I really hated PDFs until I got off windows/acroread and started using xpdf. why is it 8.6MB?? xpdf source tarball is <500k. PDF addicts tend to forget that most people still do use modems to connect to the internet. 5000 word document? 1-2MB.
PDF is useful for packaging a paginated series of scanned images. that's about it.
Language isn't a prescriptive animal: languages aren't constructed in dark corners by funny men with hats who bless some usages as "correct" and others as "heretical."
erm, the corollary to this is that language derives its usefulness from mutual consent. I can say "340cfm3j9" in place of "heretical," but that's not a good language unless the people I'm speaking to have a lexicon that makes them equivalent. in fact, the lack of a prescriptive authority makes it even *more* important that we use words precisely.
I would argue that, to communicate clearly in this situation, "cracker" is required, because the general (non-1337) public will understand it to mean malicious acts, *and* those familiar with the finer hacker/cracker distinction will also parse it correctly.
using a word is prescriptive, because its use (in context) creates its meaning. the mere fact that dictionaries present a descriptive report does not give license for words to be (mis)used haphazardly.
I got a good starter going, and it would rise the loaves nice & fluffy, but I couldn't get it to taste sour at all. am I just screwed by my regional flora, or is there a trick to getting it to sour? e.g. aerobic/anaerobic, feeding schedules, sugars/starches?
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last time I got a spam, I clicked on the link for fun. server was down. mail had arrived 4 minutes earlier. honestly, even if I saw a good deal come through on a spam, I don't think I'd trust them with my money.
what I'm wondering is, was the server down because the spammer was working for an amateur, or was it down because of the enormous amount of mail flowing thru its outbound pipes, or was it down because it was/.'ed with people trying to buy the product?
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mozilla's getting pretty good -- I'm especially glad not to see those weekly notices that stri3286@bellsouth.net sent me yet another copy of klez and it was quarantined by the univ. mail servers.
maybe stri3286@bellsouth.net needs to be informed that he's been sending out klez all day long for the past couple of months? I confess I haven't bothered writing him.
the main qt-based application I use is the linux beta of the firstclass intranet client honestly, it has a TON of cosmetic problems at this point, though overall it's coming along nicely. seriously, though, is qt the reason I don't get any font anti-aliasing?
not sure if firstclass' client is just a halfway implementation of a qt interface, but the dialogs really are ugly, mostly because of the unsmoothed fonts.
but, boy, is it nice not to have to boot to windows to retrieve my class assignments! I can't say I'm even bothered that it's binary-only...
tangent: I'm pretty sure that the linux client was only developed as an outgrowth of their OSX client development -- is this only an isolated example, or is OSX really exerting a pressure for more *nix app development? if so, it seems like OSX might end up being the market force that pushed linux into the mainstream.
no, all I want to do is watch my DVDs on my linux box. my LG DVD-ROM drive is the only DVD-reading hardware in my house. I should be allowed to exercise the rights granted to me by the license; I should be able to play the movie on my standards compliant hardware for personal use. the DMCA forces me to 1) watch CSS-locked movies somewhere besides at home or 2) use libdvdcss to crack the code. I don't want to be a felon and I like to watch movies at home. why should distributing a program that enables me to exercise the licensed rights be illegal?
the finding of fact, like many court documents, is in error. microsoft does not have a monopoly on the desktop OS market; they merely have a vast and powerful share of that market. claims that windows constitutes a monopoly are not informed by the definition of the word.
the problem with this argument is that the "democracy of the blog" is simply a myth -- the structure of information control in a weblog is more akin to an autocracy or an aristocracy. weblogs are maintained, most often, by individuals or small groups. he/she selects the news stories or discussion topics for posting, and may or may not allow public commentary on the posts.
cliques can and do form dense cross-linking networks, and this (perhaps inadvertently) exploits the Pagerank-style search algorithms to float the blog to the top.
being able to publish your own web page on the internet for free -- that's democratic. but vertical news editing + round-robin blog linking != democratic information sorting. sure, by all means, keep blogging -- if we're friends I'll probably read it. but let's not pretend for an instant that a personal web page is genuinely important just because someone's intarweb-friends all link to it.
the difference with messageboards is that they are, at least, a discussion on a singular topic. for example when I search for "conexant HCF linux redhat 9", it's the linuxant listserv archive that actually has the most useful information -- I was able to patch the driver source from a fix posted on the listserv, 2 weeks before the official binary release.
more often than not, public messageboards don't suffer from the same "vertical news" syndrome as the web-logs; messageboard and listserv moderators also tend not to link to each other and inflate their position in the Pagerank system. yes, there is a comparable amount of noise, but Pagerank-type algorithms tend to handle it better for messageboards.
of course, if idle messageboards do start to push the useful info off the first page, things will be different and search engines will have to adapt.
