i don't understand how people will use some commercial website to put down personal information.
there's 2 good reasons why anyone would want to have a blog or diary:
1. one of the reasons i keep a journal or diary is because at some future point in my life i would like to look back and have memories brought back to me that i may have forgotten.
2. another reason is i am constantly moving around the world and i like to have a central place where my friends and family can keep updated on my activities.
using a commerical blog application satisfies requirement number 2, but what about number 1? blogger won't be there forever, one day they will disappear. it may not be this year, or next or even in the next decade, but they will disappear or change in some way at some time.
when this happens, what about all your data? how is your data formateed? will they send you your data back to you in some comma delimited format? who knows?
that's not good enough for me. i wrote my own to satisfy my own requirements. if you don't want to write your own, there's plenty of free and open ones on sourceforge.net.
remember, when using a public service to keep your personal information, think about the future for that information.
funny, Darl's letter sort of reminds me of this letter from Bill Gates:
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS
By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands
programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two
months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC.
The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these
"users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time
spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people
who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to
us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional
work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has
invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software
available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the
ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108.
Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software. Bill Gates General Partner, Micro-Soft
are you kidding? you get to pass thru lovely Baker, which has the largest thermometer in the world. plus, they have this kick ass greek lunch place!
also, if you have a sports car, it's not so boring, especially coming down the mountains into Vegas. there are many 'CHP safe' areas where you can really just cruise at 140mph for a decent period of time.
I spent a few months sharing a 56k connection with a housemate once
2 people, that's not too bad. here in Saint Petersburg, Russia, we have 3 apartment buildings with cable stretched between them. altogether, we have 29 users online all sharing a single 64k connection. i've setup iptable accounting chains to 'see' who the abusers are, but haven't yet figured out how to do shaping or throttling.
we prefer to get DSL, but with DSL we have to pay 5 to 8 cents per megabyte (yes, we pay in American dollars for things like this and rent).
i am very jealous of places like Sweden where you have most apartment buildings hooked up with fiber and internet access of 3 to 10 mbps, with unlimited traffic!
If you think people would bother to read your blog, then you're either really famous (and you're trying to get your fans out of your face) or you're flattering yourself.
..or you want your friends or family to see what you've been doing if you live on the other side of the world...or you want to keep a journal of your life but don't want to carry around a book and pencil. you can get online anywhere, even on vacation.
i really don't care for all the online journals i've seen; they either had too much of one feature or not enough of another, so i decided to write my own. it's a nice and easy format with a great admin interface for edits, a clickable calendar and image uploading.
if you're interested in obtaining a copy, you can email me spamdot@ventura.nu
ok, here's a rant; mod be into oblivion if you like, but i think some users will agree with me here.
windows media player seemed to be the best player for all kinds of video content while any linux player was, well lacking, mainly with codec support. i remember when windows media player would auto-download a codec and everything worked great.
lately, i'm having a hard time playing many video files in windows media player and the auto-download codec thingie is a freakin joke. i don't know how many different codec installers i've been thru trying to make sure all codecs are covered (god knows how much adaware software has been deployed on my xp machine in the process).
frustrated, i've turned to linux for video viewing. i installed mplayer with the gmplayer front end and the w32 codec file.
now, i can play any codec thrown at me. quicktime? windows formats? no problem.
also, there's no better satisfaction then when my friends say to me, 'hey, i can't seem to play this video file you gave me.. how did you see it?'
'with linux.' (did their job just drop? yep, it sure did!)
i agree that Xouvert has nothing to do with a Babylonian goddess, but here's something interesting:
you know we've truly reached the Information Age when someone can argue with reason that something doesn't exist because an online resource doesn't mention it...
Slashdot Mirror
let's all wear white sheets to conceal our identities and then at the show locaton we can setup a burning lower case T for "Time to leave".
who's in?
Isn't Microsoft supposed to be blocking as well? Is there an exact date when this will happen?
if you have physical access to a system, the game is freaken over.
you could just tkae the drives out and mount them on a diff system...
OpenBSD users yet again roll their eyes and continue working without incident. :-)
woohoo, mark one up for obscure OS's. i have a hacked up atari 2600 that has a bash shell and a nic card, and i haven't been hacked either!!
i don't understand how people will use some commercial website to put down personal information.
there's 2 good reasons why anyone would want to have a blog or diary:
1. one of the reasons i keep a journal or diary is because at some future point in my life i would like to look back and have memories brought back to me that i may have forgotten.
2. another reason is i am constantly moving around the world and i like to have a central place where my friends and family can keep updated on my activities.
using a commerical blog application satisfies requirement number 2, but what about number 1?
blogger won't be there forever, one day they will disappear. it may not be this year, or next or even in the next decade, but they will disappear or change in some way at some time.
when this happens, what about all your data? how is your data formateed? will they send you your data back to you in some comma delimited format? who knows?
that's not good enough for me. i wrote my own to satisfy my own requirements. if you don't want to write your own, there's plenty of free and open ones on sourceforge.net.
remember, when using a public service to keep your personal information, think about the future for that information.
funny, Darl's letter sort of reminds me of this letter from Bill Gates:
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS
By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands
programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two
months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC.
