Since posters already mentioned archive.org and etree.org , also, there is FurthurNET! found at http://www.furthernet.com/ (not.NET or.ORG)
It requires you to run a P2P client though. Similar to the archive.org and etree.org, it is completely legit, mostly live, recordings. Generally it has a lot of the same things that etree and archive.org have... jam bands.
My one buddy's band decided to put some of their own shows up on FurthurNET themselves. When the band dissolved, they asked the site to remove their name from available shows, and bam - it was gone immediately. Questionable recordings are removed quickly.
A true shame about EZTree, though. I'd gotten a good bit of jazz off of there, and I'm sure that no record company is ever going to press out, say, Mingus 1972 in some club, or a home-video of Bill Evans in Rome, hell, the two educational anti-drug PA State trooper videos shot with Frank Zappa, etc.
EZTree was careful not to include commercially available stuff, and were diligent about making sure things were BANNED from the site if they were commercially avaiable. All torrents there, though only just tracked not hosted, were supplied under the impression that if they DID become available (unlikely,) that you promised to destroy your copy.
R.I.P. EZTree, we loved you.
HOW can we HELP them?! - seriously, EZTree rocked!
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Anyone have suggestions for any way to possibly help them get back up and working?
EZTree has been a wonderful source of music for me, and this comes as a really pretty big loss to myself and others. I've been fortunate to get some rather rare stuff there; stuff that any legit label will certainly never carry. Who's gonna buy, say, a mono, staticy, recording of Sonny Rollins from 1967? Not enough that the record labels would produce it. Mahavishnu Orchestra audience recording? Not likely.
Seemed to me that the BULK of the stuff on EZTree was stuff that would never EVER be commercially produced... a few exceptions noted.
Any thoughts? Who do we email / phone / send layers after to get their ISP to let them back?
Or... anyone out there willing to host (for a fee) the site that only tracks the torrents of non-commercial, rare, unavailable music?
The $349 per Dell PC doesn't include licenses for Word and the full Outlook, does it? x10 it, and that's considerable. Plus then you need that technician to install them, and do setups.
That's the short-term startup. In the longrun, factor in upgrades, mainly from more MS Office liscenses. (Assume the OS is upgraded/replaced at the same time the boxes are - no net difference.)
OpenOffice isn't THAT much different from Word, and if the typists plan on being useful past a few years, I'd expect them to adapt to changes in MS Office. An adaptation to OOo seems reasonable. Similar argument for Evolution. As for Linux/GNOME, what exactly does a typist need to know? "Click THIS icon for xOffice." "and THIS icon = email." Your folder with your name on it is "My Documents". Lookies down below, and you'll see a "trash" can.
Programmers- picture your text editor changing keybinds and workflow with every revision, and you CAN'T CHANGE IT. You either wouldn't upgrade or you'd switch, wouldn't you?
Anyway. I want a drop-in replacement for Photoshop. I don't care if it's slightly different so long as the interface remains the same- six years of using Photoshop 5.x has given me the ability to weild the program without even thinking about it, and one of the things that frustrates artists (aside from being forced to use shitty software) is having to learn NEW software
You say the option is to make the switch to something completely different, except you expect it to have the same interface??...
If you're tired of options changing from version to version, couldn't you just decide to NOT upgrade?
+1 mod and I'll let you slap MY forehead if you can explain the reason/role of Mono.
It can be a pretty simple explanation, btw. Although I know a little about coding, I'm most certainly not a coder. (hardware's my game.) I've been buggin' this system out (gentoo) trying to get Beagle and other stuff that uses Mono up and running.... Why? What IS the purpose?
I've been playing with the Beta. I've not done any real work on it, just opened old docs, PP slides, whatever... and mucked around. I've had issues with the new Impress as well. It has crashed a good bit. The animations force the whole, otherwise unused, processor to max out. Inserted images are mangled randomly.
I've sent in error reports for everything so far, using the built in feedback. Hopefully that helps them resolve some of these issues. This all from just playing around and trying to break it with normal-esque stuff.
