Worse yet, The EAA fly-in is in Oshkosh this week and I planned on going Thursday. Looks like rain up here in da nort woods, so I think I'll make the Madison meetup after all.
I really like Software Update. It just plain works. I'm installing the Disc recording Update as I write this, I can't wait to see if it will finally allow me to burn iso's I get from various places, not just Mac specific iso's. I can't seem to burn FreeBSD iso's using desktop software (DiskCopy), is there anything in Fink I can install into X that allows for full-featured burning on a SuperDrive? I haven't looked yet (yep, I'm a lazy bastard).
I grew up in west central Wisconsin, on the Mississippi river. We had a semi-victorian house, tall ceilings, porches, all that stuff. No central air. Exactly ONE box fan upstairs, usually pointed at my parents room. Talk about a suffocating situation. I finally ended up getting air conditioning about 5 years after moving out, because I chose to become 18 at the height of the late seventies/early eighties recession/depression. There was absolutely no work around for an inexperienced kid. I also blame that recession for my not going to college. sigh...
Hey prisoner, is the insidespaces website your work? If so, very nice, good design. Email me, I want to talk.
Alexa,
Let me get this straight, you think holding the ENTIRE internet hostage for licensing fees for jpeg is good public relations? I suspect you have just sunk you company into a vast morass of script-kiddie harrassment, insanse legal tangles, and inumerable denial of service attacks, in my opinion. Frankly, I doubt that you even have good legal ground to stand onm considering the fact that jpeg has been around the world wide web for over seven years. Your company's management is obviously on the same mental level as a bi-valve.
I'm a little confused here. If you only have 5 racks of servers, why on earth do you need 25 consoles? 5 racsk can easily be controlled with one decent KVM, I prefer Blackbox myself. You also didn't say how much room you have. 25 consoles, even stacked 3 high take up a hell of a lotta room. Get a really good KVM, leave the people that need to be there in the noisy hel of a computer room, and then go back out to your desk and run everything from ssh or a Win2k terminal session. That's the way I do it.
My CD collection vastly outweighs my mp3 collection. I mostly download mp3's to fill obscure bands like "Captain Beyond" discographies. I do sample *every* band before I buy their CD though, unless they're a local, then I "sample" them live. What the hell is the difference?
Congratulations to Janis Ian for the excellent article she wrote. As a musician myself, I completely empathize. I've said this before, I'm planning on starting an Internet on label. I could use some help. Drop a comment in my journal if you are interested in getting involved.
Sandman, that really strikes home. My other half and I frequently ask each other if our parents are coming home soon. Gotta love being 42...
IAAM (I am a musician) and I know for a fact that most bands don't get shit for the CDs that are sold by the majors. We sell CDs at our live shows and we get all of the profit. Same with t-shirts and hats. The majors are in reality no different than the Mafia, except that they don't kill people (that I know about anyway). All they are in existence for is to rip off musicians and songwriters. I do both, I sell jingles to local radio stations and work (on the side) on background music. I make enough to (barely) pay for my equipment.
First off, Worldcom is simply screwing itself. Unfortunately, millions of people are going to feel the pain.
Now, on to the fun part...
You said "dont we already have an organisation for global jurisdiction over anything and everything: the US government".
WHY THE HELL NOT? The rest of the world is mostly a putrid cesspool, from what I've seen on TV, the net, and magazines. Europe and Japan are mostly cool, but the rest of the planet, at least from the point of view of being a human being, sucks. Nobody else is stepping up to the plate, so it looks like it's up to us, the U.S. people. do you really enjoy seeing people starve to death, get tortured endlessly, like in abject squalor, all because some petty dictator or mullah decides he wants to mess with their lives? I say, if we can do something about it by attempting to bring democracy to them and it makes us look like a world government, great. Let's get on with it. I'm actually VERY glad to be a part of a nation that has the power to form other nations by verbal command.
Hey pyrrho, you got a hack so the damn thing wil just minimize when I click the minus button? It drives me crazy when it goes down to the taskbar and covers most of the bottom of my monitor.
Oh yea, ontopic stuff. I'm planning on starting an indy inet radio station myself. So, if anyone wants their band played on air, leave a url for your tunage in my journal.
This charge is fucking ridiculous. I AM NOT stealing when I play music on my radio, I'm advertising for the band that's being played. Fucking greedy RIAA thieves.
