issues I'm sure.
Again, if it's your hardware, the don't blame the GUI. Its got absolutely nothing to do with hardware support.
Also, if you go switching distros, then what would you expect? A clone of the last one?
Even then, KDE/GNOME are basically the same across different distoros. Don't give me the BS that they are completely different.
Then if I got the GUI to work I couldn't figure out head from tails how to get programs installed. Most everything that I downloaded it felt like I had to build or download from CVS or some weird junk like that.
Ummm... OK. If you download software that is still in development, then that's gonna happen. For just about every even semi-mature there is a RPM (or some kidn of package).
Eventually I gave up on wasting my time and went back into Windows. Then my Windows machine bombed out (CPU overheated I think) so I scrapped it for parts and now am over joyously running Mac OS X. Yeah it's more expensive, yeah I *used* to have a one button mouse, yeah it looks like a lamp... whatever. I know I have a good and solid OS underneath all those fancy widgets (which is why I wanted to install Linux in the first place) and I have those fancy widgets (which is why I always went back to Windows). Everything works and to get applications installed I just copy them into a directory and voila! Yes on occassion some random freeware/shareware program doesn't work for some reason or another. But overall I think it's a good middle ground between Linux and Windows.
Then by all means, USE OSX!
The goal of Linux is to give choice, not to make everyone use it.
You are right about 1 thing. It isn't about Linux.
It's about Distros! How hard is it for you usability "experts" to understand? If people want consistency, they should go for RH. And let the rest of us be, so we can do things the way WE want.
And still, why do poeple give a rat's ass weather every Joe uses Linux? I sure as hell don't.
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I can crack any CD the moment I bring it home.
1) Get a CD player with a andio-out jack
2) Connect the andio-out jack to audio-in on your computer
3) Open up sound recording software
4) Play the track you want to rip, and begin recording
5) When track is done playing, stop sound recording software
You now have a nice DRM free copy of the track you wanted to rip in the format of your choice. Enjoy!
No, more like:
(1) Shut down computer.
(2) Install hard drive, connect power and IDE cables.
(3) Turn computer back on and make sure it autodetects the drive.
(4) Pop in KNOPPIX live-CD, format, and install distro of choice.
BTW, If you put an empty drive in as primary master, it's just gonna bitch about not having an OS. So you'll need that KNOPPIX CD anyway.
You realise that number of possible domains is infinate, don't you?
On the other hand, Verisign paying $ (that infinity, if your browser doesn't render it correctly); isn't such a bad idea...
Me too.
*sigh* Thunderbird's filtering seems to be taking a while to catch on that I don't want those e-mails...
You are correct, execept that you forget this is Slashdot. Any positive review of Linux, no matter how bad, can get on the home page.
Its is a distro. But most non-tech people don't know what a distro is. They do, however, know what a desktop is.
Sun's just calling it that to not confuse computer newbies.
I think he means more like "It rivals XP in dumbed down-ness"...
What amazes me is that you are actually still running a HL server.
If it was me, I would have shut it down the moment Valve declared that it wasn't gonna make a HL2 Linux Client.
The server seems to already be running slow... Anyway, here is the text of the blog at http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000224.html . (this was the first blog linket to in the article)
c-n y-- r--d th-s?
Languagehat has an entry concerning the decipherability of English texts made up of words that have had their letters scrambled (except for the first and last). [via Avva in Russian] I had written something about this phenomenon back in March with a different scrambled text. (I am always amazed how these unattributed texts can spread like folklore across the Web.) It was hard at the time to find a source for the quoted text, but I think I've traced it back to some work that Kourosh Saberi at UC Irvine and David R. Perrott at Cal State Los Angeles have done, mentioned here in an article by D. W. Massaro at UC Santa Cruz. I sent some email to Professor Saberi, but hadn't heard back from him. They wrote up their results in the 29 April 1999 issue of Nature, but I've been unable to find it online. Here's a press release for that article; see also this editorial in Nature Science Update.
[Addendum 09/15/03: The jumbled letters meme continues to spread. In good folkloric fashion, I've seen two variants: the first with "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy" and the second with "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy". Here's another reference to the Saberi and Perrott article on the ABCNEWS dot com site.]
Probably because you have had 10-20+ years of English, while she has had only maybe 5 or less.
Of course, I may be wrong on the numbers. But you get the point.
OK, this is a major troll, but I don't have any mod points left. And maybe ill get a couple of karma points. OK, probably not... but anyway... 1) It's during the installation process. Tell me, how often do you do that? Anyway, instllations are so boring, I really wouldn't mind some good ads. 2) Nobody keeps their homepage. Thats hardly something hard to change or ignore. 3) Ads in bookmarks are even easier to ignore. Or delete. 4) Only the downloadable version has ads. The others do not. Maybe you should consider buying Mandrake to support them. 5) Contrary to another comment of yours, there are no ads in screensavers. RTFA and you will see that. 6) No one is even close to owning your desktop. There are only ads in the installation, bookmarks, and homepage. Thats nowhere close to someone owning your desktop.