I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical USB and PS/2 Compatible (according to the label underneath). when I booted from the redhat installers (or knoppix, for that matter), it was picked up and automatically configured by the default hardware sweep. the scroll wheel worked immediately, in the installer, as well as in the OS. remember 90% of people use a 2btn or 2btn+Scroll mouse...
(f) Reverse engineering.--(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
close enough for me
# cd ~/download/libdvdcss
# configure && make && make install
ardour currently supports MMC (to a degree) and a lot of development has been specifically targeted at the mackie d8b. I can't find info on time code on the SF page, but I do believe it's implemented or on its way eventually. I know it's fun to be a naysayer. but a feature freeze is the first step toward a stable release, which is the first step toward binaries, and a wider test base . . . you get the idea.
honestly it's not all that hard to compile from CVS if you're familiar enough with GNU/automake-type source packages. I think the total number of external dependencies I had to compile was 7? give it a shot. if you're willing to pay digidesign $?,000 for a full-fledged protools rig then the time out of your day to donate a little testing to ardour is a drop in the bucket.
and WTF, GIMP does CMYK just fine. *yes* the interface is a bit obfuscated, but it is there.
actually, ardour supports the RME hammerfall DSP, which (in its two incarnations) rivals the 001 and the 888 in most areas. that being said, you can do a hell of a lot of DSP with a dual 2.5 athlon. sure the audigy is a "toy" for *recording*, but if I'm just doing synthesis and processing, it makes a damn tolerable surround driver.
honestly the best reason I can find to use the 888 is that it supports pro-tools.
ardour is going to easily beat protools once it becomes more stable. the devs are building a lot of fundamentally greater flexibility into it right down at the core (just check out the routing model!) I'm kind of surprised ardour hasn't come up before in this thread. get it from CVS - you can find 3rd party binaries but they're several thousand revisions old. subscribe to the devel mailing list. and don't worry if it segfaults; that gets fixed every couple of hours!:-)
or for more basic multi-track editing, check out audacity. it's less featureful but is nevertheless very useful.
the main problem with blogs is that, as far as google is concerned, they masquerade as useful information when all they contain is idle chatter. and through some fluke of their evil software, they seem to get indexed really fast, so when a major political or social even happens, google is noised to the brim with blogs and you have to start at result number 40 or so before you get past the blogs.
I can get a google search with porn turned off; why can't I get blogs turned off too?
the problem with vinyl is the amount and kind of noise it creates, signal degradation, and the limited life of the media. its got nothing to do with the usable spectrum -- the frequency range of records has been 'good enough' for humans since the mid 1970s.
some would say, though, that the all-or-nothing nature of digital audio makes CD damage far more annoying than record damage. I can listen through a 33rpm pop for a few seconds, or a rumbling/crackling record that's worn out, but I can't stand the rapidfire JI JI JI JI JI JI JI of a scratched (or even badly ripped) CD. not to mention, if the TOC goes on a CD you're screwed.
they're different forms of media. each sounds better in some ways and each has its disadvantages.
1. honestly, I had to go back to google and run a search just to find out where the text ads were. it turns out they come up in the right-hand side of search results -- who knew!?
2. I would use webcalc if it had a simple four-function calc on the front page. having to follow links makes me far more likely to simply open a calc app when I'm on an unfamiliar PC.
then again, if it's truly interfering, then they need to find a solution for *their* systems -- imagine someone who wants to interfere with the plane's communications. they simply need to bring the shit onto the plane and power it up. banning cooperative passengers offers little protection.
when 802.11 is outlawed, only outlaws will have 802.11...
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PDF is useful for packaging a paginated series of scanned images. that's about it.
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no one will laugh
erm, the corollary to this is that language derives its usefulness from mutual consent. I can say "340cfm3j9" in place of "heretical," but that's not a good language unless the people I'm speaking to have a lexicon that makes them equivalent. in fact, the lack of a prescriptive authority makes it even *more* important that we use words precisely.
I would argue that, to communicate clearly in this situation, "cracker" is required, because the general (non-1337) public will understand it to mean malicious acts, *and* those familiar with the finer hacker/cracker distinction will also parse it correctly.
using a word is prescriptive, because its use (in context) creates its meaning. the mere fact that dictionaries present a descriptive report does not give license for words to be (mis)used haphazardly.
(wittgenstein and dewey explain this far better.)
