After four weeks on the board, the users are sufficiently trained and I remove their names.
No, they've learned to write down their passwords on post-it notes stuck to their monitors or elsewhere. Or, their password is "password" or their name or something similarly stupid.
They may stop calling on this because they think you're berating them (though I don't), or they may finally feel some guilt. But I can almost guarantee they are not learning anything useful from this.
So admittedly, I'm a bit behind on this story. My bad. It does look like they may have originally intended to pass off the SlimServer as their own, but backed off when they were called on it and made to realize what using it would entail.
Do you have a substantial claim, or are you just speculating?
I've been reading the Slim Devices mailing lists for a while. As I said, last I heard Roku has given nothing back.
Of course they want people to use it. One of the best ways to further development of a product is to get more people to use it, look at it, and tinker. However, I'd guess that they and anyone else that has contributed don't want someone to take the work they have done, pass it off as their own, and give nothing back.
Isn't part of putting something out with the GPL the expectation of getting something back when others make changes/improvements to the code? If so, it appears Roku isn't living up to their obligation.
I was thinking more of the modified RC-10 that was chasing Clint Eastwood around in The Dead Pool. But then, that was more for ordinance delivery, not removal.
Connect the sites via IPSec VPN tunnels. Most NAT firewall/routers that support IPSec will allow the private IPs used at each site to be addressed directly, without any NAT. You'll be able to use whichever VoIP product suits your needs best without having to worry about NAT compatibility.
As a bonus, all calls and any other data between the sites will be encrypted.
Agreed. I've always had excellent results with Plextor drives, and have seen nothing but great reviews for them.
I do wish Yamaha still manufactured CDR drives. Theirs were just as good as Plextor's.
Some quick tips:
Always burn at a slow speed. For a master I can't recommend going higher than 4x. 2x is probably best.
Dedicate as much RAM as possible to buffer the data stream between the source and the CD you are burning.
Try to stick with internal drives. While the ATA-to-USB/firewire bridges work quite well, it's just one more thing to possibly cause problems.
One drive per channel (SCSI excepted). Don't place another drive on the same IDE channel as the CDR drive. If you must use external drives, give each a dedicated USB/firewire connection to the computer.
As for media, I've heard rumors that the discs produced in Japan are of better quality than those made elsewhere, but have never seen anything to back this up. I'd always had great results with Kodak media in the past, but it seems they don't make discs anymore. You may want to check and verify.
Fry's is just as scummy as Best Buy. You'll see. It's all bright and shiny and new now, but very soon that'll wear off and you'll see the unseemly underbelly of that store.
Get back to us when you go to pick up some same item, and every unit they have on the shelves has already been returned at least once and has a meaningless "Returned product inspected by..." sticker on it, and half the cables and all the docs are missing from each if it even works at all.
Oh, and the employees are usually about as anti-social as they come.
I'll leave googling "Fry's sucks" as an exercise for the reader.
Hopefully, on day, someone will devise a plan that puts a number of radio antennas spaced every few miles across populated areas. The area covered by each antenna could be called a "cell". Each would be connected back to a single operator of some sort, tying them all together.
With this antenna infrastructure in place, maybe we can then possibly have phones that make use of these antennas. We could call them "cellular phones", meaning that they are of the antenna cells.
The operator of the antenna infrastructure could then link their network with the local baby-bell's network, allowing user's of these radical new "cellular phones" to talk to people who have existing land lines.
I can't wait until someone implements this idea. I think it's be pretty spiffy to be able to carry a phone with me that I can use most anywhere, any time.
Imagine, being able to talk to someone on the phone while out at the movies! Or while driving! The future holds such promise!
I've had one for a couple years now. It works as well as the Tivo does, without all of the BS that that they seem to have been pulling recently. And SonicBlue has actually put up money to fight this type of crap in court.
