Interesting. Would you have as good explanation for this: I recently installed a new box for my sister, and put Fedora Core 2 into it. I also installed extra Gstreamer plugins and other multimedia stuff from freshrpms.net.
I then tested Rhythmbox by moving a couple of songs encoded in AAC to that box, which I had ripped on iTunes. They played without a hitch, and all track information seemed to be there too -- except that track numbers were lost (the field had a thext "never" in them), and when I tried to fix that, I realised that none of those fields where actually editable. I first thought that perhaps this is all about AAC, but the fields remained in uneditable state with MP3s, too.
And yes, the user account it was running as had write permissions to those files and to the directory they were located in.
Insightful my ass. Could parent or parent's moderator please explain, how the hell it is supposed to affect Apple's bottom line if Apple's customer using iTMS with iTunes for Windows client is actually some other os, which just happens to provide the same interfaces iTunes for Windows needs? That customer is still shopping on iTMS, and DRM is still effective. That customer may still own an iPod, too.
Theoretically one could explain that it is easier to bypass DRM on Linux than on Windows, but as we now have things like a commercially licensed PowerDVD for Linux and Hymn for Windows, I think that argument won't really hold any water.
Interesting thing though, that on OS X nobody's fooled, as the fake menubar appears on the top of the window as an empty bar (without changing the actual menu bar), which will instantly reveal that everything is not as it should be.
Shit, did it again... I ment proprietary way. Can one have a dyslexia in one language without having it on another...?
For some reason, I'm making this kind of errors next to every time I write English, but never in my mother tongue or in those other foreign languages, in which I'm actually much worse than in English.
Oh, yes, but I think that parsing one new XML variant isn't such a big deal, when you already have an XML parser.
The shitty thing with MSIE is it's poor and non-standard-compliant CSS support; I've recently been recreating an old HTML webpage with XHTML 1.1 & CSS at work, and it is a *HUGE* PITA to get the same layout in MSIE for Windows as in Gecko, Opera and KHTML; you practically have to load a separate stylesheet for Win IE to get certain things done by its propertiary way.
Funny thing is, that Mac IE actually has rather good and standards-compliant CSS support, although there are few issues here and there -- but unlike in Win IE, most element positioning and margin-related things work properly, making specific stylesheet unnecessary. And for what it's worth, KHTML also fails in few things, where Gecko and Opera work like a charm.
Not exactly true. Every copyprotected CD-like disc out there relies to one of the following tricks:
a. Deliberate RedBook errors on audio tracks. Used at least on Cactus Data Shield discs b. Data session at the end of the disc left deliberately unclosed. Used at least on Sony Key2Audio discs c. Audio obfuscation driver that relies on Windows autoplay for installation. Used at least on SunnComm MediaMax discs (complete analysis here).
In the case c, the disc is perfectly standards compatible CD -- it could even have the CD-DA-logo. If the copy protection hurts you because you're using Windows and had Autoplay on -- well, bad for you, but on other OSes -- like OS X or Linux -- there are no problems ripping these CDs whatsoever. Neither in Windows, if you don't let autoplay run.
The bad thing is obviously, that it is damn hard to find out what was the technology used, as even the non-copyprotected discs often lack the logo nowadays. But I think most shops will normally accept returning of copyprotected CDs, if you'll just claim that they didn't work in your stereo CD player. In case of C, you don't really need to -- the disc will work, if you don't just act like a fool by letting Windows autoplay it.
Case A is usually worst, as these discs do not stand physical damage as well as standard discs. Deliberate errors also forces to use special tools when ripping. OTOH, in thgis case the copy will be better in quality terms than the original. In case B most drives are able to rip the audio tracks succesfully, at least using special software. There are some drives, though, which refuse to ever recognise these discs at all.
Hopefully larger battery! I don't have an iPod... but I wouldn't be surprised, if I one day decide to buy one. Still, the batteries of the current models seem to last only about some eight hours, which isn't really that much.
