As long as the connection is stable, you can have fairly high latency. It will increase the delay, however, between when you speak and when the other person hears it. At 250ms latency, it shouldn't be too bad (2-3 second delay?).
The RIAA and TV industry need to wake up and figure out how to do business in a world where they can't control what people share.
If I could download music for a low cost (like iTunes) with no DRM, I would gladly pay for it!
I think the TV industry also should consider something like this:
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I have a tendency to forget certain TV shows are on. If I miss them, I download them from BitTorrent. I would gladly pay them $3-5 per episode -- but again, no DRM.
I'm pretty sure wikipedia is mistaken on this one; every other site I have read indicates that the FCC requires all stations to broadcast digital by 2006. The phase-out of analog TV will take MUCH longer, IMHO.
The parent, by the way, has either a bizarre sense of humour or a bizarre sense of "simple"; this can be much more easily done with a PC, MAME and a keyboard encoder. Just wire the buttons up to the terminals on the keyboard encoder, use the programming software (for Windows, Mac and Linux, on the I-PAC, Windows only on the one I use) and you're set! Much more customizable, although it does cost more than $20.
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BTW, to explain my first statement: SuSE is not available as a set of ISO images. You can do an install from FTP, but it does not have much of the stuff you get with the boxed set.
Mandrake makes ISOs available, and they include slightly less stuff, but they are considerably more complete. By purchasing a MandrakeClub subscription you get access to commercial packages and extra software, and access to support and a support forum. You could also by the Mandrake Powerpack, which is 5 CDs and includes a fair bit of stuff not on the 3 CD set. I believe that MandrakeClub members can download Powerpack ISOs or that the stuff in Powerpack is in MandrakeClub, but I'm not sure.
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If you are willing to pay, I would say choose between Mandrake or SuSE.
Here are my somewhat un-organized thoughts on this issue: Mandrake tends to be buggier (hopefully their new Community and then Official release system will solve this), has poorer configuration tools, but has more third-party packages and has urpmi, which is like apt-get. Basically, you type "urpmi programname" and it automagically downloads and installs it and any other programs or libraries it is dependent on. Mandrake is reasonably fast (moreso than Fedora)
SuSE has a GREAT configurator (called YaST), is stable, but has fewer third-party RPMS (and many of the sites are german-only, SuSE's home language), and there is no urpmi-like tool. It has a great manual though, but is a bit slower than Mandrake. It also has its own ways of doing things, and configuration and the structure of the filesystem are substantially different than other Linuxes. They also leave out divx and DVD support, due to legal concerns -- adding these is a snap in Mandrake (just add the PLF repository to your urpmi config and type urpmi mplayer), but is a bitch in SuSE (you have to track down a bunch of packages and dependancies from Packman). SuSE has a better selection of games. Also, if you want to config things by hand it is a cinch in Mandrake (Mandrake modifies your existing config files if you use the GUI tools), but it is a pain in SuSE (Suse ignores or writes overtop of your hand-made files next time you do anything in YaST -- things you hand-configured will not be picked up by YaST, it maintains its own internal database, and then writes that out to the normal config files.)
If you just want a machine that is ready to go for basic office tasks, SuSE is probably best. If you want to potentially customize your system a little, Mandrake is probably the best.
Both include a full set of dev tools, but they are not installed by default.
It's a bit of padding, I think to make the line take up enough room to fade into the music -- with out it there would be too much space between when the line ends and the music begins.
I never thought of that line as being a big deal (well, actually, I never though of it at all -- it's the "It can be a dangerous place" bit that bugged me). It gets A LOT better with Season 2.
Doing an FTP install is only an option if you can afford to wait a month or two for bugfixes (unless you build everything from source). They aren't releasing the binary RPMs for 9.1 onto their FTP servers until June.
Err.. uh.. I'm not sure what you are talking about, but you can't do an install of SuSE 9.1 off of the FTP servers before it is released -- it certainly doesn't install from SRPMS, if that is what you are implying.
The updates come from the exact same source in both the FTP installs and the CD installs.