I think you missed a group. I know of quite a few diehard developers who are Mac heads. Mostly, they are into it because of BBEdit (I think...). The guys I know that use Macs all develop embedded software and are EE's. At least that's been my observation.
Add me to your list. I bought my new dual 1ghz Mac, just about three months ago. Other than Unix (OS X), the main kickier was the *awesome* video editing capabilities. My x86 box, a 1ghz Thunderbird, totally sucked at video editing. I'll keep upgrading the x86, because I'm a gamer, but the Mac is my main development/video/audio creation platform.
I read the Dvorak column when it first came out. Believe it or not, he makes a small amount of sense. Apple needs to be leading the pack when it comes to OS innovations. I totally disagree with him that Apple is not innovating though. Apple is just playing with the hardware right now. I mean, isn't a postscript disp[lay interface an advance? Quartz is absolutely beautiful.
I can't comment about the federal level, I work in state government. In my department, we're looking into moving our Oracle 9iAS implementation from Win2k to Linux, but that's pretty much it.
I was on the architecture committee and did everything I could to advocate Linux on the desktop. I was told by the desktop services section chief that Linux "just isn't ready" for the desktop. This was of course before the release of StarOffice 6, with it's greatly improved Office compatability. So, I've got to wait at least another year before I can attempt it again.
I'll be upgrading my one OS X Mac when I get home. Is there any info anywhere about upgrading an OS 9 Mac to OS X withoput blowing away the old stuff on it? I've got a beige G3 and a slightly older G4 dual running DNS, 4D mail/webservers on them. I just bought out my ISP, actually, so I'm still learning about my new hardware/software.
DiSKiLLeR, I have to ask. Does your toilet water drain counter-clockwise? I now the seasons are reversed, I'm wondering about the coriolis effect of the earths spin.
Bzzzzt! I've got a Dual 1ghz G4 and iTunes only encodes at 8x. I might have a switch wrong someplace, but that's it. Photoshop is a blazing bastard though. Anyway, I just did an online, paid survey that was mostly asking me if I was interested in a workstation class laptop. I pretty much said no. When I'm talking workstation class machine, I mean Raid controller, dual cpu, 4gb of ram, gigantic 3d controller with 1 or 2 gb of texture memory and multiple GPU's. A laptop sure isn't going there. As a low-end gaming machine, sure, but certainly not a workstation.
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As a musician, I completely agree about the state of classical music between '25 and '65. There where some great pieces done, think Copeland, but most of the rest was forgetable. I understand that composers are attempting to write in the style of the masters again. I recently heard a piece called "Loon" which was most certainly not pops, click and random noise and ideed got the feel of being in a marsh and hearing loons. Wonderful piece. Anyway, the lowercase music I've heard and been fiddling with on my Mac is pretty cool, although the extreme pieces that feature lot's of silence are in my opinion just plain silly. Does anyone remeber the radio program "Hearts of Space"? That is the kind of music I think of when I hear this lowercase stuff. I really do like most of it.
Thanx everyone for al of the great electronica tips!
Cash. The best gift ever. It's all I really wanted when I went. I'm giving my half sister cash for her going away to college gift. I sure as hell ain't gonna give her condoms.
OK, here we go again. Moderators, think about things before you click the button. When I wrote the post above, there were 0 posts. Thus, I couldn't possibly be posting redundantly. When my comment finally made it to the page, there were already 12 other posts. I wasn't redundant then either. I suspect the redundancy you see is from posts replying to earlier posts than mine, which would make them redundant, not me. Anyway, to be on topic, I still think that HP is doing no wrong here.
Subject pertty much sums it up, but I'll add more. You pay $89 (or less) for an inkjet printer. You get a litle bit of ink to get you started. Oooh, I've printed, whatv 500 pages of text. I need to get a new cartridge. Why do you think HP is in business? To give stuff away for free? They are good enough to include a cartridge with the printer and they really don't have to. There's no law that says "HP will include cartridges with each and every new inkjet printer they sell". I see no rip off here other than the three women and their lawyers.
