Larger radio stations have copied the CDs to a central server and finding a song is a matter of looking it up. At the same time it is sadly also a tool for ensuring that the songs that have been choosed to be played, have to be played no matter if the host of the show wants to play it or not.
And believe it or not, several radio stations have been sued by their national version of RIAA for copying and storing the CD's on these central systems. Kinda sad when it enables the late night, one man show hosts to take requests when he has no one around to go grab the CD.
It is really interesting to see the radio and TV going digital. Some TV channels are broadcasted from an all digital source where all the shows without exception are transferred to a SAN and played from there. Amazing to see a wall of racks filled with harddrives.
Bah! 19$ is nothing. I have to pay 25$ for new CD's and 20$ for not so new, like Audioslave. Some may get down to 19$ but if they are below that, the are usually some compilations of 30 year old music in very poor quality. Yeah! Go EU!
3 years ago, some taxes were removed from the CDs and the price dropped to about 16-17$ for new CDs but that lasted for about half a year and in 3 years the price has raised form 16$ to 25$. Do I feel ripped off? Yes I do, and the amount of CDs I buy is limited these days. Before I would buy a CD that I might like. Today I want to be damn sure that I like the entire CDs before I buy them. Also the fact that I can save money from buying DVDs from USA and get them shipped to EU and still save money should sound some alarm bells.:) And thanks to the EU, parallel importing of CD,DVD,books etc is now forbidden so there is only one channel to control the price.
Argh. Does anyone know how I can just turn off MSN Messenger? TIA!
Now, I don't run XP any more, but I found a guide somewhere on the net, that showed a registry entry that you should insert/alter and then the messenger could be uninstalled from the system using add/remove programs. Nice and cleanly.
Personally I just booted the machine and did not run any programs that "required" messenger, then I went to the messenger directory and renamed the.exe file and all those annoying messages went away.
Now I must admit that was a quick and dirty solution but I was also just running the default XP that came with the company issued machine for a couple of days before installing Redhat. (told internal support not to bother installing their standard image on it)
don't you have any sense of decency?
I have a great deal more than they have.
And if you have dealt with the problems on your network caused by spammers, it's hard just to laugh at them. They have given me much headache, robbed me of time I could have spent with my family.
I am sick and tired of seeing idiots spammers from Dialtone internet thinking my mod_proxy is open for abuse(which they are not) and people from a Worldcom/uunet subnet doing name directory attacks on my mailservers.
The only pleasure/revenge I get today is bloking that ISP location and sending back a mail/webpage that their ISP has been blocked because spammers on their network tried to abuse our systems.
So I would like to hurt some spammers too. I am tired of hearing them defending their practices, making it sound like everything they do is ok when it is clear to everyone who administer internet services that they make a living by abusing other peoples installations if their software has misconfigurations, holes or them trying if it looks like they have.
And in closing:) over 70% of the emails I see on my servers today are getting rejected because they are spam. I have to upgrade servers these days, not because there are more users on them who send more mails but because the volume of spam has increased and server investment are a 'little' more that buying another uber gaming machine for home.
Well, the developers like Linux.:)
I'd like FreeBSD too, but life is a bit easier when running Linux. First of all there's the old SMP problem, if you are running your anything but your home server, you will most likely have some servers with 4 cpu's or more. And I know this is becoming more of a non-issue but I have been a problem for too long.
The there is the software and hardware. Companies like IBM and HP/Compaq now knows about Linux and you can find support for Linux, and when you have 100+ servers it matters. Then there are the applications you develop, those would be the least problem since you just need to decide to develop the new systems on FreeBSD instead. The developers must learn to accept that the modules from CPAN can run on FreeBSD as well.:) But then there are problems like when you need a bunch of Oracle servers, you would want a system that is certified in order to get help when your own DB guy can't solve it.
I'd would like to run FreeBSD as I said, but these days the world around me expects that I run Windows or Linux, and I am happy that they have included Linux into their list. And I am even happier that I administer Linux servers and not Windows since they are all on a co-lo that I seldom visit.
Actually I was surpriced to find that they have gotten quite small these days. There's still a base that takes up a bit space but it is no wider that the normal bulb was just a bit longer. The last ones I got, had were covered in glass and looked like a normal bulb, just with that extra cm plastic base.
Not to fear, if you got cable all you need is the "guy package" with "femblock", no longer will you have to fear to tune in to Operah or the likes when you change the channel.
I have/had a few website backups. They are about 4 years old. One day I thought it would be fun to see what they looked like, but I was unable to mount any of them. I tried another machine to see if it was just the drive, but the other machine could not read it. Well I don't really need the data on them. But I guess you can't rely on them for storing your financial data.