Similarly, I'm not entirely sure that it is possible to create a non-silly looking book cover for a sci-fi novel.. (I have not seen the cover for this book, BTW)
as a Canadian I pay money for CD-Rs that I've never used to copy (which is legal anyway) or distribute music.
I'd just like to point out that this was not legal before March 18, 1998. Part VIII was added to the Copyright Act, which made legal private copying and added a provision for collecting levies. You can legally copy because of the levies.
Of course, the CRIA now want it so that copying and sharing isn't legal, while also increasing the levy.
This is definately wrong, in my opinion; The fuckers should get a levy and allow legal copying, or no levy and no legal copying.
It may be a little late to post this, but this book (which was mentioned on Slashdot, partly because of the 'goatse'-like cover), 'Building Accessible Websites' is really great. It's available free on-line, and the whole site is a great example of accessibility. (Turn CSS on and off it your browser allows it, Opera does, change the font sizes, etc. It works great by screen reader too.) Fairly practical, much more so than certain 'reccommendations' from accessibility standards groups.
It could be that it was re-released on CD.. this was fairly common (usually accompanied by a cheesy "Defects in the sound quality are the result of studio recording on analog tape..." message).
Beyond that, locking down the interface reduces the hell out of our support burden, as it completely eliminates the "I lost the Mozilla icon from my toolbar" type of problems. What's there is there, and will be there tomorrow - another Good Thing(r) for support folks.
Ahh.. I see. The local schoolboard (Kawartha Pine Ridge) finds it wise for some reaosn to run Windows 98 with some cheesy lockdown software (Fortres 101 from Fortres Grand). Suffice it to say, it doesn't work -- porn pictures magically appearing on the desktop and other vandalism are common, since W98 has no real concept of profiles (well, it does, kind of, but no access control..).
I understand the need to lock things down under Windows 9X and (maybe) a little under 2000/XP, but why does Linux need it? They can't break anything unless the system is configured improperly, and the only settings they can change are their own.
Mozilla has that very annoying profile problem when a user tries to run multiple instances of it, so I had to write a wrapper so that it could run sandboxed (which also provides the benefit of keeping the kids from setting bizarre configurations which are then replicated to all the other users as they are wont to do in our other labs).
Uh.. are they all logged in as the same user or something? Moz. configs are stored on a per user basis.
Slashdot Mirror
"Where's the Archive? The past three months are available now. The entire archive is coming soon!"
So hopefully, yes, the entire archive of TechTV show content will be back online.
As long as the connection is stable, you can have fairly high latency. It will increase the delay, however, between when you speak and when the other person hears it. At 250ms latency, it shouldn't be too bad (2-3 second delay?).
If I could download music for a low cost (like iTunes) with no DRM, I would gladly pay for it!
I think the TV industry also should consider something like this: p I have a tendency to forget certain TV shows are on. If I miss them, I download them from BitTorrent. I would gladly pay them $3-5 per episode -- but again, no DRM.
Wow. Somehow, I doubt that a lot of people will be happy when they shut off the analog channels come December 31, 2006.
I'm pretty sure wikipedia is mistaken on this one; every other site I have read indicates that the FCC requires all stations to broadcast digital by 2006. The phase-out of analog TV will take MUCH longer, IMHO.
The parent, by the way, has either a bizarre sense of humour or a bizarre sense of "simple"; this can be much more easily done with a PC, MAME and a keyboard encoder. Just wire the buttons up to the terminals on the keyboard encoder, use the programming software (for Windows, Mac and Linux, on the I-PAC, Windows only on the one I use) and you're set! Much more customizable, although it does cost more than $20.
Mandrake makes ISOs available, and they include slightly less stuff, but they are considerably more complete. By purchasing a MandrakeClub subscription you get access to commercial packages and extra software, and access to support and a support forum. You could also by the Mandrake Powerpack, which is 5 CDs and includes a fair bit of stuff not on the 3 CD set. I believe that MandrakeClub members can download Powerpack ISOs or that the stuff in Powerpack is in MandrakeClub, but I'm not sure.