The wife and I tried just that in our new house. No land line and two cell phones with shared minutes (Verizon, if you care). We were told that we were in the middle of a very strong area of signal. Of course, to get that signal, you had to stand by the front window in the dining room and not move more than two feet away from there. We were then told that we needed to wait for a new cell tower going up nearby. How long to wait? "Oh, sometime this year" was the reply. Certainly not an ideal answer. So, after two months the "great cell experiment" was a failure. We now have a land line and MCI long distance. There's no way in hell that I ever, evne under duress, deal directly with AT&T. They make Micro$oft look like the Girl Scouts when it comes to being a predatory monopoly. Thank god I'm getting Verizon DSL soon and can dump cable altogether. Well, only if the idiots at the satallite company can get me local channels.
I think it's time for something new. We've already fucked up this iteration of the internet. At least all of the worlds big businesses have. What ever hapened to the day when it was a great joy to simply discover a website about (x) and read about whatever it was that interested you? It seems like all you see nowadays is porn or corporate blather. Hell even the game sites totally suck. When sites like bluesnews or fragged went corporate, they so went down the toilet. I remember the first time I went to bluesnews. It was a treat to read about the games the guy actually cared about, not games they're paid to write about. Huge difference. Anyway, it's going to be damn tough to get back those innocent years. Maybe a giant, underground wifi network. I know we can do it in big cities. That's why I've left my wireless base station open. It's stupid bastards like that aussie business dude that have fucked it up for all of us. Soon we won't even be able to bitch about JonKatz anymore, then what the hell are we gonna do?
I'd like to know how my post is a troll, fucking dumbass moderator. I'm speaking directly to the issue at hand, offering an avenue of discussion that hasn't been opened yet. The fact remains, M$ has a gaming network in place already, why are they not exploiting it? I would hazard a guess that the left hand is completely losing touch with the right hand. In my opinion, M$ is setting themselves up to fail in a huge, spectacular way trying to start up a private network for the consoles.
"You must have been obsessed with Diablo or something that year.;-)" Actually, in '97 I was still fraggin ass in Quake 2. Anyway, it appears that I need to rent this movie. Thanx for the tip!
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Worse yet, The EAA fly-in is in Oshkosh this week and I planned on going Thursday. Looks like rain up here in da nort woods, so I think I'll make the Madison meetup after all.
I really like Software Update. It just plain works. I'm installing the Disc recording Update as I write this, I can't wait to see if it will finally allow me to burn iso's I get from various places, not just Mac specific iso's. I can't seem to burn FreeBSD iso's using desktop software (DiskCopy), is there anything in Fink I can install into X that allows for full-featured burning on a SuperDrive? I haven't looked yet (yep, I'm a lazy bastard).
I grew up in west central Wisconsin, on the Mississippi river. We had a semi-victorian house, tall ceilings, porches, all that stuff. No central air. Exactly ONE box fan upstairs, usually pointed at my parents room. Talk about a suffocating situation. I finally ended up getting air conditioning about 5 years after moving out, because I chose to become 18 at the height of the late seventies/early eighties recession/depression. There was absolutely no work around for an inexperienced kid. I also blame that recession for my not going to college. sigh...
Hey prisoner, is the insidespaces website your work? If so, very nice, good design. Email me, I want to talk.
Alexa,
Let me get this straight, you think holding the ENTIRE internet hostage for licensing fees for jpeg is good public relations? I suspect you have just sunk you company into a vast morass of script-kiddie harrassment, insanse legal tangles, and inumerable denial of service attacks, in my opinion. Frankly, I doubt that you even have good legal ground to stand onm considering the fact that jpeg has been around the world wide web for over seven years. Your company's management is obviously on the same mental level as a bi-valve.
Sincerely,
blah...
I'm a little confused here. If you only have 5 racks of servers, why on earth do you need 25 consoles? 5 racsk can easily be controlled with one decent KVM, I prefer Blackbox myself. You also didn't say how much room you have. 25 consoles, even stacked 3 high take up a hell of a lotta room. Get a really good KVM, leave the people that need to be there in the noisy hel of a computer room, and then go back out to your desk and run everything from ssh or a Win2k terminal session. That's the way I do it.
How strange, I remember telling it to. Use my bulletin board on my personal website: Jack's Junkyard
My CD collection vastly outweighs my mp3 collection. I mostly download mp3's to fill obscure bands like "Captain Beyond" discographies. I do sample *every* band before I buy their CD though, unless they're a local, then I "sample" them live. What the hell is the difference?
