Yeah I think I agree with you there. It certainly is obnoxious. I'm lucky I got an iPod before I found out about iTunes, but honestly, I don't find prices are terribly different between actual cds off amazon and cds in m4a off of iTunes. Also I do tend to notice a quality difference between CDs and the m4a's off iTunes for certain types of albums, so I actually don't really buy that much off iTunes these days if I'm not going to listen to it on my iPod.
The obnoxious behavior of Apple not allowing their DRM to be licensed for other players is consistent with their behavior in the past however; they're pretty aggressive when it comes to locking their tech with their hardware. For e.g., Mac OS X and all that jazz. We're all begging Apple to release x86 compatible versions of Mac OS X or at least some kind of windowing environment for *nix and themes for windows. But we all know that will happen when they have snowball fights down under;)
Well, what do you think the music industry would think if the lawyers had said yes?
I believe that with the current business environment, apple must look like it is thinking like the music industry.
It may be the case that apple really does believe in DRM, so that people do have to keep on using their products to play their files, as you can tell, this is all pretty much speculation, as I'm not privy to the internal aspects of Apple.
Even so, they are pretty lenient by letting you burn cds, so the guy that is bringing this case really doesn't have a leg to stand on.
What do you expect apple to do? Allow you to directly export to mp3 from the m4a's you downloaded off the iTunes store?
Sorry, but the problem isn't with Apple. I'm sure they'd love to be able to do that and keep these dumb lawsuits from appearing. The real problem is the music industry, who probably told apple they couldn't do that (i.e. export to mp3 from iTunes).
If you have gripes with the iTunes store, you need to take it up with the music industry, they're the one calling the shots. It's amazing Apple was able to get cd burning in there, don't be an idiot and ruin it for the rest of us.
IMO this guy reminds me of the idiot shining a laser at a plane flying over head... You get way more attention than you were expecting.
The only way the iTunes store could possibly export audio from it is to convert to wma, but then they'd have to license Microsoft technology, and that's just... wrong.
When I was first journeying into the world of computers, I believe I started off playing video games on my 286 with 1meg of ram... Wow that was a long time ago. I played zeliard incessently, and I literally cried when my harddrive crashed and I lost all my save games...
The games were still amazing though, since I had never owned a NES or Amiga or those other gaming systems. Anyone else remember rudimentary games coded in gwbasic?
Slightly later (I think), anyone else remember Hugo's House of Horrors? Man, the first one scared me SO MUCH when I was playing it.
Commander keen was fun as well. Guh, I'm only 21 and I feel like an old man...Rambling on randomly about figments of memory of my long-ago youth...
To get my parents to stop bugging me about gaming, I also would play SuperSolvers Spellbound! and Math blaster (man I had so much fun blasting trash and building rockets by solving math problems). See look mom, I'm learning!!!
Oh yeah, and don't ever forget gorillas (written in qbasic). That game was classic! I played that endlessly...heh
So yeah, I started off with games. I wouldn't recommend that with the current generation though... They have too many games. Sit 'em down at a linux box and let 'em hack at it, that's what I'd do if I had a kid who was interesting in computers.
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Have you tried disabling Plug N Play OS in your bios (you can also pass pnp=off to the kernel in the/etc/lilo.conf file), as well as passing noapic to the kernel?
Happened to me recently on this mobo, nvidia drivers wouldn't get loaded unless I did this.
It might also be as simple as you needing to have a kernel-source installed which matches your running kernel (if you use an rpm based system, rpm -q kernel-source should do it, or rpm -q kernel-source-2.6 on the recent mandrake). If you're not on a rpm based system, usually ls -l/usr/src/linux works as well. Then type uname -r. Make sure the numbers match up, then try reinstalling the nvidia drivers from the download off their site.
Good luck, and you can probably find help in your distro's irc channel on irc.freenode.net, or on linuxquestions.org.
Hehe, that makes sense:) I tried out the beta and it works very well though!
I'll look forward to more recent betas/ the next final of opera. I've always liked the looks of opera, just never had the time to make the switch (which I do have now thankfully).