OK, back I go to writing my thesis. Funky WYSIWYG style crap be damned, I'm climbing the steep learning curve of LaTeX!
Depends on what you consider "natural" though, right? I'm willing to bet that the first human use of a coordinate system was polar. ie. "go 1000 paces, that-a-way"
Does this mean that the broadcast flag will be no more?? Or will it just give us more time?
I'm in a bad financial situation atm, but I've still been thinking about things like the pcHDTV HD-3000. ( http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html )
Ok, its a cool toy as is, and I'd like one regardless. But should I really be stretching my already-stretched budget in order to get one of these now, before it is illeagle to do so?
I'll admit that I'm a wide eyed enthusiast, but I'll also delimit that with acknowledgement of the fact that I'm one of the last pasty white guys in the West to have discovered it.
I wish I had been introduced to Go as a child. I've only been learning for a month now, and I'm obsessed already. I've completely given up traditional computer games, unintentionally... its friggin' GO. I like chess, and play when I've free time... but Go is making me make time for it!
That being said, I'll let someone else descirbe the virtues of go with a comparison to chess:
http://users.eniinternet.com/bradleym/Compare.html
This game is really meant to be played against another person. Your question was games that can be played by yourself, though.
There are computer engines to play Go, including the not-too-bad GnuGo. These are half decent to use in order to learn the game and get past the initial beginner stumbling blocks.
They cannot substitute for a real player, though. A normal desktop PC can effectively beat a chess grand-master. There is no computer that can beat even an intermediate Go player!!
Note the article here on./ posted right before yours. A computer has "solved 5x5 Go." Whoop-ti-do... a real game is played on a 19x19 board. Go >> Chess... and I love Chess!
I'm guessing that you are looking for a game with a rather simple interface. One that is easy to control, with a minimal set of commands, doesn't require lightning sharp / accurate reflexes, but you'd still find challenging and stimulating.
Look into the game of GO. the world's oldest game. Its ruleset makes it simple enough for a child to play, yet it is nearly impossible to master.
Don't be put off by that. It is really a rewarding game at any age.
Most interfaces for it should be simple for you to control, assuming that you can control a mouse with the head-mouse.
Here's a link for a page that makes for good reading about the game itself, and why it might be enjoyable to learn.
http://users.eniinternet.com/bradleym/
Look at the page comparing it to Chess. Once I'd seen that table, I instantly fell in love with its elegance and complexity.
I don't know how easy this will be to use, but again, if you can use a mouse, this next one links to an interactive beginners' guide to learning the game. Requires Java:
http://playgo.to/index-e.html
This last link is to a popular Go server. The interface is a bit more complex, but it isn't overly so. Again, Java is required:
http://kgs.kiseido.com/
Go is a divine accident. Someone had said that, paraphrased, "If aliens do exist, they play Go."
There are a TON of other resources online for this game. It could be really easy to become obsessed with it for some, myself included.
Good luck finding a game that suits you. Sorry to see some of the responses you got here, but you'd almost have to expect that on/.
It's more secure and not as exploited. Pop-ups aren't a security issue like ActiveX crap can be. It's redering a window you don't want, sure, but that doesn't mean that Firefox is allowing it to compromise your system. popups != virii... though they DO seem to be spreading again.
No, but they know that one of the people you convinced to switch to Firefox or {insert other non-IE browser here} WILL CLICK THAT POPUP. That's how they make money, not unlike spam.
AFAIK, no. The sprites/elfs/jets are usually studied by Elec Engs, and these things are poorly understood. At least, that's how it was ~6 years ago when I was doing minimal assistance for a Prof who was studying those phenomena.
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Since posters already mentioned archive.org and etree.org , also, there is FurthurNET! found at http://www.furthernet.com/ (not .NET or .ORG)
It requires you to run a P2P client though. Similar to the archive.org and etree.org, it is completely legit, mostly live, recordings. Generally it has a lot of the same things that etree and archive.org have... jam bands.
