Because when you start using transparent mods to your PC, you're blowing away any kind of FCC rating it has. When the radio starts getting static and the cell phone drops connections and the portable phone/802.11b/x10 camera quits working, put the metal back around the case.
See them metal prongs all over the place around the case and seams? That's to prevent signals from the motherboard/CPU/hard drive from interfering with everything around it.
Rrrright. My IBM Thinkpad T20 gets at least 90 minutes on battery with the wireless card in it, but if I close the lid and fire up an MP3 player (for plane flights) I can get 3 hours out of it. Two batteries gets me cross-country.
A similar Dell I had got me 60 minutes on battery no matter what I did. Similar specs, except the Dell was 100Mhz faster (800 instead of 700Mhz).
Tivo and Akamai are two great examples of making money while living with in the GPL. They both sell a service, while using GPL software to power their services. In the case of Tivo, they do release some kernel patches and whatnot, but everything else is closed-source. Akamai has made a lot of changes to the Linux kernel to speed up the TCP code, but since they're not distributing the kernel, there's no need for them to distribute the source code.
Handsprings don't have Flash ROM, which is why they were initially cheaper. However, you could patch the existing OS with updates, and some handspring modules that required extra features would build them in.
This caused some problems when the VisorPhone(? maybe it was OmniSky) came out, as it required an OS that was in newer Handsprings, but not older ones. The solution was to give rebates to buy a new handspring.
If I want to listen to a CD, I'll turn up my amp, or tune into Digitally Imported on my PC and be done with it. What I'd rather have in the kitchen is a recipe server. Something with...say...the Joy of Cooking built in, along with plugins for other recipe books, and the ability to input my own recipes.
So lessee, I'm in the mood for a chicken dish. What recipes have chicken in them?
You can do it as a DBA (Doing Business As). The only thing that incorporating gets you is legal protection in case something goes wrong. The offended party sues the corporation and not you personally.
The cost for a DBA is about $10 at your town hall. Just fill out the form, tell 'em you're not serving food, and you're set.
I'd definately get an accountant for your taxes next year, as you'll be charged self-employment tax on any money you make, which is a lot higher than your regular tax rate. In addition, you'll also have to pay medicare/FICA taxes as well.
Uhm, it's because of taxpayer money that the Internet was created in the first place. Would you have complained this loudly is the same idea were brought up in...say..1985?
You're thinking "Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire". Caught that last holiday season, but was available only as Region 2 DVD (Thank YOU MPAA!). I don't think it was Aardman.
It's available this year on Region 1. Great movie.
Cartoon Network shows them every now and then, usually all three movies at once in place of "yet-another-scooby-do-movie" or "Land Before Time XXXIV"
I first started watching them while working at Learningsmith (similar to Discovery Channel store and whatnot). They played them every day, and the strange thing was, I didn't get bored or want to strangle myself after two weeks.
Having gotten started with the cartoon, then buying a bunch of comics on EBay, the TV show seems to be more of the comic-book-style Tick, which was pretty good. Too bad they didn't bring in Samuri Paul(? it's been a while..) or the ninjas. That would have been a great episode.
"Jeez. I thought Ninjas just got sucked up into jet engines.."
Given Fox's recent fare of programming, I didn't expect it to last. The only thing left is the Simpsons, since I can only get the last 15 minutes of Futurama because football runs over. C'mon guys, if the game goes too long EVERY WEEK, don't you think you can schedule around it?
Sounds more like a cop-out to say, "Phone lines are not up to it..." and that doesn't explain the death of @Home
Not really. If you're more than 3 mi from the CO (or other box with DSL equipment in it) you're stuck. I'm 10 mi outside Boston, but 3.5 mi from the CO. Thus, the only option for me is cable modem, which is going through the whole @Home problems. Given that this area already has cable service, will the phone company upgrade their local service to offer DSL and offer competition? Doubt it.
Speaking of @Home, companies fail. It happens. The idea was pretty stupid to begin with.
If what is described is the case, then why is AOLTW selling broadband? Why isn't TW's Road Runner shutting down instead of expanding?