$../storage/cxoffice/bin/opera wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000d), starting debugger... WineDbg starting on pid 0xc Unhandled exception: unimplemented function <br>ws2_32.dll.WSAStringToAddressW called in 32-bit code (0x42b7605c). In 32 bit mode.
Damn. Guess it's back to firefox for me. I thought for a second I had it, I saw the nice pretty startup wizard for opera as well as the initial user interface. Oh well
it goes on sale there December 22nd with a list price of about US$344
OK That's just too expensive for a 5gb player. I'd probably lose/break it anyway.
*huggles 20gb iPod*
If I was in the market again I'd probably get one of iRiver's other offerings (the 20gb is nicely priced and has great features apparently, though I haven't used it), but I already spent my money before I knew about it.
Side note: just got my 20gb 4G iPod working with USB connectivity in linux; just had to set CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=n in the kernel config and everything works great!
In linux, once you initially start OpenOffice.org, load times significantly decrease; on my amd 2400+, initially OOo 1.1.3 takes about 10 seconds to load, then, if I close that down, and later start up OO.org, it takes about 3 seconds to load. IMO that's not too shabby. Sure it doesn't beat abiword, which starts up almost instantly. AbiWord is one fine piece of software.
I'd say stick with OO.org when you need compatibility with MS Office users, but otherwise, you can't go wrong with AbiWord. I really love that little word processor:)
There's nothing wrong with that, that's what so much of OSS is about: increasing our freedom of choice.
Definitely not a class I'd want to take. This professor just sounds sadistic. Maybe he hates all students?
Or maybe he really works as a programmer whose job it is to look for bugs in UNIX based apps and gets paid by the bug, and he's failing everyone because now he can't get a big christmas bonus.
Why didn't they just start from a fresh redhat 5.2 system and research all the kernel exploits for that kernel series that have been discovered? Got to be a whole hell of a lot. Not to mention the userland apps that come with it.
Hell, I'm sure there's some unpatched redhat 5.2 box out there, which is "deployed."
He didn't say "up to date" UNIX software, just "deployed" software.
Seems easy enough to me. Basically a research project.
What we did in my college calculus classes, is there were some quizzes where you weren't allowed to use a calculator (i.e. memorizing derivation/integration formulas etc.). This made me work hard because the quizzes were important to my grade, and if any part of my answer was wrong, it was marked entirely wrong (no partial credit was given).
Then for the tests, we got to use calculators, and the material wasn't testing so much on the rules of attaining an answer, but the concept around actually solving a problem. In calculus you get both types of problems, and IMO the concept of how to solve a particular problem is harder, requires more brainwork, and can't be solved entirely by a calculator. Basically derivation rules etc. are just a matter of memorization that you gain through practicing problems.
I liked this method, but then again I took honors calculus and got a pretty much perfect score for calc I and II. I did enjoy the challenge of the class.
Also, having to show your work (i.e. HOW exactly you went from the given information in the question to the final answer) means you can't just plug it in to the calculator and get an answer and write it down without thinking.
On the whole, I think that calculators are a bad thing in middle school, up 'till about Geometry (Well in my school we had Geometry as a prelude to AlgIII/Trig... Odd school). On a related tangent, I still have horrific memories of getting caught cheating on a proof in Alg III... *shudder*
My general principle with ads is the following: If the ad is not intrusive, and is not flash, (I.e. it doesn't have lots of motion, doesn't eat up cpu cycles, and doesn't flash horrendous colors at me), I will not block it. Otherwise, I will.
Also if I don't like the site I'm on, I will typically block as many ads as I can (like weather.com), but I don't bother with most ads on slashdot.
I just hate really intrusive ads. Unfortunately, the intrusive ads are the ones that get the attention, and thus the clicks, of the users. Maybe if the advertisers actually offered something I wanted, they would see more success.
I haven't been using Mandrake for that long. But, regarding the g++ issue, most distros run compatibility versions of g++ side-by-side. I think mandrake has separate versions of g++ (in mandrake 10.1): g++-3.3.4, 3.4.0, 3.5.0, and 3.4.1, as well as the old 2.9.6. Which version is used is determined by the.spec file of the src.rpm I believe.