...sorry for being unjust; Finland actually shares the top position with Iceland, Norway and Netherlands. Immediately after this top four comes Canada.
Btw, the Palestinian National Authority performed 82, above Israel itself. Forgot that, too.
...can be found here. Note: published at October 2002!
Some countries of interest:
1. Finland ... 15. Switzerland & Costa Rica 17. United States 18. Hong Kong ... 35. Taiwan ... 38. Bulgaria 39. South Korea 40. Italy (the worst country of EU-15; hurrah, Berlusconi!) 41. Czech Republic (back then not yet an EU member state) ... 92. Israel (no Arab country performed in top 50, either) ... 104. Afghanistan (year after collapse of the Taliban regime) ... 130. Iraq (still Saddam's regime) ... 138. People's Republic of China 139. North Korea (the last one)
But why, oh why they couldn't use the same modulation in both terrestial and cable networks? (Yes, it is technically possible to broadcast DVB-T over cable -- it is frequenly done in the cable network of the campus area of HUT. ) Now, if you move to a new apartment and it has cable connection instead of roof antenna or vice versa, you'll need a new receiver; even the TVs with built-in DVB receivers still does not seem to have dual receivers, save then the set-top-boxes.
Practically we now have two different television standards in one county, which rather sucks!
Whoops. Somehow I like to use the "à la" thing, but I actually don't speak or write French, so I've always been able to miss that. Thanks for correction... I'm still going to use that, but hopefully I'll get them right in the future.
OTOH, it seems that there actually is an SW update notifier in FF - but unlike the others claimed here, it can be set to auto-download and install extensions only, for FF itself it is just that - a notifier.
Good solution would be a warning box that would by default appear every time when FF is started without latest security patches installed, and which would tell people that it will go away, when the system is patched.
Now someone mod this up. That fscking hidden window that both Firefox and Thunderbird have is more than annoying. You don't even need to use Exposé - I generally don't. Just switching between open application windows using command-< is annoying; only with these two apps you're able to end up in situation, where the application is active, but none of it's windows is. No well designed OS X app behaves like this.
Yeah. But where is the auto-update feature for Firefox á la Windows XP, OS X, YAST or Up2date?
Last weekend, I converted three people from IE6 to Moz FF 0.9.1, based on the facts that it's more secure than IE. And now I'm reading that it has a critical issue (whether it is a bug or not, but it is an issue). How to get their machines pached without my intervention? Where is that big red bouncing icon that appears when starting FF, which says that "you need to install this/these updates immediately to keep your machine secure"?
Hello, FF developers! Critical FF updates are not found on windowsupdate.microsoft.com! Where is your own auto-update feature?
You are referring to balanced scorecard (BSC) as a "modern management technique that disproves a single-minded vision of managing a company".
I disagree. My recent job was to help with technical implementation of a BSC system on a traditional (non-IT) industry company (a dairy - some of their products are also available in U.S. as "Finlandia Cheese"). IMO BSC is mostly just another management "ism"; it's idea of importance of measuring performance from many different aspects - not just the bottom line - is good, but in the end, any non-clueless management should realise this all by themselves - blindly following BSC or any other management philosophy (and wasting money along the way) does not make any business clever and competitive.
I think that traditional analysing of strengths, weaknesses opportunities and threats should brings best results for most companies, when done constantly. This is also, where MS has mostly mostly failed; it has been binding itself to it's traditional (and partly illegally aquired) Windows & Office monopolies, without realising that the world is changing around it. If it would have analysed itself properly, it would have realised that the monopoly days are permanently over, but it could have used it's strong existing market position for embracing, if not OSS then at least open standards (without extending this time), and position itself as a company, whose solutions work well with others' (unlike today) but best together - just like Apple's, but instead running on commodity (mostly x86) hardware.
BSC is probably rather good management strategy when used properly in low-margin, high-volume businesses á la Dell, where you need to run not only with minimum costs but with maximum process efficiency, and still without forgetting customer & learning perpectives. But I don't really believe that it would ever be the theory of everything for someone like MS, or for any other high-volume SW corp, where the low-cost, high-volume option will always be OSS.