So I guess I have to rethink how I am going to store those pictures from my new digital camera. I guess one have to copy the CDs from time to time.
I remember seeing something about it on Discovery. I think one of the problem they had with making robots keeping their balance was that they were trying to keep them in balance all the time. Then they realised that the in order to walk better and more human like that trick was that you should not be in perfect balance while walking. So instead you need the robot to shift their balance right so that they would get out of balance in the direction they were walking.
First movie out:
Release DVD
Release DVD directors cut with extra stuff
Second movie out:
Relase DVD
Release DVD directors cut with extra stuff
Release box set with both movies.
Release box set with both movies directors cut and extra stuff
Third Movie Out:
Relase DVD
Release DVD directors cut with extra stuff
Release box set with all movies.
Release box set with all movies directors cut and extra stuff
Then of course you could insert "release pan and scan version of the movie" and "release pan and scan version of directors cut with extra stuff" in all of the about to double the releases.
And then of course there will be the cartoon series for the weekend mornings, and different cd versions of soundtracks from all the movies.
AND then there is mercendising, mercendising....where the real money from
the movie is made... (I am currently waiting for the flamethrower myself)
One of the others was an IP address previously used by the "dyndns.org" dynamic DNS name service.
I really hope they did not include that IP while it was used by dyndns.org. If they did, I'd say they are the biggest assholes alive for generating tons of traffic to a free service. But then again they have already proved that now.
I didn't see T3, and I didn't even get a text message. I suspected by the information released before the opening day that it would suck. And on the first Monday at work, the hardcore Terminator fans confirmed it. The movie reviews also wrote that the movie failed in the areas that made me think that the other 2 was great.
Shame on you for missing the chance of telling a great story. I will also be careful to avoid movies in the future made by the same persons.
What's that, people being informed about the product they are about to buy(movie ticket), now we can't have that.
We demand do be able trick people into buying something else than they expect!
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Larger radio stations have copied the CDs to a central server and finding a song is a matter of looking it up. At the same time it is sadly also a tool for ensuring that the songs that have been choosed to be played, have to be played no matter if the host of the show wants to play it or not.
And believe it or not, several radio stations have been sued by their national version of RIAA for copying and storing the CD's on these central systems. Kinda sad when it enables the late night, one man show hosts to take requests when he has no one around to go grab the CD.
It is really interesting to see the radio and TV going digital.
Some TV channels are broadcasted from an all digital source where all the shows without exception are transferred to a SAN and played from there. Amazing to see a wall of racks filled with harddrives.
Those other guys are just doing it for the banner ads.
Ahrm, this is not 1999. Income from banner ads are not enough to bills.
Hey, I guess Sun has been busy writing drivers for x86 Solaris. :D .. ahrm
Ghyslain will be under psychiatric care for an indefinite amount of time
Says the "star wars kid", hoping and no one will download the movie of him
Bah! 19$ is nothing. I have to pay 25$ for new CD's and 20$ for not so new, like Audioslave. Some may get down to 19$ but if they are below that, the are usually some compilations of 30 year old music in very poor quality. Yeah! Go EU!
:) And thanks to the EU, parallel importing of CD,DVD,books etc is now forbidden so there is only one channel to control the price.
3 years ago, some taxes were removed from the CDs and the price dropped to about 16-17$ for new CDs but that lasted for about half a year and in 3 years the price has raised form 16$ to 25$. Do I feel ripped off? Yes I do, and the amount of CDs I buy is limited these days. Before I would buy a CD that I might like. Today I want to be damn sure that I like the entire CDs before I buy them. Also the fact that I can save money from buying DVDs from USA and get them shipped to EU and still save money should sound some alarm bells.
Argh. Does anyone know how I can just turn off MSN Messenger? TIA!
.exe file and all those annoying messages went away.
Now, I don't run XP any more, but I found a guide somewhere on the net, that showed a registry entry that you should insert/alter and then the messenger could be uninstalled from the system using add/remove programs. Nice and cleanly.
Personally I just booted the machine and did not run any programs that "required" messenger, then I went to the messenger directory and renamed the
Now I must admit that was a quick and dirty solution but I was also just running the default XP that came with the company issued machine for a couple of days before installing Redhat. (told internal support not to bother installing their standard image on it)
That is because the alternative is even worse.
Deep is Deep
don't you have any sense of decency?
/webpage that their ISP has been blocked because spammers on their network tried to abuse our systems.
:) over 70% of the emails I see on my servers today are getting rejected because they are spam. I have to upgrade servers these days, not because there are more users on them who send more mails but because the volume of spam has increased and server investment are a 'little' more that buying another uber gaming machine for home.
I have a great deal more than they have.