I haven't had a problem yet getting an app to compile that I needed on my system; note that's just my case, and I haven't tried to get obscure apps to work. rpm-based distros certainly aren't superior for all solutions, and as in your case perhaps only a source-based distro would be effective.
I haven't tried a source-based distro, but I think one of these days when I have a vacation I will. I just don't have the time to sit around while stuff compiles; the reason I use rpm based distros is that it works. It does sound intriguing, and I'd like to see what the fuss is all about.
RPM-based distributions will try to install anything from anywhere
Actually, that should read:
users will try to install anything from anywhere.
If you get all your rpms from the rpm repository maintained by your distro, everything is fine. If you try mixing-matching distribution rpms, then you will run into problems. But, keep in mind: distributions do not do this by default. This is the user thinking they can just go around installing rpms built for different systems easily.
The tool that I never see mentioned is a nice and handy little tooll called rpmbuild --rebuild, which you use with.src.rpms. This will enable you to take, say, a.src.rpm for RedHat, and rebuild an rpm on a Mandrake system, and install it easily.
Often people touting dependency hell have never actually tried to go beyond the basic.i586.rpm available from different distros.
I'm curious about this. I don't have much experience in court matters, but what's to stop them? They could just file the suit in court and I'd have to bring a lawyer to prove they didn't have copyright on it (Or maybe it's a lot easier to show that they don't have copyright on something?) But I don't have enough money for a lawyer, I have barely enough for my in-state college living in my parent's house. It's more likely that I'd just get lost in the paper shuffle, and settle out of court... (Theoretically of course).
Oh well, I can only pray that the MPAA is not as evil as that, and that it's not that easy for them to sue people for infringement.
If the MPAA is genuinely concerned with getting rid of people hosting their copyrighted content, then I don't have much to fear. If they are concerned with making a lot of money off these lawsuits, then I do. I should remark that the reason I questioned how far back the MPAA would go in their lawsuis, was because my ISP got a friendly little letter from them when I was downloading some movies off of the edonkey network.
I suppose I'm being a little paranoid, and my fears are pretty much unfounded at this point. I'm sure there are hundreds, if not thousands, who are still sharing movies and such, much more than I ever was, so I probably do have little to worry about.
I stopped trying to get movies online after the notice from the MPAA to my ISP. I thought back then that the MPAA was a lot better than the RIAA, and I even had some grudging respect for them, for not resorting to heavyhanded tactics to solve these issues.
That's gone now though. Suing people for serving movies is, in my mind, not an ethical tactic. But then, I suppose I still like to think that companies are nice, so what do I know.
Will they be suing individuals who are serving up massive amounts of movies (as the RIAA did with mp3 fileswappers) or will they just be going after everybody who's offering anything up? Also will they be suing people who are distributing movies which are not copyrighted by Hollywood? And is this against people who are currently sharing movies, or also those who have shared in the past? And if in the past, how far in the past? I suppose these questions will be revealed when there are more details about this (there seems to be almost nothing right now).
I'm rather interested to see about this. I only use BitTorrent right now; are they tracking bittorrent users as well?
I wouldn't be surprised if they were (BitTorrent is inherently public after all), but I'm wondering what they will do about Japanese anime type of stuff (Since that's the only thing I download these days).
This is not something to joke about. Sure, you may think they are doing a lot of handwaving, but my impression is that they are saying this is very unusual and we need to study it. They don't know anything about it because they've never seen it before.
Unlike you and many of the American population who demonize science and those who follow it, I trust these scientists to follow the scientific method and monitor the situation of the world.
This is not a joking issue. This is serious. It is not an issue where we should be panicking and running around like chickens with their heads cut off. This needs reasoned thought and we need to listen to the people who are capable of it.
Sadly, most of the population of the United States is incapable of calm reasoning and sound logic (ha, when was the last time that was taught in public schools?)
Just because it tells you something you don't want to believe doesn't make it untrue, or unimportant.
I still find it amazing that science has gone from being worshipped in the '50s to being demonized in the 21st century. It's cool to be the bully, but not to be the geek...
P.S. The Day After Tomorrow was a total flop and no amount of handwaving is going to get people to buy it.