I got a good starter going, and it would rise the loaves nice & fluffy, but I couldn't get it to taste sour at all. am I just screwed by my regional flora, or is there a trick to getting it to sour? e.g. aerobic/anaerobic, feeding schedules, sugars/starches?
what I'm wondering is, was the server down because the spammer was working for an amateur, or was it down because of the enormous amount of mail flowing thru its outbound pipes, or was it down because it was /.'ed with people trying to buy the product?
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mozilla's getting pretty good -- I'm especially glad not to see those weekly notices that stri3286@bellsouth.net sent me yet another copy of klez and it was quarantined by the univ. mail servers.
maybe stri3286@bellsouth.net needs to be informed that he's been sending out klez all day long for the past couple of months? I confess I haven't bothered writing him.
not sure if firstclass' client is just a halfway implementation of a qt interface, but the dialogs really are ugly, mostly because of the unsmoothed fonts.
but, boy, is it nice not to have to boot to windows to retrieve my class assignments! I can't say I'm even bothered that it's binary-only...
tangent: I'm pretty sure that the linux client was only developed as an outgrowth of their OSX client development -- is this only an isolated example, or is OSX really exerting a pressure for more *nix app development? if so, it seems like OSX might end up being the market force that pushed linux into the mainstream.
headline should read BLOG predicts end of internet. what a bunch of arrogant, self-important nonsense. tear down the blogs.
no, all I want to do is watch my DVDs on my linux box. my LG DVD-ROM drive is the only DVD-reading hardware in my house. I should be allowed to exercise the rights granted to me by the license; I should be able to play the movie on my standards compliant hardware for personal use. the DMCA forces me to 1) watch CSS-locked movies somewhere besides at home or 2) use libdvdcss to crack the code. I don't want to be a felon and I like to watch movies at home. why should distributing a program that enables me to exercise the licensed rights be illegal?
(flame not, for I run redhat)
cliques can and do form dense cross-linking networks, and this (perhaps inadvertently) exploits the Pagerank-style search algorithms to float the blog to the top.
being able to publish your own web page on the internet for free -- that's democratic. but vertical news editing + round-robin blog linking != democratic information sorting. sure, by all means, keep blogging -- if we're friends I'll probably read it. but let's not pretend for an instant that a personal web page is genuinely important just because someone's intarweb-friends all link to it.
imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
bayesian filters. it would take about 30 minutes to train it with a data set that size.
more often than not, public messageboards don't suffer from the same "vertical news" syndrome as the web-logs; messageboard and listserv moderators also tend not to link to each other and inflate their position in the Pagerank system. yes, there is a comparable amount of noise, but Pagerank-type algorithms tend to handle it better for messageboards.
of course, if idle messageboards do start to push the useful info off the first page, things will be different and search engines will have to adapt.
I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical USB and PS/2 Compatible (according to the label underneath). when I booted from the redhat installers (or knoppix, for that matter), it was picked up and automatically configured by the default hardware sweep. the scroll wheel worked immediately, in the installer, as well as in the OS. remember 90% of people use a 2btn or 2btn+Scroll mouse...
well, I'll still pay you to play a show. you can play a good show, right? cuz if I like your show I'll gladly buy your latest 12".
close enough for me
# cd ~/download/libdvdcss
# configure && make && make install
honestly it's not all that hard to compile from CVS if you're familiar enough with GNU/automake-type source packages. I think the total number of external dependencies I had to compile was 7? give it a shot. if you're willing to pay digidesign $?,000 for a full-fledged protools rig then the time out of your day to donate a little testing to ardour is a drop in the bucket.
and WTF, GIMP does CMYK just fine. *yes* the interface is a bit obfuscated, but it is there.
honestly the best reason I can find to use the 888 is that it supports pro-tools.
or for more basic multi-track editing, check out audacity. it's less featureful but is nevertheless very useful.
how can she meet the who, when keith moon and john entwhistle are dead? I can't imagine the ooo as a two-piece.
I can get a google search with porn turned off; why can't I get blogs turned off too?
some would say, though, that the all-or-nothing nature of digital audio makes CD damage far more annoying than record damage. I can listen through a 33rpm pop for a few seconds, or a rumbling/crackling record that's worn out, but I can't stand the rapidfire JI JI JI JI JI JI JI of a scratched (or even badly ripped) CD. not to mention, if the TOC goes on a CD you're screwed.
they're different forms of media. each sounds better in some ways and each has its disadvantages.
2. I would use webcalc if it had a simple four-function calc on the front page. having to follow links makes me far more likely to simply open a calc app when I'm on an unfamiliar PC.
when 802.11 is outlawed, only outlaws will have 802.11...
and you are right, I don't put my subwoofer anywhere. left and right are flat down to 25Hz and will do 18 if I push them.