The killer app for me is that I can fire up DVArchive on my Mac/Windows/Linux box and copy over a program from the ReplayTV with ease. No need to hack hardware or software like I believe you have to with the Tivo.
About the only feature I would like is the media center. but then, I don't believe I can use it from my Linux server anyways, and that's where all the MP3s are.
About the only thing I can think of that has done to the ReplayTV that is even remotely similar to this is removal/crippling of the auto-skip feature. But that doesn't work much of the time anyways.
Why not have a simple piece of text 'if you are in Austria you can download this, otherwise, sorry, move on.'
And we all know how well this method works at keeping the little ones out of the porn sites. "Oh golly gee! The operators of this fine web site dealing in adult wares do not wish those of us with few years to see what is contained within! I had best comply or risk substantial consequences to myself, my family, and the operator of this grand establishment!"
Yeah, the whole thing is silly. Who wants to read Gone With The Wind anyways?
Do these songs have samples? If that's the case, I would think it safe to assume that the owners of the original works being sampled have extended usage rights only to these artists. Beastie Boys, et al would most likely not have a legal right to extend sampling rights. And since it would be difficult to impossible to say, 'you can sample this and this part of the song, but not this part," they have to deny sampling of the entire work
By the way, the fact that Macintosh had anti-virus scanners, even back when they had macintosh classics (see: Agax, Autostart Hunter, Dr. Solomons Virex, VirusScan, WormFood, WormScanner) shows that there were problems
Also, Disinfectant, one of the original and best-known all-purpose anti-virus programs for the Mac. Simple, effective, and unobtrusive. And it was free.
When Shatner called the movie his "passion" and swore that he wouldn't sacrifice his principles moments after arriving nine days ago, she believed him.
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No, they've learned to write down their passwords on post-it notes stuck to their monitors or elsewhere. Or, their password is "password" or their name or something similarly stupid.
They may stop calling on this because they think you're berating them (though I don't), or they may finally feel some guilt. But I can almost guarantee they are not learning anything useful from this.
No, not hearsay on "some" list.
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So admittedly, I'm a bit behind on this story. My bad. It does look like they may have originally intended to pass off the SlimServer as their own, but backed off when they were called on it and made to realize what using it would entail.
I've been reading the Slim Devices mailing lists for a while. As I said, last I heard Roku has given nothing back.
Of course they want people to use it. One of the best ways to further development of a product is to get more people to use it, look at it, and tinker. However, I'd guess that they and anyone else that has contributed don't want someone to take the work they have done, pass it off as their own, and give nothing back.
Isn't part of putting something out with the GPL the expectation of getting something back when others make changes/improvements to the code? If so, it appears Roku isn't living up to their obligation.
Support the company that actually develops and supports the server software used by Roku for their product.
http://www.slimdevices.com/
Last I heard, Roku gives back nothing to the project, possibly in violation of the GPL.
I was thinking more of the modified RC-10 that was chasing Clint Eastwood around in The Dead Pool. But then, that was more for ordinance delivery, not removal.
I'm waiting for the TI 99/4a version.
Parsec!
No doubt. You have no idea how many of my school library's Atari-clone joysticks we broke while playing the track events in Summer Games during lunch.
Connect the sites via IPSec VPN tunnels. Most NAT firewall/routers that support IPSec will allow the private IPs used at each site to be addressed directly, without any NAT. You'll be able to use whichever VoIP product suits your needs best without having to worry about NAT compatibility.
As a bonus, all calls and any other data between the sites will be encrypted.
Agreed. I've always had excellent results with Plextor drives, and have seen nothing but great reviews for them.
I do wish Yamaha still manufactured CDR drives. Theirs were just as good as Plextor's.
Some quick tips:
Always burn at a slow speed. For a master I can't recommend going higher than 4x. 2x is probably best.
Dedicate as much RAM as possible to buffer the data stream between the source and the CD you are burning.
