It was the 75. I RMA'd the disk twice (30GB)... finally pulled it out of my system a few months ago and recently decided to turn it into a removable drive. I started the format, and it died again.
Actually that isn't true. Big Black and Negativland where on indie labels and were self recorded and produced. Steve also still will record ANY indie band who will pay is fee and as long as you truly are indie the fee is very manageable. Whoa is the band who comes to him after signing to a major label though, that fee will sky rocket.
I too wish the mini had a better drive. However, the iMac G5 is 2.5x as much. Plus I have a monitor, I don't need another one. Now if they had simply unbundled the LCD from the iMac and sold it for $700-$800, I probably could have been talked into it.
The mini isn't perfect. But it does fit a very nice niche. Our household is filled with computers... the mini will be the 5th (1 windows box that I'm giving away, a debian server, a ubuntu workstation, and an iMac already live in our house). We need a new computer, it has to be a mac. I have tons of peripherials that it can use (keyboards, mice, monitors, external HD, etc). Ideally I'd like a G5 tower, but I just can't swing that finacially. I was going then going to get an iBook, but the mini will have similar performance at a lower price so it has won me over.
But it is worth it if you have someone in your house that needs a mac. If I built a PC I'd spend $400-500 easily. But my fiance wouldn't be happy. She love's her mac, but the iMac DV is at the end of it's life. So for me it makes sense. I was going to buy an iBook, even though we don't need the portability. The mac mini fits a perfect niche.
No they don't. They want to sell you files that only play on an iPod. MP3's will play on anything. WMA's will play on most everything. AAC's can be made to play on anything. AAC's with apples DRM can only play on an iPod. This is what apple wants.
Not really. This was the route I was going to go, but lets say I want to watch a record a movie on Starz while watching Deadwood on HBO? I would need to rent 2 cable boxes and set up myth with two seperate IR blasters. It's a pain to configure. Although the comcast DVR (I have the motorola box with microsfot software) isn't the best device I've used; it allows me to do most of what I want with minimal fuss and headaches.
Not really, because I have the audio hooked up through the optical out into my reciever. My reciever only has so many digital inputs and my playstation, dvd player, dvr, and cd player are using them all...
I only have so many A/V inputs. Between the tape deck, cd player, dvd player, cable box/dvr, turntable, vcr, and playstation there's not much more room in my entertainment center or many inputs left on my reciever.
If that is the case, DVD will win. I don't see the porn industry switching over anytime soon. They didn't switch to DVD because of the higher quality, they switched because DVD's are cheaper to manufacture and ship. The quality is already good enough and I don't think people have any desire for HD porn. So unless HDDVD or BluRay become cheaper than regular DVD, porn isn't going to change.
I don't want an extra console in my entertainment center. I can move the ps1 to another tv, but still break out my ps1 games if neeeded. The ps3 will be great for me in this regard because I like to have DDR parites and won't want to hook that console upjust for that.
Or it just so happened that the iMac was released at the same time as windows 98. The first windows OS that had decent USB support. It was only after windows got decent USB support and each individual periphrial didn't need to ship with it's own drivers that you could begin finding USB devices in your typical computer store.
The iMac had nothing to do with USB adoption in the PC world. Why do I know this? because all the USB devices for the iMac where blue and bubbly (i have a few of them), and there were many more that looked good with the beige box.
I thought there was a way to inject a virus (or trojan or something) into an mp3 or wma file if the user was using a certain version of windows media player. I could be wrong though, as I don't run windows I don't keep up to date on this.
But, I did create a proof of concept virus when some time ago. It depeneded on a user have file extensions hidden for known file types. So you'd name something brittneyspears.mp3.exe. The executable simply contained code to launch copy a virus executable to the hard drive, and the mp3 to the hard drive. It ran the virus and opened the mp3 with the default player. To a stupid user, they'd never know what hit them.
yep... you were unstopable... i think the bug was that you could transfer more fighters from your planet to the ship than you could buy for it... I also think that there was another bug that if you tried to buy fighters and you had more than the max they got taken away.
I don't remember them ever saying it would be dropped from longhorn. They did say the WinFS file searches would not be supported across network shares. But that was it.
willing yes... sure i shoudld try, no... I feel like in general I'm a pretty technical user, but I don't know if I'm ready to install a new kernal quite yet. I'm hopping when hoary goes live in april an upgrade to that will fix those last two problems...
cdrecord, gnomebaker, and cdrdao all work perfectly.