The problem is that phone lines have never really been built to handle DSL and the phone companies don't want to spend a lot of money to upgrade (see Robert X. Cringley's comments). The cable companies have only so many houses hooked up, and satellite has too much lag and often requires a phone line anyway.
My problem was that I grew up listening to Firestone Christmas albums from the '60s (I listened to them in my youth in the 70s and 80s). Anyway, they're in short supply, and have not been transferred to CD. But I wanted my siblings and parents to have copies on CD. Unfortunately, I have not found a nice Linux solution yet, but here goes:
Buy a copy of CoolEdit 2000 and the Audio Cleanup tool. This will run you a total of about $90, but well worth it. CE2000 is $60, with the cleanup tool being about $30. You can demo both CE2000 and the cleanup tool to see how they work for you. The visualization is pretty nice too, as you can quickly see the big pops or clicks in the audio.
Use something other than your laptop to record the audio from the turntable (be sure it goes through an RIAA amp on the way). Most laptops have only mono input. I used my Nomad Jukebox to record to WAV format. Be sure you crank the gain up a bit.
I recorded a full album side per WAV, making really large files. Drop said files into CoolEdit 2000, then use the audio cleanup tool to filter out the clicks and pops. This takes about 15 minutes per WAV file. Other pops/clicks can be handled if you find them, but CE2000's algorithm is pretty good.
Once you have that, normalize the volume, then split each song into separate WAV files.
You now have raw WAV files you can either burn directly to CD, or convert to MP3. Don't convert to MP3, then burn, as you lose some of the quality (yeah yeah, they were crappy vinyl first...)
This guy rocks. It could be that simple, but I won't leave it at that. My first real experience with BC was watching Evil Dead in 1991, and counting the number of times he hits people with the axe.
This leads into Evil Dead 2, which was 1/2 horror, 1/2 3-stooges remake, followed by Army of Darkness, which threw most rules of horror-film-making out the window, not that the first two didn't as well.
Bruce is a guy that seems to like what he's doing. He's a hard working actor. You never see him in a part and say "who cast this jerk? he's terrible at that part!".
If you need any more explinations, I'd advise watching all three of the Evil Dead movies, *then* watch the DVD commentaries where he and Sam Raimi talk during the movie and get real insight into how these guys work. No stunt people, karo syrup everywhere, and plenty of scenes where Sam tries to get Bruce (literally) killed, but Bruce still gets up and keeps going.
Outside of standalone games (I played a pretty rockin version of VR MechWarrior at Dave and Busters a few weeks ago), VR never lived. VRML was dead before affordable PC hardware (3Dfx) could make it worthwhile, and the software available sucked. If you really wanted VR, then you had to get the special goggles and headphones, which would run you probably more than your PC did (or does now). Paying an extra $300 to get my PC ready to play Red Faction is okay. Paying $1300 extra is not.
Will it ever live? But what are the real uses of VR outside games? Not many. Virtual tours of homes or museums or other buildings, maybe. But I don't think there's enough interest to spend the time and money to build these VRML worlds. We're having enough trouble getting broadband and real time audio/video to homes, let alone something a bit more bandwidth-consuming like this.
I have AT&T Digital Cable in the Boston, MA area and the ads and screen navigation are awful, but I wanted the extra channels on Digital (BBC America rocks!).
So I went and bought a Tivo which has its own navigation and onscreen displays that are not affected by the AT&T silliness.
Bad admin, no donut. There's no reason why anyone should be using telnet. ssh has been ported to most platforms, and it's bundled with cygwin for you Windows people.
Use the ssh server for win2k. Here's an e-mail that should help getting it set up:
If I don't like Ford, I can buy a Chevy, or GM. Even the models within each line varies based on my requirements. The tools and parts are relatively standard and easily allow aftermarket/consumer changes.
Microsoft allows none of this. When you get a MS OS, there are no standard tools for changing the way Windows works. Your choice of OS is whatever MS decides to dictate today. Right now it's ME and 2000. In two months it'll be ME and XP. There are no other choices.