Try to stick with internal drives. While the ATA-to-USB/firewire bridges work quite well, it's just one more thing to possibly cause problems.
One drive per channel (SCSI excepted). Don't place another drive on the same IDE channel as the CDR drive. If you must use external drives, give each a dedicated USB/firewire connection to the computer.
As for media, I've heard rumors that the discs produced in Japan are of better quality than those made elsewhere, but have never seen anything to back this up. I'd always had great results with Kodak media in the past, but it seems they don't make discs anymore. You may want to check and verify.
My first thought was flash memory. I couldn't imagine why would a government care how the thing stores photos.
The Iconfactory offers royalty-free icons and design services. You may want to look into them. They have some nice-looking stuff.
The Kuro Box from Buffalo might be a better choice if you want to go the NAS route.
I'm waiting for someone to come out with a retro-style bluetooth headset modeled after Uhura's. You know it's going to happen
Fry's is just as scummy as Best Buy. You'll see. It's all bright and shiny and new now, but very soon that'll wear off and you'll see the unseemly underbelly of that store.
Get back to us when you go to pick up some same item, and every unit they have on the shelves has already been returned at least once and has a meaningless "Returned product inspected by..." sticker on it, and half the cables and all the docs are missing from each if it even works at all.
Oh, and the employees are usually about as anti-social as they come.
I'll leave googling "Fry's sucks" as an exercise for the reader.
Hopefully, on day, someone will devise a plan that puts a number of radio antennas spaced every few miles across populated areas. The area covered by each antenna could be called a "cell". Each would be connected back to a single operator of some sort, tying them all together.
With this antenna infrastructure in place, maybe we can then possibly have phones that make use of these antennas. We could call them "cellular phones", meaning that they are of the antenna cells.
The operator of the antenna infrastructure could then link their network with the local baby-bell's network, allowing user's of these radical new "cellular phones" to talk to people who have existing land lines.
I can't wait until someone implements this idea. I think it's be pretty spiffy to be able to carry a phone with me that I can use most anywhere, any time.
Imagine, being able to talk to someone on the phone while out at the movies! Or while driving! The future holds such promise!
I've had one for a couple years now. It works as well as the Tivo does, without all of the BS that that they seem to have been pulling recently. And SonicBlue has actually put up money to fight this type of crap in court.
The killer app for me is that I can fire up DVArchive on my Mac/Windows/Linux box and copy over a program from the ReplayTV with ease. No need to hack hardware or software like I believe you have to with the Tivo.
About the only feature I would like is the media center. but then, I don't believe I can use it from my Linux server anyways, and that's where all the MP3s are.
About the only thing I can think of that has done to the ReplayTV that is even remotely similar to this is removal/crippling of the auto-skip feature. But that doesn't work much of the time anyways.
And we all know how well this method works at keeping the little ones out of the porn sites. "Oh golly gee! The operators of this fine web site dealing in adult wares do not wish those of us with few years to see what is contained within! I had best comply or risk substantial consequences to myself, my family, and the operator of this grand establishment!"
Yeah, the whole thing is silly. Who wants to read Gone With The Wind anyways?
Do these songs have samples? If that's the case, I would think it safe to assume that the owners of the original works being sampled have extended usage rights only to these artists. Beastie Boys, et al would most likely not have a legal right to extend sampling rights. And since it would be difficult to impossible to say, 'you can sample this and this part of the song, but not this part," they have to deny sampling of the entire work
Also, Disinfectant, one of the original and best-known all-purpose anti-virus programs for the Mac. Simple, effective, and unobtrusive. And it was free.
Unless you buy an old Mac PowerBook
When Shatner called the movie his "passion" and swore that he wouldn't sacrifice his principles moments after arriving nine days ago, she believed him.
Someone actually believed Shatner has principles?
Say, "You're soooo good-looking!"
Remember, you can still increase sound quality by running a green marker along the edge of the CD.
Have a blast!
Did he just say "making fuck"?