I'm pretty sure it is a kernel issue with my motherboard as to why my usb hd doesn't work. dmesg shows it trying to be assigned an address and failing when it is plugged in. I'm not sure whether any USB 2.0 device will work... because of this, I'm scared to buy a new mp3 player.
Now this comes from someone who runs linux (now Ubuntu, before that mandrake) 100% of the time. Linux is no where as easy to use as windows. For instance, I have an external USB 2.0 HD. In windows, it is detected and automounted. In OS X the same thing. In ubuntu hotplug can't even assign it an address. I believe there's some incompatibility between my motherboard's USB (abit nf7-s 2.0) and the kernel I'm running 2.6.8.1.
That's not the only example. I had to write a python script to effecively burn audio cd's (it converts ogg, flac, mp3, aac to wav and then burns). I could use gnomebaker, but it doesn't support all those formats... nero in windows does without much trouble.
Nautilus will not under any circumstance burn a CD for me. It keeps prompting me for a blank CD. Again I believe this is a kernel issue.
Getting real, quicktime, wmv, etc to stream correctly in firefox was hardly what I would call easy; and still doesn't work 100%. I'd feel comfortable helping a newbie set that up in windows, but I wouldn't try to help anyone without plenty of linux experience try to set that up to work in mplayer.
For the most part I love linux, and for me it is easier to use simply because I do alot of things that make it easier. I have about 10 python scripts running as cron jobs. While that can be set up in windows; it's easier in linux. It was much easier for me to get file sharing working between my linux server, my desktop, and the mac os x machine I have than if I had been running windows. But those aren't necessairly the kind of things the normal user wants.
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But tracking who mailed 1,000,000 cd's is easier than tracking who sent out the mass email.
It was the 75. I RMA'd the disk twice (30GB)... finally pulled it out of my system a few months ago and recently decided to turn it into a removable drive. I started the format, and it died again.
Actually that isn't true. Big Black and Negativland where on indie labels and were self recorded and produced. Steve also still will record ANY indie band who will pay is fee and as long as you truly are indie the fee is very manageable. Whoa is the band who comes to him after signing to a major label though, that fee will sky rocket.
I too wish the mini had a better drive. However, the iMac G5 is 2.5x as much. Plus I have a monitor, I don't need another one. Now if they had simply unbundled the LCD from the iMac and sold it for $700-$800, I probably could have been talked into it.
The mini isn't perfect. But it does fit a very nice niche. Our household is filled with computers... the mini will be the 5th (1 windows box that I'm giving away, a debian server, a ubuntu workstation, and an iMac already live in our house). We need a new computer, it has to be a mac. I have tons of peripherials that it can use (keyboards, mice, monitors, external HD, etc). Ideally I'd like a G5 tower, but I just can't swing that finacially. I was going then going to get an iBook, but the mini will have similar performance at a lower price so it has won me over.
But it is worth it if you have someone in your house that needs a mac. If I built a PC I'd spend $400-500 easily. But my fiance wouldn't be happy. She love's her mac, but the iMac DV is at the end of it's life. So for me it makes sense. I was going to buy an iBook, even though we don't need the portability. The mac mini fits a perfect niche.
My linux workstation plays AAC but not DRM'ed AAC. Do I get a cookie?
No they don't. They want to sell you files that only play on an iPod. MP3's will play on anything. WMA's will play on most everything. AAC's can be made to play on anything. AAC's with apples DRM can only play on an iPod. This is what apple wants.
Not really. This was the route I was going to go, but lets say I want to watch a record a movie on Starz while watching Deadwood on HBO? I would need to rent 2 cable boxes and set up myth with two seperate IR blasters. It's a pain to configure. Although the comcast DVR (I have the motorola box with microsfot software) isn't the best device I've used; it allows me to do most of what I want with minimal fuss and headaches.
Easy, don't buy those cd's. I won't even buy a disc that has an anti-piracy label, much less one that has DRM.
Most of the first and second gen players wouldn't play cd-r's or dvd-r's. And that model was I believe a second gen player.
I have a 1.5 gen panasonic that doesn't play them either. Interestingly enough almost all of those players will play cd-rw's.