A better analogy for your car would be this:
Ford is the only car manufacturer. If you want to repair your car, you can only do so at the dealer. If you want to fix it yourself, you have to buy the tools and parts from the dealer. Want a radio? If you buy one from Circuit City, every time you start your engine, your radio has a chance of blowing up. If it doesn't blow up, you'll get a prerecorded message from your car saying the radio is not authorized and may cause damage to your car. I'll leave the fuel type, gas mileage, and safety factors to your imagination.
Ford has no monopoly on cars. If they did, we'd be complaining. We're not. There is actual choice in the automotive industry. Want to buy a Dell without paying for MS? Try it. You can't. Want to follow the terms of the Microsoft EULA and try to get your money back? Good luck. Sure you can build your own PC. You can also build your own car.
WOW! How did I ever get along without this thing? I've had it for two days, and have very rarely actually watched "live" TV.
I got the Sony 30 hour (Tweeter says the Phillips had a lot of returns). I started punching in the shows I wanted to watch (easy searching) and it started to record other shows that I might be interested in. If I don't watch those shows, they just get erased. Given the local PBS station is showing Red Dwarf and Red Green at 1AM, I can get my Red* fix the next morning, since Tivo has already recorded it for me.
My wife and I are still getting used to being able to hit "pause" to go to the bathroom, answer the phone, etc.
Because it interferes with 802.11 802.11 throughput drops like a stone when a Bluetooth piconet is active.
Isn't that why 802.11 and Bluetooth both do frequency hopping? So they can avoid running into each other? The really bad 2.4Ghz devices are those that don't frequency hop, like the x10 wireless cameras and wireless phones. They just blast all over the spectrum.
BTW, I've got a keyboard, mouse, two MP3 players, and a TV tuner (watiing for Linux support here..) that all go through one USB cable into my PC. I'd have the printer too, but RH 7.1 has a few problems with it still (like recognizing it, but not accepting any data).
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Because when you start using transparent mods to your PC, you're blowing away any kind of FCC rating it has. When the radio starts getting static and the cell phone drops connections and the portable phone/802.11b/x10 camera quits working, put the metal back around the case.
See them metal prongs all over the place around the case and seams? That's to prevent signals from the motherboard/CPU/hard drive from interfering with everything around it.
Rrrright. My IBM Thinkpad T20 gets at least 90 minutes on battery with the wireless card in it, but if I close the lid and fire up an MP3 player (for plane flights) I can get 3 hours out of it. Two batteries gets me cross-country.
A similar Dell I had got me 60 minutes on battery no matter what I did. Similar specs, except the Dell was 100Mhz faster (800 instead of 700Mhz).
Because the housewife will get AOL for $20/mo.
Tivo and Akamai are two great examples of making money while living with in the GPL. They both sell a service, while using GPL software to power their services. In the case of Tivo, they do release some kernel patches and whatnot, but everything else is closed-source. Akamai has made a lot of changes to the Linux kernel to speed up the TCP code, but since they're not distributing the kernel, there's no need for them to distribute the source code.
Handsprings don't have Flash ROM, which is why they were initially cheaper. However, you could patch the existing OS with updates, and some handspring modules that required extra features would build them in.
This caused some problems when the VisorPhone(? maybe it was OmniSky) came out, as it required an OS that was in newer Handsprings, but not older ones. The solution was to give rebates to buy a new handspring.
If I want to listen to a CD, I'll turn up my amp, or tune into Digitally Imported on my PC and be done with it. What I'd rather have in the kitchen is a recipe server. Something with...say...the Joy of Cooking built in, along with plugins for other recipe books, and the ability to input my own recipes.
So lessee, I'm in the mood for a chicken dish. What recipes have chicken in them?
You can do it as a DBA (Doing Business As). The only thing that incorporating gets you is legal protection in case something goes wrong. The offended party sues the corporation and not you personally.
The cost for a DBA is about $10 at your town hall. Just fill out the form, tell 'em you're not serving food, and you're set.
I'd definately get an accountant for your taxes next year, as you'll be charged self-employment tax on any money you make, which is a lot higher than your regular tax rate. In addition, you'll also have to pay medicare/FICA taxes as well.
Uhm, it's because of taxpayer money that the Internet was created in the first place. Would you have complained this loudly is the same idea were brought up in...say..1985?