If I was MicroSoft, I would be scared at this point.
Well, they are. According to wired (emphasis mine):
Gary Schare, director of the Windows Client Division at Microsoft, said that CERT's advice had been misrepresented in much of the press coverage.
"Microsoft certainly respects the work CERT does to help protect the Internet and users. Regarding the consideration that users switch browsers, it is unfortunate that the published articles have misrepresented CERT's suggestions, and we are working with CERT to clarify their advice," Schare said.
In other words, Ballmer has probably already contacted Bush to remind him about the terms of his re-election campaign funding by MS...
Well, if OOo would be an Aqua app, I could. But OOo as an X11 app has whatever print dialog it has, and no such an option. 1.1.2 should fix this, though, as it is able to create PDFs on its own, although release notes mentioned some limitations in compatibility of those PDFs.
...that OOo finally reached 1.1 on Mac, too. It has been pain for me to always print a PostScript file and then throw it to Preview just to get a PDF.
Btw, does anyone on/. have any suggestions for Windows/Linux/OS X cross platform office suite? We're currently planning to migrating most of our Windows desktop to Linux, but as we have to leave few boxes for specific purposes at least in the beginning, we will need cross-platform compatibility - and we also have Macs, which have to stay, although they need to be upgraded to OS X first.
OOo just isn't quite there, as I really can't force X11 apps down our Mac users' throats - they just feel way too different, and I haven't been able to find anything else, either. We could use different software for Macs, like we are actually doing now, and wait for OOo's upcoming Aqua-based 2.0 -version, but if anyone here does have better suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.
You don't know much, if you think it's that simple. Read English Wikipedia's description about Finland in WWII - it's actually very objective, better than many Finnish historical writings.
The Finnish alliance with Germany during Continuation War was practically the only alternative to avoid Soviet invasion; there weren't any strong Nazi symphaties in Finland. Consider the following questions:
How many Nazi allies were able to maintain democratic constitution through the war?
How many Nazi allies had field synagogas for their Jew soldiers during the war?
How many Nazi allies had Jew soldiers on the line, who were granted German iron crosses for their bravery (although unsurprisingly, they all refused to receive them)?
Finland has EU's longest ground border with Russia. Nazi allies or not, we fought practically for our existence. Without alliance with Germany, we had likely became Finland's Soviet Socialist Republic, or remained "independent" only under communist puppet government.
Colored by media my ass. You're probably somewhat right about Teddy and Dwight D, but there are many of Reagan's policies I still cannot agree with. Some of them were good, though, but most of them not. Still, nobody's perfect, either.
That's brilliant. "I know virtually nothing, but at least he's not a Republican, so yay!"
First: I told that I'm a foreigner. It'd be rather hard to follow internal politics of every 51 states. But I think I still know things rather well as a foreigner.
Second: I didn't say "yay!" I just said that I think a known-to-be asshole D. is probably better than a known-to-be asshole R.
For what it's worth, he's a Kansas Democrat. Most of them are probably more conservative than the Republicans of California and New England, especially given the district he represented.
This was interesting, because I think that member of both parties still vote mostly along party lines on federal level, no? Your statement would make me one wonder, why the most conservative Ds wouldn't just jump to Republicans and most liberal Rs to Democrats.
But anyway, my post was just an opinion. Nothing more - and I didn't claim myself to be an expert in U.S. politics by any means. Occasionally, superpower's internal affairs just happen to wake up certain interest abroad, too.
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Interesting. Would you have as good explanation for this: I recently installed a new box for my sister, and put Fedora Core 2 into it. I also installed extra Gstreamer plugins and other multimedia stuff from freshrpms.net.
I then tested Rhythmbox by moving a couple of songs encoded in AAC to that box, which I had ripped on iTunes. They played without a hitch, and all track information seemed to be there too -- except that track numbers were lost (the field had a thext "never" in them), and when I tried to fix that, I realised that none of those fields where actually editable. I first thought that perhaps this is all about AAC, but the fields remained in uneditable state with MP3s, too.