My one buddy's band decided to put some of their own shows up on FurthurNET themselves. When the band dissolved, they asked the site to remove their name from available shows, and bam - it was gone immediately. Questionable recordings are removed quickly.
A true shame about EZTree, though. I'd gotten a good bit of jazz off of there, and I'm sure that no record company is ever going to press out, say, Mingus 1972 in some club, or a home-video of Bill Evans in Rome, hell, the two educational anti-drug PA State trooper videos shot with Frank Zappa, etc.
EZTree was careful not to include commercially available stuff, and were diligent about making sure things were BANNED from the site if they were commercially avaiable. All torrents there, though only just tracked not hosted, were supplied under the impression that if they DID become available (unlikely,) that you promised to destroy your copy.
R.I.P. EZTree, we loved you.
Anyone have suggestions for any way to possibly help them get back up and working?
EZTree has been a wonderful source of music for me, and this comes as a really pretty big loss to myself and others. I've been fortunate to get some rather rare stuff there; stuff that any legit label will certainly never carry. Who's gonna buy, say, a mono, staticy, recording of Sonny Rollins from 1967? Not enough that the record labels would produce it. Mahavishnu Orchestra audience recording? Not likely.
Seemed to me that the BULK of the stuff on EZTree was stuff that would never EVER be commercially produced... a few exceptions noted.
Any thoughts? Who do we email / phone / send layers after to get their ISP to let them back?
Or... anyone out there willing to host (for a fee) the site that only tracks the torrents of non-commercial, rare, unavailable music?
The $349 per Dell PC doesn't include licenses for Word and the full Outlook, does it? x10 it, and that's considerable. Plus then you need that technician to install them, and do setups.
That's the short-term startup. In the longrun, factor in upgrades, mainly from more MS Office liscenses. (Assume the OS is upgraded/replaced at the same time the boxes are - no net difference.)
OpenOffice isn't THAT much different from Word, and if the typists plan on being useful past a few years, I'd expect them to adapt to changes in MS Office. An adaptation to OOo seems reasonable. Similar argument for Evolution. As for Linux/GNOME, what exactly does a typist need to know? "Click THIS icon for xOffice." "and THIS icon = email." Your folder with your name on it is "My Documents". Lookies down below, and you'll see a "trash" can.
You say the option is to make the switch to something completely different, except you expect it to have the same interface??
If you're tired of options changing from version to version, couldn't you just decide to NOT upgrade?
Shatner promoted the idea with "It'll be like 'Saved by the Bell,' but with phasers!"
+1 mod and I'll let you slap MY forehead if you can explain the reason/role of Mono.
It can be a pretty simple explanation, btw. Although I know a little about coding, I'm most certainly not a coder. (hardware's my game.) I've been buggin' this system out (gentoo) trying to get Beagle and other stuff that uses Mono up and running.... Why? What IS the purpose?
emerge notified me... I was(am) building it when I decided to pop on over to /. for a bit. Lo and behold!
AFAIK, he's in Norway.
In Norway, EULAs mean both diddly and squat.
If he pressed {accept} to any EULA, it also meant diddly and squat.
He made no promises to Apple.
No agreement was broken.
Now may we attack the anology?
thanks!
3GB?!? That's 3x more HD space than this Sparcstation5 I'm trying to install linux on. Cripes!
I've been playing with the Beta. I've not done any real work on it, just opened old docs, PP slides, whatever... and mucked around. I've had issues with the new Impress as well. It has crashed a good bit. The animations force the whole, otherwise unused, processor to max out. Inserted images are mangled randomly.
I've sent in error reports for everything so far, using the built in feedback. Hopefully that helps them resolve some of these issues. This all from just playing around and trying to break it with normal-esque stuff.
OK, back I go to writing my thesis. Funky WYSIWYG style crap be damned, I'm climbing the steep learning curve of LaTeX!
I have seen people punched in the face and locked into a closet - in separate games! Heed the NEVER DRINK while playing Diplomacy advice.
Depends on what you consider "natural" though, right? I'm willing to bet that the first human use of a coordinate system was polar. ie. "go 1000 paces, that-a-way"
I'd have preferred r-theta polar coordinates.