I've tried posting this multiple times and it always gets buried... hopefully other gkrellm users who use only gmail will take notice of this. So far this is my favorite monitoring method for gmail.
Here's a little hack I made for gkrellm. It works pretty well. I was working on creating a plugin for monitoring multiple gmail accounts. It has some bugs still, but it works pretty well (it's basically a hack of mailwatch, and I've added in the revolving penguin too!). I've stopped working on it since school started, and because there has been so little interest in it. I'm considering putting it up on sourceforge.net so someone can clear out the bugs for me. Note that this tutorial is oriented towards linux newbies; if you know a bit about linux you can skip over a lot of material.
Hey man, I never said pirating software was justified. Those that pirate, and are determined to, will not be dissuaded by having their home directories removed, their entire computer formatted, or being sent to a webpage.
However, for those that are reasonable, and may be pirating for reasons other than immaturity or plain malignance, actually communicating with them in some fashion will be, IMO, more effective than silently deleting all the files in their home directory.
What happened to making a fullscreen popup saying "Stop pirating my program!" or opening a browser to a page on your website telling the user they're using a hacked serial?
Anyway, this guy's product and any future products will definitely not be getting any of my money (and I certainly won't be downloading his apps).
Ha, who am I kidding, I wouldn't download it anyway. Open source all the way baby!
Sounds like it is sticking very close to the spirit of the old Hitchhiker's Guide radio series, but adding a bit of flavor that wasn't there before (i.e. improving it). It'll be worth a listen!
I can't wait. The more I listen to his stuff, the more I wish Mr. Adams had not prematurely left this world.
By the way, was it just me or did the voice of Agrajag sound suspiciously like Douglas Adams himself?
I've listend to a number of his books on tape that he read himself, and it sounds very much like Mr. Adams.
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The obnoxious behavior of Apple not allowing their DRM to be licensed for other players is consistent with their behavior in the past however; they're pretty aggressive when it comes to locking their tech with their hardware. For e.g., Mac OS X and all that jazz. We're all begging Apple to release x86 compatible versions of Mac OS X or at least some kind of windowing environment for *nix and themes for windows. But we all know that will happen when they have snowball fights down under ;)
I believe that with the current business environment, apple must look like it is thinking like the music industry.
It may be the case that apple really does believe in DRM, so that people do have to keep on using their products to play their files, as you can tell, this is all pretty much speculation, as I'm not privy to the internal aspects of Apple.
Even so, they are pretty lenient by letting you burn cds, so the guy that is bringing this case really doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Sorry, but the problem isn't with Apple. I'm sure they'd love to be able to do that and keep these dumb lawsuits from appearing. The real problem is the music industry, who probably told apple they couldn't do that (i.e. export to mp3 from iTunes).
If you have gripes with the iTunes store, you need to take it up with the music industry, they're the one calling the shots. It's amazing Apple was able to get cd burning in there, don't be an idiot and ruin it for the rest of us.
IMO this guy reminds me of the idiot shining a laser at a plane flying over head... You get way more attention than you were expecting.
The only way the iTunes store could possibly export audio from it is to convert to wma, but then they'd have to license Microsoft technology, and that's just... wrong.
The games were still amazing though, since I had never owned a NES or Amiga or those other gaming systems. Anyone else remember rudimentary games coded in gwbasic?
Slightly later (I think), anyone else remember Hugo's House of Horrors? Man, the first one scared me SO MUCH when I was playing it.
Commander keen was fun as well. Guh, I'm only 21 and I feel like an old man...Rambling on randomly about figments of memory of my long-ago youth...
To get my parents to stop bugging me about gaming, I also would play SuperSolvers Spellbound! and Math blaster (man I had so much fun blasting trash and building rockets by solving math problems). See look mom, I'm learning!!!
Oh yeah, and don't ever forget gorillas (written in qbasic). That game was classic! I played that endlessly...heh
So yeah, I started off with games. I wouldn't recommend that with the current generation though... They have too many games. Sit 'em down at a linux box and let 'em hack at it, that's what I'd do if I had a kid who was interesting in computers.
Happened to me recently on this mobo, nvidia drivers wouldn't get loaded unless I did this.