The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these
"users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time
spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people
who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to
us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional
work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has
invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software
available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the
ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108.
Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software. Bill Gates General Partner, Micro-Soft
a bentley? what, does your kid have some facination with getting some poor people pants?
are you kidding? you get to pass thru lovely Baker, which has the largest thermometer in the world. plus, they have this kick ass greek lunch place!
also, if you have a sports car, it's not so boring, especially coming down the mountains into Vegas. there are many 'CHP safe' areas where you can really just cruise at 140mph for a decent period of time.
try to look at it this way:
what Virtual Folders are to Evolution, is what Storage is to the filesystem.
no more organizing everything into folders; shit can lay all over the place.. physical placement doesn't matter anymore.
What, pray tell, do you find an acceptable course of action for the RIAA?
Fold up and die?
Yes.
it wasn't some peurto rican?
so, according to your NASA link,
there's a 0.000057000% chance of Earth impact
or
1 in 1,754,000 chance
or
99.99994300% chance the asteroid will miss the Earth
in other words, move along folks; nothing to see here.
I spent a few months sharing a 56k connection with a housemate once
2 people, that's not too bad. here in Saint Petersburg, Russia, we have 3 apartment buildings with cable stretched between them. altogether, we have 29 users online all sharing a single 64k connection.
i've setup iptable accounting chains to 'see' who the abusers are, but haven't yet figured out how to do shaping or throttling.
we prefer to get DSL, but with DSL we have to pay 5 to 8 cents per megabyte (yes, we pay in American dollars for things like this and rent).
i am very jealous of places like Sweden where you have most apartment buildings hooked up with fiber and internet access of 3 to 10 mbps, with unlimited traffic!
drat Microsoft, i'm a linux user and there is no MSN messenger for my platform.
i use gaim, which is an amazing peice of software.
many of my windows friends use the windows version of gaim, as it simply rocks all over trillian.
i guess i will just have to persuade my MSN friends to use ICQ or AIM instead.
If the guy decompiled the code...
yeah, those decompilers are real handy.
i hope he gets to finish his Big Gulp before the feds throw him in the van...
google returns 206 relevant matches.
always remember, google is your friend.
i.e. discussing U.S. vs. Canadian style health care (private vs. socialized) is enough to get you arrested
..you will be lucky to escape death
arrested? that's nothing!
try going to any London pub and giving an honest opinion about northern Ireland.
If you think people would bother to read your blog, then you're either really famous (and you're trying to get your fans out of your face) or you're flattering yourself.
..or you want your friends or family to see what you've been doing if you live on the other side of the world. ..or you want to keep a journal of your life but don't want to carry around a book and pencil. you can get online anywhere, even on vacation.
i really don't care for all the online journals i've seen; they either had too much of one feature or not enough of another, so i decided to write my own.
it's a nice and easy format with a great admin interface for edits, a clickable calendar and image uploading.
if you're interested in obtaining a copy, you can email me spamdot@ventura.nu
if we're on the subject of linux and sound, then Ardor, the multi-track hard disk recorder for linux deserves a mention and check out.
where do you get 1.5 meters per pixel?
there is a picture of the pathfinder site, a closer pic of the pathfinder site and a pic of the Big Crater.
These are taken at 30, 6.6 and 5 meters per pixel respectively.
still can't see the freakin rover anyway...
You forgot to add: "Because I can't figure out how windows works"
hehehe, ya, i found compiling mplayer to be easier!
Why don't you keep your videos to yourself, then? Nothing like a pretentious Linux user to get me to want to use Linux.
since i watch all my videos in linux, i don't know what works or doesn't work in windows media player.
oh, and freakin relax!
ok, here's a rant; mod be into oblivion if you like, but i think some users will agree with me here.
windows media player seemed to be the best player for all kinds of video content while any linux player was, well lacking, mainly with codec support. i remember when windows media player would auto-download a codec and everything worked great.
lately, i'm having a hard time playing many video files in windows media player and the auto-download codec thingie is a freakin joke. i don't know how many different codec installers i've been thru trying to make sure all codecs are covered (god knows how much adaware software has been deployed on my xp machine in the process).
frustrated, i've turned to linux for video viewing. i installed mplayer with the gmplayer front end and the w32 codec file.
now, i can play any codec thrown at me. quicktime? windows formats? no problem.
also, there's no better satisfaction then when my friends say to me, 'hey, i can't seem to play this video file you gave me.. how did you see it?'
'with linux.' (did their job just drop? yep, it sure did!)
i agree that Xouvert has nothing to do with a Babylonian goddess, but here's something interesting:
you know we've truly reached the Information Age when someone can argue with reason that something doesn't exist because an online resource doesn't mention it...
sweet...