Apparently, a box with a 64-bit optimized linux kernel won't make the most of a 64-bit CPU. =(
Would a simple $30 demodulator or some-such allow you to get around the fact that the HD-3000 only likes "antenna" connections?
Or would this be illegal in the future?
(and do I care if it would be?)
Me too! I made sure to cover my windows and walls with tin-foil, then painted them and everything else with lead based paint.
Let's see those broadcasters shine their EM radiation into MY house ever again!
Does this mean that the broadcast flag will be no more?? Or will it just give us more time?
I'm in a bad financial situation atm, but I've still been thinking about things like the pcHDTV HD-3000. ( http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html )
Ok, its a cool toy as is, and I'd like one regardless. But should I really be stretching my already-stretched budget in order to get one of these now, before it is illeagle to do so?
Any advice very welcome and encouraged!
There is no computer program that is able to beat a high-ranked amatuer, let alone a professional go player.
Aside, you meant 19x19, I hope...
I'll admit that I'm a wide eyed enthusiast, but I'll also delimit that with acknowledgement of the fact that I'm one of the last pasty white guys in the West to have discovered it.
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I wish I had been introduced to Go as a child. I've only been learning for a month now, and I'm obsessed already. I've completely given up traditional computer games, unintentionally... its friggin' GO. I like chess, and play when I've free time... but Go is making me make time for it!
That being said, I'll let someone else descirbe the virtues of go with a comparison to chess:
http://users.eniinternet.com/bradleym/Compare.htm
This game is really meant to be played against another person. Your question was games that can be played by yourself, though.
./ posted right before yours. A computer has "solved 5x5 Go." Whoop-ti-do... a real game is played on a 19x19 board. Go >> Chess... and I love Chess!
There are computer engines to play Go, including the not-too-bad GnuGo. These are half decent to use in order to learn the game and get past the initial beginner stumbling blocks.
They cannot substitute for a real player, though. A normal desktop PC can effectively beat a chess grand-master. There is no computer that can beat even an intermediate Go player!!
Note the article here on
I'm guessing that you are looking for a game with a rather simple interface. One that is easy to control, with a minimal set of commands, doesn't require lightning sharp / accurate reflexes, but you'd still find challenging and stimulating.
/.
Look into the game of GO. the world's oldest game. Its ruleset makes it simple enough for a child to play, yet it is nearly impossible to master.
Don't be put off by that. It is really a rewarding game at any age.
Most interfaces for it should be simple for you to control, assuming that you can control a mouse with the head-mouse.
Here's a link for a page that makes for good reading about the game itself, and why it might be enjoyable to learn.
http://users.eniinternet.com/bradleym/
Look at the page comparing it to Chess. Once I'd seen that table, I instantly fell in love with its elegance and complexity.
I don't know how easy this will be to use, but again, if you can use a mouse, this next one links to an interactive beginners' guide to learning the game. Requires Java:
http://playgo.to/index-e.html
This last link is to a popular Go server. The interface is a bit more complex, but it isn't overly so. Again, Java is required:
http://kgs.kiseido.com/
Go is a divine accident. Someone had said that, paraphrased, "If aliens do exist, they play Go."
There are a TON of other resources online for this game. It could be really easy to become obsessed with it for some, myself included.
Good luck finding a game that suits you. Sorry to see some of the responses you got here, but you'd almost have to expect that on
It's more secure and not as exploited. Pop-ups aren't a security issue like ActiveX crap can be. It's redering a window you don't want, sure, but that doesn't mean that Firefox is allowing it to compromise your system. popups != virii ... though they DO seem to be spreading again.
No, but they know that one of the people you convinced to switch to Firefox or {insert other non-IE browser here} WILL CLICK THAT POPUP. That's how they make money, not unlike spam.
AFAIK, no. The sprites/elfs/jets are usually studied by Elec Engs, and these things are poorly understood. At least, that's how it was ~6 years ago when I was doing minimal assistance for a Prof who was studying those phenomena.