How is it the worst of both worlds? I can see you are implying that I have combined the poor quality of mp3s with some other bad aspect of oggs... what aspect of oggs is worse than mp3s? Or are you just referring to the relative unpopularity of the format?
Anyway, my CDs got re-ripped as ogg, so they're high quality, but my downloaded mp3s got converted. I honestly can't tell the difference; most of the mp3s were 192kbps (or higher) to begin with anyway.
I like iCandy Jr myself. The icons are nice and lively & colorful, plus the theme exists for both firefox & thunderbird, so you can get a consistent look across both of them (I like that).
I agree the default theme is ugly, which is unfortunate. I liked Qute, but I like iCandy more. It's worth a try, at least.
It is very similar to a virus being spread by email attachments.
It is such a relief to know that this virus will end up being a small, fairly well contained thing, with very little impact, such as slammer, slapper, sasser, etc.
Yeah, for TDMA we use a system called CBIS (a proprietary in-house developed text-mode POS thing that I hate with a passion, but thankfully we get a decent GUI frontend called Axys), and for GSM it's a system called Siebel that I know nothing about. For the last 2 weeks, at the very least, Siebel has been down during the daytime, and the GSM reps keep telling me "tell the customer to call back in 2 hours, it should be fine then" and they do that every single day.
Aside from that, the only time I ever hear about GSM is when customers are upset with their GSM coverage after doing a migration and they want to do a reverse migration. Now, I can sit here and tell you that GSM is horrible nationwide and that nobody is satisfied with it, but you can't really take that seriously because I never get to talk to the happy GSM customers;)
Based on your description and my experience, I don't know why anybody would want to use GSM. The situation now (as I understand it) is that ATTWS is a major player for TDMA, but we're just starting out with GSM... it used to be really terrible, but now we have a huge influx of GSM towers that has something to do with the Cingular merger, so we're pushing towards GSM (if you compare national-coverage rate plans, For $59.99 on GSM you get twice the minutes vs TDMA and tons more promos). Seems like they should make the GSM coverage useful before they bother switching everybody over to it.
Oh yeah, and we're having another fun problem... there's a (TDMA) cell tower in new york that's refusing to route any calls to 607 area codes (which is what, brooklyn? I forget). Anyway, my point is that yes, if you're in the new york area and you're trying to dial a 607 number and you get an error saying the number is disconnected, that's a known issue. No, we don't know when it will be fixed, please don't call us about it, there's nothing we can tell you except "they're working on it, sorry for the inconvenience, yadda yadda".
And I should probably put in the standard disclaimer "my opinions do not reflect those of AT&T Wireless, I'm just a small peon in the company and my views are solely my own, blah blah".
Are you a GSM customer? TDMA and GSM are run out of two entirely seperate billing systems, and the one we use for GSM is *always* down.
I'm a TDMA rep, and apparently the bills for GSM customers have the number for TDMA care on them, so we get lots of calls from GSM people that we have to transfer, and I don't remember the last time that the transfer didn't go like this:
GSM rep: "Thank you for holding, Joe speaking, how can I help you?" Me: "Hi, this is rob from 2g care, I have a GSM customer on the line..." G: "Actually, our systems are down, sorry." Me: "oh."
and then I give the customer the direct number and tell them to call back in a few hours.
Yeah, I know. That was my point: We are all forced to use IE, the company has standardised on IE. We are an IE using corporation that employs millions worldwide. It's a counter-example to the other people who were saying "my company employs 200 and we standardized on firefox!".
Well, I actually liked KDE 3.2, but I disliked all the KDE apps. I found myself using all GNOME apps on KDE, so I figured I might as well just run GNOME.
I've never tried Psi, but I've been a gnome fan forever. It's a nice side benefit that they're the most active project on SF and they release a new version at least once a month (their goal is to release one new version every two weeks).
I found kdewallet to be very slick, but then I found konqueror & kopete to be completely unusable, switching back to firefox & gaim. At that point, kdewallet became useless.
Now I have an encrypted text file with all my passwords in it.
I work for a very large multinational corporation that may or may not go by the name "AT&T Wireless". We (those of us in the Customer Care call center anyway) use XP/2K boxes with Citrix to connect to a main server, and we can only use Internet Explorer.
I've tried to install firefox, but it just won't run. I've tried everything, no matter what the.zip won't extract and the installer won't run. It's just not possible. There are tens of thousands of us (900 at my call center, at least 20 call centers in total), and we ALL use Internet Explorer over a Citrix terminal server.
It always seems inefficient to me because every computer in the building is a pentium 4 and all they ever run is citrix. They're the fattest "thin clients" I've ever seen. I can't imagine how beefy the Citrix server would have to be. LTSP would save them so much money, but I don't really care as long as I get paid.