And yes, the user account it was running as had write permissions to those files and to the directory they were located in.
Any ideas?
Insightful my ass. Could parent or parent's moderator please explain, how the hell it is supposed to affect Apple's bottom line if Apple's customer using iTMS with iTunes for Windows client is actually some other os, which just happens to provide the same interfaces iTunes for Windows needs? That customer is still shopping on iTMS, and DRM is still effective. That customer may still own an iPod, too.
Theoretically one could explain that it is easier to bypass DRM on Linux than on Windows, but as we now have things like a commercially licensed PowerDVD for Linux and Hymn for Windows, I think that argument won't really hold any water.
Interesting thing though, that on OS X nobody's fooled, as the fake menubar appears on the top of the window as an empty bar (without changing the actual menu bar), which will instantly reveal that everything is not as it should be.
propertiary way
Shit, did it again... I ment proprietary way. Can one have a dyslexia in one language without having it on another...?
For some reason, I'm making this kind of errors next to every time I write English, but never in my mother tongue or in those other foreign languages, in which I'm actually much worse than in English.
Well, they already support XHTML 1.1
Oh, yes, but I think that parsing one new XML variant isn't such a big deal, when you already have an XML parser.
The shitty thing with MSIE is it's poor and non-standard-compliant CSS support; I've recently been recreating an old HTML webpage with XHTML 1.1 & CSS at work, and it is a *HUGE* PITA to get the same layout in MSIE for Windows as in Gecko, Opera and KHTML; you practically have to load a separate stylesheet for Win IE to get certain things done by its propertiary way.
Funny thing is, that Mac IE actually has rather good and standards-compliant CSS support, although there are few issues here and there -- but unlike in Win IE, most element positioning and margin-related things work properly, making specific stylesheet unnecessary. And for what it's worth, KHTML also fails in few things, where Gecko and Opera work like a charm.
If it's "copy protected", it's not a CD.
Not exactly true. Every copyprotected CD-like disc out there relies to one of the following tricks:
a. Deliberate RedBook errors on audio tracks. Used at least on Cactus Data Shield discs
b. Data session at the end of the disc left deliberately unclosed. Used at least on Sony Key2Audio discs
c. Audio obfuscation driver that relies on Windows autoplay for installation. Used at least on SunnComm MediaMax discs (complete analysis here).
In the case c, the disc is perfectly standards compatible CD -- it could even have the CD-DA-logo. If the copy protection hurts you because you're using Windows and had Autoplay on -- well, bad for you, but on other OSes -- like OS X or Linux -- there are no problems ripping these CDs whatsoever. Neither in Windows, if you don't let autoplay run.
The bad thing is obviously, that it is damn hard to find out what was the technology used, as even the non-copyprotected discs often lack the logo nowadays. But I think most shops will normally accept returning of copyprotected CDs, if you'll just claim that they didn't work in your stereo CD player. In case of C, you don't really need to -- the disc will work, if you don't just act like a fool by letting Windows autoplay it.
Case A is usually worst, as these discs do not stand physical damage as well as standard discs. Deliberate errors also forces to use special tools when ripping. OTOH, in thgis case the copy will be better in quality terms than the original. In case B most drives are able to rip the audio tracks succesfully, at least using special software. There are some drives, though, which refuse to ever recognise these discs at all.
Hopefully larger battery! I don't have an iPod... but I wouldn't be surprised, if I one day decide to buy one. Still, the batteries of the current models seem to last only about some eight hours, which isn't really that much.
...sorry for being unjust; Finland actually shares the top position with Iceland, Norway and Netherlands. Immediately after this top four comes Canada.
Btw, the Palestinian National Authority performed 82, above Israel itself. Forgot that, too.
...can be found here. Note: published at October 2002!