Congratulations to Janis Ian for the excellent article she wrote. As a musician myself, I completely empathize. I've said this before, I'm planning on starting an Internet on label. I could use some help. Drop a comment in my journal if you are interested in getting involved.
Sandman, that really strikes home. My other half and I frequently ask each other if our parents are coming home soon. Gotta love being 42...
IAAM (I am a musician) and I know for a fact that most bands don't get shit for the CDs that are sold by the majors. We sell CDs at our live shows and we get all of the profit. Same with t-shirts and hats. The majors are in reality no different than the Mafia, except that they don't kill people (that I know about anyway). All they are in existence for is to rip off musicians and songwriters. I do both, I sell jingles to local radio stations and work (on the side) on background music. I make enough to (barely) pay for my equipment.
Damn it! Now I *really* need to know what Cindy looks like.
Hey you Googlites, keep rockin. You've created the best search engine of all time.
First off, Worldcom is simply screwing itself. Unfortunately, millions of people are going to feel the pain.
Now, on to the fun part...
You said "dont we already have an organisation for global jurisdiction over anything and everything: the US government".
WHY THE HELL NOT? The rest of the world is mostly a putrid cesspool, from what I've seen on TV, the net, and magazines. Europe and Japan are mostly cool, but the rest of the planet, at least from the point of view of being a human being, sucks. Nobody else is stepping up to the plate, so it looks like it's up to us, the U.S. people. do you really enjoy seeing people starve to death, get tortured endlessly, like in abject squalor, all because some petty dictator or mullah decides he wants to mess with their lives? I say, if we can do something about it by attempting to bring democracy to them and it makes us look like a world government, great. Let's get on with it. I'm actually VERY glad to be a part of a nation that has the power to form other nations by verbal command.
Hey pyrrho, you got a hack so the damn thing wil just minimize when I click the minus button? It drives me crazy when it goes down to the taskbar and covers most of the bottom of my monitor.
Oh yea, ontopic stuff. I'm planning on starting an indy inet radio station myself. So, if anyone wants their band played on air, leave a url for your tunage in my journal.
This charge is fucking ridiculous. I AM NOT stealing when I play music on my radio, I'm advertising for the band that's being played. Fucking greedy RIAA thieves.
I think you missed a group. I know of quite a few diehard developers who are Mac heads. Mostly, they are into it because of BBEdit (I think...). The guys I know that use Macs all develop embedded software and are EE's. At least that's been my observation.
Add me to your list. I bought my new dual 1ghz Mac, just about three months ago. Other than Unix (OS X), the main kickier was the *awesome* video editing capabilities. My x86 box, a 1ghz Thunderbird, totally sucked at video editing. I'll keep upgrading the x86, because I'm a gamer, but the Mac is my main development/video/audio creation platform.
I read the Dvorak column when it first came out. Believe it or not, he makes a small amount of sense. Apple needs to be leading the pack when it comes to OS innovations. I totally disagree with him that Apple is not innovating though. Apple is just playing with the hardware right now. I mean, isn't a postscript disp[lay interface an advance? Quartz is absolutely beautiful.
I can't comment about the federal level, I work in state government. In my department, we're looking into moving our Oracle 9iAS implementation from Win2k to Linux, but that's pretty much it.
I was on the architecture committee and did everything I could to advocate Linux on the desktop. I was told by the desktop services section chief that Linux "just isn't ready" for the desktop. This was of course before the release of StarOffice 6, with it's greatly improved Office compatability. So, I've got to wait at least another year before I can attempt it again.
Sigh...
I'll be upgrading my one OS X Mac when I get home. Is there any info anywhere about upgrading an OS 9 Mac to OS X withoput blowing away the old stuff on it? I've got a beige G3 and a slightly older G4 dual running DNS, 4D mail/webservers on them. I just bought out my ISP, actually, so I'm still learning about my new hardware/software.
DiSKiLLeR, I have to ask. Does your toilet water drain counter-clockwise? I now the seasons are reversed, I'm wondering about the coriolis effect of the earths spin.
Bzzzzt! I've got a Dual 1ghz G4 and iTunes only encodes at 8x. I might have a switch wrong someplace, but that's it. Photoshop is a blazing bastard though. Anyway, I just did an online, paid survey that was mostly asking me if I was interested in a workstation class laptop. I pretty much said no. When I'm talking workstation class machine, I mean Raid controller, dual cpu, 4gb of ram, gigantic 3d controller with 1 or 2 gb of texture memory and multiple GPU's. A laptop sure isn't going there. As a low-end gaming machine, sure, but certainly not a workstation.