You're thinking "Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire". Caught that last holiday season, but was available only as Region 2 DVD (Thank YOU MPAA!). I don't think it was Aardman.
It's available this year on Region 1. Great movie.
Cartoon Network shows them every now and then, usually all three movies at once in place of "yet-another-scooby-do-movie" or "Land Before Time XXXIV"
I first started watching them while working at Learningsmith (similar to Discovery Channel store and whatnot). They played them every day, and the strange thing was, I didn't get bored or want to strangle myself after two weeks.
That wouldn't work, as Fox starts the show "already in progress", meaning that the first 15 minutes is never shown. *grumble*
Having gotten started with the cartoon, then buying a bunch of comics on EBay, the TV show seems to be more of the comic-book-style Tick, which was pretty good. Too bad they didn't bring in Samuri Paul(? it's been a while..) or the ninjas. That would have been a great episode.
"Jeez. I thought Ninjas just got sucked up into jet engines.."
Given Fox's recent fare of programming, I didn't expect it to last. The only thing left is the Simpsons, since I can only get the last 15 minutes of Futurama because football runs over. C'mon guys, if the game goes too long EVERY WEEK, don't you think you can schedule around it?
Sounds more like a cop-out to say, "Phone lines are not up to it..." and that doesn't explain the death of @Home
Not really. If you're more than 3 mi from the CO (or other box with DSL equipment in it) you're stuck. I'm 10 mi outside Boston, but 3.5 mi from the CO. Thus, the only option for me is cable modem, which is going through the whole @Home problems. Given that this area already has cable service, will the phone company upgrade their local service to offer DSL and offer competition? Doubt it.
Speaking of @Home, companies fail. It happens. The idea was pretty stupid to begin with.
Looks like it's already /.'ed, so I'll punt.
If what is described is the case, then why is AOLTW selling broadband? Why isn't TW's Road Runner shutting down instead of expanding?
The problem is that phone lines have never really been built to handle DSL and the phone companies don't want to spend a lot of money to upgrade (see Robert X. Cringley's comments). The cable companies have only so many houses hooked up, and satellite has too much lag and often requires a phone line anyway.
From my memory:
"Bag of broken glass? Isn't that dangerous?"
"Well yea, but we're putting a sign on it: Hey Kid, it's a bag of broken glass. Be careful."
"Okay, what else do you have?"
"Well, we've got Johnny Switchblade (click)..."
My problem was that I grew up listening to Firestone Christmas albums from the '60s (I listened to them in my youth in the 70s and 80s). Anyway, they're in short supply, and have not been transferred to CD. But I wanted my siblings and parents to have copies on CD. Unfortunately, I have not found a nice Linux solution yet, but here goes:
Buy a copy of CoolEdit 2000 and the Audio Cleanup tool. This will run you a total of about $90, but well worth it. CE2000 is $60, with the cleanup tool being about $30. You can demo both CE2000 and the cleanup tool to see how they work for you. The visualization is pretty nice too, as you can quickly see the big pops or clicks in the audio.
Use something other than your laptop to record the audio from the turntable (be sure it goes through an RIAA amp on the way). Most laptops have only mono input. I used my Nomad Jukebox to record to WAV format. Be sure you crank the gain up a bit.
I recorded a full album side per WAV, making really large files. Drop said files into CoolEdit 2000, then use the audio cleanup tool to filter out the clicks and pops. This takes about 15 minutes per WAV file. Other pops/clicks can be handled if you find them, but CE2000's algorithm is pretty good.
Once you have that, normalize the volume, then split each song into separate WAV files.
You now have raw WAV files you can either burn directly to CD, or convert to MP3. Don't convert to MP3, then burn, as you lose some of the quality (yeah yeah, they were crappy vinyl first...)
This guy rocks. It could be that simple, but I won't leave it at that. My first real experience with BC was watching Evil Dead in 1991, and counting the number of times he hits people with the axe.
This leads into Evil Dead 2, which was 1/2 horror, 1/2 3-stooges remake, followed by Army of Darkness, which threw most rules of horror-film-making out the window, not that the first two didn't as well.
Bruce is a guy that seems to like what he's doing. He's a hard working actor. You never see him in a part and say "who cast this jerk? he's terrible at that part!".