It might also be as simple as you needing to have a kernel-source installed which matches your running kernel (if you use an rpm based system, rpm -q kernel-source should do it, or rpm -q kernel-source-2.6 on the recent mandrake). If you're not on a rpm based system, usually ls -l /usr/src/linux works as well. Then type uname -r. Make sure the numbers match up, then try reinstalling the nvidia drivers from the download off their site.
Good luck, and you can probably find help in your distro's irc channel on irc.freenode.net, or on linuxquestions.org.
I'll look forward to more recent betas/ the next final of opera. I've always liked the looks of opera, just never had the time to make the switch (which I do have now thankfully).
Oh, thanks. I didn't know there was one, they don't have a link to it on opera.com.
Hmm, I'm gonna try the 8 beta in cxoffice...
*fires up cxsetup*
Hmm the installer works.... Installing ...
*drums fingers*
Hmm, it's installed. Now to see if it runs...
Damn. Guess it's back to firefox for me. I thought for a second I had it, I saw the nice pretty startup wizard for opera as well as the initial user interface. Oh well
OK That's just too expensive for a 5gb player. I'd probably lose/break it anyway.
*huggles 20gb iPod*
If I was in the market again I'd probably get one of iRiver's other offerings (the 20gb is nicely priced and has great features apparently, though I haven't used it), but I already spent my money before I knew about it.
Side note: just got my 20gb 4G iPod working with USB connectivity in linux; just had to set CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=n in the kernel config and everything works great!
I'd say stick with OO.org when you need compatibility with MS Office users, but otherwise, you can't go wrong with AbiWord. I really love that little word processor :)
There's nothing wrong with that, that's what so much of OSS is about: increasing our freedom of choice.
Definitely not a class I'd want to take. This professor just sounds sadistic. Maybe he hates all students?
Or maybe he really works as a programmer whose job it is to look for bugs in UNIX based apps and gets paid by the bug, and he's failing everyone because now he can't get a big christmas bonus.
Hell, I'm sure there's some unpatched redhat 5.2 box out there, which is "deployed."
He didn't say "up to date" UNIX software, just "deployed" software.
Seems easy enough to me. Basically a research project.
Then for the tests, we got to use calculators, and the material wasn't testing so much on the rules of attaining an answer, but the concept around actually solving a problem. In calculus you get both types of problems, and IMO the concept of how to solve a particular problem is harder, requires more brainwork, and can't be solved entirely by a calculator. Basically derivation rules etc. are just a matter of memorization that you gain through practicing problems.
I liked this method, but then again I took honors calculus and got a pretty much perfect score for calc I and II. I did enjoy the challenge of the class.
Also, having to show your work (i.e. HOW exactly you went from the given information in the question to the final answer) means you can't just plug it in to the calculator and get an answer and write it down without thinking.
On the whole, I think that calculators are a bad thing in middle school, up 'till about Geometry (Well in my school we had Geometry as a prelude to AlgIII/Trig... Odd school). On a related tangent, I still have horrific memories of getting caught cheating on a proof in Alg III... *shudder*
Also if I don't like the site I'm on, I will typically block as many ads as I can (like weather.com), but I don't bother with most ads on slashdot.
I just hate really intrusive ads. Unfortunately, the intrusive ads are the ones that get the attention, and thus the clicks, of the users. Maybe if the advertisers actually offered something I wanted, they would see more success.
I haven't been using Mandrake for that long. But, regarding the g++ issue, most distros run compatibility versions of g++ side-by-side. I think mandrake has separate versions of g++ (in mandrake 10.1): g++-3.3.4, 3.4.0, 3.5.0, and 3.4.1, as well as the old 2.9.6. Which version is used is determined by the .spec file of the src.rpm I believe.
I haven't had a problem yet getting an app to compile that I needed on my system; note that's just my case, and I haven't tried to get obscure apps to work. rpm-based distros certainly aren't superior for all solutions, and as in your case perhaps only a source-based distro would be effective.
I haven't tried a source-based distro, but I think one of these days when I have a vacation I will. I just don't have the time to sit around while stuff compiles; the reason I use rpm based distros is that it works. It does sound intriguing, and I'd like to see what the fuss is all about.