I don't see what's wrong with Grand Theft Auto. Just make sure to stand next to him as he plays it and repeat regularly "and if you ever do that to my car, I'll kill you"
I liked the minidiscs when I first got them. It was the size & rewritability of a floppy disk, with the storage space and reliability of a CD. At the time, it was like the best of both worlds (CDs & floppies). That was back when the only way to get sound onto your MDs was manual recording through the analogue audio jack. I remember impressing my family by plugging the little unit into the big stereo system and having decent sound on the big speakers.
Then they came out with the new MDs, ATRAC-3 or whatever, one disc could store as much as 5 CD's worth of audio. Then it became possible to transfer music with USB... that's when it went downhill, linux support was abysmal, there was a small group of hackers who were working to reverse-engineer the protocol, they got it to the point where you could do everything but actually download tracks from linux (ie, you could issue play/pause/stop commands from linux, you could get track listings, rename tracks, etc). The reason was that the tracks were sent encrypted, and they couldn't break the encryption. Then the community died and their software disappeared from the internet.
Now I have two MD players/recorders, and they're both completely useless as far as computer connectivity goes (they work fine, I can record music through the audio-in jack, but that's slow and annoying, especially having to title the tracks manually with the player's interface).
I say, fuck Sony. I'm tired of their proprietary crap that only works on one platform (no, I won't install windows just for some crappy music player). I can buy an mp3 CD player that'll store more music for cheaper.
Dude, VOTE! If you don't vote, nobody will ever know or care why you didn't vote and nothing will ever change.
At the very least, show up at the polling station and register your refusal to vote (you can do this). If more people do that than the losing candidate(s) needed to win, they might call you and ask why, and then you can bitch and moan to them.
I have excellent vision (no visual impairment whatsoever) but am completely unable to read who has been selected for president and vice president on that ballot
It's pretty obvious, dude. The president is "Thomas Jefferson" and the vice president is "Some Random Human"
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How many developer's read through linux API's? 0.000000001% ... of linux users! Whats that, like 6 guys?
Your estimation that there are 60 million linux developers strikes me as a tad generous.
How is it the worst of both worlds? I can see you are implying that I have combined the poor quality of mp3s with some other bad aspect of oggs... what aspect of oggs is worse than mp3s? Or are you just referring to the relative unpopularity of the format?
Anyway, my CDs got re-ripped as ogg, so they're high quality, but my downloaded mp3s got converted. I honestly can't tell the difference; most of the mp3s were 192kbps (or higher) to begin with anyway.
I guess that makes sense, nobody ever calls in to make a compliment ;)
Actually, it's the tags. id3 is terrible, ogg's metadata got it right.
Do you use the bookmark toolbar at all?
I use them extensively, and I found that I only had room for the menu bar + bookmarks on the first bar, and the second one has URL + nav buttons.
Here's a slightly outdated screenshot (I changed themes and changed some nav buttons since this):
http://rbpark.ath.cx/Screenshot-Firefox.png
Right click on the toolbar and select customize, then you can drag around whatever you want to be wherever you want it.
The URL bar can certainly be put up on the menu bar; I personally just put my bookmark toolbar there to save some space.
Heh, the close tab icon was the only icon in the whole theme that I actually liked. The rest of it was hideous.
I like iCandy Jr myself. The icons are nice and lively & colorful, plus the theme exists for both firefox & thunderbird, so you can get a consistent look across both of them (I like that).
I agree the default theme is ugly, which is unfortunate. I liked Qute, but I like iCandy more. It's worth a try, at least.
It is very similar to a virus being spread by email attachments.
It is such a relief to know that this virus will end up being a small, fairly well contained thing, with very little impact, such as slammer, slapper, sasser, etc.
Hey, I converted all 3,000 of my mp3s to ogg sometime in 2003.
Don't bother replying about the degradation in quality; I didn't notice it, and I prefer the oggs anyway for other reasons.
Yeah, for TDMA we use a system called CBIS (a proprietary in-house developed text-mode POS thing that I hate with a passion, but thankfully we get a decent GUI frontend called Axys), and for GSM it's a system called Siebel that I know nothing about. For the last 2 weeks, at the very least, Siebel has been down during the daytime, and the GSM reps keep telling me "tell the customer to call back in 2 hours, it should be fine then" and they do that every single day.
;)
Aside from that, the only time I ever hear about GSM is when customers are upset with their GSM coverage after doing a migration and they want to do a reverse migration. Now, I can sit here and tell you that GSM is horrible nationwide and that nobody is satisfied with it, but you can't really take that seriously because I never get to talk to the happy GSM customers
Based on your description and my experience, I don't know why anybody would want to use GSM. The situation now (as I understand it) is that ATTWS is a major player for TDMA, but we're just starting out with GSM... it used to be really terrible, but now we have a huge influx of GSM towers that has something to do with the Cingular merger, so we're pushing towards GSM (if you compare national-coverage rate plans, For $59.99 on GSM you get twice the minutes vs TDMA and tons more promos). Seems like they should make the GSM coverage useful before they bother switching everybody over to it.