Here are my somewhat un-organized thoughts on this issue: Mandrake tends to be buggier (hopefully their new Community and then Official release system will solve this), has poorer configuration tools, but has more third-party packages and has urpmi, which is like apt-get. Basically, you type "urpmi programname" and it automagically downloads and installs it and any other programs or libraries it is dependent on. Mandrake is reasonably fast (moreso than Fedora)
SuSE has a GREAT configurator (called YaST), is stable, but has fewer third-party RPMS (and many of the sites are german-only, SuSE's home language), and there is no urpmi-like tool. It has a great manual though, but is a bit slower than Mandrake. It also has its own ways of doing things, and configuration and the structure of the filesystem are substantially different than other Linuxes. They also leave out divx and DVD support, due to legal concerns -- adding these is a snap in Mandrake (just add the PLF repository to your urpmi config and type urpmi mplayer), but is a bitch in SuSE (you have to track down a bunch of packages and dependancies from Packman). SuSE has a better selection of games. Also, if you want to config things by hand it is a cinch in Mandrake (Mandrake modifies your existing config files if you use the GUI tools), but it is a pain in SuSE (Suse ignores or writes overtop of your hand-made files next time you do anything in YaST -- things you hand-configured will not be picked up by YaST, it maintains its own internal database, and then writes that out to the normal config files.)
If you just want a machine that is ready to go for basic office tasks, SuSE is probably best. If you want to potentially customize your system a little, Mandrake is probably the best.
Both include a full set of dev tools, but they are not installed by default.
I never thought of that line as being a big deal (well, actually, I never though of it at all -- it's the "It can be a dangerous place" bit that bugged me). It gets A LOT better with Season 2.
A bit of education from a Canadian.
The updates come from the exact same source in both the FTP installs and the CD installs.
Not sure if you were refering to clarity of interface or picture, but DScaler has high-quality output and a decent (if minimal) interface.
You want DScaler. Absolutely amazing program -- produces incredibly high quality output, and the interface is easy enough to use.
Audible has them, too, by the way, for downloading online. Not sure how the cost compares.
(aMule client for Linux is available)
Similarly, I'm not entirely sure that it is possible to create a non-silly looking book cover for a sci-fi novel.. (I have not seen the cover for this book, BTW)
Happ Controls $1.89, IDVT $1.39
Somewhere between $1 to $2 USD per button depending on where you get them from.
I'd just like to point out that this was not legal before March 18, 1998. Part VIII was added to the Copyright Act, which made legal private copying and added a provision for collecting levies. You can legally copy because of the levies.
This is definately wrong, in my opinion; The fuckers should get a levy and allow legal copying, or no levy and no legal copying.It may be a little late to post this, but this book (which was mentioned on Slashdot, partly because of the 'goatse'-like cover), 'Building Accessible Websites' is really great. It's available free on-line, and the whole site is a great example of accessibility. (Turn CSS on and off it your browser allows it, Opera does, change the font sizes, etc. It works great by screen reader too.) Fairly practical, much more so than certain 'reccommendations' from accessibility standards groups.
Don't know why the mods gave it -1 Redundant. Mods on crack?
It could be that it was re-released on CD.. this was fairly common (usually accompanied by a cheesy "Defects in the sound quality are the result of studio recording on analog tape..." message).
For some reason, people find cell phone conversations more annoying than a face to face conversation. It's not clear why.
Ahh.. I see. The local schoolboard (Kawartha Pine Ridge) finds it wise for some reaosn to run Windows 98 with some cheesy lockdown software (Fortres 101 from Fortres Grand). Suffice it to say, it doesn't work -- porn pictures magically appearing on the desktop and other vandalism are common, since W98 has no real concept of profiles (well, it does, kind of, but no access control..).
I never though of this sort of problem.
I understand the need to lock things down under Windows 9X and (maybe) a little under 2000/XP, but why does Linux need it? They can't break anything unless the system is configured improperly, and the only settings they can change are their own.
Uh.. are they all logged in as the same user or something? Moz. configs are stored on a per user basis.