Actually, that should read:
users will try to install anything from anywhere.
If you get all your rpms from the rpm repository maintained by your distro, everything is fine. If you try mixing-matching distribution rpms, then you will run into problems. But, keep in mind: distributions do not do this by default. This is the user thinking they can just go around installing rpms built for different systems easily.
The tool that I never see mentioned is a nice and handy little tooll called rpmbuild --rebuild, which you use with .src.rpms. This will enable you to take, say, a .src.rpm for RedHat, and rebuild an rpm on a Mandrake system, and install it easily.
Often people touting dependency hell have never actually tried to go beyond the basic .i586.rpm available from different distros.
Oh well, I can only pray that the MPAA is not as evil as that, and that it's not that easy for them to sue people for infringement.
If the MPAA is genuinely concerned with getting rid of people hosting their copyrighted content, then I don't have much to fear. If they are concerned with making a lot of money off these lawsuits, then I do. I should remark that the reason I questioned how far back the MPAA would go in their lawsuis, was because my ISP got a friendly little letter from them when I was downloading some movies off of the edonkey network.
I suppose I'm being a little paranoid, and my fears are pretty much unfounded at this point. I'm sure there are hundreds, if not thousands, who are still sharing movies and such, much more than I ever was, so I probably do have little to worry about.
I stopped trying to get movies online after the notice from the MPAA to my ISP. I thought back then that the MPAA was a lot better than the RIAA, and I even had some grudging respect for them, for not resorting to heavyhanded tactics to solve these issues.
That's gone now though. Suing people for serving movies is, in my mind, not an ethical tactic. But then, I suppose I still like to think that companies are nice, so what do I know.
I'm rather interested to see about this. I only use BitTorrent right now; are they tracking bittorrent users as well?
I wouldn't be surprised if they were (BitTorrent is inherently public after all), but I'm wondering what they will do about Japanese anime type of stuff (Since that's the only thing I download these days).
Unlike you and many of the American population who demonize science and those who follow it, I trust these scientists to follow the scientific method and monitor the situation of the world.
This is not a joking issue. This is serious. It is not an issue where we should be panicking and running around like chickens with their heads cut off. This needs reasoned thought and we need to listen to the people who are capable of it.
Sadly, most of the population of the United States is incapable of calm reasoning and sound logic (ha, when was the last time that was taught in public schools?)
Just because it tells you something you don't want to believe doesn't make it untrue, or unimportant.
I still find it amazing that science has gone from being worshipped in the '50s to being demonized in the 21st century. It's cool to be the bully, but not to be the geek...
P.S. The Day After Tomorrow was a total flop and no amount of handwaving is going to get people to buy it.
Here's a little hack I made for gkrellm. It works pretty well. I was working on creating a plugin for monitoring multiple gmail accounts. It has some bugs still, but it works pretty well (it's basically a hack of mailwatch, and I've added in the revolving penguin too!). I've stopped working on it since school started, and because there has been so little interest in it. I'm considering putting it up on sourceforge.net so someone can clear out the bugs for me. Note that this tutorial is oriented towards linux newbies; if you know a bit about linux you can skip over a lot of material.
Monitor a Gmail Account with gkrellm.
BTW The toolbar is pretty much meaningless in firefox; we've already got popup blocking and we also have the google search bar up by the address bar.
However, for those that are reasonable, and may be pirating for reasons other than immaturity or plain malignance, actually communicating with them in some fashion will be, IMO, more effective than silently deleting all the files in their home directory.
Anyway, this guy's product and any future products will definitely not be getting any of my money (and I certainly won't be downloading his apps).
Ha, who am I kidding, I wouldn't download it anyway. Open source all the way baby!
Oops, didn't see this comment before I posted. Ah well. It's nice to see it confirmed, thanks for the info. Even more reason to listen to the series!
I can't wait. The more I listen to his stuff, the more I wish Mr. Adams had not prematurely left this world.
By the way, was it just me or did the voice of Agrajag sound suspiciously like Douglas Adams himself?
I've listend to a number of his books on tape that he read himself, and it sounds very much like Mr. Adams.
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