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Some countries of interest:
1. Finland
15. Switzerland & Costa Rica
17. United States
18. Hong Kong
35. Taiwan
38. Bulgaria
39. South Korea
40. Italy (the worst country of EU-15; hurrah, Berlusconi!)
41. Czech Republic (back then not yet an EU member state)
92. Israel (no Arab country performed in top 50, either)
104. Afghanistan (year after collapse of the Taliban regime)
130. Iraq (still Saddam's regime)
138. People's Republic of China
139. North Korea (the last one)
It's actually a pretty good model, but not one my company can afford, so we are in the process of switching to Mandrake.
Why? You could have chosen just to use RHEL without support subscription.
RHEL still GPL'd, after all. And as WBL is still RHEL compatible, you can still subscribe later and just upgrade WBL to "real" RHEL, if you wish.
Mod parent up. More Information can be found from this document (Note: MS Word format -- at least OOo works).
The above document and other informative documents about MS licensing can be found here.
But why, oh why they couldn't use the same modulation in both terrestial and cable networks? (Yes, it is technically possible to broadcast DVB-T over cable -- it is frequenly done in the cable network of the campus area of HUT. ) Now, if you move to a new apartment and it has cable connection instead of roof antenna or vice versa, you'll need a new receiver; even the TVs with built-in DVB receivers still does not seem to have dual receivers, save then the set-top-boxes.
Practically we now have two different television standards in one county, which rather sucks!
Whoops. Somehow I like to use the "à la" thing, but I actually don't speak or write French, so I've always been able to miss that. Thanks for correction... I'm still going to use that, but hopefully I'll get them right in the future.
OTOH, it seems that there actually is an SW update notifier in FF - but unlike the others claimed here, it can be set to auto-download and install extensions only, for FF itself it is just that - a notifier.
Good solution would be a warning box that would by default appear every time when FF is started without latest security patches installed, and which would tell people that it will go away, when the system is patched.
Now someone mod this up. That fscking hidden window that both Firefox and Thunderbird have is more than annoying. You don't even need to use Exposé - I generally don't. Just switching between open application windows using command-< is annoying; only with these two apps you're able to end up in situation, where the application is active, but none of it's windows is. No well designed OS X app behaves like this.
Yeah. But where is the auto-update feature for Firefox á la Windows XP, OS X, YAST or Up2date?
Last weekend, I converted three people from IE6 to Moz FF 0.9.1, based on the facts that it's more secure than IE. And now I'm reading that it has a critical issue (whether it is a bug or not, but it is an issue). How to get their machines pached without my intervention? Where is that big red bouncing icon that appears when starting FF, which says that "you need to install this/these updates immediately to keep your machine secure"?
Hello, FF developers! Critical FF updates are not found on windowsupdate.microsoft.com! Where is your own auto-update feature?
You are referring to balanced scorecard (BSC) as a "modern management technique that disproves a single-minded vision of managing a company".
I disagree. My recent job was to help with technical implementation of a BSC system on a traditional (non-IT) industry company (a dairy - some of their products are also available in U.S. as "Finlandia Cheese"). IMO BSC is mostly just another management "ism"; it's idea of importance of measuring performance from many different aspects - not just the bottom line - is good, but in the end, any non-clueless management should realise this all by themselves - blindly following BSC or any other management philosophy (and wasting money along the way) does not make any business clever and competitive.
I think that traditional analysing of strengths, weaknesses opportunities and threats should brings best results for most companies, when done constantly. This is also, where MS has mostly mostly failed; it has been binding itself to it's traditional (and partly illegally aquired) Windows & Office monopolies, without realising that the world is changing around it. If it would have analysed itself properly, it would have realised that the monopoly days are permanently over, but it could have used it's strong existing market position for embracing, if not OSS then at least open standards (without extending this time), and position itself as a company, whose solutions work well with others' (unlike today) but best together - just like Apple's, but instead running on commodity (mostly x86) hardware.