And if you have dealt with the problems on your network caused by spammers, it's hard just to laugh at them.
They have given me much headache, robbed me of time I could have spent with my family.
I am sick and tired of seeing idiots spammers from Dialtone internet thinking my mod_proxy is open for abuse(which they are not) and people from a Worldcom/uunet subnet doing name directory attacks on my mailservers.
The only pleasure/revenge I get today is bloking that ISP location and sending back a mail
So I would like to hurt some spammers too. I am tired of hearing them defending their practices, making it sound like everything they do is ok when it is clear to everyone who administer internet services that they make a living by abusing other peoples installations if their software has misconfigurations, holes or them trying if it looks like they have.
And in closing
Someone who is about to get a Cease & Desist order order from Toho Co?
yeah yeah yeah, but imagine a beowulf cluster of that cluster!
Well, the developers like Linux. :) :)
I'd like FreeBSD too, but life is a bit easier when running Linux. First of all there's the old SMP problem, if you are running your anything but your home server, you will most likely have some servers with 4 cpu's or more. And I know this is becoming more of a non-issue but I have been a problem for too long.
The there is the software and hardware. Companies like IBM and HP/Compaq now knows about Linux and you can find support for Linux, and when you have 100+ servers it matters.
Then there are the applications you develop, those would be the least problem since you just need to decide to develop the new systems on FreeBSD instead. The developers must learn to accept that the modules from CPAN can run on FreeBSD as well.
But then there are problems like when you need a bunch of Oracle servers, you would want a system that is certified in order to get help when your own DB guy can't solve it.
I'd would like to run FreeBSD as I said, but these days the world around me expects that I run Windows or Linux, and I am happy that they have included Linux into their list. And I am even happier that I administer Linux servers and not Windows since they are all on a co-lo that I seldom visit.
Take a look at http://www.howstuffworks.com/. There's a lot of explanations for just about anything.
If there were no worms of vira, why would we have to secure it agains it.:)
And if a server boots in the forest, does it beep?
Actually I was surpriced to find that they have gotten quite small these days. There's still a base that takes up a bit space but it is no wider that the normal bulb was just a bit longer. The last ones I got, had were covered in glass and looked like a normal bulb, just with that extra cm plastic base.
I don't like a program that needs a compiler for the configuration file.
Not to fear, if you got cable all you need is the "guy package" with "femblock", no longer will you have to fear to tune in to Operah or the likes when you change the channel.
I have/had a few website backups. They are about 4 years old. One day I thought it would be fun to see what they looked like, but I was unable to mount any of them. I tried another machine to see if it was just the drive, but the other machine could not read it. Well I don't really need the data on them. But I guess you can't rely on them for storing your financial data.
So I guess I have to rethink how I am going to store those pictures from my new digital camera. I guess one have to copy the CDs from time to time.
I remember seeing something about it on Discovery. I think one of the problem they had with making robots keeping their balance was that they were trying to keep them in balance all the time. Then they realised that the in order to walk better and more human like that trick was that you should not be in perfect balance while walking. So instead you need the robot to shift their balance right so that they would get out of balance in the direction they were walking.
First movie out:
Release DVD
Release DVD directors cut with extra stuff
Second movie out:
Relase DVD
Release DVD directors cut with extra stuff
Release box set with both movies.
Release box set with both movies directors cut and extra stuff
Third Movie Out:
Relase DVD
Release DVD directors cut with extra stuff
Release box set with all movies.
Release box set with all movies directors cut and extra stuff
Then of course you could insert "release pan and scan version of the movie" and "release pan and scan version of directors cut with extra stuff" in all of the about to double the releases. And then of course there will be the cartoon series for the weekend mornings, and different cd versions of soundtracks from all the movies.
AND then there is mercendising, mercendising....where the real money from the movie is made...
(I am currently waiting for the flamethrower myself)
One of the others was an IP address previously used by the "dyndns.org" dynamic DNS name service.
I really hope they did not include that IP while it was used by dyndns.org. If they did, I'd say they are the biggest assholes alive for generating tons of traffic to a free service. But then again they have already proved that now.
I got over 15 messages from them.
I didn't see T3, and I didn't even get a text message. I suspected by the information released before the opening day that it would suck. And on the first Monday at work, the hardcore Terminator fans confirmed it. The movie reviews also wrote that the movie failed in the areas that made me think that the other 2 was great.
Shame on you for missing the chance of telling a great story. I will also be careful to avoid movies in the future made by the same persons.
I'll be back!!
Uhmm,, no,,,, no I don't think so.
What's that, people being informed about the product they are about to buy(movie ticket), now we can't have that. We demand do be able trick people into buying something else than they expect!