As a musician, I completely agree about the state of classical music between '25 and '65. There where some great pieces done, think Copeland, but most of the rest was forgetable. I understand that composers are attempting to write in the style of the masters again. I recently heard a piece called "Loon" which was most certainly not pops, click and random noise and ideed got the feel of being in a marsh and hearing loons. Wonderful piece.
Anyway, the lowercase music I've heard and been fiddling with on my Mac is pretty cool, although the extreme pieces that feature lot's of silence are in my opinion just plain silly.
Does anyone remeber the radio program "Hearts of Space"? That is the kind of music I think of when I hear this lowercase stuff. I really do like most of it.
Thanx everyone for al of the great electronica tips!
Cash. The best gift ever. It's all I really wanted when I went. I'm giving my half sister cash for her going away to college gift. I sure as hell ain't gonna give her condoms.
OK, here we go again. Moderators, think about things before you click the button. When I wrote the post above, there were 0 posts. Thus, I couldn't possibly be posting redundantly. When my comment finally made it to the page, there were already 12 other posts. I wasn't redundant then either. I suspect the redundancy you see is from posts replying to earlier posts than mine, which would make them redundant, not me.
Anyway, to be on topic, I still think that HP is doing no wrong here.
Subject pertty much sums it up, but I'll add more. You pay $89 (or less) for an inkjet printer. You get a litle bit of ink to get you started. Oooh, I've printed, whatv 500 pages of text. I need to get a new cartridge. Why do you think HP is in business? To give stuff away for free? They are good enough to include a cartridge with the printer and they really don't have to. There's no law that says "HP will include cartridges with each and every new inkjet printer they sell". I see no rip off here other than the three women and their lawyers.
The wife and I tried just that in our new house. No land line and two cell phones with shared minutes (Verizon, if you care). We were told that we were in the middle of a very strong area of signal. Of course, to get that signal, you had to stand by the front window in the dining room and not move more than two feet away from there. We were then told that we needed to wait for a new cell tower going up nearby. How long to wait? "Oh, sometime this year" was the reply. Certainly not an ideal answer. So, after two months the "great cell experiment" was a failure. We now have a land line and MCI long distance. There's no way in hell that I ever, evne under duress, deal directly with AT&T. They make Micro$oft look like the Girl Scouts when it comes to being a predatory monopoly. Thank god I'm getting Verizon DSL soon and can dump cable altogether. Well, only if the idiots at the satallite company can get me local channels.
I think it's time for something new. We've already fucked up this iteration of the internet. At least all of the worlds big businesses have. What ever hapened to the day when it was a great joy to simply discover a website about (x) and read about whatever it was that interested you? It seems like all you see nowadays is porn or corporate blather. Hell even the game sites totally suck. When sites like bluesnews or fragged went corporate, they so went down the toilet. I remember the first time I went to bluesnews. It was a treat to read about the games the guy actually cared about, not games they're paid to write about. Huge difference. Anyway, it's going to be damn tough to get back those innocent years. Maybe a giant, underground wifi network. I know we can do it in big cities. That's why I've left my wireless base station open. It's stupid bastards like that aussie business dude that have fucked it up for all of us. Soon we won't even be able to bitch about JonKatz anymore, then what the hell are we gonna do?
I'd like to know how my post is a troll, fucking dumbass moderator. I'm speaking directly to the issue at hand, offering an avenue of discussion that hasn't been opened yet. The fact remains, M$ has a gaming network in place already, why are they not exploiting it? I would hazard a guess that the left hand is completely losing touch with the right hand. In my opinion, M$ is setting themselves up to fail in a huge, spectacular way trying to start up a private network for the consoles.
They already have something like this for PC's. The Zone/ is sorta like Gamespy for dummies. I used to use it to get races in Motocross Madness 2. Most of the time it totally sucked, horrid pings and such. It runs on msn, which is why I'm a little confused as to why M$ needs to create another data center simply for Xbox online stuff. Frankly, I hope they choke on their own vomit.
"You must have been obsessed with Diablo or something that year. ;-)" Actually, in '97 I was still fraggin ass in Quake 2. Anyway, it appears that I need to rent this movie. Thanx for the tip!