BSC is probably rather good management strategy when used properly in low-margin, high-volume businesses á la Dell, where you need to run not only with minimum costs but with maximum process efficiency, and still without forgetting customer & learning perpectives. But I don't really believe that it would ever be the theory of everything for someone like MS, or for any other high-volume SW corp, where the low-cost, high-volume option will always be OSS.
You just need learn to love the big brother. It may take time, but in the end, you will love him. We will take care of that.
Now, how many fingers?
If I was MicroSoft, I would be scared at this point.
Well, they are. According to wired (emphasis mine):
Gary Schare, director of the Windows Client Division at Microsoft, said that CERT's advice had been misrepresented in much of the press coverage.
"Microsoft certainly respects the work CERT does to help protect the Internet and users. Regarding the consideration that users switch browsers, it is unfortunate that the published articles have misrepresented CERT's suggestions, and we are working with CERT to clarify their advice," Schare said.
In other words, Ballmer has probably already contacted Bush to remind him about the terms of his re-election campaign funding by MS...
Well, if OOo would be an Aqua app, I could. But OOo as an X11 app has whatever print dialog it has, and no such an option. 1.1.2 should fix this, though, as it is able to create PDFs on its own, although release notes mentioned some limitations in compatibility of those PDFs.
Yay! They actually fixed the tab shortcut problem I complained previously.
;-)
Now, when they'd just yet fix the certificate thingy, then I'll switch.
But what is really cool in Camino compared to Safari is, that it's not metal!
...that OOo finally reached 1.1 on Mac, too. It has been pain for me to always print a PostScript file and then throw it to Preview just to get a PDF.
/. have any suggestions for Windows/Linux/OS X cross platform office suite? We're currently planning to migrating most of our Windows desktop to Linux, but as we have to leave few boxes for specific purposes at least in the beginning, we will need cross-platform compatibility - and we also have Macs, which have to stay, although they need to be upgraded to OS X first.
Btw, does anyone on
OOo just isn't quite there, as I really can't force X11 apps down our Mac users' throats - they just feel way too different, and I haven't been able to find anything else, either. We could use different software for Macs, like we are actually doing now, and wait for OOo's upcoming Aqua-based 2.0 -version, but if anyone here does have better suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them.
The Finnish alliance with Germany during Continuation War was practically the only alternative to avoid Soviet invasion; there weren't any strong Nazi symphaties in Finland. Consider the following questions:
- How many Nazi allies were able to maintain democratic constitution through the war?
- How many Nazi allies had field synagogas for their Jew soldiers during the war?
- How many Nazi allies had Jew soldiers on the line, who were granted German iron crosses for their bravery (although unsurprisingly, they all refused to receive them)?
Finland has EU's longest ground border with Russia. Nazi allies or not, we fought practically for our existence. Without alliance with Germany, we had likely became Finland's Soviet Socialist Republic, or remained "independent" only under communist puppet government.Well, thank you. Maybe I'll now understand your politics little better, too.
Colored by media my ass. You're probably somewhat right about Teddy and Dwight D, but there are many of Reagan's policies I still cannot agree with. Some of them were good, though, but most of them not. Still, nobody's perfect, either.
That's brilliant. "I know virtually nothing, but at least he's not a Republican, so yay!"
First: I told that I'm a foreigner. It'd be rather hard to follow internal politics of every 51 states. But I think I still know things rather well as a foreigner.
Second: I didn't say "yay!" I just said that I think a known-to-be asshole D. is probably better than a known-to-be asshole R.
For what it's worth, he's a Kansas Democrat. Most of them are probably more conservative than the Republicans of California and New England, especially given the district he represented.
This was interesting, because I think that member of both parties still vote mostly along party lines on federal level, no? Your statement would make me one wonder, why the most conservative Ds wouldn't just jump to Republicans and most liberal Rs to Democrats.
But anyway, my post was just an opinion. Nothing more - and I didn't claim myself to be an expert in U.S. politics by any means. Occasionally, superpower's internal affairs just happen to wake up certain interest abroad, too.