If you need any more explinations, I'd advise watching all three of the Evil Dead movies, *then* watch the DVD commentaries where he and Sam Raimi talk during the movie and get real insight into how these guys work. No stunt people, karo syrup everywhere, and plenty of scenes where Sam tries to get Bruce (literally) killed, but Bruce still gets up and keeps going.
Outside of standalone games (I played a pretty rockin version of VR MechWarrior at Dave and Busters a few weeks ago), VR never lived. VRML was dead before affordable PC hardware (3Dfx) could make it worthwhile, and the software available sucked. If you really wanted VR, then you had to get the special goggles and headphones, which would run you probably more than your PC did (or does now). Paying an extra $300 to get my PC ready to play Red Faction is okay. Paying $1300 extra is not.
Will it ever live? But what are the real uses of VR outside games? Not many. Virtual tours of homes or museums or other buildings, maybe. But I don't think there's enough interest to spend the time and money to build these VRML worlds. We're having enough trouble getting broadband and real time audio/video to homes, let alone something a bit more bandwidth-consuming like this.
I have AT&T Digital Cable in the Boston, MA area and the ads and screen navigation are awful, but I wanted the extra channels on Digital (BBC America rocks!).
So I went and bought a Tivo which has its own navigation and onscreen displays that are not affected by the AT&T silliness.
Bad admin, no donut. There's no reason why anyone should be using telnet. ssh has been ported to most platforms, and it's bundled with cygwin for you Windows people.
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Use the ssh server for win2k. Here's an e-mail that should help getting it set up:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg0180
Now that's just not fair....
You mean GNU/Windows 2001.
If I don't like Ford, I can buy a Chevy, or GM. Even the models within each line varies based on my requirements. The tools and parts are relatively standard and easily allow aftermarket/consumer changes.
Microsoft allows none of this. When you get a MS OS, there are no standard tools for changing the way Windows works. Your choice of OS is whatever MS decides to dictate today. Right now it's ME and 2000. In two months it'll be ME and XP. There are no other choices.
A better analogy for your car would be this:
Ford is the only car manufacturer. If you want to repair your car, you can only do so at the dealer. If you want to fix it yourself, you have to buy the tools and parts from the dealer. Want a radio? If you buy one from Circuit City, every time you start your engine, your radio has a chance of blowing up. If it doesn't blow up, you'll get a prerecorded message from your car saying the radio is not authorized and may cause damage to your car. I'll leave the fuel type, gas mileage, and safety factors to your imagination.
Ford has no monopoly on cars. If they did, we'd be complaining. We're not. There is actual choice in the automotive industry. Want to buy a Dell without paying for MS? Try it. You can't. Want to follow the terms of the Microsoft EULA and try to get your money back? Good luck. Sure you can build your own PC. You can also build your own car.
It also would set a precedent for getting your money back for *any* CD like this, which will cost the RIAA members more than $17.99 per CD in the end.
WOW! How did I ever get along without this thing? I've had it for two days, and have very rarely actually watched "live" TV.
I got the Sony 30 hour (Tweeter says the Phillips had a lot of returns). I started punching in the shows I wanted to watch (easy searching) and it started to record other shows that I might be interested in. If I don't watch those shows, they just get erased. Given the local PBS station is showing Red Dwarf and Red Green at 1AM, I can get my Red* fix the next morning, since Tivo has already recorded it for me.
My wife and I are still getting used to being able to hit "pause" to go to the bathroom, answer the phone, etc.
Now watching: Son of Flubber
Because it interferes with 802.11 802.11 throughput drops like a stone when a Bluetooth piconet is active.
Isn't that why 802.11 and Bluetooth both do frequency hopping? So they can avoid running into each other? The really bad 2.4Ghz devices are those that don't frequency hop, like the x10 wireless cameras and wireless phones. They just blast all over the spectrum.
BTW, I've got a keyboard, mouse, two MP3 players, and a TV tuner (watiing for Linux support here..) that all go through one USB cable into my PC. I'd have the printer too, but RH 7.1 has a few problems with it still (like recognizing it, but not accepting any data).