Oh yeah, and we're having another fun problem... there's a (TDMA) cell tower in new york that's refusing to route any calls to 607 area codes (which is what, brooklyn? I forget). Anyway, my point is that yes, if you're in the new york area and you're trying to dial a 607 number and you get an error saying the number is disconnected, that's a known issue. No, we don't know when it will be fixed, please don't call us about it, there's nothing we can tell you except "they're working on it, sorry for the inconvenience, yadda yadda".
And I should probably put in the standard disclaimer "my opinions do not reflect those of AT&T Wireless, I'm just a small peon in the company and my views are solely my own, blah blah".
Are you a GSM customer? TDMA and GSM are run out of two entirely seperate billing systems, and the one we use for GSM is *always* down.
I'm a TDMA rep, and apparently the bills for GSM customers have the number for TDMA care on them, so we get lots of calls from GSM people that we have to transfer, and I don't remember the last time that the transfer didn't go like this:
GSM rep: "Thank you for holding, Joe speaking, how can I help you?"
Me: "Hi, this is rob from 2g care, I have a GSM customer on the line..."
G: "Actually, our systems are down, sorry."
Me: "oh."
and then I give the customer the direct number and tell them to call back in a few hours.
Great fun!
Yeah, I know. That was my point: We are all forced to use IE, the company has standardised on IE. We are an IE using corporation that employs millions worldwide. It's a counter-example to the other people who were saying "my company employs 200 and we standardized on firefox!".
Well, I actually liked KDE 3.2, but I disliked all the KDE apps. I found myself using all GNOME apps on KDE, so I figured I might as well just run GNOME.
I've never tried Psi, but I've been a gnome fan forever. It's a nice side benefit that they're the most active project on SF and they release a new version at least once a month (their goal is to release one new version every two weeks).
I have my cellphone sitting on my desk in front of the monitor, and the phone rings, the monitor flickers. It's really weird.
I found kdewallet to be very slick, but then I found konqueror & kopete to be completely unusable, switching back to firefox & gaim. At that point, kdewallet became useless.
Now I have an encrypted text file with all my passwords in it.
Here's a counter example.
.zip won't extract and the installer won't run. It's just not possible. There are tens of thousands of us (900 at my call center, at least 20 call centers in total), and we ALL use Internet Explorer over a Citrix terminal server.
I work for a very large multinational corporation that may or may not go by the name "AT&T Wireless". We (those of us in the Customer Care call center anyway) use XP/2K boxes with Citrix to connect to a main server, and we can only use Internet Explorer.
I've tried to install firefox, but it just won't run. I've tried everything, no matter what the
It always seems inefficient to me because every computer in the building is a pentium 4 and all they ever run is citrix. They're the fattest "thin clients" I've ever seen. I can't imagine how beefy the Citrix server would have to be. LTSP would save them so much money, but I don't really care as long as I get paid.
I don't see what's wrong with Grand Theft Auto. Just make sure to stand next to him as he plays it and repeat regularly "and if you ever do that to my car, I'll kill you"
I liked the minidiscs when I first got them. It was the size & rewritability of a floppy disk, with the storage space and reliability of a CD. At the time, it was like the best of both worlds (CDs & floppies). That was back when the only way to get sound onto your MDs was manual recording through the analogue audio jack. I remember impressing my family by plugging the little unit into the big stereo system and having decent sound on the big speakers.
Then they came out with the new MDs, ATRAC-3 or whatever, one disc could store as much as 5 CD's worth of audio. Then it became possible to transfer music with USB... that's when it went downhill, linux support was abysmal, there was a small group of hackers who were working to reverse-engineer the protocol, they got it to the point where you could do everything but actually download tracks from linux (ie, you could issue play/pause/stop commands from linux, you could get track listings, rename tracks, etc). The reason was that the tracks were sent encrypted, and they couldn't break the encryption. Then the community died and their software disappeared from the internet.
Now I have two MD players/recorders, and they're both completely useless as far as computer connectivity goes (they work fine, I can record music through the audio-in jack, but that's slow and annoying, especially having to title the tracks manually with the player's interface).
I say, fuck Sony. I'm tired of their proprietary crap that only works on one platform (no, I won't install windows just for some crappy music player). I can buy an mp3 CD player that'll store more music for cheaper.
Dude, VOTE! If you don't vote, nobody will ever know or care why you didn't vote and nothing will ever change.
At the very least, show up at the polling station and register your refusal to vote (you can do this). If more people do that than the losing candidate(s) needed to win, they might call you and ask why, and then you can bitch and moan to them.
I know; my .sig is a parody of that.
Bingo.
I have excellent vision (no visual impairment whatsoever) but am completely unable to read who has been selected for president and vice president on that ballot
It's pretty obvious, dude. The president is "Thomas Jefferson" and the vice president is "Some Random Human"
Yes, the GPL is that happy, good kind of cancer that makes you stronger and fixes all your problems.
"Shhhh! Be vewwy vewwy kwyet, I'm hunting winux! Hehehheheheheheh!"