Not really, because I have the audio hooked up through the optical out into my reciever. My reciever only has so many digital inputs and my playstation, dvd player, dvr, and cd player are using them all...
I only have so many A/V inputs. Between the tape deck, cd player, dvd player, cable box/dvr, turntable, vcr, and playstation there's not much more room in my entertainment center or many inputs left on my reciever.
I'm a linux user running in 1280x1024 on the cheapest LCD flat panel I could find... what does that say about me?
If that is the case, DVD will win. I don't see the porn industry switching over anytime soon. They didn't switch to DVD because of the higher quality, they switched because DVD's are cheaper to manufacture and ship. The quality is already good enough and I don't think people have any desire for HD porn. So unless HDDVD or BluRay become cheaper than regular DVD, porn isn't going to change.
I don't want an extra console in my entertainment center. I can move the ps1 to another tv, but still break out my ps1 games if neeeded. The ps3 will be great for me in this regard because I like to have DDR parites and won't want to hook that console upjust for that.
Or it just so happened that the iMac was released at the same time as windows 98. The first windows OS that had decent USB support. It was only after windows got decent USB support and each individual periphrial didn't need to ship with it's own drivers that you could begin finding USB devices in your typical computer store.
The iMac had nothing to do with USB adoption in the PC world. Why do I know this? because all the USB devices for the iMac where blue and bubbly (i have a few of them), and there were many more that looked good with the beige box.
I thought there was a way to inject a virus (or trojan or something) into an mp3 or wma file if the user was using a certain version of windows media player. I could be wrong though, as I don't run windows I don't keep up to date on this.
But, I did create a proof of concept virus when some time ago. It depeneded on a user have file extensions hidden for known file types. So you'd name something brittneyspears.mp3.exe. The executable simply contained code to launch copy a virus executable to the hard drive, and the mp3 to the hard drive. It ran the virus and opened the mp3 with the default player. To a stupid user, they'd never know what hit them.
If I don't like all the songs on an album, I don't buy that album. If you can't come up with 8-15 quality tracks, I'm really not interested.
You do realize those aren't discman shells and are the size of a poker chip? right?
yep... you were unstopable... i think the bug was that you could transfer more fighters from your planet to the ship than you could buy for it... I also think that there was another bug that if you tried to buy fighters and you had more than the max they got taken away.
what about the bug that let you put that many fighers on a scout marauder?
I don't remember them ever saying it would be dropped from longhorn. They did say the WinFS file searches would not be supported across network shares. But that was it.
willing yes... sure i shoudld try, no... I feel like in general I'm a pretty technical user, but I don't know if I'm ready to install a new kernal quite yet. I'm hopping when hoary goes live in april an upgrade to that will fix those last two problems...
cdrecord, gnomebaker, and cdrdao all work perfectly.
I'm pretty sure it is a kernel issue with my motherboard as to why my usb hd doesn't work. dmesg shows it trying to be assigned an address and failing when it is plugged in. I'm not sure whether any USB 2.0 device will work... because of this, I'm scared to buy a new mp3 player.
Now this comes from someone who runs linux (now Ubuntu, before that mandrake) 100% of the time. Linux is no where as easy to use as windows. For instance, I have an external USB 2.0 HD. In windows, it is detected and automounted. In OS X the same thing. In ubuntu hotplug can't even assign it an address. I believe there's some incompatibility between my motherboard's USB (abit nf7-s 2.0) and the kernel I'm running 2.6.8.1.
That's not the only example. I had to write a python script to effecively burn audio cd's (it converts ogg, flac, mp3, aac to wav and then burns). I could use gnomebaker, but it doesn't support all those formats... nero in windows does without much trouble.
Nautilus will not under any circumstance burn a CD for me. It keeps prompting me for a blank CD. Again I believe this is a kernel issue.
Getting real, quicktime, wmv, etc to stream correctly in firefox was hardly what I would call easy; and still doesn't work 100%. I'd feel comfortable helping a newbie set that up in windows, but I wouldn't try to help anyone without plenty of linux experience try to set that up to work in mplayer.
For the most part I love linux, and for me it is easier to use simply because I do alot of things that make it easier. I have about 10 python scripts running as cron jobs. While that can be set up in windows; it's easier in linux. It was much easier for me to get file sharing working between my linux server, my desktop, and the mac os x machine I have than if I had been running windows. But those aren't necessairly the kind of things the normal user wants.