I mean demanding money for things that you had no input in? It's like me asking everyone who uses Windows to pay me because I think Ms stole my code. Hmm I think I'd have more reason than SCO actually..I did sent Ms some beta bug reports...
Hold it right there. You willingly sent bug reports to MS. Thus you actually helped MS. And posted it on Slashdot.
BURN HIM!
This guy is so right. Tragically I don't have any mod points for the moment, so I can't do it myself.
Almost every Windows vuln article I see this argument. And very time it gets refuted. Yes the Windows troll just will not go away.
Debian distrobutes how many thousands of different packages? I don't remember, but it was over 2,000.
Now then, how mnay different packages does MS make? 200-250. 5 out of 250 MS pacakges. 10 out of more than 2,000 Debian packages. Now Debian doesn't sound so bad, does it?
On top of that, most of the Debian security vulnerabilities are theoretical or requite access to the machine to use the exploit. Hardly as big of a threat as MS vulnerabilities.
There are also many unofficial builds optimised for different architectures. Some them include AA fonts. Go to the MozillaZine builds forum, and you will see peoplw discussing them.
WineX was forked from WINE before WINE was GPLed. If I remember right, WINE was origionally under the BSD lisence.
Gamespot is right. You shouldn't have ripped off their videos. You had no right whatsoever to use them.
Whould you like it is someone took your hard work and used it without you're permission? The people at Gamespot don't. They have to make a living. If you don't like it, tough. Its THIER video, not yours.
Its not GS who is the asshole in this case, it's you.
NO, he is able to duck those bullets because (unlike you?) he took the red pill.
I've installed various distros of Linux (Redhat, Pogo?, and one other (maybe Slackware?)) and maybe it was just my total lack of patience but it seemed like I could get something to work on one distro and not on another. Graphics card would/wouldn't work, ethernet would/wouldn't work, sound would/wouldn't work. I actually started keeping a notebook around to write down the methods I got things to work. Sometimes it'd work again and sometimes it wouldn't.
First of all, why did you try Pogo and Slackware? There are distros meant for Linux newbs, and they are called RH and Mandrake.
Second, thats a hardware problem. NOT a GUI one. If your hardware isn't supported, then I'm sorry. There isn't much one can do.
Then once I got everything working I'd have to figure out which GUI(s) were installed on it. Sometimes they'd work and sometimes they wouldn't. Mostly due to video card issues I'm sure.
Again, if it's your hardware, the don't blame the GUI. Its got absolutely nothing to do with hardware support.
Also, if you go switching distros, then what would you expect? A clone of the last one?
Even then, KDE/GNOME are basically the same across different distoros. Don't give me the BS that they are completely different.
Then if I got the GUI to work I couldn't figure out head from tails how to get programs installed. Most everything that I downloaded it felt like I had to build or download from CVS or some weird junk like that.
Ummm... OK. If you download software that is still in development, then that's gonna happen. For just about every even semi-mature there is a RPM (or some kidn of package).
Eventually I gave up on wasting my time and went back into Windows. Then my Windows machine bombed out (CPU overheated I think) so I scrapped it for parts and now am over joyously running Mac OS X. Yeah it's more expensive, yeah I *used* to have a one button mouse, yeah it looks like a lamp... whatever. I know I have a good and solid OS underneath all those fancy widgets (which is why I wanted to install Linux in the first place) and I have those fancy widgets (which is why I always went back to Windows). Everything works and to get applications installed I just copy them into a directory and voila! Yes on occassion some random freeware/shareware program doesn't work for some reason or another. But overall I think it's a good middle ground between Linux and Windows.
Then by all means, USE OSX!
The goal of Linux is to give choice, not to make everyone use it.
You are right about 1 thing. It isn't about Linux.
It's about Distros! How hard is it for you usability "experts" to understand? If people want consistency, they should go for RH. And let the rest of us be, so we can do things the way WE want.
And still, why do poeple give a rat's ass weather every Joe uses Linux? I sure as hell don't.
Ever heard of multiple desktops? Sticky? Windowshade mode? Tabs?
I don't recall those things ever being in (vanilla) Windows.
There are plenty of things that KDE, GNOME, whatever have that Windows doesn't. Don't sprough the BS that they don't, I'm tired of hearing it.
Well, since Kazaa isn't supported under Linux, I doubt it. Gnutella, maybe, but not Kazaa.
It was origionally found at Ars Technica
Simple. Just login and at the terminal, type "startx". J. Consumer will quickly find out what X does. ;-)